//------------------------------// // Canterlot High (Sunset's Sanctuary) // Story: EquestriaBound Girls 2: The Journey for the Eight Magical Melodies // by Lucky Ness //------------------------------// "Wait!" Twilight yells. "What do you mean, Ness?" "Oh, about the Eighth Sanctuary? I'll explain more about it after we find Sunset's portion of Melody." Ness says, as he notices Pinkie Pie starting to shake. "I saw a bunch of classrooms!" She exclaims as she stops shaking. "Well, I guess that means we're headed back to Canterlot High." Sunset says as she gets on her motorcycle. -Back at Canterlot High- "So all we've got to do is get inside the building to get the Melody." Sunset says as the group consisting of ten girls, the Chosen Four, and Spike start walking towards the schools main doors. "That shouldn't be to hard. All we have to do is have Jeff use his Bad Key Machine to open the school's doors, and then we'll just walk right in." "All that might stand in our way is the guardian. This will probably be the hardest one yet. Each guardian I faced was stronger than the last. Some of the guardians didn't even face me alone." Ness says, remembering some of the harder guardians, like the Carbon Dog/Diamond Dog. Ness's recollection is cut short by a pair of voices. "What are you doing here this late at night?" "Vice Principal Luna?" Twilight says, noticing the purple skinned woman standing in front of the doorway to the building. "Principal Celestia?!" Sunset exclaims, having noticed the white skinned woman standing next to her sister. "These are the guardians!" Pinkie exclaims, starting to shake violently. "I can't fight the principal!" Sunset yells. "And you don't have to." Ness says. "Every enemy I found around a Sanctuary returned to their senses once I obtained the energy located there. So if you obtain the Melody, Luna and Celestia will be brought to their senses." He turns to look at Sunset and Jeff. "Take Jeff and run, Sunset. Run to the first door you find, and unlock it with the Bad Key Machine. The stone in your pocket will react the moment you set foot on your Sanctuary." He looks towards the others as Sunset leaves with Jeff. "This'll stop them, so they can get there." Ness says as reaches into his backpack and pulls out the Monkey's Love. He uses it, which encases the sisters in goo, robbing them of movement. ---- Sunset and Jeff ran as fast as they could around the side of the school, passing the soccer field where Rainbow obtained her portion of the Melody. They eventually find a door, and Jeff shoves one of the keys on the Bad Key Machine into the locking mechanism, unlocking the door in the process. "You'd better hurry and get that Melody. Ness won't be able to hold both of them off for long without hurting them, and that's even if he uses the Monkey's Love." He stands beside the door. "I'll wait here for you, in case the guardians show up. I can't let them keep you from getting the Melody." Sunset nods and enters the door. The moment she does the stone in her pocket starts to heat up and play another portion of the Melody. She heads back out after the heat dies down. "So you got the melody?" "Yep." "Good. Now lets go check on your Principal." ---- "Uh, Luna? How'd we get here? And what's this gunk that seems to be holding us in place." "Principal Celestia! Is it really you?" Twilight asks. "Yes it is. But what are you all doing here? And can someone please free us from this goo?" "I'll free you." Paula says as she casts PK Freeze over the goo, then smashes it with her frying pan. "Thank you." Celestia says to Paula before turning towards the girls. "Now what's going on here? It's not even light out." "We'll explain it to you. But be forewarned, it's a LONG story." Rainbow says as she starts to explain about Giygas and the Sanctuaries. Sunset and Jeff are just returning when Rainbow finishes her explanation. "Are you alright?" Sunset asks Celestia and Luna. "We're fine. But it sounds like you've got an evil alien to defeat, so we won't hold you long. Goodnight, Sunset." Luna says as she and Celestia head off towards their home. The group pays so much attention to them that they don't notice the purple skinned girl emerging from the portal behind them, that is until they hear her speak. "Hello, girls."