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!!