(Songs
Marcus D feat substantial - Enjoy yourself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6anld0ga3P8)
(Cue song 1) As the sound of chirping birds and a relaxing melody flowed into my ears I opened my eyes only to be met by the orange morning light. I looked at my clock where my music was coming from. It read 7:42 AM. I sat up and stretched before looking around my room. It was mostly empty except for my bed, my alarm clock, my sling bag and most importantly my turntables. Now normally I'd be worried that somepony had broken into my room and stole all my stuff while I was asleep but I didn't freak. There was a reason my stuff was gone and when I thought about the reason I smiled.
"Man I'll never forget this place."
Today was special because I was moving out of my moms house into my own place. After a few months of searching for a new house after I turned 18 I found a nice little place about a two hour flight from my hometown manehatten. I jumped out the bed and headed for my bathroom for a quick shower. As I washed up I thought about the new place I would be calling home.
It was a quiet little town by the name of ponyville. A friend of mine told me that there was a house for sale there and if I was looking for a place to settle down to check the place out. When I went to visit the house I was surprised at the amount of activity there. It was like a mini city but much more cheerful and friendly. I had ponies who didn't even know me waving at me for what seemed like the whole time I was there.
Once I saw the house I fell in love with the place and couldn't say no so I bought it, packed up my stuff at home, and mailed it to ponyville. Now I just had to get a few things done and I was flying to ponyville with my stuff on my back. It felt great to be able to fly freely through the skies at my own whim.
I unfurled my wings and washed them feeling the warm water soak into my coat. After a few minutes of this I decided to end my shower and get ready to leave. Once I dried off and went back into my room. I stared at my turntables. As you might have guessed by now I'm a Dj but I'm not like the Dj your thinking about. Your thinking about those electronic Dj's who ,And no offense to any of them, prerecord their mixes. Although I Dj all types of music I almost always do hip hop music.
I'm what's called a true Dj. No fancy effects, no cd mixes or anything. All my mixes are live and raw so if I screw up then I screw up on spot. I picked them up and looked at the name inscribed on the side. It read 'Midnight Muzic' which is my real name although I sometimes go by 'Mugen Midnight' on stage.
"Midnight breakfast is almost ready!"
"Coming ma!"
I set my turntable down before I flew downstairs landing in the kitchen taking a seat at the table. My mother noticed my fast yet stealthy entrance and smiled at me.
"There's my little stallion! I can't believe your already leaving home and going out into the world. Seems like yesterday I was just teaching you how to fly."
In the corners of her eyes I could see tears slowly forming. I knew this would happen but I never really thought of what to say to her to make here feel better.
"Ma I know your worried about me but I'll be fine. If I can survive living in manehatten using what you taught me I'll be alright. I'll even visit during the holidays."
"I know you'll be alright." she said trotting over to me and hugging me tightly before walking back over to the stove.
"I just-" she started "I just wish your father was here to see the incredible young stallion you've become."
I slowly Sank into my chair. My dad was one thing in my life I wish I could erase. When I was around two years old he left my mother and came back when I was five. Then he left again and I haven't heard from him since. Not that I really wanted to. Let's just say I hated the guy with a passion. He just up and left us twice for no reason. But eventually I let it go. He's living his life and I'm just starting mine. No use crying over it.
"Uh oh."
"Ma you ok?"
"Yeah I'm fine it's just I was going to make you your favorite pancakes but I don't have any flour. You wouldn't mind running down to the market and getting some would you?"
"…"
"Midnight?"
By the time she turned around I was already flying down the street bit bag in mouth. If there was one thing I would miss about living with my mom it was definitely her chocolate blueberry pancakes. I was a sucker for them as you can see. I knew a little place out in the market that was always overlooked but sold the best flour in the world.
I knew where all the sweet spots were in the city but when you've grown up in this city for 18 years you know where all the hot spots are. I found the place And the salespony instantly recognized me. We had become good friends over the years and he was a cool guy. He asked me what I was up to lately and when I told him I was moving out my moms place he gave me a bag of flour for free as a going away gift.
