Separation Anxiety
by Old Goat Abadeer
First published
The Dazzlings are always together right? At Least That's what everyone at Canterlot High thought, until Sonata apparently started dating one of her fellow students. Do her sisters know? What do they think!? Aria doesn't look too happy!
Sequel To: We Used To Dazzle; We Used To Shine.
There are some things the students of Canterlot High have become accustomed to. Principle Celestia will always take an extra slice of cake at lunch. The Rainbooms are apparently magical girl style superheroes now, and The Siren sisters known as The Dazzlings are always together. But what happens when that latest addition to the list of norms stops being true? Sonata is dating who!? How will the remaining two sisters deal being one member short!? And is it just me or does Aria seem a bit different lately?
Warning Story Rated Mature For Lots of strong/salty language, Implied sex, actual sex, references and use of drugs and alcohol and people getting high AF later on. Also talk about dominant and submissive relationships though no actual BDSM stuff
Chapter 1: The Day The Band Broke Up
Canterlot High had been through a lot over the past year. First they discovered school bully Sunset Shimmer was actually a rogue unicorn from another dimension, then a reformed Sunset and her friends saved the school and potentially the world from a group of power hungry sirens. After that there were the friendship games which ended in near all of reality being torn to shreds, and even at summer camp the students had to deal with one of their councilors being possessed by some crazy nature spirit. Sufficed to say the students of Canterlot High had been through alot, but despite all of that none of it scared them more then what they saw right now.
Remember those Sirens, yea well they had come back to Canterlot High recently, apparently they were reformed now or close enough to it that Principles Celestia & Luna assured their students they weren't a threat to the school. So like with Sunset or Twilight or anybody else with magical powers the students of CHS eventually got used to The Dazzlings being around. The three girls mostly kept to themselves sitting and talking to the schools resident heroes The Rainbooms during lunch, going to class and each having their own clubs they went to after, but outside of their respective club memberships the students knew to always expect the three to be together, but today, on this random Wednesday morning things were different, disturbingly different. Instead of being with her sisters, Sonata Dusk, the bubbliest and arguably nicest of the sirens was walking down the hall with a student, her arms wrapped around his, a giant smile on her face, the rest of the student body staring on in horror.
"OK, now that's not right!" Lyra exclaimed in disbelief
"When did she even have the time to hook-up with him?" Bon-Bon added looking at her girlfriend in equal confusion
"I dunno, I think it's kinda cute" Derpy added
"I just hope her sisters don't find out or we might be in trouble" Flash Sentry gulped
"Trixie does not need this, she already has a math test to worry about" Trixie Lulamoon pouted
"Whatever the case, something tells me this won't end well" Octavia chimed in as she did her best to hide behind Viynl. The students all looking on as the lovey dovey couple continued to stroll down the hall.
"I can't believe that bitch would abandon us like that!" Aria huffed as she slammed her locker closed with a huff.
"Calm down, no need to make a scene Aria" Adagio scolded trying to get her little sister to calm down.
"Calm Down!? Calm Down!?" Aria shrieked. "We promised mom we'd always stay together, always look out for each other! And that bimbo just ditches us! Just spites in our dead mother's face!" Aria angrily growled waving her hand in the air, the large math book flailing around as students passing by did their best to avoid being hit by it.
"First off" Adagio replied as she cleared her throat " Mom told us to look out for each other true, but she didn't say we had to be attached at the hip like conjoined twins er triplits." Adagio replied putting her finger up to Aria's mouth to shush her. "Second off, you know as well as I do this is just a phase, just like Tacos or Kittens. She'll eventually lose interest in him and come crawling back, so no need to worry, everything will be ok, your big sis promises" Adagio mockingly reassured Aria patting her on the head.
"You're only the big sister by three minutes" Aria growled.
" Perhaps, but i'm still the leader of the pack and I say it's no big deal, so chill, we have a class to get to." Adagio mischievously chuckled as she motioned for Aria to come along. Meanwhile one Juniper Montage who's locker was regretfully next to The Dazzlings was still frozen in place. She hadn't been at the school long, but if half of what she had heard was true, Aria Blaze being in a bad or in this case worse mood then usual was not good, not good for anyone at CHS. Juniper gulped as a cold sweat ran down her face and she ran off to her history class as fast as she could, hoping and praying nothing bad would happen.
The cafeteria was full of the sound of students chattering, laughing and just generally enjoying one another's company. Despite the tense mood of the morning things seem to have become more relaxed by now. Well most things, as one particular student Aria Blaze was still unsurprisingly quite upset.
"Um, has she been like this all morning?" Sunset asked Adagio with a concerned look as she pointed to Aria who was gritting her teeth and stabbing her burger with a plastic fork as hard as she could.
"Sadly, yes" Adagio sighed. "I've tried my best to calm her down, but it seems nothing works."
"Well, perhaps we could help" Twilight offered as she pushed up her glasses.
"Yea, no thanks four-eyes" Aria growled "Unless you know a spell to make that bitch's boy toy dissapear" She deviously chuckled as she grabbed the plastic knife and stabbed it into the heart of her tofu burger
Twilight just gulped "Oh, my"
"So anything in particular in yer craw more so then usual to make yea such a potentially murderous psychopath ta-day?" Applejack asked looking over at Aria
"Why don't you go over and ask Sonata!" Aria scowled as she grabbed the plastic utinsle and pointed over at the other side of the room where Sonata Dusk was sitting with a group of students.
"Oh my, is that Sonata over there with Sandlewood and his crew?" Rarity asked in surprise.
"Yea, looks like it" Rainbow Dash answered looking over at the group of earthy students.
"Whatever is she doing over there?" Fluttershy asked.
"The Blue Bitch thinks she's too good for us now apparently" Aria growled "She'd rather spend time buttering up some wanna be eco-activist with pea-pod hair and his loser friends then be with us I guess" Aria finished with a deep angry scowl on her face.
"Oh, it's so nice to see people make new friends!" Pinkie Pie cheered, Aria instantly giving her a death stare "...eh, or not" Pinkie stuttered as she sank back down and scooted closer to Rainbow Dash.
"Apparently Sonata thinks she has a crush on the little human" Adagio chuckled "Aria as you can tell is not taking it well" she chuckled once more.
"O-Oh, well-um, you know whenever my brother Zeypher and I have a problem we usually try to talk it out, i-if Sonata is upsetting you Aria, maybe you should try talking to her" The shy girl chimed in.
"You know butterfly boobs, that's not such a bad idea" Aria cooed with a flat out evil grin on her face.
"Fluttershy darling, I-I think that may have been the worst idea you could have given a very angry magical creature at this moment" Rarity whispered over to her friend. "Oh my" Fluttershy gulped as she and the others watched Aria get-up and slowly walk over to Sandalwood and co's table. Adagio just rolling her eyes. There was nothing she could do now, she just had to let this scene play out and hopefully Aria would finally get it out of her system.
Aria slowly walked over to the table her sister Sonata and her "new friends" were hanging out at, every step growing heavier as the anger inside her grew and she clinched her fists. Her aura practically explosive by the time she arrived at her destination.
"Hey Sonata, what yea doing?" Aria asked doing the best to hide the quite obvious anger and agitation in her voice.
"Oh, hey Ari!" Sonata happily cheered as if she didn't have a care in the world. "I'm just getting better acquinted with Sandy and his friends" The happy siren chuckled as she squeezed her new boyfriend's arm tight.
"Oh, is that so." Aria replied her voice cracking a bit as she was still attempting to hold back her contempt.
"yea, this is Tree Hugger." Aria explained as she pointed to the lime green skinned girl with red hair. "and this is Sweet Leaf and Captain Planet" she finished pointing to the other teens at the table. "His real name isn't Captain Planet though, that's just what he likes to be called, apparently its some old cartoon reference or something" Sonata chuckled at her sister.
"he, cute" Aria growled.
"Oh and of course you already know Sandalwood here" She squeed as she hugged her new beau even tighter.
"Yea, I think we have English lit together right?" Aria growled.
"uhh, yea, I think." Sandalwood nervously replied being the only one in the group to notice the seething anger eminating from the siren.
"Well, nice to meet you then I guess" Aria smiled, giving the boy a look of pure hatred.
"u-um yea, same" Sandalwood gulped.
"Oh Ari, i'm so glad you and Dagi like him. Sandy invited me to spend the night at his house and I said yes. I was kind of afraid to tell you, but since you haven't tried to destroy him yet I guess you're cool right!?" Sonata cheerfully asked her sister.
Aria could feel the anger inside her about to explode as the gemstone in her palm began to glow. All of a sudden Rainbow Dash popped-up behind her "Ahh, I need help-with-a thing-c'mon Aria" She stated as she quickly whisked the enraged girl away to the closest hall restroom.
"Why did you do that!?" Aria shrieked at Rainbow Dash
"Because you were totally about to explode!" Rainbow Dash angrily huffed back
"eerrrr.....rrraaauugghhh" Aria screeched as the anger inside her peaked and she ponied-up.
"Hey, Aria, seriously, calm down!" Rainbow Begged
"That Bitch! That Bimbo, that stupid slut has bigger boobs then she does a brain!" Aria growled in contempt.
"How dare she think she can just act like everything is hunky-dory when she is flat out betraying us like this!" Aria sceamed as she began to levitate her clear wings fully out as in attack mode.
"Aria, seriously, you gotta calm down before!...." But it was too late, Aria let out a loud shriek as bright red echos of energy came out of the sirens mouth and the entire room shook, mirrors breaking and sinks cracking spouting water everywhere.
"Before you break something" Rainbow Dash finished with a sigh looking up at the enraged siren still floating her eyes red with rage as she huffed and punched at the air.
"I am so not paying to fix any of this" Rainbow Muttered as she looked around at the broken glass and cracked sinks.
Adagio and Aria set on the couch in Sunset's loft waiting for their sister.
"Where is that bitch?" Aria angrily huffed.
"Calm down, she'll be here, you know Sonata never misses family meal night" Adagio reassured her. "She is the one who suggested it after all" Adagio chuckled remembering how Sonata had gotten the bright idea from some sitcom that the girls should go out and eat together once a week.
"Yea, well she better get here soon, i'm starving" Aria pouted.
"Don't worry i'm sure Sonata will be here soon enough" Sunset chimed in as she finished packing her bag. "Meanwhile I have a study session with Twilight" the bacon haired girl smiled.
"Ahh yes, you and Ms. Sparkle have been having quite a few of these all night study sessions lately" Adagio cooed in a sultry tone. Sunset merely blushing in reply.
"Well, you know, we both just ah, really really like calculus" Sunset nervously chuckled.
"Uh huh, sure." Adagio nodded "well have fun, and tell ol SciTwi I said hi." Adagio mocked as she waved at Sunset who was trying to hide her beet-red face as she walked out the door.
Thirty more minutes passed but finally the two sisters saw Sonata walk in.
"About Damn Time!" Aria huffed as she angrily stomped up to her sister. "Where yea been Sonny, Dag and I have been waiting forever!" She huffed.
"Oh, sorry about that" Sonata smiled. "I went to get a bite with Sandy and his crew before I came back to get ready for my sleep over!" Sonata happily chuckled.
"You did what!" Aria angrily growled
"Here we go again" Adagio sighed.
"I-I got a bite to eat with m-my new friends" Sonata nervously squeed,
"You stupid bitch!" Aria screeched "It's family night, your own stupid air-headed idea, we waited for you to get home so we could go eat and you already ate without us!" Aria growled quite infuriated with her sister.
"Oh my goodness, i'm sorry Ari-I-I completely forgot." The blue skinned siren stuttered
"I don't wanna hear it yea stupid slut!" Aria screamed. "We bend over backwards to keep your dumb ass happy and this is how you repay us!" Aria howled
Sonata stopped and stared intensely at her sister. Her usual happy and bubbly smile now replaced with her serious-mode look. "Hey, now that's not fair, I know I messed-up but what gives you the right to call me names like that, especially a slut, you call me a lot of mean things Ari, but that-that's over the line!" Sonata huffed.
"Oh, is it now birdbrain?" Aria mockingly asked. "Don't think I don't know what you were really chowing down on tonight" Aria evil laughed at Sonata
"OK, that's it, i'm done, i'm leaving!" Sonata growled. "I was gonna spend my time with my sisters before I went over to Sandalwood's but screw that shit, i'm done with you Ari, i'm done with your name calling and your bullying. I am not stupid, I am not a bitch or a bimbo or an airhead and I am especially not a slut!" Sonata growled back at her sister as she opened up her bag and began to put her things inside. "I do things my own way, like Pinkie, i'm a free spirit, and you-you're just a prisoner to our own anger and insecurities. y-you just need to check yourself before you wreck yourself!" Sonata sniffled.
