The Legend of the Sound Striders

by Night Music

Normal? Who's Normal?

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You are galloping through your house trying to find it.

"Where is it? Is this it? no, no can't be, what i'm looking for is blue, but this is purple..." You say still galloping through your house trying to find it.

You freeze mid gallop, "AHA, found you, you slippery piece of whoa-" You trip on the mound of stuff you just through on the ground looking for the sound.

"ow..." You say as you rub your muzzle with a hoof.

You look up at the string of sound floating in front of you making sure this one is the correct one, and it is.
You can see your reflection in it, you are a Stallion with a Ruby Red and Sapphire Blue mane, pure white coat, and Emerald green eyes with no pupils.

"Ok, do I have everything I need? Yes, yes I do." You say to yourself.

And then as soon as you touch the dark blue string, color erupts from it, swallowing you whole.


You are in a hallway, a long dark blue hallway. Not all sound is like this, it's what you make it out to be, this particular one you chose as a hallway. You are going to see your best friend.

You start to move down the hallway at a comfortable pace, humming a tune you had heard before. You glance at the end of the hall, there's a doorway, a smile creeps onto your face as memories flash through your mind.

You're at the door, just standing there, wondering what today will be like. Not being able to wait you put your hoof up to the door and push it open.

Moonlight floods your eyes, you blink a couple of times trying to get your eyes to adjust. But soon as you do that you get tackled by a dark blue mass

"Night, you're here!" The mass says.

Your eyes finally adjusting, you see a more distinguished figure. Dark blue, horn, wings... it's Luna!


You try to get the Princess of the Night off of you before this becomes even more awkward for you. As you try to get up you realize that she actually isn't pinning you down, so you get up with ease, bringing the Princess up with you.

"Yeah I'm here, you are my best friend after all, is it a crime to come see my friend?" You say with a bit of a chuckle.

"Well under this context it kinda is, but nothing to worry about, since you are a close friend of mine" She says not realizing you were joking.

So here you are in Princess Luna's room, only with Luna. You're cheeks flush red at the those thoughts.

Luna sees your face and asks, "Are you okay? you look a little... oh what's the word? AHA, flustered.

"If I'm going to make speeches than I want to work on my vocabulary." She says with deadpan tone of voice.

She turns back to you and looks like she is searching, searching for a thought of some sort, so you wipe your mind of anything secret or bad and focus on the good. Her face returns to normal and she asks,

"So, what do you have planned for today?"

"Well, what do you want to do? We can do anything you want." You say.

"Uhm, c-can I-" She stutters "Can I see what you see?"

"Well I don't see why not" You answer.

"Yay, this is going to be so much fun!" She says as jumping up and down.

You gran her hoof tight and breathe in deeply focusing your power through your hoof and as you do that a slow, deep humming starts to emanate from the room.

Luna is looking at you, wondering in both excitement and awe to see what you can do and how you do it being an Earth Pony.

As the humming becomes loud enough to vibrate things off the shelves, it stops.

Wondering what you did Luna asks in a disappointed tone, "uhm is that it?"

"Watch this." You say holding a hoof up.

You put your hoof to your mouth and start to breathe a sigh into it, and withdrawing the hoof at the same time.

Luna sees glowing coming from your mouth and positions her head to the side to see what you are doing, and to her amazement your are pulling a multicolored string from your mouth.

You finally get the string out and let go, allowing it to float in between you and Luna.

"eeeeewwww, but cool!" She says with a look like she is going to start giggling.

You chuckle at her child like behavior, even though being only 6 months out of college.

"Ready?" You ask.

All she does is nod.

You raise your hoof to the string and touch it. Color explodes from it and swallows you both whole.


Luna's mouth is agape and her eyes are wide. "Wooooooow, this... is amazing!

You watch her as she runs around this room you had made, in this realm and the other she is magnificent, so... beautiful beyond mortal words that explain beauty.

Luna notices you watching her with half-lidded eyes and walks over to you and says, "Thank you Night, this is amazing, what can I give to you for such a wonderful gift?"

"hm? oh, don't worry about it, being friends with you is a gift by it's self, and it's a gift you grace me with." You say as you snap back to reality, or at least this reality.

Luna blushes at the compliment adding even more beauty than gods could handle.


Time has gone by as you two, sit, talk, play games, and listen to music you had made in your home.

"We should probably get going, if anyone realizes I'm gone, mass chaos will ensue" Luna says with a sad tone, not wanting to leave.

"I swear, someone talking about me." A certain Draconequus says.

As you return to the door to the hallway, you turn around and try to say something but get interrupted by a pair of lips pressing into yours. Shocked, your body tenses up but quickly becomes relaxed and you start to kiss back. You wish this moment could last forever, but to your dismay it ends a minute after. You both are blushing heavily and not looking at each other.

You want to say something but can't find the words so you turn around and walk out the door.


Author's Note

Please let me know what you think, criticism is welcome. And I hope you look forward to reading Chapter 2.

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