The rear door to the Dragon opened up to reveal clear blue skies and sparkling tropical seas, I carefully stepped forward with Sunny Skies strapped to my chest, don’t even bother asking how a 7 year old filly managed to convince me to let her tandem-jump with me. Credit where it’s due, she was dealing with it like a fucking trooper, she wasn’t the least bit scared.

“Are you absolutely sure you want to do this?” I shouted over the wind, she nodded vigorously.

“Yes, Daddy” she shouted, causing my heart to skip a beat. ‘holy shit, she just called me dad for the first time!’ I thought to myself. I looked to the others, as well as myself and Sunny there was Minion, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo in tandem and finally Ruby and Breezy in tandem (Ceffyl Dŵr have appalling flight muscle strength, so Ruby was providing the stopping power). I took a deep breath before looking at the others.

“Are you guys ready?” I asked, they all nodded “THREE…TWO…ONE...GO!” and with that I ran forward, not even giving myself time to have second thoughts before front flipping out the back of the Dragon. My stomach lurched as the ground dropped away, after tumbling for a few moments I levelled out. Minion shot past me, falling head first before levelling out a few meters below me.

“HOW ABOUT THIS, HUH?” Minion shouted over the roar of the wind “THIS IS LIVING!”

“I HATE YOUR ROTTEN GUTS!” I shouted to Minion as we fell whilst spinning around each other.

“SURRENDER TO THE VOID!” he shouted back.

“HOW DID YOU EVEN CONVINCE ME TO DO THIS!?” I shouted.

“I’VE GOT A FEELING I’M FALLING” he sang.

“YOU HUMANS ARE CRAZY!” Rainbow Dash shouted, laughing.

“I’VE GOT A FEELING I’M FALLING IN LOOOOOOOOOVE!” Minion sang, before cackling manically and adapting his armour to flight mode.

“WINGS OPEN!” I shouted to Rainbow and Ruby, they nodded before flaring their wings and rapidly decelerating from view, I adapted my armour to flight mode and felt a sudden jerk as we quickly decelerated. Sunny grunted.

“That was awesome!” she shouted.

“Hold on” I said, banking and gliding towards the beach “it’s not over yet”

“Hey, Vuur?” she asked.

“Yeah?” I asked

“Can I call you Daddy from now on?” she asked, I chuckled.

“Of course you can” I said, kneeling down and tousling her mane “why would I say no to that? Besides, do you know what this means?”

“What?” she asked.

“You now officially have a brother and sister” I said, her eyes lit up in response “And you’ll soon be an aunty” she squealed with joy. We soon landed on the beach and I quickly undid the straps holding myself and Sunny together. The yellow pegasus filly began jumping around whilst giggling, probably from the pent up excitement, she ended up face-planting the sand, I was worried for a brief moment before she stood up and giggled, I chuckled at her antics before walking back towards camp, with Sunny in tow.

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I was sat in the sand next to Autumn, Minion and Vinyl were sat nearby when I got an idea.

“What would you guys say to getting the band back together?” I asked, before taking a sip of my cider and relishing the tangy taste of the cider followed by the aftertaste of the alcohol “for this holiday that is”

“Bloody hell” Minion said, chuckling “how long ago was it when we last played together, 2 years?”

“Back before Teridax at least” Vinyl said “Tartarus, I wouldn’t object, it would be fun to do another show for old times’ sake” I suddenly remembered that Garnet had been taking guitar lessons from Minion recently.

“Say, Minion, how’s Garnet been doing with your lessons?” I asked.

“He’s a quick learner” Minion said “good enough to play with us” Vinyl and Autumn looked confused.

“We already have a lead and a bass” Vinyl said “why would we need a third?”

“Rhythm guitar” Minion said.

“List a few groups that use three guitars” Vinyl said, deadpanning.

