Scratched back to Xero

When we had gotten back to Manehatten, the sun began to set. Luna had told us,

"Would you mind waiting here for a few minutes, while we... I mean I raise the moon?"

"Oh, no, it's no we don't mind at all." I said with a smile on my face.

She took flight and as she peaked, her mane had a beautiful colour has the sun's final rays shone on her. We watched as the sun set on the horizon, and for a moment, I thought I saw that same mysterious stallion who had knocked on my door asking for dad's record all those years ago. I suppose it was just my eyes playing tricks on me, I've had a long day of excitement.

After Luna had finished raising the moon, she flew back to us, and we headed back to my house. On the way back Elvaire had commented that everything looks just how she remembered it, back when we first met at Mixcon the year before. Luna looked relaxed for once, I suppose that as a princess she didn't get much leisure time. When we got back, I showed Luna around the house, and brought her to the guest room.

"You're welcome to stay here whenever you want, our door is always open to you."

"We shall keep that in mind, thank you, Xero."

Vinyl had been sitting in the living room with Elvaire talking to her, about what, I couldn't hear, but they were hugging when Luna and I came back downstairs.

I went down stairs to grab a few records and the turntables, I asked what everyone liked;

Elvaire said "I like classical, or electronic"

Vinyl had eagerly said "EDM!" of course.

And Luna quietly said "We enjoy classical..."

As it stood, it was a tie between genres, so I decided to play some electro-classical songs to make everypony happy. We had a small party in the living room until about two in the morning. At that point, everypony was exhausted and decided to sleep, so I showed them to their rooms.

I woke up in a jolt, scaring Elvaire bad enough that she fell off the bed. I couldn't recall the dream I had that night. After she and I had both calmed down, we went to the living room to see Luna and Vinyl getting to know each other.

"She seems very talkative lately, wouldn't you say so?" I said as Elvaire looked at me, smiled and said to me:

"She seems like she's enjoying herself, meeting new ponies, and such."

Vinyl had noticed us at the end of the hallway, and smiled, turning back to Luna. I went over to them and asked Luna what she had planned for the day, which was surprisingly nothing. Vinyl had wanted to go around town, and see if her friends were still around, which last I heard they had all moved away... She had such a dissapointed look on her face, beneath those purple sunglasses she had gotten when she was just a small little foal.

"So, doth thou want to come to Canterlot for a small umm... 'get together' as they call it?" Luna had said in a calm, somewhat hesitant tone.

"I'm up for it! How about you two?" I looked to Vinyl and Elvaire, excited.

They simply nodded, as Luna told us "We shall enjoy your company there, and we will come back when it is time."

Luna hadn't told us what it is she's bringing us too, but we figured it was just a small party in Canterlot Castle. Vinyl and Elvaire were getting along very nicely, and I was busy doing nothing as usual. I thought about becoming a courier, since I'm quite fast, for a pony without wings that is. I'd get to travel, and get paid for walking around giving people packages. The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to go out and be a courier. I talked to Elvaire about it, and she was all for it, since it gave me something to do, now that I quit the music industry.

I decided to just go to the post office, and apply for a job, as a courier.

To my luck, they had been in need of a new courier, and said they would let me know in a week or so if I had the job, so after dropping off my resumé, I had decided to see if there were any live performances in the city. Once again, to my luck, there was a show just about to start in a new club that opened about a month ago, a band called "Screen Door", the guitarist seemed to have a broken horn, the singer, seemed kinda... blue, and the bassist was vibrant orange, not to mention the red keytarist and the blue drummer with neon hair. Seemed like they were missing something... maybe a little flare to this punkish rock.

After the opening song, the next band went on, and Screen Door, as strange as the name is, went behind stage. I decided to go talk with them, and tell them they had a good opener. The guitarist had told me they didn't do so well without their mixer, as he pointed his hoof to the empty set of turntables. The other band members had their eyes fixed on my cutie mark for some reason, then called the guitarist, who's name was "X-Rated", the name fit his personality for sure.

When it was time for them to go back on stage, they quickly stenciled my name on the front of the turntables, and told me to just go with the flow. Next thing I knew, I was on stage once again...

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