"Oh, wow, how long you been waiting to use that line sis?" Aria mockingly asked Sonata.
"Long enough" Sonata huffed
"Oh, will you two just stop it already" Adagio intervened.
"Y-you be quite too Dagi!" Sonata interuppted
"Excuse me?" Adagio huffed, looking at her sister quite seriously.
"Y-you heard me. You're just as bad as Ari, you may not cuss me out or bully me, but you still think i'm some dumb air-headed baby, but i'm not. Y-you know Sandy and his friends, they-they appreciate me. I-I think i'm just gonna stay with him from now on." Sonata whined as she finished packing her bag and ran out the door.
"Well, that could have gone better" Adagio sighed. "C'mon i'm starved lets go get something to..." But as Adagio laid her hand on Aria's shoulder she could feel her sister's entire body shaking. She looked over and expected to see her typical enraged face, but instead she saw Aria just looking straight forward, her teeth barred as she bit her lip and hot,wet tears rolled down her face. Adagio couldn't believe it, ARIA WAS CRYING!?
Author's Notes:
New Story, Yay!
Will fix errors later.
Lots of crazy stuff ahead.
Poor Aria, or is it Poor Sonata, or is it Poor Adagio!?
Oh well, see you next time! Enjoy!
Chapter 2: The Night The Blaze Fizzled Out; Nightmares of A Siren
Adagio still couldn't believe what she was seeing. Her sister Aria Blaze; the self appointed bad girl, the punk, the no nonsense taking fierce siren just standing there bawling. It had been years since she had seen Aria cry and she was convinced that the girl just wasn't even capable of having any setting other then angry, but it looked like she was wrong.
"A-aria," Adagio stuttered, a concerned look on her face. Her sister still not moving. Adagio moved infront of her still frozen sister and put both her hands on her shoulders. "OK, so...." Adagio sighed "Y-you wanna talk about it, or do you just wanna stand and stare at the door all night."
Aria blinked, seemingly finally snapping out of it. "Adagio-I-I-ah." Aria stuttered as she realized she had been crying and began to wipe away the tears from her eyes. "Whatever, lets go eat" She pouted, but Adagio didn't move.
"Nuh, uh, we aren't going anywhere till you let what you need to get out well, out" Adagio sternly stated. "Yelling at Sonata obviously isn't helping anything this time, so I hate to do this, but until you get whatever chip is actually on your shoulder i'm not letting you go anywhere little sis." Adagio deviously smiled.
Aria just looked down at the floor and clenched her fists. She hated feeling weak, hated feeling like this, but she knew Adagio was right, if she didn't get this off her chest it was just gonna keep eating at her.
"I-I....." Aria stuttered.
"Yes, go on." Adagio encouraged
" I DON'T WANNA BE ALONE, OK!" Aria screeched right at her sister's face.
Adagio's eyes went wide, not expecting such a loud reply. "OK, first off ow, i'm literally right in front of you, second off, what in Neptune's name are you even talking about!?" Adagio huffed looking at her sister who was once again in tears.
"Y-you know exactly what i'm talking about" Aria sobbed. "T-that bimbo, of course it was only a matter of time till someone at that stupid school noticed her like that. I mean look at her, she's got huge tits, and she's stupid and bubbly and cheery just like those dumb teenagers like" Aria sniffled.
Adagio just stared at her sister unsure to chuckle at the comment or scold her for further insulting her sister when she wasn't even here.
"And then there's you, your tall, and confident and beautiful! People respect you, and those hips, i've seen the way those humans stare at you. It's just a matter of time till some guy or girl catches your eye too, and then-and then...." Aria stuttered.
"And then what?" Adagio asked, feeling she already knew the answer.
"And then i'll be alone!" Aria sobbed.
"And why is that?" Adagio curiously asked.
"Cause i'm just the runt. I'm just the girl with the stupid Hatsune Miku pigtails and the pancake boobs, the girl that barks and bites and scares the stupid humans or magical girls, or anything else that would want to even try to be my friend away." Aria growled pulling her pigtails and greeting her teeth.
Adagio couldn't help but chuckle at this point.
"Whats so funny!?" Aria angrily growled.
"First off, while I appreciate the compliments about my own beauty, you really shouldn't be so hard on yourself Aria." Adagio replied as she embraced her sister. The smaller siren's face now buried in Adagio's chest. "Second off, if those humans or Rainbooms can't see what an amazing person you are then that's on them." She chuckled "And finally, humans aren't really my speed, unlike Sonata I don't have any desire to date someone without Equestrian Magic.....and Sunset sadly seems to be smitten with this world's Twilight, so looks like i'm not going anywhere." She smiled.
Aria just looked up at Adagio, uncertain of how to respond.
"Well, now that that's settled, lets go get something to eat" Adagio commanded as she grabbed Aria's hand and started to pull her out the door.
Later that night Adagio & Aria set on their or more precisely Sunset's couch/ fold out bed as they set and watched a late night talk show.
"You know I think this Cheese Sandwhich guy is starting to run out of material" Adagio commented as she took a sip of her water putting the glass back on the nightstand afterward.
"Huh, oh, yea....whatever" Aria replied obviously off in her own little world.
Adagio just sighed. It seems that despite the little heart to heart they had Aria was still not quite over her fight with Sonata from earlier.
"OK, guess I have to bring out the big guns." Adagio chuckled as she hopped out of the bed and walked towards a chest in the corner of the room, rummaging through the container full of her and her sisters things.
"What are you doing now?" Aria curiously groaned.
"I'm cheering you up, that's what" Adagio deviously smiled as she finally found what she was looking for, pulling out the stuffed squid and smiling.
Aria just huffed "I'm not a baby Adagio, I don't need some stuffed toy to cheer me up, even if it is almost an exact replica of the one I had as a pup" she stated.
"Hmm, ok, guess i'll just junk it then." Adagio smirked as she walked towards the trash can.
"Wait!" Aria shouted. "Fine, I-i'll take the stupid thing-for tonight anyway." She blushed. Adagio just smiled as she through the stuffed creature over to her sister, crawling back into bed and turning off the lamp.
"Well, I don't know about you, but i'm beat." She yawned as she wiggled under the covers to get herself perfectly comfortable. "Night" she said as she blew Aria's stuffed squid a kiss.
"Whatever" Aria huffed as she to settled down to try to go to sleep. Maybe at the very least she would have a fun dream about beating the snot out of Sandalwood, or so she hoped. Sadly as we all know, life or in this case dreams, don't always turn out the way we want.
"Ms. Blaze, would you like to tell us why you are such a bad sister?" A voice huffed
"huh-what?" Aria blinked looking around the classroom.
"I said Ms. Blaze, why do you think you are such a bad sister and a generally all around bad person?" Ms. Cherilee asked again.
"Wha-what the Hell kind of question is that!?" Aria angrily huffed. "what give you the right too!?" All of a sudden Aria noticed that something was off. She looked around the classroom and saw all the other students, staring at her, their eyes dead, all just looking at her, completely silent. "OK, what the hell is going on here, what is wrong with...." Before Aria could finish however Fluttershy got up from her desk and grabbed the siren by the neck. "I told you, you need to learn to talk your problems out." She sweetly said as she choked the siren.
"I-I tried, you-b-bitch, now let me go!" Aria gagged.
"Trying isn't good enough" Fluttershy growled as she threw Aria down onto her desk. The siren feeling the hard wood against her back and screeching. Everything going black.
Aria opened her eyes and there was nothing, no classroom, no teacher, no students, just black emptiness.
"You shoulda been a better sister" She heard a voice mock.
Aria turned around and saw Sonata in the most ridiculously skimpy bikini sitting on Sandalwood's lap. Both of them just staring devilishly at Aria. Sandalwood's hands groping Sonata's breasts.
"Ge-get away from her you stupid hairless ape, d-don't touch her like that!" Aria screamed as she tried to run towards the two, her efforts proving fruitless however as she found herself stuck in place by some unseen force.
"Aww, jealous Ari" Sonata laughingly mocked as she licked her lips and began to kiss Sandalwood's neck.
"Y-you dingbat, c-can't you see, h-he's just using you for your body, he's a human, they-they're animals they don't love anyone but themselves!" Aria cried.
"heh, look who's talking" Sonata mocked as she continued to make out with the green-haired fiend. All of a sudden unzipping his pants and revealing the quite large girth inside.
"Don't you dare slut!" Aria screamed.
"Sorry Ari, time to ride the pony" Sonata cooed as she positioned herself over Sandalwood's less then little partner
"Oh, gross i'm gonna puke" Aria gagged once again as she stood there and was forced to watch her sister Sonata do unspeakable things to the human whelp. Hearing Sonata's laugh grow ever louder until everything went black again.
Hey, Aria, you ok?" Adagio asked as she stared at her sister with a concerned look. Aria looked around confused and noticed she was in the hall of the school by her locker. "Oh, ahh-yea, sure-I guess" Aria stuttered unsure of what just happend. "Oh, good, OK Sonata, let's go." Adagio replied looking past Aria and motioning for their sister to come along. Aria trying to follow as well, but once again unable to move, looking down and seeing the ground slowly swallowing her.
"W-wait, h-help" Aria begged her sisters
"Sorry Ari, but we don't need you anymore, we have real friends now" Sonata laughed as Sandalwood and his crew appeared next to the blue siren and the Rainbooms next to Adagio.
"Shoulda been a better sister" Sonata sang
"Wait, s-stop, no, I-I can be good, I can be better, I-I Promise!" Aria pleaded as the ground continued to suck her in.
"Sorry Ari, too little too late." Sonata chuckled
"N-no please" Aria sobbed as she watched her sisters walk away before sinking down into the floor.
Aria looked up she felt as if she was sinking further and further down, she couldn't breath, all she could do was cry as she looked up and saw through a hole of light above, her sisters and the Rainbooms staring down at her, laughing and pointing. Aria tried to beg for help but she couldn't speak, all she could do was sink down into the inky black nothing.
"Gasp" Aria breathed heavily as she woke-up, her body shaking in a cold sweat as she looked around. She was safe, she was back in Sunset's loft, her sister Adagio sleeping soundly by her side. "S-stupid nightmares" Aria muttered under her breath as she stared at the clock noting it was only 4:00 A.M.
Still breathing heavily Aria did her best to regain her composure. "I-it was just a dream, s-stop shaking dummy" She scolded herself as she squeezed her stuffed squid tighter and tighter "B-but its not like it was wrong" she admitted. "M-maybe if I had been better, maybe Sonata wouldn't have left" Aria sobbed as she looked over at the sleeping Adagio. "I, I know she said not to worry b-but..." Aria paused, her breathing still heavy. "I-I can't lose her too, I won't i'll be a good sister, I will, you'll see" Aria stated as if responding to some invisible force she felt was still mocking her. "Y-You'll all see."
Adagio rolled around and yawned as she stretched and opened her eyes. The first thing she saw in front of her some humanoid shape. "Wha-what!" Adagio jumped up and blinked the sleep away from her eyes. In front of her standing at the foot of her bed was Aria, but at the same time, not quite Aria. Her sister's hair wasn't done up in its usual pigtails but still long and straight like it was at night, her usual bright punk-rock look replace with a simple black t-shirt with a picture of a skull and crossbones with heart-shaped eyes and a cutesy arrow going through the middle. Below a simple pair of faded jeans, no holes, no glitter or bedazzled designs, just simple jeans. And from what she could already guess probably just some plain black and white tennis shoes below that.
"Uh, morning sis" Aria nervously stuttered looking down at the floor clasping her hands together.
"Uh, hey, yeah, um, sup" Adagio awkwardly replied.
"I, I-uh made you breakfast" Aria replied, pointing over to the table at the loft which had a plate of eggs, bacon and toast in Adagio's usual seat and a glass of orange juice.
"Uh-thanks" Adagio replied still rather confused. It seemed like whatever was up with Aria was far from over.
Author's Notes:
Poor Aria, so afraid of losing the sister she has left she's willing to change her entire personality. C'mon Ari you know we all love you for who you are. Oh well, can't have a story with out conflict and characters acting silly and refusing to listen to reason.
