A Moonlit Duet.

by Lunasservant1985

Rating: teen
Tags: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Sonata Dusk, Alternate Universe, Other, Romance, Original Character, Aria Blaze, Adagio Dazzle, Slice of Life, Human
Length: 1479

Singing wasn't the only talent The Dazzlings had before the battle of the bands, and it wasn't the only one they lost either,

Before everything else they have been through. The Dazzlings and John Sweetstuff had a very...unusual start to their relationship. One of those was having terrible voices after their powers where taken away, but singing wasn't the only thing The Rainbooms stole from breaking them, and while an Equestrian ritual may have given back what they lost, sometimes it takes practice to earn back what you truly desire.

EDIT: deleted the prologue found it needless and detracting to the story as a whole

Published 2015-09-11 03:30:01 UTC
Last updated 2015-09-11 03:30:01 UTC

Moonlight Sonata.

"Damn! Stupid piece of junk keyboard!" Sonata shouted as she slammed her fist down onto her keyboard, prompting her to regret it as her fingers flared up with pain. "Owww! Owww! Owww!" Sonata said as she rubbed the soreness and algia from her hand. Sonata sat on a black ivory bench with her Roland keyboard set up under the window. She sat at the keyboard in her pink pajamas and pink fuzzy slippers. It was after midnight but the blue siren simply couldn't sleep. The full moon was sending its beams of silver light onto the sheet music, the room was erriely quiet when she wasn't tapping the keys trying to get the piece right. The sheet nestled in the keyboard's holder had one word across the top, written in a Gothic serif script was MOONLIGHT SONATA.

"It's not the keyboard you know." A familiar voice said behind her, prompting her to turn around and see her, for lack of a better word boyfriend standing in the door frame looking at her. John had been living with the girls almost three weeks now, yet it still startled her to hear a guy's voice around the house talking to her. Especially when it was the middle of the night with only the moonlight to see the tiny room she had set her keyboard up in. There wasn't much else in this room aside the keyboard and a shelf of sheet music that she would often pick to try and practice from. Sonata had already gotten the basics of novice level scales down, but she wanted more. She felt like a fool sitting at the keyboard every chance she got practicing of childish songs like 'twinkle twinkle little star,' and 'Mary had a little lamb.' Okay so the girl had some childish tendencies herself; but even she, hell not even Pinkie Pie, was as infantile to practice with pieces like the ones the girls (mainly Aria) had told her to practice with.

"Yes it is," she retorted in denial. "Damn thing is...out of tune!" She quickly shouted and tried to play the notes again with futility.

"Sonata; it's electronic, it can't be out of tune." John said to her with a chuckle as he took her hands off the keyboard into his. Sonata found it strangely satisfying the way he held her hands, they weren't like other boyish hands, John's fingers where thin and very soft. The palms and tips ran over the back of her own hands so delicately and velvety, they felt almost like holding the hands of another girl. It wasn't hard to picture his hands being delicate and gentle as they did something like caress the soft fur of a tiny kitten, or run themselves through her hair. So different then the hands of say...Flash which brought thoughts of a socket wrench on his Eagle Corvette, or Bulk Biceps with a thirty pound dumbbell pumping iron.

"I...I just want my talent back, to make the music I was so talented at, I mean my voice is singing well again, but I...Want to play my songs..." She said as her fingers tapped a few keys and she sighed heavily. John took a seat on the bench beside her and also tapped the first few notes on Sonata's sheet music.

"Duh uh dum duh oo dum." Sonata mouthed as John played. "I got that part fine, but it's when I build up my rhythm...I botch it.

"The key signature isn't easy I admit," he said moving her other hand to the keys, "but most of the piece isn't too difficult. The first movement in particular is played by many young piano students, and it's very slow, with many broken chords." He said as he got the hand of the first few notes and got the stanza to play on something of a loop on the piano's low note keys. you have to be...adagio...not the Adagio you know," they both chuckled at the joke,"at ease." He looked at her as she sat there trying to play; the way the moonlight just shone down onto her from the window as her fingers ran over the keys and tried to hit the right notes to the movements. The light made her already beautiful ruby eyes glimmer as they darted from page to keys. "watch the sheet, not your hands darling." He said before throwing his hand over mouth in an "oops" gesture.

"Did you just call me...darling?" Sonata said turning to him and giggling playfully. Her eyes went half lidded as he and her continued to play, the way the light cast its halogen glow, her cute pink P.J's, the way she smiled at him lovingly as one side playing the piece in low C minor and his in high C minor.

"Let's just focus on the first movement okay? I always liked that one best." John said as he got into the rhythm and began to play on his side of the piano.

"Why? because it's the one Jill Valentine plays in Resident Evil?" Sonata asked with a chuckle. The comment brought a rather pleasing if not also humorous image of Sonata in Jill's Beret and uniform, he laughed back.

"No because you kept focusing on the third and the first is easier okay?" John said blushing trying to clear both calling her darling and the image from his mind. Their hands ran over the keys as she got more and more into the piece her concentration and determination leading the siren girl to want to play it perfectly. For a brief moment, the musicians hands touched as they played, but he placed his hands over hers and looked at her again. He smiled and gently guided her long slender digits to the dominant keys of the piano. Leading her to take control as neither no longer where concerned with with the keys or the music. The musicians where lost looking longingly into each other's eyes; her breath stifled to a hush, her heart went still, while his only sped up and acted as a kind of metronome as their hands tapped key after key.

"Sonata?" He said with a soft gasp as his breath shortened and he leaned over to her.

"Yes? She said her heart skipping a few beats." As she leaned closer to him their noses just inches apart.

"Play it." He said softly as he placed his lips onto hers softly and kissed her. It started out gentle and tender, lips touching like freshly fallen snow when it kisses the soft skin when its fall to earth completes. Then she daringly slid her tongue onto his lips, it was the first time a girl had ever kissed him with her tongue like that, and the stories where true about it. He accepted her muscle into his mouth. Her's slowly ran over his own before prodding and exploring the depths of his mouth, tasting every inch, and counting the teeth. Before she began "drawing letters" on his own Tongue. He broke the kiss as softly as he could for air.

*

Her Hand ran over the keys perfectly and skillfully; her amulet began to glow and glimmer again as she closed her eyes and parted her lips ever so slightly letting out a soft gasp and moan, it was almost enough to make John wonder if the girl had a hair trigger, and just from playing she had a....well you know what. As the siren played the music, the moonlight...oh yes it was indeed a Moonlight Sonata. Her beauty seamed to outshine the beams of silver light that shone down on her as she played. Her recital hit its crescendo, and she tapped the last few notes out and let out a big well satisfied sigh.

"John?' She asked turning to him with half lidded eyes.

"Yes my love?" He said taking her hands and rising from the bench, they stood their with the moonlight shinning down on them both. It was almost..storybook the way he held her hands and gazed at her from the setting of doing so in the light to the pose they held. Hand in hand, and bent back at a slight angle.

"Come to bed with me, for realsies." Sonata said softly kissing his cheek, it was more restrained then her moonlight kiss but all the satisfying to them both. "Let's get cozy...and cuddly." She said softly before shivering and giggling, Sonata hadn't realized until then how cold it was in the early morning house next to an open window.

"Yes...lets." Was all he could say, as the young loves left the room, door clicking shut softly. The silence well earned from a well played...Moonlight Sonata.

Author's Note

*sorry for the...choice in video, but I honestly think its a version that fits the situation the best. :twilightblush: