A Musical Journey Through Equestria

“You three ready?” I ask as I prepare to climb onto the box.

“Yeah!” The 3 girls cheer getting into position, Scootaloo getting ready to do backing vocals, Apple Bloom on a piano app I have on my phone and Sweetie Belle ready to grab the coins.

I climb onto the box with my guitar on my shoulder and start making sure my guitar is tuned, after finally getting it tuned properly I look up to see a small crowd has gathered around front of the box.

“Hello everyone, I’m here to perform some music for you if you don’t mind of course.” I say smiling at them.

The crowd murmur then go silent.

“I’ll take that as a go for it!” I think to myself.

(First Song Performed - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oz_NTPyHDc4 The character sings like the actual singer just a little bit deeper )

The crowd gives a little cheer and throw what I can guess to be 3 of the gold coins to the front of the box.

“Thanks! I’m so happy that you enjoyed it!” I smile happily. “You ready for the next song?” I ask.

“Yeah!” Came the replies of the crowd.

I chuckle and nod to Apple Bloom and Scootaloo.

(Next Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq0vPwbOu1Y Josh Bowne sounds the same as the singer in this song whilst Scootaloo sounds nothing like the female singer and sounds the same as in the show.)

I bend down to whisper to Scootaloo.

“I’m gonna sing this one solo okay?” I ask.

“Sure thing.” She replies as she climbs off the box.

“Apple Bloom can I use my phone for a bit?” I ask as I step off the box and head towards her.

“Okay!” She replies.

“Now then let’s get a song with a bit more feel in it.” I say as I flick through my phone. “Ah ha! I’ve got it!” I say smiling.

“What is it?” Apple Bloom asks.

“It’s a song that I’ve been practising for a long time! Time to see how I do with this song.” I chuckle to myself.

“Can everyone give me a moment please? I need to go ask something.” I shout to the crowd.

The crowd all replied with the same thing “Okay.”

I head into the bakery and walk towards the counter.

“Excuse me? Can I ask for a favour really quick?” I ask nervous of the reply.

“Sure thing, what can we do for you?” The bony behind the counter replies.

“Do you happen to have any speakers nearby? I need some to play the instruments through.” I ask as I scratch the back of my head.

“PINKIE! CAN WE BORROW A SPEAKER PLEASE?” The pony shouts causing me to flinch.

Then out of nowhere a pink pony hops through a doorway with a speaker on her back.

“Sure thing Ms. Cake but what do you need it for? Oh! Oh! Are we having a PARTY?!” The pink pony shouts.

“Not right now Pinkie Pie this, Urm, creature would like to borrow it.” The pony behind the counter replies.

“Hi there new friend! How are you? Good? Good! Are YOU having a party? Can I come? Can I? Can I?” The pink pony begs.

“I-I’m outside performing music and I need to borrow a speaker for the backing music. The crowd has gotten so loud that you can’t hear the instruments.” I reply a bit worried.

“Well sure thing you can borrow them! Oh! Can I listen? Can I?” The pony asks again.

“Sure....” I reply.

“YAY!” She cheers happily.

She hops out of the front door so quick I could have sworn SHE was the fastest in Equestria. I thank the pony behind the counter and follow her out just in time to see her hop past Apple Bloom and to the left of the box.

“Here you go!” She says as she puts the speaker down and hops towards the crowd.

“Thanks!” I shout into the crowd.

The crowd look at me excitedly.

“I have a different genre I want to try.” I say surprised that the speaker made my voice louder.

The crowd then cheer, I smile at them but to my horror my vision starts to fade and I feel my gums where my cheeks are start to become cold.

“Hold on a second there Josh, did you honestly think I would let you fall asleep on my debut to this world!” I hear a deep voice growl which echoed but the echo was what threw me off the most, the echo was screaming the words.

“What are you!?” I shout into the ever growing darkness.

“I’m glad you’ve forgotten, it means I get to show you ALL OVER AGAIN!” The voice laughs in both its deep voice and it’s scream.

