Chapter 15: Day with Discord

As the sun rose up in Ponyville, I groaned as I woke up. I then let out a large yawn before I leaned up on the bed and looked to my side to see that Twilight wasn't next to me. I then began to worry that Discord might have done something to her, so I leaped out of bed and galloped down stairs.

I then galloped into the kitchen and exhaled in relief when I saw Twilight sitting at the table with Jeff, Spike and Peewee.

Twilight then looked at me with a slightly concerned look. "Are you ok? Matt."

I finally calmed down; I gave her a small smile. "Yeah I'm fine, I just thought that-" I didn't finish my sentence as there was a flash of light and Discord appeared sitting on a chair next to the table. "Never mind!" I groaned.

I then walked over to the table and sat down by it; not taking my eyes off Discord.

After we ate our breakfast, I got up and headed towards the door to the next door. "Ok, I'm going to make my delivery's Twilight, I'll be back soon. Come on Jeff!"

"Comin'." As said Jeff before he flew off the table and landed on my back.

Twilight the placed her hoof under her chin and had thinking look on her face before her horn glowed. She disappeared in a flash of light and reappeared in front of me. "Matt, I want you to do something for me today. Ok?" She said with a slight desperate look.

"Sure Twi, what is it?" I asked as sweetly as I could because I could see in her eyes that she really wanted me to do something for her.

"I want you to take Discord with you." Twilight said.

My eyes widened. "What?...he is not coming with me out there." I said in an assertive tone before I walked passed Twilight.

Twilight's horn then glowed again and she disappeared in a flash of light and reappeared in front of me again. "Come on Matt! You said you would give him a chance and try to get along with him."

"Yeah but not out in public." I said with a serious look on my face.

Twilight then placed her hoof on my chest and looked at me with begging eyes. "Please….I trust the Princess' decision and I just want you to do the same, at least try! Please"

I looked into her eyes and saw that she really wanted me to do this and trust Celestia's decision. I let out a small sigh. "Ok….he can come. As long as he doesn't cause any trouble that could get me fired."

Twilight then gave me a sweet smile before she hugged me. "Thanks Matt." She said while still hugging me. I smiled and returned the hug.

We then broke the hug and I turned my head to the kitchen entrance. "Discord, you're coming with me to work." I yelled. Discord then poked his head around the kitchen entrance with a smile on his face. "Yay, day trip." He cheered.

We then walked towards the front door. Once we reached the door, I opened the door and turned my head to Twilight who was standing next to me.

Twilight had a sweet smile on her face. "Try to have a good day!" she said. I nodded "I'll try." I said before we shared a kiss on the lips.

"Oh come on." Jeff thought as he rolled his eyes.

After we broke the kiss, I walked out the door with Discord fallowing me. Discord then hovered up beside me with a smirk on his face. "Did you tell the girl you love her?"

"Don't push it!" I said aggressively through my teeth.

I then took off into the sky with Jeff and Discord flying behind.

Sweet Apple Aches

After a few minutes of flying, Me, Jeff and Discord finally landed in Sweet Apple Arches. I looked towards the barn to see Applejack with my delivery cart and we all walked over to her.

When we reached Applejack, I waved my hoof slightly. "Hey Applejack, everything set for me to go?"

Applejack then noticed Discord behind me. "Errrr Matt, ya do know who's behind ya right?" she said with a raised eye brow.

I narrowed my eyes. "Don't remind me!" I groaned.

"Ok well, I'll get cha'all saddled up. I don't have much time." Applejack said as she quickly strapped the cart to my back. I gave her a confused look. "Why? What's going on?"

Applejack had a panicked look on her face. "Caterpillar's Matt, they're eating at our apple's; they've already eaten have our west field." Applejack the pointed at the fields.

We all turned our heads to the field to see the apples on the apple trees being devoured by huge caterpillars.

"Whow, those are some big bugs." Jeff said.

"If we don't do somethin' soon, we'll lose our apple supply and we'll fall back on our budget for this month." Applejack said in a panicked voice.

Discord rubbed his chin until a large smirk crawled onto his face. He then cracked the joints in his fingers. "I'll take care of them."

Applejack glared up at Discord. "Oh no, you're no usin' any of your magic stuff on my apples." She said assertively.

