A few months after the Battle of the Bands the three former sirens were sitting in their apartment and reconsidered their options. Or rather, Adagio did.

Aria and Sonata were too busy playing some first person shooter on their console and as far as Adagio was concerned, they could play it all damn day if it meant they weren't picking on each other so she could study a leaflet she recently picked up while she looked for a new school they could enroll.

But for all intents and purposes, the three would never go back to Canterlot High or things could take an ugly turn there.
Adagio massaged her temple while holding the leaflet of the new school she considered to enroll with Aria and Sonata. She developed a minor headache.

She didn't worry about financial security, the former sirens got that covered while they still had their pendants.
They hummed their standard tune to some bank manager shortly after they got banished to Earth and he gladly opened the vault for them. So, no worries about money ever again.

“Fuck! Why, you little cheater...!” Aria said to Sonata and the latter giggled. That snapped Adagio out of her daydreaming pretty fast.

“Aria! Watch that filthy little mouth of yours!” she snapped at Aria and took a sip from her coffee.

“Sorry... I just can't control it sometimes!” Aria replied and covered the lower half of her face with the game controller and Adagio just gave her a disapproving glare. She got back to her leaflet and continued studying it.

'Hm... looks like that school has quite the reputation...' she thought and took another sip.
After about half an hour of thinking about the options the former sirens had, Adagio came to a conclusion. She got up and looked expectantly at Aria and Sonata.

They paused the game they were playing and Aria looked like she expected to get another stern talking from Adagio for using foul language. This, however, wasn't the case.

“Now that I've got your attention, I have some news for you. We're enrolling at Crystal Prep Academy. It's a private school and I'm certain they'll take anyone if their wallet is big enough...” Aria looked annoyed.

“But why? We have everything we'll ever need. We're sitting on tons of cash. Literally! We'll never need to work in our entire lives.
Was CHS not enough? I mean, who else wants to get their butts kicked pretty hard? I sure as hell don't” she said and Sonata nodded.
Adagio rolled her eyes and continued to stand with her arms akimbo.

“Need I remind you two that we're immortal? That we practically know next to nothing about this world and that some proper education is beneficial? We will enroll there, whether you two like it or not” Adagio said matter-of-factly and then Aria decided to take a look at the leaflet Adagio was still holding in her right hand. Adagio threw it to her and went to the kitchen to get herself a glass of wine.

“Wait... school uniforms? I won't wear that. You and Sonata can do whatever you want, but I won't wear this shit! Especially not in public!”
Sonata knew it wouldn't take long anymore until Adagio and Aria started arguing again, so she retreated to her room.

“Aria Blaze! For the last time, watch your language!” Aria groaned and decided to take Adagio head on.

“Oooh, whatcha gonna do 'bout it? Send me to my room and forbid me to use the Internet? It's always about what you want; never about what I or the worst there want. It's always about doing your bidding and I'm sick of it!” she nearly screamed at Adagio.

The latter listened calmly to what Aria had to say and put her glass of wine on the table.

“Oh, and whose fault is it that we lost our powers and that we still don't know how to get back to Equestria? Fuck this shit!”
Eventually Adagio lost her patience and slapped Aria so hard that Aria fell on the floor and looked at Adagio in stunned silence.

“First, you will stop calling your sister 'the worst' and second, you will stop using language like you were raised in the gutter! And third, you will do as I say! I don't care about how old you are! You're a spoiled little brat and I'm sick of your sassy attitude all the time!
I am your mother and you as well as Sonata will do as I say when I say it! Is that clear?”
Aria continued to stare at her mother in shocked silence, then she stood up and made a beeline for her room.

“I HATE YOU!” she yelled at Adagio and slammed her door before she locked it. The siren mother sighed and took a seat in front of the TV and turned off the game console. She couldn't care less about saving and progress. She wasn't interested in such games anyway.
Adagio zapped through the channels and over the course of the remaining evening, she drank the whole bottle of red wine they brought back from a vacation.

About half an hour after Adagio slapped her firstborn daughter, Sonata came out of her room again and her mother noticed that she was afraid. Obviously of her. Sonata tried to make as little noise as possible while she made herself a sandwich.

“Come here, Sonata” Adagio said calmly.
Her youngest daughter complied and held her smartphone in her hands while walking towards her mother.
Adagio smiled tiredly at Sonata and invited her to take a seat beside her.

