It was a cold spring morning and I had just woken up. My day usually isn’t eventful but tonight is going to be really special. You maybe wondering why but I’ll get to that in a bit.
I walk downstairs and see my younger brother playing video games. Typical, he is really hooked on this game called Fortnite.
“Really?” I ask
“Oh come on Ryan, the new update just came out and it is so awesome!”
“Ok then.” I understand his enthusiasm. I’m a hardcore battlefield 1 player and when a new update came out, I was already on top of it. “I’m just gonna go eat some breakfast and go drive to school. Tell mom I said hi, ok?”
“Ok. BOOM HEADSHOT FROM 192 METERS! Take that scrub.”
I smile, them walk by him into my kitchen to get some breakfast. My mom doesn’t go out much so we don’t usually have anything so i just buy breakfast at school, but luckily my dad went out earlier this week and got food for the family. Not like it matters because living with a family of four, food goes by fast.
I decided on a blueberry muffin since making french toast sticks would take too long, and i was already cutting it close on getting to school. I grab my backpack, take my meds and start to ealk out the foyer. As soon as I opened the door, it hit me.
“Shoot almost forgot my guitar.” I run back to my room and grab my Ibanez JS2480. God I love that guitar. I’m stupid good at the thing too that its not even funny.
Using my guitar is kind of my coping mechanism for things that bother me. If I'm depressed, i play. If I’m bored, i play. If i feel good about myself, i play. Basically i play whenever I jus feel emotion I play my guitar. My favorite song to listen to and play is Unstoppable Momentum by Joe Satriani. I love his work. He is my favorite guitar artist of all time. He is the one that made me discover that music is not all about the lyrics, its also about the instruments that play the song. Although I do listen to other things like AC/DC, Guns and Roses, all the good stuff.
After i grab my guitar, I run out the door and into my car. My car is the only thing that I love as much as my guitar. Its a 1972 Dodge Demon. I restored it with the help of my dad who is the stupidest car wiz I’ve ever met. The thing is fit with custom tires, rims, an upgraded engine, and tuned to drag race. It’s a miracle that it met the inspection sticker requirements.
The ride to school was like any other. Boring and uneventful. Sometimes you see the occasional backed up highway from a fender bender, but thats about it. Sometimes I wonder why I even invested the money in the car, but then I remember that it can clock 195mph on a drag strip.
I get to school and I say hi to my friends waiting for the home room bell to ring.
I’m not a very social person, but i have 2 very best friends. I was often bullied because of my social disabilities for being a complete nerd. But I have gotten used to it since it happens so frequently. Yup. I’ve gone numb to bullying.
My friends are as follows. They are all socially awkward, love Rock and Roll, and are great at Rock instruments.
My first friend is Mike. He is kind of the odd one out of the group to others because of his bad jokes, but we all accept him amd treat him as such because he is fun to be around. We also done mind his bad jokes because we all laugh because of how bad they are. He stopped making his bad jokes but I was kinda bummed about it. The best one that he came up with was that he found a picture of a pickel with nickelback’s face in it and shouted “LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH!!!!”
The instrument he plays are the drums. Mike is probably the best drummer I’ve ever seen. He is a rock fan like me, but he is into things like Red Hot Chili Peppers and slower rock.
My second friend is Liam. He is the one that is for some reason everyone is afraid of. It’s probably because he was once a bully. It was a phase but it was a BIG one. He doesn’t like to talk about it though. His parents got a huge divorce and his mother swore to leave and nover come back. It was the bitch’s fault for cheating on him with that male stripper. He went through depression and took it out of others. It was then when I introduced him to the bass where he expressed his emotions through music and Rock and Roll. His tasts are somewhat like mine because he loves things like Journey and Pink Floyd.
“Dude where you’ve been?” Mike asked me.
“Sorry, traffic was a nightmare. Apparently some idiot in a smart car decided to go 15 mph under the speed limit. I swear if i find that that guy, so help me.” Liam then interrupted me.
“You see that the problem with you. You get worked up with little things on the road like when a light takes too long or when someone doesn’t use their blinker.”
“Keep acting like this and you’ll end up like that kid ‘Arnie’ in the movie Cristine. It’s just a matter of time until your car tuns into a devil car.”
“Can it Liam, you’ll understand when you get a car but until then, you’ll be stuck using the bus to get here.” Liam scoffed at that remark but he knew that it was true. Mike then butt into the conversation.
“I hate to interupt but we have one minute until the home room bell rings so I suggest we get going.” We all agreed and went our seperate ways for the time being.
