Harmonic Gift From The Stars

by DTavs exe


Chapter 32: The Supper Club

 At the School of Friendship, Professor Tester was giving her class to a multitude of creatures, “so to summarise, electrical resistance of an object is a measure of its opposition to the flow of electric current. The inverse quantity is electrical conductance and is the ease with which an electric current passes.”

Gallus groaned while quickly taking notes, “how did you convince us to take this class Tink?”

“Oh come on G, this is awesome, imagine being able to understand the very rules of nature through technology, I find it exciting.”

“I agree, I’m learning a lot of new things on how nature behaves,” Ocellus said without moving her face from the teacher.

“That’s because you two are a couple of nerds, look behind us, Smolder is drooling on her desk, Sandbar and Yona are just staring at the front but I bet they are not even here anymore.”

Tinker Claw looked at his friends, they were staring with blank eyes,  then he saw her hippogriff friend next to Gallus, “Silverstream seems to be doing fine taking notes.”

“Don’t kid yourself, I’ve seen this before, she is drawing something.”

“Mister Claw, Mister Goldbeak, is there something you want to share with the whole class?”

“Um… no Professor Tester...” Gallus replied while Tinker shook his head.

“Mister Claw, remember that when we are in school hours, you are a student and I’m the professor, don’t expect preferential treatment.”

“No Professor Tester,” he replied.

“And you Mister Goldbeak, I know that you and your friends are celebrities after helping save Equestria from Tirek, Chrysalis and Cozy Glow, but don’t expect preferential treatment either, I expect all of you to study just as much as everycreature else.”

“Yes Professor Tester.”

“Good, now who can tell me what are the names of the units for electrical resistance and electrical conductance?” only Tinker Claw and Ocellus raised their arms, “only two? Ok, Miss Ocellus.”

“They are Ohms and Siemens, Professor Tester.”

“Heh heh, siemens,” Gallus whispered to himself.

“Good girl, now who can tell me who named them?” again only the same two students raised their arms, Tube Tester sighed, “alright, Mister Claw.”

“It was a griffon scientist named George Volts.”

“Good boy,” at that moment the bell rang signaling the end of the school day, waking Smolder and breaking Yona’s and Sandbar’s trance, everycreature picked their stuff and headed to the exit, “Ok, don’t forget to read chapters six to ten and make an essay of at least five hundred words on uses of conductance and resistance for next week.”

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The group walked through the halls of the faculty, “seriously Tink, how can your mom be so hot and so boring at the same time?”

“G, please don’t call my mom hot, it’s weird.”

“Yeah man, it’s not cool,” added Sandbar.

“Are you kidding, look at her, if every female minotaur is half as hot as her, I think I’ll move to Laburynthos soon.”

“Well, you probably will have to, once you get expelled for failing my mom’s subjects, birdbrain,” Tinker said while softly punching the griffon on the shoulder. Gallus was the first creature to approach him and introduce him to his other friends, they quickly became friends themselves and liked to mess with each other.

“I won’t fail, because you will help me pass them, tuna breath.”

“Yeah right, every time the group gets together to study you end up sleeping or sneaking out to peek at my mom you perv… besides I don’t like tuna like a pleb, I prefer salmon.”

“Well, in that case I’ll have to use my charm to pass, don’t worry I’ll be a good dad for you, kitten!” Gallus rubbed Tinker Claw’s head with his talon while the group laughed.

“Boy!” a yell came from behind them, Tinker recognized the voice and the tone, since the school day was over, Tube Tester stopped addressing her son as a student.

“Hey mom, what is it?”

“You are heading to that crystal clubhouse on the Everfree with your friends, right?”

“Yes mom, why?”

“I was making sure, I’ll be late today since the entire staff will have a reunion, there is stew in the kitchen, don’t burn anything, ok?”

“Ok mom,” he saluted with his claw watching how his mother left while Smolder flew in front of him with a devious smile on her face, “um… what?”

“Your mom!” yelled Smolder.

“Huh, rude,” Tinker Claw replied pushing the dragon.

“No I mean, your mom is not going to be at the castle, nopony will be at the castle with all the staff in here, it will be all alone.”

“So?... oh.”

“Yeah, instead of going to the clubhouse, show us that alien stuff you’re studying,” Smolder happily flapped her wings hovering over Tinker.

“That sounds super-duper, I wanna watch that too Tinker,” Silverstream said while grabbing the boy by the shoulders.

