HyperBlitz walked through the streets again. He saw many ponies in shops speaking to each other. He noticed that the shopping area was the most populated. But none of these ponies would be here to buy things, would they? Maybe not, maybe they still bought things from one another. But what would they use to buy things? Energy probably. At the base camp, Hyper knew that ponies would either trade things, or more commonly, just give to things to ponies that needed them.
Hyper's eyes glanced around as he heard a noise. It was a familiar noise, and it was not ponies speaking. Music. It was guitar playing, and defiantly an acoustic guitar. Hyper trotted around, toward the sound, and looked around the corner. He saw a green colt with a blue mane strumming a guitar. He was a bit older, almost a stallion. A few ponies were around him, listening, while some just kept passing by.
The green earth-pony didn't notice Hyper when he walked up at first, but as he placed his hooves forward, the colt looked up. His strumming stopped as he stared into Hyper's eyes beneath the glasses.
"You play guitar?" Hyper said softly. The colt nodded. "Do you do it for these ponies? Are you doing it to get extra energy?..."
"No energy isn't a big thing for me. My older brother usually can go around to get energy. Sometimes ponies will lay an energy crystal by me. But I like to play guitar for myself and other ponies. I like to see other ponies a little bit happy, and playing guitar takes my mind off of things." The colt explained.
Hyper nodded with agreement. "It's always good to do things for not just yourself, but other ponies."
"I like to play guitar a lot, it's my talent." Hyper saw his cutie mark, which was a guitar. "But I haven't mastered playing it. I'm still working on things. I haven't had my cutie mark for a long time."
HyperBlitz sat down by the green pony. He snapped off his hoof cover, then placed his forehooves to the colt. "Can I see it?"
"I guess so."
The pony took the guitar strap from off his shoulder and handed over the instrument. He looked to the other ponies that watched and shrugged. Hyper placed the guitar strap on and positioned the guitar. He glaceed down and tuned it while strumming. Then he made sure he had the right note. He strummed a few more times.
"You see my talent is making music myself. I can sing, but I can play instruments too." Hyper told him.
"Can you sing for us?" A unicorn asked, who was watching.
"Of course. I was hoping I could."
Hyper then started to strum the guitar. He played a riff with two parts to it, the first part, almost every strum seemed the same, and repeated the riff again.He kept playing it over as he started to sing. Hyper sang with a high and soft voice.
"Water grey
Through the windows, up the stairs
Chilling rain
Like an ocean everywhere"
His voice then got a little bit stronger, but it was still in a high note. The ponies looked at him with awe, and other ponies started to come and stop as they passed by.
"Don't want to reach for me do you
I mean nothing to you
The little things give you away
And now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking"
"All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet, underwater
I do..."
He glanced at the guitar as he played the riff once before he started to sing once more. There was many more ponies watching now, and the colt looked at him with amazement glittering in his eyes.
"Hope decays
Generations disappear
Washed away
As a nation simply stares"
"Don't want to reach for me do you
I mean nothing to you
The little things give you away
And now there will be no mistaking
The levees are breaking"
Hyper started to play the guitar a little different, and a bit heavier, for if he really wanted to do this song, an electric guitar would come in on this part.
"All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet, underwater
I do..."
"All you've ever wanted
Was someone to truly look up to you
And six feet under ground now
I...Now I do"
Hyper then breathed out with his eyes closed, and stopped strumming. He took the guitar strap off of his shoulder and gave it back to the colt. The ponies clapped their hooves on the ground. HyperBlitz bowed his head and the colt came up onto his hooves. Hyper then took his hoof cover from the ground and snapped it back on his leg.
"Wow, you have an amazing voice! That was awesome!"
"Thank you for playing for us." Another stallion spoke.
"It's my pleasure." Hyper smiled, then stared to turn away.
Clopping of hooves came behind him. "Wait you're just going to leave?" A mare said.
"I can't stay in one place for too long.. anyways I need to get something to eat." Hyper noticed that was true, his stomach felt empty, for he hadn't ate since the beginning of the day.
Hyper took is gait a few more steps away from the small crowd of ponies. A pink unicorn seemed to stand right in from of him now, not letting him pass. She had bundled curly hair and bright magenta eyes.
"So after singing, you're just going to leave like this?" The mare spoke.
"Please.. I" Hyper didn't know what to say.
Another mare came to the side, she was white, with a loose curled maroon mane. Her eyes were orange and seemed to burn like fire.
The pink mare started again. " You have a beautiful voice. I haven't heard a song like that in forever."
"Well, thank you... and Thanks for listening, that's all I want from ponies." HyperBlitz retorted.
"Why wouldn't anypony want to listen to your song? Its amazing." Hyper didn't want to add on to what he really meant, but allowed her to speak. "Is that your own song?"
"Yes it is... I wrote it." He trailed off and didn't add on that it was him and his band who wrote it. Hyper didn't want the conversation to go too far.
The pink unicorn came closer and gave a smirk. "I must say, and I am not lying, but I have not seen a stallion as handsome as you in a long time."
Hyper pulled his head back and eyed the white mare as she came forward.
"I'm Ember, and this is my sister, Heart Throb... I'm sorry about her, she is always hitting on guys"
"Hmm, that's odd, I know a pony named HeartFelt." But Hyper spoke in a way that it wouldn't bother the mares, annd they would keep going with their own conversation.
The pink unicorn turned to her sister. "I do not hit on guys, or atleast not as much as I did before... but don't you think its a little lonely in the world? And you should be the one talking. You don't ever go after anypony, while you're more beautiful then me, and have more charisma." Heart Throb looked at Hyper. "But what I said is true. You are hansome, and talented... what are you doing out here all alone?"
"I... nevermind that." Hyper sighed. "I just want to keep moving. I would ask you girls some things... but."
"Go ahead." Ember nodded.
"I was wondering where I can get food. And how? Do I have to pay for it in any way."
"Some ponies trade metal or energy for other suplies." Heart Throb retorted.
"Eh... I don't have that much energy to give away. All I have is in my wing and my hoof cover, and they are turned off." Hyper glanced down at his leg.
"Do you have a magnet?" Ember titled her head, with her swirled hair bouncing.
"No... I gave it to a mare who needed it. Her daughter didn't have any enegy."
"Wow, talented, handsome, and generous." Heart Throb eyed with a smirk.
"I have some food back at our home." Ember said. "You can have a little if you like."
"No, no." Hyper disagreed. "I can't take something if I haven't gave anything to you."
"What do you mean? You gave us that beautiful song." Ember exclaimed. "And for sure, we haven't heard real music in so long. I would be happy to help you."
"Alright." Hyper shrugged. "It's going to get late soon, and I really have nowhere to sleep.. I don't want to bother you, but I guess you can give me some advice.."
Heart Throb winked. "You can sleep with me."
A spark of orange magic shot on her cheek. She spun her head around and scowled at the other mare.
"Next time I'll burn your hair." Ember spoke.