//------------------------------// // Our House, Its in The Middle of The Sky // Story: The Legend of Zepplin Tales in Equestria // by Zeta Dragon //------------------------------// Episode 2 Our house, it’s in the middle of the sky Zepplin the blue alicorn lied in his bed at his new residence in ponyville soundly sleeping and not worrying about his past calamities. “Wake up” a voice pierced Zepplin’s sleep. “I said wake up!” the voice came again. Zepplin jerked out of bed “aah. What is it?” he asked as his gold eyes met with the hawk headed griffon. “What is this?” the griffon asked holding up a receipt. Zepplin, still half asleep, scanned over the piece of paper “uh. I bought a suit” the pony said. “YOU PAID TEN THOUSAND BITS FOR A SUIT!?” shouted the griffon. “Big deal” Zepplin said, “We have like, a billion more.” He smiled looking at the griffon. “You’re missing the point Zepplin! You need to lay low. Who knows if any of these ponies are your fans or if the media knows you’re here.” Hawk exclaimed. “Okay okay. Calm down Hawk. It made that mare happy. She’s never seen that much money in her life and probably won’t again.” Zepplin laid his head back down. Hawk glared at him, and then sighed. “Just please try not to draw attention to yourself.” “Why yes mother!” Zepplin replied sarcastically. The griffon rolled his eyes “Im going out. Please, please, please stay here and try not to do anything that could get you noticed. We really don’t need the stress.” Zepplin sat up in his bed. “Where the hay do you think you’re going?” Hawk smirked. “I got a date.” “THE BUCK!?” exclaimed Zepplin. “Hawk we’ve been here a day, how do you already got a date?” “What can I say? I’m a ladies Griffin. Not to mention she’s a metal groupie and I’m your manager. Haha. You’re a better wingpony then ever when you’re not around.” “Buck you” Zepplin said as he turned over head hitting the pillow. “I’ll be back tonight.” “Yeah yeah I’m fine don’t worry about me” Zepplin said waving him off with his hoof. Hawk left the house as Zepplin fell back to sleep. --- Twilight, along with her friends, sauntered along through the market in Ponyville. Pinkie pie was leading the group as Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy hovered overhead. “Are we there yet?” complained Rainbow Dash. “Almost” Pinkie replied. As they walked along a little further Pinkie stopped and pointed a hoof. The other ponies looked with excitement but saw that she was pointing at nothing. Pinkie then raised her hoof to the sky, and as the others looked up they saw a large home plopped on top of a big fluffy cumulous cloud. “Pinkie, how in tarnation did you get up there?” Applejack asked. “I used a trampoline duh!” remarked Pinkie. “You bounced?” “Yep” “To the sky” “Checkaroonie” Twilight butted in “Look it doesn’t matter. Now we have three flyers and three non-flyers so everypony pick a partner.” Twilight’s horn yielded a purple pink glow as she cast a spell on her three non-flying friends to allow them to walk on the cloud. Each pony selected a non-flyer and carried them up to the front door of the house. As soon as all were safely on the cloud they approached the small mansion. Rarity held a hoof in front of Twilight. “Wait what if he’s home.” To which Rainbow Dash responded “Well I guess will find out.” She pounded on the door so loud half of ponyville must have heard. For good measure she also rang the doorbell several times as it produced a loud chime. “There. Nopony home.” She said as Applejack reared up her back legs and kicked open the front door of the house. “W-w-wait.” Said Fluttershy. “A-are you sure we should be just entering like this? M-M-Maybe we should come back at another time.” “Oh Fluttershy” Twilight said. “Don’t worry we’ll be in and out before anypony notices.” And with that they entered the house. The house was simple on the outside but remarkably fancy on the inside “Well I certainly know where he gets his money.” Rarity said. The couches and chairs were laced with gold, and white swirls upholstered the trim. A cozy sandstone fireplace filled as the centerpiece of the room as a grand red rug stretched out before them welcoming any guests into the home as it draped off down a small step into the dining room. “Alright girls” Twilight announced “Let’s see if we can find out any clues about this pony.” The group fanned out to make sure they cover the whole house. Fluttershy went with Rarity to search the kitchen off to the right of the dining hall. The rest went to search upstairs. The second floor contained a hallway that branched off to several rooms. Applejack and Pinkie Pie took this section of the house. Twilight and Rainbow Dash continued up the stairs until they came to a landing which provided a small hallway leading to two doors. “That’s strange” Twilight said. “What is?” Rainbow answered. “This place seems smaller than the rest of the house. Let’s look around.” Rainbow and Twilight proceeded down the small hallway. Rarity and Fluttershy were finished searching the kitchen and proceeded down the hallway on the opposite side of the dining room. “Well this isn't creepy at all.” Rarity said uncaringly. “Y-y-yeah w-w-what so s-s-scary about a d-d-dark and