"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY!?" yelled the three fillies in unison. The combined voices of the three fillies was very loud. Loud enough that it made Pyxis deaf for a few seconds. "Sorry I asked." Pyxis said as he shook his head, trying to get the hearing back into his ears. "Didn't your parents ever tell you about cutie marks?" asked Sweetie Belle. Pyxis shook his head. "They never have enough time to tell me. Their always working and almost never home." Pyxis said with a frown.
"How come I don't buy that?" asked Scootaloo. "Even if your parents didn't tell you about cutie marks somepony must have told you eventually." Pyxis was beginning to worry. Had this filly saw through his disguise with after one dumb question? He hoped that wasn't the case. The young colt was about to speak, but Apple Bloom interrupted him.
"Come on now Scoots give da poor kid a break. Its not like this is the first time we done heard somepony not knowing a cutie mark is." she said. Scootaloo started to feel bad and apologized for being so uptight about the subject. She even was going to tell Pyxis about cutie marks if it wasn't for a high pitched shrill the came out of nowhere. The four children covered their ears, trying to prevent any further damage to their hearing.
The noise continued to go on for what seemed liked hours, but soon it came to an end. The door to the music shop opened and was violently slammed. A golden colored mare walked away speaking under her breath and muttering words that were not meant for kids to hear.
Scootaloo opened the door to look inside. There were broken pieces of wood on the floor and a few smashed records. A mare with a gray coat and black mane was laying down on her back with her limbs spread out and gazed up at the ceiling. There was another more going through the smashed records. She had a white coat and an electric blue mane. She also wore a pair of sunglasses on her head. "Dude! She broke my first dupstep record! Thats just cruel!" she said with rage. The white colored mare felt a hoof tap on her shoulder. She turned around to see who it was only to see four kids. Three of them she recognized immediately. "Well if it isn't the Cutie Mark Crusaders." she said with a light smile. "Who is your little friend here?" i
"Hi Vinyl. This here is Pyxis. He's new in town." said Sweetie Belle. Pyxis simply waved. His attention was on towards the different string instruments inside the shop. "So what happened?" asked Sweetie Belle.
"Well thats kind of a long story." Vinyl said, rubbing the back of her head
"We came here to get music lessons, but seeing as how things are I think we have enough time. Wouldn't you think girls?" said Sweetie Belle
"Eeyup." responded Scootaloo and Applebloom.
Vinyl sighed as she began to remember about what happened. "Okay so here is how it goes. Octavia and I were just chilling at the shop. I was spinning a few tunes while Octavia was working on her cello. We were waiting to see if anypony had taken the offer of free music lessons, but to our luck nopony did. It was about three o'clock and Tavi wanted to close up shop, though before we could a mare came inside requesting for a music lesson. So while Octavia was giving the lesson I watched. The mare was..... inexperienced. She was starting to get mad too, I mean you could see it plainly as you could see grass. Octavia tried to explain to here that nopony could be great at playing an instrument after the first lesson, but the mare wouldn't listen and threw a major tantrum. She broke one of Octavia's violins and some of my records. I think Octavia snapped too because she hasn't moved from that spot in a while. I don't even think she has blink in over five minutes"
"Wow. Somepony woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning." Scootaloo said
"You can say that again." commented Applebloom.
While everypony else was distracted Pyxis grabbed a viola and a bow. He couldn't use magic because that would give away his disguise so he was with his hooves. Standing on his hind legs he began to play the few notes he knew. The music was short and brief, but while it was playing it was soft and heartwarming. The kind of music that would make anypony calm and nice. When the music was over and Pyxis couldn't think of anymore notes to play he finally noticed his friends and the two mares were staring at him. He shrugged his shoulder's and said "What?".
"Where did you learn to play like that?" asked Octavia. Pyxis thought for a bit before he gave an answer. "I think I learned it from a street performer once. He was very nice." he said with a smile.
Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Applebloom gasped as they got a good look at Pyxis. He had his cutie mark. It was different colored music notes in a circle with a bow in the middle. "Why are you three staring at me?" asked Pyxis. The response he was given were three hooves pointing towards his flank. Pyxis looked down and saw what they were pointing too. "Well what do ya know. So this is what a cutie mark is." Pyxis said.
Octavia pulled Vinyl away from the the kids and starting talking about something. They were speaking so low that the girls and Pyxis could barely hear them. After a couple of minutes of talking the two returned to the group of kids. "Pyxis I would like to ask you something please." said Octavia. Pyxis response was a simple nod of the head. "Pyxis I would like you to be my student in the music arts." said Octavia. "You show great potential and I would hate to see you talents go to waste."
Pyxis was shocked. He had barely been here a day and he was already getting noticed and in a good way. He took a while to give the mare a proper answer before his belt of crystal started to glow. He looked from side to side and finally came up with and answer. "Sure. I'll be your student." he said.
"Hey what about us? What are we Poison Joke?' yelled Scootaloo. There was a tap on her shoulder. She looked back and found Vinyl behind them holding three pairs of shades in her magical grip. She wore a worried smile.
"We haven't forgotten about you three. Octavia talked me into it and I'm willing to give you three another shot at being D.Js. This time I'm going to watch you guys closely." Vinyl said as the three fillies jumped for joy. Vinyl looked as though she just lost an extremely amount of money while her friend Octavia looked pleased to be able to spread her knowledge of music. Pyxis smiled as his crystals glowed. A muffled voice was heard by Pyxis. He looked around to see where it came from, but he found nothing. He merely shook it off as his imagination.