//------------------------------// // Track 7: The Gift of Music // Story: Obsessed with the Beat // by LunaScribbles //------------------------------// We explained to Princess Luna about our human selves and how it is impossible for us to be the ponies that she was looking for. "It's impossible Princess. I'm just a human named Vick! While it'd be an honor to meet the real Vinyl Scratch for me, I never wanted to BE her." I said to the tall alicorn princess. The Princess put her hoof to her chin and thought about the current situation. She then looked at me and then to the other two. Her horn started to glow a bright light. "I'm going to check deep within your memories and see if there's anything I can find. This spell may be able to prove my theory, but using this spell may be a bit risky." "Hey, if it's to find out the truth, I'm willing to sacrifice myself." I said. "I mean, it is just a dream. It's not like it can hurt me really!" I grinned. "Are you sure?" "Yeah, sure! What could possibly go wro--" What a hard day's night... A Saturday night, mind you. Oh brother, it was a hard night... I thought to myself as I started to walk through the empty streets of Manehattan. The city that never sleeps, but apparently nobody is on the streets because they're all watching some play on the old abandoned park made by Coco Pommel. Never expected so many ponies would actually appear to the opening of my party house in Manehattan. Good thing the room below me is some abandoned warehouse. More room for more partying. My ears swiveled as I heard hoofsteps behind me. I quickly turned around, hoping it wasn't some creep trying to get my autograph. I prepared for a punch, but I quickly stopped when it was the familiar grey stallion, holding something behind his back. "Sweet Celestia, Vinyl, you nearly knocked my glasses off!" he chuckled. "Maybe you should call out my name next time before you start sneaking behind me." I gave a devilish smirked. "Anyways, what do you want Neon?" "Well, I've been meaning to ask you... I've been thinking about it a lot, really..." I raised an eyebrow... I know this tone from all of the Rom-Coms I've watched with 'Tavy. Neon then revealed what he was holding behind his back, a bouquet of cobalt blue flowers, like my mane. "Would you go out on a date with me?" What the..? I thought to myself. I shook my head to confirm that what is actually happening is happening right now. "Umm, uhh..?" I stammered nervously, still trying to process everything. "Yes?" he said, also appearing to be as nervous as me. My brain clicked an answer, but not the one I was expecting. "Of course I'd go out on a date with you!" I exclaimed. "I mean, as friends, right?" I mentally facehoofed. That was the worst thing you could say to a person who has feelings for you. "Hehe, yes, of course, why would we have a date that isn't friendly? Heh heh..." his voice deflated a bit. I noticed his ears flopped down. "Yeah... so what date?" he scratched the back of his head with his hoof. "Uhh, you're the one asking me out on a date, shouldn't you be the one to know?" "Oh yeah, whoopsie, silly Neon Lights here." Neon facehoofed. "Of course I should be the one..." he muttered in annoyance. I know my rom-coms well... Being friendzoned and denied a date is the WORST POSSIBLE THING! I needed to restore this. "Don't strain yourself, Lights! Obviously, being both famous music artists, we get a lot of free food! No need for some fancy dinner date to keep us going!" I said as I hugged Neon with one foreleg. "Like, come on! Don't be so formal, if you wanted to hang out with me, all you needed to do was ask!" "But that's just the thing though!" Neon exclaimed. "I don't want to be 'just a friend with you'!" "Neon..." "It's because I've always had a crush on you!" Neon exclaimed, his face filled with a rosy red. "Neon... Well, ever since I met you, I did kind of had a crush on you too." "And that is why this feeling I'm having right now is fa-- wait, what?" "Yeah, Neon. I thought you were probably taken already by some hot and sexy mare already, considering how handsome you are." I complimented, his flush red cheeks become even more red. "And I thought you were lesbian since you always hung out with Octavia." "Okay, not cool." I said seriously, then chuckled. "You seriously thought I was lesbian? Come on Neon Lights!" "Well, that's one of the reasons why I never took any steps, y'know? Except until now, I wanted to just try and have a dinner date with you. I also handpicked out these flowers because I thought you liked the color blue." "Heh, you're a charmer, you know that?" Neon's face blushed with even more red. "You know what? Maybe we'll have that date you've been asking." "R-really!?" Neon nervously stuttered. "Yeah! But I want to choose the place!" "Anything for you, Vinyl!" "A pizza parlor? Really?" Neon, looking not very amused. "What? I'm still the same old Vinyl? Just because I have a coltfriend now, doesn't mean I'll change into some pretty princess mare." I said as I took a bite off the four cheese pizza. Neon chuckled, "Yeah, I guess you're right... Wait, did you just say coltfriend?!" "Come on, Neon! We've hung out for many years now! I think it's safe to say that I trust you enough to say that, you tomato!" "Tomato?!" Neon said as he grabbed a glass full of water and looked at his reflection, seeing his very red face. "Oh Neon, you're such a--" I was interrupted by a loud camera flash. Somepony found us out! And thus began the loud screaming of the several fans. The paper finally knew the whole scoop! People have thought Neon and I have been rivals ever since we rose to fame in the music industry, but in actuality we were pretty good friends. We both studied in the same school, before he moved somewhere else. We then met again at a music school in Canterlot, becoming good friends again until I graduated where we got separated again. I pursued my DJ career while Neon pursued his singing career. Who knew that we would meet again in some festival at Ponyville. From then on, we started hanging out more. I always invited Octavia in our hangouts... I mean, it was a 'friends' hangout, right? Maybe that's where he got that assumption that I was lesbian... That moment when I was alone was to test if I really was interested in him... Wait a minute, where am I? I woke up with beads of sweat coming off of me. "What the-- Where am I?!" confused as to where I was. I looked up and saw the Princess of the night herself in front of me. "P-princess Luna!" I bowed below her. "Vick?" I hear a familiar voice said behind me. "You alright?" "Neon?" I turned to see Neon Lights, "Yeah, I'm alright. Now where are we?" "Don't you remember? You're in a dream?" he said. "Walter and I are in the same dream with you due to the Princess' dream magic or whatever." he said as he pointed towards Coloratura. "Walter? Don't you mean Coloratura?" Coloratura, confused, raised an eyebrow. "Excuse me, what?" I then turned to Neon. "What happened Neon, I can't remember anything after our date at the pizza parlor." "The what!?" he then turned to the Princess. "I thought you told him not to tell about that!" Princess Luna giggled. "Oh, Mister Lights... I didn't tell her anything. Her memories did!" "Wait, if that were the case then..." Neon put a hoof up his chin. "Doesn't that mean Vick's memories are gone?!" he said in a panic. "Neon, what is happening?! Who's Vick?" "You are Vick!" he yelled. "What? I mean, we are dating and all but that's a stupid pet name to give me!" He then put both hooves on my shoulders as he looked at me straight in the eye as he exclaimed, "Victor Camperson, listen to me! You're 19 years old, you work at a convenience store, you study engineering and make some beats on FL Studio Pro! You're obsessed with Vinyl Scratch! You were bullied by a jock during your high school days until I came in to save you!" Wait, what is going on? Another voice spoke up. It sounded like a male voice. "Guys, do you hear that?" I said. "I hear a voice!" The three ponies looked at me with a strange look on their faces. Fuck, I can't control my body! "Your body? Excuse me? I am Vinyl Scratch! I own this body!" Oh god! "I think it's time for you to end the dream, this has gotten way too out of hand!" said Neon. Princess Luna just nodded in agreement as her horn glowed.