Chapter 8
Applejack was furiously knocking on Twilight's door with no response. What is going on, is she not home or something? Applejack was sure that Rainbow has got out of her rope by now and was likely looking for her, what's up with her anyways? Discord must've placed a spell on her, that's the only explanation. So Discord was faking it the whole time? Applejack peeked into the window, no one home.
Just as she was about to knock again, she heard a familiar scream. That scream sounded just like Rarity! Applejack without a second thought immediately ran to Rarity's boutique. She saw the door was open and ran inside.
"What's going on!?" Applejack yelled, seeing streamers all around the place. Pinkie was holding her party cannon while Rarity was hiding behind a chair.
"Look what she did to my dresses!" Rarity whined as she pointed a hoof to the now streamer covered dresses.
"Pinkie, what in tarnation do you think ya'll doing!?" Applejack yelled, seeing how upset Pinkie looked while aiming the party cannon at Rarity. In fact, her mane was straight and she was a little dull colored.
"Sorry, but Discord told me to do this" Pinkie said with a sad tone as she aimed the party cannon at Applejack. Applejack didn't have enough time to react when Pinkie pulled the trigger and a bunch of confetti and streamers shot out, somehow tying her up in the process.
"Sorry" Pinkie apologized. Rarity saw this opportunity and immediately jumped out and kicked the party cannon, making it face directly at Pinkie. She then pulled the string and confetti and streamers shot out, tying up Pinkie.
"Hey that wasn't nice!" Pinkie whined as she began struggling in her streamer rope. Rarity then ran to Applejack and untied her.
"What's going on with Pinkie?" Rarity asked as Applejack got up.
"Discord probably put a spell on her or somethin', he put a spell on Rainbow too" Applejack said. Rarity looked back and saw Pinkie glowing with a dark aura.
"We should probably run" Rarity guessed.
"Right behind you" Applejack agreed as they ran outside, ignoring Pinkie's frustrated growls.
"There you are!" A voice from above said. Applejack and Rarity recognized it as Rainbow's voice.
"Careful, Rainbow is act'n crazy too" Applejack told Rarity. Rainbow swooped down with the rope that she was tied in and tried to grab a hold of Applejack, but Applejack ducked under it right before it reached her.
"Drat!" Rainbow growled as she turned around to try again.
"You've truly gone mad Rainbow!" Rarity yelled in disgust, the response she got was Rainbow swooping down again and barely missing her. They needed to get away from Rainbow before she got them, who knows what Discord had in store for them. Rarity thought to herself a little and smiled.
"I got a plan" Rarity whispered to Applejack.
"When I woke up, I was expecting to be greeted by the voice again but instead I was completely alone, I can't hear it anymore" Discord said, holding his head up with his paws and looking upset. He didn't particularly like the voice in his head, but it was his only company. Luna was patiently listening to the entire story and was surprised to say the least.
"Discord, we did not expect Twilight Sparkle to use a reformation spell on you" Luna admitted, maybe this is one of the reasons Celestia picked Fluttershy instead of the others. Discord's ears went up and he turned to look behind him, Luna did the same.
"Great, looks like they found me" Discord said, turning around to prepare to be yelled at or possibly be turned back into stone. Eventually two figures emerged from the bushes.
"Tia?" Luna said as both Screwball and Celestia appeared. They all looked confused at each other, Screwball and Celestia were wondering why Luna was here while Discord and Luna were wondering what was Celestia doing here.
"Um… Well Dad I got Celestia like you told me too" Screwball said. Discord raised an eyebrow.
"I never told you to get Celestia" Discord said in confusion. Screwball gave her own confused look.
"Yeah you did" Screwball responded.
"I'm pretty sure I didn't" Discord responded.
"I'm not stupid! I know you did!" Screwball yelled.
"No I didn't!" Discord yelled back. Both Luna and Celestia looked amazed at how much they both acted like children, despite having such incredible power.
"Wait a minute… you feel different." Screwball said, her frown immediately disappearing.
"Different? How?" Discord asked.
"It feels like your magic was cut in half" Screwball admitted, earning a surprised look from Discord. Cut in half? He didn't feel any different nor did he look different.
"We noticed this too, although we aren't sure why" Luna said. Celestia also noticed how different Discord's magic felt, especially compared to Screwball's magic. In fact, it felt like Screwball was stronger.
"Maybe you used up your magic placing the spell on us?" Screwball asked. Discord looked even more confused now.
"Spell? What spell?" Discord asked.
"You know, the 'forced ally' spell" Screwball said. Luna looked shocked but Celestia already had guessed that was the spell used on Screwball.
"Oh really? If I did that then I order you to poke yourself in the eye!" Discord said, thinking she wasn't actually under a spell.
"OW!" Screwball yelled as she unwillingly (and at the same time willingly) poked her eyes, making Discord gasp.
"I'm so sorry!" Discord quickly said as he flew over and picked up Screwball.
"Jerk" Screwball mumbled, ignoring Discord as he continued to mumble apologies, he was sounding like Fluttershy at this point.
"Discord, you apologized?" Celestia asked. She knew Twilight placed a spell on Discord, but she was still surprised by Discord's gestures.
