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// Stallion of the Past 
// Story: Diary of a DJ 
// by XyroX 
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Dear diapery,
It seems that my ‘stalker’ (guess I can call him like that, right?) actually is a nice guy. Last night we met again in the club, right after my performance. He apologized for getting me so hammered last time, and we started to hang out a bit. First I was a bit suspicious, but the better I knew him, the more I liked him. Should I tell you about him? Guess I have no choice, have I? Oh, actually I have, in fact you’re my book and I decide what I write into you, haha!

Just kidding. So, as I said he’s a nice guy. His name is Ruben Dars, he has beige fur, bright green eyes and a light-brown mane. So far, so good, now there’s his cutie mark, I never saw anything like this before. It somehow looks like a round, yellow button, with a black dot on the middle and three black pieces around it, one on the bottom, and one each at the top left and top right corner. I wanted to ask him where he got it, but I don’t think we know each other good enough to go into detail like this. One day I’ll ask him for sure, but it is not this day. Patience, Vinyl… jeez I’m anything but a patient pony. But with this one I will wait, I kinda… like him. Ruben isn’t one of these overly attached fans who just want to hang out with DJ P0N-3, he actually wants to hang out with Vinyl Scratch, and that’s totally new to me. I really like him, and I don’t want to ruin our starting friendship with my normal rushing. Keep it slow, nice and easy. Last time I had a male friend it didn’t turn out good, so I just have to remind myself again and again to stay calmer than usually. And don’t do any stupid things, like discover any top secret documents and almost get him killed. Just say’n.


Wanna hear about that last time? Alright then.
It was about two or three years ago, summer in Ponyville. There was this new guy, Nick, who just moved in right next to my house, and we had a really good start. We hung out a lot, and he totally loved my music which made it even better. Plus, he was a DJ, too, though he wasn’t a professional, he just mixed every now and then, but he had potential. It all went its way and came as it had to come, some evening we both were totally wasted from a party, coming home and somehow started to make out. Nothing bad here, I had a little crush on him since the first sight, and I guess he felt the same. So he was my coltfriend now, and it was one of the most awesome times in my life. 

But you know how life works: ‘Vinyl: ‘I’m totally happy right now!’ Life: ’What? That’s not good. Let’s just fuck everything up.’’. So of course there had to be some trouble. Some day, in the middle of the night, somepony knocked our door and Nick went down to kick the living shit out of whoever dared waking my up at this time. I was a bit worried, so I followed him to intervene any fights that could begin, but I just saw Nick talking to some weird guy, covered in a black coat. He gave him some documents and left. I could see how Nick’s body tensed up, and then he did something he don’t usually do: He went on the balcony and smoked. I went to him, asked what happened, but he just wanted to be alone and sent me back to bed. That was the night my doubts in his white west were planted.

The next days nothing special happened, and one day he was out on work for a long time, and I hadn’t had any gigs that night, so I had all the day for myself. Remembering that one night, I went to his home-office and looked around. Locked away in a hidden safe I finally found what I was locking for: The documents I spotted a few days before. It was weird and I felt bad, searching his stuff, but I had to get answers. The documents had a big red headline: Top Secret. First I thought that was some kind of joke, I mean who would print a huge sign on top secret documents that tells everybody they really are top secret? And how would that stop anypony from reading them? For me, this was one more reason to take a look.

I opened the first page and spotted the emblem of the Griffin Empire. Nothing special, it’s no secret that ponies and griffins have some trading ongoing, and I’m sure there’s more than Celestia and Luna would ever admit. But the next pages just killed my mind. What I was reading there was just too crazy to be actually true. I won’t write it down now, I mean there’s still the danger of anypony finding this and I don’t want to get anypony into some serious trouble, but let’s say it was very, very confusing. And frightening! After Nick came home, I confronted him with what I found, and he just left without a word. It was just like he never existed, from one moment to the next he just disappeared, nopony knew where he came from, nor where he went. I never heard again from him… and actually I’m glad. I don’t want to get involved into these things he was working on, and it was the right decision to try to forget him. Even if my heart still hurts sometimes…