Twilight had woken up at her normal time, right after the sunrise. She was still very excited about princess celestia asking her to take void as a student in magic and to help guide him in his new life. Twilight had already taken time out of her morning to create a schedule for void's first magic lessons.
Spike later walked over to her while twilight was writing at her desk "Are you sure you're not getting ahead of yourself?" Spike asked her.
Twilight turned and looked at her dear friend quizzically "Of course not, what makes you think that?" Twilight asked in response, turning back to her work.
Spike had to think a moment before replying "Well it's just... void's only been here for one day and you're planning out all this different stuff you want him to do." Spike said.
Twilight thought about it for a moment "Well that's why I'm making them in a way that will suit him." Twilight said.
Spike shifted uneasily "Um... alright then. Do you want me to go wake him up?" Spike asked, giving up on his concerns.
Twilight looked up from her work and looked over to a clock that was on the wall, which read 9:41 "Oh my gosh, I got so caught up in my work I didn't even realize what time it was!" Twilight said getting up from her desk. Twilight quickly recovered from her mini-panic attack "Spike, you can go ahead and cook something for everypony, I'll wake up void." Twilight said after regaining her composure.
"Yes ma'am." Spike said before walking off to the kitchen and grabbing a pan.
Twilight trotted up the steps to see void still sound asleep on his bed. She reached out her hoof and shook him a few times "...Ugh... do I need to get up?" Void asked groggily.
"Yep, go ahead and get on your hooves." Twilight told him. Void slowly got up from his bed and stood up and gave a long yawn before moving over to twilight's side.
Twilight led void down the stairs "So do you remember what I told you last night?" Twilight asked void.
Void looked through his memory of the previous night "...Something about me being your student now or something." Void said.
"That's right! When I first saw that you were capable of dark magic I was obviously worried but I was also... interested by it. When I brought you here one of the first things I did was send a message to the princesses about you." Twilight said.
Well... now the princesses know about me. Void thought "What all did you tell them about me?" Void asked.
Twilight grinned "Oh how we found you, what all you were saying to us, pretty much everything I knew about you." Twilight said.
"Well then... what did they think about me?" Void asked, not knowing what else he should say.
Twilight thought for a moment "Well... you know what, here, this is the last letter celestia sent me. Go ahead and read it for yourself." Twilight said levitating one of the scrolls on her desk in front of void. Void gripped the scroll in his own magic and unrolled it and started reading celestia's message.
Dear Twilight Sparkle,
All of this information of this void crystal has been very fascinating and concerning at the same time. As you know, dark magic is a very powerful and very dangerous form of magic that can influence and corrupt the ponies that use it in terrible ways. What most intrigues me is that void may have been using this magic for years and does not show signs of such corruption from what you have told me.
This leads me to believe that void may posses a very strong magic and mind that can be lead down many paths. This and the other information you have presented me has lead me to decision. I personally ask you twilight to take this void crystal as a pupil of yours. Help him learn to control his magical abilities, help show him true friendship, and help lead his life down a new and brighter path. I sincerely hope that you will and accept and excell in this task.
-Signed, Princess Celestia
Void didn't know how to respond "Well what do you think?" Twilight asked void, eager to know his response.
"Well... I'm not sure what to think of that." Void said, his mind thinking about celestia. It was a letter so void couldn't know if celestia was caring or concerned over him. He returned his attention to twilight "So... I'm guessing you've already started planning out lessons for this... I guess mentoring would be a good word." Void said.
"Not just planning, I've already planned out entire lessons to teach you!" Twilight responded.
"Of course you have." Void said to himself.
Void then noticed something off to the side of the room he had failed to notice the night before "When did my chests get here?" Void asked, walking up to the three chests stacked against the wall.
Twilight levitated the scroll she had given void back over to her desk "Applejack and rainbow dash took a lot of time out of their day to go back out to the edge of the everfree forest where you had hidden them and brought them back here. You'll have to thank them the next time you see them." Twilight explained to him.
Void opened one of the larger ones to see if its contents were still inside "How did they find them? I hid them in the everfree." Void said.
"Well to be honest, applejack said you found a good spot, you just didn't cover your tracks to getting to it well." Twilight told him.
Void thought about that statement "Fair enough." Void said. He put his special purple chest aside and looked through the two others, the one he kept food in was empty, and the one he put most things inside only had a handful of missing items. He was about to express his irritation, but them put it aside, eventually coming to the conclusion that applejack had simply taken anything out of the chests that belonged on the farm, which he thought was fair.
Void returned his attention to twilight "So when do you plan on starting your first lesson?" Void asked.
