Spike ran into town as fast as his legs would carry him, and only stopping once he realized that he’s ran clear to the other side of Ponyville. The drake looked back to see the castle in the distance before sitting down on a nearby bench to catch his breath.

“Discord’s acting so weird...” he said to himself as he stared up to the sky, trying clear his mind, though it was a futile effort, as his mind kept running back to the draconequus that was now spending time at Twilight’s castle with him.

“Being nice... not pulling any pranks on me... and... dressing like... that...” Spike shivered. “Maybe him being nice is just another one of his jokes or pranks,” he pondered.

The lack of anything bad happening, other than the mess Discord cleaned up when he was asked, made him think back to something Twilight told him a while back when she was skeptical of one of Pinkie’s schemes: maybe Discord’s being unusually well behaved because he’s planning something else, and it can’t be anything good, knowing him.

The drake’s contemplating was interrupted by an all too familiar voice appearing next to him, “hiya, Spike!” Which nearly caused him to topple off the bench.

“P-Pinkie? What are you doing here? Shouldn’t you be working?” He asked as he blushed from the memory of that morning, and a bit from embarrassment.

“Today’s my day off! So I decided to see how everypony was doing!” She said, flailing her arms around, motioning to everypony in town, “and I didn’t expect to see you out and about, so now I can add everydragon to the list!”

“Well, a lot’s been going on... and... well... I just needed some time to think,” he said, keeping his distance from the crazy party pony.

“Come on, Spikey. What happened? Couldn’t have been that bad,” She said, hugging the drake’s arm and smiling at him.

Spike’s jaw dropped, and he tried to pry the ball of energy off his arm, “Pinkie, please. Not now!”

Pinkie had a grip that was as unmovable as Canterlot Mountain, and she couldn’t help but giggle at Spike’s blush, then she let go and watched him tumble over once again. He scampered to his feet and was dusting himself off before sighing.

“What’s wrong, Spike? How can you be so down when you’ve got Discord staying with you for the whole week? It must super interesting and fun!”

“Interesting isn’t the word I would’ve used...at least at first...” Spike started, “but...I’m actually more worried, to tell you the truth.”

“Why?” She asked, tilting her head to the side, “he hasn’t done anything since I last saw him.”

“That’s why I’m kinda freaking out! He’s been too nice, and he’s been acting a different kind of odd all day!” Spike announced to the party pony, “and I still have another six days with him! I just know this isn’t going to end well...”

“How can you be sure he’s even gonna do something?” Pinkie asked, getting in Spike’s face with a raised eyebrow.

Spike wanted to make this less awkward, so he moved back a bit, “well, he’s freaking Discord! The spirit of chaos and disharmony! He may be reformed, but he still has all his powers to use as he pleases! And both Fluttershy and Twilight are the only two ponies that are really good at keeping him in check. Twilight is gone and is gonna be here for the whole week! While Fluttershy won’t come over to check on us! She wants it to be just me and Discord the whole time!” Spike said, getting a little panicky.

Pinkie pulled out an emergency emerald cupcake from under the bench and shoved it in the drake’s mouth. “Now chew and swallow.”

Spike did as he was told and calmed down, enjoying the smooth yet crunchy texture in his mouth. The sweet, creamy filling of cooked gems let him sit back and enjoy the culinary confection before swallowing.

“Thanks, Pinkie. I needed that,” Spike said, licking the icing off his lips.

“No problem, Spikey,” she smiled. “Now, you can’t just think he’s going to do something bad to you.”

“How can I not? Neither of us have been around each other very much, and he seemed pretty upset when he couldn’t corrupt me all those years ago. All he could do when he got to me was put me to sleep, which you all woke me up from,” he said, thinking back to when Discord was reanimated.

“Well, that was a while ago, and I doubt he’d still be angry about that,” Pinkie pointed out.

“Yeah, you may be right,” he sighed, rubbing the sides of his head.

“You’re worrying too much, Spike. Even if he was going to prank you, it wouldn’t be a bad thing,” she said with a smile.

