Hey, again! So now that school is about to start again next week, my updates won't come as quickly as they would in the summertime. Hope you all enjoy this next chapter!

Disclaimer: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is owned by Hasbro.

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As Twilight Sparkle got up from her plush bed in her larger room of the castle, she dreaded what was to come.

"No! Nonononononono!" She ran out the double doors, completely forgetting that Spike was still asleep, and started working up her usual fret. The alicorn ran out her front doors, momentarily blinded by the adjustment to the light outside. "DISCORD'S COMING!" Her shriek could be heard all the way to one unlucky butter yellow Pegasus across town.

"Huh? Twilight?!" She looked around the room. Fluttershy blinked a few times to rid the sleepiness from her teal eyes. She wondered if she had heard her friend at all, or if it was just a habit for her to get nervous.

The newly crowned Princess had told the rest of her friends that Discord was coming to visit for the next week and staying in her castle.

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"Girls, we have a problem." Twilight had walked into SugarCube Corner, the regular hangout for her friends and herself.

The five other mares attentions were drawn to the purple pony.

Pinkie Pie asked, excitedly, "What is it Twilight?" She looked from face to face and looked down with a sigh.

"We're going to have a visitor for the next week."

"Who, darling?" Rarity questioned, her interest piqued.

"Discord." A gasp was shared with each of the Elements of Harmony.

Fluttershy shuffled her hooves. "Um, who is he staying with? If you don't mind me asking, of course."

Twilight groaned, "Me." The Pegasus looked a bit disappointed, but made sure not to show it. "If you girls wouldn't mind helping me start fixing up the castle, protecting some things from our friendly Lord of Chaos, I would reeeeally appreciate it." Her eyes shined at her friends. A form of chatter was heard mostly agreements to the Princess's offer.

"Great! We have a lot of work to do."

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Fluttershy decided to get up now to feed her animals before Discord arrived.

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Spike had gotten up also, due to his semi-big sister's yelling. He managed to get her back inside and they sat in their thrones, side-by-side, with the alicorn's eyes darting everywhere.

"Relax, Twi! You have nothing to worry wbout. The Princess said she was going to keep an eye on him, right?" She slowly nodded her head, her eyes no stopping. "Then, you're fine! Just stop getting so worked up before he gets here! C'mon, let's go walk around the castle. I bet there are more rooms that we haven't seen, yet!" The dragon pulled Twilight's foreleg and they disappeared in a corridor.

As soon as they were out of sight, the front door burst open with Discord shooting his arms up high and defying gravity, as usual.

"I'm heeeeere! Oh, where is everypony? I thought there was going to be a welcoming committee. I guess I'll just have to find something to do until somepony comes back." A mischievous grin spread on his pony puzzle.

He teleported to his hostess's room and ran his paw along a shelf until he came to a thick, navy blue spine, with the words "KEEP OUT!" written along in big bold lettering. The draconequus ignored the red warning and had the book in his paw with the snap of his claw The cover was navy blue as well, with two retangles and the bottom halves of two squares imprinted. A large white box was resting above the half-squares. Printed inside the box was two words in magenta ink. "Twi's Diary." He tried pulling open the cover binding a spell binding the book. Discord snapped his talons once more, releasing his prize.

"Oooh! Celever little pony, but not clever enough for me! Now, what secrets does our little purple pony Princess hold?" He flipped the pages finding graphs and stories about the everyday life of the Princess of Friendship. What he noticed was a reacurring reference of a brown stallion with a darker brown mane, sapphire blue eyes, hourglass for a Cutie Mark, and red tie. Twilight wrote about him whenever the large events occurred, she only admitted in her diary that she had help from him. A note would be left for her every time they had a major problem, giving her a clue of what the Elements of Harmony would need. "Does somepony have a crush?" Discord mused to himself. The alicorn wrote about how intellilectually gifted the stallion must be, and how she grew a liking to him. He had reached almost to the name, which

What the draconequus didn't realize is while he read through the diary, the owner of it had walked into the room.

"Hey, what are you doing here, already?" She looked at the book he was holding, then her eyes widened to the size of saucepans. "DISCORD, YOU BETTER GIVE ME MY BOOK!"

He quickly hid it behind his back and tried to look innocent. "What book? Are you feeling alright, Twilight?" She stamped her hoof in frustration.

"Discooord!" the purple alicorn repeated, threateningly. She teleported the book from his grasp and placed it back on the shelf. "If you say anything about what I wrote in there you're going to eat stone." The chaos bringer laughed.

"Oh, Twilight! You are good for a laugh! You don't have the Elements anymore, remember?" She turned when she heard hoofsteps in the throne room.

"Let's see what you have to say to Fluttershy?" He didn't show it, but he gulped thinking of what Fluttershy could do. He didn't think the first time that she would reject his friendship, but she did. He couldn't let that happen again.

The duo walked out to meet the others, Twilight looking particularly smug, and Discord worried.

"Hey y'all! I finished up my chores of the day, so I'm all free!" Applejack greeted her friend first. Then a mood of distrust fell upon her when she saw who was with her. "Uh, hey, Discord." Rainbow Dash flew up to Discord and put her face inches from his.

"You're not going to get any funny ideas this week, are ya?" she threatened. Discord rolled his eyes.

"No." He saw Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy all down below the steps.

"Hey, Twilight! Heyya Discord!" Pinkie was quick to trust Discord again. If Twilight could so willingly, so could she. Besides, he was a great prankster.

Rarity called to those walking down the oddly long staircase. "Hello, Twilight!" She nodded politely to the other. "Discord."

As they reached the bottom of the stairs, Fluttershy's cheeks seemed to tint a pink ever so slightly while Discord avoided her gaze. The other ponies watched them closely with raised eyebrows and suspicious stares, save the resident party pony.

Pinkie broke the tension with her smile and hyper attitude. "So what are we doing today? Swimming? Rock climbing? Roller skating? Bowli—" Twilight covered the pink mare's mouth with her hoof.

"Well, Pinkie certainly has the right idea, but what are we going to do today?" Rarity asked.

Discord's eyes lit up and in a flash everypony was on a platform with helmets strapped on their heads and harnesses attached to a wire above them. "Zip lining!"

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To be continued... BUM BUM BUUUUM! As I said earlier, it's going to be hard to update, but I'll try as often as I can. Sorry if this was a bit short, but I wasn't really sure on where to end. Hope you all liked it!