Two stallions are walking down the streets of Manehattin to an apartment. The older, Midnight, was a pegasus with a pink tail, and his client, Seth, a 21 year old unicorn. Midnight spoke with a mild calm tone “What were you doing with the mafia?”
Seth just trotted alongside Midnight “How did you do that thing with the lightning? I thought only unicorns could use magic.”
“I used my martial arts training, what did you do to the mafia?” Midnight ask while rubbing a hoof on his temple.
“Nothing at all” Seth responded.
“Midnight stopped and grabbed the stallion, “Tell me what you did, or i’ll bring you back to them!” Midnight screamed, his hasle blue eye’s seemed to change red and when he got mad. Seth’s response was yet again Nothing, “Come on I’m bringing you to your father, His apartment is a block or two down.” Midnight walked to Seth’s father’s door and knocked on it. "Edward" Midnight exclaimed his voice deep trying to speak over the party down the hall. "It's me, Midnight. I caught your son in the middle of a mafia hideout.”
"Seth?" Edward asked in utter confusion. "Is he alright?"
"Yes, he's fine, but I have to break up the party down the hall so please take him quickly." He turned to Seth, that loudmouth of a silver unicorn. "It's your dad, are you going in or not?" Midnight asked. Seth just ignored Midnight and entered the house. Midnight turned to the now open door. Midnight couldn't believe it. In mere hours Ed had managed to make three pies and some turkey. "Dad, Is that turkey?" Seth had asked as he sniffed the gravy. That aroma had always stuck with him. His dad was a professional chef of course. But the smell was like nothing you ever could smell. Like thanksgiving dinner when the food just finishes and the golden turkey. The salad is so sweet that candy had no comparison and the pie was made of the finest ingredients you could find.
"Seth. by Celestia’s mane you're alive.––" Edward said and hugged his sundun frantic with joy. "––Did you get hurt? I mean no one had seen y-" Edward said.
"No dad i'm fine.” Seth said
Midnight stopped at the fireplace in the front room ”I don’t mean to offend but, I need to visit one of your neighbors soon. They’ve been playing explicitly loud music” Midnight smiled at the picture of Seth’s parents at their wedding, with a particular Pink tailed stallion as the ring bearer, and he left.
Seth hugged his dad, “This guy you sent to help me was really good to me." Seth said as he ran a hoof through his bright red and white mane "I think he said he was a private detective.”
"Oh yes," Edward said shyly. "Midnight. Um-" Ed could not bring up the truth. After a moment he decided he should. "-Seth have a seat. I'm not sure how you will react" Seth sat at the table quietly awaiting his dads response. "Midnight Is your older brother, Seth."
"So what? I have a brother, since when is that a problem?" Seth said eyeing the food that had been prepared.
"That doesn’t affect you? You're not concerned that you’ve had a Brother for the last 21 years."
“No, Why should I be?” Seth stood up from his seat and looked at a collage of photo’s. “These are of Midnight aren't they?”
“What does that have to do with this conversation Seth?” His father asked
“Well take a look, It’s me on my eighth birthday Midnight came and he gave me my first drama novel; and here on my fourteenth birthday after you were honorably discharged from the Royal Guard because of your age, who was there for us? Lunar Starlight, no it was Midnight. He has been my role model since mom left and now I know why.” Seth just smiled at his brothers pictures “He get’s his tail from mom doesn’t he?”
“I get it. But why aren’t you the slightest upset.”
"Dad this is Midnight, He’s been my role model since I was six." Seth said he placed a hoof on his dad’s shoulder as he continued “I’m going to go talk to him. See if I can get to know him better.” Seth exited through the door and noticed Midnight still waiting at his next stop.
“What about dinner?”
“Invite some friends over to help you eat it.” Seth left the room and walked to be at Midnights side and Midnight just smiled "So. You're my older brother aren't you?" Seth asked as he backed against a wall “And you were the ring bearer at dad’s wedding.”
"Hah. Dad told you huh?" Midnight said in relief. "Now that the cat is out of the bag, How about you go home and then get something to eat" Midnight asked as he knock on the door three apartments down, Apartment 243.
"Hah good one I want to learn more about you." Seth said as the door open and they heard the music. It was like nails on a chalkboard and a chainsaw at the same time. "Ahh. Turn it off." Seth screamed as the music stopped and a mare came out.
A conversation with the mare in the room.
“Hey there officer Can I help you”
“Ma’am I’ve gotten reports from the building about your-Music-. So I need to ask that you turn it down.” Asked Midnight
“Sorry sir.”
“That is all. Have a nice night ma’am.”
“So you want to know more about me, Why me?” Midnight questioned his purple jacketed brother as they trotted down the stairs.
“Well you are my brother.” Seth responded
A devious smile crossed Midnights face “Okay then follow me” The thought that crossed Midnights mind This is going to be fun.
Midnight and Seth are in front of an equestrian bar, The Atomic Moon, you can smell the alcohol from outside the door. Not just that but he smell is so strong that Seth started to pass out. Midnight had come here on a daily basis for the last thirteen years, a regular. A heavy drinker at that.
