Octavia

Chapters

Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6

Chapter 1

CHAPTER 1

It was a regular day in ponyville but for one filly it was another day in hell, everyday was the same wake up, go to school, go home and wait till mother and father got home, she had no friends only family, she was always alone in a dark house but she seem to like it. The one thing she enjoyed the most was playing her chello and writing songs that nopony seemed to care about.

As she sighed and looked up at the clock "Ok mom and dad should be home any time now and I get to show them this new song I wrote."

The little filly said as pictured what her mother and father would say when she showed them, Suddenly there was a knock at the door. She had no idea who was at the door but little did she know that her life was about to change. Octavia stoped what she was doing and went to the door her heart was pounding. She had no idea why, as she reached for the door knob her heart stoped, Octavia wasnt really the brave type but she kept going. As she turned the knob and slowly opend the door she could not see a single soul. So she said like any other pony would say,

"Um...Hello?" She still could not see anyone there so she opened it wider until she saw a white filly with a light blue mane. She looked kinda boerd like she did not want to be here. She was looking down at her hooves and kicking dirt. The white filly looked up to notice Octavia standing right there looking at her.

"Hi, Im vinyl...Vinyl Scratch." She said the young filly trying to seem very up tight and well mannerd. Her vioce did not seem as up tight and well mannerd it seemed more like layed back an chill. Vinyl went on to contune the sentence.

" I live next door, my parents wanted me to come over and introduce myself." Vinyl explained to Octavia sounding like she really did not want to even leave her house.

"Hello my name is Octavia." She replied back in her shy and quiet voice. Vinyl thought that Octavia was pretty nice and chill so she decided to get to know her a bit.

"Hey if your not busy, do you wanna hang out or something?" Vinyl asked her new found friend.

"Um...I'm really busy, Im trying to finish this song I made." Octavia said trying to gesture all the musical instruments Octavia owned in her home.

"Awww no way you write music, I freaking love music!" Vinyl yelled with excitement. Vinyl jumped over Octavia and ran around looking at all the musical instruments that Octavia owned. Octavia was too shy to say to say anything to Vinyl but she faught her shyness and made the best out of it, even though when your next door neighbor is going through all your stuff and snooping around.

"Hey whats this...Ohh is this your song you wrote?" Vinyl asked with excitement while looking at the song with very wide eyes. Octavia did not seem to like Vinyl touching her song that she wrote for her mother and father.

"Umm...please don't touch that!" Octavia exclaimed with her small voice. Vinyl could see that this was very important to her so she gave it right to her and smiled. Octavia looked at her with a confused look on her face, she had no idea why Vinyl was looking at her like that. Finally Vinyl gave a sigh and told her, " Could you play your song for me?"

Octavia blushed and she had a big smile on her face, no pony besides her mother and father wanted to hear her play her songs. Octavia was so excited to play her new song and show her neighboor how beautiful it was, Vinyl seem to enjoy Octavia's song cause she was in a trance like state and had a big smile on her face, it seemed like she was no longer on this planet let alone in this world. After Octavia was done playing Vinyl looked at the cloock and realized that it was getting late. Vinyl did not want to go but it was a school night and her mother would ground her if she was out late, she quickly got up and ran out the door, Octavia felt kinda sad that Vinyl had to go but she knew where she lived so she would probably see her new friend again. As soon as vinyl left octavia's mother and father came home, they seem to be a bit curious on why a young filly ran out of there house in such a hurry, but Octavia explained everything when they all sat down to eat dinner.

That night Octavia could get not Vinyl out of her head it seem as though that she might have made a friend, or even better met somepony who didn't bully or was mean to her. She finally had a friend even though she was a little to hyper but hey no pony is perfect. She looked at the clock and saw it was already 11 o'clock, she seemd to toss and turn to try to get comfortable but to no avail. she tried sleeping on her side, then on her stomach, then finally on her back, she found this to be very comfortable. As she started to fall asleep she could not help but to still think of Vinyl, in a few moments she was no longer in ponyville she was in dream land.

Oddly enough her dreams were also very weird, she did not dream of her new friend but more strangely enough it was like she was watching a movie, it was like all snowy and there was this play ground with a bunch of ponys she know from school then as she kept watching she saw some filly was on the gound really hurt, but when it got closer to seing who it was she awoke.

Chapter 2

The next morning Octavia got up and went to school, she didn't really look forward to it but she knew she had to. As she was walking out and off to school she noticed Vinyl walking to school like she was and could not help but to run up to her to greet her.

“Good morning Vinyl, how are you doing?” Octavia greeted as she walked next to her.

“I'm alright, I couldn’t sleep last night, it was weird...” Vinyl stopped. She thought that her dream would freak Octavia out since they just met. Thankfully Octavia replied to what Vinyl had said.

