Echos of the Sirensby Cool1n90ChaptersWe Used To Be Adored..A New Start For The TwoNo Choice Left But To...It Was Inevitable After AllWho Dun Diddit?We Used To Be Adored..Author's Note My second storyyyy unfortunatly I have exams so I won't be able to finish it quickly Proofread by my amazing english teacher!!! We Used To Be Adored.. It was just a few weeks after the Battle of the Bands and the girls were still sulking over The Rainbooms defeating them. All they did was just mope around, not one of them getting a job or doing anything else in life, which they thought was already over. It was then that they realised that they can’t live off negative energy anymore and had to rely on human food. When I said they were still pretty miffed about what happened, it wasn’t the whole truth.To be frank, it was mostly Aria and Adagio. Sonata was still slightly her bubbly self and decided to cherish what was left of her days since they weren’t immortal anymore. The pair thought she was crazy, I mean, they were living in a women's homeless shelter and had to eat disgusting food just to survive. How could someone be so positive living in these conditions? It was the stupidest thing ever. They unfortunately always had to shift from shelter to shelter as Aria kept picking fights with the junkies and then getting tossed out along with the other two. Adagio had thought about kicking her out of the trio since she was practically ruining their chances of surviving in these harsh, winter conditions, but she knew two minds were better than one (only two minds because Adagio thinks Sonata was a dummy dumdum.) This made it the fourth homeless shelter they’d been to and Adagio started keeping a close eye on Aria to make sure she stayed out of trouble. Of course Aria didn’t like this but she knew it was for her own good since they didn’t want to risk getting kicked out of the only other homeless shelter in the area. It was late at night and Adagio was scrolling through her phone on MyStable and she suddenly came across something. She groaned as she saw a post by Pinkie Pie with The Rainbooms in front of the school each posing a pose that fits their character, with the caption being: “OMG!!! I love my friends!” She looked in disgust at her phone for about two minutes before shutting it down and putting it under her pillow and going to sleep. Before she was about to tuck herself in she took a quick glance at Sonata who was sleeping soundly and just sighed. Sonata was always so filled with light. As much as Adagio disliked her, she couldn't just leave her as it would be cruel. Sonata always knew how to turn a dark moment into something bright which was kind of a reassurance to the other two girls. Sonata would barely make it out alive if she were to be abandoned.Just looking at her left Adagio feeling slight pity. The girls had nothing but contempt for each other (except maybe Sonata). Not one of the girls ever showed concern for their feelings, but they still wouldn’t separate as it would be a poor decision, they needed each other to survive, that's all it was to them. Former siren sisters, that was all it was. Adagio got settled on her bed and pulled the covers up to protect her face from whatever dangers lay ahead since she was sleeping near to lots of strangers and she didn’t know what they were capable of. She knew that they stood out from the rest of the women at the shelter since they were not ex-convicts, druggies or smokers. They heard of the bad stuff that the people did here, but none of them could compare to how evil they were. The girls had come to terms with the fact that what they did was pretty wrong, still, they were too stubborn to admit it out loud. Adagio drifted off to sleep and was soon awakened in the middle of the night. One of the supposed junkies had gotten into a fight with somebody. Adagio, praying it wasn’t Aria, quickly pulled the covers off of herself then shot up. A junkie had apparently, from what Adagio was told, strangled someone in their sleep for whatever reason. Her ears soon adjusted properly and she realised she was also hearing police and ambulance sirens. She looked around and everyone was pretty much awake and confused due to the commotion. This wasn’t a surprise to the girls, things like this were pretty common. Every shelter they lived in had lots of fights, but none of them had ended this horribly. The paramedics took the deceased person away in the ambulance with the sirens off. Adagio and the girls (who quickly grabbed their phones just in case someone planned on stealing them) obviously wanted to take a closer look but the police just ushered everyone out and started putting up police tape around the premises. If it wasn’t for the street lights and flashing red and blue police lights, it would’ve been pitch black as it was the middle of the night. The wind was blowing like a madman and the girls immediately started to shiver and wrap their arms around them as they were only wearing t-shirts and sweatpants. Everyone was mortified, where were the people gonna sleep now? Adagio and Aria being more agitated and annoyed than scared. Sonata, now barely holding in her tears as she was sensitive to the topic of death, walked over and asked one of the cops, “Uhm.. Cop, sir, can me and my friends go in and get our stuff back?” Sonata used the word ‘friends’ putting into consideration the other two didn’t think of each other as friends. She turned around hoping they didn’t hear her use the ‘F’ word and luckily for her, they were distracted with something else. “Sorry ma’am, this place is closed until further notice, maybe for about two days, you should probably transfer to a different shelter for the time being.” The cop replied. “Sergeant Shining Armor, should we request more backup? There’s another fight breaking out and it’s getting out of control.” Another female officer reported as she rushed over. “Permission granted.” Sergeant Shining Armor responded, now turning towards Sonata. “Now ma’am, we have lots of angry citizens bugging us, if you would please cooperate it’ll make our job easier.” “Oh.. Ok.” Sonata replied meekly as she walked back to the girls. “So, what did he say?” Aria demanded, arms crossed. Adagio also came over and stood beside Aria and put her hands on her hips. Sonata sighed, “They said we won't be able to enter for about two days and we can’t get our stuff as well!” The blue haired girl whined, pouting while crossing her arms. “What!” Adagio roared, loud enough to catch the attention of the nearby cops. Both Aria and Sonata flinched and pretty much soon after two cops walked over. Now would be an extremely great time for them to use their Equestrian magic, no thanks to The Rainbooms. They didn’t really need their stuff, especially since they barely had anything. But Adagio was still pretty cross about not getting her proper rest so basically, her stuff not being returned to her was really the last straw. She clenched her fists as two cops who heard all the commotion walked over to help sooth Adagio. “Ma’am could you please cooperate? We really are trying our best here.” An officer noted in a soft yet commanding tone. “Well clearly, your best is not good enough.” She growled, pointing a finger at the officers with her other hand on her hip. Noticing that Adagio was about to pounce on one of the cops, Aria and Sonata reacted quickly and grabbed both of her arms just as she was about to attack. “H-Hey!” She yelped as she was brought back, aggressively pulling her arms away from the two girls. “Thank you so much girls for being able to stop me before jumping two police officers and going to prison for aggravated assault! I really appreciate it.” Aria yelled in sarcasm. “You could’ve literally gone to jail if we hadn’t stopped you.” She also added in a more stern voice. “Oh, so now you’re talking?” Adagio snapped back. “You can’t even control your anger, we wouldn’t have even been in this mess if it wasn’t for you! You’ve got us into this shit.” “Woah, woah ladies, you need to calm down.” A female cop hollered, now standing in between the two girls with both of her arms raised up in a ‘T’ shape. Sonata just watched in perplexity as the two stopped their screaming match, she turned around to see that there was an audience too. A few different cops came and tried to diffuse the situation by breaking up the audience. The cop in between Aria and Adagio had left, issuing a warning to Adagio, along with the other cop. “I think it’s best if we split up.” Adagio said while turning her back. “You and Sonata can go elsewhere, I’m better off without you guys.” She didn’t mean it, the words just slipped out of her mouth like word vomit. The pair of girls looked at Adagio in surprise, they’d always been together, for centuries even. This was the first time this topic had ever come up. “You guys have only been slowing me down, I’m only after success and you guys can’t even get ahead on your own without me giving you orders! Y'all have just been a herd of sheep to me. I pity you.” Adagio stated, turning her head back around slightly to face the pair. “So that's what we were to you? A bunch of dumdum heads who can't do stuff on their own?” Sonata choked out, stepping forward. “You know, if it wasn’t for us, you wouldn’t have even made it to where we were.” “Sonata’s right. We always did everything for you.. you barely lifted a finger.” Aria remarked now standing beside Sonata. “Even after everything, you always still bossed us around and were always so ungrateful. You never acknowledged us as equal.” Adagio was visibly taken aback by such a preposterous claim, though, deep down inside she knew it was right. She always yelled and snapped insults at the two. Whenever Aria and Sonata got into physical fights, she’d always just brush it off, but the second she got pulled into them, she would yell at them both. Sonata would be upset while Aria would just be pissed. But of course, Adagio being the stubborn person she was, decided to not admit her wrongs. So her stubbornness got the best of her. “Well, I’ll be leaving now.” Adagio declared as she began to walk off. “Fine, be that way.” Aria replied bluntly. “Hmph! Come on Sonata, pretty sure she couldn’t last a whole day without us.” A New Start For The TwoAuthor's Note My second chapterrr, I don't know much about American high schools since I go to an Australian one. This took me a long time to write since I have to prep for exams but I'll still have time to update this and add more chapters!! A New Start For The Two And with that ending statement, the trio split up and walked their separate ways. Aria and Sonata had set off, completely having no idea where they were going, but they sure as hay weren’t gonna give up now. Aria couldn’t believe Adagio’s selfish actions and thoughts were now racing through her head, the dominating one being: Just wait, Adagio would come back begging to join us again. The sun was going up as it was becoming morning again, Aria groaned while Sonata looked at where the sun was rising and was mesmerized by the scenery. Aria couldn’t understand why Sonata was so positive about everything, it was just a sunrise, she scoffed. Their legs were starting to get tired but they couldn’t find any nearby benches to rest on which was putting Aria in a more grumpy mood. “Do we even know where we’re going?’ Sonata bugged tapping Aria’s shoulder. “Uh, no.” Aria replied, slightly annoyed and moved slightly away because of Sonata's badgering. “It’s not like your dumbass could come up with any suggestions.” Sonata was hurt by that reply but she didn’t want anything else to make this day worse than it already was. She’s always been called continuous insults by both of her friends (mostly Aria), they mostly think that she wouldn’t take to heart since they thought she’s always bimbotic, but they still hurt her deep down inside. Suddenly, an idea popped into her head. “Actually, I do have a suggestion!” Sonata exclaimed. Aria stopped walking and just stared blankly at Sonata. “Okay then, what’s your idea?” “Weeeeelll, I reckon we could go back to school?” Aria was now seething. “Is this your idea of a joke?” She scolded. “Do you even remember what happened last time, or is your little brain too small to comprehend?” “No, I’m not joking.” Sonata replied. “Plus, even if we did go to school, where would we sleep anyway?” Aria questioned. “Well, didn’t that pony Twilight sleep in the library? Like in the side where nobody goes?” Sonata asked. “Maybe we could sleep there instead?” Aria was stunned, she never thought someone as dim-witted as Sonata could suggest such a brilliant idea. She kept her cool and replied nonchalantly. “How do you even know that?” “Just a hunch!” Sonata responded joyfully. They continued to walk down the path in silence, well Aria was, Sonata was skipping while humming. “Wait, how would we even get in the school, doesn’t everybody there hate us?” Aria added turning to Sonata who ceased her humming and started walking alongside Aria. The girls were never faced with this situation, everyone has always adored them and they never had anyone get mad at them, up until The Rainbooms publicly humiliated them. The next few minutes were an awful lot silent as the two found themselves a bench they could rest on. “Okayy, soooooo…” Sonata said, shattering the silence. “So what?” Aria replied. “Make it snappy. I'm literally losing it right now.” “I know we never really do this, buuuuuut… We could apologise?” Sonata mumbled but it was audible enough for Aria to listen. “You’re joking?” Aria baffled. “Imagine Adagio was here, she’d literally start yelling at you if she heard that.” “But she’s not here, we can do whatever we want now!” Sonata pleaded. “Plus, it’ll benefit us both, we won’t be too verbally harassed as much as we were when we got exposed.” They had been together for a long time, she knew Sonata would never make a decision that could subject them to something bad. So, Aria decided to go along with Sonata's plan. “Alright.. We can head to the school later once everyone is in class so that they won’t see us enter.” Aria noted. “There’s only so much ridicule one can handle.” And with that, Aria checked her phone and saw it was 5:45. They had more time for rest than they thought. Aria had been playing video games on her phone while Sonata slowly dozed off to sleep. She couldn’t blame her, so much had happened last night. It had been about two hours in (7:45) and Aria got up to stretch for a while before heading back on the bench and sitting back down. She wondered how Sonata was sleeping in such an uncomfortable position. Aria tried many attempts to sleep but after a sixth try she finally dozed off before setting up an alarm for 9:45. Again, two more hours had passed and it was now time. Aria harshly (not too harsh) nudged Sonata awake. She yawned and Aria pointed to the time on her phone which made Sonata jump up from the bench. “Yawn Let's go, the students are probably in class now.” She gently got Aria’s hands to help her up but Aria just swatted it away. She got up on her own and started walking ahead, noticing Sonata was still behind, she motioned her to pick up the pace. It wasn’t a long way to CHS but the girls still had to be kind of stealth-like, what if someone arrived at school late and saw them walking about. At last they arrived at the gates and slowly opened the entrance door. They remembered where Principal Celestia's office was from the last time they were here, and so they walked over to the office. They just stood by the door nervously kind of, at least Sonata was. But hey, if they forgave Sunset Shimmer, maybe she could forgive them. And with a deep breath, Aria knocked on the door. “Come in.” A gentle but commanding response was heard loud and clear. They jumped slightly. The two gulped, Sonata grabbing on to Aria for protection but she just moved her away, annoyed. Aria opened the door and the principal had her eyes on her desk on some documents. She looked up and couldn’t believe what she saw. There in front of her were two of The