Discord put his talon hand up. "Don't worry Applejack; I have no interest in harming your apples, trust me!"

Applejack then looked down at the ground with a raised eye brow while she was thinking; she then looked back up at Discord and nodded.

Discord then turned his attention to the apple trees and snapped his fingers. With a flash of light, all the caterpillar's turned into butterflies and they all flew out of the apple field. Discord then snapped his fingers again and with a flash of light, all the devoured apples returned on the trees as if they were never touched. Discord then snapped his fingers one last time and the apples levitated off the trees and placed themselves into the baskets below the trees.

Applejack's eyes were wide open with a big smile on her face. "Boy howdy, I have to admit that was mighty handy. Thank ya kindly Discord."

Discord turned his head to face Applejack with a smile on his face. "You quite welcome Applejack; glad to know somepony believes I've changed."

I glared at him. "Shouldn't we be going?" I asked in an irritated tone before I turned around and headed out the farm with Discord following behind.

Fluttershy's cottage

After making a few deliveries, my final delivery was for Fluttershy. As we approached Fluttershy's cottage, we saw her and the Cutie Mark Crusaders outside looking up at the roof of the cottage.

I walked up behind Fluttershy and looked up to see what she was looking at. "What'cha lookin' at?"

Fluttershy let out a small squeal as she spun around fast to face me. "Oh Matt, it's just you."

I nodded "Yeah, I brought your order of apples." I said before I got the bag of apples out the cart and placed them in front of Fluttershy "Oh, thank you Matt." She said in her quiet voice.

She then looked behind me to see Discord giving her a slight wave. "(GASP) Discord!" she said in a scared tone before she laid on the ground and covered her eyes with her hooves while shaking.

"This is just embarrassing." Jeff said with an eye brow raised.

I then lowered my head down to her. "It's ok Fluttershy he's with me, though I wish he wasn't." Fluttershy then uncovered her eyes and I put my hoof out. she placed her hoof on mine and I helped her stand back up,

"So what's wrong?" I asked with a raised eye brow.

She turned her head back to her house. "Do you see those squirrels up on the roof?" she asked. We looked up at the roof to see a small group of squirrels. "Yeah, what about'em." Jeff answered.

Fluttershy didn't turn her head away from the squirrels. "Well, they all have stomach problems and I was trying to give them their medicine but they wouldn't take it and ran out the window and up on the roof and I can't get them to come down." She said in a concerned tone.

I then came up next to her. "Why not fly up there to get them?"

Fluttershy turned her head to face me. "I've tried, but every time I get close to them they throw acorns at me."

I raised an eye brow. "Acorns?" Fluttershy then nodded.

"We'll get them down." Sweetie Belle said as she, Applebloom and Scootaloo galloped up to the cottage.

Sweetie Belle then stood next to the wall of the cottage before Applebloom jumped on top of her and Scootaloo jumped on top of Applebloom so they were forming a tower.

As Scootaloo tried to grab the edge of the roof, Sweetie Belles legs were shaking because of the weight of her two friends pushing down on her until she finally lost her balance and collapsed to the ground causing Applebloom and Scootaloo to fall with her.

"Maybe squirrel catching's not our special talent after all." Applebloom said as she stood back up while rubbing her head.

"Gee, what gave you that idea?" Scootaloo said sarcastically.

As the Crusaders walked back over to us, I decided to get this over with and flew into the air and towards the roof. When I reached the roof, I slowly flew towards the squirrels. "Ok little squirrels, it's time to take your meds so why don't you just come down nice and cal-OW." I was interrupted by something hard hitting me on the head and catching it in my hoof.

I looked at my hoof to see an acorn in the middle of it. "An acorn? Is that the best you go- AHHHH." I yelled in terror as a swarm of acorns crashed stormed at me causing me to fall to the ground.

I was looking up at the sky with my eyes narrow while there was a pile of acorns covering my body. "That didn't work." I said in an obvious tone.

Jeff then flew down to the back of my head. "What's the matter Matt, this whole thing drivin' you nuts, HAHAHAH."

We were all silent while Jeff was laughing at his crap joke, Jeff laughter then faded once he realized nopony else was laughing. "Wow…tough group." He said finally giving up.

