Its been three days since the movie night at the Dazzlings, and it was time for another weekly soccer game at Canterlot High. Sunset, Fluttershy, and Rarity sat on the bleachers watching the game while also cheering on Rainbow Dash and Applejack as they played.
"Do you think they can actual win this one?" Rarity asked, watching the ball go from person to person.
"Have faith Rarity, they've come back from worse before," Sunset replied, taking a sip from her drink. Rarity didn't think to much on her reply while she watched the ball get stolen from Rainbow.
"But they don't seem to have the same coordination and push they usually do," Rarity said, putting her head in her hands.
"Don't worry Rarity, I'm sure our friends have it handled," Fluttershy responded to her, patting Rarity on the shoulder.
"Since when did you care so much about soccer?" Sunset asked Rarity suspiciously. This was the first year that Rarity actual watched the soccer games, and cared how they went.
"Well darling, Applejack told me she was going to join this year, much to Rainbow's joy. She told me I should come watch the games. At first I didn't want to since soccer was such a unlady like profession, but I've found myself enjoying the sport." Rarity told her curious friend.
"So all it took to get you out here was Applejack asking you to be here," said Sunset. She lifted her eyebrow leaned over to Rarity. "I bet you've been watching her this whole game, and you can't wait till the games over so you can spend time with her," she said, making Rarity just a tad bit flustered.
"That is not true at all Sunset Shimmer! Honestly, you sound just like Adagio," Rarity said defensively.
Sunset merely laughed before looking down at her phone and sighing. "It's a shame they didn't want to come, but I also can't blame them," she said disappointed.
"Well I don't blame them. I wouldn't want to come back to place where I hypnotized all the people," Rarity stated. She saw that Sunset was looking at the empty seat next to her with a frown and decided for a little revenge. "You just wish Adagio was sitting next to you, maybe with her arm around you."
Sunset snapped back around to her flustered. "That's not true! I like her company just as much as Sonata and Aria's," she retorted.
"Now girls, lets not argue with each other, we need to cheer on our friends," Fluttershy said, turning to the two other girls.
"Your right darling, we are here for them after all," Rarity told her.
"YAY RAINBOW DASH! KICK THAT BALL RIGHT INTO THEIR NET!" Pinkie yelled from beside the bleachers, making Sunset jump.
"Pinkie! You startled me. Where have you been?" Sunset asked, regaining her composure.
"Oh I've been over at the concessions stand getting cotton candy!" She replied quickly.
"You'd think with someone like you in the school they wouldn't sell all that sugar," Rarity said, looking at the five bags of cotton candy.
"I love it!" Pinkie stated, plopping down next to Sunset. "I heard you guys talking about the Dazzlings earlier,"
"And what of it darling?" Rarity asked.
"Did you wonder what movie they'll pick this Friday," Pinkie said, stuffing her face with cotton candy.
"No, why?" Sunset asked confused.
"Because it's Halloween that day!" Pinkie said, slightly jumping in the air.
"Is it really? I hope we don't watch a horror movie." Fluttershy said shivering a little.
"We might, especially if Aria picks it," Sunset told her.
"Oh, I don't think I'll wanna be there for that," Fluttershy told them.
"O come one Flutters, we'll all make sure you have a great time. And Rainbow would be sad if you wasn't there," Pinkie told her, trying to brighten her up.
"Pinkie's right darling. Besides, I'm sure all three of them will have everything covered." Rarity commented to her.
Meanwhile, at the Dazzling's house, Sonata was walking up the stairs to Aria's room. She was sad that Adagio and Aria decided not to join their friends at the soccer game. She opened Aria's door to find her sitting at her desk making a list.
Aria turned and looked at the door. "What do you want Sonata," she said dryly.
"How come you and Adagio didn't want to go to the soccer game?" Sonata asked innocently.
Aria growled at her frustratingly. "How many times do we have to tell you. We don't want to go back to that school and see those people. We may have friends there, but we don't want to deal with all of the dumbasses that also go there. Now leave me alone, I'm working."
Sonata walked into the room. "Working on what?"
"None of your business," Aria stated.
"But I wanna know, and maybe I can help you with it," Sonata said cheerfully.
"Ah, fine," Aria said as Sonata walked over to her. "I'm making a list of stuff to get for this Friday. I want this to be a good Halloween."
"That's right! This Friday is Halloween! I bet your really excited," Sonata told her joyfully.
"About as excited as I can get," Aria said smirking. "Now I want this house to be really creepy for when our friends arrive. But we need to get some stuff first."
"Are we going to have mall shopping trip!" said Sonata, shaking with excitement.
"Looks like it, but first we need to ask Adagio," Aria stated.
"Ask me what?" Adagio asked from the doorway.
Aria and Sonata jumped a little at her voice. "Jeez Adagio, do you always have to be so damn sneaky." Aria grumbled at her.
Adagio smirked at them. "I could hear you two plotting something, and it sounds like I'm involved."
