It was the end of the school day at Canterlot High. Most of the school was attending the party that was being held in the gym to prepare for the Battle of the Bands. That also included the Rainbooms and the Foretellers. While the Rainbooms and the rest of the students were enjoying themselves, the Foretellers were off to the side discussing what happened during the Unversed attack.
“So have you heard anything, Dan?” Lan asked.
Dan shook his head no, “I’ve contacted one of our informants in Daybreak, but as far as anyone knew this hasn’t happened. It seems that this ability may be unique to our reflection, or there are no records of a time when Keyblades were able to change into a different form other than the gliders.”
“But what brought this on?” Jenny interrupted, “It hasn’t happened before, so why is it happening now?”
“Maybe it’s the world telling us something. Like how when appearances change when traveling through worlds, maybe the world is affecting our Keyblades.” Alex added his two cents.
“That does make sense, but what would turn of events would make this happen?” Kira asked.
While the Foreteller's were in their thoughts, Principal’s Celestia and Luna walked up to the stage getting everyone's attention.
“Hello students, it’s a pleasure to see so many of you attend. As you know, the Musical Showcase has been shifted to a Battle of the Bands competition. For a special treat for those competing, our newest students wanted to perform a special song for all of you. Now without further ado, may I introduce The Dazzlings!”
The curtains rose and revealed Adagio, Aria, and Sonata, as the crowd cheered for them.
As the Dazzlings continued to sing, the gem’s on their chokers glowed brightly. The audience was entranced by their song, even the Foretellers. Although they felt something off around them as the song went on.
With the Rainbooms, they were listening and admiring the Dazzlings.
“Wow, they're pretty good, but not as awesome as me.” Rainbow bragged.
Applejack glared at her, “You mean us?”
“Huh? Oh right, us!”
“And their outfits fit perfectly with their song. I have to make gorgeous outfits when we perform.” Rarity said in thought.
Applejack sighed, “No one cares what we look like Rares, just that our music is good.”
“Well, I care! Plus I’m sure our beloved will enjoy seeing us all dolled up.” Rarity countered. As the two of them looked like they were about to fight, Pinkie Pie cut in.
“C’mon girls, let’s all remember just to have fun. Like being in a band should be!” Pinkie cheered.
Off to the side, Fluttershy looked away with an irritated look.on her face. “It’d be more fun if we could play a song I wrote for once.”
Off to another part of the gym, Flash Sentry was also admiring the music, along with his band. But a sudden spur of competitiveness rose inside him.
“They are good, but not enough to win the Battle. Everyone knows we are the best band in Canterlot High.” He gloated with his band agreeing with him.
“Excuse me?” Trixie, who was close enough to hear them, asked accusingly. “I believe you mean the Great and Powerful Trixie is the best!”
“No way!” Apple Bloom came into the scene with Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle. “The Crusaders are the best. We’re gonna win it all!”
One by one, more and more people started arguing with each other until the whole gym was in a mass argument. All the while the Dazzlings continued to sing with their pendants glowing.
(Song end)
The Dazzlings ended their song and gazed at the audience. They saw almost everyone arguing with each other, filling the gym with negative energy. This made them smirk mischievously as the negative energy started to be absorbed by their pendants.
The Foreteller’s were surprised to the see outcome. Mostly everyone, including the Rainbooms (bar Sunset) were arguing with each other.
“Wow, the competition is really getting to them, and it hasn’t even started yet,” Dan said. “Should we intervene?”
“Nah, it should be fine,” Jenny replied. “As long as they don’t start pulling their Keyblades out, then it doesn’t concern us. Besides the whole argument is ridiculous, Flash and his band are the most experienced out of all of them.”
“Of course you’d side with him, considering he’s the only guy to go after you,” Alex muttered.
Jenny glared at him with rage. “What was that!?” Jenny was about to lunge at him but Lan and Dan held her back.
Dan sighed. “Just like the pervert to say something so insensitive. I guess some idiots never change.”
“Hey!” Alex yelled, “At least I’m not a pushover who lets my girlfriend boss me around!”
“What is that supposed to mean?” Dan let go of Jenny and glared hard at Alex.
“At least Pinkie and I do things we both mutually agree too. You used to hate rock climbing yet you go every other week now. Why? Because Rainbow want’s to and you can’t say no. You know what that makes you? A punk!”