I then pushed all the acorns off of me, stood back up and glared up at the squirrels. "That was a cheap shot." I yelled up to the squirrels while shaking a hoof before one of the squirrels threw another acorn at my head. I didn't react as I just stood there glaring while the squirrels burst out laughing in high pitched squeaks.

I then turned around and stormed back to Fluttershy. Jeff then flew towards us and landed on my back.

Discord then stepped forward. "I might be able to get them to come down."

We turned our heads to face Discord. "And how are you planning to do that? They're armed and loaded." I said with a raised eye brow.

Discord then placed his lion hand on his chest. "I can speak to them." He said with a smirk on his face.

"You're gonna speak squirrel? This I have to see." I said with an amused smile before sitting on the ground; getting ready to watch this goofy act.

Discord then disappeared in a flash of light and then reappeared on the roof. The squirrels were about to throw more acorns before Discord leaned down to them.

"Squeaky, squeaking, squeaker, squeaky." Discord said in squirrel talk. The squirrels then lowered their acorns and had curious looks on their faces. One of the squirrels the started squeaking to Discord.

"HaHa, squeaker, squeaking, squeaker." Discord said.

Me, Jeff, Fluttershy and the Crusaders had confused looks on our faces as we watched Discord talk to the squirrels. I then moved my head closer to Fluttershy without looking away from Discord. "What the friv is he sayin'?"

Fluttershy did the same with her head. "I have no idea."

I then let out a frustrated sigh. "This is a waste of time. Talking to the squirrels….that has to be the most ridiculous thing I've ever-." I stop in my sentence as I saw the squirrels climb down from the roof and run towards Fluttershy. Soon the squirrels were all on Fluttershy's back.

"You are kidding me." I groaned under my breath with my eyes wide open.

A large smile came on Fluttershy's face as she looked at the squirrels on her back. "Oh, they'll let me give them their medicine, this is wonderful."

With a flash of light Discord appeared in front of us with a smirk on his face. "Thank you so much Discord." Fluttershy said.

Discord smiled. "Don't mention it dear Fluttershy, it's my way of saying sorry for what I did to you when we first met."

Fluttershy then smiled warmly. "Wow, you really have changed."

The smirk returned on Discord's face as he crossed his arms and looked down at me with a raised eye brow. I just rolled my eyes.

The Crusaders then walked up to Discord with large smiles on their faces. "That was awesome Discord." Scootaloo said.

"Maybe we can get our cutie marks being squirrel speakers." Applebloom said in excited tone.

"Yeah, can you teach us how to do that? Discord." Sweetie Belle asked. Their smiles then grew bigger.

Discord smiled down at them. "Of course I can." I then made a fake cough sound and Discord then frowned slightly. "But I'm afraid I can't right now, I have a busy day with Matt today."

The Crusaders then looked at the ground in disappointment. "Awww,"

Discord gave them a warm smile and leaned down to them. "Don't worry young ponies, I'll be back later." The Crusaders grew small smiles before Discord walked passed them and headed back to Ponyville.

I let out a small sigh before following him. Fluttershy and the Crusaders waved us goodbye and I waved back before continuing to follow Discord.

That afternoon: Ponyville streets

After returning the empty cart to Applejack and collecting my pay, I was trying to calm myself by taking a walk through the streets of Ponyville with Jeff on my back and Discord hovering behind me.

I looked around to see other ponies giving me strange looks while whispering to each other. "Oh no, thanks to Discord noponys going in to trust me anymore." I thought in a worried tone.

As we kept walking, Jeff turned his head to Discord. "So Discord, now that you only have half your magic what magic can you do now?"

Discord tapped his chin. "Well, I can't take away a wings and horns anymore; I can't make houses hover in the air; in fact I can't alter reality at all. All my magic's good for now is pulling harmless pranks."

While still walking, I then turned my head around to face him. "Yeah but you may want to ease down on the pranks." Discord gave me a confused look. "Why?"

I then gave him a serious look. "Because I don't share you're your sense of humor with your kind of pranks." As I kept walking, I suddenly bumped into something which made me fall back on my flank.

I rubbed my head as I got back up and opened my eyes to see a brown earth pony with a cart of pies attached to his back. "Sorry." I said.

