"Good night, everypony." Twilight said as she was leaving her parents.

"Good night, dear!" Mrs. Sparkle said happily.

"Good night, Twilly." Shining Armor said happily.

"Night, Shining Armor." Twilight spoke in a bitter voice to him as she left. Shining Armor turned to Cadence in confusion. "Did I do something to make her mad this evening?"

"You haven't done anything this evening. How are your hooves feeling now?" asked Cadence.

"Fine now. It feels like I got into a fight of some kind and got hog tied like a pig with a lasso, but that never happened. So weird..." Shining Armor said as he rubbed his temple.

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Twilight returned to her bedroom as she slammed the down behind her using her magic. "Stupid Shining Armor...he should've let me explained everything and maybe none of this wouldn't have happened."

Twilight looked up to see Discord was lying on her bed, giving her a apologetic smile. She walked over and climbed into the bed as he wrapped his mismatched arms around her neck.

"Discord, I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that tonight. Perhaps you should have used an acceptance spell on them, at least then none of this wouldn't have happened then."

"My dear, it wasn't your fault. I thought you wanted them to actually like me and give us a real blessing?"

"I did until Shining Armor found us in the open hedge box, now I wished we hadn't visit my parents at all."

He ran his eagle claw through her mane as his lion paw gently tapped her forehead once. "It wasn't your fault, my dear. Your brother's reaction was completely typical for that situation."

"But he just attacked you and didn't even give a chance to explain what you were doing with me against the hedge!"

"It's ok now my dear. Perhaps we shouldn't get married after all." he suggested.

"What?" she asked in confusion.

"You seem so worried about your family and friends accepting us as a couple, perhaps we should be what is called 'secret lovers' and not have to worry about anypony accepting us. We could be together and not have to worry about what anypony thinks of us."

Twilight looked at him with the look of utter horror. "I know you just want to protect us from everypony who might disapprove of us Dizzy but we shouldn't let my family or anypony get in the way of us getting married. I don't care how long it'll take for us to get married, we will be husband and wife, we just need to figure out how. I would love to have somepony attend our wedding."

"And how would-" Twilight quickly pounced on top of him, her hoofs against his chest, pinning him down. She wasn't applying a lot of force onto her hoofs, so Discord could have easily lifted the purple alicorn off of him, but he decided to let her have her way.

She quickly lowered her head to his and kissed him once more, with all the hope, assure, comfort, and love she had within her body and soul. "Discord, I love you. No matter what. We will get married, even if has to be a secret marriage. I don't want to have to be that way, but if it must, I'll do it."

"You're willing to marry me behind me behind your family and friends' back? You must really love me then."

Twilight's eyes slowly began to tear up. "Of course I do. I do care about my friends and family, but I deserve to be happy as well. I've never felt happier ever since you began giving me those dreams a few months back."

"Really now?" he smirked.

"Of course, Discord. You're actually the most fun of I've had in the longest time. You made my life actually more exciting than it's been in a long, long time." she said as she let out a yawn. "I guess I've been so worried about us the entire night, it took up all my energy."

Discord lifted the alicorn off of him and sat her down next to him. "Then you should go to sleep then. You need all your strength for tomorrow if you want to face the day."

Twilight let out another yawn. "I have to face the music about us soon, but until then, I'll just sleep it off..." she said as she closed her eyes and laid down on the bed, fast asleep.

The mismatched creature simply smiled at the sleeping alicorn and knew that she was right, they would eventually have to face some ponies about their relationship. Who that would even be, was a complete mystery.

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Twilight opened her eyes the next morning and quickly took notice that her head was resting on Discord's chest. She smiled when she felt something press against her cheek. She turned her head and came face to face with the god of chaos.

"Sleep well, have we?" he asked with a smirk.

"I did in-" Twilight was interrupted by a knock on her door.

"Twilight, can I come in?" asked Cadence from the other side of the door.

