Discordant Origins

by Queen Zozer

Chapter 4: History is Unforgiving

Author's Note:

Just a slight Fluttercord warning in this chapter pfff

Discord's story from that point on is what is now written in the history books. His attempted reign of terror was quickly noticed by Princess Luna and Celestia. After they had discovered the Elements of Harmony, they turned Discord to stone for a thousand years, but he later managed to escape. The Mane Six turned him to stone again soon after his escape before they eventually freed him from stone with intentions of reforming him to use his incredible power for good. The one that reformed him was, of course, Fluttershy. There was something about her that always alluded him, but he was too self-centered and childish to even entertain the thought of thinking about his past. Besides, he couldn't remember anything from back then anyways.

He always lived his life drifting along with the natural flow of time. He had nowhere important to be. Even though he was immortal, he never truly...lived. Not as if he really had a reason to. Now everything he does is solely to entertain himself. Something to pass the time. I mean, it's not like he was going to die any time soon. Or at all for that matter. In short, his immortal life was essentially meaningless. He only existed just to be terrible. And his crazy mind somehow allowed him to be at peace with that. But his entire perspective of his life would soon change many years after his reformation.

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"Discord? Discord!"

Discord snapped himself out of his thoughts as he looked back from the window to Fluttershy who was sitting in the chair across from him.

"Oh! Yes? What is it?" Discord asked.

"I was just talking about Angel. He's been seen sick for almost a week now. I think it's because he caught a cold playing out in the snow. I've tried every herb in the book, but nothing seems to be working. I can only hope that he'll be okay," Fluttershy said as she cradled the tiny white bunny in her hooves.

"Umm...okay?" Discord said as he flared his nostrils in pure disinterest as he stared back out at the window watching the snow fall.

"Is there anything you could do about him?" Fluttershy asked him.

"What?!" Discord said as he quickly turned to her and scoffed.

"You want me to cure that devil bunny?! I thought we were supposed to sit here and drink tea and talk about....tea...schtuff," Discord said as he scrunched his face in disappointment.

"I know. I'm so sorry. I don't mean to impose so much on you. I just worry about Angel when he gets sick like this. Especially when all I can do is comfort him. His fever has been getting worse by the day," Fluttershy said.

Discord only rolled his eyes until he saw the worried look on Fluttershy's face as she caressed Angel's cheek.

"Oh, fine," Discord said in a deadpan manner as he lifted his lion paw ready to snap his fingers, "if I do this for you, can we please get back to our tea party?"

"Really? You'd do that for me?" Fluttershy said as she looked up at him with a surprised look on her face.

"Yeah, yeah whatever. I'll help cure the sick and helpless pwecious widdle bunny," Discord said in a baby-like manner before promptly snapping his fingers to cast the best curing spell he knows. As if no longer being able to hold back, Discord excitedly started telling a compelling story to Fluttershy.

"Fluttershy! Have I ever told you about how I joined Trixie's Magic Show? Well, it all started when she lost her hat and--"

Discord was interrupted by what sounded like a tiny bunny coughing.

"Oh dear! Angel, are you okay?" Fluttershy said as she held the coughing bunny even closer to her. Discord looked at both of them, understandably confused and a bit annoyed.

"I-I'm so sorry Discord. I have to take Angel back to his bed and make him some carrot soup. M-maybe that will help," Fluttershy said as she stood up from her chair and placed the bunny in his little bed before rummaging through the kitchen cabinets. She filled a pot with hot water and quickly cut up some carrots. Meanwhile, Discord let out a heavy sigh before standing and walked towards the door.

"It's alright, dear. I understand that you're busy. I don't have much better to do anyways. I'll just...see you next week," Discord said.

"O-oh...I, umm..." Fluttershy said, but Discord had already teleported away before she could say anything.

Discord went back to his fantastical wonderland of a dimension where there were islands floating aimlessly through the abyss, some of which were attached to each other with flimsy wooden bridges. The islands had orange and green waterfalls that inhabited strange flying creatures with large fangs. It was unlike any other place that existed in Equestria. Let alone the whole world. But it felt like home. It was oddly...comforting to him.

