Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
They were such a simple thing.
Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
Five notes. Five tones.
Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
Luna had always heard them. Always.
After the death of her parents. On her birthdays. At Christmas, and during other Holidays or important days of note. At first, she'd feared them; why those five notes, and why was she the only one who could hear them? She heard them in her head; they resounded in her blood; they echoed in her dreams.
Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
She'd told Celestia of course, but her elder sister had looked at her funny. She couldn't hear them. The notes, the tones, were only for Luna. The mare began to cherish them. Even when she'd fallen to darkness the notes had played, though there had been a 'sadness' to them; they hadn't sounded as bright. But then, when she'd been purified by the elements of harmony, as she had celebrated the tones had returned, four times over and fast, happy - as though whomever it was playing them was celebrating with her.
Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
Luna became obsessed, so much so that she neither ate nor slept; instead she searched her tomes and then questioned other ponies for the origin of the five notes--and eventually, from a mare named Octavia Melody she learned of the Coltwen Signs used by classroom teachers to teach the solfege scale. Eagerly, Luna learned the signs for the tones resounding in her head...
Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
... and when they sounded again, this time, Luna signed them; at this the tones brightened, becoming almost eager. Much later, Luna began to experience a vision - of a great flat area high above the royal palace, atop Mt. Canterhorn. She knew that place. There she knew something big was going to happen. A mare driven, despite her sister's protests, Luna draw upon the Royal Coffers to have constructed a massive magical amplifier to which a newfangled ee-lec-trow-nik keyboard was attached.
When the construction was completed--soon after, it appeared in the sky, hovering above as Luna, Celestia, and dozens of scientists looked on in awe, and wonder! It was an absolutely enormous pyramidal structure, gleaming golden and brightly lit with dozens of lights as it hovered there before her in the light of her moon. Almost immediately, Luna knew that this was the source of the tones she'd been hearing; this wondrous sky-pyramid! How was it able to just hang there in the sky without wings or magic to keep it aloft? Who had made such a marvelous thing? Was the builder friendly? Luna was certain he - he? - was.
Eagerly, she had Octavia Melody play the notes according to her directions... "Start with the tone... up a full tone. Down a major third. Now drop an octave. Up a perfect fifth." Luna sighed - quivered - as the five-note sequence resounded out into her night.
"Re... Mi... Do... Do... So"
"Faster!" Luna stated, trotting forwards.
"Re, Mi, Do, Do, So"
"Faster!" Luna responded,
"Re, Mi, Do, Do, So" came the notes.
"Repeat!" Luna barked.
"Re, Mi, Do, Do, So"
Finally, she stood before the great golden pyramid as it hovered there in the sky. "Come on," she whispered to herself. "Please. Please answer us. Please..." But from the Great Pyramid... nothing. Luna sank to the ground in despair, weeping. To have come so close, only to be so far away. Why wouldn't the pyramid answer? There was silence atop the Canterhorn, not a sound save for her quiet breathing, the confused murmuring of the scientists and the world that continued to turn, and move and live around her.
But then, suddenly,
"RE, MI, DO, DO, SO" the Great Pyramid responded. The notes were so loud that they could be physically felt; they ROARED as a gale force wind, ruffling coats and blasting through carefully styled manes and tails! Luna... Luna couldn't have cared less about this! Whinnying joyfully, the Lunar Diarch leaped to her feet, laughing, practically dancing a jig! "Repeat the tones!" she cried joyfully, "Repeat them, I say!"
"Kick that mule!" a frazzled Twilight shouted with exhilaration, pronking ecstatically beside a gobsmacked, windswept Celestia. Her eyes shining with tears, Octavia Melody did...
Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
Re, Mi, Do, Do, So
... and as Luna wept openly with joy, the Great Pyramid responded, bobbing, dipping, whirling and weaving, flashing its amazing cyan lights as it danced in her sky! When the aerial display was over, the scientists cheered with uninhibited joy--but as they did so an even more ecstatic cry went up for something else happened: Slowly, gracefully, and silently, the Great Pyramid began to descend. When the colossal structure entered Equus' atmosphere some kind of impregnable energy shield formed around it to protect against the extreme heat and turbulence of entry; a shield so powerful that Luna could practically taste the power in the air; it could have protected the whole of Canterlot and then some!
When at last the Great Pyramid touched down, only Luna was brave enough to approach the structure's enormous, towering doors and when she did she paused to perform a kneeling bow so deep that her forehead touched the floor, in a gesture of the utmost respect to the great icon of the dragon carved into the doors. No sooner had she raised herself to her hooves, then she was quivering in anticipation as those enormous doors silently opened. Beyond, the Moon Princess could see the most amazing entryway she'd seen in her life... but directly in front of her was what truly held her attention. Her eyes widened, her jaw dropped open and her breath froze in her throat as she saw him standing before her. Dark brown hair done up in a peculiar braid framed a weathered face with hazel eyes, a very small muzz - no, a nose - and lips drawn up in a curious little smile.
A hand with five fingers similar to those of a minotaur - attached to a pink-skinned arm, dusted with a light coating of fur - slowly raised up, palm open in friendship, and then... - Re, Mi, Do, Do, So - the tones resounded, softly this time, and as they did, trembling, she signed them to him--and he twisted his hand into various gestures; his own version of the signs. This was the Creator of the Five Note Sequence. She did not know him and yet she did... He was her friend... Whimpering softly, Luna just couldn't help herself; suddenly, she was moving - head forward, gaze seeking, nose questing - toward this alien. She simply had to see if he was really there; had to know if he was real or but a fleeting dream...
Contact was made. His arms embraced her, drew her towards his body, which was clothed in some kind of amazing teal robe covered with runic designs; beneath that was some kind of golden-bronze armor. Young but oh-so-old hazel eyes - filled with wisdom, and glowing faintly with latent power - looked upon her with concern... and then she was rearing up to return his embrace as she wept, wept, wept. It was as if... all her dreams had come true at once. She had been vindicated, and she knew that she would never be alone again.