Luna Forms a Metal Band

by RF and AG

First Contestant!

The ticking of the clock on the wall was louder than anything else in the room. All it did was constantly utter the two same sounds, tick tock. Eternity existed between the two sounds, as time repeated endlessly, the monotonous repetition affecting any who should pay attention to the timekeeping device.Over and over again it ticked, slowly becoming the only sound that was ringing in her ears. Slowly hammering into her brain, ingraining the sounds so deep that she would hear them for the rest of her natural life. Her left eye twitched briefly before her hooves shot up to her ears.

“I can’t take it anymore!” she shouted, luckily not reaching Royal Canterlot Voice volumes.

“Can’t take what?” Sweetie asked, sitting on the other side of the table from Luna. She was happily sipping some tea until Luna snapped.

“That. Celestia. Damned,” her voice rose, horn igniting swiftly. “Clock!”

With a swift flick of her magic, the clock flew from its resting place up on the wall and straight into the adjacent wall. Repeatedly. As in the amount of times the clock hit the wall was a number greater than twenty. Luna had lost count after the first few slams, her mind constantly trying to force the ticking out of her head.

“Umm … Night Wish? Are you okay?”

Sweetie’s voice halted Luna’s progress on banishing the clock to another realm via the wall. As she stopped she realised something; she was destroying a clock because it made the sounds it was supposed to. Am I truly this neurotic?

Luna shook her head furiously, trying to right her thoughts and once again focus on what she had been thinking about, before the clock had gotten to her. She mentally facehooved as her original train of thought started back up again. She had been questioning what was Sweetie doing.

“Right. Sorry about that, I… umm … I just switched to decaf!” Luna said before once again mentally facehoofing. Decaf? Really? Why would I ever switch to that stuff?

“Oh, that’s alright. My sister went through the same thing,” Sweetie said before pausing slightly at the end as if she was considering her next words. “You’re new here right? You probably don’t even know who I am talking about! My sister, Rarity, is a fashion designer here!”

“Yes, I’ve heard of her before …” Luna said, cutting off whatever Sweetie Belle was going to say next. “In fact, we’ve met before.”

“Really?! When was that?” Sweetie’s gasped, eyes lighted up in what Luna assumed was wonder.

Am I really going to just drop the disguise this quickly? Such an idea was absurd to Luna but at the same time she knew that it would get rather confusing later on, especially if she made the band …

This time, Luna actually facehooved.

“I’ll tell you after, first there is tryouts!” Luna exclaimed, hoping to grab Sweetie’s attention from the previous line of conversation. “If you’ll follow me, we can get started in the garage.”

Sweetie simply nodded before hopping off her chair and proceeding to follow Luna through the rest of the house and into the garage. As to why she even had a garage in the first place was a mystery to Sweetie for there was no carriage of any sort on the property, at least from what she could tell.

In the garage sat a table that was in front of five chairs. Maybe for the rest of the band to judge new members? Sweetie simply shrugged at the idea and instead looked at the rest of the … rather empty garage. Aside from a few shelves, a couch, that table, and a handful of amps, there was absolutely nothing in the garage. it did make a little sense though, since Night Wish had just moved here.

“Alright, just plug into one of the amps and show me what you’ve got,” Night Wish said before sitting down on the center chair.

“Umm, can I see what kind of skill level you want me to attain?”

Luna blanked briefly, trying to decipher the request. To her it felt like a few minutes but in actuality she had just stared at Sweetie for a few seconds. Her mind had pieced together the puzzle pieces and came out with the answer.

“Sure, just let me grab my guitar.”

With a quick flux of magic, Luna disappeared from the room for hardly half a minute before suddenly reappearing. Sweetie was surprised to say the least, it wasn’t common for unicorns to know a teleportation spell. Only the upper tier of unicorns could draw on such a spell.

A cough drew Sweetie’s attention back to Luna, who was feeling a little odd at having the unicorn stare so deeply at her. Sweetie barely held back a blush at being caught staring in awe. Luna didn’t say a word about it as she instead grabbed a single amp jack with her magic, sliding it into the guitar plug in.

