Chaotic Symphonyby DeathstriderChaptersChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 7Chapter 8Chapter 9A note for the faithful few...CHAPTER 10OMG, I REMEMBER THIS ONE, IT GOT AN UPDATE?!?!?!A short thankyouChapter 1EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 1 As Vinyl walked backstage from her recently performed gig she gave a sigh of sadness. She was normally happy after finishing a show, for there was nothing she liked better than to relax and put her hooves up with a cup of coffee. Even though she didn't play any instruments in particular, she still had to stand up for four hours on end making sure the crowds got what they wanted and paid for. But anyway, she felt a pang of remorse as she walked over to the long, dark blue sofa. She had recently split up with her long time partner, Green Star, following a dispute that they had had. he was complaining about Vinyl's working hours and the amount of time she spent out partying after gigs, accusing her of seeing another stallion behind his back. Vinyl had loved Green Star more than anything else, in fact he was the reason that Vinyl made music. He was her inspiration. Was. But now that he was gone she had no reason to create music. She sat on the sofa backstage, cradling a stronger drink than her usual choice. After finishing her third whiskey her lifelong friend and manager Platinum Disc came over to her and plonked himself down next to Vinyl. "Something the matter, Vinyl?" Platinum asked. "Can you tell?" Vinyl replied sarcastically, her words slurring slightly. "Vinyl I'm worried for you." Platinum said, frowning. "I think you need to go back to Ponyville and get some rest." "Na-ah!" Vinyl said, "I've finally made it to the big leagues, I'm performing in Canterlot in three days!" "Yes, I know." Platinum replied bluntly. "I arranged it for you." "Oh, yeah." "Listen, Vinyl, all this depression isn't good for you, and don't try and tell me you're not depressed, that was your worst performance you've given this whole tour." "No it wasn't, the crowd loved it." She replied, refusing to make eye contact with Platinum. "No, Vinyl. They enjoyed what they paid to see." He snapped, causing Vinyl to jump, never in the whole 14 years she had known Platinum had he shouted at her. The next thing she knew, she was crying, she felt a comforting arm being draped across her shoulders, she couldn't even find the energy or nerve to shrug it off. "You're right, Platinum. I'm useless.", she sobbed into his shoulder. "Shh, You're not useless.", he comforted her whilst stroking her mane. "You just need to get some rest and get over the break-up." "How did you.." Vinyl began but Platinum cut her off. "Vinyl, seriously, I've been your friend for 14 years, I know when you're upset about something and nine times out of ten I know what that something is.", he laughed, wiping away a stray tear from Vinyl's face. "Now please, for me, go home and get some rest." "What about the tour?" Vinyl asked. "It's fine. I'll sort it all out.", he said. "Now go to your room, get some rest and head home." "Ok Platinum. Thanks." She said, embracing her friend before walking to her temporary room. Vinyl shut the door and locked it behind her. She turned and faced the room. It was a small, uninspirational apartment. It was the polar opposite of the larger apartment she owned near Carousel Boutique in Ponyville. If she had to describe this apartment in one word she wouldn't have had to think twice. Beige. That's the word she would use. Beige. It was both a metaphorical and physical description of the room as all the furnishings were, yep you guessed it, beige. She walked through to the bedroom not bothering to shower or brush her teeth, she just wanted to collapse, and that is exactly what she did. As soon as her head hit the pillow she fell into a deep, uninterrupted sleep. I guess depression really takes it out of you. The next morning Vinyl woke up late. She felt sore all over, due to the fact that she hadn't bothered with her usual routine of stretching out all her muscles before sleeping. As she walked into the bathroom of the beige apartment, looking in the mirror, she discovered she hadn't even taken off her trademark glasses before falling asleep. She took them off to reveal that her crimson irises were being perfectly complimented by the light pink of her bloodshot eyes. "Horse apples.", she cursed. This is what she got for being dumped, aches, pains and bloodshot eyes. Part of her hoped that Green Star was worse off than her, but Vinyl had shut that part of her off, along with any desires or fantasies involving future relationships. As she got ready for the trip back to Ponyville she decided to think about what to do when she got there. She could always just sleep in bed the entire time, but that would be dull and Vinyl was a mare of energy. Perhaps she could visit all of her friends, well, maybe not all of her friends. Vinyl hadn't realised this but at some point during her daydreaming she had decided that she was ready to go and found herself walking toward the train station with suitcase in tow, or at least, in hover. She went into the ticket booth and got a ticket back to Ponyville. Thankfully the train arrived quite quickly, she hated waiting, she had hated it as a foal and she still hated it with a vengeance. The train journey was fairly uneventful with only a couple of ponies asking for her autograph, one of them being the ticket collector. When she stepped off the train into Ponyville she took a few lungfuls of air. Home. There was no place like home. As she walked through town to her apartment she was greeted by almost everypony she saw, but it wasn't in the screaming fan, let me lick your face, kind of way, it was a laid back nod of the head or a "Nice to see you, Vinyl.". Platinum had been right. Rest was what she needed, and rest was what she intended to get. Chapter 2EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 2 When Vinyl woke up in the morning her apartment seemed empty. As she walked across the hallway into the bathroom she could have sworn she heard her hoofsteps echoing around the apartment. She knew they weren't but the place felt empty without Green Star, just like her heart. Vinyl took a few minutes to get ready and then left for town. She hadn't bothered having breakfast. At some point, she knew that was going come back and bite her. As she walked through the town she noticed how late she had woken up; the sun was already at least half way through its arc above Ponyville. Whilst she walked around town, collecting her supplies for her stay, she saw somepony she wasn't expecting to see: her old friend, Octavia. Vinyl walked over to her, taking her in through her glasses as she approached. She was a light grey earth pony with an almost black mane, she wore a pink bow tie around her neck, her cutie mark was a treble cleft marking her out as a musician, but Vinyl didn't have to look at Octavia's cutie mark to know that she was a musician. The two had been friends since school and had been in the same music class despite having slightly different tastes in music genres. While Vinyl had been more into making electronic music on her decks, Octavia had been classically trained on the cello since she was a filly, but despite this the two had still been best friends. Octavia looked up as she noticed Vinyl walking towards her, "Vinyl? Is that you?" Octavia asked, knowing full well that it was. "The one and only," Vinyl replied. "How have you been?" "Never better, how are you? How's Green?" Octavia asked. "Erm, fine I guess." Vinyl said, looking down at the ground. "Vinyl, what's the matter darling?" She asked with a curious note in her voice. "I'd rather not talk about it in public." "Ah, yes, are you busy? Let's go back to mine and you can tell me what's happened." Octavia told her, rubbing her cheek comfortingly with a smile. "Okay Octavia, I'd only go straight back to bed if I went home." Vinyl said with a guilty laugh. "Alright, let's go." Octavia said. They talked about Vinyl's tour on the way to Octavia's house. There wasn't much to say, which was unfortunate because it was quite a long walk to Octavia's as she lived on the edge of town. When they arrived Vinyl stopped and took in her friend's cottage. It was an old fashioned thatched cottage with a small crumbling wall surrounding a small, traditional rose garden. The walls of the house were once white but had now faded to a light grey colour, almost the same colour of Octavia's coat. The single glazed windows with pristine white, lace curtains hanging behind them. "Are you alright Vinyl?" Octavia asked, noticing that her old friend had stopped. "Yeah, I'm fine I was just trying to remember the last time I came here." Vinyl said, slightly tilting her head to one side. "Well you'll be thinking for a long time then," she said with a laugh. "Last time you came here you were drunk." "Oh, sorry." Vinyl said, blushing, looking at the floor. "It's alright. It was either my place or the gutter I found you in." "Erm, Thanks." "Anyway, let's get inside, I'm freezing.", Octavia said, opening the door. When Vinyl stepped inside, she noticed that the inside was just as she had expected it to look. Photos of Octavia and her parents hung on the wall in the hallway Vinyl had entered. As she walked through to the front room she took in her surroundings. There were two canvas sofas for two ponies against each wall which were a light pink colour with white pinstripes on them. Above the sofas were more pictures showing Octavia as a foal and other key moments in her life, birthdays and such. "Would you like a drink Vinyl?" Octavia called from the kitchen. "No, thanks.", Vinyl replied, whilst looking at the photos. It was then that she spotted a photo that she had in her apartment. It was a photo of Octavia and herself outside of college wearing their graduation uniforms. This brought a smile to her face; on the day that they had graduated Vinyl had gone out into town to party whereas Octavia had gone to the spa to relax, it was that evening that Octavia had found Vinyl face down in the gutter. Vinyl hadn't heard Octavia walk into the room behind her. "So, what's the matter." Octavia asked, making Vinyl jump. "Oh it's just, me and Green recently split up." Vinyl said, sadness creeping back into her voice. "Oh no, Vinyl. What happened?" Octavia asked a sincere note of pain in her voice. Without knowing it Vinyl had started crying. She felt the first of many more tears roll down her cheek as she explained what had happened between her and Green Star to Octavia. A little while later, Vinyl had finished telling Octavia about her recent woes, "Vinyl that's absolutely dreadful, he never deserved to have somepony like you.", Octavia told her, staring into Vinyl's eyes. The two ponies shared a moment of silence, looking into one another's eyes, well, Vinyl looking into Octavia's and Octavia looking into Vinyl's glasses. They sat next to one another, their faces only inches apart. The temperature of the room had seemed to increase significantly and each of them could only see the other. Octavia reached up to Vinyl's face and slipped off her glasses. It was the first time in four years that Octavia had seen Vinyl's eyes. "I always adored your eye colour.", she said. The last time Octavia had seen them was the night before graduation. They had had a sleepover and things had gotten a little out of hand, but Octavia hadn't minded, in fact she had kind of enjoyed it, but she had no idea whether or not Vinyl had. She came back to the present to discover her lips were mere centimetres from Vinyl's. Chapter 3EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 3 They leant into the kiss, unable to break eye contact with one another. This was right, wasn't it? Before they could find out, they were interrupted by a knocking at the door. They both pulled back quickly from the kiss that would've been, blushing intensely. "I should go and answer that," Octavia said. "Yeah, I'm gonna go to the toilet," Vinyl quickly said, speed walking off towards the bathroom. When she got there she quickly shut and locked the door behind herself. "What the hell just happened?" she asked herself. She and Octavia were only friends, weren't they? Vinyl wasn't like this anymore. No she hadn't thought about a mare like that since college. I mean, to be with a mare would be an easier love life. NO! She couldn't go out with a mare, it would ruin her career, I mean, who would buy music from a filly fooler? No one. That's who. She couldn't get into a relationship with Octavia. After having a moment to think, Vinyl unlocked the bathroom door and went through to the front room. On the way there she had a look to see who it was at the door. It was the mail pony, Derpy. "...And so there I was outside Rainbow Dash's house and I heard this sort of moaning sound and I wondered what it was so I flew up to her window to have a look and..." "That's quite enough, Derpy," Octavia said with a frustrated tone. "...And I looked through her window and guess what I saw?" Derpy left a miniscule gap between her speech, not enough time for Octavia to object. "I saw her lying on her bed, and she was all sweaty, and flushed, and..." "DERPY! THAT IS ENOUGH!" Octavia shouted. This didn't discourage the mail pony. "...I saw her with Fluttershy and Fluttershy was all over her so I flew through the wall, because I can because I'm a pegasus, and I asked Fluttershy what she was doing and she jumped like she had just been caught doing something, and then I asked her what she was doing and..." "DER..." "....she said that Rainbow was poorly and I had to go away." Derpy finished with a huge grin on her face, pleased that she had shared this story with another pony. "Derpy," Octavia began. "I think you should keep that a secret." She finished calmly. "But why?" Derpy inquired. "Because..." Octavia began, trying to think of something to satisfy the cross-eyed pony. Octavia had never been good at lying Vinyl thought, with a small chuckle. She continued from Octavia. "Because if the Wonderbolts find out she's poorly she might never, EVER, get in so you need to keep it a secret," Vinyl finished, with the greatest poker face ever seen to pony kind. This seemed to be a good enough reason for the mail pony. "Oh, okay then, your secret is safe with me," she said, smiling ear to ear as she flew off. "Unlike our post," Vinyl whispered to Octavia, the two laughed as they went back into the front room. "Now, where were we?" Octavia purred, drawing the curtains across the window. "Octavia, I..." Vinyl began, but Octavia pushed her down onto the sofa. "Ah yes, I remember." The grey pony said, leaning into the unicorn. Octavia started nuzzling Vinyl's neck. It did feel quite nice to be wanted. NO. "Octavia, stop." "What is it, Vinyl?" Octavia asked drawing back from Vinyl's neck, the corners of her mouth turning down. "It's just, I'm not like that anymore." "Like what?" "Into mares," Vinyl said looking down, hoping not to offend her friend. "I know, I was just trying to cheer you up," Octavia said, her voice a tiny bit wobbly. "Well, I'm sorry but it's not helping," Vinyl spat. This earned her a slap. "You know, I thought we might still have something. I thought we might be able to relight our relationship. I waited for you for four years, for four years I waited," Octavia whispered, her voice threatening to crack. "I thought that you would come back to Ponyville, that you would come back for me." She was now openly crying. "But you didn't, you went to Canterlot and got famous, you got a