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// Chapter 20: The Spring Fling Dance 
// Story: The Lost Shimmering Sun 
// by Pinkie Pie Sweets 
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It's almost the end of the school year on the second week of May:

Sun and her friends are having lunch in the school's cafeteria. For the past few weeks the girls have been going to different kinds of event. Right now the girls are talking about the Spring Fling dance coming up soon and are very excited for the dance and all the activities that are coming with it.

Pinkie happily screams, "I am so excited! The dance is next week!"

Sun laughs and says, "Yes Pinkie. I think everyone in the room can hear you."

Pinkie then notice that everyone is looking at her and starts to giggle a bit. Pinkie blushes and says, "Oops! sorry."

"It's alright, darling. We're all excited for the dance coming up and it's almost the end of the school year too," Rarity replies.

Then she turns to Sun and asks, "So Soon, what kind of dress do you want to wear for the dance?"

"I don't know," Sun answers shyly.

Just then Rarity grabs her notebook and shows her some dress designs. Then she says, "Well, I have a few ideas since you don't have much nicer dresses. So why don't you come to my boutiques after school and I can help you come up with a beautiful dress."

"Okay," Sun happily answers.

The girls are just finishing their lunch until...

" Hi girls," A girl's voice call, which is sounding arrogant.

Rainbow and the others make an annoyed expression on their face, but Sun is a little nervous about it. Rainbow quietly says with annoyance, "Not her again."

The girls to see three girls. The one in the middle is Arctic Snow. She has white skin, sky blue hair and white streaks on it, and lavender eyes. She is wearing black and blue striped long sleeve shirt, a dark blue skirt with a snowy mountain on the side, and black boots. Behind her are two other girls and their twins.

One of them is named Blue Aqua. She has light bluish green skin, purple eyes, and black hair with dark blue highlights. She is wearing a

The other girls is named Jade. She has a light yellow skin, emerald green eyes, and dark green hair with bangs covering her forehead. She is wearing a green t-shirt, with a black jacket, blue jeans and tennis shoes.

"Hello... Arctic Snow," Sun says nervously.

"Hello girls I can see your still talking to the new girl," Artic Snow says meanly and glaring at Sun

Applejack gets a little angry and asks, "And what that suppose to mean?"

"Well, one: she's new, two: she is unable to remember anything about her, which is like taking care of a baby, and three: she's living with two psychopaths," Arctic Snow explains with a evil look on her face. Then she and her friends starts to laugh at her, which is making Sun feeling very sad.

Rainbow and the others don't like the way she is talking about Sun like that. For some reason ever since Sun started coming to school, she been acting very mean to Sun and her friends and sister are not liking it one bit.

Just then, Screwball comes up to her and angrily screams, "Hey Daddy and I are not psychos! We're just chaotic!"

"Whatever," Arctic Snow says like she doesn't even care.

Then Rainbow Dash comes up to her and says, "Hey, what makes you think you can talk to our friend like that anyway?"

"Well it's simple your little Sun is just a girl who has no way to be the star in this school. Not to mention I'm running for Princess unopposed and the most popular girl in school," Arctic Snow answers with pride and says it boastfully. After that, Arctic Snow and her friends start to laugh at her.

Rainbow just reached her breaking point and screams from the top of her lungs, "That's it!"

"You think you're all that great about signing up for the princess ballet!" Rainbow adds furiously.

The she turns to Pinkie and says, "Pinkie pass me the princess ballet sign up sheet."

"Okkie Dokkie!" Pinkie says happily as she pull the clipboard from her puffy hair.

Rainbow Dash then grabs the clipboard and writes down a name on the princess ballot.

"There!" Rainbow says angrily. Then passes the clipboard back to Pinkie pie.

"Thank you," Pinkie says happily.

"Wow Rainbow! That really great for you to sign up for the princess ballet," Fluttershy says cheerfully.

"Oh I'm not going to be princess," Rainbow says with a smirk on her face.

"Why not?" Rarity asks confusedly.

