Chapter 5

Sugar,spice and everything Trixie

Chilly Peps was sitting in her brand new car. She moved to Fillydelphia after signing a music deal with a famous music company. She has been performing over cities everywhere,meeting new people and artists. She lost contact with her pal Trixie a few years ago after college. She heard that she has recently gone missing after an attack on Ponyville. She planned on going on a road trip to Ponyville to figure out where she was. She brought along her daughter "Leslie Clark".She loved reading and was a very intellectual pony. Her Cutie Mark was a magnifying glass,showing that she was good at solving mysteries. Chili Peps hated leaving her daughter alone so she brought her everywhere. Most people said that was a bit stupid but Chilly Peps wasn't very good at receiving tips. She thought they were insults to her. Fillydelphia was an hour away from Ponyville,it was a bright summer day. She was reminded of how she met the supposedly great and powerful Trixie.

It was 7th grade,Chilly Peps was playing the piano in the band room practicing for the musical. They were looking for great actors and great singers. After the announcement three dimwitted pony rushed through the door almost knocking down the all the instruments. It was the Infamous Trixie fan trio. They went up to the music teacher and were all telling him about Trixie. The colt screamed "YES TRIXIE CAN BE IN THE MUSICAL!Just please get away from me!"He pushed them away and wrote Trixie's name on the paper. Chilly Peps has never really seen Trixie since they have a completely different schedules. Unicorns had completely different schedules compare to earth ponies.

Rehearsals were held outside due to the limited space at school. The only audience they had were Snips,Snails and Tails. Sugarcake was there too but was mostly trying to outsell more candy than her arch enemy Raiden,a bright red colt who sold candy and baked goods. The two always had contests like these. Chili Peps was used to this already because they had a contest at every school event. The bus came and a bunch of people came out. Tails took out his Microphone and hooked it up to the speakers and announced "Fillies and Gentlecolts,May I present to you...The Great...The Powerful...TRIXIE!" Trixie jumped off the bus and ran towards the stage and was as ready as ever to show off her skills.

Leslie Screamed and made Chili Peps run off the road while she was day dreaming. They were falling down a cliff at 120 Miles per hour. There was nothing but land under her. Leslie grabbed Chili Peps' goggles and through it at a nearby branch. She figured with a strong enough branch she could send them repelling back in the air. The goggles were about to break in half but instead launched the car in the air towards the top of the cliff. Leslie was holding on to Chili Peps screaming. They both closed they're eyes and heard a loud crashing. They were both tangled in a tree,and her car was on fire. Chili Peps stared furiously at Leslie and was ready to smack her beside the head but instead she asked "WHY IN ALL OF EQUESTRIA DID YOU SCREAM!"Lauren hid inside the tree and whispered "We almost ran over a group of girl scouts. Didn't you see them?"Chili Peps looked around and they were in the middle of a field with apple trees. Chili Peps grinned and looked back at Leslie "How long did we drive for?" Leslie rubbed her chin and said "Well I guess about an hour ago?" Chilly looked at the fields,almost forgetting her new car was destroyed. It was Sweet apple acres,in the outskirts of ponyville. Meaning that they were a stone throw away from Ponyville. Chili Peps hugged Leslie so hard that she couldn't breath for about 45 seconds until she pushed her mom away. The two climbed down tree and tried putting out the car fire before the car exploded. There was a fire extinguisher in the back that always came in handy. After a 20 minute walk they made it to the center of Ponyville. A vast wasteland with parasprites everywhere. A pink pony came rushing too her."Oh,you must be new here,sorry for the mess and a lack of party but do you by any chance have a flute,harmonica and tuba?My friends won't listen to me because they think I'm crazy!" Chili Peps pushed the pink pony and sighed "If I give you those instruments,can you tell me where the nearest phone is?",Pinkie was confused and replied "What are you crazy?We don't have phones here in Ponyville,you must be from those big city towns,those must be very cool to live in,I had a friend who..."Leslie kicked Chili Peps and gave her a serious look. Chili Peps looked back at the pony and said "I'll go get my instruments...They should be by the burned car. Wait here..."The Pink Pony swooshed and came right back. Chili Peps was dumbfounded,she rubbed her eyes to be sure that what she saw was real. The pony smiled and went hopping along. Leslie merely said "That was weird."

After an hour of rehearsal it was time to go home. Some were picked up from school but she was getting the bus ride home. Chili Peps was forced to get on the bus with Trixie and her fan club. She sat down in front to get off the bus even faster. She planned on playing her keyboard until Trixie sat down next to her. She instantly thought that Trixie was going to start telling her how much better she was at everything but instead she looked at the piano and asked "So,how long have ya been playing the piano?I've always wanted to play it but never really found the time to." Chili Peps smiled and said "I've been playing this bad boy since the 2nd grade."Trixie levitated 2 drinks out of her bag and asked if she wanted one. Chili Peps smiled and grabbed one. She popped it open and asked "Why did ya give me on?We just met..."

"Well my fan boys over there gave me about 5 cans of these drinks and I thought hey,why waist something."