“Alright, that’s enough!” Lan got between them. “Let’s not start anything we’ll regret later.”
Jenny rolled her eyes. “Oh yeah, typical Lan. Butting into other people's business.”
“What does that mean?” Lan asked.
“It means you’re always butting into our business! Even the slightest show of confrontation and you’re there to stop it no matter it involves you or not! What do you think if we just argue with each other we’re gonna turn out like Crow? You think you’re keeping the peace, you’re just being a coward!” Jenny yelled.
Now the Foretellers began to argue just like everyone else, except for Kira who started backing away from the conflict.
‘This isn’t right. Why is everyone fighting? Is this how they really feel about each other? No, this has to be something else.’ She thought. Her thoughts stopped when she bumped into someone, who just so happened to be Sunset also backing away from her group.
“Kira!” Sunset sighed in relief. “Do you know what’s going on here? Everyone turned agro all of a sudden.”
“I don’t know Sunset.” Her gaze hardened as it fell upon the Dazzlings on the stage. “But I have a hunch that it has something with them.”
Later that night, when the “Party” had ended, everyone returned home still fuming about the whole ordeal. The Foretellers, Rainbooms, none of them talked to one another or even dared to look at each other.
The moment the Foretellers entered their mansion, they all stormed off to their rooms and slamming the doors shut. Only leaving Kira in her room, frustrated that she couldn’t get through to her siblings.
The next day began the Battle of the Bands, and it was anything but a friendly competition. From the very beginning, band after the band was being blown away by each other. Leaving the winners to gloat, and the ones who lost in bitterness and anger.
The Foretellers were being spectators during the whole event, but the tension between them could be cut with a knife with how thick it was. Kira was sitting dead center of the four of them on the bleachers because they refused to sit next to each other. While Kira was getting irritated, seeing how childish they were being, but also saddened that they were being so hostile towards each other. They had never been so angry at each other before, not even when they were in their old world.
The Battle of the Bands waged on, the last battle of the semi-finals was against the Rainbooms and Trixie. Trixie’s band had played well, the Rainbooms, however, were not doing so well. They were playing okay at first, but Rainbow Dash was making in clear that she was the center of attention. By the looks of the other Rainbooms, they were getting really irritated, especially when all the spot lights focused on Rainbow. What went unnoticed by the audience was the green mist coating the floor of the stage, and it seemed to be coming off of the irritated members of the Rainbooms. Although Kira saw this and looked at it curiously like she had seen it somewhere before.
Suddenly, Sunset ran onto the stage and tackled Rainbow down mid guitar solo, causing a series of unfortunate events that ended with Applejack’s bass stuck in Pinkie’s drum set. The crowd started to shout profanities at the Rainbooms, especially Sunset as they left the stage.
The Foretellers quickly went backstage to see if they were alright, only to find the Rainbooms stuck in another argument and Sunset looking down in shame.
“Sunset.” Kira walked up to here while the others tried to calm down the Rainbooms. “What happened?”
Sunset sighed. “I don’t know, I felt like I had to act fast. I saw some strange green energy leaking from the others while Rainbow played, and it gave me a bad feeling. I had to do something.”
“So you saw it too,” Kira concluded. She looked over Sunset’s shoulder to see the Celestia and Luna discussing who won. Suddenly, the Dazzlings appeared from behind them and started to sing to them. Both Kira and Sunset saw the Principles eyes glowed green for an instant before returning to normal.
“Did you see that?” Kira asked Sunset. “It looked like their singing had some sort of effect on them.”
Sunset nodded, “Yeah if that’s true then it must be how they got them to change the Showcase into a Battle of the Bands. Which is strange, the only beings I know that can control people with their voices are Sirens, but no one's seen any Sirens in Equestria for centuries.”
With that name, something clicked in Kira’s mind.
‘The Sirens! Of course, with all that’s happened recently, I totally forgot we watched the other movies with Elzin and Huxley! How could we have not recognized them sooner!? They must be causing the raised aggression in the school.’ Kira berated herself.
“I think we should confront them.” Kira glanced at her siblings, who had stopped trying to reason with the Rainbooms and started an argument of their own. She sighed, “And I don’t think they are willing to listen as of now. Looks like it’s up to us Sunset.” The bacon haired girl nodded as they broke off from the group.
After the winners of the semi-finals were announced, which were the Dazzlings and the Rainbooms, everyone had been released so the bands could set up for their performances.
