Sonata huffed, her arms crossed against her chest.
No one ever asked why she and her sisters had done what they had did. The students didn't understand that the sirens’ plans wasn’t out of malice towards anyone.
It was just an act of survival.
As a result, she tried to conceal her face, but her hooded sweatshirt only covered so much.
Sonata could not escape the stigma to which her actions have wrought.
She walked down that lonely paved sidewalk she always trod, her eyes set forth in a haze of her self.
Her sisters always figured she was the weakest link. Now that their channels were gone, they decided to leave their companionship behind.
Suddenly, she felt drops of water fall upon her face. She didn't want to get stuck in the rain, but as she raced to get to her destination: Sugarcube Corner, the heavens opened and the rain in its relentless torrent drenched her to the bone.
To escape the lashing of the rain and wind, she threw herself through the doors of the shop, frowning as she lifted her fingers to battle against the sky blue strands invading her sight.
“Geh-hey!” She whined. “Aw!” Sonata worked her fingers to unknot the fibres. “Stupid hair.”
“Sorry?” Mrs. Cake blinked.
“Um…” Sonata slowly lowered her hands from her head. “Hair.”
“Hair?” Mrs. Cake raised a brow. “Are you okay?”
“Yes!” Sonata squeaked, as she looked around the shop. “Um… do you have tacos?”
Mrs. Cake shook her head slowly. “No… we sell cakes. We’re a sweet shop.”
Sonata stared back. “So you don’t sell tacos?”
Mrs. Cake resisted facepalming herself long enough to smile and lean against the countertop. “We have carrot cake and various other flavors.”
“Oh.” Sonata looked across the display. She pointed randomly. “I’ll have that.”
“Okay! Double chocolate fudge cake. That will be ten dollars.”
“Oh...”
“Oh?” Mrs. Cake eyed.
“... I don’t have that much.”
Mrs. Cake frowned. “Well, how much do you have?”
“... nothing?” Sonata beamed.
Mrs. Cake did not respond the sentiment. “Well we do have an opening, with Pinkie Pie opening her own party shop,” she placed a finger to her lips, “you could help out the shop and you could earn free meals.”
“FOR REALZIES?!”
Mrs, Cake blinked as she felt her hands grasped by the girl. “Uh… yeah?”
“Awe-some!” Sonata squeed.
It had been a few days after Sonata started working for the Cakes, and the sun was just beginning to shine through the shades as sonata slept peacefully.
Though it wouldn't last for very long as Pinkie erupted into her room. “I have the greatest idea ever that did ever graced the bestest idea that ever graced-wait… what… no! I am right! GREATEST IDEA EVER!” She screamed.
Sonata lifted her head from the pillow her hair half covering her face. “Huh?”
“Taco-balloons.”
“What?” Sonata started eyes widened with delight sweeping strands of hair from her sight. “Can we eat that?”
“NO!” Squeaked Pinkie Pie a huge smile on her face. “But think!”
“It’s seven in the morning!” Sonata whined. “Thinking takes thinking!”
“So?!” Pinkie Pie bounced around the room.
“... I’d rather eat fajitas than think.”
Pinkie Pie paused. “Wow! You’re a genius.”
“Can I go back to sleep?” Sonata whined, throwing the covers over her head.
“NO!” Pinkie Pie hopped on the bed, moving to swipe the fabric from Sonata’s body.
Sonata blushed as the covers were thrown from her. “HEY!”
Pinkie Pie paused, locked in a state of awkward glee. “Um...”
Sonata poised below the pink haired one like a crab. “Um.”
“Oh-kay… I’m gonna go this way and pretend I did not see you nude.”
Sonata nodded. “Thanks, well… now that I’m probably not going to get back to sleep. I should probably get dressed.”
As Sonata swung her legs over the edge of the bed, she felt her feet come in contact with something... farting.
Sonata placed a hand to her forehead. “Urgh, really?.”
“You SO fell for that!” Pinkie Pie called out. “Well, technically you stepped in it.”
“I am going to mix paprika in your breakfast!” Sonata shook a fist to the ceiling, standing up, howling dramatically.
And then she heard crying.
Sonata clamped her hands over her lips and rushed out into the hallway. She met Pinkie Pie there and they shared similar expressions.
“Did we wake the Cakes?!” Pinkie Pie panicked.
