Aria's Gift

by Flareon

Rating: everyone
Tags: Sunset Shimmer, Main 6, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Sonata Dusk, Human, Aria Blaze, Adagio Dazzle
Length: 1697

After their necklaces get shattered, the sirens break up. As Aria strikes out alone, she discovers that she had a natural talent all along...

Adagio, Aria, and Sonata aren't exactly friends, but when their pendants get shattered, they find themselves in bully radar, being the focus of cruel cliques, and being whispered about all over school. Aria doesn't really care, and she decides to strike out alone for a week. That week, she finds out who she was meant to be.

Published 2015-02-15 23:10:02 UTC
Last updated 2015-02-22 01:54:26 UTC

Chapter 1

A Weekend Earlier...

Aria smirked at the Rainbooms. They were totally goners! Their power-of-cheesiness wouldn't help them now!
Their hologram sirens dodged rainbow blasts from the drummer, but then Aria got caught in diamonds. "Ow! Ow! Geez!"

When she broke free, Adagio sang a long LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH and Purple Head stumbled backwards. Cackling, Adagio said, "Let's destroy those dorks!"

The three sirens sang a long note, and the band stumbled, losing their footing.
They slipped backwards, and gasping, the purple-haired singer lost her grip on the microphone!
Adagio sneered. "Let's see if they ever get up."

"What's Bacon Hair doing?" Sonata asked. A surprised Sunset was staring at the microphone that had rolled to her feet.
She picked it up and glared at them.
Aria stared. This could not be happening. What was this madness?

Sunset strode over to her friends and began to sing.
"You're never gonna bring me down, you're never gonna break this part of me...."
The other Rainbooms watched as Sunset helped Twilight to her feet and they sang together.
Then the rest of the band sang.
Then the crowd.
Sunset glowed gold and became PONIFIED!!
"No.." whispered Adagio. She tried to sing louder, but she couldn't!

"No." said Adagio.
A rainbow burst into the sky from the floating band and it transformed into... A giant blue rainbow maned alicorn!
The huge horse burst out of the clouds and reared.
"No!" Adagio screamed.

To Aria's horror, the alicorn's horn glowed and its magic hit them. The full force of friendship and harmony. And gosh, did it hurt!
Aria tried to cover her head, but she couldn't! The rainbow was keeping her from it! She wanted to crawl away and die!
Suddenly she felt something. Her magic. Her pendant! Looking down at her pendant, she realized what was about to happen. It cracked.
It trembled.
It cracked a bit more.
And then....
Just like Adagio's and Sonata's.....
It shattered.

Two Weeks After....

"ARIA BLAZE, GET UP THIS INSTANT!!" a commanding voice yelled in Aria's ear. "WE HAVE TO GO TO SCHOOL!"

"For the love of- Dagi, don't you see I'm trying to sleep?" Aria mumbled into her pillow.

Strong arms yanked her out of bed. "You spoke. And if you talk, you're really awake playing on your new iPhone nine hundred or something."

"But I was sleeping!"
Adagio gave her a unbelieving look.

"Get dressed." She slammed the door.

"Cheese puff head," Aria muttered.

A few minutes later she headed downstairs to the smell of pancakes.

"Yummy!" Aria said, reveling the smell.

"I KNOW RIGHT!?" Sonata shrieked. "I'm making them!" She picked up some chocolate covered blueberries and carefully placed them into the middle of the pancake.

"She's making 'breakfast tacos,'" Adagio grumbled. "Like we need any more of the dumb things in our systems, breakfast or not."

Aria blinked. "Breakfast tacos?"

Sonata grinned. "Snazzy, huh?"

"I'm just going to have muffins," Adagio said. She walked over to the fridge and rummaged inside. "Where are they, anyway?"

Aria facepalmed. "Didn't you throw them out because they were thousands of years old and moldy?"

"Oh, right," Adagio said. "BUT YA COULD HAVE JUST ENDED AT 'THROWN THEM OUT!!!!!!'" She whirled around and glared at Aria.

Aria glared right back at her. "Cheese puff head."

"Baby-with-pigtails," Adagio shot back.

"Butter face."

"Old celery hair."

"TACOS ARE READY!!!!!!" Sonata yelled happily. "And Dagi's has a muffin on it."
Adagio grabbed her plate and looked down. Aria sniggered.

"EW!" yelled Adagio. "Oh gosh! So moldy!" She raced out of the kitchen.

"Evil Sonata has struck again!" Aria cheered.

"Let's eat!" Sonata added.

Author's Note

Huzzah! My first chapter! My first story! If I made any typos, you can let me know :twilightsmile: :twilightsmile:

Chapter 2

Aria had an old guitar. A dusty, brown acoustic guitar.
And she loved it! She would dust it off every day, tune it, and begin to play. Adagio didn't mind much, and Sonata would sometimes come into her room and they'd play Guess the Tune.

But when Aria was alone, she would sing, too.
How she missed her siren voice! She could do every note perfectly then.
But now she could practice her voice as well as her playing, and she would warble along to her guitar. Badly. But who cares?

"Aria, you coming?" Sonata's voice cut into her thoughts. "You can bring your guitar, you know, in its jacuzzi."

"It's a CASE, Sona. Not a ja... Ja.. Whatever you called it."

"ARE YOU TWO MOVING OR WHAT??" Adagio yelled. "WE'RE GONNA MISS THE BUS!!!"

Aria quickly put her guitar in its case, slung on her backpack, and off they ran.

"Sirens...Bullies......Evil....." Voices surrounded the three girls as they walked inside.