After leaving the market I landed at my doorstep about 15 minutes later. Once I walked inside I noticed it was unusually dark for this time of day and before I could find a light switch the lights flicked on by themselves and I nearly had a heart attack.
"SURPRISE!"
The whole downstairs was decorated for a party and in the middle of the room hanging from the ceiling was a banner that said 'Goodbye Midnight we love you'. All my friends I had made living here were packed into one room. I'm a very sociable pony so there were a lot of ponies there. The party started once the cd player was on full blast and soon even more ponies showed up and we partied hard. Laughs were had And overall the party was awesome but one thing caught my attention. On a table at the other end of the room was a bright colored box wrapped up with a neon colored bow.
I tried to ignore it but I couldn't help myself. The box was really big so whatever was inside must have been massive.
'Argh I'm dying to know what's in that box!'
I didn't have to wait long to find out because my mom called everyone over to the table.
"We are gathered here today to celebrate the sending off of my son and my angel Midnight. Now you've all become friends with my son over the course of his life and I don't think he'll forget any of you. But just to make sure he doesn't ,Midnight we got you a little going away gift. You wanna open it?"
"Do you even have to ask?" I said lunging at the box. I started tearing into the box sending packaging peanuts flying everywhere. Eventually my hoof hit something hard and I stopped digging. I pulled out a box that matched my color scheme, grey brown with my name written in dark blue lettering. I stared at it and wanted to hug everypony in the room.
"Open it up theres a couple of surprises in there."
I slowly opened the box and nearly freaked when I saw what was inside. Inside was a pair of blue headphones with black accents. They had the number 15 and an ace of spades sign painted on them. They even had my name engraved along the side. My own pair of custom headphones.
I would have been happy with that but there was another pair of headphones in the box and when I saw them I broke down in tears. The other set o headphones belonged to my Dj teacher and bet friend Seba tunze. He died a year ago in a chariot accident and later I found out he left me a gift for my birthday but I never expected it to be this.
As I bawled like a little foal everypony in the room wrapped around me in a tight embrace. I felt so loved and calmed myself down. The party died down but everyone stayed to see me off. I ran upstairs and packed my headphones, MP3, And turntables into my bag. I thanked everypony for supporting me and after all my goodbyes were said and done I flew off into the golden morning sky.
Authors note: Hey everypony! I have a few things to say but first off let me say sorry for taking a week to finish this chapter. It was really long but it probably looks that way to me because I typed it from my iPod. Anyways I know I said this is my first fanfic. Is that true? Eh yes and no. This is my first fan fic that I've ever written and the first one Ive posted on this site but it's a rewritten version of the original. The original was on another site that got shut down when I was in the process of writing the sequel to this story. Also I'll be adding music to the chapters in this story to set the mood better once I get to my computer. For now peace and much love to ya.
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(Songs
Force of nature - Just forget)
The cool morning air sent a calming sensation through my body as I flew towards ponyville. As I flew I looked back a few times finally taking in the fact that I was on my own from now on. I could do whatever I wanted and truly be free. Looking ahead of me I smiled as I flew a little faster towards my new home. I couldn't wait to get there. I knew I would love living in ponyville but there's another reason I choose ponyville over other places.
My music was always inspired by my environment and I always wanted to live in a place where it felt like a town but had the same aurora as a city. A place where I as a Dj, along with being a bboy, Mc, and singer, could be inspired by not just my enviorment but also by the ponies who lived there. Ponyville was that place.
A string on my sling bag became loose so I decided to land and fix it. I needed a break anyway. I had been flying for two hours nonstop with extra weight on my back.
"I should have shipped this stuff there too." I grumbled as I tightened the string with my teeth. After fixing my bag I looked around for a place to rest and spotted an apple tree nearby. I trotted over to it and rested against it placing my back on it's bark and sitting down. I looked up and saw all types of apples growing on it's branches.
Green, red, yellow. They were all there. Staring at them I almost missed my stomach growling at me. I completely forgot that I hadn't eaten anything before I left so I was starving.
"Well might as well grab a bite to eat." I said as I got up and gave the tree a slight kick. Seconds later a granny smith apple landed in my extended hoof. I bit into it before kicking the tree again letting another apple fall into my grasp.