“Sometimes I really don't know how to deal with her... I just lose control and I slapped her. Not that she didn't deserve it tough...” Adagio said and sighed. Sonata didn't know how to deal with this constant arguing between Adagio and Aria too, so she wished her mother a good night and retreated to her room.

The next morning Adagio prepared breakfast because it was her turn and while at it, Aria stormed out of the apartment and slammed the front door behind her. Adagio rushed after her daughter.

“Aria! Get back in the house! I'm not preparing the damn breakfast for nothing!”
Aria ignored her and picked up her pace and Adagio didn't want to pursue her any further. The neighbors were pretty nosy and Adagio didn't want to know what they gossiped about her and her daughters.

Adagio groaned and went back into their apartment, only to find that Sonata still didn't get out of bed.
She gritted her teeth and stomped into Sonatas room. She snored silently and held a plushie in her arms which looked like some strange mix between a taco and some animal. It had a silly face and four legs.

Adagio opened the curtains to let the bright sunlight in and didn't exactly take a silent approach.

“Now, young lady! Get up and in the kitchen! The breakfast is getting cold!” she commanded and Sonata slowly woke up and groaned.

“Just... just five more minutes, mom...” she replied and pulled the blanket over her head.

“Five minutes. If you're not out of the bed by then, you'll get an ice cold shower” Adagio said and left the room. She sat down at the table and poured coffee into her mug.

She looked on her phone to ensure that Sonata wasn't expanding her five more minutes and just as Adagio wanted to stand up and drag her youngest daughter out of bed for good while pouring ice cold water over her head, she appeared at the table and looked like she was about to fall asleep again on the chair.

Adagio was certain that she spent her time on the Internet until 4 A.M. or so, but as long as she got up in the morning, Adagio didn't pay that any mind. She looked to her left and right and had a puzzled look.

“Where's Ari?” she asked.

“Well, your sister decided to leave. She didn't tell me where and I didn't want to chase after her like she's a seven year old girl throwing a tantrum” Adagio said while smearing some butter on a slice of toast.

“Oh, ok...” Sonata replied and yawned.

“Coffee, sweetheart?” Adagio asked her and Sonata nodded. At least Sonata was well behaved, or her mother would end up in the psych ward sooner or later. Probably sooner.

Dealing with Arias antics was more than enough. What Adagio just couldn't stand, was Arias extensive use of foul language.
She raised her better than that and her daughters certainly weren't some ghetto rats from the outskirts of Canterlot. But Aria sure as hell talked like one. Adagio reckoned she did that to provoke her just to see how far she could go.

“Sweetie, please text your sister that she better gets back here until 12 A.M. sharp because we have an appointment with the principal of Crystal Prep in the afternoon. I forgot to mention that yesterday because she made me so furious...”

“Sure, but can I finish eating first?” she asked. Adagio nodded and smiled gently. “Of course, sweetie...”

She took her mug on the balcony and lit up a cigarette. Sonata didn't smoke and Adagio was grateful for that. Aria, on the other hand though... Sometimes her room reminded her of a gas chamber used to execute murderers because Aria always forgot to open her window to let the smoke out.

At least she kept it tidy. Her mother argued with her many times over the clutter she always had and in the end after much arguing and slaps in Arias face she finally understood that Adagio would never tolerate it.

Adagio just couldn't stand untidiness, it outraged her like little else. She hated clutter with a burning passion.
She pulled out her own smartphone and checked Arias WhatsApp account. Of course she blocked her mother. Again.

“Just wait until you get home...!” Adagio said through gritted teeth and threw the phone on the table.
Then Sonata came to her mother and sat down beside her.

“I did as you asked. Though she didn't reply yet, but she read it already...”

“Thank you. If we miss that appointment, then Aria will be sorry that she was ever born, I can tell you that much. I'm really tired having to put up with her annoying attitude” she said and Sonata didn't comment on that. Her phone vibrated and it was a message from Aria.

“Mom? Aria wrote back. She said that she'll be back soon” Sonata informed her mother.

“Good... But I swear to god, this is the last time she blocked me. I hate that! She's in for it as soon as she moves her skinny butt through my door.”

She finished her cigarette, went back inside and booted up her laptop in order to look up the site of Crystal Prep Academy to refresh her knowledge about it. The leaflet she read yesterday didn't provide her with enough information.

'This Principal Cinch looks like she rules her school with an iron fist. I like that... Not like this Celestia from Canterlot High...', Adagio thought and navigated further through the site. Then she found the section about some “Friendship Games”.

“Oh, you've gotta be kiddin' me!” Adagio said.

