Sonata Dusk laid on her bed staring at the ceiling, she let a out a sigh and looked around at her room and vast emptiness of it all.
As sirens she, Adagio, and Aria could have people do whatever they wanted out of them but they never got anything out of them except chunks of any cash they could carry on them. But now as humans they now have to work if they wanted to get anything as the money they've extorted and saved over the years goes solely to pay for their apartment. Adagio made it clear that they could buy whatever they wanted with the money they earned. However for Sonata she makes nothing, if she wasn't rejected from whatever job she tried getting she was fired a day or two in, it happened at the movie theater, the fried chicken place, and skate park.
"This sucks!" Sonata jumped out of bed. "I want money! There's gotta be a way to get some without a job!' She got of her room and went to the front door.
"Going somewhere?"
Sonata turned around to see Adagio and Aria. "I'm going to find a way to get me some money!"
"Oh like that'll actually happen, and we'll get our singing voices back." Aria retorted.
"It's like you two don't have any faith in me."
"Well considering you can't keep a job and how you've screwed up our other money saving schemes, you've made it real easy Sonata." Adagio replied.
"I have not ruined your schemes!" Sonata cried.
Aria have got right in Sonata's face. "The pie incident!"
Sonata thought back to what Aria was talking about.
The trio hung outside the Apple Family farm, eyeing some pies that have been sitting there for a while.
"They should be cool enough for us to grab." Adagio said.
"Good, I've been craving something sweet for a while." Aria said.
Adagio went to the door of the farm and reached fro the handle but stopped. "Hold on, in television shows usually there's some dog guarding the place. Sonata! Look to see if there's any dogs in the yard!"
"Ok!" Sonata replied. She snooped around the yard in of front of her. "Nope! No dogs!"
"Good. Let's go Aria." Adagio said.
The two former sirens entered the farm and quietly approached the pies. However, they started hearing a strange hissing sound.
"What is that?" Aria asked.
"A hose I guess. Let's just hurry up." Adagio replied.
The two approached the pies, but the hissing got louder and right next to them, they looked to the side to see a brown and white komodo dragon glaring that them.
"What is that?" Aria asked.
"HAHHHHHH!!!" The dragon hissed loudly at them.
"AHH!!" The two screamed and ran off.
Applejack came out the door soon after. "Winona! Sumthin wrong?"
Winona made another hiss.
"I take it ya got rid of some trespassers."
Adagio and Aria ran out the gate with Sonata following them. They soon came to a stop and as Sonata came up to them.
"What happened to the pies?" Sonata asked only to get glares in response.
"Why didn't you say anything about that lizard?!" Aria yelled.
"But, you guys said to look for dogs, not lizards." Sonata replied.
Aria gave Sonata a death glare and started chasing her.
Sonata twiddled her thumbs. "Okay, that was one mess-up."
"Out of several!" Adagio replied. "Face it Sonata, the one thing you seem to be good at is messing things up!"
"Nuh-uh! I make good fruit punch!"
"Yeah, good." Aria rolled her eyes. "Seriously, I can't think of one thing you've succeeded at even before we lost our magic."
Sonata started to fume. "I'm not a screw-up! And I'll show you when I'm back with some money!" She stomped to the door. "And one of you better be up to let me in when I'm back!" She slammed the door behind her.
Aria let a heavy sigh. "Why do we still put up with her?"
Adagio rubbed her temples. "Honestly, I can't think why."
Sonata walked through the streets looking for any chances to make some cash, but no one was hiring this late at night and nothing seemed to be offering money.
"I gotta find something that'll get me money, I can't go back to Adagio and Aria with nothing." Sonata said. She then spotted a sign with something she wanted to see. "Need Cash? We can provide it." She turned to the store the sign was next to and rushed inside. "You guys give money?!"
The owners of the store, a pair of brothers with red hair, one having a mustache, matching blue and white striped shirts and white slacks approached the former siren.
"Why yes we do young lady." The brother without a mustache Flim replied.
"We take anything for good cash at the Flim and Flam's Everything Under the Sun Emporium!" The mustached brother Flam added. "What have ya got to sell?"
"Sell?" Sonata asked.
"What? You don't have anything to sell? Then we have no business missy." Flam said.
"Wait! I have my......" Sonata tried thinking of something she could sell, looking down at her feet when she got an idea. "Shoes!"
"Shoes?" Flim asked.
