Dear Discord Chapter Seven

                                                              Dear Discord
                                                             Chapter Seven




    The echo from Discord's question died to a stiff silence in the hall. I could feel him bristling from his fur standing nervously on end. When Celestia came in, he had cut her off from me with his body, and was shielding me with his paw in a very protective manner. Was he really afraid Celestia might try to hurt me for some reason? I flushed, and peeked from behind his looming back, and under his paw to see Celestia better. My ears perked toward, anxious for her answer. She still looked like she was putting an expressionless mask over an angry glare at him with an unnerving fire lit inside her light purple eyes. I couldn't see much of Discord's face, but he looked defiant.
    “No.”
I almost couldn't believe she'd said that. After all, she had been the one to trust Twilight and her friends with reforming him, believing he could be reformed in the first place. If he found some pony he wanted to spend the rest of his immortal life with, why would she refuse? He flared up when she said, fur sticking out more in anger. “...Then make me mortal,” he said stiffly. I gasped, and tugged on his paw. “Discord, no!” He ignored me, and kept glaring at Celestia. I swear, it looked like they were almost battling with each the way they were doing...it was freaking me out.     Celestia scowled after a few more moments of silence. “No,” she growled with a dangerous lowness to how it was spoken. Her glare could kill now, and I was surprised Discord could still meet it.
    Discord lost it then. “Why?!” he roared, towering over her with sharp teeth barred. She looked up at him angrily, but didn't move other than that.
    She narrowed her eyes at him, and glared down at me. I stiffened, and cowered behind Discord, flattening my ears nervously. I was getting this feeling that I had entered a big part to an already big and painful story.

    Discord glanced down at me, and looked all the more mad at how she was starring at me. He curled his tail around, and lifted me up before protectively clutching me to his side with arms. I hugged him, feel as young as I always did whenever he did that to me. “Tell me!” Discord said darkly. She scoffed, and turned away from us, shoulders hunched, and stood there silently for a few moments. “Because she doesn't deserve you!” she breathed suddenly. She whirled to face him again, tears streaming down her face now. Discord had been both surprised, and angered further when she had said what he did, but seeing the tears left him just as shocked and confused as me.
    “She deserves someone who actually knows what love is! Who can feel it! Who means it when they say they love her!” He had been gaping before, but she clapped his mouth shut, and scowled. “Why you little...!” “But, Princess...he DOES know how to love! Wouldn't he have to know it, and feel it, in order to just have friends? To have been reformed in the first place?” I reasoned with a small squeak. Celestia snapped her head to me, tears flinging off her face. But after a moment, her glare faded, as she looked at me, to a sadder look. She shook her head. “You...you were just like I was...so long ago,” she murmured. She looked back up at me, honestly looking at me with pity. I just returned it with confusion. “I used to think the same, GoldenDream. Before he proved me wrong,” she said. It was soft at first, but was stone cold by the end of the sentence. She glared at Discord again.     “What did I ever do to you that'd make you say that, and refuse me the one thing I've ever asked of you?!” he fumed, bristling again. She surprised us both by laughing.

    “It'd be just like you to be clueless! You have no idea how much pain you've caused me!” she snapped. He opened his mouth to snap a retort back, but she beat him to it. “Do you really love her? Really and truly? Have you even asked her if becoming immortal is something she wanted? If being with YOU was something she wanted?” Discord gaped, eyes widening, and pulling aback from her. Then his face fell, and his ears flopped against his head. He glanced down at me guiltily. I simply smiled, and touched a hoof to his side. “What reason would I ever have to refuse? I know what I'm getting into when I accept being immortal with you...but I'd rather face that with you, than one short life time that left you alone when it was over.” Discord smiled, and hugged me even closer to him.
    The alabaster princess narrowed her eyes at us again. “Don't make promises you may not want to keep, GoldenDream. Not every pony has to feel love as strong as that kind of love to gain friendship,” she said. Discord glowered at her disdainfully. “What did I ever do to you that'd make you say all that?” he hissed again, voice full of malice. “You really don't know?!” the princess snarled.


