Dancing Through Life
Chapter 2
Dance Announcement
The music video filming went according to schedule, and soon, the Dazzlings were riding back home in their van, while Rainbow Dash was riding behind them in her motorcycle.
Soon, all of them arrived back at Adagio's house; a large two-story white house with a huge front yard and curved driveway. Adagio stepped out of the van, talking on her phone. She wore a dark blue shirt with a small purple vest, a darker skirt, tight purple pants, and matching heeled boots with spikes around the ankles.
"No, we're not doing that man's talk show again." She said into the phone.
Aria and Sonata stepped out of the van as well, also on their phones.
"This semester is totally gonna rock." Aria said.
"Oh, of course I know that. I know everything." Sonata giggled.
Rainbow parked her motorcycle near her corner of the house. "There's laundry to do!" Aria called out to her.
"Okay." Dash called back.
She entered into her room, and closed the door. There was nothing fancy about it like the rest of the house, but it was the one place where she could get away from her daily troubles.
A simple bed with blue sheets and three pillows was in the middle of the room against one of the walls, a TV set was on the opposite wall, and an armchair was in one of the corners. Next to her bed was a wooden green nightstand and two framed pictures. One was a more current photo of herself and her best friends, and the other was of her as a young teenager with her parents, Bow Hothoof and Windy Whistles.
Rainbow sadly smiled at the photo and gently fingered it. She was a lot like her mother; sharing her magenta eyes and cyan blue skin. But her spectrum hair, she inherited from her father. They always supported her, even if sometimes they embarrass her. But, she loved them dearly. And now, their support; embarrassing or not, was all she really wanted.
Back inside the fancy house, Aria and Sonata were squealing over their phones. "They're coming back for the rest of the year! How hot is that?!" Sonata shrieked.
"Like, surface-of-the-sun hot!" Aria fangirled, which was a bit out of character for her. She and Sonata then headed over to the living room.
"Don't you dare turn on that TV!" Adagio threatened.
"Okay!" Aria groaned loudly. Once her older sister was upstairs and out of earshot, Sonata whispered to her.
"Turn it."
Aria flipped over to a local news channel. There, a news reporter woman was speaking.
"I'm here in front of Canterlot High School where is nothing but buzz, buzz, buzz."
Back in her room, folding the two large batches of laundry, Rainbow was watching the same news story on her own TV.
"Fresh from their fourth world tour, the famous teen dance team, the Wonderbolts, are bringing their triple threat of singing, dancing, and breaking hearts back home to Canterlot."
The scene changed to a slightly blurry video clip of the Wonderbolts performing live at one of their previous concerts. There were three members: Two girls and one guy. The guy was singing the lead part while the girls were backing him up.
Spitfire is the leader of the Wonderbolts dance team, and she has a fiery attitude to match her name. She has golden orange hair cut short, amber eyes, and golden yellow skin.
Fleetfoot is the other girl, and second-hand to Spitfire. She has wispy, cloud white hair cut short as well, aqua blue eyes, and pale aqua skin.
Finally, Soarin' is the only guy on the team, the lead singer of the band, and a heartthrob to the female population. He had wild navy blue hair, green eyes, and pale blue skin.
All of them were wearing their signature dance uniforms: a tight blue shirt with yellow lightning bolts on the sleeves and ends, jeans, and black dance shoes.
While Sonata was squealing at the video of Soarin' singing and dancing on the stage and Aria grinning with lust in their living room, Dash was just smiling with admiration at the whole dance team. They were her inspiration for dancing.
The scene on the TV then changed to a camera recording the Wonderbolts.
"Hey, guys. What are your plans for the year?" The reporter holding the camera asked.
"Uh, getting back to our roots." Soarin' replied to the camera as he followed Spitfire and Fleetfoot to their van. "We're taking our senior year off, going back to school."
"And we're gonna keep it real." Fleetfoot added. Her voice had a slight lisp to it.
The scene then went back to the reporter woman. "How do these three plan to keep it real? The Wonderbolts and their record label are sponsoring a huge dance competition where one lucky student will win the opportunity to dance with the Wonderbolts in their next video. So, all you dancers in waiting, it's time to get your freak on!"
Rainbow started smiling even wider, and this time with excitement. That competition could be her big break before heading off to college! She can finally show everyone, besides her friends, what she can really do and earn some respect from her stepsisters! All she needed to do is enter without them knowing.
There was a loud beep that broke Dash away from her thoughts. She turned to her intercom, which was the main form of communication between her and her stepsisters when they wanted her to do some chores if they can't tell her in person for whatever reason.
"Rainbow Dash, I need you here right now!" Adagio ordered. "You forgot to TiVo my dramas."
Dash flinched and quietly groaned at her mistake. Seriously, how does her stepsister come up with these ridiculous chores? She pressed the response button on the intercom to answer back. "Sorry, Adagio. I'll be right there."
"Can you feel that?" Adagio asked.
"What?" Rainbow questioned hesitantly.
"I'm choking you, from a distance." Adagio explained. "Choking you!"
Dash moaned with annoyance. This was going to be a long night. And, she had school in the morning. Just great.