//------------------------------// // Chorus of Events // Story: Tune of A Tortured Heart // by Blitz Stratus //------------------------------// "Mmmm whats that smell?" Treblen mumbled as he rose from his bed. "Uugh why am I still tired?" He groaned pushing his hoofs against his back to crack it. Then he remembered last night. "Oh yeah I raced Hayden and Petunia. I wonder if we can do that again?" He said rubbing the sleep from his eyes. "Treblen breakfast is up." Two voices called in unison which was followed by a mares laughter. Treblen uneasily pushing himself from his bed, stumble his way into the restroom and quickly fixed his maroon tinted mane. After one last look over he made his way out of his room and trotted downstairs. "Good morning Treblen." Hayden cheerfully called from the kitchen. "I hope your hungry cause I made pancakes." He hummed as the smell floated into the room. "Good morning Treblen" A voice called from behind him. "Oh morning Petunia. Uh was that you I heard laughing?" He asked. "No, that wasn't me." She said with a smile. "We have company this morning." "Thank you Hayden for letting me use your restroom, my mane was tangled in knots." The mare said as she made her way into the dining room. "Your welcome Ditzy, anything for a friend." Hayden hummed as he flipped another pancake onto the stove "Oh hi." Ditzy smiled when she saw Treblen. "Thank you for the muffins you gave me yesterday." She said giving a little bow. "You two have met?" Petunia asked raising an eyebrow. "Yeah I run into her when I bought my cello." Treblen answered, sitting down at the oak table. "Yeah but he didn't look so good though." Ditzy said, as she followed suit and sat beside Petunia. "Oh don't worry he always looks like that." Hayden lightly chuckled, as he walk into the room carrying a silver plater stacked high with four different kinds of pancakes. "Now who ordered what again?" He said with a smile as he handed out plates stacked with pancakes. "As long as I get plain old pancakes I'm fine" Treblen thought to himself. "Yes Treblen your cakes are plain old pancakes." Hayden replied to his friends expression. "Could you pass me the syrup Hayden?" "Sure Petunia, just don't drown those raspberry's." Petunia seemed to ignore the last bit and proceed to deposit massive globs of syrup onto her pancakes. "Do you want any syrup Ditzy dear?" Petunia asked, as she finished drowning her pancakes to Haydens dismay. "No I'm trying to watch my figure." She sighed sadly, she did enjoy maple syrup with chocolate chip pancakes. "Why? Its already perfect Ditzy." Hayden interjected. " Y..you really think so?" Ditzy asked her face turning red. "Well of course I do." Hayden said with a smile, his own muzzle showing a little red itself. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Thanks for the yummy food." Ditzy said as she put her mail bags back on her back. "Your welcome." Hayden smiled. "Come back again sometime." He said with a wave as Ditzy took off. "Will do." She said saluting as she flew back to her mail route. "Anyway shall we get on with today." Hayden said as he skipped off the stone deck back to the house. "Well your in a good mood now." Treblen said as he tried to keep paced with his friend. "That's cause it finally came!" Hayden said gleefully. "What did?" "The part I needed duh!" "The part for what?" Hayden stopped jumping up and down and looked at his friend, mischief gleamed in his eyes. "I don't want to ruin the surprise." He said as a smile grew apon his face. "Hayden every time you get that look your up to something." Treblen said nervously backing up. "Treblen I will be tempting only something science and magic have yet to fully remember or understand, but is something I have succeeded at three time before. To the lab Petunia we must do SCIENCE!" Hayden shouted as he bounded his way to the stairs. "In the name of Celestia I hope this ends well." Treblen said shaking his head. "Don't worry Treblen I'll make sure he doesn't do anything stupid." Petunia said as she patted his shoulder. "Yeah keep him from doing that, I'll be in town till he calms down." He said as he made his way to his room to get his wings. "Oh and Treblen I added something to your wings, I hope you like." She said with a wink as she turned and went after Hayden. Treblen didn't see any difference in the wings when he was siting on the stone deck with them, but when he had them on he saw what Petunia had done. Instead of being mechanical metal shining in the morning sun, they were now the same gray hue as his coat. "Oh cool now they look like every other pegasus wings." He said to himself as he took off for Ponyville. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Man this is amazing." Treblen thought as the wind rushed pass his face. "If flying really this fantastic it makes me wonder why Hayden gave up being the captain of the Wonderbolt." He thought as he increased his speed flying even faster. Ponyville came into view and Treblen was slowing down when he saw a chance for some fun. There sitting on a cloud fast asleep was the cyan blue mare, miss going to be Wonderbolt herself, Rainbow Dash. "Oh this is too perfect." He said to himself as he beat his wings hard to pick up speed as he climbed. "But before I wake sleeping beauty I think a change of colors is necessary" He said as he touched the chest plate of the wing harness. There was a small hum as the gem warmed up and then Treblen felt magic shoot across his body. His coat was change from stone grey to oil black as the color washed over his coat like ink. His mane darkened till it was electric blue and white streaks in the shape of large lighting bolts snaked down it and his tail copied his mane. His cutiemark was also change. What was before a base cleft was now a sliver lighting bolt with a electric blue one inside it. "Now its time for some fun." Treblen laughed as he dove at the