The pony gave me a glare. "Why don't you watch where you're going kid!" he said aggressively.

I glared back slightly. "Kid? I'm not a kid, I'm 16." I protested.

He then rolled his eyes. "Whatever, just stay out of my way." He then walked passed me while pulling the cart behind him.

I glared sharply at him as he walked away. "Ass hole." I growled under my breath.

Discord glared at the pony before a large grin crawled on his face. "Hey Matt, remember those pranks I mentioned a minute ago?" he said in a sly voice.

I gave him a suspicious look while nodding. Discord then snapped his fingers and a banana peel appeared on the ground in front of the brown pony. The pony kept walking until he stepped on the peel and slipped backwards onto his cart.

When he fell on his cart, all the pie fling in the air. The pony's eyes shot open at the sight of the pies hurling down to him until all the pies splattered on him; covering him in pie.

Discord and Jeff burst out laughing. At first I didn't find it funny, but then I thought about how much of an ass that pony was and the look on his face when the pies fell on him. I then felt the thought tickled me and I started laughing slightly.

I covered my mouth with my hoof; trying to hold back the laughter but it was no use as I joined Discord and Jeff in laughing. "Ok HaHaHa, I have to admit THAT was funny HaHaHa." I said while laughing.

Discord whipped a tear off his eye and looked at me. "See! Now was that so bad?"

I gave him a small smile. "Guess not." I then let out a small chuckle.

Discord then came up beside me. "Come on! Let's see if we can prank any other ponies." he said in an excited tone.

I shook my head while smiling before looking back up to him. "Fine, I guess there's nothing wrong with a bit of a laugh."

We all then set out to find ponies to prank.

Later that evening: Fields outside of Ponyville

Me, Jeff and Discord were lying on the grass next to each other watching the sun set after a day of pranking ponies. The ponies we pranked didn't take the pranks hardly, In fact they laughed with us about it.

As we looked up at the sky, I rolled my head to Discord with a smile. "I have to admit Discord, that was fun."

Discord then looked at me. "Yeah, even with half my magic gone I can still have tons of fun." He then looked back up at the sky.

I then gave him a curious look. "So what did you mean when you said your name was gone?"

Discord didn't look away from the sky. "Well it works like this; there are hundreds of spirits out there with their own names."

I smirked slightly. "There's more of you?…oh goody."

Discord didn't react. "Anyway, each one has a responsibility and the spirit of life is the one who chooses which spirit gets a curtain responsibility, he's the one who chose me to be the spirit of chaos and disharmony. Before I was chosen, I was the Discord you see now. But after I was chosen, I felt the uncontrollable desire to cause Chaos which turned me into the Discord everypony feared and the one who tried to kill you. Now that the name has been taken away from me I don't feet those desires anymore and I have my free will back."

"So you don't want to kill me anymore?" I asked.

Discord shook his head. "No, but I had no choice. That alicorn threatened to take something very important away from me."

"Yeah and it looks like he did." I said.

Discord's ears lowered slightly. "Actually, to tell the truth…..my name and magic wasn't what he meant."

I gave him another curious look. "Then what were you talking about?"

Discord rolled his head to me. "Matt, can you keep a secret?"

I nodded. "Pinkie swear?" Discord said with a begging look.

I rolled my eyes. "Fine. Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye." I said as I placed my hoof over my eye.

Discord then took a deep breath. "Ok, he said if I didn't kill you he'd…..kill Celestia."

My eyes widened slightly. "Kill Celestia? But nopony can kill her; she's the most powerful pony in Equestria."

Discord gave me a serious look. "Trust me Matt, I may not remember much about him but he is one bad pony, he is more than a match for Celestia. That's why I had to try and kill you. ….to save Celestia. And when I failed, he decided to spare Celestia and kill me instead. That's why I was under that plank, he left me to die."

I then raised an eye brow. "But you've been trying to overthrow her for years."

"Yes, but I never tried to kill her. That's just barbaric. Anyway, all I want to do with her now is show her that I'm sorry for everything I've done in the past and try to start over." Discord said in an honest voice.

"You really have changed…..haven't you?" I said with slight guilt.

