Fluttershy’s heart was pounding as she sat upon the damp wooden bench, in the changing rooms of the school gym. She was completely alone, having given her friends a good excuse to leave school without her - or rather, a downright lie. Fluttershy had told the others that she had arranged to meet with another friend in the changing rooms for a very private yoga session. She explained that her friend was incredibly self-conscious, and wouldn’t feel comfortable practicing in front of anybody but her.

Four of Fluttershy's pals seemed to buy it, and wished her luck before waving goodbye and heading home. However, Fluttershy wasn’t so sure that Rainbow Dash had believed her story; the blue-skinned girl simply raised an eyebrow and replied,

“Private yoga class? Ooookay, if you say so.” Then gave a skeptical glance back at Fluttershy, before rushing off to join the others.

The sweet young girl gulped and shuffled her feet. It was now 4pm and each of the other students would surely have left the school. The gym was usually locked around 6pm every night. At that very moment, it was this fact alone which gave Fluttershy's mind a tiny sense of relief – whatever they were going to do to her, it had to be over before the changing rooms were visited by the janitor for lock up.

Still, the anticipation was driving Fluttershy wild. She remembered Adagio’s words, when the frizzy haired girl passed her by in the hallway after class.

“Wait for us in the changing rooms after school, alone. Or else.”

Fluttershy’s breathing became rapid when she recalled the stern, threatening expression upon Adagio’s face, and the way Sonata and Aria had grinned menacingly behind her. The trio were pretty well known for getting back at students who angered them, but Fluttershy had done nothing intentionally.

~*~

During a writing class, their teacher Mr Doodle had called on Adagio to answer a question concerning a major plot point of the book they were currently studying. As usual, Adagio hadn’t been paying attention to the lesson and had no idea what to say.

The entire class turned to face her, including Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy, who were sat directly in front of her and Sonata and now had their backs to Mr Doodle. In a desperate attempt to avoid embarrassment, Adagio first turned to Rainbow Dash hoping that she might mouth the answer, but she immediately realised that this was pointless; Rainbow hadn't been paying much attention either, she had spent the past hour scribbling plans for the next football game.

Then, Adagio turned to Fluttershy.

Adagio was certain that Fluttershy would know the answer; she loved reading and always listened closely. She glared at the shy girl, who clearly understood what she was expected to do - but Fluttershy said nothing.

The truth was, Fluttershy was afraid. She hated to draw attention to herself in any way, shape, or form during class sessions. Also, the Siren's scared Fluttershy to the point where she could barely speak whenever they so much as came near her. Even looking into Adagio’s eyes made her feel nervous. The orange haired girl and and her two companions – Sonata and Aria - were rather intimidating. There had been rumors of them being involved with certain events and unfortunate incidents involving the other students, although nothing had ever been proven, and the victims themselves had kept quiet about their situations and made up all kinds of nonsense to avoid further trouble.

Fluttershy hesitated. She noticed the other students behind Adagio were staring at her, and became more fearful. What if one of them saw her mouth the answer and said something to Mr Doodle? What if she got into trouble in the middle of class? Then Adagio might get in trouble too, and then Adagio would be angry with her… right?

A few seconds passed and Adagio’s face turned into a scowl when Fluttershy still had not given her the answer. Then, a very unimpressed Mr Doodle scolded Adagio for not paying attention, and gave her extra homework. This caused a chuckle from the class, which was quickly silenced when the Siren's frowned at each and every student, but Adagio's flushed cheeks were evidence that she felt pretty embarrassed, and very, very angry.

For the rest of the lesson, Fluttershy felt Adagio’s furious eyes burning a hole in the back of her head, so to speak. And afterwards, in the corridor, Adagio had purposely walked between Fluttershy and her friends, to give her the instruction, and the threat.

Of course there was no way out - Fluttershy knew that. If she disobeyed Adagio, the three of them would come after her, and probably do whatever they could to make her life a living hell. She couldn’t tell the Principle or her friends either; bad things happened to students who tried to grass up the Sirens. Such as Octavia being involved in a terrible hockey accident, Bonbon being tied to the school flag and left dangling at the top, and even Berry Punch had a week off school when she told on Aria for cheating on a test. Not one of them had accused the Siren's of committing those crimes against them, but it was pretty suspicious that those unfortunate incidents happened after the victim's had crossed the trio of bullies.

After thinking of nothing else for the rest of the day, Fluttershy concluded that perhaps her offence was relatively minor and she would simply get a stern scolding. Or perhaps she would be made to do Adagio's extra homework. Maybe that was all that would come of this entire ordeal. She tried to calm down, but she just couldn't help herself. Her limbs were shaking, and she felt extremely sick.

Then, the door opened.

Fluttershy stared wide eyed, as the three Sirens silently entered the changing rooms. They were carrying their backpacks, which looked as though they were crammed full. The terrified girl sat and watched helplessly as Adagio approached her with a wicked grin upon her face. Then, she noticed something much worse – Aria was locking the changing room door from the inside, using the key meant only for a staff member, or more specifically, the janitor.

Aria must have noticed Fluttershy’s state of panic, when the poor girl noticed the door being locked with her inside. So, she gave a quick explanation.

“We asked the janitor if we could lock up tonight,” she said, “we had to bribe him a little, but he agreed to give us the key so we can use the changing rooms for as long as we like.”

Fluttershy gulped heavily at this news – how could they possibly have bribed the janitor?

Aria then shoved the key into a zipped pocket in her backpack, and joined Adagio in approaching Fluttershy, with Sonata not far behind.

“Well well well…” Adagio looked down at the young girl, “we have been thinking all day how to punish you for embarrassing me in class, and now, we have you.”

“I….I’m sor….” Fluttershy whimpered, but as usual, she was too scared to speak,

“Usually we beat up anyone who makes us angry.” Aria continued, “but we’ve come up with a better idea for such a shy, timid, and anxious girl like yourself.”

“Yeah!” Sonata giggled, “do you want to know what it is?”

Fluttershy froze – of course she didn’t want to know.

“Stand up.” Ordered Adagio.

Unsure and nervous, Fluttershy glanced at each of her captors, and then towards the locked door.

“Stand up.” Adagio repeated herself. She then grabbed Fluttershy’s arm and yanked her to her feet. “Don’t you dare disobey me while we are in here, if you do, we will keep this going all night.”

“S…so…sor...” she still couldn’t speak.

“Here is what’s going to happen.” Adagio continued, “you humiliated me today, and now I am going to humiliate you… to your absolute breaking point.”

Fluttershy gasped, “Wha…what... do you…”

“Whilst we are in this room, you are going to do everything we tell you to do, without question. And you are going to let us do whatever we want to do, to you. If you disobey, you will be punished, if you try and fight back, you will be punished, if you try to escape, you will be punished. Do you understand?”

Still unable to speak, Fluttershy gave a small nod, trying not to think about all the terrible things the Sirens would be doing to her pretty soon, or getting her to do for them.

“Good.” Adagio said bluntly, before following it with a terrible instruction.

“The first thing you are going to do …is strip.”

Author's Note

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