Trista woke up in a cold sweat. She breathed a sigh of relief, seeing that it had all just been a nightmare. As she sat up, she quickly realized that it wasn't so.

Trista was in a room with all of the furniture -including her bed- floating upside down. There was a large picture frame that changed its pictures every so once in while hanging over a fireplace that contained a fish aquarium. The fish aquarium itself in one corner of the room had a roaring fire blazing in it. The walls changed to various different colors, and the floor was illusioned to looked like a hundred foot drop into a pit (at least, Trista hoped it was an illusion).

As Trista carefully attempted to get out of her bed, she fell up and landed on the ceiling. She groaned in pain before standing up. She tried to find a door, but there was none. However, there was a window on one side of the room that was open. Trista smiled in triumph before she ran to the window and attempted to jump out. Unfortunately for her, it appeared that the castle was floating upside down, because as she looked down, there was only the blue sky.

Trista started feeling sick, trying to wrap her head around how this was possible. She knew, however, that she had to get out of here and fast. As she climbed out the window, she was relieved to know that gravity was normal and began to climb down the side of the castle. Outside, there were various abnormalities that made Trista's head hurt. Behind the castle was an abandoned, lifeless carnival, with none of its rides running or its lights on.

What is this place? Trista asked herself. However, her thoughts were suddenly interrupted when something grabbed her ankle and jerked her up, back to the window that she came from. She looked down at her ankle, seeing a long, black vine with blue thorns wrapped around it. She remembered that she had a nail file tucked in a secret pocket of her dress and retrieved it before going to work on the vine. However, one of the vine's thorns glowed and turned the file into a bouquet of flowers.

The heck?

The vine dragged her up and back into the room. Sitting there casually on her new bed was the thing she had come to fear and despise: her new forced husband, Discord.

"And just where do you think you're going?" He asked, looking more amused than angry.

Trista gulped, realizing she was still being held by the vine, "I was just-"

"Just what? Trying to escape?" Discord scoffed before he pulled out a piece of paper and put it in Trista's face, "You know the rules. You agreed to marry me, so now you are not allowed to leave until the year is up."

Trista's face turned red from both embarrassment and anger.

"Of course, that is if I don't capture your heart by the end of the year!" He added slyly, "I have such irresistible charms that all the ladies fall over!"

"..." Trista still didn't say anything.

"You'll get used to it!" Discord cheered, appearing next to her, "I promise, my dear, by the end of the year, you'll be head over heels in love with me!"

Trista didn't say anything, only sat there in fear and dismay.

Macy woke up panicking, grasping at the air. She looked around, noticing her surroundings.

She appeared to be in a normal room with normal furniture, except there was absolutely no color in anything. It was all black, white, and gray. It was extremely depressing to see a room with no colors to brighten it up.

Macy panicked, remembering what had happened. She quickly got out of bed and headed for the door. Luckily, the door was unlocked as she headed out into the halls. The halls appeared as royal castle halls, with red carpets, torches, and stone walls and floors.

Macy was distracted suddenly by a bowl of chocolate bars sitting on a small glass table. She gave into her love of sweets and reached into the bowl. However, something grabbed her hand and caused her to shriek in terror.

"How many times must I tell you, Discord..." A voice from the bowl said, "The candy is MINE!"

A head with messy black hair and white skin popped out of the bowl. Macy's heart stopped, seeing that it was her nightmare, and he didn't look happy. Luckily, his angry face suddenly melted away and was replaced with a mischievous smile and a blush running across his face.

"I'm sorry," Jack apologized, "I didn't know it was you, dearest! Go ahead, take a candy bar! They aren't the poisonous kin-!"

But before he could finish, Macy was down the hall quicker than a flash of lightning.

Jack felt confused, "Was it something I said? I promise they aren't poisonous! Even if they were, I'd take you to the hospital! Are you more of a hard candy fan? I have Lifesavers!"

