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Me: Hopefully this chapter doesn't take that long to write. After this story I want to make another one with a different OC that I'm sure will be a big hit! What do you think Julie?
Julie: Me? I havent met her.
Me: Soon you will. Very soon. But until then!
Enjoy!
"Oh lunar moon, shining upon this land. Can you lend me a helping hand?" I quietly sang to myself. The song I was singing was one my mother used to sing to me when I was younger. It helped keep away nightmares, but not anymore. "Give this child, this little angel, a good dream. One that won't make her cry." The reason why I was singing this was because I had another nightmare for the tenth time this month. Nightmares have been haunting me recently since winter. I can barely sleep without waking up from a nightmare about my friends being swallowed up by darkness or trapped in fire or water, or in vines, I think I've finally lost my sanity. "Give her one that she can fly, give her one that makes her smile, for my little angel." I had climbed to the roof of the castle and just laid under the stars and the moon. Everyone else was asleep, all of Ponyville was asleep. "Give her sweets, give her nice little dreams oh lunar moon, she's one of your stars." Every time the song is sung it seems like the moon glows a bit brighter. I stared up at the sky and paused for a moment to just see the stars. 'Huh?' I watched as the stars moved started to move and formed a smiling face. "Hello my dear!" I jumped out of my skin and sat up. I turned my head and saw Discord behind me. I blushed from embarrassment and turned back around. "Luna is gonna get mad you know." I told him. "Twilight would get mad at you for staying up late." He told me before sitting beside me. "Same thing for you too." I told him. We both erupted in laughter after my comeback. "So why are you up this late my dear?" Discord asked me while I still let my laughter linger. "Had a nightmare, decided to come up here and-" "And sing? I thought you couldn't sing." He interrupted me and it caught me off guard. "I can't sing, and I wasn't singing." I told him while trying to keep my voice low. "Then what were you 'saying' earlier?" He questioned before he gave me a gentle shove. "I said nothing." I lied. "The reason why I came up here was because I heard singing. Don't you lie to the lord of chaos my dear." "Fine! You caught me! I can sing a little, but that's all you're getting from me!" I shoved him a little before telling him the truth. "So what were you singing?" He asked. I groaned in annoyance and looked up at the moon. "I think it was called 'Dreamy Moon' or something. My mother sang it to me when I had nightmares. It kinda makes sense now that I know what Luna does. The song is about a mother wanting the moon to help her child have a good dream, and not nightmares. Luna can go into dreams and stop nightmares. I wonder." 'That fits to well with the song, I wonder where the song came from.' "Haven't you gotten homesick yet?" I came back to reality and turned to Discord. "Homesick? I feel like you've asked me this before." I watched him shrug and I sighed. "First day here, I didn't feel homesick. Now, I still don't." I had to admit, I haven't ever felt homesick. I'm glad that I don't, because back home it was a nightmare. "What about you Discord? Have you been homesick before?" I asked him a question this time. "I can call Equestria my home now! So no." He told me, but I wasn't paying much attention.
Julie's eyes closed for just a moment and her head started falling. She bumped into Discord before waking up. She quickly rubbed her eyes and sat back up. Discord saw this and looked at Julie's face. Dark rings surrounded her eyes. "Julie, when was the last time you had gone to sleep?" Discord asked her. Julie sighed and fixed her bangs before speaking. "The nightmares keep me up, so I haven't really gotten enough sleep." Julie yawned and started nodding off again. "It's finally catching up to me." She said before yawning again. Discord snapped his claws and a pillow had appeared behind Julie's head. Julie instinctively fell backwards and stared up at the sky. "Leave me here to sleep." Julie mumbled before her eyes drooped. Discord got up and left Julie alone. 'I'm never going home, this place can be my home from now on.' Julie thought as she drifted to sleep. 'That would be great.'
"Julie! Julie help us!"
The nightmares seem to be getting worse now to the point I can vividly hear my friends voice even if I'm awake. Last night my nightmare was about Twilight and Spike being swallowed by thorns, and yet again I couldn't do a thing besides stand by and cry. What makes it even more worse is that I'm sitting right by them while they are eating breakfast. "So are you going to give Rarity chocolates or flowers this year?" I heard Twilight ask Spike. "Why not both?" I took a bite out of the toast I had and leaned back in my chair. 'Why am I eating? I'm not that hungry.' I said in my head before shoving my plate away. "So Julie, what do you have planned for the day?" Twilight asked me. I just shrugged my shoulders and tried to stay focused. "Really? Have you already finished reading the spellbook I got for you?" She asked. I reached down into my pants pocket and pulled out a small black book. It was a small spellbook Twilight got for me. All the spells work for me, but I had finished the book. "Yeah, they work, but they aren't that powerful." "Aren't that powerful! Julie these are very strong spells, I found them in my old library!" She exclaimed as she snatched the book out of my hands. "I guess human magic users know more powerful ones. There is one for time travel right?" I asked. Twilight nodded her head and she filled through the pages. "Yeah. See." She showed me the page with time travel on it. "How long does that last?" I asked her. "About a minute." Twilight estimated. I smirked and snapped my fingers. A small purple disc appeared in my palm and I looked into it as if it were a mirror. "Let's see. How about five days earlier, at around this time, and done." I started writing on the surface of it and placed it above Twilight's head. "This is the conjurer's way. Click, clock, turn back the tide, tick tock, it's time." One of the most simplest of spells I know. As I said the words the disc grow and engulfed Twilight in light. She had disappeared. Spike had watched this go down and panicked. "What did you do?!" He asked me. "I sent her back in time, about a week in yesterday around this time. She'll only be there five minutes. That how long wrote it to, but as long as I don't forget she'll come back." I explained. "That's how conjurer's do that?" Spike asked. "From what I read and what my mother told me. Wizards are different, and witchcraft it's tough to do. Why wanna join Twilight too?" I said to him as I summoned another disc. He gulped and shook his head. "I don't think time travel is for me. Thanks for the offer!" With that he left the table and I saw how scared he was of what would happen. It made me chuckle a little. "Well it's about time to bring her back, right?" I asked myself. I snapped my fingers and Twilight poofed back into the room.
