> The Deep Forest > by Autumn Apple > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The Discovery > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It was a summer morning. In a cottage, there was a family. Mostly everypony knew them as the Shy family. Mr. Shy and Mrs. Shy were going on a weekend vacation. Leaving there 18-year-old daughter Fluttershy in charge. "Are you sure your good by yourself dear?" asked Mrs. Shy giving her daughter this worried look. "I'm fine mother, you two go and have a good time," Fluttershy assuring her mother was old enough to watch herself. Mr. Shy walked in giving his daughter the same worried look. Fluttershy already knew he was about to ask her the same question. "Father I'm fine you go," said Fluttershy kind of upset thinking her parents didn't trust her. "Ok then let's set some ground rules. One, if you make a mess clean it up. Two, If someone at the door call the police and hide. And three, Don't. Go. In. The. Forest. Okay????" said Mrs. Shy in a firm tone. "I knoooooow not go in the forest!!!" said Fluttershy annoyed because her parents told her that since she was a little foal to not go in the forest. "Alright we're going see you soon honey love you," said Mr. Shy and Mrs. Shy kissed her on her cheek and then left. "I wonder what is so bad about the forest?" Fluttershy asked herself. Hours when by and Fluttershy still had the thoughts of the forest. Most of the people at her school said that she was just scared to go and using her parents to cover her. And this made upset she was not scared. She was going to go to that forest and come back out perfectly fine. Fluttershy walked outdoor and she was happy it was noon. It took a few minutes for her to reach the tip of the forest. Fluttershy took a deep breath and walked in. Fluttershy knew she kept hearing swigs break behind her, but that was not going to stop her. Then she heard a animals cry in the distance. Fluttershy ran to the noise. What happens next makes Fluttershy wished she never came. > Danger (Edited) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fluttershy was scared to the bone. The animal she heard crying in distance was lying on the ground...dead. What her attention was on the most was shocking. A creature with all different kind of animals as his body. Fluttershy made a shocking gasp to the whole scene. A few seconds later she noticed what she did and it was too late to take it back. The creature was already staring at her with his ruby red eyes. This creature started to smirk which made Fluttershy nervous. "Well, what do we have here?" he said as he stared deeply at her. Fluttershy wanted to look brave and full of confidence, but she was scared. The creature growled and lunged at her in seconds. He was on top of her on all fours. Now he could see well enough in the shining light she was beautiful. Then he guided his eyes down her body. She was not thin like the other mares he had seen she was deliciously curved and this which he loved. "Well surely I can say you look delicious my dear," he said as he lightly licked his lips. Fluttershy tried to fly away to escape, but the creature grabs her by her foreleg. "My dear, where do you think you're going. We just met, I haven't even introduced myself." as the creature turned her around. Fluttershy did the only thing she could think of slap him, so she did. He dropped her on the ground and she hit it with a thump. He gripped his cheek and looked at the mare before him sliding away. He growled. "Why you little..." the creature ran up to her and grabbed her by the throat. "Now look here my little pony I have never thought of killing a mare, but it has been to not hard to imagine with you." as he gripped her throat tighter. Fluttershy was gasping for air as loud as you can hear, and her eyes were turning red. "Please..." Fluttershy said as the hot tears streaming down her face. 'Well I could make her my slave ...' he thought as he dropped her to the ground. "Listen here, your mine now," he said as he smirked a little. Fluttershy was crying out loud now. "Oh, shut up before someone hears you out here." as he narrowed his eyes at her. Before she knew it black dust flew out of nowhere and the darkness consumed her. The sun was shining on a beautiful day. "Oh, look honey we made it Canterlot," said Mrs. Shy as they walked through the gates. She looked over to see her husband, but her smile quickly drifted away as she saw him with a worried expression on his face. "What's wrong dear." Mrs. Shy said with concern. "I'm just worried about Fluttershy that's all," said Mr. Shy not even looking up to see his wife. "Tell you what as soon as we make it the hotel, we can give her a call okay?" said Mrs. Shy with a smile. Mr. Shy finally looked up and smiled and nodded. Fluttershy woke up in a dark cell. She was cold. She was sorrowful. She was lonely. Fluttershy missed her animals dearly and she knew when they found out she was gone they would miss her too. Fluttershy froze as she heard the familiar voice. "So you finally woke up, huh?" Discord said in a normal tone. Fluttershy could not see him, but she knew he was close. Real close. " L-l-l-leave me alone!!!" Fluttershy