Twilight noticed that spike had finished cooking "I was thinking after breakfast, is that good with you?" Twilight asked.
Void made up his mind quickly "I obviously don't have plans, I'm fine with that." Void told her.
"Great then! Let's all go ahead and eat so we can get started." Twilight said while taking her seat at the table that spike was currently laying plates on.
Void muttered under his breath, he felt bothered about this for some reason.
Void had made a mental note not to devour his food this time like he had the previous morning, he was semi-successful with this. After everypony had finished twilight walked over to her study area while void brought his special chest upstairs and placed it next to his bed before meeting twilight downstairs, who had an unusually thick stack of index cards.
Void studied twilight for a moment "Well you look like you're ready for studying." Void commented.
"I do not, I look ready for lecturing." Twilight corrected. Twilight's response amused void and spike as well.
Void dismissed further comments "So I assume you're going to lecture me for a while first?" Void asked, suspecting the answer to be yes.
Twilight brought her hoof to her chin "Well... I've already witnessed that you're capable of powerful magic, so I think we can skip that part and do some more hands on practice if you want." Twilight offered.
Void perked up at twilight's offer "I... would actually like that." Void said. He liked the idea of not having to sit through twilight only talking about magic for celestia knows how long. Those thoughts were slightly crushed from twilights next sentence.
"Just remember, this doesn't mean you'll never have lectures." Twilight continued.
Void considered it for a moment "I can deal with that." Void said.
Twilight walked over to the front door of the library "Great then, meet me in front of the library when you're ready." Twilight said, exiting the library.
Void then realized that twilight would be having him practice outside, right where anypony could see them, which made void get more nervous thinking about it.
Spike noticed his discomfort "What's the matter with you?" The young dragon asked.
"It's that twilight wants to practice where everypony can see us." Void explained.
Spike didn't show much concern "Yeah so? You got through yesterday just fine didn't you?" Spike asked.
Void recalled he had become less nervous throughout the day "Well yeah but... I didn't do anything magic related yesterday I front of anypony, as far as I know nopony but twilight and her friends even know I have a horn." Void said, irritation evident in his voice.
Spike only shrugged "Again, I wouldn't worry about any of that. See you outside." Spike said before exiting the library with what void assumed was a comic.
Void's mind started racing over his worries, what might ponies think of him using magic, especially if they saw his dark magic abilities, assuming they knew what it was, or even just his horn. Void eventually calmed himself down "Just don't think about it." He kept telling himself. Sometimes trying to forget something seemed to help void.
After void finally brought himself to exit the library he found twilight pacing back and forth in front of the library while spike was sitting of to the side, reading what void was now sure was a comic.
Void looked around, twilight was the only pony he could see, much to his relief.
Twilight noticed void come outside "Ah, great to see you're ready." Twilight said with a hint of excitement in her voice.
"Umm... twilight?" Void said weakly.
Upon hearing her name twilight turned her attention to void "Yes void? Is something wrong?" She asked him.
Void waited a moment before speaking again "Umm... are you sure practicing out here is a good idea?" Void said, putting a little strain on the word here. Void kept thinking that twilight might change her mind. He would definitely like that.
Twilight never expected void to ask that kind of question "Of course I'm sure it's a good idea. Why do you ask that?" Twilight asked, her excitement now being mixed with confusion.
Void thought for a second "Because I don't want other ponies seeing me practice, especially if it's my dark magic. Look, maybe we can just do this out behind the library at least?" Void was hoping twilight would agree with him.
"Oh come on void. That's silly, you went all around ponyville yesterday and did fine." Twilight stated.
Definitely not agreeing "Yeah... ponies were able to see me, but my horn was covered and they all still hardly know me." Void said in response.
Twilight gave a stern glare "Void, if you want to get settled into ponyville you can't hide like that. Who knows, maybe ponies will be impressed by your magic if they walk by." Twilight said.
Void realized his mentor wasn't going to budge on the argument "Fine, fine, we'll practice here." Void said.
Twilight however wasn't convinced "Void, you need to take this seriously for everypony's sake." Twilight said before adding:
"This is what's best for you."
Those exact words echoed in voids ears for a few seconds. Void shut his eyes and raised his hoof to his head out of frustration.
Twilight was confused again when she saw this "Void? Is somet-" Twilight managed to say before being cut off by void.
"Never. Say. That. To me. Again."
Twilight could easily feel the seriousness in voids tone when he said that "You can say something along the lines of 'this can help you' or other things, just not that please." Void continued.
