//------------------------------// // Chapter Nineteen- Starlight and Octave // Story: Notes Of Time // by MLPxMaestro //------------------------------// Notes Of Time: Chapter 19- Starlight and Octave: Months had now passed since Octave’s unforgettable experience, and now she had some time to herself for her school year was almost over for the summer. For Octave’s condition, she managed to make a full recovery, though some nerves within the leg were dead and torn, and had to be removed. So she had a bit of numbness in a small portion of her bitten leg, the scar was still there as well. As far as Applejack’s concern for Octave, AJ, Maestro, and Octavia ended up meeting each other at Octave’s room that following morning by coincidence. Octavia wasn’t really too fond of her, but Applejack did in fact still get the good amount of refined respect from Octavia about pretty much in a nutshell, saving her daughter’s life. Octave’s thirteenth birthday was now just around the corner, and Maestro’s distant friend Starlight finally would have a chance to reunite some of their friendship they had after a couple of years or so of not seeing each other at all. She decided as of starting it off good, why not do some catching up with Octave? “Okay champ, let’s head out okay? Hey, we’ll see you two later okay? You lovebirds have fun at that concert or whatever it is at that concert hall place. But me and Octave here are gonna chill together and what not.” Starlight chuckled. “Okay Starlight, and remember that-” “Yeah I know dad…no cloud walking if she invites you, right?” “No…okay yes…well…sort of…okay I don’t know now.” “Relax, I bet my friend Twilight down at the library could give me a cloud walking spell or something. She’s a princess dad, I bet she knows all kinds of spells.” “Well eh…I suppose you could do that, but I still don’t know about you walking on clouds.” Maestro scratched the back of his head, only concerned for Octave simply because he loved her as a good father should be. “It’s fine dad, I will be fine…and mother agrees with me right?” “I’m staying out of this one young lady, this is between you two, not me along with it.” Octavia smiled, showing some classiness behind her expression. “Well don’t you worry Mrs. Octavia, we’ll get her down to that library and fix her right up. After that, nothing to worry about, see?” said Starlight. “I’m sure you only mean this for the best of my daughter correct? I trust you two will not get into any trouble together?” Octavia raised an eyebrow curiously. “Yes ma’am, only for a beautiful refined young mare such as yourself shall I uphold my end of the bargain.” Starlight replied, but then looked back at Octave followed by a wink. “Very good then Ms. Starlight, me and Maestro shall be heading off to the concert now, and that I would like Octave to be back here by tomorrow morning nine o’ clock sharp.” “Yes ma’am, you can count on it.” Starlight nodded assuring. Since she was in the military during the war after all, no doubt you could count on her when it come to being reliable as far as deadlines were concerned. A few minutes later, Octave was hanging on for dear life as she looked down and around Starlight’s body up in the air heading down to Ponyville. Octave had originally came up with the idea for paying Twilight a visit, since she obviously knew no other ponies who knew a spell for her to walk on clouds. “Relax, ouch! You’re hurting me with those hooves in my neck!” “I’m sorry Starlight, I just can’t let go!” Octave said shutting her eyes tight, afraid to look down once more. “No I mean just lax up a bit on the grip okay? You will not fall off if you do that, I promise.” Starlight replied, letting Octave know that she was a Pegasus you could count on, somewhat like Rainbowdash where loyalty’s concerned, but overall she would still lose comfortably as far as loyalty’s concerned about comparing the two of them. They both then arrive at Golden Oaks Library, which was Twilight’s original home, and she still stayed there from time to time. “Twilight? Hello?” “Oh, hey Octave! It’s been a while hasn’t it?” “Princess Twilight! Oh, please forgive my intrusion.” Starlight bowed to her. “Please, no need to really bow at this time. But what is it you both need? Oh, and I heard about that tragic thing that happened to you Octave, are you okay?” “Yeah, I’m fine, numb in a small part of my leg, but eventually I think they said new nerves will grow in their places. But anyways, I’m going to be with my friend Starlight here, and I was figuring you might have a spell that lets me walk on clouds or something?” “Well I do know one of those in fact! Though I would have to ask…how long will this visit with her be exactly? The spell wears