Question for you?

What's your darkest fear?

"I could kill them in a second and you could do nothing but watch."

"SHUT UP!"

"You fear that you will lose her."

"SHUT UP!"

Discord stood alone in a whitish, green mist yelling at a unknown voice. If anyone saw him they would think he's crazy because only he could hear the voice.

"You fear that she really doesn't love you."

"I SAID SHUT UP!"

Discord's knees crashed to the ground as his hands dug into his hair. His eyes squeezed shut as sweat dripped onto the cave floor beneath him.

He's been like this ever sense he lost everyone in the darkness and the mist came voicing his deepest fears into his ears. He wasn't the only one hearing their fears spoken to them. The mane 6 and spike heard their fears whispered, spoken, even yelled to them as the mist surrounded them.

"You fear you are not worthy of the title of princess of Friendship. You fear that your friendship isn't real and it's all a lie, fearing it's pity nothing more."

"No stop! Our friendship is true!"

"You fear of losing the farm and losing your families trust if you make one mess up!"

"I won't mess up! I'll do better! I will!"

"You fear that they're laughing at you instead of with you. You fear that they think you're annoying."

"Please! Make it stop!"

"Your fear is that you'll never be a Wonderbolt because you're not good enough!"

"I am good enough! T-they just don't see my p-potential. I just know it..."

"You fear that your talent of dress won't be enough to support your sister and yourself. You fear you dream will never be because they think your dresses are ugly."

"The dresses are fine! You hear me! It's just… me…"

"You spike fear that she doesn't want you as a assistant. You fear you are nothing, that you are a no body."

"I am someone and she cares about me you hear! she does... doesn't she…"

Everyone facing their fear as they were spoken aloud, figuring out if the fear is true or not. As they slowly break, one stood alone as she cried as her fear were spoken making her heartbreak; Fluttershy.

"You fear that he doesn't love you."

Sob

"You fear you're not enough for him and he'll leave you."

sniff

"You fear he'll DIE!"

"please"

"You fear you'll lose him again like last time."

"stop"

'As he slowly died in your arms, his blood soaking your hands and the ground beneath his cold dead body."

sob

"All because of you, he died!"

"PLEASE STOP IT!"

Her cries fell on deaf ears as the dark voice continued his taunt of her fears. They rest were breaking down hearing their fears, their cries and screams going unheard.

"Poor, Poor Discord. You have right to fear these things especially the fear that she doesn't love you. You're right she doesn't love you… SHE FEARS YOU!"

"What!" Discord head shot up like a bullet when hearing this fear stroke him like a arrow to the heart. "Y-you're wrong! She d-does love me… if she didn't she would've said so… she wouldn't say she loves me everyday if she didn't!"

"She fears what you'll do to her if told you that she didn't love you! Face it Discord! All she sees is a MONSTER!"

"ENOUGH!"

Discord Bat and Blue Jay wings burst from his armor, he flapped his wings hard and a huge gust pushed away the mist. It was still dark in the cave so he raised his left hand, a green electric ball appeared, brighten the cave or say room. All around him were the others, all on the ground unconscious and so were their rides.

"What the Hell!? What happened!?" Discord scanned everyone, he then saw that Fluttershy, who was the closest to him, was crying. "Shit, did that mist knock us out and make us hear our fears? It must be a way of testing us or breaking us."

Kneeling down, he lifted Fluttershy's upper body and cradled her. " I'm sorry for doubting your love for me but it just feels like you only loving me because you fear me. I wonder, do you fear me…?" Shaking his head, he got that thought out of his head, "I need to think of waking them up not worrying about 'what ifs'.

He softly woke Fluttershy up by gently shaking her, when that didn't work he kissed her. That worked, her eyes fluttered open like Sleeping Beauty woke up to her prince's kiss but with tears falling down her face.

"Good you're awake, I was worried you wouldn't wake up." He whispered as he wiped the still falling tears off her face. "You must of had a terrible fear for you to cry about it." He said, but she stayed quiet as she stared at him before breaking into a sobbing fit. She buried her face into his armored chest, wrapping her arms around his neck startling him.

"Please don't leave me! I need you! I love you! Don't leave me!" She cried, gripping him harder, sympathy filled his eyes as he wrapped his arms around her back, burying his face into her little pink hair that smelled of strawberry shortcake.

"I'm not going to leave you not now, not ever. I love you too much to leave you. So please don't worry, I'm here with you now and forever."

Slowly her sobs turned to soft sniffling, she lifted her head and kissed him softly. Separating, she look him in the eye with with a delicate smile. "Promise?"

Smiling back he answered in a whispered, "Promise."

Then the couple heard a low groan, they turned towards the sound. Rainbow Dash was waking up, she was leaning on one of her elbow while the other hand was rubbing her forehead.

"That was a fucked up dream." She groaned as she fully sat up.

"Language." Discord said with a dorky grin.

All Rainbow did was flip him off.

"Well someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed." Fluttershy giggled.

"Whatever, but can someone explain what happened and explain why everyone is unconscious?"

"There was a mist that knocked everyone and make them dream of their worst fears, now help us wake everyone." Discord said as he and Fluttershy got up, dusting themselves off.

"Yeah… sure… whatever…"

They woke everyone up in only a few minutes, during the process Discord got punched in the face by Applejack when he was trying to wake her.

"Good now that everyone is up lets go." Discord grumbled rubbing his nose as he walked into a hallway, apparently the watcher tried very hard to make this cave feel like a home.

"HEY! I said I was sorry!"

"I know! Now lets get going! We don't have all day!"

They left the animals near the entrance, when they were knocked out they weren't very far from there. They walked what seemed like hours when really it only been a few minutes. Finally they were met with stone double doors.

With a blast of energy from Discord's hand the doors burst open. The gang looked at him with quirked eyebrows, "What? I always want to do that."Then a dark male voice boomed from the room.

"Ah… So glad you could finally make it."

The band of friends looked into the dark room, suddenly torches on the walls of the room burst to life. The red flames showed a throne like room with a dark figure lazy sitting on the throne itself. They figure dressed like the grim reaper with a white, Victorian, long nose, bird mask and in his hand was a scythe that looked to be made of bone.

"Ready to face your fears?"