Twilight stood silent for a moment "Um... Ok then. I will not say that again." Twilight assured, curious as to why void didn't like the phrase.
Void was pleased at twilights response "Thank you... now that that's done with I think you were about to start a lesson." Void reminded twilight, trying to change the topic. Void hated hearing that phrase, it was all too haunting to him.
Twilight resumed her focus to the lesson void had reminded her of "Well alright, one of the first things I want to do is how capable you are with the magic you already know. Let's start with what's basic to you." Twilight instructed.
Void wasn't sure what he thought was basic, to him he had always just learned what he could "Well... levitation is pretty easy I guess... so is that laser I learned literally two days ago, it's pretty easy too... and a few dark magic spells are also somewhat easy to me." Void said.
Twilight was of course writing on an index card "You said you learned that laser spell only two days ago?" Twilight asked.
"Yeah... I... first learned to do it shortly after I accidentally shot rainbow dash out of the sky... why do you ask?" Void asked, wondering where twilight was going with this.
Twilight recalled a few events for her answer "Well it's just that for at the time you had only known the spell for a few hours... yet during our little 'chase' you were able to perform it so precisely and so powerfully that you were able to knock down an entire tree. And a pretty think one if I remember." Twilight explained.
Void recalled those events "Yeah... sorry about that whole thing." Void said, suddenly feeling guilty
Twilight tried to assure void "That's ok void, that's behind everypony. Now... if that's all true then that's super impressive magic for a unicorn. Hmm... hold on, I wanna test something." Twilight said before levitating her saddlebags next to her and pulled out a small disk that was clearly painted to be a target
"What are you gonna do with that?" Void asked as he eyed the disk curiously, wondered just what was going on in twilight's head.
"I want to experiment with that laser of yours, for now... just shoot at the target when it pops up in front of you." Twilight said.
A thought came to void's mind "Are you going to do things like this for most of my magic?" Void asked.
"For now." He heard twilight say. Void knew what he was going to be doing for a while.
...
Around two hours had passed since twilight had started her lessons. Twilight was still writing various notes on her index cards while spike and void were currently sitting at a nearby table, spike reading a comic and void plain bored.
Void let out a sigh "When am I gonna get to learn something new rather than learn about th things I already know?" Void asked, lifting his head up.
"Probably soon, we're getting through these first things quite quickly." Twilight answered. Twilight put her cards and quill into her bag "There's just one more thing I want to talk to you about." Twilight said.
Void wondered what twilight still wanted to know. His mind cycled through different possibilities until he thought of one thing. His curiosity was then replaced with anxiety "What is it?" He asked anyways.
"I want to know more about you're dark magic abilities, like how you use them, when did you start or discover it, stuff like that." Twilight said, seeming to get excited as she spoke.
Void had thought correctly "Are... you sure about that?" Void asked hesitantly.
"Of course I am, there's so much I want to know about it!" Twilight said, her eyes full of wonder.
Rather than protest, void just stood where he was, letting twilight ramble "Dark magic is a magic hardly known to ponies at all, there's so much that it could do or be capable of doing. I could probably write an entire book exploring it and studying it and..." Twilight seemed to realize that her imagination had taken over her mouth "I started rambling didn't I?" Twilight said sheepishly. Both spike and void nodded at her, grinning.
Twilight sighed "Well I still would love to learn about it from you. We can talk inside if you want." Twilight offered.
"Sure." Void replied. Void figured trying to deny twilight her possible knowledge wouldn't do any good, besides, maybe this could be beneficial. The three came walked back inside the library and twilight turns around to face void after giving spike her bag.
Spike put away both twilight's bag and his comic before moving to stand next to twilight "Well I think i'll start with more important questions first." Twilight stated. Void figured twilight's 'more important' questions were just whichever ones she wanted to know the most "So now if you don't mind me asking... how did you first discover dark magic? It's by no means something a pony just wakes up to having." Twilight asked.
Void was quiet for moment , recalling a few bad memories while trying to remember the answer "I uh... I have a book that I learned it from." Void said. That was only half true, he had learned most of what he knew out of the book, but the book itself wasn't where he originally learned it from.
Twilight eyes once again lit up with wonder "You have an entire book on dark magic?!" Twilight acce
accidentally shouted.
"Yeah... It's... It's in my personal chest, the one I put on my bed earlier today." Void told twilight. As excited as twilight was, her excitement was dampened by void, who hardly sounded interested, almost upset.
Twilight's expression switched to one of concern "Are you alright void? You sound upset." Twilight asked.
"I'm fine" Void said quickly, trying to forget about the issue.