    “You came here, and stayed the night, saying these words, but boy it doesn't feel right!” Discord snapped open his mouth to retort, but Celestia cut him off sharply. “What. Do you expect me. To SAY?!” her loud tone made me jump, and Discord gaped angrily. “You take my hoof, and say you've changed, but you know your begging doesn't fool me, because to you it's all just a game!” she huffed, scowling. “So I'll let her on down,” she growled, slowly shoving her face up into his. “Cause time'll make her strong, she'll start to move on. I'm gonna say this now...your chance has come and gone.”
    There was more tense silence again, both immortal beings fuming, and I just feeling awkward. And even a little scared when I felt Discord's hands buzzing with the ache to use some sort of magic on the princess. His voice shook with anger, and I knew if Celestia didn't answer him this time, he'd probably try something on her if I couldn't calm him. “For the love of the moon, Celestia! What. Did. I. Do?!” Fresh, angry tears fell down her face. “I was once young and in love! I gave you everything! But it obviously wasn't enough for you! And now you wanna communicate, and have me make some pony else you love able to spend eternity with you?!” she yelled. Discord looked stunned, but in a different way than before. His mouth was shut, but his eyes were wide, and he just stared at her. As for me, my mouth dropped open for the tenth time that day, but I also felt really bad for her.     Celestia was just in pain. If what she'd said was true, she had loved Discord for a very long time, and if this had been any kind of shock to her when he'd asked what he did, it was also like a big slap in the face. After all, he not only had a habit of making ponies love him, but making them think he was IN love with them, as well. Celestia had been victim to this for a thousand years, and turning him to stone among who knows what else. It was really no wonder she had become bitter, and disbelieved he could even do something as love. Why wouldn't she think he'd be playing games with me?

    “C-Celestia, I...!” Discord stuttered, gasping. But Celestia whirled to me again, the sunlight flashing on her white coat and crystal mane. “Go find someone else, and do yourself a favor! In letting him go you're loving yourself...” she murmured sadly. I admit, my temper flared a little when she said to leave him, but I still felt bad for her. I felt Discord's shock melting, and his anger beginning to return as his body tensed, and he shifted me a little more behind him protectively. “Leave her alone!” “You want to know why you should leave him, GoldenDream?!” she flamed. “Because with a player like him, you don't even have a prayer! That is NO way to live!” Discord shook with anger, making me nervous. “Shut up!”
    “You're too little, too late, Discord! It's just a little too wrong, and I will not wait for you to ''prove'' yourself! I don't care if you know all the right things to say to me to change my mind or not!” she pressed, Discord shaking harder and harder the more she spoke. “Shut up! Shut UP!” he howled. “Dis-!” I started before Celestia cut in. She wasn't helping him calm down! “He says he dreams of your face, doesn't he? Well he doesn't like you! He just likes the chase!”     Discord dropped me to the ground with a soft 'plump,' and shot gold magic out of his hands, sending Celestia skidding back with a squeak of her gold slippers on the tile floor. “SHUT UP!” he roared.

    “Discord, stop!” I cried, pushing on his paw desperately. He grunted, and closed his hands, lowering his arms. Celestia was still on her feet, but her mane was frazzled, and she and Discord were both breathing deeply. She buckled to her knees on her fore-legs, sweating. Her eyes were colder than a timber-wolf's when she looked up at Discord. He was starting to realize what he had done, but was still trying to hold himself high in defiance. Her voice dripped with darkness, and was so quiet I could hardly hear her. “If you got a problem...don't you dare come asking me for help.”




    I let Discord hit and yell out his anger on the trees just behind my house as I unpacked my things inside. Every bang and angry roar I heard made me wince inwardly as well as outwardly. I was still trying to believe everything that had just happened. It was partly a blur. In less than an hour, I had found out Discord loved me just as much as I loved him, given up what I had thought was my dream for him, had almost gripped the chance to be with him forever, and had it slip from me. It was a lot to take in.     I didn't regret giving up the school at all, so I didn't think about that much. But my mind was going into a bit of an overload with being so blissful that Discord actually loved me, and being destroyed at almost getting to never leave him.
     It was bad enough to imagine never seeing him again, however it was caused. Separation...death... I shuddered at the thought of that. As I said before, he is the very reason, and passion that causes my inspiration for everything I do and love. He is the love I have for doing them in the first place...if I lost him, all of that would be lost with him too. But if something happened to make his heart break—like him living longer than me—it'd be no different. It made my heart shatter just to imagine him staying just the way he was as I aged, and then died to leave him all on his own. I wouldn't, couldn't, let that happen to him...I had to protect him from a fate like that. I wasn't trying to become immortal for my own gain, but for his sake. Would any pony really think that with the burden almost like a curse that comes with immortality, that I'd take it for my own gain?     I folded my pajamas away in my drawr, remembering when he offered to be made mortal like me, and almost felt sick. How could he suggest that?! He was over a thousand years! He might've turned to dust, or lost his youth, and become old and fragile. Even if him doing that just meant that he might die before me, I wouldn't let him. But what I managed to somehow become immortal, and Celestia found out? What would she do? Go mad, and do something terrible? I faltered, and stopped unpacking to go outside to Discord.

