Unto A New World

Chapter Six: Jealousy

This morning was just the same as the last here in Twilight's house. Her 'tree house' was pretty cosy. We all woke up, showered and ate breakfast. Twilight took Luna and Spike to Fluttershy's cottage while I had gone to Rarity's shop to see about some clothes.

Walking up to the Carousel Boutique, I saw that is was indeed a giant carousel.
I opened the front door, which was very detailed, and the bell which was sitting behind the door chimed. "Coming!" I heard a voice, which was most certainly belonged to Rarity. She saw me and gave a big hearty smile "Ah Jackson my dear! You came just at the right time, I was just about to have Sweetie Belle fetch you"
"That's good then" I said as I smiled back to her "How are you?"
Rarity giggled "Oh such a gentleman! Luna is a very lucky mare!" she gushed "I'm quite well thankyou, and yourself?"
"I'm am extremely well, the happiest i've been for a while now!" I replied. "I'm just here to get some clothes and then i'm off to see Vinyl Scratch"
"Oh? Why is that?" Asked Rarity in an interrogating tone.
"It's not what you're thinking! I'm making something for Luna for her birthday tomorrow."I replied quickly, hoping that she didn't get the wrong idea. I know that girls will talk about what you said behind your back even if you tell them not to, they don't mean any harm ofcourse. "Please don't tell her"
Rarity smiled "Don't worry your sercret is safe with me" she reassured "Now to see about your clothes, follow me"
Rarity led me through her shop, and into her work area. It was scattered with fabric and machines, tables covered with patched up clothes and horse shaped manniqueins wearing semi finished dresses.
She led me up to a table where she had me stand. "Now, I'm just going to take some measurements, if you feel uncomfortable at any time during this stage, please tell me and I will stop"
"I'm sure I will be fine Rarity" I reassured.
She pulled up a clipboard, pen and measuring tape, all of which were surrounded by her light blue aura. "Arm up" she instructed, and I followed her orders and giggled as she touched my under arm and side. She looked at me with a happy smile before she started giggling too.
"I'm sorry i'm just really ticklish" I revealed as Rarity moved onto me chest, writing down measurments.
"I'll try to be more careful then" she chuckled "I'm not used to someone this ticklish. Now, lift your right leg please" As I did so, she blushed as she took the last measurements. "Alright, well your clothes shouldn't taketoo long. You hurry over to Vinyl's and come back later today to pick them up" She said, before she nudged me out the door "I need to concentrate"
"Thankyou Rarity" I said as I gave her a hug, which she was drawn back a little by, but then wrapped a foreleg around me and held me tight. "Luna's heart is in the right place, Jackson. She really loves you" she told me as we parted from the hug.
"I know, I really love her too" I replied.

I soon left Carousel Boutique and made my way to Vinyl's. All afternoon, Vinyl and I were perfecting the music that we had created yesterday afternoon.
"You're really talented you know?" Vinyl told me as she recorded the finished version onto a vinyl record for me.
"Thanks" I said "You've got some skills yourself!" I replied, which made her blush. Vinyl got up from her swivel chair "I'll be right back"
While I was waiting, I looked over the mix board. 'I wouldn't have a clue how to use this' I thought to myself as I touched a button on the table. Instantly, music started to play, but I hadn't heard it before. Vinyl walked back in, two glasses and a bottle of whiskey were held in her magical aura. She saw me hiding behind the seat. "I didn't mean to touch it I swear!" I confessed, before I saw The white unicorn smile and start bobbing her head.
"It's cool! I was going to show you this anyway" She said, walking over to the wooden table which sat next to her mix table "Remember how I asked you if we could make some music together? Yeah well I had made some music lastnight after you left. It's only basic now, but once I spend some more time on it, it will be better"
"correction" I said as I watched Vinyl pour some whiskey into each cup "It will be better once WE spend some time on it, so how does now sound?" I asked.
She immediately beamed across a smile. "Sweet!" she exclaimed as she passed me one of the two cups of whiskey. She floated two ice-blocks over and dropped them in the liquor. I took a sip and coughed. "A lot stronger than the stuff we have at home!" I coughed and sluttered while I looked at the bottle. It read 'Wild Pegasus Whiskey'. Eventually, I got used to the taste and handled it better. Vinyl was already halfway through her second glass by the time I finished my first.
"Alright" She started "Now we're more relaxed, let's do this!" She hit some buttons on the mix table and music started pumping through the speakers. It was a drum and bass track, that was missing something, as she explained it.
I went to the soundproof room and brought back my electric guitar, which plugged into Vinyl's mix table. I started playing a random tune, as she warped and recorded everything I played. It wasn't long until I could hear what she was doing. Over the top of the drum and bass, the music I had played on my guitar was making Vinyl's song about 20% cooler.
When the song ended, Vinyl looked at me with wide eyes. "That. Was. AMAZING!" She said as she pounced on me, hugging me and kissing my cheek. "!"
It was at that moment that we heard a gasp coming from the doorway, before seeing a light cyan tail leave the door before it slammed.
"Oh no" I yelled "No this can't be happening"
"Who was that?" Vinyl asked slurring her words.
"Luna! THAT WAS LUNA!" I said as I got up off the floor and grabbed the vinyl that was recorded for me. "Thankyou Vinyl, I'll talk to you later"
"I-I'm sorry!" was the last thing I heard as I ran out of the door.

