Deja Discord Part 8

Deja Discord Part 8: Dizzy Memories

A/N: A quick shout out to all the readers out there, thanks for reading and for all the support you've given. Another shout goes to DitzyDooLover for giving me advice, as well as being quite the regular viewer! I love you all~<3

Discord: a documentation of the tyrant rule of the draconequus, By Celestia

"Now that's a book that I have feared to lay eyes upon for quite some time," Discord said, an edge gaining in his tone. He turned to Twilight Sparkle. "How many times have you read it, my dear?"

Twilight looked guilty. She nearly whispered her answer in a Fluttershy-like tone. "Three times..."

Discord hung his head. "Yeah, that's what I thought," he said. Twilight was still unsure of why he hated the book. She walked over to him and asked.

"Why?" He answered, quite dramatically. "Why? Why? I'll tell youWhy. Because that book is a recording of my time as ruler, but not straight from the horse's mouth! Well, actually, it's from the alicorn's mouth, but that's beside the point!

"That book is most certainly biased from Celestia's point of view, and will not show any of the good things I did! She probably made me into some kind of monster, right?! An evil tyrant...freak! Who did nothing but torture everypony who came near him..."

Twilight saw the hurt in Discord's mismatched eyes. Never before had she seen him like this, ready to break down at any moment. He turned to her, tears welling up a bit.

"She... turned me int-into a m-monster, didn't... she?"

Twilight was almost afraid to answer that. Yes, Celestia described Discord as a hideous beast that tortured ponies until they died. And she believed it. When Discord broke free of his prison the first time, Twilight had thought of terrible things to come.

"... Yes, she did," She answered, moisture gathering in her eyes as well. Discord trotted over to the book, staring daggers at it.

"How many copies were made, and who bought them?" He asked. Again, Twi couldn't find the courage to say right away. But that was all Discord needed. "... Everypony owns one, don't they?" Venom dripped in those last words, mixed with deep pain and sadness.

Twilight nodded. Discord sagged sadly, his whole frame seemed to turn gray. Twilight knew what was coming. Tears. Tears were inevitable now. But what happened surprised her.

Discord clenched his eyes shut to stop from crying, and let out a startling scream/whinny. "IT'S NOT FAIR!" He yelled to the sky. "ALL I WANTED WAS TO BE FRIENDS! I NEVER HURT ANYONE! NEVER! IT'S NOT FAIR!" Discord thrashed his hooves around, then finally collapsed to the floor of the library, crying his eyes out.

Twilight couldn't stand it. A grown stallion-Discord, no less- crying like a filly in her library. But it felt different. She felt something for this grown stallion. What was it? Empathy? Forgiveness? ... Love?

Twiligt put that last one out of her head. 'Just what I need', she thought. 'My conscience playing tricks on me.'

Besides this, she couldn't stop herself from doing what she did next. She trotted over to the crying chaos colt, and nuzzled him.

Discord stopped crying, sniffling back a tear. He opened his eyes to see a purple face rubbing gently against his own greyish one.

He wanted to do something chaotic, like drop a pie on her, but he seemed to be transfixed. The warmth of her cheek calmed him down to the point of not even thinking anymore. He simply sat there, nuzzling back.

It was at that moment that Spike decided to come downstairs for a tasty gem snack. What he saw will forever haunt the poor baby dragon's mind.

"Holy guacamole!" He shouted. Twilight and Discord stopped nuzzling and stared at the dragon. He put a claw in his mouth to signify his feelings towards the scene. "Eww! Twi, that's Discord you're nuzzling! I jus- I can- EWWW!" Spike walked to the door. "That's it, I'm off to Rarity's for some normality!" He slammed the door.

Discord and Twilight were left with their thoughts and an awkward feeling. Twilight spoke up first. "Ahem, sorry for doing that. I, uh, don't know what came over me." She apologized. Discord gave her an understanding smile. "'Twas no problem, my dear. I should apologize for being such a cryfilly. There goes my record!" He started to tear up a bit again. "You... promise, not to tell anypony what happened, right?"

Twilight's answer was a warm hug to the former-draconequus, who, hesitantly at first, returned it.