Thanks again for reading, as always will try to fix errors later.
Edit: OK so I know the show has all the character models the same size but personally I always imagine Adagio being the tallest with Aria & Sonata being up to her chest and Aria being the defacto shortest by being a single CM shorter then Sonata. So yea, yay for silly head canons I guess.
Next time. A very awkward school day.
Chapter 2.5: A Short Summation of What Sonata Was Up To
Author's note: This mini chapter takes place concurrently with chapter 2.
Sonata Dusk continued to pout as she stomped down the sidewalk. "I can't believe Aria said all those mean things!" Sonata huffed as she checked her town map to make sure she was heading the right way. The Sirens still hadn't saved up quite enough to get cellphones so they still had to use more old fashioned means to navigate through the city, not that such a thing bothered Sonata as she considered the maps helped make things more fun, like a scavenger hunt, but looking for buildings instead of things. Sonata just chuckled as she looked down at the map and did her best to locate the street Sandalwood's apartment complex was on.
Sonata arrived at the apartment a bit quicker then she had expected. "Who knew I was such a good map reader" she chuckled to herself as she knocked on the door. Not to long after she heard the lock click as the door opened and Sandalwood smiled as he looked down at the bubbly siren girl. "Sup!?" He asked in his ever relaxed voice as he let out a soft smile.
"Sandy!" Sonata chuckled as she jumped at the rather muscular green haired human and embraced him in one of her usual tight hugs.
"Haha, nice to see you too babe" He replied returning the embrace "Now c'mon in, lets get this party started.
Sonata looked around the rather small apartment. Other then the somewhat overwhelming smell of marijuana the place seemed to be clean. The living room was mostly bare, just a small couch big enough for two, maybe three people to sit on, a small oak coffee table to lay drinks and food on and a rather large flatscreen TV atop a make-shift display. Sonata continued to walk and look around the abode, peaking behind the oval hole in the wall to see a small kitchen area, nice blue tile floors, a decently size circular table for friends to gather and share stories and meals, a moderately sized sink area and a closet in the back she could only guess was where the pantry was found. Turning around and looking at the wall the TV was on she looked to the right and saw a small door with a wooden sign that read "Nature's Bounty" chuckling and guessing that was most likely the restroom, meaning the door to the other side on the left was most likely the bedroom.
"So, where's everybody else?" Sonata asked.
Sandalwood just chuckled. "They bailed, said a sleepover on a school night was a bad idea anyway, said they'd rather wait until...." Sandalwood paused "You know what, it's not important, my girls here and that's good enough for me." He smiled as he plopped down on the couch, patting the other seat motioning for her to sit down. Sonata just shrugged and tossed her bag over in front of the bedroom door and set down on the couch with him.
Hours passed as Sonata and Sandalwood just set and watched TV, some nature documentary that honestly Sonata found quite boring, but didn't want to say anything out of fear of insulting her new boyfriend, so she just sighed.
"Hey, everything alright?" Sandalwood asked as he stared at the siren with his usual relaxed and kind hearted look.
"Yea, I guess, it's just...." Sonata paused.
"Just what?" Sandalwood asked.
"I-I got into a big fight with my sisters before I came over, bigger then usual, I-I don't think I can go back there for awhile" Sonata sobbed.
"Hey, s'all good" Sandy reassured her. "If you ask me those two had whatever you had to say to them coming, specially that Aria, no offense, but she's kinda scary." Sandalwood chuckled
"Haha-yea I guess, they can be pretty intense sometimes." Sonata chuckled "But-wh-what if I went to far?" She asked her face once again turning into a pout.
Sandalwood just got up and motioned for her to follow him to the bedroom.
Sonata just gulped. "Y-you're not gonna try anything funny are yea?" The girl nervously asked, only partially joking.
"Babe, I won't do anything you don't wan't me too, and I have a feeling all you want tonight is a good nights sleep to help clear your head." He smiled at the siren as he opened the door and pointed to the bed.
Sonata just smiled. "Thanks sandy, you're the best" she giggled as she plopped down on the bed, hopping a good nights sleep would help clear her head.
Author's Notes:
Welp, Sandalwood seems nice, a little too nice, nope I don't trust him.
Anywho back to Adagio, Aria and co with chapter three, thanks for reading this lil break, hope you enjoy the rest.
Chapter 3: The Day of Awkward Adjustment To The Submissive Siren Sister
Adagio sighed as she walked down the street, her sister Aria literally right behind her. It had been like this all morning, her once fierce and fiery sister was now acting as shy and meek as Fluttershy. Infact Aria hadn't said hardly a word all morning after Adagio had woken-up to the now apparently silent siren nervously telling her that she had prepared breakfast and later asking if she liked it after she had finished, Adagio of course just nodding yes as she was still uncertain of what exactly was going on and didn't want to make whatever this was worse, and hey Aria was surprisingly actually a decent cook.
"Ugg, I don't know what to do" Adagio angrily thought to herself as she rubbed her hand against her forehead. "I feel like i'm in the damn Twilight Zone!" She internally chuckled. "Oh well, i'm sure i'll think of something eventually, who knows, maybe Sunset and her silly little friends will have an idea" Adagio reassured herself as she looked back at Aria who was still just quietly walking in Adagio's shadow, her hands stuffed down in the pockets of her hoodie her long straight hair flowing in the wind as she looked down at the ground as she followed behind.
Adagio and Aria walked through the halls of Canterlot High the other students looking on unsure of what to think, it was bad enough the group was a siren short, but now one had changed their look. What did this mean? Was Canterlot high in danger? Why was Aria being so quite? The students gossiped in attempted hushed tones and whispers. "mind your own business yea brats" Adagio thought to herself as she and Aria walked to their lockers. All of a sudden though the siren leader found herself interrupted as she saw a Rainbow swoosh appear in front of her. "Morning Dazzlings whats up!" Rainbow cheerfully asked as she smiled at the girls before noticing Aria looked rather out of sorts. "Ahh....what's up with her?" Rainbow rudely asked.
Adagio just nervously chuckled as she pulled Rainbow over to the side "Listen, Aria and Sonata got into a bit of a...tiff last night" Adagio stated "It was a bit, worse then usual and between that and the whole Sandalwood thing, I-I don't think she's in a good place right now, so just, I dunno, be gentle with her OK?" Adagio told the pegasus powered teen.
"Oh, ah-ok, sure thing" Rainbow replied as she looked over at Aria and waved, the now shy siren just looking down at the ground and raising her hand in kind as response.
"Well-ah see you guys at lunch I guess" Rainbow quickly responed as she ran off.
Adagio just rolled her eyes, "C'mon Aria, let's get to class" the puffy haired girl huffed.
"Ah- ok sis" Aria quietly rasped in reply.
Adagio walked into the classroom and looked around. Sure enough Sonata was sitting there in her usual spot, Adagio admitted to herself she had kind of hoped Sonata would've been to scared of the repercussions of last nights argument to come to school today, but there was nothing she could do about it now. She just walked to her seat with Aria trailing behind deciding it would be best if she set between the two today, signaling to Aria to take what would have usually been Adagio's seat in front of the two, Aria just nodding and quietly sitting down.
"Morning Dagi" Sonata happily chuckled as if nothing had happened.
Adagio turned around prepared to chew out her sister, but thankfully or unthankfully depending on how you view it Mr. Cranky walked in before she could start and told the class to open their books. Adagio just growled under her breath. It was bad enough having to start the day in a math class, but having to start a day in a math class sitting between one sister who obviously had something broken inside of her and the other to air-headed to care was even worse.
The Lunchroom boomed with the ususal chatter and laughter of the students, everyone going about their day as usual, save for on table, the Rainbooms table where the group couldn't help but stare at the rather silent Aria Blaze as she just looked down into her food and slowly stirred her mac n cheese with a plastic fork. Adagio just finishing up her apple juice in one big swig before turning over to her sister "Aria sweetie, would you mind going-up to the front and asking Granny Smith for another juicebox." She politely asked her sister as she shook her empy container.
"Oh-ah-yeah-OK" Aria murmured as she got up and slowly walked towards the front of the room.
"OK, what's up with her?" Sunset asked rather concerned pointing to the rather slowly moving Aria Blaze her straight hair seemingly sagging as if some heavy sorrow still surrounded her, her black t-shirt looking ruffled and worn after taking off her hoodie earlier in the morning.
"Well..." Adagio sighed preparing to tell the rest of the group what she had told Rainbow earlier.
"Hmm..." Twilight pondered after hearing the sirens sad tale. "It seems that whatever happened last night sent Aria over the edge."
"And I guess when you're already mad all the time, the only other mode would be..." Sunset paused
"Sorrow, Depression, Anxiety?" Twilight responded.
"I was going to say burnt out Twy" Sunset replied a stern look on her face.
"Oh, ah...sorry" Twilight blushed.
"ugg, I just don't know what to do, i've never seen Aria this down in the dumps before" Adagio sighed.
"Well-I-I think I know someone who might be able to help." Fluttershy stuttered.
"Oh yea, who?" Adagio asked the shy animal loving girl.
"Um, well Octavia-t-the girl who's classical music club you're in, I-I hear she's surprisingly good with relationship stuff, she even mediated an argument between principle Celestia and Luna once, i-if anyone can help, it would be her-I guess" Fluttershy stuttered as she told the siren.
Adagio just rubbed her chin and processed the new information. She didn't know much about Octavia other then the fact the girl was even a bigger stickler for perfection and proper etiquette then Rarity, but Fluttershy wasn't the kind of girl to make something up out of the blue, if she thought the uptight cellist could help her, perhaps it wouldn't hurt to give it a shot.
The last bell of the schoolday rang as the students barged out of their classrooms excited to finally be able to head home, or for some to their various club activities.
"Ah can't believe you actually stayed in that anime club" Applebloom chuckled looking-up at her big sister
"hey, that Sailor Moon stuff was pretty neat, don't yea go judgin me" Applejack Blushed, remembering how she and Rainbow had recently joined almost every club in some silly competition to get in as many year book pictures as possible. Both eventually bowing out of many after they realized how silly their bet had been.
"Whatever yea say sis, well I guess ah better meet Snails and Scootaloo fer our FFA meetin, and make sure Sweetie gets on the right bus so she isn't late ta her Ballet class over at Crystal prep again." Applebloom chuckled as she waved goodbye to her sister. Applejack waving back as she walked down the hall noticing Adagio talking to Rainbow Dash in front of the music room, Aria just standing behind her quite as a statue looking down at the ground and rubbing her hands together.
"Remember what I said this morning, go easy on her today, until this funk gets out of her system I don't want anyone making things any worse for her, got it" Adagio growled at the rainbow haired teen.
"OK, yea, got it, no rough stuff, I promise, I mean hey it's just a rock and roll club, not a heavy metal one" Rainbow awkwardly joked.
Adagio just sighed and turned around to her sister. "OK, listen, i'm, still not 100% sure what brought this on, but just try to relax a bit, OK, I know you aren't quite on your a-game right now, but just, do what Rainbow Dash says, she's our friend, more or less" Adagio smiled at her sister "so just at least try to let her cheer you up, OK" Adagio softly smiled at Aria.
"uh-oh-ok sis. Whatever you say" Aria meekly replied.
"Good" Adagio chuckled. "Now I have to meet Octavia and the others for practice in the gym, we have an opera contest coming up and I need to make sure my pipes are in type top shape" She mischievously grinned as she turned around and began walking towards the gym. Aria just looking on the thought of being separated from her remaining sister even for a moment making her feel a heavy sick feeling in her chest.
"Hey, cheer-up Ari, Rainbow Dash is here to make your day 20% cooler!" The cyan skinned teen confidently stated as she did her best to raise her friends spirits. Aria just looked at Dash and quietly nodded as she followed her into the music room to meet-up with the other club members.
Adagio wiped the sweat off her brow as she took a swig from her water bottle. Between her already rough day and Octavia's perfectionist attitude pratice was even more tiresome then usual. "My pipes are pooped" she rasped as she took another large gulp of much needed H20.
"Marvelous job once again Adagio" Octavia cooed as she walked-up to her classmate. "Very good indeed, considering...." she paused.
"Considering what?" Adagio sternly asked her club leader
"Well, considering the supposed drama going around with you and your sisters" Octavia mischievously replied. "I don't mean to pry of course, but perhaps you would like to talk about it. As the head of our little classical music club I would be more then willing to help my fellow members in any way I can" Octavia confidently stated.
