private City of Lies

[RaptorJaysus 178]

'Twas a fine eve in the city of Canterlot. Ponies going about their business, happily passing the stalls in the street, always a smile on their face. Alas, things were not as they seemed. Little did the ponies of Equestria know of the workings of their nation, and the dark secrets it kept hidden from public view. Many a pony spent their life protecting this nation, this city, this life. However, things never stay as they are. Some would call it chance, but others would call it fate.

 

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Thunder Shred, a lone male pegasus, was walking down the streets of Canterlot, taking in the sights. He hadn't been here in a while, and the last time he was here was for a tour with his old band. He never really got to see the city properly then, for when he wasn't playing on stage, he was relaxing with Vinyl Scratch and Octavia, discussing ways to further each of their musical fields. It was only a few months before then that Octavia and Thunder had decided to fuse their musical styles, classical orchestral and metal, into a single, seamless song. He savored the memories of those times, remembering days gone by. He walked into a diner and sat down at the last empty table, searching the menu for something he would like to eat.

[Chivalry Knight 161]

Prior walks through the large and wondrous looking Kingdom of Canterlot, She pulls out a piece of paper from her satchel and reads it. "Hm... -Sigh-... ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! DAMN! I CAN'T BELIEVE I FORGOT TO WRITE DOWN THE ADDRESS OF MY CLIENT!!!" She yells out to herself, multiple other ponies in the area look at her in awe. Prior turns her head and looks around before saying "...WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AAAAT!!!" The other ponies quickly dart their heads away from Prior and start walking away.

"-Sigh- I need something to eat, iv'e traveled all this way for no reason at all..." Prior say's while walking a short distance. She then spots a local diner. She looks into her satchel and takes out a couple of bits. "This will probably get me a stale piece of toast... if I'm lucky... Maybe somepony will be nice enough to lend me a few bits..." Prior turns and walks into the diner.

The diner seemed full, lucky for her. She went around other ponies tables asking for spare bits. Out of all the ponies in the diner except for one, she had forged a total of... 3 bits. 'Ugh 3 bits are you kidding me? I should have brought more bits with me..' She thought to herself. 'All well, one more table to go...' she thought again. She then walks up to Thunder, the light from the lamp hanging from the ceiling reflected from her rectangular shaped glasses. Making it almost impossible to see her eyes. "Hey slick, got any spare change? I'm from out of town and i kind of ran out of bits, I was supposed to complete a job here but my client canceled and now I'm kinda broke... So you think you can help out, or what?" She awaited The colts answer who seemed deep into the menu's selection.

Edited April 15, 2014 by Prince Blackquill

[RaptorJaysus 178]

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Thunder looked up and broke the trance induced by staring at food. "I have a few spare bits on me." He reached into his sack and pulled out the goods. "Let's see, 1, 2, 3, 5, 13, 23, 69, 74, 30, 553, 275, I have a total of 10 bits on me." He looked the mare in the face for the first time, and simply said: "So, drinks on me?"

[Chivalry Knight 161]

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 'This guy thinks he's a real character doesn't he, ~sigh~ why do I always manage to find the cooky ones...' Prior looks down  and smiles, the lamp was no longer reflecting off of her glasses. "Sure Slick, that's very nice of you. Hard to find 'Friendly' ponies in Canterlot..." She sits down in the seat in front of Thunder. And waves down a waiter. "Alright Slick, you order, I'm good with whatever." She looks at him waiting for a response.


 

[RaptorJaysus 178]

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The brown stallion looked through the menu. "The name's Thunder by the way, just so you remember." He spotted a meal that would interest him, maybe her as well: a "Manvich." It consisted of two slices of bread with hay, lettuce, grass, daisies, sauce and onion. He called for the waitress. "Hey, can we have two 'Manviches' over here?"