“Of all the schools in Canterlot, why do they have to compete every time with CHS? Is that some kind of cruel joke!?”
Adagio stood up and went to the bathroom. She needed to take a shower anyway and the hot water helped to calm her down a bit.
It also helped her to focus and think things through. She undressed and looked at her reflection in the big mirror.

'I'm over 50 years old and yet I still cannot believe that I look like some girl who has barely reached her twenties... I suppose the decision to become immortal wasn't a bad one after all, even though it played a part that we got banished to this... Earth' she thought and stepped into the shower. Adagio liked to shower rather hot and soon the bathroom was filled with steam.
For a while she just stood under the pouring water and she thought about these so called “Friendship Games”.

Back when she was with her daughters at CHS, nobody mentioned it to her or her daughters. But Adagio supposed their time there was too short to hear about all the things that had to do with Canterlot High, so she didn't pay it any further thoughs. She just hoped that she and her little family didn't have to participate in some silly competition between the two schools.

Just as she started to clean herself up, she heard that Aria must've been back home, because she argued with Sonata. Again.
Adagio couldn't make out about what exactly her children were arguing, but she supposed it was about something rather silly like who was in charge of the remote control.

She sighed and hurried up before the two started to attack each other physically.

“I tell ya, I don't want to stop by that fucking Taco Bell again! I can't tell you how much tacos disgust me by now! I should get one just to shove it up your cock-loving, filthy little cunt, you dumb bitch!” Aria yelled and Sonata stormed into her room while yelling back.

“I'm gonna tell mom what you just said! And I don't care if she beats you up with her belt again!”
Adagio didn't open the door yet, she wrapped herself in a towel first, then stormed out of the bathroom and she barely managed to hold back her anger. Aria spotted her and looked at her in shock.

“Did you... Fuck!” she said and tried to escape to her room like yesterday evening. Adagio chased after her and grabbed one of her pigtails.

“Oh yes, I heard everything you said to your sister. And you won't get away with this, you little...!” she said and dragged her no-good daughter back into the living room.

“No! You can't do this to me anymore! I'm an adult!” Aria protested.

“I don't care! And you certainly don't behave your age! Let's see how well you behave after I beat some sense in you again! It's long overdue! And when I'm finished, you're gonna apologize to your sister, or else...!” she said through gritted teeth while looking for something she could use as a tool of punishment. She chose a wooden cooking spoon and she never let go of Arias one twin ponytail.
Aria started to get desperate and tried to free herself from Adagios grip, but it was no use.

Her mother was by far stronger than her and her fear as well as her desperation grew with every second.

“Mom, please! Don't do this! I promise to not doing this ever again, honest! Just don't beat me up again!”
Adagio dragged her to the couch and needed to apply some force in order to put Aria properly over her knee. Aria put up quite the fight until Adagio blew the first strike on her daughters butt.

“OW!” Aria yelled and began to cry.

“Mom! Please! I learned my lesson! Please stop!”

“Oh really? I don't think so. First things first...” she said and placed some more blows onto Arias ass.

“You will never again block me in WhatsApp or whatever! You will NEVER again say such awful things to Sonata. She's your sister, for gods sake! And you will stop the backtalking to me all the time! I can't tell you how sick of this I am!” Adagio said and blew some more strikes until the spoon broke in half.

She decided then that it was enough and Aria stood up, but didn't dare to run away to her room yet. She was shocked because it's been quite a while since the last time. Adagio remained seated and pointed to the couch on the other side of the coffee table and Aria sat down immediately.

“If you give me any reason to, I will beat you again and again until you finally understand to behave decently. Am I understood, young missy?” she asked Aria with a very stern voice. Aria nodded.

“I'm not hearing anything...” Adagio pressed.

“Yes mother, you are understood” Aria replied with a barely audible voice and suddenly decided that something on the floor was so fascinating that it required her immediate attention.

“Look at me when I'm talking to you, Aria Blaze!” Adagio commanded and Aria complied about the tenth of a second later.

“You will stop using foul language all the time. I raised you better than that! Is that clear?”

“Yes, mother” Aria said with a miserable voice.

“Good. Now that this has been taken care of, you'll go to your sister and apologize. After that you'll take a shower and make yourself look presentable. And don't get any ideas. You'll dress up decently and not like some stupid pop queen. You may go now” Adagio commanded and Aria couldn't get away fast enough from her mother.

Adagio heard Aria apologize to Sonata and was pleased with the results. Then she went into her own room to dry her rather voluminous and magnificent orange hair.