coltfriend and that broke my heart." "Octavia.." Vinyl began, tears brimming in her eyes. "NO!" Octavia almost shouted. "You've broken my heart once, and I won't let you do it again," she wailed. Vinyl was now crying. "Octavia, I never even knew..." "Get out," she hissed. "Octavia, I never knew you liked me like that," Vinyl said, tears rolling down her face. "GET OUT! I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!" She shrieked. Vinyl did as she was told. She got up and walked to the door. She turned with an, "I'm sorry." and left. It was a good thing that Octavia lived on the edge of town; it meant that there was nopony to see the tears streaming down her cheeks, but to get home she had to walk through town. It was still pretty early and would be thriving. Not just that, but there was no other way to get home without going into to town. "Horse apples," she cursed. She'd left her glasses in Octavia's house, well, there was no chance of getting those back, she thought to herself. Perhaps it was a good thing, the reason most ponies recognised her was because of her trademark glasses, perhaps she would be able to walk through town after all. She wiped away the tears from her face and eyes and set off towards home. Thankfully, on her way no pony seemed to recognise her, or if they did they didn't show it. She eventually got home and walked through to her bedroom. She still felt empty, but a different sort, she felt more like she had been drained. She lay on her bed, not bothering with stretching out again, and looked up at the ceiling. She was going to have a long night. Chapter 4EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 4 Three days had passed since the incident at Octavia's house. She was supposed to be performing at Canterlot today. Vinyl hadn't even left her apartment, she couldn't even face the outside world, for fear of breaking somepony else's heart or ruining her life just that little bit more. She was going to have leave at some point. She was running out of food and she couldn't just buy takeaways, they made her feel like she'd been bucked in the stomach. As Vinyl walked back into the kitchen, to get another bowl of cereal, she took a glance down at her phone, it said there were twelve missed calls and four messages. She pressed the play button on the answer machine and went about getting another bowl of cereal. "Hi, it's Platinum here. I was just calling to make sure that you'd gotten home safely, but I guess you're out at the moment, so ring me back when you get this message. See ya." "Hi, Platinum again. Can you ring me, Vinyl? you can get me on my cell or in my office. Bye." "Vinyl, it's me. I haven't heard anything from you since you left for Ponyville. I'm on my way down later today." It was then that Vinyl heard a knock on her door. She quickly tapped the pause button on the answer machine. "Vinyl? Are you in? Hello?" Vinyl didn't leave the kitchen. She knew who it was and she just wanted to be alone. "Vinyl?!" She heard a vague "horse apples" from the other side of the door. "Vinyl, everything's alright. I'll be in, in a second. Don't panic." She heard hoofsteps running from the door, what was Platinum thinking? No, wait, she knew what he was thinking. He thought that she'd killed herself, how dare he think she'd be so stupid? Well, looked like she had no choice of letting him in or not now, she sat down on her sofa and waited for the inevitable. But Platinum didn't come in through the door like she was expecting, she heard the bathroom window opening followed by the thud of a fully grown stallion dropping onto the floor. "Vinyl?! Vinyl? Where are you?" She thought she should probably answer, "In here," she said, her voice monotone. Before she even thought it possible, she felt herself in a strong embrace from her best friend, she felt hot tears pouring onto her shoulder and down her back. "Oh Vinyl, you're okay." The stallion cried. "I thought you'd done something dreadful." He finally pulled back from the hug. She could see now how worried her friend had been. His mane was scruffy and knotted when it was usually shiny and neat, his eyes were bloodshot and he looked like he hadn't slept in weeks. "I was so worried when you didn't answer my calls," he said. "I thought that you might have..." Platinum paused and squeezed his eyes shut not wanting to imagine an alternative. "Platinum, I'm fine, you didn't have to worry yourself," Vinyl said, lying through her teeth, hoping Platinum wouldn't notice. "So you promise everything is okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "Are you sure? Are you positive you're okay?" "Platinum. I. Am. Fine." She said, annunciating every syllable. "Okay then, if you say so." Phew, that was a close call. "Hold on, I've got an idea." Uh-oh. "Yeah, seeming as I've come down from Canterlot, why don't we go and see some of my old friends?" "Yeah, sure, I'd love to meet your friends," Vinyl said, giving what she hoped was a realistic smile. "And who knows, maybe we'll have time for you to introduce me to some of your friends?" Horse apples. "Yeah, maybe," Vinyl said, knowing exactly what Platinum was going to say next. "Okay then, that's great. Get yourself ready and we can go." Platinum said. "You think I need to get ready?" Vinyl said laughing, giving a not too subtle nod towards Platinum's mane. "Good point. Mind if I use your shower?" he asked sheepishly. "Sure, go ahead," Vinyl told him. "I'll be five minutes," he said, going back into the bathroom and locking the door behind himself. Five minutes. Vinyl had five minutes to figure out what the hell to do. What if Platinum suggested going to see her friends whilst they were out? It would be weird if she said no? No, it'd be fine she just would mention Octavia to him, but what if she saw her in town? No, it'd be fine, Platinum wouldn't recognise her, yes that would be fine, she could go into town and just avoid Octavia. It was then that Vinyl remembered what she was doing before Platinum broke into her apartment. She walked through to the kitchen and pressed the play button on the answer machine, but she wasn't expecting what she heard come through the speaker. "Hi Vinyl, it's me. I was just calling to say that you've left your glasses round mine and I thought you might want them back for when you perform at Canterlot. You can come by and pick them up whenever, and I need to talk to you. Soon. See you." The voice she had heard was Octavia's. Vinyl had thought that Octavia would never have wanted to see her again. Perhaps it was just because she didn't want the memory of Vinyl staying alive, inside her cottage, via the glasses. Whatever the reason was, Vinyl knew she should go and see her friend, if the feeling was still mutual, but did she want to? Did she want to go round to the pony's house and risk upsetting Octavia and herself again? No, that wouldn't happen. Octavia had rung, she had said she needed to talk to her, but did Vinyl want to see Octavia? There were so many, "What if?" questions flying round her head that she couldn't think straight, what would she do? A little while later Platinum came out of the bathroom. He looked perfect, he was back to his normal self. "Shall we go then?" he asked. Vinyl gave a nod of her head. She had used the time to decide whether or not she would act on the message that she had just listened to. She had decided she would. She would go and see Octavia this afternoon with Platinum. Chapter 5AN: Sorry for lack of upload my beta-er was busy :3 EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 5 As Vinyl and Platinum walked across town they bumped into several other ponies who recognised Vinyl, even without her glasses on. Maybe it was just a god or fate that had allowed her to cross over town unnoticed three days prior. A few of the ponies stopped them and asked for photos or an autograph, and Vinyl, being a celebrity, happily obliged. Soon enough, the two arrived at Sugarcube Corner. Platinum told her that they were meeting a few ponies in there and that they were old friends. As Vinyl walked in she noticed that the room was pitch black, Platinum followed her in and whispered something into her ear, "Sorry, but you still can't convince me that you're fine when you're not." Before Vinyl could ask what was happening the lights flipped on with a massive, "SURPRISE!" which was shouted by what seemed like every pony in Ponyville. Vinyl couldn't help but laugh. Platinum. He always knew exactly what Vinyl needed. She looked over to the pony and gave him a questioning look. He knew exactly what she was going to ask as well. "When I went in to the bathroom I called Pinkie Pie and asked her to organise a party for you," he told her, grinning ear to ear. Vinyl barely had time to comprehend anything else before she was grabbed by the pink, poofy maned pony, "Platinum Disc called me up earlier and he said that you were feeling sad so I told him that I would put a party on for you, because everypony loves to party, because it makes everypony smile and I love making everypony smile because that's what I'm good at and that's how I got my cutie mark, do you want some punch?" Vinyl thought that Pinkie was never going to stop to take a breath, so she took the break in the speech as an opportunity for some peace. "Erm, yes please.", Vinyl said after a while. "Yippee! I'll go get you some." It was then Vinyl took her chance to escape the psychotic pony. She pushed through the crowded room toward the back where she was intercepted by a very excited Rainbow Dash. "Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh, Vinyl Scratch." The excited pegasus squeaked gleefully. "I take it you're a fan then?" Vinyl asked Rainbow, a smirk pasted on her face. "Duh, I'm like your number one fan, EVER!" Rainbow exclaimed. "Ohmygosh, I can't believe it's really you, where are your glasses?" "At a friend's house.", Vinyl said bluntly. This seemed to annoy the cyan pegasus. "How's Fluttershy?" she asked, a smirk appearing on her face. The colour on Rainbow's cheeks rapidly turned from cyan to a deep red. "Erm, I don't know what you mean, oh Fluttershy? Oh, yeah she's fine, I think, I mean I haven't seen her in ages," she tried to cover up her tracks, hoping that Vinyl didn't catch on. "That's not what Derpy said," Vinyl whispered into Rainbow's ear. "Can you do me a favour and wait out the back for me, I need to talk to you." The cyan pegasus nodded, eyes wide, and flew out the window almost performing a sonic rainboom simultaneously. Vinyl excused herself and went into the bathroom, locking the door behind her, she walked over to the window and opened it as far as it would go, she then climbed up onto the sill and hopped outside. She looked around to eventually find a extremely red Rainbow Dash. She walked up to her and noticed that she had streaks running down her face, she had been crying and it was Vinyl's fault, why did everything she touch turn to waste? "Rainbow?" She jumped like somepony had electrocuted her. "Oh, it's you." She said coolly, obviously trying to pretend that she hadn't been crying. "Rainbow, do you mind if we go to Fluttershy's house? It's just I need to ask you both about what Derpy said," Vinyl told her, hoping the pegasus wouldn't be too upset. "I take it you know where she lives?" Rainbow said, asking the half question. "Yeah, go and tell her I'll be on my way," Vinyl told her. Rainbow nodded and flew off. With that out of the way, she climbed back through the window and went back to the party. She unlocked the door to an inquisitive Pinkie Pie. "What took you so long?" she asked. Vinyl only had to think for a second before coming up with an excuse, "Oh, I just felt quite ill and I threw up. I think I'm gonna go home," she said to whoever was there to listen. "Oh, okay then," Pinkie said, her mane going a little bit flat, upset that Vinyl's party had been short lived, as she watched Vinyl walk out the door. Vinyl was barely ten feet away for Sugarcube Corner when she heard Platinum call to her, "Vinyl are you okay?" he asked, concern creeping into his voice. "Yeah, I'm fine I just need some rest." She said directly. "Vinyl, you didn't throw up did you?" he said, realising what was going on. "I might have, I might not have.", Vinyl spat at him. "Vinyl, why are you being like this? I just want to help," He said putting a hoof on her shoulder. As soon as she did she violently shook it off. "What is it with you?" She shouted. "I just want to be alone!" "Vinyl, you don't know what you want! You are ill," he shouted back. "And I don't mean just mentally, it's starting to affect you physically as well! I can see that you haven't eaten properly in days and you haven't slept either!" "I said leave me alone," she hissed. "So just buck off!" she finished, turning and running toward Fluttershy's house and the Everfree Forest. As she ran she felt tears stinging at her eyes. Everypony she knew hated her, she had no friends anymore, how could anypony want her? All of these questions and more circled around inside her head like a swarm of angry wasps, all she wanted to do was go to sleep and never wake up, but she couldn't here, anypony that saw her would spit on her as they passed by. By some divine providence or not, Vinyl managed to reach the path leading to Fluttershy's house before everything went black and she fell into a deep and unwell sleep. Chapter 6EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 6 An hour had passed since Rainbow Dash had arrived at Fluttershy's house, and she was starting to get bored of waiting, "Argh, when is she gonna get here?" she asked Fluttershy, without a pause in her passing from one side of the room to the other. "Maybe she got lost on the way." Fluttershy suggested in her timid voice. "No way." Rainbow said, turning down the suggestion instantly. "She blew us off.". "I'm sure she wouldn't have done it on purpose, maybe she forgot.". "Pff, doubt it, I'm tired of waiting I'm gonna go home." She told the pale yellow pegasus, "See ya 'Shy." She said flying off through the window. It was barely five seconds before Fluttershy saw Rainbow poke her head back in the window she went out off, grinning. "I found her." She said with a laugh, flying back out for Fluttershy to follow her. Fluttershy looked around and saw Rainbow at the bottom of her garden path, poking an unconscious Vinyl Scratch. "Hellloooooo?" Rainbow called into Vinyl's ear. "Anyone in?" she asked, with a poke to Vinyl's horn, which, in turn, caused Vinyl's head to loll to one side. "Oh my." Fluttershy squeaked. "We must get her inside before she catches a fever." Fluttershy told Rainbow, trying to pick up the white unicorn. "Argh, fine." Rainbow said, watching Fluttershy struggle for a bit before carrying the unicorn through the window. "Erm, Rainbow, Erm, you know I have a door, right?" Fluttershy asked, Rainbow just shrugged her shoulders and put Vinyl down onto the sofa. "So, what do we do now? You have an unconscious celebrity on your sofa." Rainbow said, as Fluttershy trotted over to Vinyl to see what was the matter with her. Forgetting any worries about what Rainbow had told her. She put her hoof to Vinyl's forehead, she pulled away almost immediately, rushing off to get some blankets for the icy cold unicorn. "Rainbow, we have to call a doctor right away, Vinyl is really ill." Fluttershy said returning with what looked like enough blankets to fill one of Applejack's barns. "No, we can't let anyone know she's here." Rainbow said urgently. "If we do tell anypony she's here she might tell them why she's here, and that reason is because we got caught having sex!" "Erm, Rainbow do you have to use that, erm, word?" Fluttershy asked blushing a brilliant crimson. "What word." Rainbow said, grinning manically, creeping towards Fluttershy. "Sex?" She said giving the yellow mare a love bite on her neck. "Eek, erm, yes that word." She said, turning even redder. "I don't like calling it th-mmph!" Her words were cut off by Rainbow's kiss. It felt like there were a billion fireworks going off inside of her mouth as the cyan mare's tongue investigated every inch of her jaws. Fluttershy kissed back not wanting to miss a second of this high. The two mares only stopped their passionate kiss and embrace when they heard a coughing from the sofa next to them. They broke away quickly expecting to see a sheepish looking Vinyl sitting on the sofa, instead they saw a youthful looking pony with a look of pain upon her scrunched up face, Fluttershy could tell that Vinyl was seriously ill, she flitted over to the unicorn ignoring the ruined moment between herself and her lover, her maternal instinct taking over. "There, there, you'll be alright, everything will be fine." She crooned to the poorly pony, stroking her mane. "Just leave her." Rainbow told Fluttershy. "She can get better on her own. But right now, I need you." She purred across the room to her lover, this didn't get a response. "Hellloooo? Earth to Fluttershy." She said, instantly changing her tone. "Hmm? Sorry, I was looking after Vinyl, did you say something?" Fluttershy asked sweetly. Rainbow looked at her with deadpan eyes. "If I ask you to do me right now you'll say no, won't you?" She asked in monotone voice. "Oh no, I would, erm, do you, it's just, Vinyl's here and if I didn't look after her it would be rude, so, no, I guess not right now." She finished, despite having contradicted herself several times. "You can go home and I'll look after Vinyl on my own if you want, I mean, I'm not saying you should go, but if you want to, I don't mind." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes, she couldn't just go home and leave Fluttershy on her own, especially not with a stranger in her house, what sort of element of loyalty would she be if she ditched her lover to go home? A not very loyal one. That's what. It would contradict her entire being if she were to go home now. "No, I'll stay here and look after Vinyl with you, exactly where I belong." She told Fluttershy giving her a peck on the cheek. "Thanks Rainbow, I love you." She said, returning the kiss. "I couldn't ask for more." The two ponies embraced and walked together to the other side of the room, where they sat in the armchair, Fluttershy curled up, head on Rainbow's lap and Rainbow sitting up arm around Fluttershy's shoulder. They sat like that for the rest of the evening, Fluttershy occasionally getting up to check on Vinyl to change her blankets or get her to drink some water, this routine went on well into the night. Rainbow had fallen asleep earlier than Fluttershy, bored at the lack of things going on but still content to be in Fluttershy's company. When Fluttershy was happy that Vinyl wasn't going to deteriorate during the night she crossed back over to the armchair, that the snoring Rainbow Dash was sitting in and sat down, she squeezed up as close as she could get to Rainbow without waking her and laid her head on Rainbow's lap. Unconsciously Rainbow moved her arm back onto Fluttershy's shoulders and pulled her into herself. Fluttershy decided that it was nice to be wanted. At that point in time she no longer cared what anypony thought of her and Rainbow. She was just happy to be with somepony who loved her as much as Fluttershy loved them. It was like this that Fluttershy fell into a calm and happy sleep. Chapter 7EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 7 Heat. Blistering, unrelenting, heat. That was all Vinyl could feel. As she hauled herself off the ground her hooves gave way, causing her to tumble down what seemed like a rather large hill. She attempted standing up again, this time succeeding. She shielded her eyes against the sun's offensive rays and opened them. This was definitely not Ponyville. She was standing in the middle of a Desert. A wasteland of dust and sand. She had to get her bearings to find out where she was. She looked around herself, she was standing in a valley in between two taller sand dunes. She couldn't see anything from the bottom, so she began to climb up one of them. As Vinyl neared the top a gust of wind caught up some sand blowing it into her unprotected eyes, the microscopic, abrasive rocks rubbing against the flesh of her eyeballs. "Argh." She croaked in pain, her throat all dry and seized up, due to the lack of water present. As she reached the top she looked around. Desert, desert and more desert. She spun around in a full circle. That was all that was there, nothing but sand. She strained her already sore eyes in an attempt to see further, and she could, but there was still nothing, not even a group of those middle-eastern traveller ponies, or a lone pegasus patrolling the sky. Vinyl sat down. Realisation kicking in. She was going to die. Alone. Without anyone to talk to, without anyone to share her suffering with. She felt the world spinning and everything started to go fuzzy, she gagged only aggravating her throat to a further extent, she collapsed to the floor, finding it hard to breath, and with that, she blacked out. The first rays of the next day crept through the window, falling onto Fluttershy's sleeping face. She gently got up, trying not to wake the also sleeping Rainbow Dash. She stood up, stretched and walked across the room to check on her patient, she placed on of her hooves on Vinyl's forehead, she was burning up, badly. Fluttershy took off the blankets and went into her kitchen to fetch some ice. When she got back Rainbow had moved from sitting up in the armchair to slumping across it in the same fashion as a pony sized sack of potatoes. Fluttershy smiled and went back to the task at hand. As Vinyl pulled herself up from the ground the first thing that she noticed was she was still, very much alive. Was this hell? Was this heaven? She had never believed in the afterlife, so it can't have been one of those. Was she hallucinating? So many questions where going through her mind, she could figure out answers later, but now she had to figure out where she was. It was cold, bitterly cold, wherever she was, it still wasn't Ponyville. She was knee deep in snow, in what looked like a mountain pass. "Hello?" She shouted, hoping for somepony to be close by. "HELLO?! IS ANYPONY THERE?!" She shouted at the top of her lungs. Her voice echoed around the pass and she realised calling for help was useless. She knew that she would have to find somewhere to shelter from the cold and snow, and quick. She started down the mountain path in a hope to escape the snow and get to a warmer area. After a few hours of walking down the mountain, Vinyl's body felt sapped. Her legs were cold and her skin had turned a worrying shade of light blue, her legs being the worst affected. She tried to call out for help again but only came up with a painful cough. She scrunched her face up from the pain. Damn that hurt. She tried to carry on walking but felt as if she had been frozen, heck, she probably was partially frozen from the snow. From deep inside of herself she summoned up the will power to keep moving, but her body had other ideas, as she raised her leg to keep going the other three of her legs gave out, folding underneath her, as she fell into the snow. She didn't care anymore. She was going to die. Alone. Without anyone to love, without anypony to hold for warmth. Not only could she feel cold on the outside of but body, she could also feel it within, her lungs icy caverns, her guts a frozen labyrinth, her heart an icicle, cold and hostile to anything that tried to touch it. She lay her head on her hooves and closed her eyes, trying to block out both the physical and emotional pain. She felt her heartbeat drop she heaved in one last breath and exhaled her final sigh. It was the sound of a cough that got Fluttershy's attention. A dry, raspy cough from her living room. It can't have been Rainbow, as she was helping Fluttershy with all the little jobs that needed doing in Fluttershy's garden and the surrounding area, it must have been Vinyl. Fluttershy put down the trowel that she was using for her plants and trotted inside, after washing her hooves she went through to the front room and checked Vinyl's temperature, she had returned to an acceptable heat and no longer needed the ice, Fluttershy removed the coolant from Vinyl's forehead and turned around to see a cyan pegasus right in front of her. "Aaaahhhhhhhhhh! Burgler! help!" Fluttershy wailed trying to get somepony's attention, flailing her hooves at the assailant. "Fluttershy it's me." Rainbow said with a look of annoyance on her face. "Oh, hi Rainbow." Fluttershy said with a guilty smile that broke the other pegasus' nerve. "Yeah, what are you doing?" Rainbow asked, any irritation gone from her system. "Oh, I was erm, looking after Vinyl. She's much better now. I think." Fluttershy said, her smile faltering slightly, Rainbow saw the look and knew she had to say something. "I'm sure she'll be fine with a great doctor like you." She said poking Fluttershy on the shoulder lightly. "Oh, thank you, it's just, I don't normally treat other ponies." She finished, casting a concerned look towards Vinyl. Another cough from Vinyl reminded Fluttershy what she was doing. "Excuse me, Rainbow, I need to get a drink for her." Fluttershy apologised, walking into the kitchen. Chapter 8AN: Before you all point it out to me, the quote is stolen from Inception, simply because i've been struggling with this chapter for about 2 weeks, any how the usual enjoy the errors etc, and what the hell, PLEASE REVIEW!!! ^.^ EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 8 Vinyl looked around herself. Where the buck was she now? She was on what seemed like a beach. This was an improvement on her previous locations, at least the temperatures weren't extreme here. I'm not gonna bother calling out this time, she thought to herself as she looked up and down the stretch of sand. Yet again, there was nothing to see for miles. She knew what was meant to happen next, she was supposed to walk around for a few hours, realise the hopelessness of the situation and "Die". "Screw it." Vinyl said lying down in the sand, "This is my dream. I think. So it'll do what I want it to." A few seconds later there was a parasol in the sand, shading her from the sun. "That's better, but it needs something else." A mound of sand rose up from the rest of the beach loosely resembling the form of a sun lounger. The form froze for a second and exploded into a plastic sun lounger. This was too cool. She looked at the glistening ocean and raised her hoof towards it, a geyser of water shot up about fifty foot into the air and then swirled around in the sky making interesting shapes and patterns, outlines of animals or notes and treble clefs. Vinyl let the water drop back down into the ocean and walked back toward the sun lounger, she lay down on it and looked up at the parasol. "Yeah, this isn't too bad." After vinyl had conjured up a few more creature comforts with her mind, she closed her eyes and took this opportunity for some relaxation from the stress of the previous week or so. The sun beat down throughout the rest of the day, Vinyl not caring much, sleeping or swimming to pass the time. As the sun touched the horizon Vinyl noticed a drop in temperature, she felt a shiver go down her spine as the cold crept into her body. "Time to make a house then." She said, looking at the plot of land that she wanted to turn into her residence for the night. She thought of her apartment back in Ponyville, yeah, that'd do. She locked her eyes onto the ground in front of her, trying to imagine her apartment there. But nothing happened. "C'mon, don't be like this now. It's getting colder." She told the patch of sand. It didn't say anything back. "C'mon." Vinyl urged, trying to summon up her house, "Why aren't you working? It's my mind." It was then that vinyl heard a voice from behind her. Vinyl spun around to see who it's owner was, but she saw nopony. Was she imagining things? She turned back to where her apartment should've been and tried to get it to form again. "Vinyl." The voice whispered, "Vinyl." "Who's there?" She yelled, spinning around. "It's me Vinyl. Don't you know who I am?" The voice enquired. "Wait, I know that voice." Vinyl said. "But it can't be you." "I don't know. Can it?" "Octavia?" "Let me tell you a riddle, Vinyl. You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don't know for sure. But it doesn't matter. How can it not matter to you where that train will take you?" The voice trailed off, getting quieter as it retreated over the ocean, toward the sun, leaving Vinyl alone once again. "What does that mean?" Vinyl shouted at the sun. "What does that mean?" Her voice echoed across the sea and all of a sudden she felt a pang of loneliness, but not because she was alone on the beach. It was different, she felt empty, more empty than when Green had left her. A lone tear rolled down her face. Why? Why? "WHY?!" Vinyl screamed in anger at the voice, her throat seizing up and her voice cracking. The scream bounced around the beach and ocean. She got no reply. She sat on the floor and sighed, what was the point of her existence? Why was she on this world? Vinyl looked out into the horizon, looking at the molten ball of flame peeking over the water, looking for answers to her questions. But instead of seeing the answers, she saw something coming towards her. A wave. But it was different from the others, it was big. Very big. It was fast too, and coming towards her, quick. She turned and ran not looking back, the sound of gushing water engulfing her mind and every being. She tripped as if she had been struck by something, she put her hoof to her face and pulled it away revealing blood from a broken nose. By the time she regained her feet the wave was on top of her. Vinyl stopped, turned and looked at the wave. It had slowed down to an almost relaxed speed, it was at a nearly walking pace now. It slowly pulled to a stop but still maintaining it's shape. She studied it, taking in it's being. Looking at how it arched over her, like a giant shell. It was magnificent. It wasn't the same blue as the ocean had been. It was light grey in colour and thousands of feet tall. Vinyl could see swirls of different colours as well mostly either a pale pink or electric blue. What happened next, Vinyl hadn't been prepared for. "VINYL!" The wave boomed, "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" Vinyl scraped her jaw off the sand and replied to the wave. "Erm, no?" She said asking the half question. "I AM YOUR REASON!" The wave told her. "My reason? My reason for what?" "THAT IS FOR YOU TO FIND OUT." "Great another riddle." "NOT A RIDDLE, BUT A DISCOVERY." The voice faded away to silence. "Hello? Mrs. Voice?" Vinyl asked timidly. "Did you figure out my riddle?" A softer voice asked. Vinyl spun away from the wave and saw the silhouette of the pony who had spoken. She had a long mane which was flowing freely and was wearing what looked like a bow-tie. Vinyl wanted to walk toward the mare but found herself frozen in place. "No. I didn't." She said quietly, awe inspired by the silhouette. "The answer is, because you'll be together." And with that, the wave buckled and collapsed on to both