"Fine" Adagio huffed.
"Oh, jolly good, wait here, i'll get the tea" Octavia chuckled as she walked off.
"wha-Tea?" Adagio asked rather confused.
Later after Octavia had set-up what she called her "Talk table" fully furnished with tea and scones and Adagio had once again finished telling yet another student about her private life and the events of the night before, something she still wasn't all too comfortable with Octavia finished sipping her tea and put town her cup, staring seriously at Adagio.
"Well Ms. Dazzle, it does seem like you are indeed in quite the pickle" Octavia sternly replied
"Tell me about it" Adagio huffed. "So what should I do?"
"Well, from what i'm hearing it doesn't seem like there is much you can do outside of riding out the storm, I have no doubt you three will be together again once you get to the other side, if you truly desire that" Octavia mischievously smiled.
"Oh, thanks, you're so helpful" Adagio growled.
"Now, now, no need for Sarcasm Ms. Dazzle" Octavia scolded. "I am still here to help, and so I shall" Octavia retorted as Adagio just rolled her eyes.
"It seems to me the core problem is the lack of proper communication between you three sisters. Sonata obviously desperately wants to be seen as an equal to you and Aria and she feels you have never treated her as such, thus the reason she finally rejected both you and Aria last night. Aria herself seems to be a whole bundle of personal issues that even a good psychologist would probably have to spend years to untangle, but judging by her actions today in her, how did you put it, burnt out state. I Imagine she is just acting in whichever manner she feels will best prevent her from losing you as well." Octavia explained.
"So she thinks I want her to be as quite as Fluttershy?" Adagio asked, quite aggravated at this point.
"Well, no, not exactly" Octavia attempted to clarify "You are the leader of your group Adagio, everyone knows that. I imagine Aria just feels unless she starts acting like a proper submissive to her more dominant and confident sister she might be rejected by her the same way she was by Sonata last night." Octavia quite seriously stated.
"I suppose that makes sense" Adagio replied as she bit her lip. "But why do you have to use that terminology, Dom, Sub, it's not like my sisters and I are in some kind of, physical relationship" Adagio blushed.
"Oh, no I didn't mean to imply my dear" Octavia blushed "Though i'm sure you know there have been rumors of such around you three, given until earlier this week you were inseparable" she chuckled. "Can't hardly blame people for thinking such things. And it's not like the terms only apply to sex my dear, sentient creatures, human or siren are complex, we all have dominant and submissive personality traits and when put under extreme conditions the side we fall on the most will easily show itself" Octavia chuckled once more thinking back to when she first met Viynl Scratch and how the usually chill and confident girl was quite the submissive in bed.
"Well, I guess that makes sense, so what, until I find a way to get Sonata back Aria is just gonna act like some cliche quite submissive girl straight out of a bad anime?" Adagio huffed.
"I'm afraid so darling, but you're a smart girl, i'm sure you'll find a way to cheer her up and bring the band back together, eventually." Octavia smiled as she poured herself another cup of tea.
"Wonderful, just wonderful" Adagio huffed as she looked at the clock, realizing she was 30 minutes late to pick up Aria from her Rock N Roll club. "aww, shit!" Adagio exclaimed as she rain towards the door.
"Hope everything works out." Octavia hollered at Adagio as she ran out the door.
Aria just set there curled-up in the same way Rainbow had seen her not too long ago in the nurses office when the group had been put in charge of restoring the sirens magic.
"Hey, Ari, it's OK-I, I'm sure Adagio is on her way." Rainbow tried to reassure the sad siren as she bent down and put her hand on Aria's shoulder.
"Aria, sweetie-i'm sorry, i'm here" the two heard Adagio's voice boom as the door swung open. "I'm sorry Aria, I got busy talking to Octavia and, well I just lost track of time and...." But before Adagio could finish she felt Aria embrace her sister in a hug as the smallest siren sister once again buried her face in Adagio's chest. Adagio just let out a small half chuckle.
"OK-OK, i'm here, i'm here, chill sis, I already told you last night, i'm not going anywhere" Adagio tried to reassure her sister as she slowly stroked the sirens hair. "Now let's go home. I think it's Sunset's turn to cook dinner, and she makes some mean mushroom ravioli" Adagio chuckled as she took her sister's hand and let her out the door.
Rainbow Dash just looked on, still unsure how to react, so she just picked-up her guitar and put it up, leaving the room herself. "Man, Equestrian relationships are weird." She said to herself as she turned out the lights and closed the door locking it with her key, hoping that Adagio would find a way to get Aria back to her old self soon.
Author's Notes:
Well, that was something, I guess. Poor Adagio both of her Sisters are unintentionally putting extra stress on her. But c'mon Dag, you gotta admit Aria is kind of cute like this.
But hey, i'm sure Octavia is right and things will work themselves out eventually. Though maybe be weary if she ever invites you and your sisters to a party, I imagine it might involve more rope then you would be comfortable with.
Anywho, next time its finally Friday, time for fun and movies, movies cheer everyone up...right!?
Thanks for reading and again will come back and correct mistakes later on as I see them
Chapter 4: Movie Night Madness
"Thank Neptune it's Friday!" Adagio internally cheered as she finished getting dressed and opened-up the bathroom door letting the lingering steam from the shower poor out. Looking around she saw that Sunset Shimmer had already left for school. No surprise there of course as the previous school bully was now one of Canterlot High's star students. "Can't be tardy and ruin that perfect attendance record now can we Sunny" Adagio chuckled to herself. Sadly her good mood was somewhat tempered as she saw Aria sitting on the couch, still acting more or less the same as yesterday. Quite, reserved and her posture much more anxious and submissive when compared to the usual fierce and bold siren Adagio and the others had come to know.
"C'mon Aria, we best get going ourselves I suppose." Adagio Sighed as she stared at her little sister with an attempted half smile. Aria said nothing but just nodded in compliance as she grabbed her hoodie and prepared to follow Adagio out the door.
At the school the students were unsurprisingly rowdier then usual. This of course came as no surprise to Adagio. Human or Siren, everyone loved the weekend!
"I can't wait to go to the Countess Coloratura concert this weekend!" Roseluck squealed.
"And I can't wait to see Canterlot City's Basketball team completely destroy the Manehattan Mountain Goats this weekend." Flash sentry chimed in.
"Ha, that's nothing! i've finally tracked down a first edition copy of Lord of The Rings and I can't wait to go pick it up this weekend!" Moondancer cheered.
Adagio just rolled her eyes as she walked along and overheard all of her classmates plans. "Well at least they'll be having a good time." She internally moaned as she looked back at Aria "Meanwhile I still have to find a way to fix my family" The siren sighed under her breath as she and Aria approached their lockers.
"G-good morning Adagio" She heard a voice nervously mumble.
Looking to her left Adagio saw the sound was coming from Juniper Montage, another recent transfer to Canterlot High. This surprised Adagio as so far the lime green girl had seemed rather scared by she and her sisters, so having Juniper actually talk to them for once was indeed an unusual situation.
"Oh, good morning Ms. Montage, how are you" Adagio politely responded, doing her best not to sound intimidating.
"O-oh i'm fine....I-I just." Juniper stuttered.
"Just what?" Adagio asked in a rather aggravated tone. She didn't have the time to waste on someone who couldn't even finish a sentence.
"I-I just noticed you and your sister had been having a hard time lately and I wanted to give you these to cheer you up!" Juniper blurted out quite nervously and quickly as she held-up two rectangular vouchers.
"uh-thanks, but, what are they?" Adagio asked as she took the cupons.
"Th-they're tickets, sort of" Juniper attempted to explain "They're vouchers, each one is good for a free movie ticket and a small coke and popcorn. I get them all the time at the theatre I work at-you know-the one in the mall" The girl nervously continued "B-but I don't really have any friends myself to go with, so I thought maybe you and Aria could get more use out of them." Juniper blushed as she finished.
Adagio paused unsure how to respond to such a random act of kindness. "Well-thank you Juniper. I, I don't know what to say" Adagio replied with a small smile.
"Oh, i-its no problem really. I, I guess i'll see you two there tonight. I mean, not that i'll be going to see a movie, but you know, working behind the counter, at the concession stand" She nervously chuckled as she slowly backed away and turned around to head to class.
Adagio just stood there for a moment before stuffing the vouchers into her backpack and turning around. "Well Aria, looks like you and me are going to the movies tonight." Adagio told her sister with a confident smile on her face. Aria just looking at Adagio and making a small smile of her own as the first bell rang and both girls realized it would be best if they headed to class.
Later at lunch Adagio hummed an up beat tune as she finished up her meal.
"well someone seems to be in a much better mood today" Rarity snickered as she turned her attention to Adagio.
"Well of course, the weekend fast approaches and I feel with it so shall my victory." Adagio mischievously smiled in reply.
"Victory? Over what darling?" Rarity asked quite curious.
"Over what ever all this is going on, you know with me and my sisters" Adagio huffed pointing one hand towards Aria and the other over to the table where Sonata was sitting with Sandalwood and his crew.
"Oh, did you finally find a solution?" Twilight asked excited.
"Well, not exactly" Adagio nervously chuckled. "But I just feel the pieces might finally be falling into place" She mischievously smiled once more as she pulled out the vouchers.
"oohh, what are those!?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"Vouchers to the movie. I got them from Juniper." Adagio explained. "I figure taking Aria to that new Power Ponies movie thats playing might cheer her up. Afterall I know how much you love a good action flick. Right sis!?" Aria sang as she leaned in closer to her still sad sister. "Ah-yea-I-I guess" Aria mumbled.
"Ahh, sweet! Can we come too!?" Rainbow Dash excitedly asked. "I've been waiting forever for the new Power Ponies flick to come out, but-I couldn't go see it last week because the soccer team had a game out of town, but i'm totally free this weekend soo...." Rainbow Dash begged as she began to make puppy dog eyes, Pinkie quickly joining in on the act.
Adagio just groaned. "OK, fine....The Rainbooms may have the honor of attending the movies with The Dazzlings, er remaining Dazzlings" Adagio replied. "However you'll have to pay for your own ticket speedy, I may look fabulous but i'm not made out of money you know" Adagio snickered.
"Sweet!" Rainbow cheered "Power Ponies here we come!" Meanwhile Adagio just rolled her eyes and looked over at Aria, wondering if she made the right choice agreeing to tag-alongs, or if she should have just made it clear she was doing this for her sister. Oh well, no turning back now, and whatever happens happens.
Adagio and Aria waited at the enterence to the theater. "Ugg, where are those morons, the movie starts in 10 minutes and we still have to get our concessions" Adagio angrily mumbled staring up at the closest clock. Thankfully though as if the group sensed her discontent the seven girls arrived mere seconds later.
"Sorry we're late" Sunset apologized. "We had to wait for Rarity to decide what she wanted to wear"
"And ahh still don't see why" AJ huffed "We're just goin ta the dad gum movies, not like we got invited to the academy awards!" The farm-girl sneered looking over at rarity.
"Well Applejack, weather its a simple movie or an exquisite gala one should always attempt to look their best!" Rarity replied , twirling around in her dark black dress that shimmered as the light reflected off the small beads embedded within. "Besides you know I look fabulous" She mocked as she struck a sexy pose causing Applejack to blush.
"OK enough of that, time to go see Power Ponies!" Rainbow interjected as she excitedly speed into the theater.
"Oh, wait for me Dashie!" Pinkie chuckled as she too hopped in.
"what are we going to do with those two" Twilight chuckled as she wrapped her arm around Sunset and followed the rest of the group into the theater.
"Oh, ahh, hi girls" Juniper greeted as The Dazzlings and The Rainbooms approached the concession stand.
"Sup Junbug" Dash joked giving the movie loving girl a wink.
"Oh, not much, truth be told ever since that IMAX opened up across town we don't get as much business anymore" Juniper sighed. "But i'm glad you girls came to support my uncles theatre" Juniper smiled.
"Well, duh, he did give us back-ground roles in his Daring-Do movie!" Rainbow replied. Juniper just looking at her with a sour face. "Oh, ah, sorry-yea, forgot that was still a sore spot for yea" Rainbow blushed.
"No, no i'm good, really. I'm young and beautiful, I still have plenty of opportunities to become a star" Juniper retorted with faux confidence as she flicked a popcorn kernel off her uniform.