Twilight wasn't convinced "Void you don't have to hide anyth-" Twilight said before she was cut off by void.
"I said I'm fine." Void said more sternly.
Twilight still wasn't convinced "Void just tell m-" Twilight said before she was abruptly cut off again.
"I SAID I WAS FINE! WHAT PART OF THAT DID YOU NOT UNDERSTAND!" Void yelled.
Voids yelling was accompanied his sudden outburst with his horn becoming charged with magic, his horn glowing very brightly and fiercely. Twilight was startled by void's sudden outburst, charging her own Lviv in response, ready to react if void did something else crazy. Spike had run behind twilight's leg. They all stood silently for a moment, nothing but the sound of their magic radiating off their horns.
Twilight stared down void while he did the same in his angry state. In the few seconds they stared down each other twilight could see trails of purple mist forming at the corners of voids eyes.
Twilight could then see the rage in his eyes fade away along with the fierce magic he had charged along with it.
Void took a step back at a loss for words. He had nearly attacked one of his only friends here in ponyville because of some memories she hadn't meant to remind him of. He felt horrible.
Void took another pace backwards "I- I... I'm sorry twilight I- I just..." Void kept stuttering on his words. Twilight could see he was getting tears in his eyes, he must really feel bad about what just happened.
"Void..." was all twilight said before void laid himself on the floor of the library, refusing to look up. Twilight looked over to spike for a moment before returning her attention to void.
Twilight moved and stood over void, looking down at him. She tried nudging him to get him to look up at her, to no avail. Void was expecting twilight to scold over what he had nearly done, but then twilight did something else he never expected... she got down next to him and hugged him... of all things that could've happened...
Void lifted his head up "Uh... twilight... what are you doing?" Void asked, relieved but confused by her actions.
"Void, I'm sure that you didn't want to hurt me or spike, so it's alright. But something provoked you to act like that... may I ask what it was?" Twilight asked, trying to sound as comforting as she could.
"... You're question just... reminded me of a few things..." Void said.
"I can only guess that they aren't pleasant things." Twilight said, although it was obvious.
"No. They're not." Void muttered.
Twilight got back on her hooves and held her hoof out to void "Well if you want to talk about it, or anything else for that matter, I'm right here." Twilight assured him.
Void could tell twilight meant those words and took her hoof and pulled himself up "Thanks twilight... you're a good friend." Void told her.
Twilight gave a meaningful smile "I'm glad I can be." Twilight said.
Void shifted his view around the room some before returning his attention to twilight, he still looked uncomfortable to twilight "Twilight I... I know you're trying to make me feel better about this but... I just don't feel like I deserve it, I mean I almost attacked you and spike." Void said.
Twilight tried to reassure void "That's ok, I'm technically the one who provoked that anyways. Now then, how about we forget about this and go do something else?" Twilight suggested.
"That... sounds good to me." Void agreed "Do you have anything in mind?" Void asked.
Twilight thought about it for a moment "How about we go to sugarcube corner and get some lunch there?" Twilight suggested.
"That sounds pretty good." Void said.
"Well let's go ahead and go then." Twilight said. Void started to follow her, he still felt bad about what had happened, but maybe getting away from it for a while might help.
...
Twilight and void had been walking for a few minutes in an awkward silence. Twilight eventually decided to break the silence "So have you... thought about anything you want to do in ponyville yet?" Twilight asked void, trying to start a conversation.
"Well... I actually haven't given any thought to that. I've really just been doing what you say now that I think about it." Void said. Once twilight thought about it, void was right.
Come to think of it, twilight had plans for the rest of the day too "Hmm... that is true now that you say that... you know what, how about after we eat I give you some time to yourself here in ponyville?" Twilight suggested.
Void had planned on doing whatever twilight had in mind, the idea of him going around freely filled him with uncertainty "That sounds... cool I guess." Void said, unsure how to feel about the offer.
Twilight seemed to sense the uncertainty in void's voice "Well think about it, whatever you please. Maybe you could try chatting with somepony new, or maybe try finding the CMC and help them on one of their adventures, or you could just go and read a book at the library if you want." Twilight explained
"Aren't the cutie mark crusaders a little young for me to be hanging out with?" Void responded. Interesting response twilight thought. Twilight made a mental note that void apparently already knew the full name of the CMC. Come to think of it, void seemed to already know a lot of things about ponyville before she brought him here.
Twilight's mind returned to her conversation "Why worry about the CMC?" Twilight asked "Well, I don't know if fillies these days would care about a pony like me." Void said.
Twilight only smiled "Oh I doubt that, knowing those fillies they would love somepony like you." Twilight said. Both twilight and void tried to imagine what it would look like if void met the CMC.