of them. Chapter 9A.N. FINALLY UPLOADED IT !!! :D OK SO JUST THE USUAL, SPOT ANY ERRORS TELL ME OR DEAL WITH IT :P AND ENJOY THE CHAPTER. EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 9 Darkness, sheer darkness. That was all that Vinyl could see. Was she finally dead? Had she entered some kind of limbo state? No, she can't have, she twitched her muscles one by one starting from her back legs and working her way up. As she did this she noticed that everything seemed to be heightened. Smells, some sort of a pie. Sight, the darkness wasn't so dark, as if there were a light behind it. Sound, birdsong from the trees outside. Wait, birdsong? There were never any ambient noises in her dreams, which meant one thing. She wasn't dreaming. Vinyl sat bolt upright, a sheen of sweat covering her face, she opened her eyes wide as to get an idea of where she might be now, she instantly regretted the actions as she saw dots before her eyes and felt like having to vomit. She steadied herself and tried looking around again, this time managing not to have a head rush. She was sitting upon a sofa that had been made into a bed for her, the quilts were a soft yellow colour with pink stitching, she looked around the rest of the room, it was decorated in an old fashioned sort of way, except there were different nests of creatures scattered around the room. She pushed the quilt off of her, swung her legs of the sofa and fell onto the floor in a heap. "Ow" Vinyl said into the floor bluntly, the shag-pile rug tickling her nose. She suddenly became aware of a set of cyan hooves standing in front of her face, quietly snickering to themselves. Vinyl heaved herself up to eye level with the owner of the legs and saw that said owner was Rainbow Dash. "Smooth move." Rainbow said, still amused at the bedraggled Vinyl. "Yeah, whatever, where am I?" Vinyl said, her face hiding the sheer joy of seeing another pony in the flesh for the first time in what seemed like months. "Fluttershy's cottage, duh, where else would you be?" Rainbow said. About 141 different answers came into Vinyl's head before she spoke. "Dunno, why am I here?" "Are you kidding me? You don't know why you're here?" Rainbow asked, her brow furrowing. Vinyl tried to rack her brains to think why she was there, but nothing came to mind. "No." Vinyl replied. "Seriously? You can't remember why you're here?" "No, I have no idea. Do you know?" Vinyl questioned. "Well why don't you try and remember?" "Because I can't, that's why I asked." "Well you better hurry up and remember because you're not leaving until you tell me why you came." "So you're keeping me captive? Give me one good reason why not to beat the hell out of you and leave." "Hey, watch who you're talking to!" Rainbow said, flying up slightly off the ground. "I know exactly who I'm talking to, somepony who's looking for a fight." Vinyl retorted, pushing the hovering pegasus across the room. "Hey! Do you wanna fight?!" "I wouldn't waste my time if I were you, I'd only beat you." Vinyl shouted. "No one beats Rainbow Dash." She said, a red mist descending across her vision. And with that Rainbow Dash attacked. She flew straight toward Vinyl, drawing back her hoof mid-air, before Vinyl could react she realised she was lying on her back, She put her hoof to her nose and pulled it back away, blood staining the pristine white fur. "Ohmygosh, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to hit you that ha.." Rainbow was cut off by a right hook that a boxing champ that would be proud of, a tooth flying out of her mouth. Working the clubs and walking home late at night obviously did have some perks, Vinyl thought. Before either of the ponies could hurt the other anymore they wore froze in place by a blood-curdling scream. They both twisted round to see a wide eyed Fluttershy standing in the doorway, to Vinyl and Rainbow who knew exactly what had happened there wasn't anything wrong, but to the timid Fluttershy it looked like some deranged murderer had invaded her cottage and attacked Vinyl and her Rainbow. She stood there for what seemed like an eternity when finally the silence was broken by Rainbow Dash. "We're both ok..."She said, hoping to reassure the yellow pegasus. Vinyl quickly nodded her agreement, not knowing what to do but feeling like a school filly who had just been caught doing something dreadful. "But, but, but. Your faces are covered in, blood." Fluttershy said, her face draining of what colour remained at the word. "Yeah we're fine." Vinyl said, a little bit of blood that had trickled across her lips spraying onto the carpet. "We just had a little misunderstanding." "Yeah, jutht a mithunderthtanding." Rainbow said, revealing her brand new present that Vinyl had given her, a lisp. "Rainbow you have a lisp." Fluttershy said, still looking horrified at what had happened. "Yeah sorry 'bout that Rainbow, heat of the moment sort of thing." Vinyl said, picking up the tooth that had flown from Rainbow's mouth and passing it back to her. "You'll be able to get it put back in if go to Colgate's quickly, it came out with the root. "Thankth, but I'm not leaving you alone with Flutterthy." Rainbow said. "Rainbow go to the dentist, for me, please?" Fluttershy said, the statement coming out like a question. "But, but what if thhe trieth to attack you?" Rainbow said trying to find a reason to stay. "We'll be fine Rainbow." Fluttershy said, reassuring her. "Ok then." Rainbow said, turning to Vinyl "But if you try anything I will perthonally enthure that your body will never be found..." Rainbow told her, an evil grimace covering her face. "O...k?" Vinyl said, getting kind of put off by the grimace. Rainbow turned back to Fluttershy and gave her a kiss on the cheek and left, making sure to give Vinyl the evils as she walked past the window. "So, erm, what exactly happened?" Fluttershy asked. "It's a long story." Vinyl said, flopping back onto the floor. A note for the faithful few...I humbly apologise for not uploading since whenever, the reason, I COULDN'T BE F'D XD, but apart from that I had a lot of college stuff and stuff to do :P, But the main reason for this is just for this... Prepare yourselves, Chapter 10 is coming... p.s. It'll probably be terrible because I want to get it out of the way, BUT, I will try. LOVE TO YOU ALL -Deathstrider CHAPTER 10PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MINDS BLOWN BY THE TERRIBLE WORK OF ART THAT IS THIS CHAPTER! But seriously now, feel free to call it shit, it's been a total ball ache trying to get myself to finish this bit but the journey is close to over. AND YOU KEPT ME GOING! YEAH YOU, READING THIS RIGHT NOW! GOOD JOB YOU! But yeah, Enjoy! After a long and involved discussion about how Vinyl though that she should be a character from a certain fighting game Fluttershy decided it was time to get back onto the topic of why Vinyl had asked for their audience. "So, erm, why did you ask to see me and Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy enquired. Vinyl racked her brain as she tried to remember what had happened before she fell unconscious; Why was it so hard to remember? What could it have been? "I'm sorry but I can't remember." Vinyl said, a downcast look on her face. "It's just all black from after I woke up." "Oh, erm, that doesn't sound good, maybe being unconscious for so long made you, er, ill." Fluttershy finished quietly. "What, no, I feel fine." Vinyl replied. "It's just that it's all fuzzy, as if I'm underwater." "Well maybe if you remember what led up to you wanting to meet us we could figure it out together." Fluttershy finished, a very genuine smile upon her face; A smile that convinced Vinyl that Fluttershy only wanted to help her. "It's worth a shot, but where do I start?" "How about when you got back from Canterlot?" "Ok, I'll try." Vinyl closed her eyes and focused herself on what had happened prior to her arriving and Fluttershy's cottage, and like a dam that had been burst it all rushed back to her, loosing Green Star, drinking herself into a hole, being dragged out by her manager, and visiting her old friend, Octavia. It was then that Vinyl's mind shut down, what had she done? To the pony that had saved her from herself all those years ago. "I've remembered." Vinyl said, her eyes darting wide. "What was it? If you don't mind telling me." "Well it's kind of awkward to talk about." Vinyl said looking down to her hooves. "It's alright, if you don't want to ask me it can't be that important, no offense." Fluttershy said blushing. "No, it is important. I need to ask you." Vinyl said, her courage building up. "It's okay, if it's something personal I can keep it a secret." She said, taking a sip from her drink. Vinyl drew a big breath and centred herself. "I need relationship advice." Vinyl cried. This was so unexpected that Fluttershy nearly spat her drink across the room and almost choked on the beverage. "You need what?" She coughed, "Relationship advice?" "I knew you'd be like this about it." Vinyl said, through gritted teeth. "I'm leaving." She stood up and turned for the door. "No, wait, I'm sorry I offended you, I didn’t mean to sound so, doubtful." Fluttershy said. "But if you want to leave, I won't stop you." Vinyl stopped and sighed, she had finally made it to Fluttershy's and she was just going to walk out because of an idle comment? No, that wasn't how she worked. She turned back around, walked back over the seat and sat down. "Okay, I'll stay, but I need to ask some questions." "That's fine, we've all been in your situation." Fluttershy said, another very genuine smile entrancing Vinyl. "So what do you need to ask?" "I need to ask you about how... about how..." "Go on." "About how you and Rainbow Dash found out that you loved one another." "Me and Rainbow? Well I had a crush on her ever since the race where she got her cutie mark, maybe even before that." "Yes but how did you know?" Vinyl enquired, "Like, what did you feel inside?" "Oh, well it's like a sort of fuzzy feeling inside of you, like there's a sort of blanket wrapped around your insides." Fluttershy said, smiling. "Oh, Kay?" Vinyl said a look on her face, half confused and half sceptical. "Trust me you'll know if you feel it." The two sat there for a while, Fluttershy sipping at her tea and Vinyl in thought, did she have this "fuzzy" feeling inside of her? Did she actually like Octavia like that? After all this time? "Fluttershy, can I ask you something else?" Vinyl enquired. "Of course." Fluttershy replied. "Just before you got together, how did you sort of, well, how did you start your relationship?" "In what way do you mean?" "Like, Who asked who? Where was it? How did who ask who?" "Oh, right. Well You see once the race was finished and I went back up to Cloudsdale I went to see Rainbow to see whether she won the race or not, once I got outside her house I saw through the window that her and her father were celebrating something and I thought it would have been rude to intrude, so I turned around and start to head home back to my home when I heard Rainbow call me from the door of her house." "What did she say?" Vinyl asked. "Well, something along the lines of, "Fluttershy, what are you doing out here?"." "So I told her that I was coming to see if she had won the race or not, at which point she told me, "Yeah of course I won, but I have even better news, come in and I'll tell you all about it."." "So I did and she told me she got her cutie mark, and I told her and her father that I had got mine, we were all so excited so we celebrated well into the night. " "When we realised what time it was Rainbow's father said that he didn't want me walk home on my own that late and that I could stay over with Rainbow, he said he would go out quickly and tell my parents, so he did. " "Me and Rainbow were pretty tired now so we went upstairs to her bedroom to get some sleep, so she hopped up onto her bed and lay down." ""Umm, Rainbow? Where shall I sleep" I asked." "Oh, sorry Fluttershy, erm, I got get some extra sheets or something for you, or, I guess you could sleep up here with me, if you want." "So I got up onto the bed next to her and lay down facing her, we looked into each other's eyes and then we, well, we, erm, kissed." "I see" Vinyl said, starting to understand. "Her body was so warm and nice to snuggle against and when we kissed it was so nice and then after the kissing, ohohoho, after the kissing." Fluttershy purred half closing her eyes. "NONONONONO, TOO MUCH INFO THANKYOU VERY MUCH!" Vinyl shouted, putting her hooves over her ears. "Oh, sorry. But that's how it went and we've been together since." Fluttershy squealed, turning the same shade of red as your common tomato. "It's fine." Vinyl said, taking down her hooves, "I think I get it now. Thank you Fluttershy." Vinyl stood up, stretched, and looked at Fluttershy. "Where are you going, you should rest some more." "Nope. I've got something to do." Vinyl said, walking towards the door. "What?" "Fix something that I broke long ago." She said, and with that she set off to Ponyville. OMG, I REMEMBER THIS ONE, IT GOT AN UPDATE?!?!?!Sorry, but no, it hasn't. BUT Dear Reader CHAPTER 11 IS INCOMING I mean, yeah I took the best part of a year to be bothered to do it but yay me for ~~finishing~~ carrying on with it To catch you up on what happened whilst I was away, I got an apprenticeship, (I'm a proper electrician now XD), got sucked into the World of Warcraft World, and drifted away from MLP, BUUUUUUUUUUUUT, I came back, just for you, dear reader. So if you don't like the ending i'm having trouble finding, tough s*** So buckle up, it's about to get bumpy... A short thankyouSorry for trolling you all like this but I need to say something. THANKYOU SOOOOO MUCH. 1000 views ^.^ i can't believe it's been that popular, i'd like to thank all the commenters and people who faved it ^.^ couldn't of done this with out you people! RE the next chapter: I've planned out what i think might happen, but who knows, if you want the plot to go somewhere post a comment and say what you want, you never know i might include it. also a sneak peak into the future, the story is coming to a close :O unless i get aa lot of ideas to string it out *nudge nudge* Thanks for the support! -Deathstrider