    His forehead was pressed to a tree trunk as his fist punched the bark over and over. Hard at first, but slowly getting weaker. He was finally dying down. Sweat and tears dripped into each other on his pained face, and my ripped open for him. His ears pricked to my walking toward him, and he looked up at me with wet eyes before bounding over to me. He enclosed me in himself, and we hugged each other tightly. We were both sad and scared.

    “Dizzy, you silly filly. Why'd you have to loose your temper like that?” I chided quietly, nuzzling his ear. He hummed in pleasure, and chuckled with a broken voice from yelling in frustration so much. “I don't know,” he sighed. “I know it didn't help things...and I know I scared you. I'm sorry, Dream-Girl,” he added tenderly.
    I felt big, warm tears land in my mane, and on my shoulders as he buried his face into me. I pressed him closer to me, feeling the strength in his body as he curled, almost protectively, around me. He clutched at me sadly, shoulders shaking with soft cries resulting from it. I was crying too, but in silence, my heart hurting more than it did before at how this was breaking him. Even more than that jerk colt played me and made me suffer for so long. Ten thousand times more than that.     “Shhhh, Dizzy, shhh,” I comforted as I rubbed his back soothingly. “I just want you always with me! To keep you safe always, and love you, and only you for until the this world ends! Why is that so hard to...?” his voice died on him, and he sniffled sadly. I bit my lip, locking away a sob that I knew wouldn't make him feel any better. There had been so many...so many times when I had been crying, and could tell he wanted to cry too, just from seeing me so hurt and sad, but he always put a brave face so he could cheer me up. He was so much stronger than me sometimes...and braver too. The least I could do was do the same he had always done for me. Especially now.

    “...I know you're just as sad as me, Goldie. You don't have to be strong for me...if you want to to cry, then cry.” Darn it! I couldn't help it then. I sobbed into his neck. “Darn you!” I cried. “Why do have to be so wonderful, and know me so well?!” I half laughed, half cried. He laughed, and sniffled as he cradled me against his heart. I could feel the wonderful thing beating, keeping my dear Dizzy alive with each pump. I smiled through my hard cried tears. Bless that heart.
    “Discord?” I asked after both our crying had died down a little. “Hmm?” he hummed, stroking my mane gently, eyes closed. “Why'd you have to go to Celestia to have me turn immortal? Can't you do it?” He sighed, and shook his head. “Sadly, no. The princesses and I each have powers the other can't do, but making one immortal is a power only they have,” he answered. My heart sank. “...Oh.” he kept stroking my mane, and I shut my eyes in pleasure, fully relaxing till I yawned. Sometimes when I cry hard, I get sleepy. Discord knew this, and smirked at my drowsiness. With a snap of his fingers, wings reappeared on my back once again, and then a cloud formed under us. It was very light, and airy, and soft. It felt so good as he laid me down on it. I sighed, making him smile as he lay beside me with his head propped up with his claw. I blushed. It made me feel shy to be sleepy, and have someone watching me like that, just because I looked cute falling asleep to them. He smirked more at my blush, and rubbed his nose against mine lovingly. I sighed in contentment again at that, smiling.     We pressed fore-heads together, eyes shut, and I grew more tired as I yawned again. Just as I was about to drift off, Discord startled me awake with a loud gasp of, “That's it!” “Hnnuh?” I asked tiredly, blinking myself more awake. Discord grinned at me proudly. “There are two princesses, aren't there?” he asked. My sleepy state left my mind fuzzy, and I just blinked at him in confusion. “We only asked one!” he exclaimed excitedly. My body had a different idea than what my mind was trying to tell it to do, and was sending itself back to sleep by now. My mind grasped a little of what he meant even still, though. I heard him murmur something, and then heard him say, “Luna...”
    I yawned one last time. Discord smiled down at me, and nuzzled me. “Get some sleep for now. Rest well, Dream-Girl. I promise I won't let your heart be broken, or hurt ever again.” And then I was out.




