Into the spotlight
Yannhoover was not even half the size of Manehatten, but famous for its exotic white beaches, extensive festivals and the most xenophilous pony's you could find in all of Equestria.
It was really a great place to live and even better if you are an performer. All stars had made their first big contract in this town and since there was so many smaller and bigger, as well some wana-be-stars around, designers and talent agents could be found everywhere, looking for the next big deal.
In the north of the town was the show-district, which hold the biggest stadiums around, big enough for hundred of pony's to fit in and enjoy the performance given to them.
Some of those stadiums had roofs, able stay warm inside when the weather was bad or winter came close, others stood open for very same reason - to let the sun in when the weather was good and enabling flying performances to get the necessary space to fly.
Only one stadium at a time would get closed, in order for a quick restoration, keeping them open almost day and knight to hold of shows which tried to out perform one another and the next one was about to start in only a few hours.
The open air stadium was crowded, but not with paying customers, right now there was just a big staff working in order to ready up the place for the fourth coming performance of the day.
A few mares cleaned up the mayor area and seats, while stallions brought in the decoration.
Smaller mixed teams got ready to resupply the snacks and drinks, while behind the stage the costume and make up crew was constantly busy to change last details.
The leading costume mares was quite annoyed right now, one of the stitch-work had got lose on the last performance and nopony had noticed until now.
Prim Hemline was upset as usual when something was not going according to plan.
"Where is my stitch girl!? Bring her here immediately!" she gave orders towards one of the five mares which circled her all the time, ready to carry out every order in a hurry "we got less than an hour to fix this mess, or there wont be time for the make up!"
She took a very short moment to sigh "We never had those kinda problems with the costumes from Ponyville... that pony knew to stitch..." but as times changed, the pony sadly had canceled the contract for some reason - leaving her behind with those amateurs.
Meanwhile a blue pegasus pony checked a last time her room. She had a rainbow colored mane and purple eyes and she wore a black fabric protection above one of her wings
It was quite a day ahead, their biggest show was going on stage and everything had to work as planned, so they could get it on the big tour to other city's after. Filly Delphia, Manehatten and most important Cloudsdale.
She got to her safe and put in the secret combination, but not before checking left and right twice to get extra sure nopony was looking, to store a hoof full more bits into it.
The safe was almost full of bits, even for some rich pony's a noticeable amount. It had taken years to gather all those bits and when they got finally on tour, she would need a bigger safe for sure!
It was a question of months till she could fulfill her dream using those, giving her a thick grin.
The door got shut and she took a deep breath "focus Rainbow... lets get out there and kick some tail!" talking to nopony in particular then herself, as she left the door to get to her star.
"Hey, how s it going? Is Fluttershy ready yet!?"
Prim kinda had a love and hate relation towards Rainbow Dash, for once she liked her to be always on guard – keeping track of what was going on and never afraid to lay hoof on her self to make it happen, or even to step on other ponies hoovetipps for that matter.
She was a lot like her self in this regard, which was also the reason she could not stand her to much. A big show like this needed a pony in charge, it needed herself in charge... to have a mare that was this similar around was just annoying, forcing Prim to keep a close eye on her, so orders would not get mixed up. Also there was always the possibility Rainbow Dash could be after her job, in their kind of business this was a comon practice, making her a dangerous Allie.
"We are on schedule, Mrs. Dash" Prim assured "Why don't you let us do our work?"
"I would love to, but she has to do her warm up soon, what about that?"
Most pony's had burst out into yelling after weeks of arguing with her, but Prim kept it professional.
"Fine Mrs. Dash" turning to her helpers "Featherwing, Rose, you help our star out of the costume... we will fix it, while Mrs. Fluttershy does her warm up." turning to Rainbow again "Anything else?" holding her neutral expression.
"Uhm, no... i guess. I will wait on stage then..." giving a nod to the yellow pegasus which was about to get undressed the fifth time today and tried to be patient about it.
Rainbow got out on the stage, the crew had done a good job to change the scenery from the -Spring Dance- to the -Night Fang- setting – one of their most famous shows was going to replaced today. It was a proud moment for everypony working on this. Putting up a new show was always a risk. A lot of things could go wrong and even if they didn't, the audience just might not liked it at all.
"Ey boys, how s going?"
Greeting the workers cheerful, which always been glad to have her around, since she had a lot nicer way of putting out orders than their other boss "quite good Mrs. D., almost done!" a brown stallion replied as he put some firework charges around the marked area.
"Display, what about the red charges?"
The stallion looked up from his work once more "What about them?"
"What about them!? You almost set her costume on fire you egghead!"
"Oh that,... yea changed the angles on that, Mrs. D.... wont happen again... but, the rest looked great, didn't it?"