[Nameless Knight 1,001]

Winter nervously walked through the streets. He didn't make eye contact with anypony and just kept walking to his destination. He kept his head low and looked around. He whispered something to himself as he walked. He walked into a diner and saw that there were no free tables "okay, no free tables..." Winter said before beginning to leave

[RaptorJaysus 178]

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Seeing a stallion disappointed and hungry, Thunder called out. "Hey you! You can sit over here if you want to! There's plenty of room over here." The brown pegasus sat there, waiting for his meal. The waitress finally arrived with two large plates. Atop each were the promised meals, the so-called 'Manviches.' "That'll be 6 bits thank you." Thunder reached down and grabbed the payment, with tip included. "Here you go." Thunder stared down into his meal, starting to regret the choice of a massive sandwich... burger... thing.

[Spacey 748]

"Give me a break like boom ch boom boom ch boom ch" Dancing her way down the street, Spacer stopped in front of the diner. She had been craving hay fries all day and this place looked pretty popular from the amount of ponies inside. She placed the headphones on her ears on her neck and trotted on in the diner to see that wasn't a single seat open "wwwooooowwww" she said under her breathe. "Not a single table open" She shrugged and leaned against a wall until a table became available or at least become available, she was hungry and her belly growling didn't make it better.

[Chivalry Knight 161]

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Prior didn't care what the sandwich Thunder ordered her looked like, she ate it right up as soon as it came to the table. 
​'For a sandwich that looks like a pile of manure, it doesn't taste half bad...' She thought to herself. She had eaten only about a quarter of her sandwich until she heard thunder yell out to somepony. She looked at the stallion who looked like he was about to cry for some reason. She turned back to Thunder. "Hey Slick, I think your scaring him..." She said to Thunder, fully knowing that his name is "Thunder".

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She turned back to the stallion. "Hey Come on, we won't bite, I promise were nice!" She called out with a smile, waving her hoof side to side in the air. The commotion from the table they were sitting at made some of the other customers look at them. But they quickly noticed that it was the mare from before and darted their heads away, again... 'Yeah that's right, you Canterlot stuck-ups, you better look away!' She thought to herself, still waving at Winter.

Edited April 15, 2014 by Prince Blackquill

[Nameless Knight 1,001]

Winter timidly walked to the table. He was still whispering something to himself. Once he made it to the Table he looked at the mare and the Stallion. "H-h-hi... I-I'm Winter" Winter said with a timid smile. He felt nervous and continued whispering what he was whispering before

[Harmony Cube 80]

Shooting walked around with her muzzle in a astronomy book. 'The facts about comets are nothing new.' She thought and put her book away.

 

Shooting walked around and stared at the ground, starting to hum a tune she made up as she went. She looked up to see a diner. 'Too bad I don't have any money with me.' Shooting thought.

[The Cynical Lone Wolf 615]

Lone was walk through the streets of Canterlot with a gray hoodie on and was looking at everpony left and right

"The rich", he though,"how I loathe them."

He looked at diner and stomach growled as loud as  a dogs growl

"Time for some food", he said out load and entered the diner

[RaptorJaysus 178]

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Thunder spoke softer now, trying not to scare the obviously timid stallion. "Sorry if I startled or scared you before. I tend to have that effect on people sometimes." He moved over and left a seat beside him. "Come on and sit down. I doubt either of us are going to finish this... thing," he said, pointing at the 'Manvich,' "so you can if you're hungry or anything."

[Nameless Knight 1,001]

"o-okay" Winter sat down and looked at the Stallion. He continued to whisper something to himself that was still too quiet to hear. He looked at the 'Manvich' and raised an eyebrow. "Wow that is a huge sandwich... How can one pony eat that" Winter said with a surprised look.

[RaptorJaysus 178]

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The brown pegasus leaned back. "I don't think they're meant to." He patted his belly with his forehoof and belched. "Pardon me. I'm sorry for being so polite." He looked around the diner, noticing more ponies just looking for a place to sit down. Here we go again... "You know, if you're looking for a table, you can always ask to sit down at one. You don't have to sit at an empty one or just stand there until there is one."

