Princess Luna and Twilight Sparkle were on their way to Fluttershy’s house when Twilight suddenly decided to stop. “Princess… Did we ever pick an alias for you in case anybody wonders who you are? I mean, it’s not exactly like you can go around in that form and still call yourself Princess Luna.”

Luna stopped alongside Twilight to consider what she meant. “I see what you mean Twilight Sparkle, perhaps I should choose an alias… What about just Luna?”

Twilight facehoofed. “Uh, perhaps we should choose something that DOESN’T have your name in it?”

“Hmm, I suppose… What about… Moonlight Eclipse?” Luna suggested.

Twilight facehoofed once again. “You’re going to suggest something that’s somehow related to the moon each time, aren’t you?”

“Indeed.”

“*Sigh* I suppose Moonlight Eclipse will have to do then…” Twilight said in a defeated tone. “At least Fluttershy’s house isn’t far from here, we should be there in a couple of minutes.”

And in a couple of minutes they were indeed there. But before Luna, or Moonlight at this point, had the chance to knock on the door, Twilight had stopped her. “Luna, what should our backstory for you be?”

“Whatever do you mean Twilight Sparkle?”

“Well, first off, stop calling me Twilight Sparkle, just call me Twilight, okay?” Luna nodded in response. “Secondly, I don’t think anypony’s gonna believe that I just met you today, so we need to think of something that would make the other ponies in town believe us.”

Luna put her hoof on her chin trying to think. “Hmm… What if… What if I was your friend from Canterlot when you still lived there, and that I’m just visiting you for a while.”

Twilight thought about it. “Hmm, I never really did talk about my life in Canterlot… I guess we could make it believable.” They both agreed on it and proceeded to knock on Fluttershy’s door. Luna spoke up once more before she came to the door.

“Twilight?”

“Yes Princess?”

“Why didn’t we think of these things BEFORE leaving the library?”

“… No idea.”

Just then Fluttershy answered the door with Angel on her back. “Oh, hello Twilight, I wasn’t expecting you today.” Fluttershy also just then saw Luna, or Moonlight, standing there alongside Twilight. “Oh, h-hello. A-are you one of Tw-twilight’s friends?” She nervously said, unsure of who this new pony was.

“You don’t need to worry Fluttershy.” Twilight spoke to her timid friend, trying to soothe her of her being frightened over Luna. “This is Moonlight Eclipse. She’s a friend I had from Canterlot when I was still studying under Princess Celestia.”

“Oh, it’s very nice to meet you Moonlight.” Fluttershy now said in a more calm voice, now knowing the new pony wasn’t going to harm her in anyway.

“Likewise dear Fluttershy. Twilight has spoken proudly of you and the rest of her friends here in Ponyville. You seem to have treated her very well since she had left Canterlot.”

“Oh, well, you know, we were just doing what friends do best.” Fluttershy said timidly, accepting the compliment of Moonlight while at the same time trying to not boast. “Anyways, was there something that I could help you with Twilight?”

“Actually Fluttershy there is, it was the reason we came to see you.” Twilight responded.

“Oh? Whatever could it be Twilight?... D-did something bad happen in town? D-did th-that new p-pony do something to s-somepony?” Fluttershy said with fear in her voice, hoping nothing bad had happened in town as she lived on the edge of town in a cottage near the edge of the Everfree Forest, taking care of all the animals that got hurt in town or in the forest and healed them up.

“No, nothing bad is happening in town.” Fluttershy let out a sigh of relief after hearing that. “Though it does concern that new pony from last night.” Fluttershy went right back to being afraid as she was very scared of the new pony that had insulted her and her friends last night at the party.

“I-it does?” Fluttershy said timidly, as Angel got on top of her head trying to act tough for the timid pegasus.

“Actually Fluttershy, we were wondering if you could help us to get him to open up to us, as I’m sure last night was just a fluke.” Twilight said trying to reassure Fluttershy. “We need you to come with us to the house he’s staying at and want you to come along as for some reason I think he sensed you weren’t threatening to him.”

“A-alright Twilight, I’ll help, but promise nothing bad happens.” Fluttershy said in her still timid voice.

“You have not only mine, but Moonlight’s promise as well, that nothing bad will happen to you.” Twilight said with a smile to her little yellow friend. Luna also smiled trying to reassure Fluttershy.

“Alright Twilight, I’ll go.” Fluttershy said, but not before Angel was trying to get attention by stomping his foot on her head. “Yes Angel? What is it?”