Sugarcakes came by and gave Trixie a serius look. Trixie turned to Chili Peps and whispered "What's her problem?"

"Sugarcubes tends to get jealous really fast when I hang out with someone else..."

There was ponies everywhere screaming "THE HORROR,THE HORROR".Chili Peps tried to ask what was going on but every pony was running away from the parasprites. Then she started hearing music,it was the pink pony playing music down the street and the parasprites were following her. Chili Peps wanted to get out of this crazy town as soon as possible. She turned around and didn't see Leslie anywhere. She was completely calm because Leslie always goes missing for about an hour on a daily basis. Most parents said that was really bad idea,but they obviously know nothing about parenting. She tried finding a bench but there was none. "You would think a peaceful town like this would have benches."She started hearing sobbing from behind a tree. It was her friend Lyra,she was behind a tree crying. She sat down next to her and asked "Why are you crying?" Lyra pointed at where it seemed that a bench used to be. Chili Peps remembered how awkwardly Lyra always sat back in Canterlot.

It was the day of the performance,they raised enough money to go to Canterlot the best city in all of Equestria. Most of the money came from Sugarcakes and Raiden. The two had a tie,Raiden sold candies to half of the town and Sugarcube sold in the other half. They won a trip to go with them so that was a plus. Trixie's Fan Club couldn't go except Tails because all the teachers knew that he had the "Golden" voice. After arriving to Canterlot they had help from other students from the music and arts program. It was a group of 3 Fillies and 3 Colts,they were all introduced one by one. Rebila,Lyra,Octavia,Blue Jazz,Moondancer and Ghost. They were in charge of the background music in the second half and the set. Chili Peps wanted to meet the other musicians and see if she could make some new friends before going back to schools. She had an hour to talk so she started to talk to Ghost. She walked to ghost and turned around after she really looked at him. Black Fur and a skull cutie mark. She didn't want to know how he got that cutie mark. Her next target was Lyra,a pony sat awkwardly on stage while drinking a soda. Chili Peps was very curious on why she would seat like that. She walked up to her with a huge smile and tried to sound as nice as possible,Lyra was getting a little creeped out and moved away slowly. Chili Peps had the creepiest smile in all of Equestria. Then Trixie came rushing in and hugged her. She looked at Lyra and said "Great to meet ya,I am the Great and Powerful Trixie and this is my friend Chili Peps. We wanted to get to know you and why you seat so ummm...awkwardly..." Lyra sighed and rolled her eyes and said "If you must know,I sit like this because as a little filly I always wondered why they made benches with things for backs so I started to sit like this to prove to her that they weren't made so ponies could lay their heads on it."Trixie found it interesting that benches had the back part but never quite understood why they were there. "Well...was she right?"

"Of course not,I got used to it"

Chili Peps stepped in and asked "Can ya introduce us to your classmates,except huh..."

"Ghost?"

"Yes"

"Don't worry,A lot of people stay away from him. None of us don't even know how he got his cutie mark"

"Well what instrument does he play?The electric guitar?"

"The flute."

Trixie shook her head and said "Come again?A possible emo colt's instrument is the flute?That's so stupid,a tall and powerful colt just plays the flute?May I ask why that ruffian would ever play the flute?"

Chili Peps started pointing behind Trixie as she was ranting on about how stupid it was. Trixie finally took the time to not talk and actually see the hand signals. She felt breathing down her neck,she turned around and saw Ghost. The colt grabbed Trixie by the cape and furiously asked "What's wrong with playing the flute?"Trixie stayed calm and her horn started grinning,Trixie then made a whispering hand signal and whispered "Duck..." Ghost's flute slammed him across the face. Trixie used her smoke bomb and disappeared with Chili Peps and Lyra. The three hid behind stage for the rest of the hour. The two were furious at Trixie for getting the both in potential trouble.

Lyra looked up and started sobbing even more. Chili Peps remembered that they started off on the wrong hoof. Chili Peps was then greeted by the pink pony,scaring her half to death. The pink pony grabbed Chili Peps and Lyra,she dragged them to a dark room and turned on the lights. Lyra was completely calm because this was a norm for the pink pony. Chili Peps was shivering next to Lyra scared witless. Lyra pushed her off and told her to open her eyes. Chili Peps was surprised and perplexed on why they're at a party. Lyra sighed and rolled her eyes just like she used to "Were at Pinkie Pie's usual party." Pinkie Pie popped behind the two and started shaking Chili Peps hand to the extreme. "I wanted to thank ya for helping me to get rid of those little mini itsy bitzy parasprites out of our town. My friend Fluttershy brought them and then I was like,we need to stop them but my friends started calling me crazy. I don't know why they didn't trust me but luckily you came by and gave me instruments but Princess Celestia didn't come because of the stupid parasprites invading Fillydelphia..."

Chili Peps was surprised by the last sentence. "Wait,what's happening in Fillydelphia?"

"They have a sparasprites invasion going on there but luckily Princess Celestia is going there to save the day!"

