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At first I thought I was dreaming, but that had turned out to be a complete farce. I turned to look at the various sleeping animals in the light of the moon. They seemed happy to be in the confines of this place.

I for one, seem to have developed an enemy out of a certain white rabbit. Though Coco made sure that she was top dog when the little guy tried to dump water on me. Luckily I was able to pull the two off one another before yellow came back.

’I still wonder why she insisted on making me stay in her home for the night.’ It had been a strange outcome that led me to these circumstance.

Fluttershy’s attitude and actions were totally reversed from the normal pony I saw. She was actually pretty forceful, when it came to me leaving that platform. Even her friends couldn't stop her, Fluttershy just pushed them out of the way and continued to rush me out of there. She did say a quick ‘sorry’ afterward, but personally I was more curious on why she continued to look back at the platform.

“You wouldn’t happen to know why she did any of this… do you?” I mumbled at the raccoon sleeping on my chest. My silent inquisition was only answered by snores from the rodent. With a few hours till daylight I was about to do something that was going to help me go back to sleep.

’Hmm... this is actually not a bad outcome.’

’Discord? You know. I’m not even surprised anymore.’ I rolled my eyes, while removing my hand away my from crotch, ’So close. Thanks, asshole.’

’Haha. You sure know how to liven things up.’ Discord’s maniacal laughter echoed through my head. I couldn’t help but groan in response as he continued, ’So anyways. I need you to head into the Everfree, but you're going to need to sleep first.’

’This better be good. I was really close, but thanks for stopping me.’

’Apologizing. What’s the catch?’ Discord asked, as he hummed while I closed my eyes.

’I would have felt bad staining these blankets. They are really soft and smell like lilacs… given the whole place is filled with animals.’

’Huh? So no stuffy animal smell?” Discord asked, while I tried to get some sleep.

’Yeah. It actually smells really nice in here.’ I couldn’t help but smile from the fresh smelling room. With all the animals in this place, I expected it to smell like shit and wet fur, not lilacs. It’s really comforting.

‘Looks like someone’s about to hit the sa…’

“So.” I stopped to look at Discord, then turned my attention toward my body, “Why am I naked? Like why can’t I just appear with some proper clothes on in these dreams.”

“Who knows?” Discord said, while his eyes were on the glowing orb. He proceeds to mumble, but in a really loud way, “I wonder if it would be safe… I hope it will.” He turned to stare at me, a smirk on his face.

“Ah? What are you talking about?” I asked as Discord pinched a piece from the orb. He then grinded the piece into dust and sprinkled it in front of me. I watched his smirk turned into a grin.

“I think you might actually like this.” Discord started to laugh as the background started to shift.

I stood in front of a glowing pool, my hands clasped around a black staff. An eerie glow came from the green gem. I started to laugh as a spell was fired into the pool, the contents of which downloaded into my mind.

Slowly creatures emerged from the pool as I screamed into the air, “Let’s get this shit started!”

“You. You monster!” I turned to the tied up pony next to me. Dirt covered her face, but the short poofy pink mane and lighter pink coat made her a dead match for Pinkie. Though her eyes were a different color entirely.

I started to laugh, as I lifted her with my magic, “A monster you say. Well you ponies had a hand in that. Not that you will ever find out.”

Without letting her utter a response, I threw her into the pool. I watched the pool glow and slowly, a pony emerged from the water.

“Perfect…” I said, as I slowly approached the clone. I handed her a package, “Give this to the Princess.” The clone looked at me then tilted its head and repeated my words.

“Give this to the Princess. Give this to the Princess.” The clone said, as it started to hop up and down.

I sighed and face palmed, “Fuck me… I forgot how stupid these things were.”

“Fuck me!” The clone shouted, as it began to hop around.

“Aaand. End!” I heard a snap of someone’s fingers. The world around me faded and there before me was Discord, who sat on a throne of some sorts. He smiled down at me with a hand under his chin, “So. Did you memorize the spell?”

“Spell!” I glared at him, “What the fuck was all that?!”

Discord blinked, then proceeded to scratch his head, “It was you.” He twirled his hand in a circular motion, “Killing a pony. I thought it was obvious.”

“Really. I mean really,” I said, I pointed at him and was about to curse him out until he waved his arm across him. My jaw clamped shut and an odd metallic color covered my mouth.

“Did you memorize the spell or not?” Discord asked, while I tried to open my mouth, “Just answer my question and I’ll let you go.”

I could only flick him off, but I nonetheless nodded in resignation.

“Good.” Discord clapped his hands together, my surroundings slowly changed to the Everfree, “Now I need you to do that spell. Only this time.” The background slowly moved, while I stood like a statue. We headed down the path to Zecora’s home, only this time we took a turn down a side path, “This time. I’ll need you to do a little alteration to the spell.”

‘Spell… Alterations?’ I thought as the sound of my voice echoed around me. Discord just looked at me with a cocky grin followed by laughter. I just stood there with deadpanned eyes, as the the dragon thing started to pound the arm of the chair.

And so I waited.

It was early in the morning and the moon was just over the horizon. I stood up from the bed, careful not wake the sleeping animals around me.