Sonata shook her head. “We woke the babies! We need to be-”
Mr. Cake appeared into hall and stepped towards the baby room. “I got this-AHRGH!”
Pinkie Pie blinked as she watched Mr. Cake writhe and throw himself away from their general direction, though noted with a turn of her head Sonata’s completely naked figure.
“OOOOOOOOOOOH! That makes sense.” Pinkie exclaimed.
Sonata realized what he was freaking out about and rushed into the bedroom with a squeak. She placed herself in front of a mirror and stared at herself.
“... I don’t understand what is so terrifying.” She blinked.
“You’re nude,” Pinkie giggled as she poked her head around the corner, “silly filly.”
Sonata questioned. “Filly?”
Pinkie Pie corrected. “Girl!”
“What?” Sonata shook her head and turned to regard Pinkie Pie. “Is this bad?”
“You might want to get dressed before ol’ Mr. Cake has a heart attack.”
Sonata eyes went wide. “Oh shizzle-da-fizzle!” She ran around the room like a chicken with it’s head cut off.
Sonata finally ran to her bed and grasped the covers that were haphazardly thrown across it and wrapped it around her body, pushing Pinkie Pie out of her room.
“Shoo, I need to get dressed!”
Once Sonata was alone, she pressed her back against the door and slid to the floor.
She sighed placing her head in her hands. “It’s not like we wore clothes on the other side of the mirror,” she whispered, “but its true this world is different… yeah.”
Sonata shrugs then and stands up looking through her dresser before finding something to wear.
“You dressed yet silly?” Pinkie Pie giggled with a knock on the door. “The twins have stopped crying.”
“I’m almost ready,” Sonata replied to Pinkie, pulling on a pair of black jeans instead of her usual skirt.
A few minutes after she started to calm down from the mornings excitement, she took a deep breath and walked over to the door. Opening it she prepared herself for a lecture, only to find herself staring into light cerulean eyes.
“Gah!” Sonata exclaimed, leaping back, “Pinkie pie don’t do that!”
Pinkie pie giggled, stepping back a bit with a bright smile on her face. “Well you were taking so long,” she stated to Sonata, “ I almost fell asleep with my face against the door and-”
“Oh… Mr. Cake,” Sonata turns her gaze to him as he approached, tuning out Pinkie, “I’m sorry about this morning, I hope you can forgive me for the little excitement this morning.”
“Just... please get dressed before coming out next time.” Mr. Cake sighed, averting his eyes from the blue haired one.
A silence soon fell over them.
It was quite awkward.
Mr. Cake finally nodded and headed to go get ready for the day, “Oh! Sonata? Can you go down and sweep the store’s floor before we open. Tonight's a big night as there's a birthday party we’re hosti-”
“Did you say party!”
Author's Note
Well heres the first chapter of a siren's sunset I hope ya'll like it as much as I loved writing it
Sonata whistled merrily, her eyes gazed at the pattern of streamers hung from the pink rafters: red, yellow and gold. The ladder wobbled from side to side as she made the sudden shift to place the final streamers. However, luck was not on her side as the ladder lacked to provide the height for the job. She turned to notice as Pinkie struggled to bring over a taller ladder and slowly made her way down the seven steps. She then turned to her with a radiant smile, folding up the shorter ladder so Pinkie could place the taller in its place. Pinkie then skipped happily back to what she was doing as if free from any cares in the world.
She lightly chuckled at the slight child-like personality in Pinkie, then began to climb the towering ladder. Though the second her foot touched the final step, she gasped almost louder than necessary. She had forgotten to ask Pinkie for more streamers! This party had to go according to plan, or she feared Pinkie would be unhappy with her, and she didn't like that idea.
“Pinkie!” Sonata addressed her friend.
Pinkie Pie looked up from the banner and asked, “Yes Sonata, whatcha need?”
“Do you know where the rest of the streamers are, I kinda ran out.”
“They’re over here,” Pinkie giggled as she got back up from her work, bouncing over to the ladder with the bag of streamers.
Reaching one hand down to grasp the bag of streamers, Sonata smiled at her friend and said cheerfully, “Thank you Pinkie.”