“Yeah for me too it was odd. For some reason I could not remember my dream it was like I did not have one, but I do remember just parts, but it’s probably nothing.” Octavia said as she checked to see if her homework was in her bag. Vinyl was relieved that she did not ask her what her dream was about.

“Hey Vinyl, do we go to the same school, since you just moved here?” Octavia asked hoping she would say 'yes'.

“Um...I think so it's the down here in Ponyville, right?” Vinyl asked thinking to herself why there was only one school in the vicinity.

“Yeah that's the one” Octavia replied as a big grin grew on her face, she was so excited to go to school with her new friend because she knew that she was going to have fun. Vinyl looked over at Octavia and saw that big grin on her face, she couldn't help but laugh but asked anyway.

“Let me guess, you go there too, right?”

“YES!” Octavia yelled with excitement and jumped as high as she could.

Vinyl giggled and gave Octavia a big smile and said.

“Someone is happy that I'm going to the same school as them,” poking fun at Octavia playfully. As they arrived at school it was really hectic and loud, it seemed as though they were all lined up for a new movie or maybe some ice cream. But as usual as soon as Octavia had set foot in the school house two fillies saw her and yelled out.

“Look everyone, Octsobia's here!” Octavia stopped dead in her tracks and started backing out of the school building, Vinyl heard what they yelled and grabbed Octavia and pulled her inside.

"Hey lay off her!” she yelled while still trying to get Octavia to get in the school house. Octavia heard what Vinyl told the two fillies, she wanted to run but Vinyl shoved her inside. Knowing that Vinyl would just keep shoving her inside, she gave in and took her seat. Vinyl followed to make sure that she did not try to run. Vinyl reassured her that everything was going to be alright. Octavia smiled at her and said in her head, “Thank Celestia I have Vinyl as my friend.” Just as everything seemed good one filly stood up and yelled at Vinyl.

“Why should we stop, who's going to make us stop us from making fun of that cry baby that you’re sitting next to, huh?” One of the fillies told Vinyl looking like she wanted a fight.

“I am, so why don't you sit down and shut up before somepony gets hurt.” Vinyl replied to the filly that was standing up. Octavia tried to pull her back down into her seat but to no avail. Vinyl was certain that she could shut up this bully.

“So you’re protecting this cry baby for what huh? Is it because she does your math homework? Are you too dumb to do any math in your head, dumb pony!” The filly said while getting up and getting closer to Vinyl.

“I'm protecting her because she is a wonderful pony that should not be treated this way, you green mess!” Vinyl said to the light green filly. Octavia heard what Vinyl had said and her face lit up with joy, it seemed as though that Octavia had a best friend. Her heart seemed to jump around and bounce, she had never felt so happy life before. As the teacher walked in to find the light green filly yelling at the new student he slammed his book onto the desk to stop the arguing. He looked at the light green filly and she sat down not wanting to get in trouble. He looked over at Vinyl then at Octavia, to his amazement this was the first time he ever saw Octavia smiling. He figured there had to be a good reason for it but now was not the time.

“Ah, I see you bullies have met the new student in our class.” The teacher looked over at the two fillies that always bullied Octavia

“Now then, Miss Vinyl Scratch, please come up and introduce yourself to the classroom.” Vinyl did as she was told and as she walked up she could feel the stare of the light green filly boring a hole in the back of her neck.

“Hello, my name is Vinyl, Vinyl Scratch.”

“Hello Vinyl, My name is Mr. Book Burn.” Mr Book burn replied to let her know his name. Vinyl did not seem to care that her teacher's name came very close to “bookworm”, but she could also care less about standing in front of classrooms.

“Alright Vinyl you can sit down now, now then let’s begin class with some math, so let’s take our math books out and begin on chapter 2 lesson 3.” He said as the class groaned. As class went on he couldn't help but realize that Octavia was still smiling since that morning, he was now beginning to wonder why she was so happy, so he decided to pull her leg.

“Okay class what is 2+4+5, can anypony answer this math question?” As he looked around all the raised hands he tried to pretend to not see any of them and called on Octavia. Octavia, still in her hypnotic state was still smiling big. But she could feel a bunch of stares on her, even the school bullies were staring at her. Vinyl nudged Octavia to get her to answer the question and Octavia snapped out of her hypnotic state and looked over at Vinyl, to see why she was trying to get her attention. As she saw Vinyl gesturing Octavia to look at the front of class, she slowly turned and saw Mr book Burn standing right over her desk.

“Why miss Octavia your back, how was your trip?” Mr. Book Burn told Octavia as he laughed gave her smile and rolled his eyes. As he walked back to the chalkboard the bell rang.

“Alright students have a great day and don't forget you have a test coming up, and homework is due tomorrow.” Mr. Book Burn said as all the colts and fillies ran out of the school house to get home. As Vinyl and Octavia were heading out Mr. Book Burn looked at both of them, he now knew why Octavia was so happy she had found a friend, he hoped that Vinyl would be there to defend Octavia when the bullies picked on her. Just as Vinyl and Octavia walked out, Octavia saw that the two bullies were waiting for them.

Chapter 3

As Octavia and Vinyl headed for the door Octavia had a bad feeling, it was like she was dreaming. When they walked out of the schoolhouse, Octavia didn't see any sign of the two bullies. She thought she was home safe. She was dead wrong. The two bullies jumped out of a bush and stood before Vinyl and Octavia. Octavia hid behind Vinyl. They had a long standoff before somepony said anything.

“Well, well, well, look who we have here. A couple of ponies who don't know their places, I say that we teach them a lesson about staying where they belong.” The light yellow filly said to the light green.

“It appears you’re right, but let’s get the blue, frizzy hair troublemaker to know her place, then the
baby.”The light green mare told the yellow one as she got ready to jump on her.

“Vinyl, they’re going to beat us up, what are we going to do?” Octavia told Vinyl as she tried to fight off tears.

“Don't worry Octavia, I’ll protect you, the reason why I had to move last time was because of fillies like them.” She told Octavia with a smile on her face. As the Vinyl and the green filly got ready to fight, Vinyl and Octavia didn't notice that the light yellow filly was going around both of them. Vinyl started walking slowly toward the light green filly and as soon as Vinyl had gotten a good distance away from Octavia the light green filly yelled out.

“Grab her hooves!”

As the light yellow filly grabbed Vinyl's hind hooves and pinned her on her stomach, the light green filly grabbed Octavia and threw her down on her back. She then got on top of her and started to hit her face. All Octavia felt was pain and a wet liquid rundown her face and cheek. Octavia was trying to kick and scream but to no avail, the darkness was taking her and her best friend was going to be next. But before the darkness took over her, with a blur she saw Vinyl headbutt the light green filly in the face, making her cry out in pain. That was the last thing Octavia heard before going under.

A couple minutes went by and Octavia was coming to every now and then, all she heard was a ringing in her ears. Octavia could not feel a thing, it seemed like it was a dream, the kind in which you are completely numb. She blacked out again and she had a dream.

Her dream made her kind of happy and it was a very long dream, a weird experience. Everypony was looking at her and saying “hi” or “hello” but she had never seen them before, it was like she had traveled to a whole new town. They were very nice and polite to her, and all the fillies were very friendly too. There was a party going on and she was invited to it. It felt great to have so many ponies wanting to be with her. All of them wanted her to play her songs and everypony loved it. But soon enough the dream ended and she was back.

As she woke it was a beautiful morning. She saw that she was in a hospital but her head kind of hurt. She saw Vinyl right next to her bedside, fast asleep. She didn’t want to wake her up but she noticed that the area that her head was on was soaked. Her best friend had been crying for a long time because of her. Octavia greeted Vinyl with a big smile on her face.

“Good morning sunshine.”

As Vinyl put her hoof over her face she moaned.

“I don't wanna wake up if Octavia...Octavia?!” Vinyl's eyes shot open and slowly looked up at her best friend. Octavia was staring right back into Vinyl’s eyes.

“Oh my gosh! Octavia, you’re awake! I can't believe it!” As Vinyl jumped on Octavia and gave her a crushing hug.

“I thought that you were never going to wake up from your sleep, I cried so much!” She told Octavia.

“What happened? I don't remember anything.” She asked Vinyl as she felt that her head was now bandaged up.

“It was torture how they made me watch her friend beat you to a bloody pulp, I finally got out and hit the filly holding me down.” Vinyl explained.

“What happened to the filly that was beating me?” Octavia asked, her face in shock.

“I headbutted her in her face, luckily my horn didn't touch her although she deserves worse.” Vinyl said as she started to get teary eyed and began to cry, she exclaimed.

“When we got to the hospital the doctors said that you might die, you had lost that much blood. I was so worried that I might have lost my best friend forever!” As Octavia put a hoof on her, she looked up and gave her a big smile.
“Vinyl I'm not going to anywhere as long as I live.” Octavia promised Vinyl.

“Promise?”

“I cross my heart, and hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye.” Octavia promised Vinyl. They both laughed at what Octavia had said because they knew that they would always be together through thick and thin no matter what. They spent the whole day together but they really could not go anywhere. So they spent it playing card games and board games until Vinyl had to leave, it was a sad time for both of them. But Vinyl knew she would be back to take care of her new best friend. As Vinyl left, Octavia's mother and father came in. They had just got off of work and wanted so go see how their little filly was doing. When Vinyl reached the front desk she over heard the two ponies gossiping over what had happened to Octavia.