    “Luna, Princess of the Night! Why didn't I think of that before?!” I laughed. Discord had let me keep my wings he had popped on me so I could sleep on that cloud as we flew back to that void he had taken me at the beginning of spring. We flew right along side each other, buffeted by the wind. “More importantly, why didn't I think of it before?” he teased, smirking. I gasped indignantly, grinning, and making him snicker. I flew higher than him, and swatted his face with my tail. He shook his head, thrown off for a moment, and blushed with a playful growl. I giggled, and flew as fast as I could flap when he coiled up mid-air, and pounced for me.     After a small game of tag, he caught me, and noogied me till it almost shoved my head under his head-lock from the gentle force of it. We were both laughing too hard to say anything, but I protested with many squirms to be set free, blushing a lot. I always did when he did that to me. (As well as a great deal of other things as well, I'm sure you've noticed.) It made me feel just as much younger than him I really was.
    I shoved myself free, and did a wide u-turn to him, smirking. He just smiled widely, letting it slowly fall as he saw I wasn't slowing down the closer I got to him. “Oh, nononononono-OOF!” I rammed into him, tackling him backward, and sending both of us tumbling through the air. We laughed again, and he let us float to a stop with his back facing the ground far below us. I smiled as I watched his still giggling, happy face. It was warming to see him so happy after he had been so disappointed before. He sighed finally, and lifted his smiling face up to me. Our muzzles touched again, exactly like they had when we had been rolling down that hill weeks ago. We both blushed, Discord's eyes growing a little wider when he noticed this. He smirked. “Deja vu, nu?” I giggled, and rubbed my nose against his, eliciting a soft purr from the happy draconeqqus under me. I smiled, and though butterflies attacked my stomach just to think about doing it, I kissed the tip of his nose lightly. He froze, blinked,  blinked, and blinked twice more slowly again. He looked at me with much wider eyes before blushing so hard, the tips of his ears turned red. I tried to choke back my laugh, but after a few seconds it burst out anyway. That only made him blush harder, this time with a shy, goofy smile.

    I couldn't help but laugh again, and blush a little myself. That smile of his always got my heart fluttering inside me. But my laugh was cut off when I felt something soft, warm, and another more hard and smooth thing pressed against my cheek after hearing Discord smirkingly remark, “Oh, that's how you want to play, is it my dear?” My eyes snapped open, and saw his lips pressed against my cheek. I quietly inhaled a sharp breath of surprise, and felt everything above my neck be rushed over with the hotness of my own blush. I seriously couldn't believe Discord was kissing me, of all things! And he was letting it last, as well, obviously enjoying doing so, with the cute smile he had, and keeping his eyes closed. I smiled, everything inside me melting to nothing, and my heart and stomach both going hay-wire. My wings awkwardly and weakly fluttered at my side before pomfing straight out, only leaving me blushing more than before. All that takes a bit to say, but it happened pretty quickly. Before I knew it, he was smirking at my wings with a raised brow, and slowly moving away from my cheek. I forced my wings to move, and hid my face behind them, sinking into Discord's body more out of ultimate shyness. He laughed, and kept trying to move my wings out of the way to see me.    