"That's the spirit" Adagio chimed in. "As long as you think you're fabulous you'll be fabulous" Right sis?" Adagio agreed looking back at Aria. The smaller light purple siren just blushing and nodding her head yes.
"Well thank you all for the bode of confidence, now what can I get you?" Juniper asked with a smile as she prepared to serve her friends their concessions.
Later in the movie Adagio was able to find the perfect seats, right in the middle of the room, not to far or close to the screen. She sat and sipped on her soda and ate her popcorn occasionally looking over at her sister glad to see Aria not frowning for once as her eyes were glued to the large screen during both the trailers and the actual film. The night wasn't free of hitches or hiccups however as Rainbow Dash was prone to burp rather loudly and Pinkie Pie sadly seemed to be the kind of person who liked to talk and ask questions during the movie. Thankfully though Applejack and Rarity seemed to be able to reign them in for the most part before they got too annoying meaning at the very thankfully least no one called security on the girls.
After the movie finished around 9:45 The Dazzlings and The Rainbooms made their way back to the front of the theatre.
"Man that movie was soo Awesome!!" Rainbow Dash excitedly cheered
"I know Fillisecond is soo cool!" Pinkie chimed in
"Yea, but not as cool as Zap" Rainbow replied.
"Personally I prefer The Masked Matterhorn myself" Twilight joined in.
"I-I think they're all pretty nice" Fluttershy shyly mumbled.
"So, what did you think of the movie Aria?" Sunset asked as both she and Adagio looked at the still quite siren.
At first there was just silence, before a low mumble that eventually turned into quite clear and rather loud words "It was Amazing!" Aria replied "I mean when they all attacked the Maneiac at the same time and her robot duplicate Swoops in to protect her! A-and then-and then Tirek comes out nowhere and just starts wailing on those goody goodies! It was epic!!" Aria finished with a rather large smile on her mouth. The rest of the group just looking at her and giggling.
"H-hey, whats so funny!?" Aria nervously and angrily asked as she blushed.
"Nothing" Sunset chuckled. "We're just glad to see you show a bit of your old self again."
"Yea, that whole quite little church mouse routine was getting pretty old pretty fast sis" Adagio agreed as she wrapped her shoulder around her sister.
Aria just blushed. "I-um-I" She muttered unsure of what to say.
"Hey, it's OK, I know you're not on your a-game right now, but you're still allowed to be happy Aria" Adagio reassured the uncertain siren.
"Yea-um, OK" Aria half smiled.
"Well, glad to see at least part of the problem's solved" Rainbow chuckled. "But it's late and I best head home before mom annoys Scootaloo to death" she joked. "She you girls later" She exclaimed as she speed off.
"Well, I best be off as well, lots of work to do at the boutique this weekend" Rarity chimed in.
"And I believe we have another study session" Sunset playfully cooed at Twilight who just blushed in reply.
"Later taters!" Pinkie Pie chuckled as she grabbed AJ and Fluttershy and hopped off the other two girls unsure of where the peppy pink pony girl was taking them.
"Finally some peace and quite!" Adagio cheerfully sighed. "so sis, how about a late night snack to celebrate your ability to partially smile again" Adagio mocked looking over at Aria. "I hear the ice cream stand here has a stellar rocky road"
"Ah, sure-I-I guess" Aria replied.
"Good" Adagio smiled, glad to see her little sister finally cheering-up abit.
Adagio and Aria walked through the mall licking their ice-cream and just generally enjoying one another's company, despite most of the stores being closed at this late hour there were still plenty of teen and college age individuals hanging around the building either preparing to go to a late movie or just sitting around at the circular cafeteria plaza tables enjoying each others company. All of a sudden though both sisters noticed something that made them stop cold in their tracks. At one of the tables was Sandalwood and his crew, unsurprisingly with Sonata in tow.
Adagio looked at the group with malice as an idea hit her. "C'mon Aria, lets put an end to this" Adagio demanded looking at her sister who was instead slowly moving back.
"Ah-I-I dunno-Dag, I-I mean, maybe-we should just go home. I-I don't wanna make Sonata mad...again" The siren sister nervously replied.
"You don't have to say a thing dear, just let big sis do all the talking. I'll get Sonata back and make her apologize and we can put this entire ordeal behind us" Adagio said as she reassured Aria patting her on the head and taking her hand forcibly pulling her along towards the table.
"Well, well, well, what do we have here?" Adagio asked in a sultry tone as she walked up to her bubbly sister and her new boy toy.
"Oh, hey Dagi, sup?" Sonata asked, giving her sister a big smile.
"Oh, not much , same ol same ol really" Adagio politely replied. "Aria and I just got done seeing the new Power Ponies movie with our friends, you should have come along, you would have enjoyed it." Adagio cooed with a mischievous smile.
"Oh, neat! Sandy and I were just about to go to the late movie ourselves!" Sonata happily replied.
"Oh-really" Adagio disappointingly huffed.
"Yea, Sandy says that the late movies are always more fun, plus theres less people around so you can sneak more stuff in." Sonata chuckled as she pointed to the rest of the group who held up small cans of beer and bags of weed.
"Oh, lovely" Adagio replied doing her best not to make a face of disgust at the thought of her sister drinking beer like a common human, after all it had long been a siren tradition to only drink the finest of wines, not that she could afford any at the moment.
"uh-uh-s-Sonata" the group heard Aria quietly mumble. "w-when-do, I mean-are you gonna come home tonight?" Aria nervously asked fumbling her fingers and looking at the ground.
Adagio just looked at Aria in surprise not expecting her sister to actually speak-up.
Sonata just smiled. "Oh, don't worry Ari, like I said the other night, I won't be in you and Dagi's hair anymore, sides Sandy said I could stay over at his place as long as I need to" Sonata chuckled looking over at her boyfriend and hugging his arm.
"oh-oh" Aria sighed as she felt a heavy feeling in her heart once more, looking down at the floor doing the best to hide the sorrow and disappointment apparent in her expression. Adagio picking-up on the verbal cues and just wishing Sonata a good night as she grabbed Aria's hand and quickly jogged off until she found an empty corner of the building with a small bench and a soda machine. There she sat down with Aria and embraced her sister.
"I-i'm s-sorry" Aria cried "I-I r-ruined our f-f-family" the sad siren sobbed.
"Sush now, none of that" Adagio sternly replied as she held the sobbing Aria against her, rubbing the smaller sirens back trying to calm her down.
"B-but, I-if I had been a b-better-s-su-I-if I hadn't been so-m-mean to her all the time" Aria sobbed.
"Aria sweety this isn't your fault, you know Sonata is a free spirit, she's going to do what she wants, we just-we just have to respect that, for now anyway." Adagio told her still sobbing sister trying her best to still maintain control of the situation. "It'll all work out, you'll see, I promise" Adagio replied trying to reassure both herself and her sister.
Meanwhile over at the theater Juniper was cleaning up as she watched a small group slowly walk in. "Hey movie chick, we're here for the 10:30 showing of Power Ponies!" The tall green-haired teen shouted. Juniper turned around and recognized him as Sandalwood. "And that means" Juniper thought to herself as she looked at the group and saw Sonata. Juniper just gulped as she answered "Ah-how may I help you" she nervously smiled.
Later after the group had gotten their tickets and single bag of popcorn they said they were going to share. " Yea right you're just gonna dump it out and put something you snuck in with yea, yea darn cheapskates" Juniper huffed to herself. Sandalwood just told Sonata and Treehugger to go find them some seats making the excuse that he and his friend CP had to go drain the lizard. For some reason Juniper had a strange feeling that she should probably ease drop on this conversation.
"So, man, we still on for the camping trip Sunday night?" CP asked Sandalwood
"You know it bra" Sandalwood smiled.
"And you gonna bring the stuff" CP mischievously smiled back.
"You know it brah" Sandalwood repeated giving the guy a high five.
"Man I can't wait, i've never done a magical chick before!" CP cheered excitedly.
"Yep, a good ol Magical G.B. up at Whitetail Woods Peak this Sunday man, you me and the girls, everyone gets a swing at the siren" Sandalwood laughed as he grabbed his friends head and gave him a noogie. "Now c'mon lets go get our seats, don't wanna leave my er our girl waiting." Sandalwood replied with a slightly mischievous and gruffer then usual tone.
Juniper just looked on as the two walked into the theater.
"G.B. what could G.B mean...." And then it hit the young girl like a ton of bricks.
"Holy shit, they're talking about a gang bang! Those creeps are gonna take Sonata out to the woods to Rape her!?" Juniper internally screamed in a panic. "Crap, crap crap, what do I do!?" She nervously muttered. "I, I gotta tell her sisters, I gotta, but they already left, oh crap what do I do!?" Juniper nervously repeated as she paced back and fourth. "But, if I tell Sonata's sisters then Sandalwood's crew might find out it was me and they might come after me for..." Juniper paused. "Oh crud, why why did I have to eavsedrop!?" She whined to herself. "I, I can't let them get away with something like that, but I can't put myself in danger either...oh...what should I do!?" Juniper contemplated as she curled down into a ball and hid behind the concession stand.
Author's Notes:
Welp, looks like Sandalwood is a scumbag after all. C'mon Juniper do the right thing and warn Adagio & Aria so they can go kick his ass Sunday night!
Anywho next chapter, it's Saturday and Aria's had a bit of a....relapse. Weekends aren't always fun it seems. Don't worry i'm sure Adagio and Sunset will figure something out....I hope.
Thanks again for reading. As per usual will come and fix mistakes later.
Chapter 5: Relapse or Reconciliation?
For most individuals Saturday morning is a small slice of paradise. No school, no work and a time to either sleep in or enjoy munching on your favorite sugary cereal while watching some Saturday morning cartoons. Sadly this was not the case for Adagio Dazzle and her sister Aria Blaze.
Adagio had woken-up to see that her little sister had once again beaten both her and the alarm clock to the punch and prepared breakfast for them. This time however Aria wouldn't say a word, not even bothering to ask if Adagio had enjoyed the meal she had prepared for her as she had previously done. Not that Adagio had any complaints mind you, the meal was fine, but no matter how well prepared it was it didn't negate the sour taste the siren felt knowing that her previous nights efforts to cheer her sister up had been for not.
"You know, if you don't talk at all you might lose that pretty little voice of yours completely" Adagio huffed staring over at her sister who sat beside her on the couch as the two watched the latest episode of My Small Squirrel. Aria just looked at Adagio and nodded in agreement before turning her attention back to the television screen.
"OK, that's it, if being nice won't snap her out of this i'll just beat her ass till...." But before Adagio could finish her thought she heard the door click and saw Sunset Shimmer stroll in humming a happy tune.
"OH THANK NEPTUNE!" Adagio blurted out as she stood-up. Sunset just looked at the puffy haired siren in surprise as she quickly ran up to her.
"ahh....what's up?" Sunset awkwardly chuckled.
Adagio just took a deep breath and sighed as she looked at Sunset with an exhausted expression "After the movie last night Aria and I ran into Sandalwood and his crew, unsurprisingly Sonata was still with them and..." Adagio paused pointing over to Aria who was slouching on the couch her eyes fixated on the TV "Now it looks like i'm back to square one, or worse, she's not even talking now, it's like she's completely shut down!" Adagio huffed as she grabbed Sunset's shoulders.
"Listen, I could really use a break from all this" Adagio pleaded looking at the bacon haired unicorn girl with sad puppy dog eyes. "So, could you maybe, I dunno just watch Aria for a bit while I go take a walk and clear my head?" Adagio begged.
"Well, I dunno" Sunset awkwardly replied
"Please, c'mon Sunny, I'll bring you both back a Coke Icee!" The siren bribed.
"OK, fine, i'll watch Aria for a bit, just-don't be gone all day, I don't do well with awkward silences" Sunset finally agreed.
"Great!" Adagio smiled as she turned back to face Aria. "Aria, sweety-i'm going out for a bit to get some fresh air, Sunset will be here if you need anything, be good now." Adagio sang as she grabbed her hoodie and ran out the door, Aria just half nodding in reply as she still fixated most of her attention on the television screen. Sunset just sighed and joined Aria on the couch "Well, might as well relax" she internally chuckled to herself.
An hour passed and Aria didn't say a single word, she just set there and watched cartoons, Sunset did her best to put up with the akward silence but eventually it became too much for the girl.
"OK, so-Aria, you-I dunno,maybe.....Wanna talk about it?" Sunset asked the sad siren sister.