I then see light come to my vision again and I see the crowd staring at me open eyed.

“What’s wrong?” I try to ask only to feel my voice pop and my throat start bleeding.

“Are you guys ready?” I hear my voice ask.

‘That isn’t me! I’m not talking! WHAT’S GOING ON!’ I scream to myself in my mind.

The crowd silently stare at me, I see Pinkie Pie, her face shows nothing but horror at whatever was on me.

‘PINKIE WHAT’S WRONG? ANSWER ME!’ I tries shouting again only to gurgle.

‘She can’t hear you, in fact no one can, so you might as well quit whilst you can still talk.’ The voice says.

“Let’s get this performance underway.” I hear my voice say to the crowd. “The song I’m gonna be singing is welcome to the show by a band called Famous Last Words!”

The crowd stay silent.

‘No! NO! NO! NO! NO! DON’T  THEY WON’T BE ABLE TO HANDLE IT!’ I scream.

( Song performed by the mysterious voice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EI1oCtMLTS8 )

I hear the build up to the song.

‘NOT IN THIS PLACE YOU FUCKING PSYCHOPATH! THEY WON’T HANDLE THAT MUCH HATE AND SELFISHNESS!’ I scream.

I hear a light chuckle come in the form of my own voice.

‘He’s actually going to do it.... He’ll break them....’ I say using every part of my being to fight back.

Me being an idiot I fought and fought but there was nothing to fight in the first place, it was just me in my own head.

I hear my voice scream and growl, something that I never knew it could achieve. I was terrified of what this psychopath was introducing them to.

I see the looks of horror on the faces of the crowd, they look terrified, all of them. ALL OF THEM LOOK SCARED BEYOND BELIEF! And I couldn’t do a single thing about it.

I hear the song finish.

‘You can have your body back. I won’t be needing it anymore.’ The voice chuckles.

I then feel my body move when I tell it to again, I look up and see something that horrifies me. The crowd have never looked more scared. I turn around to run away from them only to see myself but with a huge bloodied grin, shark like teeth and eyes that look like cracked glass.

I can’t help myself I feel pure anger flow through my veins.

“Is someone upset?” I hear the voice mock me.

I swing my fist at him to which dodges to the right of my swing then turns his head to my hand and he takes a huge bit out of my arm, I can see my own bone which have scrapes where his teeth bit down on them.

I scream as I bring my arm back holding it with my other hand against my stomach. I then see him turn towards Apple Bloom, her face, she was terrified. He then started to walk towards her at which point I stepped in front of him.

“Not wise Josh.” I hear the deep voice and its screaming echo.

“I won’t let you even touch her.” I stare into his eyes as I use my arms  to block his path, my arm still bleeding profusely and hurting like hell.

“I guess I’ll just have to kill you before I get to the others.” The voices chuckle.

“Even after I’m dead I’ll do everything I can to stop you from hurting anyone.” I shout back.

“We’ll see about that!” The creature shouts as loud as possible causing everyone to cover their ears, apart from me.

“If you think you causing me pain will make me back down then you’re wrong.” I grunt as I feel blood pour from my left ear.

“JOSH! ARE YOU OKAY!?” A voice I can barely make out says.

“Don’t worry about me, just run and hide till I come find you ok?”  I ask.

“B-but Josh!” The voice calls back.

“Everyone run! I’ll do what I can to stop him!” I shout.

I see everyone running away, I also see Pinkie Pie grabbing the 3 girls and run towards Apple Acres with them.

“I’ll be back for them when I’m finished with you, you know that right?” The creature asks.

“I know that, I know I’ll die here, but I’ll do whatever it takes to slow you down long enough for the ponies to find a way to defeat you, then I’ll pass on happy.” I say as bring my hands up to my face and ball them into fists.

“So be it, but you won’t keep me fighting that long, but if you’re so intent on going all out, then so will I.” The creature replies as spikes start to form on its back.

‘I hope the ponies will be safe, especially the 3 girls.’ I think to myself.