Void raised an eyebrow "You think they would like me?" Void was skeptical about twilight's statement.
"I'm certain they would." Twilight said. The three finally came upon sugarcube corner and went inside.
Void didn't see a lot of ponies inside, much to his relief. Twilight was stopped by pinkie, who was behind the counter "Hiya twilight, spike, void. What brings you three here?" Pinkie asked in her usual happy tone.
"Well we w-" Twilight said before pinkie put a hoof to twilight's mouth.
"NO WAIT! Let me guess!" Pinkie said. Pinkie put her hooves to her head while void cast a look to twilight that asked 'what is she doing?' Twilight only shrugged in response.
Pinkie put her hooves back down "You're here... to have some lunch at ponyville's best bakery!" Pinkie said, eagerly waiting for a response.
"Yeah... great guess pinkie." Twilight said, deciding that was the best way to reply.
Pinkie bounced up in glee "Heah! Score one for pinkie pie! Anyways, what can I do for you all?" Pinkie asked. Twilight looked over to void as if she was asking him for what he wanted.
Void thought about it for a few seconds "I don't really care. Just pick for me." Void said.
Twilight turned back to pinkie pie "Just bring us some muffins for now." Twilight answered
"Great, go ahead and find a table, I'll bring them out to you." Pinkie said before disappearing into the kitchen. Twilight picked a booth and took a seat at it with spike while void sat across from them.
Pinkie pie quickly came out balancing a tray of freshly baked muffins on her muzzle before placing it on the groups table "Voila, fresh muffins for everypony. So what have you three been up to?" Pinkie asked, taking her own seat next to void.
Twilight answered first "Well for most of the day I've started to give void lessons in magic." Twilight said.
"Cool! Can you do anything super duper cool yet?" Pinkie asked while turning to face void.
"Oh uh, no not yet." Void answered.
"Aww, I was really hoping you could show me something cool. Oh well." Pinkie said.
Twilight spoke up next "So what have you done today pinkie pie?" Twilight asked.
"I'm glad you asked, I've got sooo much I want to share." Pinkie said moving her hoof through the air for emphasis.
Twilight and spike were used to hearing the party pony ramble on about just about anything. Void was not
"Here she goes." They all thought.
...
Void was certain after pinkie pie's talking that it was impossible for the mare to run out of things to say, or breath for that matter "... and then I saw you three come in here and I was like 'oh my gosh two of my best friends and one of my new best friends are here!' so obviously I-" Pinkie pie continued before twilight being quieted by twilight.
"That's great pinkie pie but we know what happens after that." Twilight said.
Pinkie only giggled in response "Well of course you do silly, you were there after all." Pinkie stated. The time pinkie pie had spent recaping her day she had also spent talking about much much more than her day, often getting sidetracked talking about a part of her day or when one of the others around her reminds her of something and she feels like talking about that.
Twilight spoke up once more "Well as much as I would like to keep talking to you pinkie pie I think you may have been away from work for a while." Twilight informed pinkie.
Pinkie looked down at her hoof, which suddenly had a watch, drawn on in marker, on it "Oh my gosh you're right twilight! Well sorry everypony, see ya later!" Pinkie said before once again disappearing into the kitchen again, bringing the now empty tray with her.
Twilight also got up from the booth afterwards, placing spike on her back "I guess we're leaving now?" Void asked while getting up himself.
"Well me and spike are heading back to the library. What you do for the rest of the day is up to you." Twilight told void.
"Oh yeah" void said, recalling twilight's earlier statement about it.
"Do you know what you're going to do?" Twilight asked out of curiosity while they exited the bakery.
Void considered his options "... Not really, but I think I might just walk around for a while. That always helps me think and it's just nice in general." Void said.
"That's ok then. Pacing around can help me think too. Well whatever you do I hope you have a good time." Twilight told him.
Void turned to twilight again "Thank you twilight." Void said. They were simple words but they could mean a lot more to void.
"You're welcome void." Twilight said in response "Now then, it seems like a nice day to reorganize the library doesn't it spike?" Twilight jokingly asked to spike, who had lost interest in the conversation.
"Oh uh... sure twilight." Spike said drifting back to his own thoughts. Both twilight and void grinned at the dragons comment.
"Well anyways, see you later today void." Twilight said starting back towards the library.
"Bye twilight." Void said before she left.
Void turned toward the opposite direction he had been facing "This way I guess." He said to himself.