"Well, yeah it did... but don't make me kick ur butt" she winked at him, making the worker chuckle as he finished his work.
The yellow pegasus stepped outside, finally undressed except some basic layers of white coat, which should make sure the costume wasn't rubbing to much above her skin while she was doing her high-g performance.
Rainbow noticed her appearance right away, as some of the workers could not help to make a long neck to get a glance on her. Rainbow had to make a sharp whistle sound, using her hooves to get everypony's attention "Ey, chop chop, you get an autograph later!" now turning to Fluttershy.
"So... how is my star feeling?"
"I... i'm fine" giving her only a slight smile.
"You sure!?" she checked "was the costume mare ruff again?"
"No... just nervous."
"Nervous!?" Rainbow laughed "You're doing shows all the time! And you're AMAZING!"
"Thanks..."
The blue pegasus now stepped towards the center of the big stage area, making a box motion while speaking."... and our new show will be at least 20% cooler, than anything those pony's ever have seen!! It will knock them from their hooves!"
"If you say so..."
"Oh come on Fluttershy, whaz up?"
"I ... its just..." as she took a deep breath "we haven't practiced it enough ...i think... maybe".
Now she was a little confused "But, we done nothing else the howl last month!"
"Fluttershy... is it about the finale?"
The yellow pegasus let her head hanging a bit but didn't respond.
"We talked about this, the finale is fine, even without the last trick...... pony's will love it... they will love you...." giving her a soft nudge on the shoulder "like i do"
"Oh. Okay" she said shyly, as she got her smile back and her cheeks going red.
"That's the spirit! ... so lets go trough your warm up, don't want ya strain a wing".
Fluttershy got off the ground and started to spin slow curves and minor loops after a few minutes, while Rainbow gave her some notes from the ground one some of the moves, as she noticed once more an worker was just starring onto the yellow pegasus.
"Ey!" clopping her hoof a few times on the ground "don't make me fly over there buddy!"
The biggest star of the town had just arrived on top his royal candy cotton cloud.
being pretty much a god between mortals was as royal as you could get, so it was just fair to act like it. This town sure would hold the answers he was looking for and it had to hand them over with a curtsy, an apology card and maybe some flowers as well, to make up for it. Three was his lucky number after all and if not, he would just snap and make happen "four" was coming before "three" from this day on.
Of course this time he would try to avoid this minor accident from before to happen again.
The last thing he wanted to happen is to bury his special somepony below a skyscraper... heaven sake. The thought alone made him want to slap himself, summoning a double in front of him, to which he hold his cheek. The double was about to slap him once, as the original avoided the slap and gave him one in return, just to make it disappear after watching the dumb face of his. "Technical it counted" he grinned. Yes he was in the spirit of things... the chaos spirit to be precise.
Since he had not quite a idea where to start and the town still being quite big, he decided to try camouflage once more, ending up in a side street in his former appearance... but it was not quit good enough as he reminded himself. His fur color became a deep brown and his mane was just white, his eyes became clear white with dark red pupils. Simple enough.
Almost he had forgot: a cutiemark was a must have, making it a raining cotton candy cloud.
For his next step he made a giant mirror appear, his reflection just was staying there like on the farm as he made a sharp gesture towards it, like a parent sending his kid to his room.
The reflection rolled his eyes and stepped out of the picture for a moment as a bright flash was to see, just to return as his exact copy, turning him self once 360° to show off it was not cheating.
"If you ruin this Mr., i bring you back to Celestia" and he sure meant it, making the reflection gulp.
Now he just needed one more thing for his little charade... some fool he could borrow for a few minutes. He walked out of the side street to pick the first pony to come by, which turned out to be a simple earth pony. She had bright yellow fur, a mane out of a lighter and darker green tone as well green eyes and a chicken on her flank, walking down the street and starring big eyes on everything around her like a numb nut.
"Hey, you!"
"You mean me?" blushing at his sight. He sure was some attractive stallion! What a great town she had to admit... barely a few hours here and already about to get picked up.
"Yes, you... come over here..."
"Oh, alright Mr. Handsome!" she cheered with a big grin.
"Mr. Handsome?" he thought to him self, yeah he could get used to that.
As the naive mare got around with him on his corner he tapped her head to put her under his spell, making her a always smiling but even more mindless marionette.
"You follow me and do as i say..." making the mare nod silently.
He noticed the pocket on her back, this might would turn out to be useful he figured, but he had to make a slight adjustment to it. He removed all the unnecessary stuff from them into a nearby trashcan and made appear two black flat boxes which fit in perfectly.