Chapter 1EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 1 As Vinyl walked backstage from her recently performed gig she gave a sigh of sadness. She was normally happy after finishing a show, for there was nothing she liked better than to relax and put her hooves up with a cup of coffee. Even though she didn't play any instruments in particular, she still had to stand up for four hours on end making sure the crowds got what they wanted and paid for. But anyway, she felt a pang of remorse as she walked over to the long, dark blue sofa. She had recently split up with her long time partner, Green Star, following a dispute that they had had. he was complaining about Vinyl's working hours and the amount of time she spent out partying after gigs, accusing her of seeing another stallion behind his back. Vinyl had loved Green Star more than anything else, in fact he was the reason that Vinyl made music. He was her inspiration. Was. But now that he was gone she had no reason to create music. She sat on the sofa backstage, cradling a stronger drink than her usual choice. After finishing her third whiskey her lifelong friend and manager Platinum Disc came over to her and plonked himself down next to Vinyl. "Something the matter, Vinyl?" Platinum asked. "Can you tell?" Vinyl replied sarcastically, her words slurring slightly. "Vinyl I'm worried for you." Platinum said, frowning. "I think you need to go back to Ponyville and get some rest." "Na-ah!" Vinyl said, "I've finally made it to the big leagues, I'm performing in Canterlot in three days!" "Yes, I know." Platinum replied bluntly. "I arranged it for you." "Oh, yeah." "Listen, Vinyl, all this depression isn't good for you, and don't try and tell me you're not depressed, that was your worst performance you've given this whole tour." "No it wasn't, the crowd loved it." She replied, refusing to make eye contact with Platinum. "No, Vinyl. They enjoyed what they paid to see." He snapped, causing Vinyl to jump, never in the whole 14 years she had known Platinum had he shouted at her. The next thing she knew, she was crying, she felt a comforting arm being draped across her shoulders, she couldn't even find the energy or nerve to shrug it off. "You're right, Platinum. I'm useless.", she sobbed into his shoulder. "Shh, You're not useless.", he comforted her whilst stroking her mane. "You just need to get some rest and get over the break-up." "How did you.." Vinyl began but Platinum cut her off. "Vinyl, seriously, I've been your friend for 14 years, I know when you're upset about something and nine times out of ten I know what that something is.", he laughed, wiping away a stray tear from Vinyl's face. "Now please, for me, go home and get some rest." "What about the tour?" Vinyl asked. "It's fine. I'll sort it all out.", he said. "Now go to your room, get some rest and head home." "Ok Platinum. Thanks." She said, embracing her friend before walking to her temporary room. Vinyl shut the door and locked it behind her. She turned and faced the room. It was a small, uninspirational apartment. It was the polar opposite of the larger apartment she owned near Carousel Boutique in Ponyville. If she had to describe this apartment in one word she wouldn't have had to think twice. Beige. That's the word she would use. Beige. It was both a metaphorical and physical description of the room as all the furnishings were, yep you guessed it, beige. She walked through to the bedroom not bothering to shower or brush her teeth, she just wanted to collapse, and that is exactly what she did. As soon as her head hit the pillow she fell into a deep, uninterrupted sleep. I guess depression really takes it out of you. The next morning Vinyl woke up late. She felt sore all over, due to the fact that she hadn't bothered with her usual routine of stretching out all her muscles before sleeping. As she walked into the bathroom of the beige apartment, looking in the mirror, she discovered she hadn't even taken off her trademark glasses before falling asleep. She took them off to reveal that her crimson irises were being perfectly complimented by the light pink of her bloodshot eyes. "Horse apples.", she cursed. This is what she got for being dumped, aches, pains and bloodshot eyes. Part of her hoped that Green Star was worse off than her, but Vinyl had shut that part of her off, along with any desires or fantasies involving future relationships. As she got ready for the trip back to Ponyville she decided to think about what to do when she got there. She could always just sleep in bed the entire time, but that would be dull and Vinyl was a mare of energy. Perhaps she could visit all of her friends, well, maybe not all of her friends. Vinyl hadn't realised this but at some point during her daydreaming she had decided that she was ready to go and found herself walking toward the train station with suitcase in tow, or at least, in hover. She went into the ticket booth and got a ticket back to Ponyville. Thankfully the train arrived quite quickly, she hated waiting, she had hated it as a foal and she still hated it with a vengeance. The train journey was fairly uneventful with only a couple of ponies asking for her autograph, one of them being the ticket collector. When she stepped off the train into Ponyville she took a few lungfuls of air. Home. There was no place like home. As she walked through town to her apartment she was greeted by almost everypony she saw, but it wasn't in the screaming fan, let me lick your face, kind of way, it was a laid back nod of the head or a "Nice to see you, Vinyl.". Platinum had been right. Rest was what she needed, and rest was what she intended to get.
Chapter 2EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 2 When Vinyl woke up in the morning her apartment seemed empty. As she walked across the hallway into the bathroom she could have sworn she heard her hoofsteps echoing around the apartment. She knew they weren't but the place felt empty without Green Star, just like her heart. Vinyl took a few minutes to get ready and then left for town. She hadn't bothered having breakfast. At some point, she knew that was going come back and bite her. As she walked through the town she noticed how late she had woken up; the sun was already at least half way through its arc above Ponyville. Whilst she walked around town, collecting her supplies for her stay, she saw somepony she wasn't expecting to see: her old friend, Octavia. Vinyl walked over to her, taking her in through her glasses as she approached. She was a light grey earth pony with an almost black mane, she wore a pink bow tie around her neck, her cutie mark was a treble cleft marking her out as a musician, but Vinyl didn't have to look at Octavia's cutie mark to know that she was a musician. The two had been friends since school and had been in the same music class despite having slightly different tastes in music genres. While Vinyl had been more into making electronic music on her decks, Octavia had been classically trained on the cello since she was a filly, but despite this the two had still been best friends. Octavia looked up as she noticed Vinyl walking towards her, "Vinyl? Is that you?" Octavia asked, knowing full well that it was. "The one and only," Vinyl replied. "How have you been?" "Never better, how are you? How's Green?" Octavia asked. "Erm, fine I guess." Vinyl said, looking down at the ground. "Vinyl, what's the matter darling?" She asked with a curious note in her voice. "I'd rather not talk about it in public." "Ah, yes, are you busy? Let's go back to mine and you can tell me what's happened." Octavia told her, rubbing her cheek comfortingly with a smile. "Okay Octavia, I'd only go straight back to bed if I went home." Vinyl said with a guilty laugh. "Alright, let's go." Octavia said. They talked about Vinyl's tour on the way to Octavia's house. There wasn't much to say, which was unfortunate because it was quite a long walk to Octavia's as she lived on the edge of town. When they arrived Vinyl stopped and took in her friend's cottage. It was an old fashioned thatched cottage with a small crumbling wall surrounding a small, traditional rose garden. The walls of the house were once white but had now faded to a light grey colour, almost the same colour of Octavia's coat. The single glazed windows with pristine white, lace curtains hanging behind them. "Are you alright Vinyl?" Octavia asked, noticing that her old friend had stopped. "Yeah, I'm fine I was just trying to remember the last time I came here." Vinyl said, slightly tilting her head to one side. "Well you'll be thinking for a long time then," she said with a laugh. "Last time you came here you were drunk." "Oh, sorry." Vinyl said, blushing, looking at the floor. "It's alright. It was either my place or the gutter I found you in." "Erm, Thanks." "Anyway, let's get inside, I'm freezing.", Octavia said, opening the door. When Vinyl stepped inside, she noticed that the inside was just as she had expected it to look. Photos of Octavia and her parents hung on the wall in the hallway Vinyl had entered. As she walked through to the front room she took in her surroundings. There were two canvas sofas for two ponies against each wall which were a light pink colour with white pinstripes on them. Above the sofas were more pictures showing Octavia as a foal and other key moments in her life, birthdays and such. "Would you like a drink Vinyl?" Octavia called from the kitchen. "No, thanks.", Vinyl replied, whilst looking at the photos. It was then that she spotted a photo that she had in her apartment. It was a photo of Octavia and herself outside of college wearing their graduation uniforms. This brought a smile to her face; on the day that they had graduated Vinyl had gone out into town to party whereas Octavia had gone to the spa to relax, it was that evening that Octavia had found Vinyl face down in the gutter. Vinyl hadn't heard Octavia walk into the room behind her. "So, what's the matter." Octavia asked, making Vinyl jump. "Oh it's just, me and Green recently split up." Vinyl said, sadness creeping back into her voice. "Oh no, Vinyl. What happened?" Octavia asked a sincere note of pain in her voice. Without knowing it Vinyl had started crying. She felt the first of many more tears roll down her cheek as she explained what had happened between her and Green Star to Octavia. A little while later, Vinyl had finished telling Octavia about her recent woes, "Vinyl that's absolutely dreadful, he never deserved to have somepony like you.", Octavia told her, staring into Vinyl's eyes. The two ponies shared a moment of silence, looking into one another's eyes, well, Vinyl looking into Octavia's and Octavia looking into Vinyl's glasses. They sat next to one another, their faces only inches apart. The temperature of the room had seemed to increase significantly and each of them could only see the other. Octavia reached up to Vinyl's face and slipped off her glasses. It was the first time in four years that Octavia had seen Vinyl's eyes. "I always adored your eye colour.", she said. The last time Octavia had seen them was the night before graduation. They had had a sleepover and things had gotten a little out of hand, but Octavia hadn't minded, in fact she had kind of enjoyed it, but she had no idea whether or not Vinyl had. She came back to the present to discover her lips were mere centimetres from Vinyl's.
Chapter 3EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 3 They leant into the kiss, unable to break eye contact with one another. This was right, wasn't it? Before they could find out, they were interrupted by a knocking at the door. They both pulled back quickly from the kiss that would've been, blushing intensely. "I should go and answer that," Octavia said. "Yeah, I'm gonna go to the toilet," Vinyl quickly said, speed walking off towards the bathroom. When she got there she quickly shut and locked the door behind herself. "What the hell just happened?" she asked herself. She and Octavia were only friends, weren't they? Vinyl wasn't like this anymore. No she hadn't thought about a mare like that since college. I mean, to be with a mare would be an easier love life. NO! She couldn't go out with a mare, it would ruin her career, I mean, who would buy music from a filly fooler? No one. That's who. She couldn't get into a relationship with Octavia. After having a moment to think, Vinyl unlocked the bathroom door and went through to the front room. On the way there she had a look to see who it was at the door. It was the mail pony, Derpy. "...And so there I was outside Rainbow Dash's house and I heard this sort of moaning sound and I wondered what it was so I flew up to her window to have a look and..." "That's quite enough, Derpy," Octavia said with a frustrated tone. "...And I looked through her window and guess what I saw?" Derpy left a miniscule gap between her speech, not enough time for Octavia to object. "I saw her lying on her bed, and she was all sweaty, and flushed, and..." "DERPY! THAT IS ENOUGH!" Octavia shouted. This didn't discourage the mail pony. "...I saw her with Fluttershy and Fluttershy was all over her so I flew through the wall, because I can because I'm a pegasus, and I asked Fluttershy what she was doing and she jumped like she had just been caught doing something, and then I asked her what she was doing and..." "DER..." "....she said that Rainbow was poorly and I had to go away." Derpy finished with a huge grin on her face, pleased that she had shared this story with another pony. "Derpy," Octavia began. "I think you should keep that a secret." She finished calmly. "But why?" Derpy inquired. "Because..." Octavia began, trying to think of something to satisfy the cross-eyed pony. Octavia had never been good at lying Vinyl thought, with a small chuckle. She continued from Octavia. "Because if the Wonderbolts find out she's poorly she might never, EVER, get in so you need to keep it a secret," Vinyl finished, with the greatest poker face ever seen to pony kind. This seemed to be a good enough reason for the mail pony. "Oh, okay then, your secret is safe with me," she said, smiling ear to ear as she flew off. "Unlike our post," Vinyl whispered to Octavia, the two laughed as they went back into the front room. "Now, where were we?" Octavia purred, drawing the curtains across the window. "Octavia, I..." Vinyl began, but Octavia pushed her down onto the sofa. "Ah yes, I remember." The grey pony said, leaning into the unicorn. Octavia started nuzzling Vinyl's neck. It did feel quite nice to be wanted. NO. "Octavia, stop." "What is it, Vinyl?" Octavia asked drawing back from Vinyl's neck, the corners of her mouth turning down. "It's just, I'm not like that anymore." "Like what?" "Into mares," Vinyl said looking down, hoping not to offend her friend. "I know, I was just trying to cheer you up," Octavia said, her voice a tiny bit wobbly. "Well, I'm sorry but it's not helping," Vinyl spat. This earned her a slap. "You know, I thought we might still have something. I thought we might be able to relight our relationship. I waited for you for four years, for four years I waited," Octavia whispered, her voice threatening to crack. "I thought that you would come back to Ponyville, that you would come back for me." She was now openly crying. "But you didn't, you went to Canterlot and got famous, you got a coltfriend and that broke my heart." "Octavia.." Vinyl began, tears brimming in her eyes. "NO!" Octavia almost shouted. "You've broken my heart once, and I won't let you do it again," she wailed. Vinyl was now crying. "Octavia, I never even knew..." "Get out," she hissed. "Octavia, I never knew you liked me like that," Vinyl said, tears rolling down her face. "GET OUT! I NEVER WANT TO SEE YOU AGAIN!" She shrieked. Vinyl did as she was told. She got up and walked to the door. She turned with an, "I'm sorry." and left. It was a good thing that Octavia lived on the edge of town; it meant that there was nopony to see the tears streaming down her cheeks, but to get home she had to walk through town. It was still pretty early and would be thriving. Not just that, but there was no other way to get home without going into to town. "Horse apples," she cursed. She'd left her glasses in Octavia's house, well, there was no chance of getting those back, she thought to herself. Perhaps it was a good thing, the reason most ponies recognised her was because of her trademark glasses, perhaps she would be able to walk through town after all. She wiped away the tears from her face and eyes and set off towards home. Thankfully, on her way no pony seemed to recognise her, or if they did they didn't show it. She eventually got home and walked through to her bedroom. She still felt empty, but a different sort, she felt more like she had been drained. She lay on her bed, not bothering with stretching out again, and looked up at the ceiling. She was going to have a long night.
