I do not own MLP:FIM, I only own Unknown's character and the story plot
Chapter One: The First Meeting
It was a stormy night in Ponyville. The dirt streets began to create puddles within the roads. Thunder echoed through out the town, lighting gave the grey droopy clouds a glow. Everypony was safe and sound inside trying to get some sleep, despite all the noise. Well all except for one.
This particular earth pony had a light grey body, with bright pink eyes, mane, and tail. Her mane was very choppy that covered her right eye and look more like a young stallion's haircut, same with her tail. She also had five black dots on her ear going from small dots to larger dots, starting at the top of her ear descending down.
This filly was going to the Everfree forest. The reason why? She was going to give away her life, for the price of forever darkness. But she would prefer that over mocking ponies everywhere she went.
Unknown, as most of Ponyville called her, was an outcast for her "strange" behavior. She tended to try recreating potions from before the peaceful times. She also had this knack for reading about that particular time period as well. Everyday, Unknown would ask the librarian if they had more books related to that event but her answer was always no. She did not realize that, at the time, discussing about it was frowned upon and very rarely ever discussed in public.
Finally, after two more miles of walking she had reached the edge of the forest. The rain was still falling pretty hard, patting on her small body. Unknown took a deep breathe and, without looking back, headed straight through the Everfree forest. She never paid attention to the thorns that hugged her legs, nor the blood that trickled from her cuts. None of that mattered now, the pain she is feeling right now will never be known by any pony else. All any pony will ever know is that she, one day, disappeared without a trace.
After walking in the cold rain for about one hour Unknown's body began shivering. Her teeth clattered against each other and her head is starting to spin. The small body swayed side to side, not able to hold her weight for much longer. Finally her body gave out from under her feet. Unknown's head smashed on its right side, landing right on a sharp rock. She gave out a loud cry, feeling liquid spilling from her head. Her vision began fogging up especially on her right eye. She knew that this was it. All she had to do was take one last breath, and this would all be over. Then, in the distance, she heard the snapping of leaves and sticks, though she didn't care, that beast could do whatever it desired to her. Slowly the crunching came closer, and closer, and closer. From behind a tree a tall, black figure revealed its self from hiding. Unknown thought that this was just a stage of the process, seeing strange figures before you see complete darkness. However, this figure seemed almost familiar to her. Where had she seen a deer antler, eagle claw, dragon foot, and a goats leg all on one animal? Before she could think of an answer, the black figure completely darkened her vision. She took one last, deep, breath and waited.
Despite her valiant efforts, Unknown didn't die.
When she had awoken, Unknown found herself in a large, dusty room with only a small candle for light. She could not tell a whole lot about her room, other than that, wait was her bed...floating? Unknown's body jolted right up, rocking the bed side to side. She gave out a small squeak and began to breath heavily. In response a louder sound surfaced. Then the room became silent. Slowly, a small beam of light began engulfing the room. Unknown used her hoof to block out the invading light from her sore eye.
"Am I really that terrifying?" Came a voice from the light.
When Unknown removed her hoof the same figure she saw in the forest had entered the room.
"We'll I suppose I'm not that terrifying, considering the fact that you walked onto my territory." He remarked.
There was a long silence between the two. The only sounds occupying the space was the crackle from the burning candle, and the echo of the rain beating down on the roof.
"You don't talk much, do you?" the figure stated.
Unknown nodded.
"Then I better start off." he began. He bowed down and introduced himself.
" I am Discord, Lord of all chaos and disharmony. I suppose you've heard of me sometime within your short life span."
Unknown nodded again.
"Books." she whispered.
Discord's ears perked up.
"Come again?"
"Books" she repeated," I..I saw pictures of you..in books."
"Oh lovely" Discord joked," tell me, am I on all the magazine covers?"
Within a flash Discord disappeared. Unknown frantically searched for him, when, out of nowhere, a "CoverMares" magazine appeared on her lap with Discord's face on it. He was mocking the models by copying their poses while puckering out his lips. This had made her giggle.
