My Little Family

I went to Fluttershy’s cottage on the 23rd to get Discord. I knocked on the door, and I heard her say, “Coming!” She opened the door, and said, “Oh, hi Johnny. How are you?”

“I’m doing good Fluttershy, thanks for asking! I was looking for Discord, and I was wondering if you knew where he was.”

“I’m right here.” Discord said from behind me.

“There you are. If you don’t have any plans for today, Puppet and I would like to practice with you.”

“I can’t come over right now, but around one or two, I can come.”

“Alright.” I turned to Fluttershy and said, “Have a good day, Fluttershy!”

“Bye Johnny!” She said as I walked away.

Puppet and I practiced for a while, then Discord eventually came.. On the 24th, we took the train to get to the Crystal Empire. Though, we didn’t know where the party would be at, so we had to ask a guard.

“Excuse me. Do you happen to know where the Princess is?” I asked.

“Yes. Down the hall, turn left, and it’s the third room on the right.” the guard replied.

“Thank you. Have a good day!”

“You too.”

“Thank you.”

We walked down there, but the door was closed. I knocked on the door, opened the door, and said, “Hello?” I got no answer, so I walked in. The lights weren’t on, so I needed to find the light switch. Like you would guess, it was next to the door frame. I turned on the lights, but no one was there.

“Weird.” I said. After I said that, I got thrown up in the air. I’ll admit it, I might have screamed. Once I was almost touching the ceiling, I saw Cadence, flying in the air.

“Oh, hey Cadence.”

“Hello. Are you okay? You screamed.” She asked.

“Yeah, it kind of scared me when I got picked up by your magic.”

I knew it was her magic because the glow around her horn was the same color as the glow that was around me.

“Of course she’s able to scare him, but I can’t.” I could hear Discord say.

She put me down as she landed.

“So, what do you think?” She asked, pointing at a table. I looked over at the table and my jaw dropped. The table had a ton of sweets: cake, candy brownies, but most importantly, monkey bread. I ran over to the monkey bread, and just stared at it.

“I’m guessing you like monkey bread.” Cadence asked.

I looked at her in the eyes, and said, “I LOVE monkey bread.”

I then noticed that I hadn’t seen Shining Armor at all.

“Where’s Shining Armor?”

“Oh, he went to go put Flurry Heart to bed.”

“Oh, alright. Would it be alright if we played some songs?”

“Yeah, that’s fine.”

“Alright. You guys can get your food. It’ll take a few minutes for us to set up.”

Discord, Puppet, and I set up everything, and got in our places.

“Testing, testing, 1, 2, 3.” I said into the mic to make sure it was on, which it was. “Alright, this first song is called ‘Christie Road’.”

I played the first two verses and choruses by myself, then before it got to the second part I said, “Alright, I would like everypony dancing for this part.” When it got to the second part, played it, and before Discord came in with the drums, I said, “Ladies and gentlemen, say hello to our new drummer, Discord.” When we were playing, they were dancing. When we ended the song, everypony started dancing and cheering.

“This next song is called ‘Brain Stew’.” We played the song, obviously not saying the bad words. Though we kept it going, because when we finished Brain Stew, I said, “One, Two, One, Two, Three, Four.” and we played “Hitchin’ A Ride”. I didn’t even have to tell them to dance for this one, they did it on their own.

“Alright, that was ‘Hitchin’ A Ride’ and these next few songs are from a band called “Blink 182” and the next two are sad.”

Discord started playing the drum beat for “I Miss You”. For this song, Puppet sang the first verse and the “I miss you”’s and I sang the second verse and choruses. We played it the way Blink played it at the Pepsi Smash. After that, we played “The Rock Show”. When we finished, I said, “Alright, we have four more songs, one that’s sad, two that are more upbeat, and one that’s calming. This next one is called ‘Adam’s Song’.”

We played that, then we let it play out a little before we played “All The Small Things”, But with that, for the first two choruses, the last line, we stopped our instruments as I sang the line. On the last chorus, I saw and heard them singing along.

After that, I opened up my Gersh Device, and said, “I’ll be right back.”

When I came back, I was wearing a pink scarf, a tie, sunglasses, and a crown. I came back through the portal, and everyone and everypony looked at me with shock, even Puppet and Discord, probably because I didn’t tell I would be wearing this.

“Now, I know what you’re thinking,” I said, “or I at least I know what Rarity is thinking. She’s screaming in her head about how bad all this. But, I think I look as beautiful as Billie Joe Armstrong himself. Whatever, we all have our own opinions. This next song is called ‘King For A Day’.”

We played that, Puppet playing bass, Discord playing drums, but this time I actually played the trumpet. During each chorus, I gave one of my pieces away. I gave my scarf to Rarity in the first chorus, my tie to Spike in the second chorus, and my sunglasses to Cadence in the third chorus. When we finished, Puppet and Discord put down their items and went to go get food, or at least Discord did, Puppet walked over to an empty seat and sat down. I walked over to the piano, and said into the mic, “So, for this last song, I would like to dedicate for Princess Cadence and Shining Armor. If you listen to the lyrics, you’ll understand why. This next song is called ‘Last Night On Earth’.”

I played the song with only the piano and my vocals, and after, everyone cheered and clapped.

After that, Discord, Puppet, and I put our stuff away and we ate and chatted for a while. A little while later, I was in the room that I would be staying in since we were staying the night, and I was playing “Christie Road” on my guitar, when I heard a knock on my door.

“Come in.” I said.

“Hey Johnny.” Cadence said. “Can I talk to you?”

“Sure.” She closed the door behind her.

“What’s up?”

“Well first, I wanted to say I had a real blast at the party today. You did a good job of making it like a party. I also thought the ‘King For A Day’ bit was good.”

“Thanks.”

“Also, how is everything going with you and Delilah?”

I sighed. “Yeah, to put it short, she didn’t like me.”

“Oh I’m sorry to hear that. So, are you going to go after Puppet now?”

“Yeah, and hopefully I don’t get rejected, or at least as bad as I did with Delilah.”

“What did she say?”

“She said a lot of awful things. One thing she said was, ‘Why would you think I would love you?’” I looked at Cadence, and was in shock. “Yeah,” I continued, “and she also laughed when I told her I loved her.”

She wrapped her wing around and pulled me in for a side hug. “I’m so sorry to hear about that. I hope Puppet won’t do that to you.”

“If I did ask him out he probably wouldn’t do that.”

“Well, I hope he doesn’t. Oh, you can have these back.” She said levitating the sunglasses in front of me.

“No, you can have them.” I said.

“Really?” She asked.

“Yeah. You have the glasses to make you look cool, and I have the crown.”

“Thanks.” She said, hugging me.

“No problem.”

As she was walking out, she said, “I wish you and Puppet good luck.”

“Thanks! Have a good night!”

“You too.” she said, then she closed my door.