With what little light I had from the moon, I found my staff and slowly made my way for the door. I had thought about changing into some proper clothing for the Everfree, but I was already in some running shorts and tank top. Really wished Fluttershy let me go home, cause I had a really nice pair of pajamas in my closet somewhere.

I exited out of the room, and slowly made my way down the stairs. Each step creaked under my weight, but I didn’t let it bother me. I was kinda hoping that my movements would wake up Fluttershy since she had slept on the couch while I took her bed.

It was really nice of her, besides the whole kidnapping me part, she was adamant to let me have her bed. Though I will have to find out why she did this sort of thing later, first I have to do this task for Discord.

He mentioned something about a reward when we parted. What that may be is still a mystery, but right now I don’t have the luxury to worry about it.

As I stepped onto the first floor, I spotted the still form of Fluttershy. Soft snores could be heard from the mare while I quietly made my way to her side.

’I should probably leave her be, but on the off chance she goes crazy and tries to look for me.’ I still don’t know what this mare is up to, but I didn’t want to make it worse by suddenly disappearing. So I calmly tried to wake her up by gently tapping her arm and whispering her name, “Fluttershy.”

It took some time, but she did crack her eyes open and let out a, “hm?”

“I’m gonna go out for a run… okay,” I whispered, as the mare nodded and went back to sleep.I said my piece, so I finally made my way out.

The morning chill hit me, when I stepped outside. It was strange since it was still summer, but then again, the weather is controlled by flying anthropomorphic ponies. So who was I to judge.

“I better get started then,” I yawned, while I stretched my sore muscles. So much has happened in the past few days that I haven’t been able to get a proper work out. What little I did only amounted to hip exercises and random moments of weight lifting.

I started a warm up of jumping jacks, followed by some stretching. Once that was done I started a slow jog down the road toward the Everfree.

As I jogged down the road, with light projected from the staff I reached the entrance of the forest. It was then that Discord decided to pop inside my head to give me directions.

’Make a left here and be careful of the Tangle weeds,’ He said, while I followed his directions. I slowed down a bit and shined the light at the ground, a plant that looked like a dandelion was scattered on the road. Though instead of a puffy white flower, there was some sort of red striped ball, ‘Careful. Those things can slow down a manticore. Hehe. Imagine what it could do to you.’

With that said I headed down the path, careful not to get anywhere near those plants.

It wasn’t long until I arrived in a clearing in the forest with a large hole in the ground. I raised an eyebrow at the sight of the hole.

‘Well… Get in there.’ Discord ordered, while I blankly stared at the pitch dark hole. I calmly walked around the pony sized entrance, as Discord continued to tease me, ‘Don’t tell me you're scared now?’

“Hmph.” I rolled my eyes at his request. I took one last look at the dark hole and with my heart pumping at the unknown, I took a step into the unknown.

At first glance I had thought there was going to be some long windy road that I was needed to traverse, but it was simply a few paces then a turn until I was inside a cavern. In it was an eerie looking pool that shined light throughout the room.

“It’s like the one in the dream,” I mumbled as I looked around as my focus slowly centered toward the pool.

‘Good… now quickly cast the spell and we’ll be done here.’

“You could say please… you ass,” I mumbled, as I gathered my mana into the staff.

‘Hmm… you may not know it but...’ I heard tapping sounds in my head, followed by Discord sighing, ‘Huh. It’s just not funny if you don’t see it...’

“Ha!” I shouted as a bolt of energy was fired into pool. With a smirk on my face, “How’s that… Discord?”

I scratched my head from the sudden silence, this wasn’t like Discord to keep quiet even for a minute. Though it was actually a relief from his constant pratling.Though my relief was short lived by the sudden change of the pool.

The pool slowly changed to a dark blue color with strings of lightning bursting from it. Bubbles of black and blue slowly float from the pool, while I slowly took a step back. The bubbles slowly converged into a large mass of water that floated over the pool.

“Huh? This is actually… really boring,” I said aloud as the globs of water slowly formed into a figure. I took a seat on a rock while I watched the globs of water forming into a larger mass of unknown liquidity.

“Hello!”

“Whaa!” I screamed as the sudden appearance of Pinkie caused me to fall on the hard ground. My heart pounded against my chest, while I pointed my staff at the pink mare.

“Hello!” This time another Pinky poked her head from the side of a pillar, and others as well started to gather around me.

“Hm… looks like we need to clean up a bit.” I turned toward the pool and to my amazement a donkey hovered over it. It wasn’t like an anthropomorphic donkey, but a four hooved animal stared at me with a grin. It directed it’s dark eyes toward me, “By the way… I’m an ass.”

“H-holy shit.” I mumbled, as I tried to figure out what was going. The donkey just stood there, it’s lips slowly formed into a wide smile.

“Silly Button,” the Donkey said while it directed it’s rear toward me, “I’m only an ass. Nothing less.” A toothy grin slowly formed on the creatures mouth, “but there could be more.”

I wanted to voice out some sort of question regarding this creature's existence, but my attention was focused on the Pinkie clones. The one closest to me started to shiver, while her eyes narrowed as it focused upon the donkey.

It was the same with every clone and the worst part of it was when they all started to scream.

Even if there was a hundred more of these pink creatures, their voices would not have drowned out the clear voice of the donkey.

“Let’s have some fun…”