Currently, the Dazzlings were instructing multiple students how they wanted the stage to look for their “performance.”
“Hah~ Everything is going perfectly. Isn’t it girls?” Adagio said to her sisters who agreed with her.
“I got to be real honest, I would have thought it would go off with a bit of a hitch. But at least it didn’t take all that much effort.” Aria sighed.
“Excuse me.” The Dazzlings looked behind them to see Kira and Sunset standing before them.
“Oh hello Kira, Sunset. You here to check out the stage before our grand performance?” Adagio asked.
“Cut the act Adagio, we know what you’re really doing here, and what you really are. Sirens!” Sunset pointed accusingly at them.
The Dazzlings looked at each other before Aria sighed. “Looks like the cat’s out of the bag, not that it matters anyways. Our plan is pretty much complete.”
“What is your plan exactly? We already know you're trying to gain control of everyone at Canterlot High, but even then what do you have to gain from this?” Kira asked.
Adagio raised her eyebrow with a cocky smirk. “Oh? I thought you said you know everything. Well, might as well humor you. It’s not like anything you can do will stop us. I assume you recognize this?” She pulled off her fingerless glove, and reveal an Unversed insignia on the back of her hand. Aria and Sonata also had the insignia’s, except theirs, were on their left and right forearms.
“You’re infected with Unversed! Which means you’re with Crow, aren’t you?” Kira accused.
“That’s right!” Sonata intervened. “That Crow guy said he could help us in making this world adore us! So he gave us the Unversed and told us a place filled with magic where we can restore our full Siren powers!”
“And as long as we destroy you Foretellers in the process, he’d let us keep the Unversed powers,” Aria added her two cents.
“We won’t let you do that!” Kira and Sunset summoned both their Key-instruments and prepared to fight.
But Adagio just waved them off, “Sorry we can’t play with you now, we’re preparing for our performance tonight. Plus, I think you two have a more important matter to attend to.”
The duo looked confused before they heard a loud crash that sounded close to the area.
“Oh no!” Adagio shouted in mock worry, “It sounds like another monster attack! I hope there are some heroes nearby to prevent innocent bystanders from getting hurt.”
Kira and Sunset glared at the Dazzlings before reluctantly ran towards the commotion.
“Well there they go, now all that’s left to do is sing our song, cast our spell, and take over the minds of the Keybladers of Canterlot High. Easy.” Aria said with a cocky smirk.
“But what if they finish off the Unversed? Won’t they come after us?” Sonata asked.
Adagio smirked. “Don’t worry, I have a feeling they’ll be held up with more than just our Unversed.”
Kira and Sunset rushed toward the commotion, but when they arrived they were shocked at the scene before them.
They saw no Unversed, they saw their friends battling each other. Both Foreteller’s and Rainbooms fought, their eyes filled with rage. Debris and sound waves flew across the battlefield.
Sunset and Kira could only stare in despair as they witnessed the ones they cared about battling themselves.
“How did this happen?” Kira asked.
(Moments Earlier…)
Unversed were littering the streets of Equestria Town.
While Union members from Canterlot High were leading civilians to safety while fending off the Unversed, The Foretellers and Rainbooms were taking the Vanguard position and taking them head on.
Lan dodged one of the Unversed sound attacks and struck on with the bottom of his mic-stand. “We need to keep them off the citizens! Hold them off till our members get them clear.” Lan ordered.
“Yeah, yeah, we already know, fearless leader.” Jenny said sarcastically while bashing a Violin Unversed with her drum sticks.
Rarity was blasting away at a group of Unversed, but one Cello got close enough to slash at her. She dodged in time to not do any damage, but it did rip a part of her shirt revealing some of her black bra.
“AH! My shirt, it was one of my favorites.” She whined. While she was distracted the cello took the advantage and charged at her, only for another sound wave to blow it away. Applejack landed right in front of her looking irritated.
“Could you stop worrying about your outfit for 5 minutes!? We’re in the middle of a fight.” AJ yelled.
“I can worry about both at the same time thank you!” Rarity retorted.
A few feet away, Alex was fighting his share of Unversed, but was then distracted by Rarity’s slightly exposed self. Before another Unversed could attack, Dan appeared between them and used his Key-tar to smack them away.
“Hm, and here I thought you would forget your perverted tendencies in the midst of battle. I guess I was wrong.” Dan said.