Dazzlings, Aria and Sonata. “Oh.” She said, astonished yet disappointed. “Take a seat ladies and tell me what brings you here again.” The two followed the principal’s orders and sat down on the two seats in front of her desk. Aria just slumped on while Sonata had perfect posture. “So..?” She made a face that basically read “I have better things to do.” Aria soon spoke up. “So, me and Sonata were wondering if we could enrol back?” Celestia’s face was a look of disapproval and disappointment. She slowly nodded her head looking down kind of, swallowing a chuckle while tsking. “So you can try to hypnotise us again? I don’t think so.” Celestia snapped back, but in a more polite sort of way looking back down at the files in front of her, shifting the papers. “Plus, what's the magic word?” She added while writing something down on one of the files. “Look, we come reformed.” Sonata added. “Please, if you could just give us a second chance like what you’ve done with Sunset.” She pleaded, clasping her hands together like she was praying. “Like Sunset, huh..” The principal mumbled audibly as she put her pen down, looked up and then put her fingers laced together with the index fingers pointing up, lightly tapping. Celestia had given Sunset a second chance, what she did was kinda worse than what The Dazzlings did. It would be really unfair to not give them a chance. She analysed them once more and noticed there was a member missing from the group. “Where’s the other one, Adagio Dazzle?” She questioned. “We parted ways, she thought she was too good for us and went off on her own.” Aria answered, in a seething but controlled manner. “Mhm..” The principal replied. “Well, we could get you enrolled back, but one more slip up and I’m throwing you out” She mentioned firmly as she flipped through some papers and handed the pair an enrolment sheet. This response lightened up the pair's faces (Aria, only slightly). The two signed the sheet, leaving the home address and parents contact information unfilled, Celestia didn’t mention anything about it as she knew their current situation (not the homeless part though). “Welcome to Canterlot High, again.” She nonchalantly exclaimed. Sonata giggled and lifted her arms in the air but then Celestia just shot a look at her, implying that she should not be proud as they were there on probation, Sonata soon calmly collected herself. “Miss. Inkwell?” The principal called out to the passer by the door which was behind the girls. A lady in office attire and large spectacles that covered some of her features walked up to the door. She held a clipboard to her waist. Sonata and Aria curiously turned their heads to see who it was. “Could you get these ladies their locker arrangements?” Celestia calmly ordered. The lady, by the name of ‘Miss. Inkwell’, from what the girls have heard, nodded, pushed her glasses up to her face and walked off quickly towards somewhere, perhaps her office. The girls couldn’t see much since they were facing the other side. She returned in such a jiffy that Aria thought, ‘She must get paid a lot if she runs around taking orders from the staff.’ She handed two sheets to the girls with a face so sour that it could curdle milk, and as soon as they grabbed them, she wiped her hands on her shirt as if the two had a disease and quickly rushed off somewhere else. As the two stood up from their seats and were about to exit through the door, Celestia quickly got up and handed them their school schedule. “Remember girls, one major goof up and it’s time for you to search for a different school.” She noted strictly and with that she slammed the door behind them. The girls flinched slightly before scurrying off somewhere where the principal wasn’t in earshot. They found themselves in the locker area with the door to the gym being adjacent to them. “What's up their asses?” Aria mentioned with a slight chuckle turning to face Sonata, awaiting a response, she did get one, but it wasn’t one she was expecting. “Aria!” Sonata nudged Arias' shoulder with her elbow. “Be grateful, she literally gave us a second chance.” Aria also nudged Sonata's arm harder, leaving Sonata rubbing it with her other hand. “Whatever.” She replied carelessly. “Oh wait! Let’s see if we have any classes together!” Sonata replied excitedly. The two held up their schedules side to side and compared which classes they had. Unfortunately, they only had like no classes together. They both thought that Principal Celestia had something to do with it and she was trying to get under the girls’ skin, maybe as payback for what they did. “Bummer!” Sonata exclaimed as she turned to see Aria was to some degree not bothered by it at all. “Welp, I guess I should be heading over to algebra.” Aria added as she began to walk off to where her class was supposed to be. Sonata waved over goodbye but only received only small acknowledgement. Aria’s side: Aria walked over to where her supposed class was. It didn’t show on her face, but she was scared shitless. She opened the door and everyone turned their heads to see who was interrupting their lesson and when they did, they were shocked. The teacher, Miss. Harshwinney was also stunned but then told the class to calm down. “Apparently I have algebra.” She mentioned as she looked around for a seat. There was an empty seat at the back so she went ahead and took it. The students sitting near that desk immediately went and scootched away from it. Aria was annoyed by this and just shot the students (who were still staring and whispering about her) death stares. She put her head down but could still feel the glares facing her. Miss. Harshwinney continued with the lesson and that's when Aria realised how tough getting through this day is going to be. Sonata’s side: Unlike Aria, Sonata was slightly optimistic about meeting her old classmates again, the only thing that was keeping her from being fully confident was what they were going to think of meeting her. As she walked over, she noticed Rarity grabbing something from her locker. Sonata quickly found a hiding spot. Rarity looked over her shoulder, she sensed someone was looking at her but she just brushed it off and headed towards her respective class. When Sonata found that the coast was clear she made a run for it. She had chemistry and walked towards where the chemistry room is located. She took a deep breath and pulled the door open. All the students were wearing lab coats and safety goggles, and the teacher, Miss. Cheerilee was grading test papers on her desk. The teacher looked up and let out a small gasp. “Oh! Class we have a new student… I suppose.” She stood up towards Sonata. There was a itty bitty hint of disgust in her face and Sonata could tell. The entire class was now staring in disbelief at Sonata, she could make out a few girls, Fluttershy and… Twilight Sparkle? “Please take a seat over here, class will be over soon.” Miss. Cheerilee pointed to a seat beside her desk. Sonata awkwardly sat herself down and she heard everyone still gossiping about her and shooting daggers, all but Fluttershy and Twilight. After class: The whole day was filled with bullying and teasing by partially the whole student body, all but The Rainbooms. In fact, it was them who told the others to stop making fun of the girls, some actually stopped but some on the other hand wouldn’t stop. It was lunch and the two were at the cafeteria, they sat on a table on the far end and literally devoured and inhaled their food (they hadn’t had a proper meal for a while). “Woah, you sure can reaaally put it away!” Pinkie exclaimed walking over to the two, along with The Rainbooms. “Leave us alone Rainf*gs.” Aria yelled, not too loud to catch the attention of the nearby people. “Hey, don’t call us that,” Rainbow Dash announced. “Besides, what’s wrong with being gay?” “Yeah.. Are you homophobic Aria…?” Fluttershy added. Aria didn’t respond and just tried to block out their annoying claims by digging her face into her arms. Sonata soon spoke up on behalf of her ‘friend’. “She’s not homophobic guys’, she loves the LGBTQIA+, don’t you Aria? wink wink” Aria just groaned, annoyed. The girls didn’t have any feelings about the LGBTQIA+, they didn’t even care about them (except maybe Sonata). But they definitely weren’t homophobic. “Ok enough with this gay stuff, and, can you guys also stop with the whole angel act as well?” Aria snapped, pulling her head back up. “You’re just doing this to make you guys feel good about yourselves.” “Listen sugarcube,” Applejack added. “We were there when it happened to Sunset, we don’t want it happening to you as well.” She said, probably talking about the aftermath of the Fall Formal, though the pair weren’t there to see it all unfold. Sunset soon came forward. “Take it from me, these six girls helped me find a better way, these girls are your friends.” She noted. “Yeah, even after the Friendship Games when I turned into a raging she-demon, they still forgave me.” Twilight also added. Aria just cringed, then she wondered about Twilight. “Wait, what are you talking about?” Aria questioned. “Since when did Twilight get into such trouble, isn’t she the one who brought you guys together with the whole ‘friendship is magic’ thing?” The six girls looked at each other in confusion then realised what Aria meant. The Dazzlings weren’t there when the Friendship Games happened so they probably haven’t met ‘human world’ Twilight. After explaining, it soon began to become clearer for the two. “So that’s what happened!” Twilight then added at the end of her explanation, turning beet red slightly and looking down in embarrassment and shame before Sunset put her hand on her shoulder. She regained her composure with the comfort of her friend. “Ohh! That makes much more sense.” Sonata remarked while clapping her hands. Aria still had a plain expression on her face (her eyebrows still furrowed kinda like it always is). The two girls let their guards down (mostly Aria since Sonata basically trusts everyone she meets) and let the Rainbooms sit on their table. Sonata was a social butterfly so she started a conversation with the girls while Aria faced the other side with her face resting on her hand. She zoned out and her ears were naturally blocking out the sounds of laughter and conversation until she heard her name being called out. “Ariaaaa!?” Pinkie queried while waving a face around Aria. “Earth to Ariaaa!” Aria moved her hand in a way to tell Pinkie that she was mentally here. “What?” She turned around facing the girls. “Well, Sonata told us about what happened,” Sunset replied, concerned. “About you guys' situation, and what happened with Adagio.” “So she did…” Aria quickly shot daggers at Sonata but she just shrugged her shoulders, completely oblivious to what she’s done. “Whaaat?” She asked. Aria just groaned and facepalmed once more. The rest of the day was a blur for the two girls. They were obviously made fun of a lot, but they also gained a strong ally and they really felt reassured. Aria met Sonata at the forsaken side of the library. There was a pile of books stacked up to make a bed, big enough for the two of them and there was a cover that was used as a blanket. Sonata was looking through some of the books which Aria thought was weird, then she remembered. It slipped her mind that they didn’t have their phone chargers and that Sonata’s phone must have died and that's why she was reading. They had made sure nobody had seen them walking into the library since this was the only place they thought they could sleep in. They girls lied down and stared up into the skylight, at least Sonata was, Aria just turned around and started hogging all the blanket. Sonata didn’t want to start complaining so she just let it be (after pulling the blanket a little closer to herself) after what happened this whole day. They couldn’t rest properly as thoughts were now running in their heads like toy trains, all they could think about was: I wonder what Adagio is up to right now? No Choice Left But To...Author's Note This is super rushed since i wrote it all in 2 and a half days I'll still continue to work on this everyday from now on PS: i dont really know much about applying to jobs and job interviews soooooooo pls keep that in mind while reading. PSS: cringe warning and be prepared for the horrible grammar No Choice Left But To... Adagio had wandered off with no future plans after that last interaction with the two. ‘Those bitches,’ She thought while clenching her fists. ‘I bet they have no plans about now and ended up dead, serves them right.’ She checked her phone and it was about 6:50. She groaned, she’d been so mad about what happened she didn’t realise she lost track of time, plus her legs were now getting sore (her legs were literally killing her). Adagio was always the strategist in the trio, she always came up with the ideas and the other two would just act it out with her. It came to her that she would really need to start working, so she headed to the public library, used the computers to write a resume. She obviously lied on her resume, not much but she did it to seem more ordinary. Just when she thought she was finished, she proofread and realised she forgot to add the experience and references. She had skipped over them before and thought she’d fill them in later, but now it is later. For experience, she’d barely lifted a finger her whole life, the three had always charmed people with their voices to get what they wanted, she’d never thought that one day it’ll all be suddenly taken away in a blink of an eye. She filled in some stuff she found off of Google such as cooking, cleaning, organisation and compter skills. She was proud of her progress so far, but there was just one more thing to add. Reference, it was just another awful reminder that she had nobody in life who could vouch for her. Due to her hot headed self she lost her two ‘sisters’, of course she couldn’t take all the blame since they didn’t even try to fight it. She quietly growled. Adagio had googled ‘Is having reference optional?’ The response was too complicated for her to comprehend, again, she’s never had to deal with this before. She saw a sign near the computers, where she was, and it was about asking librarians for help with resumes. Adagio quietly called out to a nearby librarian. “Hi, so this is my first time writing a resume and I just want to know if adding a reference was optional?” She asked, putting on her fake sweet voice. The librarian was wearing a beige cardigan with a purple shawl along with platform boots, Adagio was questioned by her fashion sense. “Oh hello sweetie,” The librarian whispered back warmly. “You know what, don’t even worry about it, I can vouch for you honey.” Adagio was stunned, she’s never experienced such kind words in a long time, maybe like her whole life. Her heart was touched but her face wasn’t showing it, you would say she has a slightly shocked face. “Really? Thanks.” She replied in her still fake honey filled voice. She was happy, but she wasn’t really able to show it much. “I know how hard it is for you young folk, sometimes it’s best to just spread kindness, it makes the world a much better place.” She added, putting a hand on Adagios’ shoulder gently. She flinched slightly at the warm embrace. “Okay pumpkin, I’ll put in my phone number in there for you, along with my name.” She took her hand off Adagios’ shoulder, bent down and reached both of her hands to the keyboard and began typing. “There, all set my dear.” She exclaimed with a thumbs up. “Amethyst Maresbury..” Adagio quietly said. “It’s a beautiful name.” She was being genuine, nobody had ever been this kind to her, maybe she can let her guard down once in a while. “Awh, thank you love.” She replied, getting up from position and walking towards her cart. “Good luck angel!” Amethyst quietly yelled as she pushed her trolley full of books towards a bookshelf in the far end. Right, ‘good luck’ on the job search, she had completely forgotten all about that part. She printed four copies and went back on the computers, on the search. After about what felt like an eternity on a job search website, she found one for a waitressing job not too far from where she was. Just in case, she jotted down into a piece of paper three waitressing jobs. During this whole thing, Adagio had found a place to charge her phone using a box full of chargers which basically said ‘free chargers’ so now her phone was at a moderate percentage. She was ready to apply now. Her first attempt was a real dud. It turns out that the employer was one of the CHS students' parents and heard of the whole ordeal, he barely let Adagio talk. She was ready to snap back at him but she decided to be the bigger person and walk off instead. She clenched her fists as she walked out and sat on a nearby bench. ‘This is why I can’t be here in peace with these… Humans. Not one of them has self control.’ She realised the hypocrisy in her thoughts, didn’t she just leave the two just last night? Whatever, they were probably lost without her leading them. She checked her phone and it was 12:50. She hadn’t slept in so long since that night. She huffed angrily, scowled at the nearby passers and crossed her arms while slouching back, she didn’t care what anyone thought of her anymore, her life practically ended when those six girls took away the sirens magic. She stood up, she wasn’t going to let those bozos get the satisfaction of her not doing anything to fight back and she wasn’t going to give up her dignity. She walked and continued her path. Second try wasn’t so far going well, but Adagio wanted nothing to do with it since she saw a CHS student working there, she knew it was too good to be true. Though it was going quite swimmingly, a tiny itty bitty part of her brain was telling her to give up, she didn’t listen to it. Third times a charm, am I right? She hesitated a bit before entering a cafe, decorated in a quite aesthetically pleasing way. She chuckled and walked towards a lady behind a counter. She had cute two toned pink curls with a miniature red bow on the left side of her hair with a spring green skin tone. “Hi, I’m looking to apply for a job. Where’s the manager?” Adagio asked. “You’re looking at her!” The supposed manager exclaimed, putting her hands on her hips. “Can I see your resume?” She put out a hand and Adagio handed her the piece of paper. The manager looked at the resume, eyes following the words on the piece of paper and then she suddenly looked up and down at Adagio, perhaps judging her. Adagio was already getting defensive but she didn’t want to spoil her chances, so she kept her cool. The manager put the resume away from her face and put a hand to her chin, in a cartoony sorta way. “We could get you started today.. We are hiring too.” She said looking around for something or perhaps, someone. “Ah! Cotton Sky, just the girl I’m looking for.” She motions for a girl with purple three toned fluffy hair, up in what seemed to be a messy bun with a dark blue hairpiece on, and her skin tone being light blue to come over. “What do you need, Florina Tart? I kinda got my hands full.” She replied in a soft yet annoyed tone, all the while carrying two plates on both hands. “Adagio is looking to apply for a job here. Do we have any available positions?” Florina asked. But then Adagio thought, hey, isn’t she the manager here? “Aren’t you the manager here? You’re supposed to keep up with all this stuff.” Cotton scolded gently as if she'd read her mind. “But yeah, we do need another waitress, we’re running short since they all keep quitting.” She turned her head to Adagio while going through the counter and putting the dishes in the sink. “So what do ya say? You gon’ take the job or nay?” Florina turned to Adagio, making strong eye contact. Adagio was relieved to hear that she still had hope, though she replied back calmly, she added a lil hint of excitement in her words for good measure. “Oh my gosh, thanks a lot!” Adagio was faking her high levels of enthusiasm. “Don’t get ya hopes up too high, we still have to do an interview to see if you’re a really good fit.” She noted. “I have lots of spare time on my hands, so we can start it right now, lemme set up a table.” She arranged a table for her and Adagio to sit on, away from the others. It was tranquil and she was starting to feel confident that it’ll all go well. “So, why do you want to work here? I know, I know, it sounds intimidating but it’s my duty as a manager to know who I’m hiring.” Adagio didn’t think of it as intimidating at all, she knew intimidating, and that wasn’t it. She rehearsed what she was gonna say, she’s seen these types of things in movies so she was very well prepared. She answered swiftly and casually. “Well, I’m a hard worker, like headstrong, and I have the skills needed for this position.” Expecting more questions, Adagio was surprised to see Florina already grabbing a job application sheet. “Aren’t you going to ask me more interview questions?” She asked while cocking her head. “Oh, no I don’t need to, you already seem like a perfect fit! Plus, we are eager to have new people come and join us.” She explained then she moved the piece of paper to infront of Adagio, handing her a pen. “Just sign here then it's official! Oh, and we also need to get you a uniform.” Adagio forgot about the uniform, she icked at the sound of it. She turned her head around to look at the other workers, the overly pastel and frilly maid-like uniform that seemed like a perverted prepubescent boy designed, she shivered in disgust (not too obvious) as she quickly turned her head back to the eager woman in front of her, she then reminded herself why she was here. Florina sighed, though Adagio was trying hard to not show her true colours, the manager caught on anyway. “Look pumpkin,” She reached out her hand towards Adagio but she just moved it away quickly. Florina, assuming her love language was definitely not touch, kept her hand to herself. “You look an awful lot young to start working full time,” She checked her watch. “And.. Shouldn’t you be in school by now?” Shoot! Adagio had completely missed that detail, it had slipped her mind. Quickly though, she came up with a good enough excuse. “My school had a day off today, so I decided to not waste it.” She knew she couldn’t keep using this excuse all the time, maybe she’d have to enrol back to Canterlot High, she fluttered at the thought, but then, “Heh.. I bet Aria and that bimbo hadn’t gotten this far yet.” She swallowed a quick chuckle. A “Mhm..” could be heard from the manager as she inspected the young girl suspiciously. “Sunshower Raindrops!” She called over a young adult with lemon skin and straight cyan hair with choppy bangs. Sunshower instantly rushed over and that's when Adagio got a closer look. She had an athletic build and unlike the other girls she wore no makeup at all, this kind of turned Adagio on. “Keep it together Adagio, you do NOT like girls.” She thought to herself and quickly shook her head to snap back from her trance. “Could you help train our newest recruit, Adagio.” Florida gestured towards Adagio. “Also, could you get her a uniform?” Adagio winced, forgetting about the wretched uniform, that damn uniform… Sunshower ran so fast into another room and came out at such high speed that Adagio was impressed. “Here you go, Adagio!” She handed her new uniform and Adagio chuckled nervously. Never in her thousands of years of being in this miserable human world has she ever dreamed of resorting to such desperate measures that it would cost her dignity. She was guided towards a bathroom and went inside and changed into her hideous uniform that she’d now have to get used to. She got out of one of the cubicles and checked herself out in the mirror. “Hm.. It wasn’t half as bad as I thought once I put it on me. I think I could make this work.” The way her hair and voluptuous body type contrasted with the nature of the uniform, she thought herself pretty fine. She made some poses in the mirror before flinching as Sunshower walked in. “Oh! good, you're finished.” She exclaimed, analyzing Adagio. “Okay, now we can get started! Here, I got you a bag to put your casual clothes in.” She held up a jute bag. “Thanks.” After work finished, Adagio realised the hard way that people literally don’t get paid everyday, instead, the payment is weekly. Of course Adagio was really disappointed by this newfound fact but learned to suck it up. She wasn’t a siren anymore, now, she was just a mere human, paying to live a normal life. Suddenly, reality hit her hard when she realised she should’ve planned ahead, she hadn’t thought of a place to sleep. She could go to a homeless shelter but Aria had her and Sonata kicked out of them all but one, and that one was not open. Still, she could maybe enter in one of those many homeless shelters since her, Aria and Sonata split up, and technically, it was Aria causing those fights, not her. And with that plan in mind, Adagio was set off to the first homeless shelter they’d been to since the Battle of the Bands. It was 6pm yet it was getting dark and she’s watched too many true crime documenteries to know she’d get molested if she were to walk two kilometres to the most ghetto side of Canterlot City, so she took the bus. She didn’t pay the bus fare, suiting to her personality, and the bus driver didn’t even seem to mind it all, considering the time of day. Long story short, she was allowed to enter in the premises just as long as she didn’t cause fights, like she would ever do that. She found someplace to sleep and everything was settled, yet there was still something in the back of her mind, making her feel incomplete and unfulfilled, like something was missing, though like always, she brushed it off and pretended to ignore it. Right now, she was sure Aria and Sonata were on the streets of Canterlot City pathetically begging for loose change, she quietly chuckled, amused at the thought of her ex- so called siren-sisters throwing away their dignity for the cost of living. Her amusement was soon cut short as she realised she had to be thinking more rationally. She has a part time job, good, but she wasn’t going to work at a cafe for the rest of her life, she was going to need a good paying and stable job someday, and one way to get that was to get a PhD and one way to get that was to go to school. She shivered at the thought, but the other thought of her working minimum wage for the rest of her miserable life, not being able to buy the things she wants dominated the other. She was internally debating whether she should go to CHS or some other Canterlot City school. She for some (stoopid) reason decided to settle with CHS (to go with the storyline, lolsies. I’m not giving any reasoning towards it). The next day rolls around and Adagio is set off to CHS, to actually get a proper education, not to mind control a whole school again, especially considering the loss of her charms. Lets just hope this doesn’t end badly. It Was Inevitable After AllAuthor's Note I do not plan these and I just write as I go short chapter today cuz im kinda in a rush trigger warning for bullying It Was Inevitable After All 9pm, Canterlot High School. “Celestia, tell me why you have allowed those two back into our school.” Luna inquired, walking up to her sisters desk after shutting the door, careful not to slam it. “You do remember the chaos and mishaps they caused during the Battle of the Bands, are you sure it’s wise to let them attend here again?” “Sister, didn’t we give Sunset a chance?” Luna nodded. “Well, look at how she turned out. Shes a good girl now and perhaps the same will happen with those two.” “Even so, I’m sure that it wouldn’t be safe for them here.” Celestia gave a quizzed look. “I mean, you do remember what happened to Sunset after the Fall Formal, she was verbally and sometimes even physically attacked. I’m not sure we should put them through that.” “Relax, Luna. I know of seven different girls who can succour and defend them through situations in that manner. They’ll be ok.” “If you say so.” Meanwhile, while that conversation was going, Sonata was trapped in her locker. Somebody had supposedly locked her in on purpose and I think we can all guess why. Sonata had banged her palms against the door, hoping that it would somewhat free her, it didn’t. She didn’t even have her phone on her since she left it in her bag, which was with Aria and the girls, this realisation started to make her panic even more. The other girls had caught on to Sonata’s disappearance and were now looking for her. The janitors closet, the gymnasium, the cafeteria, she was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly, Sunset, fearing for the worst, ran up to the locker area. She couldn’t exactly pinpoint Sonatas locker so she relied on her hearing, and sure enough, judging by her past experiences, she was right. She followed the sounds of quiet sobbing and it eventually leaded her up to a locker, Sonatas locker. “Oh my goodness!” Sunset yelled. “Quick, tell me your locker code!” “27, 25…13.” Came the little voice behind the locker. Sunset quickly put in the code and the lock finally unlocked. Sunset pulled the door open and her heart quite literally tore at the sight of what lied before her eyes. Sonata was a sobbing mess, she was shaking, she was sweaty, her hair was messy and her fists and palms were bruised from what seemed to be constant banging. Sunset quickly helped the girl up and was swifty brought into a tight hug by the sobbing girl. “I-I was so scared…” Was all she could say before again breaking out into more quiet sobs. Sunset could see herself in Sonata. She put her right arm around the crying girl and with her left, she texted everyone to meet in the library. She helped Sonata to the library, it was partially empty since noone cares much for studying anymore. They sat themselves down at one of the tables, away from the others as Sunset brought a tissue box up to Sonata. Sonata took one and wiped a tear away from her face while Sunset helped fix up her hair. Sunset checked her phone again to see if her friends had caught on to the message and sure ‘nuff they did and were heading towards them. Around two minutes passed and everyone was now here, surprised but not really surprised this happened, it was inevitable after all. Now Aria and Sonata have only shown contempt for eachother (mostly Aria) for their whole lives, but in this moment, Aria was just so enraged. Her blood boiled at the thought of her ‘younger sister’ being pushed into a locker and locked in for god knows how long. Sonata’s sensitive which also makes it ten times worse when you realise what shes gone through in that locker. Aria saw the state Sonata was in and immediately went to her side, this was the first anyone had seen her so protective over someone, that someone being Sonata. “Who did this to you!?” She questioned furiously. “I’ll smash their heads in!” Sonata was taken aback, was Aria trying to comfort her? “I-I don’t know, they just came from behind me and pushed me in my locker.” Sonata admitted. “I didn’t get to see their face, but I do know that it was probably two people… no, three I think?” “Well, I’ll find them and make sure they fucking pay.” Aria turned her head and mumbled to herself before turning back to Sonata and putting her hand on her shoulder. “I don’t think we should resort to violence, what we should do is inform Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna.” Twilight awkwardly added, pushing her glasses up to her face with her index and middle finger (the nerdy way basically). “Twilight’s right, dear. Violence will never solve this.” Rarity joined in. “Principal Celestia might even help find out who was behind this incident.” Sunset turned to Sonata who was now looking at the ground with her two hands inbetween her thighs. “Are you comfortable with telling Principal Celestia, Sonata?” Sunset gently asked, placing a hand on her lap. “Or do you wanna wait a while?” Sonata turned to Aria and whispered something to her. “She’s still a bit shaken up from what happened, it’s best if we deal