Dream Equestria
Chapter 2: The Band
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Just a quick little update, I know that this is really late but life got in the way. This chapter is very raw and needs some more editing. Just wanting to get it out there! This chapter is getting edited constantly right so sorry if you miss something.
P.S
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Roarin
Rainbow Dash was starting to slow down, the sweat starting to get into her eyes was getting to be a bit too much.
“Hey Rainbow you’re not looking so hot? You might wanna take a break sugercube...” Applejack yelled out to her friend.
A little miffed at the comment Rainbowdash pushed her self for about 10 seconds and then just gave up. falling the length of the rope Rainbowdash found a cloud to land on and grasped it close to her chest. after a few seconds the balloon started to drag a sound asleep Rainbowdash and cloud in tow. twilight and Applejack burst into laughter at the sight of a tangled up Rainbowdash snoring away.
“Maybe we should set down for the day... It has been really hard on Rainbowdash, also i’m almost out of film. Geez you think with the amount of equipment I have, i could reamber a few rolls of film...” Twilight started to ramble off as she started to empty out her her bag to end up with about 30 rolls falling out. Applejack eyes widened at the sight of the “lack of film”, not even wanting to think about the cost to develop all of it. The two mares spotted their stop just a small place off of the train track. two buildings laid on the edge of the tracks, and there they spotted a nice place to land the balloon.
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The train was rolling along making quite the noise going through the flat planes, the sound could be heard for miles.Fluttershy was busy knitting a scarf for Whooves, she was always worried that he would catch a cold up in Marecover. She had a pair of headphones on and was listening an older Dream Equestria album, she couldn’t hear anything outside her cabin. Little did she know that Dream Equestria was on the same train she was, It's also a good thing. Why? Bear didn’t eat anything all day.
“Bear, you really need to eat something.” The brown colt stated, he had a cup of tea with some honey placed beside him by a steward. nodding to the steward, he picked up the tea turned his attention back to Bear. The brown colt's cutie mark was that of a series of notes going higher and higher, Note was well known for hitting notes higher than most other ponies or colts.
“Grafff” was the noise that Bear made, Note wasn’t to sure if it was from him or his stomach. Note sighed, he took a sip of his tea and looked to his other band member. Ginie was blissfully unaware as he was tapping a drum stick on his book. Ginie was a light blue Unicorn whose cutie mark was a drum set with dark blue smoke surrounding it. As he started a book solo, Bear swatted at the floating stick and sent them flying. Ginie looked to Bear and gave him a look of confusion, he then rolled his eyes and proceed to ask Note.
“Bear seems to be angry at me, did I do something wrong?”
Note looked up from his tea, then looked at Bear who wasn’t paying any attention to them , and then back to his tea.
“He has been in foul mood for the past two weeks. aren’t you missing anyone from home?”
Ginie sighed and simply nodded, pulled out two more drum sticks and was starting to practice the time signatures in Dance of Luna’s Eternity. The song was giving Ginie a bit of difficulty in the major switches, Ragtime who puts that in a middle of a song?
“that’s part is really quite hard, it goes 557/57/557 then a double 433 count I believe.”
Wiz stated as he walked into the cabin, he looks to Ginie and smiles and takes a picture of him with his camera. Wiz was an interesting earth pony with the mix of white and gray spots, with a cutie mark that looked like bright blue wizard’s hat covered in stars.
“Why do you have to take all of these pictures?”
Ginie asked as he was replaying that part of the song again in his head. Wiz sat down across from Ginie and took a picture of Note and Bear.
“Our fans love my magazine! now only if there was a way to share these pictures faster, like sending them through a series of tubes...” Wiz started to ramble off. Wiz looks up to see Bear just looking out the window not really looking at anything at all.
“Has Bear still not eaten anything yet?”
A sigh was heard across from bear as a dark gray pony with a black main shook his head no. the silent almost ninja like Pegasus was their bassist, Bassline. Bassline’s cutie mark was that of a single White music note.
“you said it Bassline.”
Note said jokingly, taking another sip of he tea he started to recall the event that left Bear so depressed. Mearcouver was the final destination on their tour and it has been a really long time since they have been home. Bear had just gotten a letter from home saying that his daughter had walked for the first time. He was missing out on some of the biggest events in daughter's life and his families. Bear sighed again, he turned to his band members and smiled
“Think I'm going to go for a walk, which way is it to the dinning cart?”
The Deep brown workhorse stood up, almost dwarfing the other ponies. His cutie mark of a guitar looked darker than usual, needless to say it suited his mood.
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Applejack yawned, it wasn’t a good night to get any sleep. A late night train came through town and stopped for a while, some ponies were yelling about a workhorse who ate most of the food on the train or something to that effect. Then all of the refueling and restocking, what could they be doing to make such noise. Applejack couldn't really guess, nor did she want to at this hour. She wandered downstairs to find something to eat from the hotel fridge, to find a dark gray Pegasus doing the same. Applejack didn't see this Pegasus before, did he come in late? maybe from the train? heck she was happy that she could meet someone new!
“Howdy, you’re hungry too eh?, what’s good eatin’ in there?”
Applejack said while smiling at the Pegasus. The dark gray Pegasus was startled and jumped in the air, sweat started to form on his forehead, he was hoping to just get food and then go back to the train. He looked to the orange pony and smiled and nodded, grabbed a bit for himself and started to make for the door.
“Hey just you wait a minute now mister. you look mighty familiar.”
she walked over to the Pegasus and looked at him a little closer. Sweat started to form at his brow, and a nervous smile started to spread from cheek to cheek. The food he was holding dropped and dove to pick it up as to not lose his only excuse to not talk.
“I reckon you're a country music singer! No wait, you're missing a beard for that.”
Applejack had never actually seen any of the members of Dream Equestria, if she had she would have been the speechless one. Applejack was learning Bass and Bassline was her main influence, not realising that she was pressing her idol into the corner. Some fans would die for chance to meet their idol in such away, of course this was the way how Bassline meet most of his fans... in silence. Applejack on the other hand was mostly oblivious to who this pony was, she got the music part right but was way off the type of music he played. now truly backed into the corner of the room or what Bassline thought was the corner of the room. In reality it was the centre of the room with plenty of space on either side of him, but Bassline liked the space. Most ponies would find being backed into the "corner" of a room to be offensive and raise a little bit of a fuss but, Bassline wasn't one to speak up. But sometimes a pony has to be brave. bassline took a deep breath mustering up all of his voice bassline yelled out!
“I really have to go!”
Which really turned out to be more of a squeak then a yell. Thankfully after years of knowing Fluttershy Applejack knew when it was time to back off of a shy pony. Applejack gave a bit of wincing smile and backed up, as soon as she did Bassline bolted out of the room and ran towards the train.
“Well I’ve heard of shy, but that’s just borderline Fluttershy...”
Applejack shrugged and walked to the fridge to grab an apple and walked back up stairs.