Chapter 4EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 4 Three days had passed since the incident at Octavia's house. She was supposed to be performing at Canterlot today. Vinyl hadn't even left her apartment, she couldn't even face the outside world, for fear of breaking somepony else's heart or ruining her life just that little bit more. She was going to have leave at some point. She was running out of food and she couldn't just buy takeaways, they made her feel like she'd been bucked in the stomach. As Vinyl walked back into the kitchen, to get another bowl of cereal, she took a glance down at her phone, it said there were twelve missed calls and four messages. She pressed the play button on the answer machine and went about getting another bowl of cereal. "Hi, it's Platinum here. I was just calling to make sure that you'd gotten home safely, but I guess you're out at the moment, so ring me back when you get this message. See ya." "Hi, Platinum again. Can you ring me, Vinyl? you can get me on my cell or in my office. Bye." "Vinyl, it's me. I haven't heard anything from you since you left for Ponyville. I'm on my way down later today." It was then that Vinyl heard a knock on her door. She quickly tapped the pause button on the answer machine. "Vinyl? Are you in? Hello?" Vinyl didn't leave the kitchen. She knew who it was and she just wanted to be alone. "Vinyl?!" She heard a vague "horse apples" from the other side of the door. "Vinyl, everything's alright. I'll be in, in a second. Don't panic." She heard hoofsteps running from the door, what was Platinum thinking? No, wait, she knew what he was thinking. He thought that she'd killed herself, how dare he think she'd be so stupid? Well, looked like she had no choice of letting him in or not now, she sat down on her sofa and waited for the inevitable. But Platinum didn't come in through the door like she was expecting, she heard the bathroom window opening followed by the thud of a fully grown stallion dropping onto the floor. "Vinyl?! Vinyl? Where are you?" She thought she should probably answer, "In here," she said, her voice monotone. Before she even thought it possible, she felt herself in a strong embrace from her best friend, she felt hot tears pouring onto her shoulder and down her back. "Oh Vinyl, you're okay." The stallion cried. "I thought you'd done something dreadful." He finally pulled back from the hug. She could see now how worried her friend had been. His mane was scruffy and knotted when it was usually shiny and neat, his eyes were bloodshot and he looked like he hadn't slept in weeks. "I was so worried when you didn't answer my calls," he said. "I thought that you might have..." Platinum paused and squeezed his eyes shut not wanting to imagine an alternative. "Platinum, I'm fine, you didn't have to worry yourself," Vinyl said, lying through her teeth, hoping Platinum wouldn't notice. "So you promise everything is okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "Are you sure? Are you positive you're okay?" "Platinum. I. Am. Fine." She said, annunciating every syllable. "Okay then, if you say so." Phew, that was a close call. "Hold on, I've got an idea." Uh-oh. "Yeah, seeming as I've come down from Canterlot, why don't we go and see some of my old friends?" "Yeah, sure, I'd love to meet your friends," Vinyl said, giving what she hoped was a realistic smile. "And who knows, maybe we'll have time for you to introduce me to some of your friends?" Horse apples. "Yeah, maybe," Vinyl said, knowing exactly what Platinum was going to say next. "Okay then, that's great. Get yourself ready and we can go." Platinum said. "You think I need to get ready?" Vinyl said laughing, giving a not too subtle nod towards Platinum's mane. "Good point. Mind if I use your shower?" he asked sheepishly. "Sure, go ahead," Vinyl told him. "I'll be five minutes," he said, going back into the bathroom and locking the door behind himself. Five minutes. Vinyl had five minutes to figure out what the hell to do. What if Platinum suggested going to see her friends whilst they were out? It would be weird if she said no? No, it'd be fine she just would mention Octavia to him, but what if she saw her in town? No, it'd be fine, Platinum wouldn't recognise her, yes that would be fine, she could go into town and just avoid Octavia. It was then that Vinyl remembered what she was doing before Platinum broke into her apartment. She walked through to the kitchen and pressed the play button on the answer machine, but she wasn't expecting what she heard come through the speaker. "Hi Vinyl, it's me. I was just calling to say that you've left your glasses round mine and I thought you might want them back for when you perform at Canterlot. You can come by and pick them up whenever, and I need to talk to you. Soon. See you." The voice she had heard was Octavia's. Vinyl had thought that Octavia would never have wanted to see her again. Perhaps it was just because she didn't want the memory of Vinyl staying alive, inside her cottage, via the glasses. Whatever the reason was, Vinyl knew she should go and see her friend, if the feeling was still mutual, but did she want to? Did she want to go round to the pony's house and risk upsetting Octavia and herself again? No, that wouldn't happen. Octavia had rung, she had said she needed to talk to her, but did Vinyl want to see Octavia? There were so many, "What if?" questions flying round her head that she couldn't think straight, what would she do? A little while later Platinum came out of the bathroom. He looked perfect, he was back to his normal self. "Shall we go then?" he asked. Vinyl gave a nod of her head. She had used the time to decide whether or not she would act on the message that she had just listened to. She had decided she would. She would go and see Octavia this afternoon with Platinum.
Chapter 5AN: Sorry for lack of upload my beta-er was busy :3 EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 5 As Vinyl and Platinum walked across town they bumped into several other ponies who recognised Vinyl, even without her glasses on. Maybe it was just a god or fate that had allowed her to cross over town unnoticed three days prior. A few of the ponies stopped them and asked for photos or an autograph, and Vinyl, being a celebrity, happily obliged. Soon enough, the two arrived at Sugarcube Corner. Platinum told her that they were meeting a few ponies in there and that they were old friends. As Vinyl walked in she noticed that the room was pitch black, Platinum followed her in and whispered something into her ear, "Sorry, but you still can't convince me that you're fine when you're not." Before Vinyl could ask what was happening the lights flipped on with a massive, "SURPRISE!" which was shouted by what seemed like every pony in Ponyville. Vinyl couldn't help but laugh. Platinum. He always knew exactly what Vinyl needed. She looked over to the pony and gave him a questioning look. He knew exactly what she was going to ask as well. "When I went in to the bathroom I called Pinkie Pie and asked her to organise a party for you," he told her, grinning ear to ear. Vinyl barely had time to comprehend anything else before she was grabbed by the pink, poofy maned pony, "Platinum Disc called me up earlier and he said that you were feeling sad so I told him that I would put a party on for you, because everypony loves to party, because it makes everypony smile and I love making everypony smile because that's what I'm good at and that's how I got my cutie mark, do you want some punch?" Vinyl thought that Pinkie was never going to stop to take a breath, so she took the break in the speech as an opportunity for some peace. "Erm, yes please.", Vinyl said after a while. "Yippee! I'll go get you some." It was then Vinyl took her chance to escape the psychotic pony. She pushed through the crowded room toward the back where she was intercepted by a very excited Rainbow Dash. "Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh, Vinyl Scratch." The excited pegasus squeaked gleefully. "I take it you're a fan then?" Vinyl asked Rainbow, a smirk pasted on her face. "Duh, I'm like your number one fan, EVER!" Rainbow exclaimed. "Ohmygosh, I can't believe it's really you, where are your glasses?" "At a friend's house.", Vinyl said bluntly. This seemed to annoy the cyan pegasus. "How's Fluttershy?" she asked, a smirk appearing on her face. The colour on Rainbow's cheeks rapidly turned from cyan to a deep red. "Erm, I don't know what you mean, oh Fluttershy? Oh, yeah she's fine, I think, I mean I haven't seen her in ages," she tried to cover up her tracks, hoping that Vinyl didn't catch on. "That's not what Derpy said," Vinyl whispered into Rainbow's ear. "Can you do me a favour and wait out the back for me, I need to talk to you." The cyan pegasus nodded, eyes wide, and flew out the window almost performing a sonic rainboom simultaneously. Vinyl excused herself and went into the bathroom, locking the door behind her, she walked over to the window and opened it as far as it would go, she then climbed up onto the sill and hopped outside. She looked around to eventually find a extremely red Rainbow Dash. She walked up to her and noticed that she had streaks running down her face, she had been crying and it was Vinyl's fault, why did everything she touch turn to waste? "Rainbow?" She jumped like somepony had electrocuted her. "Oh, it's you." She said coolly, obviously trying to pretend that she hadn't been crying. "Rainbow, do you mind if we go to Fluttershy's house? It's just I need to ask you both about what Derpy said," Vinyl told her, hoping the pegasus wouldn't be too upset. "I take it you know where she lives?" Rainbow said, asking the half question. "Yeah, go and tell her I'll be on my way," Vinyl told her. Rainbow nodded and flew off. With that out of the way, she climbed back through the window and went back to the party. She unlocked the door to an inquisitive Pinkie Pie. "What took you so long?" she asked. Vinyl only had to think for a second before coming up with an excuse, "Oh, I just felt quite ill and I threw up. I think I'm gonna go home," she said to whoever was there to listen. "Oh, okay then," Pinkie said, her mane going a little bit flat, upset that Vinyl's party had been short lived, as she watched Vinyl walk out the door. Vinyl was barely ten feet away for Sugarcube Corner when she heard Platinum call to her, "Vinyl are you okay?" he asked, concern creeping into his voice. "Yeah, I'm fine I just need some rest." She said directly. "Vinyl, you didn't throw up did you?" he said, realising what was going on. "I might have, I might not have.", Vinyl spat at him. "Vinyl, why are you being like this? I just want to help," He said putting a hoof on her shoulder. As soon as she did she violently shook it off. "What is it with you?" She shouted. "I just want to be alone!" "Vinyl, you don't know what you want! You are ill," he shouted back. "And I don't mean just mentally, it's starting to affect you physically as well! I can see that you haven't eaten properly in days and you haven't slept either!" "I said leave me alone," she hissed. "So just buck off!" she finished, turning and running toward Fluttershy's house and the Everfree Forest. As she ran she felt tears stinging at her eyes. Everypony she knew hated her, she had no friends anymore, how could anypony want her? All of these questions and more circled around inside her head like a swarm of angry wasps, all she wanted to do was go to sleep and never wake up, but she couldn't here, anypony that saw her would spit on her as they passed by. By some divine providence or not, Vinyl managed to reach the path leading to Fluttershy's house before everything went black and she fell into a deep and unwell sleep.
