This story is a sequel to Return to Equestria

Ten years have passed since the death of Sonata Dusk and her sisters are living productive lives as unicorns in Equestria. When that ten year anniversary comes along, the most unlikely pony wants to find a way to revive her and bring her home. This will require one thing, a trip to visit Celestia to restore something she destroyed.

Source of cover art: https://www.deviantart.com/robocheatsy/art/Ponified-Sonata-Dusk-645848850

Rated teen for minor profanity.

Christmas is a special occasion that comes every year. For many, it is something that is experienced annually. For others however, not so much. The Dazzlings have not experienced such an occasion, perhaps this may be the first of many to come.

After a long day of school and band rehearsals, sometimes its just nice to sit back and relax with the one you love.

After waking up to more of Sonata Dusks' shenanigans, Aria Blaze gets angry. . .Very angry. . .But what for? And yet the Sirens all share a bed in a crappy house. She has no choice but to take out her excessive feelings on Sonata.

Sonata wakes up to find Adagio and Aria missing. She kinda sorta maybe totally freaks out.

It's that time of year again. The time of year where one Dazzling fills the home of the girls full of so much Christmas mirth the other two can barely stand it.

Like... for realzies... They're both completely sick of it.

Cover art used with permission from FJ-C.

It's been four months since the Dazzling's defeat, and the sirens are barely scraping by. However, when Sonata Dusk, youngest of the three sirens, discovers a new talent for hypnosis, nothing will stop her from getting exactly what she wants.

Life has been hard for Sonata for a while now. Ever since her sisters left on a journey to discover how to reinstate their magic, Sonata's been left alone, forced to sell the things she had in order to make ends meet. Still, Sonata knows things won't be this way forever. They will return for her once they've fixed their magic, and once they do, everything will get better, without a doubt.

Until then, she just needs to wait. No matter what, Sonata will see her sisters return once more. Even if she has to wait forever, even if has to stand outside selling everything she owns, and even if she has to do it all in the frozen temperatures of Canterlot's winter, she will live to see them return to her once more.

One way or another, she will see them again.

Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson's 'The Little Match Girl'.

Thanks to The Cynical Brony, Nagi-Muffin, LightningSword for pre-reading and general support. Without you, this story wouldn't exist.

Losing a friend it's never easy, especially when you aren't able to see this friend again so soon.

Sonata copes with Adagio's death the best way she can, standing and moving on, trying to make her sister in all but blood, proud of her, trying to make her life worth Adagio's sacrifice.

Adagio could just feel it. The magic, it soon all going to be hers. She and her sisters could finally rule above, and they would never, ever have to starve again. But then it all crashed when the Rainbooms unleashed their power, which was more stronger than the sirens' magic. Now Aria has to survive and take care of Sonata. She knows something is up with Sonata, but she couldn't do anything to stop it. Will they survive together? Or will everything around them burn and crumble?