off in about a day, or about eighteen hours to be precise.” Twilight replied. “Okay, I understand…but I’m ready I think.” “Well, okay then…here it goes.” Twilight’s horn gave off a small orb of magic, as it floated over and around Octave’s body. She still continued to stand there patiently, knowing that surely a princess wouldn’t screw up on a spell as petty as this one was? Suddenly, a flash or light blinded everypony in the room, and nothing could be seen for a few seconds. The white room then cleared s few short moments later, and Octave continued standing there like nothing had happened. “Um…I don’t really feel any different?” “That’s because you have to-…oooh right he-he…my bad. I think the only way to test it out is by having to actually go up there and see if you…well…” Twilight then stopped herself, panning back over to Octave and then Starlight making her way net to her. “You’re saying I have to go all the way up there to simply test it?!” Octave was shocked, and was also worried too. She knew that if the spell didn’t work, she would fall to her death, and then there would really be something for her family to cry about. “Wait, I am a Pegasus after all, I could just whip up a quick little cloud, and bring it down close to the ground so that if it didn’t work, you won’t get as badly hurt.” “Yeah…as badly.” Octave replied. “What if I still end up breaking a leg…or even worse?” “Oh relax Octave, a Pegasus knows what she’s doing when it comes to stuff like this. I’ll put it low enough to where the least you’ll get is a bruise or something.” Said Starlight assuring her that she had everything under control. “Well…I guess it’s worth a shot.” “Then it’s settled I guess from the looks of it. Both of you better get a move on then, you’ll want to live out that cloud life, as Rainbowdash says.” Twilight smiled. “Of course princess…and thank you.” Starlight then gestured for Octave to head out with her to an open hill just outside of town. “Bye Twilight! It’s been nice seeing you again!” Octave waved back just before she closed the door. “Farewell Octave, be careful this time!” Twilight waved back. A little while later, Octave stood out in the middle of an open hill, and Starlight was up in the air quickly putting together a practice cloud to test it out on. “Okay, here we go! You ready to give it a whirl?” Starlight asked her anxious to get started. “Well, no turning back now…yeah, let’s try this out.” Octave replied, as she got onto the Pegasus’ back to be steadily flown up to the cloud. It remained over the soft grass, and floating up above ground a comfortable ten feet in the air. “Oh boy…I-I don’t know about this?” Octave hesitated, looking at the cloud then back over to Starlight. “Just do it okay? I’ll catch you if you fall through…like uhh…like this!” Starlight then quickly bumps Octave off of her back, and onto the white cottony heap of cloud, as she flies right under the place of where the filly was predicted to fall should she fall. “Ahhh! I’m…oh…I’m…just fine.” She said out loud to herself surprised. “See? I knew the princess wouldn’t let us down!” Starlight replied smiling to her, proud that she conquered the white fluffy monster known as a cloud. “Oh boy! This is going to be so much fun! I get to live and act like a Pegasus for a whole day!” Octave hopped little off the cloud’s surface happily. “Yeah, but once you wake up, it’ll wear off about that time. Remember what she said Octave.” “Yeah I know, be back by nine o’ clock sharp.” Octave replied with spite in her voice. “No not that…the princess said that-” “It will wear off in about a day.” “Eighteen hours.” Starlight added, though not trying to be too much of a smarty to her. “Right…so I guess by the time I wake up tomorrow morning, it’ll wear off.” “Correct, but as long as you’re in my house you should be fine. I mean my house is not completely made up of clouds on the inside thank Celestia. Now then, let’s head on over there, what do ya say?” “Yeah!” Octave then quickly hopped onto Starlight’s back as she made her way back up to the side of the cloud for the filly to get on and hold on tight. Before Octave was entirely prepared, Starlight shot off, causing Octave to instinctively hang onto the mare’s neck for dear life, as she remained in-between her firm flapping wings. The feelings Octave had of being high in the air were mixed feeling of exhilaration and fear of falling all at the same time. She stared off into Canterlot from the great distance, mesmerized by its sheer size and beauty, even from where she was. They were approaching the greatest city in the skies faster than Octave was expecting to arrive there, and she couldn’t wait to finally get off and step onto a whole new world for her.