I don't want to say how long it took us to clean, but we saw the sun. With a thanks I waved goodbyes to a very tired Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy. After they were gone I went back inside feeling slightly depressed. Don't get me wrong, I was happy that I made some new friends but I felt strangely abandoned. So for the next two weeks I dedicated my time to looking for a job. Because in my thoughts I knew that the money I hustled and saved would only last me a month, maybe two. So from dawn till dusk I was out and about looking for a job. Don't get me wrong. I wanted a job but I didn't need a job so I kind of half a**** it. That and I didn't have any official work experience or any references since I doubted my siblings would want random jobs calling them. And so that's how I spent my second to last week of summer. And I must say I was disappointed that I didn't see Rarity, Rainbow Dash, or even Fluttershy again. It didn't bother me though.

As I stood staring at my calendar a growing uneasy feeling came about me. In just one week I would be starting shool. And I made a personal promise that I would try to do well and not just ditch to go drifting like the other changlings did. Which included my siblings. While thinking this I remembered what out mentor Lesmie told me.

"Your siblings have so much potential, but it seems like your the only one who tries in this world, "

He wasn't wrong. They would go on a drifting run anytime they had the chance. It was only the law and the fact I tried to do well in school that kept them there. With that said Midnight and Solstice were the brains of the crew. I liked to read, but I hated books compared to Midnight. And Solstice always loved going to school. Even more so then me, but she liked drifting even more. At the moment I was sketching myself out more in more by the second while no was in my black sweats, and black tanktop with running shoes.

So as I stared at the calender a knock came at my door. With a uneasy feeling I walked towards it and answered it. I was only half surprised to see Andreas. He was here to start my requested training since I knew for a fact that he was a retired fighter. That and I got beat by Midnight a little to easily for comfort.

"You ready?" He asked in his Jamacian accent. His outfit was black gym trunks with a gray tanktop. His muscles were noticeably more cut then mine.

"Yeah," I replied.

"Okay then, follow me," Andreas said while walking off towards the back of the building. I followed a little bit excited. And I have to admit, in the my head I was imagining myself standing over my three siblings in victory. Andreas stopped when we came to a field behind the apartment complex. Then he turned to me.

"Okay, tell me all your fighting experience, " Andreas said.

"Well umm, not a lot since I mostly just clashed with my siblings," I replied slightly embarrassed.

"Your a changling correct?"

"Yeah,"

"And you drifted like the other changlings did?"

"Not nearly as often, but a little," I replied.

"Have you had any run ins with any umbrum?" Andreas asked. I automatically cringed. The umbrum were the rival fraction that was opposed to the changlings. And while we were hard-core punk the umbrum were gothic..

"Why? Is there any umbrum clans in Canderlot?" I asked suddenly very worried.

"Don't worry Phoenix, there are no umbrum clans here. In fact there isn't any Changling packs either." Andreas assured me.

"Yeah, I had a few bouts with the umbrum," I answered.

"So that's that. Here put these on," Andreas said while tossing him a pair of rolled up cloths.

"What are these?" I asked.

"Hand wraps, you wrap them over your hands," Andreas replied.

So for the next couple of hours I spent it learning kick boxing with Andreas. Each timeni lowered my guard he would hit me in the head with a training pad and make me do ten pushups. When I finished he pulled out a box of cream filled donuts.

"Like these?" He asked me.

"They're my favorite," I replied while digging in. When I finished two thirds of the box I felt a pair of eyes on me. Glancing up I caught a glimps of fiery red hair.

'Was that Sunset Shimmer? ' I asked myself.

It didn't matter. At the moment I was drenched in sweat and I desperately needed a shower. This time it was more comfortable than my first one due to some shower curtains. When I finished I walked to my bed and stared at it with wanting eyes.

'I don't have anything planned,' I thought to myself. Without another second passing by I was in my bed sleeping.

I stood in a large dark room with a few dozen people behind me. I recognized these as changlings from their lanky forms and dark hoodies with dark jeans. Most had their hoods down, but a few had their hoods up. The majority of the changlings had black face masks with a sharp white fang design on it. Behind me was a small swarm of my outfit of changlings. Throughout the room was dozens of other swarms of changlings. Each one of them had a similar groups of changlings. And we were everywhere. The room was at the center in which the next several floors could look down at. In total there must have been close to a hundred to two hundred of us all waiting. Not patiently or quietly though. At the moment we were all talking amongst ourselves in a attempt to entertain ourselves. Over the intercom of the old building Hybrid Rock powered electro music sounded. The only thing wrong was the song was only around two minutes long.