He plopped himself onto his bed despite it only being the middle of the afternoon. He never really cared about time anyway. I mean, he's the Lord of Chaos. He's not going to let Celestia raising the sun or Luna raising the moon cause him to have the burden of having a bedtime. With that in mind, he quickly went to sleep. He never actually needed sleep; he just liked the feeling of not having to do anything for eight hours straight. It was a good way for him to pass the time. His dreams were typical. He would take over Equestria and turn everything into his own little playground where he would entertain himself for hours watching ponies scream in terror.

This one dream, however, was very different.

He was on all fours and appeared to be in a white abyss of nothingness. The abyss slowly turned into a thick snow storm and the winds violently smacked against Discord's face. He flinched to keep the cold out of his eyes.

In the distance, he could faintly hear a flowing creek. With nothing else better to do in mind, he crawled towards it and looked down into it. He saw a mare crying, but he couldn't see her face. He slipped and fell into the creek and found himself now falling in a black abyss. There was a loud sound of glass shattering as soon as he hit the ground. He grunted in discomfort as he looked around. All he could hear was a little filly crying. As soon as he heard it, he clenched at his chest and screamed in pain. He shut his eyes tightly to help numb the pain before he felt the cold on his face again. He warily opened his eyes and saw that he was now back in the snow storm. He opened his eyes and saw the same mare in the distance now begrudgingly trotting through the snow. He tried to reach his lion paw out to her, but he started sinking into the snow. In a matter of seconds he was already neck-deep into the thick layers of snow. He didn't know why, but he still kept his lion paw out in hopes of getting to that mare. There was something about her that drew him in, but his face was far too submerged in snow to do anything about it.

Suddenly, a hoof grabbed his lion paw and yanked his whole body out of the snow. Still discombobulated, Discord looked dizzy and was starting to see double. He looked up and saw a dark mare in front of him. He thought that this was the same mare that was struggling to walk through the snow, but his eyes had eventually adjusted to see that he was now face-to-face with none other than...

"Princess Luna..." Discord huffed in contempt.

"I sensed that you were in trouble here in the dream world. So, I came here to he--" Princess Luna said before she was interrupted.

"Yes, yes I know why you're here," Discord said as he shook the snow of his body like a dog, "and I don't need your help."

Discord tried walking away from her, but Princess Luna ran around him and stood in his path.

"Umm...can you move?" Discord said, now even more annoyed.

"I've seen your dreams before, Discord. They're always the same one," Princess Luna said, "they were so typical that I almost didn't come here."

Discord only had an unimpressed look on his face.

"But...I've seen thousands of nightmares in my day. And I've never seen anything like this," Princess Luna continued as she shielded her face from the sheer gusts of wind.

"It's...fine. I'm fine," Discord said as he tried to walk around her, but she stepped in front of him again.

"Could you please move?!" Discord exclaimed, now getting infuriated.

"Discord, if you know how my powers work, then you know that I need to guide those who are having nightmares," Princess Luna continued, "which means that I need to guide you."

Discord scrunched his body in frustration, before letting out a heavy sigh.

"Alright, fine. I give up," Discord scoffed as he sat down in the snow and bent his neck downwards like a kid ready to receive a lecture.

"What do you need me to do?" Discord asked.

"Well, first of all, this blizzard--"

"Look, if you're here to lecture me about weather, go bother the pegasi," Discord interrupted.

"I was going to say that this blizzard isn't like most blizzards, am I correct?" Luna said as she continued, clearing her throat.

"You're an immortal creature. You can't die, not even from something like this. So why does it scare you?" Luna asked.

"Scared? Why would I be scared? That's a stupid assumption! I'm the Lord of Chaos! I'm not scared of ANYthing" Discord jolted.

"I'll believe that once you start having your usual dreams," Luna said. Discord only scoffed in a disgruntled manner.

"In any case, you know better than anypony what this kind of blizzard is," Luna said.

