Spinning To A New Tune

By Lyruil

Chapter 1: The Change

No doubt the music could be heard reverberating through the mostly quiet streets of Canterlot, coming from one of its more popular clubs, The Spinning Disc. Inside people were dancing under the neon strobe lights to a wicked dubstep beat. Near the back, in one of the darker corners, a stallion pulled a mare along by the arm as she failingly tried to resist. He continued until he felt a hand on his shoulder.

He turned around to see a man around 5’9”, with short blond hair and a trimmed jawline beard. He was fair skinned with deep blue eyes, wearing a plain black long sleeve shirt and black jeans.

That’s me.

“What do you want pipsqueak?” The stallion said looking down with a look of annoyance at being interrupted.

“Lay off her. She’s not interested.” I said coldly, my tone like steel.

“And who’s going to make me, you?”

*CRASH*

The stallion landed on a trashcan as he flew out the club's entrance. I walk out, dusting my hands off. “Yeah, and stay out.” Ah another night, another asshole I got the pleasure of throwing out of the club. I love being a bouncer. Oh, that reminds me, introductions are in order. First off, my name is Andrew Duron, and as for my story well… let me start from the beginning.

It was a normal night like any other… Actually it wasn’t, it was better. The night looked beautiful and clear, devoid of all clouds or other obstructions. I should’ve known something was wrong just from that, life is never that nice. I had run away to my favorite getaway spot over in the forest on the edge of my hometown. Getaway from what you may ask? Well that’s not exactly important right now. Anyway, there I was, camping in the middle of the woods, just staring into the beautiful night. That is… until the lightning struck…

From out of thin air, a bolt of lightning struck not ten feet from where I was laying. The shockwave lifting me up and sending me flying about twenty feet from where I once was. My ears felt like they had burst due to the shockwave, not to mention the massive thunderclap produced from the lightning striking so close. I looked up, my head still spinning, as I was trying to understand what had just happened. What I saw, most people would describe as impossible.

Where the lightning struck was now a portal, and through it stepped what could only be described as two goddesses. They were both vaguely equine, but not in an off-putting way. The first one I took note of stood tall, even from my spot in the dirt I would say she was around 6’ 4”, 6' 10" if you included her horn she had in the middle of her forehead. She had fur of pure white covering her entire body, an ethereal mane and tail filled with the colors of early dawn, and magenta eyes. The most surprising fact I made note of was she not only had a horn but wings too. She wore an elegant, pure white silken dress with gold around the edges and a golden tiara with a large amethyst in the middle. She also had quite a nice rack on her, probably F cup, but it was hard to tell on the ground in the dark.

The other stood around 6’ and had dark, black-blue fur, her ethereal mane resembled the night sky in all its beauty, and her eyes were a beautiful cyan color. She wore a lovely short-length black dress which fluttered lightly in the night breeze. Like the other she also had a horn, pair of wings, and a tiara, however this one was pitch black. Her breast were slightly smaller than the other one’s, but still quite large for her size, easily DDs if not a bit larger. They spotted me on the ground and give me comforting smiles. That was the last thing I remember before my world turned black.

I later woke up in a hospital bed. In the room was another anthropomorphic equine dressed in a doctor’s uniform. He told me about the portal I had seen and said there were others. The event was ironicly being called ‘The Portal Event’. Around the world, at the same time, twelve portals were made know. Three in the US, two in the UK, one each in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Russia, and finally two in China.

I was also told the ones that found me and brought me to the hospital were the rulers of this anthropomorphic race, which I was told were referred to as Ponies. I learned that those two were in fact sisters, and they co-ruled the land I was in, called Equestria.

The elder sister was known as Princess Celestia, and her sister was Princess Luna. I later learned that due to a long history of not having a queen, princess was seen as the highest form of royalty. Also one only achieved the rank of princess by being born or made an alicorn, Celestia and Luna being the former. An alicorn being the combination of the three main breeds of Pony: Earth, Pegasi, and Unicorns.