Discord didn't want to leave Twilight alone again, even if she was just talking to Cadence. He knew he couldn't be seen either, so he turned himself into a painting on Twilight's ceiling.

"S-Sure thing, Cadence." said Twilight.

Cadence walked into the bedroom. "I just wanted to say that I had such a fun time last night! Who knew Dad-in-law could eat so many apples!"

"Dad sure can eat a lot of apples. He's always been able to eat a lot. Like he boasted yesterday, he won the apple eating contest three years in a row..."

"That sounded like it was a fun memory. You know, speaking of memory, I could swear that it felt like my mind had been wiped last night."

Twilight looked at her in worry. "W-What do you mean?" she stuttered.

"Well, don't you remember when we all went into the garden for no reason? Everyone was so confused on why they had come out to the garden for no reason."

"Oh, that. Maybe we all wanted to enjoy nature's decorations, perhaps?"

Cadence laughed. "Oh! I wanted to invite you to something after breakfast with me today!"

"What is it?"

"I want to invite you to another show on Hoofway this morning. The play is called Discordant Feelings. It's supposed to be about a young mare who had just defeated an evil villain and entrap him once again in stone. She realizes shortly afterwards that she misses him dearly and wishes he could come back and maybe this time be taught how to make friends and be a friend."

As soon as Cadence had spoken the title, it instantly struck a chord with Twilight. The play's title even had Discord's name in it after all and it sounded so familiar to her, like she had been in a situation like that before. Twilight quickly shook her head to rid herself of that thought and spoke.

"The stone thing...it sounds like when my friends and I defeated Discord and trapped him again in stone."

"The play was actually inspired by that event actually." explained Cadence. "The playwriter heard about it and was struck with inspiration to write the play out. I heard she didn't sleep at all for the next three days in order to write the whole thing."

"It must have been that inspiring to her then. The actual play is roughly over four hours. Those Hoofway writers just love writing long plays. I can't believe how Playwright is able to make such masterpieces. So, do you wanna come with?"

Twilight glanced up at Discord, who was still a decoration on the ceiling. He gave her a wink and smile, signaling that he didn't mind if she went to the show with Cadence. It might be good for Twilight anyways since it could keep her mind off of last night.

"Well, do you wanna come, Twilight?" Cadence asked again.

"I'd love to come! Another play sounds wonderful. Which theater is this one at?"

"At the Lunarian Theater, Discordant Feelings' new home. It's sales have already been through the roof and it's been getting many positive reviews!"

"That sounds wonderful. Do I need to dress up like last time?"

"Not for this one. It's a causal theater. We'll leave right after breakfast, which should be served within half an hour or so." smiled Cadence.

"See you at breakfast then." smiled Twilight at her.

"See you then." Cadence said as she walked out the door.

As soon as Cadence left and closed the door behind her, Discord reappeared behind Twilight. "Another show with Cadence again?"

Twilight simply nodded. "Would you like to come? You could watch from the shadows since I think Cadence only has two tickets. The show is also sold out from what I was told."

"To protect my dear Twilight if something were to happen?"

"Exactly." Twilight smiled.

"And if that same stallion from your previous theater outing returns, he'll have to deal with more than just a simple flower pot filled with Poison Joke come crashing onto him."

"I highly doubt that jerk will return." Twilight laughed. "I'm gonna start heading down to breakfast. You can officially become my 'guardian chaos' if you will."

Discord laughed. "And I know the perfect way to be your 'guardian chaos.'" he laughed as he disappeared before her eyes before his voice filled the room. "I'll be watching you now." he said with an evil-like laugh.

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Cadence and Twilight arrived at the Lunarian theater where many ponies were chatting excitedly away about how great the show was going to be and how Playwright outdid herself this time. They walked to the refreshment stand where Twilight noticed two familiar ponies running the stand.

"Welcome to the Flim Flam Theater Cinder Stand!" said Flim.

