Octavia sat in her room alone, writing into a text book. She had been told to write “I shall not disrupt the class” a hundred times, but she didn’t care. To her it just give her something to do and another excuse to stay in her room, but she had just finished writing out her punishment.
She placed the pen down on her bed and closed the book shut, lay down on her back upon the bed, staring at the ceiling. ‘I wonder what Vinyl is doing... She is probably writing out her punishment, she had two hundred lines... she does seem like the lazy type, I hope she gets them done.’
*******
“Vinyl why can’t you stop that noise for five minutes!? It’s not even true music, it’s nothing, but noise! Whatever pony invented ponystep should of been banished to the moon!,” A stallion shouted, into the face of a small filly. “I regret ever buying you that DJ set.”
Vinyl moved away from the angered stallion, he had a blue mane and tail with hints of white in it. His coat was the dark green color just like his eyes and his cutie mark was a tie. “Dad you just don’t understand, this is my passion, this is my dream! Not yours so why don’t you just stop interfering with my life!” The filly screamed at her father, she slammed the door shut in his face and heard him walk back downstairs mumbling something under her breath.
She turned around and laid her back against the door, sliding down it until she reached the floor. ‘First day at a new school, I come home to relax with my music and what does he do? Yells, give me a break dad... Well... I can’t really blame him. Things have tough lately with the move and especially after mom’s... No I shall not think unhappy thoughts.’
She looked around her room, the walls were the color blue and a bed lay in the corner, it had a yellow blanket. There was a few unpacked boxes laying around the room, but a turntable and other DJ instruments was sitting just under the window. She got up off the floor and made her way to the DJ set. ‘I wonder when I’ll get round to unpacking all these boxes... Not today that’s for sure!’
She picked up her headphones and placed them on her ears, flicked on her electronics and began scratching the record on the turntable. Her face became focused and her breathing became heavier and faster, to her the music was tranquil, the world stops moving and every problem fades away while she spins in the melody.
Meanwhile another filly was picking up her violin and placing it under her chin; she placed the bow upon the strings, applied pressure and began to play. Octavia closed her eyes, drifting slowly into the world of fantasy as her melody reached her ears. To her nothing mattered, but the sympathy of the noise she could hear.
The two fillies both lost in their world of music lost track of time, with two genres so different they seemed so right and began to sync creating a beautiful sound that the world was destined not to hear. They could both feel something, but had no clue what it was. They felt empowered , they could feel something with them and it was fueling them. They continued to play, not caring about the time because they didn’t want this moment to be lost, to them it was a feeling of pure bliss.
Octavia’s bedroom door opened and slammed into the wall. “OCTAVIA! STOP THAT FORSAKEN NOISE!,” Lever shouted. Octavia jumped, dropping the violin, but she caught it in time before it hit the floor. She turned and faced her father with anger in her eyes. “I better not hear that for the rest of night!” Octavia stood there, staring into his eyes; she wanted to shout back, but held her tongue.
He left and closed the door on his way out, leaving Octavia to sit in her room with the anger inside her. ‘I need to get out of this town... fast.’
******
Two fillies were walking through the town market after a long day at school. “So Vinyl what do you wanna do today?” Octavia asked. “Well we could go to my house and I could show you some wicked beats? Also you could bring your violin, I would love to hear you play.” Vinyl said with excitement in her voice.
“ummm yeah... sure, why not? I guess it would be nice to hear some ponystep.”
“Great, then let’s go get your violin!”
They made their way to Octavia’s house, chatting about daily life and unimportant things. It didn’t take them long to reach it, they walked inside and too the kitchen to be greeted by Octavia’s mother. “Hello Octavia and who may this little filly be? Hi there my name is Sow.” Sow said, smiling at Vinyl.
“I’m Vinyl, I met Octavia at school a few days ago.”
“Oh, Octavia why didn’t you tell me you made a friend?”
