Screwball's Journey

Chapter 5: Revenge?

"Daddy, wouldn't mommy be mad?"

"Probably turn me into stone a- I mean, yeah, I'll get into big trouble with your mother and aunts."

"He can't even admit he was turned to stone." Gastly snapped

"Daddy? What does 'turned to stone' mean?"

"Discord, should I start teaching this?" Cheerlie asked

"Why weren't you doing anything about this?" Discord snapped

"I saw you standing there, I didn't think I needed to do anything."

"That's no excuse!!!"

"But it is, you can't expect me to do something about their quarrel, I let them solve it by themselves, or was trying. You needn't step in, they could have resolved it."

"You know that when she gets upset her magic goes haywire."

"I do know, but, Cinnamon, Jack, Skyla, and Dusk, could have easily calmed her down."

"How?"

"I would have sent them outside." Discord narrowed his eyes, still holding on to his daughter.

"Why don't the six of you go outside." Discord picked up Screwball, the other four following.

"You held that out for a long time Screw, you almost defeated him!" Cinnamon exclaimed.

"Gast, where have I see him before?"

"Sweetie Belle?" Discord asked

"And Applebloom and Scootaloo." Applebloom told the draconequus.

"Haven't seen the three of you in months, how has your tour been going?"

"Great! Thanks for asking! Oh and Sweetie, to answer your question, it's Diamond Tiara." Scootaloo to the unicorn

"Right, picking on our adopted niece like that." Sweetie Belle snarled.

"Diamond Tiara's younger brother looks like he'll be just as bad as she was." Applebloom remarked

"Don't forget about his twin brother App." Jack corrected, "though, he's one of my good friends, he doesn't have a bad bone in his body, unless his brother encourages it."

"So, Gast is that brown colt with dark purple hair?" Screwball asked.

"Yeah, App is the colt I sit next to, the silver one with back hair, cutiemark is the tablet." Cinnamon explained

"He didn't laugh at me when Gast said that Discord was my dad."

"I kind of told him, he knew there was a new filly coming and I explained you to him, he looked at you with admiration, not hidden fear. All of the foals who laughed, they were scared of you too." Dusk explained,"he's on my good side. Let's just hope he stays there." Discord looked at the colt, bewildered at what he just heard.

"He wasn't scared of me?"

"No, well, he was, until I told him about you, and now, I think he accepts you."

"Really?"

"Would I lie to my favorite uncle?"

"Prolly not kid, but just making sure." Screwball sniffed as she heard the tone of her father's voice, it sounded as if he likes Dusk. Yet she was only 5, she had a small school pony crush on him. Daddy will kill him if I told him, Kib, knowing his 3-year-old magic, can kill him unintentionally. At least he can come to school in two years and join my class. She sighed, then gently closed her eyes in her dad's grasp.