Rainbow makes a smirk on her face and answers, "Because I'd sign Sun up for it."

Sun looks very shocked by what Rainbow Dash said and asks, "You did what?"

After school, at Rarity's Boutique:

Applejack and the others, excluding Sun, are very angry at Rainbow Dash for signing Sun up for the princess ballet without her permission. While Sun is feeling nervous and scared about being in this and afraid of how everyone will react towards this.

"Rainbow why would you sign Sun up without asking her?" Fluttershy asks sadly.

"Because, one: we did wanted Sun to sign up for the princess ballet, in case you forgot. Two: Arctic Snow has been insulting us lately including Sun and she doesn't want to do anything about it. Also, maybe it can help knock Arctic Snow's ego down a notch!" Rainbow explains her reasons clear and loud.

"And let's not forget Sun didn't want to do it the last time we talked about it," Rarity points that out in an angry tone.

"Rainbow I can't run for princess of the Spring Fling! Not now!" Sun replies very scaredly.

Rainbow turns to Sun and angerly says, "Well it's too late to turn back now!"

Then she turns to the others and asks, "So how are we going to help Sun get the votes she needs for next friday?"

The girls start to think of an idea what will help Sun win votes for the spring fling next week. Pinkie is the first one to break the silence.

"We can have a party!" Pinkie suggests happily.

"That's your answer for everything!" Rainbow says angrily.

"How about a bake sale?" Applejack suggests.

Then Rarity says, "That's won't do. What she needs to look beautiful and stylish as a princess."

"How about a pet show," Fluttershy suggests quietly.

Then Rainbow says, "No way how I show awesome skateboard tricks, soccer tricks, and guitar tricks!"

"How would that help Sun win votes?" Applejack asks with annoyance.

"To show everyone she has a friends who is awesome," Rainbow Dash answers proudly.

Things aren't going so well because the girls think their idea might be better. After a little while of arguing the girls decided to go with their own idea and see which one will help Sun wins votes. Sun is the only one who isn't feeling confident about being a princess for a school dance, especially since Arctic Snow's name is on the ballot as well.

During the week:

The girls are putting their own ideas at the school. Things are going well for Sun since some of the students are planning to vote for her. The problem is that Arctic Snow along with her entourage are trying to sabotage Sun's chances of winning. She even decides to post fake photos and quotes about Sun to decrease her chances more. Sun however doesn't really care about being a princess at all even though Rarity did made her some new clothes. For the past few days some of the students stare at her funny, but Sun tries so hard to ignore this and Arctic Snow's threats.

The day before the dance:

The girls are still going on to see which idea works to help Sun wins the Spring Fling Dance. Sun feels like running for princess of the Spring Fling is a really bad idea.

Sun is walking in the hallways until she notice that three girls in the gym and looks like they need some help. The girls are Photo Finished, and her friends Pixel Pizazz and Violet Blurr. Sun can tell that they are sad about something and they need help.

Sun comes to them and says, "Um excuse me."

Photo Finished and her friends turn to see Sun and someone are in an awkward pause. Sun is starting to get a bit nervous about this, but she knows that the girls need help with something that might be important.

Sun then takes a deep breath to calm herself. Then Sun asks, "Do you guys need a hand?"

"I'm afraid we do. You see we were fixing the background so students can get picture, but it collapsed while we were setting up and ripped. Now we need to make a new one," Photo Finished explains sadly.

Sun is glad to know that she is right about them needing help, but knows that they need this for the dance for tonight. Just then Sun comes up with an idea. She turns to the girls and asks, "If you want I can help you make another one?"

Photo Finished and her friends look at her with a surprise look on their faces. Violet Blurr surprisingly asks, "Really?"

"Sun starts to feel shy and says, "Yeah. You look like you really need it and it for the dance right,"

The girls are very happy that Sun wants to help them. Pixal says happily, "Thank you."

"So let's get started!" Photo Finished instructs.

