I spent most of my time pacing that night. The Dazzlings were fast asleep, but I couldn't. Not after my little swim meet with Adagio. No offense to Adagio. She was nice and had her way with me, and she knows how to be a Siren, but it was to a point where it was kind of threatening. Threatening to my pure innocence, and to keep this story PG clean. Let's just hope my time with Aria wasn't gonna be as flirty as before. I went below deck and back to bed to at least try to get some well-deserved rest, but not before writing this passage.
I awoke that morning to the bright blue light the sun was shining through our large waterfall. It was clear the Dazzlings were awake. I was the last one up. I hopped on deck and looked everywhere for them, but I couldn't. Even Aria, the one person I was supposed to spend the day with, went missing. I knew I had to go looking for her. I ran out of our little hidden hatch and headed into town, where I was sure to find Aria. The first thing that came to mind was to check the coffee shop where Aria works. After losing myself in town, I ran right into the coffee shop (thank you plot armor), and found Aria sitting by herself at one of the outside tables, sipping an iced coffee.
"There you are," I said, panting for air.
"What do you want?" Aria sighed, sipping her coffee. I could tell something was wrong.
"To find out what's wrong, first off," I said, moving my hand closer to comfort hers. But she took her hand away before I could do it.
"I just...can't," Aria said, avoiding eye contact. I can't tell where this spontaneous depression came from. She was totally fine, at least with me, before now.
"You will tell me," I said, waving my hand at her. She looked at me as if I was an idiot and turned away.
"Come on. Just tell me what's wrong," I begged before Aria turned to me as if she aimed laser eyes at me. She relented and turned away.
"I just feel like everything we do goes wrong," Aria said, taking a sip from her iced coffee.
"Well, you deserved it!" a voice called out from behind. Aria and I turned around to see Rainbow Dash confronting Aria as if she committed a heinous deed. Fluttershy peered from behind as if bracing for impact.
"I gotta be honest, I was kind of expecting you two to be here for some reason," I commented so I could keep my cool.
"Nevermind that. What do you think you're doing?" Rainbow Dash interrogated.
"I don't get what you mean," Aria replied, very much stressed out.
"Why are you still here? I'm surprised us breaking your little pendants didn't run you out of town," Rainbow Dash yelled, causing streams of tears to crawl down Aria's face.
"Umm, Rainbow, don't you think that's a bit much?" Fluttershy commented.
"Don't you think what she did was a bit much?" Rainbow Dash asked, further hurting Aria. Every word, every question, every thought pierced Aria like a sharp knife.
"Could you just leave me alone?" Aria asked, holding back tears.
"Not until you and the other Dazzlings just get out of here! Face it Aria: Nobody wants you here anymore!" Rainbow Dash yelled, and that was the point I have had it with inexplicable bully Rainbow Dash.
"I can kind of forgive you forgetting that I'm here, but you're just gonna have to leave her alone," I said, trying my best to not do anything crazy to Rainbow Dash. Then again, who's gonna stop me from doing that?
"Come on Rainbow Dash. Let's just go." Fluttershy said, pulling Rainbow Dash away. I sat down to comfort Aria. As I patted Aria on the back, Rainbow Dash was starting to cool off, until she tripped over a flea of all things. I snickered at the incident and turned Aria away from the Rainbooms.
"Now you listen here Aria, do not listen to anything the Rainbooms have to say," I explain to Aria as she finally turned towards me.
"What do you mean?" Aria asked as I wiped a tear from her face.
"Have you forgotten who you are, Aria Blaze?" I asked, chuckling at her question.
"I know exactly who I am. A pathetic disgrace who got what she deserved," Aria replied, pouting.
"EEERRR!! Wrong! You are a powerful siren with the heart of a fighter. Don't let that fighting spirit die down. At least for me, OK?" I said, holding Aria tight. Aria continued streaming tears down her face but gave me a big hug.
"Thank you," Aria said, as I tried hard to breath.
"You're welcome. See this is what I meant by fighting spirit. Could you uh...let me go now?" I said as Aria loosened her grip but still kept on hugging.
"Well, close enough," I said, as I decided to give in and hug back.
Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy stopped by the park, where they met up with Sunset Shimmer.
"Hey girls. What happened to you?" Sunset Shimmer asked, noting a large red scrape on Rainbow Dash's knee and another on her elbow.
"She tripped over a flea," Fluttershy said, patching her friend up.
"Huh? How did that happen?" Sunset Shimmer said, sitting by the two of them.
"I was talking with Aria, and her new boyfriend or whatever stepped in, and after that, a flea came out of nowhere and I tripped over it," Rainbow Dash recapped, holding still.
"Boyfriend? You mean that new guy following the Dazzlings around?" Sunset Shimmer asked.
"Yeah, I think so," Fluttershy said, diverting her attention away
"I tried to warn you, that guy has some sort of strange Equestrian Magic and is trying to restore the Dazzlings. We got to stop him," Sunset Shimmer said, as Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash looked at each other as if something bad is gonna happen.
"Well, how do you propose we stop him?" Rainbow Dash asked, getting up. Her arm and leg still stung from the wounds but brushed them off like many other wounds before that. Fluttershy stroked her chin as if noticing something.
"Hey, you notice how he always carry that book and pen around?" Fluttershy asked, causing Sunset to take note as well.
"Never thought about it until now. You think that's how he does it?" Sunset asked.
"Must be." Rainbow Dash said, also stroking her chin.
"We gotta inform the others," Sunset said, walking off. Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash followed her while Sunset texted the other three Rainbooms, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack.
"So you're saying you were thinking of having us visit the arcade?" Aria asked as I explained to her how different these events could have been.
"Yeah, pretty much. Just goes to show how difficult writing can be," I explain, scratching the back of my head. Aria held my hand all the way back home. We got inside the cave, where we saw Sonata in a green jumpsuit and hat sword dueling Adagio in a large red coat and black hat with a feather, and holding a toy hook. The four of us gave each other an awkward look.
"This isn't what it looks like," Sonata said, dangling from a rope.
"Honestly, it kinda is," Aria giggled, as the other two got out of their getup.
"So, how was your day?" Adagio asked as I looked within our remaining treasure for a cool sword like the one Adagio found.
"It wasn't what I expected, but it was nice. Just one thing though," I said, swishing a sword that I found. It wasn't the exact kind as Adagio found, but it'll do.
"What is it?" Sonata asked, messing with her green hat.
"We have to be careful of the Rainbooms. I just narrated their suspicion," I said, showing the previous scene to the Dazzlings.
"They're gonna plan something?" Adagio asked as Sonata gasped.
"Why didn't you narrate what they're planning?" Aria asked.
"Because their plan still has to come from my ideas. And right now, I have no idea what they're gonna be planning," I explained, continuing to jot all this down in my notebook.
"We can take it," Aria said, smiling with confidence. Where was Miss 3sad5me I saw an hour ago? I smiled along with her.
"Oh? How so?" I said as if we were preparing for battle.
"We may be down from the Battle of the Bands, but we are not out for the count," Aria said, causing Adagio and Sonata to nod.
"Now that's what I'm talking about!" I cheered, as Aria gave me a fist bump.
"What happens now?" Sonata asked as the four of us stood around awkwardly. A few minutes later, the four of us went swimming, because I couldn't think of a good way to end this chapter.