Spike thought about it... about everything Pinkie’s said. Discord hasn’t really done anything that would’ve harmed anypony since he’s been reformed. Everything Discord’s been doing hasn’t caused any havoc or damage to anything, and ponies don’t seem to fear him as much as they used to, even if there are a lot that’re still skeptical, him being one of them.

“Sure, most of his pranks were annoying to the ponies involved, but they usually end up smiling when it was all said and done... what am I really afraid of?” Spike said aloud.

“Exactly! You’ve just been a big Mister Scaredy Dragon for no reason,” Pinkie said, booping his nose before hopping off the bench and bouncing off. “Now, if you excuse me, I still have a ton of ponies to talk to, today.”

“Okay... Oh, wait, Pinkie!” Spike shouted out to her.

Pinkie halted mid air and looked back to Spike, “yeah?”

“About... you know... what happened with us... not too long ago... you don’t regret it, do you?” He blushed brightly.

“What!? Not at all, Spikey! It was super fun and I hope we do it again, sometime!” The mare said with a unnaturally large grin as she continued on her merry way. “Why wouldn’t I regret throwing a super gigantic party together with one of my best friends? Spike needs to relax and get out of the castle more,” She giggled.

Spike’s jaw dropped as he heard this, and his entire body turned as darker shade of purple and green. “Wow...”

As Discord walked away from the window to think, he shivered, feeling some of Spike’s love still leaking out of his ass, staining his panties. The feeling sent a tingle up his spine, and made him stop in his tracks to deal with the mess it was making.

“I’d better take care of this now,” he said, pulling the panties down and out of the way, only to release more of the draconic seed. “Oh no you don’t~” he proclaimed as he summoned a butt plug, quickly shoving it in and stopping the warming sensation from leaving him.

The spirit smirked and replaced the panties, purring as he stated, “much better! I don’t know how I’ve lived without this feeling before now; it’s incredible.”

With that taken care of, Discord continued on his way to his destination: Spike’s room.

He phased through the door and chuckled at the many different comics, posters, and action figures in the room, all of which he missed during his first time here, just that morning.

Discord thought back to the lustful feeling that filled his mind when he first noticed Spike’s tool. He couldn’t help himself at the time, but he needed a closer look... even a taste of it, but, right now, there was nothing to distract him, nothing to allure him, only the things that Spike chose to surround himself with, which practically screamed his personality and life choices; exactly what Discord was there to find out.

“So, what was it that made me go mad with lust for him?” He asked himself as he took a closer look at every single object in the room.

Nothing... with everything he looked at; with all the things he went through, he couldn’t find anything. “Maybe I’m just pent up after so many thousands of years. Maybe just the sight of him doing that brought up the age old feeling in my crotch.”

He made his way past a mirror, only to stop to look at himself, questioning what he was even doing, ‘why am I being so feminine around him?’ He asked himself as he looked over his explicit maid outfit.

He rid himself of the clothes in a flash of magic, and smirked as he began flexing in the mirror, his body taking on a mockingly masculine form. Yet his smirk faded as he wiggled his rump, the butt plug was still buried in his ass, serving it’s purpose of keeping the drakes loving seed inside of him. Discord raised his hand to snap his fingers and be gone of both the plug and the cum...

But he couldn’t bring himself to do it, “why is this so fucking hard!” He growled as he stormed out of the room, headed to the next location of his recent ruse. He flew into the den and taken the form of Rarity, only to feel yet another pang in his heart, increasing his anger.

“Just getting turned on by a simple dragon shouldn’t be doing all this to me!” He yelled at himself, shaking his head, “I’ve only had one other interaction with the guy, for Pete’s sake!”

Discord thought back to that very incident: when he was first released from his stone prison, and had taken control over Ponyville.

Discord flew around with a cocky grin, watching the citizens of his new Chaos Capital. “Everything’s working out so wonderfully!” He chuckled as he past by an arguing couple.