said trying to act brave and full confidence. She heard a low and sinister growl. He was upset she tried to be bold and not cower in fear. A tiny light came on above her. She could finally see her surroundings. She gasps at the sight that she was in a dungeon. She turned around to the sound of a door opening. Discord slowly walked in. Fluttershy was upset that he even thought about coming in her cell. "I am Discord. And soon to be the ruler of Equestria. You should not forget your place." Discord said giving her an upset look. "You will never even be close to being a real king! And even if you rule Equestria and ponies respect you because you rule You will never get any respect from me!" screamed Fluttershy as he grabbed her foreleg. ¨YOU LITTLE WRENCH DO YOU KNOW WHAT I CAN DO TOO YOU?!?!¨” Discord said as he grabbed Fluttershy by her waist this time. Discord was about to yell again, but as soon as he could even utter a word a hoof came right across his face. He dropped Fluttershy on the stone cold ground. She realized this is the second time she has done this action. Discord was ready to strike this mare but regained his cool. "You know I was about to make you a deal I think you would accept." said Discord with a smile. Fluttershy turns around with a glare. "What?" she said with a soft, but firm tone. " The deal is if you agree to be my lovely wife I won't or maybe so take over Equestria." said Discord handing out his claw. Fluttershy looked at his claw for a moment and looked at him. "So what will it be my dear." Discord asked pushing his claw out more. "No," Fluttershy said with a bold tone. Discord growled. ''Why was what's wron-" he was cut short in his sentence. By a gray pegasus and a white unicorn. Fluttershy notices the grey pegasus eyes were quite different normal ponies, they both looked opposite directions. "Lord, we have a bit of a problem in the kitchen." said the white unicorn. There was a long pause that took place. "Well, what is it? You can see I'm a bit busy." as Discord narrowed his eyes at the two mares. "Well....um a.... cake kind of exploded." said the gray pegasus trying not to laugh in front of her majetsy. Discord just stared at them "I can't believe you stopped me for this." he said as anger settled in his tone. "Do not mind Derpy my lord she is trying to control herself...I think." said the white unicorn as she was giving Derpy a questioning look. "That okay Rarity. And you just go get the cleaning crew to clean up." as Discord said this as the two mares left, but you could hear Derpy's laughter after a while as they walked down the dungeon's hallways. Then Discord turned back Fluttershy with a grin. "Now where were we?" said Discord. > The Struggle > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- There was a long silence between them. Discord was caught in those teal eyes 'so beautiful' he thought. "So, back to our deal, you know about being my wife and everything." he waited for a moment for her to answer, but no reply "What will it be dear....or I can just you know take over," he said which he noticed it made Fluttershy nervous. "I-I-I'll b-b-be your queen...just please don't take over." Fluttershy said with a sad expression. She looked up only to see Discord smirking. "Good choice, dear." Discord as he walked slowly over to her and gently picked her up. "Ready to sit on our thrones in the castle, dear." said Discord still with the content smirk on his face. Fluttershy lightly nodded to answer his question. Fluttershy then found herself sitting on the small throne next to Discord's. She did not want to be next to him at all she had to think of something. "Yawn. I'm really tired, can I go to sleep." Discord gave Fluttershy a small smirk. "Sure, my dear we can go to sleep it is nighttime anyways." Discord snapped them in a nice , but dark room. "Um, where's my room?" Fluttershy asked. " Uh, Husband and wife share a room....soooo," Discord said give her 'Are you really asking me that question' face. "Oh, right," said Fluttershy quite nervous. So, they both climbed into bed. Fluttershy could feel Discord getting real close to her and his tail was wrapped around her leg. "Don't even try," said Fluttershy sending him a glare. Discord growled and turned the other way. 'I'm gonna have her one way or another' he thought to himself before closing his eyes. The next morning Fluttershy turned to see Discord staring at her intently. "Ready for our wonderful day together" Discord said as he slowly got out of bed. Fluttershy sent him a glare. 'Why would he even act everything okay when it is NOT' she thought to herself. "You know when you're spoken to you should answer!" Discord growled. "No matter lets get some breakfast shall we," he said as he cooled himself down. Discord snapped them into a huge dining room. Discord frowned as he saw no food on the table prepared for them. Discord grabbed a bell and started to shake it violently. Fluttershy could hear tiny hooves running down the hall. Three little fillies came up to the table but lined up. "Why is there no breakfast on the table for me and your new queen?" as you can hear the anger in Discord's voice. "Well, we got caught up with cleaning the bathrooms and must have forgotten the breakfast, ya majesty." said the earth pony filly. "Really you're going to give me that AppleBloom. 