Dagi in Love

I sat on the stage in the gym as I finished up the lyrics to my new song. I suddenly wondered of anybody would notice I wasn't in class.

"Not likely," I muttered to myself. I drew my attention back to the task at hand. "One more run through, then I find Sonata and Aria."

I began to hum the opening lines to the song. I started soft, then I got louder, getting more into the music. I focused on my desire for revenge, revenge on the horrible ponies that had banished me and my friends to this awful, awful, place. It was called a crescendo in music terms. I liked that word. Crescendo.

"So even if you think, You know your friends at allllllll!" I sang the last lines to the empty gym.  "Watch out. When they leave..." I paused for a moment, imagining how the words would take effect on the audience.

"You'll falllllll," I finished, fading out.

"You know, you're really good. Why is the song so mean, though?" I jumped at the sound of a voice. It was that guy from earlier. Captain Planet. I folded my arms and glared at him.

"Don't you have to be in class?" I asked, ignoring his question about the song. Captain Planet looked straight at me.

"The staff kinda trusts me, so if students don't show up for class, I can go look for them."

"Yeah, right." I snorted. "I don't believe a word of it." Captain looked at his feet.

"'Kay, I lied. I do look for students, but it's on my own time. I'm technically supposed to be in the bathroom right about now." I groaned.

"So, Cap- can I call you Cap? -you went to go look for me? I don't need a foa- a babysitter, you know." I hopped off the stage, notebook in hand. "In fact, I was just leaving." I walked briskly past him.

"Oh, and I'd rather only see you when I need help for history," I added. Not that I will ever need any. "So you can stop following me." Cap crossed his arms as well.

"I wasn't followin' you," he informed me. "I'm trying to help you do well in school, 'cause I can tell you need the help!"

"Pfft." I waved my hand. "Is that your job or something?"

"I try to help everyone I can," he answered. I glanced at his shirt, with had the icon of a planet on it. Everyone in the world. That's his talent. Sure helps me a lot.

"Alright, I know you're trying to help, but I have a very important... project I'm working on. Me and my friends." I did my best to smile. "You don't have to worry about me, except for history and that stuff." Before he could reply, I dashed away as quickly as I could. I rounded a corner and headed straight for my locker, whose location I had unwillingly memorized.

"Please tell me I don't have to see him ever again," I murmured, pretending to search for a book at the bottom. I guess I should be getting to class, if only not to blow my cover.

Besides, I thought to myself, maybe Aria or Sonata will be in my class and I can share the new lyrics with them.

As it turns out, my next subject was Physical Education. Gross. I'm not against fitness, it's just my gorgeous hair gets all knotted and messy from all that running.

I casually walked out to the field and was delighted to find a certain purple haired grouch among this class.

"So you take this class too?" I asked, tapping her shoulder. Aria jumped a foot in the air. When she realized it was me, her expression turned sour.

"You scared me, Adagio," she grumbled. "And you're late, anyways. I'm about to kick Cloudy Kicks's sorry little butt on the stupid sorry soccer field."

"You can't be serious," I responded. "Concerned with this petty class? We should be plotting revenge on the ponies that wronged us!" Aria shrugged, which infuriated me even more.

"Maybe it's not all about revenge. Maybe we should just try to conquer this world instead. Have you ever thought of that, Adagio?" I grabbed her shirt and pulled her in, the way I do when I want her to know I am deathly serious.

"We are going through with this plan," I growled. "I have the song, we just need to practice it, and then we'll get the revenge we want."

"Fine," Aria muttered. I released her, and she stumbled back. "I still wanna beat up that Cloudy Kicks girl, though. She reminds me of Sonata, even if she's not the worst." I crossed my arms.

"Can't you just focus for once?" I asked, not understanding why she was distracted by trivial matters like soccer. Aria returned my glare, until I finally relented.

"Fine. You can beat her up. Just don't come crying to me when I'm the only-"

"Adagio Dazzle!" The teacher marched over to me. "Where have you been? The class is almost over!"

Thinking quickly, I told her, "I thought I had music, but when I checked my schedule, it turned out to be Phys. Ed. instead. And nobody has bothered to show me around so I got lost! Anyways, I'm really sorry." I smiled convincingly. The teacher sighed.

"Well, you're here now. I need you to try to score some goals against Cloudy Kicks and Rose Heart. Do you think you can do that?"

"Sure," I responded, dropping the act and speaking in an emotionless tone. I trudged up to the soccer ball. The two girls in goal grinned and took some sort of weird soccer stance. I smirked. Maybe this would be a chance to grab some extra magic.

"Me and you, you and me, why don't we see who is BETTER!" I kicked the ball straight into the goal, smack in between the girls.

Almost immediately, the girls began to argue.

"Cloudy, you messed that up!" The girl on the right yelled. "And you're supposed to be good at soccer!"

"I am!" The other girl responded angrily. "At least I'm good at something! All you do is copy other people's dress designs!" As the pair continued to argue, Aria stepped up next to me. We stood there, watching, absorbing the negative energy until the teacher broke them apart.

"That was fun, Adagio," Aria commented, smirking in satisfaction. "Tell me your song at lunch, alright?"

"Of course," I answered, a similar grin forming on my own face.