"Yes, yes the Windigos. I'm aware of what they are," Discord said as he twirled his hand in a know-it-all fashion.

"And they occur whenever there is great turmoil," Luna said as she walked closer to him.

"Your point being?" Discord said.

"My point is that the turmoil has to be coming from you. But...why the Windigos?" Luna asked as she tilted her head to the side.

"I...don't know..." Discord said as he looked off to the side with a worried look on his face.

"Did you have something to do with them?" Luna asked.

"No...wait, yes? I don't know...I..." Discord said as he put his hands on his head anxiously.

"Did something bad happen to you?"

"I...don't know..." Discord said as he hunched over and held his stomach.

"Discord...I can tell that you're hurt. What do the Windigos have to do with your pain?"

"I...I..." Discord said as he widened his eyes in pain and started shaking.

"I....I..."

"Discord..."

"I don't KNOW!!!"

Suddenly, a burst of yellow energy exploded from his body and a yellow beam shot up in the sky and made the blizzard worse. The explosion sent Luna flying and the blizzard became so violent that her eyes instinctively shed tears from the sheer cold gusts of wind. The cold hurt her so much that she grunted in pain as she begrudgingly trotted closer to Discord who was now crying. As soon as she tried getting closer to him, the snow started turning into vibrant colors and the ground stretched like an accordion.

"Make it stop...please...make it stop..." Discord muttered to himself as he sobbed.

Luna barely managed to touch his goat hoof, getting his attention. He looked down and saw Luna crying and grunting in pain. He got a sudden flash of a small filly crying in front of him. The blizzard died down and he stopped shaking as his dream world slowly turned into an empty, black abyss.

"I keep getting flashes...how do I get this feeling to stop?" Discord said with a dry throat.

"You're hurt...and you don't remember why..." Luna said as she shakily stood back up.

"I hate this so much...how do I make it stop...?" Discord said as he stared at the ground, letting his teardrops fall.

"Think about what matters most to you...what do you care most about?" Luna said as she turned around and started walking away with a sorrowful look on her face.

"Wait, I...still don't understand," Discord said as he held out his lion paw, "I thought chaos was supposed to be the one thing I care about. That's a trick question, right?"

He anxiously chuckled to himself, begging for that to actually be the case.

"It's chaos! That's what I care most about! Right...? Right?!" Discord yelled as he seemed to be asking himself the question rather than Luna.

But Luna faded more into the distance and he started feeling like he was shrinking.

"Wait...wait...WAIT!"

And just like that, he woke up. He sat upright in his bed and felt his body go into a cold sweat as he breathed heavily. Since there was no point in looking out at the window to see what time of day it was, he figured that he should teleport back to ponyville to take a stroll. And since he started sleeping in the middle of the afternoon, it was still night. A little over midnight, to be exact. And of all of the places that he decided to come to at this time, he went to Everfree Forest. Not that he actually cared. Nothing in that forest could actually hurt him. However, he saw somepony in the distance at the entranceway of the forest. He squinted his eyes and widened his eyes in shock as he walked closer.

"Fluttershy? What are you doing here?" Discord called out to her.

"Oh! Discord," Fluttershy gasped before chuckling playfully, "I should be asking you the same thing. I've never seen you out this late."

"Yeah, well...I guess I just couldn't sleep well," Discord said.

"Oh! That's...funny, actually," Fluttershy said, "I'm actually here for the same reason. I guess me being worried about Angel has been causing me a lot of stress."

"Oh...I'm so sorry about that," Discord said.

"Sometimes when I can't sleep, I like to come outside and get some fresh air. And just to pass time, I sometimes like to smell the flowers. The ones near the edge of the forest smell the best. Of course, if I'm trying to relax, I try to stay out of the forest," Fluttershy said as she looked down and smelled a peculiar-looking white flower before nervously chuckling to herself. Discord looked back and was dumbfounded as he was hit with a strong sense of déjà vu. Instinctively, he laid next to her and sniffed the flower, not realizing that his face was close to hers.

"D-discord!" Fluttershy said as she reeled back in shock.