“Did you hear what happened to the poor dear? Some bullies beat her up.” One of them said as Vinyl stopped to listen.

“Yes I did, they should really watch more carefully to make sure that this sort of thing will never happen again!” The other pony said as she popped her bubblegum.

“I also heard that the poor little dear might die over night cause of her condition.” As soon as Vinyl heard that her heart sank, she did not what her best friend to leave her. Vinyl walked home and tried to not think about her friend dying. When she got home she did not eat or sleep, she was too worried about her friend. But she had a plain. She would go there early in the morning and visit her to make sure that she was not dead. After countless hours planning she finally had everything planed out.

“Alright it's settled tomorrow I will go there before school starts, that way I can see for myself that she is not dead in the morning!” As she dosed off she thought of a wonderful idea, she would be Octavia's teacher while she's out of school. It was a wonderful idea for a wonderful friend.

Hey everyone if your wondering when the next chapter is I'm going to post one every week if I am not busy. Sorry if I am late posting any chapter.

Chapter 4

The next morning when Vinyl awoke she got up, made her lunch, and ran as fast as she could to the hospital. She had never run that fast before, but she was determined to know if Octavia was still alive. As she got there, she looked at the clock inside to make sure she was not going school. She saw that she was really early, and that school didn’t start for another two hours.

As she walked to the elevator she noticed that she forgot her bag at home.

“Ugh, of all things.” She facehoofed and pressed the button to call the elevator. As the elevator doors opened she heard someone yelling.

“Wait! Hold that door!” Vinyl looked up to see Doctor Hooves running at her in a hurry. She looked at him with confusion. She didn't realize that it was him until he dove right into the elevator.

“Oh, hey there Doctor Hooves, how's it going?” Vinyl asked while helping him up.

“I'm quite fine, but this job of mine is killing me.” He told her as he fixed himself up.

“How? I mean you like have to coolest job ever and you get to boss other ponies around. Who wouldn’t want that job?” Vinyl said as she gave Doctor Hooves a smile.

“Wait, how in Equestria do you know that?” He asked Vinyl looking shocked.

“Duh, I pass by your office every day to visit my friend Octavia.” Vinyl said as the elevator doors opened to reveal that Vinyl was telling the truth.

“Oh, my apologies, I hadn’t realized that.” He said as he put a hoof to his cheek and shook his head. Vinyl laughed at the stressed and confused Doctor and then she ran off to see Octavia.

When she got closer, she noticed that Octavia's room was dark, her heart sank and dark thoughts ran though her head.

“Oh man, oh man, oh man.” Vinyl cried out as she stopped to face the dark room. She slowly walked in. The window was bringing in some light from the sun. Vinyl looked at the bed that was in the dark. She couldn’t see Octavia. As she drew closer and closer, she saw the covers were over something and it didn't look like her best friend. But in the dark everything looks different. As she grabbed the blanket and slowly pulled it down to see if Octavia was still alive. She couldn't make out the figure in the bed so she looked closer. As she inched forward to get a closer look at the figure in the bed she felt a hoof on her shoulder...

“Eeek!” Vinyl screamed and turned to face the pony standing right behind her.

“Geez Vinyl, it's early, why are you here?” The silhouetted pony said. Vinyl recognized the voice but she was too startled to put two and two together. The pony reached to the side and the lights flickered on.

“Huh?” By her surprise Octavia was the silhouetted pony. Vinyl calmed down and was able to think clearly. “Oh my gosh, Octavia you scared me and I can’t believe that there was a light switch right there!” Vinyl exploded with so many things to say after being scared half to death.

“Yeah, and what are you doing here you’re going to be late for school.”Octavia told Vinyl as she climbed back in bed.

“Uh, I got worried. I wanted to see if you were alright.”Vinyl told her and kicked the floor.

“I'm fine. Why wouldn’t I be?” Octavia told Vinyl and gave her smile.

“I overheard the ponies in the front desk saying that you might die.” Vinyl told Octavia and she gave her an embarrassed smile.

“Oh Vinyl, that’s just ordinary gossip, I hear my mother do it all the time with her friends.” Octavia reassured Vinyl. Octavia looked at the clock and she saw that Vinyl was really early and was not going to miss school. Not for another hour.

“You do know that school starts in an hour, right?” Octavia gave Vinyl a confused look and grabbed the clock that was on a table by her bedside. As Vinyl looked at it, she saw that it was an hour till she had to go, but she wanted to stay with her best friend.