"Lets go" he ordered, the mare once again did a mindless nod and followed on his side like a trained dog. The mission was simple enough, find his wife by any non-violent means necessary... and if that wont work. Well he will rethink the options and shake everypony in town until they talk.
Much as the note had given away, if it was right, she would be in this town and perform somewhere. So he just had to check the shows in town and would stumble onto her eventually.
After an hour of search he knew it wasn't that easy as he made it out to be. There have been like a thousand smaller and bigger shows going on, how the heck he was the one to find them?
He stumbled down the main road, as he found something familiar on a sign, it said tourist information on it, so he got him self in right away, but the place was quite crowded and the waiting line long.
Discord clopped his hoof-tip two times on the ground as two big snakes appeared out of thin air in front of him "Oh noes... dangerous snakes!" he said overly dramatic "Better run!"
The pony's spotted the snakes and a panic was caused in ten seconds flat – making the pony's rush out of the information onto the street.
Just as the information mare itself was about to run out, the door began to glow and shut close.
"HELP! I'm trapped!" the mare hammered the door "help!" but it was like the door was mute, no pony outside did care or even notice her hammering.
"What the matter" he asked innocent.
"Snakes there are snakes! She shrieked, while trying to make out the reptilians.
"Cant see any, but you could answer me a tinzy tiny question right?"
"But the snakes!" she still worried, jumping onto her table.
"There are no freaking snakes!" he shouted at her but the mare would not listen.
"I hate snakes, don't let them bite me!"
"Servant!" he shouted to the mare of his and pointed towards the information mare.
His marionette got up to the table, grabbed the mare and shook her a few times, until he said "Enough"
The information mare now was a little more focused than before.
"No snakes here, now sit down, i got a question!"
The blue mare scanned the ground a last time, hung her head about the table corner below it and than slowly got down to sit down on her chair again, checking quickly a last time behind her, before bringing her mane back to shape with a fast move of her hoof.
"Next please, don't cut in line, i will answer your questions soon" rattling of her routine, having an a stupid overly nice smile put up onto her face, still giving short glances onto the ground.
Discord took a look around, there was one else besides the three of them - this girl was even a bigger numb nut than his servant. He had to find somepony with an IQ above an tiny bolder.
He facehooved "Oh Fluttershy, where are you" about to turn to the door to find some other tourist spot, while behind him the mare swung around on her chair, opened a file cabinet without having to search to slap a flier onto his side of the table. "Fluttershy, artistic flier, WingStarDome, next performance in twenty-three minutes... anything else i can do?"
Discord spun around as soon he had heard the name, but wasn't even fully turned when the mare had rattled down those facts.
He ran up to the table and starred at the flier. It was the same photo he had received earlier, but this time with some advertisement below "See the great Fluttershy performing her new show -Night Fangs- , only now in WingStarDome!"
He tapped a few times on the paper "This is today? here? for real? NOW?"
"Fluttershy will perform in twenty-one minutes, artistic flying at the WingStarDome". She repeated her self, almost sounding like a broken record.
"What direction is the dome!? I must see this!"
The mare pointed on a map "Here, ...but this particular show is sold out, if you want me to get cards for next month, or replacement like..." turning around to pick quickly another card out of her cabinet "The great Trix... oh" her only costumers had been vanished.
She shrugged and put the card back into the cabinet... now since there was some space to breath, she could get out her sandwich and take a quick bite she figured, opening the drawer on her table.
"AH! SNAKE!"
Discord and his assistant ran as fast as they could trough the masses of pony's. It was not easy to get passed them, since only half of them got in the right direction, the other half was about to leave the area or crossing paths by walking from dome to dome.
Of course he just could use his magic here, but he didn't know where exactly to teleport and the most other spells would end in mass panic, in which he most likely would lose track of her once again - not to speak about his mind being quite stuck on the second gear.
The dome came in sight and it was just freaking huge. It just had about twelve floors in high, but its diameter was like putting the BigAppleTower flat on the ground a few times ... before it had been blown to pieces.
One third of the front was scattered with entry's, about two dozen in order to handle the fan rush, one more third was there for emergency exits and staff, bringing in and out all the necessary goods to support the dome all around the clock.
The last third was on the back side, having only a hoof full doors for the VIP arrival, leading to a separated part of the dome on the highest ranks, which provided the best view on the show.
Since there was no way to get past the crowd on the front or the security on the sides, he tried to be a little more elegant about it - heading for the back entrance.
He ran past a billboard, a white light flashed behind it and Discord now had a smooth black tuxedo, a black tophat and a red bowtie around his neck. The same happened to his assistant, giving her a white gala-dress, a golden bracelet and crystal hair-slide.
The duo got close to the entrance and slowed down to get in line, only a hand full of pony's.