"Hm? Oh! My bad! Sorry! I didn't mean to take up your flower-sniffing space," Discord said as he stood back and laughed sheepishly, "I'll let you do your own thing. I'm gonna...take a walk."

"W-wait...you're going...into the forest?" Fluttershy said as she shivered in fright.

"Well, of course I am. I'm bored," Discord said as he carelessly continued walking into the forest.

"W-wait!" Fluttershy said, briskly lagging behind him.

"I...was always afraid of going into the forest by myself, but...if I had the Lord of Chaos by my side, I would be okay, right?" Fluttershy asked.

"Oh! Well, sure! I'm not objecting to that. Besides, Everfree Forest is chock FULL of amazing flowers!" Discord replied.

"How do you know that?" Fluttershy asked as she walked closely by his side.

"I..." Discord stopped in his tracks before continuing again, "I...have no idea."

Fluttershy looked understandably confused as they continued walking further into the forest. Fluttershy was terrified at first, but Discord gently patted her on the head as he pointed out to all of the varying-colored flowers along the visible pathway.

"Oh my goodness! Look at how amazing these look, Discord!" Fluttershy squealed excitedly as Discord chuckled to himself.

"Gasp! Oh dear! Look at this one," Fluttershy said in a sad tone. Discord went over to see what she was looking at and saw what looked like a blueish, purple flower close to wilting. She gently held the limping petals in her hoof and frowned.

"Oh, worry not dear," Discord said confidently as he picked the flower out of the ground. With a single twirl of the flower, he rejuvenated it's color and opened it's petals wide, displaying it's beautiful color. Fluttershy gasped as he held the flower in front of her face for her to smell it.

"Wow...it's great having a friend who can do something like that," Fluttershy said as she cutely sniffed the flower in Discord's lion paw.

Without thinking, Discord placed the flower in her mane above her ear. She giggled at the gesture which caused Discord to freeze up as another flash of a memory came to his mind. He shook his head rigorously to snap out of it before continuing down the pathway. Trying to brush off his weird flash moments, he kept walking alongside Fluttershy deeper and deeper into the forest. It was quiet until Fluttershy broke the silence.

"So...you said you couldn't sleep," Fluttershy continued, "how come?"

"Hm? Oh, it's nothing. I'm fine, dear. I don't actually need sleep, remember?" Discord said.

"Oh, right" Fluttershy said as she laughed sheepishly.

"Thank you for letting me come along with you. I definitely feel a lot safer having a friend with your kind of magic," Fluttershy added.

"Oh, it's no problem dear," Discord responded.

"Sigh...I know that I said I couldn't sleep because of Angel. And don't get me wrong! I am worried about him. It's just...that's not entirely the reason why I'm here," Fluttershy said. Discord was now listening intently as they walked together.

"I had a really weird dream earlier, but all I remember was Princess Luna telling me to think about what I care most about. I still don't understand what she means by that..." Fluttershy said as Discord looked at her in bewilderment.

"Wait a minute. She said the same thing to y--"

"Gasp! Discord! Look!" Fluttershy yelped as she pointed at something in the distance.

Discord looked up to see that she was pointing at a small, dark cave. Discord almost wanted to laugh.

"What are you so worried about? It's just a crummy old cave," Discord jokingly huffed.

"Th-that's...an ursa minor cave..." Fluttershy stuttered.

"Oh, pft! Don't worry so much! It's winter. They're fast asleep," Discord said as he carelessly knocked on the edge of the cave entrance.

"P-please don't do that! Ngh..." Fluttershy said now shaking.

"It's fine! You have me, remem...ber?" Discord said as he gently touched the edges of the cave entrance. Something about it seemed somewhat...familiar. He heard a low growling rumble in the depths of the cave and he froze in place. He was starting to get tunnel vision and started feeling dizzy.

"Monster..." Discord whispered to himself.

His heart started pumping as he got a sudden headrush of flashbacks flooding his mind. He lost balance and fell backwards, frantically backing away from the cave.

"D-discord?" Fluttershy yelled out to him.

