Ch.7: Backfire

Discord and Illustre watched as the aura of the antidote arrow flew across Ahuizotl's body and his skunk features vanished/returned to normal. When the aura vanished, Ahuizotl moaned softly before opening his eyes slowly…and they went wide with shock when he saw whom he's kissing. Letting go, he broke the kiss from her when she fell to the floor.

"D-D-Daring Do?!" he cried, stepping back from the surprised Pegasus looking up at him. "Wh-What's going on here?! Why was I kissing you?! Why weren't you resisting?!"

"Ah-Ahuizotl?" she stammered before noticing that his skunk features are gone. "Wh-What—"

"Daring, are you okay?" Discord asked. The two of them then turned to him and Illustre.

"Who the Quetzalcoatl are you muchachos?" Ahuizotl asked.

"Uh, the two who caused this mess," Discord answered, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. See, we shot you with a love arrow while you were fighting Daring, and it made you fall in love with her at first sight. It was suppose to be a little joke, but then you captured her and brought her here to your place to woo her. So…you were just acting a teeny-tiny bit too nutty."

Daring's face fell at those words.

"It was…a joke?" Ahuizotl turned to her to see what he didn't expect to see Daring Do actually do: turning to him with eyes tearing up. Is it possible that…she loves him back…despite their rivalry and snappy comebacks?

"Miss Do…" he started as he stepped towards her…but she already jumped to her feet and galloped out of the room to escape the temple, unable to fly out because of the clamp still on her wings and unable to fight back her tears. She didn't want this to happen, but it did; she fell in love one minute and was left heartbroken the next.

"Miss Do, wait!" he called after her, but she was already gone. He did see them: the tears of sincerity, of love, of heartbreak. She has fallen for him because of that "joke," and now she thinks that he hates him again when deep down, he really did love her for her heroic spirit and adventurous spunk. He then shot Discord and Illustre an enraged glare.

"What were you thinking?!" He then ran out of the room to catch up to Daring, leaving behind the surprised duo.

"Uh, something tells me she's not relieved," Discord said.

"I told you to wait," Illustre groaned with a face-hoof.