sleeping Rainbow Dash. His world streaked by faster and faster as he grew closer to his target. His eyes stung and his body began to feel the force of a unfamiliar resistance. He had never done this before only watched but that was about to change. His mind seemed to empty as the earth sped closer and closer, he felt as if his life was ending but as if he was being reborn. Then he felt his body jerk and he began to spin. He strained to turn his head but when he did horror filled his eyes. Sparks shot from the tips of his wings he had overloaded them, they were going to fail. He began to panic. He was moving too fast to stop in time, he was going to crash into the earth. Then a memory flashed In his mind as time seem to slow down. "Hayden what are those?" "These Trebwen are crystals." "What do they do Hayden." He smiled at him." They make light shows." He said as he pushed hard against the sphere causing it to release its energy all at once. Treblen snapped back to reality, the earth ever closer as he began to beat his wings faster. The air pressure increased, pushing harder and harder against him as he went still faster. Then at the last moment he slammed his hooves into the crystals as he hit supersonic. The electrical energy shot off him in five directions swirling as they were grabbed by the air and were slammed back into itself creating a massive sonic boom shredding every cloud that was near, along with the one that Rainbow dash was sleeping on causing her to fall and crash into some pony's roof. "WHO DID THAT!" She scream in anger. "Cirrus Lightning you amateur!" He bellowed. Rainbow Dash's jaw dropped. "But that's impossible he disappeared years and years ago." She said in disbelief "Yet who but myself can pull off the Lightning Lotus." He exclaimed pointing a hoof back to the glowing mass of energy. "But, but, but," Was all she was able to stammer. Cirrus's skills were that of legends. Every pegasus knew of the tales of his abilities, they even made Spitfire and Soarin look like filly's. He only sighed."You waste my time mare. Farewell." He said as he took off again. "Hey wait!" She yelled as she began to chase after him. Dash didn't see that he was hiding in a bush and not rocketing through the clouds. "Wow that was fun." Treblen snickered as he undid his wings. "But boy if Hayden finds out." He said with a laugh. "Anyway enough chaos, time to do stuff." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "What is love, don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no-more." Treblen hummed as he made his way to a tea shop he had seen yesterday. He stepped inside and was hit by sharp sweet fragrances. "Well I think found the right place." he said to himself as he held his nose. The store was a nice little place the only thing wrong with it was the smell. It wasn't bad far from it. It was just overpowering. There seemed be close to a thousand little wooden drawers all with different tags on them telling you what kind of tea was in each covering the wall. "Man is this stuff is making my head throb." "So the regular Vinyl?" The mare behind counter asked a white unicorn in front of her. "Yeah that will be fine." She said rubbing her head. "Boy my head is pounding." "It would help if you didn't drink so much." The amber colored mare said as she scooped tea onto a scale. "Yeah that would probably would help." She said with a force smile. "It normally does." "Yeah but you'd never get to see me." "Oh I think I could manage." The amber colored mare giggled. "Anyway see you soon Gin." Vinyl said as she picked up her tea and began to leave. "Boy is she always like that?" He asked the mare. "About fifty percent of the time she's hung over." She said with a shrug. "So what brings you here to my little shop." she said with a wink. "Other then you, most likely some tea." Treblen said with a smile. "Oh I like you." She said with a laugh. "So what are you looking for honey." "Something with some orange and pomegranate in it." "Ok do you want to have energy or to relax?" She asked as she wheeled a ladder over. "Relaxing would be better he has to much energy as it is." "Oh your buying this for some pony else?" "Yeah a buddy of mine, he's a bit to bouncy as of lately." "Ha ha that's a lot of pony's around here."She said as she pulled open several drawers. "Do you want some zing in it for some kick?" She asked as she turned around. "Sure, Hayden does like spicy food." Treblen said with a chuckle. As soon as he said Hayden's name the mare seemed to almost fall off the ladder. "You know Hayden Nimbus?" She asked with glee in her eyes. "Yeah I've been staying with him for a little while." "I envy you." She said going back to getting the tea ready. "Really so your a fan too?" "Of course I am, after he made all these cute little drawers for my shop." She said waving her free hoof motioning his eyes to all the drawers. "And he only made me pay for a third of them." "Yeah that sounds like something he would do." "Is he always doing stuff like that?" she asked as she climbed down from the ladder. "Most times, but something on this scale he only does it for a very few." "Anyway here and tell Hayden Ginger said hi." She said as she handed him the bag of tea. "I will, but how much is this going to cost?" "Oh for a friend of Hayden its going to be free." "Thank you, and I tell him to stop by and gives you a visit." Treblen said with a wink. He looked back and saw Gingers face go all red at the thought of Hayden coming to visit her store again. "Well it looks like Hayden has plenty of fans." Treblen laughed as he made his way back to the place he left his wings. BOOOOM!! "What the hay." Treblen said as his head shifted toward the mountain. Smoke billowed off the one side of it, and from his view Treblen guested it was from Hayden's lab. "Oh for Celestia's sake Hayden what did you do now." He mumbled angerly as he rushed to put his wings on.