After finishing both apples I went searching for my mp3 player in my bag. After finding it I took my new headphones out of the case I had gotten, plugged them in, hit play, and hit the air continuing my flight to ponyville.
A short time later I landed at ponyvilles entrance which was nothing more than a small pink bridges. After my break I only had to fly for about 30 more minutes before I got here so I felt great considering that the flight was short. I trotted up to the bridge but once I reached it just as I was about to step on it I stopped.
I felt a warm breeze go through my body. It felt weird but at the same time it felt so… welcoming. I walked across the bridge and almost immediately ended up in towns square. There was way more going on than when I came to look at the house. Everypony was chatting away ,Looking for stuff to buy, or just enjoying the day.
After exploring towns square a little and meeting a few ponies I decided to head for my house and try to figure out what to do next. That thought was suddenly inturupted once something ran into me from behind. I turned around to find a bright pink mare with hair that resembled Cotten candy on the ground.
"Oh I'm so sorry. Are you ok?" I asked offering a hoof to help her up. Then the weirdest thing happened. She literately hopped in the air, gasped and took off to some unknown location behind me nearly taking my head off in the process.
"What just happened?" I asked myself as I regained my thoughts.
"Are you alright deary?" said a voice. I discovered that it came from a snow white mare with a curly royal purple mane, tail, and hypnotizing blue eyes
"Yeah I'm fine. A little confused about what just happened but fine."
"Ah yes pinkie pie seems to have that effect on a lot of ponies. But judging by her actions you must be new here."
"Yeah. Names Midnight Muzic but you can call me midnight."
"Well hello there midnight My name is Rarity, ponyvilles premier fashonista. Pleased to meet you."
"The pleasures all mine."
"so how long have you been here?"
"I just got here a few minutes ago."
"Well if you want I can give you a tour of ponyville."
"Sure just let me put my stuff away and we can head out."
After a short walk we ended up at my house. Once I stepped inside I smiled even though it was empty. Well somewhat empty. There was a couch and a table in the living room and all the essentials but it was pretty bare. We walked upstairs to my room. Nothing different there either. Bare but at least it was mine.
It was pretty big room. Not enormous but big enough for me. I remembered that I had a balcony in this room. I set my bag down and walked outside to enjoy the view. The house was facing towards canterlot which could be seen in the distance as well as most of ponyville.
It was an awesome view and best of all I could enjoy it whenever I liked. I heard rarity trot up beside me And let out a small sigh.
"I must admit midnight I'm envious of you. You get to have this beautiful view of canterlot and ponyville."
"Yeah I can already tell I'm gonna love it here. But I think I'd like it more knowing what's out here to see." I said walking towards the door and then leaning against it waiting for her to go through. "Ladies first."
She walked towards me with a smirk on her face."Handsome, young, and mannerable? Why don't we have more stallions like you?"
"Let's just say from a personal standpoint that I know how to treat a mare."
She smiled and walked through the door but stopped halfway.
"Hey midnight what's in there?" she asked staring at the wall to her right.
"In where?" I asked poking my head through the door.
"There." she said pointing towards the wall. I had no idea what was on the other side let alone that the door was there. I stepped up to it and opened it revealing a room roughly half the size of my bedroom on the otherside of the wall.
A slow smile spread across my face as realized what I wanted the room to be.
"I think I know what this room is."
"Really what is it?"
"That's for me to build and you to find out later."
We left my place and walked around for what seemed like hours. She had showed me everything in the town from sugar cube corner to the carousel boutique her home and business. We were walking down a dirt road when she asked me something.
"Midnight if you don't mind me asking don't you have a bed to sleep on? Your room was pretty much empty."
"Well I was going to buy a bed but after a bet with a friend of mine I'm a little short on bits. I'll just crash on the couch."
"You'll do no such thing! No friend of mine sleeps on a couch. I have a spare bedroom set you can have once we get back home."
"Alright but where are we going first off?"
No sooner than I asked that question I we arrived at a massive farm with trees that bore what looked like apples that stretched for miles. Walking through the gate a buff red stallion with orange hair came trotting towards us with a cart on his back.
