MLP - Equestria Girls: The Magic of Friendship Extras

by MLPEG Lover

Rain

Author's Note:

This story takes place before A New Beginning of MLP - Equestria Girls: The Magic of Friendship

Introducing the main OC of the story, Rain. Hope you all enjoy.

It's the day before the first day of the new school year. Best Friends Lyra Heartstrings and Sweetie Drops are enjoying a nice outing. Making the best out their remaining time before school starts tomorrow.

"Okay, so we've been to the mall, the movies, Sweet Shoppe, " Sweetie gleefully lists. "What do think we should do... " She looks to her left and notices that Lyra is no longer next to her. She turns around and sees that Lyra had stopped walk to look at a building she had passed. She walks back to her bestie to also look at the building Lyra is. The building they're looking at is an old beat-up music store. The windows are cracked, most of the paint faded away, the whole place looks pretty beat-up.

"Huh, I've never noticed this place before." Lyra says. She looks up and sees the name of this place. "Music Kingdom?"

Sweetie decides to do an internet search on this place. "Apparently this place was a place opened up quite a while ago. about nine years ago. But eventually people just stopped coming. I guess it just can't compete with the store in the mall. And you know, the internet."

Suddenly, a drop of rain falls on Lyra head and she looks up to see the weather starting to change. More and more drops start to fall. No doubt about it. It's raining. "Rain, aww. I guess we'll have to cut the day short." Lyra says disappointedly.

"We can still hang out my place. It's not too far away." Sweetie says cheering Lyra right up.

"Sure, I'll call my parents and let them know."

The rain starts to come down harder and both of the girls run for shelter.

Though no one has come to this store in quite some time, there is one person already inside. An eighteen-year-old boy with a light silvery skin tone and short black hair. A boy named Rain. Who is currently sleeping on the floor behind the store checkout counter.

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Rain's POV

Good morning. Oh wait, it's a quarter past one. Good afternoon, I guess. Man, how late was I up last night? I guess my research took a bit longer than I thought. Anyway, the boy sleeping behind the counter is me, Rain. I should be waking up right... about... now. Yep, there I go. A bit sluggish but awake.

Now to change out of my pajamas. Or not, because I never changed into them last night. Oh well. I look around the store to find my favorite piece of clothing, my jacket. After a few minutes of looking, I realize that I must have left it in the back of the store. Might as well head back there. Not like this old place has had a customer in forever.

I walk into the back room and find my jacket hanging off a chair to a desk with a computer set up. The thing about my jacket though, is that it's a bit too big for me. I have to reach down to my knees to zip it up. And role up the sleeves to my wrist so my hands can stick out. But I where it every day, nonetheless. I sit down at the desk and decide to do a recap on all the research I've done over the past few months.

Research on the one thing I find more interesting than anything else. Magic. I've always wanted to use real magic. But as much as I've tried in the past, I've never been able to use magic myself. I've tried reciting incantations, making magical potions, and I've read enough books on magic to fill a library. But nothings ever panned out for me. I've read that many magicians speak in rhyme, so I tried that. But that got hard. And old. Don't even get me started on when I tried to rhyme to do a spell to turn an apple into an orange.

Then I came to Canterlot City, which seems to be the number one magic magnet in the world. At first, I thought there was something special about the city. But after a bit more research, I've narrowed the source down to Canterlot High School. More specifically, a few of its students. Seven of them. Sunset Shimmer, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie... and Fluttershy. Why does everything magical seem to be attracted to these girls.

Not only are these girls always around whenever something magical happens, but they also have magic themselves. They claim that their magic is the magic of friendship. But come on. Friendship is magic? Is something like that even possible? Normally I wouldn't have believed it, but these girls have magic, and I don't so what did I have to lose. All I had to do was... well make a friend. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of experience on the subject. So I did what I always do when I don't know how to do something. Read about it in books. After I read up on making friends, I tried testing what I've learn. But the results were... unsuccessful.

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I tried being kind.

I saw this girl performing stage magic for people. Though I do prefer real magic, I do find the art of stage magic interesting. It wouldn't hurt to check it out. Though the way the girl was boasting, you'd think she was going to do real magic.

"Behold and be amazed. For The Great and Powerful Trixie, will blow your feeble minds with the most amazingly spectacular feats of magical ability you shall ever see!" She was so confident I decided to watch the whole show. But I guess I was the only one who felt that way. Everyone else didn't seem to pleased with the performance. I guess I couldn't blame them. Despite what she had previously said, her act wasn't exactly great magic wise. In fact it was pretty awful. People started to walk away, some of them even started booing her. Despite all that though, she just kept up her act. Once she finished, I was pretty much the only one left watching. I was so impressed with what she did, I decided to tell her how I felt about it. Maybe if I complimented her, it would start a friendship between the two of us. But...

"I think you were just incredible!" I said.

"You do? I... I mean of course you do." She replied, putting a smile back on her face. So far so good.

"You just kept performing your terrible, awful, really bad magic act despite literally everyone around booing and hating it. I gotta say that's really impressive."

Suddenly, the smile on her face started to fade. She didn't seem as happy as she did a second ago. I didn't think about it too much and extend her my hand in friendship.

