Book 1 - The Behemoth came to Canterlot

by Equimorto


Hardline

"That doesn't sound like a good idea."
"Oh come on!" Rainbow threw her hands up in the air. "One of us is literally a unicorn! We should totally write power metal."
Fluttershy just stared down at her notes, thoughtfully tapping her chin. "I don't know. I feel like we're not really suited to play something like that."
"It's not that hard!" Rainbow got up from her seat and started pacing around the room. "We could just, I don't know... Take out the tambourine for a second guitar?"
This time, Fluttershy stared at her, her expression flat.
"Okay." Rainbow sheepishly rubbed the back of her head. "Maybe that's not a good idea. We could try a more proggy approach to it? I mean if you can have a bagpipes solo in a power metal song I imagine we could figure something out with the tamb-"
"A bagpipes solo?!" Pinkie burst out from seemingly nowhere, almost knocking Rainbow off her feet. "Oh, oh, oh, can I get to play one of those on our next song?" she asked, excitedly bouncing up and down.
"Do you even know how to play bagpipes?" asked Rainbow, standing back straight and choosing to ignore how the door was still locked.
"I can try!"
Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash exchanged an uneasy look. "Solo or not, we need to write a song," the latter said. "Fluttershy?"
"I'm trying." The girl drew a few lines over a set of notes she had written down. "I'm really not sure about going through with this. What should it be about anyway?"
"Eh, I'm sure we'll figure out the lyrics. I have enough inspiration to work with." Rainbow leaned against a wall, eyes closed and a smug grin on her face.
As Pinkie curiously moved around her to get a better look at her notes, Fluttershy sighed. "I would be hesitant about having you write the lyrics anyway, but I'm not letting you do this if you're going off of what you showed me."
"Hey!" Rainbow turned towards her. "Those lyrics are totally awesome, okay?"
"Half of those lyrics don't even make sense. And we are not writing a song about bloody dimensions or scarecrows." She jotted down and immediately erased a few more notes. "The one about cancer was good, but not exactly something that would fit us."
"Oh, fine. We'll let Sunset decide when she gets here, I'll just work on some riffs." Rainbow picked up her guitar and moved to sit down again.
"Where is Sunset, anyway?" Pinkie asked, casually assembling a set of bagpipes.
"Having sex wtih Twilight." Rainbow struck a few familiar chords, trying to get her inspiration going.
"Rainbow!" Fluttershy looked up at her.
"What?" Rainbow looked back. "Check Twilight's status."
Fluttershy took out her phone and unlocked it. "It says 'Doing stuff with Sunset Shimmer'."
"And Sunset's?"
Fluttershy scrolled down on her screen. "'Doing stuff and Twilight Sparkle'." She paused for a moment. "Oh."
"Permission to tease them when they finally get here?"
"Granted." Fluttershy was about to put her phone away, when a notification lit up the screen. Curious, she opened it. She swallowed, and her face went a little paler. "You girls might want to see this."