They went before the United Nations saying that they wished to coexist with humans and create a lasting friendship between the two races. As a result a treaty was signed that permitted travel between the realms. The world governments took the necessary measures to set up inter-dimensional traveling laws, and preparing forms that contained waivers and all other paperwork that we swore to follow the laws of this new world, Equis. Also banning the transportation of any recreational drugs and weapons such as guns, explosives, and the works. to their peaceful community. There were those who were still skeptical of the idea of sharing resources to these new species of intelligent life forms, especially the extreme followers of certain religions, and I laughed my ass off when I heard the news stories about how everything they knew up to then was wrong, and causing a huge riot over it. Of course, there were others that tried to get there by illegal means with weapons, but our government was doing something right for once by holding tight enough security to not only prevent such people through, but kept track of any new portals that pop up for people to get through without signing any legal documents.

That was a three months ago. Approximately only 2,000 humans, male and female each, have gotten permission and traversed the portal to move to their world. That small number is due to the fact that for each person that came through, each had to pass a lie detector test to validate there reason for coming. Oh, besides the fact it was provided by the Ponies and it was always one hundred percent accurate.

If you’re wondering how that’s possible, well I might have forgotten to mention they have… magic. That’s right, magic, I was freaked out at first. Though thankfully my reason for coming didn't force me to reveal my past. That would have probably caused some problems for me, but more on that another time. I stayed in the capital city where the sisters ruled from, Canterlot. It wasn’t too bad, as long as you avoided the upper level of the city. The nobles didn’t take kindly to those that were not like them and often had quite a few nasty quips to throw if you happened to walk too close. I found work in the middle level at a local bar working as a bouncer. Most stallions were over 6 feet tall. Towering over a person like me, who was only 5’ 9”. However, thanks to the minimal amounts of crime that occurred before the portals appeared, most ponies didn’t know how to fight unless they were part of the military. Thankfully I had taught myself some basic marital arts for a few years, so even though I was 19 I could still remove an overly tipsy customer if necessary fairly easily. Like the stallion I had the pleasure of removing earlier. Though the best part of working at the bar, was watching one of my newest friends perform.

Vinyl Scratch, aka DJ-Pon3 as she like to be called when performing. She was a unicorn mare standing around 5’ 5”. She had a white coat with a mane and tail of two shades of electric blue. Her attire consisted of blue skinny jeans, which I barely believed were actually held up by the belt she wore and not her hips, and a shirt with a light blue collar and sleeves, with a hole cut to show her cleavage. Though B cups don't have much in any case. Her mane was unkempt, but I found it hard to believe she didn’t style it that way, since she possessed magic that could fix it if she wanted. And who could forget the pair of large thick purple sunglasses she wore no matter the weather or lighting.

I met Vinyl after her performance at the club one night and we just clicked. She had a wild, unpredictable, and sometimes borderline insane behavior that had me laughing in just minutes. Most nights after she gets done performing and I finish my shift we grab a drink and relax by the bar, commenting on who we thought was the sexiest person/pony we had seen that night.

*tap,tap* Speak of the devil, or mare in this case. I turned around to see the pony in question looking up at me, at least I assumed so. It was hard to tell with those sunglasses of hers.

“Dude that was sweet! You seriously need to teach me how you do that sometime.” She said with a slight rasp in her voice, I always assumed it was because she spent every night yelling her lungs out.

I chuckled, “Says the only pony I know outside of the royal guard that can beat me in a fist fight.” I say as I walk over to the bar and sit down, Vinyl hopping on the stool next to me.

“Ah, that’s sweet. Flattery will get you everywhere you know.” Vinyl said with a mischievous smirk. “And coming from such a cute guy. It’s almost amazing you don’t have a marefriend yet.” She said sarcastically as she ordered a drink.

I twitched at hearing the word marefriend. Nothing against the ponies, I actually found quite a few attractive, including the one sitting next to me. However, I still had scars from my last relationship, and I wasn’t planning on a new one anytime soon.

“Well, you know the reason. I’m just not open to that right now. Hopefully at some point, but I doubt that’s anytime soon.” I reply with a sigh before ordering a cider. “At least I get a day off tomorrow, what about you?” I asked, glancing over at Vinyl.

“Nothing much, I get a day too. Probably just spend it working my new mix… Unless you had other ideas.” She smirks, wiggling her eyebrows. The action causing me to nearing spit my drink, laughing at the action. She however didn't appear to be amused as her smile dropped.

