//------------------------------// // The Beginning: Part 1, Worst Day of My Life // Story: Midnight and the Sonic Rainbooms // by diamond doll //------------------------------// 'With the unexpected death of my father...' Three years ago.... (Canterlot Abbey, Canterlot. 10:15 am) Instead of sitting in first-period bio at Canterlot High School, a girl with lavender skin and violet eyes that had tears threatening to spill sat on a couch in the back room of the nave of Canterlot Abbey. She had long indigo hair with pink and purple highlights in a bun and wore an eminence colored ensemble with a maximum blue purple shirt and a belt. She did her best not to smudge her violet-blue eye shadow as she wiped her eyes for what seemed to her like the hundredth time. "Twilight." said someone. The girl, Twilight, looked up and saw a woman in the doorway with a light bluish gray complexion, moderate opal eyes, and long flowing blue hair. She was clad in a cowl-neck black dress, heels, and tiny freshwater pearls. She walked up to Twilight and the girl engulfed her in a hug, "Oh, Aunt Luna," Twilight sobbed. "It's alright, Twilight. Let it out." Her aunt whispered back, her own eyes watering. Twilight sniffed as she looked over her aunt's shoulder. Kids from school streamed around the front of the building, either trying to find seats in the pews or going and giving their sympathy to family members. Twilight hadn't known what to expect at her father's memorial service. The abbey smelled like incense and wood. Simple lamps hung from the ceiling, and the altar was covered with a billion prismatic flowers, her father's favorite. Twilight remembered when her father helped her mom plant rows of them in their front yard every year. Or at least, they used too. Mom was gone too. Had been for a long time. Plane crash nine years ago. After her funeral, Aunt Luna moved in. Said it seemed only right she help her brother-in-law raise the girls her older sister gave him. Luna finally stood up and wiped her eyes. "I need to go. I'm already late enough as is. Will you be okay?" 'NO!' screamed Twilight in her mind. "Y-yeah Auntie. I think so..." she did her best to smile. "There's my strong girl. I know you're parents would be proud of you." She kissed her niece's head and walked out. Twilight listened to every click of her aunt's heels and the shuffling of everyone else's feet in the main room. Suddenly it hit her why she was here. Her father was dead. She clutched the arm of the couch. "Oh my god." Her field of vision narrowed, and she heard a waaaah noise in her ears. A sign that she was about to faint. Dizzily, she put her hands on the arm rest and laid her head on them. She was about to nod off when- "Put your head between your legs," (1) she heard a familiar voice say. Then another familiar voice groaned. "Ugh. Honestly, Rainbow Dash, I hardly think this is the time for one of your jokes." Twilight looked up. Next to her were her sisters Rainbow Dash and Rarity. Rainbow wore a blue, purple, and fuchsia-striped cotton boat-neck dress, a navy velvet jacket, and cowboy boots (borrowed from Twilight's other sister Applejack). Rarity, on the other hand, wore a simple black dress underneath a cordovan trench coat with an English violet hat, a light coral ribbon on the hat, bodice, and collar, and black stockings with silver heels. (2) "Scooch over a bit?" Above Twilight, Sunset Shimmer stood with Applejack, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie. Applejack wore a black shoulder dress, dark purple leggings, and short black olive cowboy boots with white fringe. On her head rested a black version of her usual hat. For Pinkie, a long black v-neck dress and heels. Her usually hot pink poofy hair was dull and flat. Fluttershy, a dark skirt with an olive colored hem, a white and black laced shirt with dark flowers, and black raspberry lace-up sandals. On her belt, sandals and hair clip, were a monarch butterfly (3). Finally, Sunset wore a light black dress with a frilly striped V-neck collar, black sandals, and a black leather jacket. 