Some of them tried to argue about to get let in, but get send away in a harsh manner as they walked by them, still complaining in a snobby tone "Unbelievable! I'm a Duke! ... they will hear from my lawyers!".
Discord could not help him self than tapping two times on the ground, making a stone and a mud paddle right in front of the stallion, as tripped and landed face first in the puddle "OH noeess! My beautiful clothes!" making Discord giggle.
"Next!" one of the green bouncer grunted as the awkward duo stepped in front of him.
Two guards stood in front of him, both at least one head bigger, muscular and grumpy.
His colleague, another big black stallion took a close look on the mare, giving a slow accepting nod.
Now he took a close look on the stallion on his side, laying his head a little on the side... "A bowtie?"
The brown stallion acted smooth "Bow-ties are cool!", but failed to impress.
"No they are not..." the stallion said in a bored voice "...please show your cards, Sir"
Discord could make up a card, but he was not just in plain sight, but also still quite clumsy with his hooves and last not but least, quite a smartypants and prepared upfront.
"Uhm... Honey, would you please give him our cards?" putting a confident smile, but the mare to his side didn't move, she just stood there and gave him a blend look.
Right now he kinda missed the mare from the tourist information.
"The pocket, honey..." now the mare moved, reaching inside the elegant silk bag she was wearing, handing over the boxes insides to the bouncers, one each.
"If you try to bribe us..." the guard starred as he opened the box along side his colleague, making their eyes grew wide "... you are welcome!" moving aside at once, after hanging both a VIP-pass around their necks.
Discord still wasn't quite pleased "I want that" pointing on the guards backstage-pass.
"Uhm... i'm not sure i can give you that."
He cheered at the guard "Well, we trade then!" as he tapped on his chest, as suddenly the guard was wearing his bowtie, there for Discord had his backstage pass around his neck.
"Hey!" the guard grunted, but the strange stallion put his hoof on his shoulder, pushing him down on his butt with ease, despite the guard trying to hold against it with all his strength to the point of breaking out in sweat.
"You seen my generous side,... how about the other one?" giving him a devilish smile as something shimmered in his eyes, almost looking like his pupils are burning, before he let go and turned around to get inside, leaving the guards behind in an awkward silence.
The disguised draconequus was now inside and had no more need for his company, leaving her out of his spell.
"OH, where am i....?" as she noticed the stallion next to her "Ohoho.. Mr. Handsome, where are we?" she giggled "uh! Where did this come from!?" now noticing the incredible dress on her, along side the pass "gosh, i'm a VIP? How did this happen!?" jumping up and down in place.
He didn't bother to answer any of those questions and wandered of, making the mare behind him sulk sadly "where you going Mr. Handsome!?" as another stallion noticed her outstanding appearance "Hello Madam, how would you like to see the show with me?"
This stallion was even more handsome than the one before, having a greyish amber fur, a stiled dark gray mane and baby blue eyes – his cutie mark being money bags. He wore a blue suit and a fitting red tie with a money sign on it.
"I would LOVE to!" she squeaked, grabbing on to her new Mr. Handsome, heading towards their private balcony.
Discord walked unimpeded through the dome as he heard the a roaring all around him, than another one followed. The show must been about to start he figured, doubling his speed until he came on a crossing, picking a direction without slowing down and it turned out it was the right one, as he came to a hold sliding when he noticed a bright light on his right.
It was like he had died and the gates of heaven was about to call him. He slowly walked towards the light until he reached the border to the other side - and got stopped.
"Wouu there buddy, what yu think you are doing?"
"If that isn't Rainbow Dash..."
"The one and only! And now tell me where you thought ur going?"
He found him self surprisingly calm in this moment "To Fluttershy"
"What are you? Some groupie of her?" giving him a close look "ain't you a little to old for that?"
He gave a dry laugh ".... maybe. Where is she?"
She got close to him, almost touching noses "You go nowhere buddy, she is on stage ...and if you even THINK about blowing her show, buster... " raising her hoof threatening.
The stage. The stage!
He just dared to turn his head in the direction of the stage and already got a hoof in his flank, sending him hard down to the ground "Told ya!"
This puch wasn't half bad for a regular pony, but he had worse today and compared to that... it was like she had tried to tickle him.
Outside, the sunset was about to happen as the sky turned slowly red, as he noticed somepony in a sharp contrast coming down from above, in a slow long curve... landing about hundred meter from the center.
It was an angel... dressed in a white summer gown which sparkled in theo sunlight like a diamond. She just stood there, while all around three big spotlights came to live, circling over the place in a soft motion to play with her shadow, but avoiding her touch - like a playful wind breeze as the music started to set in and the luminous figure began to move towards the center, which was enlightened by a bright fourth spotlight, waiting for her to step in.