    Refusing to give up, he smirked, and snapped his fingers. My wings pomfed of their own will, and no matter what I did, I couldn't move them if my life depended on it. Shoot. Why'd he have to do that to me?! I flushed again, and tried to hide my face by burring it in his stomach fur. He giggled, and squirmed around when I did. “Hehey!” he laughed, flushing. I giggled at him, and peeked behind my hoof, making him chuckle again, shaking his head.
    Then he took me up in his arms, and cradled me against him as he flew the rest of the way up, ridding me of my still-pomfed-wings. After ten minutes of happy silence between us, I felt the same rush of shocking cold as last time we'd been here.     Discord released me, floating, and I shook myself of the cold. We smiled at each other, and walked on thin air together through many stars. Discord quietly told me how to talk to them, and we both whispered to them to take us to Princess Luna. At first none of them did anything but twinkle as if they were talking to each other. Then, like when the fall wind stirs up leaves to spin them in a small whirl-wind, they flew around us in a wide girth. Nothing seemed to happen, except that the moon began to get rapidly smaller as if we were moving at great speed. I had asked Discord why we didn't just transport there. But apparently doing like this would alert her that someone was seeking her out, and when she was also Princess of Dreams, it was a good thing to let her someone was coming. Couldn't argue with that.
    After just moments, the stars stopped spinning, and fell away, seeming to leave us in the very same place as before, minus the giant moon. I looked around for Luna, and heard a female voice behind us, causing to turn to it. “So, you two seek an audience with me?” Radiant Luna stood smiling at us, flowing mane revealing shifting images of deep space one moment, and stars like the ones around us the next. Her royal-blue coat almost made her invisible in the night sky, and her crown and necklace of Onyx sparkled in the starlight. If Celestia seemed delicately beautiful and bright, Luna seemed strongly wondrous, and full of light for one so dark colored. I smiled shyly back, and bowed my head. But she blushed, and shook her head. “You don't have to.”  I raised it again, glancing up at Discord when he smiled down at me in slight amusement. “Of course you don't, silly. You sure don't do that to me,” he chided playfully. I huffed, and rolled my eyes with a smirk. Luna giggled at us, and walked up to us.

    Her face became a bit more grave when she got closer. “I heard about what happened with my sister,” she said simply. Discord just nodded evenly. “I know I lost my temper, but at least you should know it wasn't for what she was saying I was. It was because she kept jabbing at GoldenDream for...for falling in love with me,” he muttered the last bit with a shy blush and smile. Luna smiled lightly, and nodded. “I thought as much. You seem to love her very much, I'll give you that. And if you're here for what I think you are, I just have one thing to ask you two,” she said, looking at both of us. We perked our ears toward her. “GoldenDream, how much do you love Discord?” she asked me expectantly. Butterflies attacked my stomach again, and I smiled shyly up at him before I looked at her again, swallowing. “Enough to live and love him and him alone...immortal or not. While understanding full well what it means to promise that,” I answered. Luna seemed pleased with that. Then she looked up at Discord. “And you...if you had to, what would you be willing to do to prove you loved her enough to spend an immortal life-time with her?” she asked. “I would die for her!” he said without hesitation, still barely blushing all the same. Luna smiled again, just as pleased. “And you know what you ask of her with this?” Discord and I looked at each other, and I smiled reassuringly at him, touching my hoof to his paw. He smiled back, and looked at Luna again. “Yes. I would never force her to become immortal if she didn't want to, for I know the blessings and burdens it carries,” he responded.
    Luna's smile, which had been growing with each word he said, faltered a little. “Perhaps better than anyone...You understand I'd be going against my sister's wishes...GoldenDream could hide her Alicorn shape from other ponies, but all immortal beings can see other immortal beings. You can't hide from her forever. And once she does see GoldenDream, who knows how she'll react? Also, keep in mind that unless you two married one another,” we blushed violently at this, “she'd be able to change GoldenDream back, and prevent her from changing shape again, should she catch her,” Luna pointed out to us. “I can't be responsible for anything my sister does toward either of you two. I CAN promise my help if she does anything horrible, but that is all. Everything else you will be bringing on your own heads.” Discord and I glanced at each other again before nodding in understanding to her. This was something we wanted, and were prepared to take risks for. As far as both of us were concerned, we would put up a fight the likes of which was never seen before giving this up.

