As they sat there eating, Solar Flare couldn't help but stare at the two mares sitting across from her. Both of them seemed so odd to her, one had an electric blue mane while the other looked like she belonged in the capitol city. Solar Flare pushed her eggs around her plate before setting her fork down and looking at the two mares.

"U-um excuse me Vinyl?" Solar Flare asked.

"Yeah Flare?" Vinyl asked.

Solar Flare was taken aback by the nickname, but continued despite her shyness. "I was just wondering, but why does your hair look so funny?" She asked, but a black wing draped itself over her back before she could get an answer, knowing that a scolding was about to commence.

"Now Solar Flare, remember what I told you about asking ponies questions like that." Mooney said condescendingly.

"Sorry Vinyl." Solar Flare said, lowering her head as she did. "I've just never seen anypony with a mane like yours."

"Really kid? If that's the case, then it's alright. At least you didn't ask 'what's a record' or something like that." Vinyl said before putting a forkful of eggs into her mouth.

Solar Flare then picked her head up with a confused expression. "What's a record?" She said with innocence in her voice.

When Vinyl heard this, she gasped and brought half of her fork and food down her throat, causing her to need some assistance before she passed out. Octavia had the same reaction, minus the fork and food. After taking a couple seconds to compose herself, Octavia looked at the choking DJ for a few seconds before slamming her hoof into the middle of Vinyls back, causing Vinyl to spit her fork onto her plate. She smacked her lips together for a few seconds before lightly coughing.

"Thanks Tavi for the help, but for some reason I taste blood now." Vinyl smacked her gums a little bit more before turning her attention to Solar Flare. " Now to what started this, but excuse me for the volume Flare, but HOW DO NOT KNOW WHAT A RECORD IS!" Vinyl shouted, almost blowing a hole into everyponies eardrum.

"I-I've never seen one. I'm pretty sure that there isn't even a record store in town." Flare started to sniffle a bit. "I-I'm sorry."

Vinyl felt sympathetic towards the filly, and a little guilty at her sniffling. "Don't cry kid. That just means Aunty Vinyl gets to show you what she does." Vinyl said as she pulled her phone out of her mane, which confused Octavia.

"How did you do that Vinyl?" Octavia asked.

"Pinkie Pie taught me how to store stuff in my mane." Vinyl stated matter-of-factly. "In fact, I've got an extra pair of speakers in here that attach to my phone." She pulled out a small pair of speakers that could easily hook up to her phone.

Octavia knew what was coming next from having to listen to Vinyls 'wubs' every day. "Oh look at the time, the store is open. Might as well look at the merchandise before the morning crowd comes through the door." Octavia picked up her plate and proceeded into the store front. "I'll just uh, browse for a bit." and with that, Octavia got as far away from the kitchen inside the store as possible.

When Vinyl hooked up her speakers to her phone, she looked for the first song she knew would make an impression, and started playing it.

After the song ended, most of the contents of the table had been blown onto the floor by the initial sound wave from the DJs custom made speakers. Those that had normal manes had them blown back while the two Alicorns looked a little bewildered.

"That......was........AWESOME!!" Flare exclaimed as she jumped out of her seat.

"That, my young Flare, is dubstep. But there's more than that on records. I've got some more music on this thing if you want to listen while we clean up." Vinyl started levitating all the plates, including Octavias, towards the sink.

Each of the adults started doing a different task. Midnight cleaned the table, Night Shade and Mooney cleaned the floor, and Vinyl did the dishes. Flare made sure to stick close to her new friend and learn as much as possible about this 'dubstep'. All the while, Octavia started looking around the library of the shop to see if anything caught her interest. After scanning the shelves for a bit, she found a very peculiar book that looked like it could shed a little light on the underworld. The binding read 'A guide to the underworld for the newly deceased'. Octavia picked out the book and flipped to the section called 'how everything works'.

The way the Underworld works

For those that are new to the underworld, they and possibly you are wondering how the sun, moon, and stars are visible in the underworld. This is actually a simple explanation really. The four horses of the apocalypse are known to cause Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence on the mortal plane, but in the underworld their roles are completely different.

Death: Deaths responsibilities include the rotation of the sun, moon, and stars here in the underworld. He tells souls how they died and where they can start out. He also controls the passage of time and reincarnation. All you have to do is either wait a few hundred years or you can have him or one of his disciples reverse your age.

War: Wars responsibilities are the safety of the souls of the underworld and the punishment of those that harm others. He is the head of the royal guard in the capitol city Tartarus. He's also been known to be a horticulturist and pascifist when he's not on duty.

Famine: Famines responsibilities are the well being of crops and food distribution to the entire underworld. He uses his locusts to eat invasive insect species that could potentially destroy entire farms.

Pestilence: Pestilences responsibilities are the health of the town and cities as well as finding cures for plant, insect, animal, and pony diseases and illnesses. He is normally the personal doctor of King Minos daughter.

"What'ya reading?"

Octavia jumped at the unexpected voice, nearly bumping into the bookshelves. She looked for the owner of the unknown voice, but all she could hear was Solar Flare asking Vinyl more questions about music. Octavia thought that she was just hearing things until she looked up.

A white pegasus was lightly hovering above her, the pegasi's mane was a frazzled and blonde mess. She had lavender eyes and three balloons as a cutie mark. Octavia was a bit shocked at the similarities of a certain pink pony she knew, but blurted out her name without even thinking of asking the pegasus her name.

"P-Pinkie Pie?"

"That's not my name, silly!" The mare giggled. "MynameisSurprisebutyouprobablythoughtIwasPinkiePieforanumberofreasons. ButIamrelatedtoPinkiePiethough,she'smygreatgreatgreatgreatgreatgreatGREATGrandaughter!Ihaveacouplesiblinigslikeherbutnotmuch,sosheisoneofmyfavorites. Hey,doyoulikeparties?Ilikemphmmphmph." A navy blue hoof covered the mares mouth as she continued to talk,which allowed Octavia to process what the mare had just said.

"Sorry about that, Octavia. Surprise can be a little energetic. All the time." Night Shade said. "She helps at the cafe', but loves making friends." He then looked at the still talking mare. "Surprise, how many times do I have to tell you not to bother my customers."

"Mph mm mph mm mph! Mm mmph m mmm mph m mmph mmm mph mph mmm mph mph!" (I had a sore throat! That means a friend of Morts come into town!) Surprise muffled.

"I guess that's okay then. But please talk normally when we're around other ponies. I'm one of the few that can understand you when you talk fast, remember?"

"Mmm hmm!"

"Good, now Octavia, I want to show you a couple of things you'll need to know. Follow me." Night Shade gestured Octavia to follow him as he took his hoof off the now silent Surprises mouth.

Author's Note

Hi there my both new and old fans! I promised a chapter about a week ago, and here it is. I hope you like it. And here's a question, if any of you want to see a fic that delves a bit into Night Shades and Midnights life, just say something. (If you guys and gals want to read one like that.) So stay tuned for more Vinyl and Octavia in the underworld. Oh and I introduced the original Pinkie Pie, Surprise! My god, what have I done?