Chapter 4: The Meeting
"Wow, that was a really sad ending," Twilight said as they ate. "Who would write such a tragedy?"
"A sad creature," Fluttershy responded. "Who's only known tragedy."
"Yeah, that makes it extra sad," Twilight said. "I wish I knew who wrote it. If I did I could find out more about them and see what inspired them to write it. It's so depressing!"
"Hey Twilight! Hi Fluttershy!" Pinkie exclaimed as she bounced toward them.
"Hi Pinkie," they both said sadly.
"Woah, what's got you two blue?" Pinkie asked. "Do you need a cupcake?" She pulled one out of her mane and showed it to them. They shook their heads. "Oh well." She ate it. "So why are you frowning then? Is it because of the new opera?" They both nodded. "Yeah, it's pretty sad."
"That's putting it lightly," Twilight said. "The main character dies."
"Yeah I forgot about that," Pinkie responded. "But look on the bright side, it didn't ACTUALLY happen." Twilight and Fluttershy's faces lit up at that. "It's fake. It's just some story some grumpy old pony came up with. Sure it's sad, but we don't have to live in it. After all, there's a cloud for every silver lining."
"Um Pinkie, I think it's every cloud has a silver lining," Twilight said.
"Oh yeah. That makes WAY more sense," Pinkie responded. The girls laughed.
Discord teleported to Luna's room to have lunch. She always snuck food away from the lunch room for him since there was no food in the cave and he didn't want to risk getting caught. She was already there.
"Do you have it?" he asked. Luna levitated a tray of food with her magic to him. He grabbed it and started stuffing the food into his mouth. While it was very gross, Luna kept her degust from showing on her face. So instead she put on her straight face. He finished eating. "Thanks Lulu."
"You're welcome, CORDY," Luna responded. Discord frowned.
"Could you please stop calling me that?" Discord asked. "You know I hate that nickname."
"When you stop calling me Lulu, I'll stop calling you Cordy," Luna told him.
"Awww. You're no fun, you know that?" Discord responded.
"The feeling's mutual," Luna stated.
"Hi Angel," Fluttershy said as she walked into her room. Angel ran into her hooves once she had entered the room. "Oh, it's good to see you too. It's been such a long day. Do you want me to sing you to sleep?" Angel nodded. The door was still open as Fluttershy began to sing.
Discord was heading back to Luna's room to go to his cave since they had just finished rehersals. It was then he heard singing.
"Hush now, quiet now, rest your sleepy head. Hush now, quiet now, it's time to go to bed." He ran in the direction that the singing was coming from curiously. Who was this? He had never heard such a lovely voice in all his life. He then saw it was….Fluttershy?! "La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la, la. La, la, la, la, la, la, la, la." Discord sighed.
"Beautiful," he muttered. "With some tutoring she could be something."
"Aaaahhhh!" Discord turned to see Twilight. She had obviously seen him and was screaming at the top of her lungs. He panicked and ran for Luna's room, since he was to frighten to teleport.
Fluttershy perked up when she heard Twilight scream. She ran out of her room and saw Twilight standing in the hallway, horrified and panting.
"Twilight what is it?" Fluttershy asked.
"It was a…a," Twilight tried to say. Celestia, Luna, Shinning Armor, and Pinkie ran in.
"Twilight what is it?" Shinning Armor asked.
"Is it a monster?" Pinkie asked.
"It was a…a…a," Twilight tried to say. "It was a draconequus!" Celestia and Luna's faces were filled with horror while Shinning Armor and Pinkie's had confusion.
"What?" Pinkie questioned.
"But Twilight, aren't they extinct?" Shinning Armor said.
"I know they're suppose to be but I saw on right outside Fluttershy's door," Twilight responded. "It had to be a draconequus! It had a lion paw and everything!"
"Where did he go after you screamed?" Luna asked.
"That way, towards your room," Twilight said. "Aunt Luna, do you know this creature?"
"Angel, are you there?" Fluttershy asked. Angel had run off during Twilight's conversation with the others and into Luna's room. "Angel?" She then saw Angel disappear into a hole in the wall beside a wall mirror. She slid the mirror to the side and ran off after Angel and into an old cavern passageway. "Angel! Angel!" They ran deeper and deeper into the cavern underground. Eventually, the bunny stopped running and Fluttershy caught up with him. "Angel, what were you thinking?!" She scooped him up into her hooves. "Running off like that. You scared me half to death." She then noticed where she was. She saw that part of the cave was a bit cleaner than a typical bats' home but it still looked like a messy bedroom. There was an unmade bed in one corner and in another there was a desk covered in papers. There was a table in between them also covered in papers and it had a model of the opera house. Fluttershy gulped and walked backwards. Then she backed up accidentally hit something.
"What are you doing here?" it growled. Fluttershy turned around and found herself face to face with a draconequus!
