CHAPTER TWO: CANTERLOT

Nothing interesting or different happened at all in the time period that stretched between then and moving to Canterlot.

The new house we had moved to was dark, with shadows looming around every corner. My father walked in happily, and immediately started exploring the rooms, without uttering one word to me or my mother. My mother's bright appearance and personality seemed to dull against the blackness of the room. She looked grey and miserable, but somehow still kept a smile on her face.
"Come along, Discord." She murmured, nudging me forward with her head.

I followed her up the stairs in to a small room which looked like it should be a closet more so than an actual room itself. "This will be your room, Discord." Mother said, stepping aside to let me through the door.
When I went in, there was nothing but a small bed in the corner and a chest of drawers at the side of the room, I was puzzled. "But I don't own clothes." I said, scratching my head with my paw.
I opened the drawers and found that there were pony clothes in them. They were all a midnight-blue colour and looked like they were for a winged pony.
"Don't worry dear, that's just from the alicorns who used to live here." Mother said, putting the clothes back in the drawer and shutting them. "I shall get your father to take out this chest tonight, okay?" she smiled. "Have an adventure around, see all the rooms." She finally said, leaving in to the hall way and shutting the door behind her. As soon as she left, the room turned darker and much more sinister. I lay down on the small bed and curled myself up, and that's when I noticed something I had not seen before.

Beside the chest of drawers was what looked like a framed photograph of an alicorn, probably only a few years older than me.
I went over to the photograph, and picked it up, examining it carefully. The alicorn was beautiful, white, with long pink wavy hair and she wore a crown. Under careful inspection I noticed that there were actually two ponies in the picture. In the background was an alicorn my age, also wearing a crown, but one that was made of yellow paper, she was wearing the dress I had seen in the drawers. I'm not sure how I had not seen her for a while; I think it was because I was too captivated by the beautiful white pony, clearly the eldest of the two.

I remember that every night I had lay in bed, staring at the beautiful alicorn. I even remember the name I gave her- "Belle", the French word for 'Beauty'. I remember wondering how such a beautiful alicorn that radiated light could have been living in a dark house like this.

Two months had passed since I'd moved to my new home, and my parents had still not taken me to my school. Thinking back on it now, they had probably been thinking that I'd be home schooled, because now we had the money, and father didn't want me socialising with any other… well… anyone.

I had been enjoying it for a while, as all young children not having to go to school do, but after those two months, I began to get bored, with nothing to do but watch my mother or sit in my bedroom, and come to think of it, my father still hadn't moved the drawers out of my room.
"Mother, when can I go to school?" I had asked her, I was nearly the same height as her now.
She smiled at me and wiped her eyes with her hoof, she seemed to have a habit of doing that now.
"Oh, well, I suppose I could take you now." She said. Grabbing me and struggled to put me on her back. "But mother, it's 4pm on a Sunday." I'd said.
She twitched her eye and put me back on the floor. "Then I guess you should go… tomorrow." She said, smiling ludicrously.

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My teacher was called Miss Sunshine. She was a yellow unicorn with a sunflower as her cutie mark. I could see why that was her name, for she was sweet and kind.
I was late to class on my first day of school. When I stepped through the door all the ponies stared at me, although, I hadn't really expected anything else. Miss Sunshine beamed at me and called me to the front of the class.
"Every pony, this is Discord! He's new today, so be kind and treat him well!" she said, pointing me towards an desk at the back corner, next to another empty desk.
"How do you know it's even a him?" remarked one rude pony on the front row. All the ponies laughed with him, but I just sighed and walked to my seat.

Little did I know back then that this rude pony's statement had changed the course of my life forever, for in the next moment a dark purple-blue alicorn that sat next to him stood up and shouted "Hey! Leave him alone!"
Sure, it was a silly little comeback, but that was the first time any pony had stuck up for me. I stared at the back of this alicorns head, feeling as if I had seen her somewhere before.
Next thing I knew, the alicorn turned to face me, grabbed her books, and sat on the desk beside me.
"Welcome to the class Discord, I'm Luna."