This story is no longer a one shot. This chapter: Twilight
Twilight flipped though all the books she had Spike pull from the selves in order to she if she could help Rainbow Dash with her Discord problem. She knew she had to work fast because just recently she had heard a scream from her room where she told Rainbow to lay down and when she had gone up stairs to check on her the hideous dress she was wearing had been left behind and the window was wide open.
She had sent Celestia a letter but she hadn't replied yet. She hoped that her reply would come soon because she was quickly running out of books to check.
"Found anything yet, Twilight?" Spike asked.
"No…" Twilight answered keeping her eyes on her book. "And I'm running out of material to look through!" She cried tossing the book aside and pulling up another one. "Has the Princess replied yet?" She asked as she flipped through the book.
"Not yet, but I'm sure she'll answer soon!" Spike assured.
Twilight smiled hopefully. "I hope you're right."
"Have I been wrong before?" Spike paused. "uh…don't answer that…"
Twilight chuckled. "Why don't you go to Sweet Apple Acres and see if she's got any treats to part with."
Spike smiled and saluted. "Yes ma'am!"
With that Spike dashed out the door leaving Twilight alone to fix the problem by herself. She kept flipping though book after book searching for a way to help her friend. She wasn't looking for any spell in particular, just anything see thought might help.
More than an half an hour passed before she was ready to give up.
"UGH!" She groaned as she slammed the last of her books close after coming up with no solution. "This is hopeless! I don't even know what I'm looking for!"
She flew over to her book self and used her magic to pull out even more books.
"No..no…no…GAH!" She shouted in frustration.
"Oh, come now, Twilight, you can't give up now!"
"That's easy for you to say." She snapped, "You don't have to-"
Twilight stopped herself in the middle of her sentence as she recognized the voice she was talking to. She closed her eyes and groaned placing her hooves to her face.
"Please don't be who I think you are…" She begged.
"Oh I'm afraid I'm not sure who you're referring to, who do you think I am. No wait let me guess! Um…Pinkie Pie? No, to obvious…"
She turned around and her fears were realized when she saw Discord listing off different names off his finger…er talons…
"What are you doing here Discord?" Twilight asked.
"Oh, I was bored and Dashie wanted to take a nap…" Discord floated upside down and flew around the room as he spoke. "So I decided I'd pay my old pal a vist!" He nudged Twilight in the arm causing her to jerk away.
"Look, Discord, I'd love to hang out but-what are you doing?"
Discord flew behind Twilight and examined her wings. "Oh, when did you get these! " He grabbed one of her wings a held her in the air. She bit her lip to avoid crying out in pain."You look just like a princess!" He cooed.
"Um… that's because I kinda am…"
"You are?!" Discord released his grip on her wing causing her to fall to the floor. He narrowed his eyes and put his hands to his hips…or at least where they should be "Why was I not told?!" Discord pouted.
"Um…I'm sorry..?"
Discord hesitated before smiling again. "Oh fine, I forgive you." He cheered ruffling her mane.
Twilight groaned again and straightened out her mane. Discord frowned. "Oh what's the matter Twilight? You aren't happy to see me?" He asked with puppy dog eyes.
"No no! It's not that!" Twilight tried to assure him. "It's just…"
"You don't enjoy my company?" Discord cut her off.
"No, I…"
"Think I'm a nuisance
"Oh you don't need to say anymore…" Discord landed on his feet placed threw back of his hand to his forehead dramatically. "I know when I'm not wanted…" He hung his head but made sure Twilight could see his crocodile tears.
Discord began trudging towards the door and Twilight watched him unsure of what to do.
"I suppose I'll just go back to Canterlot…all by myself… again…" He said walking slowly to the door waiting for Twilight to reconsider.
Twilight continued to watch him move to the door and looked around nervously trying to decide whether to let Discord hang around the library or not. He may be a creature of chaos but he did seem rather lonely. And he was reformed, then again Rainbow did say he was bugging her
She heard Discord sniff and she sighed in defeat.
"Discord, wait…" She reached her hoof out to him.
Discord straightened and looked back hopefully. "Yes?"
Twilight paused and thought about whether this was the right thing one last time. She took a deep breath and spoke again. "I guess it won't hurt…if you hang out here for a little whi-"
"YES!" Discord bulleted to Twilight and grabbed her in a bone crushing hug. "Oh, thank you, my dear Twilight!"
"You're…welcome…" Twilight gasped as Discord squeezed her harder.
"So…" Discord said dropping Twilight. "What shall we do first?"
Twilight slowly stood up and rubbed her head. "Ugh…well, right now I've got work to do…"
"Work?! Pfft! That's no fun!" Discord exclaimed.