With that Sun, Photo Finished and her friends start to gather some paints, brushes, a new background paper, and some other things they need to make a new one. After a long time working on the poster. They finally finished with the background for the students to take their picture and they made it better than the last one.

"And there that's should do it." Sun says feeling a bit tired after the hard work that they did.

Then Photo Finished turns to Sun and happily says, "Thank you for helping us. Now we go!" With that she and her friend leave the gym really fast that they are almost invisible.

Sun looks a bit confused and says, "Okay… bye."

As Photo Finished and her friends are walking through the hallways, they start to think about how Sun helped them out even though she supposed to win votes. They also know that Arctic Snow posting some fake writing about Sun being selfish and uncaring. The girls are starting to believe that those rumors she spread are not true at all. Photo Finished and the girls decide to tell everyone about what Sun did and what Arctic Snow tried to do to her.

Back at the gym:

Sun is looking at all the great decorations Pinkie and Rarity did for the dance and can tell that the dance is going to be exciting.

Sun is about to leave to find her friends, until a familiar voice calls her name, "Hey Sun!"

Sun turns to see her classmate Flash comes into the gym with his bandmates, Brawly Beats and Ringo. Sun happily says, "Hi Flash. How are you doing?

Flash smile and answers, "Fine. So what are you doing?"

"Nothing much, just helped Photo Finished and her friends with the the photo section," Sun answers. Then Sun asks, "So what are you guys doing?

"We're just getting some of our instruments to play for the dance," Flash answers while strumming his guitar.

As the boys are heading to the stage they hear a girl's voice screaming from the hallways, "Hey guys wait for me!"

Sun smile and says, "Hi Vinyl,"

"Yo Sun, what going on?" Vinyl replies with a smile on her face.

"Nothing much just helped Photo finished and her friends with a new background for picture taking," Sun answers.

"Really. No wonder you're covered in paint," Flash says and laughed a little.

Sun then looks at her clothes seeing that she has paint spatter and glitter on her. She says."Yeah I was going to wash this off," Then Sun asks, "Do you guys need help with anything?"

"Maybe you can help us get our gear ready. We need these for the music and can really use the help," Vinyl suggests while holding her play system.

Sun thinks about and can see that they need help and need to make sure the dance is ready. She turn to Flash and the others and says, "Okay."

The others smile, glad that Sun decides to help them with setting their instrument and DJ system up. After another half hour the instruments are finished being set up. After that some of the students are asking her for her help with the dance for the whole afternoon. Even her friends asked her with a few things for the dance.

At the end of school:

The gym is ready for the dance and it looks beautiful. Sun leaves to head home to do her homework and get herself clean. After Sun leave the gym to head home, everyone can see that Sun is a bit tired and glad that she can help. Everyone in the gym is happy that Sun help them get ready for the dance, but there is something that is bothering them.

FLash turns to Vinyl and asks, "Vinyl, Sun is running for the Spring Fling princess. Right?"

"Yeah! So?" Vinyl answers rather confused but that statement.

"Well, why is she helping us getting the dance ready and not trying to get votes?" Flash replies wondering why Sun is busy with the dance and not the votes.

Just then Photo Finished comes over and answers, "Maybe she doesn't care about being a spring fling princess."

"Why would she not care?" Trixie asks with a firm look on her face.

"Well Rainbow did sign her up without asking her," Pixal explains.

"And Su wasn't sure about it since we're still a little skeptic about her too. Octavia adds.

Sun friends start to look at each other starting to feel bad of how they been acting and ever since Sun starts to help out with the dance, they start to help each other and make sure the dance is ready.

Fluttershy sadly says, "I guess we were thinking about what we wanted and not what Sun wanted."

"And we were arguing of which idea idea will be better to help her win," Applejack adds feeling a shame for how she acted.

"Well either way Sun deserves to be princess than Arctic Snow," Trixie declares.

"Yeah especially the way she posted those gossips and I never believed it was true," Flash says.

"I agree," Derpy replies.

"Well I can tell you one thing Sun definitely got my vote," Aqua Blossom replies.

