//------------------------------// // The meeting. // Story: Storm inside of Barbershop // by CaioCoia //------------------------------// "Deer goodness Twilight, are you sure that's okay to come here?" A soft voice coming from a fur biped boy said as the mare wearing her ponytail walked carrying a bunch of books with her. "I'm sure Wolfy, you just saw it, the way Night Light dominated the entire test, it was something just professionals could do. Even the professor had to give 100% for his performance, surprising the entire class. I want to know if what he said is true." Twilight Velvet, felt her pride damaged as she remembered that her performance wasn't as extraordinary as the barberstallion over the room, she received 98% of performance since she forgot the name of her patient. Which made her smile sheepishly at the teacher who had facehoffed. "Well, from what I remember the profession of barber stallions was a must in the age of ancient ages, it's an old profession which is considered old but it keeps as an important must into everypony's life." The grey fur wolf dressed in a shirt and shorts said as he walked with the mare over the street trying to find the barbershop which the student revealed in the class. "Oh look at that, didn't know about that. How did you know that?" Twilight Velvet, walking around, stopped in her tracks and looked at her wolf friend who seemed sheepish. "Oh? Do you go to a barbershop Wolfy?" "Well, actually I just cut myself, I usually am afraid at the moment I go to a barbershop, they couldn't handle well my fur and it would mess up with it," Wolf said as he yawned making Velvet rise her eyebrow at him. "Worked night shift again?" Twilight Velvet asked as she seemed worried about her friend, which reluctantly nodded his head to her. "Yep. It was enough to make payment for the last semester. I'm glad that we both passed and we can start to plan our carriers from now on." Wolf smiled at her friend who gave a warming smile. "Wow Wolfy, you always know what to say." Twilight smiled as her fellow friend smiled in response not before he stretched his arms. "Yeah. After passing a lot of time with Terek he said this as well. And I think that's the talent I have for helping other ponies to express themselves and know the right thing to say to them."The grey wolf acknowledges one of his talents as his fellow friend nodded her head to him. "Exactly, and that's what makes you take the max score as well. You and Night Light took the 100% score. PLEASE TEACH ME." Twilight Velvet went quickly and crawled into Wolf's legs and started to hug. "Dear goodness Twilight." Wolf looked both surprised and scared from such a change of emotion. "You need to calm down." After passing a second the mare looked around and saw the ponies staring at her, forgetting the blush on her face she got up and decided to walk with her friend. "You are right." Velvet said as she used her horn to cast magic and cover her face with her mane. "I just don't know why I have messed up the name of my patient. I could have made 100% too, but I forgot the stupid name." "Twilight, you were nervous, that happens to all of us, it doesn't mean you couldn't make a great job. You did wonderful on the test too. You managed to solve the classic anger issues of a stallion who couldn't speak right." Wolf said as patted the back of his friend, and receiving a smile from her, he knew he was doing the right thing. "You are right. I should be happy for passing the test, I'm just glad since 2/3 of our class passed through the test." Twilight decided to be happy that she and her friend were actually pretty good and received compliments from the teacher who usually tends to have a disappointed face over his students. And for a few minutes walking, the duo actually found something they never thought they would see. A wagon over the street, a beautiful silver and gold color wagon with some ornaments in glass around. "By Celestia, this wagon looks fantastic, it must have been expensive." Twilight Velvet noticed as Wolf's eyes went wide open and nodded his head in agreement. They both looked at the barbershop over the street and it was a muffled commotion inside, they couldn't hear right, but they could hear something even still outside of the barbershop. "Well, there is no way back now Twilight. I hope that's what you want." Wolf seemed uncertain about what is going to happen, but he felt a hoof over his shoulder and looked at his friend smiling at him. "Don't worry Wolfy, I got enough bits for both of us, even if you still don't want it, I want to see how good was this barbershop anyway." Twilight used her magic just at the moment she opened, she felt the burst of the sound of laughter of many stallions coming out. "HAHAHAHAHAAHA." The group laughed as the duo looked shocked, into seeing an elder dark blue pony with an afro on his head talking between the group of stallions who were sitting on their seats and the barberstallions and barbermare was listening to him talk. "And I was here in 68 when they ride and they burn everything around here but this barbershop. And I was here in 74 when the segregation started and they started busting the flanks of the unicorns, the pegasus, and the earth ponies at your age." The elder pony stated as he was giving a discipline in the middle of the barbershop. "Oh yeah, I remember that time." Another elder pony who was a red unicorn with a grey beard and wrinkles over the face nodded as he focused on the checker's board and watched the old stallion in the middle of the group walk over the room and place his hoof into the picture. "And then I was here in 77, when Bucking Hoof came here the day after he managed to beat the record of Hoofball of scoring 75 points for Canterlot Kings right here on this chair. They even got a picture of him to prove." The elder stallion pointed at the picture while showing a smiling wide younger version of him in the black-white picture and a pony who was using a newspaper to cover his face while receiving treatment at a barbershop. And on the corner is an autograph of the said pony. "How do we know is a