Shadow Rave

It had been two and a half weeks since Shadow Rave had arrived at the Castle, Celestia was returning from her trip within the next day and Twilight was still learning. Shadow was currently was strolling through the gardens, still amazed by its beauty. There were Blue Butterfly Bushes, Reed orchids (I just searched "Tropical plants" in google. Yes, I know. Sad, very sad.) and much, much more. He was looking at a small, red and little peculiar little plant. The plant was also decorated with assorted yellow clumps all over.

It when Shadow was done smell this flower, and an odd smell it was, a smale and beige coloured mail mare came by, her mane covered by the blue hat. The mare walked over to Shadow with a questioning look,

"Hey, I'm looking for somepony named..." The mare looked at the letter she was holding, "Ah, um, a pony named Shadow Rave."

That's me."

"Oh, well, here. Message from Cloudsdale."

"Oh, thanks. Who's it from might I ask."

"Spit.. Spitfire! Oh, I'm such a huge fan! How do you know her?"

"I DJ for the team."

"Uh, uh. Seriously?"

"...Yes."

"CAN I PLEASE HAVE AN AUTOGRAPH!"

"If you have a pen and paper, I guess." Shadow was somewhat creeped out...

"Oh! Yeah, yeah, yeah!" The mare looked at her pocket and grabbed a pen and paper with her mouth, she looked at Shadow Rave and mumbled, "Here." Through her full mouth.

"Thanks." Shadow put the paper on his hoof and kept the pen in his mouth. Shadow thought for a moment, this was his first autograph, "Eh, whats your name?"

"Eh, it's Package Passer."

"Ok."

Shadow picked the pen back up and scribbled a little not on the paper,

Hey, Package Passer. Have a good day, Shadow Rave

"Here."

"OHMIGOSHOHMIGOSH THANK YOU."

"No problem." Shadow kept his confusion inside him, it's not every day some random pony starts freaking out over his name on a piece of paper. Shadow then thought what his teachers would be like after he handed in his assignments. Shadow sniggered.

"Did you laugh?" The mail mare looked at Shadow.

Shadow looked at her, "Oh yeah, just something funny I thought of."

"Oh, okay! Bye!" The Mail Mare happily trotted off and Shadow looked at his new note.

Dear Shadow,

Heard you're in the castle, pretty nice. But anyways, we have a show coming up in about three days. It is in Canterlot so you won't have to come back but just a bit of a warning. There should be a stallion coming by for setup within the next day.

Spitfire.

"A Show? Okay, well, looks like I should go get my stuff for it." Shadow frowned from being interrupted in the middle of his walk. Once Shadow was in the castle he strolled up to his room to check his equipment. Along his way he passed Twilight,

"Hi, Shadow!"

"Huh?" Shadow looked around, and then down, "Oh, hey Twilight."

"What'cha doing?"

"Oh, I'm just getting some stuff for the Wonderbolts show."

"Then why do you look mad?"

"The mail mare who gave me the notice about the show interrupted me in the middle of my walk."

"Oh, sorry."

"It's fine, but I'll talk to you later. I gotta make sure my stuff is all good."

"Okay."

Shadow walked up to his room, which was on the fifth floor of the castle. Once in, Shadow walked up to his massive machine for his music. To the left of the machine were shelves containing records for Shadow's songs. Shadow ruffled his hoof through his records, "Okay, lets see, Power Glove, no. Yadda Yadda Yadda, Woo Boost, nah. Oh, here!" Shadow picked up a record labelled "Wonderbolts' theme."

Shadow placed the vinyl disc on the left section of the turn table, plugged in his headphones and pressed play. After the song ended Shadow made a quick comment to nopony in particular about how the song still sounded great.

Shadow got a pony from the castle to help him carry all his equipment from the castle to the stadium. Once they arrived Shadow set up as much equipment as he could, not having the knowledge of their usuale pony setting it all up.

"Okay, three days? I could go to Cloudsdale today and see Billy and Cloudy, I guess." Shadow turned to the pony, "Hey if I leave could you tell the Princess I'm gone for the day?"

"Yes, yes sure. My l--"

"Hey, don't call me that. Don't like sounding higher than others."

"Oh, okay."

Shadow trotted out of the coliseum and looked at a nearby map to see which direction Cloudsdale was in.  After finding out that Cloudsdale was west Shadow took off at a reasonable pace, which should make him arrive in 2 hours on non stop flights, but their would be brakes.

Once he arrived, Shadow Rave took another 10 minutes to fly to the school. When Shadow arrived he instinctivelywent to Cloud and Flitter's room to check on Cloud. Shadow knocked on the door, "Hello?"

Cloud Chaser opened the door. "Oh hi Shadow!" Cloud jump hugged Shadow.

"Woah, hi."

"I thought you weren't coming back for another two weeks."

"Well, I had some time today, so I came to visit."

"That's so cool!"

"So, what do you wanna do?"

"How about we trot around and catch up?"

"But.. It's only been two and a half weeks."

"And?"

"Nevermind."

Cloud and Shadow went on a brisk pace around the school chatting on various topic.

"So, what was a cool experience when you were in Canterlot?"

"Umm... earlier today, the mail mare freaked out and asked for an autograph."

"Really? Cool!"

"Iee, um, I also met Princess Celestia's new select student."

"Really? Wow, she must be like thirty!"

"Um, no. She's six."

"What! Wow!"

"She's already mastered teleportation which is apparently pretty hard."

"Yeah, I bet."

"Um, excuse me I have to go to the bathroom." Shadow walked into a nearby bathroom (You get hyphens, not describing that Blegh.)

Once Shadow got out of the bathroom he saw Billy, Hoops and Dumb-Bell.

"Oh, hey gu--" Shadow realized something, if Cloud saw him addressing them it would be an instant breakup. But, where was Cloud?

"Shadow! Make them go away!" Shadow looked to where the voice came from. Right infront of Billy and the two others.

"Oh shitttt."

"Wait, Shadow you know this idiot?"

"Huh? Well...."

Cloud Chaser stood up, "Are you telling me, you know these three?"

"Well.... You see I...." Shadow sighed, "Yeah, I do know them, and they're my only friends around here besides you and Firefly."

Cloud started to look aggravated, "Do you know that these three do to me?"

"Sorta."

"What do you mean 'Sorta?"

"I just know they call you names."

"Oh well they do much more than that!"

"I'm sorry, I didn't know."

"Yeah? Well it doesn't matter now! We're done!"

"W-what? Come on, Cloud, please?"

"No, we're through. Goodbye." Cloud flew off, looking to be on the verge of tears.

Billy looked to Shadow, "Dude, If we'd have known that you knew her..."

Shadow, too, was about to cry, "It's fine, you couldn't have known."

"Dude, we'll stop bullying her, but just try and get her back yeah?"

"Sure, I'll try." Shadow flew off.

Just then, Firefly came into the scene. Firefly looked at Shadow, "What's wrong with him?"

"He just got dumped by his marefriend."

"What?"

"Yeah, she was Cloud Chaser."

"Wow, that must've been awkward for you guys."

"You have no idea."