Magix

Luna pinched her nose as she looked on at the small crowd gathered in her sister’s office, Celestia seated behind her desk with Luna by her side while the three behind the whole fiasco that has torn the school apart the last few weeks was with one parental figure each. Apple Bloom of course was with Granny Smith as the old woman worked at the school while it took a little bit of time for Sweetie’s mother Cookie and Sccotaloo’s aunt Holiday to get there. None of the parents looked too pleased at what they just heard, and Luna didn’t blame them.

“Are you telling me my niece is partly responsible for the blog she has been telling me this Sunset Shimmer has been running?” Holiday asked, annoyance in her voice as well as doubt. “The same girl who has done nothing but bully everyone in the school for years?”

“To be fair, Sunset has done a complete turnaround this past year. I had some serious doubts when both my daughters came home and told me about this disgusting tabloid of a blog.” Cookie sighed.

“The same girl students call she demon?” Holiday scoffed.

“Have you met the girl?” Cookie asked, getting a shake of the head from Holiday in a negative response. “Well, I have. The girl has a serious inferiority complexion ever since her fall from grace. I’ve seen her bend over backwards to make my daughter and her friends happy, even at the cost of her own emotional well being. I tried talking to Rarity about it when they kept throwing the poor girls past in her face, but she waved it off.”

“What do you mean mom?” Sweetie asked, looking up at her mother.

“I mean that poor girl needed to be treated better than she was, but things seemed to at least settle for them. At least, until now.” Cookie said, giving a sad and disappointed look at her youngest daughter. “What on earth made you three girls pull such a stunt?”

“We were jealous.” Sweetie sniffed, hanging her head and refusing to look up into her mother’s eyes.

“Wait, you mean this is all true? Scootaloo!” Holiday gasped in shock.

“Look, I’m sorry! Okay! I just wanted Rainbow to keep her promises to help me train instead of ignoring me for that she demon!” Scootaloo growled, crossing her arms and looking away in anger.

“You shouldn’t call somebody names like that.” Holiday groaned out, “Haven’t we taught you better than that?”

“She is a she demon though! Grew wings and everything!” Apple Bloom swore earning a soft smack on the back of the head from Granny.

“Owww! Grannnnyyyyy!” Apple Bloom whined, rubbing her head. “It’s the truth!”

“Kids sure have the wildest imaginations these days.” Holiday said, shaking her head. “Is this why all of you girls did this?”

“It was mah idea first. Ah just wanted mah big sis to spend Christmas with her family. Not ignoring us for some ex-bully.” Apple Bloom admitted.

“There are better ways to go bout things like that Bloom.” Granny said, patting the girl’s shoulder. “Such as talking to yer family.”

“We’re really sorry.” Sweetie sniffled, “Do you hate us?”

“Oh sweetie, I may be a little upset and disappointed in you, but I could never hate you.” Cookie cooed as she hugged her daughter as both Holiday and Granny repeated their own reassurances.

“Actually, what is going to happen to the girls?” Holiday asked.

“What they did could have landed them in serious trouble and I hope you make sure those three fully understand that. You are very lucky that you gave us access to the account and showed us all of the things so many students sent in. So many of them are from the parents who are vocal and whine about every little thing so if they try and press for charges or anything, it will only end up dragging their own kids in so we truly don’t think we will have to worry about that.” Luna explained.

“As for your immediate punishments at school, you aren’t getting off lightly. I have already redone all of your schedules so you aren’t in any classes together except for your free period right after lunch.” Celestia said, steepling her fingers and glaring over them as Scootaloo pumped her fist in the air. “Oh, I’m sure you will be excited as you will be spending that period for the rest of the year helping Granny Smith in the kitchen and cafeteria cleaning up. You three will also be serving detention for the rest of the year and in school suspension for the next month.”

“Oh mannn!” Scootaloo whined.

“Do you want to be expelled?” Holiday hissed.

“No Auntie, I’m sorry.” Scootaloo sighed dejectedly.