c-c-c-creepy house?” Fluttershy responded. Rarity, opening the doors, found a small bedroom with a picture of a Hawk headed Griffon on the wall over the bed. “This must be the other who lives here.” Rarity began to look around going through the drawers and closets finding nothing of suspicion. All of a sudden she heard Fluttershy scream in terror “eeep” “Fluttershy, Fluttershy are you alright?” Fluttershy stumbled back from the open door as Rarity arrived to comfort her. “Darling what is it?” “d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d-dragon” Fluttershy barely got the word out. Rarity ran into the room arming her horn with magic as she looked upon a painting of a huge white dragon with golden eyes proudly standing on top of a mountain with a hurricane swirling above him. “Oh Fluttershy it’s just a painting.” Rarity took a deep breath, relieving herself of the fear that an actual dragon was in the house. Pinkie Pie bounced alongside Applejack as the two ventured down the second floor hallway. Not finding anything of interest, the two pressed onward until Pinkie hopped into an iron door at the end of the hallway. “oof” She exclaimed. Applejack remarked “Now what do ya suppose is behind this?” Applejack again raised her hind hoofs and bashed them into the iron door. The door proved too strong and sent Applejack face first into the floor. “oof. ouch. Dag nabbit, that there doors tougher than apple in a pig’s mouth!” “Um Applejack, maybe you should try the door first instead of trying to knock it down.” “Do you really think that…” As she turned the knob with her hoof the door swung open. “oh… well I probably broke the lock off it is all.” Pinkie smiled and they both proceeded in. “What is this stuff?” Pinkie asked as she looked over the contents of the room. There were screens and buttons and switches and a box that said “recordings” next to another black box. “What does that say?” Applejack asked Pinkie who read the word written under a big button on the black box. “PLAY” she said “Play yeah I wanna play ooh ooh what game?” “Pinkie don’t!” exclaimed Applejack, but it was too late Pinkies hoof hit the button and the whole console lit up.The loudest music they ever heard shook the room as Applejack and Pinkie both bounced up and down with the beat both putting their hooves over their ears. “What is this magic” Applejack screamed. “ooh ooh. Good choice box I love the bouncing game!” Pinkie cheerfully said. --- Twilight and Rainbow Dash entered the room on the left side of the top hallway a huge set of double doors swung open, revealing a room with either side lined with books and other odds and ends and a desk at the far back of the room. “Looks like some sort of office.” Twilight said “Yeah but there’s nothing here just some quills and ink.” Rainbow said, examining the desk. The two ponies looked around as Twilight browsed the books. “hmm I have most of these in my library at home, but some of these I’ve never even heard of.” She used her magic to pull one of the books off the shelves and opened it on the desk. The paper was lined and an unknown language of dots and circles with lines blotted the paper. “I can’t even read this.” Said Twilight. “yeah” Rainbow dash said. “I mean look at this one, Stairway to Harmony.” She pulled the book off the top shelf with her hoof, when she heard a click. A secret door opened at the back of the office near the desk unveiling a secret room. “whoa Twilight come check this out!” Dash exclaimed. “It’s a secret room.” Twilight said. “And where there’s a secret room there must be a secret.” Twilight and rainbow walked into the room where another more elaborate desk sat behind it a window. Alongside the walls instead of books there were golden discs and pictures, dozens of pictures, but all of them shared one thing in common. They were all of a Blue Alicorn with golden eyes on a stage in front of hundreds of thousands of ponies. As Twilight and Rainbow Dash studied the Pictures a loud thumping of drums came from downstairs followed by an explosion of music. --- “w-wha-huh” The blue Alicorn awoke to the sound of the music. “oh Hawk must be home hah I wonder how his date went?” He looked out the window and saw the sun shining high in the sky. “huh He said he’d be back at night. Probably got shot down. haha That’s what he gets for not taking me as his wingpony.” He stretched and got up out of bed cocking his head back and forth as his neck cracked. He brushed back his mane with his hooves a couple of times before just shaking his head like a wet dog and letting his hair settle naturally. “Why is there totally AWESOME EPIC MUSIC PLAYING” as he walked out of his bedroom. He stopped shortly after “Well now, why is my office door opened?” he said to himself. As he walked in he gasped “Wha- why is my secret room open?” Rainbow dash was urgently explaining to Twilight “Oh My Gosh I can’t believe it Twilight do you know who this is?” Twilight responded “uhh” Rainbow dash broke in “Only the coolest, most epic, most awesome pony to ever walk Equestria.” “Well Rainbow spit it out about this coolest, most awesome, most epic pony. What’s his name?” “His name is…” “Zepplin” The blue alicorn said standing in the doorway.