Sunset woke up at about one that afternoon and stretched. She opened the blinds in her room and blinded herself. The son shone brightly through the window and into the room. The sun reflected off the T.V. and into Sunset’s eyes. She covered her eyes and moved out of the way of the suns ray. After she recovered from being blinded, she grabbed some clothes and went through her normal routine after waking. She went to the bathroom, had a shower and brushed her teeth and hair. After finishing up in the bathroom, she grabbed her purse and left her bedroom.
The small home big enough for two people was far to quiet for Sunset’s liking. She walked down the hallway; passed through the living room and went straight to the kitchen. She pulled out a pot and filled it with water before setting it on the stove. “I should probably make sure that Sonata is still here.”
Sunset walked into the living room and nearly bumped into Sonata. Sonata was a mess. Her hair was frazzled and sticking up like a balloon had been taken to it. Her shirt was slipping down her left arm while the other side was hugging her neck. The makeup she wore was smeared across her face. Sonata hadn’t looked like this last night, had she? It didn’t really matter. “So Sonata, I thought I would warm up some tea for us if you’d like.” Sunset then hit her forehead with her palm. “You know what; I need to go speak with my friends this morning about a job for you. I doubt that you would be able to get a job anywhere else unfortunately.” Sunset’s eyes widened when she realized what she had said. “I’m so sorry, that was rude. You know what, eat whatever you want. Just don’t touch the peanut butter crackers. I’ll never hear the end of it if those are gone when Trixie gets back.”
It was shortly after the battle of the bands when both Trixie and Sunset reluctantly moved in together. Unfortunately for both of them, they needed each other. Trixie needed help to pay the rent and her father refused to continue to help pay it. As for Sunset, she really needed a place to stay other than at a friend’s home. It wasn’t a pleasant situation, the two of them were always on each others nerves but it was better than nothing.
Sonata shrugged and sat down in the kitchen. “I’ll see you later then.” Sunset opened the door and picked up her phone to make a call. The phone rang as she shut the door behind her and walked away. After a few rings, Sunset realized that she forgot her wallet back at the house on her nightstand and then Pinkie answered. “Hey Pinkie, I have a question for you. I was just on my way out to go meet with you in person.” Sunset was about to turn the knob on the door when she heard a painful scream come from inside. She dropped her phone and ran inside leaving Pinkie talking to no one. “Sonata, what’s?”
Sunset stopped dead in her tracks at the sight before her. Sonata held a bloody knife in hand and her wrists had been cut pretty badly. Blood dripped from the knife and drained from Sonata’s wrists. Sunset turned and picked up her phone from outside and hung up on Pinkie who was still talking. She quickly dialed 911 and ran to grab some medical supplies. She reached the medical cabinet when someone picked up. “Hello, I have an emergency.” Sunset gave her address explained what she knew as she grabbed what she thought she needed. Once the ambulance was on the way, she ran back to the kitchen and over to Sonata.
Sonata was now passed out on the floor soaking up her blood with her shirt. “Sonata, you idiot, why would you do something like this?” Sunset did everything she knew how to do without causing more harm and waited while making calls to her friends.
It was hours later and Sonata woke up with tubes in her arms. Her vision was a bit blurry but she had lost a lot of blood, so it was to be expected. To her left was a blurry red and yellow puffball. Once her vision returned to normal and she could see who was next to her, she glared. “You, you called the ambulance. Why would you do that, I should be dead right now!” Sonata screamed.
“Good to see you awake.” Sunset said setting the remote to the T.V. down and turned to Sonata. Sunset was going to get some answers right now. She knew that Sonata was upset and all but this was unexpected and unacceptable. “You may not feel good right now Sonata but I’m tired of this. You’re constantly angry with me for trying to help you and now this? Do you realize the trouble that would have caused for me if anyone would have found you dead other than me? More importantly, why Sonata? I think I deserve some answers from you after the stunt you pulled. If there isn’t a good explanation for this, you will be sent somewhere I’m sure you don’t want to be; possibly a mental institute and I will suggest it just to get you help. I don’t want you to end up somewhere like that but I don’t want to see you hurt yourself either, so spill it.” Sunset wasn’t going to let Sonata go this time. She just hopped this wasn’t the wrong decision.