“Sabaton, Amon Amarth, Dragon force and let’s not forget the Beatles” I said “those are just three that I can think of off the top of my head, come on, admit it, it would be fun to do a Dragon force song”

“Fuck that shit!” Minion exclaimed “it’s alright for you, you just have to speak. Do you have any idea how fast Dragonforce play? I’d get blisters on my fingers”

“Well, at least we can now do a Sabaton song properly” I said, I then started to smirk.

“What are you thinking?” Autumn asked uncertainly.

“I think the weather’s been forecast for Sandstorms” I said, Vinyl looked shocked.

“You’re bucking kidding me!” she said “of all songs to turn into a metal song, you choose that one”

“Come on!” I said “it’s practically the club dance song of the 90s, that was the decade of my childhood” Minion deadpanned.

“You were born in 1996” he said.

“Specifics” I said, waving a hand dismissively “So, what do you guys say, restart the band, yes or no?” one by one they all agreed, eventually we managed to convince Cloddiwr and Saphyrus to re-join as well, Garnet was easy to convince. And so, we started making plans for a new show, learning new songs, learning to play a new instrument in Minion and Garnets case and in my case learning to sing in another language, within a few weeks we were ready.

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We were stood on an impromptu stage, with the rest of the toa stood in front of it, Teridax was watching us with a raised eyebrow, Minion stepped forward and began playing a slow, almost sad sounding solo. This didn’t last long before the rest of the band joined in with a heavy, high tempo riff, I began ‘singing’ in a deep, growling voice, and eventually we came to the chorus.

“Asgaard’s always been my home, but I’m of different blood” I sang “I will overthrow the throne, deceiver…deceiver of the gods” eventually we finished the first song and the Toa cheered.

“It’s good to be back!” I shouted and everyone cheered in response “I’m just gonna skip the chit chat and were gonna get down to business, now you guys might have noticed that Garnet has joined us, Garnet prefers rock over metal, but Minion prefers metal. Now, I like rock, and I like metal, but which is better? There’s only one way to find out, FIGHT!” the rest of the Toa shouted the last bit as well. Saphyrus and Cloddiwr began playing a backing track and Garnet and Minion began taking turns showing what they could do in their preferred style, starting with Minion.

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“Well” I said “I’m gonna leave to you guys to decide which is better. Now, let’s get this show started” Minion and Garnet strummed out a few chords and Vinyl began tapping out a tune. Soon the main riff started for a minute or so before changing to a fast paced solo

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Eventually the song finished and I stepped forward.

“Okay, I’ve been a little apprehensive about this next song considering what happened on the last planet we went to” I said “This next song is called ‘hearts of Iron’. I want you to picture the scene; it’s 1945, Berlin lies in flames and the 9th German army has by ordered to reinforce the already beaten troops in the city. Instead of following orders they decide to open up a route to the River Elbe so they can evacuate what civilians they can and surrender to the western allied forces” we paused for a few seconds before starting the song

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As soon as that song was finished I stepped forward.

“Alright, who here can understand Swedish or Griffonian?” I asked, Vapaa and Boris called out, but other than that no one said anything, I deadpanned “great…alright, this next song is called ‘En Hjältes Väg’” Vinyl began playing a tune that sounded like it was being played on a horn, soon a heavy riff followed.

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The song finished and Minion put down his guitar and picked up another guitar, this one was tuned like a banjo.

“This next song is called 'drink'” I said, Minion, Garnet and Saphyrus began strumming out a tune and I pointed to the crowd “Oi you! Gi’s a beer!”

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The song finished and Minion but the banjo back down and pick the guitar back up, Vinyl changed the settings on her Keytar to make it sound like an accordion.

“This next song” I said “is for anyone who has been to, is from, or has an appreciation for the west country of England, this is ‘West Country Man’”

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For the rest of the day we played our entire inventory of songs, and soon it was getting towards the end of the show, but we still had one last surprise. Minion and Garnet put their guitars on stands, walked towards then back of the stage and came back with a couple of cellos. They sat on a couple of chairs and nodded to each other before beginning to play, it started out as an flighty, upbeat melody, but after a while they began to play faster and faster until it started to sound like a very familiar riff from a certain AC/DC song.

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