"It is for me." Twilight said smiling, Discord continued to frown.
"Ugh, fine." Discord snapped his fingers and a lawn chair appeared in the middle of the floor. He plopped down in the chair and crossed his arms.
Twilight raised an eye brow and pulled a paper and quill, preparing to send another Letter to Celestia.
"Oh, my…" Twilight turned to see Discord pulling books from the selves. "You have far too many books, my dear, you musten hoard them all."
"I'm not hoarding them! This is a library!" Twilight said gesturing to the rest of the room.
Discord rolled his eyes and continued to pull out books. "Someone's in denial." He muttered under his breath.
Twilight groaned and began writing.
Dear Princess Celestia,
Sense you haven't answered my last letter, I write to tell you that I feel it is my duty as a princess in training to inform you that Discord has returned to Ponyvile. Though he isn't causing chaos like the last few times, he is showing himself as an annoyance to me and my friends. I await your further instructions on how to handle the situation.
Your dear student,
Twilight Sparkle
"Who ya writtin' to." Discord asked flipping thought one of the books.
"Princess Celestia." Twilight answered rolling up the scroll.
"Ugh, Tia is such a bore!" Discord groaned.
"Tia?" Twilight repeated.
"That's Luna's little pet name for her, I picked up on it in order to annoying her." Discord tossed aside the book he was holding and Twilight caught it with her magic just in time before it hit the floor.
"What have you even been doing in Canterlot?"
Discord rolled his eyes and grabbed another book. "Oh boring stuff like listening to Celestia lecture me about how to use my magic for good and blah blah blah…" He opened the book and quickly tossed it aside after skimming only a few lines. "The castle environment was getting so old and boring that I simply had to get a change of scenery." He said picking out another book.
Twilight again caught the book and narrowed her eyes. "Discord! Stop throw-"
"Oh, a cook book!" Discord said cheerfully. "Ah, that looks absolutely delisious!" He then tore out one of the pages from the book and tossed it into his mouth and began chewing.
"Discord!" Twilight cried.
Discord finished chewing and swallowed the paper. "Ah…I was right, that was appetizing!"
"Discord, you can just tare papers out of books and eat them!" Twilight yelled.
Discord raised an eyebrow and then raised them both in understanding. "Ah, you're right!"
He tore out another paper, folded it up into the form of a chicken leg and threw it into his mouth and chewed. Twilight put her hoof to her face.
"That's not what I meant." She groaned.
"Oh, come now, Twilight, don't be so serious, have some fun!"
Twilight rolled her eyes and went to put the books back on the selves., only to have Discord pull out several more books after only after about reading one line, Twilight began to become frustrated.
"Discord! What you doing?!" Twilight demanded.
Discord's face showed much anger and frustration. "I can't understand anything in any of these books!" He shouted as he tossed another book only to grab another from the self.
Twilight tilled her head in confusion. "What do you mean? These are just simple books, what possibly couldn't make sense?" Twilight levitated one of the book and opened it. It was just a simple children's book.
"Well not everyone can be a scholar like you." Discord growled tossing aside yet another book.
Twilight raised an eyebrow and looked back to the children's book in front of her, the one that Discord had just tossed aside because he claimed he couldn't understand it. She could understand him not understanding the others he had tossed, but this on made her wonder. She slowly started putting the pieces together.
"Discord…" Twilight took a step closer to the creature of chaos who was scrunching his eye brows and the book in his hands. "Can you…read?"
Discord looked down at Twilight and raised an eye brow. "Of course I can!" Discord snapped. His face dropped slightly and he avoided eye contact with the young alicorn. "It's just…been awhile is all.."
"So…you don't remember how to read?"
"Well excuse me, when you're frozen in stone for over a thousand years, there isn't really a lot of time to curl up with a good book!" Discord pointed out.
"Oh, right…" Twilight mumbled feeling kind of akward.
Discord turned back to the book but it didn't take long until he got frustrated and threw it at the floor. Twilight caught it with her magic half way to the floor and smiled warmly.
"Y'know, if you'd let me, I could re-teach you." She offered.
Discord's eyes widened and he looked down at Twilight.
"Teach me?! I'm thousands of years old, I don't need anypony to teach me anything!" He argued.
"Friends learn things from each other all the time." Twilight replied placing the book open on her desk. "Come on, no one has to know."
Discord looked down atTwilight surprised by her sudden generosity, wasn't that Rarity's element?
He finally groaned in defeat. "Fine, but tell a soul and I can't promise you your house will be on the ground tomorrow." He warned.
