The New Exciting Life of Sonata Dusk

Sonata was sitting on a bench deep in thought. She had been living on her own for a month living on the money that Twilight had given her. She might not be the sharpest tool in the shed (in fact some would say she was beyond blunt) but she new that she needed money and soon, and that means getting a job. Back in the old days she never needed money since she and the others just used there song magic to hypnotize others or feed of there negativity, but those days where over and done with. Sonata put her head in her hoofs in thought. If only she could sing without causing anything to go wrong. She never tolled the others but she didn’t need the crystals to make her sing properly, she just didn’t want to give them a reason to hate her (well any more reason to hate her now) Sonata had asked Twilight if there was a way but she said that it was too risky at the moment, and that it might cause whatever turned her into a pony to reverse and making her turn into a siren again. There where things she did miss about her old self like being able to swim and fly and the shiny scales that she would love to see glisten in the sun light, but she defiantly thought that her pony self was cuter. It slowly dawned on her something that she hadn’t realized since coming here.

She had no friends.

Sonata raised her head in self-realization. How did she not notice this before, Twilight distanced herself from her too much and she hadn’t seen Sunset since she arrived. They’re where a lot of friendly ponies here but it was hard to connect with any of them when you have to hide what you are. Sonata got of her seat and raised her hoof in the air.

“I swear by King Leo of Aquastria and the Cosmic Council, that before this day is done, I will have friends!”

This speech was cut off abruptly when something grey and yellow fell from the sky crushing her under it.

“Woops, sorry”

Sonata crawled out from under the thing that fell on her and realized that it was a grey Pegasus with straw blond hair.

“ow, that hurt…hay are you all…”

Sonata stopped when she saw that the pony’s eyes weren’t pointing in the same direction.

“OH SWEET LEO SHE HAS BRAIN DAMAGE!!!”

The grey pony looked up at her confused. “…What? OH YOU MEAN MY…oh d-don’t worry about it, my eyes are always like this”

Sonata looked at the pony as she was getting herself up. “…What?”

“I have Strabismus, its just something that I have had since I was born, its more a brain thing than an eye thing”

Sonata’s mouth was open in shock “that’s a real thing!? That’s…that’s horrible”

“Oh don’t worry its not a problem, I can still see just fine…it just…looks weird”

The grey pony went silent. Sonata rubbed her hoofs awkwardly. She cleared her thought and spoke “lets start again, my name is Sonata Dusk”

The Grey pony raised her head “oh yeah you’re the pony that moved here a month ago”

“Yep that’s me”

“Wow, I never thought a siren cool look so pret…” the pony quickly put her hoof to her mouth and looked side to side before putting her hoofs back down. Sonata kept her eyes on her the whole time.

“You think I look pretty…no wait, what was that bit you said about me being a siren…that I am not…wait did Twilight tell you?”

The Pony looked at her than over both her shoulders making sure nopony could hear them. “Maybe it would be better if I introduced you to somepony I know” she then took Sonata’s hoof and led her away to the suburban part of town. They would have gotten there faster but the pony seemed to be have problems, falling into holes in the road, tripping on rocks, walking into lamp posts, it was as she was pulling the Pegasus out of a hay stack she had tripped into that Sonata decided to bring this up.

“Are you sure your OK?”

The pony brushed the hay out of her hair and replied “yeah this is normal for me, you probably don’t know this because your new around here but I kind of have a reputation for being…well…a jinx…and a klutz…and most notably, the stupid one”

Sonata’s eyes widened “the stupid one?”

“Yeah, I tend to mess things up a lot one way or another and ponies have kind of gotten used to the idea that anything that involves Derpy Hooves as a disaster waiting to happen”

“Derpy…is that your name”

“Yes, but just between you and me I’m not really sure if my name is Derpy or Ditzy or Muffins or whatever the writer’s and fan community have really messed me up with that”

If your done braking the forth wall could I continue the story

“Sorry, please continue”

Sonata looked down at the ground reflecting on this and spoke “you know people, I mean Ponies…or maybe I do mean people, anyway others have called me stupid too, you’re the worst Sonata, you can’t do anything right Sonata, why are you so useless Sonata, stand still so I can hit you Sonata…that last one wasn’t as bad as it sounded”

The two looked at each other eye to eye (this was one of those moments where Derpy’s eyes where both pointing in the same direction) with both sensing a strong connection and understanding between the two. Noticing that she was starting to tear up Derpy wiped her eyes and continued to lead Sonata down the road.