//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 - Madness // Story: Guitarist in Equestria // by Superswag420 //------------------------------// Guitarist in Equestria Chapter 3 - Madness As Twilight and I are walking back to the tree I see many different background ponies from the show such as Berry Punch, Derpy, The Cakes in their store, BonBon, and...HER! dear celestia not Lyra. If she found out who I really was I would be screwed. But I will have to meet her eventually especially since our talents are so closely related... As we are almost to the tree we pass a mirror shop, I look into one of the display mirrors to see what I look like. Meh. My hair almost looks like it was back on earth! Lets see... Brown hair curved to one side just above my eyes, almost an Applebloom colored body, green eyes, and a cutie mark of a guitar. In fact that’s my guitar! The same one I came to Equestria with! Oh crap, I’m a unicorn. How do you explain a unicorn that can’t use magic! “Amnesia! That explains it!” I exclaim rather loudly in front of Twilight, who I noticed has stopped ever since I started analyzing my new self through the mirror. “Amnesia? What is it about yourself that you can’t remember?” Well for starters there is the obvious fact I can’t use magic, then I can’t remember anything before the plane crash... Yeah, that’s it! “I can’t remember how to use my magic, or remember anything before the incident “ I try to explain to her. “WHAT!?!? YOU CAN’T REMEMBER HOW TO USE YOUR MAGIC?! OH NO THIS IS TERRIBLE A UNICORN SHOULD NEVER HAVE TO GO POWERLESS ESPECIALLY WHEN THEIR TALENT DEPENDS ON IT!” Dear God... “Oh you poor thing, why are we just standing here? LETS GO!” “Ugh how long do you think this could take?” I want to get this out of the way early so I can still do what I love in Equestria. “Well if you are a fast learner then maybe a couple of day, If not I would say about a week. Guitar magic is just some complex levitation, so it shouldn’t take too long” Well that’s probably the best news I have heard all day... As we enter the tree library, I smell cooking eggs. After I finish salivating over what I smell Twilight and spike ask me if I want any. I happily accept... and by happily accept I mean get the food in my stomach as fast as physically possible. “You better slow down or you’re gonna’ get a wicked bad tummy ache” Explains Spike. What did he just say, I could’ve sworn I heard that in APPLES.MOV. After thinking about the .MOV series and finish dinner, and dive right into all the books about guitar and levitation spells. Reading everything I can possibly soak into my mind about the mechanisms used, I do the first smart thing. Take notes. “Wow mister you must really like books!” I hear spike yell out from the second floor of the library. “I have a name you know...” “Oh sorry ummm-” “Shy Strings” I say with a ‘Are you kidding me’ kind of expression. “Well you don’t seem that shy...” “I’m only shy when large groups of ponies are watching me...” “Hahaha. That’s hilarious, a guitar player who is afraid of playing large crowds” Oh you are going to get it troll dragon... I manage to chuck a very large book at spike and send him tumbling down the stairs. As he gets up we both started laughing our butts off until we got scolded by twilight for throwing books at each other. 1 hour later... “Alright.” I say confidence plastered on my face. I manage to lift up a small device that fits over the neck of the guitar, six small pieces that are meant to all be levitated at the same time to press the frets. On my first try I was able to get the first string’s piece over the third fret, and pluck the string using a simple pick holding device on my dominant hoof. Crap. Can’t. Hold. For. Much. LONGER. As my magic wears down the first piece resets back to its place over the neck. “Well I guess it wasn’t bad for a first try, because you have only been studying for 2 hours. Maybe you should try getting some sleep and try again tomorrow!” Says Twilight. “Alright...” Maybe I will be able to move more of the pieces after a good night sleep. As I climb into Twilight’s guest bed, I start going through everything that has happened today. I wonder if anyone survived that crash... There has to be more... I then start humming the song Madness before I finally get knocked out by all the built up fatigue in my body. I can’t get these memories out of my mind And some kind of Madness Has started to evolve Madness - Muse The end of Chapter 3 Post comments below, Yo!