“Yona also wants to see alien stuff.”

“If Yona wants to go so do I,” Sandbar said.

Tinker Claw accidentally let them know about the music box on one of their study sessions, “listen guys, I shouldn’t have told you about it, I was instructed to keep it secret and ask Starlight or my mom if I could show it to somecreature else and my mom treasures that thing like a dragon protecting her hoard… um no offense Smolder.”

“None taken,” she replied

“Come on, Tink, I also wanna go watch that stuff.”

“I dunno G, I could get in trouble if we get found out.”

“What about Ocellus?” Gallus pointed at the startled changeling.

“What about her?”

“She also wants to check it out, you are nerds the both of you, you must understand how it feels to not be able to study something you want to,” Gallus grabbed Ocellus from the torso and lifted her in front of Tinker Claw, “you want to study that stuff, don’t you Ocellus?”

“Um… yeah… kinda.”

“You see? Are you going to be so cruel to starve the mind of this young egghead from the knowledge she craves?” Gallus dramatically said while pushing Ocellus closer to Tinker, she put on a nervous smile waving her hoof.

There were few who could see such cuteness and not be moved, those with a willpower worthy of gods and titans, the same who could see death itself to the eyes and laugh, not experiencing mental or physical discomfort. Warriors forged In the Heat of battle. Gone through the storm and come out risen as a phoenix, stronger than any force in the Universe. Luckily Tinker Claw wasn’t one of them, “good grief! FINE! Let’s go before Ocellus gives me diabetes,” a collective YAY was heard from his friends and everycreature headed to the Castle of Friendship.

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Five teenagers arrived at the castle since Yona and Sandbar stayed behind to pick the snacks at Sugarcube Corner, “man, I hope they don’t take too long, if we get found out, my mom is going to have my hide.” 

“Relax Tink, what’s the worst that could happen?”

“Have you ever heard the phrase there’s more than one way to skin a cat?”

“Yeah I think I have.”

“Well, that was made by minotaurs and I don’t know you, but I like my skin and don’t want to lose it.”

Ocellus took a book from her saddlebag, “but Tinker, that phrase just means that there are many ways to accomplish something, it has nothing to do with skinning an actual cat.”

“Yeah? Well it still gives me the chills,” Tinker opened the door to the studio where the music box rested on the crystal pedestal, “ok, this is the thing, Twilight named it Music Box because it plays music and some other stuff,” a collective ‘oooh’ came from his friends, “we should begin, I don’t wanna be here when Starlight or my mom comes home.”

Silverstream flew in front of Tinker Claw, “wait, aren’t we going to wait for Yona and Sandbar?”

Smolder took off the ground, “I’ll check outside, maybe they are close,” she flew outside through the window and came back immediately, “they are just outside.”

The group waited a few seconds and the door opened letting the pony and yak inside, “Yona sorry, Yona couldn’t decide what to bring.”

“Yeah don’t worry about it, here this is the music box, with this button on the middle of the machine you can activate it, here look,” Tinker pressed the button and a male voice came from the device.

This is Walter J. Shortman, personal log number… forty six.

Today was a really weird day, it’s been twenty years since we lost Venice to the waters and apparently the water level is going down, who knows maybe in a few decades it will be habitable again. 

In other news Suzy started dating the new guy from accounting, and is so sad. The last one lasted only three months, it always ends the same, she gets depressed and crashes at my place for a week, it wouldn’t be that bad if I wouldn’t end up sleeping on the sofa HAHAHA. I just wish I wasn’t so cowardly to… nevermind, end recording.

“I thought you said it played music Tink.”

“Nope, I said it ALSO plays music, once in a while we hear logs from that guy, apparently he is the one who programmed all the music on this machine, still dunno why, ok I suppose you all get a turn, how do you wanna do this?”

Silverstream raised her talon, “OH OH, why don’t we do it in alphabetic order?” 

“Seems fair, everycreature agrees?” all of them nodded, “ok, I guess that makes Gallus the first one.”

The griffon approached the music box and pressed the button and returned to his seat, a bombastic tune began playing followed by drums and guitars.

“Heh, that’s neat, I like the electric guitar, this is not bad, Tink, these aliens know their music.”

“Yeah friend Tinker, this song reminds Yona of mother’s lullaby.”

Tinker stared at Yona, “I shouldn’t be surprised by that but still.”

“Hmm, interesting thought, a hero not being defeated by just making him die, probably they mean that the memory of said hero will inspire those who leave behind even after death, but who could this Proletios character be?”