Twilight glared at Julie as she smiled to Twilight. "What? I brought you back didn't I? You should trust me, it is my element right?" Julie said to Twilight. "Well in theory that's what we think your element is." Twilight corrected Julie. Julie rolled her eyes and let out a chuckle. "Julie, can I ask you something?" Twilight asked. Julie sat up straight and gestured to go on. "How is it to not be in love? You know, the benefits?" Twilight asked. "I can list the benefits all day. To me love is a waste of time. There will be heartbreak, heart ache, and betrayal. But if you want advice, go to Rarity or RainbowDash." "Why do you think that?" Julie only responded to Twilight with silence. "It's just the way I made myself think. My father would say don't let your heart get in the way. I am my father daughter." Julie responded in a somber tone and she laid her head on the table. "Do you know the cure for nightmares?" Julie blurted out before closing her eyes. "Why? Are you having Sombra nightmares again?!" Twilight questioned ad she gave Julie a concerned look. "No, these are different Twi." Julie sat up and rubbed her eyes. "These nightmares are mostly about you guys getting hurt or being trapped or pulled away by a creature. I can't do anything to help you guys, and it's even worse if Discord is looking at me in the dreams. It makes me frustrated that I can't get sleep with these nightmares!" Julie explained as she clenched her hands into fists. "I'll try to find something, but I don't know why you are having these nightmares. Maybe if you find the cause of it you can resolve it and get rid of them." Twilight advised. Julie sighed and got up. "I think I'm going for a quick fly around the town." Julie g got up and straightened herself out. "What are you going to do today?" Julie asked. "I'm going to go to Rarity's, I need some advice." Twilight responded to Twilight before quickly trodding away. "Good luck with that." 'Guess I still need to deal with my problems.' Julie yawned and remembered her nightmares. "Wonder what could be causing this." Julie wondered.
"Julie! Please help us! Why are you standing there!"
I sat up quickly and felt cold sweat on my neck. 'Another one. No.' I thought in my head as I tried to calm myself. "They're getting worse" I said to myself. I got out of bed and went over ot my mirror. Dark circles were starting to form around my eyes while a tinge of red colored my eyes. "How much longer can I do this? This will drive to insanity!" I whipsered to myself. I shooked my head and looked over to the window. It was a clear night and the moon was still out. "Just for a little while, just so I can get back to sleep." I told myself before opening the window. I climbed out of it and started climbing up to the roof. I was careful not to be too loud, I didn't want to wake anyone up.
I reached the rooftops of the castle and found my previous spot. I looked back up to see the moon over my head. "Maybe Luna can help me?" I questioned. But I knew that she was had other things to do. I sighed again and looked up at the stars instead of the moon. "Oh lunar moon." I started singing again. To be honest, singing that old lullaby my mother sang to me actually makes me feel better. Last night wasn't the only time I sung it. "Mother of the night. Let her sleep, let her rest." I was singing the second verse of the song, and the only other part left of it too. "She's a darling, a shooting star." I smiled and kept on singing even if I heard a window latch open. "So give her a good dream, oh lunar moon." I eyed the sky to see if Discord had flown out of his room or had just teleported near me. "Oh lunar moon." I held out the last note and saw Discord's shadow engulfed me. I stayed silent and then a sign appeared above me. It was a red flashing sign that said 'applause' and when it stopped flashing and stayed red I heard an eruption of clapping. I started laughing and it disappeared. "Up singing again?" Discord asked me in a joyful tone. "Yeah, you up to listen to me again?" I asked him. "Well I can't help but not listen! Your voice is beautiful!" He complimented me. I blushed and felt the awkwardness coming back to me. "I-I'm that good of a singing unlike Fluttershy." I managed to choke something out to say. "Well you do have a beautiful voice my dear, and even more beautiful smile-" I had been staring up at him and he had finally noticed. "So did you have another nightmare?" He changed the subject and laid next to me. "Why else would I be singing that song?" I told him. He chuckled and we just laid there without another word. 'A good friend . . . but wonder why he was complimenting me so much?' I asked myself in my head. It was a while before either of us talked again. It was Discord who broke the silence. "Wonder what I should do tomorrow?" He said. "What do you usually do?" I asked him. "Nothing really. What do you do since you are in your room all the time." "I meditate, to try and keep my mind straight. So far it's not helping the nightmares, but it keeps me calm." I told him. Meditation was always a way for me to try to keep myself together. But I would have to do that for at least a week until I can be completely fix my mental state. I don't have the energy to do that anymore. "Oh! I have an idea. How about tomorrow we can both do something together! How about we go see the Tree of Harmony." Discord suggested the idea and I tapped my chin. "Where exactly is this tree of harmony?" I questioned him. "In the everfree." My eyes lit up. 'If there is any danger I can finally use my sword again!' I shouted in my head. "Sure. Sounds fun." I calmly answered Discord. I yawned a cat like yawn and I saw the sky and the light of the moon drifting away.
Julie was nodding off again and had fallen asleep next to Discord. Julie shivered and mumbled because of it. "She fell asleep again up here? Well as long as she is getting sleep." Discord said to himself. He snapped his claws and a pillow and blanket appeared for Julie. Discord got up and left Julie to sleep. He got back to him room and grinned. "Well now that I have her all to myself tomorrow, I better make the best of it." He evilly chuckled and his grin grew. "Time to plan!"
No, another nightmare.
In this however, this one was different. I was kneeling on the ground, by a wall of black vines with thorns. On the ground next to it was a small tiara, a flower basket, a scarf, a hat, and a lightning pin with confetti on it. And I was staring at a tiny gem I had given Spike for Hearth's Warming. I was sobbing loudly and then, I stopped and looked up. Discord was staring down at me, with an angry look. "Discord! You're alive!" I shouted to him with joy. I got up and ran to him, but I guess I finally noticed his look. "What's wrong?" I asked him. "You let them get caught and taken by the thorns. Why did you help them?" He asked me. I was speachless and looked back at the wall of thorns. "I didn't know what to do. I wanted to save them but I just couldn't!" I answered him. He shook his head. "Please forgive me, I did what I was able to do, but the thorns-" "You have fire, and magic, and a sword! Yet you still couldn't save them! You just cried and stood there." "There is a reason and it's because I didn't know what to do!" I told him. I walked up to him and gave him a hug, but he pushed me away. "You aren't forgiven. You didn't save me either." I stood still and looked back at the thorns. A new object was on the ground, and it was the broken statue I had made of Discord. "NO, you can't be. Then why are you here?!" I told him. "I'm just haunting you for what you've done. Hope you're happy, now that you're alone." I collapsed and fall on my knees. "I'm not happy, I'm only happy when I'm with Twilight, or Pinkie, with everyone! Discord, don't leave me alone." My head was hurting, and I watched as Discord kept a stone stare at me. He glared at me and then snapped his eagle claw. White smoke began to surround me and I was changing. When it cleared, I wasn't human anymore. I was a purple colored pony with leathery wings. Only my necklaces and boots were left of my human form. "Fine, I'll stay like this until I find a way home. Just don't go just yet." But I was too late to say that, because Discord had disappeared. Normally I would have control of my dream, even in a nightmare, but not for these. So I just stared at the spot where Discord had left from, and then I felt vines around my wrists. I tried to run but I tripped and more vines caught me. I was pulled to the wall, right next to Discord's broken statue. I was thrashing around to try and get out, and it caused my necklaces to fall. Then I saw blackness.
I woke up with tears in my eyes and with my heart hurting. The thought of being left by them, being left by Discord haunted my brain. "What the hell is going on with me?!" I asked myself. I sniffled and wiped away the tears. I reached up to check if I still had my necklaces, and they were still there. "This better pass soon, or else some one will notice." I told myself. I quickly got up and looked to the window. Sunlight was pouring out from it and birds were chirping. I went to my mirror and saw the raccoon eyes I was getting. I sighed and summoned a small disc and glided across the dark rings. They faded a little, but not a lot. "Well, I can't stay here all day." I said to my reflection. "We need stronger nightmares." I heard a voice in my head and I paused. "I think my brain is broken. I'm hearing things now." I chose to ignore the voice and went about my morning.
I went to the dining hall where we usually have breakfast and saw that neither Twilight or Spike were there. There was only a basket of muffins and a note. "Dear Julie or Discord, if you get this then I have already left and so has Spike. I hope you have a happy Hearts and Hooves Day, Love Twilight. Okay." I read the letter out loud and turned to the muffins. I picked one up and wondered. "What's Hearts and Hooves day?" "Good morning!" I jumped at the boom of Discord's voice and nearly dropped my muffin. "Morning." I replied to him. "Are you ready to go see the tree?" He asked me. I sunk my teeth into the muffin and realized something. I wasn't hungry. I placed the muffin on the table and sighed. "Might as well go now. How long will it take?" I asked him. "Not long." He grabbed a muffin and turned it into a cupcake and ate it. I sighed and rubbed my left eye. "You aren't going to eat? It might be a long walk." He advised. "No, let's just go now." I told him.
"This place is cool." Julie smiled as she passed under some hanging moss from a tree branch. "The others don't think that. They're just afraid of the timber wolves." Discord said to Julie as he led the way. "Well of course they will get scared, they don't have a defense against them. But for me" Julie smirked and took out her dagger. She flicked her wrist and it changed into her sword. "I have this thing! Ha ha!" Julie giggled as she pretended to attack something. "Smile!" Julie took to Discord and a flash of bright light blinded her. "Ow!" She uttered while rubbing her eyes. "It was just a picture. Here wanna see?" Discord showed Julie the photo that had came out of his camera and she frowned. "Your thumb was on the lens part." She snickered."What? Oh well." Discord tried to snatch the photo back from Julie, but she quickly put it in her pants pocket and walked on. Julie jumped onto a root that had been sticking out of the ground and grabbed a vine. "Better hurry up Discord, or I'll leave you behind." Julie warned Discord. He watched as she swung from the vine to the next tree and had grabbed another and waited. Discord caught up to her for her to only swing from the vine she had even farther away. "What I tell ya?!" Julie shouted to Discord. "What's with this sudden happy rush?" Discord asked her as he tried to hurry to Julie's spot. "It's just this forest, it seems swampy like from the books I read." Discord caught up with Julie and this time she didn't swing away. "How can you easily swing on these?" Discord asked Julie. "You'll get good at swinging from stuff when you try and go outside without permission. I climbed up and down my castle to get in and out." Julie explained as she tugged on the vine. She gave it one last tug and it started falling at a fast rate. "Huh?" Julie stared at the vine when the end of it stopped and stayed at her eye level. A small snapping plant head was staring back at her. It hissed at her and Julie stared at it. "What a cute plant." Julie sarcastically said as the plant tried to snap at her head. She dropped it and stepped on it. "Come on, let's get to the tree." Julie said to Discord who was baffled by what she did. "Let's carry on then." Discord spoke as he followed behind Julie.
I had to keep moving, because if I stared at the vine any longer I'm sure the nightmares will flash back. I let Discord lead the way until we reached a large ravine. Discord flew into it and I followed after him. My landing caused an echo is the ravine, and then, I saw it. "Whoa." A giant crystal like tree was in the ravine with several branches outstretched with a colorful gem with each of them. I walked closer and saw that they were in different shapes. I counted six gems. "Is this actually crystal?!" I asked with excitement. I touched the base of the tree and it felt smooth and cold to the touch. "It is crystal! How did it get here? How did it grow?"
Julie walked around and around the tree in awe and laughed to herself. "If you asked Celestia herself she couldn't answer you! This tree has been even before me!" Discord told Julie as he spiraled around the tree as well to keep up with her. "So are the elements actually here?" Julie asked. She summoned her wings and flew up to one of the branches. She tapped at a pink star shaped gem. "That's Twilight's element you know." Discord told Julie. "I knew that, it looks just like her cutie mark. Wait, if where's mine?" Julie pushed herself away from Twilight's element and looked over the tree's branches. "Twilight said that it was on the tree of harmony, but where?" Julie asked. Discord took a examined the tree as well and found that a seventh element was nowhere to be seen. "Huh? I wonder if it disappeared when that gem on your crown went away too." Discord said aloud. Julie shook her head and stared at the branches once again. 'Nothing seems out of place, but then where is mine?' "Oh well, what would you do with the element anyways?" Discord said to Julie, but she frowned in response and landed on the ground safely. "How would you feel if you had an element that disappeared forever?" Julie grumbled to Discord as she went to lean against the base of the tree. "Well I wouldn't know since I don't have one." Discord answered her. Julie sighed and smiled. "Ha ha. Well I feel a little better now thanks to that." Julie said to Discord. Discord floated in front of Julie and looked her in the eye upside down. "Well that frown turned upside down." Discord joked. Julie giggled and hit the trunk of the tree with her fist. Both Julie and Discord jumped when the tree started trembling. Julie turned around and watched in amazement. At the top of the tree, a small branch poked out from behind another and on it, was a purple hexagonal gem. Julie gasped and flew up into the air in joy. "Discord! My element! It's still here!" Julie smiled and flew to her element. She gazed at it and it sparkled. "Discord come look!" Julie called up Discord. "What?" He asked as he was beside her. "Is it suppose to sparkle?" Julie asked. "I don't know, I've only seen the elements when they turned me to stone." Discord responded as he face Julie. Julie tilted her head at an angle, and she reached out to the element and laid her hand on it. She gasped again. "It's giving off a strange feeling. It feels nice." Julie turned to Discord and grinned. "Discord, you have to try this!" She told him. "What?! It's your element, not mine!" Discord said in shock. "Trust me, it won't hurt you." Julie joked. "Oh fine!" Discord gave in. He reached for the element, but hesitated at the last minute. "Oh come on." Julie took her hand off of the gem and grabbed Discord's paw. She placed it on the element and put her hand beside his. "See? Not that bad." Julie told him. "It does feel strange." Discord admitted. He relaxed a little, but stiffened up when he felt chills crawl up his spine. 'The last time that happened Twilight had the princesses' magic. Uh oh.' "Why is it glowing?" "Julie I think we should leave this alone." Discord warned her. Julie headed his warning and tried to pull her hand away. It stayed stuck. Discord tried as well, with teh same reaction. "Uh oh." Julie said in a muffled voice.
I work up with a stinging pain in my back, and a strange feeling shot through out my body. Something wasn't right. I quickly sat up and saw the tree of harmony. My element was still up there, and nothing was damaged. "What in Equestria happened?" I asked myself as I looked around for Discord. I found him against the wall. I could see that he was breathing still, but something was off. "Discord?" He shifted and he turned to face me. Nothing was wrong with him, but still. "Discord!" I shouted at him. "What?!" He sat up and looked around in a panic. When he looked to me, I saw what was wrong. His eyes weren't yellow and red anymore. They were white and purple. "Discord . . . . your eyes!" I told him. "My eyes? Look at yourself!" I stood up as Discord said that to me. I turned to the tree and went up to it's smooth surface. It reflected my image and I saw what he meant. My eyes weren't my usual amethyst color, they were red, and the white part of my eyes were yellow. Then to make it worse, two black horns were sticking out of my head, they were the ones that only would show up if I were in my dragon form. "How did this happened?" I asked myself. I felt my heat beat faster and faster as I panicked. I tried to fly back up to my element to see if anything would happen, but after trying to fly upwards, I felt my wings flutter rapidly and I didn't lift off from the ground. I looked over my shoulder and saw my wings. My right one was leathery, but it was more bat-like instead of dragon, and my left wing was a feathered one that were black. They were way smaller, about at my arms length. "My wings . . . ." I wanted to cry, but I glanced over at Discord and saw something else different about him. "Discord look at your wings!" Discord stood up and checked his wings. He spread them out and they were larger than before. One wasn't a feathery one, and the other wasn't a bats wing. They were dragon. "Oh, well I change them back. It's no problem." Discord said confidently. He snapped his claws, but nothing happened. He tried again several times and started getting irritated. "Why isn't my magic working?!" He growled. I just stood there and watched him try, when I felt a sneeze coming to me. "ACHOO!" I heard bubble like sounds and I looks to Discord. He was stuck inside an actual bubble, not one I made with conjurer's magic. I hurried over to him and popped him out of the bubble. "Discord are you okay?" I asked him. "Yes I'm fine, but how did you do that?" He asked me. I shrugged my shoulders. Another sneeze came to me and this time, something different happened. I was turned upside down and floated just inches above the ground. I held in my shriek and I sneezed again. I feel onto the floor and stared up at Discord. "What is happening to me?!" I asked him. 'What's happened to us?' I thought in my head. "Here maybe my magic will work for you. Let's try to get rid of those horns." I watched as he snapped his claws once again, but this time something did happen. Fire bursted to life in his hand and he looked utterly surprised. "That's new." He shook his claw and it disappeared. Then it hit me. 'He has fire, when he doesn't have his magic. I have a weird sort of magic with me every time I sneeze, and our wings. Did we switch?' "Discord, I think we switched powers." He looked at me in confusion. "What? How is that possible?" "I don't know! Conjurer magic is only by blood so it would be impossible to transfer it to someone else if not thy spouse or a child! But how did I get your magic?" I questioned him. "I may be unpredictable but this isn't normal for me either! What happened before all of this happened?" "We were touching my element and ours hands got stuck and then, well I just woke up after that." Was it my element that did this? But it can't do that. "Maybe Twilight knows what to do! She knows a lot about the elements and she can reverse this!" I suggested. Discord considered this and he tapped his foot as he thought. I sneezed again and it changed his height to the size of a mouse. I crouched down and looked at him. "Fine, let's go to Twilight." I sneezed again and fell backwards. Discord had returned to normal size and he groaned. "We have to get that under control, or else you can turn all of Equestria into chickens." He told me. I covered my mouth and nodded in agreement. "So how do we get out of here?" I asked him. "Fly of course!" He tried to fly upwards, but he only got a few feet off the ground before falling back to the floor. "Strange, even with these wings I should be able to fly." "They are dragon wings, they don't quite work with first timers. Takes years to practice flying with them. You have to be both mentally and physically strong to fly with them. You must need more strength." I told him. "Aren't there any stairs or something?" I asked him as I looked around the rest of the ravine. Just near the outside of the ravine I spotted stone stairs leading back up into the everfree. "Found them!" I shouted to Discord.
When I finally got to the top of the stairs my feet were killing me. "Now I see why you were complaining about the stairs." I told Discord was was right behind me. He just grinned and I glared at him. "So which way back to Twilight's?" I asked as I looked around. Every thing looked identical. "How about you try and sneeze teleport us." He suggested to me. "Me? Use teleportation? I've never used chaotic magic before!" I told him. I didn't want to use teleportation while our powers were switched. "At least try so it can be quicker. These wings are a real drag you know!" Discord tried to convince me to use his magic, but I shook my head. "Well a spell it's easy. I have to think of my location, my destination, and it's easy. Plus I can't sneeze on- on-" I sneezed loudly and it made me fall forward, onto Discord, and a pop noise rang in my ears. I opened my eyes to see that both of us were high up in the air, just at the edge of the everfree forest. "Hey I did it!" I said with a cheery tone, but then, I felt gravity catch up with me. 'Uh oh.' We both plummeted to the ground, both of us trying to use our wings. Discord could get his to flap fast enough to catch himself, and I couldn't stay at a stead flutter to even slow down my fall.
Discord hit the ground and his eyes twitched. "Ow!" He groaned as he stared up at the sky. Julie was still falling to the ground, but she stopped a few feet above the ground and floated. Her eyes were wide and she went limb. "Discord, how can you deal with your magic? It's so annoying!" She complained loudly. "How can you survive with these stupid, heavy, wings!" Discord groaned as he sat up. He stretched out his neck and back and several cracking sounds came from his spine. "Are we at least close enough to Twilight's castle?" Julie asked as she stopped floating. She landed on her head, but she didn't care about the pain. Discord squinted his eyes and surveyed the landscape. "We still have to walk a way." "Want me to sneeze teleport?" Julie grinned as she asked Discord this. "No! I'm not falling from a thousand feet in the air again!" He shouted before falling back onto his back.
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A/N: If your computer or laptop is running so slow that you can't type, stream, or barely enough up a new tab! Then it might have a virus, or something else! Want to know why I am writing this, it's because by the end of this chapter I will no longer have my rage! Two weeks to get my computer fan fixed and to get it to not be slow and I'll tell you this, I thought up more ideas for this chapter, for the better of the story as well and also that I nearly went insane. I ran out of things to do while to wait for my laptop!
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I felt another sneeze coming on, and as I tried to cover my mouth to prevent it, it came out.
ACHOO!
About five yards above my head, a small candy rock was falling down to earth. "Uh oh." Before I could get up, it hit me square in the head, and knocked me out cold.
"Dark the elixir is starting to run low!"
"Don't you think I know that! I'm trying to make more nightmares as much as I can, she is just resisting and isn't believing in them! We need them to be more stronger! There's barely even enough left to only keep her in human form!"
"Calm down everyone! We just need to ration the nightmares and send them out slowly. They need to be different. She's shaken up by them, but it's not scaring her."
"That's what you think, but every time when she see one of her friends she gets scared, it's even worse with Discord. Oh why can't she just accept his-"
"Wait a minute, something is wrong."