Aria just looked over at Sunset with sad eyes before averting her gaze down to the floor and ever so quietly rasped "N-not really"
"Well you know" Sunset began "If you don't get to the root of the problem you're never going to get better, if you don't work to get past this you'll have even less of a chance of getting Sonata back and just drive Adagio away as well" Sunset bluntly stated. She knew it wasn't what the light purple girl wanted to hear, but sometimes tough love was the only answer.
There was another brief awkward pause of nothing but silence before Aria finally spoke up "Y-you promise you won't tell anyone else anything I tell you, not even my sisters?" Aria nervously asked Sunset looking at her as a small child would a friend whom they were afraid was about to blab their deepest darkest secret to the world.
Sunset was a bit taken back by this, but quickly regained her composure and nodded her head in assurance. "OK, whatever you have to say it stays between you and me. I promise" Sunset agreed.
Aria just sighed. "You know that story Sonata told you back when Adagio was, well-you know temporarily out for the count" Aria chuckled.
"Yea, what about it?" Sunset asked
"Well obviously that was the cliff notes version, sort of. I mean, like anyone else we had a lot of stuff happen in our childhoods, not all of it was that great." Aria groaned.
"Go on" Sunset encouraged, now more curious then ever.
"Well, you know how Adagio told me to be brave and stick-up for myself, show my bullies that i'm the tough one and all that." Aria continued looking over at Sunset, the curious girl just nodding in acknowledgement. "Well the first time I tried that it didn't work out so well...." Aria continued. "The next time Allegro and Malto tried to pick on me I acted all tough, and they repayed that by grabbing my right by my tail fin and throwing me in a small cave at the edge of the playground, to add insult to injury they caved in the entrance and I was stuck, alone, scared in the dark for hours." Aria sobbed.
"Oh my Goddess!" Sunset gasped. "How,d you get out!?"
"One of my dad's royal guards heard me whimpering, he crushed the boulders like they were nothing," Aria chuckled remembering the event. "After I was free I begged him not to tell anyone, I told him it was no big deal and that I was fine. He was reluctant at first but eventually he caved, guess he knew I didn't want to be embarrassed" Aria finished.
Sunset just looked sympathetically at the siren. "And after that?" she asked.
"After that I never left Adagio's side again, I knew I was safer there, besides being near her really did give me the courage to become a tougher siren, especially after our kingdom was destroyed." Aria sighed. "But Sonata, she, she's always been different, she's such a free spirit, and I love her but she's an airhead, I knew if I didn't keep her in line, well I knew something would happen to her, I didn't want her to ever go what I went through, so...."
"So you go a little over protective, and things just escalated out of control" Sunset finished.
Aria just looked at Sunset as nodded as she squeezed her stuffed squid tight. "I-mean, I know I could be a total bitch to Sonata sometimes, and I know it just got worse when we got banished here to this world, but, I-I never thought I would get bad enough to drive her away, I, I just wanted to keep her safe, like Adagio did me." Aria sobbed as she continued to squeeze her stuffed toy.
Sunset looked softly at the siren and put her hand on her shoulder. "Hey, it's OK, we all make mistakes, i'm sure in time Sonata will forgive you, and like you and Adagio said, she's a free spirit, she's like Pinkie, she just has her own special way of doing things, but I don't think she's quite as much an airhead as you're afraid she is, i'm sure she wouldn't let herself get hurt" Sunset reassured her, smiling softly at the siren.
"Maybe" Aria reluctantly agreed. "But..." Aria paused.
"But what?" Sunset asked.
"I-it's not JUST that" Aria admitted
"Oh?" Sunset cooed rather inquisitively.
"Adagio and Sonata are all i've ever had, like I told Adagio, I don't know if I could handle losing them to any other person or creature, their not just my sisters they're my best friends, my...my soul mates." Aria blushed.
"Wait-Aria-are you saying you...you're actually in love with them?" Sunset asked rather shocked.
"Yeah, I know, i'm a freak!" Aria angrily growled as she buried her head in her stuffed squid. Sunset just staring at the girl unsure of what to say as she rattled the words around in her brain,
"N-no that-that's not what I meant" Sunset nervously muttered. "I mean-I mean it's not like such things are unheard of in Equestria" Sunset chuckled as she remembered that one time many moons ago before she had traveled through the mirror to when she had snuck in Princess Celestia's sleeping quarters and read pages out of her diary to find out the Solar leaders lament over her lost sister was from more then just guilt of banishing her to the moon but dearly missing her sister's touch as she had put it.
Aria just looked over at Sunset, tears still slowly dripping from her eyes "Yeah, well this isn't Equestria, and even there it was weird, here it's practically something they would have hung you for even just a hundred years ago." Aria sighed. "And it's not like I want to feel this way about Adagio & Sonata, I-I just do, I don't know if it's these stupid human bodies we're stuck in, or, or if i've just always been this way and these stupid teenage hormones just made things worse, or what." Aria groaned. "But it's not like I can just tell them how I feel or i'll lose them, but I can't keep acting like this or my grumpy old self or I still lose them." Aria sighed with a pout.
Sunset just set there and contemplated the information before an idea hit here. "Well, I think being honest might be the best thing here." Sunset cheerfully replied.
"Uh, we're you even paying attention to a word I just said?" Aria angrily huffed.
"I don't mean about everything, well at least not yet. But be honest with yourself. Aria you are a very passionate individual, I can feel it iminating from you're aura." Sunset replied "You are fierce and yea sometimes a little angry, but you know what, that's OK! Be passionate, be angry, just take your emotions and use them in constructive and helpful ways to help build yourself and your sisters up, don't lash out to hurt people or bottle things up so they hurt you." Sunset exclaimed. "Understand?"
"I, I think so" Aria replied. "I-it's OK for me to be me, I-I just have to learn how to handle my emotions better or some junk like that" Aria blushed.
"haha, more or less" Sunset chuckled giving the reluctant siren a hug. "Now c'mon let's get out of here and find Adagio" she chuckled as she took Aria's hand and encouraged her to get off the couch.
Adagio walked into the convenience store and was greeted by a familiar voice as the electronic door bell dinged
"Welcome to Filthy's" A male voice sang. Adagio looked over to see Flash Sentry behind the counter.
"S'up anime hair" Adagio smirked as she walked in the corner store.
Flash Sentry just frowned "I wish people would stop calling me that" he pouted
"Well then stop going around town with such spikey hair" Adagio joked
"yeah, like you're one to talk, you've practically got a beehive on your head!" Flash grunted "You'd make Marge Simpson jealous" the teen laughed.
"You're probably right, but that old hag doesn't have a thing on me" Adagio stated making a sexy pose and playing with her hair. The two just looking at each other and laughing.
"OK enough comparing ourselves to cartoon characters, so what brings you in?" Flash asked.
"Just came to get some drinks for me and the girls" Adagio sighed.
"Oh, you mean Sunset and your sisters?" Flash asked.
"Yea, well Aria anyway, Sonata's still over at Sandalwoods" Adagio angrily huffed.
"Wow, rough" Flash replied.
"Yea, but whatever, now, where's your Icee machine?" Adagio asked. Flash just pointing to the large machine in the back. Adagio thanking him and walking towards the frozen drink device not noticing one Juniper Montage who was crouched down hiding between the next isle over. the lime green girl waiting till she heard Adagio leave before she finally got up and headed to the check out herself
"Stupid Stupid Juniper! Why did you hide like that!?" She scolded herself "That was the perfect chance to tell her that Sonata was in danger! Why didn't you tell her you coward!" she internally screeched at herself. "Oh well it's only Saturday, Sandalwood's camping trip isn't until tomorrow evening I still have time, I-i'll warn em later. Besides Uncle needs help around the house today anyway." Juniper told herself as she walked down the street continuing to make excuses.
Sunset and Aria walked down the sidewalk until they saw Adagio in the distance. The siren leader looking up and seeing Sunset waving, a smile growing on her face as she saw Aria was with her.
"So, the turtle finally decided to come out of her shell?" Adagio chuckled as she handed Aria the Icee.
"Um, yea-I guess-whatever" Aria blushed as she took a sip.
"Aria and I had a bit of a heart to heart, and-I think things are a bit better now" Sunset smiled
"Oh really, not trying to steal my job now are we Sunny? Cheering-up my sisters is my job" Adagio playfully scolded
"Oh never, besides I already have six magical humans to take care of, last thing I need is two silly sirens" Sunset joked back, both of the girls just laughing.
"Hey, Dag" Aria interrupted. "I-listen i'm sorry i've been out of it for awhile, it's just...I know I can get out of hand sometimes, but I-I really do like, care about you and Sonata-yea know" Aria stuttered her face blushing even more.
Adagio just smiled and put her arm around her sister "I know Aria, I know, and don't worry, like I told you, i'm sure everything will be fine in the end."
"Yea-Yea I guess you're right" Aria agreed as she took anther sip of her frozen treat and walked down the sidewalk with Adagio and Sunset back to the loft.
Meanwhile across town.
"Ugg, packing is sooo boring!" Sonata huffed.
"Haha, I know babe." Sandalwood laughed "But the sooner we get it done the sooner we can leave for The WhiteTail Woods tomorrow" Sandalwood reminded her.
"And you're sure this camping thing is gonna be fun?" Sonata asked.
"Oh believe me babe, it'll be a day you'll never for got. A day none of us will ever forget" He replied letting out a devious smile as he took delight in all the plans he had for he and his gangs new toy.
"Oh, OK then" Sonata smile as she went back to humming a happy tune and helping Sandalwood get things packed for tomorrow's camping trip. The green haired teen just looking on doing the best to keep himself in check, just one more day, just one more day and Sonata would be a member of his gang, permanently, weather she wanted to or not. The thought bringing him even more maniacal delight.
Author's Notes:
Well Aria, at least you acknowledged you need to work through your problems and that's a start.
Juniper stop being such a coward!
And Sonata, get a clue girl that guy's just using you!
Oh well, until next time, thanks for reading and as usual will try to go back and fix mistakes later on.
Next Time: Aria gets her groove back and an all out brawl in the Whitetail Woods ensues!!
Chapter 6: Blaze; Reignited
The late Sunday morning sun shown through the giant glass window of Sunset's apartment as she set in her favorite comfy chair and read the latest issue of Scientific Equestrian occasionally sipping her coffee and looking up at Adagio and Aria sitting on the couch Adagio reading some fashion magazine and Aria sprawled out with her head in Adagio's lap her eyes closed as she seemed to be taking the old adage of Sunday being the "Day of Rest" quite literally. Sunset couldn't blame Aria for this however as she knew the siren was still recovering from self inflicted emotional traumas, so who was Sunset to mock if Aria wanted to spend the day napping, besides not like there was much else to do at the moment as none of the stores opened till noon and unless you were a fan of a bunch of talking heads there wasn't much on TV either.
Sunset just quietly chuckled to herself as she continued to sip her hot caffeinated beverage and look down at her magazine. Suddenly however she heard a buzz coming from the front door. Sunset looked up and tried to see if she could tell who was buzzing the front through her window, however despite it's large size the curtains and TV still were a minor obstruction. So with a short disgruntled huff Sunset got up and opened her door and slowly walked down the hall as she stretched out her arms and fixed the crick in her neck. "Who would come to visit on a boring day like this?" She asked herself as she unlocked the door with a click and slowly opened it up to see a familiar lemon skinned girl at the door.
"Oh, hey Juniper-what brings you here?" Sunset asked the girl noticing that set guest seemed a bit nervous.
"C-can I-Can I come inside?" Juniper nervously asked Sunset an anxious yet uncertain look upon her face.
"Uhh...yea, sure" Sunset replied, still rather curious as to why the young girl had shown-up on her doorstep out of the blue.
"Oh thank, thank you!" Juniper replied as she quickly ran inside the building, Sunset just slowly closing the door behind her still looking on as Juniper waited in front of her apartment door like a dog waiting to be let back inside it's master's house.
Adagio looked on as Sunset Shimmer opened the door and Juniper Montage quickly ran in with Sunset closing the door behind.
"Well, isn't this a pleasant surprise" Adagio cooed. "Wake-up Aria dear, it seems we have guests" Adagio stated to her sleeping sister as she flicked the siren on the nose, Aria responding by opening her eyes and yawning. "Who is it?" Arias asked her voice still a tired rasp as she looked up at Adagio.