When Discord was done he reappeared at the edge of her bed, sitting in a "criss cross apple sauce" position.
"So tell me dear, why were you in the Everfree forest? Didn't your parents ever tell you-" before he finished he flashed a smoking pipe in his hands that didn't actually produce smoke, but bubbles, and also some small round reading glasses.
"Never step a hoof into the forest or else you'll be punished!" he stated shaking his bubbling pipe.
Unknown tried to laugh at the joke, but a sadness grew within her that she couldn't bury. She looked down at the bed sheets.
"I..I never knew my dad, or my mom" there was a pause, "I'm an orphan."
"Well that makes the two of us!" Discord smirked
Unknown gazed at Discord with wide eyes.
"You..you..never-"
"Of course I didn't, would I be here right now if I had?"
As Unknown was about to answer Discord stopped her in her tracks.
"Don't answer that."
With that he teleport himself into the air, using his chaotic magic to help him float.
"Now back to the question at hoof, what was your reasoning for entering here?" Discord asked, "Surely you must have heard of stories of what happened in this very forest."
There was no immediate answer.
"Was it because...you lost a bet?" Discord questioned
Unknown shook her head.
"Because..you saw a breezie and started following it?"
She shook her head again.
"Was it becau-"
"They were bullying me." she interrupted
Discord floated down to Unknown's eye level.
"Who bullied you?"
"Everypony."
"Well surely not-"
"Yes, everypony in town was making fun of my book."
They both stared into each others eyes. Discord gave a soft smile.
"Was it perhaps this one?" Discord pulled out an old leather book from behind his back. He handed it over to Unknown, who immediately grabbed the book and gazed at its cover. Painted on the cover was "The Chaotic Times" along with a detailed head shot of Discord. She realized that it was the exact same book she had read back at the Ponyville library. She looked back up at Discord.
"How did you know?" She asked
"Let's just say-" Discord began," I know a bit more about you than you think."
Unknown took a minute to process the comment.
"That's right" she stated," you can see a pony's past"
Discord gave her a grin. Then began to rustle her hair.
"Clever filly." he remarked.
After a moment he stopped.
"Oh better not ruin the bandage!"
Unknown's eye widened. After this whole time she never noticed the bandage that covered her right eye. Let alone the ones that covered parts of her legs.
"Actually lets go ahead and take it off, and see what's happening."
Discord then snapped on a white lab coat with green rubber gloves on his claw and paw. Slowly he began removing the bandage that was diagonally wrapped around her head. Once the bandage was completely off Discord pulled away Unknown's pink hair.
"Oh my" he grimaced," this doesn't look good."
Unknown's pupils shrunk. Discord could see the fear and worry in her eye.
"What...what does it..look like?"
Discord hesitated, but had a mirror appear in front of her eye. The sight she saw made her stomach turn. Instead of her eye being the usual pink color it was now a mix of pink with a hint of her red blood, with a green mucus oozing out the edges of her eye, which now began invading the eye as well. A small gasp emerged from her mouth.
"It..it looks..." Unknown couldn't finish her sentence. A small tear dripped from her infected eye. It created a stinging sensation which made her cry even more.
Now Discord wasn't used to having to deal with small fillies, so he wasn't quite sure what to do. His first thought was to hug her, but he didn't want to get any of that eye muck on his fur. Then he wondered about doing a pat on the back along with some words of advice.
"Na," he thought," too cliche."
"Is there anyway...you could take the pain away?" She choked.
Suddenly a light bulb lit above Discord's head. He had gotten an idea that could solve both of their problems.
"How about I make you a deal?" Discord suggested," How about I fix your eye, well sort of, and you live with me?"
"What do you mean by '"sort of'?" Unknown questioned.
"You'll see what I mean." he stated.
Unknown gave Discord a glare.
"Ok let's just say that, you won't exactly have color in your eye."
There was a small moment of silence.
"So do we have a deal?" Discord brought out his lion paw, awaiting for her hoof to seal the deal.
"So" she concluded," if I stay with you, and keep you company, then you'll fix my eye?"
