Brother's Lament

Chapter 6: Ponyville Shenanigans

One month had passed since the start of Warsong’s training, night had fallen after another hard day of training, the door to Bass’ home slammed open as the home’s owner trotted in tiredly cracking his neck, the past month has been hard for him his muscles clearly having grown giving a bulkier look.

His teacher followed after, having changed himself back to his smaller version, he trotted into the kitchen, the house having been cleaned and made neat, clearly the crimson stallions doing in forcing his student to clean “You know what to do, go cook and study”

Even when they weren’t on the training field, Warsong had Bass Rhythm training, having him read history books and other books of education while cooking, or doing other tasks, while under pressure by his teacher asking him questions on books he studied the night before.

“Remind me again why I’m doing this?” asked the blue stallion as he went about preparing dinner with his magic moving several objects in the room at once, a book opening and floating over to him as he began to read, removing his spectacles from his eyes to see better

Warsong sat at the table keeping his hooves clear as place mats and utensils moved onto the table covered in the glow of green magic “It teaches you how to multi-task and think while doing it. One day you will know what I mean and this training will have paid off. Now quickly tell me who the king of the unicorns was during the discovery of Equestria?”

“Shadowfax, he was the father of Princess Platinum and lord of the unicorns. He was the original commander of the sun and moon before he passed them on to Celestia and Luna.” replied the student; preparing the food almost blindly as his attention was on the book, the kitchen a bustle of movement

“Good, who was the ranger king of the earth ponies before they had a chancellor?” at this Bass Rhythm replied the name and while dinner was being cooked questions and distractions were shot at him and he kept his cool and didn’t hesitate with answers as dinner finished and was served Warsong changed the subject

“You and I must also speak, I want you to know this before we carry it out. Right now the events happening in Ponyville are cutting into our training time and I believe we need to relocate to Canterlot”

Bass Rhythm stopped what he was doing, a fork with hay spaghetti halfway to his mouth before he gently lowered it, his face and body language seeming to become more aggressive

“But why? I like it here and I prefer to live here thank you”

“Yes we won’t sell your home, but it is getting distracting with all these shenanigans. I mean there was all that hubabaloo over some tickets to the grand galloping gala. The shenanigans over the poisoned muffins and that bunny stampede which I've never seen the likes of in my life time. There was that incident with the gryphon girl, and that thing with the traveling unicorn the great and powerful...Tracy was her name? This of whom takes the cake in my books as the weakest unicorn I have ever seen, Shadowfax, Starswirl and Starlight the grey would be disappointed. On top of that, there was the attack by the Ursa minor which would have forced me to step in had it not been for Celestia’s student. Believe me I would have killed that minor and the major” He replied pointing his hoof at him taking notice of his great nephew’s anger on the subject

He retracted his hoof and frowned “In any case why do you feel so strongly over moving to Canterlot?”

At this Bass lowered his gaze

“My parents and sister are living there, let’s just say I’m not on good terms with my parents, and my sister is often too busy to spend a lot of time with me.”

Warsong leaned forwards resting his hooves underneath his chin “You never told me you were born and raised in Canterlot, or about your family for that matter…What do your parents and sister do?”

Bass Rhythm began eating again, his aggressive nature becoming calmer “My mom and sister are pegasi and my dad a unicorn, obviously I got my times ten great grandfather’s genes from him. My dad plays in the Canterlot symphony orchestra, my mom is a model and my sister is an opera singer”

Warsong nodded as he was deep in thought “Well then you don’t need to worry, we’ll be staying at the Canterlot palace.” Bass Rhythms eyes widened and his jaw dropped

“What? Just like that? What about my job? I work for Filthy Rich records my boss won’t just let me move around for nothing, on top of that what about my gigs?”

he asked looking at his teacher who simply nodded

“I have already dealt with that myself, I talked to Filthy Rich and we came to an agreement. All your gigs and work will be moved to Canterlot with you, any of your more recent gigs will have a local DJ mare take over. She’ll play your songs along with hers.” When he saw a look of recognition pass over Bass’ eyes he inquired if he knew the mare

“Yeah…I know her from collage and we hang out sometimes. Vinyl Scratch is her name, we recently just caught up after last year’s Christmas party when my dad introduced me to Octavia, her roommate. If anything giving her these gigs will be a generous favour.” He said nodding in agreement

“Go pack your things we leave tomorrow morning, get some rest while you’re at it, you’ve worked hard this past month. I’ve seen many mares turning their gaze’s in your direction, if the Canterlot mares are anything like they were a thousand years ago, you’ll be hunted down in the streets.” Warsong said with a wink and smile.