with this later.” Aria spoke for Sonata, surprisingly, in a gentle, calm and composed tone. Any thoughts she had about committing acts of violence to the perpetrator were washed away seeing as Sonata would gain nothing from it, maybe except the sadistic satisfaction. Maybe it’s time they use different approaches to situations like this. They stayed like that for a while until the bell rang for first period. Aria and Sonata were once again separated, but atleast Sonata shared the same class with Applejack who mentioned “If anybody messes with ya, ya go straight me or any of our friends, we wont let anything like this happen again to ya, you understand?” Sonata nodded and continued walking to their class. Applejack took on a defensive stand next to Sonata, letting people know that if they mess with Sonata, they mess with her. Still, both Sonata and Aria could feel people still flashing glares at them, it was going to take a while to get forgiven. After class in the cafeteria: “You reckon we tell Principal Celestia what happened?” Sunset asked. “You know this can’t go unpunished. If you don’t tell, they’re going to think it’s okay treating you like that, even though it’s not.” “But, I don’t wanna be a snitch.” Sonata retaliated. “Then I’m just gonna get a big fat target on my back.” She lowered her head. “Sugarcube, what did I tell you before?” Applejack reminded, putting a hand on Sonatas shoulder. “Nobody’s gonna do nothing to ya with us on your side. You’ve got nothing to worry ‘bout.” Sonata felt a wave of reassurance fall over her, she turned to Aria but she was just looking around the cafeteria. Aria didn’t say anything, instead, looking around at all of the potential perpetrators in the room, wondering who it was that committed such a heinous act. She soon turned around and said “I think we should tell Principal Celestia now. It just feels like the right moment.” The rest of the girls agreed, though Pinkie was still in the middle of eating, she quickly grabbed the rest of it and quite literally put it into the far depths of her hair and followed the rest of the girls out of the cafeteria. During the walk to the principals office, Aria protectively had her arms around Sonatas shoulders, I guess that's her way of showing affecting I guess… Sonata was still so surprised, Aria had never helped or cared about her this way and to see her so protective was so… weird. The walk from the cafeteria to the principals office was short but to Sonata, it felt super long. Thoughts ranging from “What if she doesn’t care?” to “What if she says it’s my fault for making myself a target?” were slowly overpowering her that she actually started to believe the atrocious act committed against her was justified. Finally, they end up in front of the door and Rainbow wastes no time opening the door, Celestia was there, but so was a familiar young lady with bushy two toned orange hair. “Turns out they did beat me to it.” Who Dun Diddit?“What’re you doing here?” Aria asked, stepping up in front of Sonata, adopting a protective stance. “Caring about my future is what I’m doing.” Adagio responded, disappointed that she wasn’t the only one who’d thought of this plan. She then noticed Sonata’s expression. “What’s up with her? You don’t mean to tell me that you’ve grown feelings for eachother? How pathet-” Adagio was cut off by Celestia. “Ladies, I’m sure we can resolve this issue somehow.” During the midst of the mini heated argument, Celestia had taken out an enrolment sheet and pen and had placed it on the desk where Adagio would’ve been facing if she didn’t have her head turned to argue with Aria. “Here, sign this.” “You’re seriously going t-” Aria blabbed out, only to be cut by the principal. “I gave you a second chance, didn’t I?” Celestia asked. Though it was a rhetorical question, she still wanted an answer. Aria nodded, irritated. “Verbal answer, please.” “Yes.” Aria quietly growled and faced the ground, annoyed at the fact she was being treated like a small child. “Well I believe Adagio should have a second chance too, you girls should agree, especially you, Sunset.” All the girls (but Aria) nodded while Sunset slightly cringed at the mention of her name. Adagio had a smug smirk on her face while signing the enrolment paper, annoying Aria to the brink of going berserk, luckily though she kept her cool and acted nonchalantly. The girls stood there awkwardly, watching and waiting for Adagio to sign off the form needed to enrol so that they could report to Principal Celestia about Sonata's issue. Finally, Adagio finished off with the paper and Celestia handed her a schedule and locker number. On the way out, Adagio and Aria glared at each other before Adagio tried to recruit Sonata to her side. “Sonata~~ You don’t wanna be with this loser and all her…” She stopped for a while to look among the girls, judging them deeply as a cheshire smile creeps up on her face. “ These… wannabe friends, do you?” She asked in a singsong yet sinister voice. “I-” Sonata tried to speak but was immedietly cut off by Aria speaking for her. “Didn’t you say you didn’t need u-” “Shush.” Adagio turned to Aria, putting her index finger up. “I was asking Sonata.” Celestia was watching this whole thing play out, awkwardly. “Girls, I’m afraid if you’re going to argue, please settle it outside of my office.” She sternly informed. And with that Adagio walked through the door, nudging Aria with her hip while doing so, leaving Aria struggling to keep herself from pouncing on to the, what she would describe as, ‘smug bitch’. “Now, what can I help you girls with?” The girls quickly jerked their heads back to the waiting, authorative woman sitting behind her desk, hands crossed. They were so focused on the elephant in the room that they forgot their main reason for their trip to the principals office. “Well,” Sunset started. “Long story short, some group of people pushed Sonata into her locker and she was stuck there for twenty minutes before we caught on to her disappearance.” Celestia was stunned, yet wasn’t surprised, she knew the bullying would start sooner or later. “When did this happen?” She asked, concerned, uncrossing her hands and gesturing for Sonata to take a seat. “Before first period,” Came the meek voice from the once super energetic girl who was now looking at the ground. Celestia could see the look in her eyes, it was the same as Sunsets the day after the Fall Formal when a group of bullies locked her in the janitor's closet. If it hadn’t been for the Rainbooms, she would’ve been deeply scarred and traumatised, maybe even develop a fear of closets. “And you didn’t think to come to me sooner?” Celestia gently questioned, picking up her phone from her desk, seemingly about to call someone. “Well, Sonata wasn’t ready to immediately tell you.” Sunset stepped forward. “She felt the need to process everything first.” Suddenly, the bell went and everyone jumped like focking pussies (except Celestia and Aria). “You girls should head to class,” Celestia said. “Sonata, you’ll stay here until we find out the culprits.” Everyone else in the room understood the principal's order and left, all but Aria. “Aria, that means you too.” Celestia added. “I know you want to stay by Sonata’s side, but you’ll be late for class if you stay here any longer.” Aria hesitantly nodded then turned to leave, not before facing Sonata and flashing her a reassuring smile. Once they were alone, Celestia called the person that she was gonna call, only waiting five rings for the person on the other end to pick up. “Hey Lulu, I’m going to need you in my office real quick.” She then turned to glance at Sonata who was looking through the window adjacent to her. “We have another case of, you know what.” The person on the other end, now proven to be Vice-Principal Luna, seemed to quickly catch on to Celestia's code words. And soon, another voice came, this time from the phone. “I thought you said this wouldn’t happen?” Came the voice, sounding smug as hay. “Would you just come down here?” Celestia replied, sounding annoyed at her younger sister's self-satisfied tone. “Alright, alright.” Luna answered. “But… I told you so.” Celestia groaned then hung up, putting the phone back on the desk. Realising she had this convo in front of a student, she realised how inadequate she was, causing her to lightly blush, embarrassed. “Sorry about that, that was really unprofessional of me.” She said, regaining her composure. “Don’t be.” Sonata replied. “It makes you seem more real.” Celestia smiled at this. “You know, you may have committed a heinous act at the Battle of the Bands…” Uh oh, Celestia… Why would you bring that up now?! “But, you’re not as bad as I made you out to be. I’m sorry for our first interaction when you wanted to enrol back.” Okay, phew. I thought she was gonna say something mean, maybe a little warning next time, eh! “I don’t blame you for thinking that. Me, Aria and Adagio did some pretty messed up stuff in our lives, especially here in Canterlot High.” Sonata admitted, letting out a small chuckle. “I can’t say I blame the students here for getting mad at us.” Tears were slowly trickling down Sonata's face, she looked down at her lap, making sure Celestia wouldn’t notice. She was really bad at hiding it. “Oh god…” Was all Celestia managed to say before getting up from her chair and moving around the desk to Sonata, scooping her up in a warm embrace. “Shh…You’re forgiven.” She rubbed Sonata's back, trying to soothe the now sobbing girl. Once the sobbing had stopped, Sonata was now left with the hiccups. Celestia gently pulled her away from the embrace, hands on the younger teens shoulders while making direct eye contact. “Nobody deserves to be shoved in a locker, do you understand me?” Sonata managed a nod, still looking pitiful as ever. “I want a verbal answer.” She hesitated a while before answering back. “Nobody hic deserves to be hic shoved in a hic locker.” Celestia gave a look of approval before hugging the small girl again. Celestia may seem the intimidating type, but she sure as hay gives the best hugs. They stayed like that for a while before Celestia quickly glanced at the clock, noticing how they’ve been in that position for quite some time (5 minutes), Luna would be here any second now. Celestia took her seat behind the desk and if there was any tension from the beginning, it’s all gone now. Minutes go by and Luna still wasn’t here. Celestia was internally fighting the urge to call her again. It was quiet, yet not awkward quiet. It was tranquil and was almost a sorta calm quiet now that Sonata got mostly everything off her chest, it was actually quite comforting. “Luna seems to be taking her sweet time.” Celestia commented, looking at her watch every now and then, clearly getting impatient. Sonata giggled at her comment. Then, suddenly. “Sorry sister, I was just telling off a few juniors for vaping in the toilet cubicles.” Luna came rushing in through the door, she clearly looked like she’d been running. She took a seat next to Sonata and began interrogating her with her pen and paper, ready to take notes. “Names? Year groups? Heights?” “We don’t know the perpetrators for this case yet.” Celestia answered for Sonata, who was relieved of not having to answer really detailed questions. Though, there were sometimes where she would have to correct Celestia on some of the details, but overall, she was spot on. “Alright, Sonata.” Luna began, looking through her notes before looking back at Sonata. “You can go head on to class now, we’ll come over to your class to collect you if we find anything.” Sonata nodded and was just about to head out before Luna called out; “Wait! I need to write you a note to give to your teacher.” She tore a piece of paper out from her notepad and scribbled some unreadable writing onto it, must be something only teachers can understand I guess. Walking back to class, Sonata felt relieved that she was now under the protection of Luna, Celestia and the Rainbooms, not to mention, her long life buddy, Aria! Fast forward to last period where Sonata was having science with Twilight and Pinkie Pie, or what they would’ve had if Pinkie and Sonata didn’t accidently start a mini fire with the bunsen burners, thus resulting in them both getting a weeks worth of detention and being temporarily banned from the science labs. After Miss Cheerilee was done chastising them, she pulled Pinkie aside out in the halls. “She’s not a good influence on you, Pinkamena.” She whispered once Sonata was out of earshot. “I’m willing to take time out of your detention hours if you stop hanging out with her. I know you didn’t plan that fire on purpose, she probably tried to drag you in o-” “Miss Cheerilee!” Pinkie dramatically yelled after letting out an astonished gasp, catching the attention of nearby students who just awkwardly walked away. “Are you being biassed?” She added, eyeing the teacher in front of her, looking dead in her eyes. “Shh..” Miss Cheerilee hushed. “I’m just sayin-” “Saying what Miss Cheerilee?” Pinkie interrupted. “Saying that Sonata should be more guiltier than me because she used to be evil? And tha-” “I shouldn’t be having this discussion with a student.” And with that, Miss Cheerilee walked off thinking she won the argument (she didn’t). Sonata walked over, she overheard everything. “Hey,” Pinkie comforted, putting her hands on Sonata's shoulders, just like how Celestia did. “Don’t listen to her, she’s just mad because you lived longer than her without getting any wrinkles while she’s only lived thirty with, like…” She paused for a bit “...a buncha wrinkles on her face.” Sonata quietly giggled, though she knew deep down Miss Cheerilee was right. The fire wouldn’t have started if she kept the flammable liquid away from the bunsen burner when lighting it. Meanwhile, another interaction was happening elsewhere. In the dead end of the hallways of Canterlot High, where the light never shines its way through, the place where both Sunset and (pony) Twilight had their fair shares of confrontation, stand both Adagio and Aria, flashing glares at each other. “So,” Aria started, now crossing her arms. “Why are you really here?” Adagio scoffed, annoyed by the same repeating questions. “Like I said, same reason you are.” She took a step forward. “Now, why are you here? Especially so, why are you besties with those.. Rainf*gs?” “We aren’t friends. I hang around them because Sonata hangs around them.” Aria admitted. “Speaking of Sonata, what even happened to her?” Adagio questioned, completely changing the subject. “Like, she wasn’t her usual self. Did she finally realise how annoying she was getting and just came to her sens-” “Some bully trapped her inside her own locker and left her there for about twenty minutes.” Aria bluntly replied. “Oh.” Was all Adagio said before going silent. Aria couldn’t tell if Adagio was concerned or literally didn’t care for Sonata getting bullied, her face was deadpan. It stayed like that for a while. “Adagio was probably regretting all the stuff she said prior to the confession.”, is what Aria thought to herself. “So-” “Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Aria was cut off by Adagio. “No wonder why she was acting non-verbal.” “She’s not ‘acting’ non-verbal, she literally was non-verbal until lunchtime!” Aria snapped. “And it’s not like when you came or anything that you made things feel better.” Suddenly, a pause. Aria was collecting her thoughts, thinking of the most appropriate thing to say next. “I was there for Sonata, where were you?” And with that ending statement, Aria walked off, dramatically of course, leaving Adagio, probably in a pit of remorse, which is sorta unlikely considering her personality. Adagio was actually just confused, were they being… domesticated? And, was she adapting to the human life too? What the fook is going on??? Author's Note Adagio, if you can't tell is still kinda mean in this chapter. I made her not show concerne for Sonata since, well, we have to be realistic, for someone whos been evil for a 1000 years to turn good overnight is kinda a cliche Thanks to Ryshinki for keeping up and commenting on my chapters!!!!
