Everypony attending the Ponyville Winter Fair was still having a blast in the party. For Luke, who just had a run-in with Chrysalis right before she was arrested by the royal guards of Canterlot, it was something he will never forget in the coming days of his life. Even if he turns into a senile old man suffering from dementia, he will never forget about this.
Still, he was so glad and happy to have all his closest friends come to his aid in his time of need. Hopefully, that evil Chrysalis won't be bothering him or the others anytime soon, for she will spend hard times in her dungeon cell, and hopefully, for Luke'a sake, she will freeze to death.
Luke enjoyed another cup of hot cocoa with his friends at the long table. "You're majesties." the human remarked to her. Both allicorns looked at him with a warm smile. "Listen, I thank you and the others for helping me against Chrysalis. If you hadn't come and intervene, I would have been a dead human walking right now." Celestia couldn't help but put a gentle, motherly hoof on his shoulder.
"You're quite welcome, sweetie. But I think that Fluttershy deserves your thanks. If not for her, you would definitely wouldn't be here right now." the princess of the sun stated. The human looked over at his closest pony friend again, and smiled at her cute face.
"Oh, I flush." the yellow pegasus said. "Like I have said before, I was only trying to look out for a good friend."
"And I thank you for that."
“I think you all have done a great service for us and all of Equestria by incarcerating Chrysalis where she belongs.” Cadence Said.
“Sure, She has fell from power, but she was still dangerous.” Said Shining Armor. “It8s a good thing I didn’t marry that self-absorbed monster. Boy, would that be a total nightmare.”
Cadence couldn’t help but giggle at what her husband just said. “Oh Shining, sweetie.” She said to him. “She won’t be bothering us, or anypony ever again.” Then she looked at the Human again. Besides, you cut off her horn with that glowing sword.
“My lightsaber? Yeah I know.” Luke said. “But if she gets out of jail, she will come after me , and she might rip my throat out with her sharp teeth and throw my body to the vultures, hyenas, or wolves.”
“Eww.” Said Rainbow Dash. “That's disgusting.”
“And crazy.” Applejack added. “Besides, with that horn off, she might never be able to turn into somepony else ever again. Trust me, you have nothing to worry about.”
“Fair enough.” Luke sighed. “Well, at least if she does come back, i’ll be waiting for her.”
“We all admire your zeal, Luke.” Luna stated. “But me and my sister can assure you that Chrysalis won’t be going anywhere anytime soon, except in Tartarus.”
“Good.”
"So Luke, do you know what you're going to perform on the stage?" Twilight asked the human curiously.
Luke was tapping his chin with his finger, trying to come up with any good suggestions that would fit this whole festival. "Ah, man. I still haven't figured it completely out yet, I just need-" then a sudden thought just came to him, an idea as a matter of fact. "I got it!" he said.
"What's that?" Applejack asked him curiously with a look of hope.
"Well, remember how I couldn't get the song called Scarborough Fair out of my head when I was thinking about Fluttershy? That's what I'm gonna do for the performance." And he promptly got out of the table. "I need to find Octavia and a couple of other ponies in an orchestra so they can help me."
"Ooh, this is going to sound quite promising." said Rarity.
"I'll be right back." and he went in search for Octavia, one of the musical earth ponies in town.
"I wonder how this will sound." Fluttershy remarked.
"I know! I can hardly wait to see what it sounds like and have an orchestra." Pinkie agreed in excitement.
"Yeah, I know it will be so fun to watch." Applejack added. "I just hope that it will be soon. Me and my family are all in the mood to hear some Hearth's Warming carols."
"Eeyup." said Big Mac. "I'm pretty sure that Octavia would be more than glad to whip up a musical group for him." They all clamored with him in agreement. It wouldn't take long for Luke to have a talk with Octavia and get a couple of other ponies with instrumental talents to help him with this performance.
"Oh that sounds rather interesting." said the cello mare with great delight. "It's a rather good thing I know some musical friends of my own, including Lyra."
Hearing that last name made Luke fill himself with more hope that this show will go well. "Oh yeah, I forgot she can play that lyre, hence the name Lyra."
"That's right, Luke." said the mint-green unicorn proudly. "I can also play myself a little guitar as well."
"How can you play a guitar if you only have one toe on each of your foot?"
"Easy." then she used the magic from her horn and created magical fingers from it so it looked like she can actually play a guitar."
"Ah, that's useful." Luke remarked with a smirk. Turning back to Octavia, he asked her. "You sure you can find a few ponies that can be backup minstrels for me?"
"of course. I can find you the best musical ponies to help you out before you can say Orchestra."
She looked for the most talented musical ponies that could back Luke up for the big show. Octavia did sound a little demanding to her cohorts, like a business woman would do to her employees, but the show must go on anyhow. Everypony within the crowd could hardly wait to see Luke do yet another amazing performance, even if he was going to be a little more mellow this time.
Of course, who doesn't like mellow and soothing when it comes to music? In the mean time, Like had an acoustic guitar with him this time instead of his usual electric guitar since he wanted this to fit in the holiday spirit.
All his strings were at a good tone, and he felt more than ready to rock this stage, Hearth’s Warming’s style. He took another sip of his hot cocoa, and wiped his face. “Hey Luke, I wanna say break a leg up there.” The baby dragon said.
“Ah, Thanks, Spike.” The Human remarked kindly. “I’ll be sure that it will go so amazing and awesome that it will make this the best Winter Fair ever.” All of a sudden, Discord appeared out of nowhere, instantly spooking all of them with a jump.
