When we got there, there was a line and a bouncer. “Why is there a bouncer?” I leaned over and asked Desani.
“Because the guy were seeing perform likes things to be high maintenance,” Desani replied with a smug look on his face.
“Are you sure we can get in?” I asked giving him a questioning look, he nodded. I noticed some commotion at the front of the line and lend over to look. We were about third or fourth in line so I could see and hear it well. There was a small pegasi girl in a black, skin tight suit. She had teal hair that covered her eyes. It was long in the front and real short in the back. Her coat, from what I could see, was dark grey.
“Why can’t I get in?” The girl said.
“Because theres no children allowed,” the bouncer said firmly.
“I’m just small, I am not a child!” She yelled then brought her voice down and said, “here are extra bits, now can I go in?” The bouncer looked at the bits, he took them and let the girl in. Moments later we were standing in front of the bouncer. Desani gave him a handful of bits and we were in, no questions asked. As we entered we were engulfed in the sound of techno type music and flashing lights.
I leaned over to Psychro and said, “I’m going solo, you two have fun and I’ll catch up with you later,” She nodded and I snuck away. I made my way over to the bar. It was pretty big, with silver bar stools lining the front of it. I sat at one, there were three ponies monitoring it and there weren't many sitting at it or even around it.
“How can I be of assistance?” One of the bar tenders asked, he was an earth pony, with bright green, spiky hair. His coat was a faint purple and his were a dark green.
“I’ll have a hard apple cider, cutie,” I said , half smiling at him. He nodded and smiled back. As he prepared my drink I turned around in my seat and scanned the area. Everybody here is dressed oddly, like not like a Canterlot citizen. How the hell am I supposed to tell who doesn’t belong here?
“Looking for someone?” The bartender asked from behind me.
“Oh, no, just looking around, “ I said, he handed me my drink and lend on the bar top.
“You know, Dacno, you’re going to find lots of good and bad people tonight. Watch your back,because they're not easy to tell apart.”
I glared at him then looked at my drink, I pushed it away and said, “and what are you?”
He chuckled and said, “right now I’m a good guy, but later on...Well you’ll just have to see, now drink up.” He stood up straight and walked down the bar to take care of another order. I decided to take a risk and drink my drink anyways. As I sucked down the apple cider the girl from the line sat beside me.
“Hello,” she said, I smiled at her and finished my drink.
The bartender shot me a look before saying, “I can’t serve minors.”
The girl put her hands on the bar and said, “I’m not a minor and I don’t even want a drink.” The guy didn’t say anything else, he just walked off.
“Who are you?” I asked in a sort of rude tone.
She turned her head, “no one important,” she flashed a creepy smile and turned to face the big crowd of dancing people.
“How old are you? And what's your name?” I asked turning in my seat.
“I’m not old enough to buy alcohol, and my name? Its Hunter, what about yours?” Hunter said.
I turned back around to the bar and said, “my names Dacno. Hey bartender,” I called, he looked at me and I continued, “two more hard apple ciders.” He glared at me and I put three bits on the bar.
He picked them up and mumbled, "coming up.”
I turned to face Hunter and said, “so what brings you to Canterlot?”
She giggled and said, “I thought it was obvious,” She pointed to the stage. There was a beige unicorn stallion on the stage. His mane was dark brown with red streaks in the front and his eyes are dark blue.
“Whos that?” I asked staring at the unicorn on stage. Before she could answer he started to talk.
“Hello everypony! How are you? And are you ready to party?” His voice was very energetic and the crowd was whooping and hollering to what he said.
In the middle of all the noise I heard a familiar voice yell, “I’ll suck your dick.” I rolled my eyes, oh Desani, you stupid fucker.
“His name is Micthemicrophone, hes a pretty big dubstep artist but hes just an Mc tonight. As in he opens up for each act, introducing them,” Hunter said.
“Heres your drinks,” the bartender said handing them to me.
“Thank you,” I said, “here drink this.” I handed one to Hunter, she grabbed it and smelled it. She tried to take a sip but then smelled it again.