Sonata then took off her pink boots and presented them to the brothers. "See? You can take these for cash, right?"
The brothers exchanged looks and both got a nasty expression of their faces.
"Why yes young lady! We can take your shoes." Flam replied. "And we can take all that other stuff on you."
"Other stuff?" Sonata pondered for a few seconds and then had an idea what they meant. "You mean all my other clothes!"
"Of course!" Flim replied.
"OMG! My clothes should be worth a lot of cash!" She then started stripping, removing her shirt then her skirt and tossing them to the brothers, her socks soon followed, she then unhooked and removed her bra showing her perky breasts and slid off her panties to show she had a smooth crotch. She gave them all her undergarments. "Oh wait!" She undid the band that kept her hair in ponytail, letting her hair fall down. "This should count as clothing! And all that should be worth a lot!"
"Indeed! This is worth quite a bit." Flam replied.
Sonata squealed at the news, bouncing a little with her breasts following her.
"However, there's a slight problem."
Sonata stopped in her tracks. "Problem?"
"Yes! At Flim and Flam's Everything Under the Sun Emporium we have a policy. No shirt!"
"No shoes!" Flim added.
"No service!" The two said at once.
The color seemed to drain from Sonata's face. "But. But. But."
"The only butt here is yours, which we want out of here." Flam said as he grabbed Sonata by the shoulders and pushed her of the store and he locked the door.
"Hey!" Sonata started banging against the door. "You guys robbed me!"
"Nice ass girl!"
Sonata twisted around to see some guys gawking at her and taking pictures on their phones.
"AAAAAHHHH!!!!!" Sonata ran off with some of guys pursuing her.
Sonata soon lost her stalkers and made her way back to the apartment. She quietly came up to the door in hopes no one will see her and knocked on it.
Aria opened the door and her jaw dropped. "Are you screwing with us?!"
"Shh!!!" The guys might find me again." Sonata said.
"Is that Sonata?" Adagio came over to the door and she went wide-eyed at the sight before her. "Where are your clothes?"
Sonata nervously chuckled. "Funny story about that." She quickly explained what happened, as she finished she noticed her companions fuming and their eyes twitching. "Um girls?"
"You. Freaking. IDIOT!!!!!" Aria yelled. "You said you'd come back with money and instead you lose your clothes. You've proven without a doubt you're a complete failure!"
"I wouldn't do it again I swear."
"I don't care what you say Sonata." Adagio came up to the naked girl. "I have not thought of a good reason why we've kept you around for so long. Sure you made our singing stronger but with that gone you provide the two of us nothing other that having to deal with your mistakes. Well I'm done with it and you. Sonata Dusk, you've screwed up for the last time and I don't wanna see you face ever again."
"A-A-A-Adagio." Sonata's eyes started to tear up.
"Goodbye!" Adagio slammed the door and Sonata could hear her locking it up.
Like before Sonata banged against the door. "Adagio! Aria! Please let me in! I'll figure something out! I promise!"
"Hello police? There's this naked girl outside my apartment trying to break in!"
Sonata heard Adagio calling the cops on her and ran off to wherever her bare feet could take her, ignoring any glances, cat calls and complaints that came her way.
Sonata walked through the streets hugging herself, at this time of night no one seemed to be around leaving her alone with thoughts.
"Who was I kidding? Adagio and Aria were right about me being a screw-up. I don't know why I tried proving them wrong. Now I have no money, no clothes, no home, no friends, I literally have NOTHING!!! That is what literally means right?!"
Sonata wiped the tears off her eyes as she continued her trek, hoping to find someplace she hide out in, she at least knew she couldn't stay out in the streets naked without some creeps and or cops grabbing her and whisking her off. She walked past building through building and none of them appeared open. This continued to the upper part of town, it was then as she past by a large school that she spotted some lights.
"Huh?" In the a smaller building next the school she saw that the lights were on. She came up to the building and tried the door and it opened, she peeked her head inside to see an old man cleaning the floors with loud floor polisher.
'Maybe I can... Better that nothing.' She quietly walked inside and tiptoed while the old man had his back turned she spotted signs on the wall saying locker rooms for boys and girls, she went up to the girl's room and found the door open as well and went in, keeping it a slightly ajar and kept an eye on the old man. A few minutes later he finished his cleaning and left the building to put up his equipment, turning the lights off and locking up.