"No...no...it can't be...this...this is where I..." Discord mumbled to himself as if he had seen a ghost.

"Discord, what's wrong? Did the bear wake up?!" Fluttershy said before Discord started running into the forest.

"Discord wait!" Fluttershy said running after him.

Discord ran on all fours as he smoothly zigzagged around the trees. Fluttershy barely managed to catch up with him.

"No...no...I remember...I remember everything..."

More memories started flooding in.

"There will always be somepnoy in your corner."

"These flowers wilt in the cold."

"You can play tomorrow morning if you'd like."

"You're not my friend anymore."

"No...why is this happening to me," Discord said as he shut his eyes tightly. He had a pounding headache, but he continued running, with Fluttershy far behind him. He kept running until he came to an abrupt hault.

"Discord!" Fluttershy yelled in the distance. "Discord, wait! Please!" Fluttershy yelled as she ran through a bush and stopped as soon as she saw him.

"Discord, what's wrong? I don't understand what's happe--huh?" Fluttershy said as she saw what Discord was looking at. They were now both looking at what seemed to be an extraordinarily beautiful flower. There also seemed to be a carved stone erected in the ground in front of it.

"Discord...what is that?" Fluttershy asked.

"I hoped to never see this flower again..." Discord muttered.

"What do you mean? It looks...beautiful," Fluttershy said as she walked to stand beside him.

"The last time I saw this flower...was the last time I saw her," Discord said as he pointed at the stone.

"Dahlia...Fullbloom," Fluttershy said as she read it, "who's Dahlia...Fullbloom?"

Discord sat there silently as a single teardrop fell from his eye and splattered on the ground. Fluttershy tilted her head as she inched closer to him.

"She was my mother..." Discord finally spoke.

"Oh my goodness..." Fluttershy gasped as she laid a hoof on his lion paw.

"I never knew her name, but...I know this is her," Discord said as his throat tightened.

"And if my mother is here...that must mean that..." Discord said before stopping himself.

"No...she's definitely gone too..." Discord continued before hunching his back.

Fluttershy didn't even ask about who he was talking about. To her, it didn't matter in that moment. She only knew that whoever he was talking about meant a lot to him. In knowing this, she didn't hesitate to hug him.

"I'm so sorry, Discord. I had no idea..." Fluttershy said, squeezing him tighter.

"It's not like you needed to know. Or...either of us for that matter," Discord said as he rubbed his nose with his lion paw, sniffling a bit.

Fluttershy let go of him. Discord walked over to the flower and gently pulled it from the roots out of the ground. He slowly walked back over to Fluttershy and dropped on one knee.

"Here," Discord said, showing the beautiful flower in front of her, gesturing for her to take it, "for Angel."

"Are you sure...?" Fluttershy said as she gazed at the shimmering petals.

"Trust me. Just be careful with it. It's very fragile," Discord responded.

Fluttershy carefully took the flower and held it in her wing. Discord stood up and turned around to see the gravestone. He looked back at Fluttershy. He got flashes of memories of Amma and Posey. Fluttershy was a stunning image of both of them. And as Discord looked at her through tearful eyes, they both realized what they cared most about.

The End.

Comments

[Fluskie]

"Fluttershy! Have I ever told you about how I joined Trixie's Magic Show? Well, it all started when she lost her hat and--"

I love that little reference to my fanfic xD

ALSO I LOVE THIS FANFIC!! YOU DID REALLY GOOD FOR YOUR FIRST MLP FANFIC!! EEEEEE!!!!

[GeekCat]

This was a wonderful first fanfic! I liked your take on Discord's origin story. I also love how things come full circle in this chapter--Discord getting back his memories, seeing Posey again in Fluttershy, and finally, him giving her the flower she can use to cure someone she cares about.

I also love the little Fluttercord moments sprinkled in, of course.

[Heartstrings1]

"Fluttershy! Have I ever told you about how I joined Trixie's Magic Show? Well, it all started when she lost her hat and--"

coughcough reference coughcough

also... the ending was so beautiful I love this so much ;w;w;;w;w;raritystarry: