Blackness

"W-where am I, w-what happened, fuck my head hurts, come on Dissy remember."

'Discord help!'

"FLUTTERSHY!"

Opening his eyes, he was met with a black void with words and sentence floating around, if you look past the words, there were cracks in the void. "What is this place?"

"Welcome to the space between the lines"

What!? who's there!?

Stepping into view was the one with the glowing, purple eyes but who it was shocked Discord.

"Twilight?"

"Yes. It's me, surprise." Her voice dripping with sarcasm, rolling her eyes looking uninterested by the comment.

"But why…?" His eyes grew wide then filled with anger. "WHY? Why did you hurt one of your friends?! Why are you doing this!? Where is Fluttershy!?"

"I'll answer you in order, why because you broke the rules and made me draw my hand. I'm doing this because only I can, and as for Fluttershy she's over there." She pointed to her left there hung a unconscious Fluttershy.

"This reminds me of my dream or should I say nightmare." He looked above him, there were two chains holding him by his wrist and they went deep into the void.

"Yes, the nightmare was a warning from Luna of what was to come, but you didn't understand it and went and broke the rules." she said snidely, glaring at him.

"You keep mentioning these rules but I don't know what you're talking about?! What rules because I'm pretty sure I never heard of any such rules you're talking about! " He yelled, struggling against the chains.

"Well, of course you wouldn't know them, only princesses know them." She said as he walked back and forth in front of him.

"Well, you mind explaining them?! because I'm lost of what me and Fluttershy had done to do to deserve this!" Making an emphasis on what he said he began to shake himself to make the chains rattle.

"Well, I can't tell you all of it because it is very confusing so I'll break it down for you. We're characters in a story and you guys decide to go against the storyline which is a big crime. So now you must be punished or you can just go back to the original storyline." Twilight spoke with a smooth, calm voice but it didn't take off the edge of the shocking information.

With huge eyes he stared at her, mouth gaping like a fish out of water from the shock of this information.

"We're just characters in a story?"

Purple and yellow eyes turned to the direction of the soft, scared voice. Twilight smiles sweetly, "Oh, welcome back Fluttershy, I was wondering when you were gonna wake up." Twilight walked towards Fluttershy, " How much did you hear?"

"Enough." Fluttershy's eyes began to water.

"Oh no, need to cry Fluttershy." Twilight lifted up her head, "All you have to do is go back to the original storyline and everything will go back to what it was."

"If we're just fucking characters of a story then why the hell does no one know but you princesses!"

"To keep order of course, you two and I are main characters so the rest don't really matter they can have normal lives who can be used sometimes for storyline, while you and I must follow rules."

"So what about spike and the other four what are they!"

"They are also main characters but they follow the rules."

"This makes no sense! How are we suppose to follow these so called rules if we don't even know about them, this is some grand, ass bullshit!"

"It wasn't always this way, you idiot!"

"What…?"

"The day I found the story of the two sisters is the day our story began. Before then, except some parts, our lives weren't controlled by this accursed story! Now, we don't have control of our lives even our true destinies or fates can't happen because some writer wanted to write a story not knowing she was controlling the lives of real beings from another dimension!" After her rant, Twilight worked to catch her breath.

Fluttershy looked at her astonished before speaking, "you don't want to do this? Do you?"

"Of course not, but I don't have a say in it, for I'm only a puppet just like you." She lifted her arms up just right in the light to show thin strings attached to her wrists making it look like she's in the same position as them. "I'm being forced to punish you because I understand the rules of a book better than anybody."

"But you don't need to do this you can fight back besides we still don't understand how we broke a rule." Fluttershy looked up with concern, innocent eyes.

"You still don't get it do you? You broke a rule by falling in love with one another! In the story you're NOT suppose to do that! You're suppose to stay friends not lovers!"

"what… love… is breaking a rule…?"

"YOUR guy's love is against the RULES! Not other people's love just yours, and some other people but that's besides the point! You two are supposed to be friends dammit!"

Yellow and ocean blue met in that moment, at the same time they said, "You love me?"

CRACK

"No! stop! If you keep breaking the rules you'll gonna break the story!"

Discord glared at her "what do you mean, wouldn't that be a good thing?"

"No! Because no one knows what will happen if the story breaks, but some say if you break the story, everyone in the story will disappear, forever." She said solemnly, looking down and sighing, looking back up she continues, "and the ones who broke the rules will be broken and their souls wonder forever alone in a void of nothingness."

"No way..." Shocked, the two chained ones ones had two different reactions. Discord look to the ground with a face of true horror, while Fluttershy began to cry a river, her cries echoed in the void.

"I'll give you guys time to think on it, it's either go back to the story as friends or not and be punished." With that said she vanished into a black mist.

For awhile nothing was said but the cries from Fluttershy, soon that stopped and only turned into soft sniffles. "What are we gonna do discord, if we go back, nothing will be the same again but if we don't and confess we might disappear while our souls are to wander in darkness."

Still looking down with a shadow over his eyes he speaks, "I don't want to live in a world where everything I do is controlled." Looking up, he looks into fluttershy's eyes, "And I don't want to be kept away from the one I love, and be kept just friends when I know we could be so much more."

CRACK

"Discord… oh… Discord… you're right… what kind of life would it be if your entire life was controlled… that wouldn't be living, would it?" Smiling, with new tears going down her face, "It really wouldn't be living if my one true love is kept away from me, I love being your friend but I'll love it more if we could be something more."

CRACK

"Fluttershy whatever happens I want you to know I'll find you again, no matter what I will find you," tears start striking Discord's face.

"Oh discord... and I'll be waiting, forever if I have too." The most biggest, comforting smile spread on her face while her tears kept falling.

"Fluttershy…"

"Discord…"

"I love you"

CRACK

White light filled the dark void, as so did their screams.