'We must have forgotten'." silence filled up the room for a moment."Or you didn't want to do your job!" Discord yelled. Fluttershy could see that fillies were scared. 'I have to do something and I am queen now.' she thought. "That is fine AppleBloom you and the others just made a mistake. If you can so happily bring us breakfast we will be most grateful," said Fluttershy as the fillies walked off in a hurry to avoid being yelled at more. "Miss Fluttershy, you are not queen yet. You do not call the shots here I do." Discord growled. Before Fluttershy could say anything. The three fillies came running down the hallway will tray of food. They brought anything you can imagine Pancakes, Waffles, Bacon, Toast, and Grits. So many drinks too Wine, Orange Juice, Grape Juice, Apple Juice, and so many others except..... "Where is the Chocolate Milk?" Discord asked the three fillies. They looked around the table searching for the Chocolate Milk. It's had to be on the table, they could have sworn. "Our deepest apologies, your majesty we might have forgotten." said the little white unicorn. "I'm thinking your starting to forget everything lately!" said Discord getting up from his seat. The three fillies were lifted from the floor and thrown back down. They looked up in fear and their eyes filled with tears. "We're so sorry your majesty." said the little orange pegasus the only one to dare look him straight in the eye. " YOUR SORRY...go and get out my presents!" Discord yelled as the fillies ran away. As Discord turned back to Fluttershy her eyes were full of tears. Discord didn't really care if she was about to cry he did what he needed to do with those brats. Fluttershy just stared at him eyes full of fear, worry (mostly for the fillies), and anger. "Why?" Fluttershy mumbled. What?" said Discord not able to hear what she said. "Why treat poor fillies who you took from there home and keep them as workers and slaves?" Fluttershy asked. "That is none of your business, my queen." Discord said in a nonchalant tone. "I am t-t-t-'' said Fluttershy still not getting over she was the queen. "t-t-the queen so that makes it my business!!!" Fluttershy stated in a soft, but bold tone. "We are not married yet so you are still yet my prisoner NOT queen!!!" Discord stated in full rage. "Before you just said I was." said Fluttershy lightly yelling. "Mistake!!!"said Discord. Fluttershy was about to protest when a little white unicorn came up with a goblet of chocolate milk. "What took you so long whatever your name is?!?!" Discord shouted. "Sweetie Bell." The young unicorn mumbled. Discord looked down at her. Which made her feel nervous. "If you're going to talk to me you need to speak up." Discord stated with a glare. "Sweetie Bell." said the young unicorn a bit louder this time. "Such a stupid name." said Discord. The little filly stared towards the ground and walked away in sorrow. Fluttershy could have sworn she saw a tear shed. That simply broke Fluttershy to see the filly in sorrow. There was a long silence at the table for a moment then... "Your majesty." The lavender unicorn....wait she was an alicorn! Fluttershy had never seen an alicorn up close before. She looked young than the other princess thought. Discord looked at the alicorn. "Twilight Sparkle, my mage, what brings you here when you should be working on those spells I asked for a week ago?" said Discord. Which made the alicorn flinch at his coldness. "Well, Your Majesty, we are-." Twilight was cut short. "We? Who else is working with you?" Discord asked. "Um, Sunset Shimmer, Your Majesty, but her nickname is Shim-Shim,'' said Twilight. "I DON'T care what her nickname is Twilight. I asked are you done with what I assigned you a week ago?" asked Discord getting annoyed. "No...Your majesty," said Twilight looking towards her own hooves. "Than why are you wasting your time?!?!?!" yelled Discord getting up from his seat. "Be gone with you." said Discord. And with that Twilight faded away in the dark hallway. > Meeting New Friends > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- After breakfast, Discord said that Fluttershy was able to walk around. But he to remind her over and over again she was being watched. Fluttershy was walking down a dully lighted hallway, before a smell of wonderful treat caught her muzzle. She followed the smell all the way to the kitchen. Where she found two earth ponies in the kitchen. One had a light pink coat but had puffy hair. The other, was a light orange coat and blonde hair but in a country style mane. The two noticed Fluttershy standing there and stared which made her blush. "Can we help ya?" the orange earth pony asked. The pink one whispered in the orange ones ear. They both bowed. At first, Fluttershy was confused from there actions but then realized she was queen. "Oh, you don't have to do that, really." Fluttershy said not wanted it to seem they had to do that. "Hiya there my queen. I'm Pinkie Pie. The assistant cook here in the castle. And this is-." Pinkie was cut off. "I can introduce