“I dunno Ocellus, probably an alien leader of some sort.”

An eagle screech could be heard and the group turned to see Gallus, he blushed and rolled his eyes, “um… sorry, that chorus gave me the chills and I couldn’t help but scream,” his friends giggled at the embarrassed griffin.

“Hey guys, that’s funny, I thought they were talking about magic but now they talk about robots.”

“You are right Silverstream, hey Tinker I thought you said this aliens didn’t have magic.”

“Well that’s what we thought, they haven’t mentioned magic as an actual thing on any song just as a feeling, maybe this song isn’t talking seriously.”

Another mighty eagle scream could be heard in the room, “COME ON G! That was next to my ear!”

“Sorry Tink, I couldn’t help it again, I really like this song.”

“Ouch man, well to be honest, I don’t think they are being serious on this song, it sounds like something from a movie or maybe comics, WOW that’s an epic voice there, almost wanna join his cause.”

“WOAH, now that’s what I call a guitar solo, you know, Griffons invented the electric guitar solo.”

“Really Gallus?”

“Yeah, the claws make it easier to tip the strings,” Gallus said while moving his claws and the song ended.

“Um.. I think it is my turn now, can I?”

“Sure Ocellus, just press the button in the middle.” 

The changeling pressed the button and a loud sound startled her, she returned to her spot.

Ocellus sat on the pillow but for some reason her wings didn’t go back into her elytrons, instead they kept flapping, not strong enough to lift her but it still made a buzzing sound.

“This one is funny, oh hey Ocellus, something wrong with your wings?”

“Oh, not really, I hadn’t noticed they didn't go back inside, thanks,” she tucked her wings but after a few seconds they went back out and began buzzing again.

“Dudes, this one doesn’t seem to have lyrics at all,” Sandbar said while grabbing another cookie and eating it.

“You are right, as far as I remember on the records, not every song has lyrics, this one seems an example… hey Ocellus, your wings are back out again.”

“Really? Oh, sorry, I think  the song made me want to flutter like a bee.”

“Hmm weird, but now that you mention it, the song kinda sounds like a bunch of bees, doesn’t it Tink?”

“Yeah it does, hey let’s call it something like that, what about the flutter of the bees?”

“Or maybe the buzzing of the wasps?”

Everyone laughed “how about the stings of the bumblebees?”

“Yona thinks that song fits the name flight of the bumblebee.

Everyone agreed so they decided to name it that.

“Dude, I think it’s over, I believe it’s my turn now,” Sandbar pressed the button and a funky tone came out of the music box.

“Chunky? As in chunk?” 

As the music continued it finally hit the first verse, “bwahahahaha, wow Sandbar, these aliens hit the spot with you.”

“Why? What do you mean Gallus? I don’t get it.”

The group stared at Sandbar then to Yona who was next to the earth pony, and they nodded  in agreement to themselves.

“Yona doesn’t get it either, please explain.”

“Oh nothing nothing, just saying stuff hehehe.”

“But that’s an interesting theory, does the machine have any sort of technology that let’s it pick a song specially for the one that presses the button, Tinker?”

“Well, that’s a bit complicated, Ocellus, you see, we have disassembled the machine several times and my mom made a bunch of charts, we recognize many components and how they work, but there are still many of them that we don’t recognize, we believe that they are the ones that actually process the information and the storage device, but there are others that we have no idea or how they were programmed, so… maybe.”

“Well, I can say that I like the song man, it’s neat,” Sandbar said while he picked another cookie but instead of eating it, he gave it to Yona who happily ate it from Sandbar’s hoof.

“Heh, you would be the one to like it Moto Moto,” Gallus let out a snicker.

“What?”

“Nothing… Moto Moto.”

“You know that’s not my name right, Gallus?”

“What? I didn’t say it was, did I… Moto Moto?”

“No I guess you didn’t, hey the song is over, who’s turn is it now?”

“MINE IT’S MINE!” jumper the peppy hippogriff who flew to the music box almost hitting it, something that made Tinker Claw’s lungs almost come out of his mouth, “oops, heehee, my bad,” she pressed the button and someone began talking.

“Oh Hello mister alien!” Silverstream replied to the singer, gaining a facepalm from her friends, “oh such a darling song, it makes me happy too!” she said while clapping her claws.

Gallus laughed covering his beak, “well, your theory is gaining strength, that song totally fits Silverstream.”