Sonata left the locker room and walked around a bit, despite the lack of lighting she could see fine, even losing her magic and no longer being a siren Sonata managed to retain a Sirens ability to see in the dark, a must for traveling the seas.
"So this is a gym. Like the one at Canterlot High, just bigger. WOAH!" She slipped on the floor and landed on her butt, freshly polished floors and bare feet weren't a good combination. She managed to get up but found herself slipping and falling quite a bit. "I gotta get out of here." She stumbled around until she came to door and went through it, and to her surprise the room had a big swimming pool and she let out a big gasp. "Yay! Swimming pool!" She ran and jumped into the water and swam around for a little bit, getting up and sitting at the edge of the pool when she finished, keeping her feet dipped in. "A nice swim always cheers me up." Sonata sighed and kicked her feet in the water for a bit. "Still, I don't know what to do. Maybe the homeless shelter, do they take naked people in? Maybe a nudist beach, I don't have worry about clothes and can swim all the time. But I'd need money to live somewhere and get food and stuff. AAAHHH!!!! It comes back to money!" She got her feet out of the water and curled in for bit, eventually letting out a sigh. "I'm should get some sleep. Maybe I'll think of something tomorrow." She then let a out a sad laugh. "Me, think of something. Yeah right."
Morning came and Sonata woke up, she looked to see she was laying in a puddle of the water she swam in the night before. "I should probably dry myself off. " She went over to some towels laid out for students and started using one. Just then, a bell rung. Sonata's eyes shrunk and she stopped drying herself. "Wait, is today a school day?!"
Hello Students! We hope you enjoy another day at Crystal Prep! A voice announced over the P/A answering Sonata's question.
"Oh crap! I didn't think this through. I gotta get outta here before I get caught. "She left the pool back to the gym and went up to the door she came in from the previous night. As she went out she saw several walking to the school, though they didn't notice her. Not taking chances she hid herself in the nearby bush.
"Hold on, these students are all dressed the same." Sonata as the gears starting turning in her head. "This school must have spare uniforms! Maybe I can sneak in get one."
She waited things out until the second bell rung and she saw that were no students outdoors. She got out of her hiding spot and making sure no one was looking and went up to a nearby door, looking through the the glass to see the hall was empty and went inside.
Sonata walked through the halls, keeping her head lowered as she came closer to doors hoping no would see her through door's windows, it seemed to work as she made her way to end of the hallway, is was then that she heard of the sound of high heels clicking on the floor. Sonata jumped a little.
'Oh no, someone's coming!' She thought as she scanned the area around her, spotting an empty locker and got inside in flash. There was no way for her to see what was outside the locker, but she heard the sound getting closer, she tried keeping her breathing under control as she listened. Whoever was in the hall passed by the locker Sonata was is and seemed to head the direction Sonata just came from, Sonata breathed through her nose in relief.
"What's this?"
Sonata's heart practically stopped.
"What is this water doing on the floor?! Wait a minute. These are foot prints, bare foot prints! Is someone walking through my school in their bare feet?! It must be some type of joke."
'Uh-oh! I didn't dry my feet off!' Sonata thought. As she heard the footsteps of apparently the school's principal came closer and closer Sonata felt like her heart was gonna burst out of her chest. The footsteps stopped however a few feet from her.
"Great the trail cuts short. Their feet must've dried off."
Sonata rubbed her feet against each to realized they pretty much dried off.
"They have be somewhere in these halls and I will find them."
The footsteps went further back the way it came from. Sonata once breathed in relieve. "Now I gotta worry about someone looking for me." She peeked out of the locker to make sure no else was around and when it was clear she went forward in the direction she was going, knowing the risk of running into her new pursuer was high.
She made her way through the halls, sticking to her strategy of keeping her head down near doors. All seemed to be going well until she spotted a woman with hair a mixture of fuchsia and magenta tied in bun and wearing fancy blue clothes, the school's principal Abacus Cinch and the woman who is looking for Sonata.
'That must be the principal woman looking for me.' Sonata thought. Luckily, said woman had her back turned at the moment. Sonata tiptoed past the woman keeping her eye on her pursuer to make sure she didn't spot her. However in doing Sonata didn't see a copy machine that someone forgot to keep the top down that was in the front of her, she bumped into the machine and fell on top of it,the top hitting her back. She freaked out and tried get off it but pressed the button to start the copier sending out a bright light as it scanned Sonata's body.