He seemed to use his movement of his body to apparently talk to her, and Fluttershy stood it perfectly as Twilight and Luna stood there in confusion. ‘Are you crazy!? What do you think is going to happen if you go there!? Don’t be stupid and get yourself hurt because this new pony is one huge jerk!’

“Oh Angel, you just have to be more trusting of ponies, even if they don’t seem good to you at first.”

Angel responded with a look that said, ‘And what about you? You didn’t trust him at first either.’

Fluttershy laughed about this while Angel gave the same face. “I see your point Angel, but don’t worry about me, as Twilight and Moonlight here will protect me if anything happens. Now, I need you to stay here and watch the house in case anything bad were to happen.”

Angel sighed before replying. ‘Fine, but don’t come crying to me if you get hurt somehow.’

Fluttershy gave another little chuckle at her bunny. “Alright Angel, fair enough. Now, be a good boy and look after the place while we’re gone.” Angel gave a salute to his owner and went inside and closed the door behind him. “Well, I guess I’m all ready to go.”

Twilight and Luna looked at each other before looking back at Fluttershy, before nodding indicating they were ready as well.

On the other side of town, Joseph, or Fiery as he was going by in his pony form, was on his bed sleeping for a nice little nap, that is, until his dream became a nightmare. He was dreaming that he was back home, and his mother was reviewing his grades he had for the semester. “You think this some kind of fucking joke!? What the hell am I doing paying for you to go to that university if all you’re going to do there is jack-off!”

“Well maybe if you didn’t raise me to be such a piss poor son, oh wait, you didn’t fucking raise me at all! You had your slut of a sister watch me until I was 12 and then you still did nothing to help me to graduate from high school! All you did was fucking work work work, that’s all you fucking did!”

“Well maybe if your whore of a father didn’t cheat on me maybe I would’ve been able to spend more time with you. So I’m so fucking sorry for trying to make your life nice!”

“Well maybe you shouldn’t have tried so hard! Maybe then I would be more of a better son and you would have known that I fucking hate law!” His mother was taken back from the statement he had just made. “That’s right! I fucking hate doing law! I don’t fucking understand any of it and the only reason why I started doing it was because you fucking forced me to do it! So thanks mom! Thanks for fucking nothing.” He walked out of the kitchen where they both were in the house and started to go outside while his mother followed trying to stop him. He turned to face his mother who was standing in the doorway leading to their house. “Fuck you mom!” And he walked away.

“Don’t you dare walk out on me you little shit! I tried to do everything I could to help you in life!... Fine! Walk out on me just like your worthless father!... I should have aborted you when I had the chance!” She yelled out after him, but he just kept walking away, while she broke down and started to cry at the doorway to the house. The neighbors that were outside at the time just looked in awe and amazement as the event unfolded. Joseph’s mother finally wiped her tears and looked to see the neighbors were all staring at her. “What the fuck are you all looking at!?” The neighbors quickly went back to what they were doing before the event unfolded.

Suddenly in the dream, Joseph was transported back to Ponyville. He was in his pony form and had burst through a door that was colored red turning black. There he saw Octavia and Vinyl performing sex acts on a stallion that he couldn’t see who it was. Suddenly Octavia saw him. “Oh look Vinyl, it seems the loser finally decided to show up.”

Vinyl turned from the pony she was pleasuring and turned to look at Joseph. “What the hell do you want?”

“Wh-what are you guys doing?” He couldn’t believe it. He WOULDN’T believe it. For some reason seeing the two of them like this felt like a thousand needles were piercing his heart. Suddenly Octavia spoke back to him.

“What? You didn’t really think we liked you, did you?”

“Hah! That’s hysterical!” Vinyl cried out. “Who would ever want to be with a loser like you?”

Suddenly Joseph could feel the anger rise inside of him, and looked down. “You… You fucking bitches… You fucking toyed with my emotions, making me feel like I was accepted for the first time in my life… And now this fucking happens.”

“So? What are you going to do about it ape-boy?” Vinyl said with a grin.

Joseph looked up suddenly and had death written in his eyes. “I’LL FUCKING KILL YOU!” He screamed out. Suddenly, a gun appeared in his hoof that had suddenly turned into a hand. He pointed the pistol that came out of nowhere at Vinyl, Octavia, and the mysterious stallion. He opened fire. What seemed like hours of pain and suffering ended in mere seconds, with multiple bangs going off in the quiet night, the three ponies laid on the floor dead. He walked over to where Vinyl’s lifeless body laid. “Why…” He began crying. “Why did you betray me…” He suddenly heard Vinyl speak.

“Just wake up…”

He wiped his tears. “Huh?”

“Please, wake up Joseph, wake up.”

