I really hope he will come.
That was her first and last thoughts after leaving Ponyville…
“We arrived at Canterlot! This train is going to Ponyville in half an hour” the conductor yelled standing outside helping the older ponies to get out of the train.
Twilight opened her eyes. Awakened by the conductor and all the other ponies moving.
She looked out of the window to see the royal train station in front of her. Giant glass panes covert the front and the back of the station, with a huge timepiece in the middle.
Twilight walked out of the train to see two royal guards standing in front of her.
“Princess Twilight Sparkle?” they asked with a way to deep voice.
Twilight stared at him with wide eyes, “Yes that’s me” she replied.
“We were asked by Celestia to take you to your room, please follow us” they said again with a way too deep voice.
Twilight followed them through the Royal Palace all the way to the second tower, back to her old room, from before she came to Ponyville.
She opened the door and saw her room in exactly the same state as when she left. The book where still in alphabetic order, and spikes’ basket was still a mess.
“Princess Celestia expects you to be at the royal concert hall within an hour” one of guards said just before leaving.
Twilight waited until the other guard had closed the door.
“And now I'm going to see what can be found in my books about that ‘Octavia’ “she said while walking to her bookshelf.
She walked to the letter F, for a book called Famous Musicians. “Ah, here it is” she picked up a book off the shelf called ‘Famous Musicians of this time’.
She opened the book and searched for the name ‘Octavia’.
“Octavia Melody, could it really be her?” she saw a gray earth-pony with a mane of charcoal, she was about Twilight age and had a huge wooden cello next to her.
She was just about to read the text when suddenly Luna opened her door.
“Twilight, are you ready?” Luna asked not using her Royal voice.
“Ow, hi Luna” Twilight replied. “Weren’t we supposed to meat each other at the concert in about an hour?”
“Within an hour, and that doesn’t mean I can’t visit you, does it?”
“No, no, you can always visit me” Twilight trying to not offend her. “You’ve really worked at your voice I hear”
Back in the old days Luna always spoke with the Royal voice, even when she had a conversation with Twilight, Celestia and Twilight kept saying she had to talk normal because in these days the Royal voice was more… intimidating.
“I certainly have” Luna said proud.
Twilight gave away a little smile just before closing her book and placing it back in the shelf.
Luna looked curiously to Twilight and the book, “What were you reading?”
“O nothing” Twilight tried to come across as uninteresting as possible. “Are we going now?” she said quickly.
“O, yes of course. Celsty will be waiting at the entrance”
“Celsty” Twilight giggled.
Twilight walked beside Luna on their way to the Royal concert hall, but when they arrived at entrance both ponies did not see Celestia.
Luna flew a bit in the air. “Where the buck is she?” she said softly
“Luna watch your words!” She heard just behind her.
“You? How? What? “She was very confused that Celestia suddenly appeared behind while she just looked everywhere.
“What? I’m on time right?” Celestia looked at Luna with such a facial expression that Luna Immediately knew that Celestia was teasing her.
“Well, yes but how the buck did you appear behind be?!”
“Watch you words Luna” Celestia repeated “and ever heart about a teleportation spell?”
Twilight giggled because she saw Celestia arriving with her teleportation spell.
“Well, let’s go Celsty” Luna said as revenge. Giving Celestia the same facial expression as she received earlier.
“Don’t call me that! You know I hate that!”
Twilight giggled again, she was just enjoying the sisters teasing each other while following Celestia to the Royal Concert hall.
Once inside she saw the huge concert hall with all her beauty. Two golden statues from historical musicians on the left and the right.
The one on the left was a colt with a violin, colors not visible because the statue was all gold.
The one on the right was a mare with a lyre, she looked a bit like Lyra, but I wasn’t her for sure.
Twilight, Luna and Celestia walked to an entrance at the right side of the concert hall, followed by a stairs leading to a small plateau at the upper left side of the concert hall.
Twilight sat down on one of the chairs that were standing next to each other. The one she sat on was purple, like her kind of purple, with her cutie mark on top of it. Next to her sat Luna, followed by Celestia and Cadence.
“Isn’t this place just beautiful” Celestia mention while making herself comfortable in her chair.
Luna on the other hand was already bored of it, she didn’t like concerts. She finds it ‘boring’ and ‘time wasting’. Candace was more like Celesta and loved it, she thought it would be heartwarming, she had met Octavia a couple times before and she knew of what she was capable of, Unlike Twilight. She did not meet Octavia before nor went to a royal concert before.
“When are we beginning?” Luna whined as a little kid.
Celestia sighed…
“If you keep whining it only takes longer”.
She felt herself more like a mother than a sister.
Cadence heard everything Luna and Celestia said, upon she whispered to Celestia “Is she always so childish?”
“I AM NOT CHILDISH” Luna yelled in the royal voice.
“LUNA!” Celestia whispered and yelled at the same time, feeling a bit embarrassed at the behavior of her sister.
Luna grinned at the insult and looked straight forward to at least look a little bit more adult.
After some time talking to each other all the ponies where in the concert hall and they were ready to begin. The curtain opened and a gray mare was standing in front of her cello and in the middle of 2 two colts, one ready to play a black pianoforte and the other ready to play a golden harp. Behind them was the rest of the band, not clearly visible because the attention had to go to the main three.
She first welcomed everypony and then she called out the name of her self-made song or how other call it ‘a symphony’. Everypony was quiet and she started playing.
Her symphony was very impressive it had all the key element a symphony needed to have, the low drumming, the rising figure in the strings, and the falling figure in the winds.
Twilight was amazed at the sound they made, it was just perfect. Octavia leading the middle ground and the side ponies their sides.
Twilight when she looked at Octavia she felt something rumbling in her belly, was she hungry? Or was it something else? She looked at her belly in concern because she knew there won’t be any food till it’s over. She stared back to Octavia, Octavia’s eyes where so beautiful, her eyes were purple just like Twilight’s but just a little bit lighter.
Suddenly while Twilight was staring to Octavia’s eyes Octavia looked back at her, releasing a little spark between them. It felt magical, heartwarming and comfortable, and at the same time it felt strange. They stared to each other for like 5 minutes just observing the other mare’s eyes, Octavia still managing to play further.
“Everything alright?” Luna whispered Twilight, waking her up from staring to Octavia.
Twilight blinked a few times and replied “ehh, yes why wouldn’t I be alright?”
“Well, you were staring intensively and you didn’t blink for like 2 minutes”.
“ehh, I think the music just touched me” Twilight did not want anypony to know what just happed, not that she knew what happened, but still, it was safer to say nothing.
Twilight looked back at Octavia noticing she wasn’t looking at her anymore. She looked at her for the rest of the concert but she didn’t get a single glance back, making her more confused about what just happened.
After hearing applause Octavia thanked and bowed for everypony from left to right and just before the last bow she looked at Twilight just a little longer and then bowed. As she stood up and turned around she gave Twilight one last glance before disappearing behind the curtain and giving Twilight a weird feeling about what just happened.