Album 2: Chaotic Harmony
Track 3: Almost to Trottingham!
Four days into being a band together and we were only just starting to fight. That’s a good record for new bands right?
Probably not.
“I STILL don’t see why we must play such horrendous music. Even if it isn’t... quite so different from normal.” Octavia was still complaining of course.
“Octy, you gotta loosen up! This is a request from the PRINCESS.” Glad that Vinyl is on my side.
“Still...some of these lyrics are hard on my voice. Isn’t there something a little less rough?” And Cadence has problems with the lyrics. Shining nods his head like the whipped husband he is!
Hey!
Yeah, yeah, I know he isn’t.
As long as you understand...
“Look, it’ll be fine. I can sing the lyrics. Octavia, you enjoyed it at the Gala, it’ll be just as much fun this time.” This argument or some variation of it had been going on for most of the day.
A MASSIVE booming noise drew my attention to a... pink peg- That’s Firefly! What’s she doing here!?
“Ah, I knew it was around these S/P coordinates. How are you doing Champions?”
“And where did you just come from!?” I shouted. It was bad enough when Zeta came and ripped me to pieces. I didn’t need Firefly zooming around at ridiculous speeds, especially considering how badly she beat me every time we’d sparred in my dream world.
“Oh, I just finished watching your three day battle in the coliseum. Good job, by the way.”
“...What???” Coliseum? Three days!? “I’m going to pretend I understood that. What are you here for?”
“Oh, I’m just passing along a message from Zeta. He says ‘Don’t you DARE forget to bring some light weapons to fight the blood-blob-monster- wait, wrong message. You’re supposed to get that later.” Whaaaaaaaaat? All of us were staring at her like she was a priest of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and had just told us to go bask in boiling milk.
“OH! Right. Celestia says you should make friends with Mango. He should help ease your loneliness.”
I couldn’t respond anymore. My mouth hung slack as I tried understand just WHAT the FUCK she was talking about.
“Oh, there is a message from Zeta. He says ‘Don’t take the beating you just go too hard. I was pretty angry. No hard feelings.’ Hah, I always knew he was a sap. He just can’t show it.”
“Wait, what about Zeta??” He didn’t even sound sorry!
“Him? Oh was just mad at you for some stuff that happened during the wedding Don’t worry about it. Anyway, I need to keep up your training. So... You look like you were having a fight with Octavia. Fight. PIck a song, any song.” A song came to mind but was she seriously asking me to just fight one of my bandmates out of the blue? Firefly, y u so weird?
“Sounds like fun to me!” Of course Octavia’s up for it. I already know she doesn’t like my music but still.
“Fiiine...” My other bandmates moved to the side as me and Octavia faced each other.
I strummed on my guitar a few times as we started playing.
And the ‘Music World’ sprung up again. Octavia was wearing...Is that Goku’s training outfit? Looking down, I saw myself in PIccolo’s costume. Wait...PIccolo was a villain at one point.
I do not see this ending well but it’s too late to back out. I could see auras glowing around me and Octavia, getting stronger with each moment.
After Cadence finished the vocals from the side, I realized something.
This song was WAY too fast for me. We both started flying around each other in circles. Each stroke of my guitar let out 6-7 or seven musical notes that tried to home in on Octavia.
Each pass of her bow let out ki blasts.
We got faster and faster but I was slowly losing round. Halfway through, we closed in for hand to hand. Her bow jabbed out, once, twice, thrice and after that I was sent into the ground, leaving a crater.
Jumping quickly back out of it, I attempted some ki blasts followed by a charge. She dodged every blast, put her hoof on my head as I came at her and flew me into the ground again.
Following that, Octavia grabbed me with her front hoof and slung me into a nearby tree - and through it into two more, leaving Knightmare-shaped holes in them.
I flew up and out but Octavia was already at my beaten, bleeding form, punching, stabbing, slashing and even burning with some of her ki. I finally dropped onto the road as she hovered high above me. I could vaguely hear...