Sonata was about to ask why she should say anything but the last thing she needed was to have someone watch over her twenty four-seven. “It’s not fair; you just couldn’t let me leave this world could you? I just wanted it to end ok.”
“Wanted what to end Sonata?”
“The dreams and the memories the mark brings me. There is so much that you just don’t know and you were never supposed to know. Everything brings on pain and sadness. I don’t want to tell you anything but-” Sonata let out a heavy sigh. “I have to now no thanks to you. I was supposed to have been dead when you arrived back but you just wouldn’t let me go.” Sonata put her head against the headboard and let tears slip down her cheeks. She felt a hand on hers and looked at Sunset angrily. She pulled her hand away and looked away. “Here’s the deal Sunset, I lost so much at the age of ten but it really all began when I turned five.”
“This mark was none existent until I turned five. My mother came into my room and when she saw it, she was thrilled.” Sonata burst into a full blown cry as she spoke. “I didn’t know why it made her so happy but it did. When I asked her about it, she said that she didn’t think I would ever get the mark. Of course it wasn’t the answer I was looking for and so I asked again. She didn’t explain more than that and said I would find out at the age of ten. It was at that age that I was supposed to meet with Princess Celestia but when we reached the meeting place.” Sonata paused for a minute or so before she continued. Sunset could tell this wasn’t easy for Sonata but she needed to hear if she was going to help, though it was getting hard to listen to. Maybe she didn’t want to hear more, she could tell where the story was going. “When my mother and I got to the meeting place, a large griffon attacked my mother and ripped her apart. I wanted to go help my mother but Celestia showed up and attacked the griffon. I was already having a hard time getting to her because I didn’t have my land legs, few sirens do. I never saw how the battle turned out because I was dragged away and knocked out. When I woke up, I was in an orphanage with two girls beside me, Adagio and Aria. They told me they could help me and all I had to do is trust them.”
Sunset couldn’t take it anymore; she had to stop Sonata from talking. “Sonata, stop.” Sunset would have got up and walked away but after everything she said, she couldn’t bring herself to just walk out.
“No, you wanted to know so badly then you’ll know.” Sonata’s crying faded and was replaced by anger. “Now as I was saying, they told me to trust them. I said no at first but then I would get asked about the marking by other orphans. I’ve had to move from one place to another because sirens would find out about my mark and ask questions about it. All the questions did was remind me of my mother. I never even got to go to her funeral.” Sonata wiped her tears away and noticed Sunset do the same. “This is why I get upset when the marking is brought up and why I had no problem accepting there offer when they asked again. They followed me everywhere I went, so I said why not. They weren’t going to leave me alone. I have no idea why they were always so interested in me.” Sonata found herself getting off topic and shook her head. “Anyway, back to the story. The mark brings up memories of my mother and so I try to ignore it. Adagio and Aria distracted me from it. Until recently, I’ve been ok but then you and your stupid friends ruined everything for me, especially you. Now the memory of her on the sand bleeding to death haunts me. No matter what I do, that is the only memory I can seem to remember. I used to remember words she would say that would help but those words don’t anymore.”
“Sonata, I’m so, so sorry.” Sunset said trying not to cry.
“You are not sorry, no one is ever sorry. This mark was something happy for my mother but it only brings me pain. NOW GET OUT AND LEAVE ME BE!” Sonata screamed and Sunset ran out of the room. Sonata was about to lie down and sleep when five others walked into the room. “Great, what do you want?”
Rarity stepped forward and spoke softly and kindly toward Sonata. “Would you be a dear and tell us why Sunset upsets you so much?”
Sonata turned her head toward the window and let out a heavy sigh. “I hate her because this is all her fault.”
Rainbow walked up next to Rarity and put her hands on the bed. “Now hold on, she didn’t put you in here, you did that yourself.”