"It seems miss Juniper Montage has decided to pay us a visit." Adagio answered with a somewhat mischievous smile. Aria finally removing her head from adagio's lap and stretching out her arms before looking over at the nervous girl fidgeting with her glasses.
"s'up?" Aria asked looking over at the girl.
"W-well, ahh--y-you see-I-I" Juniper stuttered still finding the courage to say what needed to be said.
Sunset seeing the poor girl was having a hard time finding her words nearly walked-up to her and put her hand on Juniper's shoulder. "Hey, it's OK, whatever you have to tell us, we're here for you" Sunset reassured the girl despite still not being sure what this was all about.
Juniper just nodded and closed her eyes as she let out a deep breath before continuing. "I-I THINK SONATA'S IN TROUBLE!!" She shouted at the top of her lungs. This of course got the remaining Dazzlings attention as both Adagio and Aria stared dead straight at Juniper.
"You think what now?" Adagio asked to make sure she had heard the now shaking girl properly.
"I-I think Sonata might be in trouble" Juniper repeated.
"And why do you think that?" Adagio asked in a rather stern and serious tone.
"A-at the movie the other night, I-I overhead Sandalwood and his friend. T-they're going on a camping trip today, but-but that's not the problem." Juniper paused as she took a deep gulp before continuing her story. "They, they mentioned something about bringing some kind of drug, not just beer or pot or anything like that. I-I think they're gonna ruffy Sonata and rape her!" Juniper finished as she shook even harder afraid of how the others in the room would react to the news.
Sunset was in shock, she knew the girl obviously needed help with something, but this is not what she was expecting. Sunset looked over at Adagio & Aria who were also just staring at Juniper uncertain of how to process the information.
All of a sudden Aria got up of the couch and and walked straight up to Juniper. "Is this a sick joke?" The siren seriously asked the frightened girl.
"N-no, I-i'm telling the truth" Juniper whined.
"Well, then...." Aria paused as the gemstone in her palm began to glow and she levitated her old outfit over to her and like magic changed back into her old cloths her pigtails now restored and on top of that a shiny pair of brass knuckles seemingly appering out of nowhere. "Looks like I finally get to kick that loser's ass after all!" Aria smiled as she looked back at her big sister. "C'mon Dag, let's go." Aria commanded with an evil smile on her face.
"Sure, not like we have anything better to do" Adagio non-chelauntly replied as she put down her magazine and confidently strutted towards the front door.
"uh, before we leave maybe it would be good to know where we're going" Sunset remind the two as they started to head out the door.
"Oh, yea...right." the two replied realizing they had gotten ahead of themselves everyone looking over at Juniper again.
"Oh-w-well I-I think they said they were going to the old rusty horseshoe hill camping sight out at Whitetail Woods" Juniper nervously replied.
"Whitetail woods eh" Sunset replied "That's even farther out of town then Everfree, even if we catch all the buses on time it'll still take a little over two hours to get out there" Sunset sighed.
"Well then, what are we waiting for Bacon-head, lets get going!" Aria shouted as she ran out the door, Adagio following close behind as Juniper also panicked and followed suite running out the door. Sunset just sighed "Never a dull moment I guess" she chuckled as she too ran out slamming the door behind.
Meanwhile at the campsite.....
"Ugg, why'd we have to come out here so early. I thought you said we weren't coming till later." Sonata moaned as she helped Sandalwood set things up
"I know babe, I know" He chuckled looking over at the rather discontent siren. "But what can I say, I just love nature and the rest of the gang said they couldn't wait either" he replied with a smile as he finished putting up the last of three rather large tents.
"Well then where is everyone" Sonata huffed not sure she felt Sandalwood's answer was satisfactory.
"Oh, they should be on there way any second now" He calmly replied. "Until then how about a snack break?" He asked the bubbly siren girl with a smile.
"Oh, snacks, yes! I love snacks!" Sonata cheered in response.
"Haha, that's what I thought" Sandalwood chuckled in reply as he reached into his bag and pulled out a square pink box. "And I got a special one for you right here babe, A Cupcake from Sugarcube corner, specially made with all the best stuff just for you" He smiled as he opened the box and revealed the rather delicious looking confection inside.
"Wow, just for me!?" Sonata smiled "You're the best sandy!" She cheered as she grabbed the box and looked hungrily at the cupcake inside.
"Haha, I know babe, I know" Sandalwood replied giving off a devious smile while Sonata had her attention focused solely on the cupcake, licking her lips preparing to take a bite.
Back in Canterlot City.....
"Ugg, why is this bus so damn slow!?" Aria growled as she kicked the back of the seat in front of her, which was thankfully empty.
"Calm down Aria, don't worry, we'll get to Sonata in time, I promise" Sunset tried to reassure the siren.
"Whatever, i'm not worried about Sonata, she can take care of herself" Aria retorted, Sunset merely giving her one of those "Really" kind of looks with her eyebrow raised and a sarcastic smile.
"OK, maybe i'm a little worried about Sonata, but i'm mostly just looking forward to smashing her boy toy's face into a pulp!" Aria grumpily replied with a blush.
"Yes I imagine mangling those meatheads will be quite cathartic for you, and potentially the rest of us as well" Adagio chuckled as she looked over at the rest of the group.
"I-I've n-never been in a f-fight before" Juniper nervously replied.
"Hey, don't worry about it" Sunset softly sighed as she put her hand on Juniper's shoulder. "No one is going to make you fight anybody, you've done enough already, if you wanna get off at the next stop we'll understand, The Dazzlings and I have got this" Sunset softly spoke as she smiled at Juniper.
The green girl just gulped "N-no, I-i'm gonna see this through, y-you girls are my friends too after all...right?" Juniper nervously asked looking over at the rest of her bus buddies.
"Of course" Sunset smiled
"Well, you did give us those movie tickets the other day, so sure" Adagio agreed
"Yea, I guess, whatever" Aria reluctantly replied.
"OK, then let's do this. Let's save Sonata!" Juniper cheered as she confidently raised her hand up to her face and clinched her palm into a fist.
Back at the campsite.
The prepreations had been finished and Sonata looked over at Sandalwood who was chatting with C.P., Treehugger and the rest as they prepared the wood for the fire. There was also about five or six people Sonata had never seen before, but judging from their jackets she guessed some were from Crystal Prep and a few others maybe from the Canterlot Community College. "Huh, wonder what they're doing here?" She thought to herself as she did her best to ignore the growing feeling of dizziness inside her.
"Whoa, wha.." she stammered as she tumbled to the ground barely catching herself with her hands.
"hey, you OK?" she heard a voice ask her. Looking-up she noticed it seemed to be one of the community college kids.
"I-I'm fine I think." Sonata replied "J-just feeling a little weak is all" she finished as she took the young girls hand and let the lady help her up.
"Thanks for helping me up" Sonata softly smiled. "I'm Sonata" she introduced herself as she extended out her hand.
"Oh yes dear, we all know who you are." the slightly older girl smiled. as she shook Sonata's hand in kind.
"My names Snowflower and Sandalwood has told us all about you" she cooed as she bit her lip and rubbed her hand over her snow white hair that accented her light blue skin quite well.
Sonata just paused for a minute unsure of how to respond so she just let out a small nervous chuckle as she thanked the girl once again and continued on her way.
"Hey Sandy" Sonata asked as she approached the boy she believed to be her beau. "Who are all these other people, I-i've never seen them before?" Sonata asked nervously. Sandalwood just turned around and smiled. "Ah, they're just some friends babe. Here for the same reason as the rest of us, to enjoy the bounty of nature." He chuckled looking down at the now somewhat uncertain siren.
"Oh-OK, well, I guess that makes sense" Sonata replied though soon another spell of dizziness hit her as she wobbled and fell into Sandalwood's torso.
"You OK babe?" The boy asked trying to hide the excitement in his tone.
"Uh-yea-no, I dunno Sandy-I-I just feel kind of weak" She rasped in reply
"Haha-looks like it's workin faster then you expected man" C.P. laughed looking over at Sandalwood "Who knew Siren's were such light weights"
"Wha-what?" Sonata nervously asked.
"Damn it C.P. she wasn't supposed to know yet." Treehugger replied slapping him in the back of the head.
"Well nothing we can do about it now" Sandalwood sighed as his grip around Sonata tightened.
"Hey, everybody, Fun starts early today!" He shouted for all the others at the campsite to hear. The group just cheering in reply.
"Wha-no-what, what's going on?" Sonata asked feeling ever weaker and confused. "Le-let go, I-I don't like this Sandy, what are you doing?" She sobbed as she could feel Sandalwood dragging her to one of the tents as her now blurring vision saw the others following behind.
Adagio, Aria, Juniper and Sunset got off the final bus which had brought them to the entrance of the White tail woods.
"phew, we finally made it!" Sunset sighed in relief
"Yea, now..." Aria paused as she cracked her knuckles "Lets go kick some ass!" She smiled as she looked down at her brass knuckles.
"If they touch a single hair on Sonata's head so help me not even the pits of Hades will save them from my wrath" Adagio sternly stated
"And...I...I'll help too" Juniper nervously chimed in.
"OK girls, lets do this." Adagio smiled as she looked at the forest ahead and began to trek forward.
"Don't worry Sonata, we're coming" Aria thought to herself as she followed beside her sister.
Sonata's head felt funny and everything around her was fuzzy. Despite that however she could feel hands touching her and attempting to remove her clothing. She did her best to fight back weakly kicking and whining, unable to move her hands however as they were tied to the pole in the center of the tent. "Sth-shtap" she weakly slurred as tears began to well up in her eyes as she could feel her boots and socks being removed, one of the other campers tickling them and laughing at her out of spite. "Wh-why?" Sonata asked as she continued to sob.
"Like I said babe, we're all here for nature's bounty, and today that just happens to be you." Sandalwood laughed as he undid Sonata's skirt revealing her pink and purple stripped panties beneath as Treehugger began to unbutton her top shirt revealing the skin tight pink t-shirt beneath. "P-please-no" Sonata continued to beg as tears rolled down her cheeks.
"Aww, don't worry babe, just give it a chance, eventually you'll come to love it" Sandalwood smiled as he looked at the sad siren and rubbed her cheek knowing by now she was to weak to bite back.
All of a sudden the group heard a loud roar from the center of the campsite.
"What was that?" C.P. asked in a panic looking over at Sandalwood.
"I du..." Sandalwood attempted to respond before the group was once again frozen in fear at the loud noise.
Treehugger just looked over at Sandalwood "Y-you don't think that it-its her..." the girl stopped with a gulp.
"No way, how, how would they even know we're here!" he tried to reassure himself. His temporary calm once again broken as they heard a loud booming voice.
"OK shroomheads, we know you're here. Now give us back our sister and there won't be any trouble" Adagio's voice echoed throughout the campsite.
"Shit it is them!" Snowflower whinned looking over at the rest of her group of college and crystal prep guests.
"J-just stay here, i'll handle this" Sandalwood tried to reassure the group as he nervously exited the tent.
"S'up girls, what brings you here?" Sandalwood asked as he looked at the group consisting of Adagio, Aria, Sunset and Juniper.
"Cut the crap bean head!" Aria growled "Give us Sonata...NOW!" she angrily scowled at the teen.
"I dunno what you mean, Sonata wants to be here with us, I mean, we're here real friends after all" Sandalwood deviously smiled.
"OK, that's it, ass kicking time!" Aria screeched ready to pounce before Sunset held her back.
"Wait" Sunset replied as she moved to the front of the group.
"Sandalwood, listen, whatever it is you think you're doing here, what ever all this is, it's wrong, I know you know it's wrong, if what Juniper told us is true, if you are really planning on doing something that horrendous to Sonata, just...don't OK, hurting others, in any way, it leaves a scar, a scar that never fully goes away." Sunset begged remembering her days as a brute and a bully.
Sandalwood just chuckled "Haha, that's cute and all Sunset, but outhere the only laws we obey are the laws of nature" Sandalwood chuckled "And right now i'm in the mood to mate" He deviously smiled.
Sunset just looked at the young man in disgust. "OK Aria....kick his ass!" Sunset replied as she let go of the already angry siren and Aria ran towards the creep as her gem began to glow and she ponied-up right as her brass knuckles connected with is face.
"Ahh, you bitch!" Sandalwood shouted as he fell back on his behind.
"Guys, I could really use some help out here!" he shouted as the rest of the creepy campers came running out of the tent.