While we waited I pulled out an apple and my razer sharp tanto. With growing boredom I began cutting off pieces and sticking them into my mouth. At the moment I stood at the front of the hive. I gave the other changling who tried shoving their way in front of me a nice shiner. The strong stood at the front and we had to defend our place. On top, but sometimes i wish i could just give it all a rest.
The door the the large room and the entire swarm of changlings all began to whoop and cheer as a very beautiful women walked in in a very dark gray dress, dark cerulean hair color, moderate harlequin eyes with dark grayish opal pupils, and finished off with very deep opal eyeshadow. Even I was cheering. This was our leader, this was our queen,

I sat up to the sound of knocking on my door.

'That was a wierd dream, and why was I wielding a tanto?' I thought to myself. My door kept knocking. Groaning I staggered towards the door and face planted half way there. The door knocked again while I groaned in pain. My body was already sore. Slowly getting to the door I opened it and smiled. Standing in the doorway was Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy.

"I'm sorry, did we wake you?" Fluttershy asked so low that Rainbow Dash had to translate.

"Oh no. (yawn) I mean yes, but don't worry about it. I was just having either a really wierd dream or a strange nightmare," I assured them.

"Now that's done, we would like to invite you to have breakfast with us," Rarity said.

I froze mid yawn. "Did you just say breakfast?" I asked slowly.

"Our treat," Rarity assured.

"That's great and all, but what day is it?" I asked afraid of the answer.

"Its Wednesday," Rainbow Dash answered. I felt like someone rocked me.

"Wednsday?" I choked out.

"Yeah like Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday," Rainbow Dash sang.

"So is that a yes or a no?" Rarity asked politely. My stomach suddenly growled.

"Guess that means a yes," I replied. 'Did I really sleep for two days?'

Before anything else could happen, Rainbow Dash threw up a hand. "Great, but before we go could I use your bathroom?" She asked.

"Sure, the door on the right," I said while motioning for them to come in. Fluttershy and Rarity asked in while Rainbow Dash made her way to the bathroom. I silently did a prayer in thanks that my apartment was clean. I felt just aiytle irritated when I noticed Fluttershy taking glances at my bare arms. It was really getting annoying.

"Why darling, who are these?" Rarity asked while looking at the rest of my pictures I hung up.

"That's the rest of my friends from my old home," I answered. The picture was a massive shot of our unit during the summer. We all were wearing summer clothing, but kept our dark colors. In the second biggest picture was a group shot us. We all clustered in our groups, but Midnight held an air of leadership about him. In total there was eleven of us. We all stood together, but just enough distance between us that you could tell who was cool with who. Midnight stood at the front with his arms around Solstice and Corvis. I stood with my friend. The other group was a group of two. Brothers, but one was half a year older and a few inches taller. The other group was three. One guy and two girls. Each had dark gray hair and black highlights. The last one was tall as Corvis with our slim lean body builds. He was the other muscle of the swarm. And his hair came down to his shoulders. Instead of hanging it back he let it fall on his face and pushed it to his side.

"They seem like a reckless bunch," Rarity muttered. That much was obvious with our evil smirks at the camera.

"We were, but Midnight always kept us together and made sure no one started trouble within us," I explained.

"With a show of strength?" Fluttershy mumbled just within understanding.

"Exactly," I said with a grin.

"Who is this might I ask?" Rarity asked while pointing at a particular picture of me and a kid with dark gray hair That had streaks of forest green highlights. Like most of us, he had artic blue eyes and was wearing black on dark gray.

"That's forest, he's one of my really good friends." I answered. Out of the corner of my eye I noticed Fluttershy taking glances at my bare arms and the arms of the other changlings in the pictures. Now I was was rubbing my arms.

"Excuse me, but what happened to your arms?" She asked.

Rarity froze when she noticed the scars on our arms. She slowly turned to me with wide eyes.

"Tribal cuts," I replied while extending my arm. On the outer forearm the opposite side of the wrist was three long scars. I wasn't ashamed of them, but most of stopped at the arms. Only the most zealot changlings went to facial cuts.

Before anything more awkward could happen Rainbow Dash walked into the living room. I let out a breath of relief when she did. Before my tribal scars came up again, I put on my now really dark frau hoodie over black jeans.

"Come on, I know a very nice place to dine," Rarity said in her british accent.

"Alright, let's go because I am starving," Rainbow Dash said.

After that we all left my place. The way to the place to eat was nice and quiet, but I could tell Rainbow Dash was wondering why there was a Fluttershy quiet silence on them. Luckily for me though, she didn't question it.

One hour later

I cringed when Pinkie Pie bit into her icecream. 'That is not normal, normal people cringe when they Bute their ice cream,' I thought to myself. Pinkie Pie took another bite so big that I felt Rainbow Dash and Rarity cringe.

"That is too wierd to be remotely normal," Rainbow Dash said. Fluttershy mumbled something, but all I picked up was something about noise in a silent auction.

"Hate to break it to you shy, but noise makers ruin a silent auction," I said to the girl. She put her hand on her head and beganto mumble something about my hearing.

"So what do you want to eat?" Rarity asked me.

"I'll take the bacon cheeseburger with seasoned fries," I said.

"Why that?" Rainbow Dash asked me.

"Because every chief cooks their bacon cheeseburgers with love, and that tastes a lot better," I explained. The three gorgeous girls stared at me confused.

"Its a changling thing," I said. They all nodded and looked at their menus. Can I take your orders?" The waitress asked.

"I'll have a flying sandwich Mrs. Cupcake," Rainbow Dash said.

"I'll take what she's having," Fluttershy mumbled.

"And I will take my usual," Rarity said. 'Wonder what that is,' I thought.

"And I shall.have a bacon cheeseburger with seasoned fries," I said.

When she left I noticed Rarity shooting glares at Pinkie Pie. I decided to ask her what happened between them later. When I knew them better. Mrs. Cupcake came balancing their food. The flying burger was just a vegan sandwich with a set of fries. I was only half suprised when Rarity got a salad.

"That kind of looks good," Rarity said while taking a glance at my food.

"Want a piece?" I asked her while offering her some fries. She shook her head.

"No thank you, I have to keep on my diet," Rarity said.

"Diet? If you need to diet then there is no pleasing this world," I said before freezing midbite.

"Thank you Phoenix," Rarity said while looking away. I thought I saw her blush, but I was now very interested in my burger. Out of the corner of my eye I saw Rainbow Dash smirking and Fluttershy smiling at us.

'Idiot,' I thought to myself. When I was going to compliment someone it would be a little less strange.

"You know, I think I will have a fry or two," Rarity said while taking three and not looking in my direction. I was still staring at my bacon burger.

'But only if you have some salad," She said while pushing her salad towards me. It looked good with salad dressing and, who am I kidding? I hated salad, but if eating salad meant this awkward moment would be over then that's what I would do.

Several hours later I layed in bed, again. The rest of the day went great until it started to rain. And by rain I mean hard core hurricane level rain. So out day was cut short

The rest of my summer was a little better. Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy kept me company. They werenfun. Rainbow Dash was crazy athletic, Rarity was a fashion girl, and Fluttershy was a naturist. They reminded me of Solstice, Embry, and Mathew. I wondered if they would all become friends if they met. A second later I laughed at myself. The Changlings were to cruel for that fantasy to become a reality.

Before I knew it, school was the next day. I was going to a place called Canderlot High School or CHS for short. And I would admit that I was nothing less then excited. So at the moment I stood over my clothes trying to decide on what to wear. In the end I chose my black hoodie with attic blue threading and a pair of very dark gray jeans. My signature shoes stood my the door. I also remembered that is was school so I grabbed my leather belt instead of my bullet belt.

The next morning.

Waking up I looked around and saw my stuff. Putting them on, I grinned before leavin my place while making sure not to leave it unlocked. I had to go in early to get my schedule. Lucky for me it was still early when I walked into the main office. There I met Principal Celestia. A tall multi color haired women. Well tall for a wkmen. I still made her seem very short. To my suprise I saw Sunset Shimmer standing next to her holding a box of donuts.

"Hello Mr. Stella, my name is Mrs. Celestia. Before Sunset Shimmer can show you around you will have to fill out some of these forms. And when you are finished me them here. And this is your schedule." The multi colored haired women saud.