Jenny runs up next to them and nodded in agreement. “Yup, a pervert through and through.”
Alex growled at her. “What Jenny? You jealous that no boy is ever gonna perv out on you?”
Jenny turned to him with rage written all over her face. “That’s it!” Jenny banged on her drums and aimed her attack towards Alex, who fortunately dodged. He retaliated with a sound attack of his own, but Jenny dodged and it hit Dan instead.
“Hey! Break it up, we’re fighting the Unversed not each other!” Lan got in between them, only to barely dodge an attack by Jenny.
“We don’t need you to butt in Fearless Leader! Or is this is more of your cowardice!?” Jenny accused.
With tension rising between both Foretellers and Rainbooms one thing leads to another, eventually resulting in the heroes fighting themselves. What they didn't notice was the Unversed disappearing, like their purpose was fulfilled and leaving only a green mist in their place.
Sunset and Kira were watching as their friends fought each other, unsure of what course of action to take.
“What do we do?” Sunset asked herself. “If they continue fighting they’ll kill each other, but we can’t intervene or else we’ll be dragged into it. Even then they won’t snap out of the Dazzlings influence.”
Kira didn’t answer, thinking on how to get through to her friends and siblings. Suddenly, she felt a slight tug in her heart, so did Sunset. Their Key-instruments appeared without notice, and suddenly they two clashed together making a bright light. When the light died down, it revealed a grand piano with two mics that shared their Keyblade’s color scheme.
“What happened?” Kira asked.
“Play what’s in your heart.” They both heard their keyblades speak to them.
The two looked at each other for only a moment of hesitation before they nodded in agreement. They knew what they had to do, and trusted each other to do what they could.
Kira walked up to the piano and plays a single key. Golden chains shot out of where the strings were and wrapped themselves around their friends. When they were restrained, the duo saw that all their eyes were glowing emerald green.
“Kira!? What the hell is going on!?” Jenny yelled.
“Sunset! Let us down this instant! I still have a thing or two to show that country hick!” Rarity shouted.
The others shouted at them also, but their determination did not waiver. The both of them sat on the bench in front of the grand piano and started playing.
As they played the others were still struggling against their restraints, but when they dove into their singing their struggling started to settle down. Kira and Sunset were completely lost in their own playing, only focusing on what their hearts were saying. Focusing on their desire to free their friends. Focusing on wanting to return to how they used to be before all of the aggression rose.
The notes of their song started to manifest into a golden aura that started dancing around their friends. Their glowing green eyes started to return to their natural color, and their struggling has completely died down. Their chain restraints started to lower them back onto the ground, as Kira and Sunset reached the final note.
(Song End)
The duo let out a sigh of relief as the grand piano dissipated. They saw their friends all kneeling on the ground, panting in fatigue.
“Is everyone okay?” Kira asked.
There was a moment of silence until they all looked down in shame.
“Honestly, no.” Lan started, “We were all so angry, so much that we ended up trying to kill each other”
Fluttershy’s eyes started to tear up, “We all said such horrible things, and we kept just getting angrier.”
“It wasn’t your fault, the Dazzlings were the cause of all this.” Sunset tried to up their spirits.
“But it wasn’t just them!” Jenny yelled. “I can’t speak for everyone, but I’d be lying if I said that aggression wasn’t there already.” The guilty expressions on the other’s faces say that they knew how she felt.
“Jenny.” Lan caught their attention. “You were right. I am a coward. I am always afraid that any fighting between us would cause us to hate each other. I care about all of you so much, you’re my family, that’s why I’m afraid. I don’t want to lose any of you like we lost Crow all those years ago.”
Jenny nodded. “I’m sorry for everything I said, Lan. I guess I was just thinking more about my position as second in command. I’m supposed to snap you out of thoughts like that, but feeling your fear made me feel like I wasn’t doing my best. So I guess I thought if I called you out on it, you would realize it.”
“I’m sorry too.” Alex spoke up, “I was acting like a jerk the whole time, but that’s only because I was forcing myself to stay the same as when we were back on earth. Our lives are so different now, so I guess I though even if I was a jerk I could prevent any of us from drifting apart. I wanted to make it so that we would always be a team like back then.”
