Author's note: Hey guys! I'm getting the hang of spacing! Ugh I really feel like this should've been a Fluttercord fanfic but I was just too eager to
try out this one. Since I'm barely starting to share my stories, I'm gonna start off small. I apologize again for grammar! I've been really focused on spacing, it's getting to me! . I hope you guys are enjoying it so far! I have chapter three done as well but I'll put it up in the morning.
Let me know what you guys think, it would mean so much!

"Oh yeah, your yellow pegasi friend left you a note, it's in my cloak."

Discord quickly glanced to the cloak and rummaged to it. He found it and unfolded it.

Dear Discord,

Umm I hope you aren't mad at me, or umm us... I just couldn't bear the thought of you being alone anymore, after everything you had told me earlier.
The others and I searched all day today for a suitable friend. She was the only one who would accept it, so please be nice to her... Umm if you want to, just please Discord. I know you have me and the others but you need to learn how to make friends, and she's a start. I know some ponies don't want to give you a chance but she was willing to. She's quite wonderful too, she makes excellent books, you should read some. I'll pay you two a visit in the morning. Please be on your best behavior Discord, she's a very nice pony.

Sincerely, Fluttershy

Discord sighed and folded the paper back up. He appeared besides Vallery and started the tour.

"And that looks like that's it, did you get all that?"

He looked at Vallery, who was already looking at him.

"Yes I understand but I just have one question."

"What is it?"

"Where am I going to be staying?"

Discord slapped his forehead with his paw and replied, "Ugh I guess I am getting old."

He snapped his claw and a door appeared on their right. Vallery looked at Discord then the door. Discord gestured her to go through. She trotted over to the door and opened it. Her jaw dropped and her eyes widened at the sight in front of her.
There were books around every corner and the bed was made with a beautiful purple canopy hanging from above.
There was a desk with a lamp just for her too. Vallery ran inside and started to read all of the titles to each and every book.

Discord went inside and said, "It's really not my style but I know how you ponies are, you seem to have a completley different taste."

Vallery ignored him and continued reading the titles. Discord made his way to her new bed and threw himself onto it. Vallery went to the desk and switched on the lamp on and off repeatedly.

"There's so many good books here!"

She ran to a shelf and grabbed a book, she trotted to the bed and jumped on. When she opened up the book she glanced at Discord.

"I'm very sorry for keeping you up, you should get some rest."

Discord lifted his head and cocked an eyebrow. "You aren't going to bed?"

"Nah I'm gonna read a chapter or two first. It helps me sleep with ease."

She flipped a page and began reading. Discord saw this as his cue to leave and got up.

"Alright then, call my name and I will be here before you know it if you need anything."

"Sounds good," she replied still reading.

He snapped his fingers and she lifted her head quickly, realizing something.

"Wait!"

He was back in an instant.

"What is it?"

She closed her book and gestured for him to sit down next to her. He laid down next to her on his stomach with his claw on top of his paw. He knew she wanted to tell him a few things so he made himself comfortable.

"Forgive my rudeness, I forgot to thank you. I appreciate you welcoming me inside even though I sort of came in myself. I appreciate you giving me a chance too."

Discord cocked his eyebrow and asked, "Do you know who I am?"

Vallery looked up at him, he was already looking her straight in the eyes.

"Yes, yes I am well aware of who you are and what you have done in the past..."

She looked down while he stayed looking at her with his head high.

"Are you not frightened of me?"

She looked back up and replied, "I'm going to be honest. I am a very serious pony so I'll be straight up with you. I am...I'm scared of you but I am willing to give you a chance. I know how other ponies are when they see you. I'm pretty sure it pains you to see their faces and stares..."

Discord looked down and replied under his breath, "Please, don't waste your pity on me my dear, I'm used to it."

Vallery looked at the draconequus who was looking away in shame.

"Discord I know what you've done but I also know what you did after Tirek. You learned your lesson and your friends beheld their trust in you because you're friends. It pains me to see how ponies don't give you a chance. They just don't understand your pain and what you've been through. When your friends came up to me, they really described you as a good friend. The orange one told me that you can be trouble since the others didn't want to admit it. But I'm willing to give you a chance because I'm tired of ponies misjudging others..."

He turned his head to look at her again and gave her a slight smile.

"You shouldn't be the one thanking me my dear. I should be thanking you."

He moved towards her and gave her a warming hug with his thank you. She was surprised but she returned the hug and smiled.
He pulled away and got off the bed.

"Do let me know if you need anything," he said while walking towards the door.

"You got it," she said as she watched him shut the door.

She opened up her book to continue her reading with a smile…and a slight blush.

"So is anypony coming with me?" Fluttershy looked back to face her friends.

"But of course we're coming with you darling."

"Yeah especially Rainbow Dash," quivered Applejack.

"Yeah, yeah I'm coming," Rainbow said as she rolled her eyes.

"Oooo I can't wait to see how they're doing!" Pinkie said eagerly.

"I'm sure they're doing fine everypony but I have to admit I'm also anxious to check on how the first night went," Twilight announced.

"So then what are we waiting for? Let's go!"