true picture?" One of the barber stallions said, which made both elders look at him in disbelief. "Are you crazy? It's obviously his autograph, are you out of mind? Look at right here." The elders shouted as the duo of pony and wolf could see clearly the chaos inside of the said barbershop. "My goodness," Wolf said as he looked surprised at the environment around the group was clearly loud in their thoughts and seemed to listen to the elder talk freely. "I heard you." Twilight Velvet never felt so much out of her comfort zone after hearing about the chaotic environment which was inside the barbershop. "Kids like you should learn to hear the elders, it makes you feel us like liars, and you must trust your pears." The elder said as he suddenly looked at the duo who got past the door. "And both of you." "Huh?" Twilight and Wolf looked surprised at the elder who pointed at them. "Get your ass on the chair, come here that I'm going to tell you all something. It's something you all must learn. Including you Flimsy Hooves, you are too obnoxious for your own good. You need to learn a lesson." The blue elder pony said as the duo looked hesitant but yet followed his instructions. "Okay Spike, let's see what you are going to say." Flimsy Hooves rolled his eyes as he left the foal sitting on the chair, and approached the elder who took his uniform with him. "The lessons you often learn from the academy are often studied but yet are exchanged by the ministers of the law," Spike said as he used his horn to magically levitate a book with him. "A lot of shit has happened from 1000 years to today, and mostly many scandals happened during my time, which the council of Blue Bloods decided to censor to not make the same mistakes as their ancestors. Right, may they be, because much shit has happened and they needed to fix a lot of mistakes, and they fixed it, but they needed to destroy archives to make sure that fucking ponies wouldn't try the same shit that happened before." Wolf's eyes went wide open, as he recalled his time when he lived inside of a library, and he kept reading a lot of books, and some of them clearly had some knowledge that was true that shouldn't be shared with the world. Velvet's eyes went surprised as she listened clearly to the polemic pony talk over the group. "You may be right Spike, but that doesn't prove anything," Flimsy admitted but yet was archetypical over the fact related to the story behind Canterlot. "You may say that, but you clearly believe too much in books Flimsy, sometimes you should trust the ponies who actually saw that shit happened and knows shit more than anyone." Spike scoffed as he turned back to his chair and used his magic to levitate a newspaper behind of his chair. "Like the time that happened in 65. The day Princess Celestia created a tantrum over Canterlot. The dark sun weekend." "Wait what?" Twilight Velvet asked, as the stallions around looked confuse as the sudden affirmation from the older stallion was showing. It was a frame of a serious Princess Celestia's face, as she looked enraged of something. "What happened on that weekend?" "A noble fucked up. That's what happened." The elder pony who was a red unicorn with a grey beard and wrinkles. "Shut up Rock Cheekers," Spike said aloud as he came up from his sit and walked slowly at the duo of pony and wolf who just entered the barbershop. "I will tell you about what happened that day. A noble decided to make a great plan of changing the sugar over Canterlot to salt and take for him all the sugar he could to sell to Zebrica on the next month." Twilight Velvet and Wolf nodded as the blue stallion receive their indication to continue. "The thing is... It's okay for someone who uses a great plan to take all the sugar and substitute it for salt as a way to prank mostly of ponies... But when that stupid flankwhole decided to add salt to all Princess Celestia's cakes?" Spike's question not just made Twilight's and Wolf's eyes went wide open realizing the meaning of his words. But mostly stallions looked shocked and in disbelief. "FUCK." Most of the stallions shouted in exasperation which made both Twilight and Wolf look surprised by the outburst. "Wait, so Princess Celestia's fixation for cakes is real?" Twilight asked as she always thought it was a joke made by her father who gave a warning to never mention cake to the highness, or never say cake and salt any time of the day. "You just don't understand... the princess wanted blood for whoever decided to make such stupidity. And, we never found who was the noble who did that..." Spike said in disappointment, which made the stallions and even the duo look at him surprised. "I think Celestia found him and beat the crap of not just him, but his entire family, and decided to burn all the info related to that pony, for us to never find out who was..." "Dear goodness," Wolf whispered as he imagined the princess who found him when he was alone and how she introduced him to the therapy classes. She was always kind to him, and he never really imagined her being into such angry retaliation before. "Okay uncle Spike, stop scaring the new customers of the barbershop, let them relax, and let's talk about other things okay? Flimsy, you better shut the fuck up, and stop doubting Spike, you know he always goes full horse into your ass." A voice came from behind the counter which seemed to be another room under the main room. Which made not just Twilight and Wolf look who said that as the other ponies who were in the conversation decided to go back to their seats and the barberstallions and mare decided to go back to cutting their manes. Looking at the pony who said that Twilight was shocked to see that the one who commanded the entire shop, was the same pony who passed the final test of psychology at the university. "Hey, welcome to my barbershop. I'm surprised to see former classmates here." Night Light said as he didn't seem not even tired from all the studies in college and he seemed to be in his natural habitat which made the duo look at each other and understand one thing. Today is not going to be normal for them.