“Yeah man, but I think I like the part where he is not bothered by anything.”

“Yona agrees with Sandbar Sandbar.”

“Eh… what are you doing Yona?”

“What do you mean, Sandbar Sandbar.”

“That, you are saying my name twice.”

“Well since other alien in song liked his name said twice, Yona thought Sandbar Sandbar would like it too.”

Sandbar Sandbar blushed, “um… well… yeah I like it.”

“It seems that song also fits Yona since she only does what she likes.”

“Yeah Yona likes it, makes Yona want to dance, oh it’s over… Yona thinks it is friend Smolder’s turn.”

“Yeah, if what you guys say it’s true, I’ll get the most awesome song of all.”

“In your dreams Smolder, mine was the first and most awesome.”

“Wanna bet Birdy?”

“Ok, yeah maybe I want to, what do you have on you?”

“Nothing really, what do YOU have?”

“Nothing, how about this, if you like the song then I’ll share a secret and if you don’t then you will have to share a secret, how about it?”

“Yeah I like that,” they both spit on their claws then shook them together, Smolder flew to the music box and pressed the button, no one expected what came from it.

Smolder eyes went wide, almost choking on some juice she was drinking,’Oh crap, oh crap oh crap, that piece is sublime, the strings are beautifully coordinated, wait is that a harpsichord I’m hearing? The conductor went all out with this piece... I think it's in D no it’s on G major, OH MAN!! I can’t say I like it or I’ll look all frou frou, oh crap oh crap, but I can’t say I don’t like it or Ocellus will call my bluff she hates when I lie…’  

Gallus put on a grin , “oh yeah, I guess I win, there is no way in tartarus Smolder likes something so sophisticated.”

The dragoness let out a sigh of relief but snapped out of it immediately, “wait, what do you mean by that Gallus,” she said angered by his remark, “are you saying I’m too dumb to like something sophisticated like this?” Smolder grabbed Gallus from the skin of his chest.

Gallus began sweating, “n-no, I-I-I mean is that, um, that the song is not uh… oh gosh sorry, I didn’t mean it, please don’t burn my feathers again!”

Smolder let out smoke from her nostrils, “good,” she turned to see her friend Ocellus who looked a bit angry about something, Smolder immediately knew what was bothering the changeling and sighed defeated, “and for the record, I do like it, I like orchestral pieces like this one or from Moo-zart the Minotaur, Phoenix Mendelstorm the unicorn, or even  Giuseppe Green the griffon,” the dragoness looked back to her friend Ocellus who was happily grinning, “So it means I win, now pay up Birdy and better be one good.”

Gallus sighed, “well I don’t really have many secrets that you guys don’t already know, aagh, fine, I still keep some of my toys from when I was a small cub, like a plushie and some balls… wooden balls, of many colors and sizes, and some marbles too… a lot of them” he said while blushing while the rest let out a collective d’awwww.

“Hey smolder,” Ocellus whispered to her friend Smolder, “I’m proud of you,” Smolder grinned, “you know, this piece would go great on one of our secret tea parties.”

“You are right,” she whispered back, “hey Tinker, can we get a copy of the songs we heard today?”

“Sure, in fact I put on a new cartridge just for that, I don’t want to get caught for that.”

Gallus fixed his feathers after the scare Smolder gave him, laughed at the end of the song, “well you might have won this one Smolder, but my song is still the most awesome one, look Silverstream, Yona and Sandbar are even sleeping already,” Silverstream was sleeping on her arms while Sandbar was using Yona as a pillow resting his head on her, “someone wake them up, it’s Yona’s turn.”

Tinker pushed Yona who grabbed Sandbar as a teddy bear, “come on guys, wake up.”

Sandbar woke up as he was being crushed by the half sleep yak, “Yona, Yona, I can’t breath,” he softly hit Yona who woke up yawning.

“Oh it’s music over? YAY it’s Yona’s turn,” she let Sandbar go and ran to the music box, Tinker stopped her before she crashed into it, “Oh, well, Yona will press button,” she did and returned to her place next to Sandbar while the music started.

The group was startled by an epic composition of sounds, “Yona likes this music, is not like Yona’s mother lullaby, it sounds like yak war song.”

“Persia? Maybe another type of alien… Oh Yona was right, this seems to be a war song, Leonidas might be the leader of the Spartans or something.”

“Yeah I think you are on to something Ocellus, anyway these aliens, hoomans I believe Twilight called them, they seem to be an aggressive bunch, I could bet one of my nine lives that they are as conflictive as the yak.”