Rainbow Dash lead the way to the Everfree forest. Discord's castle was located in the forest but the ponies weren't worried for Vallery.
Even though it was late, Zecora was willing to lead her the way.

"You think he's mad at us?" Fluttershy nearly whispered.

"No, you wrote him a note, I'm sure he understood," Twilight assured her.

"Yeah plus Rainbow will be the one to blame since it was her idea sugercube."

Rainbow Dash glared at Applejack while she smirked at her.

"We're here everypony," Fluttershy quietly announced.

Everypony stopped in mid tract and stared at the deformed castle. Fluttershy kept going and knocked very lightly on the giant door.
Discord appeared at the door and smiled at the sight of his friends.

"Oh hello everypony!" This caught everypony's attention and they all looked at him.

"I see everypony else came along with you Fluttershy, come on in."

He turned away from them and left the door open for them. They all trotted inside and continued looking at the castle's architecture, all except Fluttershy.

"What are you trying to do? Get her lost?" Rainbow Dash asked Discord.

"Oh Dashie you should know I would never do such a thing," Discord said with a mischievous smile as he led them down the hall.

"So where is she then?" Rainbow asked suspiciously.

"Asleep," Discord said simply.

"You kidding right? It's already lunch time!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed as she followed Discord.

"Well before she went to bed, she told me she likes to read a chapter or two before she goes to bed, seems like she got carried away."

"I am all too familiar with that feeling," Twilight said with a slight blush.

They were about to walk by Vallery's room when her door opened. She turned around to spot everypony staring at her.

"Hi there everypony," she yawned.

Everypony said hello and Discord went up to her.

"Why don't you go wash up, I'm gonna set up lunch."

Her eyes widened and she gasped.

"What? It's already lunch time? Oh I am so sorry, let me get to lunch!"

She was stopped with Discord's tail. "Oh no my dear, I said I'm making lunch, now go get ready."

He pushed her lightly with his tail and gestured everypony else. Vallery ran up in front of Discord and lifted up her hoof.

"Discord, you give me the hospitality and I return the favor by serving you."

Discord lifted an eyebrow and grinned. He liked the sound of it greatly but his friends were behind him.

"My dear, you were up all night with that book."

"Yeah, so?"

"So… I think you should go and get ready for lunch."

He smiled and snapped his claw. Vallery disappeared and Discord quickly made his way to the kitchen. By the time everypony made their way to the kitchen, the table had been set with their lunch. Discord waved his paw out for them to sit down.

"That was nice of you to have done lunch instead of having her doing it," Fluttershy said with a warming smile.

"But of course, she doesn't have to start so soon."

Twilight was about to respond when Vallery trotted inside and headed down to the seat right next to Discord.

As she was sitting down she announced, "Everypony, don't worry about doing your dishes, I'll do them."

Discord was about to bite into his apple core when he heard this. How dare she try to win the lord of chaos over. But he did have company after all so he accepted her kindness.

"Fine my dear, you can do them while I show our guests around."

Everypony asked Vallery a few questions to see if she was content. She explained that she let herself in at first but then apologized. Everypony would glance at Discord, having some suspicions. When they were all done, each pony stacked their dish by the sink and Vallery made her way to the sink, only to realize the dishes were neatly set and washed.

"Discord!"

Discord quickly ushered the other ponies out and started to show them through the house. Vallery stomped her hoof in frustration until she turned around and faced the table. Discord made a bit of a mess and the ponies as well. Most of it being Discord. She smiled triumphantly and made her way to the table.

After Discord was done, his friends told him they had to get going because the Grand Galloping Gala was in two weeks. Twilight loved being on time and prepared even though they had plenty of time. The other five just decided to do as Twilight says because they'd hate to disappoint her. When Discord shut the door, he made his way down to the kitchen to find a very shiny table.

He looked around for Vallery but couldn't find her. Finally he decided to check the last place he hadn't checked; the garden. He went out to find the white earth pony attending to a cookie tree. She picked out a cookie and ate one. She turned to find Discord walking over to her in frustration.

"What's wrong?"

"I went all over the entire castle looking for you! Then I find you out here the whole time!"

He let out a loud grunt and sat down by his chocolate lake.

"Oh I'm sorry, I didn't even know. I thought you were still with your friends."

She trotted down towards him and took a drink from the lake. Discord watched her with interest. How can she be so cool and collective?
She shows no hesitation before she eats or drinks from his chaotic creations. Even his friends would hesitate to his creations. He admired
her acceptance of staying with him, she kept him company and even though she admitted to being afraid of him, she showed no signs of fear.
When she quenched her thirst, she made her way besides Discord. She flopped to her belly and laid her head on her crossed front hooves.

"My dear, if you're tired you can just go lay down in your room."

"No I'm good."

She didn't lift her head and she stayed in her position. Instead of grass, Discord had cotton candy, he thought he would receive some negative
feedback but she said nothing of the sort.

"Does my way of lifestyle bother you?" Discord asked suddenly.

This caught her attention and she lifted her head to look at him.

"Not at all. Why do you ask?"

