For Love of Fluttershy (A Discord Story)

by Teddie Williams

Epilogue: Discord FINALLY Pops the Question!!!

Celestia groaned as she rolled over, sunlight streaming through her bedroom window. The one time she didn't want to get up in the morning. The past two months have been hectic with her trying to reestablish the magic of friendship, and the political fallout of two ancient kingdoms popping back up after how many centuries? The only good thing about it, beyond the fact everyone is friends all of a sudden, would be the fact that Discord was actually helping them settle everything... and was constantly gone to have tea with Fluttershy.

"Sister?" Luna stuck her head into the room, her eyes bleary from a lack of sleep. "Are you up yet? We have that meeting with the Council of Harmony and Discord is going to be there...."

Another groan escaped her as she lifted a hoof up to press against her face. "I'm too tired for this..." Rolling herself out of bed, she waved a hoof absentmindedly at her younger sister. "I will be there in a minute."

"Very well." Luna gave a curt nod, before disappearing into the hallway once again.

Celestia sighed once more, before trotting towards the door. She might as well get the day going now... shouldn't she?

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Discord whipped around quickly thrusting a paw out to point at the large stadium to his right. "And that is where the Wonderbolts perform... really you ought to see them in action. Especially you Rainbow, you definitely will like the shows they put on."

The two pegasi mares smiled amusedly at each other, before following Discord to the large open planned auditorium where Celestia and Luna had suggested they meet up for this particular meeting. In truth, the entire Council was with Discord, who was making a big deal about showing them around Canterlot.

Twilight perked up suddenly, moving past him with a huge smile. "Why! Hello there Starswirl the Bearded, how have you been?"

Starswirl, who was overseeing the placement of the welcome banner for them, jumped, having not noticed that they had arrived. "Ah! Princess Twilight! Uh... how nice to see you." For some reason, his gaze darted towards Discord as he spoke.

Discord noticed, and conjured a cupcake out of thin air. "I promise not to cause undue mayhem at this meeting. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye."

Pinkie Pie bounced on him suddenly, a grin flashing across her features. "You Pinkie Promised! And you must NEVER ever break a Pinkie Promise!!!"

"I know that already Pinkie..." Discord gently pushed the hyperactive mare off of himself.

"Ah... you're here already. Perfect. Let's get this meeting going. shall we?" Celestia walked into the auditorium right then, Luna right behind her.

"Of course." Twilight briskly agreed, being the most responsible one out of the Council of Harmony.

A news reporter settled down nearby, setting up his camera for the meeting, which was to be filmed and shown across the country. Turning to face the others, he noticed that they were already all gathered, and hurriedly turned everything on. "Welcome everybody to this every important meeting to finish all the changes we've been undergoing." Taking a deep breath, he nodded to the important ponies, and Discord, that were standing behind him. "As you can see, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and the Council of Harmony, along with...uh... Discord, is here already to get the negotiation going."

"Oh, I don't think that would be necessary." Rarity batted her rather long eyelashes at him, a smile crossing her features.

"You... don't think these negotiations is necessary?" The royal sisters somehow managed to speak in unison, shock slipping into their voices.

Twilight shot Rarity a withering look, before turning to them. "What Rarity means is that in the past we hosted a boarding school for all kinds of creatures to come and learn about friendship and all the required academics too of course. Ages six through twelve. The younger they learn, the better. And we always encourage our students to spread friendship everywhere they go."

"That... actually is perfect with everything else going on. Having our own children learn how, and teach the rest of us by example might just be the best idea." Celestia sighed with relief, glad that she didn't have to figure out how to work to get friendship amongst her people back.

"No problem... besides it'll be plain weird this fall when we go back to teaching if we don't have students from other countries." Applejack brushed off her thanks, labeling it as no big deal.

"Wait... you are one of the teachers at this school?" Luna blinked, surprised that a member of the Council of Harmony would be a teacher as well as her duties on the council.

"Um... all members of the Council of Harmony are instructors at the School of Friendship. Since it is our job to promote friendship, it is also our job to teach everycreature how to be good friends with each other." Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow, confused on how the royal sisters didn't know that since it was common knowledge last she checked.

Discord cleared his throat, drawing all attention to himself. "While that was common knowledge a thousand years ago, nowadays no one knows any of that."

"Right... we were stone for ages. Whoopee... Twilight why is your niece holding onto your left hindleg?" A groan escaped one of the members of the Council of Harmony.

Startled, Twilight whipped her head around to see that there was indeed a baby alicorn wrapped around her hindleg. "Flurry! Please tell me that Shining Armor and Cadance know that you are here..."

The baby merely giggled at that, before using her wings to fly up to her aunt's back for a piggy-back ride. Celestia blinked slowly, before glancing over at Luna who looked completely lost. Luna shook her head, before speaking up. "Okay... I thought she was a statue when I came across her frozen form in that storage closet."

"Well... Shining Armor did say she was playing her favorite game when she disappeared, and everyone knows that is hide and seek. Flurry must have been hidin' in the storage closet." Applejack commented as she nodded in understanding.

Discord cleared his throat, before turning to face Fluttershy, dropping down on one knee. "Fluttershy, may I ask this question that has been burning on the tip of my tongue for the past thousand years?"

An excited squeal of yes escaped the usually shy mare. Discord grinned at that, clearly pleased, even as Celestia and Luna, and everyone that wasn't the Council of Harmony, held their breaths in anticipation. "Would you do me the honor of being my date to the Annual Ponyville Hoedown?"

"I would love to Discord." Fluttershy blushed as she answered the unexpected question.

"Wait... what?" Everyone that clearly wasn't expecting that question blinked rapidly as they stared at him in confusion.

Pinkie Pie patted the broken news reporter on the back. "Clearly you don't know Discord very well. If he's acting like he's going to ask a certain question... expect it to be something else entirely."

Author's Note:

Well I guess this is good bye instead of hi! This story is officially over with! I hope I raised all of your hopes up for an engagement with this chapter. Please check out my other stories, The Truth About Sunset Shimmer and The Principal Trouble. One of them is on Hiatus until further notice, but please. Check it out. Thank you for suffering through this with me... and for all your comments. I hope you all have an amazing Halloween!

Teddie

Comments

[Theresa]

Oh come on that not fair. He supposed to pop the question.

[Teddie Williams]

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Hehehe... I know, I just had to have him ask that one instead! Mainly because I wanted reactions to it... thank you for making my day and reacting to the question!
Teddie

[Theresa]

By the way what exactly happened to cause history to be rewritten.

[Teddie Williams]

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History wasn't really rewritten. More like it all went down so long ago that no one, except Discord, remembers anything.
Without Ponyville to encourage friendships, the different creatures of Equastria just fell out of touch and thus what we see above comes in to play.

[Theresa]

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But twilight pretty much got pretty far in the show and story before sombra did something so it was like they never existed at all. An entire village doesn't easily dissappear much less a princess in the village without causing a Commotion.