The Storm

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Octavia woke up no realizing were she was "Vinyl?" there was a second of silence, but and tired cracked voice answered back "Yes? What time is it?" Octavia started to remember the events of the night before "Vinyl I'm so sorry for – for everything I put you though last night" she started to tear up, but arms of her friend enclosed around her holding her close to the white mare "its ok, I'm sorry too." Vinyl paused for a moment " Just don't cry, okay? Yesterday was just crazies, and I apologize" Octavia wiped away the tear, and let her mare-friend hold her.

It was well past noon and the two mares walked along the deck being cautious not to bump into the other guests as they passed. Making were way past all the attraction, and found a good spot to lie down. "Hey Vinyl?" "Ya Tavi?" "I just want to say… I'm sorry. I'm sorry for all I've put you through…" "Tavi… It's ok…" she hugged her mare-friend. They're moment of silence was broken by the crackling boom of thunder, "Come on Vinyl, lets get back to the room" They got up and trotted back to their room. As they opened the door to their room an unfamiliar aroma made its way to their nostrils, but this smell was vaguely similar to Vinyl, making her stop in her tracks to think about it. "Oh no" Vinyl said under her breath "Yo Tavi, maybe we should head back out to the pool. I mean we were are there for long, you know?" "Don't be silly Vinyl there's a storm coming, besides I didn't get enough sleep last-" Octavia stopped, inside the room came the sound of her cello being play rather badly. Octavia's mind began to whir back into gear "My Cello!" she cried, racing into the room, catching the intruder quickly placing the Instrument back onto its stand. "Oh I'm sorry" said the stallion "You must be.. Octavia? Right?" "Who are you? Why were you touching my cello!" Shouted Octavia "I'm Neon Lights, Vinyl's friend" The stallion said with an awkward grin.

"What are you doing here!" stammered Vinyl, "What do you mean? You told me when we were at the party to come over today" explained Neon "You what?!" shouted Octavia staring at Vinyl intensely "What are you even doing in here! We weren't even here!" Octavia said turning her head to face Neon "Well I knocked, but you two didn't answer, and the door was unlocked, so, I kind of just let myself in." "Dude not cool" said Vinyl disapprovingly "and why were you touching Octavia's cello?" "I'm sorry I was just experimenting with the sounds, to see if I could mix it into my music" "Well I guess thats okay-" Vinyl was interrupted by Octavia "No! It's not okay! No one comes into your house uninvited and touched your - your - DJ stuff!" "Whoa there Tavi, cool down" said Vinyl in a smooth voice "No! I will not 'Cool It' He had no right!" she let out a angry moan "you know what! Vinyl, I'm leaving!" "What do you mean?" replied Vinyl "I'm not staying on this cruise ship anymore! Especially with you!" yelled Octavia "Tavi come on now… your not thinking straight" Octavia walked to the far end of the room to leave "Octavia!" Vinyl shouted as she slammed the door behind her "I'm sorry Vinyl" Whispered Neon "You know what Neon! That's was not cool of you to do that! Great… I need to go talk some sense into Octavia…" she trotted to the door "Neon just go okay? Just go…" she closed the door behind her.

It was completely dark now the storm gusting freezing rain down upon her coat, Octavia Trotted as fast she could go not caring about the noise she made for she know the crashing of the furious waves below would mask the noise. She made her way to the first life raft she saw, and untied the rope and got inside. Maybe this was a little extreme… she thought to herself, but she continued to lower herself toward the unforgiving sea. "Octavia! What are you doing!" Octavia looked up to find Vinyl running towards her "I'm leaving Vinyl! Go back to the room!" she yelled out the wind "Please Tavi get out of the raft!" Octavia responded by lowering herself even more. "Octavia!" Vinyl yelled as she ran towards her. Vinyl grabbed hold of the rope with her mouth desperately trying to keep Tavi up, but the rope slipped and Octavia continued to descend. Vinyl could believe this was happening she had to do something Octavia was almost halfway down. Then Vinyl had an idea and she admitted it wasn't her smartest move but she had to do something. She leaned over the rail and whispered to herself "1 – 2 – 3" and she let go of the railing.

She fell not believing what she had done; she plummeted down into the raft. The raft absorbed the force of her fall but there was to much force and the raft shot her back up into the cold air. She blanked out but when she regained her ability to think clearly she noticed she was hanging onto the slippery raft "Octavia!" she shrieked, not able to hold onto the raft any longer. Her hoofs slipped and she fell toward the dark waters below.

She could feel herself being lifted from the cold raging tides, "Vinyl are you okay?!" Said Octavia yelling over the sound of crashing waves. Vinyl coughed up some water and began to shiver "I'm - I'm fine…" she replied, gripping the raft as wave after wave hit they're flimsy boat. "Oh Celestia" whispered Octavia, Vinyl managed to pull her head up just in time to see a quite long wave rolling it's way towards them. The ocean waters began to be pulled in as the wave grew in size. The two cold wet and frightened mares hugged each other tightly as them began ascending the massive wave. "I'm sorry" cried Octavia. "Im so sorry…"