Discord nodded slightly. I then leaned up from the grass with the feeling of guilt flowing through my body. "Great, now I feel like an ass hole." I said while looking down at the grass.

I then turned my head to Discord with a guilty look. "Discord I'm sorry for not believing you, I should have known when you help Applejack and Fluttershy. It's just that I found it hard to believe that somepony whose been bad for so long could change their ways just like that."

Discord then smiled warmly. "You don't have to be sorry Matt; I don't blame you for not trusting me. After all I did try to kill you, to be honest I never expected you to believe me at all."

My ears lowered. "Well….maybe we should start over and try to forget all this?"

Discord then gave me a small smile before he stuck out his lion hand. "Friends?" he said with a kind voice.

I looked up at him and smiled slightly and placing my hoof in his hand before we shook up and down. "Friends." I said back.

We then laid back on the grass and enjoyed the rest of the sun set.

That night: Library

Twilight was lying on the bed reading a book while I was pacing back and forth telling her about how much I was wrong about Discord. "I have to admit Twilight; you were right about giving Discord a chance. Now I really believe he's changed."

Twilight looked up from her book and gave me a large smile. "That's great Matt, so you finally feel comfortable with Discord staying here?"

I stopped pacing and looked at her with a smile. "Yep, I feel as though I shouldn't have been so stiff around Discord and should have just accepted the fact that he changed."

Twilight raised an eye brow with the smile still on her face. "So what you're saying is…you learned something today?"

I was completely surprised by the fact that she was right. "Yeah, I guess I did."

Twilight then climbed off the bed and walked up to me. "Then why don't you wright this as a friendship report to the Princess? I'm sure she'll be glad to hear it."

My eyes widened in surprise. "You want me to wright a friendship report?"

She gave me a sweet look. "Of course Matt, I would be glad to see you wright your first report to the Princess."

I smiled nervously. "Well….alright then." I then turned my head to Spike who was standing across the room. "Ready Spike?"

He nodded. "You got it." He then pulled out a quill and paper and prepared to start writing."

I then took a deep breath before I spoke the letter.

"Dear Princess Celestia.

Today I learned that you should never hold a grudge. Because holding on to all that hatred and anger can not only hurt others around you, but can also hurt yourself and make you feel really bad. So when somepony who's done something bad to you in the past claims they've changed, you should give them a chance to prove themselves before you disbelieve them. Because you might discover they're telling the truth and make a new friend.

P.S. I'm pleased to say that Discord is the one who taught me this valuable lesson and that he has finally gained my trust and my friendship.

Your friend: Matthew."

Once Spike noticed I was done, he rolled up the letter and burnt it with his fire breath until it became a small cloud of smoke which shot out the window and up to Canterlot.

Twilight then gave me a kiss on the cheek and when she pulled away she gave me a warm smile. "I'm so proud of you Matt."

I smiled back slightly blushing. "Thanks Twi, I wonder what the Princess will think of my report."

At that moment, Spike made a loud burping sound and a small cloud of smoke came out his mouth and formed into a scroll. "Oh, speak of the devil." I said.

Twilight then lifted the scroll up with her magic and unrolled it before reading it.

Dear Matthew.

I'm so glad you have learned to except Discord as a friend, but I still need to be more convinced before I can decide what to do with him. Until then, I would like him to remain with you until I can truly trust him.

Your friend: Princess Celestia.

Twilight then put down the letter and we looked at each other with slightly concerned looks.

Twilight then smiled. "Don't worry, she'll believe Discord eventually."

I smiled as I nodded slightly. "Yeah, looks like he's staying with us for a while anyway. Maybe we can show her that he's changed somehow."

Twilight still smiled before letting out a yawn. "Maybe….but we'll think of a way tomorrow. Right now; it's late and we should get our sleep! Come on." She then turned around a walked back to the bed.

I smiled before following her. "Right behind you, beautiful."

Twilight then climbed on the bed, got under the covers and closed her eyes to go to sleep. I was about to join her but not before looking down stairs to see Discord sleeping in his cloud hammock.

I smiled warmly down at him before climbing into bed with Twilight. I then rested my head on the soft pillow before closing my eyes and let myself drift off into a calm sleep.

Hope you enjoyed the chapter.

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