Chapter 6EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 6 An hour had passed since Rainbow Dash had arrived at Fluttershy's house, and she was starting to get bored of waiting, "Argh, when is she gonna get here?" she asked Fluttershy, without a pause in her passing from one side of the room to the other. "Maybe she got lost on the way." Fluttershy suggested in her timid voice. "No way." Rainbow said, turning down the suggestion instantly. "She blew us off.". "I'm sure she wouldn't have done it on purpose, maybe she forgot.". "Pff, doubt it, I'm tired of waiting I'm gonna go home." She told the pale yellow pegasus, "See ya 'Shy." She said flying off through the window. It was barely five seconds before Fluttershy saw Rainbow poke her head back in the window she went out off, grinning. "I found her." She said with a laugh, flying back out for Fluttershy to follow her. Fluttershy looked around and saw Rainbow at the bottom of her garden path, poking an unconscious Vinyl Scratch. "Hellloooooo?" Rainbow called into Vinyl's ear. "Anyone in?" she asked, with a poke to Vinyl's horn, which, in turn, caused Vinyl's head to loll to one side. "Oh my." Fluttershy squeaked. "We must get her inside before she catches a fever." Fluttershy told Rainbow, trying to pick up the white unicorn. "Argh, fine." Rainbow said, watching Fluttershy struggle for a bit before carrying the unicorn through the window. "Erm, Rainbow, Erm, you know I have a door, right?" Fluttershy asked, Rainbow just shrugged her shoulders and put Vinyl down onto the sofa. "So, what do we do now? You have an unconscious celebrity on your sofa." Rainbow said, as Fluttershy trotted over to Vinyl to see what was the matter with her. Forgetting any worries about what Rainbow had told her. She put her hoof to Vinyl's forehead, she pulled away almost immediately, rushing off to get some blankets for the icy cold unicorn. "Rainbow, we have to call a doctor right away, Vinyl is really ill." Fluttershy said returning with what looked like enough blankets to fill one of Applejack's barns. "No, we can't let anyone know she's here." Rainbow said urgently. "If we do tell anypony she's here she might tell them why she's here, and that reason is because we got caught having sex!" "Erm, Rainbow do you have to use that, erm, word?" Fluttershy asked blushing a brilliant crimson. "What word." Rainbow said, grinning manically, creeping towards Fluttershy. "Sex?" She said giving the yellow mare a love bite on her neck. "Eek, erm, yes that word." She said, turning even redder. "I don't like calling it th-mmph!" Her words were cut off by Rainbow's kiss. It felt like there were a billion fireworks going off inside of her mouth as the cyan mare's tongue investigated every inch of her jaws. Fluttershy kissed back not wanting to miss a second of this high. The two mares only stopped their passionate kiss and embrace when they heard a coughing from the sofa next to them. They broke away quickly expecting to see a sheepish looking Vinyl sitting on the sofa, instead they saw a youthful looking pony with a look of pain upon her scrunched up face, Fluttershy could tell that Vinyl was seriously ill, she flitted over to the unicorn ignoring the ruined moment between herself and her lover, her maternal instinct taking over. "There, there, you'll be alright, everything will be fine." She crooned to the poorly pony, stroking her mane. "Just leave her." Rainbow told Fluttershy. "She can get better on her own. But right now, I need you." She purred across the room to her lover, this didn't get a response. "Hellloooo? Earth to Fluttershy." She said, instantly changing her tone. "Hmm? Sorry, I was looking after Vinyl, did you say something?" Fluttershy asked sweetly. Rainbow looked at her with deadpan eyes. "If I ask you to do me right now you'll say no, won't you?" She asked in monotone voice. "Oh no, I would, erm, do you, it's just, Vinyl's here and if I didn't look after her it would be rude, so, no, I guess not right now." She finished, despite having contradicted herself several times. "You can go home and I'll look after Vinyl on my own if you want, I mean, I'm not saying you should go, but if you want to, I don't mind." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes, she couldn't just go home and leave Fluttershy on her own, especially not with a stranger in her house, what sort of element of loyalty would she be if she ditched her lover to go home? A not very loyal one. That's what. It would contradict her entire being if she were to go home now. "No, I'll stay here and look after Vinyl with you, exactly where I belong." She told Fluttershy giving her a peck on the cheek. "Thanks Rainbow, I love you." She said, returning the kiss. "I couldn't ask for more." The two ponies embraced and walked together to the other side of the room, where they sat in the armchair, Fluttershy curled up, head on Rainbow's lap and Rainbow sitting up arm around Fluttershy's shoulder. They sat like that for the rest of the evening, Fluttershy occasionally getting up to check on Vinyl to change her blankets or get her to drink some water, this routine went on well into the night. Rainbow had fallen asleep earlier than Fluttershy, bored at the lack of things going on but still content to be in Fluttershy's company. When Fluttershy was happy that Vinyl wasn't going to deteriorate during the night she crossed back over to the armchair, that the snoring Rainbow Dash was sitting in and sat down, she squeezed up as close as she could get to Rainbow without waking her and laid her head on Rainbow's lap. Unconsciously Rainbow moved her arm back onto Fluttershy's shoulders and pulled her into herself. Fluttershy decided that it was nice to be wanted. At that point in time she no longer cared what anypony thought of her and Rainbow. She was just happy to be with somepony who loved her as much as Fluttershy loved them. It was like this that Fluttershy fell into a calm and happy sleep.
Chapter 7EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 7 Heat. Blistering, unrelenting, heat. That was all Vinyl could feel. As she hauled herself off the ground her hooves gave way, causing her to tumble down what seemed like a rather large hill. She attempted standing up again, this time succeeding. She shielded her eyes against the sun's offensive rays and opened them. This was definitely not Ponyville. She was standing in the middle of a Desert. A wasteland of dust and sand. She had to get her bearings to find out where she was. She looked around herself, she was standing in a valley in between two taller sand dunes. She couldn't see anything from the bottom, so she began to climb up one of them. As Vinyl neared the top a gust of wind caught up some sand blowing it into her unprotected eyes, the microscopic, abrasive rocks rubbing against the flesh of her eyeballs. "Argh." She croaked in pain, her throat all dry and seized up, due to the lack of water present. As she reached the top she looked around. Desert, desert and more desert. She spun around in a full circle. That was all that was there, nothing but sand. She strained her already sore eyes in an attempt to see further, and she could, but there was still nothing, not even a group of those middle-eastern traveller ponies, or a lone pegasus patrolling the sky. Vinyl sat down. Realisation kicking in. She was going to die. Alone. Without anyone to talk to, without anyone to share her suffering with. She felt the world spinning and everything started to go fuzzy, she gagged only aggravating her throat to a further extent, she collapsed to the floor, finding it hard to breath, and with that, she blacked out. The first rays of the next day crept through the window, falling onto Fluttershy's sleeping face. She gently got up, trying not to wake the also sleeping Rainbow Dash. She stood up, stretched and walked across the room to check on her patient, she placed on of her hooves on Vinyl's forehead, she was burning up, badly. Fluttershy took off the blankets and went into her kitchen to fetch some ice. When she got back Rainbow had moved from sitting up in the armchair to slumping across it in the same fashion as a pony sized sack of potatoes. Fluttershy smiled and went back to the task at hand. As Vinyl pulled herself up from the ground the first thing that she noticed was she was still, very much alive. Was this hell? Was this heaven? She had never believed in the afterlife, so it can't have been one of those. Was she hallucinating? So many questions where going through her mind, she could figure out answers later, but now she had to figure out where she was. It was cold, bitterly cold, wherever she was, it still wasn't Ponyville. She was knee deep in snow, in what looked like a mountain pass. "Hello?" She shouted, hoping for somepony to be close by. "HELLO?! IS ANYPONY THERE?!" She shouted at the top of her lungs. Her voice echoed around the pass and she realised calling for help was useless. She knew that she would have to find somewhere to shelter from the cold and snow, and quick. She started down the mountain path in a hope to escape the snow and get to a warmer area. After a few hours of walking down the mountain, Vinyl's body felt sapped. Her legs were cold and her skin had turned a worrying shade of light blue, her legs being the worst affected. She tried to call out for help again but only came up with a painful cough. She scrunched her face up from the pain. Damn that hurt. She tried to carry on walking but felt as if she had been frozen, heck, she probably was partially frozen from the snow. From deep inside of herself she summoned up the will power to keep moving, but her body had other ideas, as she raised her leg to keep going the other three of her legs gave out, folding underneath her, as she fell into the snow. She didn't care anymore. She was going to die. Alone. Without anyone to love, without anypony to hold for warmth. Not only could she feel cold on the outside of but body, she could also feel it within, her lungs icy caverns, her guts a frozen labyrinth, her heart an icicle, cold and hostile to anything that tried to touch it. She lay her head on her hooves and closed her eyes, trying to block out both the physical and emotional pain. She felt her heartbeat drop she heaved in one last breath and exhaled her final sigh. It was the sound of a cough that got Fluttershy's attention. A dry, raspy cough from her living room. It can't have been Rainbow, as she was helping Fluttershy with all the little jobs that needed doing in Fluttershy's garden and the surrounding area, it must have been Vinyl. Fluttershy put down the trowel that she was using for her plants and trotted inside, after washing her hooves she went through to the front room and checked Vinyl's temperature, she had returned to an acceptable heat and no longer needed the ice, Fluttershy removed the coolant from Vinyl's forehead and turned around to see a cyan pegasus right in front of her. "Aaaahhhhhhhhhh! Burgler! help!" Fluttershy wailed trying to get somepony's attention, flailing her hooves at the assailant. "Fluttershy it's me." Rainbow said with a look of annoyance on her face. "Oh, hi Rainbow." Fluttershy said with a guilty smile that broke the other pegasus' nerve. "Yeah, what are you doing?" Rainbow asked, any irritation gone from her system. "Oh, I was erm, looking after Vinyl. She's much better now. I think." Fluttershy said, her smile faltering slightly, Rainbow saw the look and knew she had to say something. "I'm sure she'll be fine with a great doctor like you." She said poking Fluttershy on the shoulder lightly. "Oh, thank you, it's just, I don't normally treat other ponies." She finished, casting a concerned look towards Vinyl. Another cough from Vinyl reminded Fluttershy what she was doing. "Excuse me, Rainbow, I need to get a drink for her." Fluttershy apologised, walking into the kitchen.
Chapter 8AN: Before you all point it out to me, the quote is stolen from Inception, simply because i've been struggling with this chapter for about 2 weeks, any how the usual enjoy the errors etc, and what the hell, PLEASE REVIEW!!! ^.^ EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 8 Vinyl looked around herself. Where the buck was she now? She was on what seemed like a beach. This was an improvement on her previous locations, at least the temperatures weren't extreme here. I'm not gonna bother calling out this time, she thought to herself as she looked up and down the stretch of sand. Yet again, there was nothing to see for miles. She knew what was meant to happen next, she was supposed to walk around for a few hours, realise the hopelessness of the situation and "Die". "Screw it." Vinyl said lying down in the sand, "This is my dream. I think. So it'll do what I want it to." A few seconds later there was a parasol in the sand, shading her from the sun. "That's better, but it needs something else." A mound of sand rose up from the rest of the beach loosely resembling the form of a sun lounger. The form froze for a second and exploded into a plastic sun lounger. This was too cool. She looked at the glistening ocean and raised her hoof towards it, a geyser of water shot up about fifty foot into the air and then swirled around in the sky making interesting shapes and patterns, outlines of animals or notes and treble clefs. Vinyl let the water drop back down into the ocean and walked back toward the sun lounger, she lay down on it and looked up at the parasol. "Yeah, this isn't too bad." After vinyl had conjured up a few more creature comforts with her mind, she closed her eyes and took this opportunity for some relaxation from the stress of the previous week or so. The sun beat down throughout the rest of the day, Vinyl not caring much, sleeping or swimming to pass the time. As the sun touched the horizon Vinyl noticed a drop in temperature, she felt a shiver go down her spine as the cold crept into her body. "Time to make a house then." She said, looking at the plot of land that she wanted to turn into her residence for the night. She thought of her apartment back in Ponyville, yeah, that'd do. She locked her eyes onto the ground in front of her, trying to imagine her apartment there. But nothing happened. "C'mon, don't be like this now. It's getting colder." She told the patch of sand. It didn't say anything back. "C'mon." Vinyl urged, trying to summon up her house, "Why aren't you working? It's my mind." It was then that vinyl heard a voice from behind her. Vinyl spun around to see who it's owner was, but she saw nopony. Was she imagining things? She turned back to where her apartment should've been and tried to get it to form again. "Vinyl." The voice whispered, "Vinyl." "Who's there?" She yelled, spinning around. "It's me Vinyl. Don't you know who I am?" The voice enquired. "Wait, I know that voice." Vinyl said. "But it can't be you." "I don't know. Can it?" "Octavia?" "Let me tell you a riddle, Vinyl. You're waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you don't know for sure. But it doesn't matter. How can it not matter to you where that train will take you?" The voice trailed off, getting quieter as it retreated over the ocean, toward the sun, leaving Vinyl alone once again. "What does that mean?" Vinyl shouted at the sun. "What does that mean?" Her voice echoed across the sea and all of a sudden she felt a pang of loneliness, but not because she was alone on the beach. It was different, she felt empty, more empty than when Green had left her. A lone tear rolled down her face. Why? Why? "WHY?!" Vinyl screamed in anger at the voice, her throat seizing up and her voice cracking. The scream bounced around the beach and ocean. She got no reply. She sat on the floor and sighed, what was the point of her existence? Why was she on this world? Vinyl looked out into the horizon, looking at the molten ball of flame peeking over the water, looking for answers to her questions. But instead of seeing the answers, she saw something coming towards her. A wave. But it was different from the others, it was big. Very big. It was fast too, and coming towards her, quick. She turned and ran not looking back, the sound of gushing water engulfing her mind and every being. She tripped as if she had been struck by something, she put her hoof to her face and pulled it away revealing blood from a broken nose. By the time she regained her feet the wave was on top of her. Vinyl stopped, turned and looked at the wave. It had slowed down to an almost relaxed speed, it was at a nearly walking pace now. It slowly pulled to a stop but still maintaining it's shape. She studied it, taking in it's being. Looking at how it arched over her, like a giant shell. It was magnificent. It wasn't the same blue as the ocean had been. It was light grey in colour and thousands of feet tall. Vinyl could see swirls of different colours as well mostly either a pale pink or electric blue. What happened next, Vinyl hadn't been prepared for. "VINYL!" The wave boomed, "DO YOU KNOW WHO I AM?" Vinyl scraped her jaw off the sand and replied to the wave. "Erm, no?" She said asking the half question. "I AM YOUR REASON!" The wave told her. "My reason? My reason for what?" "THAT IS FOR YOU TO FIND OUT." "Great another riddle." "NOT A RIDDLE, BUT A DISCOVERY." The voice faded away to silence. "Hello? Mrs. Voice?" Vinyl asked timidly. "Did you figure out my riddle?" A softer voice asked. Vinyl spun away from the wave and saw the silhouette of the pony who had spoken. She had a long mane which was flowing freely and was wearing what looked like a bow-tie. Vinyl wanted to walk toward the mare but found herself frozen in place. "No. I didn't." She said quietly, awe inspired by the silhouette. "The answer is, because you'll be together." And with that, the wave buckled and collapsed on to both of them.