“Wake up!? What the fuck do you mean wake up!?” He began firing again at Vinyl’s lifeless body, trying to silence the voice.

“Please Jojo, please, just wake up.” Vinyl’s voice still tortured him.

“JUST SHUT UP! JUST LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE!!” Suddenly what happened next stunned him. He was knocked out of his dream.

Joseph was back in his room in Ponyville with a teary eyed Vinyl standing over him. “Oh thank Celestia, no matter how hard I tried waking you up, you just wouldn’t wake up. I had to finally hit you in the face with my right hoof to get you to wake up.”

“Wha… What happened?” Joseph said in a confused voice.

“*Sniff* I don’t know, but while I was resting in my room, I suddenly heard screaming coming from yours so I woke up and ran to your room to see what the trouble was. You were apparently having a bad dream and I started trying to get you to wake up. I tried for about five minutes before finally hitting you.” She said trying to get through her tears.

“I see…” Joseph said in a soft voice. What happened next shocked both of them. Joseph suddenly reached his hooves out and brought Vinyl in for a hug. He then began to cry right afterwards.

“Wh-what are you doing Jojo?”

“I’m so sorry…” He said through his muffled voice while he was trying to talk to Vinyl while rubbing his face into her neck, and also crying. “I’m so sorry… Please, don’t you and ‘Tavi ever leave me…” He then began to break down and just let all his emotions out while crying into Vinyl’s neck.

“Shh… Don’t worry Fi-fi, me and ‘Tavi aren’t going anywhere…” She said in a soothing voice, trying to calm Joseph down. ‘I guess he likes me and ‘Tavi… I wonder why after only one and a half days, we feel this way about each other… Is it…’ She thought to herself. Whatever it was, she could think about it later, all she needed to do right now was be there for Joseph… “Shh, don’t you cry, Vinyl’s here.” Vinyl said soothingly to Joseph, while all he could say over and over through his tears was ‘I’m sorry’.

After about 10 to 15 minutes of crying, Joseph finally began to calm down. “I’m sorry Vinyl, I guess I was just having a nightmare.”

“Shh, shh, shh, there’s no need to be apologizing Fi-fi, you did nothing wrong.” She said while still holding him in her hooves. ‘Whatever this so called nightmare is must be horrible, he sounded like a maneshee wailing away in his sleep.’

“Thank you Vinyl…” After a while Joseph spoke up once again. “Hey Vinyl?”

“Hmm?”

“Did I… Did I saying anything while I was asleep?” He wanted to make sure just for himself. Know that he didn’t say anything that would have embarrassed himself.

“Well… All I heard say were ‘fuck you mom’ ‘I’ll fucking kill you’, and ‘just shut up, leave me the fuck alone.’” Vinyl said with sadness in her voice.

“Oh… I see…” Joseph said. “Hey Vinyl?”

“Hmm?”

“Will you… Will you or ‘Tavi ever leave me?” He said uncomfortable saying this, as he only knew them for two days, but in the past few hours since last night, something had seemed to change within him. Vinyl snickered. “Please Vinyl, I’m being serious. Yes or no?”

“I know I know, I just thought it was funny because… Well because I think me and ‘Tavi would never leave you Fi-fi, I don’t know what it is but for some reason I feel like you belong here, with us.”

“Thank you Vinyl… I really needed to hear that.” He said, before falling asleep in Vinyl’s lap.

“Sweet dreams, Joseph…” She said, before also falling asleep there on Joseph’s bed.

Coming up the house of the musicians were Twilight, Luna, and Fluttershy. “Okay Fluttershy, go in there and get him to open up!” Twilight said to Fluttershy.

“Wha-wha-what!? What about you and Moonlight!? Aren’t you coming with me?”

“Don’t worry, we’ll be hiding in the bushes over here while we see how you’re doing. If anything happens, scream and we’ll rush in and help you.” Fluttershy was giving her a scared look. “Trust me on this Fluttershy, if we were going to come with you, he might not open up at all. That’s why you have to go in solo.”

“I-I guess that makes sense… But-“

“Good! Then off you go!” Twilight said as she picked up Fluttershy with her magic and placed her at the front door of the house, then with Luna fled back into the bushes and watched Fluttershy from a distance.

Fluttershy looked back at Twilight and Moonlight, who were looking back at her, and with their horns sticking out of the bushes, but it seemed like they didn’t notice or didn’t care. She then proceeded to knock on the door, hoping someone would answer it.

Upstairs, Vinyl and Joseph were asleep on Joseph’s bed when suddenly Joseph heard a knocking coming from downstairs. He woke up drearily and looked around. He saw Vinyl sleeping right next to him as he had his head resting on her lap. “Thank you Vinyl.” He said in a whisper, then carefully got out of the hold so not to wake her up.