    Luna smiled, and nodded. “Alright. Knowing all that...follow me,” she said before turning and walking farther into the stars. We obeyed. She seemed to know just where she was going, but to me it just looked like we were passing stars. Although, I did notice that, gradually, you weren't able to see the ground far below the sky we were in anymore. It was just black sky. Almost like space, except for the fact there were no stars in that blackness.     A few more minutes, and the blackness below us turned opaque. It was then that Luna stopped, and faced us again. “We're in the heart of the Alicorn Void, now. You've already proven to me that you have right to be here, but you have to convince the stars now. Or, rather, the magic in them. You have to feel the strongest of your love for each other in order for them to know why you want immortality, and have them decide if the love is strong enough for then to do it. Treat this as you did with me. These are not just stars, these are beings with the magic that holds your future in their bodies,” she instructed. We each nodded. “Luna...what exactly is a good way to prove that to them?” I asked.
    “Well, stars are sensitive to sound waves. And if they are done in the right pitch, and in the right pattern, it'll gain their attention,” she said, expecting I'd know what she meant.
I blinked. “Um. Yeah?”
    Discord screwed up his nose in confusion. Luna smirked, and rolled her eyes. “It means you have to sing,” she said. “O-oh! Um...okay! S-sing what?” I asked again, surprised it was something as simple as that.
    “What is a song either of you know that means the most to you two? The one that most relates to you both? What's the song that stirs up the most emotion and passion inside you, and, more importantly, those feelings for the other pony, when you sing it?” she said.
    I racked my brain for anything that fit all those perfectly, trying hard to think of something. Discord just smiled, and nudged me with his snout. I looked over at him, and he whispered into my ear the name of the song. Even the name of it was perfect. I smiled. “Will you do the music for it?” I asked. He grinned, and pulled out a flute. I smiled again at the shiny silver instrument. It'd be perfect for playing a more soft and pretty tune to the song.

    “When you hear me joining in with you, or, rather, a hopeful if you do, then you know the stars are about to release their magic to you. But don't get too excited if you hear me, and don't let it throw you off! Keep going as if I wasn't there, alright?” Luna said as she put a hoof on my shoulder. I nodded, and beamed up at her. “Thank you...Luna...for everything!” She just smiled back at me, and nudged me forward encouragingly. “Don't take your eyes off each other.”

    Discord smirked playfully at me, and played his flute. It probably wasn't a very suitable instrument for him, being the god of all Chaos, but he was doing this for me. No...for both of us, and was doing what was needed. It made my heart feel fluffy and warm. As I sang, I don't think I ever felt so nervous, but I did as Luna said. I looked right at Discord from the start, letting nothing distract me from his eyes, and felt affection for him come pouring through me in waves at the truth of the song. The music sent myself giddy with happiness at how beautifully he played the flute, but the main emotion was the love I felt.     That may sound funny to some of you, but it was like every last drop of affection I had ever felt for him, every moment I had ever had with affection for him so overwhelming I thought it'd take over me before it went almost as soon as it had come, every butterfly, or racing heart, every time he had ever made me melt inside jumbled inside me. If something didn't come and feel it for themselves, I felt like I'd burst.
                                                  “I like your smile, I like your vibe, I like your style...
    But that's not why I Love you!

                                                                    And I, I like the way you're such a sta-ar...
    But that's not why I Love you, hey!
                                                 Do ya feel? Do ya feel me? Do you feel what I feel, too?

    Do ya need? Do ya need me? Do you need me-e-e?

You're so BEAUTIFUL!
                              But that's not why I Love you!
                                    I'm not sure you know...that the reason I love you is:
    You.
     Bein' you.
      Just you!
Yeah, the reason I love you, is: All that we've been through!
                                                     And that's why I love you!”
    I sang as loud and hard as I could. Not because I thought it might help, or thought I had to, but because if I didn't get the overwhelming feeling inside of me out somehow, I felt like I'd waist away to nothing like some lost dream.
    Half-way into the second verse, I heard Luna singing along with me. She hadn't said how she'd know the words to the song, but at that moment, I didn't care. My excitement flared, and I had to shove it back down, and force it to be contained within me so I didn't mess up. Beaming at Discord was all I could do, and he grinned back as much as possible for him playing a flute.     I felt stars brushing by my cheek, and hooves, as if they were checking out what I looked like or something. I almost didn't care, so much was my desire to sing out all the emotions within me. By the time I was singing the main chorus again, I could feel something light, and a tad globby forming on my back. I was afraid that if I turned to look at it, they might go away, so I just stayed still, heart booming, and singing my soul out for the stars, and most important pony in my life that was standing right infront of me in this amazing, history-changing moment.
    Half-way through the chorus, I felt the thing on my back lifting me up from whatever I had been standing on, though not much. And then what looked like a living, moving, golden glob with sparkling stars inside it, moved toward my head. I only had enough time to sing the last words to that part of the song before it enclosed over me, and muffled my voice. I forced panic away, reminding myself that they wouldn't hurt me, and I could still breathe, even if I sounded less clear when I kept singing my heart out. I could still see Luna and Discord, but it was like looking at them through distorting, gold, sparkly jell-o.