At first there was just a guitar, playing a few lost notes, letting them wander around till they got lost in the distance... then there was a second guitar to be heard, playing along to the first one, guiding the way with a more rhythmic pattern. It was majestic.
The mare moved elegant and carefree towards the middle, smiling towards the audience, but to nopony in specific, like she would enjoy a warm day in the sun, until she stopped in the center of the fourth light, while the other tree spot lights now circled the biggest one around in a steady slow motion.
As suddenly a stallion started to sing with an strong, full voice and the song changed stile in a heartbeat, the guitars got cut off and a piano started to play, spontaneous accompanied with a short drum beat - and on this very beat - right behind the angel, on the edge of the light, landed a giant black bat in an instant, which nopony had seen coming.
The yellow pony spun around in shock, to be horrified by the creature of the night.
---A sight for sore eyes, to the blind would be awful mare-jestic---
Suddenly - Another beat, two more bats came down left and right.
---it would be the most beautiful thing---
more beats, more bats as the pony started to back of almost surrounded by dark ugly creatures all of them half her size.
---that they ever had seen---
Now the pony was surrounded, at least a dozen of drooling and spitting bats around her, spreading their wings and showing their teeth.
Discord tried to get up as the blue pony jumped on his back "Relax, its part of the show!"
So he laid there and watched.
---it would cause such surprise, it would make all of their minds electric!---
The bats jumped forward as the yellow mare rose up into the sky, leaving the bats behind for a second as they also got after her, while the piano music caught up in speed, following her as she spun around the sky, trying to avoid the bats which seemed to be scattered everywhere.
The pony now increased it speed drastic, but the bats got more and more - their count had multiplied since the start and there was no end in sight to their sheir endless raising numbers.
---how could anypony tell them - that some things are not what they seem?---
As the mare managed to get distance between herself and the hunters.
The drum´s gave a flood wave of beats, while the piano kept his stedy speed- keeping the tension, when suddenly the bats swarm started to form into something even more sinister.
The guitars came back with this, giving the music more strength and passion.
---in such disbelief, i thought i was asleep when i met youuuu...---
As the angel turned around and was shocked to see what was after her.
The swarm had formed itself to one single giant bat, starring at the small pegasus, which returned the sight overwhelmed by fear.
---my heart liquefied and i neighed – oh! this must be a dreaammmm...!---
She could not else than trying to get desperately away from it, racing in the first best direction there was, but the monster charged after, slowly closing distance and unable to get shook off her tail, despite her best efforts! Where ever she flew - the bat blocked off her escape way.
It merged in and out of the night sky like a specter - forcing her more than once, to pull hard role to the side, missing it by just a few centimeters, as she struggled more and more to hold her self in the air, but she had to, somehow!
The drum beats just rained down as it would represent her heartbeat, racing in panic
---if i forget to set the alarm and sleep on through the dawn - don't remind me---
The giant bat turned around in a long circle, to merge once more with the shadow of the night, as the mare looked quickly all around herself, since there was no way to tell where it migth would come from, when she suddenly saw the beast coming from below.
The pegasus tried to fly off again... higher and higher towards the stars, but the bat followed into the climb, chasing voracious after her, but she was able to make up some distance, using all her strength in the process, just to become slower again, when her wings just could not hold up anymore...
---i'd rather be dreaming of somepony, than living aloneee!---
... and with this words the pegasus let go and stopped flapping her wings, as she became weightless for a moment, turning backwards into a head first dive, holding her wings tight to her self – racing towards the giant bat which was just a couple hundred meters below her, stretching his monstrous mouth in order to eat the pony, with a single bite.
An heartbeats later, the small pony and the giant bat collided in mid air, as the drums set out and an electric guitar started to play along, while everypony in the dome watched in horror as the giant bat got scattered -in what seems a thousand smaller ones... falling in slow spinning motions to the ground like dead leafs and right in the middle was the yellow pegasus, falling along with them...
but when all hope was lost, her eyes flashed on and she caught her self just in time, before hitting the cold ground...
The spotlights which before had focused on the bat slowly came towards her, to reveal her laying on the ground, not moving.
Discords heart had stopped beating, he didn't even dare to breath, while the piano kept tapping along.
---if you're searching the lines for a point... well, you've probably missed iiit....---
but luckily, the pony now slowly got up - looking exhausted, while breathing heavy..
---there was neeever anything thereee...---
The mare now noticed one bat had dropped right next to her... the one from the very start and like a real angel would, she felt sorry and gave it a closer look.