“So you have changed,” Dan added. “I must apologize as well. Ever since we got back from the Dream Realm, all I've been thinking about is moving forward and getting stronger. I felt as though that all the change was a sign that we were making progress. When I saw you and Jenny arguing like we have all our lives, I guess I just thought we were the same weak kids that faced off against Ava. I was in too much of a hurry to change, I didn’t see how much I was pushing it.”
Seeing them admit to their faults, it was the Rainbooms to turn to confide.
“Rarity,” AJ started. “I’m sorry I said that nobody cares about your outfits. I didn't appreciate the hard work you were doing for the band when I was just focusing on the music.”
Rarity nodded. “It’s alright Applejack, I have been being ridiculous lately. Focusing on the outfits more than the music, I just wanted to make everyone look as exceptional as the music we make.”
“Fluttershy, Pinkie,” Rainbow said in a solemn voice. “I know that I've been the main problem lately. I’ve been so self-centered lately. I Ignored Fluttershy’s suggestions and songs, and I made the band less fun to be in. I was just focusing on being the best.”
Pinkie and Fluttershy pulled Rainbow into a group hug. “It’s alright Dashy, we understand.” Pinkie started.
“And we forgive you, we weren’t helping either with how we were acting,” Fluttershy admitted.
Kira and Sunset could only smile as they saw their friends finally work out their problems. Although, even with the tender moment, there was no time to lose.
“Everyone Listen,” Kira called out. “Sunset and I discovered that the Dazzlings are actually Sirens from Equestria. They are working with Crow and planning on using their song magic to mind control everyone.” The Foretellers knew what she was talking about, while the other Rainbooms looked shocked.
“We can’t let that happen! Let’s go and save everyone!” Rainbow said.
Fluttershy looked out towards the school and see the concert lights in the distance. “But the concerts already started. If they’re already performing then they would have everyone under control by now. If we go there now then we’d be outnumbered, and we’d have to fight our Union members.”
“Then we have to counter their spell with our own.” Everyone turned to Sunset in surprise. She materialized hey Key-guitar. “I think I know why our Keyblades took this form now. Cause they knew that the only way to defeat the Sirens is a song of our own!” She said with determination, while the others got hyped up with her.
“And I know just the song we should play,” Rainbow said. The others looked at her questioningly, before she wrapped her arm around Fluttershy. “Fluttershy’s written a perfect song for this.” Fluttershy looked elated when she heard her say it.
“Looks like we’re saving the world again. But personally, I think we should do it in style. Rarity?” AJ asked with a smirk as Rarity’s eyes lite up.
“Oh, I thought you’d never ask!” The fashionista summoned her Keytar. “I’ve been wanting to use this spell for a while now. Henshinga!” When she played the keys and cast the spell, a veil of lavender energy started spinning around her and the others. When the veil unwrapped itself off the Keybearers and revealed them in whole new outfits.
(The Rainbooms minus Twilight)
(Sunset)
(Lan)
(Jenny)
(Alex)
(Dan)
(Kira)
“Oh! What cute outfits!” Pinkie said as she and the other Rainbooms complemented Rarity.
“Whoa! This is definitely my style!” Jenny said, checking herself out.
“Mine too! But…” Kira messed with the front of her dress. “The skirt might be a bit short.”
“Why am I so pink?” Alex asked.
Pinkie smiled as she glomped onto her boyfriend. “Pink looks good on you babe. I should know~” She sung out.
“I feel so punk,” Dan said through the gas mask. “But I surprisingly enjoy it.”
“They are great outfits Rarity, thank you,” Lan said. “Now let’s ride!” They all mounted they gliders and flew towards the concert hall.
The two groups landed on a hill just adjacent to the concert hall. They could see the Dazzlings singing while the audience was already under their sway.
“How are we supposed to play over them from all the way up here?” Rainbow asked, but a sudden honk interrupted here.
They turn to see Vinyl Scratch drive up to them in her car.
“Masters! Thank goodness I found you guys!” Vinyl said as she ran up to the group.
“Vinyl? How come you aren’t brainwashed like the others?” Dan asked his Union member.
“Oh, I never take off my headphones.” She said nonchalantly, while the others sweat drop. “Anyways, I tried to find you when things started getting weird. Looks like you're setting up for an actual Battle of the Bands. I got just the thing.” She got back into her car, only for it to suddenly transform into a small DJ stand with multiple speakers and lights.
“Wow. That’s one cool car.” Alex voiced everyone's thought.
