The Demon's Within

Ravestorm smiled as the guards arrived in Manehatten. The guards leaped downwards onto the soft dirt and dropped the carriage softly on the ground. Ravestorm stepped out of the carriage and kindly paid the guards for the ride. He trotted into the town with a big smile on his face, until one very bad thing occurred. A fancolt saw him, and that was the worst thing that a rock star like Ravestorm could have.

“Hey everypony! It’s Ravestorm! The rock star pony!” The fancolt yelled as a large mass of ponies came literally out of nowhere and started to run towards him. He looked on in shock as his body started to shake at the though of what would happen if he was to be caught by the large mob of fanponies, he jumped up and zoomed off running. The large mass of ponies began to chase him until he ran into an alleyway to hide himself. Most of the ponies ran past the alleyway, which caused a sigh of happiness to come from Ravestorm. Unfortunately for him, one pony was fortunate to hear this sigh and called out his name once again.

He couldn’t believe this, but he knew that going back outside the alleyway was the worst thing possible at this point, so he ran further into the alleyway and was sooner or later caught between a steel chain-link fence and a crowd of ponies. Ravestorm had prepared for this months back and decided to train his body for being able to dodge and maneuver certain things. He jumped onto the chain-link steel fence and used his hooves to climb up, the other ponies tried to follow but their hooves wouldn’t allow them to climb. He sighed in relief as he hopped over the large fence and onto the ground. He ran outside of that alleyway and saw no ponies.

He sighed in relief at the sight and began to walk again. However, the most unexpected thing happened to him. Another large crowd of ponies went from both sides of the street. He sighed and stomped his hoof in anger as he saw the crowd get closer to him. They licked their lips and prepared to tackle the rock star stallion, probably to get a piece out of him as a souvenir, ask for an autograph, try to get some spoiler to his next song, or probably hating him for rock music. It didn’t matter to Ravestorm, as long as he stayed alive. He closed his eyes and waited for the onslaught of ponies. They all prepared to charge at him, until a bright flash appeared around Ravestorm. He was suddenly transported out of the area. The fanponies let out a sigh and a few tears shed from their eyes.

Ravestorm fell onto the pavement. He could tell that the ground was stone, so he must be in an alleyway. He looked up and saw just one Unicorn mare, which was a relief to him due to the fact that a large crowd of ponies almost killed him not too long ago. Still, he was very cautious.

“Hello...” Ravestorm said still very exhausted from the running.

“Hi, wow I can’t believe I am in the alleyway with Ravestorm. Sorry, forgot to introduce myself. My name is Crystal Clear.” The mare said with a smile. From Ravestorm’s eyes, she had a light blue coat, a dark and light blue mane, blue eyes, and a crystal cutiemark. Her mane was quite long reaching up to her face, she looked pretty cute. Her mane was as long as Vinyl’s and as spikey as hers too. “And I know who you are, you’re name is Ravestorm. You are such an inspiration around here, everypony loves your music.” She said with a smile.

All Ravestorm could think of was ‘Oh great, another fanmare.’, but he didn’t say it out loud. He never liked to offend a mare that just possibly saved his life. “Thank you Crystal. I kind of have to get going.” He said with a serious expression as he began walking out of the alleyway.

“Wait!” Crystal yelled as she ran back up to him. All Ravestorm could think about her running up to him was that she would want an autograph or something. He stopped anyways because it was just one pony.

“What is it?” Ravestorm asked knowing what was to come next.

“You can’t just walk out there; do you not remember what just happened?” Crystal asked. Ravestorm was surprised to hear this because most of the time he would make the right decision, but this time he thought back and remembered how this all started in the first place. Ravestorm also couldn’t believe that this mare would offer advice to him; maybe she wasn’t a fanmare after all.

“Then what do I do?” Ravestorm asked, almost like that he could trust this pony, who he had just met about a minute ago.

“Why don’t you use a cloak spell? I mean, you are a Unicorn after all.” Crystal asked to Ravestorm being surprised once again. Ravestorm considered using a cloaking spell, he was indeed a Unicorn. But the fact that he had a demon inside of him made him think real hard. A simple cloak spell was not enough to bring out a demon, but it will still very risky to try to pull it off. Back at the Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns, he relied on his hooves because he didn’t need music to sing at all, and using a guitar also doesn’t require any magic at all.

“I rather not use magic at this time.” Ravestorm said and was in fact was the only thing that he could think of at this time.

“Wow…a unicorn that can’t use magic, huh? That is very strange; here let me help you out.” Crystal Clear said as a blue aura came from her horn and developed around Ravestorm, which caused a mist to shroud around Ravestorm. When the mist cleared, Ravestorm was invisible. “Okay, so that spell doesn’t last long, so get to where you’re going and fast.”

“Thank you so much, bye.” Ravestorm said as he ran out of the alleyway only to the see the crowd of ponies. Thankfully, thanks to the spell, they couldn’t see him. He sighed in relief as he began to walk to the center stage in Manehatten. Ravestorm smiled as he walked over to the curtain and opened it, the cloak spell then ran out as Ravestorm became visible again.

Ravestorm walked over and saw three ponies that he knew quite well. There was a big burly Unicorn stallion; he had a black coat, a green mane and tail, yellow eyes, and a pair of drumsticks cutiemark. He always looked serious, but he was really a fun guy. His name was Ultrabeat and he was the drummer of the band. He then turned to another pony, she was a medium sized mare Unicorn, she had an orange coat, a light red mane, and light purple eyes, and her cutiemark was a guitar with musical notes coming out of it. Her mane reached over her face and she looked very rock star-like.  Her name was Solar Flare, and she was the lead guitarist for the band. Ravestorm looked at the last pony. There was a medium sized Pegasus stallion, he had a black coat, a black mane and tail, and had blue eyes. His cutiemark was a bass guitar, his name was Metal Shack. He was the bass player and was the second known of the group as one of the best bass players known around Equestria. Their band was called ‘The Nightmare Unicorns’ and they were very successful in the music world.

“What happened to you Rave? You are usually the first one here.” Solar Flare asked.

“Traffic.” He said sarcastically.

“So, where’s the music sheet?” Ultrabeat asked sounding very rude today. Ravestorm smiled as he looked into his satchel and pulled out a few pieces of paper with the song lyrics on them. He smiled as he handed the piece of paper over to Ultrabeat and the others, along with the lyrics, there was the music sheets.

“Okay, while we are rehearsing the music, you go take a break. You look like you are about to have a heart attack.” Metal said with a smile as Ravestorm went over to sit down on one of the stage equipment boxes and watched them rehearse their instruments. He smiled as he thought about what Trixie was doing. He smiled with joy as he thought about how maybe she is blowing the roof off of Ponyville.

“Good luck Trixie.” He said with a smile.