“Can we trade?” She asked.
“There the same drink,” I said slightly laughing.
“I know, but I want to trade,” Hunter said holding out her drink, I took it and gave her the other one.
“Are you happy?” I asked.
She smelled it and smiled, “yes, thank you.” She took a sip and choked on it a little.
I chuckled, “I guess you don’t drink much.”
She smiled and said, “yeah, thats it.” Something about this girl is suspicious, maybe shes apart of the syndicate thing. I drank my drink and stared at her. She finished her drink and set it on the bar, then said, “I’ll talk to you later, I have to do something.”
She got up and left, “she really does like you,” the bartender said from behind me.
I jumped and said, “how would you know?” He lend on the bar top and I turned around to face him.
“She's apart of The Everfree you know, a few people from that are very fond of you. Surprising she gave you her real name. Oh and she blind.”
I looked at him questioningly, “what is The Everfree? And sense you know so much, why did she change drinks with me?” I asked raising a brow in a questioning mater.
“The Everfree is a syndicate, but you should already know about that. And I poisoned one of the drinks, she traded you and she took the poisoned one,” he said wiping off the counter with a rag.
“You poisoned her!” I yelled, a couple of ponies shot me a strange look and I smiled sheepishly at them. “You poisoned her?” I repeated in a harsh whisper.
“Its not something that can kill her, it was just something to make her a little slow and sick. If I spot the enemy and they get a drink I’m supposed to poison them and take them to the board,” the bartender said casually like it was no big deal.
I glared at him and said, “whats the board?”
He stopped wiping the bar and said, “you will learn soon enough, they don’t want you to know too much...I actually wasn’t supposed to tell you that.”
I stood up and said, “I’ll be back later,” I started walking away from the bar when a light blue pony bumped into me me making me stumble backwards. “hey watch it!” I yelled and pushed him.
He stumbled and turned around, “I’m so sorry,” he said. He was an earth pony, a peculiar looking earth pony. His mane and tail were dark brown with rainbow colored tips, it reminded me of Rainbow Dash. He was the same color as her too and under his right eye was the lightning bolt from her cutie mark. “What?” He said after a minute of me staring at him in confusion.
“Why does it look like you’re a Rainbow Dash fanboy?” I said bluntly, he squinted his eyes at me and opened his mouth to say something but a white glow coming from behind him but him off. The magical glow lifted up blue mechanical wings. Something I didn’t notice before. The wings were attached to the blue earth pony. “What the heck?” I said looking around to see who was making the magic.
“Sorry, thats my friend, he probably thinks I’m trying to flirt with you.” He glared at a teal coated unicorn with a light green mane. The wings formed back to his back and stopped glowing white. His friend walked over and stood beside him. He was taller than the weird earth pony but not by much.
“Hello there miss,” the unicorn said and smiled a big toothy grin at me. “My name is Lime Seed, and this is Nycto,” the teal unicorn said.
What a weird name, “Lime seed and Nycto? Hmm nice names, I’m Dacno,” I said, half smiling. Nycto and his friend exchanged a look. The same look me and Psychro exchanged when I went to look for suspicious stuff at the market.
“Why don’t we buy you a few drinks, Dacno,” Lime Seed said giving me that big toothy grin again. We went to the bar, the bartender I talked to earlier wasn’t there. Instead he was replaced with a red coated unicorn mare with golden hair.
“Hello, how may I help you this evening?” She said smiling, making her light orange eyes sparkle.
“We’ll have three hard apple ciders, mam,” Lime Seed said putting nine bits on the bar. As we drank the first round we chatted, and I got to know them better. Lime Seed is apart of the Lime family, go figure. There not a big family like the Apples though. And apparently he’s a distant relative of the Apple family. Nycto is a huge fan of Rainbow Dash, like I didn’t already know. Hes so much of a fan that he got Lime Seed to brad her cutie mark over his. The fake wings on his back is something he made. Lime Seed and Nycto have been friends since birth and they were raised in Manehatten. This kept on for a while but after the sixth round I blacked out.