The creature then charges me with its fist aiming for my face, I use my arm to knock away his fist and hit him in the face causing him to stop for a moment. His smile get’s even bigger revealing yet more teeth in his ever growing mouth.

“I’m gonna love eating you as you scream!” The voices shout at me.

“You’ll have to have me beaten first!” I shout as I swing at him, he dodges to the left this time and bites into my other arm, this time breaking the bone and leaving the bone to hang out from the huge amount of missing skin and muscle.

“You can’t beat me and you never will be able to!” The 2 voices cackle.

“No your right I can’t, but I will give the ponies as much time as possible.” I reply as my arm droops to me side leaving only the arm with the bone intact.

Both of my arms are nearly useless at this point, one of them is missing muscle and skin, whilst the other one is missing muscle, skin AND is broken.

“Don’t think I’m beaten yet!” I say as I swing my damaged arm at him.

He once again dodges and bites into it shattering the bone.

“FUCK!” I shout as I reel back.

“No arms, no punches!” The voices say as it licks its lips.

“I may not be able to punch but I can still do this!” I say as I charge the creature with aiming to use my body as a battering ram.

It jumps over my head and grabs both of my shoulders and forces me into the ground head first. I hear a cracking sound, and I then notice blood coming from the top of my head and down my hair. That cracking sounds was my skull.

“Your brain is weak. I could end this fight here!” The voices say proudly.

“Not until they know how to beat you.” I groan as I use my knees to get myself up as I have no use of my arms.

I then feel a hand wrap around my neck and lift me up.

“Since you tried to stop me you will get to see as I devour your friends, then I will move onto you after I believe you’ve suffered enough.” The voices say.

I can’t talk, my mouth hangs limply open, I can’t talk, I want to scream, I want to punch, punch him till he physically can’t move. But I can’t. Instead I hang here limply forced to watch as he walks towards Apple Acres.

“We’re finally here Josh, can you see them in the window? The tears on face of poor little Apple Bloom as she sees you broken and limp?” The voices chuckle.

I try to lift my arms only to see them still hanging limply.

“Let’s go and say hello.” The voices say as I look up and see the smile on their face grow even wider.

I can’t do anything and they’re going to hurt everyone. I told them too run. Yet all I did was get them cornered in a building. I won’t let you hurt them.

“I won’t let you hurt them.” I growl as I bite into his hand drawing blood.

“Ah! You little piece of shit!” The voices scream.

I then stand up and charge into him actually hitting him this time.

“I.... Said.... I... I... I will.... Give them.... them time to stop you.” I pant as I have used all my energy reserves.

“I will not just make you watch them! I will make you drink their fucking blood you little shit!” The voices growl as they grab my head and bring it up to theirs.

They head butt me causing me to reel back as more blood spurts out from my head.

I fall to the ground as my vision starts to turn red as the blood from my head rolls down my forehead and into my eyes. My eyes start slowly closing.

I then use every last ounce of my strength to bite into his neck.

The voices start trying to inhale but I’m using my teeth to cut off air flow. They start flailing their arms around as they try to escape. I then feel my teeth crash into each other as a bright light blinds me.

“This is not the end Josh! Don’t think I’m done.” The voices say as they laugh at me.

I then look up to the window of the house to see Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Granny Smith, A Big red horse and the 3 girls looking at me. I smile at them as I’m happy I managed to actually beat him. My smile immediately drops as I see a figure behind them, it was me, but with a huge bloodied grin. I knew exactly who it was.

Adrenaline then kicks in and I use all of my speed and strength to break through the door and run up the stairs. I bust through the bedroom door and see all the ponies hiding in a corner as the creature approaches them.

“My name is Smiling Sam, never forget my name Josh, it will haunt you forever!” The creature laughs as it takes a step towards the group.

Using my adrenaline I charge the creature and myself straight out the bedroom window, falling about 15 feet. The creature lands below me with a crunch, I don’t know if that crunch was my bones, his or both of ours. But I finally accept that he is dead and let myself fall into the cold, quiet darkness of death.

And this is the end of my story. Or is it?