"Hi Big Mac!"
"Howdy miss rarity!" he said looking in my direction."Who is he?"
"A new friend of mine. I wanted to introduce him to applejack."
"She's in the barn counting up todays crop. I wish I could stay an chat but I have a few more things to get done. Hope we can talk mr...."
"Midnight. I hope we can talk again soon too."
With that big Mac walked off and we headed to a barn close by. Opening the door my nose was assaulted with a heavenly aroma.
"Is this heaven?" I asked turning back to rarity. She laughed a little as I walked inside the barn. Looking around my eyes fell upon an orange earth pony with emerald green eyes.
"Applejack! It's so good seeing you again!" rarity said trotting up to the mare and hugging her.
"It's good to see ya too rarity." she looked past rarity at me with a sly smile on her face."So should I be expecting a wedding invitation soon?"
"No applejack. He's a friend if mine who just moved here and I wanted him to meet you." she said a with a slight shade of pink forming on her cheeks.
"Hey I'm Midnight Muzic. Nice to meet you applejack." I said extending my hoof for a shake. She grabbed it in booth of her hooves and shook it hard enough to where I thought it was going to be ripped off.
"Well it's a pleasure meetin you too! Welcome to ponyville and welcome to sweet apple acres! We sell everything apple here in ponyville. apple fritter, caramel apple apple tart-"
I zoned out and outside the barn I heard a scream. It sounded like it was moving and really fast. More specifically towards us.
"Um Aj I don't mean to interrupt you but you and Rarity might want to take 3, 4 steps back."
They looked at me in confusion and stepped back as I followed my own advice.
"There perfect."
Literately one second later a blob of cyan and rainbow cam blasting through the wall we were just standing in front of landing in a pile of hay one the other side of the barn. A Pegasus popped up from the pile and shot us a nervous look.
"Uh oops?"
"OOPS!?! Is that all ya have to say for yourself!? That's the third time this month you've blown a hole in mah barn!" Aj shouted in frustration as she walked over to the mare to help her up.
Or rip her head off by the look on her face.
"Well that's one way to make an entrance. Literately."
"Um midnight how did you know she was coming? Even as her close friend for a while we never know when she's going to fall out of the sky."
"Well I have this ability Ty drown out background noise and focus on one sound. Sometimes it happens without me trying and this was one of those times. And when I started racing I learned how to control it."
"You a racer?"
"Well I do every now and then. I've always been a bit of a speed demon but I don't race as often as I'd like. But that's doesn't mean 'Wangan Midnight' is ever coming back."
"Who's 'Wangan Midnight'?"
"That's just my racing name."
Suddenly the cyan mare Aj was trying to help out of the hay burst from the pile.
"Wait a minute your Wangan Midnight. As in the Wangan Midnight?!"
"Yeah that's me."
"Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!" she said flying towards me."My names rainbow dash! I'm one of your biggest fans! I've seen all your races and when you fly it's just so.....unreal!"she said shaking my hoof rapidly.
"y'all two know each other?"
"No but let me guess. You've heard of the team nuisance flight crew?"
"Of course!"
"Wait team what flight crew?"Rarity asked in confusion.
"Team nuisance. Its the racing team I put together. Think of it like a mini me wonderbolts team. at least thats who we're compared to anyway. The wonderbolts have this annual competition called like the wind and every year hundreds of flyig teams battle against each other in challenges of speed and style. Me and my team have been the champs for about...3 years now. "
"Wow! So how come I never hear you talk about being in that rainbow dash?"
"Um well I'm more into the wonderbolts but midnight and his team are just as good."
"So your telling me that your better than rainbow dash here?"Aj said putting words in my mouth.
"No I'm just a more refined racer." I said trying to sound modest.
"Oh really?"she asked her expression changing from happy to cocky."If that's the case how about a little race?"
"Well if you want to I'm in."
A few minutes later we were outside in the orchard. I decided to give dash a 10 foot head start just to be fair. Rarity was the starting line and Aj was the finish. It must have been a good mile long to get to her but this race was going to be over fast.
"On ya marks!"
Time slowed to a crawl as I closed my eyes. Everything became distorted. The only sounds I could hear was Aj counting down and my heartbeat.
