Julian – CsCamper – DashCamp(IDBrony)
Part 9 – Octav, Don’t be Sad
5 hour journey from Ponyille to Canterlot, then 6 hour of waiting in Octav house, and this, another 5 hour journey from Canterlot to Ponyville, my ass was hurting so much, can you imagine that? Arriving in Ponyville station felt like heaven to me, I got off from the train, stood on my four hooves and relaxed my body. Just as I finished stretching a bit, Octav rushed out from the station, she trotted carefully, observing everything on her line of sight, her eyes were straight and felt blank. I followed her, she trotted around from the apple farm to the Everfree forest, she looked very confused, “Octav, you look tired, why don’t we take a rest first?” I suggested her, “Sorry Vinyl, but this is more important, about my family”,she replied with a deep sad voice. “Octav, I know it’s important for you, but if you can’t take a good care of yourself, how will you manage yourself on searching your parents?”
She was quiet, maybe I was too rude, but that was for her own good, not for me. I then took her to the Sugarcube corner, the pink pony suddenly popped out of nowhere,”Hey Vinyl, do you believe that I am a DJ too? Remember last night when you lent me your DJ set, it was awesome, I played this that, and I found a this called wubsteps, wubsteps what is that? It’s kinda rhyme with cupcakes, but with different intonation and word, see? Cupcakes, wubsteps, or maybe I can make wubcakes, wubcakes wubcakes, and... Oh! You were the Cello in the gala right? The Cellist who helped me on the Pony Pokey song, The gala wasn’t really what I had expected before, but hey.. Your play still help me to be happy, what’s with the sad face Miss.Cellist? Take a seat, I will-“, “I think you should stop Pinkie, Octav aren’t feeling well today, can I order milkshake for two of us?”, “It’s okay” Octav cut our talk, “Nothing to worry Vinyl, see even this Miss.Cellist is okay with that. Oh! Have I introduced my self, I’m Pinkie Pie, the Pink and the Pie, because I like to make pie! And cupcakes too, I love cupcakes, sorry I talked too long , maybe my elements forced me too, or my talent maybe? Partying sure need lots of things inside, perhaps that’s why I talked a lot, but hey it helped me a lot, a lots of lotsy lots. I’m friend with everypony in ponyville, and I know all of them, for example Vinyl, I just made you a cake for your birthday in the next 5 months 14 days and 6 hours.”, “How did you.. uh... just forget it.”
“Pinkie, you just said you know everypony in Ponyville right?” Octav asked her, “Eiyupe”, “Do you know about my parents?” Octav asked her again, “Lemme see, your name is Octavia, so... Mr. Orchestra? Mr. Pipehonk? Kent Bass? Lots of musical pony name in ponyville.. hm...”. “Do you know Echo and Pitch?” , “Nah... who are they?” she replied, “my parents”. Pinkie was thinking very hard, it was the first time I saw Pinkie serious’d, “when did you last see them?” she asked Octav again while taking a sherlock colt costume set out from my milkshake, “about fifteen years ago” Octav sobbed after she answered, “Sorry ,Octav. I moved to Ponyville about 5-6 years ago”. Not long, we heard some soft humming voice outside, Octav looked out from the window, her eyes opened wide, and then rushed outside. She faced a turquoise unicorn, both of them looked at each other in shock, I was confused as the earth pony next to that Unicorn, “Octavia! Is that really you?” that unicorn shouted out loud.
The unicorn hugged Octav, and asked a lot of question, mostly about Octav foalhood, maybe she was Octav foalhood friend. “Wait a minute, are you...” Octav cut her talk, “It’s me! Lyra, or Lia how you always call me when we were small, I miss you so much, I thought I had lost one of my best friend.” They hugged hard, and I felt a bit um... jealous. “Lia, I’m sorry I almost forgot about you.” , “it’s okay Octav we’re still friends,right?”, the cream pony behind Lyra stared straight at Octav, her eyes were so damn scary, but Octav didn’t notice that. “Lyra, do you know where my parents are?” Octav asked, full of hope. Lyra closed her mouth , she then raised her hoof, hinted us to follow her. We trotted slowly through Ponyville, we entered the old side of Ponyville, wrecked and abandoned house everywhere. Not so long, we arrived at a graveyard, Lyra led us to two small tombstone, ‘Pitch’ on the left tombstone, and ‘Alto’ on the right. “This isn’t real, it was just a tombstone, right Lyra? Please tell me you’re lying, they have moved from Ponyville right? Lyra, answer me!”, Lyra lowered her head “Sorry, Octav” , Octav tears came out after she heard it, she quickly hugged the tombstone, she apologized a lot, cried out loud. I could feel a deep sadness within her, her face became wet of her tears, I tried to calm her down, but then she fainted.
We quickly brought her to the hospital, she suffered from a serious depression. Me and the two ponies could only wait outside, hoping Octav was alright. Some hours later, Octav woke up, we rushed to her room, I was very worried, I know she was a bit paranoid and sensitive, but that was a very serious problem. Octav eyes blackened, her mane was messy, and I didn’t see any of her usual smiles, the frowns when I first met her returned to her face, she started to cry again. “Octav, I know it’s hard for you, but we’re here, we will always be with you, please don’t cry anymore, okay?” I tried to calm her down, “*sniff* Thank you” she wiped her eyes.
“Lia” she called the unicorn, “Do you still remember where my house is?”, “I will never forget about it.” Lyra replied, “I want to... go back home.”. We left the hospital, Lyra led us back to the old part of Ponyville, we walked a while, and we stopped at a small house, it still looked good but messy. We got inside, that house looked like a spider house, web and dust everywhere. Octav and the others were looking around, I waited at the living room. Not so long, I heard cries from one of the room, when I got in, Octav suddenly hugged me, I hugged her back, she cried and slowly calmed down. We then trotted out from the house, Octav looked very sad, she trotted aimlessly, we could only follow her hoping she was okay. We then arrived on an old music shop, the music shop was filled with bunch of old and classical instruments, some of them were broken. Some of them looked unique, like the big golden pipe with lots of buttons which looked like brown mushroom. I was examining the instruments when I heard the same cries at the back part of the shop, I saw Octav on the floor with notes around her, “I think it’s too hard for you” I tried to help her stand up, she refused my help, she stood up and ran out from the music shop. We were a bit late, and we couldn’t see Octav.
Months later, Me and Lyra had been searching for her, but still no clues. I then went to Canterlot to do a further search, when i arrived there, a big banner attracted my attention. Octavia was on the banner, Musical Cello solo on Canterlot theatre. I rushed to the theatre, and I arrived on time, the show was about to start. I was on the third front row, at least I knew she was fine. Not so long, the light was turned off, a spotlight was focused on the stage. Octav trotted slowly out from the backstage, an old Cello case I saw on the music shop on her back. She took out her Cello and started playing, at first I saw her sad frown, but eventually, her sad frown turned into a grin, a small grin, she was okay, because she found out about herself, her true-self.
To be continued...
*Author note*
Hufftt.. chapter with the most words I have written so far, a mixing with my previous story, ‘An Octav’s story’. Maybe one or two more chapter this story will be done, thank you for everypony who keep track of my story, all of you are awesome. Every critics comments from praise to rude comments are accepted because comments are the best way to improve. Well.. I think that’s all, sorry for grammar mistakes, and see y’all in the next chapter
Song credz to makkon06 on youtube, used after I gained permission