---...in the first place!---
With this words the bat snapped up in a surprise attack and bit her neck – an expression of pain ran over her face, as she sunk in what seemed a embrace with the bat, while the music started to fade out.
The piano cut of and the drums had stopped a while ago... now there was just a smooth playing guitar to be heard, along with whistling as the spotlights slowly moved away from the pony in the middle, like they had to give up on her... only the big spotlight seemed to stay, but fated slowly away in a pulsating manner... until the lights was gone and the heartbeat got slower... the music now just played by guitars...... single strings got pulled...... fading........ and stopped in darkness.
The draconequus was pale, almost white like his mane, eyes and mouth wide open "Somepony help her!" he yelled, when Rainbow gave him a slap "Shhhh.... now comes the best part!"
He thought about throwing her of like a rodeo horse, but she looked sure about herself; excited about the moment and nothing was hinting, there was the slightest concerned about Fluttershy...
so he observed the stage a few moments longer to make out what was going on, but without the spot lights you could only see vague silhouette on the stage.
Suddenly there was a short beat and a mare singing energetic- powerful and quick.
Something like cellos or so was to be heard, vibrating along her clear voice through the dome into the sky, while to blood red torches got light up near the pegasus, diving the couple into a mysterious and hollow light
---She is a shooting star
Across a midnight sky
Wherever you are
You're gonna see her shy
She is a shooting star
Across a midnight sky
Wherever you are
You're gonna see her fly y yyyy! ---
The spectators leaned forward to make out what was happening, some almost fell of their balcony's, as a techno beat kicked in on the last note and even more torches burst all around the pony into flames like an firewave spreading all over the stage to the edges, while the ones in the middle burned down.
---So hiiiighhhhhhhhhh....! ---
With that the mare spread her wings to full size, slowly rasing them towards the sky.
The mare looked nothing alike anymore!
Her dress had turned from a shining white - into a deep black one, sparkling in the fire around her. It was much tighter and her wings now resembled bat´s one, with clear cuts and slick edges. Her heaven blue round eyes, had turned into blood red... shimmering in the remaining torch light, just to reveal fangs as she made a hiss, lurking towards the audience.
Some of the pony's now just fell shivering of their chairs - a few of the less braver ones ran for the exit.
Right when the singer set in again, she shot into the sky once more, but this time incredible fast.
--- She is a shooting star
Across a midnight sky
Wherever you are
You're gonna see her shy
She is a shooting star
Across a midnight sky
Wherever you are
You're gonna see her flyyy.......! ---
As she gained quickly attitude, bats from everywhere started to spin in onto here once again from all sides, almost like an upside down tornado - and she being the center.
---Across the midnight skyyy....!! ---
As she stopped in mid air, spreading once more her batwings - forcing all bats around to back off, spinning in a circle formed cloud to observe their new queen of the night,
when she suddenly dived down, making the bats follow her along trying to keep up the paste.
---Where were you to hold my hoof
Do the things you had to prove
Yes I need you by my side
When things go crazy ---
The pony spun down, down in a corkscrew motion, performing a single elegant looping, to come in with a sharp turn, when rings started to light up a couple meter is front of her, burning in red, green, blue, yellow – all the color's of the rainbow as she passed trough them, still followed big the swarm.
---I just need to know you care
Guarantee i´ll be the one mare
When I wake up in the night
Will you be my guiding light ---
But less and less bats was able to hold up speed and dropped out and the cloud became thinner and thinner, as she repeated similar maneuvers just a few more times- increasing speed every time she did so, until only a couple dozen of them was left.
---I don't care how far
I'll take a train tonight
Just tell me where you are
And everything's gonna be alright ---
The queen once again gained high, while the bats danced around her in perfect symetry - forming a ring around her, when a few more dropped out to the sides, unable to fly as high she could, when she suddenly bursted into another dive - now only around half a dozen was still on her tail, spinning around her in a circle, while she spun around her own axis, passing trough a snake like parcour of burning and rings, which had different heights – and additional six smaller rings around the main one, making the bats passed through them.
They spun along with her, so on the next obstacle, the bat from the top ring, would now pass the bottom one.
All of this happened in fraction of seconds and nopony dared to blink since he could miss the howl maneuver doing so.
---She is a shooting star
Across the midnight sky
Gonna fly- fly- fly
Just to be with you tonight
She is a shooting star
Across the midnight sky
Gonna fly- fly- fly
Just to be with you tonight ---
pony's starred as the parkour turned around hard as new rings light up only split seconds before she passed them to get in closer and closer distances in between, giving barely enough space to maneuver or even make the smallest mistake, racing trough them in high speed, using up all the kinetic energy she had collected in one swift motion, while pulling strong fast flaps in between wings to retract them while passing through the next.