"Mine too," Mystery Mint replies.

"Mine too," Poindexter says.

"And don't forget me," Pinkie replies happily.

After that everyone leaves and decides that Sun is more deserving to be the Spring Fling Princess than the school bully, Arctic Snow.

At the night of the dance:

Everyone is have a ball. People are dancing eating some snacks and refreshments. Sun is busy talking with her friend and they are having so much fun. Rarity made the girls some formal dresses. Sun also like her dresses, but is a little nervous about her problem with Arctic Snow and she thinks it's no surprise that she won the Spring Fling crown.

"Hey Sun, How is the dance going!" Rainbow asks in excitement.

"I'm fine, but a little nervous about the crown issue," Sun answers feeling a bit shy and nervous.

"Don't worry darling, win or lose just remember to have fun," Rarity replies to Sun.

"Oh really," Artic snow calls.

The Sun and her friends turn to see Arctic Snow and her friends in very nice dresses, but are not being very nice and fair.

"The only one who is really going to win this crown is me," Artic Snow says boastfully.

"We'll see about that," Rainbow Dash replies angrily.

After that Arctic Snow and her friends leave to get some refreshment from the snack table ignoring Rainbow Dash's words..

Sun is glad to have really good friends who will love her no matter what, but not happy how Arctic Snow is acting arrogant and her friends join her like that. She can only hope that Aric Snow learns to grow up a little

After that the music stop and Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna are on stage.

Celestia says, "Good evening student, are you having a good time?"

Then everyone starts screaming in excitement.

Then Principal Celestia, "Now it's time to present to you this year Spring Fling Crown."

Luna opens a case she was holding and reveal a gold like tiara with a small daisy in the middle.

Lun hands over an envelope with the winner of crown inside. Celestia looks at the envelop and says, "The winner of the Spring Fling Dance is…"

Before announcing the name, Screwball her friend and Sun's friends are excited to see who wins the crown, but Sun is looking very nervous and uncertain about the ceremony. Arctic Snow is confident that she won the crown and her friends are sure of it too.

Celestia then opens the envelope and reads who the winner is, "Sun!"

Everyone starts to cheer for Sun's victory. Sun's friends and her sister and friends are very happy for Sun for winning the spring fling crown.

Arctic Snow shockley says, "Not me!"

Sun looks so surprised that she is speechless. She surprisingly says, "I… I won."

Applejack and the other can see that Sun is surprised that she won the crown. Applejack put her hand on Sun's shoulder and says, "Don't just stand there sugar cube, go and get your prize."

Sun gets back from her surprise and make her way on stage. Everyone except Arctic Snow and her friend are happy for Sun for winning the crown and beating Arctic Snow. After getting on stage, Celestia puts the crown over and says, "Congratulations Sun" Thens he puts the crown on her head, Sun feels very happy that she won. She thinks the reason why she won is because she is just being herself and help people when ever she can.

Just then Artic Snow come up on stage and is very upset, She angrily says, "But I'm supposed to win! This doesn't make one bit of sense at all!"

Celestia comes up to Aric Snow with a firm look on her face and says, "Arctic Snow, Sun won, there is alway next time.

Arctic Snow is so mad that she angrily screams, "I don't care! Sun is just a helpless little girl and only have friends because of pity. I worked to hard to lose to her. Even sabotaging her chances by posting those fake photos on the internet!"

Everyone gasp, realizing that it was Arctic Snow who posted those photos. Arctic Snow realize that she expose her plan and feels so embarrassed that she can't even move. Then she runs off stage in tears.

Aun can't help but feel sorry for her and wish she can do something to help her, but she thinks it might be best to give her some alone time.

After that:

The Sun friends and her sister and friends are busy congratulating her for winning being spring fling princess. Sun is glad that she has friends like her supporting, but wishes she can help Arctic Snow and hope the next time she bumps into her, she hope to try to make friends with her. So she decides to be with her friends for the rest of the night and is glad that being a good person and have good friends is more rewarding than being a princess.