In the midst of their song, Dazzlings appearance changes a bit as they grew webbed wings and long tales. When the Dazzlings reached the end of their chorus, both the Rainbooms and Foretellers started playing their song. Every one of them playing in harmony and putting all of their hearts into it. While they were playing, they could see the students started snapping out of the Dazzlings sway and looked in their direction.
“So the “Heroes” want to make this a real battle of the bands? Then let’s battle.” Adagio smirked as she and her sisters sung. Their eyes started to glow crimson red as their energy started to form into ethereal beings that resembled their full siren forms.
The ethereal sirens started circling around the heroes as they dove in for an attack. Both Rainbooms and Foretellers played their instruments with vigor, in hopes of fending holding their own. Unfortunately, they were overpowered by the Dazzlings sending a powerful sound attack that blew them off their feet. Lan and Sunset were the first to recover as the Sirens looked down at them like they had won. But hope did not leave their eyes as they stood defiantly against them.
Suddenly, Sunset’s guitar shifted into a mic stand, much like Lan’s. Without even a second of hesitation, the two of them knew what to do. While the others recovered Sunset began the next phase of the song until it became a duet with Lan. As the song went on the others began to get back into the groove of the song and were inning the climax, where everyone began to sing and it became a chorus. Their combined energies created a pillar of light that shot towards the sky forming a rainbow colored sphere.
The moment the song hit its climax, the sphered energy started forming into a humanoid ethereal titan that was holding a Keyblade. The titan pointed its Keyblade at the Dazzlings as energy charged at the point. The charged energy shot a beam towards the ethereal Sirens as they disintegrated, and engulfed the Dazzlings in the light as the whole concert hall shined.
(Song End)
The Dazzlings laid defeated on the stage floor. They struggled to get up, as they noticed that the gems on their chokers were now jet black as opposed to their ruby color.
As they sat up, they saw that they were surrounded by the Foretellers and Rainbooms.
“Adagio Dazzle, Sonata Dusk, Aria Blaze,” Lan announced. “You three have attempted to control the minds of not only the students of Canterlot High but also our Union members. Not only that, you have accepted the power of the Unversed from a well-known criminal. How do you plea?”
The Dazzlings lowered their heads in shame. There was a moment of silence between the groups before they heard a sniffle and saw tears fall from the Dazzlings leaders eyes.
“We just wanted to be adored.” She said weakly. Her sisters crawled up to her and comforted her.
“None of you wouldn’t understand. What it feels like to be demonized.” Aria said harshly. “Back in Equestria, all we wanted to do was sing and live our lives. But because of our powers, those damned ponies treated us like monsters!”
“When all we wanted to do is the one thing we loved,” Sonata said with tears of her own. “We only wanted to swim and sing. But when ships passed by, they were just entranced by our singing and got into accidents. We didn’t mean any harm, but the ponies didn’t see it that way. They thought that we were doing it on purpose. We tried moving from place to place, but it kept happening.”
“The final straw was when that bastard Star Swirl decided to get rid of us, without even giving us a chance to explain.” Adagio tightened her fist. “We were banished here to fend for ourselves in an unfamiliar world. They saw us as monsters, so we gave them monsters. We used our magic to control everyone to get our way, or what was left of it when we came to this world. All we wanted was to be adored for our music, we didn’t want to be monsters.”
The Foreteller’s and Rainboom’s listened intently to their tale. They felt pity for them. They were punished all because they wanted to do what they loved. They were misjudged and weren't even given a proper trial.
“We understand.” Kira knelt next to them. “You were wrongly accused, and punished for it. But that doesn’t excuse the crimes you committed today.”
“But that doesn’t mean there isn’t room for change,” Dan added.
Jenny nodded. “You weren’t villains all your lives, just wanting to do what you loved. You can go back to those time.”
“This time for fun, and not trying to take over the world.” Alex joked.
“You don’t have to be monsters, you can be one of us. If you are willing to accept our help and our friendship.” Lan finished as he extended his hand to them.
The Dazzlings started at the group with shock, “You’d accept us? Even for what we’ve done?”
Sunset walked up and placed her hand on Adagio’s shoulder. “Of course would. I used to be in your shoes before they held out they hand for me.”
“And now Sunset is one of our bestest of best friends!” Pinkie ran up and pulled Sunset into a hug.
