It’s been over a year since Melody met Autumn Blaze, and since then, he’s been more social with the other Kirin, and he’s even been making music on stage. He couldn’t be happier to have met Autumn, and was glad to have her as a friend, however, their friendship may soon be jeopardized.
One day, Melody was practicing his drums on stage since there wasn’t much going on at the moment. “Sighs, wow, I’ve been practicing for quite a bit. I should probably take a break before I wear my hooves out,” he said. “Maybe I’ll go over to the market; maybe chat a bit with someone.” So, he put his drums next to the stage where it isn’t in the way since he planned to head back shortly, and he started making his way to the market, humming along the way. About halfway there, he started to hear a bit of shouting. “Is that someone shouting? They sound kinda mad. I should see what’s going on; I am heading over that way anyway.”
When Melody got to the market area, he found out where the shouting was coming from: a couple Kirin were arguing, and it was only getting worse and worse. Melody was going to try to see what the problem was, but before he could, they ended up turning into fiery Niriks, and when that happened, eventually everyone else ended up doing the same. Melody got so scared, he decided to run off into the woods to avoid their literal fiery wrath.
When he finally stopped hearing everyone shouting, he went back to the village. “Hey, is everyone feeling… better… now…?” Melody started to ask, before he witnessed the result of the Niriks’ fiery rampage: the whole village was burnt down! “What happened to the village?! It’s all burnt up!” He said, freaking out at what just happened, but then he noticed… “gasps My drums!” He ran over to what was left of them as they were incinerated and started to tear up. These were the drums he cherished ever since he and his dad made them, and to see them burned to ashes… not only made him very upset, but it also really riled him up. “My special drums… destroyed…” he said, nearly crying. He looked at the still arguing Kirin, turned into a Nirik himself, and ended up joining in on the arguing.
Because of what all this arguing caused, the Kirin leader, Rain Shine, decided to send all the Kirin to the Stream of Silence, thus preventing any more fiery rampages via big arguments like what just occurred. After the Kirin were silenced and the village was all fixed up, things went back to normal for the most part, but Autumn and Melody were bored out of their minds with hardly anything to keep either of them occupied or even entertained in any way.
A few weeks later, when Melody went to go circle around the village, to his surprise, he heard someone… talking. He went to go check it out, and more to his surprise, it was Autumn Blaze. He went over to her, and when Autumn noticed him, she said to him, “Melody! Bestie! I’ve been looking for you!” Melody tilted his head to the side as a way to show that he’s wondering why she was looking for him and how she was able to talk. “Oh, yeah; I’m sure you’re wondering how I’m able to talk again. Well, I actually found a silence cure! Unfortunately though, I don’t have any more of it. I’m so sorry! I hope you’re not upset at me.” Melody shook his head to show he isn’t upset, having Autumn relieved. Melody would rather not hold any grudges anyway even if he could, especially not against his best friend of all Kirin.
Melody’s music career may have reached it’s coda, but he could still stay as positive as possible knowing his best friend will never leave his side… right?