Shayne POV
Mmm... these are really great apples! I wonder if I like these foods because I'm a pony now. sigh I can't keep this a secret forever now can I? I mean I can't keep this secret with my friends forever. If they ever do find out eventually they'll never trust me again. I... don't know anymore.
"Hey Storm, I'm back!"
"Oh hey Dashie, everything go fine with the Vice?"
"Oh yea, they gave me the ok to go ahead and enjoy myself... they didn't think I was going to do anything serious, but they let me go anyway, so lets make time and make our way to canterlot!" I nodded and just then, we were out the door and on our way to canterlot.
Wow this is actually a really big city! I was walking around the city, but I couldn't keep my eyes off Dash. I was slightly behind her, so maybe she didn't notice, but when I did, I blushed and kept my head faced foward. I couldn't help but glance at her every so often. Eventually we entered a music store. Wait... I don't have money for this! Maybe we're just window shopping. I calmed down and started admiring some of the cellos and violins which were conveniently right next to eachother. "Dashie, uhm why are we here again?" I asked very sheepishly.
"To get yourself some music and instruments of course!" She looked back at me anxiously waiting patiently for me to choose a violin or cello and leave. "Go ahead, I'll pay for it, you can go ahead and grab yourself a cello and violin. I know how much you like instruments!" She smiled at me and I thanked her and gave her a hug. She blushed! Haha!
So with that, I got to work at choosing a cello. But this is different wood and strings, I have no idea which would make the best sound, so I did the next best. I talked to the person at the counter. "Excuse me miss..."
"Why hello there," she eyed me up and down examining my body structure. "well I certainly never seen you around these isles before. Are you a new player?"
"Well actually, I'm quite experienced."
"Hmm, I've never seen a pegasi that enjoyed playing music before, so why are you here? My name is Octavia just for future refrences."
"I was looking foward to buying a cello and violin actually."
"Oh really?" She said in much excitement. "Well as a matter of fact, the cello is my main instrument! And my first too. I did take time off to expertise violin which I have spent a few years learning."
"Me too! My first instrument was the cello, and in my school, we had a orchestra... well not exactly my grade though. I only been in my grade level orchestra for one year before they had to move me to the symphonic orchestra. I quit playing in the orchestra because I felt that they were holding me back. I decided spending all my time at home practicing the cello, until I found myself playing a violin. Before you know it, I was playing both instruments expertly!" I think I was too excited because it felt like I was going on and on about a topic nobody really cared about. I do this too much, but I take advantage of when people listen to me because that rarely happens to me on Earth. "Sorry for rambling on and on. Heheh..."
"Oh no worries, I'm quite interested though, how can someone like you be so talented and not have your own instrument?"
Oh god... got to think of a lie quickly! Uh... I said school orchestra so maybe I can get away with saying that I had permission from the school to use their instruments. That sounds pretty good. "The school gave me permission to borrow their instruments until I graduate."
"Thats nice of them. So how can I help you with your instruments? I'd be glad to give you a discount. IF you join me for a practice after." Wow! I get to play my favorite instruments with an actual professional! I wonder how different it'll be without exactly... having fingers. We'll see.
"Thank you so much! And I'll be glad to join you for a practice session, but can you help out picking a good instrument, in terms of brand and how long it'll last. You know."
"Well this one, the mando brand is the one I use. Its the best one out! I'll be willing to give it to you as a gift though." Wow! That's really thoughtful of her! But I can't do that. Though it'll save Dashie money, but I am paying her back. UGH...
"Thats nice of you, but I can't let you do that, it seems like an awful expensive instrument. I can't let you do that for me."
"Well..." Octavia seemed puzzled trying to think of a solution. Please god let her just let me go! "whens your birthday?"
"July 18th. Why?"
"YES! Just as I hoped! Its nearing your birthday so here's your early present! No ifs ands or buts. Nothing will change my mind." I guess now I can't say no. But someone is definately going to get a good present when her birthday comes around.
"Alright alright... you win. Since the topic is on, whens your birthday? You too Dashie." Dashie let out an eep when she heard her name being called. "April 24th." Replied Dashie in a nervous voice.
"October 15th." replied Octavia, she had a nice black mane and gray coat. Her gray coat was similar to mine, but hers shined in the light, mines just remained a color.
After a while of talking, Dashie soon joined the conversation, and I got a Mandobrand violin, and a Mandobrand cello. She threw in the Mandobrand bows for free, and somehow convinced me to accept it. Dashie bought me a nice shiny black cello and violin case. Octavia and I discussed on the meeting date for our practice session. When everything was decided, we told our new friend that it was time for us to be going. We said our good byes and left. So today, I so far accomplished getting a new cello and violin that are the best brands, and making a new great friend that shares similar interests like me.
"She was a very nice pony now wasn't she Dashie?" She looked angry for some reason. Wait was she? Jealous? Hmm... "Dashie?..."
"Oh yea Stormy?" Stormy again... Somethings up... I'll get to it when we get back to her house.
"Where we heading now?"
"We're going to get some extra electronic stuffs, not sure what yet, but we're heading there." Electronics? Perhaps I was wrong about not being able to use computers. I won't ask just in case.