"Precisely."
Unknown gazed at Discord's paw. She knew deep down that she did want her eye fixed, but to to live with him? Then again, where would she go from here, she can't go back home, everypony will go back to making fun if her again. Besides, he sounds like a fun guy to live with right?
"Alright Discord, you've got yourself a deal." She stated as she placed her hoof on his paw. They both shook paw and hoof.
"Oh how wonderful!" Discord cheered, throwing tiny bits of colorful confetti into the air.
"Just imagine all the chaos we can both create! Think of all the possibilities we-"
Discord was cut off by a young filly coughing, trying to get his attention.
"Don't forget your part of the deal!" she reminded him
"But of course not!" And with just one snap, Discord was able to heal the poor filly's eye.
The young one quickly picked the mirror up from her bed and held it up to her eye. As Discord had said, her eye lost all of its color and now was just a white sphere. It would take her a while for her to get used to the new look, but at least she wasn't getting judged for it.
"So where shall we start? How about we rain cats and dogs for a bit eh? Even better we can even-"
Discord was about to go on, until Unknown began to produce a small rumbling sound. They both looked down at her stomach.
"Can we start with something to eat first?" She politely asked," I'm starving!"
"I'm not surprised with all that walking and running you did last night." Discord stated," alright we'll start off with some dessert!"
Discord clapped his paw and claw and, right before Unknown's eyes, appeared a large chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, along the edges were little puff balls of cotton candy.
"But" Unknown began," shouldn't we start with some real food, and not junk food?"
"Young lady, you live here now, correct?" Discord asked
The filly nodded her head.
"Well I have rules too, don't think that just because I'm The Lord of Chaos that I don't have rules myself."
"What are the rules?" Unknown questioned. She was astounded that a creature such as Discord would even have rules. Why would he need them?
"Rule number one" Discord proclaimed, as a chalk board appeared, floating in mid air along with a yellow piece of floating chalk," Always start the day off with dessert!"
"Figures." Unknown thought
"Rule number two, no rules are allowed."
"But Discord, you just-"
"Not now Unknown!" Discord interrupted," yeesh don't you ever get tired of 'Unknown'? It's not like no pony doesn't know you exist."
"But-"
"No buts! That's also the third rule."
"I thought the seco-"
"You know what, forget the rules" Discord boomed," from now on there are no rules!"
"Discord you're not making any sense!" She giggled
"What's the fun in making sense deary?" Discord asked
Unknown couldn't help but giggle. She didn't know what had gotten over her, but she couldn't stop. That giggling turned into laughing and before she knew it she was laying on her back, laughing so hard that she could feel her stomach tightening.
Discord could feel a smile forming on his face. Though one part of him kept yelling,
"What are you doing?!"
Another part of him said,
"It's perfectly normal to show happiness."
"Wait a second since when did I have a good conscience?" Discord thought to himself.
"You've always had one Discord, you just choose to ignore it."
Well then today he wasn't going to ignore it. He let his smile shine through. Unknown looked up at her new buddy.
"Why are you smiling?" She asked him
"I just of thought a name for you." He stated with a soft smile
Her eyes widened, a large smile covered her face. She began to jump up and down on the floating bed.
"What is it, what is it?" She questioned with happiness in her voice.
"How does 'Laughing Joy' sound to you?"
She pondered over her name. It was a particular one that was for sure. Then again she just let The Lord of chaos choose her name. After a minute of thinking she looked back up at Discord. She saw a look she never saw in any of the pictures she saw of him. In all of the books he was shown as an angry creature, his only desire to spread chaos where ever he went. However, the creature she was looking at right now looked nothing like the one she read in her book. This Discord actually seemed to care, showed a bit of nervousness at times ,and even smiled.
"I love it!" Joy then jumped from her bedside and into Discord's arms, wrapping her hooves around his long neck.
"Thank you." she whispered, tears escaping from her eyes.
"No Joy" Discord responded, "thank you."
After a long silence Discord spoke up.
"Alright enough with this emotional stuff, lets get back to eating this cake!"