“Yeah, but it's only...aww man! I forgot my bag at home! I gotta go, I’ll see you after school Octavia!” As Vinyl ran out of the door and turned the corner, Octavia heard Vinyl crash into somepony with a cart.

“Whoa! Sorry, sorry, sorry!” Vinyl cried out while still running to get to her house and off to school.

* * *

A couple weeks had gone by but Octavia was still in the hospital. Vinyl found that she was lonely without Octavia at school, even though everypony would talk to her about how she fought the bullies and won. Everypony thought she was pretty cool but popularity was not on her mind. Vinyl was more concerned about Octavia.

“Poor Octavia, she's going to be so far behind that her grade will to go down.” Vinyl said to herself whilst thinking of a way she could make sure Octavia was not behind on anything.

“Aha! I'll just take her work to the hospital and teach her if she gets stuck or if she needs help.” As Vinyl was loving her idea, she came across the problem that she would have to convince her teacher to go with it .She thought that she would just ask him as soon as everypony was dismissed to go home. It would be perfect.

“This is great! Alright, now I can spend all, well most of my time with Octavia.” Vinyl was pleased with herself. When the school day ended she waited until all of her classmates had left.

“Miss Scratch, you do know that you can go home, or do you enjoy being in a boring place like this?” Mr. Book Burn poked fun at Vinyl. Mr. Book Burn's sense of humor was pretty bad. Vinyl didn't really catch what he said.

“Uh, Mister Book Burn, is it alright if I could bring Octavia the work that she missed, you know, since she’s out and can't do it?”She asked hoping for a positive response. Mr. Book Burn looked at her with a very odd look. He had never had any student of his ask him if they could bring their friend the work that they had missed.

“Well Miss Scratch, this is a very interesting request but I would say yes, you may.” He told Vinyl.

“Yes!” Vinyl yelled but Mr. Book Burn cut short her cheering.

“On one condition, if you can bring it back and let me see what she has done. But it will only be at her convenience so there is no due date for her.” He continued. As Vinyl nodded her head yes to her teacher. He gave her a big smile and disappeared into his office. He returned with a very tall stack of papers and slammed them onto his desk in front of Vinyl.

“You ARE kidding, right?” Vinyl said while looking at the very tall stack of papers that now sat upon her teacher’s desk.

“No Miss Scratch, I'm quite serious.” He said looking down at her. Vinyl cracked her neck and got ready to lift the big stack of papers

“Alright, let’s do this! I'm going to try this once and I’m going to get it done.” Vinyl said as she grabbed the stack.

“Miss Scratch, did you really think that Octavia missed all that work in a couple weeks?” He told her and started to laugh.

“But you said...” Vinyl was cut off by Mr. Book Burn.
“You really shouldn’t believe a lot of things other ponies say, you never know, they might not be telling you the truth.” He said and gave her some papers from the top of the stack.

“Alright then.” Vinyl said looking very confused. As she walked out she saw the clock and saw that the conversation with Mr. Book Burn had taken too long. As she rushed out to go meet Octavia she was thinking on how Octavia was doing and whether she would be glad that she brought her the missing assignments.

Chapter 5

As Vinyl ran out the schoolhouse she noticed that the sun was going down pretty fast.

“Aw man, I'll never make it before nightfall.” As Vinyl was hurrying on she saw a skateboard lying next to some trash and it looked usable. So she did what anypony would do in a pickle. She went out of her way, grabbed it and skated like never before, even though she had never skated in her life. It seemed to be pretty easy to use, so she started to go faster and faster. Until eventually she was going as fast as the skateboard could go.

“Whoa! You know I could use this to get to places faster than before.” Vinyl said to herself as she drew closer and closer to the hospital. Vinyl finally had the hang of her new four wheeled mode of transport.

“Sweet!” she exclaimed, “I can see the hospital. I'm going to make it, I'm going to make it!” With the hospital getting closer by every second she realized something very important.

“How do I stop this thing?” Vinyl screamed out. If she didn't find a way to stop soon, she would slam face first into the hospital doors. As the doors approached at an alarming rate, she knew that she wasn’t going to stop in time.

“Oh man, here it comes!” She yelled out and braced herself for impact.

Just before she hit the doors everything entered slow motion, adrenaline was pumping through her veins. Vinyl didn't realize it, but her skateboard had hit a small rock which made the board stop. As she flew through the, air by pure luck somepony had opened the doors to leave and they were still open. Vinyl could not see what was going on because she had closed her eyes in anticipation of the tragic end to her first venture on a skateboard. She flew right though the doors, landed, and somehow managed to slide into the elevator that was also open. With a bruising thud she hit the wall of the elevator.

“Ow.” Wincing, Vinyl opened her eyes to notice that she was upside down in the elevator.