Void had probably been walking for no more than a few minutes, avoiding the different looks from ponies that he received, letting his mind wander, when he felt a light tapping on his shoulder. Like anypony would he turned his head to see who was there. Void stopped walking to see a unicorn mare behind him. She had a white coat accompanied with an electric blue mane and tail in light and dark stripes. She stopped shortly after void did.
"Sup?" was all she said.
"Um... hello?" Void said. There was a brief silence between the two.
"Are you just gonna stand there and stare at me? I mean I know I'm cool and all but-" She said before void suddenly spoke up.
"Oh, sorry, I was just..." Void said before the mare spoke up.
"Ah that's alright... Void right?" The mare asked.
"Yeah... that's right. What's you're name?" Void asked.
The mares smile seemed to grow a little "Well you probably already know me by the name DJ-PON3, but you're probably asking for my real name, which is vinyl scratch." Vinyl answered.
Void only stared for a second "DJ... what?" Void said.
Void couldn't see vinyl's eyes roll underneath her goggles "Oh come on, DJ-PON3, you can't say you've never heard of me?" Vinyl asked, skeptically.
"No, I haven't. Should I?" Void said.
Vinyl levitated her goggles off her eyes and onto her forehead, they were full of surprise "YOU'VE NEVER EVEN HEARD OF THE GREAT DJ-PON3?!" Vinyl shouted, earning some strange looks from the ponies around them.
Void tried to ignore the looks for what he could "Is that a bad thing?" Void asked.
Vinyl recovered from her initial shock "Dude. I don't know where that head of yours has been for so long but I name some of the best music in equestria." Vinyl said, seeming to take pride in the statement.
"I... guess I'll take you're word on that." Void said.
"Dude I don't know what to tell you... but I know what we can do, follow me." Vinyl said, gesturing her hoof for void to follow before she started to run in the direction they had been walking.
Void also started running, easily keeping up with vinyl "Where are you going?" Void asked, having to shout slightly.
"We're going to my place so I can show you what you've been missing." Vinyl responded.
...
Twilight and spike had been making good progress in reorganizing the library, much to spikes dismay when he realized. Only someone like spike, who had been around twilight most of her life, would notice her lack of enthusiasm in the task "Is something wrong twilight? For once you don't seem to actually want to reorganize the books." Spike said walking over next to her.
"Oh I don't know, it's just... I'm worried about void. You saw his outburst earlier today, what if something like that happens again? Maybe I should just..." Twilight said attempting to walk outside the library before spike jumped in her path.
Spike tried to assure twilight "Oh come on twilight, I'm sure void is fine." Spike said.
"But what if something makes him angry again? I just-" Spike stopped twilight again.
"Stop worrying twilight, I'm sure that whatever void is doing right now that he's having a good time." Spike said.
Twilight took a deep breath and reassured herself "You know what? You're right spike, I should stop worrying. I'm sure void is doing fine." Twilight said.
Spike perked up hearing twilight "That's the spirit." Spike said.
Twilight grinned at her assistant "Yeah, speaking of which... I think there's still some history books to put on the shelves." Twilight said.
Spike's expression quickly turned to one of boredom "Now I kinda wish I didn't saw anything." Spike said to himself. Twilight heard him and only smiled to herself.
...
It had taken void and vinyl around fifteen minutes to reach vinyl's home. They had both slowed to a trot when the building came into view "That's it over there." Vinyl said pointing over to her home. To void it was... unique to say the least. The house seemed to be divided perfectly in half between blue and purple colors and brown colors... weird.
Void continued to examine the intriguing structure while vinyl proceeded to unlock the door and then lead them both inside. Just like the outside the inside was split perfectly. Such a strange design choice void thought.
"Uh, vinyl?" Void asked.
"What's up?" Vinyl asked in response.
Void looked around a bit more "Why is your house split in half like this?" Void questioned, very curious about the design choice.
"He he... that's a story... long story short me and my best friend, who is also my roommate, first got this place a long time ago and we couldn't agree on how to decorate it sooo..." Vinyl said, allowing herself to trail off.
Void picked up the sentence "So you literally just split the house in half for you to decorate." Void said. An odd compromise void thought.
"Yep, that's what we did." Vinyl said casually.
Another thought crossed void's mind "Who's your friend? If you don't mind me asking." Void asked.
"She's an earth pony from canterlot. Her name is Octavia. We're like besties, even though we have like completely different tastes in music." Vinyl said.
Void looked at both sides of the house and sure enough, vinyl's side had her huge set of speakers accompanied with turntables, along with a stack of records in noticeable disarray, and several other details that pointed towards vinyl's taste in dubstep and pop. To the other way on Octavia's side of the house void could see several details that pointed towards her taste in what void guessed was classical and orchestral music.