---She is a shooting star
Across a midnight sky
Wherever you are
You're gonna see her shy
She is a shooting star
Across a midnight sky
Wherever you are
You're gonna see her fly! ---
All of a sudden a last ring flamed up right in front on the edge of the stage just a few meters above the ground as the batqueen and her children passed through – and like the ring had set her on fire, hidden torches on her costume light up – pulling a red carpet of glowing smoke behind her, as she flew so close above her audience´s head, some tried to touch her - but was already gone, before even the first could hope to get his hoof up.
---So high ---
With this she ended her maneuver above the crowd having several g-forces pulling on her body in order to barely pull up in time to avoid the edge of the dome, making several pony's duck down despite being now a couple dozen meter above them.
---She is a shooting star
Across a midnight sky
Wherever you are
You're gonna see her shy
She is a shooting star
Across a midnight sky
Wherever you are
You're gonna see her flyyy ---
Now the bats started to glow like her Queen, but in six different color's. Yellow, blue, pink, orange, purple, white, splitting up to unfold like a flower, while gaining hight along with her, creating a miracle of color's on the night sky.
---Across the midnight skyyy...!" ---
With this she performed a long loop above the stadium, when bat after bat dived towards her as she was about to perform an wide upwards spin. The bats barely missed, shooting straight past her,– and out of sight into the night behind, as she rose to the sky, leaving behind the colors traces, which now looked like a star pattern from below... build out of the six color's.
---She is a shooting star
Across a midnight sky
Wherever you are
You're gonna see her shy
She is a shooting star
Across a midnight sky
Wherever you are
You're gonna see her flyyyy....! ---
Then an explosion sparked up behind her back, bright as the shinning fullmoon, the black mare right in front of its center, presenting her self to the world with raised hooves and spread wings, like an sinister demon!
Than the mare started to flap her wings for one last time to gain altitude and this also was the moment when Rainbow Dash knew there was something going wrong.
Right now Fluttershy was supposed to land in an dramatic pose - and after some more pyrotechnics... end the show.
Instead she flew higher by the second, to the point being almost out of sight.
"Ohno ... no... ... not again." Rainbow almost whispered, while she took a few steps away from him, still starring towards the firmament.
Discord blinked the first time in ten minutes straight and quickly got up on his hooves "What!?".
Suddenly the blue pegasus had a panic attack "Somepony stop her! Stop her! Oh Gosh, Cellestia please!" she shouted in all directions, but nopony payed any attention - all eyes starred towards the sky, while the techno beat was hammering trough the stadium.
He had no idea, what suddenly had gotten into her "Why!? Whats the matter? That's part of the show, right!?"
Grabbed him tight and shook him hard as she could "NO! Nonono!" just to pushing him away again, pointing hoof onto the rising star "She s trying a Sonic Rainboom!"
"A what!? Can she even do that!?"
"I...... i don't know......! "
---So highhh...!---
Both turned simultaneously to the stage, being witness of something, which only would take a few seconds to happen.
Only the moon in her back made her still visible, hoovering several kilometers above the ground, pulling down in a dive so fast, it seemed impossible such a small pony - or anypony for that matter could perform.
Her speed doubled, tripled, quadrupled and flew right off the chart!
A mach-cone formed around her, as she passed several hundred meters in a heartbeat, but her flight became unstable just another split second later, while her speed still increased.
The spotlights practical could not keep up with this black lightning coming down to earth, as suddenly one of her wings relented - than the other one and she started to tumble in a spinning motion towards the ground.
The music abruptly cut out off, when the white unicorn DJ had noticed.
The pony's on their seats had no idea, if that was meant to be real or part of the show again and just sat there like froze, starring - while she rushed down towards death.
Rainbow just stuttered, chewing her hooves "Omigoshomigoshomigoshomigosh!"
An massive flash threw Rainbow to the ground and Discord appeared in the middle of the stage - right below her, to jump up, when another bright flash of light turned him mid-jump into his real form - flying towards Fluttershy, catching her carefully less than a hundred meters before she would had hit the ground... only so he could come down to earth and land slowly on it...
He sat the small pony carefully down right in front of him and gave her a caring, long lasting hug, as the audience was still silenced.
There was not a single sound. Not a cough, no wind, or whispering. Nothing.
Minutes passed by like this, before a single pair of hooves started to clop, which belonged to an blue pegasus, sitting on the border of the stage, tearful... but happy.
Then suddenly the rest of the crowed got nuts, cheering, shouting and stomping on the floor, to celebrate this amazing show they just had seen!