We Used To Be Adored..Author's Note My second storyyyy unfortunatly I have exams so I won't be able to finish it quickly Proofread by my amazing english teacher!!! We Used To Be Adored.. It was just a few weeks after the Battle of the Bands and the girls were still sulking over The Rainbooms defeating them. All they did was just mope around, not one of them getting a job or doing anything else in life, which they thought was already over. It was then that they realised that they can’t live off negative energy anymore and had to rely on human food. When I said they were still pretty miffed about what happened, it wasn’t the whole truth.To be frank, it was mostly Aria and Adagio. Sonata was still slightly her bubbly self and decided to cherish what was left of her days since they weren’t immortal anymore. The pair thought she was crazy, I mean, they were living in a women's homeless shelter and had to eat disgusting food just to survive. How could someone be so positive living in these conditions? It was the stupidest thing ever. They unfortunately always had to shift from shelter to shelter as Aria kept picking fights with the junkies and then getting tossed out along with the other two. Adagio had thought about kicking her out of the trio since she was practically ruining their chances of surviving in these harsh, winter conditions, but she knew two minds were better than one (only two minds because Adagio thinks Sonata was a dummy dumdum.) This made it the fourth homeless shelter they’d been to and Adagio started keeping a close eye on Aria to make sure she stayed out of trouble. Of course Aria didn’t like this but she knew it was for her own good since they didn’t want to risk getting kicked out of the only other homeless shelter in the area. It was late at night and Adagio was scrolling through her phone on MyStable and she suddenly came across something. She groaned as she saw a post by Pinkie Pie with The Rainbooms in front of the school each posing a pose that fits their character, with the caption being: “OMG!!! I love my friends!” She looked in disgust at her phone for about two minutes before shutting it down and putting it under her pillow and going to sleep. Before she was about to tuck herself in she took a quick glance at Sonata who was sleeping soundly and just sighed. Sonata was always so filled with light. As much as Adagio disliked her, she couldn't just leave her as it would be cruel. Sonata always knew how to turn a dark moment into something bright which was kind of a reassurance to the other two girls. Sonata would barely make it out alive if she were to be abandoned.Just looking at her left Adagio feeling slight pity. The girls had nothing but contempt for each other (except maybe Sonata). Not one of the girls ever showed concern for their feelings, but they still wouldn’t separate as it would be a poor decision, they needed each other to survive, that's all it was to them. Former siren sisters, that was all it was. Adagio got settled on her bed and pulled the covers up to protect her face from whatever dangers lay ahead since she was sleeping near to lots of strangers and she didn’t know what they were capable of. She knew that they stood out from the rest of the women at the shelter since they were not ex-convicts, druggies or smokers. They heard of the bad stuff that the people did here, but none of them could compare to how evil they were. The girls had come to terms with the fact that what they did was pretty wrong, still, they were too stubborn to admit it out loud. Adagio drifted off to sleep and was soon awakened in the middle of the night. One of the supposed junkies had gotten into a fight with somebody. Adagio, praying it wasn’t Aria, quickly pulled the covers off of herself then shot up. A junkie had apparently, from what Adagio was told, strangled someone in their sleep for whatever reason. Her ears soon adjusted properly and she realised she was also hearing police and ambulance sirens. She looked around and everyone was pretty much awake and confused due to the commotion. This wasn’t a surprise to the girls, things like this were pretty common. Every shelter they lived in had lots of fights, but none of them had ended this horribly. The paramedics took the deceased person away in the ambulance with the sirens off. Adagio and the girls (who quickly grabbed their phones just in case someone planned on stealing them) obviously wanted to take a closer look but the police just ushered everyone out and started putting up police tape around the premises. If it wasn’t for the street lights and flashing red and blue police lights, it would’ve been pitch black as it was the middle of the night. The wind was blowing like a madman and the girls immediately started to shiver and wrap their arms around them as they were only wearing t-shirts and sweatpants. Everyone was mortified, where were the people gonna sleep now? Adagio and Aria being more agitated and annoyed than scared. Sonata, now barely holding in her tears as she was sensitive to the topic of death, walked over and asked one of the cops, “Uhm.. Cop, sir, can me and my friends go in and get our stuff back?” Sonata used the word ‘friends’ putting into consideration the other two didn’t think of each other as friends. She turned around hoping they didn’t hear her use the ‘F’ word and luckily for her, they were distracted with something else. “Sorry ma’am, this place is closed until further notice, maybe for about two days, you should probably transfer to a different shelter for the time being.” The cop replied. “Sergeant Shining Armor, should we request more backup? There’s another fight breaking out and it’s getting out of control.” Another female officer reported as she rushed over. “Permission granted.” Sergeant Shining Armor responded, now turning towards Sonata. “Now ma’am, we have lots of angry citizens bugging us, if you would please cooperate it’ll make our job easier.” “Oh.. Ok.” Sonata replied meekly as she walked back to the girls. “So, what did he say?” Aria demanded, arms crossed. Adagio also came over and stood beside Aria and put her hands on her hips. Sonata sighed, “They said we won't be able to enter for about two days and we can’t get our stuff as well!” The blue haired girl whined, pouting while crossing her arms. “What!” Adagio roared, loud enough to catch the attention of the nearby cops. Both Aria and Sonata flinched and pretty much soon after two cops walked over. Now would be an extremely great time for them to use their Equestrian magic, no thanks to The Rainbooms. They didn’t really need their stuff, especially since they barely had anything. But Adagio was still pretty cross about not getting her proper rest so basically, her stuff not being returned to her was really the last straw. She clenched her fists as two cops who heard all the commotion walked over to help sooth Adagio. “Ma’am could you please cooperate? We really are trying our best here.” An officer noted in a soft yet commanding tone. “Well clearly, your best is not good enough.” She growled, pointing a finger at the officers with her other hand on her hip. Noticing that Adagio was about to pounce on one of the cops, Aria and Sonata reacted quickly and grabbed both of her arms just as she was about to attack. “H-Hey!” She yelped as she was brought back, aggressively pulling her arms away from the two girls. “Thank you so much girls for being able to stop me before jumping two police officers and going to prison for aggravated assault! I really appreciate it.” Aria yelled in sarcasm. “You could’ve literally gone to jail if we hadn’t stopped you.” She also added in a more stern voice. “Oh, so now you’re talking?” Adagio snapped back. “You can’t even control your anger, we wouldn’t have even been in this mess if it wasn’t for you! You’ve got us into this shit.” “Woah, woah ladies, you need to calm down.” A female cop hollered, now standing in between the two girls with both of her arms raised up in a ‘T’ shape. Sonata just watched in perplexity as the two stopped their screaming match, she turned around to see that there was an audience too. A few different cops came and tried to diffuse the situation by breaking up the audience. The cop in between Aria and Adagio had left, issuing a warning to Adagio, along with the other cop. “I think it’s best if we split up.” Adagio said while turning her back. “You and Sonata can go elsewhere, I’m better off without you guys.” She didn’t mean it, the words just slipped out of her mouth like word vomit. The pair of girls looked at Adagio in surprise, they’d always been together, for centuries even. This was the first time this topic had ever come up. “You guys have only been slowing me down, I’m only after success and you guys can’t even get ahead on your own without me giving you orders! Y'all have just been a herd of sheep to me. I pity you.” Adagio stated, turning her head back around slightly to face the pair. “So that's what we were to you? A bunch of dumdum heads who can't do stuff on their own?” Sonata choked out, stepping forward. “You know, if it wasn’t for us, you wouldn’t have even made it to where we were.” “Sonata’s right. We always did everything for you.. you barely lifted a finger.” Aria remarked now standing beside Sonata. “Even after everything, you always still bossed us around and were always so ungrateful. You never acknowledged us as equal.” Adagio was visibly taken aback by such a preposterous claim, though, deep down inside she knew it was right. She always yelled and snapped insults at the two. Whenever Aria and Sonata got into physical fights, she’d always just brush it off, but the second she got pulled into them, she would yell at them both. Sonata would be upset while Aria would just be pissed. But of course, Adagio being the stubborn person she was, decided to not admit her wrongs. So her stubbornness got the best of her. “Well, I’ll be leaving now.” Adagio declared as she began to walk off. “Fine, be that way.” Aria replied bluntly. “Hmph! Come on Sonata, pretty sure she couldn’t last a whole day without us.”
A New Start For The TwoAuthor's Note My second chapterrr, I don't know much about American high schools since I go to an Australian one. This took me a long time to write since I have to prep for exams but I'll still have time to update this and add more chapters!! A New Start For The Two And with that ending statement, the trio split up and walked their separate ways. Aria and Sonata had set off, completely having no idea where they were going, but they sure as hay weren’t gonna give up now. Aria couldn’t believe Adagio’s selfish actions and thoughts were now racing through her head, the dominating one being: Just wait, Adagio would come back begging to join us again. The sun was going up as it was becoming morning again, Aria groaned while Sonata looked at where the sun was rising and was mesmerized by the scenery. Aria couldn’t understand why Sonata was so positive about everything, it was just a sunrise, she scoffed. Their legs were starting to get tired but they couldn’t find any nearby benches to rest on which was putting Aria in a more grumpy mood. “Do we even know where we’re going?’ Sonata bugged tapping Aria’s shoulder. “Uh, no.” Aria replied, slightly annoyed and moved slightly away because of Sonata's badgering. “It’s not like your dumbass could come up with any suggestions.” Sonata was hurt by that reply but she didn’t want anything else to make this day worse than it already was. She’s always been called continuous insults by both of her friends (mostly Aria), they mostly think that she wouldn’t take to heart since they thought she’s always bimbotic, but they still hurt her deep down inside. Suddenly, an idea popped into her head. “Actually, I do have a suggestion!” Sonata exclaimed. Aria stopped walking and just stared blankly at Sonata. “Okay then, what’s your idea?” “Weeeeelll, I reckon we could go back to school?” Aria was now seething. “Is this your idea of a joke?” She scolded. “Do you even remember what happened last time, or is your little brain too small to comprehend?” “No, I’m not joking.” Sonata replied. “Plus, even if we did go to school, where would we sleep anyway?” Aria questioned. “Well, didn’t that pony Twilight sleep in the library? Like in the side where nobody goes?” Sonata asked. “Maybe we could sleep there instead?” Aria was stunned, she never thought someone as dim-witted as Sonata could suggest such a brilliant idea. She kept her cool and replied nonchalantly. “How do you even know that?” “Just a hunch!” Sonata responded joyfully. They continued to walk down the path in silence, well Aria was, Sonata was skipping while humming. “Wait, how would we even get in the school, doesn’t everybody there hate us?” Aria added turning to Sonata who ceased her humming and started walking alongside Aria. The girls were never faced with this situation, everyone has always adored them and they never had anyone get mad at them, up until The Rainbooms publicly humiliated them. The next few minutes were an awful lot silent as the two found themselves a bench they could rest on. “Okayy, soooooo…” Sonata said, shattering the silence. “So what?” Aria replied. “Make it snappy. I'm literally losing it right now.” “I know we never really do this, buuuuuut… We could apologise?” Sonata mumbled but it was audible enough for Aria to listen. “You’re joking?” Aria baffled. “Imagine Adagio was here, she’d literally start yelling at you if she heard that.” “But she’s not here, we can do whatever we want now!” Sonata pleaded. “Plus, it’ll benefit us both, we won’t be too verbally harassed as much as we were when we got exposed.” They had been together for a long time, she knew Sonata would never make a decision that could subject them to something bad. So, Aria decided to go along with Sonata's plan. “Alright.. We can head to the school later once everyone is in class so that they won’t see us enter.” Aria noted. “There’s only so much ridicule one can handle.” And with that, Aria checked her phone and saw it was 5:45. They had more time for rest than they thought. Aria had been playing video games on her phone while Sonata slowly dozed off to sleep. She couldn’t blame her, so much had happened last night. It had been about two hours in (7:45) and Aria got up to stretch for a while before heading back on the bench and sitting back down. She wondered how Sonata was sleeping in such an uncomfortable position. Aria tried many attempts to sleep but after a sixth try she finally dozed off before setting up an alarm for 9:45. Again, two more hours had passed and it was now time. Aria harshly (not too harsh) nudged Sonata awake. She yawned and Aria pointed to the time on her phone which made Sonata jump up from the bench. “Yawn Let's go, the students are probably in class now.” She gently got Aria’s hands to help her up but Aria just swatted it away. She got up on her own and started walking ahead, noticing Sonata was still behind, she motioned her to pick up the pace. It wasn’t a long way to CHS but the girls still had to be kind of stealth-like, what if someone arrived at school late and saw them walking about. At last they arrived at the gates and slowly opened the entrance door. They remembered where Principal Celestia's office was from the last time they were here, and so they walked over to the office. They just stood by the door nervously kind of, at least Sonata was. But hey, if they forgave Sunset Shimmer, maybe she could forgive them. And with a deep breath, Aria knocked on the door. “Come in.” A gentle but commanding response was heard loud and clear. They jumped slightly. The two gulped, Sonata grabbing on to Aria for protection but she just moved her away, annoyed. Aria opened the door and the principal had her eyes on her desk on some documents. She looked up and couldn’t believe what she saw. There in front of her were two of The Dazzlings, Aria and Sonata. “Oh.” She said, astonished yet