School was as boring as ever, you go through the same thing over and over again and repeat the next day. The only interesting thing that happened was that we watched a movie that was based off of a book we read, but that’s about it. What i was really exited about was that me and my friends had a gig tonight.
A while back in freshman year we created a band together after performing in the school talent show. We performed AC/DC’s thunderstruck and everyone loved us. Said we sound like a real rock band. We called ouselves the Rockin’ Racers. We weren’t proud of the name but we aren’t the creative types.
Tonight, me, Mike and Liam were going to play at a restaurant that housed live music as entertainment. I forgot what the name of the place was called. I think it was Sal’s pizza and pub. The only reason we remember the place was because the sign outside had a hilarious picture of a drunk dude hilding a pizza slice in his mouth and a one of those huge beer glasses.
The only problem with the place was that it was an hour drive away.
Now, I live in Massachusetts, and weather can be a problem such as snowstorms, rain, and for some strange reason rain in the middle of winter which is is not normal, but it happens. Now the biggest problems are the Nor’ easters. They’re like mini hurricanes so you can expect them to be a problem.
So my friends and I are driving down the interstate to Connecticut where the gig was, when we were hit with a Nor’ easter.
“This is a problem. A HUGE problem.” I said
“How so?” Mike asked. Then liam started to explain things to him
“Well winds are picking up and the roads are going to become dangerous. I suggest that we just head back before we crash. Besides, the restaurant is probably closed by now because of the weather.”
“Yea I guess you’re right, I don’t want to wreck the Demon.” I got off the interstate and started to look for a motel to stay in on my iPhone. It was a Friday so we didn’t have to stress about school the next day. I found a motel with a good deal and started to head for it. I decided to take a back road as a shortcut. Just then, the stupest thing happened and we still cant believe it.
The weather just...stoped.
“What...the hell just happened?” Liam asked dumbfounded.
“I’m not sure. This defies the laws of all nature. A storm like that can drag on for hours. Yet it lasted like 10 minuets.” Mike said. I was starting to panic a little because this was very supernatural. Just then a thick fog rolled in. And it was really thick. I could only see about 5 feet in front of the car.
“Damn this fog is thick. I can’t see a thing.” I said. “Liam use your phone to looke up where we are.”
“That might be a problem.”
“Why?”
“I’ve got no service.” Liam said in a very flat and worried voice.
“So we’re lost Ryan?” Mike asked.
“I guess so Mike.” I was still driving. Not knowing where the road will end up at.
“Are we just gonna keep driving?” Liam asked.
“What choice do we have?” I explained “the road is too narrow to turn around and if we back up we’ll crash.”
“Alrighty then.”
I was driving for what seemed like hours. Im not sure how much time passed though. Just then, something appeared out of the fog. It was, an intersection. As soon as the Demon dove up to it, it was met with lots of other cars coming and going, as well as the the fog clearing up.
“Finally, told ya we weren’t lost.” I said.
“Thats a lie.” Mike said
“Whatever I don’t even friggen care anymore.”
“Alright lets just drive around town and see if we can find that motel.” Liam suggested.
“Good idea.” I pulled the Demon out of the intersection and continued to drive. After about five minutes of driving, we came across what seemed to be a high school. Mike then broke the silence.
“Look a school. Maybe we can ask for directions.” I pulled up to the school and was immediately greeted with a statue of a horse on a podium and a sign of the school name on another statue with a horseshoe and the letter “c” on it. I then spoke the name of the school written on the statue.
“Hmmm... Canterlot High School. What kind of name is that?”
Author's Note
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“Im not sure what type of name it is, but its a name with a story and a reason like all school names.” Mike said. He was right, you can’t judge a place by its name. Liam then spoke up.
“Ok I know this sounds crazy, but I think we are in a different world.” There was a moment of silence in the car, until me and mike started laughing hysterically. “What you don’t believe me? Look around you. These cars on the roads aren’t like anything I’ve ever seen, and just look at the PEOPLE. Ive never seen anyone with red, lime green, and grays skin before. Just look.” Holy crap he was right. Every person we saw had a distinctive skin and hair color. And the cars didn’t look like anything I’ve ever seen. Some resembled nissan civics or prius’, but some were utterly confusing. There’s this one that looked like a mix between a camaro and a challenger.
“Well, maybe you’re right. I’ve never seen anybody like those people before.....Ok we’re on another world, universe, dimension, I DON’T KNOW ANYMORE!” I started to panic. Either I was on something like shrooms or something just as bad, or I might never see my family again.