Void looked back towards vinyl, who had pulled a record out of her pile a dead twirling it around with her magic "Get ready to have a listen of this!" Vinyl said placing the record on her turntables.
"Um, is this gonna b-" void didn't finish his question before vinyl's speakers started blaring music at near full volume. For void: when you live on the quiet outskirts of the everfree for so long, the blasting of vinyl's speakers were near deafening to him.
After several minutes the music finally stopped and vinyl plucked the record off "YEAH! What did you think of that?!" Vinyl shouted while pulling her goggles onto her forehead.
"...WHAT?" Void yelled, not even realizing he was yelling.
"I said what did you think of that?!" Vinyl shouted a bit louder.
All void could hear was ringing "I CAN'T HEAR YOU... I CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING!" Void yelled.
Vinyl failed to suppress a little laughter "I'll give him a few minutes." She said to herself.
...
A couple hours later void was still hanging out with vinyl at her home, with vinyl always finding something to talk about or do "So you were just living out there by yourself like that? Cool." Vinyl said. Void had hesitantly told vinyl about how he had come to ponyville after she kept asking him about, although he left out certain details.
"Well... I guess it sounds cool but but it's much less fun to actually do." Void told her.
"If you say so." Vinyl said, who was currently laying on her back on a couch in the room. Void was standing next to her.
Vinyl gazed over to void "What did you think of my beats?" Vinyl asked void for what felt like the millionth time.
"They were cool other than you blared the music so loud that you made me temporarily deaf. Turn it down next time." Void suggested.
Vinyl gave a light chuckle "Pff, if you turn it down then everypony might not hear it." Vinyl said
"But... whatever." Void said, giving up on the debate.
"Besides, the knob for my volume only goes on way, right." Vinyl said followed with another light chuckle from vinyl.
"Ok then..." Void said.
Vinyl gazed out of a window for no particular reason to see celestia had started to lower the sun and Luna had started to raise the moon "Celestia's lowering the sun, you gonna head back to twilight's?" Vinyl asked while moving her eyes over to void again
"I guess I should, twilight is probably waiting for me." Void said.
Vinyl stretched her legs after laying still for a long time "Sounds good, oh hey before you go..." Vinyl said before she reached her hoof out to void. Void only looked at her, not sure what she wanted him to do "oh come on, high hoof me dude." Vinyl exclaimed while flipping onto her stomach, waving her hoof around for emphasis.
"Oh, my bad." Void said, facehoofing mentally. Void reached out his own hoof and hit it against vinyl's, making a distance clop sound.
"Cool... see ya void." Vinyl said returning to her earlier position on the couch.
"Bye vinyl." Void said before walking outside where he was greeted with a beautiful night sky.
Void had always had a fondness for the night. Void quietly trotted his way through the streets of ponyville, no other ponies walking around, the soothing sight of the stars in the sky, the occasional sound of a bug of some kind, very peaceful void thought.
"Huh, I made friends with derpy hooves yesterday... and Lyra and Bon Bon I guess... and I made friends with vinyl scratch today... if making friends is this easy then why didn't I do this years ago?" Void asked himself, thinking back to his youth times. His thoughts were the interrupted by a voice.
"Yeah, I wonder why." He heard. The distinct voice was immediately recognized by void.
Void quickly turned his head to see the same mare he had run into the previous night, her grey coat and bright red hair shined under the moonlight, her darker blue eyes staring into his own "Excuse me?" Void asked.
"I wonder why you never made friends years ago like you said." the mare stated. Void only eyed her for a few moments "Are you just going to stare at me or are you going to say something?" She asked "it's rude to stare you know." She added.
Void spoke with irritation in his voice "I didn't mean it like I never had friends I just... didn't have a lot of them." Void said trying to sound confident toward the end.
"I doubt that. You're not the type of pony that other ponies would want to friends with." The mare said.
That statement got void's anger stirring "What?! I can be a great friend." Void said.
"Unlikely, you're uncaring, ungrateful, you don't even look friendly." The mare said, her face showing little emotion, although the tone of her voice had plenty in it.
Void was getting really irritated with this mare "That's not true. You're just saying lies." Void said, his voice rising in volume.
"Not to mention you're cutie mark. No doubt it represents you and you're little obsession with that unusual and evil magic you do." She continued.
Void took a quick glance at his flank, a black star with three small striped trails in the pattern purple, green, purple, all following behind one another. Void's irritation only grew "It's my talent in it. It is NOT an obsession." Void said, his voice on the verge on yelling.