"Yeah Dagi, we need to go to the mall to get Halloween decorations," Sonata told her, bouncing like a little kid.
"Ah yes, this Friday is Halloween. Alright, lets go," she told them. As they made there way out the door Adagio turned to Aria and said, "But this year you can't hang a fake dead corpse in the yard, we had enough problems with the complaints and police calls last year."
"Yeah yeah, whatever," Aria told here.
There was thirty seconds left to the game, and the score was tied. Rainbow Dash looked over at Applejack and gave her a thumbs up, which Applejack returned. Rainbow took the ball from the enemy teams middle offence player and dribbled it down the field. When one of the defenders came up to attempt a steal she passed the ball to AJ. Applejack dribbled past one defender into the corner of the field. There she crossed the ball across the field to Rainbow Dash who headed the ball into the goal. The ref blew his whistle, instancing the game was over. The crowd stood and cheered, yelling at the tops of their lungs.
"THEY DID IT! THEY WON!" Fluttershy yelled as she jumped for joy.
"Wow Fluttershy, that's the loudest I've heard you all year," Sunset said laughing.
"Oh, sorry, I got carried away," she said blushing from embarrassment.
"Don't be Flutters, this is a moment of joy!" Pinkie said to her, jumping up and down. Once the excitement died down the players joined the bleacher people. The three girls gave the congratulations to the two players, as well as high fives and fist pumps.
"Looks like we're going to the finals next week," Rainbow said, high fiving AJ.
"It definitely does, can't wait to take on those teams." AJ responded happily.
"I have a idea darlings. Why don't we all go celebrate this victory at that nice restaurant in the mall. My treat," Rarity said joyfully.
"Sounds great Rares, but first, let me and Rainbow change out of our jerseys," said AJ, rubbing sweat off her face.
Soon the group was ready and made there way to the mall. After getting their wonderful meals, they sat and talked, mostly about the game.
"I told you we had it in the bag, I mean come on, with me on the team, who's stopping us," Rainbow said gloating.
"With that attitude I'm surprised you work as a team," Applejack responded to her.
"Well anyway, hey Sunset, I noticed that Dazzlings didn't show. I guess they don't care for soccer," Rainbow said to her bacon haired friend.
"They didn't want to be at school, considering what happened last time..." Sunset said, looking at her food.
Rainbow noticed someone walking towards their table and got a idea. "Well what expect from a group like those three, especially with a monster like Adagio as their leader."
Sunset looked up from her food at Rainbow. "She is not a monster!" Adagios kind. She's fun to be around. She's a great person. She's pretty. She's...right behind me...isn't she."
Adagio leaned down and wrapped her arms around Sunset. "Ah Sunny, don't stop now, you were doing really good."
Sunset blushed a little and made a grumpy face at Rainbow Dash while Adagio pulled up a chair beside her.
"Well Adagio, what brings you to the mall?" Rarity asked, sipping her tea.
"Aria and Sonata are here getting stuff for Friday. Aria wants to make it a memorable Halloween." Adagio responded to her.
"So, where are the other two?" Applejack asked.
"Who knows. I lost tract of those two idiots awhile ago." Adagio told her, taking a sip from Sunset's drink. "You don't mind if I drink some of this, right?"
"Sure, go ahead," Sunset told her, knowing it would be pointless to say no.
"Hey girls!" Sonata yelled from across the mall.
"Sonata! Don't yell, we're in a public mall!" scolded Aria.
"Sorry, I got excited," Sonata told her. Aria merely rolled her eyes as they walked over to the group.
"So what did you two idiots get?" Adagio asked them.
"Enough stuff to make this Friday fun." Aria told her, smirking.
As everyone got up to leave, Adagio turned to the others and said, "If Aria is happy about Friday being memorable, you best be prepared." The others took her warning with worried glances.
Soon that Friday came and everyone made there way to the Dazzling's house. They all decided to get there at the same time to experience whatever Aria had in store for them at the same time. When they arrived the group noticed the house was dark, except for candles in the windows. They cautiously made their way to the door, noticing the yard was untouched, which made them wonder even more what was inside. Rainbow got the courage to knock on the door. When she did, it creaked open slowly. Rainbow was the first to walk inside, followed by everyone else. The floor was lined with candles, burning in the dark. Once they all made it inside the door slammed shut, making Fluttershy squeak. They all slowly advanced through the candle lit entrance.
"Aria...Sonata...Adagio...where are you?" Rainbow called into the darkness. As they slowly walked Rarity accidently stepped in a puddle of something. She shined her phone down to see a red puddle which was being made from something dripping from the ceiling.
"Ew! Gross! I hope that comes out of my shoe," Rarity said worryingly.
"That's what your worried about Rares, that's ridiculous, right Pinkie," Applejack said as she looked to her right to where Pinkie was, but she wasn't. "Pinkie? Guys, Pinkie's disappeared."
They all turned to see that she was indeed gone. As they all turned to see where she could've gone, they heard a low growl in the darkness, a very inhuman growl. As they huddled together they heard footsteps above them, and another growl.
