This chapter and the next few all take place at the same time. This one takes place on the same night as Sunset Shimmer getting drunk. I couldn't fit everything into one single chapter so thus I broke it all up into four chapters. The one where Sunset gets drunk is the first of these chapters. This one is second one the third will be about Sunsets terrifying awakening the fourth will deal with Sunset talking with Cheerilee and explaining why she left six days after she was offered a place to stay.

While Sunset Shimmer slept off the alcohol she had drank, Summer Sunrise was just putting the last pieces of the heart crystals back together. Holding all three heart crystals in her hand, she mused to herself quietly, “I hope this works. It's been so long since I did a repair spell, and I have no idea if my magic will even work in this world.” Looking at the crystals in her hand, she continued as she made a tight fist, “Well, here goes nothing.” She closed her eyes and concentrated hard at her task.

To her delight, when she opened her eyes a few moments later, her hand slowly began to smoke, then very quickly burst into green flames. The green flames soon turned into bright orange and red. Summer laughed lightly to herself, saying as she squeezed her hand more tightly, “I can’t believe it worked. Now, to add the final touch to make these stones stronger than they were before.”

Gilda woke up in the middle of the night to the sounds of soft sobbing coming from outside her room. Stretching and allowing her blanket to fall to her waist, Gilda stood up and walked into the short hallway leading towards the sirens' bedroom. Carefully cracking the door open, Gilda poked her head into the bedroom and saw that Adagio Dazzle was curled up next to her younger sister Sonata Dusk.

Gilda watched for a few moments as Adagio gently held her sister in her arms, the yellow siren saying softly, “Shh, Sonata. I know the hunger hurts. I feel it too.” Gilda watched as Adagio gently pulled her sister closer to her, running her hands through the younger's hair and stroking her head, soothing her gently. “I know you're hungry, and I know you're homesick. Don’t worry. We’ll feed soon, and we'll be going home soon, too.” Adagio let out soft sigh as she whispered into her sister's ear, “Sleep, Sonata. Our nightmare will be over soon. I'm here now.”

Gilda closed the door and looked away, a tad envious of the care Sonata was getting, care that was never given to Gilda herself when she needed it. Walking back to the couch, Gilda was about to go back to sleep, when she sniffed the air as she suddenly smelt something burning. Quickly following the smell, Gilda soon found herself standing outside of Summer’s bedroom door. Knocking on the door, Gilda asked quickly, “Summer, is everything okay in there? I can smell something burning.”

“Yes, Gilda, everything's--” Summer's voice quickly turned to a loud scream of pain and panic as she felt excruciating pain wash over her like molten metal. “BY CHRYSALIS'S MANE, IT HURTS!” Summer screamed in agony.

Gilda began to bang loudly on the door, only to get more screaming in return. Gilda tried the door handle, only to find it was locked tight. Slamming her shoulder into the door, she yelled, “Summer, you have to open the door.”

The screaming and banging on the door from Gilda woke up all three of the sirens. Each of them came out of the two remaining rooms. Adagio, smelling the fire and seeing Gilda ramming the door with her shoulder, snapped, “What in the nine seas of Equestria is going on?”

“It's Summer. There’s something wrong,” Gilda yelled back, slamming herself into the door. “I can smell something burning. I think she's hurt.”

“Burning?” Adagio's eyes went wide when she realized what Summer was doing. “Oh, no, she couldn’t have. Tell me that stupid, little fool didn’t try a repair spell?”

“What the fuck are you talking about?” Gilda snapped back, slamming herself again into the door, desperately trying to break it down. “I don't care what she did. We have to help her!”

“Uh, why don’t you just use the key to open her door?” Sonata asked, pointing to a key that hung on the door frame of Summer's room.

Quickly looking up, Gilda saw a brass key hanging on the doorframe of Summer’s bedroom door. Grabbing the key, she quickly set it in place and unlocked the door. Rushing inside the room, Gilda stood in complete shock as she saw Summer holding her right hand, which was balled into a tight fist. Summer's right hand was completely engulfed in fire.

Adagio quickly pushed past Gilda, rushing to Summer’s side. “Summer, let go of the stones!” Adagio screamed out. “You need to let them go, now.”

“I can’t! It hurts too much to open my hand.” Summer fell to her knees as she continued to scream, “Make it stop! Please, I can’t take the pain. It hurts so much!”

Adagio grabbed Summer's hand, saying as she tried to pry her fingers open, “Let them go!” Summer pulled her hand back as the pain intensified, pulling Adagio toward her and forcing the siren's forehead to strike the wall behind her. Rubbing her hurt forehead, Adagio grunted and said, “Alright, we're doing this the hard way.” Quickly turning her attention to Gilda, Adagio continued, “Gilda, you hold her down while I pry her hand open.”

“But you're hurting her!”

“JUST DO IT!”

Gilda gulped, but quickly pushed Summer flat onto the floor while Adagio grabbed her by her hand. Adagio wrestled with Summer while yelling out to her two sisters, “Will you two stop gawking and get your asses in here! I can’t take her on by myself.”