True to say, everything was running smoothly, at least until he sensed something off in his new playground. “I must have missed one... and that’s an easy fix!” He said as he melted into a puddle, which evaporated almost instantly.

He came back together right in front of the Golden Oak Library, which was one of the very few places he left as it was. “This shouldn’t take long,” he said, cracking his knuckles as he walked in.

He looked around for any pony who could’ve been hiding out in the tree home; anypony shivering in the chandeliers, cowering in the closets, or trembling under the tables, only to find an out of place basket in the upper floor of the house, along with the sleeping young drake inside of it. Discord smirked as an idea came to his mind, something that would make things a bit more interesting.

He opened up a portal into the drake’s mind and dove right in, splashing out water like it was a pool, only for him to shake himself dry soon after. “Now, let’s see how this little whelp thinks,” he said with a grin as he took a look at the many different thoughts, dreams, and nightmares that were floating through the drake’s head.

It didn’t take him long to find something that interested him: a nightmare. One that was pushed to the very back of his mind and locked up tight, the image it showed was of Spike, curled up and sobbing to himself.

“I think I found something,” Discord sang as he grabbed the lock and turned it into scattering metallic birds.

The nightmare immediately busted forth, growing immensely in size as Discord smirked, watching the nightmare rewinded itself to the start, only to grin even wider as he witnessed Spike’s greatest fear: being ignored; having his heart broken down by everypony in his life, piece by piece; abandoned by everyone he knew and loved.

Yet the best part, in Discord’s opinion, was the very last part of the Nightmare: Twilight, the elements, and even the sparkle family shoving Spike out of his home, telling him that they never wanted to see him again. This killed the drake on the inside, and he started sobbing while the ponies showed no mercy for the young one’s tears, closing the door in front of him.

The nightmare ended and Discord pulled Spike out of the nightmare, standing him up before himself and pointed him at the night.

Spike was confused at first, but soon noticed the bizarre creature before him and jumped back, firing out question after question that came to him, “who the hay are you?! Where are we?!? What do you want!?!?”

Discord pinched the dragon’s lips, making him go rigged from the contact, “calm down. I am Discord, and I’m not here to hurt you. I just wanted to show you something,” he said as he turned the drake back around.

With some quick manipulation, Discord changed up the Nightmare, “Spike, do you think anypony really cares about you? You’re nothing more than a pet to them... or worse, just a simple minded beast, nothing like anypony else!” He said, showing some darker parts of his fear, “and they think they can just toss you aside like it’s nothing.”

Spike’s tears returned as he witnessed the darker version of his nightmare before him. He collapsed to his knees and the color slowly began to fade from his body, both the one in his mind and the one in reality.

“However, I can give you the chance to get back at all the ponies who’ve abandoned you,” Discord said, lifting the drake’s cheek with his tail. “All you have to do is join me.”

Spike thought about what Discord’s shown him, and his color started fading faster, which was a good sign.

“...No ...No, I won’t do it!” He barked as all the color returned to his scales, the nightmare shrinking back down, and the birds returning to a lock even stronger than before.

“How did you...” Discord started, befuddled by the dragon’s will to resist his chaotic powers, but before he could say anything else, something overtook Spike, something that gave him much more confidence, “GET OUT! NOW!”

With that, Discord was launched out of Spike’s mind, hitting the library wall with an overly dramatic splat. He slid down to the floor and gave himself a hard shake, trying to get himself out of his stupor before looking over to the slowly waking drake, growling and teleporting out of the library before the dragon noticed.

He floated outside the window as the drake woke up, looking around for anyone else in the room, partially frightened by what happened in his head, as well as the creature that tried to change him, “Discord?”

Having seen enough, the chaotic spirit left, thinking back to what he’d seen in the dragon’s mind, particularly the fact that he was loyal to a fault, “looks like he could be another candidate for the elements... heck, he might even be a better choice than Rainbow Dash.

“But that will power... So very strong for such a young dragon. I’ve never encountered anyone, other than Celestia and Luna, that was able to resist me so easily, and even they had to build up to it,” Discord said to himself as he sat back on his throne.