“Thank you for going easy on the girls, I know it could have been a lot worse.” Cookie said, all of them gasping as the light filtering in from the windows took on a violet hue before the entire building shook.

“What on earth was that?” Holiday asked scared as Luna went to look out the windows.

“We better get the school locked down, there are some kind of monsters down there.” Luna sighed as if it was just another day, even if there was some urgency in her voice.

“You can’t be serious.” Holiday asked as both Cookie and her went to look out the window only to pale at the sight of a bunch of demonic looking imp like creatures skittered about just inside some kind of dome covering the school.

“What are those things?” Cookie asked, trembling in fright as she pulled Sweetie to her.

“Trouble.” Luna said, “Everyone stay here, Celestia and I are going to lock the doors and rally the teachers. Granny, see if you can get the police or something on the line. I don’t think even Sunset and the girls can handle this.”

“Ahead of ya, but ain’t no dial tone.” Granny said as she slammed the phone down.

“Guess we are on our own.” Luna sighed.

“We already tried to pony up, it isn’t working!” Rainbow snarled at the crowd of students by the main entrance, the doors locked as the janitor sealed them as soon as the dome went up.

“Well, try harder!” One of the students in the crowd shouted as Fluttershy hid behind Applejack as the crowd was demanding they do something which was ironic as a few minutes earlier they were yelling at them for making them believe it was Sunset behind Anon-A-Miss when it was their own sisters.

“Calm down, everyone!” Luna called out, her voice steady if sounding like it was booming from a loudspeaker. It was something the girls remembered Sunset once calling the Royal Canterlot Voice, or RCV for short.

“Please everyone, get deeper inside the school while we wait for help.” Celestia urged.

“Help is already here.” Stella said, strutting out of the crowd from the direction of the cafeteria, the students parting as Musa and Tecna followed behind.

“Girls, while I appreciate your courage, this isn’t a game.” Celestia said sternly.

“Is this Equestrian related?” Luna asked as Sunset followed them out.

“No, I don’t really know what’s going on.” Sunset replied.

“I think we need to kick the beats up and beat those imps down.” Musa cheered as she pumped a fist in the air.

“While I don’t know about that, I know those are just low level shadow creatures. They aren’t really alive, just shadow constructs created by dark magic to do their master’s bidding. Stella’s power should easily drive them off.” Tecna explained.

“Solaria!” Stella cried out, energy washing over her and changing her clothes and form leaving behind her fairy form holding her staff that her ring turned into. A moment later Tecna and Musa followed suit also changing to their fairy forms.

“Sunset, we can handle this. You don’t really have experience yet as a fairy.” Stella said, trying to encourage Sunset into waiting behind for them.

“I won’t let you do this alone. Those things are here for me just as much as they are for you.” Sunset snarled, pointing towards the door before she exploded into a heatless fireball as she herself changed. Black leather corset top and skirt along with boots and bracers replaced her clothes and demonic wings burst painlessly from her back as a powerful aura swept around her making the non fairies all take a step back in fear.

“It’s Sunset Satan again!”

“Is she going to mind control us again?”

“Maybe we should run!”

“Run where, it’s the she demon in here or the demons out there!”

Those among other things were shouted and whispered as the crowd gave the four fairies a wide bearth. They weren’t the only ones who had shocked or worried expressions as all three of the fairies did as well.

“She’s a dark fairy?” Tecna gasped out, unable to hide the slight tilt of fear in her voice.

“Didn’t see that coming.” Musa said, looking a little worried, but also in awe.

“So what, she’s a fairy just like us. And if we are going to protect this school we need to go now!” Stella said, getting Musa and Tecna to nod while Sunset looked over herself in fear, seeing the wings but noticing her skin wasn’t red.

“I thought I was supposed to be a fairy?” Sunset asked, her voice shaky and eyes watery.

“You are, Sunset. You are a very rare type called a dark fairy. Doesn’t mean you're evil; just powerful. It will be okay, I promise, but right now we can use your power to protect all these people in here.” Stella said softly, looking encouragingly into Sunset’s eyes as she took her hands. “Can you do that for me?”

