A Hellish Kind of Harmony
Chapter 1: 1. Yes and No
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Principal Celestia stood at the reception desk at the art museum. It was a warm spring day, the students were off on spring break and were working part time at their jobs. "I'd like to schedule a field trip. 30 young adults and three chaperones." The woman at the desk nodded, "Yes ma'am I'll prepared the papers for you to mail into us within the week or else you'll have to return here." Celestia felt her body groggily ache. She had a pounding headache and just wanted to leave. She looked at the girl, "If I fill them out here do I have to mail them?" The woman smiled, "Of course not ma'am!" She smiled, "Then I'll just fill them out here." The woman nodded and passed Celestia the packet of papers. She grabbed it and walked over to a bench and pulled a pen out of her hair. She moved her cool hands through her hair in an attempt to calm herself down. She sighed, she really needed some aspirin.
Meanwhile a dinky old school bus rattled down the street. It was a faded brownish color with a few rusty spots on the sides. The male teacher and the students happily sang the wheels on the bus. He laughed as did the small kids did. One little girl tugged on his sweater. "Are we almost there Mr. Discord?" He grinned and picked her up. She looked into his bright eyes and laughed. Yelling happily as he swooshed her through the air. "We're here silly!" He put her down. "Who wants to follow Mr. Discord into the museum?" All the small children waved their little arms. He grabbed a child's hand, and all the children linked arms, "Then let's go!" He looked at the bus driver and smiled with relief. "Thanks Big Macintosh!" He said loud enough so the children would repeat after him, and they did so. Big Macintosh smiled and tipped his hat, "Ahyep." Discord put on his long coat and zipped it up.
They all walked down the bus stairs and into the museum without incident. All the children looked up at their teacher. He had a gray complexion and a prosthetic arm. The other arm was slightly smaller but still stronger than the fake one. His hair was a very light tint of grey, it was nearly white and a darker grey grew beneath it. He wore a brown top and his long coat was also a light brown. He wore magenta plus size skinny jeans that fit loosely on him like regular jeans. He looked down at the kids, "Let's go to the big bad bins!" The kids laughed gleefully and they all threw their coats in a big yellow bin marked Mr. Discord. "All your parents know to pick up?" The kids spoke aloud, "At five o'clock." Discord smiled, he loved this. He loved all these kids and he would never do anything to ruin this. "Who wants to get some food?" The kids all nodded and a few called out yeah. Discord opened his arms up, "Then come with me!" A few kids hopped into his arms. He caught those few kids and rest latched onto his legs. Discord laughed and made a loud monster noise as he made his way down the museum halls.
God these kids were heavy. He limped down the halls and looked for a good place to get some food where they could all be comfortably. He looked into a MacRonalds, it had a small play place. He smiled, that could probably fit them all. He looked over at a woman with rainbow hair working on some papers. She looked so frustrated "Celestia?" The woman sat up straighter and looked around. He puckered his lips. Crap! She heard him. She looked over at him and they had made eye contact for a second. Discord made a loud pained noise "Uhhh! Nooo!" He said and dramatically fell on the ground. All the kids crawled up to Discord's face. "Mr. Discord!" They laughed and teased. He pretended to be shocked, "Look a play place!" All the kids looked inside and ran in laughing and cooing in excitement. Discord lie on the ground for a moment then he began to work to prop himself on a wall. He grabbed his knees and pushed up. He fixed his hair and looked over at the woman walking over to him.
Her heels clicked against the tiles. Discord looked at the woman, "Discord?" He looked at her and smiled, "Ah, hello Ms. Celestia." She looked at him and then inside the MacRonalds, "Who, who are those kids?" He looked inside, "Them? They're my kindergarten class." He waved at the kids and they all waved at him. He looked at Vinyl standing behind the counter. "One second Tia." Discord reached into his pocket and pulled out a Benjamin to flash at the clerk. Vinyl nodded, seeming pleased beneath those dark shades. She began taking orders from the kids. Celestia looked at Discord, "Wow." He blinked and looked at her, "What?" He asked and looked at her, "I just. I never thought that you'd go into education." Discord smiled, "Well, you had a big influence on me back then. I even beat my addiction." She smiled, "Discord, I'm so proud of you." He laughed, "Thanks it was a very rough time for me." Discord looked at her, implying it was her fault. "It was a very rough time to be alone." She didn't pick that up though, Celestia looked at him, "Well, hey, you look great!"
He laughed, "Really?" He grabbed his right arm and twisted, He pulled his arm out of his sleeve. "Well if you need a hand, I'm your guy." Celestia covered her mouth. Discord laughed aloud and hit his knee with the false extremity. She pointed at the arm, "That's just one of your magic tricks right." He smiled and tied his coat around his waist and rolled up his sleeve. "Nope! I gave everything I had to the drug." He laughed, "After you," he paused and looked at her. He had played this out over and over in his head.