"Yup, something definitely wrong" Screwball said, levitating away from Discord.
"Oh right, I order the spell to release from you" Discord recited. A second later, the dark aura that was originally in Screwball seemed to glow for a few seconds, then it made a popping sound and vanished.
"Oh thank chaos!" Screwball said, looking at herself with a smile. Her smile quickly turned into a frown as she levitated to Discord and smacked him behind the head.
"Ow! What was that for?" Discord asked, rubbing the back of his head.
"That's for placing the spell on me in the first place!" Screwball angrily said.
"I told you I didn't do it!" Discord angrily said. Celestia approached Discord and eyed him, as if she was trying to see something.
"Discord, your pupils seem whiter than normal" Celestia noted. Discord would've summoned a mirror to see, but he didn't want to use his chaos magic. At least not yet.
"You're right Tia! You don't think this means that…" Luna began then trailed off. Celestia nodded and looked at her sister.
"I'm afraid so" Celestia said. Both Discord and Screwball looked at the two sisters in confusion.
"What?" Screwball asked. Luna looked at Discord with a stern expression.
"Discord, we fear you were split into two" Luna said.
Twilight was conflicted between having to fight Fluttershy and trying to help her. Fluttershy had definitely something wrong with her, she had a dark aura around her and she just threatened her. What happened? Was this Discord's doing? Even though Fluttershy said Discord placed a spell on her, she was still questioning it, this didn't feel like the normal chaos magic Discord would use.
"I'm sorry" Fluttershy said as the dark aura shot straight up then shot towards Twilight. Luckily she was able to summon a shield right before it hit her, the blast wasn't nearly strong enough to break the shield.
"Fluttershy what are you doing!?" Twilight asked in disbelief. Fluttershy looked like she was on the verge of crying.
"If you come quietly, I won't need to hurt you" Fluttershy barely said above a whisper. Another beam shot up and followed the same pattern as the first one. This one felt stronger though. This magic, it was different than any other magic she's seen before.
"Is Discord making you do this?" Twilight angrily asked, maintaining the shield. The storm around them was getting harsher to the point that it was almost blocking out their voices.
"I'm doing this on my own because Discord wants me to do it" Fluttershy clarified, still looking upset. It was hard to see if she was crying because of the rain. She's never seen this magic before, but it seems very similar to some other type of magic she's red before.
"Fluttershy? What kind of magic is this?" Twilight asked, hoping for any response other than the one she was expecting.
"This is pure chaos Twilight, pure, delightful, chaos" Fluttershy said, a small grin appearing on her face and another chaos beam shooting at Twilight's shield. This time, Twilight could barely keep up the shield, that blast was very strong.
"I'm sorry! I don't know where that came from!" Fluttershy quickly apologized, shaking her head as if trying to get rid of her thoughts. Twilight knew there was only one way to counter chaos, and that was harmony.
"Alright Fluttershy, I surrender" Twilight said as she removed her shield. Fluttershy smiled at this and the dark aura around her disappeared.
"Oh thank chaos" Fluttershy said as she approached Twilight, she didn't like hurting her anyway.
"So… where are we going now?" Twilight asked. She was waiting for the right moment, if she timed this wrong then Fluttershy would likely shoot another beam at her and she'd be defeated.
"I'm taking you to Discord, don't worry though he told me he wouldn't hurt you-" Fluttershy began but was quickly pinned down by Twilight. Before she could even ask what was going on, Twilight's horn glowed and Fluttershy was flooded with all sorts of memories, just like when Discord had corrupted her the first time he was freed.
"I'm sorry about that" Twilight apologized as she stepped off Fluttershy. Fluttershy didn't respond as she continued seeing the memories, it was a strange sensation to her because this time she still remembered the memories but at the same time didn't acknowledge them. Twilight backed up when she saw some dark aura surround Fluttershy.
"Fight it Fluttershy!" Twilight yelled. Fluttershy continued to stare blankly at nothing, like her eyes stopped working. For a whole minute Twilight sat there staring at Fluttershy, she was mumbling to herself a little and the dark aura was growing more intense by the second, as if it was putting up a fight. Then after what seemed like an eternity, to Twilight's relief the dark aura made a swishing sound like a deflated balloon and it disappeared.
"Fluttershy? Are you ok?" Twilight asked while Fluttershy carefully stood up, she looked a bit dizzy.
"I'm fine" Fluttershy responded. Twilight was a bit unsure still.
"Are you still going to…" Twilight began when Fluttershy suddenly gasped.
"Twilight it's horrible! He sent the others to go get Applejack, Rarity, and the Princesses!" Fluttershy quickly informed.
"What!?" Twilight asked in disbelief. Suddenly they both heard slow clapping, the type of clapping that people do to mock others.
"Nice one Twilight Sparkle, you somehow broke my spell" a familiar voice said. Fluttershy did he usual 'eep!' and hid behind Twilight, who at this point turned to see who Fluttershy saw.
"Discord!" Twilight yelled.
Sorry for the long waits, I sort of got caught up in other things. I'll try not to take so long next time. _
On another note, I'll give the 2 Discords nicknames so that it's (somewhat) easy to tell which Discord they're talking too, but for now since they don't know each other yet, they'll both be Discord. xD