"Well its just that I'm so used to ponies telling me how chaotic my ways are. I am Discord after all, the lord of chaos."

"Well I don't mind your way of living, it's quite unique and different. I like unique and different."

Discord smiled at her statement and she continued, "After all, Celestia gave you a piece of land so that you don't have to obey any rules or have to live the 'normal' and boring way."

Discord looked at her in awe. Never has he heard any pony speak these words he admired so much.

"Would you like to do something or go anywhere my dear?"

She looked at him in confusion.

"You mean inside your territory or outside?"

"Both," he replied with a smile.

"Oh you think we can go to Manehattan? I've always wanted to see the big buildings since I was filly!"

"Done."

Discord snapped his paw and they appeared in an alley. Vallery's jaw dropped as she stepped out to see the big city. She trotted out
of the alley with a hesitant draconequus. As soon as Discord stepped out, the ponies that were around the alley ran away. The pegasi
flew away as fast as Rainbow Dash at the sight of him. Vallery heard the yells of terror and turned to see Discord with an irritated face, walking up to her.
Vallery turned around and went up to the tall creature.

"Hey...don't listen to them, hold my hoof so that they see that you aren't what they think you are."

She didn't dare say the word, she couldn't imagine how much pain it would bring him if he heard it. Discord hesitantly lifted his paw towards her extended
hoof. He took it and they started walking, when the other ponies saw this, their jaws dropped. There were whispers amongst them but they ignored them and kept walking.

"Wow I've never been in a big city before! Look at all the advertisements! Oh look a Mcponies!"

Vallery's eyes seemed to sparkle at the sight of everything, Discord saw this and tried to share his enthusiasm.

It didn't work when he heard amongst the whispers a pony saying, "They say he's supposed to be good now but all I see is a monster..."

There it was.

Vallery winced when she heard it and looked up to the draconequus. He formed his claw into a fist and squeezed Vallery's hoof. His eyes glowed with red hatred and his fur was puffing up.

"Discord do you want to go?" Vallery asked with a shake in her voice.

Discord snapped his talon and they were back inside the castle. He removed his paw coldly from her and stormed off.

"Discord!"

Vallery ran after him but he ignored her and went inside his room.

"Discord..." Vallery called to him when he slammed his door in her face.

She knocked on his door so that he would let her in but he didn't. For he was on the wall sobbing. Of course Discord had his weird ways with gravity.

He sobbed with his feelings hurt greatly. No one can change who he was, he learned that he had to accept that. All the other ponies will never understand. He heard Vallery calling out to him for a while until they finally stopped. He assumed she finally gave up but he didn't hear any hoof steps.

He wiped his tears away and slowly approached the door. He opened it to find the white pony asleep on the floor, about 3 inches away from his door. Discord watched her chest rise and fall for a bit, then walked over to her and scooped her up. She woke up to this and looked up to him. "

Sorry if I startled you...with my horrifying face..."

Vallery gave him an angry face and told him softly, "Discord you shouldn't let those ponies get to you. This takes time. I know they got you angry but you shouldn't let it get to you."

"How? How can I block out those comments if it's true. I may have understood the magic of friendship but everypony will always see me as a monster. I can't change their opinions on me..."

He looked away, his eyes getting watery. He grew more sensitive after learning what friendship meant to him, and how nice some ponies can be to him.

"Discord, some ponies are stubborn but mostly everypony will give you a chance if we show them. It may take time but we can do it, I'll be right by your side every step of the way. We'll try it again tomorrow."

She smiled at him and Discord couldn't help but smile back at her contagious smile.

"Why do you show no fear towards me my dear? Are you not terrified of me? I know you told me you are, but you show no sign of it..."

"Discord... I know you're not used to ponies telling you this but I admire your power and magic. I admire your appearance as well, it's so unique and interesting. I was terrified when I came in but I tried to act brave. And when I came in, I just marveled at your maze. I don't know why I'm so attracted to it."

Discord marveled at her words and couldn't believe what he was hearing. He couldn't hold it in any longer and gave her a bear hug.

"Oh my dear you are simply marvelous! I have never heard such a pony who has shared so much in common as me!"

He hugged her tightly and her air went out of her little tummy. She started coughing and Discord quickly pulled her away.

"Was that me? Oopsy!"

He grinned with guilt while she kept coughing.

"Well I'm gonna...go...get to cleaning...now."

He put her down and she gained her breath.

"But we weren't gone very long and I don't think anything is out of place."

"Just to make sure, please, I have to attend to the garden again. I'll come back to let you know when I'm done."

"Wait my dear aren't you hungry?"

He stopped her with his arm. She glanced at her stomach that was growling since she wasn't quite hungry at lunch.

"Umm...yeah I guess I am."

He grinned and snapped his paw. They sat in the kitchen table with a candle.

"And what would the lady have?"

"A simple platter of fries would do nicely."

"Just fries?" He asked confused.

"Yes please! I love fries." She smiled warmly.

"Alright then."

He snapped his fingers and her platter appeared before her. He had his own unique platter of paper and paper plates. They ate in a comforting silence.