"Wha-" Cinch turned around only to be hit by the light coming from the machine. "AAAAAAHHHHH!!!! My eyes!!!!"
Sonata got up and saw that Cinch was blinded at the moment and ran off.
Cinch's regained her sight soon after and growled. "Whoever did that will-" She cut off by the sound of the copier printing out a piece of paper. She went over to it and picked up the sheet. "WWWWAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!" She saw the image of Sonata's bare body that copier scanned. "Someone. Someone. Someone is STREAKING in Crystal Prep!!! They will NOT get away with this!!!" Cinch proclaimed.
Sonata could hear a bit of Cinch's yelling and felt dread. She frantically searched for an empty locker to hide in but to no avail. But she then spotted a janitor's closet and tried the knob, and lucky for her it opened allowing her to get in.
As she held up in the closet she heard the Cinch's footsteps approaching and from the sound of it she was storming near her.
"I can't keep trailing her, she'll find me at this rate." Sonata look a round for anything that help when she spotted a bottle of floor polish and few other things that gave her an idea.
She listened to make sure Cinch was close enough and poured the polish through the opening at the bottom of door.
"Wha-Wha-Woah!!!" She then heard Cinch's impact on the floor.
Peeking through the door she made sure Cinch was laying on her belly and was struggling to get up, Sonata grabbed a bucket and big jug of whatever felt heaviest. She rushed over to the principal while her head down and shoved the bucket over her head.
"WHAT THE?"
Sonata hit the bucket with the jug she was holding a couple of times, when she stopped she heard Cinch groan and collapse.
"Sorry, but I don't wanna go to jail. I didn't kill ya though, that's good right?"
She started to leave however she ended up slipping on some of the floor polish. "WOAH!!!" She landed on her back and getting up but like Cinch before has struggling to do so.
Then she had the bell started to ring and her stomach sank.
"No! I-Wah!" Sonata felt her body being dragged in record time and found herself in a restroom. She caught a glance whoever grabbed her walk past her and she heard the door being locked. She managed to get up to see whoever got her, a student with snow white skin and long pink hair.
"So, um are you okay miss..." The girl asked.
"I'm Sonata, Sonata Dusk." Sonata replied
"I'm Fleur de Lis. I was going to the restroom when I caught you running around and avoiding Principal Cinch." Fleur explained.
"And you're helping me? Did you not see me knock out your principal?"
"Well she nearly got our world destroyed, I don't care what happens to her. As for me helping you, let's just say someone used to go here that needed some help and I and no one else here had the decency to do it. And you really look like you need help. Or are you a streaker like Cinch thinks?"
"No! I just wanted to get some clothes to wear after I got conned out of the ones I had and then got kicked of my place for it."
"What? Who kicks someone out of their home after they got their clothes taken from them?"
"People who have had to put with my screw-ups for hundreds of years."
"Hundreds? Did you hit you head when you slipped earlier?"
"No. I'm kinda sorta a centuries old siren, or former siren now."
Fleur looked flabbergasted at the blue girl and before she could respond the PA went off.
Attention Students! Principal Cinch was found in the halls appearing to have been in an accident. She is being looked at by the nurse right now. However we ending school early as Cinch doesn't want school to proceed without her in charge. Have a nice day and we hope Cinch has a speedy recovery.
"Well the halls are gonna occupied for a little bit, so we're stuck here. Why don't I hear you're story?" Fleur said.
"Um, alright."
Sonata proceeded to tell Fleur about her beginnings as Siren in Equestria causing strife with Adagio and Aria until they were banished to this world, how they struggled to get by until they discovered Equestrian magic and Canterlot High and tried to get it for themselves and were defeated and turned human, and the events of the previous night.
"That's... quite a story. I wish I could say you may be pulling my leg but I can tell you're not lying, it's kinda of a gift of mine. I'm sorry all that happened to you. I mean yeah you were kinda of evil but I think being banished, and losing your powers and being humiliated sounded like a proper punishment, you just got a raw deal last night." Fleur said
"Doesn't change the fact that Adagio and Aria were right about me being screw-up. I can't think of anything I've done on my own that worked out." Sonata hung her head.
"Don't say that! You just avoided getting caught by our principal in your birthday suit. That's something if I'd say so."
"Okay, one thing compared to years of failure." Sonata kept her head.