Octavia began to blush and lowered her head. “Please mother don’t embarrass me, we’re only here to grab my violin so we have to get moving.” Octavia said, while pushing Vinyl out the room and up the stairs. She could hear her mother shouting behind her. “Okay you two have fun!”
They walked into her room and closed the door, Vinyl began looking around the room, admiring it. “Pretty sweet pad you got here.” Vinyl said, her eyes scanning around the room. “It’s not much, but it suits me, but I don’t expect to be living here forever.”
“Huh?”
“I plan to move to Canterlot and become a famous cello player.”
“Really?... Sorta like me then, I plan to move there and become a world famous DJ!”
“That’s pretty cool Vinyl, I hope we both make it.
“Nah... I hope we both make it together Tavi.”
Octavia packed her violin into a briefcase and turned to Vinyl with a confused look on her face. “Did you just call me Tavi?....” Octavia asked. “Yeah... Sorry, but Octavia is kinda a mouth full and I figured Tavi was a cool nickname, you don’t like it?” Vinyl asked, her face full of worry.
“No... I like it, it just caught me off guard. Tavi... Yeah I love it.”
“Awesome, so you don’t mind me calling you Tavi?”
“Nope not at all, in fact I insist.”
“Great, hey let me get for you.”
Vinyl levitated the briefcase, smiling at Octavia, Octavia smiled back and they began to walk downstairs. They both threw a quick goodbye to Sow and left the house.
******
“So let’s get this all going, luckily my father is out of the house,” Vinyl said while hooking up the DJ set. Octavia took her violin out and placed it upon Vinyl’s bed, waiting on her friend finishing. “Okay there we go! You ready to hear some wicked wubs?” She began playing, but kept a close look on Octavia. She wanted to see her reaction, she was determined to impress her friend.
Not too long into Vinyl’s song Octavia picked up her Violin and began playing with her, Vinyl turned her attention away Octavia and back to the set. ‘Trying to outshine me huh? Well it’s not gonna happen.” Vinyl thought and she began to put all her effort into the song.
Octavia and Vinyl continued to play, but quickly noticed it was blending in together, their competitive sides began to fade and their true artistic side began to blossom into a beautiful orchestra of sound. Octavia was in complete flow of the music, it’s like she knew what to do. As if she had played this a thousand times before, it felt so natural to her.
Vinyl was amazed at the sound, it was beautiful, she had never heard anything like it. Their worlds so different began to sync together, they knew the sounds were forbidden to touch, but it felt so right and that moment they both knew what they felt the other day. It was their calling.
A light began to glow behind Octavia as the song came to an end, they both finished playing and sat there stunned at what just happened. Both of them breathing heavily, trying to wrapped their heads around the moment. “Did... did that really just happen?” Vinyl asked, staring mesmerized at Octavia. “Yeah I think so... and it was amazing.” Octavia said, still trying to regain her breath.
“Tavi... look at your flank.”
“Huh? Why what’s the- oh wow!”
Octavia looked at her flank and spotted something it was a purple treble clef. It was her cutie mark. She began to jump all around the room in excitement, she ended up jumping on the bed, shouting “I got my cutie mark! I got it, I finally got it!,” Vinyl stared at her, raising an eyebrow. Octavia stopped jumping, slowly moving because of the bounce in the bed. “Oh... sorry, that was most unladylike.”
Vinyl laughed and shrugged. “Don’t worry about it Tavi, this is a time for celebration! You got your cutie mark and it happened in the most amazing way ever!” Vinyl said.
“It really did... That was amazing Vinyl, it was so random, but it felt perfect!”
“Yeah... I wonder if we can do that again?”
“Well we won’t know if we don’t try.”
Octavia got off the bed and picked up her violin again, placed it under her chin and looked at her friend. Vinyl turned to her DJ set and smirked at her friend. “You ready?” Vinyl asked. “Ready as I’ll ever be!” Octavia replied as she brought the bow across the violin’s strings.