Octavia and Vinyl Scratch: A Love Story

Octavia raised her hoof and knocked on the door, it soon swung open, with a very happy Vinyl Scratch standing in the door way.

"Hello Vinyl," Octavia said as she smiled.

"Hey.." Vinyl trailed, "Oh! I'm sorry, come on in!" Vinyl gestured back with her hoof.

Octavia walked in and looked around the back stage area.

"Well, this is pretty new," Octavia stated. "I've never been back here before.."

Vinyl watched Octavia in silence, her eyes slowly drifting to her flan - STOP! - Vinyl thought to herself, SHE'S A FRIEND! JEEZ VINYL, CONTROL YOURSELF.

"Yeah, it's pretty cool," Vinyl's eyes following where ever Octavia's eyes fell upon.

Octavia, after looking around, turned to look back at Vinyl, who, for some reason, was looking up and and blushing a deep red.

IT'S NOT POLITE TO STARE! ITS NOT POLITE TO STARE! Vinyl screamed in her mind. She looked back to the tan earth pony to find her looking directly at her, CRAP!

Octavia giggled at the red faced unicorn, "You, Uh, ok there, Vinyl?"

"Yeah, heh, I'm good." Vinyl said, trying to relax herself.

"Soo .. Where do you keep your turn tables?" Asked Octavia.

"On the stage, why?" The DJ inquired.

"Nothing, I was just, Uh, wondering if you could, Uh, show me how to do some stuff." Octavia stuttered as she was looking down at her front hooves, blushing slightly.

"Sure!" Vinyl grinned her goofy grin as she took Octavia's hoof in hers and led her to the stage. Vinyl took her time to get the turn tables ready for use. After the deed, Vinyl placed her headphones atop Octavia's head.

Octavia fixed the headphones to better fit around her ears.

"Ok, now, I'll just play a test track." Vinyl said, still preparing everything.

All of a sudden a simple electronic sounding song played softly through the headphones.

Vinyl felt Octavia jump as the noise came through the headphones, she giggled a bit.

"So now you can just mess with whatever settings and functions you want." Vinyl said getting behind Octavia to point out some main controls.

"You got your tempo control, you can change the reverb, and you can cycle through the different beats." Vinyl stated as she changed the tempo herself, reaching over Octavia.

Octavia blushed as the DJ reached over her, she ducked down slightly and looked up at the unicorn.

Vinyl noticed the movement and looked down, seeing Octavia's face right below hers. She quickly realized this and moved backwards, blushing deeply.

Octavia giggled, still blushing, "It's ok Vinyl, you don't have to be so embarrassed. Now come on, I don't know how to work these things." Said Octavia.

"Ah .. Ok," Vinyl murmured as she trotted back over to Octavia. She got behind Octavia to help her out encase she ran into a problem.

Octavia messed with the tempo, and turned up the bass. She then started bobbing her head some, mimicking the DJ when she is on stage.

Vinyl backed off a bit to give the cellist some room.

Octavia's head bobbing grew faster as she messed with more of the level controls. Vinyl got pretty curious after awhile and walked back over to retrieve an extra pair of ear buds from under the mixing table, she floated the jack into the 'Audio Output' plug-in and floated the ear buds into each of her ears.

It was an electronic sort of song with a tune that played after every beat.

"You like?" Octavia asked as she removed the headphones and hung them around her neck.

"Yeah, its good, for a noob," Vinyl said as she winked at Octavia.

Octavia rolled her eyes at Vinyl's remark, "It's not like I do this all the time."

"I guess you're right," Vinyl replied. "HEY! You know what?!" Vinyl practically yelled.

"What?" Said Octavia, who jumped at the spontaneous loudness.

"You should teach me how to play the cell, and I could teach you how to mix!" Vinyl said, grinning enormously.

Octavia thought for a moment then gave her opinion, "That sounds pretty fun. Let's do it!"

"Yeah, it'll be fun!" Vinyl answered as she held out her right hoof, "Lets shake on it!"

Octavia extended her right hoof as well and placed it atop Vinyl's. They both stood there and shook for a while until they heard people arriving at the bar.

"Party time," Vinyl said to Octavia, smiling.

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Octavia found herself a good seat, right next to Vinyl. After ponies began to show up, Vinyl made a proposition …

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"You know what?" Vinyl asked after her and Octavia went back behind stage.

"Hm?" Octavia murmured.

"How's about you do the show, and I'll be right next to you the whole time. DJ'ing isn't just about the music, it also about how the DJ is, you don't want a depressed DJ playin' music do you?" Asked Vinyl.

"Well, no. But I don't think I'm quite ready for that." Said Octavia.

"You do concerts and recitals, right? Vinyl challenged.

"Well, yeah," Octavia followed.

"This is no different from those except a different crowd, and different music." Reasoned Vinyl.

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And that's how Octavia got here, standing next to Vinyl as she got everything set up.

Vinyl's horn stopped glowing and she turned to Octavia, "She's all yours." She then moved back to give Octavia some room.

Octavia poked the mic to make sure it was on, as soon as she did, there was a thumping noise which told her it was on. She put her head down and spoke into the mic.

"Uuh.. I'm Octavia, and I'll be filling in for DJ P0N-3.."

The crowd replied with conversations of questions as to why this new pony was going to DJ. This noise was soon stopped by Vinyl cutting in.

"This is my uuuh.. apprentice?" She spoke into the mic.

The crowd-noise was then filled with "oooooohs" and "aahs".

Vinyl turned to Octavia and shrugged, "Meh". Octavia giggled lightly and turned back to the crowd smiling cheerfully, "Let's get this party started, shall we?"

The crowd paused at this different way of being addressed, "Sure, yeah," the crowd replied. Immediately Octavia played a deep cello solo with a constant drum beat in the background, the crowd began stamping hooves and dancing to the beat, the music began building and before they knew it, the heaviest and most grimiest bass drop began rumbling the whole club.

Octavia was stunned, she hadn't done anything, she looked back to Vinyl who was mixing on an alternate table behind the curtain. Vinyl looked up at Octavia and grinned widely, Octavia couldn't help but smile back, laughing a bit.