“You really don’t get it do you? It’s her fault we failed. She was the one to suspect us of something. She was the one to call that princess and if it wasn’t for her, you would have lost even with that princess. She was the cause of everything that happened to me. I would have never been kicked out if not for her. She ruined my life, so yes, I hate her.” The five stood there in an uncomfortable pregnant silence. It felt like forever before someone spoke. “Well?” Sonata had expected someone to chew her out for her feelings toward Sunset but no one did.
“We’re sorry that you feel that way Sonata. How about we change the topic and asked about the reason for what Adagio and Aria did. It’s something we’ve been curious about.” Rarity asked as she took a seat on the edge of the bed. “Would you mind telling us why they would go to the news and tell everyone what they had planned? I don’t know much about villainy but I’m pretty sure that there is a reason for spilling the beans as it were. What’s the reason for all of this?”
“You want me to betray them?” Sonata glared at the five before her.
“Didn’t they betray you first?” Applejack asked.
Sonata opened her mouth to speak but there were no words. Applejack was right, she was betrayed and there was no reason to defend Adagio or Aria anymore. “Ok, I guess I’ll start from the beginning.”
“Thank you.” Fluttershy whispered but it didn’t go unnoticed.
“I’ve never been thanked for anything before.” Sonata let a smile grow from ear to ear. “Ok, so it all started a few weeks after the battle of the bands. Adagio had a plan on how to get revenge on this world and take over Equestria afterward. The only problem was finding the gems to hold our magic in once we restored it. To do that requires the rarest of gems. We went from jeweler to jeweler that had the desired gems but I messed up every time. There was only one place left to go for rare objects. We heard of someone named Zecora but she lived in some deadly forest. She carries the rarest of the rare gems. See, the rarer the gem, the more powerful we become, I think. Maybe it was color and not rarity.” Sonata tapped her chin and wondered why they needed rare gems. When she really thought about it, she really didn’t know anything about her own race except for what Adagio told her.
“Could you just get on with it?” Rainbow asked getting impatient.
“Right, so anyway, they kicked me out but you already know that. I know the entire plan though. I suppose I should have started with that.”
Rainbow leaned toward AJ and whispered in her ear. “I question what she really knows.” AJ just shrugged.
“Adagio said that she would announce to the world what they would be doing in order to create chaos. Imagine what the world would turn into if they knew of magic and a portal that three people would go through to get power so that they could take over. At least it was three at the time the plan was thought up. Now it’s down to two.”
“Of course, can you imagine what people would do with that info? The world would be thrown into a panic but how does that help you exactly?” Pinkie asked as she threw her hands into the air and ran in a circle four times before coming to a stop.
Sonata turned on the T.V. and flipped to the news in hopes that there would be an example. To her luck, the school was the focus of the news. She pointed behind Rarity and the others. “Here we are at Canterlot High School. It looks like the principal of the school has tied herself to the portal.” It was the same news lady that spoke with Adagio and Aria. She waved the cameraman over as she walked toward Celestia. “Excuse me, there are many people wondering why?”
Celestia looked at the news lady. “No one destroys this portal without killing me first.”
“There are world leaders angry and frightened. Why would you protect something that holds such dangers?”
“Easy, there is someone on the other side of this portal doing everything she can to keep those sirens from returning. The danger is minimal and there is no reason to destroy the portal when we’re safe. Even if I’m wrong, how do we know that there aren’t other threats in this world from the other side? The only person able to help us is on the other side of this portal and to destroy it would only hurt us more. That’s why I protect the portal.” Celestia said.
“Ok, enough of this news stuff, let’s just talk like normal people here.” The news lady said. “Why should we trust you, I surely don’t want this portal here and I’m sure there are those willing to kill you just to destroy the portal.” Sonata turned the T.V. off and waited for the five girls to turn around before speaking.
“You see the disharmony in all this, imagine the power they will have once they get back and all they had to do was talk to a news person. All the anger built up just because they spoke to the world. Whether they believe it or not, people won’t take the chance on what Adagio and Aria said actually being true. I don’t know how they would get their power back but they will and everyone on earth is screwed.” Without further questioning, the five girls thanked Sonata for the info and ran out of the room.