Joseph went down the steps closing his door behind him and bringing his guitar, feeling like he would need it for some reason, but not before tucking Vinyl into his bed so she could be more comfortable. He went downstairs to answer the door where the knocking was coming from and opened it. There he saw a butter-cream pegasus with a pink mane and tail standing there. “O-oh, h-hello again Fiery.” She said timidly. At first Joseph was wondering what this pegasus was doing here and if he could remember who she was at all. Then he looked behind her and saw two horns, a light blue one and a purple one, sticking out of a bush near the side of the road. He saw this and smiled.

“I’m sorry, I must have forgotten, but did we meet?”

Fluttershy was startled by this as she thought he was going to yell at her for no reason like last night. “Oh, I, um, we, uh, we met l-last night, a-at the p-party.” She was still very timid. “M-my n-name i-is F-flutters-shy.”

Twilight could only facehoof, mentally degrading herself because she should have been up there with Fluttershy to help her out. “Well Fluttershy, would you like to come in?” Joseph had said in a mild manner, clearly trying to be nice to the timid pegasus.

“Oh! Um, o-okay, I’ll do that.” With that she entered the home of the musicians. When she entered Joseph looked at the bush where Twilight and Luna were hiding, then began chuckling while shaking his head in disbelief.

“Why don’t you take a seat Fluttershy, while I get something to drink. Do you want anything?” He asked as nice as possible.

“Oh, um, okay, um, I’ll just have some water.”

“Water, alright, I’ll go get a glass for you then.” Joseph said and then proceeded to go into the kitchen to get two glasses of water for themselves. When he returned he saw Fluttershy sitting on the couch staring at his guitar that was lying next to one of the chairs. He set the water down in front of her. “You like it?”

She nearly screamed from being snuck up on, but only eeped as loud as she could. When she realized it was Fiery as she knew him, she calmed down. “Oh! I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean to scream like that.” She tried apologizing.

“Heh, it’s no problem. It was probably my fault anyways, sneaking up on you.”

“I’m sorry, I was just looking at the guitar there and was wondering who it belonged to.”

“There’s no need to be sorry.” She blushed. “That guitar is actually mine, got it from my grandfather a few years back, more or less.”

“Oh, I guess that would make sense since your Cutie Mark is a guitar.”

Fiery, as he was going by for now, chuckled at the comment. “Yeah, I guess that would make sense.”

They both stayed quiet for a while drinking their water. Finally, Fluttershy decided to speak up. “Um…”

“Yes?”

“Well, I was just wondering, do you remember anything from last night?” Fiery chuckled as Fluttershy looked confused. “Was it something I said?”

“Actually, it was, because you’re the third pony today to ask me that same question.”

“Oh, I’m sorry.”

“Heh, there’s no need to be sorry, just thought it was kinda funny. But to answer your question, no, I don’t really remember anything from last night.”

“Oh, okay…”

“I’m sorry if that disappointed you.” Fiery said to her, trying to be sympathetic.

“Oh, no, it’s alright, I just wanted to know is all.”

“Alright…” Fiery said while holding his glass of water in his hooves and nodding his head understanding.

After a little while more, Fluttershy spoke up once again. “Um… Would… Would it be alright if I saw you play your guitar? I’m sort of curious.”

Fiery smiled at her. “Heh, sure, I’ll be happy to oblige.” He picked up his guitar and put it in playing position. He then closed his eyes as once again he could feel the energy from wherever it was coming from entering his body for a third time. He began playing Eric Clapton’s ‘Tears In Heaven’. As he was playing, Fluttershy could only be more and more interested in his playing.

‘It’s… It’s so beautiful sounding… But why does it seem so sad? Is there something troubling him?’ Fluttershy thought to herself.

When Fiery finished playing the song, he opened his eyes and saw Fluttershy nearly on the verge of tears thinking it was a very moving song. “Hey, did I do something wrong?”

Fluttershy seemed confused as she didn’t know she looked like she was about to cry, until a tear finally let itself go. “O-oh, I’m so sorry, no, nothing’s wrong. It was just so moving I guess I couldn’t help but cry.”

“Heh, I guess I have to thank you then.” Fiery said.

“For what?” Fluttershy asked in confusion.

“For thinking it was a beautiful song of course.” Fiery said with a smile. ‘She seems to be so nice… I wonder why it is that I’m able to relax with her as well as Vinyl and Octavia around…’

“O-oh, y-your welcome.” Fluttershy said with embarrassment. They both stayed quiet for a while before Fluttershy spoke up again. “Um…”

“Hmm?”