All the different ways she would react to know this was her fault, he always hoped for the big dramatic brawl but she just looked at him with pity. He stopped his little scene and put his prosthetic arm back on and rolled back down his sleeve. "After you left I, I thought I was going to die. I decided to go out with a bang and I sold all I could to get more." He opened and closed his hand. "That was about the time I knew I was an addict. That's the first step to get out of it right?" She looked at him, "Discord, I had no idea. You've come so far." He smiled, "I wouldn't have gotten this far without one of your students." She tilted her head, "Who?" "The young Fluttershy. She and I have been very close ever since you sent her to do community service that 'doesn't involve creatures that you can adopt and own.'" Celestia laughed and they said simultaneously, "And no Fluttershy you can't work at the zoo."
The two laughed together, Discord smiled brightly, "Why don't you finish those field trip forms over some MacRonalds?" She looked at the papers in her hand, "You know what, I think I will." He reached into his pocket, "And here," He pulled some aspirin out of his pocket, "So you can stop having headache voice." She glared at him, "I do not!" He laughed and crouched his back. "Uh... Discord?" She punched him, "I don't sound like that!" The two walked into the MacRonalds. Discord went up to the counter to pay for all the kids as they all jumped at his legs. Celestia laughed at the sight. She always knew Discord could change she just never expected him to actually do it. He was the same goofy Discord she had always known but this was the Discord she always dreamed he'd be. Celestia walked sat in a booth and began to work on the papers intently. She had a much better attitude about doing these papers.
After all the kids ate and took to the play place Discord sat with her. "For the lady a strawberry milk." He placed it in front of her and she looked at it. "And for the gentleman a chocolate!" She smiled and opened her milk. She took a sip from the small bendy straw and continued to work. He looked at her working intently, he rolled his eyes and looked at the bendy straw in his milk. He blew a bubble in his chocolate milk and then Celestia looked at him and sighed, "Really Discord?" He held up his hands, "You're right I'm sorry." He said and just drank his chocolate milk. Celestia looked at him and she smiled, Celestia then proceeded to blow a bubble in her strawberry milk. Discord looked at her and blew more bubbles in his chocolate milk. She continued to do so as well. The two glared at each other playfully as they blew bubbles against each other. Celestia stopped blowing bubbles looking at her froth of bubbles and laughed aloud.
Discord laughed along with her, "Celestia?" She looked at him happily, "What?" Discord grinned, "I think for just one day we should have chocolate milk rain from the skies! Out of cotton candy clouds!" Celestia laughed, "Yeah?" He nodded, "I know it probably wouldn't be healthy for the earth but think how happy people would be!" Celestia smiled, "You'd need someone to make sure that it didn't last forever." He smiled, "As long as I had one day me to make people laugh and happy and see them smile! Uh, then I could die happy!" Celestia laughed, "Is that why you teach at this level? So everything you do?" He nodded, "Light 'em up like Jack-o-lanterns." She grinned, "I think a few of them are coming for you."
Discord looked at a group of kids and got up, "Ready head out scamps?" The four smiled and nodded, "Yes Mr. Discord!" "You want us to round up all our classmates?" He smiled, "That would be great!" He said and jumped up. The kids did the same. "High, responsibility, fives?" They all gave him a high five and ran into the playroom. Discord looked at Celestia, "I gotta go but hey, if you wanna do this again call me!" He put a business card on the table. He looked at her and picked up his chocolate milk, "Time me!" She shook her head, "1, 2, 3" He chugged the milk quickly. He wiped his mouth and put the carton on the table as Celestia said, "6." She looked at him, "You sir are a chocolate milk machine!" He smiled, "And that's not even my record!" He said and held a little girl's hand. "Lock hands!" The kids did so and he grinned. He kissed Celestia's nose and walked out with all the kids.
Celestia looked at Discord and laughed as all the kids obediently followed him. She would definitely be calling his number. He walked through the museum. The kids looked at a few pieces of modern art and walked past a huge T-Rex! They all made it inside the stuffed animal section about Africa. Discord stood back and let the kids admire the exhibit. He saw a man in a dark grey hoodie come up behind him, "Discord?" The man asked. Discord turned around, "Oh. Hello, can I help you?" The man moved his hood back and looked at him with dark purple sunglasses. He had a maroon complexion a long tuft of white hair reaching his back and a small white beard. The hair on the sides of his head was jet black and his large gages hung low near his jaw. "I can help you if you need a filler." Discord looked at him with pure terror stretching across his face, "Tirek."
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