Twilight rolled her eyes. "Fine, just come over here."
Discord hesitantly floated over to where Twilight stood with the book in front of her. "Lets just get this over with…" He grumbled.
"Alright, let's start…" Twilight skimmed thought the page until slaming her hoof on thepage an pointed to the beginning of a paragraph. "…here!"
Discord looked down at the page and quickly became confused. "Well, I've got nothin', lesson over! Goodbye!" Discord started to leave but Twilight used her magic to grab his ear and pull him back. "Ow, ow , OW! Alright, alright! Knock it off!" Discord cried trying to wiggle out of Twilights grip.
Twilight grinned and released Discord from her magic. "That's better, now try again."
"Oh whats the point?! If I couldn't read all of those books…" Discord guestered to the book selves behind him. "…then makes you think I would be able to read this?"
"Because this time I'm helping you." Twilight said matter of factly.
Discord crossed his arms and stuck his tongue out at her. She rolled her eyes.
"C'mon, just sound it out."
Discord was silent for a moment before sighing. He leaned down so that his face was closer to the page. He squinted his eyes and tired to make sense of the words (but whats the fun in making sense?) Using whatever knowledge of reading he could remember, he tried to sound out the words in his head.
'Oh…nse…' He thought.
"That doesn't sound right…" he though aloud this time.
"That's because the O in this case doesn't make and oh sound."
"What?" Discord exclaimed. "Then why is it there?!"
"Because here, it's meant to make a wuh sound, like a W." Twilight explained.
"Then why didn't they just use a W?!"
Twilight shrugged. "I'm not sure exactly."
Discord rolled his eyes "Some teacher you are…"
"Hey, I didn't make the language."
"Ugh, and I thought I didn't make sense…"
"Just keep going."
Discord groaned and went back to the book to continue.
'Wuh...wuhns…a…a…'
"Do same rules aply for that O?" Discord said pointing to the word apon.
Twilight shook her head. "No, that O makes an ah sound."
Discord moaned. "I hate reading!"
"Keep going."
Discord looked back down and tried again.
'Wuhns…apahn…a…"
Discord pointed to the word time. "Tim?"
"No, that I makes an I sound," She pointed to the word. "See, that E at the end helps the I sound like its self."
Discord raised an eyebrow but didn't argue any futher.
"Now try putting it all together."
He then spoke aloud. "Once….apon…a time. How cheesy."
Twilight smiled. "You did it! You read!"
"Yes, yes go me." Discord said not sounding very enthusiastic, but Twilight could tell that he was proud of his accomplishment.
"Wanna try again?" She asked.
Discord looked to Twilight and back to the page. "Ugh, if you insist…"
Twilight chuckled and watched Discord look back to the and began to sound out the rest of the words.
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"Th…the…end… the end." Discord closed the book and exhaled loudly. "Finally! That took forever!"
Twilight raised an eye brow. "It was only an hour or so."
"Well for me that's forever!" Discord retorted.
Twilight smiled at Discord's some what childish behavior. "You did really good at your reading."
Discord grinned. "I suppose I did." Discord flew to the door. "Well I guess I should go then."
"Now? So suddenly?" Twilight asked sounding somewhat shocked. "Earlier I couldn't get you to leave!"
"Yes, well, I've had all the fun I could have with you today, so my work here is done." He oped the door but looked over his shoulder back at Twilight. "Oh, and thank you for the lessons, my dear, I'm sure Celestia will appreciate it." Wit that, Discord disappeared out the door leaving Twilight with a happy yet surprised smile.
She turned back to her desk and levitated a scroll and quill to her and began writing:
Dear Princess Celestia,
Today Discord paid me a visit at the library and I discover that he had struggles with reading. And while I was helping him learn I learned another valuable lesson about friendship, which seems almost impossible considering I've master the magic of friend ship (bragging much?) but even friendship has it's surprises. I learned how to be patient with my friends and help them in any way I can, even if they refuse at first, and along the way it's a good way to learn about at from each other.
Sincerely,
Twilight Sparkle
"Twilight!" Spikes voiced cried as he ran into the library. "You'll never believe what happed eairlier to me and-"
"Not now, Spike." Twilight cut him off and levitated the scroll to him. "Send this to Celestia."
Spike was confused but took the scroll any way. "Um...okay…" He breathed fire on the scroll and sent it to the princess. "What's thee rush?"
Twilight smiled warmly. "I had to tell her about something me and a friend learned."
"A friend? Who?" Spike asked.
"A very odd friend."
Yup, that just happed. Well, enjoy and please review, reviews are always a fun time ^-^