Seth noticed the sign above “Whoa, Midnight what are we-” stopping in his tracks “My 21st Birthday was yesterday. How could I forget?’
“Well do you want a drink or not?” Midnight said opening the front door “It’s on me.”
“Sur-” Seth said as the bartender cut him off.
“Midnight who’s that stallion.” He began to run his rugged hoof across his bar counter with a facecloth. “New boy for you to protect or-”
“My little brother.” The brothers sat at the bar counter “I should introduce you all. The three pegasi over there are Darkness, Luminescent and, Theodore Chrysant. That there is Atom Moon, The owner of the bar. And as you may have noticed the one person who stands out.”
“No way is that?” Seth’s eye’s trailed off to–
“Monstrawno Chrysant The only keyrowsin who can enter and exit Equestria without warning.” Midnight entered the room finally and sat with his friends. “Well come on sit with us Seth.”
Dark smiled as Seth hesitated to enter “What the hell kinda name is Seth? but then again my name is Darkness so who am I to judge?”
“So what do I do here? Just sit and chat or like play pool?” Seth asked Midnight.
Midnight sat at his usual spot with a grin he said “Get a drink and then play pool or blackjack.”
“Okay, Ah, i’ll have––” Points back and forth through the alcohol. “––An apple martiany.”
“Okay sir.” Atom grabs the drink flips it around a couple times and hands it to Seth “Here ya go kid, Don’t fall over.”
Seth walk over to a blackjack table “I’m not a kid.” Seth responded as he grabbed a pool cue and took a seat at the blackjack table. “I hope you are ready to lose your paychecks.”
“Sure, just drink” Atom Announced abruptly. “I’m always happy to take your winnings.” He added with a devious smile.
Two hours pass and Midnight has had three drinks; Seth, on the other hoof, has had two and won five games of pool and around a hundred bits or a two grand in our modern equivalent. Then three stallions walked in. One Earth pony and two unicorns.
“Hey it’s that kid from earlier today boss.” Said the one on the left.
Midnight got off his stool and stepped in front of the three stallions “Didn’t I tell you to stay away from my brother?”
“Now you listen to me. I have no need to fight you; we just want the boy.” The Earthpony tried to push past Midnight but was stopped. They shared so short words like whispers that no one could here.
“Now you listen to me.” Midnight said “ I’m going to drop my beer knock you out and grab my beer before you or it hit the floor.”
“Funn-” And with a swift movement of this upper torso and hips Midnight twisted around on his hind hooves let go of his beer and smacked the Earthpony square on the cheekbone knocking him cold and dormant on the floor of the blood stained tiger stripe oak flooring, and he grabbed his beer before it hit the ground.
What was said in brief discussion
The boss was so close that you could smell the lobster from his dinner three hour’s back and the room was so still you could hear the rocks turn from the taxi’s going down the street.
“Midnight the unicorn on the left, He’s the one hunting your brother.”
“Why?”
“He thinks that whoever guides you lead’s my Mafia”
“I won’t let anyone else lead it”
“Check the back of the Everfree Forest for his last victims and get a warrant for Apartment 243 alicorn street Manehattan. You’ll find the murder weapon”
“What now Mr. Capony?”
“Knock me out and make it look good and real.”
“Hah that was simple.” Midnight turned to his seat and was charge by the Stallion on the left. witch nailed him in the stomach. “Get the boss and lets get out” With that they left and the bar members chased them out.
"Midnight!” Seth Yelled.
“Luminescent get your knife.” Atom yelled “Monstrawno get him on the counter–” He then crawled under the counter of the bar and grab a bottle of hard whisky and Succinylcholine.”Okay I got some stuff to fix him.”
“Whoa what the hell are you doing with those, and he should be at a hospital.” Seth Asked as he hovered over his brother.
“I’m a doctor by day, a bartender by night, and this is Suxamethonium chloride, also known as suxamethonium or succinylcholine, is a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor agonist, used to induce muscle relaxation and short-term paralysis, usually to facilitate tracheal intubation. It is used as a paralytic agent for euthanasia.”
“What?”
“It is mainly used for the immobilization of horses.“ Atom said “Now Listen kid this is equestria were talking about. We might not be in the medieval time’s but were not quite in a colonial age where hospitals are common”
“God damn it just put the stitches in already.” Atom reach around for some thread and a light but had no luck of course. “The one time I don’t have thread the one time” he continued to search as Midnight bleed on the counter. “Oh i need some light, Dark get me a lamp, and Midnight drink this” Atom handed Midnight the whiskey and he finished it “Theodore will you do the honors”
“Yeah I’d love to.” The pale-gold pegasus walked over to Midnight with the lamp that Dark brought him. Theodore lifted the whiskey bottle and struck Midnight right on his cheekbone and Midnight passed out.
“God This is incredible, his horn went through two major arteries and scraped his kidney; I’ll need to make a cut here to start fixing him but he might be out for days after I do this” Atom made precision cuts as the muscles in Midnight’s body loosened. His blood relaxed in his veins and stitches breaking the skin as Atom sewed the Pegasus back together at the abdomen. The counter was covered in blood and whiskey from the extensive medical procedure.