“If they offer a helping hand, it means they see potential in you and that you can be more than this. It’s just how they are.” Rainbow quipped.
“But if you do accept, know that not everyone will forgive what you have done in an instant. It will take some time.” Rarity added.
Applejack agreed. “But if you keep at it, and show that you can do some good then no one can say otherwise.”
“You’ll be able to make friends, and finally be adored for your singing.” Fluttershy finished.
The Dazzlings were speechless. They saw both Foretellers and Rainbooms extending their hands to them, all with smiles on their faces. Ready to accept them, no hesitation was shown by any of them. They looked at each other for only a moment of hesitation, before reaching out. Until…
*ZAP!*
“AAAHHH!” The Unversed marks started to glow and fade from their skin, as dark energy started being emitted from their bodies violently.
“What happening?” AJ yelled as she and the others were struggling against the sudden burst of energy.
“The Unversed that’s been sealed in them must be forcing itself out because they lack the amount of negative energy! Just like what happened with Sunset!” Dan explained.
The energy around the Dazzlings started to merge together until it formed into a large Unversed. More specifically, the Symphony Master! The Dazzlings laid underneath it motionless as their bodies started to look unstable.
“Guess this is the boss battle, let’s get to it!” Jenny cheered. But as she tried to summon her Key-instrument, to her surprise her normal Ursus Keyblades appeared. The same could be said for the others as they got battle ready.
“Look’s like it’s back to our regular blades, and I was getting used to rocking out kicking ass at the same time.” Rainbow quipped.
“But this stage is hardly the right battle field. We should fight somewhere with a little more style. Kira?” Alex smirked as he motioned to Kira, who matched his smirk.
“I’m all over it!” Kira cheered as she pulled out a card that had the Spirit Dream Eater insignia on it. “I Cast: Marble Ballroom!”
The card started to shine as brightly as the light engulfed the whole area. When the light died down, the area around them was replaced with a regal looking ballroom that was large enough to fight in.
“Oh, my! What a fantastic ballroom! It looks like it is straight out of a fairy tale!” Rarity gushed over the new terrain.
The Rainbooms looked at the new field in amazement.
“This is what you’ve been working on lately?” Fluttershy asked.
“Yup! They're called Dream Fields, this one doesn’t have any field advantages though. I just cast it so we could get away from the crowd.” Kira explained.
“Focus everyone. We need to get the Dazzlings away from the Unversed, then we can take it down. We must hurry though, the longer we take the more their bodies get unstable.” Lan ordered. The others agreed and prepared for the incoming Unversed.
The Symphony Master raised its baton as several Unversed sprouted from the ground forming several millions of instruments. Drums tapped out a small timbre while the horn instruments wailed a cacophony of wails before he faced the group. Tapping out a small three beat signal the Master waved his baton as several of the instruments started to play something fitting for the battle ahead.
“Didn’t expect that. With a wall like that, we won’t be able to get near it, let alone get the Dazzlings out of the fray. We need to spread out, divide its attention.” Dan said. The others agreed as they split into their specific groups.
Energy waves came off the trumpets striking at the Foretellers knocking them back from the shock waves. The drums actually started to roll after them growing spikes and tearing apart the very terrain. As a few of the Foretellers got close the string instruments screeched out loud causing another wave of sonic sounds to disorient them from getting closer.
Sunset and the Rainbooms stood defensively in front of them. “We’ll take care of the horde. Once the path is clear go for it!” Sunset said.
With a wave of their arms, the Rainbooms flew into action striking at the drums and knocking them off the path while the Trumpets chased after them. It took several minutes before a path managed to open up and allow the Foretellers to charge against the Master himself.
It raised the baton as several of the string instruments cut their own strings and let the razor thin wires tear apart the environment. Dan and Alex were forced to take charge keeping the strings from striking while Lan, Jenny, and Kira moved forward as the Symphony Master took the main thread and charged the three down.
Lan went up first forced to face a rapier like a baton as it charged forward trying to spear him while Jenny and Kira tried to strike back. Several instruments kept them from striking out at their master. Lan was knocked away with a sudden backhand while he parried off another strike. Jenny broke through the line managing to get Kira through as well. The two managed to knock back the Symphony Master getting a game of Ping Pong between the two.
While this was happening, the three male Foretellers could be seen swooping in right behind the Symphony Master. Each of them taking one of the unconscious Dazzlings and carried them away from the battlefield.