“Ow indeed, Ms. Scratch” Dr. Hooves said while he hoisted himself up. Vinyl hadn't realized it but she had also collided with Dr. Hooves who had been in the elevator.

“I've heard of being late and running to catch an elevator, but this is simply ridiculous! How you managed to fly though an open door and slide with such great speed to get on this elevator is beyond me.” Dr. Hooves explained to Vinyl.

“Wait a minute, so you’re telling me that I flew though the front door, landed and slid into the elevator?” Vinyl asked with great confusion in her voice.

“That is correct, we simply must stop meeting like this in the elevator, maybe try Sugarcube Corner?” Dr. Hooves jested, poking fun at her for her little stunt.
“Oh very funny, Doc.” Vinyl said reacting to the doctor’s comment. Dr. Hooves laughed and pressed the button on the elevator.

“Oh Ms. Scratch, you’re just so entertaining to poke fun at, your struggle to come see Octavia is priceless even though I'm always a victim of it.” Dr. Hooves said, still laughing at what he had said.

“Well, sorry if I'm so concerned about my best friend.” Vinyl snapped, irritated. Dr. Hooves didn't realize that he had insulted the little filly. He felt guilty, so he looked her in the eyes and told her,

“What you do for Octavia is wonderful, I don't think that she could have asked for a better friend than you.” Vinyl looked up at the doctor and as the door opened she gave him a smile and went on her way.

“Ah, that Vinyl is really something, a true friend that Octavia is lucky to have. I hope that they stay friends till the end of time.” Dr. Hooves said under his breath as Vinyl took off as fast as her hooves could carry her. She was still hurrying to go see Octavia, nothing could deter her from that goal. Once again she was trying not to hit any of the doctors or patients. As she got closer Octavia could hear her hooves hitting the floor.

“Here she comes, right on time.” Octavia noted as she watched the door.

“Ah!” Vinyl ran right into a nurse as she slid in front of Octavia's doorway. Vinyl stood there and yelled out to the nurse,

“Sorry, sorry, sorry!” Vinyl apologized to the nurse. Octavia started to burst out laughing. As Vinyl looked over at her and started walking to the bed she gave her a death stare worthy to silence grown stallions.

“What are you laughing at?” asked Vinyl as she walked over and threw a pillow that was resting on one of the chairs at Octavia's face. Octavia pulled the pillow off her face and kept laughing.

“You, that’s what I'm laughing at,” Octavia poked fun at her for running into the nurse. As they both started to laugh, Vinyl took out Octavia's work that she missed Octavia looked surprised.

“I'm surprised, honestly, did you really manage to get Mr. Book Burn to give you all the worked I missed?” Octavia asked Vinyl with a big smile. Vinyl looked very confused at how she knew that.

“How did you know I had to convince him?” Vinyl asked Octavia looking at her weirdly.

“It was about a year ago and the bullies that put me in the hospital were the same ones that tried to get one of the fillies in trouble.” Octavia told Vinyl, remembering the day like it was yesterday.

“It seemed that the two little trouble makers wanted to make fun of the new student, they did so by giving him a face full of honey.” Octavia kept her story going, Vinyl looked at her oddly.

“It’s only a face full of honey, I've had worse than that.” Vinyl told Octavia while trying not to sound proud of it.

“Well that's not the worse part, where did you think they got the honey?” Octavia asked as she raised her eyebrow. Vinyl paused and got what she was saying.

“From a beehive?” Vinyl asked, hoping she would get it right.

“Yeah, it was lunch and I have no idea how but somehow they threw the beehive and it broke over him letting all the bees out and they stung him like there was no tomorrow.” Octavia said to Vinyl trying to keep from vomiting due to the memory of the state that his face and part of his body were in.

“He was badly hurt, poor guy.” Octavia continued on with what she was telling Vinyl. Vinyl could not help but to ask,

“What happened to him?” Vinyl asked Octavia hoping that she would know.

“To tell you the truth he had a very, very bad allergic reaction that could have killed him.” Octavia said to Vinyl who was now looking down in anger.

“They need to be taught a lesson, it's ponies like them that make our world worse!” Vinyl banged her hoof on the wall next to her.

“Vinyl, calm down, please. You don't want to hurt yourself over something that happened a long time ago, that's just crazy.” Octavia pleaded. As Vinyl pulled her hoof away from the wall that she hit, Vinyl looked back at Octavia, hugged her, and began to cry.

“Oh Octavia, I'm so glad that they didn't kill you or make you very ill!” Vinyl sobbed and just held her best friend tight.

“Vinyl...you’re...can't breathe...” Octavia choked out.

“Oh sorry don't know my own strength.” Vinyl apologized and blushed giving Octavia a big smile. As Octavia coughed and choked, Vinyl gave her a pat on the back.