“I might want to keep an eye on him...” Discord said as he stroked his goatee. “He might not be much at the moment, but, when he gets older, perhaps in just a few hundred years, he could prove to be a threat,” but after that, he snickered. “So I’ll just have to worry about him, later. Right now, I’ve got five broken ponies to have some fun with.”

Back in the present, Discord did away with his projector, still rolling around his memories of that day. “I mean, I only admired his will power, and how much he cared for his friends,” Discord said. “But it seems that my feelings have gotten much deeper than that.”

Discord racked his mind, trying to make sense of all of this, and, after a little over an hour of thinking, he came up with a plan. “I don’t know how Spike will react, but we’re gonna have a night out on the town! This’ll be the perfect way to get my feeling in order, and he’ll be none the wiser,” he chuckled. “It’ll just be a guys night out for him.”

Discord’s ear twitched as he heard the castle doors open, followed by the sound of claws clicking against the crystal floors. “Sounds like Spike’s back,” he said to himself as he floated down to meet him.

Spike seemed to be much more relaxed than he was when he left, or at any time they’ve been in the same house. “Why does it have to be Crystals...” the drake thought aloud as he took a closer look at everything. “Ever since the Crystal Empire’s return, everything’s been freaking made out of crystal.”

“Funny, I thought you’d enjoy that, seeing that you eat them,” Discord mocked as he snuck up behind the drake.

Spike jumped, but only a little, quickly recovering and facing the mischievous spirit, “well, you can only have so much of a good thing before you get sick of it,” he said, scratching the back of his head.

Discord raised his eyebrow at how Spike was acting: he wasn’t as panicky as he was before... he was actually standing still, for the most part.

“And, Discord... after some thinking, I’ve actually wanted to say that I’m sorry for how I’ve been acting. After talking it out with somepony, I’ve realised that I’ve been overreacting. I mean, everypony seems to be getting used to having you around, for the most part, but I’m still cowering in fear, or treating you differently because... well, even though you’ve changed and haven’t tried taking over equestria in the past few years... it’s still kinda... there, you know?” Spike stated, trying to make it sound coherent, even if it’s just to himself.

Discord was surprised by the apology; that simply giving Spike an hour to think things over seemed to be the best thing for the drake, and that he still hasn’t mentioned a single word about his times with discord in disguise. Though Discord didn’t really know if he should’ve felt relieved or concerned about that, seeing that Spike hadn’t thought too deeply about why Pinkie, or even Rarity, would decided to pay him a visit and perform such activities with/on him.

“Well... thank you, Spike, and after some thought, myself, about why Fluttershy wanted me to do this, I’ve decided that I might as well try to make a new friend,” he lied with a shrug. “But this’s just to make her happy. If we can’t be friends, then I can at least say I tried,” he said as he summoned a cotton candy cloud, laying himself atop it.

“Yeah, I guess I kinda deserve that. But why don’t we just start all over... not literally, of course, since I imagine you have that kind of power, but why don’t we just reintroduce ourselves and start over from here?” Spike said with a sheepish smile.

“Hm... alright. If you’re willing to give it a shot...” Discord said as he gave his signature grin.

But before Spike could utter even a single word in response, Discord wrapped himself around him, and, as he did so, he seemed even bigger than he was before. His snake like body almost completely encased the dragon as his head and neck towered over him, only to lower and meet him, eye to eye, shining over him with a slightly ominous glow. “ I’m Discord, the spirit of Chaos and Disharmony.”

Spike shivered a bit from fear, thinking that if Discord was this serious when he was first freed, this was mostly likely how things would’ve gone when he met the six. “Um... I am Spike, the Dragon.”

After a small smirk from the oversized spirit, he quickly unraveled himself from the drake and reverted back to his normal size, which was just a head or two taller than him, “nice to meet ya, Spike!” He said with a grin, shaking Spike’s hand, which, in turn, shook Spike’s entire body along with it.

