After the ceremony held by Princess Celestia congratulating Twilight Sparkle and her five friends on the defeat of Discord and sealing him back in his stone prison, it was getting to be around ten at night as many ponies at the ceremony just had to talk to the six heroes. Twilight and Spike had finally managed to make it home to the treehouse.

"What a party tonight." Spike said with a yawn. "I'm heading straight to bed."

"Good night then, Spike. I'll be up in a few." Twilight said as she went to put a few books away after she had left in a hurry for the ceremony.

Twilight levitated the books using her magic, including The Elements of Harmony Reference Guide in which Discord had hid the Elements in. If he really wanted to take over Equestria, he really did need to hide the Elements a lot better.

Twilight laughed at the thought as it flashed through her mind. She placed the Elements reference on the shelf when she spotted a book that seemed to be in the corner, almost hiding from her. Twilight trotted over and picked up the book.

She almost let out a gasp of surprise when she read the cover of the book. The Era of Discord. She had read every book in her library at least more than once and she didn't remember having this particular title. Maybe somepony dropped it off here while she was at the ceremony. She could read it in the morning. After all, it was about Discord. It could reveal who he was and why he loved chaos so.

Twilight let out a yawn as she realized that she was plenty tried after that celebration. With the book floating behind her, she climbed the stairs to her bedroom where Spike was already fast asleep in his own bed. She placed the book on her nightstand and literally hopped into her bed.

She placed the covers over herself and closed her eyes to drift off to sleep rather quickly. She opened her eyes again to find herself in a sunlit forest on a picnic blanket.

"This is so much better. After what I had to deal with today, this is such a wonderful change of pace." Twilight spoke as she knew how to lucid dream.

Using the power of her dreams, Twilight made several books appear around her so she could read in her dreams. She brought towards her a blue book and opened it up to the first page.

"It was a bright sunny day in Canterlot when suddenly the the sky above Charity turned stormy, as if foreshadowing something." Twilight read aloud when she felt something hit her nose. "What in Equestria?"

Twilight looked up above her to see that storm clouds were forming above her, just like they did in her book.

"Hey! I didn't want my sunny day to go away! What the hay is going on here?" Twilight yelled.

"Oh Twilight Sparkle..." came a voice that sent shivers down Twilight's spine.

Twilight flipped her head to see Discord, the one she and her friends had imprisoned in stone. What was he doing in her dreams? Maybe she was still thinking about it since it just happened today, after all.

"Ok, Discord. What are you doing in my dreams? Am I still thinking about what happened today?" Twilight spoke.

"Oh, you think your own mind created me?" he laughed. "Oh, Twilight Sparkle, that's a laugh! I came here on my own, thank you."

"I really must be more bothered by this than I thought." Twilight spoke. "Ok, go away Discord. This is my dream so I created you and now you'll disappear."

Twilight closed her eyes and opened them once again, now appearing on a beach instead. Twilight smiled as she didn't see Discord anywhere in sight.

"I knew my mind was just thinking of him jut a bit too excessively. Just think of studying and you'll be fine, Twilight."

"You really think you can just rid of me that easily, Twilight?" came Discord's voice.

Twilight flipped her head to see Discord resting on a hammock that was strung up to two palm trees. He was staring back at her wearing his signature red sunglasses.

"B-But y-you're just a figment of my imagination. Go away! Leave me alone! My friends and I defeated you!" Twilight yelled.

Discord conjured up what appeared to be a martini glass filled with chocolate milk and took a sip from it. "Poor Twilight Sparkle. Perhaps I am just a figment of your imagination. Your mind has been through a lot today hasn't it?"

"Come on, Twilight! Stop thinking of him! Just focus your mind on something else and he'll go away! He's trapped in stone back in Canterlot under tight supervision! Just stop thinking about him!" Twilight hissed at herself as she threw herself to the ground and brought her forehooves to her temple in order to get her mind to stop thinking about him.

"Try all you'd like, Twilight, but I simply will not disappear from view. You just can't stop thinking about me after all that happened to you today." Discord smirked. "You might as well make the best of it."

Twilight groaned in frustration. "Fine! So much did happen today and it's reasonable that I created you so I can release some pent up anger I have against you or something along those lines."