disappointed. “Take a seat ladies and tell me what brings you here again.” The two followed the principal’s orders and sat down on the two seats in front of her desk. Aria just slumped on while Sonata had perfect posture. “So..?” She made a face that basically read “I have better things to do.” Aria soon spoke up. “So, me and Sonata were wondering if we could enrol back?” Celestia’s face was a look of disapproval and disappointment. She slowly nodded her head looking down kind of, swallowing a chuckle while tsking. “So you can try to hypnotise us again? I don’t think so.” Celestia snapped back, but in a more polite sort of way looking back down at the files in front of her, shifting the papers. “Plus, what's the magic word?” She added while writing something down on one of the files. “Look, we come reformed.” Sonata added. “Please, if you could just give us a second chance like what you’ve done with Sunset.” She pleaded, clasping her hands together like she was praying. “Like Sunset, huh..” The principal mumbled audibly as she put her pen down, looked up and then put her fingers laced together with the index fingers pointing up, lightly tapping. Celestia had given Sunset a second chance, what she did was kinda worse than what The Dazzlings did. It would be really unfair to not give them a chance. She analysed them once more and noticed there was a member missing from the group. “Where’s the other one, Adagio Dazzle?” She questioned. “We parted ways, she thought she was too good for us and went off on her own.” Aria answered, in a seething but controlled manner. “Mhm..” The principal replied. “Well, we could get you enrolled back, but one more slip up and I’m throwing you out” She mentioned firmly as she flipped through some papers and handed the pair an enrolment sheet. This response lightened up the pair's faces (Aria, only slightly). The two signed the sheet, leaving the home address and parents contact information unfilled, Celestia didn’t mention anything about it as she knew their current situation (not the homeless part though). “Welcome to Canterlot High, again.” She nonchalantly exclaimed. Sonata giggled and lifted her arms in the air but then Celestia just shot a look at her, implying that she should not be proud as they were there on probation, Sonata soon calmly collected herself. “Miss. Inkwell?” The principal called out to the passer by the door which was behind the girls. A lady in office attire and large spectacles that covered some of her features walked up to the door. She held a clipboard to her waist. Sonata and Aria curiously turned their heads to see who it was. “Could you get these ladies their locker arrangements?” Celestia calmly ordered. The lady, by the name of ‘Miss. Inkwell’, from what the girls have heard, nodded, pushed her glasses up to her face and walked off quickly towards somewhere, perhaps her office. The girls couldn’t see much since they were facing the other side. She returned in such a jiffy that Aria thought, ‘She must get paid a lot if she runs around taking orders from the staff.’ She handed two sheets to the girls with a face so sour that it could curdle milk, and as soon as they grabbed them, she wiped her hands on her shirt as if the two had a disease and quickly rushed off somewhere else. As the two stood up from their seats and were about to exit through the door, Celestia quickly got up and handed them their school schedule. “Remember girls, one major goof up and it’s time for you to search for a different school.” She noted strictly and with that she slammed the door behind them. The girls flinched slightly before scurrying off somewhere where the principal wasn’t in earshot. They found themselves in the locker area with the door to the gym being adjacent to them. “What's up their asses?” Aria mentioned with a slight chuckle turning to face Sonata, awaiting a response, she did get one, but it wasn’t one she was expecting. “Aria!” Sonata nudged Arias' shoulder with her elbow. “Be grateful, she literally gave us a second chance.” Aria also nudged Sonata's arm harder, leaving Sonata rubbing it with her other hand. “Whatever.” She replied carelessly. “Oh wait! Let’s see if we have any classes together!” Sonata replied excitedly. The two held up their schedules side to side and compared which classes they had. Unfortunately, they only had like no classes together. They both thought that Principal Celestia had something to do with it and she was trying to get under the girls’ skin, maybe as payback for what they did. “Bummer!” Sonata exclaimed as she turned to see Aria was to some degree not bothered by it at all. “Welp, I guess I should be heading over to algebra.” Aria added as she began to walk off to where her class was supposed to be. Sonata waved over goodbye but only received only small acknowledgement. Aria’s side: Aria walked over to where her supposed class was. It didn’t show on her face, but she was scared shitless. She opened the door and everyone turned their heads to see who was interrupting their lesson and when they did, they were shocked. The teacher, Miss. Harshwinney was also stunned but then told the class to calm down. “Apparently I have algebra.” She mentioned as she looked around for a seat. There was an empty seat at the back so she went ahead and took it. The students sitting near that desk immediately went and scootched away from it. Aria was annoyed by this and just shot the students (who were still staring and whispering about her) death stares. She put her head down but could still feel the glares facing her. Miss. Harshwinney continued with the lesson and that's when Aria realised how tough getting through this day is going to be. Sonata’s side: Unlike Aria, Sonata was slightly optimistic about meeting her old classmates again, the only thing that was keeping her from being fully confident was what they were going to think of meeting her. As she walked over, she noticed Rarity grabbing something from her locker. Sonata quickly found a hiding spot. Rarity looked over her shoulder, she sensed someone was looking at her but she just brushed it off and headed towards her respective class. When Sonata found that the coast was clear she made a run for it. She had chemistry and walked towards where the chemistry room is located. She took a deep breath and pulled the door open. All the students were wearing lab coats and safety goggles, and the teacher, Miss. Cheerilee was grading test papers on her desk. The teacher looked up and let out a small gasp. “Oh! Class we have a new student… I suppose.” She stood up towards Sonata. There was a itty bitty hint of disgust in her face and Sonata could tell. The entire class was now staring in disbelief at Sonata, she could make out a few girls, Fluttershy and… Twilight Sparkle? “Please take a seat over here, class will be over soon.” Miss. Cheerilee pointed to a seat beside her desk. Sonata awkwardly sat herself down and she heard everyone still gossiping about her and shooting daggers, all but Fluttershy and Twilight. After class: The whole day was filled with bullying and teasing by partially the whole student body, all but The Rainbooms. In fact, it was them who told the others to stop making fun of the girls, some actually stopped but some on the other hand wouldn’t stop. It was lunch and the two were at the cafeteria, they sat on a table on the far end and literally devoured and inhaled their food (they hadn’t had a proper meal for a while). “Woah, you sure can reaaally put it away!” Pinkie exclaimed walking over to the two, along with The Rainbooms. “Leave us alone Rainf*gs.” Aria yelled, not too loud to catch the attention of the nearby people. “Hey, don’t call us that,” Rainbow Dash announced. “Besides, what’s wrong with being gay?” “Yeah.. Are you homophobic Aria…?” Fluttershy added. Aria didn’t respond and just tried to block out their annoying claims by digging her face into her arms. Sonata soon spoke up on behalf of her ‘friend’. “She’s not homophobic guys’, she loves the LGBTQIA+, don’t you Aria? wink wink” Aria just groaned, annoyed. The girls didn’t have any feelings about the LGBTQIA+, they didn’t even care about them (except maybe Sonata). But they definitely weren’t homophobic. “Ok enough with this gay stuff, and, can you guys also stop with the whole angel act as well?” Aria snapped, pulling her head back up. “You’re just doing this to make you guys feel good about yourselves.” “Listen sugarcube,” Applejack added. “We were there when it happened to Sunset, we don’t want it happening to you as well.” She said, probably talking about the aftermath of the Fall Formal, though the pair weren’t there to see it all unfold. Sunset soon came forward. “Take it from me, these six girls helped me find a better way, these girls are your friends.” She noted. “Yeah, even after the Friendship Games when I turned into a raging she-demon, they still forgave me.” Twilight also added. Aria just cringed, then she wondered about Twilight. “Wait, what are you talking about?” Aria questioned. “Since when did Twilight get into such trouble, isn’t she the one who brought you guys together with the whole ‘friendship is magic’ thing?” The six girls looked at each other in confusion then realised what Aria meant. The Dazzlings weren’t there when the Friendship Games happened so they probably haven’t met ‘human world’ Twilight. After explaining, it soon began to become clearer for the two. “So that’s what happened!” Twilight then added at the end of her explanation, turning beet red slightly and looking down in embarrassment and shame before Sunset put her hand on her shoulder. She regained her composure with the comfort of her friend. “Ohh! That makes much more sense.” Sonata remarked while clapping her hands. Aria still had a plain expression on her face (her eyebrows still furrowed kinda like it always is). The two girls let their guards down (mostly Aria since Sonata basically trusts everyone she meets) and let the Rainbooms sit on their table. Sonata was a social butterfly so she started a conversation with the girls while Aria faced the other side with her face resting on her hand. She zoned out and her ears were naturally blocking out the sounds of laughter and conversation until she heard her name being called out. “Ariaaaa!?” Pinkie queried while waving a face around Aria. “Earth to Ariaaa!” Aria moved her hand in a way to tell Pinkie that she was mentally here. “What?” She turned around facing the girls. “Well, Sonata told us about what happened,” Sunset replied, concerned. “About you guys' situation, and what happened with Adagio.” “So she did…” Aria quickly shot daggers at Sonata but she just shrugged her shoulders, completely oblivious to what she’s done. “Whaaat?” She asked. Aria just groaned and facepalmed once more. The rest of the day was a blur for the two girls. They were obviously made fun of a lot, but they also gained a strong ally and they really felt reassured. Aria met Sonata at the forsaken side of the library. There was a pile of books stacked up to make a bed, big enough for the two of them and there was a cover that was used as a blanket. Sonata was looking through some of the books which Aria thought was weird, then she remembered. It slipped her mind that they didn’t have their phone chargers and that Sonata’s phone must have died and that's why she was reading. They had made sure nobody had seen them walking into the library since this was the only place they thought they could sleep in. They girls lied down and stared up into the skylight, at least Sonata was, Aria just turned around and started hogging all the blanket. Sonata didn’t want to start complaining so she just let it be (after pulling the blanket a little closer to herself) after what happened this whole day. They couldn’t rest properly as thoughts were now running in their heads like toy trains, all they could think about was: I wonder what Adagio is up to right now?
No Choice Left But To...Author's Note This is super rushed since i wrote it all in 2 and a half days I'll still continue to work on this everyday from now on PS: i dont really know much about applying to jobs and job interviews soooooooo pls keep that in mind while reading. PSS: cringe warning and be prepared for the horrible grammar No Choice Left But To... Adagio had wandered off with no future plans after that last interaction with the two. ‘Those bitches,’ She thought while clenching her fists. ‘I bet they have no plans about now and ended up dead, serves them right.’ She checked her phone and it was about 6:50. She groaned, she’d been so mad about what happened she didn’t realise she lost track of time, plus her legs were now getting sore (her legs were literally killing her). Adagio was always the strategist in the trio, she always came up with the ideas and the other two would just act it out with her. It came to her that she would really need to start working, so she headed to the public library, used the computers to write a resume. She obviously lied on her resume, not much but she did it to seem more ordinary. Just when she thought she was finished, she proofread and realised she forgot to add the experience and references. She had skipped over them before and thought she’d fill them in later, but now it is later. For experience, she’d barely lifted a finger her whole life, the three had always charmed people with their voices to get what they wanted, she’d never thought that one day it’ll all be suddenly taken away in a blink of an eye. She filled in some stuff she found off of Google such as cooking, cleaning, organisation and compter skills. She was proud of her progress so far, but there was just one more thing to add. Reference, it was just another awful reminder that she had nobody in life who could vouch for her. Due to her hot headed self she lost her two ‘sisters’, of course she couldn’t take all the blame since they didn’t even try to fight it. She quietly growled. Adagio had googled ‘Is having reference optional?’ The response was too complicated for her to comprehend, again, she’s never had to deal with this before. She saw a sign near the computers, where she was, and it was about asking librarians for help with resumes. Adagio quietly called out to a nearby librarian. “Hi, so this is my first time writing a resume and I just want to know if adding a reference was optional?” She asked, putting on her fake sweet voice. The librarian was wearing a beige cardigan with a purple shawl along with platform boots, Adagio was questioned by her fashion sense. “Oh hello sweetie,” The librarian whispered back warmly. “You know what, don’t even worry about it, I can vouch for you honey.” Adagio was stunned, she’s never experienced such kind words in a long time, maybe like her whole life. Her heart was touched but her face wasn’t showing it, you would say she has a slightly shocked face. “Really? Thanks.” She replied in her still fake honey filled voice. She was happy, but she wasn’t really able to show it much. “I know how hard it is for you young folk, sometimes it’s best to just spread kindness, it makes the world a much better place.” She added, putting a hand on Adagios’ shoulder gently. She flinched slightly at the warm embrace. “Okay pumpkin, I’ll put in my phone number in there for you, along with my name.” She took her hand off Adagios’ shoulder, bent down and reached both of her hands to the keyboard and began typing. “There, all set my dear.” She exclaimed with a thumbs up. “Amethyst Maresbury..” Adagio quietly said. “It’s a beautiful name.” She was being genuine, nobody had ever been this kind to her, maybe she can let her guard down once in a while. “Awh, thank you love.” She replied, getting up from position and walking towards her cart. “Good luck angel!” Amethyst quietly yelled as she pushed her trolley full of books towards a bookshelf in the far end. Right, ‘good luck’ on the job search, she had completely forgotten all about that part. She printed four copies and went back on the computers, on the search. After about what felt like an eternity on a job search website, she found one for a waitressing job not too far from where she was. Just in case, she jotted down into a piece of paper three waitressing jobs. During this whole thing, Adagio had found a place to charge her phone using a box full of chargers which basically said ‘free chargers’ so now her phone was at a moderate percentage. She was ready to apply now. Her first attempt was a real dud. It turns out that the employer was one of the CHS students' parents and heard of the whole ordeal, he barely let Adagio talk. She was ready to snap back at him but she decided to be the bigger person and walk off instead. She clenched her fists as she walked out and sat on a nearby bench. ‘This is why I can’t be here in peace with these… Humans. Not one of them has self control.’ She realised the hypocrisy in her thoughts, didn’t she just leave the two just last night? Whatever, they were probably lost without her leading them. She checked her phone and it was 12:50. She hadn’t slept in so long since that night. She huffed angrily, scowled at the nearby passers and crossed her arms while slouching back, she didn’t care what anyone thought of her anymore, her life practically ended when those six girls took away the sirens magic. She stood up, she wasn’t going to let those bozos get the satisfaction of her not doing anything to fight back and she wasn’t going to give up her dignity. She walked and continued her path. Second try wasn’t so far going well, but Adagio wanted nothing to do with it since she saw a CHS student working there, she knew it was too good to be true. Though it was going quite swimmingly, a tiny itty bitty part of her brain was telling her to give up, she didn’t listen to it. Third times a charm, am I right? She hesitated a bit before entering a cafe, decorated in a quite aesthetically pleasing way. She chuckled and walked towards a lady behind a counter. She had cute two toned pink curls with a miniature red bow on the left side of her hair with a spring green skin tone. “Hi, I’m looking to apply for a job. Where’s the manager?” Adagio asked. “You’re looking at her!” The supposed manager exclaimed, putting her hands on her hips. “Can I see your resume?” She put out a hand and Adagio handed her the piece of paper. The manager looked at the resume, eyes following the words on the piece of paper and then she suddenly looked up and down at Adagio, perhaps judging her. Adagio was already getting defensive but she didn’t want to spoil her chances, so she kept her cool. The manager put the resume away from her face and put a hand to her chin, in a cartoony sorta way. “We could get you started today.. We are hiring too.” She said looking around for something or perhaps, someone. “Ah! Cotton Sky, just the girl I’m looking for.” She motions for a girl with purple three toned fluffy hair, up in what seemed to be a messy bun with a dark blue hairpiece on, and her skin tone being light blue to come over. “What do you need, Florina Tart? I kinda got my hands full.” She replied in a soft yet annoyed tone, all the while carrying two plates on both hands. “Adagio is looking to apply for a job here. Do we have any available positions?” Florina asked. But then Adagio thought, hey, isn’t she the manager here? “Aren’t you the manager here? You’re supposed to keep up with all this stuff.” Cotton scolded gently as if she'd read her mind. “But yeah, we do need another waitress, we’re running short since they all keep quitting.” She turned her head to Adagio while going through the counter and putting the dishes in the sink. “So what do ya say? You gon’ take the job or nay?” Florina turned to Adagio, making strong eye contact. Adagio was relieved to hear that she still had hope, though she replied back calmly, she added a lil hint of excitement in her words for good measure. “Oh my gosh, thanks a lot!” Adagio was faking her high levels of enthusiasm. “Don’t get ya hopes up too high, we still have to do an interview to see if you’re a really good fit.” She noted. “I have lots of spare time on my hands, so we can start it right now, lemme set up a table.” She arranged a table for her and Adagio to sit on, away from the others. It was tranquil and she was starting to feel confident that it’ll all go well. “So, why do you want to work here? I know, I know, it sounds intimidating but it’s my duty as a manager to know who I’m hiring.” Adagio didn’t think of it as intimidating at all, she knew intimidating, and that wasn’t it. She rehearsed what she was gonna say, she’s seen these types of things in movies so she was very well prepared. She answered swiftly and casually. “Well, I’m a hard worker, like headstrong, and I have the skills needed for this position.” Expecting more questions, Adagio was surprised to see Florina already grabbing a job application sheet. “Aren’t you going to ask me more interview questions?” She asked while cocking her head. “Oh, no I don’t need to, you already seem like a perfect fit! Plus, we are eager to have new people come and join us.” She explained then she moved the piece of paper to infront of Adagio, handing her a pen. “Just sign here then it's official! Oh, and we also need to get you a uniform.” Adagio forgot about the uniform, she icked at the sound of it. She turned her head around to look at the other workers, the overly pastel and frilly maid-like uniform that seemed like a perverted prepubescent boy designed, she shivered in disgust (not too obvious) as she quickly turned her head back to the eager woman in front of her, she then reminded herself why she was here. Florina sighed, though Adagio was trying hard to not show her true colours, the manager caught on anyway. “Look pumpkin,” She reached out her hand towards Adagio but she just moved it away quickly. Florina, assuming her love language was definitely not touch, kept her hand to herself. “You look an awful lot young to start working full time,” She checked her watch. “And.. Shouldn’t you be in school by now?” Shoot! Adagio had completely missed that detail, it had slipped her mind. Quickly though, she came up with a good enough excuse. “My school had a day off today, so I decided to not waste it.” She knew she couldn’t keep using this excuse all the time, maybe she’d have to enrol back to Canterlot High, she fluttered at the thought, but then, “Heh.. I bet Aria and that bimbo hadn’t gotten this far yet.” She swallowed a quick chuckle. A “Mhm..” could be heard from the manager as she inspected the young girl suspiciously. “Sunshower Raindrops!” She called over a young adult with lemon skin and straight cyan hair with choppy bangs. Sunshower instantly rushed over and that's when Adagio got a closer look. She had an athletic build and unlike the other girls she wore no makeup at all, this kind of turned Adagio on. “Keep it together Adagio, you do NOT like girls.” She thought to herself and quickly shook her head to snap back from her trance. “Could you help train our newest recruit, Adagio.” Florida gestured towards Adagio. “Also, could you get her a uniform?” Adagio winced, forgetting about the wretched uniform, that damn uniform… Sunshower ran so fast into another room and came out at such high speed that Adagio was impressed. “Here you go, Adagio!” She handed her new uniform and Adagio chuckled nervously. Never in her thousands of years of being in this miserable human world has she ever dreamed of resorting to such desperate measures that it would cost her dignity. She was guided towards a bathroom and went inside and changed into her hideous uniform that she’d now have to get used to. She got out of one of the cubicles and checked herself out in the mirror. “Hm.. It wasn’t half as bad as I thought once I put it on me. I think I could make this work.” The way her hair and voluptuous body type contrasted with the nature of the uniform, she thought herself pretty fine. She made some poses in the mirror before flinching as Sunshower walked in. “Oh! good, you're finished.” She exclaimed, analyzing Adagio. “Okay, now we can get started! Here, I got you a bag to put your casual clothes in.” She held up a jute bag. “Thanks.” After work finished, Adagio realised the hard way that people literally don’t get paid everyday, instead, the payment is weekly. Of course Adagio was really disappointed by this newfound fact but learned to suck it up. She wasn’t a siren anymore, now, she was just a mere human, paying to live a normal life. Suddenly, reality hit her hard when she realised she should’ve planned ahead, she hadn’t thought of a place to sleep. She could go to a homeless shelter but Aria had her and Sonata kicked out of them all but one, and that one was not open. Still, she could maybe enter in one of those many homeless shelters since her, Aria and Sonata split up, and technically, it was Aria causing those fights, not her. And with that plan in mind, Adagio was set off to the first homeless shelter they’d been to since the Battle of the Bands. It was 6pm yet it was getting dark and she’s watched too many true crime documenteries to know she’d get molested if she were to walk two kilometres to the most ghetto side of Canterlot City, so she took the bus. She didn’t pay the bus fare, suiting to her personality, and the bus driver didn’t even seem to mind it all, considering the time of day. Long story short, she was allowed to enter in the premises just as long as she didn’t cause fights, like she would ever do that. She found someplace to sleep and everything was settled, yet there was still something in the back of her mind, making her feel incomplete and unfulfilled, like something was missing, though like always, she brushed it off and pretended to ignore it. Right now, she was sure Aria and Sonata were on the streets of Canterlot City pathetically begging for loose change, she quietly chuckled, amused at the thought of her ex- so called siren-sisters throwing away their dignity for the cost of living. Her amusement was soon cut short as she realised she had to be thinking more rationally. She has a part time job, good, but she wasn’t going to work at a cafe for the rest of her life, she was going to need a good paying and stable job someday, and one way to get that was to get a PhD and one way to get that was to go to school. She shivered at the thought, but the other thought of her working minimum wage for the rest of her miserable life, not being able to buy the things she wants dominated the other. She was internally debating whether she should go to CHS or some other Canterlot City school. She for some (stoopid) reason decided to settle with CHS (to go with the storyline, lolsies. I’m not giving any reasoning towards it). The next day rolls around and Adagio is set off to CHS, to actually get a proper education, not to mind control a whole school again, especially considering the loss of her charms. Lets just hope this doesn’t end badly.
It Was Inevitable After AllAuthor's Note I do not plan these and I just write as I go short chapter today cuz im kinda in a rush trigger warning for bullying It Was Inevitable After All 9pm, Canterlot High School. “Celestia, tell me why you have allowed those two back into our school.” Luna inquired, walking up to her sisters desk after shutting the door, careful not to slam it. “You do remember the chaos and mishaps they caused during the Battle of the Bands, are you sure it’s wise to let them attend here again?” “Sister, didn’t we give Sunset a chance?” Luna nodded. “Well, look at how she turned out. Shes a good girl now and perhaps the same will happen with those two.” “Even so, I’m sure that it wouldn’t be safe for them here.” Celestia gave a quizzed look. “I mean, you do remember what happened to Sunset after the Fall Formal, she was verbally and sometimes even physically attacked. I’m not sure we should put them through that.” “Relax, Luna. I know of seven different girls who can succour and defend them through situations in that manner. They’ll be ok.” “If you say so.” Meanwhile, while that conversation was going, Sonata was trapped in her locker. Somebody had supposedly locked her in on purpose and I think we can all guess why. Sonata had banged her palms against the door, hoping that it would somewhat free her, it didn’t. She didn’t even have her phone on her since she left it in her bag, which was with Aria and the girls, this realisation started to make her panic even more. The other girls had caught on to Sonata’s disappearance and were now looking for her. The janitors closet, the gymnasium, the cafeteria, she was nowhere to be seen. Suddenly, Sunset, fearing for the worst, ran up to the locker area. She couldn’t exactly pinpoint Sonatas locker so she relied on her hearing, and sure enough, judging by her past experiences, she was right. She followed the sounds of quiet sobbing and it eventually leaded her up to a locker, Sonatas locker. “Oh my goodness!” Sunset yelled. “Quick, tell me your locker code!” “27, 25…13.” Came the little voice behind the locker. Sunset quickly put in the code and the lock finally unlocked. Sunset pulled the door open and her heart quite literally tore at the sight of what lied before her eyes. Sonata was a sobbing mess, she was shaking, she was sweaty, her hair was messy and her fists and palms were bruised from what seemed to be constant banging. Sunset quickly helped the girl up and was swifty brought into a tight hug by the sobbing girl. “I-I was so scared…” Was all she could say before again breaking out into more quiet sobs. Sunset could see herself in Sonata. She put her right arm around the crying girl and with her left, she texted everyone to meet in the library. She helped Sonata to the library, it was partially empty since noone cares much for studying anymore. They sat themselves down at one of the tables, away from the others as Sunset brought a tissue box up to Sonata. Sonata took one and wiped a tear away from her face while Sunset helped fix up her hair. Sunset checked her phone again to see if her friends had caught on to the message and sure ‘nuff they did and were heading towards them. Around two minutes passed and everyone was now here, surprised but not really surprised this happened, it was inevitable after all. Now Aria and Sonata have only shown contempt for eachother (mostly Aria) for their whole lives, but in this moment, Aria was just so enraged. Her blood boiled at the thought of her ‘younger sister’ being pushed into a locker and locked in for god knows how long. Sonata’s sensitive which also makes it ten times worse when you realise what shes gone through in that locker. Aria saw the state Sonata was in and immediately went to her side, this was the first anyone had seen her so protective over someone, that someone being Sonata. “Who did this to you!?” She questioned furiously. “I’ll smash their heads in!” Sonata was taken aback, was Aria trying to comfort her? “I-I don’t know, they just came from behind me and pushed me in my locker.” Sonata admitted. “I didn’t get to see their face, but I do know that it was probably two people… no, three I think?” “Well, I’ll find them and make sure they fucking pay.” Aria turned her head and mumbled to herself before turning back to Sonata and putting her hand on her shoulder. “I don’t think we should resort to violence, what we should do is inform Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna.” Twilight awkwardly added, pushing her glasses up to her face with her index and middle finger (the nerdy way basically). “Twilight’s right, dear. Violence will never solve this.” Rarity joined in. “Principal Celestia might even help find out who was behind this incident.” Sunset turned to Sonata who was now looking at the ground with her two hands inbetween her thighs. “Are you comfortable with telling Principal Celestia, Sonata?” Sunset gently asked, placing a hand on her lap. “Or do you wanna wait a while?” Sonata turned to Aria and whispered something to her. “She’s still a bit shaken up from what happened, it’s best if we deal with this later.” Aria spoke for Sonata, surprisingly, in a gentle, calm and