All around me I heard whispering. I didn't know who was talking, but I had a feeling that I met them before. Soon I was able to see again. I was laying on my stomach in a lifeless clearing. All around me were just walls of vines. I sat up and looked down at my hands and feet. I gasped and saw that I was in pony form. I remember from my last nightmare that Discord had turned me into this before leaving me to the vines, but now I don't feel panic or fear. I was in control of my dream now. "Hello?" I asked. My voice echoed loudly before getting a response. "Oh it's you." I turned around and saw Applejack walking out of the wall of vines. "You're dead too, aren't you?" I asked her. "Well what did ya think? You didn't help us, now we're all dead." Applejack's voice boomed in the empty silence of the nightmare. "I'm sorry I didn't help you guys escape, I just couldn't move! I wish it was me instead." I pleaded to Applejack. "We trusted you to help us, now I won't ever laugh again!" I turned to my right to see Pinkie Pie glaring at me as well. Her mane was straight and her smile was gone. "Maybe she thought she was better than us and decided not to be tied down by us." Rainbow Dash was now in my sight. She sounded mean as she didn't even give me a glare, she didn't face me at all. "Now we're gone, never to see anyone we love ever again! Lucky Angel, he went to heaven without me." Fluttershy showed up next. "I wonder how you would react if that happened to you and we didn't do anything to help!" Rarity was up next. "Maybe we should teach her a lesson, she could learn from it." Twilight walked out next with her scowl burning through my soul. "Wait! I should be dead too! I was taken by the vines and-" I didn't get time to finish my sentence. The vines from the walls leaped towards me. They wrapped around my hooves, my legs, and up around my neck to my snout. I struggled to breathe, but the vines had a tight grip around my torso, it felt like my rib cage was going to break. Soon everything went black, and my head fell forward.
Julie's head nodded forward, and the others sighed. "Do you think that was enough for rations?" Twilight asked, her colors changing from purple to light blue. "I'm not sure. I didn't feel her fear rise." Pinkie said as she turned as dark as coal. "I can't feel anything either." Applejack said, her mane changing to a fire orange. "Neither can I" Rarity changed to green as she said that. "Something isn't right then. Purple go check her." Blue ordered Fluttershy, who changed to a light tint of purple. Purple grabbed Julie's head and examined. "She's breathing, but . . ." A light hearted chuckle erupted from Julie. Purple jumped back and stared at her in confusion. "How is she conscious? She was suppose to be sent out of the dream!" Dark questioned loudly. Julie began to laugh louder and louder. Her head slowly raised as the volume became louder. Her eyes were no longer purple, but were red and yellow like Discord's. "That was interesting! I think you can do better though!" Julie chuckled. A small white feather appeared out of nowhere and began to tickle Julie's nose. She felt the sneeze coming and let it happen. When she sneezed the vines turned to clouds and floated away. "How is this possible?" Blue asked herself. Rainbow Dash turned yellow and yawned. "She's not tired, so this is another thing at play here!" "It's warping our dream we created! What are you?" Orange demanded. Julie grinned evilly and walked forward, the feather followed. "I just think we should add some more chaotic touches to this place. Don't you agree?" The others started to back away, and as Julie raised the feather to her nose again, Red appeared behind her and pinned her down. "Girls, stop the dream and destroy it!" She ordered. Julie struggled to get out from under Red. "Come on, I just want to have some fun! Do you not recognize me? I'm chaotic!" She innocently said. "But if we do that now without you'll-" "Hurry!" Red said to them. They nodded their heads and ran back into the vines. Soon the dream started disappearing, and both Red and Julie disappeared with it.
"Her bruise has healed, and she seems to be alright." Twilight said to herself as she examined Julie's forehead. Discord watched while he stood beside Twilight. "So how exactly did this happen?" Twilight asked Discord, gesturing to his eyes and dragon wings. "Funny story, I decided to take Julie to the Tree of Harmony and we found her element and when we both touched it, it switch dour magic." Discord snapped his claws and a small burst of fire erupted from it, but went away. "See! Only Julie can do that, I could but I don't favor fire that much." Discord explained. Twilight stayed silent and thought for a moment. "Maybe Celestia knows what to do! I'll write her a letter asking what to do." Twilight summoned a quill and paper and started writing. Discord looked back to Julie and saw that she was grinning. "She's smiling." Discord said out loud. "What?" Twilight put the quill down and saw what Discord meant. "I guess she is having a good dream." "He he." Julie quietly started laughing as her grin grew wider. Suddenly, her eyes opened and her grin disappeared. "Oh you're awake." "Am I in the castle?" Julie asked. "Yes and you better be lucky my date ended early. So . . . what's with the appearance change?" Twilight asked both Discord and Julie. "Long story short, don't touch Julie's element on the Tree of Harmony. Now I can't even summon cotton candy clouds for me to eat." "And I can't create fire or use my conjurer's magic." Twilight nodded her head and picked up the quill. "Well hopefully Celestia knows what to do about this." Twilight said to them. Julie's face started to glitch out, and her left eye turned white and red. "I hope so too! Celestia does know more about the elements then us!" The right side of Julie's mouth moved to the wards, but the rest of her face was in shock. "Julie, what are you doing?" Twilight asked. Julie lifted her bangs up and showed them her eye. "Is the other one matching?" Julie asked in a frightened tone. "No, but Discord's chaotic magic can do that, right?" Twilight looked to Discord who just shrugged. "Oh right, you guys only met me once! I'm red, I represent Julie's passion and other fluffy soft feelings she hides. It's a long story about why I'm talking to you through the left half of Julie's face." Julie's left side was synchronized with Red's words. Twilight dropped the quill and paper and grabbed Julie's head. "Julie, smile. Red, frown." Twilight instructed Julie.
I smiled, and felt my left side frown. "How is this possible?" I questioned myself. "Oh well it's a long story, but I'm not sure I have permission to tell you. Blue has to give me the go to tell you." "Wait what?" Discord asked. "Sorry can't tell you! But I can tell you this! If you want to impress this soon to be empress just-" I covered my mouth before Red could say anything else. "Shut up!" I told her. "Make me!" "Discord do you often talk to yourself?" I asked Discord. "Back before I was turned to stone and after." He answered me. "Wait you still talk to yourself?" Twilight asked him. "Don't tell me you've never talked to yourself." Both Twilight and Discord were about to get into an argument when Red spoke up. "Hopefully this is the last time this happens. In the mean time, I get to see what food tastes like!" "You aren't going anywhere! With both of you switching magic and this. Hopefully Celestia can at least tell me what to do." Twilight told all of us before returning to write her letter. She walked out of the room and left Discord behind. "So, has my magic showed up yet for you?" I asked Discord. He shook his head and sighed. "Has anything come up with you?" He asked me. Red spoke for me. "Everyone is just alright. All though it is nice to be back in human form." "Wait what?" Red didn't dare say anything else. "You know what, I should just get on with the day. I'm going for walk. All of this is making me crazy." I sat up and tried to stand up, but then I felt another sneeze coming on.