“I-I’ll try.” Sunset said, swallowing when her voice cracked at first.

“Good girl, now lets go kick some but!” Stella cheered, the four heading toward the door.

“Sunset, I don’t know what’s going on.” Celestia said, hurrying to hug Sunset the best she could around her wings, “But please be careful out there. I don’t want to see you get hurt.”

“I’ll be careful.” Sunset reassured the principal, looking momentarily at the Rainbooms before turning to follow the other three fairies out the door. Tecna was right, Stella created a wave of light that washed over a swath of those imp like creatures that either hissed and retreated for the lucky ones while the others turned to ash.

“You think you fairies are so tough, huh?” The ogre from the night before chuckled as he tromped through the imps that scattered to get from under its feet. “Well, this time I brought friends.”

“I can’t believe my luck, a dark fairy. You will be a rare delicacy.” A tall, lanky creature hissed with a cloak around its body and a wide brimmed hat that seen better days sat atop its head. He looked more skeletal than anything, yet he did have skin and muscle despite looks. He seemed as if he should be dead as he licked the blade of his sword, his other hand tightening around a sickle.

“You know my majesties want them alive!” The ogre grumped as two more creatures that looked like they belonged in some kind of dungeon stomped forward.

“Me smell strong magic!” One of them roared, the other nodding in agreement.

“Just give up the ring and the fire haired menace and the rest can go.” The ogre said, nodding as if to congratulate himself.

“You have my word everyone will be free once we have the ring and girl.” The skeletal one said with a sickening grin, “Free to go right in my pot!”

“Okay, you guys win!” Sunset called out freezing the other three fairies. “All you want is me and the ring, right? Well, Stella, maybe you should give them what they want.”

“What are you talking about?” Stella asked, looking in shock at Sunset until she noticed the smirk and Stella smirked back. “Okay, you can have my staff, here.”

“I’m glad you fairies see reason.” The ogre said before being launched back by another wave of light that knocked him through the air as Musa created speakers out of energy that emitted sound waves knocking one of the two dumber creatures back.

“Wow, you guys are even dumber than you look!” Stella giggled as Tecna and Musa began distracting the two slower creatures while Sunset rounded off against the skeletal one while Stella went after the Ogre.

“Yes, please fight back little one. It will make the hunt more exciting and the taste of your flesh much more enjoyable knowing how hard I worked to obtain it!” The thing hissed in an unsettling way.

“Oh, piss off.” Sunset snapped throwing a fireball at the thing only to have it cut in half by the sickle and veering off to either side of the thing.

“Oh, my pretty little butterfly, I’ve bested much better than you.” The thing chuckled as it stalked in a circle around Sunset. She gave a strong flap of her wings that launched her back quickly and out of the things range.

“Thanks.” Sunset sighed as some guy with spiky indigo colored hair steadied her as she landed.

“You're welcome, now stay still until I cut your head off.” The man snarled, flashing a curved blade ready to attack her.

“Stand down, Riven, she isn’t the enemy!” A blonde haired man snapped, authority filling his voice as his glare caused the one to back down slightly. When Sunset’s eyes caught his own, she could feel something like a spark hit her as she found it hard to look away for several moments.

“Riven, Timmy, you two go help subdue the trolls.” A dark brown haired man called out, making the indigo one snort.

“Tt, whatever.” The indigo man snorted.

“Easy peasy!” The smaller, light brown haired man said as he drew some handheld weapon that looked as if it could be a crossbow or some kind of weird gun, even if Sunset couldn’t make out any ammunition.

“Brandon, help the young lady here. I’m going to check on Stella.” The dark brown haired one ordered, the blonde Sunset was watching warily now gave a two fingered salute as he pulled his energy sword and some kind of energy shield out.

“Well, miss, no need to fear with the Specialist here.” The blonde that Sunset guessed was Brandon said with the stupidest looking grin she had ever seen.

