Fly Me Over The Stars

Chapter 3: Bribes and Books

The pen is mightier than the sword,

though both ruin a perfectly good shirt.

~Abby Hill

The trio stepped in before Noctia could say anything, and the sat down on the couch, Vinyl with headphones on, bobbing her head up and down. Octavia frowned at the beat it was blasting out, you could practicly feel the sound waves in the air. Turning to look at Noctia, who was standing in front of them on the hearth rug, she cleared her throat.

"As, I said before, we need a favor. A big one. Shell Song?" the gray mare turned to Shell Song, who was looking at her hooves shyly.

"Um...well...we need some magical effects for a show we're gonna put on. Vinyl is going to turn me into a...a...DJ." Here she gulped. "DJ S-H-Three-Double one--"

Vinyl inturrupted her, the headphones now around her neck. "It's DJ SH311 S0NG, don't say the numbers." she wrote down the way it was spelt on a piece of paper.

Noctia read the paper a few times, decoding it, then looked back up. "Why can't you just do it Vinyl?" she asked confused.

"Because I'm gonna manage the Keytair!" At this she pulled out a picture of a guitar with a keyboard set into it. She grinned and Octavia rolled her eyes.

"And I'll be doing the violin. We need Shelly here to sing for us. She's been a project of ours for a while. So thats why you get the honours of using your crazy ice magic to create a sparkly star effect." she pointed toward Noctia's cutie mark, three stars connected by ice strands with smaller stars around it.

Noctia nodded. It couldn't be too hard...her previous thought came back to her. "As long as I get a favour from you, Miss Song." the nervous pony looked up.

"M-me? I don't think I'll be very good for anything..." she trailed off.

"Are you kidding? I need you to get me some place, if you're up to the challenge." Noctia dared.

Shell Song looked up at Noctia semi-awed. "Wh-what?"

"Fly me over the stars."