'I can't stand to see this girl in such a miserable state.' Fleur thought. 'But I don't know what to do to help her. Well, maybe one thing.' Fleur came up to Sonata and wrapped her in hug.
"Huh?"
"I not sure how or if I can help you Sonata, but I wanna try. You can stay with me and my family and I'm help you find something you're good at."
"You will?" Sonata got a little misty-eyed.
"I promise." Fleur went over to the door, unlocked it, and opened it and checked the halls. "Looks clear. Let's go."
"You sure you wanna risk getting caught with a naked girl around ya?"
Fleur chuckled a little. "For me it's not as big a deal as you'd think."
Sonata raised an eyebrow at that remark but ignored it and followed Fleur through the empty school, to the parking lot, and to Fleur's car and made their way to her house.
The two arrived at Fleur's house, as they walked in Sonata was in awe at the size and design.
"OMG! Fleur this is- Huh?!" Sonata turned to see Fleur stripping out of her uniform. "Um Fleur, you don't have to get naked to make me feel better."
"Oh no, I'm getting comfortable." Sonata just blinked as Fleur was slipping out her underwear. "Our home is clothing optional, so you don't have worry your state of undress, unless you want me me get you some clothes."
"How does feel to be naked of your choice? It really hasn't been good for me, being tricked in all and having to worry about others seeing me."
"Oh Sonata, everything feels wonderful when you bare your skin, and it gives you such a sense of freedom that hard to have otherwise. And you don't have at worry, no one my besides my parents will see us. Besides, it's too bad around other naked people, it can make it easier to along with new people." Fleur picked up her clothes. "I gotta take these to the laundry room. You can go around to my room, it's the first room on the right of the stairs."
"Alright." Sonata walked over to the stairs.
Fleur headed to laundry room, in the process she get her cell phone out and made a call.
Fleur soon headed to her room where she heard music coming from it. "Looks likes Sonata figured out how to use my radio." She opened the door to her surprise she found Sonata dancing and she amazed at the sight. Sonata's movements were very energetic and fluid and she kept to the music with ease, and Fleur also noticed the big grin on her face. The song soon ended and Sonata stopped with it. "Wow!"
Sonata jumped and realized Fleur was watching her and shrunk a little. "Sorry."
"Don't be. You were fantastic." Fleur replied and came closer to Sonata.
"Thank you. You were talking about how fun doing naked was so I decided to dance naked, since I love swimming and dancing and I actually did swim some last night after I lost my clothes."
"And looks like you enjoyed it."
"Yeah, I'd usually dance with the others when we'd sing to help mesmerize our targets."
"So you've got a lot of practice, I'd say we've found something you're good at."
"Really?" Sonata some of her hair around. "I never thought about. It's something I've just done, never considered myself to be good."
"Oh, you are. In fact I know a dance studio in town, and I bet you could get a job there."
"I could?"
"You can, me and my family can help recommend you. Oh right, I talked to my parents and they'll get your clothes from those Flim and Flam creeps after work."
"Really?" Sonata hugged herself. "You're doing all for this me, and I've done nothing to deserve it nor can I think of a way to pay you back."
Fleur put an arm around Sonata's shoulder. "I told you I want to help you, I couldn't live with myself if I left you to suffer. And I've been trying to make new friends and better myself and right now you need a friend more than anyone I know."
Sonata's eyes over flowed with tears. "We're, friends?"
"We are now dear. I'll stay by you no matter what." Fleur wrapped around Sonata for a hug, allowing the blue girl to cry into her chest.
The two naked girls stood there in embrace solidifying their new friendship. Little did they realize their friendship would grow into something stronger.
Fleur's parents kept what they promised and got Flim and Flam to relieve Sonata's clothes after threatening to buy them out. And while it was strange to having a house guest around, they respected Fleur's wishes to look after her and found themselves enjoying her company. Sonata was able to get a job at the dance studio Fleur mentioned when she showed them what she was capable of, and she became a popular teacher for her passion and upbeat demeanor. The family also looked into getting her a private tutor to improve her intellect. Fleur's parents noticed how close their daughter and Sonata had become and after talking it out they decided to adopt Sonata as full member of their family. The day her adoption was finalized became the happiest day of Sonata's life. She went from losing everything to gaining something better: A job she enjoyed and money she earned, a better home, being free from Adagio, Aria, and her past, and family who loved her and help her embrace a clothing optional lifestyle.
