The Dark Fang of Chaos

by jormungard999

Feelings Questioned

Chapter 1 - Feelings Questioned

The sun was out, shining brightly and the skies were clear, this is the kind of weather Fluttershy was greeted with as she trotted off towards Twilight's castle. The Mane Six agreed to meet up that day to discuss about things they wanted to do for the rest of the week. Seemingly, the previous weeks were rather a bore with hardly any exciting things happening.

'Well, days without Discord around would normally turn out bland...' Fluttershy mused,'Oh dear, I really miss him. He'd certainly make things lively.'

As she approached the castle, she couldn't help but remember what Discord asked her during their previous picnic.

“My dear, you do know that you are my very best and oldest friend, right? If it's alright with you, I wanted to ask you something about how I've been feeling recently since you are the one pony who knows me best and knows a lot about friendship and all.”

“Why yes Discord, I'd be glad to answer any of your questions. That's what friends are for. To listen and be there for each other.” Fluttershy answered as she raised a tea cup to take a sip.

“Well then, it's just recently that I begin to seemingly think of you a lot more often than before. I often caught myself imagining about things that may lead me to sacrificing myself for your sake. I know that friends do sacrifice themselves for the sake of others, however, I can't help but prioritize you above everypony else, including myself! Not only that, I've been trying to calm myself more often whenever we are together. Not that anything is wrong mind you. It's just that I can't help but feel my heart beat a lot faster.” To accentuate this, Discord produced his heart in his palm and it was certainly pumping very fast. “It's a chaotic feeling I have never felt before! It's enough to charge me up and I didn't even prank anypony!”

Fluttershy felt a blush coming on as Discord continued to describe how he'd been feeling recently. She can't help but reach out a hoof to touch his paw and shyly looked down and answered. “I have a fair enough idea on what you are feeling right now Discord, but I am truly sorry. This is something I haven't truly experienced myself.” (I do recently though she thought to herself) She couldn't bring herself to assume what Discord is feeling as she is party to this.

Discord gave a sigh and then assumed a thinking pose, complete with running his claws through his beard. Then, shrugging, he looked over at Fluttershy and gave a wide grin. “Oh well, I can always ask Twilight about this. I am sure she would pull out volumes upon volumes of books to find the answer.”

Fluttershy was torn between letting Discord ask somepony else and let him discover what he felt, and letting him stay ignorant for a while up until she could ascertain her own feelings for him. (Why does love have to be so complicated?)

Her blast to the past was interrupted as she heard someone calling her. She looked up and saw Rarity, a white unicorn known for making glamorous clothing for ponies, and Pinkie Pie, a pink earth pony who seemingly, like Discord, defy reality with her instant parties and somewhat a pocket dimension of her own to keep her stuff inside her mane.

“Darling, what seems to be in your mind today?” Rarity asked as she flipped her mane with a hoof.

“Ooh! Is that a blush I am seeing on your face? Is it? Is it? Is it?” Pinkie poked her cheeks and seemed to be ready to break into a song.

“Huh? What... No no! It's just the weather. It's really quite hot with the sun out and all...” Came a lame answer.

Before Rarity can follow up further, they were all greeted by two more ponies. A cyan pegasus with rainbow colored mane known for her speed and also for her cockiness, and an orange earth pony with yellow mane who was known for being honest and has a country flair about her.

“Hi guys!” waved Rainbow Dash.

“Howdy” Greeted Applejack.

As they all exchanged their greetings, Fluttershy can't help but wish that Discord was accepted with the rest of her friends. He is certainly missing out on a lot of good things being stuck with only her as his only pony friend. Sure, the rest would claim they are friends, but they don't share the same closeness as she does with him.

She then noticed that the rest started to trot off so she followed.

Soon enough they reached Twilight's castle and were soon seated. Each one had a seat which bore their respective cutie marks.

Twilight, the purple Alicorn of the group came in, together with her assistant purple and green baby dragon Spike.

After another round of greetings, they then proceeded with their plan making, with Fluttershy droning in and out as she thought of Discord and their last picnic together.

Discord has just finished snapping his fingers to clean up everything and made sure all of their things for the picnic was in the basket. Fluttershy waited on him as he snapped his fingers one more time and sent all of their packed stuff back to their cottage.

Their cottage. It took a while, but by now she was used to having Discord around so often that it seemed fitting that it be theirs instead of just hers. He even installed a secret doorway to his pocket dimension for her to use in any time she felt like visiting him. It was something she took some time getting used to, but she was grateful for the way of visiting him on occasion.

The walk back was rather silent, which was surprising given Discord's personality. But then again, the bombshell of a question he asked earlier must have been running through his mind. She couldn't help but giggle at a sudden thought of Discord having a miniature train run through his head to emphasize it, and then gasped at how Discord like her thoughts were becoming.

At her giggle, Discord looked down at his companion and grinned. “What seems to be amusing you my dear?”

“Oh it's nothing. It's just a sudden thought of some impossibilities you have thought me to appreciate.”

Discord accepted her answer with a widening of his grin and then continued to walk on. Typically he would just teleport both of them at her cottage, but he wanted to spend as much time with Fluttershy as possible.

The feeling was mutual as Fluttershy was thanking him in her thoughts for walking instead of teleporting them home.

Their trek home lead them through Ponyville and she then noticed how everypony they met seemed to be either staring with surprise, or in the case of some stallions, jealousy. It was then that she realized that she was very comfortable with Discord that she kept holding on to his paw, even in public. Instead of being embarrassed, she just held a bit more tightly and leaned her head against his arm.

Discord, being Discord, also noticed the stares. He barely suppressed a grin as Fluttershy leaned against him. He walked with his head held high and placed his claw on top of the hoof holding on his paw.

Sooner than they wanted, they reached the cottage. As they stood at her doorway, Discord fumbled about and then blurted out, “Fluttershy, it was a really enjoyable afternoon.” (He then felt like banging his head on a wall for just suddenly blurting out.)

“It truly is, Discord. Oh but won't you come in? She invited as she rummaged around in her purse for her keys.

“Oh no. As much as I wanted to, I really should be reporting back to the palace. A long trip tomorrow and all that whatnot.”

“I see.”

Suddenly they became awkward with each other's presence.

“So umm... I'll be seeing you then?” Fluttershy said as she felt another blush coming in as her thoughts wandered to what she is about to do.

“Yes my dear, I'd hate to leave, but duty calls. So, I bid you goodnight and I'll be seeing you as soon as I get back.”

As Discord raised his claw to teleport himself to Canterlot, he got surprised as Fluttershy flew up towards his face and too quick for him to notice, landed a kiss on his cheeks. His paw raised to touch the spot she kissed and in his peripheral view, saw her slip into the cottage and slowly closed the door.

He shook himself out of his daze and smiled. With a snap, he was gone.

Author's Note:

This chapter took me a better part of an hour to write so I can't promise that it would be a good read. Here I made Discord oblivious to what love is, seeing that he barely knows much about friendship. Fluttershy, on the other hand, knows about it, but didn’t want to assume since she is the subject to Discord's affection and it would really be awkward for her to tell him that he is in love with her. I already plotted the entire outline of the story and hope that this meets your approval. Any constructive comments are very much appreciated. This is intended for my friend Sylphiel.

Comments

[kurusagi16]

Hmm, so far it seems pretty good, but I think it'd be a good idea to read over your chapters before publishing them. To make sure there aren't any spelling or grammar errors. Good luck!

[jormungard999]

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Thanks for the advice! I kinda have a bad habit of writing and reading it over only once though. I also decided to pass the chapters to another friend of mine to proofread for me. Here's chapter 2 btw. Hope it's satisfactory.