“Sorry Vinyl… I wish I could…” I said in between my dying chuckles. “But I have an appointment with Luna tomorrow.” I said, finally getting my laughter under control.

“Well then how about after? I doubt you’ll take all day, unless there’s something you’re not telling me?” Vinyl says leaning towards me, pulling her shades down to reveal her beautiful red eyes, and a soft blush on her cheeks, thanks to the amount of alcohol she had no doubt already consumed.

I lean away as a blush also creeps up on me, but not because any alcohol. “No after is fine.” I said, glancing away. “I was thinking of stopping by to see Mark, since he spends a lot of time at his office in the castle, but I can stop by another day.” Vinyl leaned back, her eyes looking me up and down to see if I was lying, which I doubt she could tell even if she wanted to thanks to the state she was in.

“Alright then, I’ll stop by your place when you’re back. What time should that be?” Vinyl asks, hopping off her bar stool.

“Should be back by 4:00 or so.” I replied as I stood up from my own seat.

“Well then, I’ll come by at 5:00 and you can take me out to dinner Mr. Duron~.” Vinyl said, trying to use a sultry voice. Only to give a small hiccup which completely canceled the desired effect.

I smiled at her silliness. I had thankfully made a decent living thanks to my job. Equestria’s main currency was called a bit. They were worth just a bit more that a US dollar, and I made twenty an hour. Thanks to that, I could afford a nice apartment not too far from work. The Princesses had offered me a room in the castle, but I only used that until I found my current residence.

I still visited from time to time, and I still had appointments with Luna fairly regularly because of a mild case of insomnia I possessed. Not to mention when I did manage to go to sleep my dreams often turned nightmare. Thankfully travel around the capitol was fairly easy. Since there were no motor vehicles in Equestria everything was designed so that it could be reached on foot.

“Hey, Equis to Andrew, you there?” I heard as Vinyl poked at my cheek, breaking me from my thoughts.

“Can you stop that Vinyl?” I asked, swatting her hand away.

“Well I wouldn’t have to if you were actually listening to me.” She said slugging my arm lightly.

“You mean something you say could be important?” I replied before getting slapped over the head. “Ow! What was that for?”

“For making fun of your best friend, moron.”

“Oh come on, you know you love being around me.” I say ruffing her mane, causing her to blush as red as her eyes. This time she swat my hand away as she gave a cute little pout.

“C-come off your high horse. I know you only do that to mess with me.” She huffed, looking at me with her ruby irises. This was my turn to blush, those eyes always got to me somehow.

I got up from my stool as I spoke, “Well I guess that’s enough torture for one day. I going to head home. I’ll see you tomorrow.” I said as I made my way towards the door. As I stepped out into the cool autumn night air, I closed my eyes and breathed deeply. Ah, it’s a nice night. Though I should getting back home. A night drinking with Vinyl will probably end up being a long one. Man a lot has changed in three months, at least it seems for the better. I thought as I opened my eyes and started my walk back to my apartment...

Author's Note

Hey guys, name's Lyruil. This is my first try on a MLP fanfic so try and go easy on me.

I'm really trying to improve my writing style and can use all the help I can get. For those who I know will asks I'll answer one question right on the bat.

Yes, this is a self-insert fic... As such I know I'll have a tendency to Mary Sue characters. That being the case, please try to stop me if I start doing so. I want to make this as believable as I can in terms of character interactions. So please don't be afraid to let me know what you think.

Next I'd like to thank Duelist96 and Pusspuss for letting me include their OCs in my universe. Those two are the main inspiration I had for writing this story, you'll probably see references, if not full on cameos, in most chapters. You will most likely also see similarities to So I Heard You Like Music by Higherbeach, who's mainly the inspiration for the dark tag of this story.

This universe in this story is shared with my second story Wolf Loves The Winter. Though that story takes place roughly twenty years in the future from where this story begins. As such it will be updated on a lesser frequency as not to interfere or spoil parts of this story.

With that I hope you'll enjoy the story, and I hope to see you next chapter.

Thanks, and see you next chapter.