Lightning of The Axe

It was a normal day in Ponyville, at least at the very moment, a few clouds dotted the sky, occasionally moving across the bright sun. Pretty much everypony was outside enjoying the weather except for four stallions that were in a cellar, all were part of the band 'Lightning of Royalty' and proud of it, the band was started a couple of weeks ago by their guitarist, Sun Storm, Sun Storm was an orange unicorn with a blue and white mane, he had a guitar that resembled an Explorer model, it was blue and had white streaks of lightning over the body, his cutie mark was an electric guitar that resembled the one he used, except black and had a sun behind it. He joined his three friends, Strummer, Steel Hoof, and Cloud Wave together and with that they had a band going. Strummer was their bass guitarist, he was a pegasus with a navy blue coat and a dark purple mane that matched up with the color of his SG style bass guitar, his cutie mark was a white bass guitar. Steel Hoof was the drummer of the band, he was an earth pony with light red coat along with a black and white mane, his drum set was a masterpiece of it's own, it had a double bass, eight toms, two snares, and twelve cymbals, all of the drums were colored in black and red, his cutie mark was two brown crossed drumsticks. Finally, Cloud Wave was their lead vocalist and a damn good one, the pegasus had a light gray coat and a burgundy mane, his microphone was modified so he could scream and not blow out the amps it was connected to, his cutie mark was a black microphone with orange and yellow flames around it.

"Hurry up and secure that mic so we can get this practice going, I wanna play my axe before I die." Sun Storm complained.

"I am trying okay! Jeez dude." Cloud Wave responded, rolling his eyes.

After a few seconds Cloud Wave had secured the microphone to the stand, everything was plugged into something if it needed it and with that the very first practice of Lightning of Royalty was under way. They started playing a song that each of them pitched in to write, it was called 'Charge to Battle,' it was the very first piece of music the band had wrote as a team, it started off with a slow but complex riff as an intro and a few seconds after the melodic riff was done the song descended into a bass and electric guitar heavy song or "epic" as the members of the band called it about a soldier of Celestia's royal guard fighting off an unknown enemy and eventually wandering the Equestrian wasteland alone after the battle. Meanwhile outside some ponies that were frolicking in the sun stopped to listen to the song that was emanating from the basement. Everypony that was hearing the song gathered around the cellar door to listen to the lesser heard genre of 'metal,'

" I hear! The screams of my men! They fall but I fight on!" Were lyrics Cloud Wave was singing that were captivating everypony, not many citizens of the small town had heard a darker take of lyrics but most were enjoying it.

Once the ending happened, which consisted of fourteen structured hits on a snare followed by a slam on the lowest tom, the song stopped and the band heard cheers from outside, curious to what it was, Strummer opened the cellar door to find around twenty or more, ponies congregated outside around the cellar.

"Um, guys, I think we have an audience." Strummer said, looking at the crowd.

The other band members emerged from the cellar.

"Uh... you guys enjoy that?" Sun Storm asked

Everypony cheered aloud, all of the band members smiled, they never knew they'd find ponies that like their music!

"Wanna hear more?" Sun Storm asked with more confidence.

All of the band members hear the crowd yell a loud YEAH!!

The four ponies trotted back down to the basement they had emerged from and picked up their instruments, chosing to play another song that the band had written during the three weeks of them not playing, they chose a song called "Chain of Fire", it was about two ponies that had known each other for as long as they could remember and one becomes corrupt with an evil soul, in the end the poor pony gets released from the grips of the dark soul after a long battle over his body with it but there is a twist, his friend had been badly injured because of the dark soul.

After playing the five songs they had written the practice was over.

"Sorry everypony, we're out of songs to play, practice is over." Sun Storm said to the now crowd of around fifty ponies.

The band heard some crowd members sigh or make disappointed noises as the crowd disbanded. Sun Storm stood outside the cellar door and viewed as the crowd disbanded.

"Hey! You! Guitar player guy!" An unknown voice said.

Sun Storm turned his head and saw a dark grey pegasus with his mane sported in a Mohawk galloping toward him.

"Oh hey?" Sun Storm said, hoping the pegasus wasn't asking for guitar lessons.

"Do you guys play gigs? My birthday is coming up and I was wondering if you could play your stuff at it, you guys rock! Oh, my name is Thunder Lane by the way." The energetic pegasus said.

"I dunno, if it's cool with my bandmates, when is it?" Sun said.

"One week from now, so Tuesday of next week." Thunder Lane said, hoping he could get these ponies to play at his birthday party.

"I dunno, lemme ask 'em. Hey guys! Wanna play a gig next Tuesday?!" Sun Storm yelled down the cellar.

Three yeah's were heard from the bottom of the stairs and with that they had their first gig.

"Yeah, looks like we can play, my name is Sun Storm by the way." Sun Storm said with a smile.

"Yes! I can't wait to hear you guys' music again! Thank you guys so much!" Thunder Lane said, Sun Storm felt good knowing he had made someponys day.

"I'll see you next Tuesday." Sun Storm said as he ventured back into the cellar.

"Well everypony. We have a gig next Thursday!" Sun Storm hollered.

His bandmates gave a hardy WOOO and with that they were ready for Tuesday. Their first ever gig.