composed tone. Any thoughts she had about committing acts of violence to the perpetrator were washed away seeing as Sonata would gain nothing from it, maybe except the sadistic satisfaction. Maybe it’s time they use different approaches to situations like this. They stayed like that for a while until the bell rang for first period. Aria and Sonata were once again separated, but atleast Sonata shared the same class with Applejack who mentioned “If anybody messes with ya, ya go straight me or any of our friends, we wont let anything like this happen again to ya, you understand?” Sonata nodded and continued walking to their class. Applejack took on a defensive stand next to Sonata, letting people know that if they mess with Sonata, they mess with her. Still, both Sonata and Aria could feel people still flashing glares at them, it was going to take a while to get forgiven. After class in the cafeteria: “You reckon we tell Principal Celestia what happened?” Sunset asked. “You know this can’t go unpunished. If you don’t tell, they’re going to think it’s okay treating you like that, even though it’s not.” “But, I don’t wanna be a snitch.” Sonata retaliated. “Then I’m just gonna get a big fat target on my back.” She lowered her head. “Sugarcube, what did I tell you before?” Applejack reminded, putting a hand on Sonatas shoulder. “Nobody’s gonna do nothing to ya with us on your side. You’ve got nothing to worry ‘bout.” Sonata felt a wave of reassurance fall over her, she turned to Aria but she was just looking around the cafeteria. Aria didn’t say anything, instead, looking around at all of the potential perpetrators in the room, wondering who it was that committed such a heinous act. She soon turned around and said “I think we should tell Principal Celestia now. It just feels like the right moment.” The rest of the girls agreed, though Pinkie was still in the middle of eating, she quickly grabbed the rest of it and quite literally put it into the far depths of her hair and followed the rest of the girls out of the cafeteria. During the walk to the principals office, Aria protectively had her arms around Sonatas shoulders, I guess that's her way of showing affecting I guess… Sonata was still so surprised, Aria had never helped or cared about her this way and to see her so protective was so… weird. The walk from the cafeteria to the principals office was short but to Sonata, it felt super long. Thoughts ranging from “What if she doesn’t care?” to “What if she says it’s my fault for making myself a target?” were slowly overpowering her that she actually started to believe the atrocious act committed against her was justified. Finally, they end up in front of the door and Rainbow wastes no time opening the door, Celestia was there, but so was a familiar young lady with bushy two toned orange hair. “Turns out they did beat me to it.”
Who Dun Diddit?“What’re you doing here?” Aria asked, stepping up in front of Sonata, adopting a protective stance. “Caring about my future is what I’m doing.” Adagio responded, disappointed that she wasn’t the only one who’d thought of this plan. She then noticed Sonata’s expression. “What’s up with her? You don’t mean to tell me that you’ve grown feelings for eachother? How pathet-” Adagio was cut off by Celestia. “Ladies, I’m sure we can resolve this issue somehow.” During the midst of the mini heated argument, Celestia had taken out an enrolment sheet and pen and had placed it on the desk where Adagio would’ve been facing if she didn’t have her head turned to argue with Aria. “Here, sign this.” “You’re seriously going t-” Aria blabbed out, only to be cut by the principal. “I gave you a second chance, didn’t I?” Celestia asked. Though it was a rhetorical question, she still wanted an answer. Aria nodded, irritated. “Verbal answer, please.” “Yes.” Aria quietly growled and faced the ground, annoyed at the fact she was being treated like a small child. “Well I believe Adagio should have a second chance too, you girls should agree, especially you, Sunset.” All the girls (but Aria) nodded while Sunset slightly cringed at the mention of her name. Adagio had a smug smirk on her face while signing the enrolment paper, annoying Aria to the brink of going berserk, luckily though she kept her cool and acted nonchalantly. The girls stood there awkwardly, watching and waiting for Adagio to sign off the form needed to enrol so that they could report to Principal Celestia about Sonata's issue. Finally, Adagio finished off with the paper and Celestia handed her a schedule and locker number. On the way out, Adagio and Aria glared at each other before Adagio tried to recruit Sonata to her side. “Sonata~~ You don’t wanna be with this loser and all her…” She stopped for a while to look among the girls, judging them deeply as a cheshire smile creeps up on her face. “ These… wannabe friends, do you?” She asked in a singsong yet sinister voice. “I-” Sonata tried to speak but was immedietly cut off by Aria speaking for her. “Didn’t you say you didn’t need u-” “Shush.” Adagio turned to Aria, putting her index finger up. “I was asking Sonata.” Celestia was watching this whole thing play out, awkwardly. “Girls, I’m afraid if you’re going to argue, please settle it outside of my office.” She sternly informed. And with that Adagio walked through the door, nudging Aria with her hip while doing so, leaving Aria struggling to keep herself from pouncing on to the, what she would describe as, ‘smug bitch’. “Now, what can I help you girls with?” The girls quickly jerked their heads back to the waiting, authorative woman sitting behind her desk, hands crossed. They were so focused on the elephant in the room that they forgot their main reason for their trip to the principals office. “Well,” Sunset started. “Long story short, some group of people pushed Sonata into her locker and she was stuck there for twenty minutes before we caught on to her disappearance.” Celestia was stunned, yet wasn’t surprised, she knew the bullying would start sooner or later. “When did this happen?” She asked, concerned, uncrossing her hands and gesturing for Sonata to take a seat. “Before first period,” Came the meek voice from the once super energetic girl who was now looking at the ground. Celestia could see the look in her eyes, it was the same as Sunsets the day after the Fall Formal when a group of bullies locked her in the janitor's closet. If it hadn’t been for the Rainbooms, she would’ve been deeply scarred and traumatised, maybe even develop a fear of closets. “And you didn’t think to come to me sooner?” Celestia gently questioned, picking up her phone from her desk, seemingly about to call someone. “Well, Sonata wasn’t ready to immediately tell you.” Sunset stepped forward. “She felt the need to process everything first.” Suddenly, the bell went and everyone jumped like focking pussies (except Celestia and Aria). “You girls should head to class,” Celestia said. “Sonata, you’ll stay here until we find out the culprits.” Everyone else in the room understood the principal's order and left, all but Aria. “Aria, that means you too.” Celestia added. “I know you want to stay by Sonata’s side, but you’ll be late for class if you stay here any longer.” Aria hesitantly nodded then turned to leave, not before facing Sonata and flashing her a reassuring smile. Once they were alone, Celestia called the person that she was gonna call, only waiting five rings for the person on the other end to pick up. “Hey Lulu, I’m going to need you in my office real quick.” She then turned to glance at Sonata who was looking through the window adjacent to her. “We have another case of, you know what.” The person on the other end, now proven to be Vice-Principal Luna, seemed to quickly catch on to Celestia's code words. And soon, another voice came, this time from the phone. “I thought you said this wouldn’t happen?” Came the voice, sounding smug as hay. “Would you just come down here?” Celestia replied, sounding annoyed at her younger sister's self-satisfied tone. “Alright, alright.” Luna answered. “But… I told you so.” Celestia groaned then hung up, putting the phone back on the desk. Realising she had this convo in front of a student, she realised how inadequate she was, causing her to lightly blush, embarrassed. “Sorry about that, that was really unprofessional of me.” She said, regaining her composure. “Don’t be.” Sonata replied. “It makes you seem more real.” Celestia smiled at this. “You know, you may have committed a heinous act at the Battle of the Bands…” Uh oh, Celestia… Why would you bring that up now?! “But, you’re not as bad as I made you out to be. I’m sorry for our first interaction when you wanted to enrol back.” Okay, phew. I thought she was gonna say something mean, maybe a little warning next time, eh! “I don’t blame you for thinking that. Me, Aria and Adagio did some pretty messed up stuff in our lives, especially here in Canterlot High.” Sonata admitted, letting out a small chuckle. “I can’t say I blame the students here for getting mad at us.” Tears were slowly trickling down Sonata's face, she looked down at her lap, making sure Celestia wouldn’t notice. She was really bad at hiding it. “Oh god…” Was all Celestia managed to say before getting up from her chair and moving around the desk to Sonata, scooping her up in a warm embrace. “Shh…You’re forgiven.” She rubbed Sonata's back, trying to soothe the now sobbing girl. Once the sobbing had stopped, Sonata was now left with the hiccups. Celestia gently pulled her away from the embrace, hands on the younger teens shoulders while making direct eye contact. “Nobody deserves to be shoved in a locker, do you understand me?” Sonata managed a nod, still looking pitiful as ever. “I want a verbal answer.” She hesitated a while before answering back. “Nobody hic deserves to be hic shoved in a hic locker.” Celestia gave a look of approval before hugging the small girl again. Celestia may seem the intimidating type, but she sure as hay gives the best hugs. They stayed like that for a while before Celestia quickly glanced at the clock, noticing how they’ve been in that position for quite some time (5 minutes), Luna would be here any second now. Celestia took her seat behind the desk and if there was any tension from the beginning, it’s all gone now. Minutes go by and Luna still wasn’t here. Celestia was internally fighting the urge to call her again. It was quiet, yet not awkward quiet. It was tranquil and was almost a sorta calm quiet now that Sonata got mostly everything off her chest, it was actually quite comforting. “Luna seems to be taking her sweet time.” Celestia commented, looking at her watch every now and then, clearly getting impatient. Sonata giggled at her comment. Then, suddenly. “Sorry sister, I was just telling off a few juniors for vaping in the toilet cubicles.” Luna came rushing in through the door, she clearly looked like she’d been running. She took a seat next to Sonata and began interrogating her with her pen and paper, ready to take notes. “Names? Year groups? Heights?” “We don’t know the perpetrators for this case yet.” Celestia answered for Sonata, who was relieved of not having to answer really detailed questions. Though, there were sometimes where she would have to correct Celestia on some of the details, but overall, she was spot on. “Alright, Sonata.” Luna began, looking through her notes before looking back at Sonata. “You can go head on to class now, we’ll come over to your class to collect you if we find anything.” Sonata nodded and was just about to head out before Luna called out; “Wait! I need to write you a note to give to your teacher.” She tore a piece of paper out from her notepad and scribbled some unreadable writing onto it, must be something only teachers can understand I guess. Walking back to class, Sonata felt relieved that she was now under the protection of Luna, Celestia and the Rainbooms, not to mention, her long life buddy, Aria! Fast forward to last period where Sonata was having science with Twilight and Pinkie Pie, or what they would’ve had if Pinkie and Sonata didn’t accidently start a mini fire with the bunsen burners, thus resulting in them both getting a weeks worth of detention and being temporarily banned from the science labs. After Miss Cheerilee was done chastising them, she pulled Pinkie aside out in the halls. “She’s not a good influence on you, Pinkamena.” She whispered once Sonata was out of earshot. “I’m willing to take time out of your detention hours if you stop hanging out with her. I know you didn’t plan that fire on purpose, she probably tried to drag you in o-” “Miss Cheerilee!” Pinkie dramatically yelled after letting out an astonished gasp, catching the attention of nearby students who just awkwardly walked away. “Are you being biassed?” She added, eyeing the teacher in front of her, looking dead in her eyes. “Shh..” Miss Cheerilee hushed. “I’m just sayin-” “Saying what Miss Cheerilee?” Pinkie interrupted. “Saying that Sonata should be more guiltier than me because she used to be evil? And tha-” “I shouldn’t be having this discussion with a student.” And with that, Miss Cheerilee walked off thinking she won the argument (she didn’t). Sonata walked over, she overheard everything. “Hey,” Pinkie comforted, putting her hands on Sonata's shoulders, just like how Celestia did. “Don’t listen to her, she’s just mad because you lived longer than her without getting any wrinkles while she’s only lived thirty with, like…” She paused for a bit “...a buncha wrinkles on her face.” Sonata quietly giggled, though she knew deep down Miss Cheerilee was right. The fire wouldn’t have started if she kept the flammable liquid away from the bunsen burner when lighting it. Meanwhile, another interaction was happening elsewhere. In the dead end of the hallways of Canterlot High, where the light never shines its way through, the place where both Sunset and (pony) Twilight had their fair shares of confrontation, stand both Adagio and Aria, flashing glares at each other. “So,” Aria started, now crossing her arms. “Why are you really here?” Adagio scoffed, annoyed by the same repeating questions. “Like I said, same reason you are.” She took a step forward. “Now, why are you here? Especially so, why are you besties with those.. Rainf*gs?” “We aren’t friends. I hang around them because Sonata hangs around them.” Aria admitted. “Speaking of Sonata, what even happened to her?” Adagio questioned, completely changing the subject. “Like, she wasn’t her usual self. Did she finally realise how annoying she was getting and just came to her sens-” “Some bully trapped her inside her own locker and left her there for about twenty minutes.” Aria bluntly replied. “Oh.” Was all Adagio said before going silent. Aria couldn’t tell if Adagio was concerned or literally didn’t care for Sonata getting bullied, her face was deadpan. It stayed like that for a while. “Adagio was probably regretting all the stuff she said prior to the confession.”, is what Aria thought to herself. “So-” “Why didn’t you tell me earlier?” Aria was cut off by Adagio. “No wonder why she was acting non-verbal.” “She’s not ‘acting’ non-verbal, she literally was non-verbal until lunchtime!” Aria snapped. “And it’s not like when you came or anything that you made things feel better.” Suddenly, a pause. Aria was collecting her thoughts, thinking of the most appropriate thing to say next. “I was there for Sonata, where were you?” And with that ending statement, Aria walked off, dramatically of course, leaving Adagio, probably in a pit of remorse, which is sorta unlikely considering her personality. Adagio was actually just confused, were they being… domesticated? And, was she adapting to the human life too? What the fook is going on??? Author's Note Adagio, if you can't tell is still kinda mean in this chapter. I made her not show concerne for Sonata since, well, we have to be realistic, for someone whos been evil for a 1000 years to turn good overnight is kinda a cliche Thanks to Ryshinki for keeping up and commenting on my chapters!!!!