ACHOO!
The sneeze had teleported me outside, and high above the ground once more. "Not again." I said before falling. I tried to flap my wings so it wouldn't hurt when I hit the ground. "Come on! Start flying already!" Red told me. "I'm used to stronger wings! I can't fly with tiny wings at all!" I told her. I crashed to the floor and I let out a painful groan. "O-Ow." "I felt that too. Ow." I got off of the ground and coughed. "We really need to switch back." "No! Just stay like this a little longer. This just might be enough to finally let you see." I stood up and tapped my forehead. "Red, you sure you didn't just feel that. Maybe your thoughts are scrambled too." "No, I'm saying that you should open up your heart just a little.' "Wait what?" "Let's walk and talk." I sighed and rolled my eyes. I started to walk away from the castle and tried to track my way to the Everfree.
"Celestia wrote back, seems like she doesn't know what to do. She said to just stay put and stick together just in case." Twilight walked back into Julie's room. "That might be a problem. Julie accidentally teleported to somewhere." Discord said to Twilight. "What? Well we have to find her then!" Twilight told Discord.
I laughed hysterically and waited for Red to say something else. "Why are you laughing?" She asked. I stopped laughing and spoke. "You expect me to do that?" I asked her. "Well it's very obvious that Discord still likes you ya know! You keep him in the friend zone and won't even try to see if it could work." "He's dracornaques, I'm halfling, I already know it won't work." "Would you say that about your parents?" " . . . ." 'She caught me.' "Humans and dragons aren't suppose to be together, but your mother found a way to be with him and to have you and your sister. Their love for each other is stronger than anyone's judgment, than anyone's actions to drive them apart. Now, Discord-" "ACHOO!" I sneezed out of nowhere and icicles started falling from the air, and were trying to strike me. "I hate this magic." I complained as I took shelter underneath a tree. "Ah, so that's what was in your dream. It was the magic's representation of you with chaotic magic." I ignored her and crossed my arms. "I knew this magic was no good- good- ACHOO!" This time when I sneezed, the tree turned on fire and since I no longer had my fire, it was actually hurting me. "Ow! Ow! Ow!" I got away from the tree and I tripped over. My face happened to fall face first into a small patch of pollen filled flowers. I hate my life. I kept sneezing again and again, which summoned more strange happenings. A big that could fly, crystal clouds which didn't stay in the air that long, and I was sneeze teleporting so much my head was starting to get dizzy. When I sneezed one last time, a shadow appeared in front of me. "Hey! I'm not suppose to be outside!" It had yellow eyes like Discord's and it disappeared. "Julie are you alright?" Red asked me. "I just sneezed like a hundred times! Yeah I'm peachy!" I shouted angrily. "Well if you're done having a sneeze attack than let's keep-" 'Speak of the devil.' I felt a sneeze coming on and it teleported me somewhere. "I can't do this anymore! I hate not having control of this stupid dumb magic! Ugh!" I shouted again. "Julie just calm down." "Fine." I looked up and saw my surroundings. I was in town behind a building. I got up and walked towards the street. There was a holiday going on. Ponies walked together in pairs of two and they all looked like love sick dogs. "AH! Why did no one tell me there was a holiday going on! And it's about a special somepony! So that's why Discord took you to the tree. It was a date!" Red exclaimed as I stood frozen. "A holiday, about love? I'm going to vomit." I said to myself. "Oh hi Julie." I looked to my right to see that Derpy walking towards me. "Hi Derpy. What's going on?" I asked her. "It's Hearts and Hooves day, don't you know about it?" "No." "Well hopefully Discord could tell you what it's about. Well I have to go see the Doctor." "You're sick?" I asked her. "No, the Doctor is sort of my nickname for my special somepony. His name is Doctor Whooves. Good luck!" 'Shit, this is really is a holiday.' I said in my head. "Oh no wonder no one told you, they must've known you'd hate it." Red said to me. I clenched my hands into fists and opened one of my cargo pockets. I pulled out a feather and tickled my nose, soon, I felt a sneeze coming. I teleported once more and landed in front of Twilight's castle. I found the entrance into the castle and when I reached to open it, Twilight walked out.
"Oh there you are! We were about to go look-" "Why didn't you guys tell me about today?" I asked her. She looked shocked, and then looked guilty. "Well, all of us knew that you didn't like love and all of that mushy stuff. So we just didn't bother telling you. I'm sorry." "Okay, you're forgiven. Where is Discord?" I asked her. She pointed inside the castle. I walked in and found Discord walking towards the entrance. "Where did it telelport you now?" Discord asked me. "Well first just outside, then to Ponyville, and that's when I realized that today is a holiday for a special somepony, and then Red realized you took me on a date." Discord gave me a confused look. "A date? Julie what would give you that idea?" He asked. "Actually it's quite obvious to me. You wanted spend time with Julie, and are always staring at her hair. And I can tell if it's real. It's not like his looks at you weren't just friendly." Red answered for me. "Can we do this after we switch back?" He asked me. "I'll be in my room." I stormed off after that. My blood was boiling.
"Don't be so angry about this. At least you know he cares about you." "No lovers remember? I made that promise years ago. I still have to live up to it." I told Red. She sighed. "Stubborn. But you'll come around. What time is it?" She asked. I looked out my window to see that it was almost sunset. "Well it's sunset, that's all I can say."