“Yak not conflictive, yak confident, yak never lost war for thousands of moons.”

“Yeah and the fact that you live on a frozen tundra, doesn’t help any invader force.”

“Yona feels like stomping of joy,” Yona got up but was stopped by Sandbar.

“No Yona, what did we say about stomping indoors?”

“Stomping can cause damage and damage is expensive,” Sandbar nodded and Yona layed down and pouted.

“Hey guys, I think that the alien is telling a story,” Silverstream said, accidentally dropping a jelly filled donut on the ground.

“Hmm, yeah, and it seems that the Spartans were betrayed, for one of their own and this alien is ashamed of what it did.”

“That’s pretty interesting Ocellus, it doesn’t seem that the story will tell us the end, I wonder what happened with those three hundred Spartans.”

“Yona thinks they fought well, if they have song like we listened, Yona is excited and wants to hear more,” she got up and began running to the music box but slipped on the jelly filled donut Silverstream dropped earlier, she was going fast so she was sliding directly to the music box.

“SOME ONE STOP HER!” Sandbar grabbed Yona but it was in vain, he got dragged and both hit the pedestal breaking it, the music box flew away in the air while everything looked in slow motion, Tinker screamed, “THEEE MMMMMUUUUSSSICC BOOOOOX, NNNNNNNOOOOOOO!” while the music box spinned in the air.

Gallus and Smolder jumped into action, they flew as fast as they could and they were about to grab the machine but they collide with each other pushing the music box higher, Silverstream jumped as well flying to grab the music box she made it but made a miscalculation and hit the roof with her head dropping the device, Tinker was pumping adrenaline through his body and ran as fast as he could, she used Yona as a platform and jumped on her back to grab the music box, he extended his claws to have a better grip, he was close, so close, so freaking close, but no cigar, he just managed to scratch the music box case, while he saw the machine falling, all his life passed through his eyes, from the moment he woke up at the door of the orphanage, the times he got bullied by the calves, when he got adopted by Tube Tester to today, everything was lost, the music box was going to hit the hard crystal floor and break in a thousand pieces, his life was over, the only thing left was cover his eyes and wait for the sound of the music box shattering… but it never came, he opened his eyes and in front of him the device was hovering surrounded by a magic aura, “Ocellus! You saved the music box!” he stood up to pick it.

Ocellus was on the back covering her eyes, “what? I didn’t do anything.”

“Huh? Well if you didn’t save it, that means...” he turned to the door where an upset Starlight and Tube Tester watched at the group, Starlight’s horn ignited, she was the one who saved the music box, she pulled the machine and put it on Tube’s hand, “m-m-m-m-mom?”

Tube Tester stared at his son, “to your room, grounded, one week.”

“B-but mom!”

“Now it’s two weeks, wanna make it three?” Tinker shook his head and left to his room as fast as he could.

“Now you, what to do with you?” the group felt intimidated by the strong minotauress, even Smolder felt small and powerless against the imponent figure in front of her, “ah, I know, first you will clean this mess, then you can forget about the  five hundred words essay,” the group appeared confused, “yeah now each of you will present a one thousand words essay,” they let out a groan except Ocellus, “now it’s two thousand words, wanna make it three?” all of them shook their heads and began cleaning the mess they made, “I’ll be back to check your progress after I check on Tinker.”

Both of them left leaving the group alone again, “poor Tinker, maybe we shouldn’t have come after all.”

“Don’t worry Ocellus, Tink will be fine, what’s the wbfbfbf-” Gallus was stopped by Yona who closed his beak with her hoof.

“Friend Gallus shouldn’t say those words, teacher Pinkie say they are dangerous.”

“But what a curious culture these aliens have, I wish we could meet them,” Ocellus said while watching out of the window at the stars that began to appear in the sky.

“Who knows, maybe we can build a spaceship in the future and visit them, that would be neat,” Sandbar said while cleaning the room.

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On space, darkness spreads to the infinite and beyond, but on this inconceivable large gaps of nothingness a vessel lazily drifts, its size insignificant compared to the vast celestial bodies, its original course lost due to a force of the universe, its shape is that of an egg and as such it carries life, spinning on its axis without direction, doomed to wander in the void until slowly lose all its strength to protect the life it was meant to carry. On one of its sides, decorations, symbols that for those who understand them read ‘SSE - New Mayflower’.

To be continued