//------------------------------// // Chapter 6 // Story: The Barcolt // by ThePizzaDeliveryPony //------------------------------// Somepony loves the barcolt. Somepony loves me… Alex Firewing. Apparently I had an ancestor who was a Pegasus; however, I am no such thing. I’m an average earth pony, stallion. With a black fur and a silver mane however, I appear a little strange. And now I have friends and a marefriend. I wasn’t going out of my way to fall in love… but I have, and life couldn’t get better. … I hope it doesn’t start going downhill. _-_-_ I wake up, laying on a bed with something on top of me. I look down and see a rainbow colored mane on my chest. I smile, and then remember last night and my grin is bigger than Pinkie’s. I lay listing to her breath, and think about how lucky I am. Then I think about how cheesy I am, and wonder why in Equestria she is with an idiot like me. As I think this she wakes up and looks up at me from on my chest. “Why do birds fly?” she asks, then yawns. “Wut?” “For every stupid question you ask, I’ll ask an equally stupid question. So don’t expect an answer.” She smiles at me. Without hesitating I kiss her. “Alright,” I say after breaking the kiss. She climbs off of me, and stretches. I climb out and do the same. After a second or two we leave to go get breakfast. We are an hour out from Ponyville, so we have time. We eat, then return to our car. “You know, I haven’t showered in almost three days,” I say. She facehoofs, “Really? Thanks for reminding me you idiot.” She laughs at my scared expression, than I start laughing too. “Hey before we get to Ponyville, can you gather up some ponies to help unload the alcohol?” She nods and stands up. “I didn’t mean right now.” “We only have a half an hour, I need to go now if we have any hope of getting everyone together in time.” “oh… okay…”Sigh. She laughs and kisses me. “Don’t miss me too much, lovercolt” “Yea, yea…have fun.” I say as she leaves the cabin. _-_-_ I go and sit in the dining car, because I am so bored. A white pony with lightning blue hair walks up and sits down across from me. “How’s it goin? Where’d yer lady friend get off to?” “Oh, she went to get our friends gathered up at the tr… Vinyl?” She gets a confused look on her face. “Do I know you from somewhere?” she asks a little confused. “Oh, not officially. I’m a bartender and I worked at a few bars where you dj-ed in Manehattan.” “Oh! So you’re the barcolt putting a bar in Ponyville?” Wow, how does she know. “I’m movin back out to Ponyville, cause I’m tired of the city. I grew up there so it shouldn’t be a hard move. But, I am out of a job…” Ah, so that’s where this is going. “I could help you out, but the bars not even open yet, and the pay won’t be great.” “Eh, that’s fine. I’m not lookin for money; I just want to keep performing. But I will need something to make a living off of, so I do need whatever you can give…” “I have some money for starting, and we will see where that gets me. Once I know my operation income, then we can talk pay. For right now, we will have to wait. If you sell me some equipment though, I might be able to give you more up front.“ “You got a deal, but I get to play what I want.” Vinyl says with a smile. “Alright, as long as it don’t make my customers run away.” I laugh as her smile wavers. I stick out my hoof, “so it will be nice working with you, my name’s Alex.” “Same here,” she says as she shakes my hoof. _-_-_ The train pulls into the station, and I walk off with Vinyl. We talked about several bars in Manehattan, and what I hope mine will be like. As we step off the train, I look around to see all my friends, and Big Mac, standing there. “This is Vinyl Scratch. She dj-ed a few places I worked, and she is moving to Ponyville. She is gonna be the dj for the bar, and also put in some equipment for me.” They all nod to Vinyl as she says “Yo.” After that she leaves to do her own thing. Pinkie pops up in front of her. She says something I don’t understand and runs off again. I ignore it and walk back to my car. I slide open the door, and hear a gasp from behind me. I turn to see all my friends looking at the car in amazement. “We got tuh unload all uh this?” Applejack asks. Big Mac responds with “eeeyup.” And we set to work. They brought three carts and I help load them. Then I take one and head off to the bar, Applejack and Big Mac taking the others. We leave Fluttershy to guard the liquor. And everyone else follows to help unload the wagons. When I open the door to the bar, I see how it turned out exactly like I wanted. It was how I had dreamed it. Perfection! Twilight comes up to me and hands me a sac. “We used Thirty thousand, there are twenty thousand left.” After getting all the liquor off the train, all my friends sit down at the bar. I am busy taking stock and finding where everything is, sometimes reorganizing. They are holding small conversations as I work. Then I finish… “So, who wants a drink?” I ask as I pull out several different glasses. I reach up on the shelves behind me and bring down some drinks. I realize it is now quiet, and they are all watching me. I pour one drink, starting with the mare on the end, being Fluttershy. I finish, and slid it down to her. She flinches as it reaches her. I don’t stop to see her reaction knowing what is coming next. Next one is Rarity and I almost finish making hers before an audible gasp can be heard. Everypony except me turns to look at Fluttershy. “I-it’s g-good, it’s AMAZING!” is what she says. And there it is. Now I have four ponies asking me for a drink, all except Big Mac. I slide Rarity’s down to her. And she immediately