After word of Lighting of Royalty's performance at Thunder Lane's party got out, everypony wanted to get the band to play, the band started charging forty bits per show, which was a reasonable price for how much they were enjoyed by everypony. The band had also written five more songs to make performances longer and to have the band learn more things about their musical talents. Due to all of the different gigs the band had played, everypony in Ponyville were at the least aware of Lighting of Royalty's presence.
"Dude, I never thought we'd become this popular, y'know?" Strummer said, sitting against one of the cellar walls, sipping a hard cider.
"I know, it's crazy. What have you guys been buying with your gig money?" Sun Storm asked.
"I got myself some surround sound for my room, it sounds great." Steel Hoof said.
"I bought a tux." Cloud Wave said.
"I'm saving up for a new bass." Strummer said. "What about you, Sun?"
"I've only bought one thing, a pair of aviator shades, other than that, I've been saving." Sun Storm said, using his magic to levitate a brown lensed pair of aviator shades out of his guitar case and sliding them on his face.
They all sat relaxing until they heard the telephone ring.
"I got it." Steel Hoof said, trotting to the phone and picking it up. "Hello?"
"Hey, Steel, it's Pinkie!"
"Oh, hey Pinks, what's up?"
"The sky, silly! Duh!"
The other three band members listened the best they could to the conversation Steel Hoof was having with Pinkie Pie but they all couldn't really figure it out until Steel Hoof told them.
When Steel Hoof was done on the phone he walked over to his friends. "Hey guys, wanna play a gig Friday?"
"Sure, is it one of Pinkie's parties?" Sun asked.
"Yeah but it's one of her biggest parties she's ever planned and she wants to know if we'll play at it, she said everypony'll probably be there! She'll pay us a whopping three hundred bits!" Steel Hoof was ecstatically saying.
Strummer spat out cider onto the floor and coughed. "Three hundred bits?! That's like... seventy five bits for each of us, right?!"
"Hell yeah! Everypony in?!" Steel Hoof asked, you could hear every ounce of excitement in his voice.
Everypony nodded and clunked their hooves together. This show was gonna be great!
"We gotta practice hard for this, Friday is in two days." Sun said, levitating his Axe toward him.
"Let's go!" Cloud Wave said.
The band began to practice with more energy than ever before. This gig was only gonna get better for them.
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After two days of almost nonstop practicing, the band was ready for this show.
"You guys ready?" Sun asked all of his friends.
All said yeah and with that they approached Pinkie, who was putting up the final touches of the party decorations.
"Hey, Pinkie!" Sun said, waving a hoof.
"Hey guys! The stage is over there!" Pinkie said, pointing to a column-like obstruction that had to be at least fifteen feet tall.
"Whoa... we've never played on such a tall tower." Steel Hoof said, looking at the top of the column.
"Well, I thought the coolest band in Equestria deserves the coolest stage too! Did I mention the pyrotechnics?" Pinkie said, grinning.
"Pyrotechnics! Oh sweet! How do they work?!" Strummer asked, exited for how cool this was gonna be but also scared because it was Pinkie who set up the fireworks.
After a quick run down of how the fireworks were gonna work, forty five minutes of unpacking instruments, and an hour long practice session for good luck the band was ready to play. Guests had started to arrive and the band began to mingle amongst the ponies that were attending the gathering. Sooner or later the band realized that when Pinkie says "everyponys gonna be there" she really means it. The members of Lighting of Royalty saw so many ponies, Rainbow Dash, captain of the weather team, Applejack, the pony who runs Sweet Apple Acres and the band's supplier of hard cider, DJ-PON3, the biggest dj in Ponyville, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, who tried to get their 'guitar tuning cutie marks' by trying to tune Sun Storm's Axe, Rarity, the biggest fashion designer in Ponyville and Canterlot, even Princess Twilight Sparkle showed up, not to mention many more, the band was amazed.