A ghost of a grin crept onto the mares face "Oh and you sound sooo confident about it, or anything you say." She taunted.
Void's anger snapped at that point "OH WILL YOU SHUT UP!" Void yelled along with his horn beginning to glow a bright red before a powerful laser struck the ground where had the mare had been before she teleported to the side.
"Oh, attacking somepony now are you?" The mare said, her face sneering at void.
"ALRIGHT, I don't know WHO you are, I don't know WHY you're bothering me, but will you cut it out?!" Void yelled, his horn still glowing feircly.
The mare was silent for a moment, just staring into void's anger filled eyes "... Ruby. That's who I am." Ruby said before void saw her teleport away in a flash of light.
"Come back here!" Void said, voice still raised. Void stood still for a few minutes, during which his anger and frustration eventually faded from him and he was left wondering "What did I just do..."
...
After more time had passed void eventually arrived back at twilight's library, entering without hesitation. Like the previous night spike was already asleep, but twilight this time was laying in the floor reading a book instead of a scroll. Twilight noticed void walk in and looked up from her source of information... or maybe it was a novel of some kind, void isn't really care "Hello void, did you have a good day?" Twilight asked him.
"Yeah, it was great." Void replied, continuing towards the stairs.
Twilight noticed the irritation in void's voice "Void is something wrong?" Twilight asked, getting to her hooves.
"I'm fine twilight." Void replied, still not stopping his walk toward the stairs.
"Void you said the same thing this morning... what's bothering you?" Twilight asked again, flying over in front of void, forcing him to stop after he had taken only two steps up the stairs.
Void was quiet for a moment. Twilight was right, he had tried to dismiss and hide his frustrations in the morning and that that turned out very badly. Void looked up at twilight "Might as well not make a repeat of this morning." Void muttered.
"Well...after you let me go and do whatever I pleased for the rest of the day I did end up having a good time for the most part. Spent most of it around a pony named vinyl scratch, do you know her?" Void said. Twilight nodded at his question "Well after the sun set I started heading back here and..." Void trailed off, recalling the earlier events.
Twilight nudged him a little "Come on void keep going." Twilight told him reassuringly.
"Yeah... well I... was waking back here and I should say I have a habit of talking to myself sometimes and in this case I was doing it somewhat loud I think. Well I said something about why I never tried to make friends years ago and I... suddenly heard a response from this mare leaning against one of the buildings. I'm gonna be blunt here, she's a huge prick." Void said.
Twilight was surprised at void's chioce of words "What did this mare look like?" Twilight asked, curious about this mare.
Void tried to recall what ruby looked like "Well her name is ruby I think, her coat is grey, her eyes are blue like mine but darker, her mane was a bright red color and it kind of ran flat down her neck to her shoulders, and I didn't really get a look at her cutie mark." Void recalled.
Twilight could see void was getting irritated thinking about ruby "It's ok void, you don't need to talk about this if you don't want to." Twilight assured void.
Void looked sternly at twilight "No I- I want to." Void said.
Twilight could see the seriousness in void's eyes "Alright then , but only if you're comfortable with it." Twilight said.
Void decided to step off the stairs and walked toward the middle off the room with twilight "I guess I should ask... what exactly was this mare doing that seems to irritate you so much?" Twilight asked sincerely.
Void went through his memory again "Well she pretty much was just... saying all these different things that just bothered me so badly. Constantly making little remarks at me being evil or bad at something or something along those lines." Void said.
Twilight nodded for void to continue "And to make things wors, if I tried to defend myself or try to say something good she would pretty much just challenge me about it. She was just... erg... so irritating." Void was clenching his jaw towards the end of his rant.
Twilight brought a hoof around void's shoulders "Don't worry void, you don't need to be angry over ruby. I can't say I know a pony like that but you don't need to stay mad at her." Twilight said.
Void seemed to mutter under his breath "If it helps I can see if anypony in ponyville might know her." Twilight offered.
Void raised his eyes, which had fallen to the floor earlier "...Thank you twilight." Void said.
"What are friends for?" Twilight said in response.
Void seemed to cheer up "... Well I'm tired. I think I'm gonna go to bed while you... keep doing whatever it was you were doing." Void announced.
Twilight recalled the book she had been reading when void came inside "I was reading 'equestrian history volume 3' since you mention it." Twilight informed void. Of all things in the library she was reading a history book... whatever.
With their conversation over the two exchanged their good nights before twilight returned to her reading while void trotted up to his own bed and crawled into it. Thanks to twilight, he was able to sleep relatively nicely.