“As if I need some idiot with a knight in shining armor complex to save me.” Sunset snorted as she threw a fireball at the blonde who ducked it as the flames engulfed several of the imps turning them to ash.

“So I see.” Brandon said, raising an eyebrow as Sunset who was smirking and blowing off her fingernails.

“Don’t you dare ignore me!” The skeletal creature howled as he dashed forward. Despite his almost dead appearance, the thing was fast when it wanted to be. Sunset had to give it to the blonde as he parried and struck back time and time again as the two went at it in a deadly dance of blades while Sunset kept blasting the imps away from them. She didn’t want to distract the man who she was forming a grudging respect for as he wasn’t all talk.

“Watch out!” Brandon called throwing his blade at a larger imp about to slam its claws into Sunset’s back. She barely had time to look behind her before Brandon threw his blade piercing the thing while using the shield that blocked the thing’s blade knocking Brandon to his knees.

“Don’t do it!” Stella cried frantically as Sunset bent down to grab the now bladeless weapon as the energy seemed to cut off. Sunset could feel a slight pull from it, but nothing else as she easily figured out how to switch it back on. The blade itself seemed to glitch a moment before settling on a dark red color unlike it’s previous hue. Fire suddenly burst from it covering the edges as Sunset gave a flap of her wings giving her a boost of speed as she dropped to her knees and slid past the creature cutting it’s ankle and making it drop and howl out in pain. The indigo man and dark brown haired man didn’t waste any time jumping in and wrestling its weapons away and putting restraints on it.

“Damn, never saw a fairy use a phantoblade before!” The indigo man whistled.

“That’s because fairies shouldn’t be able to, Riven!” The smaller man said, eyes wide in awe as he stared at Sunset.

“What’s the big deal?” Sunset asked.

“Well, first there is the fact that a phantoblade is keyed to the user so shouldn’t have activated by someone else. Then there is the anti-magic properties that should have weakened you, if not outright knock you unconscious. Yet you not only managed to wield it, yet somehow change it with your magic.” The one that had to be Timmy explained. “This is most remarkable.”

“I’m sorry?” Sunset asked, looking confused as her transformation fell away in red sparkles leaving her in her normal human look and outfit. The energy faded from the blade leaving it once again an inert hilt. “Here.”

“Keep it.” Brandon said, giving a small smile. “I have extras. Besides, I get the feeling whatever you did to it is probably going to make it hard for me to use.”

“Thanks for your help, guys.” Stella chirped, interrupting them as she hugged Sunset from behind and hung off her back. It took a moment for Sunset to squirm away as Stella didn’t miss a beat and stepped between the fire haired teen and the guys. “Girls, let me introduce the specialist. This is Brandon, Riven and Prince Sky. And of course…I’m sorry, what’s your name?”

“This is Timmy, Stella.” Sky said while giving a charming smile to the blonde, “He will be joining the specialist at Red Fountain this year.”

“You are lucky we were there already.” Brandon said, crossing his arms. It was true, they were lucky that a lot of Red Fountain students liked showing up a week or two earlier to get all of their assigned equipment, check teams and go over drills for the returning recruits like Sky, Riven and Brandon while new recruits like Timmy could get a feel for what was expected and try the holographic training rooms. “What even happened here?”

“I have no idea, that ogre got away. At least the other freaks were caught.” Stella huffed.

“We will handle them, don’t worry.” Sky said, getting a nod from the others. Before anything else could be said there was a rush of students out of the school surrounding them and cheering for Sunset who looked extremely uncomfortable of the attention.

“Shouldn’t you be eating this up?” Stella whispered to the girl.

“Why? Tomorrow they will just turn on me again.” Sunset sighed, trying to ignore the group of girls who hugged her as one. Stella watched in disbelief as the girls who the blonde had learned should have been this dark fairy’s best friends acted as if they hadn’t shunned her for weeks. Maybe it wasn’t so shocking that that Sunset wasn’t so happy about the attention after all.