"well, this is a bit more then I expected" Adagio angrily smirked looking at the group seeing it wasn't just Sandalwood's posse but some Crystal Prep and community college kids as well. "No matter, still no challenge for me." Adagio chuckled as she too ponied up and slowly yet confidently walked towards the group a smile of pure evil on her face as thoughts of tearing her enemies to shreds entered her mind.
"And what about you?" Juniper nervously asked looking at Sunset.
"Yea, I..I can't really pony up unless the rest of my friends are here with me." Sunset blushed.
"Well, OK what do we do then?" Juniper nervously asked.
"Well i'll still do my best to help Aria & Adagio, you sneak into the tent and get Sonata, given that's the one they all came out of I'm guessing that's where they're holing her." Sunset explained. Juniper just gulped and nodded her head in agreement as the two both ran and made a break towards there respective goals
"ch-chill out!" Treehugger shouted as Aria clawed and slashed at the girl
"Sorry honey, you messed with the wrong sirens, now sit still and take your just desserts" Adagio angrily growled.
L-let's get out of here!" Snowflower shouted at her group as they attempted to run off finding themselves blocked by Sunset
"G-get out of our way!" The panicked girl demanded.
"Sorry can't do that" Sunset replied with a mocking smile.
"W-well then w'ell make you." Snowflower nervously exclaimed.
"You're welcome to try, but you know, even without my magical powers i'm still a black belt in three different martial arts." Sunset proudly exclaimed as the group just nervously backed away. "We are so fucked" Snowflower whined as Sunset cracked her knuckles.
C.P. heard the noise outside unsure of what to do, he had stayed back to watch Sonata but was worried his friends might need help. All of a sudden he felt a sudden pain in the back side of his head as he heard a thwack sound and everything went black.
"wow, I didn't think hitting someone on the back of the head with a frying pan would actually work like it did in the cartoons!" Juniper nervously chuckled in surprise before turning her attention to Sonata, the girl half-undressed and sobbing.
"Don't worry Sonata, i'm a friend of your sisters and i'm here to help." Juniper reassured the scared girl as she did her best to put her cloths back on properly before getting her untied.
After a good and rather cathartic beat-down of the group of creeps Aria and the rest of the group had managed to round-up and tie-up the entire crew.
"Well those guys were just pathetic" Aria mocked looking down at the group of mostly unconscious creepers.
"Well, what now?" Adagio asked. "We can't exactly call the police, I mean what would we say? Hello officer i'm a magical creature from another dimension and I just used my magical powers to beat-up a bunch of losers that tried to rape my sister?"
"Well" Sunset pondered "We could tie them each-up to a tree and leave them to fend for themselves, I mean they do love nature after all" The bacon haired teen chuckled
"I like the way you think Ms. Shimmer, I like the way you think." Adagio deviously smiled looking down at the compilation of clowns.
"He, either way they'll think twice before they mess with us again" Aria triumphantly added.
Suddenly the group heard some rustling and saw Juniper coming out of the tent with Sonata who was still quite weak from the drugged cupcake she had ingested. Sonata looked-up and saw her sisters as she began to weep once more and used the last of her energy to run towards them, falling into Aria's arms.
"A-a-Ari-I-I-I'm-s-sorry, you, you were-r-ri-right." Sonata sobbed as she wrapped her arms around the smallest siren sister.
Aria just chuckled "You know I don't know if I should kill you or kiss you right now" she replied. Sonata just looked at her sister and pouted giving her the most pathetic look imaginable. Aria just blushing pushed her off and towards Adagio "here Dag, you take her." Aria huffed.
"OK, fair enough" Adagio replied as she turned around and motioned for Sonata to climb-up on to her back. The still weak siren doing her best to comply.
"Now c'mon girls, let's go home" Adagio chuckled as she motioned for Aria to follow. Sunset and Juniper slowly following behind.
Author's Notes:
Well, what a penultimate chapter.
And in case you're wondering yes Juniper called the cops from a payphone on Sandalwood and co after they got back to town, tipping them off as an anonymous source.
C.P. doesn't have brain damage from the frying pan because he doesn't have a brain to damage.
No none of the Crystal Prep students were ones you'd be familiar with, just random background kids, some goes for the college students.
Next chapter, The Dazzlings bond and make-up. Some minor sauce ensues.
Finale: Sisterly Bonding
Aria, Adagio & Sonata set exhausted on the couch. Sunset had agreed to walk Juniper home as the girl was still nervous from the whole ordeal.
"So, what now?" Adagio asked looking over to each of her sisters sitting symmetrically to her left and right side respectively.
"I-I could really use a bath" Sonata moaned as she was slowly getting over the effects of whatever had been in that cupcake Sandalwood had drugged her with.
"Yea, I think I got some of those punks blood in my hair, would really like to get that cleaned out" Aria agreed.
"OK, then a bath it is" Adagio cooed as she slowly got-up and motioned for her sisters to do the same.
Inside Sunset's bathroom the three looked around as they slowly got undressed. like the rest of the loft the room was quite spacious, having both a shower easily large enough for a small group to fit in and a Jacuzzi style tub more then large enough for the three sirens to share. Aria looked over at her sisters and did her best not to blush. Human or Siren Adagio's tall regal appearance was admirable in any form. Not to mention her thicc hips were enough to make anyone jealous, and while not as busty as sonata she was still larger then Aria's almost flat front. Sonata of course was just as busty as she was bubbly, and of course thanks to all the sweets she had snacked on since befriending pinkie she had plenty of junk in the trunk as well. Aria looked at herself in the mirror "leave it to them to make me self conscious" she sighed as she looked at her messy hair still rather ruffled from the fight, and actually did have a bit of her enemies blood in it. It's not that she saw herself as ugly mind you, she knew that plenty of people were attracted to the whole Lolita-punk thing, but again she still couldn't help but fill inadiquite next to her sisters.
"Hey Ari!" Sonata cooed snapping her sister out of her thoughts. Come on in the water's great!" Sonata smiled as she splashed water out of the tub onto the tile as Adagio scolded her telling her not to make a big mess for Sunset to have to clean up.
"Yea, yea i'm coming" Aria huffed as she walked towards the tub.
After their rather relaxing and bubble filled bath the three sirens felt more relaxed and at ease then they had in quite some time. opting to just go ahead and put their Pajama's on as they didn't have any plans to leave the loft again today and instead just turned on the TV flipping to some old movie as they plopped down onto the couch.
After the movie ended Adagio just turned off the TV and looked at both of her sisters. "So, now that everything's calmed down a bit either of you have anything you want to say to each other, maybe something you need to get out of your systems?" Adagio asked both of them as the two looked at her rather reluctant to answer.
"OK, both of you stand-up right now and let it out or neither of you get dinner tonight" Adagio scolded using as serious a voice as she could without chuckling.
"Fine" Aria reluctantly agreed as she stood up and Sonata without saying anything did the same, the two girls now facing each other.
"And begin!" Adagio announced as if they were performers having to please their queen.
Sonata just sighed. "Listen, Ari-I-I know I said some mean things to you the other day, I-I went over the line. But, I-it's not like I was wrong, i'm tired of you picking on me all the time. I mean, i'm really glad you were there to save me today, but..." Sonata paused unsure of what to say next.
"Hey, it's OK, I know, you're right" Aria replied to Sonata's surprise. "Yeah, I can be a real bitch sometimes, but you can see why now, right" Aria mockingly smiled.
"Not really...No" Sonata replied.
"What!?" Aria growled. "Today proved you suck at making decisions! You almost got your stupid ass raped and you're still going to act like i'm the bad guy!" Aria angrily huffed.
"That's not what I mean!" Sonata angrily pouted "I'm really glad that you and Adagio and the others came to save me, I am, but it's your fault I even got in that situation in the first place!" Sonata huffed
"MY FAULT!" Aria screeched"
"Yes, you always treat me like garbage, can you blame me for trusting someone that said they actually loved me!?" Sonata replied as she began to sob.
Aria just paused as she stared at her sister. "Y-you idiot" Aria replied as she began to cry as well "I-I just wanted to protect you!"
"What?" Sonata asked as she wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Everyone just thinks i'm the angry one, but i'm not!" Aria huffed. "Adagio's our leader, she's got so much on her plate, and then there's you, just the bubbly happy girl willing to make friends with anyone. So where does that leave me. Sonata I love you, you and Adagio, if I seem mean it's just because i'm trying to protect my sisters!" Aria explained. "I know I let it get out of hand, I know I got too cruel, too controling, I almost let you get hurt by being overprotective. But damn it Sonata, don't you ever say I don't love you and Adagio, you two are the whole fucking world to me!!" Aria sobbed as she finished and shook her fists clinched.
"A-Ari-I-I had no Idea" Sonata stammered. All of a sudden her look of surprise turning into one of into mischievous delight as she walked straight-up withing an inch of Aria.
"Wh-what" Aria asked a bit freaked out.
Sonata merely said nothing as she kissed Aria's forehead. The smallest siren sister now blushing on both cheeks "Wha-what the hell was that for!?" Aria screamed
"Just an experiment." Sonata chuckled "You just said you loved us so I wanted to see what way you meant, looks like I was right" Sonata chuckled.
"G-get over yourself, of course I love my friends and family" Aria blushed.
"Hehe, Dagi come over here and help me out!" Sonata begged.
"Sonata I know where you're going with this and i'm not sure I approve. You do know our classmates already gossip about us being in some kind of creepy incestuous relationship as is." Adagio replied with a huff
"Yea, but don't you think Aria deserves a reward for her emotional honesty" Sonata argued giving a faux-innocent expression.
Adagio just let out a deep sigh as she slowly stood-up. "Fine, but i'm only doing this once. Aria, come here" Adagio commanded the purple siren. Aria reluctantly replying.
"You did a good job today little one" Adagio cooed as she rubbed Aria's chin and then proceeded to give her a deep passionate kiss right on the lips. Aria responding with her whole face turning red and as Adagio's tongue mingled with her own. After being freed from her leaders embrace the poor girl collapsed right on the couch.
"hehe, I think she liked that" Sonata chuckled.
Adagio just looked over at Sonata and then back at Aria still recuperating on the couch. "Well if there's anything to be said from all this at least I learned how to better keep these two under control" Adagio internally reassured herself.
"Well then, I guess we need to set some new ground rules" Adagio confidently stated.
"Sonata, you can befriend whomever you like, but please do pass them by us and the Rainbooms first, we don't need an ordeal like this happening again. Also if you have a grievance with either I or Aria please do tell us instead of running off to move in with a potential rapist, ok!?" Adagio huffed looking over at her bubbly sister.
"OK, I promise no more running off or making friends without checking with you guys first. Cross My Heart, Hope To Fry, Stick a Cupcake in my Eye!" Sonata promised doing the gestures Pinke Pie had taught her.
"And as for you Aria" Adagio seductively cooed. "You can be as bitchy to those silly little humans as you want, but do try to be nicer to Sonata and The Rainbooms from now on. If you do, I don't mind...rewarding you for good behavior" Adagio seductively exclaimed as she smiled deviously at the small purple siren.
"OK Dag, whatever you say" Aria replied her face still beet red.
"Good, then its settled, The Dazzlings are back in business! Now c'mon girls let's break out that wine Sunset thinks we don't know she has and celebrate!" Adagio cheered as she walked towards the kitchen area.
Some time later Sunset returned to her apartment to see her kitchen a mess with her what she thought was her secret store of wine opened with glasses both empty and half full sitting on her kitchen table. On the couch now made out into a bed Adagio slept with Aria curled-up as close as possible to her right side her arms wrapped around Adagio's torso and Sonata on Adagio's left tightly grasping her arm.
Sunset just looked down at the sleeping sirens.
"ha, yep, never a dull moment with these three" she chuckled as she headed towards the kitchen to clean-up the mess.
Author's Notes:
Yay, story completed.
Overall I had planned to have a slightly saucier ending but then felt that might be in bad taste. So a Kisses are all you get as a prize this time Aria. Sorry.
Anywho thanks for reading. Next week starts my focus going back to MLP:FIM/Movie based stories, but fret not because more Dazzling and general EQG stories will come about in 2018. Thanks again for reading and as per always will come back and fix errors later on!
P.S. Yes I know I can't decide if I want to ship Adagio with Juniper or not, i'm indecisive, don't hate me, at least we got SciSet down pat. And yea Aria still has some feeling to work through towards her sisters, but we have plenty of time to work that out later on.....
Again thanks for reading and hope you'll stick around for future stories.