Sonata and Aria quickly rushed into the room, each grabbing Summer by the legs. Gilda straddled Summer Sunrise on her stomach while holding Summer's left hand down. Adagio very quickly seized Summer's right hand in her own and pried open the screaming girl's fingers, causing Summer to drop the crystals. The flames immediately went out, to the relief of everyone present.

“Okay, now that that's over, can someone explain to me what the hell just happened?” Gilda asked. Looking down at Summer, whom she was still sitting on, she continued, “Since when did you think it was a good idea to light yourself up like a campfire?”

“Would you mind getting off me first?”

“No. Not until you tell me what the hell you did. I mean,” Gilda reached over and grabbed Summer's right hand, continuing, “You burned your hand, you fucking idiot! How the hell are we supposed to be on the run when we need to take you to the hospital?”

"I don't need a hospital. And I'm not telling you anything until they leave," Summer said, nodding her head to the sirens, who all were eyeing the crystals laying next to Summers left hand.

Gilda sighed and turned to the sirens. “Can you girls give us a few minutes? Oh, and can one of you bring me a first-aid kit?”

Adagio nodded and bent down to pick up one of the stones, only to stop when Summer quickly closed her hand around all three of them. Sonata gulped and Aria rolled her eyes, while Adagio snarled, “Hey, those are--”

“--mine until I say otherwise, siren.” Gripping the stones tightly, Summer continued, “Besides, I have to make sure that the repair spell worked.”

Adagio growled, then waved for her two sisters to join her in the living room. Once the two were alone, Gilda gulped hard and said, “Well?”

Summer turned her attention to Gilda, who was still sitting on her stomach. Looking into Gilda's eyes, Summer saw fear showing back. Not wanting Gilda to run out of the room screaming, she gently placed both hands onto Gilda’s waist, pushed her off of her body, then stood up, holding her hand out to her and saying, “I can see I have some explaining to do.”

“Yes, you do. I want to know how and why you did that, but first we need to get that first-aid kit.”

Helping her up off the floor, Summer brought Gilda over to the bed, sat her down, then sat down next to her. “I don’t need a first-aid kit, Gilda.” Summer showed Gilda her hand. To Gilda's shock it was almost completely healed. “I can do what you saw because of what I actually am."

"And...what are you?" Gilda asked warily.

"I'll tell you, but you're not going to like it. You may even want to run away in terror.” Looking down, Summer continued with tears trickling down her cheeks, “I won’t try to stop you. I won’t even try to follow you. I’ll...I’ll...” Summer swallowed hard. “I'll even break my vow to watch over you and protect you.”

Not wanting to be interrupted, Gilda got up, re-locked the bedroom door, and took the key. Sitting back down next to Summer, she wrapped her arms around Summer, pulling the crying girl into a tight hug, and kissed her.

Summer was surprised by the kiss, but as Gilda's lips continued to press into her own, she slowly relaxed and closed her eyes, returning the kiss. Gilda and Summer deepened their kiss, breathing in each other's scents and clutching each other tightly. Summer opened her lips slightly, and Gilda slid her tongue into Summer's mouth. Summer moaned slightly as her tongue played with Gilda's, losing herself more in Gilda's strong embrace.

Gilda gently lowered Summer to the bed, Summer letting it happen. Gilda lay on top of Summer as the two squeezed and stroked each other's bodies. Gilda gently nibbled Summer's lip, eliciting a stronger moan from the girl, while Summer squeezed Gilda's strong thighs, bringing a similarly pleasured moan from the gangster.

After what felt like an eternity of kissing, squeezing, and licking, the two lovers separated, panting slightly. Gilda cupped Summer's cheek and said gently, “Summer, I'm not going to leave you. You may have lost your Gilda, but you won’t lose me. Ever. Please, tell me everything. And once you're done, I want you to promise me something.”

Summer looked into Gilda's eyes, her lower lip trembling. “What?”

“That you will never do something that stupid again. At least, not without someone there to help you.” Gilda took Summer's right hand into her own and looked at her palm, seeing three perfect, heptagonal burns in her hand. She scoffed lightly, shaking her head. “Idiot. Did you just do this to show how tough you are?”

“No, I did it because I made the sirens a promise that I would fix their heart crystals, and now that they're fixed, they'll work for us.”

“So, what happened? Why'd your hand burn up?”

Summer sighed as the two sat back up. “Because I used dark magic rather than light magic to fix the heart stones. Whenever you use that much dark magic to do something significant, there's always a price.”

Gilda raised an eyebrow skeptically. “Uh huh. Well, uh, okay, and I take it you want me to believe--" Summer thrust her right hand out in front of her, tightening her hand into a tight fist, then slowly opening her hand. A dark-green flame slowly emerged in the center of her hand, causing Gilda to gulp as she said, “That isn’t possible.” Looking to Summer, she continued with fear in her eyes, “What the fuck are you?”

Looking down as she concentrated on putting out the flames, Summer replied with only one word.

“Evil.”