“Is that an RGD?” Sweetie asked, her eyes bulging with curiosity, literally.

“It is! She is my baby, fully customized, and tuned to just how I like her,” Luna said as her eyes filled with pride. She pulled her guitar closer to her, opting to snuggle it briefly before letting it relax in her magical grip. “I see you have a Jackson Warrior! I almost bought a Jackson but I couldn’t give up Ibanez. Though, that design is pretty interesting.”

“I know, I love how they made it. I couldn’t help but buy it, since I saw Behemareth’s guitarist using it!”

Behemareth? That confused Luna a little, only because it made a little sense why Sweetie was dressed in those boots. Behemareth was the only metal band that hailed from Equestria and Luna wasn’t exactly a fan. Their genre of extreme metal just wasn’t for her, never had been. That was one of the reasons Luna had started to write songs, she wanted to make a metal band that wasn’t as … extreme. She wanted to aim more towards new genres, that she would of course create as she went along.

“Right … how about I play a lick, hmm?” Luna asked, trying to get them back on topic.

“Oh, right! I can’t wait to see!”

Luna furrowed her brow for a second, thinking up what she could do to impress Sweetie. For a scant few seconds she couldn’t think of anything until a small bit of inspiration hit her.

“Alright, now bear with me, I’m playing this off the top of my head.”

Without hesitation, Luna swept her pick into action with one portion of her magic, the other working seamlessly over the frets. It was true that all of it was off the top of her head. She hadn’t expected Sweetie to ask her about what she could play. So, Luna decided to do a quick series of string skipping arpeggios. It wasn’t much but she hoped it would satisfy Sweetie’s curiosity.

Even as she swept her magic over the neck, hitting each note with flawless precision, Luna knew that she was better than that little bit. Her mastery was in songwriting, though her solos seemed to lack something.

As she finished her quick demonstration, Luna heard the sounds of hoofs coming together repeatedly. Sweetie was clapping for her? Really?

“That was awesome Night Wish! Sure it was quick, but still awesome!”

“Thank you, Sweetie,” Luna said with a blush. “I think it’s your turn now though.”

The white mare grinned, almost devilishly, before trotting over so that she would be in front of the table. Luna meanwhile moved to her judging seat. She decided not to name it, it didn’t have the right impression yet.

Sweetie’s magic glowed faintly as another jack floated towards the plug in on her guitar. The guitar’s strap was secured around her neck and withers yet her magic also kept it up, it just felt natural for her. She coughed into her hoof slightly, making sure that she had Luna’s attention.

“Now, I didn’t know what type of music you would’ve liked me to play, Night Wish, but with that awesome demonstration, I now know!” Sweetie said, reading her pick in her magic. “I created this yesterday!”

Sweetie ran her pick a few times over the muted strings before quickly strumming out a few simplistic chords. She proceeded to quickly pick a couple of notes, her magic flowing rather smoothly for a unicorn that used to have trouble with it. She ended the extremely quick set with a simple strum, taking a quick moment to look up at Luna.

At first Luna thought that she was finished, going straight to figuring out how to break the news to Sweetie that she wasn’t the right material. Of course that was shattered quickly as Sweetie’s magic quickly flared on both the neck and the pick that she held. Without any further hesitation, she picked a couple more notes, letting each ring out.

She held the last note for the faintest of seconds before her magic delved into quick picking and fret work. half of her magic worked its way across the frets, hammering and pulling off on the right notes while the other half plucked each string with precision that left Luna a little flustered.

She enticed Luna on by playing a descending chord all the way along her guitar before pulling off to let an open string resound. She didn’t stop there though for her magic quickly swept back down the frets until all the while hitting notes in quick succession. She only sped up her note playing as she continued to show off to Luna. She didn’t pay attention though, her eyes glued firmly on what she was doing. She had to make it all work perfectly and she had to finish with style.

