All fell apart one time. I can't really say when. It seemed like a lifetime ago. But it happened fast. Too many ignorant ponies used the resources, and even tried to redo by becoming Hybrids. Those were the beasts that killed many. Don't be surprised if my story seems familiar to you, many tell it, but from their point of view. But this is how I lived.
The most important thing to me was music. Not friends, not family, music. I don't know how I came to this. I guess since other ponies annoyed me a lot. But that was if there was a lot of commotion. I contradict myself. I hate noise, but I like loud music. But now there isn't any time for music.
The world was filled with gray, death, and pollution. I was skinny, but I didn't feel the urge to eat. A saddlebag was strapped around me. Whatever I could get, I would put in it. Ponies gave me food and water, but I didn't bother to stay in one spot. I have always been independent. I like to do things by myself, but somehow, I still needed friends. I needed other ponies for approval of my ideas, of my creativity. But I couldn't think of much now.
In my saddlebag was some jars, a knife, and a lighter. Things that weren't plugged into the world still worked....until they ran out of their own power. I have a MP3 like that. It would still work, but all of it's charge is gone. I wished I could listen to it. In this world, all hope is lost, and I wanted to die. But I remembered the lyrics in many songs, and I saw that I had to keep going.
Remember all the sadness and Frustration, and let it go.
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Hold on, the weight of the world will give you the strength to go.
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When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind.
I can't listen to music sadly. But I could remember lyrics so easily! I knew a bunch of Lyrics. But I didn't like how I couldn't sing, I had a horrible voice, but there are worse voices. I wanted to sing these songs. There was only one band I listened to, I don't know why. Maybe because I related to the music so well, with lyrics. And also, I would go online, and search the band, they seemed so awesome, funny, and kind. Those ponies were my role models.... if only I could meet them
I sat down on a flat rock and unbuckled my saddlebag. It shuffled down to the ground. The area was unknown to me, I had know idea where I was, but I didn't care. A little group of ponies were over to the left, they circled around a small campfire. The orange glow lit up their pitiful faces.
Why don't I go down there? There was no reason for me to be alone. And maybe those ponies would be happy to see somepony else.
I quickly grabbed my saddlebag by my mouth, and spread my wings out. I leaped down and glided, my mane whistling against the air. I placed my hooves down by the ponies. The turned and stared at me.
"H-hello." I choked. "I'm ThunderCharm."
Nopony responded. They all were not pleased. A filly gazed over to me with heavy eyes. "What do you want?"
"I thought I could say hi. Don't you want some friends? More ponies?"
"Why would we..." The filly replied. "There's no use to making friends. They all die."
"Not all of them." I told her. She just grunted.
"But they all lie." An older stallion said. He was beige, but the dirt made him look darker. "They said the hybrids were our cure, but they killed! And the pure energy doesn't work as well as they said! Where is that guy? He said he was going to work on the pure energy, but what does he know, he's only a blacksmith."
"I've heard of this pure energy, but you say it's not working?" I tilted my head.
"Someponies found it, and somehow the news spread. It's supposed to be our new salvation. But I doubt it! Not with what happened before, and it's not charging anything!" The pony called out.
"Shush! I am doing my best! I almost have it!" A voice came from a little tent. Why was this voice familiar?
I pushed up the cloth with my hoof and looked inside. A green-gray stallion stood there. He had a black and bluesquare cut mane. "SilverBlade!" I shouted.
The stallion stun around. "ThunderCharm?"
"How did you get here? What are you doing!?" I cried out.
"I guess this is just luck! To find a friend along the way!" SilverBlade bowed his head. "I'm trying to figure out this pure energy. One pony came by and dropped this thing off, he told me how to use it." He turned to a little metal sphere, it had a blue marking on it. "I've tried it all, it has glowed a few times, but I don't know."
I looked at the sphere. I was pretty good with technology, and I learned quickly. I could figure out how to work something without using instructions! I clicked the blue mark, it was a button, and it glowed.
"Okay, but now what?" SilverBlade said.
"Hmm, what can you charge up?" I tuned around.
I saw a little heater on the ground. I flipped it up to the sphere. I saw a metal wire caught in the tent cloth, I took it. I tied it on the wire that was on the heater, then stuck the other end in a hole of the sphere. Suddenly a spark flashed. The heater buzzed.
"Woah! How did you do that?" SilverBlade exclaimed.
"I don't know?" I twitched my ears. "The ponies here could have this, but I want to find more of this pure energy." I said. "Would you come with me?"
"I guess, I don't know how safe it would be." SilverBlade told me.
"You're strong, I know that for sure! And you could design armor." I suggested. "Maybe we should stay here tonight, we'll think of a plan tomorrow. Tell those ponies."
SilverBlade nodded and went out of the tent. I glanced at the energy sphere. I snapped the wire out. I looked at my saddlebag. I opened in and pulled my MP3 out. I placed it down and figured how I could place the wire in it. Once I did, the MP3 turned on to charge. It was ironic that the Mp3 gave off a blue glow like the energy. I let it charge.
After a while, it was getting dark. I got the other ponies to come around. They were a bit friendly. We sat by the dim fire and ate vegetables that were preserved from a can. It wasn't much food, but it was something. We eased ourselves with conversation, but anything we talked about, seemed to come back as negative.
"It good that we know about the pure energy, but what if it back-fires like the hybrid idea?" A mare said.
"Well, I'm not going to change into a hybrid no mater what!" The one beige stallion spoke.
"I think the energy might work well, it seems to be so far." I added. "It's not like we are placing it into our bodies like the hybrid technology, that's what changed the ponies. The technology controlled the nerves, but were are using this energy to charge up things."
"It will take a lot to recharge the world." The mare told me. "All the destroyed things, everything decayed."
"There must be more energy where it was found, but it's probably hard for it to travel around." I replied.
All was quiet, there wasn't much to talk about.Then SilverBlade's hooves trotted up next to me. My Mp3 plummeted down onto the ground. "Why don't you try it?"
I scooped it up and placed the headsets on my ears. It felt good to wear them. I turned it on, and it glowed. I didn't know what song it would be on, and I didn't know what to play. I did know it would be by that one same band, since I never exited my playlist, I didn't want to listen to anything else.
The music played, and it hummed in my ears. It took me a while before I could get what song it was. It was a song of that band, but it was a demo song. It was a great song, I wasn't sure why it was a demo. I felt this song has a story, and I connected well, even before the world died.
I listened to a steady beat, and a voice I thought was amazing. I thought all the band was great, and had so much talent.
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Listen,
My blood feels like it's sitting still in my veins
My motivation was gone before it even came
Today and yesterday, they both seem the same
And no matter how I try I just can't change
Give me one reason I should go outside
Everything'll be the same no matter what I try
Some people'll live and some people'll die
Some people'll build their whole life on a lie
There was much truth in these lyrics, I kept listening with my eyes closed.
I used to blame you for the things that I thought you'd say
So now I can't blame you for going away
Cause these memories are the blood beating under my skin
Repeating the same thoughts again and again
Again and again
(You said we couldn't last long enough or be strong enough)
Again and again
(You said our voices weren't loud enough but we've had enough because)
We want our future back, We want our own mistakes, to take our own path
We wanna do it again
Why was the first song a listen to relate so much to me and the world? Maybe it was fate. It was my fate, for music to help me. These lyrics have helped me even before, and the ponies that made this music inspired me. I felt like I wasn't alone