As the sun went down Vinyl helped Octavia with all her homework and Octavia helped Vinyl with hers too. Vinyl stayed with Octavia until the next morning. But that morning she felt something was amiss. Vinyl didn't have school nor did she forget something but she just felt like something was missing. As Vinyl slowly opened her eyes she didn't find Octavia lying in her bed as usual.
Vinyl raised her head from Octavia's bedside table, the window blinds were closed and Octavia's room was dark. It sent shivers down her spine, like death had touched this room and this room alone. Vinyl knew that something wasn’t right, so she walked out of Octavia's room and looked about in order to find her.

Vinyl covered the whole hospital and her mind was racing. The only thing that was on her mind was her best friend and everything that they could have done. When she got back to Octavia's room Vinyl collapsed on the floor and began to weep. Vinyl knew that this was the end, she no longer had somepony to go to when she was feeling down. Nopony to share secrets with. Just as she lost all hope she heard somepony walk in.

Chapter 6

Vinyl looked up to see Dr. Hooves standing there and looking down at her lying on the floor. Just before he said anything Vinyl had a flashback but only for a second. It was about her father and an old best friend she had known. But before she got sucked into it Dr. Hooves grabbed her and asked if she was alright.

“Ms Scratch! Ms Scratch, are you alright? Do you need something to drink?” He asked her trying to get her to calm down.

“Oh my goodness, is she alright?” Vinyl heard the familiar voice and started to calm down a bit.

“Octavia, thank goodness.....” Vinyl said as her voice faded. Vinyl passed out from worrying too much about Octavia.

“Interesting,” mumbled Dr. Hooves to himself. Octavia walked a little closer to her now unconscious friend.

“Will she be alright Dr.?” Octavia asked Dr. Hooves. He gave her a reassuring smile.

“She will be fine, but for now just get me a cup of water and some ice, she’s burning up.” Dr. Hooves requested, trying not to worry Octavia. Octavia went to go get her friend some water and an ice pack. When Octavia returned with the water and the ice she watched Dr. Hooves pick up Vinyl and place her on Octavia’s hospital bed. Octavia felt scared and worried for her best friend.

“What’s wrong with her? Is she going to be fine, Dr. Hooves?” Octavia hoping that Vinyl wouldn’t end up in there as well.

“She will be fine, she's just over stressed.” Dr. Hooves told Octavia. Octavia felt a little better and as minutes flew by Vinyl slowly started to wake up.

“Good morning, sleepy head.” Octavia greeted Vinyl like she had before. Vinyl couldn't help but give Octavia a smile.

“Ah well Ms Scratch you’re awake, I’m pleased to see that you are no longer stressed out.” Dr. Hooves told Vinyl as Vinyl tried to get up.

“Ah, ah, ah, ah, please Ms Scratch don't move just yet, first drink this.” Dr. Hooves handed Vinyl some blue looking medicine that looked like water that came from the dark depths of the sea. It had a funny smell to it since it was medicine. Vinyl didn't seem to care that it smelt kinda funny but she still drank it.

“Ughh, oh my gosh that was very....nasty.....uhhh....” Vinyl said as she involuntarily tried to bring what she had just taken back up. As Vinyl held her mouth shut Octavia took the water that was sitting on the table side of the bed and handed it to her. As Vinyl drank the water, Dr. Hooves waited till Vinyl was done to tell her something important.

“Alright, Miss Scratch, now I know how you've been under so much stress lately so I'm going to ease some of it. Octavia would you like to tell your friend the good news?” Dr. Hooves asked Octavia while giving Vinyl a smile. Vinyl was confused as to why Dr. Hooves was smiling at her.

“Well Vinyl I know you have been coming here to come see me and whatnot but I finally get to leave today!” Octavia told her friend with a gleeful look on her face. Vinyl still looked confused but it took her a while to finally process what Octavia had told her.

“Really? You mean she's not going to die, or be stuck in here forever!?” Vinyl jumped for joy and yelled and cheered. Vinyl was giddy that her friend finally got to go home.

“You know what this calls for?” Vinyl asked Octavia with a huge grin on her face. Octavia was a little worried that Vinyl might collapse again so she tried to get her to calm down a bit.

“Vinyl please calm down, I don't want to carry you home, and I'm a little worried on what you’re talking about.” Octavia told Vinyl as Octavia was trying to get Vinyl to stop jumping around. Vinyl stopped jumping and bouncing and finally told Octavia her idea.

“Slumber party!” Vinyl yelled almost at the top of her lungs. Octavia gave Vinyl a smile and they both headed out of the hospital. Dr. Hooves smiled and shook his head.

