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- Studying some books at her lavish tree-house, a fully-furnished two-story home inside a very big tree that is, a lavender
- unicorn with purple hair was browsing through her library of books. A section on composition and lyricism caught her eye
- that day. Levitating them off the shelves with her horn's magic, she neatly organized them into a stack beside her.
- Flipping through the pages of one particular book, aptly named "How to Rap," the pony found an odd fascination with this
- style of music. She hadn't even heard more than a few songs or artists of the genre through her sheltered and introverted
- life as a student of friendship and magic.
- Not having a lot of experience with her musical capabilities (the songs in the show don't really count), this genre of
- music seemed simplistic enough for a novice musician like herself. "Hmm...maybe if I write down some lyrics, then I could
- speak them out-loud and see if I have...what's the word?" she scanned the book for a particular word "...Flow, that's what
- it was!" With a purple aura surrounding her horn, she levitated some parchment and a quill into the air, that same purple
- aura encompassing both objects. The unicorn wrote as followed:
- My name is Twilight and I love to read
- my mane is purple and I'm built like a steed
- I float like a butterfly and sting like a bee
- a lyrical pony, I, Twilight Sparkle, be
- "That looks good," the mare said out-loud, her draconian companion, Spike, hearing her as he walked by. "What do you mean,
- Twi?" the small, purple dragon asked. Turning around to see Spike, she showed him the parchment, letting him glance at her
- prose. With a claw-finger to his chin, he said to Twilight, "Wait, are these like...rap lyrics? They don't sound too bad so
- far." "Thanks! And yes, I just read a book on that very subject," she replied happily, a grin on her face. "So what, you're
- gonna be the next lil' Mane?" the purple dragon joked. With a giggle, she replied, "I don't even know who lil' Mane is. I'm
- sure he's talented and famous enough since you know about him." With a raised eyebrow, the dragon inquired, "You don't know
- who lil' Mane is, and yet you wanna get into rap? Sheesh, talk about a rough start!"
- After a shrug of Twilight's shoulders, there was a familiar voice coming from outside her window. "Oh no...is that...?"
- Before the mare could finish her sentence, a rainbow-maned pegasus, crying out in panic, crashed through her window, glass
- shattering onto the floor as the winged pony hit the hard, wooden floor with an audible thud, then a loud smack as her body
- hit a wall of books. "Sorry, Twi..." The pegasus groaned out in pain, falling to her back as a couple of books landed on
- her body. Another voice called from outside: "Rainbow, are you okay?!" Sitting herself up, the rainbow-maned pony rubbed
- the back of her neck, then let out a chuckle as she spotted another pegasus looking inside the tree-house from the now
- broken window.
- It was a smaller filly pegasus, wearing an orange coat of fur with a magenta mane, known as Scootaloo. Perhaps the
- rainbow-maned pegasus was showing off some moves to the filly that day, right before crashing through the window that is.
- Sitting herself up quickly, Rainbow Dash grinned and chuckled to Scootaloo as the smaller pegasus fluttered inside, landing
- next to the crash site. "Don't worry about it, Scoot," Rainbow assured. "You know I'm indestructible."
- "Well, just be more careful next time, alright Dash?" Twilight said to the pegasus, then asked Rainbow "Hey, do you mind
- reading something I wrote?". "Um...okay?" Rainbow replied, trotting up and reading the piece of parchment with Twilight's
- prose on it. The rainbow-maned pegasus then tried to hold in her laughter, snickering loudly. "What's so funny?" Twilight
- asked, slightly nervous at Dash's reaction. Dash caught her breath and explained, "Sorry, its just...well...I can't imagine
- an egghead like you trying to rap..." Feeling a bit offended by her response, Twi then retorted, "You know, an 'egghead'
- like me got fifth place at the Running of the Leaves. Might I also remind you that you were tied for last with Applejack?"
- With a scoff, Rainbow replied with, "This isn't the Running of the Leaves, though. Rap is an actual competition, and takes
- serious dedication." "What do you mean by 'actual competition'?" Twilight asked.
- "Don't you know anything about rap and hip-hop?" Rainbow Dash snickered. "Its not like other music, Twi. Its like the
- Poetry Slam of music. You gotta be assertive and show-off how good you are at tha' game. Ya' dig?"
- "Something tells me you're well versed in the genre..." Twilight chuckled.
- "Cloudsdale Junior Speedster Rap-off Champion, Master RD for your information." That gave Spike and Scootaloo a gleam in
- their eyes, along with some ooh's and ahh's.
- "Good to know," The unicorn said with a nod. "You bet! I guess I could coach you in the ways of lyrical awesomeness,
- though. I mean, a rookie like you would get beaten to a pulp, metaphorically speaking, if you were just going at it by
- yourself," Rainbow hinted, nudging at the lavender pony with her fore-leg's elbow. "Wait, weren't you gonna show me some
- more tricks, Rainbow?" Scootaloo inquired. "I can do that later, Scoot. Why don't you go play with your Crusader friends?"
- The pegasus suggested. With a groan of disappointment, the filly made her way outside.
- Once the orange pegasus left the tree-house, Rainbow then wrapped a fore-leg around Twi and said, "So, now that we're
- focused, let's add to that rhyme you've got going. That and we need to work on a rap name for you. You can't just go around
- free-stylin' as your normal ol' self, right? You gotta have an alter-ego." With a nod, the lavender pony grabbed the quill
- with her unicorn magic and continued her prose in progress:
- All these ponies 'round here think (that) I can't rap
- Well, I think I could out-rap them in a snap
- I mean, really, who could think of something so wack
- That's like saying you want discord to come back, yo
- Yo, like a wonderbolt, I'm totally soarin'
- Like a football player I am totally scorin', foo
- My rhymes can blow you away like Rainbow Dash
- I'll spit and I'll spat 'til you burn and crash!
- "Now that's what I call a rap" Rainbow chuckled, nodding in approval."Especially the part about me. Yo, Spike!" She called
- for the dragon, Spike walking up to the two. Scanning through the added lyrics, he gave an equally approving nod to
- Twilight. "Thanks, guys...I'll be a number one rapper in no time," The unicorn said joyfully. Suddenly, a flyer flew into
- the room from the still broken window. Twilight gave it a read: "Ponyville Amateur Rapping Contast, 2NITE at 8pm. Come 2
- the Sugarcube Corner for free-styling of epic proportions. Catering by Mr. and Mrs. Cake and co.." "Well, I think we have
- work to do, MC Twilight," The rainbow-maned pegasus said, winking to the unicorn.
- TO BE CONTINUED
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