The present day

The hours were long and the day was gloomy. The minutes went by like hours and the sun forced its way through the clouds trying to bring some daylight to our land. My duties as princess didn't start until the moon illuminated the night sky, yet at the end of the the sun’s daily reign, I felt tired and a little weak. I shrugged it off as the feather flu that had reached many other ponies and even my sister Celestia only days before that. My duties started soon but honestly, I didn't feel like doing anything that didn't have me in my bed sleeping (that included raising the moon). At last, I had to push on and do my duties as a princess. It might surprise you to know that being sick wasn't the most proper excuse for not doing your job. I knew my sister would have done it, I mean when she was sick she did everything the same. You really couldn't tell she was sick at all, to be honest, so of course, I was expected to do the same. It didn't really matter, though. I mean I knew I was going to power through it and in about three days, I would be over it, so in the end, It would have been fine.

Anyways, so there I ways dragging my legs to my bedroom. My magic easily opened the door to my room, making it easy for me to collapse onto my bed. I felt drowsy and I started to doze off. I snuffed as I reminded myself that my sister would've started looking for me if the moon wasn't up soon. I forced my body to get up and walk towards my window. The sky was beginning to darken as the sun went away to its slumbers, so as my duty I gathered my energy and my horn began to illuminate with a bright blue light. The clouds were dissipated much more by that time, so the moon eased its way to the darkening sky. When it stopped, I felt even more drained. I'm not kidding. I was sick but not like I couldn't function sick, just sick, sick. I stared at the moon admiring its beauty. Watching the way it sparkled in the night and watching how it blended in with the stars. That's when I saw it. I saw something flying high above the cloud bank, and it was not a bird. It was far too big for a bird or any other animals. It was too high for me to make it out, but I wanted to know what it was. Normally, I wouldn't have been up to that but whatever it was looked somehow familiar.

"Surely, nopony would be out this late, and no nocturnal creature would fly that high this early into the night either," I thought to myself.

So, of course, I went to investigate, totally forgetting that I was sick. I ran out of my room and out to the main hall which had a huge window on the ceiling. There it was, still flying high, and still unnoticeable. I flew up to the window to get a better look at it. I could see what direction it was heading, and I wanted to follow. I landed hard on the ground and started to run towards the exit. Celestia emerged from the corner and I bumped right into her.

"Luna, where are you heading off to on this fine night"? Celestia looked at me and smiled. I didn't look at her, though. I just stared up trying not to lose the object that lurked in the sky.

" Ummm, I'm just going out for a flight, sister. Nothing to worry about, in fact, I should be going. Bye, love you" I talked really fast and ran past her, knowing I didn't have time to explain.

"Okay, I guess I'll see you later then. Fly safely, Love you too."

I knew my sister was most likely making a weird face, but I wasn't too worried about it. I ran through the castle still tracking the object in the sky. I bumped into tables and into other ponies, and I didn't stop until I was clear of the castle and outside. Then I stopped and flew with a great take off. Within seconds, the castle was nothing but a dot in the distance. But the object, which I somehow still kept track of, was closer than ever. I still couldn't make it out, though, but I was close enough to see a little bit of its form. It wasn't a pony, that I knew, but I still didn't know what it was. After about thirty minutes, I had followed It all the way to the old cemetery that laid far away from Canterlot. The object landed in front of the entrance and walked into the cemetery. I flew in close but also tried not to be seen. I landed behind a tree that was surrounded by graves, and I peeked around the tree to see who or what the object in the sky was. I would have never guessed that the thing I was following for no apparent reason was Discord. Yes, Discord the spirit of chaos himself. He was walking through the cemetery looking quite sad, and I had no idea why.

"What is he doing here?" I asked quietly to myself. Did someone he knew was buried here? A part of me told me to go up to him and ask, but another part of me said to wait. But what was I waiting for? I followed him all the way here and for what? Did I really need to know that bad?

I turned to fly away, but a part of me thought: "Why is he sad? Why is he here? Have he been here before?" I came all this way. I might as well.

I took a deep breath, walked out from behind the tree and made my way to Discord. He was staring down at one of the graves. He must have heard me because before I could speak, he turned around to see what was behind him. He stepped back, surprise to see who it was. I knew what he was thinking: " What is she doing here?"

"Princess Luna?"

"Yes. I don't know who else I would be," I joked.

"Umm, what are you doing here?" Discord asked, shaking.

"I was going to ask you that," I respond.

"Hey, I asked first, so you answer me," Discord said proudly as if he won a game show or something. I didn't know how to answer him. What was I supposed to tell him? That I was here because I saw something in the sky and followed it to see what it was, and it happened to be him? But that is what happened. It was the truth.

"I'm waiting, Princess. We don't have all night," Discord said trying to be funny.

"Well...as strange as it sounds, I was following you. I saw something in the sky at the castle and went to see what it was. it just turned out to be you and I ended up here," I said.