"Wanna be friends?" All of a sudden, she kicks me right in the shin. I had know idea why. I was trying to be nice. But she just packed up her stuff and left. "I...Is that a maybe?"

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I tried doing good deeds.

There was this teenage boy with his kid sister standing under a tree. The seemed upset. Apparently her cat got stuck in a tree.

"Please Big Bro. You'll get Socks down won't you?" The girl cried to her older brother.

"Alright, I'll see what I can do." He replied.

A cat in a tree. That's like, one of the most basic good deed there is. Plus, that cat can't be more than mine, ten feat off the ground. Maybe if I help them out, that guy will want to be my friend. Or maybe the little girl. I'm not picky. I've so got this. At least, that's what I thought.

"Excuse me sir, but I couldn't help but notice your current predicament. Please allow me to help."

"It's really no big deal" He said. But I wasn't going to take no for an answer.

"I insist." After careful planning I figured out the best way to get the cat down. It's like I always say, books hold the answers to everything.

...

So I threw a book a the cat.

...

...

I may not have thought that one all the way through.

At least that the cat did come down. And right on my face. Which it then used as a scratching post. I think it was mad at me. While I was left lying on the ground in pain, the two siblings and their cat all left.

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I even tried meeting people with similar interests. So I joined a... "book club". Apparently that's a thing.

It was fun for a bit. I started to enjoy it. Until our first weekly meeting. I try to give them a well detailed summary of the book we were reading. The whole book. And for some reason. Everyone else looked confused. Before I finish they cut me off and started complaining

"Wait, I don't remember most of that."

"Did this guy read the entire book this week?"

"We were only supposed to read to chapter two."

"Are you telling us you read the entire book?"

"Isn't reading the book the point of book club." I couldn't tell what they were upset about. "Anyway, I felt like that in chapter sixteen... " Before I said another word, everyone started throwing their books at me. I got chased out of the club. Apparently, some people don't like knowing things as soon as possible. They called me a "spoiler" or whatever.

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So far all I found out is that making friends is painful. I don't get it. I tried everything I read in the book. Though I can't help but feel like I've been doing something wrong. Is it possible that there are some things you can't learn by just reading about it.

This clearly isn't gonna work for me.

After thinking about it for awhile, if having friends was all It took to have magic, a whole lot more people would have magic right now. Not just those seven. So there must be something special about them in particularly.

I decided decided to keep a close eye on these girls and have been studying them each individually. Which now that I think about it was pretty much just me creepily stalking them in secret. Bravo me. Oh well, sometimes we do what we need, to get what we need.

I've made a file on each of them. I gathered any information I could on them. Trying to see what each of these girls have in common that made the magic choose them. Here's a brief summary on each of them.

Sunset Shimmer - She's brave, determined, and deeply cares about her friends. She's a great artist and loves playing "video graphical games". Her magic is the ability to read other people's minds by touching them.

Twilight Sparkle - She's highly intelligent and very responsible. Always there when a problem needs solved. Her magic is telekinesis.

Rarity - Elegant, generous, and we'll mannered. She absolutely loves designing and making clothes for her, and even more so for other people. Her magic allows her to create diamond like constructs.

Applejack - Honest and hard working. She's pretty much the definition of a farm girl. Her magic grants her super strength.

Rainbow Dash - Confident, competitive, and loyal. She's very athletic, and enjoys... sport things. Her magic is super speed.

Pinkie Pie - Funny, cheerful, and a bit random at times. She enjoys parties, laughing, and anything filled with sugar. Her magic... let's her make food and sugary objects explode by touching and throwing it. Like I said, she's a bit random.

Fluttershy -

...

Regrettably, I don't have any info on her. Her file is completely empty. Ugh, why is this so hard?! I can't even look at her without... *Sigh* Maybe next time I see her.

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After I bang my head on the desk to gather my thoughts together, I came to a conclusion. Other than having magic, the only thing these girls have in common...

IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!

They're all so completely different. And I don't believe in random coincidences. Could being friends really be the reason these girls have magic. Ugh what is wrong with this place. The city is weird, the people are weird, magic makes even less sense than it's supposed to! Wait...

Maybe I'm just the weird one.

*Sigh* Get yourself together Rain. You can still do this. If just observing isn't enough, maybe it's about time you take the leap and go straight to the source of the magic. Tomorrow I'll start taking classes at Canterlot High. I'll be able to get to know the girls better then. If I don't somehow mess it up like I did before. Maybe if I actually get to know them, I'll do better. But, I'll still take notes. It couldn't hurt.

Bottom line is, it doesn't matter what happens. This is something I have to do. No matter what it takes. I'll learn how magic works here. I'll figure it out. I'm good at that.

I grab a couple notepads and a pen and stick them inside my jacket. I can't let anything get in my way. This is for the thing I want more than anything else. Nothing's gonna stop me. I open the door to leave the store, and it's raining buckets outside.

*Sigh* I hate rain.

Comments

[Grand-Galvatron]

Hmm, what a very interesting story. Keep up the good work.

[MLPEG Lover]

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Thank you

[Grand-Galvatron]

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You're welcome, friend.