Lost: More Than Just A Friend...

I put on my clothes, which were on the table next to me. We ran through the hallways of the hospital. My back wasn't hurting anymore, and I was certain I didn't have an adrenaline rush because I hit my right hand on the side of a door earlier and it stung a bit. We were almost to the exit when I saw the lost and found section. It was full of toys, coats, and other various items. I found my belt with the katana in its' sheath.

I grabbed the katana out of its' sheath and put the belt on. Running outside, I heard Fang yelp loud enough to hear it on the other side of the hospital. I looked around and found Fangs' leg stuck under some rubble that had fallen from a nearby building, and a mutated Timberwolf crawling up to him.

Running towards the beast, I leaped into the air and swung the blade downwards, cutting its' head clean off. Quickly picking up the rubble and getting Fang out of the area, I was only a few feet from getting scorched as the creature burst into flames. There weren't many others. We did hear loud explosions at times but they were usually pretty far away.

As we continued running down the streets of Ponyville, it started to rain. No, it wasn't raining, it was storming. We were soaked right after the storm started. Lyra managed to put up an amber colored bubble shield, but we were still soaked. She also levitated all the water off of us and tossed it out of the bubble. We continued walking for about twenty minutes or so until we spotted a female pegasus in an alleyway with something enveloped in her wings. She had a blond mane and tail, yellow cross-eyed eyes, and a grey coat, just like the mailmare from a few months ago. Looking up for a second, her wings opened up a bit and revealed a purplish unicorn filly with a blond mane and yellow eyes.

Lyra waved to her. "Hey Ditzy! You and Dinky can come and join us! We're headed for-" She turned to me. "Where are we going?"

I face palmed. "I was following you! I thought you knew where shelter was!"

"Oh. Hey Ditzy, you and Dinky can come join us! We're looking for a place to stay until the storm dies out!" The mint green mare gestured the pegasus our way.

She placed the filly under her wings and ran over to us. She made it and was barely wet surprisingly. I looked over to the filly. She kept behind the pegasus, obviously shy.

Lyra continued walking down the street we were on. Lyra said that one of her friends had a house down this street. I asked how she knew, but Lyra just kept on saying, "You'll know it when you see it."

We walked for a few more minutes until we heard a beat in the distance. Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, it just kept going on like that accompanied by other noises. When we saw a house with windows that had a blueish glow to them when the beat turned into a loud whistling that kept going higher, and higher, and higher. When Lyra knocked on the door, the music stopped. The door opened and a familiar white unicorn with red eyes and a light blue mane greeted us, but we could barely hear what she was saying as the music came back with a loud blasting wave that shook my insides. She greeted us inside and walked over to some turntables. She used her magic and turned a nozzle, turning the music down so we could hear her.

She had a very boyish voice as she greeted herself to me. "Sup. Names Vinyl. You've probably heard of me. Hey, I know you! You're that human that Pinkie Pie told me about. So how's it like, not having much memory of yourself and being the only human in Equestria?"

I looked around a bit. A group of speakers attached together, a turntable connected to it, and and rack of records next to it. "Pretty good. I guess I might like to have my memory back, but if I did, there might be some terrible memories that I wouldn't like to have...again."

A grey mare with charcoal mane, white collar, and pink bow peered in from an opening that seemed to lead to a kitchen. She sounded and looked very, sophisticated. I can't really imagine a DJ living with a mare that looked like like her. "Vinyl? Oh, are you friends with Vinyl? I'm sorry if her, 'music', was too loud. I made some tea if any of you want some."

The white unicorn just rolled her eyes. "Even though I don't like your classical music very much, you don't see me calling it ,'music', like that."

"Well, you obviously don't understand what real music IS! Real music is composed of different amounts of-"

"Blah blah blah yadda yadda music can be anything that has a beat to it and makes you want to dance, like dubtrot!"

"Well, dubtrot may be considered music to you, it really isn't true music! The symphony I play in is real music, because it is made up of actual instruments, not synthesized waves and beeping noises that make my ears bleed!"

The argument started to intensify. The two mares were up in each others face, muzzle to muzzle, ready to physically hurt each other until Lyra and Ditzy came in and pushed them out of each others face. Lyra used her magic to keep the earth pony back, and Ditzy flapped her wings, keeping Vinyl at bay.

I was ready get in there too, until I felt something brush up against my leg. I looked down and found the purple unicorn filly hiding behind my legs shivering in fear at the sight. What was her name? Dinky? I looked up and the fight had stopped. Lyra was in the corner of the room, talking to the two mares, and Ditzy came our way. She sat down and spread her left wing. The filly came out from behind me and ran up to the pegasus. They embraced each other, with Ditzy's wing wrapped around the filly.

I heard Ditzy whisper into the filly's ear, "I'm very sorry you had to see that Dinky." The filly started lightly sobbing. Ditzy started rocking the young unicorn back and forth, helping calm her down.

I couldn't help but smile. Today was crazy. First I was knocked out by a mutant Timberwolf, ended up in the hospital, almost got killed by a mutant Timberwolf, almost lost Fang to- Fang. I forgot about him completely. I looked outside the window. It was still pouring down hard, but he was very dry under the porch. I turned around to Ditzy.

"Hey, Ditzy, is she scared of big dogs?" I pointed to the filly. She shook her head "no". I opened the door and let Fang inside. He was one hundred percent clean, so I'm pretty sure the sophisticated grey mare, who I think I heard Vinyl and Lyra call 'Octavia', wouldn't mind. Ditzy unwrapped her wings, revealing the purplish colored filly. She ran up to Fang, smiling and petting the magical dog. She started laughing as Fang nudged her a bit with his muzzle. Ditzy looked up at me and mouthed out, 'Thank you'. I smiled and looked back down at the laughing filly.