"Cool." She could tell I was excited about this. It was too obvious already, I had a really big smile on my face. Then I realized, why are we walking when we could be flying? "Hey, why are we walking?"
"Hmm, good question. Well the million bit answer would be that you have two instruments to carry you dumb!" She laughed and it was cute enough for me to let her go, so I joined in with the laughter.
"By the way Storm, you're going to have to play me a song."
"Of course, but let me get used to playing again. I haven't held one of these in forever." Literally!
We continued walking until we came across a large store that read, "Electronics, and Accessories." we walked in and to my amazement, the first thing I noticed was computer discs. There were some stuff like game creator essentials, similar to ones on Earth, just named differently. I walked up to it and started examining it. "Storm, if you need me I'll be over there." She pointed towards the TV's and computers. Yes! Not only can I make random useless junk on the computer, I may be the only one here who knows what the hay he's talking about when it comes to this! I'm so happy! But I can't ask Dashie to get a computer for me after she already bought me a violin and cello. Well, until I get my hands on 'bits' as they call money here, I guess I should look around for some cool stuff.
Well, look at this! It's a computer with a quad-core processor, 48gb ram, and I guess similar to an HP Z600 workstation, but it had a blue aura glowing in the inside. Quite a nice computer I must say. Dashie noticed me in deep concentration as I was studying the computer. "If you really want a computer, I don't mind getting you one." I could easily make some profit off of this, and suprisingly this hunk of a computer, and I mean that in a good way. This is one of the best computers you can get for programming back on Earth. Anyway the prince of this piece of art is only 250 bits. Thats like... amazing! I assume that 1 bit is equal to 1 dollar. So considering this would cost a couple thousand, this is a really good deal! I could also become quite popular with this. "Well, I didn't want to say this, but I know my way around a computer. I know how I can make money from this as well. So if you want to get this for me is up to you."
"Well I guess its settled, I'm going to get a computer of your choice. Which one will it be?" She just enjoys making me pick... well I can easily make the money back from this. So I may as well go all out and get her payed back in a month.
I told her all the requirements and she just nodded her head and started gathering the items. She only picked the best items, like if there were to be a mediocre item that would've been good enough, she would just skip passed it and get the best of that item. I don't know where she's getting all this money, but if its her money... I can't stop her. But I will definately share the money between profits I make. If I make profits, I don't even know how much people even own a computer with internet, which I have also learned that it exists in Equestria.
After another 4 ours of shopping, I got all of my stuff. "Hey Storm, not to seem rude but I have no idea whats good when it comes to electronics, and you seem like the perfect nerd when it comes to it." Haha I saw that coming from the moment she started her sentence! "So what do you think would be a good TV that would fit nicely in the living room?" This should be easy enough. Her living room had a lot of space considering it was basically a minerature castle or a very large fort. So every room in there was spacious. Alright so... "How much money are you willing to spend on the TV?"
"Whatever is the best, it should work... just not too expensive." Well I can understand that, so why is she buying me all this stuff?
It took us another hour to find the perfect size, it was a 42inch by 20 inch. it was a pretty odd formation but it worked. And again, it was suprisingly cheap. It was 500 bits. So we gathered all of the stuff and took it to the counter, she payed, and we left. I can't wait to set up the computer. The pony at the counter told us that they would move all the furniture we got; aka: the TV and cable, and internet. So I guess the computer stuff would have to wait. The gala should be comming up soon, I should take Dashie. She would probably like that. Wait the Princess's are going to be hosting the Gala, maybe I can ask them for tickets to go! 'Princess Celestia? you there?'
This is Luna. How may I assist you?
'When will the Gala be taking place? And no, this isn't a silly question for me. I want to take Dash out to the gala, she's done so much for me already.'
Of course, I'll send a two tickets for you two and the Gala will be hosted on the 20th of July.
'Thank you so much Princess Luna!'
You need not call us Princess, we are your friends, so you may just call us Luna or Celestia. You don't need to be formal, but thank you for acknowledging. I've got to continue with my work now. I'll be seeing you soon! With that we stopped the telepathic connection. I didn't know I could speak to Luna as well, this was new to me, but not suprising at all.
How can I approach Dashie with this. She's been so nice to me though, so I can't just let that go by, I need to do this. As Dashie walked out the door, two Gala tickets appeared in front of my face, and I quickly tucked them under my wing and grabbed my cello and violin then made my way out the door shortly after thanking the clerk at the counter.
How am I going to do this...
*Authors notes: Thanks for reading the Saturday Mare-athon! (thank you taco234) and as spring is edging to the end (at least for me because I go to a public school) updates on week days (excluding fridays) will be every other day. Sorry about that, and the update on Sunday will be late. I have an outing early morning to spend some time with my dad. So without further adieu, I hope you enjoyed these chapters on the Saturday Mare-athon! I've just recently become more organized so I have an idea book that can fit in my pocket. So hopefully things aren't as random anymore. Meh... its not really an idea book when I think of it. Its more of just a way to keep track of names, ages, occupations that occur within this story. Mandobrand=popular musician on youtube. hopefully no copyright will come from this. Meh... curse my laziness to come up with names! Well see you all later!