"Get set!"
I opened my eyes and focused my tunnel vision on Rarity felling air rush from my lungs.
"GO!"
I felt like nothing could stop me as I tore away from the line flying at rarity like a bullet.
The walk back to my house was shorter than I thought. We had just stopped by Rarity's house to pick up my bedroom set so I was pulling it behind me on her cart. But I noticed she was still wearing that shocked face from the race earlier.
"Still thinking about that race?"
"You beat rainbow dash. Nopony has ever done that before. You gave her a head start and beat her by three seconds! How is that possible?"
"Rule one of racing. Remember that no matter how fast you are there's always somepony a little bit faster." I said as I walked up to my house.
"But still you beat the fastest mare in equestria! I don't understand how though."
"10% luck and 90% skill." I said as I unhooked myself from the cart and opened the front door.
"SURPRISE!!!"
Ponies. Ponies everywhere. I never thought I could go deaf from a group of ponies but apparently I was wrong. I walked inside and tried to figure out why there was a party at my house that I didn't throw when a blob of pink came out of freaking nowhere in front of me.
"Hi I'm pinkie Pie! Remember I saw you earlier today! I was all 'GASP' and you were all 'Uhhh'! Anyways I had to rub off to throw you this surprise party. I made punch and cupcakes! Did you get a cupcake? Here have a cupcake!"
"Hurrggg"
Fillies and gentlecolts I present to you pinkie pie trying to shove a cupcake down my throat .
"Pinkie pie stop it you hurtin the poor guy" Aj said appearing from the crowd with rainbow dash and a canary yellow Pegasus in tow.
"Are you ok?" the yellow Pegasus asked.
"Yeah I'm fine but I haven't met you yet. Hi I'm midnight."
"O-oh hi I'm fluttershy."
"Wait here midnight I have one more friend I want you to meet." rarity said walking. We sat in a corner and the girls got to know me better. It was all going good until I hit a wall that I knew I would never be able to avoid.
My relationship with my parents.
"So what's ya family like?"
"Well I'm an only child so me and my mom have always been close. My dad on the other hoof."
Whenever I thought about him I always felt hate build up in me. He left and never even gave us a reason why. Just left.
"Midnight. I want you to meet twilight sparkle."
( Nujabes - Lady Brown (Intrumental)
As soon as I turned around I came face to face with the most beautiful mare I had ever seen. She had a lavender coat with violet eyes. Her mane and tail were dark blue with a purple and pink stripe running through the middle of them. To you she may sound like an ordinary mare but to me she was a pure natural beauty.
"Hello there!"
"Uh hey."
She sat down next to me and I felt like my heart could stop at any minute. She asked me questions about who I was, what I did, stuff like that. I answered her questions to the best of my ability. I was so struck by her that just talking felt impossible. Then she asked me something that made my nervousness disappear.
"So what's your cutie mark stand for?"
"Well im a Dj so my cutie mark is a vinyl record."
"Your a Dj? Care to give us a little sample of what you do?"
"No problem." I said flying up to my room and grabbing my turntables. After flying downstairs and a quick set up I cut the record player and played my own song throwing down scratches and samples in the mix.
After my demo the crowd cheers me on so I left them with one of my popular pre recorded mixes on the disc. I was going to get a drink when twi came over at the same time.
"That was beautiful what type of music was that?"
"Hip hop."
"What's that?"
"You ever heard of rap?"
"Yes. But ive never heard music like that."
"Well hip hop is rap's beautiful sister." I said taking a sip from my cup. Just then a pony on the dance floor knocked over one of the speakers causing it to feedback. Twi was so shocked that the magic she was using to hold her cup up with shot it straight in the air.
I don't know whether it was dumb luck or what but I somehow caught her drink on my wing.
"Here ya go." I said giving her the drink back.
"Thanks!"she said with a smile.
The party was over and I had finally dragged my bedroom set into my room and set up everything. It was around 11:40 and I was dead tired so I tried to get some sleep but I couldn't because I kept thinking about one thing. I kept thinking about the beautiful violet colored eyes that had burned into my mind a soul forever.
