The air was a dry musk this day in ponyville, and few ponies were outside. Bruce however would kill to live in this town compared his place in Basaltimore. Everything was definitely too colorful for him, but the air was much cleaner than any he has breathed in his entire life. The sky was tinted slightly grey by the clouds.
"Stupid weather ponies, always getting Manehattan mixed up with Ponyville" Bruce grumbled under his breath.
He had already booked a suite in Equineo Lodge and was fairly bored, as the concert started at 8:00,and it was only 5:45 now. He trotted his way toward the library. He had done his research on the town and found only a few entertainment centers, one of which was the library owned by Princess Twilight Sparkle. Enroute to the library a trio of young fillies flew across the road screaming at the top of their lungs "CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS CONCERT DECORATERS YAY!!!". He laughed. A whole laugh, something that he hadn't felt in many years. "Silly Fillies they will grow up but they aren't doing so soon."
He pushed open the door to the library and was instantly greeted by a soft, but well spoken, voice "Hello, welcome the the Ponyville library." The lavender unicorn popped her head out of the corner of a bookshelf for a peek of who it was. "Ah Mr. Bruce welcome to the library is there anything I can help you with?" The chocolate pony raised an eyebrow inquisitively. "Oh you must be wondering how I know you name, I am an admirer of your work. I have one of your masterpieces." He glanced to where her hoof had pointed and found his artwork.
It was perched on a small podium in the middle of a small pile of books. It was made of a simple purple stone, Sugilite, made by hoof into the form of a running horse.
He returned to his original intent, to find a book series for his stay at Ponyville. "I suppose you have some kind of fictional series I can check out here? Perhaps Daring Doo? Oh, or even that new writer, what's his name, Wind Writer?"
Twilight perked up at the mention of Daring Doo and brought the whole series over to him. She had a look of minor annoyance on her face. Realizing that he had seen her expression , she explained herself. "Daring Doo is not in fact fictional, but more of a documentary. The pony is real and I have met her. Though the action in this book series may seem impossible, it's not, just highly unlikely."
He gladly took the books and hurried off to his hotel to start the long read ahead of him.
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"Eerrphh!" The sound couldn't be held in, as the orange mare spread her forelegs. "Oh, pardon me, I was sleeping in a horrible way and now I have a few syncthers, oh how embarrassing!"
"Huuh, why do you always have to be so technical all the time, why can't you just say cramps?" His eyes searching for an answer in the ocean blue orbs before him.
"Hey don't be criticizing me Professor Aqua! You told us to study our vocabulary wordsss" her final word drawn out as she bent her hoofs placing them firmly on her back, and leaning backward. Successfully meeting her goal to produce a row of cracks and pops, instantly soothing the tension previously having built up.
"I wanna check out the fashion shops they have here and see if I can get any clothes." He looked into the travel brochure and saw what he was looking for. "Lets see, ah ha! Rarity's boutique, how splendid." Announced The smoke grey professor.
Nadia said in the most sarcastic voice she could muster, "Yea, There will probably be a few nice things there at ridiculous prices, and then we'll never wear it. But if you want to, I guess we can stop by for a while." She said with a glorious smirk etched across her face.
A small while later they arrived at the superfluous boutique and knocked upon the door. "Come in please, you must allow me to quickly finish this project and I'll be right down." After entering the two ponies took in the blast of colors and designs laced across the walls. They were awe-struck by the complexity of the dresses and suits. "Hello, what may I help you with? I have many choices of clothing for you."
"Oh I was simply looking for a slightly more appropriate attire for tonight's concert. A flowery button top is normal where I come from, it might not be very much liked at a concert."
"Yes Yes, let me see, I have just the thing for both of you, come on up stairs." She beamed at them and lead them toward the room with all of the clothing. After the door opened there was a slight breeze and once entered you were immediately blown away by the complexity and neatness of everything. She, using her light blue magic, drew out two matching outfits. The professors attire was a simple suit with a few embroidered designs, Nadia's however was more of a casual dress that would fit well and not absorb too much attention.
After trying the clothes on the professor asked the price of the pair. "Oh dearie, I don't believe I have had a pair that looked so well in them before, I shall ask the price of 25 bits each." The grey pony couldn't get his hoofs into his pockets fast enough.
They decided to peruse the boutique until the concert began. It would be a while and they didn't want to be utterly bored for another two hours.
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"Ahhh" The satisfied mare sighed as she finished her third coffee. "What do you propose we do after this?"
"Well, if you have a cousin that is in the concert, maybe we can help put everything together?" Wind asked hopefully just to try to get something out there so he didn't look stupid.
"Sure, lets go talk to her and see if she needs help with anything."
When they arrived at the stage there was pandemonium everywhere. The DJ and the Cellist were arguing over which songs to play when, the lights were all mixed and needed to be reset into their original places, even the stage itself was a bit off, it was falling to pieces. "Hey Vinyl, my friend Wind and I were just wondering if you wanted some help setting up your stage."
"Sure the Transcelestian Orchestra would work with Flux Ponion but not Deadhor5e and Moozart they aren't even in the same realm Tavi!"
"Now you know I hate that nick-name you gave me, but still add Moozart somewhere into this production please it's one of my favorites." The grey ponies eyes searching for some kind of help behind the DJ's glasses.
"Ughh, fine, but you owe me big time, I've got to re-write the Classical you want into some Skrillex." A wide smirk appearing across her face "Only for you Dear. Ok gotta go see what Flamella wants, see you soon."
"Thank you dear." The grey pony smiling a huge grin lightly kissed the DJ lovingly on the cheek before heading off for a different matter.
"So, what's up?"
"Well..." Flamella actually seemed to be a little bit nervous "Wind and I were just hoping to help with some things around here, It's a little chaotic right now, for being an hour and a half before the concert, ya know?"
"Yea sure, just this way we need some help setting up the tables and you and what's his name could put on the crumb-catchers." She said pointing to a pile of fold up tables and tablecloths. "Aside from that I can't think of anything right now, maybe you and your coltfriend would like some VIP access?" She said Glancing quickly at Wind seeming to notice him for the first time.
"Hey! He's not my coltfriend! He is just a colt and a friend." She turned toward the stallion and saw him smiling but in his eyes she could see he was let down for not being her coltfriend yet. "So where do we start?"
They were led to a stack of red and white plaid tablecloths and fold up plastic tables. The flame maned pony using her horn had lifted the folded tables and, along with her hoofs undid the pegs that held it together. She then placed them gently in a pattern that allowed ponies to easily move in and out easily. The Pegasus pony was working silently with her and placed out, in a perfect blanket, the cloths onto the tables. They had known that this process would take long enough that by the time they were done they would have about ten minutes to settle down before ponies started arriving.