"Dashie, I don't like this, can we leave," Fluttershy said as the stomping continued.
"There is no escape," came a voice from the dark. The group turned towards the voice and shinned their phones lights in the direction it came, but saw nothing.
"Your trapped in here with us now," it spoke again. "Your trapped in here...with HER!"
"With who?" Sunset asked the voice in the dark, only for it to be met with a loud monstrous roar from the direction ahead of them. The group began to panic and make their way out the door as loud footsteps where heard following them, as well as another roar. They all got outside and safe distance from the house, only to see Adagio and Aria follow them out, busting up laughing.
"O my god that was fun! You're still really good at the siren roar Adagio!" Aria told her laughing.
"I knew it would be useful some day," Adagio responded to her. She motioned to the others to come in with her.
The rest reluctantly followed them in to find Sonata and Pinkie laughing too.
"You should've seen the looks on your faces when Adagio came down the hall!" Sonata said laughing loudly.
"This was more fun than I thought it would be!" Pinkie stated.
"Wait, you was in on this Pinkie?" Rainbow asked her.
"Sure I was silly, how do you think I disappeared so easily," she responded to her.
"Well, I hope you've had your fun Aria," Rarity told her, "but now lets do what we came to do."
"Alright, party pooper," Aria giggled at her. They all made their way into the living room. "Oh Pinkie, we forgot to tell you that the second loveseat is gone, so I don't know where your going to sit."
"It's alright silly, I can sit on the floor," which she did, sitting on the floor at the edge of the couch.
Everyone took there usual spots, including Sunset, who sat back on the recliner with Adagio.
"O, come to join me again Sunny," Adagio remarked, looking seductively at Sunset.
"It was either this or the floor, and your not as bad as the floor," Sunset joked with her.
"Well if your going to look at it that way," said Adagio, looking away from her.
"I'm just joking Adagio, I like sitting with you," Sunset said genuinely.
"I'm glad to here that," Adagio told her, looking back at her. Aria emerged from upstairs with a movie in her hands.
"If you thought that the intro of this evening was the only scares you get, your wrong, for I have picked out the perfect movie for tonight." she stated triumphantly.
"How come Aria is so happy tonight?" Sunset asked Adagio.
"Halloween is her favorite holiday, she's always like this when it rolls around," Adagio told her.
"Oh," was Sunset's only response. Aria put the movie in and sat down next to Sonata. The movie started, it was one of the newest horror movies, and regarded as one of the scariest. During the movie Sunset looked around at everyone to see if they were enjoying it. Fluttershy had her face buried against Rainbow, refusing to watch the movie, and Rainbow wasn't looking to thrilled about watching it. Applejack and Rarity merely cringed at the movie as it played. Pinkie was to busy eating snacks she somehow snuck into the house. Sonata was clearly not enjoying it, but Aria had turned to her and whispered to her stop being a wuss and enjoy it, which she clearly couldn't. As for Aria and Adagio, they were enjoying it, more so Aria. Sunset sometimes liked horror movies, but this one was a bit much for her taste. Once the movie was over, each person started to get up to move. It didn't take long for Fluttershy to ask Rainbow if they could leave, which they did.
Next was Applejack and Rarity, simply because Rarity wanted to make it home and fix her shoe. Pinkie was next to leave, but only after giving some snacks to Sonata. Sunset was yet again, last to leave, but this time it was to help Adagio pick up candles. Once she was gone the Dazzlings made there ways to their rooms. Sonata changed into her pajamas and got into bed. She tried to sleep, but nightmares of the movie came flooding to her head. After a hour and a half of trying to sleep, she got up and walked quietly to Aria's room. She quietly opened the door and stepped inside.
"Ari...Ari, are you awake?" she asked
Aria turned in her bed towards her. "Sonata...what are you doing in here?" she asked sleepily.
"I...couldn't sleep...I kept having nightmares," Sonata told her.
Aria got up and sat on the edge of her bed. "About what? The movie?"
"...yeah," she responded. "And I was wondering if I could stay with you for a little bit."
Aria groaned, she knew it was her fault for making her watch that movie, and now she had to deal with the consequences.
"Alright, come here," she said, motioning towards Sonata to come sit by her. Sonata didn't waste any time, she quickly made her way over to her, but instead of sitting next to her, Sonata sat in her lap and cuddled up to her. Aria sat a little shocked at this, but soon put her own arms around Sonata, trying to comfort the siren. After about ten minutes of this Sonata spoke up.
"Ari, can I sleep with you tonight?" she asked her purple friend.
"What? Why?" Aria questioned her back.
"Because I feel safe with you," Sonata told her. Aria looked at her for a moment before sighing and letting her go to lay in bed. She expected her to just lay on the other side, but Sonata cuddled up beside her and put her arms around her again to snuggle up behind her.
"Goodnight Ari," she said as she nuzzled her head in Aria's hair.
"Goodnight Sonata," and with that, Aria drifted off to sleep with a smile on her face.