"Can we interest you in some delicious and hearty promise cider?" smiled Flam.

"Weren't you the two saleponies in Ponyville who sold that vile apple cider with that unusual machine of yours?" Twilight asked as she lowered her eyes slightly.

"We've improved our machine so that our cider is always fresh!" said Flim.

"We only use the freshest ingredients now and take our time!" said Flam.

"Only the best cider for Canterlot!" they said in unison.

"Oh, alright. I'll buy one cup." said Twilight.

Flim filled the cup up quickly with cider they had just made a few minutes ago. "That'll be two bits please."

Twilight hoofed over the bits and grabbed the cup of cider with her magic. She took a sip of the cider and realized that the two brothers hadn't been lying, they really had improved their cider ever since they ran out of Ponyville.

"I see you two aren't lying about improving the quality of your cider. It's really delicious." smiled Twilight.

"I'm glad you enjoy it. We've gotten very picky about our cider more than ever." said Flim.

"I'm so glad you're finally im- EEK!" Twilight screamed as she felt something as if had grabbed her flank.

"What's wrong, madam?" asked Flam in concern.

Twilight looked behind her. No pony was there and she glanced around the room to see nopony looked like they had been running away from her. "I guess I was imagining something brushing against me. Active imagination turning on me."

"I hate when that happens. Horrible thing it can be." said Flam. "You're alright now, madam. Go and enjoy the show. It's supposed to be really good!"

"I will." Twilight said as she walked next to Cadence who gave her a puzzled look.

"You ok? You screamed and I rushed to help you, but you seemed fine when I got closer to you." said Cadence.

"I thought I felt something grab my flank, but I must have been imagining things."

"Maybe, but keep your guard up just in case." Cadence said with suspicion. "It might be that horrible stallion from the last time. You never know."

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It was intermission between the first and second act. The play so far had been fantastic so far. The mare who had been playing Moon Dancer (the mare who felt guilty for Dance Shoes, the stallion who had been supposedly trapped in stone) 'was one of Twilight's friends that she had seen in Past Sins just the other day. It said in the PlayBill that she had only been a one day replacement and this was her offical show.

"How are you enjoying the show so far?" asked Cadence.

"It's wonderful! Sawyer is doing such an excellent job as Moon Dancer. I knew she was destined for greatness after that whole Stage Fright ordeal."

"Didn't she take over for a short while?" asked Cadence.

"A week or two but she had a change of heart. I still don't know what caused her to turn into Stage Fright though."

"Did I overhear the voice of Twilight Sparkle?" asked a voice happily.

Twilight turned around to see Sawyer, the main actress in the show. "Sawyer! I thought you need to get ready!" she said as she hugged her old friend.

"My character doesn't change her clothes until a bit later into the second act. I saw you in the audience and I had to say hi to you!" Sawyer smiled. "And thank you once again for getting me to the Canterlot theater world!"

"Anything for a friend, Sawyer. You did have the talent for acting and after the whole Stage Fright ordeal, you deserved it." smiled Twilight when she felt something touch her flank. She turned around and saw no pony behind her again. "Why the hay does that keep on happening?"

"What keeps happening?" asked Sawyer in concern.

"I keep feeling something or somepony touching my flank, but I haven't seen anything suspicious." said Twilight.

"I still think a certain stallion might be here and doing it, but I haven't seen him here this morning." said Cadence with a slight glare.

"Oh my. If you do find out who or what it is, you give them a good round of Twilight magic and tell them you are not a pony to be messed with!" said Sawyer as an announcement came over the intercoms. "I have to get backstage now. Show is gonna resume in five minutes. It was nice seeing you again, Twilight!" Sawyer hugged Twilight once more.

"It was nice to see you too, Sawyer." smiled Twilight as she pulled away from the hug.

"It was nice to see you, Princess Cadence as well." Sawyer bowed slightly.

"Always glad to meet Twilight's friends." smiled Cadence.