“KAAAAA MEEEEEE HAAAAAAA MEEEEEEEEEEE“ Energy charged up between her hooves.
“HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA” My prone form was blasted with her energy and the Magic World dispersed.
I fell down, Octavia standing triumphantly over me.
“THAT music was not so bad. Why aren’t we playing that?” She asked smugly.
“OH probably cause he’s the leader of the band and you guys often do whatever anyway.” Firefly spoke nonchalantly.
“Anyway, I gotta get back to it. Time isn’t going to fix itself. Cheers!” And with that, she was gone through another hole in reality. What a flighty mare. Gone as soon as she’s had her fun.
After a couple more hours of Octavia gloating about her victory, we could see Trottingham in the distance but it would be well into the night if we tried to arrive today, so we just set up camp, arranging tents close together around where the fire would soon be.
Following a short meal and more arguing, we all drifted off to sleep. As with every night I’d spent so far in Equestria, I arrived in my dream world. I was greeted by a new sight however. Six new sights.
I guess my band was close enough to me, because Cadence, Shining Armor, Lyra, Bonbon, Octavia and Vinyl were all there on the home Island I’d set up, looking around in wonder.
“Oh right, forgot about this place. Welcome, Champions, to the Dream World. This is my own private little area, representing my mind and memories, many of which are strewn about in incredibly annoying locked boxes. I suppose I should give you a tour.” I bowed, holding my arm behind me to direct them as they looked on.
“So, wait, this is your head? Doesn’t seem as chaotic as I expected...” Shining Armor said.
“It’s not actually my head but there ARE boxes with my memories locked places. I’ll tell you about that later. For now, let’s go see the houses I’ve set up. Feel free to choose one for yourself. If you need help decorating just ask me. Physics work a bit differently here.”
“How long do we have in here?” Lyra asked.
“If I get 8 hours of sleep? Eight days. Every hour in the real world is a whole day here. We actually have quite a bit of time. Feel free to explore but-” I flipped backwards and sent a Creeper flying off of the island’s edge with the flat of my axe.
“Be careful of monsters. They hurt.”
With that, they each went to claim a house and set up. I spent a good amount of time helping them learn how to craft things and decorate on that first day.
On the next, however, the settling in was interrupted.
I was wandering on the main island. an what do I see? None other than the Cutie Mark Crusaders staring around in wonder and confusion.
“You three?! Wait, that means...Girls, did you stowaway in our luggage?” Zeta JUST TOLD ME to not go near his daughter! How am I going to explain this to him? I don’t want to be changeling pie!
“We just thought we could get our cutie marks in rock music!”
“Yeah! Yur music at the Gahla was so cool!”
My bandmates had run over at my exclamation.
“Knightmare, what’s- Apple Bloom! Sweetie and Scootaloo too? Girls why are you here?” Bonbon was just as surprised as I was.
“They had to have stowed away in our luggage and came over to the fire after we slept! That’s why they’re in the dream world now.”
“Why would you ever want to follow this thing and his unpleasant music!?” Octavia, will you give the music a rest? Sheesh.
“What? But he’s so cool and his music is AWESOOOOME.” That’s right, Scootaloo understands.
“I don’t think that matters. In the morning girls, we are going to get you right back to Ponyville. We’re on important business for the princess.” Cadence spoke.
“But were right next to Trottingham. It’ll take us a whole extra week to go drop them off! We might as well do the concert first.” Vinyl pointed out.
We thought it over a bit, the CMC waiting expectantly for our answer.
“She’s right.” Octavia said, sounding annoyed. “We’ll have to take them with so we aren’t off schedule. We can take them back afterwards. Alright girls, you can stay but you’re in for a big punishment when you get back to Ponyville. I suppose you can go find a house to stay in.”
They ran off before I could add anything else, excited about our destination. I sighed.
“Well, we still have 6 and a half days in here. We should probably practice.”