"Well I dunno 'bout you guys but I'm gonna test my luck with Ms. Rainbow Dash." Strummer said as he walked in that direction until he was pulled back by Sun Storm's hoof.
"Before we split ways until the actual show, I need you guys to keep an eye on how much you drink, no more than two hard ciders, you especially, Steel Hoof. We don't need plastered musicians not knowing what they're doing." Sun said to all of his band mates.
"We'll watch it." Steel Hoof said.
They all agreed not to drink more than two hard ciders and parted ways to talk to party goers. Strummer was trying to see if Rainbow Dash would go out with him but he was failing at it comedically, Steel Hoof almost immediately hit the bar to pick up his first cider, Cloud was off to talk to a couple of friends he recognized, and Sun Storm just kinda sat on one of the steps that lead to the top of the column stage they were gonna play on. Sun then felt a presence sit down next to him, he looked to his left to see that it was DJ-PON3.
"Why're you just sittin' here? You should be out enjoying everyponys company." The pale yellow, almost white, unicorn said.
"Eh, I don't usually start conversations with people. I ain't that kind of pony I guess." Sun Storm said
"Well I am, anyways, why don't I introduce myself, I'm Vinyl Scratch, or as you may know me, DJ-PON3. What's your name?" Vinyl asked.
"I'm Sun Storm, I like your music." Sun said as a smile formed on his face.
"I like your music too. I wouldn't expect a metalhead like yourself to be into my genre. Then again I bet you didn't expect me to like your genre either." Vinyl responded
"It's awesome to see that a pony like yourself like my bands music, especially since your pretty famous and all." Sun said.
"Yeah, it's nothin'. Hey, want me to hook you up with my producer, he'll probably want you guys to be playing for his label, y'know, since you guys rock and all." Vinyl asked.
"You'd really do that?!" Sun Storm said, jumping to his hooves.
"Yeah!" Vinyl said before she was embraced in a hug from Sun Storm.
"Oh, thank you so much Vinyl!" Sun said, almost in tears of happiness.
"Any time dude, here's my number, call me up when you guys are ready to head to the label, I ain't doin' nothin' tomorrow so I'll be game whenever." Vinyl said as she was released from Sun's hug.
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It was finally time to play, the band walked up to the top of the stage.
"So how did it go with Rainbow?" Steel Hoof asked jokingly.
"She said she'd think about it." Strummer said feeling a bit bummed.
"She'll probably change her mind after what I'm going to tell you after this show." Sun said grinning
The whole band didn't know what Sun Storm was speaking of but they knew whatever it was it was probably important.
Upon reaching the top of the stage and getting ready on their designated instruments the concert was ready to begin.
"Mares and gentlecolts.... we are... LIGHTNING OF ROYALTY!" Cloud Wave metal-screamed into the microphone.
That made the crowd erupt with cheers.
"Now, Sun Storm. Start us off." Cloud Wave said.
Sun Storm didn't hesitate, he began playing a guitar-only song he had written, it was fast, complex, and melodic, nopony would even think it was possible for anypony else to play, even the most skilled of guitarists. When the three minute fourteen second piece was over, everypony stood silent, jaws dropping in awe. Finally they shook themselves of the trance and began cheering. Nopony was happier at that moment more that Sun Storm. The rest of the concert went well as planned, they played all ten of their original song plus five cover songs and with that the show was over and everypony was cheering as the band walked down the stairs, each band member signed at least one autograph which was a first to Lightning of Royalty, they'd have excited crowds but never crowds that wanted autographs.
"Hey guys, You know that thing I referenced as we were walking up stage?!" Sun yelled over the screaming fans.
"Yeah! What of it?!" Cloud answered.
"We have a meeting with a record label tomorrow! We might be famous!" Sun yelled once more.
"Really?!" Steel Hoof asked.
"Yeah, Steel, really!" Sun responded.
"Woooooooo!" Strummer yelled.
The band was so happy to finally have chances at being famous, all thanks to a mare named Vinyl Scratch. The band was the happiest they'd ever been.