The master of chaos looked conniving and troublesome as ever and floated in midair with an amused look on his face, looking like he was up to no good. “Heeere’s Discord! Hahaha!”
“Oh boy.” Big Mac muttered sarcastically. “That’s all we need.”
“Ah Discord, Just In time.” Luke said. “Come to see my show?”
“You. Know it, my boy.” Discord Said in a sly voice. “I heard that you fought Chrysalis and took her horn off of her head with that lightsaber of yours.”
“Guilty as charged, I have no remorse for that after she tried to kill me and my friends.”
“Ha, i’ve heard, and I must admit, I am quite impressed. You managed to fight her off like that, even in dragon form.”
“Well.... I had some help with me.” And he looked at his closest friends again. “I don’t know what I would do without them.”
“I see, Well, help or no help, you managed to fend her off.” Discord stated. “I honestly could have take on her myself. She would be no match for my amazing powers of chaos and mayhem.”
“Well, Sorry you didn’t get the chance to help us.” Spike said
“I would have, but I had better things to attend to.”
“Like what?” Asked Twilight curiously.
“The usual stuff, make my house dirty, feed the dust bunnies, pull a little innocent pranks on a few ponies I don’t like, and torture Tirek while he’s in Tartarus for all eternity.”
“Ah. Well I would,be careful with Tirek. He might be powerless now, but you’ll never know what he will do.” Twilight remarked.
“Pish-posh, princess.” Discord shrugged. “Have I ever been wrong before? Oh! On second thought, don’t answer that, please.”
Octavia came back with a small group of musical ponies with her already, and Luke smiled in excitement, looking more than ready to perform for everyone in the audience. He, Lyra, and the other musical ponies that will perform prepared themselves for the big recital.
“Alright Luke. You ready for this?” Asked Lyra. “‘Cause I know I am.”
“Totally! This is going to blow everyone’s mind.” Luke said.
“I bet it will. You feeling nervous?”
“Ah. No way. I’ve done this for you guys countless times before.”
“True. Well, we’ll do great, I just know we will.”
“Can not argue with that Lyra.” Octavia agreed. “This song sounds like a fine masterpiece.” And the curtains flew open and the sound of applause was heard. Luke pulled up his electric guitar and stepped in front of the microphone, clearing his throat for all the audience below him.
“Alright everyone. I wish you all a happy Hearth’s Warming, And thank you all for coming to this festival. Okay, here we go.”
The music that started to play sounded ever so beautiful, and peaceful. Snow also began to fall as they were all playing the music.
Octavia’s little minstrel posse were doing excellent with their instruments, along with the Ponyville choir. Lyra was a little bit behind him playing her own guitar with her morphed hooves.
She didn’t really need any help holding the pick, for she had magic to help her with that.
Everypony didn’t quite know what to say, for they were in awe to even murmur to one another.
When the song was over, a tremendous uproar was heard and Luke heard his friends and many other ponies in the audience cheering for him, Lyra, and Octavia. “Thank you all! I love my public.” Said the Human. Then he looked at his friends. “Sorry, I mean our public.”
Lyra and Octavia came up to the stage, standing next to him. Lura was on the left side, and Octavia was on the right, and they all bowed themselves to thank the adoring audience.
“Wow Octavia, that was so amazing!” Said Vinyl Scratch, coming on stage to congratulate her best friend. She shook her friend’s hoof in a rough manner, but still, Octavia was grateful for it either way. “Boy was that soothing to my ears.”
“Even though there weren’t any wubs in it.”
“Oh yeah. I know there is more to music than just wubs, that’s what you told me.”
“Fair enough.” Octavia smirked.
“Yeah, Luke was great.” Lyra Said. “That was quite a song he wrote.”
“Oh, I didn’t write it, mind you.” Luke Said modestly. “It’s an old folk song, a really old folk song that was created hundreds of years ago.”
“Ah, But still, we all did a good job up there.” Lyra Said. “Once again Puke, You never cease to amaze me.”
“Thanks.”
“Oh yes, that guitar of yours is such a magical instrument.” Octavia said. “It’s like me when I play my cello, like it speaks to me.”
Luke flushed. “Ah you guys, you’re making me fluster. I know i’m an awesome musician, but I don’t want to take the credit, you guys were amazing too, Same with the backup mucisians and the chorus.”
They all smiled and thanked Luke for taking one for the team. “Say Luke, you ever consider doing a song with me?”
“Hmmm. That’s very nice of you, Vinyl, but like I said before, I’m not much of a dubstep person.”
“Oh it’s okay, I can understand. And I mean like use your guitar shredding combined with my freaky beats! Maybe with a light show.”
“Like a laser party?”
“Yeah! That sounds better, a laser party while playing together.”
“Hmm. Maybe as long as it involves my guitar and I make it heavy for it, I suppose I can.”
Vinyl Scratch made a smile and said “Sweet! I would love that.”
“Wow Luke, that was so magical, it almost felt like you created the snow to fall.” Fluttershy Said. “I loved it.”
“We loved it.” Said Pip. “You did yet another fantastic job.”
“Thanks Guys.” The Human said with gratitude. “So you guys wanna go look at the petting zoo?”
All of them clamored in agreement and went with him to the tundra petting zoo that contained arctic foxes, snowshoe hares, and other types of animals that lived in the tundra. Celestia, Luna, Cadence, And Shining Armor smiled at how all the friends were doing with the Human.
“That Luke is one of a kind.” Said Shining Armor. “He should perform in the crystal empire stadium.”
“That is a great idea.” Said Candece. “But we really shouldn’t rush him darling, it would be his choice.”
“I know.”