    Just as Luna and I ended the song, bright light, like daylight from the sun, warm and strong, pulsating just once before dying away, from the things on my back and head. I hissed in pain as it stung my eyes, and snapped them shut. When I noticed the light die seconds later, I blinked them open. Everything was a little fuzzy at first, but I made out stars falling off my head like dust. I shook my head, and blinked rapidly to clear my vision before looking over where Discord had been. The stars had set me back on the ground, and I was laying down with my hooves tucked under me.
    Discord's mouth was slightly agape, but he was smiling in an awestruck kind of way. I smiled shyly at him. “How do I look?” I asked, a little nervous. I didn't feel any different...well, actually, I felt a great deal fresher as far as energy goes, but that was about it. He blinked a few times, and then grinned. “Great! ...But they gave you another pair of legs,” he said far too casual for my liking. I snapped my head to look at my body, shrieking, “What?!” And in the split second I saw nothing there, I heard Discord burst out laughing his head off as the wave of realization slammed over me. I rolled my eyes with a smirk, and shook my head at the guffawing mess rolling on the ground infront of me. “Same old Discord,” I giggled. His shoulders still heaved in silent laughter. “You shoulda seen the look on your face!” he teased. I snorted, giving him a playful glare, and blushed a little.     “Ooooh, but really, though!” he chuckled, wrapping an arm around my neck, and touching the tip of my new horn with this claw. “You look very...elegant,” he said, smiling at me. I ducked my head in shyness, grinning to myself, and blushing more than before. He just chuckled at that, and looked up as Luna walked over to us. She was positively beaming. “You look beautiful! I'm so happy for both of you!” she cheered, nuzzling each of us happily. Discord rolling his eyes, and sighed, smirking as he usually did. “All this mush! Eeyuck!” Luna and I just laughed.
    “Now GoldenDream, you might be just a little weak at first, but once you walk around again, you'll be ok. You were an earth pony, and when a pony as sturdy as that earn two attachments they never had before, one made for magic use no less, your whole body almost needs to be made to adjust to them. But the bout of weakness will pass with a few minutes, and you'll be good as new,” she said, smiling. I nodded, and tried, as she said, to get up. I managed to slide my hooves out to my knees, but when I tried to push myself up, my legs buckled under themselves, and I got nowhere. Discord and Luna helped me stand, only to have me sink down again with a yelp. In the end, Discord had to hold me up, and help me just to walk around. But he kept a firm grip, and didn't let me fall again till I could trot on my own once more. I was glad when I could. I'd felt like a new born foal all over again.