The forms were just regular legal stuff such as adress full name date of birth, and other stuff. While I filled them out I could feel Sunset Shimmer peeking over my shoulder. She didn't say anything until I hit nationality.

Nationality-Changling

"That makes five of you," she said.

"What?" I asked a little on edge.

"Five changlings attend CHS including you," Sunset Shimmer said in a surprisingly nice tone.

Was this the girl who I messed her leather jacket two weeks ago? I asked myself.

When I finished I stood up while Sunset Shimmer did the same.

"So what's your first class?" She asked patiently.

Still on edge I looked at my schedule. "Weight Training," I replied.

"Thats cool, get nice and lean," SunsetShimmer said a little to nicely.

"Yup," Was all I answered.

"Its this way," She said while walking away. My uneasy feeling slowly started to die, but my suspicions didn't.

We walked through out CHS with Sunset Shimmer saying random facts here and there. I noticed all the students looking away and cowering in fear at the slightest glance from the fiery girl. When we arrived at what I assumed to be the gym Sunset Shimmer turned to me and held out her box of donuts.

"What's this?" I asked confused.

"A peace offering," She replied.

"Peace offering?" I muttered.

"Look, we got off on the wrong foot and I want to say I'm sorry," She said.

"Wait, I was the one who ran into you," I said.

"Just take the donuts," she said harshly before going back to her friendly self.

"Okay," I said while taking the donuts. After I did she walked off with what I thought was an evil smirk. I was beyond caring though since these donuts were my favorite. Cream filled donuts. Maybe it was her that I saw a week ago. Walking into the gym I saw a series of metal bleachers that were mostly empty except for four people. And my smile dropped, but quickly returned when I saw who it was. These guys were not anybody I knew, but from their black on dark gray and ebony carved necklaces, I knew they were changlings.

Grinning, I walked towards them. The first girl was long and loose and was obviously the queen bee. She had long ink black hair with two arctic blue highlights. The second girl was a pretty girl with artic blue hair that had dark gray highlights. The first guy was a lanky kid about as big as Midnight, but had just straight dark gray hair. The last kid was obviously a freshman with artic blue hair that had black highlights. When they saw me walking towards them they all broke into grins.

"Looks like we have five for five," the freshman said.

"Shut up Andrew," The girl with the blue highlights said. And she was pretty hot. Now that I was closer I recognized her. Her name was Claire, the girlfriend of a guy named Alrik. He noble leader of another pack of changlings.

"S'sup," the other girl said.

"That's a good way to start a conversation Beth," The boy said.

"Doesn't matter Ben, it's started," Beth spat.

"You seem like a nice bunch," I said. Claire let out a sarcastic laugh. She was the only one here who knew me, and I only knew her. We were never really close friends, but a few weeks of drifting on the road left us on good terms. And by the satisfied grin on her face. She was the top dog of this group.

"So is this your guy's home town?" I asked while sitting down and taking out a donut.

"Just moved her," Andrew said.

"Really?" I asked suprised.

"We all sort of just drifted here towards the end of summer. We decided to stay the school year and we met each other around ten minutes before you came." Beth explained.

"No kidding?" I asked.

"Its true Phoenix, I only saw these guys at the hive in Manhattan," Claire said to me.

"Hmmm never been there," I admitted.

"Really? You should," Ben said.

"So from wha I heard, were the first pack of changlings to come to Canderlot," Beth said. We all grinned. A second later I pulled out my box of cream filled donuts and they each grabbed one.

"Here's to us," Claire announced while holding up her donut like a glass.

"The pioneers of Canderlot," I finished. Then we all touched donuts and bit into them. The donut tasted good hen the filling filled my mouth. And boy did it taste go-

Now we were all spitting out the donuts.

"Mayo?" Beth cried.

"Who would do such a thing?" Andrew cried. I already knew the answer though. No wonder she was so nice and persistent about me taking these donuts. And she knew I loved these things. And she went to far this time.

"Well get her back," I said while tossing the empty donut box into the garbage.

"Get who back?" Claire asked. I turned to them and looked them dead in the eye.

"Sunset Shimmer," I replied.

Author's Note

"So what is punk?"- Rarity.
"This,"-Phoenix (kicks down garbage can)
"So this is punk?"- Rarity (Kicks down different garbage can)
"No, that's trending,"-Phoenix