Dinky was having fun, laughing and playing with Fang, but it was all ruined when one of the three in the edge of the room, most likely Octavia, yelled out loud. "WHAT IS THAT 'THING' DOING IN HERE?! DOGS ARE FILTHY AND DISGUSTING ANIMALS! GET 'IT' OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW!"

I looked up at her, and I wasn't very happy. But she was much more angry than me by a longshot. "I was just trying to make this little filly happy since your argument made her cry. And Fang is not a 'Thing', or an 'IT', and he is completely clean! He saved me and many others. Without him, we would of all been killed by the changeling hives!"

She took on an all new expression, changing from anger to shock and disappointment. "I-I'm sorry. I didn't know that it was you and, um, 'Fang', that had saved us." Vinyl and the grey mare both looked down at the ground.

Lyra put a hoof around the grey mare's shoulder. "It's okay Octavia. Today has been crazy. The town was attacked, it's storming outside, we were all getting annoyed by something."

Vinyl looked up and seemed to be counting in her head. "Okay, it seems like this storming isn't calming down anytime soon, and I'm pretty sure that it is almost midnight. Luckily, we have three spare rooms that came with this house. So, if you are planning on staying, you are more than welcome to sleep here tonight."

Dinky cheered as she hugged her Ditzy. I could tell now that Dinky was Ditzy's daughter, because if they were sisters, they would probably not get along as well as they do. Me and Lyra seemed happy at the idea of having a place to stay for the night since we both had a place to go tomorrow.

30 MINUTES LATER

We all got to know each other a bit. When I asked Vinyl about my money, she said that I had sold the whole thing for another pack of cider back at the party while I was tremendously drunk, then I passed out after a few minutes. I still couldn't believe it, however. It felt like I passed out about ten minutes after I got hungover, but instead I was drunk for about an hour.

Vinyl lived with her roommate, who I can now kind of understand why a bit better, 'Octavia Philharmonica'. Yeah. That is her full name. She just goes by Octavia though, just like how Lyra goes by 'Lyra', and not her full name, 'Lyra Heartstrings'. Octavia wasn't the most popular filly in her school, in fact, often got made fun of and called 'Fancy', which was considered an insult and uncool at her school. Don't ask me how it got started, because she doesn't understand either. The only one there who liked her was Vinyl, and Vinyl was known for getting careless by sliding across the tables on a tray during lunch time, climbing on top of the school and listening to dubtrot at recess, and often playing dubtrot during music. With Vinyl being the only filly who liked Octavia, they soon became friends. Even though they didn't have much in common, Vinyl still stood up for Octavia and even went to her friends concerts, no matter how 'boring' the music was. Vinyl had always been there for Octavia.

Vinyl remembered her schooldays very well. She even said these exact words about them. "I knew that sliding on the tables during lunch and climbing the building at recess were considered 'reckless', 'crazy' and even 'troublesome', but the thing at music, I don't understand why I couldn't play dubtrot during music class. It's still music. What gives?"

Ditzy , or Ditzy Hooves, lived with her daughter, Dinky Hooves. Ditzy often called her daughter 'Dinky Doo', or 'Muffin' as nicknames. Dinky got the nickname 'Muffin', because Ditzy's favorite food were muffins. Dinky also got the nickname 'Dinky Doo' when she was a few years old and learning to speak. She once said, "Dinky do, see you!" and her mother started calling her 'Dinky Doo'ever since. Ditzy worked as the towns MailMare and often worked delivering mail in the region of Ponyville that I live in, the southeastern part of Ponyville. My house is just outside the Everfree forest, about a mile or less to the left of Fluttershy's Cottage. Ditzy also had a husband named 'Time Turner', but he traveled quite a bit. He often came home during one of Dinky's school breaks and always came home during a holiday. She said that he worked well with watches and clocks, one of the best stallions in Equestria with them, and often had to go somewhere and fix or help determine the value of a clock or watch.

It was about time to go to sleep. Everybody, and Fang, walked upstairs and went into five different bedrooms. The two on the right were Vinyl and Octavia's rooms. The three on the left were the guest rooms. Dinky ran into the room closest to the stairs, with her mother following behind. I headed for a room in the middle, but was stopped when Lyra asked me a question.

"Hey, Roe? Is it okay if I sleep with you tonight? I usually sleep with Bon Bon, not in a lesbian way though, it's just that I'm not very comfortable sleeping alone. I never have been ever since I was a filly. All because of a stupid prank someponies pulled on me. You don't mind if I sleep with you tonight, do you?"

I didn't see why not. I'm still scared of being alone in the dark since I can't see a thing. I'm not scared of the dark, I am scared that something could be hiding in it and attack while I am unarmed. She had something pretty similar, it seemed. Probably a fear kind of like mine.

I nodded my head. "Sure you can. Just don't try anything funny."

She started laughing at what I said. I climbed into bed with my clothes on, and she crawled in next to me. Fang jumped onto the bed and slept at the far end of the mattress. This day was the craziest one I have seen so far. Got put in the hospital, almost lost Fang for good, got trapped in a storm, had found a shelter, but the owners got into a big fight, and now I am going to sleep in a bed with Lyra. Come to think of it, almost everything that happened after this morning had happened with Lyra at my side. I had gotten over my slight crush on Fluttershy. I guess I kind of like Lyra a little more than a friend.

She is an extremely good friend, but I just feel like we are a bit more than friends. I can't seem to figure out why.