"Well, good bye and hope you catch that meanie head!" Sawyer said as she walked back towards the stage.

The show ended and it had been what all the other ponies before the show had said it would have been. The ponies accepted Dance Shoes had changed and become one of their friends with Moon Dancer as his true best friend.

"I'll be right back, Twilight. I have to use the restroom. Keep your guard up though." Cadence spoke in a warning-like voice.

As Cadence headed to the restroom, Twilight couldn't help but think of Discord. She didn't know if he was hiding in the shadows watching over her or was back in her room, waiting for her. He had to be lonely without her to talk to or do anything with. It wasn't like he could talk to Princess Celestia or Luna without causing any of the servant ponies or royal guards there any panic.

Also, how were they going to be able to get married anyways? They could always get married in secret, but then again, what pony would marry them together? He could turn into colt form easily, but she wanted to marry him in his true form, his real self. Her family and friends would find out later that she was married anyways, it would be pretty hard to hide something like being married from them all. She hoped that they could keep their engagement intact for that long in case anything were to happen and they had to run away together.

Twilight suddenly felt something touch her flank once again. But this time, something had actually slapped her flank. She turned around instantly and finally caught who had been doing it the entire time: it was the same stallion from before.

"You show her whose boss, Passion Heart!" said one of his friends.

Passion Heart was his name. She finally knew his name in case she ever had to track him down and give him a piece of her mind (and magic perhaps) if something were to happen. But she didn't need to track him down and use her magic on him then since he was right here in front of her.

"Hey doll, miss me?" Passion Heart smirked.

Twilight's horn glew brightly. "Get away from me this instant!" she yelled, not caring who heard her. "This is the last time I'm going to deal with your nonsense!"

As if on cue, another flower pot fell on him. But that wasn't all that fell on Passion Heart's head. A black anvil fell on him as well. As if a grand finale, a large piano came crashing down on the stallion.

"Oh my goodness! Is anypony down there hurt?" came a panicked voice from upstairs.

Upstairs were some unicorns who had been using their magic to move some props around for the show, when two of them lost control of their magic and caused the three items to come crashing down on Passion Heart's head.

"I think you might have dropped something on this unicorn here." Twilight said as she pointed to Passion Heart, whose eyes were spinning in their place.

"I want some applesauce, Mama..." Passion Heart spoke in confusion as a result of the items crashing upon his head.

The two unicorns who had lost control of their magic immediately came downstairs and helped Passion Heart.

"Is he alright?" one asked. "Does he have any injuries on his head or body at all?"

"I don't see anything on him, though that Poison Joke in the flower pot might affect him later. We better get him to the hospital seeing this was our fault." said the other unicorn.

"Right, we better carry him on our backs so we don't have another magic episode again and have him even more injured."

Cadence walked out of the restroom as the two unicorns walked past her with Passion Heart securely on their backs. She knew he had been the colt from before and walked over to Twilight. "Apparently something interesting happened while I was in the restroom, I assume?"

"Indeed. The colt from before was the one who had been touching my flank!" said Twilight.

"I thought so." said Cadence. "So, what happened that two unicorns had to carry him out for?"

"I was about to teach him a lesson when two unicorns upstairs were moving some props around when they lost control of their magic and caused a flower pot filled with Poison Joke, an anvil, and a piano to come crashing onto the stallion's head."

"Perhaps that was fate's way of teaching him to stay away from you or he'll keep having things fall on his head." Cadence laughed. "Though, I will admit it seemed abit much to have that much come crashing down on him. I don't think he needed to have a piano come slam down on his head."

"Perhaps that will tell him to stay away from me from now on!" Twilight said in anger.

"Perhaps." Cadence smiled. "Hey, you want lunch? It's getting close to one."

"Sure thing." Twilight said as she and Cadence walked out of the Lunarian Theater.