[Spacey 748]

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Before the brown pegasus could finish Spacer was sliding into a seat at their table. "Couldn't help but hear there was a open seat here" She stated giving a warm smile, the busy waitress came by and Spacer quickly got her order of hay fries before she was out of range to order. "Soooo" Spacer said looking around the table "My name is Spacer, small town pegasus, big time success, nice to meet....." She lowered her voice "What would be your names??" She asked every pony at the table.

[RaptorJaysus 178]

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He stared up at the mare, instantly noticing the headphones. "Thunder. The name's Thunder Shred. Those headphones. Can't see the brand, but I'm guessing they're designed for DJing, hence the large magnets and ridiculous wattage. I have a pair of Sennhorses somewhere, but I only use them for my music."

[Spacey 748]

"Its nice to meet you Thunder" She said as she adjusted her headphones. "Yup you would be correct, I do gigs here and there for bits, I want to further my career in music but for now hasn't been so hot here in Canturlot when you got Octavia and Vinyl Scratch around." She stated tapping a hoof on the table getting impatient for her food "Your an musical artist too? Thats ratchet! What do you play?" Going through the stallions name in her head "Would it be something along the lines of....guitars?"

[RaptorJaysus 178]

The stallion looked pleased with himself. A good first impression. A good surprise if you ask me. "Yeah, I play guitar. I don't play those horse apple pop-rock songs you would hear on the radio. I play the more... extreme types of metal." He thought over what the mare said to him. "By the way, what do you mean by 'it's not so hot here when you have Octavia and Vinyl Scratch around'?" Recalling his past musical experiences, he simply smiled at the thought of working with those two again. "If you're nice, and I'm lucky, I can get the two of them to work with you, and of course me. I was planning on seeing them anyways, so what do you think?"

[Nameless Knight 1,001]

Winter lost track of what was going on. He looked at his hooves and whispered something to himself. He looked up and saw another mare who had sat down at the table. Winter began to sink lower in his chair and started to whisper to himself faster. He looked back down at his hooves.

[Harmony Cube 80]

Shooting counted the money she had at the bottom of her bag. 'Still not enough for an actual meal but maybe for a snack.' She thought and sighed.

 

Shooting heard someone say there was a table where others could sit. She sighed and walked over.

 

"I couldn't help but overhear you had room for a few more." Shooting said in her typical quiet voice.

@RaptorJesus

[Spacey 748]

"I knew it" She said with confidence "Oh, well they take up all the fame, not many ponies come to see me when you got Octavia playing down the street" Spacer laughed as her hay fries were placed in front of her. She popped a couple in her mouth and listened to the brown stallion. After she swallowed she replied "That would be awesome!" She about yelled in a high squeaky voice "Of course I'm nice" she said with a wink "I hope you do get the hook up, it'd definitely boost my popularity in this city". She hoofed some more fries and chewed them up and seen the light blue looking stallion staring at his hoofs. "Hey" She said softly "You okay there? Want a hay fry?" She said sliding over her fries "They are amazing" She took one and through it up opening her mouth to catch but never felt the fry as it flew behind her onto the floor "um...ya they are good" she added giggled at her failed stunt.

[Nameless Knight 1,001]

Winter looked up at the mare slightly and timidly said "N-no thanks...." Winter looked back down and continued whispering. He felt like he was going to have a panic attack on the inside. He noticed another mare came to the table and began to sink even lower in his seat.

[Spacey 748]

"okay suite yourself" Spacer said pulling back the fries and digging into it like she hasn't ate in weeks. Why was that stallion so shy? She thought to herself as she chowed down. The thought got lost in her mind as she concentrated on the new pony that was pretty much asking if she could sit with them. "We do, come on and take yourself a seat" She said with a welcoming smile.

[Harmony Cube 80]

Shooting sat down and continued on her book. 'Even though I've read it all, it's always a good read.' She thought.

 

'"How do you guys like Canterlot?" Shooting asked. 'It's kinda awkward at the moment, that's why I'm starting the conversation.' She mentally reminded herself.

Edited April 16, 2014 by Harmony Cube