Chapter #6Breakfast with Royalty by: Drakin   Discord gave a toothy smile as he eyed the crystal castle at the edge of Ponyville.
Who better to annoy than the element of Magic?
For some reason Discord just loved to mess with Twilight. Her logic and scientific reasoning was the perfect counterpoint to his unpredictability. With one more bit of a delicious cupcake Discord snapped his fingers and his whole setup vanished from the skies over Ponyville.
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Twilight wasn't having a good morning. It wasn't a bad morning per-sway, but it was just one of those mornings when everything felt like it took five times more effort than usual to accomplish. She'd rolled out of bed with thump, dragged herself to the dresser, grabbed her come and proceeded to brush her messy mane five times before the handle broke.
Grumbling about replacing it, Twilight proceed down the hall, past Spikes room where he was still snoring, down the staircase and across the large dining hall before finally arriving at the kitchen. She could have teleported perhaps but the last time she tried it while feeling so out of it she'd had to apologize to Berry Punch after landing on her Dining Room table during breakfast.
Yawning Twilight looked around the admittedly huge kitchen and tried to decide what to have.
Pancakes sounded good.
She went to the cupboard and pulled out the mix. It took reading the instructions three times before the words sunk in. Bowls and measuring cups and spoons were gathered, the stove top and pan was heating. Cooing oil sat beside it. She needed eggs and milk.
Twilight walked to the fridge opened it, Nodded to Discord, grabbed the eggs and milk. Turned around and... Wait, what?
"You know it's rude to close the door on someone who's just saying hello," Discord huffed appearing next to Twilight with a pop.
Twilight blinked, there was a second or two of silence before her mind kicked into gear. "Oh! Sorry Discord," she apologized, "Just... felt a bit fuzzy this morning."
"Well newsflash Twilight," Discord chuckled ruffling her mane a little with his clawed hand, "You're always a bit fuzzy."
Seeing Twilight huffed again and plod over to her preparations Discord backed off a little but didn't completely let up. "What's got you so run down? Been up late burning the midnight oil?" As if to emphasize this Discord pulled from behind his back a flaming drum of motor oil.
Twilight however remained un-phased as she set to work, "No, if you must know I was up late trying to decide on a new topic of research. I submitted my thesis on the Elements of Harmony last week and got the news yesterday it will be added to the Encyclopedia Equestria as of next printing. So now I want to find a new field of research."
Discord gave an exaggerated yawn, "You are unbelievable Twilight. You are the only pony I've ever seen, save Star Swirl himself, who's been desperate to never stop learning. Even Celestia and Luna learned to take a break from such things after a century or two."
"Well unlike a certain braggart spirit," Twilight replied, "I don't pretend to know everything already."
"Hey I know I don't know about everything," Discord replied with a snort, "I had to learn about Friendship, remember? If I knew about it already it wouldn't have been such an important lesson."
"Fine," Twilight acknowledged as she prepared to mix the ingredients, "But you still act like you know everything."
"That's because I can DO anything," Discord replied with a smirk, "And even if I don't know everything, because I can do anything means eventually I'll learn everything I don't already know."
"I think that's debatable," Twilight replied, "Besides, no creature can do 'everything'. Even in magic there are certain fundamental laws.."
"Twilight Twilight Twilight," Discord smirked as if lecturing a small filly, "Surely you as a student know that's not an absolute. Even in nature, for every 'law' that exists there's an exception. For example 'Mammals don't lay eggs' ...Except for the Platypus and Echidna. 'Mammals maintain body heat all the time' ...Except for the Naked Mole Rats." He poofed a animal into each hand as he spoke and dismissed them just as quickly. "You can thank Fluttershy for teaching me those."
"So you're saying that even magic has exceptions to these laws?" Twilight asked, her minf waking up and now faintly more interested in the discussion over breakfast.
"Yes," Discord replied, "And I'm sure as a student of magic you know one of the biggest ones of both nature and magic. That being 'Matter and energy can neither be created nor destroyed...' "
"...they only change forms.' " Twilight finished from memory, "So what's your point?"
"Watch," Discord smiled and snapped his fingers, a moment later a stack of pancakes complete with butter and syrup appeared.
" "So?" the lavender alicorn asked not quite understanding what Discord was getting at.
"Go ahead and scan it with your magic Twilight," Discord smiled, "You'll find this was not a teleport, this was not me instantly making pancakes from ingredients. This was genuine matter creation."
Twilight had her doubts but scanned the pancakes as instructed and found Discord was shockingly right. She tried two or three different sorts of scans but it was all true. Even down to the atoms these pancakes were only just now created. No lingering spacial distortion of magic for a teleport, no friction from a rapid baking process. All indication showed the pancakes were new matter.
All of them were promptly speared by Discords fork and stuffed in his mouth, making his neck bunch and expand like an accordion briefly as he swallowed them down.
Twilight was speechless for a moment but she found her voice as Discord swallowed the delicious meal, "Chaos magic.. can it actually be studied?"
"Pardon?" Discord asked, wiping his mouth with a napkin before eating it too.
"You cay chaos magic can basically do anything, that it's as wild and unpredictable as you are, but I don't believe that's entirely true," Twilight began pacing a bit as she thought, "You snap your fingers and what you want to happen happens. Ergo there must be a way to control this powerful magic. And if it can be controlled then it can be studied. Maybe even taught."
"Whoa now Twilight," Discord looked a little uneasy, "Are you sure you want to get into this? Chaos magic is not some new toy. It can be dangerous if you're not careful."
"Discord, I've decided, I want my new field of study to be Chaos Magic. Will you assist me?"
The chaos spirit mused at this a bit. On the one clawed hand Twilight wielding chaos magic would be humorous to see and he could indulge in tons of food as 'examples' of his magic. On the other pawed hand if things got out of control he was likely to receive a lecture from Celestia and Fluttershy both. And while Celestia's lectures could put whole armies to sleep, Discord was not keen on hearing another one from Fluttershy.
Still, it was a chance for fun. So why not?
"Alright Twilight," Discord chuckled, snapping his fingers and changing into a professors outfit complete with sweater-vest and tie, "I'll be your teacher in this subject. However there is something we must do first..."
Choice 1: Sign a binding contract. Discord is allowed to teach only one pupil in his entire existence, so only Twilight can be his student. However signing the contract has the side effect of turning Twilight into a Draconequis too for the time being.
Choice 2: Visit Canterlot. Discord doesn't want to begin by going behind Celestia's back. After all if Twilight accidentally turns the moon into cheese it'll be his rump on the line with the Princesses.
Choice 3: Have breakfast. Neither of the two of them have really finished a meal yet and Discord whips something up, perhaps waking and attracting Spike to the kitchen from the smells in the process.
Choice 4: Something else.   indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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