Chapter 9A.N. FINALLY UPLOADED IT !!! :D OK SO JUST THE USUAL, SPOT ANY ERRORS TELL ME OR DEAL WITH IT :P AND ENJOY THE CHAPTER. EDITED BY Lunat1c CHECK OUT HIS WORK :D(http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Lunat1c) CHAPTER 9 Darkness, sheer darkness. That was all that Vinyl could see. Was she finally dead? Had she entered some kind of limbo state? No, she can't have, she twitched her muscles one by one starting from her back legs and working her way up. As she did this she noticed that everything seemed to be heightened. Smells, some sort of a pie. Sight, the darkness wasn't so dark, as if there were a light behind it. Sound, birdsong from the trees outside. Wait, birdsong? There were never any ambient noises in her dreams, which meant one thing. She wasn't dreaming. Vinyl sat bolt upright, a sheen of sweat covering her face, she opened her eyes wide as to get an idea of where she might be now, she instantly regretted the actions as she saw dots before her eyes and felt like having to vomit. She steadied herself and tried looking around again, this time managing not to have a head rush. She was sitting upon a sofa that had been made into a bed for her, the quilts were a soft yellow colour with pink stitching, she looked around the rest of the room, it was decorated in an old fashioned sort of way, except there were different nests of creatures scattered around the room. She pushed the quilt off of her, swung her legs of the sofa and fell onto the floor in a heap. "Ow" Vinyl said into the floor bluntly, the shag-pile rug tickling her nose. She suddenly became aware of a set of cyan hooves standing in front of her face, quietly snickering to themselves. Vinyl heaved herself up to eye level with the owner of the legs and saw that said owner was Rainbow Dash. "Smooth move." Rainbow said, still amused at the bedraggled Vinyl. "Yeah, whatever, where am I?" Vinyl said, her face hiding the sheer joy of seeing another pony in the flesh for the first time in what seemed like months. "Fluttershy's cottage, duh, where else would you be?" Rainbow said. About 141 different answers came into Vinyl's head before she spoke. "Dunno, why am I here?" "Are you kidding me? You don't know why you're here?" Rainbow asked, her brow furrowing. Vinyl tried to rack her brains to think why she was there, but nothing came to mind. "No." Vinyl replied. "Seriously? You can't remember why you're here?" "No, I have no idea. Do you know?" Vinyl questioned. "Well why don't you try and remember?" "Because I can't, that's why I asked." "Well you better hurry up and remember because you're not leaving until you tell me why you came." "So you're keeping me captive? Give me one good reason why not to beat the hell out of you and leave." "Hey, watch who you're talking to!" Rainbow said, flying up slightly off the ground. "I know exactly who I'm talking to, somepony who's looking for a fight." Vinyl retorted, pushing the hovering pegasus across the room. "Hey! Do you wanna fight?!" "I wouldn't waste my time if I were you, I'd only beat you." Vinyl shouted. "No one beats Rainbow Dash." She said, a red mist descending across her vision. And with that Rainbow Dash attacked. She flew straight toward Vinyl, drawing back her hoof mid-air, before Vinyl could react she realised she was lying on her back, She put her hoof to her nose and pulled it back away, blood staining the pristine white fur. "Ohmygosh, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean to hit you that ha.." Rainbow was cut off by a right hook that a boxing champ that would be proud of, a tooth flying out of her mouth. Working the clubs and walking home late at night obviously did have some perks, Vinyl thought. Before either of the ponies could hurt the other anymore they wore froze in place by a blood-curdling scream. They both twisted round to see a wide eyed Fluttershy standing in the doorway, to Vinyl and Rainbow who knew exactly what had happened there wasn't anything wrong, but to the timid Fluttershy it looked like some deranged murderer had invaded her cottage and attacked Vinyl and her Rainbow. She stood there for what seemed like an eternity when finally the silence was broken by Rainbow Dash. "We're both ok..."She said, hoping to reassure the yellow pegasus. Vinyl quickly nodded her agreement, not knowing what to do but feeling like a school filly who had just been caught doing something dreadful. "But, but, but. Your faces are covered in, blood." Fluttershy said, her face draining of what colour remained at the word. "Yeah we're fine." Vinyl said, a little bit of blood that had trickled across her lips spraying onto the carpet. "We just had a little misunderstanding." "Yeah, jutht a mithunderthtanding." Rainbow said, revealing her brand new present that Vinyl had given her, a lisp. "Rainbow you have a lisp." Fluttershy said, still looking horrified at what had happened. "Yeah sorry 'bout that Rainbow, heat of the moment sort of thing." Vinyl said, picking up the tooth that had flown from Rainbow's mouth and passing it back to her. "You'll be able to get it put back in if go to Colgate's quickly, it came out with the root. "Thankth, but I'm not leaving you alone with Flutterthy." Rainbow said. "Rainbow go to the dentist, for me, please?" Fluttershy said, the statement coming out like a question. "But, but what if thhe trieth to attack you?" Rainbow said trying to find a reason to stay. "We'll be fine Rainbow." Fluttershy said, reassuring her. "Ok then." Rainbow said, turning to Vinyl "But if you try anything I will perthonally enthure that your body will never be found..." Rainbow told her, an evil grimace covering her face. "O...k?" Vinyl said, getting kind of put off by the grimace. Rainbow turned back to Fluttershy and gave her a kiss on the cheek and left, making sure to give Vinyl the evils as she walked past the window. "So, erm, what exactly happened?" Fluttershy asked. "It's a long story." Vinyl said, flopping back onto the floor.
A note for the faithful few...I humbly apologise for not uploading since whenever, the reason, I COULDN'T BE F'D XD, but apart from that I had a lot of college stuff and stuff to do :P, But the main reason for this is just for this... Prepare yourselves, Chapter 10 is coming... p.s. It'll probably be terrible because I want to get it out of the way, BUT, I will try. LOVE TO YOU ALL -Deathstrider
CHAPTER 10PREPARE TO HAVE YOUR MINDS BLOWN BY THE TERRIBLE WORK OF ART THAT IS THIS CHAPTER! But seriously now, feel free to call it shit, it's been a total ball ache trying to get myself to finish this bit but the journey is close to over. AND YOU KEPT ME GOING! YEAH YOU, READING THIS RIGHT NOW! GOOD JOB YOU! But yeah, Enjoy! After a long and involved discussion about how Vinyl though that she should be a character from a certain fighting game Fluttershy decided it was time to get back onto the topic of why Vinyl had asked for their audience. "So, erm, why did you ask to see me and Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy enquired. Vinyl racked her brain as she tried to remember what had happened before she fell unconscious; Why was it so hard to remember? What could it have been? "I'm sorry but I can't remember." Vinyl said, a downcast look on her face. "It's just all black from after I woke up." "Oh, erm, that doesn't sound good, maybe being unconscious for so long made you, er, ill." Fluttershy finished quietly. "What, no, I feel fine." Vinyl replied. "It's just that it's all fuzzy, as if I'm underwater." "Well maybe if you remember what led up to you wanting to meet us we could figure it out together." Fluttershy finished, a very genuine smile upon her face; A smile that convinced Vinyl that Fluttershy only wanted to help her. "It's worth a shot, but where do I start?" "How about when you got back from Canterlot?" "Ok, I'll try." Vinyl closed her eyes and focused herself on what had happened prior to her arriving and Fluttershy's cottage, and like a dam that had been burst it all rushed back to her, loosing Green Star, drinking herself into a hole, being dragged out by her manager, and visiting her old friend, Octavia. It was then that Vinyl's mind shut down, what had she done? To the pony that had saved her from herself all those years ago. "I've remembered." Vinyl said, her eyes darting wide. "What was it? If you don't mind telling me." "Well it's kind of awkward to talk about." Vinyl said looking down to her hooves. "It's alright, if you don't want to ask me it can't be that important, no offense." Fluttershy said blushing. "No, it is important. I need to ask you." Vinyl said, her courage building up. "It's okay, if it's something personal I can keep it a secret." She said, taking a sip from her drink. Vinyl drew a big breath and centred herself. "I need relationship advice." Vinyl cried. This was so unexpected that Fluttershy nearly spat her drink across the room and almost choked on the beverage. "You need what?" She coughed, "Relationship advice?" "I knew you'd be like this about it." Vinyl said, through gritted teeth. "I'm leaving." She stood up and turned for the door. "No, wait, I'm sorry I offended you, I didn’t mean to sound so, doubtful." Fluttershy said. "But if you want to leave, I won't stop you." Vinyl stopped and sighed, she had finally made it to Fluttershy's and she was just going to walk out because of an idle comment? No, that wasn't how she worked. She turned back around, walked back over the seat and sat down. "Okay, I'll stay, but I need to ask some questions." "That's fine, we've all been in your situation." Fluttershy said, another very genuine smile entrancing Vinyl. "So what do you need to ask?" "I need to ask you about how... about how..." "Go on." "About how you and Rainbow Dash found out that you loved one another." "Me and Rainbow? Well I had a crush on her ever since the race where she got her cutie mark, maybe even before that." "Yes but how did you know?" Vinyl enquired, "Like, what did you feel inside?" "Oh, well it's like a sort of fuzzy feeling inside of you, like there's a sort of blanket wrapped around your insides." Fluttershy said, smiling. "Oh, Kay?" Vinyl said a look on her face, half confused and half sceptical. "Trust me you'll know if you feel it." The two sat there for a while, Fluttershy sipping at her tea and Vinyl in thought, did she have this "fuzzy" feeling inside of her? Did she actually like Octavia like that? After all this time? "Fluttershy, can I ask you something else?" Vinyl enquired. "Of course." Fluttershy replied. "Just before you got together, how did you sort of, well, how did you start your relationship?" "In what way do you mean?" "Like, Who asked who? Where was it? How did who ask who?" "Oh, right. Well You see once the race was finished and I went back up to Cloudsdale I went to see Rainbow to see whether she won the race or not, once I got outside her house I saw through the window that her and her father were celebrating something and I thought it would have been rude to intrude, so I turned around and start to head home back to my home when I heard Rainbow call me from the door of her house." "What did she say?" Vinyl asked. "Well, something along the lines of, "Fluttershy, what are you doing out here?"." "So I told her that I was coming to see if she had won the race or not, at which point she told me, "Yeah of course I won, but I have even better news, come in and I'll tell you all about it."." "So I did and she told me she got her cutie mark, and I told her and her father that I had got mine, we were all so excited so we celebrated well into the night. " "When we realised what time it was Rainbow's father said that he didn't want me walk home on my own that late and that I could stay over with Rainbow, he said he would go out quickly and tell my parents, so he did. " "Me and Rainbow were pretty tired now so we went upstairs to her bedroom to get some sleep, so she hopped up onto her bed and lay down." ""Umm, Rainbow? Where shall I sleep" I asked." "Oh, sorry Fluttershy, erm, I got get some extra sheets or something for you, or, I guess you could sleep up here with me, if you want." "So I got up onto the bed next to her and lay down facing her, we looked into each other's eyes and then we, well, we, erm, kissed." "I see" Vinyl said, starting to understand. "Her body was so warm and nice to snuggle against and when we kissed it was so nice and then after the kissing, ohohoho, after the kissing." Fluttershy purred half closing her eyes. "NONONONONO, TOO MUCH INFO THANKYOU VERY MUCH!" Vinyl shouted, putting her hooves over her ears. "Oh, sorry. But that's how it went and we've been together since." Fluttershy squealed, turning the same shade of red as your common tomato. "It's fine." Vinyl said, taking down her hooves, "I think I get it now. Thank you Fluttershy." Vinyl stood up, stretched, and looked at Fluttershy. "Where are you going, you should rest some more." "Nope. I've got something to do." Vinyl said, walking towards the door. "What?" "Fix something that I broke long ago." She said, and with that she set off to Ponyville.
OMG, I REMEMBER THIS ONE, IT GOT AN UPDATE?!?!?!Sorry, but no, it hasn't. BUT Dear Reader CHAPTER 11 IS INCOMING I mean, yeah I took the best part of a year to be bothered to do it but yay me for ~~finishing~~ carrying on with it To catch you up on what happened whilst I was away, I got an apprenticeship, (I'm a proper electrician now XD), got sucked into the World of Warcraft World, and drifted away from MLP, BUUUUUUUUUUUUT, I came back, just for you, dear reader. So if you don't like the ending i'm having trouble finding, tough s*** So buckle up, it's about to get bumpy...
A short thankyouSorry for trolling you all like this but I need to say something. THANKYOU SOOOOO MUCH. 1000 views ^.^ i can't believe it's been that popular, i'd like to thank all the commenters and people who faved it ^.^ couldn't of done this with out you people! RE the next chapter: I've planned out what i think might happen, but who knows, if you want the plot to go somewhere post a comment and say what you want, you never know i might include it. also a sneak peak into the future, the story is coming to a close :O unless i get aa lot of ideas to string it out *nudge nudge* Thanks for the support! -Deathstrider
