Authors Note: YES! Inspiration, finally. Sorry for the long wait, but my brain decided to take a vacation and it took my creativity with it. I have written and re-written this chapter so many times and I'm still not completely satisfied with it. I am sorry again for the long wait and hope you can understand. Without further adue, here is Fortepiano chapter number five, Crescendo!
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You don't know what to say, in front of you stood Gold Star, one of your best friends hero. You decide that squealing and convulsing on the ground is probably a bad idea. You decide that fainting probably won't help to much either, while you're contemplating what to do Twilight waves a hoof in front of your face.
"Hello, are you okay?" You snap back to reality and give a slight nod. "Good, now I would like you to meet Gold Star, the only pony besides Rainbow Dash that is capable of a sonic rainboom. He was here so I decided that you should meet him." Okay this was really weird, why would that be relevant at all?
"Okay, what the hay do you want with me. I know you didn't just want to meet me, so why did you call me here?" Her smile faltered, but she retained a small grin. Her left eye twitched. "That's it, either tell me why I'm here or I'm leaving." She didn't keep her grin through that though.
"No, please." She stepped forward, Gold Star just rolled his eyes.
"Come on, I don't have all day. Plus it's not that hard to tell him, goodness it's not like you're asking him on a date or something." Gold Star stated. Twilight sighed, she blew a piece of hair out of her face and spoke.
"I just wanted to know if you would....uh....... maybe....... play for me?" Wow that was all?! You burst into laughter and a disappointed look spreads over her face. "Oh, sorry for bothering you." Her head drops and she turns to leave, but you put your hoof on her shoulder.
"I was laughing because you were nervous to ask me to play. Of coarse I'll play a song for you, anything for a friend." Her face lit up and you pulled out your violin. Using magic hurt your head, but you'll survive. You decide to settle on a classic, one of the popular songs you used to play.
You begin to play and her face is one of recognition. You continue to play and the words come to mind. You would sing but the magic was the only thing you were focusing on right now. Note by note you continue the song, Twilight is swaying to the beat and Gold Star is tapping a hoof.
You used to play this song for your parents, before you left that is, but now you feel less forced to be perfect. The music flows more freely and you relax a bit. By the time you end the song Twilight is humming along and you are exhausted. You wipe some sweat from your brow and sit down.
"So, how was that song?" You ask as you lay down on the floor, intent for laying there for an eternity.
"Yes! That was amazing, you played it so well, thank you so much!" Twilight replies, you nod and turn and start walking, but as you are about to leave a hoof touches your shoulder. You turn to see something that you dreaded, something that you know could ruin your career.
You see your parents.
Well buck. You are now officially screwed, not only had they found out, but they had found you. You drop your violin to the ground, this might take a while. Both of them wore angry faces and your father even wore a little of what looked like disgust. You open your mouth to speak, but your father speaks first.
"You are so stupid," Way to be subtle dad. You roll your eyes and he pretends to not notice it. "You run away from your own parents, and then you soil our name. You even helped that stupid cello player and her idiot DJ marefriend. You worthless, self centered. carele..." You cut him off right there, you could take some crap, but not from these idiots.
"NO! I'm going to stop you right bucking there. I ran away because you are the self centered pony here. Before you even start to accuse me I need some liable evidence because right now all the stuff you're sayin is completely unfounded. You two have no idea what you're talking about, when I was growing up, you treated me like dirt, never supported me, and most of all never showed me love.
As for soiling our name, how? I'm in the freaking Royal Canterlot Symphony you idiots. If you think you can do better that that then go right ahead. You two nitwits couldn't play an instrument with any real skill if you had a cutie mark for it. Which both of you do. By the way, another reason I left was because my own 'mother' was a hopeless drunk!"
You are now fuming, that was the first time that you had let your anger out in a long time. You see the disgust has now spread to your mother, but before they can fight back, you speak once again.
"And if you ever, ever disrespect Octavia again, if you do I will personally beat your door down, and tear your heads from your bodies." At this point the ponies in front of you just walked away. As they did your dad did something terrible. Something so unthinkable that you considered killing him there and then.
He smashed your violin.
As soon as he did, you charged at him and landed a punch squarely in his eye, causing it to start bleeding. He promptly screeched and the guards that were standing at the doors of a building close by came running. One of them picked him up and started running in the general direction while the other ones horn glowed and your wrists were bound together.
The last thing you remember before the guard knocked you out was the form of Twilight Sparkle walking out of the building, yelling at the guard, and the bond on your wrists lessening until it dissipated entirely.