Julian – CsCamper – DashCamp(IDBrony)
Part 8 – My Cellist Friend
Octav's house looked like an abandoned house, I knocked but nopony answered, I knocked harder and the door opened by itself. It felt really creepy, I searched through every room, Octav’s Cello was on the floor, it was dirty and covered in dust. I then heard a soft squeaking sound from Octav’s bedroom, when I got in, I saw her tail slipped out from the wardrobe. I felt something wasn’t right, first I approached the wardrobe, the sound became louder. I opened the wardrobe, inside there was Octav, sweating and frightened. I didn’t know what happened to her, I stood in front of the wardrobe trying to figure out what happened. Octav then slowly peek through her hooves, when she saw me, she seemed relieved.
Half sobbing, she told me everything happened at the gala, she was just paranoid about things happened, but I took it seriously because it had the matter with The Princess. Her mane was messy and her eyes were red, she looked like a mouse after a month of no sleep. She then started crying after she finished her story, “Well.. Octav, i think you should take a look at this, this-“ I showed her the letter which The Princess addressed to me, she fainted after she looked at the letter. “Hey, Octav, wake up. Wake up .I said, wake up!” I tried all I could, but it was no use. I then heard another knock from the front door, I opened the door slowly, two royal guards were standing in front of the front door. “Yes?” I asked softly, “Is Ms.Octavia here?” one of them asked with his heavy voice. I tried to close the door, unfortunately one of them saw Octav lying unconscious on the sofa.
“Stop, I won’t let you touch Octav, not even an order from The Princess” I shouted loudly, they looked at me confused. “Is there a problem, Miss?” the grey royal guard asked, “The Princess asked us to bring her because she hasn’t took her pay” the white pegasus continued. “The pay?” I asked them again, “yes, Miss Octav hasn’t taken her payment from The Princess. It has been a week, that’s why The Princess sent us.”. “Are you sure she wouldn’t banish my friend?” I asked them again, “Banish? What are you talking about, The Princess just want to gave her her payment” , “A’ight” I replied softly, they brought Octav in a carriage and flew to the castle. I was right, Octav was just acting paranoid. I was relieved, I thought something bad would happen. I went back to Ponyville, the pink pony suddenly came out from the train seat, “Where have you been, I have been searching for you all day, next party would be held in 5-4-3-2-1, it has started, I’m waiting for you at Sugarcube Corner.” She talked a bit slower, maybe she was tired. Right after she finished, she jumped out of the train window and just vanished, well.. That’s just her, unpredictable.
When I get off the train, Pinkie suddenly popped out from the tile floor.”Come on, Vinyl. The party has already started for like 2 minutes without music, we need you, now! See you soon at Sugarcube corner”, she then got back into the tile floor, I sometimes wonder if she was a unicorn or not. Just as I trotted out from the station, I noticed an old flyer on the pillar. It was half ripped, but I still could see the photo, it was a photo of a small filly. The filly had the same mane and coat with Octav, it made me curios, “Pinkie! Are you still here?” I shouted , “Yes , Vinyl?” she appeared from the mouse hole, “Sorry Pinkie, I can’t play in the party today, I have another things to do, and it’s more important.” , “Who’ll play the music then? Other ponies seems to like your music more than mine, I’m not even a musician you see, see my cutie mark? Three balloons, and balloons had nothing to do with music, party still have a connection with music but- *mpphhh*”, I pushed my hoof on her mouth, well.. she talked too long. “Why don’t you be the DJ then?” I asked the pink pony, “Really? You would let me use your DJ set? Really? Really? Really? Really? Really?Realililililillllyyyy?” she asked with large kitty eyes, “yeah” I replied shortly “Here’s my house key, my DJ set is in-“ , “You mean this one?” She jumped into a tree, and then she took out a DJ set, my DJ set actually. “How did you..? Nevermind, just make sure it will be fine” , “Okie Dokie Lokie Dj-Ponie, Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” She ended with a hoof on her eye, and then vanished through the ground.
I went back to Canterlot as soon as I could, Octav hadn’t come back yet, her house was also unlocked. I got in and waited for her to came back, two hours, three hours, four hours I waited for her. I then heard soft hoofsteps, “I hope it is Octav”. I was still on the couch when Octav trotted into the living room, “Vinyl? What are you doing here?” , I asked her lots of question, she told me to calm down and I did. After the situation was a bit calmer, we sat on the couch, I then gave her the flyer I saw before. “Where did you get this?” , “in Ponyville, is that really you?” I asked her. She didn’t reply to me, she ran out from the house, I chased her as fast as I could. She ran to the train station, bought the ticket in a rush, and dashed into the train. I chased her until the train, I remembered I almost tripped twice. I found her on the second car, she was sitting next to the window, looking outside with straight eyes. She looked so damn scary, and sad at the same time, I didn’t ask her anything, I just sat there, hoping everything was fine.
To be continued...