After the handshake, Spike stumbled back a bit, being somewhat dizzy and feeling like he got damn near close to getting whiplash. “uh... likewise...” he said as he regained his balance.

“Now, I’d recommend we do whatever it is new friends do, even though I really don’t know what that entails... I’ll be back shortly,” he proclaimed as he disappeared in flash.

Spike was confused for a second, but marked it up to Discord being Discord and decided to just go about his normal day, which meant that when Twilight and the girls weren’t around, it wasn’t much more than reading and normal cleaning and maintenance. Though the fact remained that Discord’s already taken care of cleaning the entire castle, and that Spike’s already read just about every book there was that looked even remotely interesting to him, even the ones they recovered from the old Everfree castle....

“Wow... I literally have nothing to do... other than clean my room, and that’s only if Discord stuck to just cleaning up his mess,” Spike sighed, facepalming his claw and making his way to his room. When he arrived, he got a relatively fresh look at the state of Disarray he’d left it in. He groaned at all the work he needed to do, while acknowledging that it’s all the fault of his laziness. “Well... might as well take care of it now.”

It didn’t really take that long; a little more than an hour or so, to get his room back to perfect cleanliness. He had all his comic organized by issue and value, along with the novels he’s enjoyed reading over the years, his bed received freshly cleaned linens, and the floor was swept and mopped, giving it a fresh shine.

Lastly, he opened his window, allowing a gentle, cool breeze of fresh air to flow through his room, which he inhaled deeply and sighed in satisfaction, “perfect.”

And so, with the last of his chores finally finished and nothing else better to do, he climbed out of his window and began scaling the side of the castle, making his way up to the roof. Once he got there, he yet again took in the sights of the entire town, admiring its pleasant, rural beauty, as well as its substantial growth since he first arrived, all while never losing its calm, warm, homely feeling.

He turned his gaze up to see several pegasi enjoying the skies. A few, who Spike recognized, waved at him as they passed by, to which Spike gladfully returned the gestures before he laid down and relaxed. “Why’s today been so amazing?” He asked himself as he drifted off to a gentle sleep.

Hours passed as the drake slept on the roof of the crystal castle, but eventually the sleeping dragon stirred, letting out a hearty yawn as he awoke from his nap. “Wow... I was out longer than I thought,” he mentioned as he saw the sun setting on the horizon.

“At least it wasn’t one of those century-long naps you kind normally takes,” Discord said from behind him.

As he said that, Spike yelped and shot into the air like a cat, landing on all fours with his spikes and tail pointedly raised from the scare, “damn it, Discord! Don’t do that!”

Discord tried his best to hold back his laughter, “sorry, Spike. I just couldn’t resist! And your reaction was priceless!” He bellowed, falling over and rolling with laughter.

Spike rolled his eyes and relaxed, even laughing a bit, himself, “yeah, I guess it was pretty funny.”

It took a short while before the two calmed down from their laughing fits and saw the time, deciding to head inside. “By the way, I’ve finally thought of something we can do together, for our first friendly activity,” Discord mentioned as they made their way down the halls of the castle, side by side with the drake.

“Oh, and what would that be?” He asked as he looked over to Discord.

“A little birdy told me that there’s a new arcade opening up in town, tomorrow... wanna check it out?” He asked with a grin.

Spike’s ear fins perked up, “really?! Sure! It’s gonna be so cool!”

Discord chuckled, seeing Spike getting so giddy at just the idea of going to an arcade, “so how does around noon, tomorrow, sound?”

“Perfect!” Spike said, running off to his room and shouting, “this is gonna be awesome!”

But before Spike could get too far, Discord popped in front of him, blocking his path. “You didn’t let me finish. I was going to say, ‘how does around noon, tomorrow, sound? Because it sounds like much too long a wait for me, so how about we go right now?’” And with a snap of his fingers, the two disappeared from the castle.

Author's Notes:

Starting to get the both thinking about things to make the relationship more believable. Same with the next chapter.

Written with beirirangu.

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