NaNoWriMo2015 Oneshot Colletction

Velvet Step grinned as her and Nightingale approached the bar. The Midnight Symphony was a small karaoke bar in the middle of the Sapphire District of Canterlot, and one of the better karaoke bars around the city. The night was young and the two mares really just wanted to have some fun and celebrate Velvet’s induction into the Royal Equestrian Ballet. What they walked in on, however, was a little unexpected, at least for Velvet.

On stage, already in the middle of rocking out to a hard hitting metal track was a Pegasus of snow white coat, and raven black mane. Her cutie mark was that of a leaf on the wind, and her eyes were a deep, forest green. Nightingale glanced back at Velvet as the pink mare came to a halt in surprise, Nightingale’s eyebrow rising questioningly.

“That is the lead pegasus in the royal ballet,” Velvet stated. “And she’s singing metal…. And head-banging.”

The brown Pegasus nodded to her friend, before pulling the pink earther over to a table off to the side. One next to a sunny yellow Pegasus grinding his hoof into his forehead in a facehoof. Nightingale giggled at the look on the pegasus’ face. “Are you alright?” she asked him.

“She has no shame,” the Pegasus groaned. “No shame at all.” Nightingale only raised her eyebrow. He glanced up to who he was speaking to and paused. He blinked a couple of times, before asking, “Um… are you with the Canterlot Ballet?”

Nightingale gained a small smile as she nodded, surprised that he recognized her. “Yes,” she replied. “I am.”

Sun nodded, blushing slightly as he looked to the side, taking a drink. “I’m Sunrider,” said pegasus introduced himself after a moment, “can I get your name?”

The mare smiled, a little quirk of the lips that didn’t fully show the grin of the little mare as she held back a giggle. “Nightingale,” she said.

“You know, he’s clearly not drunk enough for this,” a new voice cut in. “And neither is she.” Nightingale turned to see the mare who’d previously been on stage not even a few minutes ago now beside her, carrying four clear shots in her wing.

“And you are?” Nightingale asked, taking the offered shot, smiling at the mare’s energy.

“Moonlight Dancer, skydancer and karaoke queen,” the mare immediately answered. “Oh, and matchmaker for sunny here,” she added, motioning a wing to Sunrider.

Nightingale nodded with a smile. “And you’re trying to do matchmaking now? What if I’m not into stallions?”

“Then I’ll turn him into a mare,” Moonlight immediately answered, causing poor Sun to choke on nothing, as he’d already downed the shot, clearly agreeing with Moonlight that he wasn’t drunk enough to be dealing with this.

Nightingale sputtered out some giggles, the words she was going to say dead on her tongue. It took her a minute to find her voice again. “Don’t worry, I play for both teams,” she said, “no need to turn him into a mare.”

“Ah… that’s too bad. We could have all had some fun together then,” Moonlight pouted, though there was something wicked in her eyes. Nightingale laughed. Velvet seemed to finally find her brain and made her way over to them, taking back the shot Moonlight had brought over. It helped a little with loosening her up, but Velvet was clearly having a hard time with something, considering she couldn’t seem to fully get back into the groove. Moonlight sighed, muttering something about needing more drinks, and slipped back into the crowd, coming back not even a minute later with twelve shots held on her wing.

She grinned around at them. Nightingale didn’t see the problem with it and took three of them for herself. After they were distributed, the quartet took back the shots together…. And it suddenly it seemed like an amazing idea to drag the yellow stallion… Sunrider was it? It seemed like a great idea to do a duet with Sunrider! After dragging the stallion to the stage, she got up on it, and cleared her throat, getting ready as she grinned at the nervous looking stallion. Why was he nervous? The Pegasus looked like he could be a Wonderbolt with a build like his! Better even!

She took a quick glance through the track list, before selecting the track. On came a song that Sun was not in the least expecting, though he still began to sing as the blush exploded over his face. Broken played as the pair began. While Nightingale knew she wasn’t the best, especially while drunk, Sunrider appeared to be either really amazing, or she’d had way more than she thought. It didn’t really much matter, as they were still having an amazing time singing.

The next ones to take the stage were Velvet and Moonlight, the Pegasus pulling the earther up in much the same way Nightingale had pulled Sunrider, though Velvet seemed a little less reluctant, seeming to be actually drunk enough to take whatever had been making her nervous around Moonlight in stride. They sang something far more upbeat, though neither was any good at it. Laughably bad, almost, but Nightingale didn’t laugh while they were onstage. No, the laughter would only come once they were back down with them.

The song was thankfully not too long, and it was in short order that Velvet and Moonlight were back down with Sun and Nightingale, who was leaning against Sunrider. Mostly for balance, somewhat to get a good look at the bright red blush across his face. It was really no fair that he still seemed so close to sober while she was smashed out of her mind. Though maybe he was just really good at acting? Nightingale mentally shrugged and just continued to have some fun with Velvet, Moonlight and Sunny. It was within the next few drinks, however, that two things happened. The first, Sun finally properly loosened up and played along with her flirting, flirting right back without quite as much blushing, though it was still quite clearly there. The second was that all memory from a little after that point on would be completely black until she woke up the next morning…