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The two had walked over to Olive Garden, which was not too far from the Lunarian Theater as alot of the good restaurants were not far from Hoofway theaters. The two were sitting at a booth and were talking after a waiter pony had come by and taken their meal orders.

"Twilight, were you happy that your old friend Starshine visited yesterday?" Cadence asked with a smile.

"It was wonderful seeing him yesterday." said Twilight with a large smile. "I never knew his girlfriend was an author! He says he's gonna get me her newest book before any other pony can get it!" she spoke excitedly.

"I never knew he had a girlfriend! That's wonderful. Twilight, I've noticed you don't have anypony special. Perhaps I could help you with that, after all, my magic specialty is love after all."

"Oh no, Cadence! I'm fine just the way I am! I don't need anypony right now!" Twilight quickly protested.

"But a beautiful mare as yourself should have somepony by her side. Are you sure you don't want me to find you somepony? I could find you a good match as they are plenty of handsome stallions that would love you and are not like that awful stallion back at the theater. They would probably just ask marry you to marry them on the spot because of your lovely appearance."

Twilight blushed. "Cadence, I really don't need anypony at the moment. I'm perfectly fine of how I am now. Besides, I want to find the right pony on my own anyways. It'll make the journey more fun that way." she replied with a small smile as their lunches arrived on were set in front of them. The two thanked the waiter pony as she walked away to help another table.

"You are right though. It is more fun to find that special somepony on your own." she said as she placed some pasta into her mouth. Just then, an idea struck Cadence as she swallowed her pasta. "Twilight, maybe I could teach you some love spells!"

"Love spells?" Twilight repeated as she swallowed her angel hair pasta. "But I just told you that I don't need no pony right now."

"I know but perhaps if I teach you a few simple ones, you can use it to find out if any stallion you meet in the future actually likes you or not. Wouldn't you like to know before hand just to save yourself some pain in case he might not actually like you. And it would give you something new to add to your vast knowledge of magic spells." smiled Cadence.

"Well...I do like learning to spells." Twilight smiled. "I guess I can give some love spells a try."

"Perfect and i know the perfect one to start with. I call it the 'Love Mending' spell. It makes couples stop arguing about whatever they're arguing about and remember their love for each other, making them both romantic towards the other." Cadence finished when she took notice of a couple.

It was two mares who seemed to be arguing about how they were going to be able to pay for the wedding coming up within the next couple months. Cadence knew they were an actual couple even if they weren't arguing about a wedding for she could easily recognize any couple when most ponies wouldn't know if it was a couple or just friends out to lunch.

"You can try the Love Mending spell on them. They really could use it." smiled Cadence. "The actual spell itself is easy. All you have to do is think of something that brings you the feeling of love and how you want a couple to feel that exact same feeling of love that you're feeling. You magic should then form two heart halves that come between the bickering couple and make them feel love. It'll make them forget whatever they were arguing about."

"O-Ok, I'll try." Twilight said as she thought of the one pony that made her feel true love. Discord. Her magic began to form a little heart out of the top of her horn and split into two halves.

"We cannot afford Hoofington! It's too many bits!" one mare said.

"But it was agreed that we would get married in our dream city, no matter what the cost, Bon-Bon!" the other one said back.

"Lyra, we cannot afford-" Twilight's heart halves came between the two mares, causing them to forget their argument instantly. "You know what Lyra, we can get married in Hoofington. It doesn't matter what it costs because nothing is too good for my musical mare." smiled Bon-Bon.

"And nothing is ever enough for my Bon-Bon." smiled Lyra.

"I can't wait to tell everypony that we're engaged. They going to be so happy for us." said Bon-Bon.

Twilight felt said when Bon-Bon said the word engagement and how everyone was going to be happy for them. That's what she wanted her family and friends to be. Happy for her. Happy that she had found love with somepony.

"Our family is already happy about it. I can't wait to tell our friends, my little Bon-Bon." said Lyra lovey dovey.

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That evening, Twilight was walking around Canterlot that night with Shining Armor. She hesitated at first because of the memory of last night, but she quickly agreed to go because she knew that he didn't remember anything that happened between him and Discord and neither did her family.

She was happy to be with her big brother tonight, but she still didn't know if she should be mad at him for what he did yesterday, though he had no recollection of the event in question.

"Twilly, are you ok?" Shining Armor asked her in concern. "You seem to be a bit bitter tonight. Something bothering you?"

"I'm fine, really." she replied bitterly. "I've just been overdoing my studies lately and the frequent studying is starting to get to me."

The two kept on walking when Twilight took notice of Passion Heart, who had been touching her flank earlier that day was down under the full effect of the Poison Joke.

"Serves him right for what he did." Twilight said aloud.

"Serves who right, Twilly?" asked Shining Armor.

Twilight pointed at Passion Heart. "That stallion over there harassed me at the theater today when I went with Cadence. It touched my flank several times before I found out that it had been him doing it."

Shining Armor face started to get angry. "He did what to you now?"

"He touched my flank. But he got a suitable punishment. A flower pot, an anvil, and a piano came crashing down on him. That flower pot was also filled with Poison Joke as well, so he still is being punished."

"Well, I don't think he's suffered enough. No pony touches my little sister like she's some toy! I'm gonna teach that colt a lesson!" he said in anger.

"Shining Armor, wait!" Twilight said as she trotted in front of him. "He's already suffered enough. I'm sure he got the message after all those props fell onto his head. He's even suffering from the Poison Joke as well! Look at the horrible mane is a chaotic mess and-" she realized there was a horrible scent in the air. "-and I think his mane might causing the horrible smell!" she said as she held her nose.

Shining Armor looked at his little sister and relaxed. "I guess you're right, Twilly. He sure has suffered." he spoke with a laugh. "I'm just trying to make sure my little sister is safe and if anypony did anything mean to her, they're going to have to deal with the Captain of the Royal Guard!" he said proudly. "Besides, I don' want anything to happen to you, Twilly."

Twilight then realized why he had fought Discord. He was only trying to protect her from him because he thought Discord might have been hurting hurt. He didn't know that she and Discord were a couple, so he acted like any protective big brother would in the situation, by trying to hurt the pony supposedly trying to hurt his sister.

"I know you don't, BBBFF." Twilight said happily, the bitterness finally gone from her being, now having forgive her brother for the entire fight with Discord.

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Twilight returned back to her room that night and found Discord once again lying on her bed.

"I saw you had an interesting time today with your sister and brother." said Discord.

"I did. The play was wonderful. Also, did you cause those two unicorns to lose control of their magic in the theater?" she asked.

"He deserved it and you know it. He. touched. you." he spoke in anger. "And no pony touches my Twilight like that without suffering my wrath!"

Twilight laughed. "I'm glad to know I really do mean that much to you."

Discord smiled at her. "Of course you do, my dear."

Twilight let out a loud yawn. "Another day in Canterlot has drained me. Come on, let's get some rest. All that spying must have worn you out to."

Discord faked a yawn. "I guess you're right. We should definitely get to sleep." he smiled. "Care to sleep the same way like last night?"

Twilight giggled as she flew up and landed against his chest, her hoofs pressing against him and her crown on her head gently pushing into him. "Of course." she said bubbly.

Discord used his magic to turn off the lights in the bedroom as he and Twilight fell fast asleep. Twilight began dreaming about her and Discord's wedding and seeing everypony she knew happy for her and him. She felt like she was the happiest bride in the room.

Suddenly, the dream quickly shifted when her brother in the front front immediately objected the union of the couple and quickly pounced on Discord, saying that he had his little sister under a spell and demanded that he break the seal off of her.

Twilight fidgeted in her sleep and began whimpering, as the dream seemed so real. It became so real that she began to crying in her sleep.