"And what pent up anger do you wish to unleash upon me? This is your own dream, after all." Discord said as he got off the hammock and stood in front of her, not before forming a bullseye in front of himself. "Fire when ready, my dear. Unleash all your pent up anger you have against me."

Twilight stood on her hooves and looked at Discord, who was simply standing there, ready for her to do anything to him. Before she knew it, she could feel herself running at him headfirst and crash directly into the bullseye, causing it to break into a million pieces. She also slammed herself right into Discord, who fell backwards as twilight fell on top of him.

"You jerk! Why did you try to take my friends away from me? I almost left Ponyville because of you! You big, big...meanie!" Twilight yelled at him. "Why did you make me suffer? Why?"

"That's all the anger you have?" Discord said, looking at her with boredom. "You must be mad at me for more then just that. Didn't I take your precious Elements of Harmony and insult your beloved princess?"

Twilight could feel her anger boiling more. He was right. He almost took away her friends from her and he even bothered to insult Princess Celestia more than once! He stole the Elements, insulted the princess, and almost took away her friends from her. How could she not be more angry than she possibly was.

Twilight's horn glowed as she walked on top of Discord's chest and looked him straight in his mismatched eyes, hers filled with complete anger. "You are a complete jerk! You stole the Elements, almost took my friends, and insulted the princess! I ought to turn you into stone right now since this is my dream!"

Twilight brought her horn to Discord's chest as a bright light came off of it. The light was bright enough to make Twilight shield her eyes from it. Once the light dulled and faded away, Twilight noticed that she was standing on top of a stone Discord, his face frozen in the expression of a smile. Why was he even smiling anyways? Even if this was her own dream, it made no sense.

"I knew that anger was there. I knew it." Discord's voice rang out.

Twilight was still on top of the Discord statue when she felt the stone disappear and fur reappear. "W-What in Equestria is going on here? Why can't I lucid dream properly tonight?" she yelled, the anger before had all been unleashed before, now only a small amount remaining.

"Perhaps something about me is bothering you, Twilight. After all, I keep returning, do I not?" Discord asked.

Twilight stepped off of him and sat down on the sand. Though she was mad at him for all that he had done, she couldn't help but feel a little bit sorry for him. Discord had tried to throw Equestria into eternal chaos and he most definitely had to be stopped with the Elements. But when Twilight and her friends had finally been freed from Discord's spell and gotten the Elements, something went differently then what she thought would have happened.

The Elements of Harmony were supposed to bring harmony, correct? She thought when Discord was blasted by the Elements he might have lost his powers and then be taught what friendship truly is and how wonderful it is.

But no.

He was reverted back into stone once more, this time a look of horror and fear now resting forever on the statue of him. She may not have liked him, maybe she could have possibly hated him, but if he was shown the way of friendship, he could have changed for the better?

"Leave me alone!" Twilight finally screamed after a few moments of silence. "All that has happened is now the past! Just leave me alone!"

"Why are you so bothered by my presence, Twilight Sparkle? Hmm?" Discord asked as he rested his head on his lion's paw.

Why was she so bothered by him being in her dreams anyways? Sure, she would surely be annoyed that he was invading her dreams since they had just defeated him that very day. Perhaps she was so bothered so it was a sign of a guilty mind. She may have not let it on to anypony, especially Princess Celestia, but she did wonder why he was once again imprison in stone.

Was it that her and friends wanted him to be stone again so he couldn't cause any more chaos for generations to come? But weren't the Elements supposed to know the best solution that would keep harmony? Was stone the best way to keep harmony and keep him in check?

"N-No. There could have been a better way. I know there could have been a better way." Twilight muttered.

"A better way? A better way for what?" Discord asked.

"Fine! I admit it! I feel sorry for the way you were affected by the Elements of Harmony! I thought there could have been a better way for you to learn about the power of friendship! I thought you weren't going to stone once more." Twilight yelled. "That's probably why I created you in my dreams tonight. I wanted to tell you that that you can be taught about the magic of friendship and see why it's so wonderful and better than chaos!"

"I see." Discord replied with a hint of boredom.

"But since you're just in my imagination, I can't tell the real you how I feel about this whole ordeal! If I could, I would personally teach you the magic of friendship, even after all you did to me." Twilight sighed. "Even after the jerk you were, you did it because you don't know how to be friendly or kind towards another pony. You probably don't even know how to love somepony."

"Love?" Discord repeated.