    I trotted up to Luna, and hugged her again. “Thank you so much, Princess Luna!” She smiled down at me, and returned the hug, seeming just as happy as Discord was that we were finally unable to be separated now. “You're both very welcome...you know, I confess, I was almost encouraging you two on. I was glad Discord had actually found some pony he loved. When the stars of mine sort of... encouraged you two to dance? That was me,” she said, blushing. Discord and I gaped at her for a moment, but not long after, I laughed. Discord flushed, and looked both flustered and amused at the same time. “Match-maker,” he mumbled with a huff, smirking shyly as the two of us laughed.     “I wasn't match-making!” Luna cried indignantly, grinning. “I Am the Princess of Dreams as well as of the Night, need I remind you, Prince! I could see both of your dreams, so you have no one to blame but yourselves!” she laughed. Discord flushed much more at that, and failed at trying to hide his smile as he turned his head away, and bit his lip. I giggled at him, suddenly wondering what he'd dreamed about me. What she said was true...I had dreamt of him a few times, but not as much as I may have wanted to. Though the ones I'd had were very nice...
    Discord slid under me, making me plop onto his back with a surprised, “Oop!” He smiled back at me, and licked my cheek, making me blush yet again. He grinned, and slinked under Luna. “Thank you, again, Luna. We won't forget it! Not ever,” he said, turning to see her smile, and wave to us before he flapped off, both of us waving back. I held his neck, and let my wings, rather floppy and weak, glide open in the air as we flew. “Will I be able to fly?” I asked. Discord snorted lightly in a little amusement. “No, silly. You have to learn how to use real wings. Mine defy the laws of physics. In reality, there would've been no way you could've flown with them if anyone but me gave them to you,” he snickered. I rolled my eyes, smirking. “Figures, Discord,” I chided, poking him in the neck a little. He giggled back at me, and dove down without warning.
    “Wah!” I yelped, clutching his neck tighter. I was a lot more calm about flying now. So long as I did it with him around. Once, though, he had snapped some wings on me, and Rainbow had invited me to go flying. I agreed, but got scared quite a lot, and had to lower back to the ground often, totally unable to do any fancy tricks, or race her too high up. She got a bit impatient with me at first, but when I explained why, she understood, and warmly did whatever would make me comfortable. Later, Discord had found us, and all my fear rushed out of me. Even Rainbow had said she was almost impressed at how much he got me out of my shell and comfort zone. He always did that to me. If I was nervous to fly on my own and he popped up, my fear left in an instant from knowing if something happened, he'd catch me within seconds.
    He knew me so well by now, that he could always tell when I was uncomfortable, and did all to make me happy again. If some pony dunked me underwater, which didn't always bother me as long as they made sure I took a breath before they did, and he watched me like he always did only to see they were holding me under too long, and I couldn't get up, he'd snatch them off me, and pull me out at the same time. If I mentioned someone did so much as cut infront of me in line, even if it didn't bother me, he'd always say, “Just give me the word, and I'll make her ears cabbages, my dear.” Just thinking about all that made smile down at him in affection. The feeling of love so strong it had even surprised myself to feel how much I truly loved him, as well him with me, had never left. It was still there, a constant funny feeling inside my heart, just more containable now. Like the moon. Its glow wasn't very bright, but the closer you got to it, you realized just how big and bright it really was.

    I let out a long sigh of happy and sleepy contentment, smiling softly, and closing my eyes. I nuzzled my nose into the fur on the back of his neck, drinking in his smell. He smelled like the warmth of sunshine in the fields with some kind of sweet candy scent mixed in with it. It was nice and cute at the same time, stirring up something from familiar to me from when I was little. You know smells like that...you always like them because they bring up positive memories or feelings to you even if you can't remember why.    
         Discord's POV:
    I glanced back at GoldenDream when I felt her nose burring itself under my fur, and smiled at her. She looked cute like that. Like a baby bird that had buried its beak in its wings. I could tell she was falling asleep. Her wings slowly dropped lower and lower as their owner found it even harder to hold the flimsy things up. I smirked, and nosed each of them back against her sides before flying again myself. At least she wasn't wasn't shivering, my body shielding her from the cold night wind. I didn't want her to get cold...
    That thought made me laugh under my breath. How long ago was it that I probably would've gagged at myself, totally repulsed for thinking such an affectionate thought for some pony? How long was it to even when I thought them, but felt conflicted for thinking them despite? But then again, I wasn't the same draconeqqui I was then. The thought of the fact that, had I met her before now, I probably would've done something horrible to her, made me feel sick. I'd give my life to protect her, but could I protect her from myself if the monster I was before came back out? It wasn't likely it would, but...what if...?     I roughly shook my head, forcing myself not to think about that. That wouldn't happen. Not without it going against my will. When I thought about it, I hadn't even been making much chaos lately. Not if meant I could be around GoldenDream instead. And when I did, it was hardly ever for myself. It was usually for her, or others. But mostly her. Chaos was the one thing I was the best at, just like she was with her art. It was the only part of me I had to offer anyone...and when someone becomes the only reason you do what you love, why wouldn't you not only share it, but give the most of it to that one special-some-pony? She was the only reason I did anything remotely chaotic after all. When she had gone from here, I didn't have the heart to make any chaos what so ever. Like the idiot I could sometimes be, I almost ripped my mane off trying to figure out why. And when I did, it just underlined what I realized at the train station.
    I couldn't be without her. Ever.
    And I would go to Hell and back, wait two thousand years, be turned to stone again, whatever I had to do, to make sure that, as long as she wanted it too, I'd never be without her.
                                                       Till the End of all Time and Space.