Chili Peps was developing butterflies in her stomach. Everything she had was in if they ate her whole house?What if they destroyed it all already?What if Princess Celestia can never solve the problem?Chili Peps started developing all these bad ideas and possibilties. Then that was the least of her problems. Two colts screamed "Surprise!".She could tell those voices from a mile away. Snips and Snails...

Chili Peps tried closing her eyes and hoping that she was imagining the whole thing...she wasn't. Snips and Snails were clearly still there. She closed her eyes in hopes that they would go away. Snips and Snails were still smiling and not budging. Chili Peps open her eyes and gave up "Oh,it's you two...what are you two doing here?"Snips and Snails both yelled "Were going to get bits to find Trixie!"Chili Peps turned around and made a huge smile in hopes that she could trick the two to do all the work for her.

"I'm looking for her too!We should all get together and try to find her!Snips,Snails,Me and Les..."

Her eyes grew wide open "What time is it?"

Snips looked at the clock and said "3:45"

Leslie has been gone for 2 hours.

After the performance,the teachers forced Trixie and Ghost to apologize to each other. Lyra and Chili Peps were giggling in the back at the sight of Trixie getting in trouble. Lyra and her other pals went back in the bus and so did Chili Peps,but that wasn't the last time they were going to see each other.6 months later Chili Peps attended a musician meet up in Manehattan,she brought along Sugarcakes and Trixie so they could get together and sell albums. Trixie mostly made fireworks and was trying to get as much attention as possible and Sugarcakes wanted to sell more albums than everyone there. Chili Peps mostly looked around at the other booths to see her competition. There was many genres of music there from Classical to Dub-step,Chili Peps prefered Techno out of everything else. After 7 minutes of examining other booths she saw a techno pony,she looked cool so Chili Peps decided to talk to her. Her name tag said she was called DJ PON-3 and she looked very techno,she even had the awesome goggles. Chili Peps knew they were going to be best friend but in the corner of her eye she saw Sugarcubes staring at her with her usual "I'm going to kill you if you betray me" face. She really hated that about Sugarcakes. Chili Peps tried to look as cool as possible while talking to DJ Peps was talking about how she was going to start a band and wanted to see if she wanted to join. The white DJ pony just kept head banging while she kept talking. Trixie was gathering a huge crowd as she showed all the magical things she knew. She released flames out of nowhere,fog,fireworks and mind blowing tricks. Soon DJ-PON-3 noticed all the commotion and pushed Chili Peps out of the way to see it all. Sugarcubes started moving towards Chili Peps in an attempt to hug her to make her feel better but Chili Peps ran to the crowd too. Sugarcubes was losing all her friends to the dreaded Trixie. Trixie was selling Chili Peps' albums like wild fire. All the other musicians were looking at her in anger. One of those faces was Lyra and Octavia,Chili Peps hid in the crowd hoping no one would notice her. Trixie loved having all this attention. She was doing magic tricks galore,then the ponies started chanting "Lightning,Lightning,Lightning!" Chili Peps knew this wasn't going to end well. Trixie only begun testing with controlling the weather 2 days ago. That would've either meant a small lightning,or a huge bolt of electricity hitting the place and burning it all to the ground. Lyra was sipping her soda and looked at Trixie with envy.

It's been 3 hours and Leslie was still missing,Chili Peps was sitting outside the party trying to gather her thoughts on where the pony has gone. She heard the door open,it was Lyra. She sat down next to her and put arm around her. She gave Chili Peps a soda but she shoved it aside.

"Listen if this makes you feel any better,I'm going to help you find Leslie"

"You don't have to.."

"Just to let you know,I'm not angry about the music convention. I'm just not a pony person. I only have about 1 to 2 friends. Heck I don't even talk to one of them,last I heard of her she went to Appleloosa and somehow got a new crew member for an orchestra or band or whatever to join. It was some magic show pony. Trixie,was it?Do you know her?Didn't a pony like her ruin the convention. I never did really know her name..."

Chili Peps eyes widen as she heard Lyra talk...

"Are you okay?"

Chili Peps' eye started twitching

"Oh right,Your daughter!We got to find her!"

Lyra started to get worried

"It's not that...Oh it's much worst..."

"What?"

"Trixie,that no good dirty liar is trying to steal my colt!"

Lyra was even more confused as she saw Chili Peps running out of sight into the night.

"But...what about your...Daughter"

She turned around and was surprised to see Snail and Snips.

"I heard you two were talking about Appleloosa!"We were heading there next week!Why does Chili Peps want to go?"

"I think she was trying to find her friend Trixie..."

Snails looked at Snips and said "Are ya thinking what I'm thinking?"

Snips smiled and said "That we should go to Appleloosa with Chili Peps to find our beloved Trixie and hopefully saving her from distressed and she would end up rewarding us with a kiss?"

"Well uhhh... I was thinking that we should go back inside for more punch,but your idea sounds cooler."

The two highfived and ran after Chili Peps. Leaving Lyra alone to find the missing filly she never seen before.

Chapter 6

CutiemarkFinders