“Why… Why did that song sound so sad?”

“…I guess it’s because it’s called ‘Tears In Heaven’. I was having a bad dream a little while ago and I guess I needed to play something sad to get rid of it, silly I know, but for some reason it works for me.”

“O-oh, I’m so sorry to hear that…” Fluttershy tried saying as sympathetic as possible.

“It’s alright, you really don’t need to apologize…” Fiery said with another smile. The both of them suddenly heard a sniffling from behind Fluttershy and looked in its direction to see Vinyl standing there with tears in her eyes. “Hey Vinyl, didn’t know you were there, I’m sorry I woke you up…”

Vinyl shook her head. “No, it’s alright, that song really was beautiful Fiery.”

“Thanks Vinyl…” Fiery said. The three of them stayed quiet a little while longer until Fiery spoke. “What do you guys say I play something nice, for the both of you?” Fluttershy and Vinyl looked at each other and nodded.

“We would like that very much Fiery.” Fluttershy said shyly.

Fiery smiled. “Alright…” He picked up his guitar and began playing ‘Oye Como Va’ by Santana. While he was playing, the specters came out to play the remaining instruments. Fluttershy was frightened by this at first but Vinyl calmed her down, assuring her that everything was going to be alright. Fluttershy trusted Vinyl on this and the both of them watched their own little private show.

After Fiery was done playing, the three of them had talked to each other for a long while until Fluttershy realized how late it was getting. “Oh! I’m so sorry, but I really have to get going, otherwise the animals at my house are going to get angry if I don’t feed them.”

“Alright Fluttershy, it was nice seeing you. And I’m sorry for what happened last night.” Fiery said to her.

“Oh, it’s alright, now I know you’re actually a really nice pony. Well, I guess I’ll see you later then.” She said with a smile and then walked out of the front door, but before she went.

“Hey Fluttershy?” Fiery called out.

“Yes Fiery?”

“Tell your friends outside next time to not let them be seen so easily.” Fluttershy smiled at this.

“Alright Fiery, I’ll let them know.” And she walked out the front door.

“So…” Vinyl started.

“So?”

“You’re going to forgive the 6 of them just like that? I thought you said that you didn’t say ‘f you’ to somepony unless they really made you mad somehow.”

“… Whoever said I was forgiving all 6 of them?” Vinyl looked at Joseph with bewilderment. “I’m just forgiving her, ‘cause she doesn’t seem to be the type that I could get mad at, in fact, you and ‘Tavi might be getting some competition.” He said jokingly.

Vinyl had burst out laughing at this. “I guess we will then… Well Jojo, I gotta get ready for work, and ‘Tavi should be coming home soon, so I’ll just let you sit there and play the guitar some more.”

“Alright Vinyl…” Joseph said. ‘Huh, that’s really weird, I thought I knew her enough that I thought she was gonna get pissed at me for saying that… I wonder why she didn’t get angry at all… oh well.’ “Hey Vinyl?”

“Yeah Jojo?” Vinyl was walking into the kitchen to get something quick to eat but stopped to hear Joseph out.

“Thanks, I mean it.” He said with a smile.

She smiled back. “No problem… Joseph.”

As Fluttershy walked out completely unharmed, Twilight and Luna came out of the bush and walked right up to Fluttershy. “UGH! Finally! So, what happened in there?” Twilight demanded.

“Oh, well, he was actually very nice to me. He even opened up to me some.”

“See Twilight? I knew she would be perfect.” Luna said in her other form with a smirk.

“Alright fine ‘Moonlight’, but just because it worked this time doesn’t mean it’s gonna work next time as well.” Twilight retorted.

“Oh, before I forget” Fluttershy started.

“Hmm?” The two of them stared at her wondering what she was going to say.

“Fiery says to try and hide better next time, he saw you right away because of your horns. Well, I got to get going, otherwise the animals will be upset I’m late for their supper.” She then walked away to go to her cottage while she let the other two sit there dumbfounded by her statement and the fact that Twilight was shocked that Fiery could be so nice to somepony.

Well there’s chapter 6 you guys, I hope you enjoyed it. I wrote the dream part into the story because it’s suppose to show that even though Joseph is slowly but surely turning into a pony in some ways, he still has some human qualities to him, including fear and hatred. Also, chapter 7 might take a little longer to get out since my bro is coming to town and all that, so don’t expect it to come out too soon. Also, if you’d like to see a ‘better’ (and by better I mean like actually edited as well as links to the songs) version of the story, look it up Fimfiction . net. Well, see ya next time!