Stallions and Mares whistled and threw roses on the stage, love oaths and praise screamed towards them in a storm of fanatic cheering, reaching almost an deafening levels, as the praise got reinforced by the construction of the dome, to resound it from the walls, towards the sky, to be heard miles away.
Only Discord didn't hear anything.
He didn't notice a single moment except this, as the yellow mare slowly lifted her head.
One of her contact lenses had fallen out and a blue and a red eye gave him the only look, he cared about in the howl world.
She was simply enchanting...
He could not help himself, to tap her with his fingertip onto the nose, using a small potion of magic to restore her former self.
The pony started to glow and shimmer from top to bottom like a million firefly's danced around her... so, when the cocoon of light faded away and she wore once again her white gown... the plastic fangs had been gone and both eyes been sky-blue once again, shimmering in the spotlight.
Her wings also had returned to normal shape and her mane was just as he remembered, with a slight smell of spring flowers.
The pony's in the crowd got silent once again for a moment, as Fluttershy now turned slowly around, reaching out her hoof towards Discord, to lead him next to her.
She bowed down and he followed her example as the crowd now started to clop with ther hooves excited and more flowers got thrown onto the stage, while once again cheering.
Discord caugh one of them - it was a white Lilith, which he put into her hair with a skillful motion, like he had done this a hundred times, showing a warm grin.
Both bowed once more and once more but the praises didn't stop.
The stage couple enjoyed every second of this together, as he had another idea, giving her a small wink - as he rose his free griffon claw and a pink energyball appeared in it.
It got bigger and bigger until it was about half a diameter, then he let go and it floated slowly up into the sky like a balloon, until it was a few hundred meters above them, just to burst like a bubble, having a similar effect like firework would, bathing the sky in his lovely pink tone to reveal the shape of a pegasus making a smooth flying motion.
Fluttershy watched this big eyed and gasped at its beauty, until the light vanished.
They both bowed for a last time and slowly left the stage towards Rainbow Dash, which just stood there with wide open mouth "THAT – WAS – AMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING!"
Running up to Fluttershy as soon she was behind the courtain to jump at her, but a lot more carefully than on Discord, giving her the greatest hug she ever had given anypony "THIS WAS......... Super-Ultra-Extreme-'Awesomazing!" blowing her howl breath in a single, long word "Sweet Celestia!............ don't EVER do that again!" shuttering tears of glee.
Fluttershy didn't quite know what to answer on that than "... oh... okay..."
Rainbow let go of her and sat down, her body still was shaking from the adrenaline, while Fluttershy just sat there shyly and blushed since her landing. The fans still yelled her name in the background, like a chore, as well asking for a encore, like they couldn't get enough.
"Please, don't ever do that again..." Rainbow started once more, having calmed down a little "I don't want you to end up like me! Or worse!"
This made the yellow pegasus lose her smile.
"You are the single most important pony there is!" giving her a slap with her hoof "you stupid nut!" as she shattered tears, while Discord had snapped forward for a second when she had hit her.
Fluttershy didn't seem angry, as the mark appeared on her cheek, letting hang down her head "I.. I´m sorry ..really... i ....just thought...."
"You thought!? If it wasn't for ... him!" pointing on what ever it was "you been mush on the stage! This ain't worth a stupid show! Do you want get killed!?"
She didn't try to talk back on her, she knew she was right. They had tried this last trick so often but they never had got it to work. Of course back then there was a lot security provisions taken to make it save.
Trying it tonight was a big mistake, she had let her self get carried away... absolute unprofessional... and given the amount time they had worked for this moment - it had been the most stupid thing she could had done.
Discord wanted to spend some solace to her, he could not help to see her sad.
"Honey are you alright!?"
Fluttershy rose her head to this familiar voice, as her man wrapped himself around her.
The stallion was white with a touch of cyan in his fur, a blue mane, green eyes and on his flank a cloud which got split by a lightning strike.
"You are amazing!" he sad proudly right before he gave her a soft kiss on the mouth, making her blush. Then the stallion noticed something "Oh, whats with ur cheek?" carefully pushing her head a bit to the side.
"Uhm, that? ... n-nothing really... i... must have hit a bat ... i guess..."
Rainbow had to bite on her tongue, in order to hold back on what she wanted to say, while her hooves scratched over the floor, to leave deep marks in the wood.
Then a young filly stumbled two the couple "Muuum!", receiving a hug from the two of them "you have been so super! Totally fast and beautiful and scary and..." the filly started to trip over its own words, trying to express all this emotions, but it was still really young and barely found the right ones.
The filly it self had the same fur as his father, but a pink mane and deep green eyes, but no cutie mark at this point.
Then this weird thing standing around caught the foals eye "Mumm, who´s that uncle?"
Discord just collapsed.