myself thank ya very much." as send Pinkie a glare."I'm AppleJack Head Chef." "I am f-f-f-f-Fluttershy." said Fluttershy. "Hey aren't you the new-." Pinkie getting cut off once again."Oh, come on!!!!!" "What you three doing?" said Twilight Sparkle just walking in. Pinkie looked around at everypony to see if they would say anything. "We are doing introductions!!!" said with her voice full of glee. Oooooo, I am Twilight Sparkle and I like...no... love books." said Twilight looking around for somepony for go next. "Well, I'm AppleJack I used to work on my family farm until I was forced to..... come here." said AppleJack. "I'm Pinkie Pie and I love parties, and planning them." Then Pinkie looked to the ground. " I was forced here to." said Pinkie Pie as her hair deflated. "Well, at least we have something in common we we're all forced to come her by that...that...Big Dumb Meanie of a King!!!" said Pinkie Pie unknowing that Discord was right behind her. "Is that so?" said Discord with anger as one of his cooks would talk about him in such a way. "Oh, King Discord, I was...um." as Pinkie Pie said lost in words. "You were what talking about me behind my back and-" said Discord cut short in his words. "Your majesty, your other Guest are here for your meeting." said as a baby dragon walked in the room. Fluttershy didn't want to have an outburst that would upset Discord, but she was so excited also slightly flabbergasted by seeing a baby dragon!?!?! "Oh, yes." As Discord tried to remember what the dragon's name was? "Whatever your name."said Discord. "Spike." mumbled the baby dragon. Fluttershy looked around to see if any other pony was excited as well, but none had excited expressions. AppleJack had always had a thing for Spike, but never told anypony except her friends. AppleJack couldn't help but smile every time she saw him. She always tried to convenience herself it was nothing more than a school-pony crush, but she couldn't get that dragon out her mind. But what always stopped her from excepting her feelings were that he had a crush on Rarity. But Rarity had another love interest. AppleJack could never break that to him. "Oh, right, well, we shouldn't keep them waiting." said Discord. " I would like all of you to join in meeting my allies." said Discord as he turned to others as they nodded. As they walked down the hallway they finally made it to the lobby where the others were waiting. Fluttershy was surprised to see the other were not ponies, but different species. There was a centaur with a black cloak over himself, a dark grey pony with royal armor, and last was a changeling queen. "Welcome!!!" said Discord as he walked to the others. "Hello." said the centaur. "Greetings." said the shadow pony. "Lovely see you Discord." said the changeling queen. Fluttershy was confused on trying to know who they were? Which Twilight took notice to this. "The centaur's name is Tirek. He took over Equestria and stole everyponies magic or special abilities. The Shadow pony-" said Twilight not able to finish as Fluttershy cut her off. "Shadow pony???" asked Fluttershy. "Yes an Shadow pony. There a ponies that use dark magic and also come from crystals. This one is named Sombra. King Sombra in pony standards. He took over the Crystal Empire, but made it disappear for 1,000 years. During those year he was trapped in the Northern Ice. Then the last one is Queen Chrysalis. The Queen of the changelings. They are called that because they can mimic anything and anypony. She took over Equestria and feed the from the love of ponies." said Twilight. "Oh, my." said Fluttershy shocked from all she heard. As they were walking down to the dining room the others were whispering. Fluttershy was curious what about, but she didn't want to seem like she was nosy. Then Fluttershy finally got up some courage to ask. "Twilight what are you and the others taking about?" asked Fluttershy. "Oh, we all have suspicions that Queen Chrysalis have a crush on King Discord." Twilight giggled as she spoke. "Really?!?!" said Fluttershy in shock. "Yeah, isn't crazy, but I don't ship?" said Pinkie Pie jumping in the conversation. King Discord heard the others giggling while he was talking to the others. Which he didn't like getting interrupted. "Silence!" Discord yelled as the hallway quickly got silence. It was like that for the rest of the walk. Once they got the table Discord was upset to see their was no food on the table. As they all took their seat Discord materialized the three fillies front and center on top of the table. They all had surprised and shocked expressions. "Why once again is the table not set with food for the guest?!?!" Discord shouted in fury. "We were playing outside in the forest ya majesty,"said AppleBloom shaking in fear. "You were playing on the job, what is this recess?!?!" yelled Discord. The three stated to back away, SweetieBell so stupidly stepped on Queen Chrysalis hooves. "Ouch, watch it you little brat!!!" yell Queen Chrysalis in pain. "Go and fix the food for our guest and staff. Seeing you already did enough damage." yelled Discord as they quickly ran. Fluttershy see the whole thing already knew it was going to be a bumpy night.