Mike then put his hand on my shoulder and gave me an ‘everything is going to be ok’ look.
“Here, let’s put some Joe Satriani on to calm you down.” Mike then plugged his phone into the car stereo and started to play Joe Satriani’s ‘Made of Tears’.
“Thanks for that Mike, now let me think for a second.” I took a deep breath and thought about the situation for about a half a minute. “We’re on a different world, so chances are we’re gonna be here a while. So let’s enroll in this school for now and see where it takes us.” Mike and Liam nodded in unison. So I drove the car to the parking lot and got out. I made sure that me and Liam to grab our instruments and walked to the high school entrance. Once we entered the building, we were then greeted by a tall looking woman with multicolored hair, pale white skin, and shoes that will make you scream “WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOSE” without thinking twice.
Unfortunately I didn’t think twice.
"Um...Ok then, excuse me you three, are you new here?" She asked.
“Yes, we are in fact new here.” I said.
“Great, then allow me to welcome me you to Canterlot High School. My name is Principle Celestia. Now please follow me so I can walk you through orientation in my office. After that a student will give you a tour of the school. When the tour is done you will return to my office and receive your schedules. By the way, Ilike your instruments. You know, our first ever high school musical showcase is in a few days, you should sign up. Sign ups are located in my office, and around the school hallways.” That lingered in my mind for a bit, I’ll have to talk to the two after orientation to see what their thoughts on the subject are.
Once we were in the principle’s office, Celestia asked us a couple questions on where we live, age, grade, and such before telling us to wait for the tour student. The hardest ones being things like ‘where do you live’ and ‘did you attend school before this’ we made up things like our address and such and how we were home schooled before this. She then told us we will be put in the Jr class and told us to wait with the other 3 new girls that just transferred here. Before we left, we signed up for the musical showcase and was given a pamphlet of the schedule, rules, and guidelines of the event Now I’m just gonna come right out, the girls in this school have the strangest addiction to shoes that ho 2/3s past your shins. I have no idea why though.
We were walking to the front when we saw the 3 girls waiting for the tour guide as well. They seemednormal enough but the 3 of us knew something was off. We didn’t know what bit it HAS to have something to do with those necklaces. I went up to the yellow/orange one with the puffy hair and greeted her.
“Hi I’m Ryan. What’s your name?” I put my hand out expecting it to be shaken.
“Why? Who wants to know?” The orange one said.
“Geez, rude much?” Liam said. While we were waiting, I decided to pull out my Ibanez guitar and play Surfing with the Alien by Joe Satriani.
Just then, a girl with red, yellow, and orange hair came up and introduced herself to us. I’m pretty sure she’s our tour guide.
“Hello, my name is Sunset Shimmer. Are you the ones that I’m gonna give the tour to?” Mike then spoke up for the 3 of us
“Yes we are” he said
“We are as well.” The suspicions yellow girl said.
“Outstanding. Can you tell me your names?”
“My name is Ryan.”
“Im Liam.”
“And I’m Mike. It’s a pleasure to meet you.
“Great now may I ask you 3 for your names as well?”
“I’m Adagio, and this is Aria and Sonata.”
“Could’ve told us that earlier.” I said to myself.
The tour was pretty boring. It was just the expected shlop that you would expect from a stereotypical school tour. They tell you where all the classes, electives, and where everything else is. While nearing the end of the tour, the most peculiar thing happened regarding those 3 girls.
Sunset Shimmer asked obout the medallions on the 3 girls, and when she reached out to look at them, Adagio freaked out and backed away from her. Then she gave some BS excuse as to why. I think it was something along the line of ‘these medallions mean a lot to us.’ I knew that was a huge lie. I have this gift on when people are telling lies and such. Like when people say “don’t worry about it” i can just study their faces and see if it is something to worry about. When the tour ended, Sunset wanted to talk to us.
“You guys look pretty mean with those instruments. Why noy come with me to the music room and why don’t you show me what you guys got. I’ll even introduce you to my friends.”
“That sounds great.” I said. After that we headed to the music room. Once inside we were greeted with 5 different girls. Each with a distinctive feature separating them. All of them had instruments. Some were very peculiar, some were not. One girl with light pink hair had a tambourine. I’m not sure why. I’ve never seen a band with an electric guitar, and a tambourine in the same band. The other odd instrument was a keytar. I thought it it was an odd choice, but without things like that, we wouldn’t have great songs like ‘Jump’ by Van Halen, or ‘Working for Weekend’ by Loverboy.