I ran up to Twilight's Library and burst through the door, making Spike jump and the ladder he was on wobble. "Did Luna come in here?" I asked Spike, wearing a look of worry on my face.
Spike climbed down off his ladder. "She did, but she was in a hurry and left" he told me "It looked like she was crying, why what happend?"
"No time to explain, Spike" I snapped as I ran upstairs to the guest room.
Twilight was standing next to my bed, looking out the window. She turned her head to me and looked down in shame, before charging at me and knocking me over.
"HOW COULD YOU?" Her eyes were full of tears "HOW COULD YOU?"
"It's not what you think Twilight, Vinyl and I were making a song, after she had helped me with the song I was making for Luna I helped her with the song she was making" I explained. Twilight still wasn't convinced.
"Luna said she was kissing you" Twilight said with a crackly voice "She was kissing my cheeks in a friendly way!" I was yelling but I didn't care "Vinyl and I have become good friends Twilight. I love Luna and I wouldn't do anything to hurt her!"
Twilight's tears started to die down "Y-you were making her a song?" she asked.
"Yes, that's why I asked you to keep her busy" I sat down, holding my face in my hands "I didn't mean for any of this to happen. I don't even know where she's gone, and now she hates me"
Twilight wrapped a foreleg around me "I'm sorry Jackson. She's gone back to Canterlot, she left ten minutes ago"
"I HAVE TO GET THERE!" I yelled "Please, you have to teleport me. From what the other ponies have told me, you're the most powerful pony in Equestria"
Twilight blushed but still let out a few tears "Okay, pack your things and meet me here"
I wasted no time, and in five minutes, I was back. I had even gone to get my guitar from Vinyl's house. She was passed out and didn't even know I had come back. Although, there was a note on the guitar. It was a letter to Luna saying that what she saw was not really what she thought was happening, and had Vinyl apologising time after time.
Back at Twilights house, I was on the main floor with Spike and Twilight standing behind me.
"Goodluck Jackson" She said as her horn started to glow. There was a white flash and I could feel my body being whisked away.

My eyes refocused and I was outside of the Canterlot castle doors. Two guards had seized me by reaction, but went back to their places as they saw who I was.
It must have been atleast an hour before Luna arrived in a chariot, the very one which was left outside Twilight's house incase of emergency.
I ran down to the chariot to find Luna, who had opened the door and walked right past me. She was crying, I felt terrible. To make things worse, it started to rain.
"Luna!" I yelled trying to get her to look at me. "LUNA!" I started to cry.
She finally turned around. "What Jackson?" Her tone was harsh and uncaring. "What do you want? Is it that white unicorn? You've come to rub it in my face?"
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. "Luna you have it all wrong, please!" I replied as she started to walk up the stairs again "LUNA PLEASE LISTEN!"
"I suppose you didn't mean for me to see?" she snapped "Was this what you were doing without me? Getting close to drunken DJ's?"
"No, that's not true!" I yelled. We were drawing attention from townsfolk. "I.. I was making something for you, for your birthday. Vinyl and I have been working on it for days now, and when you came in and saw what you saw, that was her thanking me for helping her with her unfinished song" I told her, wimpering as I did. "Her and I have become good friends Luna, but nothing more"
Luna just looked at me.
"I wrote you a song, just for you. All Vinyl did was record different instruments that Celestia helped me bring back from my world. I was going to sing it for you when we were alone, but I guess I have to do it now, so I can prove what I have said. Also, Vinyl wrote you this letter before she passed out" I said passing over the letter.
As she was reading it, her eyes widened. She looked incredibely embarrassed as she finished.
Celestia had heard all the commotion and was standing at the top of the stairs, her magic was keeping her from getting wet, and she was just watching us, ready to step in if things got out of control.
Luna and I noticed all the ponies standing around us. "Let us go inside. I need to talk to you, privately" Luna said with a stern but weak voice.

I followed her up to her room, with Celestia beside me who was worried for her sister. She didn't look at me.
We all walked inside her room, and Luna used her magic to levitate the water off of herself into a ball of water before moving it over to the window and releasing her magic around it.
I walked over to the phonograph and placed the record ontop, pulling the needle over in place, before giving it a good wind up. Music started to play through the speaker and I turned to Luna and Celestia, as they watched me pull my guitar up just intime to start playing. They both looked angry, but apologetic.
I started singing, and I knew my voice wasn't as good as it should have been. I was starting to catch a cold and my voice was getting crackly.

'You came, you stole my heart and you saved me Saved me from damnation.
If it wasn't for you, I'd be no more I nearly lost everything, but if it wasn't for you I'd be dead

Dear Luna!
I love you with all my heart
Dear Luna!
I couldn't live without you'

I continued my song, and eventually it came to an end. I was never a good song writer.
I looked up to see Luna was lying on the floor, head under her hooves crying.
"It wasn't that bad was it?" I asked, trying to enlighten her mood.
"It was beautiful" she replied "I didn't know you loved me that much, and I'm sorry for how I acted. I was being a jealous foal!" with those words she started crying more.
Celestia bent over and put her head next to ours and said "Luna, you need to forgive him"
The dark coloured alicorn looked up at her sister, and then towards me "I'm so sorry! I'll forgive you if you forgive me?"
"Forget what?" I asked with a chuckled.
Atleast that got her to giggle. "You're so lame sometimes" she told me as she nuzzled my neck, and pulled away to wipe her puffy eyes.

"Happy Birthday Luna" I said, before kissing her on the forehead.