Macy ran as fast as her legs could carry her. She sprinted at full speed, the cinnamon buns she had eaten yesterday hindering her greatly. She wasn't watching where she was going and crashed into something soft and furry.

"Hey, watch where you're going, you clumsy oaf!"

Macy looked up after falling down, discovering that Discord was laying on the ground a few feet in front of her. It appeared that Trista had been in his arms, but she was knocked free when Macy tackled the draconequus.

"I've got Skittles!" Macy heard her forced husband call from behind her, "Do you like Skittles?!"

Macy screamed again, running to Trista, quickly helping her up and practically dragging her down the hall. They hid in a closet filled with blankets and pillows and took shelter underneath them.

"Thank the gods you came when you did." Trista breathed a sigh of relief, "That nightmare was gonna..." She shuddered, "C-... Cuddle with me..."

"Speak for yourself," Macy argued, "That freaky clown tried to offer me chocolate and convince me that it WASN'T poisoned!"

"Quiet!" Trista hissed, "Or they'll find us!"

"Yeah, right," Macy nodded in agreement, "We need to wait until they go like, on the other side of the castle to make our escape."

"Can't," Trista replied sadly, "Discord's got magic protecting the castle. I tried to get out, and this vine dragged me back in."

"Then we'll find a couple of chainsaws and some weed killer and get to work!"

"Even if we did get out, God-Horse and Satan's forces will be out to get us and send us back here with these terrors."

Macy glared at her, "I hate your logic..."

Trista only smiled innocently.

Discord quietly stalked around as silent as a cat, while Jack had his strangely shaped nose to the ground. They sniffed around, trying to catch a whiff of their new wives' weak perfume.

"It's no use," Jack groaned, "The perfume's worn off. We can't track them."

"Not to worry, my clownish friend!" Discord assured. He suddenly poofed up a device that was similar to a metal detector, except labeled on the side in large letters was "HUMAN DETECTOR", "This will find them with ease!" He gave one to Jack and began to walk down the hall, waving the detector back and forth.

"Cool!" Jack cheered, "Let's find us some brides!"

Macy quietly peeked out the door, checking both ways before she and Trista climbed out of the closet.

"We need to hurry," Macy said, "I doubt they have magic surrounding the front door, so let's try that."

"Problem with that." Trista interrupted.

Macy groaned, "What now?"

"The castle is upside-down."

Macy stared at her, "What?"

"The castle... Is... Upside-down..." Trista repeated slowly.

"What the heck Trista?! How are we supposed to get out now?!"

"I don't know! Suicide?!"

"Oh yeah, like THAT will ever work! They're omnipotent cosmic beings! They'll find a way to bring us back to life!"

"THEN WHAT DO WE DO?!"

"I DON'T KNOW!"

However, both girls froze when they heard a steady beeping noise. They turned, discovering their nightmares standing over them, holding metal detectors over their heads.

"There you are!" The two males exclaimed happily.

Macy and Trista screamed once again and tried to make a break for it. However, their efforts were foiled when they suddenly froze in mid-air. Discord and Jack were using their magical powers to keep them from going anywhere. As the two males forced the two females to turn and look at them, they both exchanged sly glances.

Trista and Macy in the meanwhile, exchanged glances of terror.

"So, there's something we forgot to do." Jack began.

"Something that's quite important if we are to be wedded." Discord added.

"Macy..."

"Trista..."

They both got down on one knee, pulled out a box with a beautiful diamond ring nestled in it, opened it, and said in complete unison:

"Will you marry us?"

Trista and Macy couldn't say anything, both being too afraid to do so.

"Ah, poor things are just speechless is all." Discord said, shaking his head sorrily.

"Yeah," Jack agreed, "Being wedded to handsome faces like ours doesn't come to you everyday!"

Immediately, they pulled the rings out of the boxes and ate said boxes. They approached the females who desperately wanted to run and took their left hand and gently held them. They then took the rings and placed them on the girl's ring fingers before smiling at them lovingly.

"And now," Jack began.

"We are officially engaged." Discord finished.