Sonata then hung the final few streamers and climbed down the ladder carefully. However, as she was about to step on the creakiest platform, the end of her jeans snagged on the side railing, which began her long descent to the ground, her yelp could be heard throughout the store. Sonata readied herself for her impact with the ground, her eyes closed tight in slight fear. She kept her eyes closed, afraid of seeing the damages she had caused. But that never came as she found herself in someone’s arms.
"Are you okay? I saw you falling and I didn’t want you to get hurt."
Sonata was stunned. That voice, she knew it but from where? She opened her eyes, and turned around once she got her balance. The voice belonged to none other than Sunset Shimmer. This caused her to panic. "Yes I am... well thank you for catching me—I have to go," Sonata squeaked and rushed passed Sunset before it could get anymore weird.
“Okay, bye Sonata,” Sunset replied as she watched the siren dash away.“Now where’d Pinkie go?” She began her search for Pinkie who had seemingly disappeared as well.
Meanwhile, Pinkie watched from behind the counter with a grin on her face and whispered to herself, ”Operation matchmaker is a go.”
“Operation what is a go?”
Pinkie Pie looked up at a puzzled Sunset Shimmer, which made her grin shrivel up like a helium-filled balloon when it sprung a leak. She had to think of something to distract Sunset from what she had said, and fast.
“Cupcakes! Operation Cupcakes is what i said…”
“Hmm okay...oh shoot I almost forgot I need to ask you something!”
“Whatcha need Sunny?” Pinkie Pie asked thankful for the distraction.
Sunset pulled out a flyer from her pocket, unfolded it and handed it over to Pinkie. She waited for a few seconds as Pinkie examined the flyer before she spoke, “Principal Celestia asked me to find and ask you if you could decorate the gym for the music festival at the end of the month.”
“Ofcourse I’ll do it!” Pinkie said almost like she was on a sugar high.
She then began to ask all kinds of questions like what they wanted for decorations and food. Sunset began to take a step back as she replied,“Whoa Pinkie calm down. you’ll have to ask the the principal and vice principal about the detail’s next week, I have no clue what they want.”
“Aww okay, so is that all you needed?”
“Yes… oh and Pinkie, Sonata’s acting a little strange. well stranger than normal anyways which makes me a bit worried so would you make sure she’s ok... Please.”
“I’ll check on her now,” Pinkie replied sincerely as Sunset then turned to walk away, still unaware of what was being planned without her knowing.
Once Sunset was out of the store, Pinkie moved quickly up the stairs in the back towards Sonata’s room. Sonata always locked herself in her room when she felt a panicky feeling in her body and this case was no different. Pinkie walked a fast pace towards the room and before she knew it she walked into the door with a loud thud. Pinkie sighed and rubbed her nose lightly. She pondered to herself why she was always so clumsy. Then as she took a step back, she looked at the closed door and raised her fist to knock on it. However, before she could the door opened with a slight creak and Sonata appeared from behind it, “I...uh remembered I was supposed to help with hanging the banner, and also are you okay, I heard a loud thud.”
“I kinda walked into your door,” Pinkie muttered embarrassed that she had to tell Sonata.
Sonata suppressed a laugh, a smile on her face as she sighed softly, “Oh Pinkie...”
“ Don't digress, why’d you run out?”
“To be honest I don’t really understand it myself, not yet anyways.”
Sonata exhaled deeply and stepped forward out of her room. She truly didn't understand why she had run out, just that Sunset made her feel a weird fuzziness inside. “Pinkie we should probably hang up the banner now the parties in a few hours.”
“That is true… alright lets go get this place finished up for the party, but you’re my friend and we will be talking about this later.” Pinkie pie spoke with a calm and serious tone that was strange to Sonata.
All that was heard in the few minutes they stood there was the ticking of the clock which caused the silence to grow. This was not long before Pinkie pulled Sonata by the arm down to the first floor to finish preparing for the party. Once they were downstairs Pinkie bounced happily as if nothing had happened, and grabbed one side of the banner. She then proceeded to step up a ladder and tie it to a rafter where streamers were not hanging. Sonata then finished her side of the job and looked at the sparkly poster that read in large print, ‘Happy Birthday Sunny!’
Sonata smiled and moved to gaze around the room, feeling proud of the work she and Pinkie did.
This party would be amazing. She just knew it.
Author's Note
FINALLY its out... Thank you soaring my wonderfully wonderful friend who helped me.