"Love. I bet you've never had the chance to experience what it's like to love somepony like a family member or a friend." Twilight muttered out. "Oh, listen to me! I'm acting like you're the real Discord, but you're just in my imagination."

"Love somepony?"

"Since I need to talk to somepony about the real you, my imagination's version of you will do. I bet you've never even had the chance to love somepony romantically. Even if you did, it must have been so long ago that you forgot how to even love another. That would explain why you acted the way you did. It could have been to attract attention to yourself."

"And what do you know about loving somepony?" Discord spoke bitterly. "You've probably never even had a special somepony."

"That's where you're right. I did go on two dates with this colt I thought I liked but I was wrong. I was so young, I didn't know what I was really doing. I haven't been on a date since then. I'm a mare that's getting older and I don't want to be alone forever, even if it's just with my books. Weird how I can speak to you, my supposed enemy, in my own mind with ease. The mind is such an interesting place."

"You've never loved anypony before?" Discord asked with interest.

"Nope. I've never been 'in love' with somepony and knowing myself, I'll most likely remain an old maid for the rest of my days. Some nights I do wonder what it would be like to have somepony to hold you in their hooves." Twilight sighed as the sky above her dream beach changed to a sunset setting. "Especially around something like this. Sitting on the beach at sunset. Something like this is just meant to be shared with a special somepony."

"Perhaps you are wrong..." Discord said.

"That I'll never find my special somepony? I could be wrong, but I won't find them for quite a long time. It feels good to talk to somepony about how I feel sometimes, even if it's just in my imagination."

"Twilight Sparkle, I did love somepony once." Discord spoke.

"How could you have loved somepony? You were created by my imagination, so you're not even real at the moment. You were created by me because I felt guilty that you were turned into stone instead of anything else."

Discord walked over to Twilight and picked her up off the ground and brought her eyes to meet with his eyes. "You think I'm just your own imagining, my dear, but that's where you're wrong."

"W-What are you talking about?" Twilight asked in confusion.

"I loved somepony once but she trapped me in stone, so she took my heart with her. But when I was freed once more, I found another whose beauty shined just as powerful as her's and whose heart was more pure."

"Celestia? Are you talking about Celestia? But you're just my imagination, how could you have possibly loved anything?"

"I am NOT apart of your imagination." Discord finally admitted.

"Yes you are. The real you is trapped in stone." Twilight argued.

"Yes, but I have one thing to say to you. The mare who took away my heart the first time seemed to be recused by another. If she will accept it, I can finally begin the process of what love truly is and perhaps change my ways. Will you?"

"W-Wait, are you saying you're in love with me?" Twilight let out a small laugh. "I guess I really do feel guilty and am more lonesome than I thought."

Discord growled in annoyance. "I'm not in your imagination and I'll prove it to you."

With the finish of his statement, he slowly brought the unicorn closer to his face. Twilight realized what was going on and decided to play along since this was her own imagination. Within mere seconds, both of them connected in a simple kiss.

Twilight couldn't explain it, but the kiss seemed so real, like he was actually kissing her. Then again, she did have a powerful imagination thanks to all the reading she did.

"Twilight, wake up! It's morning!" Spike's voice rang through her mind.

Discord pulled Twilight away from her and gave her a simple look. "I'll be seeing you in your dreams, my dear." he smirked as he disappeared.

Twilight opened her eyes to be greeted by the sun's rays and Spike standing at her bedside. She rubbed the sleep out of her eyes and sat herself up right on the bed.

"Good morning, Spike. How did you sleep?" Twilight asked.

"I slept fine but I wanted to ask you about these." Spike said as he showed her what he was holding in his claws. It was a rose bouquet that seemed to have been tye dyed. "I came downstairs and these were sitting near the door. Do you know about these?"

Twilight used her magic to grab the bouquet out of Spike's claws. She quickly noticed that a small piece of paper was imbedded into the roses. She lifted the small piece of paper and read what it said.

"One mare took my heart with her while another recovered it from the first mare and is holding onto it."

If Spike hadn't been paying attention, the rose bouquet would have crashed to the floor as Twilight's magic simply only held the piece of paper as Twilight's pupils shrunk in shock.

He...He was really there in her dreams with her? He actually kissed her?

Twilight didn't know to be either completely scared and disturbed or somewhat happy that somepony actually loved her.