“Those fillies, this reminds me of...” Dr. Hooves just remembered that he forgot to give Octavia the medicine for her head. Dr. Hooves hurried down to the front to give Octavia her medicine.

“Just in time!” Dr. Hooves exclaimed, stopping Octavia and Vinyl in the lobby. Octavia briefly wondered why Dr. Hooves stopped them.

“Octavia, here's your medicine, I seem to have forgotten that you needed it.” Dr. Hooves laughed and scratched his head and then handed Octavia her medicine.

“Oh, well that would be very unfortunate now wouldn't it Dr. Hooves?” Octavia laughed at the comment that she made and so did Dr. Hooves.

“Take one if your head starts to hurt, and if the pain doesn’t stop or gets worse then please feel free to come down here.” Dr. Hooves told Octavia. Octavia gave him a smile and Vinyl and Octavia were on their way back home, when suddenly Octavia saw the two bullies standing outside the hospital.

Vinyl was ready to protect Octavia with her life. They both walked out the door and as soon as they did the two bullies saw them and started walking toward them. As they got closer and closer Octavia felt her heart drop, but the weirdest thing happened they weren’t alone. It looked like the bullies were walking up with two other ponies that were bigger than them.

“Could it be that those are their parents?” Vinyl asked Octavia, hoping that they were. They drew closer and closer until one of the bigger ponies stopped right in front of Octavia. She looked almost like one of the bullies but just a bit lighter.

“Are you Octavia?” she asked Octavia almost sounding like she was angry and getting ready to finish the job for the bullies. Octavia shook her head yes. The pony grabbed Octavia and gave her a hug.

“Oh thank goodness you’re alright deary, oh I thought that my little Lyra beat you into nothing!” She told Octavia who was still a little scared.

“My little Lyra is very sorry, aren't you ya little brat!” She told Lyra and put Octavia down, Lyra's mom turned to her daughter, bit her on the ear and pulled her in front of Octavia.

“Ow, ow, ow, mom that hurts!” Lyra cried out in pain. Octavia felt kinda sorry for her, but then again she did beat her up so it felt satisfying to watch Lyra get punished.

“Say you’re sorry or I swear when we get home you’re grounded and I'm going to beat you.” Lyra's mother told Lyra with a very angry look on her face to show that she was not kidding.

“Alright, alright, Octavia I'm...sorry...” Lyra mumbled. Her mother smacked her hard on her head.

“Say it louder!” Lyra's mother yelled and stood over and was about to hit Lyra again.

“Okay, Okay...Octavia I am sorry for beating you up and putting you through so much.” Lyra exclaimed and kicked her hooves at the dirt trying to avoid eye contact with Octavia. As Lyra's mother pulled her way from Octavia the other parent went up to Vinyl.

“You there, you’re Vinyl, correct?” The other parent of the cream coloured filly asked Vinyl. Vinyl could see the filly behind her mother. As Vinyl looked at her, she saw worry in her eyes mixed with sadness. Vinyl almost forgot that she was asked a question she shook her head to make it seem like she was paying attention.

“Bon Bon, now please apologize to this little filly and let us go home.” Bon Bon's mother told her and with no hesitation Bon Bon looked at Vinyl and drew closer to her. Then as Vinyl was waiting for her to apologize Bon Bon grabbed Vinyl and gave her a big hug.

“I'm so very sorry, I didn't mean to act so cruel toward you and make you watch your friend get hurt! I feel just awful that I could do something so evil, I truly am sorry please forgive me!” Bon Bon cried out. Even though Vinyl was being held by a very uptight filly she patted her on her back and let her know that she forgave her. When that was all said and done Octavia couldn't help but smile for what had happened.

“Maybe it is true,” Octavia said to herself smiling at the thought that they may have just changed the bullies into new friends, but she didn't really want to think about it right then.

“Hmm what was that Octavia?” Vinyl asked her looking at her with a raised eyebrow. Octavia just smiled, all she wanted to do was get home and have a sleepover with her best friend.

When Vinyl and Octavia arrived at Octavia's house Vinyl quickly ran to grab her sleeping bag from her house. Everything seemed like it was going to be perfect but Octavia wanted to know why Vinyl passed out she knew that it was not just stress she could tell. Being alone with nobody to talk to and sadness everyday of almost from morning till night wasn’t something she would wish upon anypony. Octavia had hated being alive, at that time the only thing that kept her going was her music and her cello. But that was all in the past, now she just wanted to poke inside Vinyl's head. As Vinyl rang Octavia's doorbell and she quickly snapped out of her trance and ran to open the door for Vinyl.

“Let’s get this party started!” Vinyl yelled and ran inside and dropped her stuff on the living room floor. Octavia rolled her eyes and smiled as she closed the door behind her.