KNOCK
"Julie? Can I come in?" "Discord is that you?" I asked. "Yes." "You may come in!" Red said outloud. "Why did you say that?" I asked her. "You need to deal with this head on." Before I could protest even more, Discord walked in. He looked nervous. "Julie, I would like to apologize for earlier. You know for not telling you about our little outing." "Don't make that mistake again." I told him. He walked into my room more and from behind his back he pulled out a small bouquet of red roses. "Oh how sweet- Oh right, can't interrupt." Red said. I took the roses and stared at them. There was a card on it saying sorry. "Thanks, but I'm still mad." I placed the roses on the dresser and turned around. "Can you please leave?" I asked him. He was about to turn around when Red piped up. "You know what, I can't take it anymore! Discord she likes you and she doesn't want to admit defeat!" I blushed. "Is that true Julie?" Discord asked. "No!" "Stop that! You aren't going to ignore it! You can't ignore your feelings!" I covered my ears and sat on the floor. "I can't handle it alright! God even my mind is trying to drive me insane!" "What do you mean by that?" Discord asked me. "I can't handle it, it hurts. My heart would race, I'd freeze, and I feel like I'm empty or something! It scares me and it's been scaring me since the gala! That's why I won't admit defeat, you happy Red?" I asked her. "Very." Discord sat beside me. "That's how you feel? My, and I thought I had complicated feelings." Discord said to me. He laid his lion paw on my head and I blushed. "Can you not?" I asked him. "The first day I met you, you seemed very interesting. I can't help but feel interested in being with you. You should be honored, not everyone finds a special someone who cares this much about them." He said to me. He embraced me and I blushed even more. 'My heart . . . it's hurting again.' I said in my head. 'Don't resist. It's only going to make it worse.' Red's voice echoed in my head. 'How do I not resist . . . how?" "Discord, so it was a date earlier?" I asked him in a stiff tone. "Yes. You know you are really good at making me mushy." He said to me. "Is that all you planned?" I asked him. He let me go and he looked a little embarrassed. "I actually made up a version of that song you sang when we were on the roof. It's not that good though, so I never had anything planned after the tree, but then again this happened." Discord gestured to the wings. "Maybe the song isn't that bad. Can you try to sing it?" I asked him. 'Red you better be right about this or else!' "Well I'm not the best singer but oh well!"
"My dearest,
You do something to me that I cannot explain.
Your smile, your laughter, even your complaints, I cannot help but want to cheer you on.
I want to fly with you, I want to be with you, I want you to know, that I love you.
Even if you fight with me, even if you hate me, I'll still care.
It isn't fair,
that you make me like this,
you control this spirit of chaos,
and so my dearest,
let's go eat cotton candy and chocolate milk,
so what do you say?"
Discord stopped singing and coughed. "That's all I could figure out. I know it's not the best but-" "I liked it." Julie interrupted Discord. "Really?" Discord asked. "Yeah." Julie said. They both looked at each other and a spark flew between them. Discord wrapped his tail around Julie and picked her up to level his head. He kissed her and Julie kissed back. Sparks flew around them, and then . . . poof.
Discord pulled away and gasped. "What?" I asked. Then I saw it, his eyes were normal again, yellow and red. I looked to his wings and they were one feathered and one bat. Discord let me go and I looked to my mirror. No horns, no red eyes, and no wings! I was normal again! "Ah! We're normal! Woohoo!" I shouted in glee. I turned around and hugged Discord. He smiled and I let go. "Well I'll leave you alone for now my dear. Tomorrow is a new day!" Discord said to me. "Okay, good night." With that, Discord left my room and I sat on my bed. "So, I finally came around. Anything to comment on Red?" I asked her. Only silence greeted me. "She must've gone back into my head." I looked to my window and seeing the moon made me feel tired. "Maybe I can get some sleep tonight." I said to myself before getting into bed. I fell asleep instantly.
"Guys, it's all gone." Dark said to the others. "That means Julie's not going to look human anymore is she?" Green asked. "Well at least she can be more accepted being with Discord now." Red tried to be optimistic. "Now what?" Purple asked. "We just need a way home, that's it. Once we go home we turn back." Blue told them. "But how long will that take?" Yellow asked. "I- I don't know."
"Get back here!" Luna shouted as she flew through the air towards the everfree forest. She was chasing after somepony. It had a cloak on and a saddlebag as well. "Get back here with that object!" Luna ordered. Luna soon saw the pony turned around. "You do not know who I am, but I am here to help. Julie's been here too long! She needs to come home now!" "How do you know Julie?" Luna asked the pony. "Don't worry, you'll find out soon!" The pony's wings flapped once and shadows surrounded it. It disappeared before Luna's eyes.
The pony teleported to the tree of harmony and smiled. "Where is it?" The pony started searching around the tree and picked up a small stone. It had a dragon symbol on it. "Perfect."
The Next Morning
"Julie! It's time to wake up!" Twilight said before opening her door. "Five more minutes." She grunted. "Julie it's almost noon! It's about time you get up." Twilight said to her. "Come on Twi, this is the first time in ags I am able to sleep without waking up in the middle of the night! Let me sleep in some more!" Julie whined to Twilight. Julie sat up and when Twilight turned to her, she gasped. "What's wrong?" Julie asked. "Julie . . . you are . . ." Twilight summoned a hand mirror and showed it to Julie. Julie's heart skipped a beat. She looked at her hands and her body. She had hooves, a pony's tail, and her body was one of a pony too. "What?" Julie got off of the bed and ran to the mirror. She saw only the reflections of a purple, leather winged pony with the same hairstyle as her.
Me:Took me forever but I did it!
Julie: I'm a pony now! Great.
PEACE OUT SUCKAS!