“Mike, Ryan, Liam, these are my friends. Theyvare in a band they made called the Rainbooms.” That name sounds super gay. The girl with the pink puffy hair and on the drum set spoke up first.
“Hi I’m Pinkie Pie! I am the superie duperie dummer for the Rainbooms !” Is it me, or has this girl way too hopped on Mountain Dew. The girl with the stetson hat and the one holding the bass guitar spoke up next.
“I’m Applejack. Pleasure to meet you three.” Southern accent, and I’ll bet she isn’t even from the south. The girl with the rainbow colored hair and the the electric guitar spoke next.
“I’m Rainbow Dash, captain of most of the sports teams and great at being awesome!” I already don’t like this chick. I usually have problems with people having egos bigger than their heads. The girl with the Keytar and curly purple hair spoke next.
“My name is Rarity. I say those instruments you two have look fantastic. The curves on them look so sleek and smooth. May I ask what type of guitar and bass you two have?
“This guitar is an Ibanez Js2480. It sounds absolutely amazing when I play. Money well spent if you ask me.” I said.
“My bass is also an Ibanez instrument. Its an SR1300E. The wodden finish just, calls to me for some reason. I guess you you can say....... knock on wood.” Mike then started to play the sienfield theme song when at me and liam just face palmed way too hard. Im glad the caffeine girl found it funny.
“What’s this ‘Ibanez’ you keep talking about?” Rarity asked.
“It’s a guitar company from where we come from.” Mike said. What about you? What’s your name?”
“Oh, my name is Fluttershy. I’m really good with animals.” She seemed timid and shy. I can understand, I went through a phase a couple years ago just like that.
“Alright enough with the introductions, why don’t you show us what you got on those things. Not like you’ll be any better than me on that guitar.” Rainbow Dash said with confidence.
“Alright, Pinkie Pie may I borrow your drum set for the time being?”
“Okie dokie loki.”
“Alright guys, let’s do something that really gets the adrenaline pumping. How ‘bout AC/DC’s Who Made Who?
“I’m down”
“Me too”
“Alright then get your equipment set up guys.” We proceeded to plug our instruments while mike got a feel for the drum set. “Ok guys, 1, 2, 3, 4”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PiZHNw1MtzI
When we finished, we were greeted with Pinkie Pie jumping up and down cheering us on. Quite a few of them from what I could see were impressed. I was even more surprised by how we gathered a crowd of people in the doorway.
“Again , again encore!” Pinkie said.
“Alright alright. What should we do next guys?” Liam asked.
“How about Snow by Red Hot Chilli Peppers?” I suggested.
“Are you sure? I know that song puts a lot of strain on your hands.” Mike said. It was true. The song consisted of continuously playing this one chord for about 3/4s of the song. No wonder it’s in the top 10 for hardest songs to play on the guitar.
“I’ll be fine, lets just start.” As soon as I started sto do the cord, I knew it was going to be a long 5 and a half minutes.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KvlqclaxyP4
This time Rainbow Dash was pissed. She didn’t like how she was being outshined by some ‘newbie’ had never seen before.
“Alright bub, lets do this. Right now. Guitar battle. Winner is the best of the 2 of us.” This was very sudden. I wasn’t expecting something so sudden. Although this wasn’t the first time I’ve been challenged to a guitar battle. And all of them I’ve come out on top so I wasn’t stressed that much.
“Alright Dash, I accept your challenge.”
“Alright, you take that amp and I’ll take this one.” I then explained the rules to the girls because they seemed puzzled on how this was going to go down. “The rules of this are simple. We each play the same song switching off between chords. One of you guys will be keeping score. The person with the lead amount of mess ups wins. Although, an opponent can also be kicked off the stage by the crowd for messing up too many notes and chords. Applejack, how ‘bout you be the judge because of you knowledge on string instruments like guitars.”
“Sure thing.” I hadn’t noticed it beforehand, but a lot mire students had heard our band and came to watch. The all seemed to be the on the edge of their shoes for this battle. “Guitar battle starts.... NOW!”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jF9We7dIGfo
Rainbow dash stuttered to put out words after loosing to me. She was also panting heavily so that was also a problem “How did you beat me? I can’t believe it. Your like some strange guitar god.” Sunset then came up to me. And asked me a question that I still ask myself to this day.
“How are you so good at guitar?”
“To be honest, I really don’t know.”
