//------------------------------// // Chapter Sixteen- Octave's Experience // Story: Notes Of Time // by MLPxMaestro //------------------------------// Notes Of Time: Chapter 16- Octave’s Experience: Maestro had reached the station quite swiftly, and heard a train arrive by the distinct and loud sound of its whistle. He then quickly approached the ticket booth, asking for a ticket to Ponyville. “Yes I’d like a ticket to-” “Maestro!” To his surprise, it was Vinyl, and she looked like she was awfully worried. When she approached him “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m so so sorry, please forgive me!” Never had he ever seen Vinyl act this way. She even hugged him tightly, and what sounded like her trying to fight back tears. “Please you got to come with me back to the hospital!” “Wh-what? What’s going on!? What’s happened?” “Octave…she’s not in good shape I heard. I don’t know how she’s doing over there, but it didn’t seem good to me.” She sniffed, her eyes starting to tear up. “M-my baby girl?! S…surely…not…this isn’t happening is it?” Maestro’s tone immediately changed to one of pure worry and concern for his daughter. “Where’s Octy?” “She’s back at the house waiting for me. I guess my bond with her is connected…” “You were saying?” Vinyl turned facing him. “Wha- um, it’s nothing…let’s just get over there now!” “Awesome, follow me now!” Vinyl then grabbed him by his hoof and guided him back to the same train. She flashed the pass she had, followed by a brief tip of the hat to her from the conductor patiently waiting on her. “We need to get back to Ponyville please.” Said Vinyl. “Yes ma’am! Let’s go, back to Ponyville! Immediately!” the conductor then once more rang a bell, signaling for a second time, they get there as quick as they could. Meanwhile, back at the Ponyville Hospital… Octave lied there in the room recovering, continuing to sleep and rest up as the doctor said she could finally do, now that they have her set up to some fluids through an I.V. However, Octave for some reason seemed to wake up, but yet she didn’t feel like she was actually awake. It was almost like she was in a dream, but she knew for a fact she was awake…or possibly hallucinating. She couldn’t believe what she was looking at, what appeared to be one of the most beautiful ponies she had ever seen. “Hello.” The pony smiled at her with a seemingly ‘heavenly’ presence. “Who…uh…why are you…here?” she asked the unknown pony to her in a tired tone still after ‘waking up’. “I am here because I have been watching over you for quite some time now.” The pony replied, continuing to smile at her. It was like she had no signs of any other emotions other than pure happiness and love. She wore a flawless pure bright white thin toga around herself, and a faint white light outlined her body as she stood there facing Octave. “B-but I don’t…know who you are?” Octave asked. The pretty pony blinked once, then exhaled, followed by a transcendental smile from her face. Octave could not comprehend what was even going on at the moment. However, she felt nothing more than pure love at the sight of the pony, like it was emanating out from her very being and existence. The doctor observing Octave from the outside of the room noticed that Octave appeared to be facing to the left of her, and what appeared to be talking to somepony. Yet he saw that nopony was in the room at all. “Something’s…going on…but what?” he thought. Within the room however, the gorgeous pony then drove Octave to a point of figuring that it was nothing more than a dream or something like that. “Dear Octave…I am the grandmother you never got to meet.” Said the pony, as she blinked once more with a smile. Octave’s eyes then widened, as her bottom lip was shaking a tiny bit. “Wh-what? I…I don’t understand?” Said Octave. “I am your mother’s mother. My name is Melody my dear angel, but Octavia is my angel too.” She giggled. “B-but why? Why did…I never get to see you? Did you live somewhere else?” “You could certainly put it that way dear. Though I am happy beyond comprehension as of where I am now.” Melody replied, never failing to smile back at the granddaughter she had never got to be with. “I…but I…I don’t get it um…Melody?” “It’s quite alright darling, and that you must know that I continue to watch over you, and that I love you so very much dear.” Melody then slowly approached next to Octave’s bedside and softly kissed her on the forehead. The feeling brought Octave to tears of just how happy and joyous it felt from her. It seemed like she was nearly perfect in every way possible. Octave then began to wonder something she had never considered until now. “Y-you’re…a-an…B-but…how?” Octave’s voice shook in shock, still trying to comprehend what she was experiencing. She still though through instinct felt like she wanted to tell the pony who was claiming to be a grandmother she never got to meet until now. “I…I l-love…y-you.” Octave’s words crept out on their own, like her mind didn’t understand one second of what was still happening in front of her, but yet her heart still knowing the truth. “I love you too…and so very much, and that I will always be with you.” “B-but…what about…” “Shhh it’s okay Octave…you do now know just how happy I will be when I get to reunite with you and Octavia…my sweet Octavia. Do not fret my dear, merely rest your lovely eyes, and I will always be with you…farewell.” Melody then once again kissed Octave on her cheek, as Octave then tried to hug her deceased grandmother. Unfortunately, it passed right through her angelic presence, as Melody then completely disappeared within the dark room. The experience then ended up bringing Octave to tears once more, as she began crying. The doctor then quickly opened up the door to check in on her, and had left him wondering why Octave seemed to act so strange? “Are you okay little girl? What happened? Are you hurt?” the doctor asked concerned “No.” Octave sniffed. “Are you sad or anything?” “Nuh-uh.” She shook her head. “Can you tell me what happened?” “I…I don’t know what to do…but I’m…I still feel happy though.” “What? Happy? B…but how and…” the doctor was speechless, never had he had a patient be like this, and better yet claim she felt happy for some very strange reason. “Just tell me what you saw or whatever it is you felt.” The doctor then quickly got his clipboard with a piece of paper, and a pencil to record what she had said. “Um…okay.” Octave replied, still sniffing here and there from her crying, and trying to clear herself up a bit more to tell him what she claimed had happened to her. Meanwhile at Ponyville Station, both Maestro and Vinyl were galloping their way over towards the hospital, and no doubt was Maestro anxious to see his little girl. Minutes later, they arrive through the double doors of the hospital. “Where is Octave? I need to see her!” Maestro said to the front desk pony with urgency. “Octave? Well now, let me see here…” she searched through files she had stored away within the file cabinet of patients beign kept there, and Maestro didn’t have much patience to begin with. “Please hurry ma’am, I need to see my daughter!” “Oh my, you’re her father?! Oh I’m so sorry for the wait…she’s in room one-seventeen.” “Thank you miss, come on Vinyl!” he grabbed her hoof. “W-well okay then, geez!” Tirelessly Maestro climbed the stairs rather than take the elevator. He’d instead want to work his tail off running up there rather than waist no energy at all in the elevator is what Vinyl thought. He arrived on the top level of the hospital, and dashed straight down the right side of the hallway, which was fortunately in the right direction, and he didn’t even bother to look whether it was or not. He then luckily arrives at the room his sweet little daughter was in, noticing that the window blinds were shut, and that there was a possibility that she might have been resting at the moment. He then looked back at Vinyl, but then over her shoulder to a doctor walking back his direction. “Hello? I-is this Octave’s room?” “Yes sir it is…and may I ask who you are by chance?” the doctor replied. “I am Maestro, her father, pleased to meet you.” They both then share a hoofshake with each other as a small smile forms on the doctor’s face. “Ah of course, pleasure to meet you sir, I’m surprised you even managed to get here by chance. Just how did you-” “Long story, I would rather not go there for the time, may I just see how my daughter’s doing?” Maestro asked him eagerly. “Yes sir, understandable. Now who is this next to you?” “The name’s Vinyl Scratch.” She smiled. “Ah, okay then…but where’s your wife Mr. Maestro sir?” said the doctor. “Unfortunately she’s back the house, waiting for me to get back. Never did I expect this to be of my daughter. How did this even happen Vinyl?” “I’m really sorry Maestro! She just told me she was heading down to Sweet Apple Acres where one of her apparent new cousins or relatives lives. So…yeah…I’d rather not say what happened after that.” Vinyl replied then looked off to another direction from him. “She was attacked by a Timberwolf Mr. Maestro.” “She was what?!” Maestro’s eyes widened by a big margin, he couldn’t believe what the doctor had said to him just then. He then turns to face back at Vinyl, and has grown to be quite upset now. “You never told me she was attacked by one of those beasts?! You think it would have been okay to not tell me Vinyl?!” “Again I’m sooo sorry Maestro! I swear to you…I didn’t expect this to happen to her as of how safe this town is. How would I have known she would’ve been attacked by one of those things out of everypony else in town? Look, all I know is that the Everfree Forest borders very close to one of the pathways to Sweet Apple Acres, and it just so happened that she-” “Damn it Vinyl, I got it! Just…I’m just going to be with my little girl right now, I would appreciate some privacy please! As for you Vinyl!” He then turned to face her before he went into the room. “I would have expected you to under no circumstances travel alone at such a distance…I’m ashamed…I really am.” Maestro stated, he then went in and shut the door behind himself. Vinyl’s face began to express feelings of being agitated; despite she was hurt by what he said, but not showing it. She appeared from the outside to be frustrated back at him to help cover up her feelings beign hurt a bit there, but inside she was anything but angry or frustrated. She felt nothing but sympathy for Octave, and just wanted her to be okay. Vinyl then heard the doctor say nothing and return back down the hallway, leaving her out there by herself for a little while to think a few things through. “I’m sorry Maestro…I’m so sorry…I’m the worst friend ever I swear.” She said to herself in a disappointed tone to herself. Maybe Maestro was right, maybe she should have went with her at her age to make sure she was safe. It just never seemed to cross her mind over two things. First, was that it was never in her; after all she knew that Ponyville was one of the safest towns, cities, etc. in Equestria. Second, she had faith that Octave would have made it there just fine, despite it even approaching sunset. She never would have guessed that A Timberwolf out of all times and places would choose to do this. She just didn’t understand why it had to happen to that poor filly, better yet even particularly her to begin with…it was ridiculous Vinyl had thought. All it did as of thinking about all of this stuff now seemed to do nothing but make herself more and more angry with herself, and like she needed to be like that in front of Octave, should she ever get the chance to meet her now. Vinyl now began to wonder if she would ever be able to see Octave ever again for starters. Would Maestro ever permit Vinyl to see her again? Despite all of what had occurred in these late hours?