Fluttershy sat on the front step of the cottage, gazing out at the lush garden, where her precious animals played. When Fluttershy had received her cutie mark, countless moons ago, she thought that nothing could be more important to her than animals, except perhaps her best friends. She was wrong.

"Mom, watch this!" A young unicorn filly galloped up to Fluttershy. Her blue body was shaking excitedly, her blonde mane in its usual tangled state. She squinted her dark pink eyes and a magic aura of the same color appeared around her horn. The aura began to expand, but, at the last second, the magic exploded, throwing the filly backwards. "I guess I need to practice more," she huffed, before running off again.

Fluttershy giggled slightly, but didn't move from her position. Even though they weren't related by blood, her daughter had incredible magical talent that would one day rival her father's.

The yellow pegasus was so lost in thought that she almost missed seeing the teenage stallion sneaking past her. He had almost made it to the door of the cottage, when Fluttershy landed in front of him. "And where do you think you're going?" she questioned softly, but sternly.

The stallion lowered his gray head, his green mane flopping over his ears. "Sorry, Mom, I just don't want to talk right now."

Fluttershy cocked her head questioningly.

"I just mess everything up!" her son burst out. "Every time I think I have a chance to ask her out, I screw up and something goes wrong! Sometimes I feel like all I do is cause… chaos."

"Everyone has some chaos in them, my son." The stallion gave a small jump of surprise at the sound of the unexpected voice. He turned to see a multicolored draconequus had appeared behind him. "But when you find the right mare, it won't matter because she'll love you anyway." Discord flashed a wink at Fluttershy, who still stood in the doorway.

"Uh, thanks, Dad," the stallion stuttered, half embarrassed and half relieved. With that, he darted past Fluttershy and trotted up to his room.

When their son had gone, Fluttershy and Discord embraced. "I'm so glad you're home," she said. "How did that mission with Twilight go?"

Discord curled himself around his wife and they sat together, still on the cottage step. "It went excellently, but I'm ever so glad to be home, my dear."

Countless moons ago, Discord hardly knew what love was, let alone expected to ever feel it for anyone. But now, even though chaos still burned within him, it didn't matter. He had not one, but three ponies whom he loved more than he had ever thought possible.


Well, that's all, folks! In case some things weren't clear: Fluttershy and Discord adopted children, who I did not name. Their daughter is a unicorn and their son is an Earth pony.