takes a sip. Again the same reaction. “Oh my … this is good. You’re really good at this aren’t you?” I nod and start on the next, then the next, and the next. Finally all except Dash had a drink. I leave the bar, and I hear an audible grunt come from the pony who did not have a drink. She gets off the stool and walks down to me. A reach under the bar and pull out several bottles. I look at her and say “stay here for a sec.”I start pouring bottle after bottle into the glass. What comes out is a rainbow layered drink, and she gasps when she sees what I’ve done. I give it to her, and she takes a sip, and smiles. She says its good, and I tell her “wait till you get to the next layer.” Me and Dash walk back to the others. “So are they good.” Everypony nods. “Good, that is your payment for helping me with the bar, and those aren’t even your favorite drinks.” I laugh as I see everponies’ confused faces. _-_-_ We sit and talk for a while until the mayor finally comes into the bar. I reach under the bar to the mini-fridge and pull out the drink I prepared for her. She looks at me confused. “It was kind of hard to miss the liquor parade wasn’t it?” “Uh… yes Alex, it was. But we need to get the rules down.” “I know, so what might those rules include? I’ll give you my input and you give yours. Twilight, can you take notes?” “Drinking age?” “Eighteen.” “Hours?” “Until two In the morning, start at 3 in the afternoon.” She nods, “will you have a bouncer?” “Don’t plan to; I want to let everyone in, but only serve alcohol to those over eighteen.” She nods again. “Well that’s all I got.” “I plan to have a one drink limit, non alcohol is free, and if I get their drink wrong it’s free.” “Okay, I think that’s all that we need. That was a lot easier than I thought it would be.” Then she took a drink. The look of shock is always funny, but her’s was the best. Dash turns to her. “I know right!?” Everyone laughs, her multi layered drink made her make several of those faces. With that everyone starts to calm down, and people start talking about unimportant things again. I go back to organizing my bar. I make another drink in anticipation and put it in the fridge. It didn’t stay long in the fridge until it was brought back out. I put it in front of an empty stool and go back to the organizing. When the door opens, like I knew it would, I yell, “That drink there is yours.” “Ah you got it right this time.” This made everyone stop talking and look to the white mare at the end of the bar. “The glasses threw him off the first time he ever served me. The second time he got it perfect.” “Ah, so you did recognize me on the train?” “I don’t make a habit of talking to strangers.” She laughed. “So how much am I gonna owe you for the equipment?” “…Five thousand should cover it.” I nod to her. “Okay. Hey Mac, can you help her out. I gotta finish this up here.” Big Mac gave his signature “eeyup,” and left with Vinyl. When the door closed I stood up from behind the bar and pulled a stool out from under my side, and sat on it. I looked around to my friends, and laughed when they just stared at me. “Well, now I’m done. What’s up with you guys?” Silence until I say “here she comes.” All of Ponyville seems to enter the bar, followed by Pinkie, who has a small cannon with her. With a loud bang, my bar is suddenly decorated and everypony runs to try and find a place to hide. I continue to sit at the bar, and then the lights go out. There is a minute of quiet, then the door opens and a white mare, and red stallion walk in. the lights turn on and everyone yells surprise. Pinkie runs up and starts talking quickly to Vinyl. I laugh and then push the stool in, and get ready to start my job. And so it began…the welcome Vinyl Slash party. _-_-_ I didn’t make many drinks, mostly because I hadn’t officially opened the bar yet. I didn’t get paid for the drinks I did make, and didn’t care. I mostly hung out in front of the bar with my friends. Eventually the party began to die off and Vinyl came up to me. “Well I guess I’ll see you tomorrow, to set up the equipment.” “Okay Vinyl, have a good night. See you tomorrow.” I looked to my friends. “Thanks guys for all your help the past few days. I know I have been taking away from your time for selfish reasons. I hope you will come to the grand opening of the bar tomorrow. And sorry Aj I won’t be helping tomorrow.” Aj nodded, sleepily and then got up. “Ah think I’m goin go home, I gotta get up early tomorra’.” “Okay Aj.” Then I thought of something… “Oh yea, haven’t told you guys yet! Me and Dash are dating.” All of my friends smiled, except for Dash who stood up with a serious look on her face, walked over to me, and pushed me to the floor. She gave me a deep kiss, and I knew it was coming. My punishment once again was a playful bite on the tongue. She broke the kiss, and I whispered, “You’re so cruel. How could you do such a thing?” she laughed and stood back up. I looked around at my friends, all now blushing. They all laughed when dash says, “And that’s how I feel about that.” Dash gets up and whispers in my ear. I’ll be waiting upstairs, in your bed. I nod as she leaves. I look around the room and notice it is once again empty, albeit messy, all except my friends. “Well guys, party is over and it’s been a long day, and I am tired and want to go to bed. I hope you’ll come to the party tomorrow.” After that I send off all my friends individually, but may have rushed just a little. After the last is gone, I run upstairs and find Rainbow Dash in a very sexy pose, lying on my bed. I tackle her in a hug and kiss, which she returns full force. …that was another good night…