Discord gave me a weird look and not his normal weird look either. "Soooo, you saw something, which turned out to be me, and follow me all the way out here," He said as if he was making sure he heard correctly.

"Maybe," I said.

"Luna, it took me about 40 minutes to get here. You're telling me that you follow me for 40 minutes, just to see what you saw in the sky?"

He paused for a moment.

"I really wanted to know," I said.

"I didn't know you care so much about me," He said in a fake touching voice.

I rolled my eyes but smiled. "Don't get too excited. I didn't know it was you."

"Yes, true. But if you didn't care, you would have left. Instead, you came to me."

He was right. I could have just left, but I didn't. For a reason that I didn't even know.

"Wait a minute. You took the time to fly here for 40 minutes with those miss match wings when you could have snapped your fingers and could've been here in I don't know in less than 40 seconds?"

"First of all, I'll have you know my wings are very beautiful. Second of all, you really think it would take me 40 seconds to teleport here? Luna, it would take me less than 3," Discord responded annoyed at what I said.

"Then why didn't you just teleport here?" I asked.

"I'll also have you know that my fingers get tired from snapping all day, so I thought a nice flight through the night sky would do me some good," He answered.

"And why would you be snapping all day?" I asked afraid of his answer.

"Luna, let's be honest here," Discord said, putting his arm around my neck," Chaos doesn't come easy these days. It takes great pride and lots of time, so I have to be on the 8 ball 24/7. That way I can play my role in Equestria. The role of CHAOS!" Discord shouted as a rock appeared beneath him. He put his right leg on the rock, stick his right fist in the air, his left paw on his wrist at the same time the word chaos appeared in the sky.

"Sounds complicated," I said, even thought there was more that I wanted to say.

"No, it's chaotic," He said proudly.

"I don't see the difference." Discord gasp and looked at me shocked as if I had confessed to murdering someone.

"Did I say something wrong?" I asked.

"Luna, the answer is simple. complicated is well...is Twilight Sparkle. Chaos is... me of course," He answered.

"I wouldn't say that's partially a good thing," I said.

"Now look who is being rude?" He said crossing his arms. I didn't know why, but I couldn't help but laugh. Even though to most ponies, including Twilight and her friends, it wasn't really that funny, or something to laugh at. Discord looked at me very weirdly. It was clear that not many ponies laugh at his jokes. But that is when I realize something. The main reason why I went up to him in the first place.

"I almost forgot."

"What?"

"You know why I'm here, but why are you here?" I asked.

"Reasons. Reasons of my own. Reasons that are not important. Reason that-"

"Come on, Discord. Tell me. I told you why I'm here," I said.

"That was your choice. You didn't have to tell me, Princess," Discord said.

"Discord, if it's not important, then what's the problem telling me?" I asked starting to get a little mad.

"It's important to me, but not to you. In fact, we should forget about it and drop it right now," He said quickly. He looked at me knowing I wasn't going to expect that as an answer. "I best be going." He snapped his fingers to teleport away. Only thing is that he didn't. He snapped his fingers, but he didn't teleport. He looked at his fingers before snapping them again. Nothing happened. He tried again. Nothing. He looked up at me weirdly as if I knew something. He snapped them again. Nothing. He looked at me.

"What? I'm not doing anything," I said as I too tried to use my magic. But just like Discord, nothing happened. My horn wouldn't light up. What was going on here? I tried and tried, but nothing happened. By the look on Discord's face, I could tell that he thought that I was doing something to stop his magic."Don't look at me. My magic isn't working either."

"Luna, I said it's not important. Blocking my magic is not going to help you," He said. "Surely, you don't want to know that bad."

"Discord, I'm not doing anything! And what makes you think I could block your magic? If I could, don't you think I would have done it before!?" I yelled. "I'm not doing this." I tried to light up my horn again to prove I wasn't lying. "See, I can't use my magic either."

"Likely story. But if that's how you're going to be I'll just walk home then. How rude? Making me walk all because I didn't answer one question. I thought you were better than that. I guess I was wrong," he said in his fake hurt voice. He started walking away from me, not knowing to where he was walking.

"Discord! I told you it's not me!" I shouted.

"Spare me your lies. I hear enough of them," Discord said still walking. "With that being said, Good day to you Miss Luna."

"It's nighttime, Discord and you are about-..."

"Then goodnight to you."

"Discord, listen to me...."

"No, Luna, listen to me. I have to go and not going to tell you why I'm..." And just like that. He was gone. His voice was cut off as he fell down the cliff. I could hear him scream. Though it was wrong, I laughed. I did try to tell him. It wasn't my fault that he didn't listen. I walked toward the cliff and looked down. He was nowhere to be seen.

"I tried to tell you, but you didn't listen!"I shouted, unsure that he could hear me. "With that being said, goodnight to you Sir Discord."

Author's Notes:

This chapter was fun to write. Thanks to ShadowsStarEx for helping me write this chapter. You rock!

Till next time!!