Luna’s mind was made up at that point, Sweetie was definitely a contender. Of course, Sweetie wanted to be more than that and she was out to prove that she deserved to be in the band. her grip on the pick changed until it was tucked slightly back into the magical grip, in no position to strum or pick. Instead the white mare opted to ‘magic tap’ the strings, using a tendril tap style that Behemareth had come to patent.

As she neared the end of her small set, Sweetie slowed down slightly, finishing off her little session with some more simplistic notes. Her eyes were closed for the little bit, only using her sense of touch to tell where the notes were. She always did that for the simpler parts to help her learn how to play without looking at the frets.

As the last note rang out in the garage, Sweetie opened her eyes looking up to Luna. Now, Sweetie had the expression of pure joy that she always felt when she could play for someone. Luna on the other hoof had a look of shock and amazement. Her mouth was hanging completely open, wide enough to catch a bird if she saw fit to try. All muscles in her were nearly slack, only a small semblance of balance keeping her on the chair. She had never expected this young mare, whom she had helped back in the day, to grow up and play the guitar like a pro.

“So, how was that Night Wish?” Sweetie asked, genuinely curious even though Luna’s open jaw would probably provide her enough answers.

Luna said nothing for a minute, her brain slowly catching up to what had just happened. It wasn’t the fact that she had witnessed an extremely good guitar player perform; no, she had been expecting such a thing. Her stunned silence was entirely due to who played it; not to be sexist but Luna had noticed that all metal bands formed outside of Equestria and even the one from Equestria were comprised entirely of males.

As Luna’s brain started to return to normal function, she had but one thing to say. “How old are you again?”

Author's Note:

So this has been sitting in my folders for a little too long... anyway...

Here we see what Sweetie can do, as well as a little bit from Luna. Things can only get more intense from here *insert breathing intensifies meme*

The links are going to start coming now. That means I will be putting these in a folder on my youtube page. Check it there from the description. No, this isn't to promote my page since there is completely nothing on it, just use that if you want quick access to the videos I use.

As a note, I would like to mention that this band is a five member band. Two guitars, a Bassist, a Keyboardist, and a Drummer. That allows me to use a lot more songs :D

Edit:Still taking band name suggestions!

Enjoy all, and thanks to AuthorGenesis for editing and Eagle for pre-reading!

Comments

[Burnasius]

Well... Luna sure is stunned. Now then, any more contestants. I do want to see Shining Armor in this band by the way.

[Flare-Shaker-1428]

Behemareth? You mean either Megadeth or Beheamoth right?
Band name idea: Tarterus's Gates
Live metal, be metal
*Devil Horns*

[RF and AG]

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I am referring to Behemoth (or however they spell it). That band had the coolest name to ponify in my opinion as well as their genre fit perfectly with how I invision metal in Equestria before Luna's band.

[Flare-Shaker-1428]

4305346 Ahh ok

[Silver Sterling]

Wolves of the night for the band name.

metal, thrash metal, power metal, and maybe some harder stuff

How about?
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Luna could possible go to the same stylist as the Powerwolf Founders Matthew and Charles Greywolf. Celestia would most likely pass out, when she sees her younger sisters new style. :D (And Rarity most likely aswell. ^^)
Matthew Greywolf
Charles Greywolf

Two of my other favorite bands are Sabaton and Gloryhammer.

Unicorn Invasion

[CMDR Kovacs]

4372097 Well, if you're gonna throw Sabaton in there, best not forget Hammerfall and Nightwish.

[Aeterna]

Liking and faving. Please for the love of metal continue.
Also I think a good name for the band might be Darkstar.

[TurboBlaze]

I like Aeterna's name suggestion, and Children of the Night, though it may be a bit revealing. Iron Maiden wrote a song called "Children of the Damned".
Anyway, I want to see where this goes, but take your time! I like Metal Belle, and I want to see who else shows up!

[shynight]

Are you still working on this, or are you focusing on the HtTYD crossover for now?

[RF and AG]

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My focus is on my two crossover fics. This isn't dead mind you. Ideas are there, just not the priority.