The band had been working on their first album since they got signed to the label and they were doing it by themselves, usually you didn't see that with band on an album in Equestria, let alone a first album. The four stallions had been working day in day out on this album, sometimes missing sleep and meals, to make this album rock.

"Alright Sun, can you play that again, except this time louder, we're having trouble picking up the high notes on your guitar." Cloud Wave said, Cloud Wave was very sleep deprived, he had dark bags under his yellow eyes, which were bloodshot, and was pretty much surviving on coffee to keep him awake.

"Alright, fine." Sun said, getting ready to play again, he and all of his friends were very tired.

After two failed recordings of just the guitar, the band decided to give up on it and wait until tomorrow to work on it. They all needed sleep badly if they were gonna play well enough for the album. The four exited the studio and headed to their nice hotel Mr. Buck had bought them.

"After a good rest I should be playing guitar better tomorrow morning." Sun Storm said.

"I hope so. we can't have you going in there and making miscellaneous noises with those strings." Cloud said.

When the four arrived in the hotel they parted ways to their rooms on the fourth floor of the hotel. Upon arriving in his room, Sun Storm set his Axe down on the bed next to the bed he slept in most, sometimes he'd just collapse on a random bed depending on how tired he was, he slumped onto the messy bed and gripped the TV remote with his magic. He turned on the TV to the news channel, which usually put him to sleep, but as he was drifting to sleep he heard some words that perked his interest and made him look at the TV, the words were "Lightning of Royalty". Sun kept watching the TV, wondering what was being said of his band.

"Aspiring band, Lightning of Royalty, is now in the midst of making their first album, except they're doing it on their own, which is something not often seen in the music world. I've caught up with the drummer of the band, Steel Hoof. Mr. Hoof, would you like to say anything on the subject of the new album?" The news mare asked, Sun then saw the camera pan to Steel Hoof.

"They must be in the building." Sun Storm muttered to himself, eyes still glued to the TV.

"Well, I ain't gonna give away anything big, except that it's taking a physical toll on us all and that the album is gonna rock." Steel told the mare.

"Anything else?" The perky navy blue and yellow maned mare asked.

"Not that I can say on live television but I have one more thing to say overall. Mom, if you're watchin' this, hi, your son finally made it big." Steel Hoof said with a smirk as he went into his room.

"Well, you heard it here, solo producing an album is hard but can pay off. Next on Celebrity News, is Sapphire Shores, the pop sensation of Equestria, selling out? Find out more next." The mare said, before Sun switched the television off.

You did good, Steel Sun Storm thought before drifting to sleep. Meanwhile, twenty two miles away, a dark green pony with a brown and white mane along with a matching goatee just changed the channel from what he just watched to a metal documentary about his band, Thundersmith.

"Lightning of Royalty, huh?" He said to himself "Won't take them long to just become another band in this city."

Sun Storm woke up at 11:46am and had to rush out the door to get to the studio, he promised his fellow band mates he'd be to the studio at about 12:00pm, he arrived at 12:13pm.

"Sorry I was late, I slept in." Sun Storm said, panting from his run from the hotel to the studio.

"We don't care, get in there and let's record." Cloud Wave said.

Sun went into the recording room, warmed up to play, and began playing through the song "Flaming Mane". When he was finished he exited the studio and was given a nod of approval from his fellow band mates. Once that was done they needed to record two more songs. A few days later the second to last song of the album, Child of The Land, was finished, and four days after that, the very last song, Lighting of Royalty, which was a personal favorite of every member of the band, was completed. They had gotten the album done before the deadline. They all went to the hotel happy on that last day, knowing that the album was completed with time to spare. Sun had gotten into bed that night and went to sleep quickly and ended up having a weird nightmare. He was in an all black space but he felt watched, he kept turning around uncontrollably, finally, a pony that was all white, no mane, facial features, clothes, anything, was all of a sudden in front of him, a mouth tore from the pony's face and let out an ear piercing scream that made Sun Storm jolt awake in a cold sweat. Sun got up and ran to the studio. we was gonna surprise the band in the morning with a new track to add as a bonus to the album.

Sun Storm awoke to the sound of the studio door opening and slamming shut, followed by the voices of his three bandmates.

"Uh, Sun, what're you doing here?" Strummer asked.

"I had a nightmare, I was up all night writing and making a song for it, it's already recorded and everything, it's on the computer if you guys wanna listen, I like it." Sun said.

After hearing the song, the other band members agreed it should be a part of the album, it was put as track five, right in the middle of the album. After a few days of playing around with some things and three re-recordings of some songs the album was complete, it was to be self-titled and the band chose to release it three days early. CD copies of the album sold out in just about every store in the first two days and raked in a lot of money online. Within a month, each member of the band had thousands of bits. Their dream had come true. They were finally successful.

Author's Note

Sorry for the wait!