"Should get expelled.....But the teachers don't know.....We can tell them..."

Sonata yelled, "What day is it?"

A few other kids called, "Wasabi Wednesday!"

Sonata cursed. "I hate wasabi."

"Well then, you can have the lunch I stole, SIREN," a voice said, and a boy yanked Sonata into the lockers.
"LET GO!" Sonata screeched.
"Whaddaya gonna do? Brainwash me?" laughed the lead boy. All the other boys balled up their fists to punch her-
Adagio and Aria kicked one boy in the shins, gave another a black eye, and threatened to murder the lead boy if they didn't get Sonata.
The boys ran screaming, and Sonata hugged Adagio, then Aria.
"You saved me! Thank you!"
Then she happily bounced off to put her things in the locker.

Aria sighed. "Happy-go-lucky little person. That's the worst."

Adagio glared at her. "Let's GO, lazy pants."

Aria left her last class nearly buckling from the weight of her homework. "Gaaaaaaah! I hate science!"

Sonata nodded. "I agree!"

Adagio met up with them, cursing so much kids in the hall were staring at her. "--GOSH!" Adagio snarled, finishing up her cursing. "Gosh dang it!"

"What class do you have last?" Aria asked.

"ENGLISH!" Adagio groaned.

They got to their locker, only to see.....

"SUNSET SHIMMER?" the trio chorused.

"Hi." Sunset said. "Just wishing you a happy Hearts and-- I mean, happy Valentine's Day!" She gave them each a little bag of chocolate and hurried off.

Sonata teared up. "This is the best gift I've ever gotten.. I can't even..."

"Ugh." Adagio said. "Almond filled chocolates."

Aria shoved some into her mouth. "Good stuff!"
They unpacked their locker and shoved their books into their bags to take home.

"Oh no!" Sonata cried. "THE BUS!"
And the trio ran (or stumbled from their homework load) out the door and across the courtyard to the bus.

On the other side of the courtyard, the boys were there.
"We'll get them back, won't we, Flash?"
"Yeah, we will."

Author's Note

Dun dun DUNNN! A familiar face is conspiring against the Dazzlings! Uh oh.....
:rainbowderp:

Chapter 3

"It's Tater Thursday!" Sonata cried happily as she piled her tray high with taters.

"Sonata, we know that. Now, go away and LET ME HAVE SOME TATERS!!!!!" Adagio yelled.

"Sheesh," Aria grumbled. "Somebody had too much evil magic. Oh, wait, maybe you ate that muffin instead!"

Adagio gave Aria an evil glare and stormed off.

"Cheese Puff Head!" Aria called after her.

Sonata stared at the mystery meat. "What's this? Some sort of dead, flattened, processed anteater?"

Cafeteria Lady smiled. "It's.. I don't know! Must be good for you! Here, have some!" She drowned Sonata's taters in dead anteater and dressing. "Have a good lunch!"

"Jump up, make a sound, HEY! Stomp your hooves, turn around! Start now, make a change, Adagio's a turd!" Sonata sang badly. Aria wrinkled her nose. She hated Thursday. And Monday. And Tuesday. Gee, she hated school! And Flash Sentry was here! He made it worse, and he was in her class after lunch. Ugh. Sonata was so stupid, too. She didn't know the difference between A and V. She-

"I'M A WHAT?!?!" Adagio snapped from the table, jolting Aria out of her thoughts. "Sonata, you didn't say that!"

"Oh yes I did!" Stupidnata replied. "You're a big, fat, cheese coloured turd!"

Adagio leapt to her feet-

And her juice spilled on her shirt.

Aria just had time to think, Sonata is SO DEAD, before Adagio yelled, "THAT'S IT!! I'M NOT GOING TO SIT WITH YOU LOSERS ANYMORE! I'M GOING TO SIT WITH THEM!" She pointed at the fashionistas table. "Bye, TURDS," Adagio snarled, and she grabbed her tray and thundered away.

After a long silence, Sonata said, "So who's pumped for Taco Tuesday?"

Socials. The worst class ever.

That was what Aria was thinking as she sat in her seat, listening to the teacher go on and on and on and on about nonsense that she wouldn't need when she was grown up and playing guitar onstage! Like, who sings about the three boats Columbus was in?
"The Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria," Nerdy Nerdface in front of her said. "Columbus also almost got thrown overboard when his shipmates were planning a mutiny. And..."

Aria groaned inwardly. Those were awful names for ships. If she was in his shoes, she'd call them the Epic, the Firebreathing, and the Dragon. Epic, Firebreathing, Dragon. Awesome.

She was so caught up in her thoughts that she didn't hear the teacher ask a question. But she did hear, "ARIA! Who were the rulers of Spain at the time?"

"Huh? Oh, um..... Queen Quesadilla and King Flamenco!!!!" Aria blurted.

The class roared with laughter.

"No! Aria Blaze, if you don't listen, you won't improve your grades! Applejack?"

"Uh... Ah don't know. Am ah allowed to look in mah book?"

"NO. Rarity?"

"Oh, the fabulous King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella! My, their clothes were amazing! I would LOVE to wear a dress or-"

"Yes, Rarity, Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand. What did they give to Christopher Colum....."

Aria tuned out again with a sigh... And felt someone poking her.
Flash was glaring at her.
"We're gonna get you back, ARIA. And really, really soon."

SCHOOL WAS OVER!!!!!!!!

"Yes! Only one more day!" Aria cried.

"And it's Fennel Friday tomorrow!" Sonata added.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Author's Note

The next chapter will have lots of Flash. Lots. Stay tuned!