“We got them! Finish it, we’ll help the others keep the horde off of you.” Alex yelled as he and the other guys retreated with the Dazzlings on their backs.
As she finished her little taunt it caught Jenny by the throat knocking her into the ground and trying to stab her through the face with the baton. Kira jumped in using several spells to knock the Master off letting Jenny go as she tackled the Unversed off to the side. It knocked her off but the spells still took effect keeping it stunned from the sudden shock.
“We have to finish this! If it drags this on any longer they’ll fade!” Jenny recovered.
Jenny came in knocking the Symphony Master back while Kira started firing off spells left and right nearly incinerating and freezing several of the smaller Unversed were knocked off into non-existence. The Symphony Master tapped his baton against the ground changing colors and increasing in speed. The red tone made it faster tearing through lesser Unversed as it pushed Jenny into the ground forcing her to skid along the ground by her back.
Kira charged in jumping above and stabbing the Symphony Master through the face using its own momentum to get the blade further into the Unversed. With a quick flick of her wrist, she tore the face off of it. It didn’t actually do anything tangible but the Symphony Master was knocked off the path giving Kira a chance to fire off more spells.
The Symphony Master immediately turned green. The magic that struck it was immediately absorbed into its body. Kira immediately stepped back when she saw that it could absorb the magic. Jenny rushed in finally getting her second wind as she sent a flurry of strikes knocking the Master around especially well as it took more damage. She knocked the Unversed towards Kira who took a baseball stance and knocked the Symphony Master back into the air. It changed the color back to its original blue.
“Not this time. You’ve played your last song! Jenny set me up!” Kira ordered.
Jenny grabbed Kira and spun her around before throwing her up into the air. Keeping her food down she began to spin around like a razor top. With her mastery of magic, she put as many spells on her blade as it immediately touched the Symphony Master tearing through it with laser precision as it screamed out loud the Symphony Master fell to her blade.
Symphony Master, as well as the other Unversed, started to fade from existence. At the same time, the Dazzlings bodies stopped its unstable pulsing.
“Whew, that took some work,” Jenny said wiping the sweat from her brow, before bringing Kira into a side hug. “You really went to work on this one squirt.”
Their friends approached them, along with the unconscious Dazzlings.
“She’s right Kira, you are the hero of this story,” Alex said ruffling her hair.
Dan nodded, “Not only did you snap us out of the Dazzlings spell, but you and Jenny finished off the Symphony Master.”
“You rocked it girl!”
“I’m gonna back you the biggest cake as congratulations/thank you for breaking the curse.” Rainbow, Pinkie and the other Rainbooms complimented her like the rest.
Kira smirked as she puffed out her chest proudly. “Haha! That’s right, I was awesome. Praise me more!”
*Bonk!*
“Ahh!”
Lan bopped his fist on top his little sister's head. “Now don’t get a big head over this little sis.” She nodded while clutching her head in pain with an anime tear running down her eye. Lan then started to pat her head, “But you did do great Kira.”
She smiled at her brothers praise. “Alright then, well we should probably get back to the concert hall.” She raised her hand in the air as light gathered in her palm. The area around them started to shine until everything was coated in the light.
The light died down and revealed they were back in the concert hall. The audience saw their return and applaud them. Not only for their victory but their performance from before as well. As they were about to leave the stage, the audience cheered louder chanting ‘encore!’
“They want an encore? But we don’t have our instruments anymore.” Kira said. But on cue, their Keyblades changed into their instrument form once more. “Oh, looks like our Keyblades are up for an encore, what about all of you?”
With only a moment's hesitation, they all nodded yes.
“Alright, last song of the night. Let’s rock it!” Lan announced as they set the Dazzlings aside.
The next morning at Foreteller Mansion, the FIve Foretellers were gathered around the dining room table eating breakfast.
“Hah~ Yesterday sure was exhausting.” Kira sighed taking a bite of her toast.
Alex nodded taking a sip of his coffee. “Well, we’ll probably have some R&R for a while. There is always a bit of a time gap in our adventures.”
Suddenly, they felt a huge spike of energy all around them. But it didn’t feel like it was coming from their world, but another reflection entirely.
“You just had to say it didn’t you?” Jenny said irritated.
Reluctantly, the Foretellers mobilized to investigate the sudden energy spike.