'The one Dad got her' Twilight thought. "Hey guys." she finally said in that buttery voice her sisters missed. She needn't (and couldn't) say anymore, as her sisters enveloped her in a great big hug! "Uh, mind if I get in on that?" asked a male voice. In the doorway was Twilight's boyfriend, Flash sentry. His black suit contrasted his spiky bright blue hair. His presence finally got Twilight to smile a real smile as he sat down and hugged her. She laughed a little and put her head on his shoulder, returning the hug. *knock knock knock* The teenagers looked up to see a man in his mid 30's in the door way. He had light gray skin, a beard, and piercing blue eyes. "Twilight, girls, I would just like to say that you all have my deepest sympathies." "Thank you Mr. King." said Twilight. Her sisters nodded. The man smiled sadly. "Please call me Storm." He walked over and put his hands on her shoulders. "If I can be of any help-" He was interrupted by a very jealous Flash when the teenager put himself in the middle of the two. "Twilight and the girls have all the help they need, Mr. King." He then guided Twilight out of the room, her sisters following. "Flash means well. I appreciate the offer, Storm. Thank you." (The next day...) 'My father left us two inheritances. One was his music company, Canterlot Records, and the other was a home for foster girls, Golden Oaks.' If you were to take a drive around Canterlot and go down near the forest you would find Golden Oaks Foster Home for Girls. Named for the beautiful golden oak trees surrounding it and for the color of the Victorian-style house. Inside, though, isn't exactly as beautiful. "Hmmhmmhmmhmmhmhmhm..." hummed Sunset Shimmer as she strummed her acoustic guitar in the bay window. She wore a light blue green dress with an amber tulle (4), teal blue leggings, black boots, and her signature black jacket of course. "As for me, I've got the touch. Close to someone, I can learn so much. It's a power I hope never goes away..." she sang. "Careful Flash, I need you to be my eyes." said Rainbow Dash as she and Twilight's boyfriend carried a ladder. She was wearing a casual white T-shirt with a tri-colored bolt under a cyan-blue azure jacket, a pink and white gym skirt, black shorts, and a pair of blue sneaker boots. "Got it." said Flash. He wore a black letter man jacket, a white T-shirt with a decal of a blue shield with a lightning bolt going through it, jeans, and sneakers. Meanwhile, in another part of the house, Pinkie Pie was vacuuming and playing with a drumstick at the same time! She wore a white shirt with a pink heart underneath a blue jacket, a bright pink skirt with three balloons, a lavender sash, and blue boots with white laces and bows. "CHA-LA! HEAD CHA-LA! (5)" She screamed/sang. Up in her room, Rarity was working on her latest designs, wearing a light blue blouse, a dark purple skirt with three diamonds, and matching boots. "Hmmm...." she adjusted her sewing glasses as she studied the mannequin. She gasped. "I'VE GOT IT!" She immediately grabbed some material and started to stitch together a cherry red halter top with sequins. "Into the li-i-i-i-i-i-i-ight, into the li-i-i-i-i-i-i-ight..." she sang. Outside, Applejack was hard at work, bucking apples into baskets and carrying them into the barn next to the house. She had on a white and green shirt, a jean skirt, and a pair of cowgirl boots with red apple prints. "Hmmhmmhmm... hmmhmmhmm... 1,2,3,4. Hmmhmmhmm... hmmhmmhmm... 1,2,3,4." She smiled as she wiped the sweat off her brow and placed her hat back on her head. In another part of the yard, Fluttershy sat in her garden, playing with the animals. "Oh you want me to sing to you?" she asked a baby bunny. Said bunny looked up at her with big eyes as if to say yes (6). She giggled. "Okay." she cleared her throat and began to sing. "I like the quiet, I like the calm. To turn it up, to sing along. I'm not just shy, look close, and you will see, there's so much more to me." the animals around her applauded and she giggled. In the kitchen, Twilight was fixing a pipe underneath the sink. She had her hair tied up in a long ponytail with a pink scrunchie and wore a pair of blue sweats and purple sneakers. "The time has come to fix the sink, so we can get clean. But it's also time to say goodbye, to our bad piping." she sang as she tapped her foot in a puddle. Back in the living room, Rainbow was holding the ladder while Flash climbed up. Her eyes were closed and she was lost in her own little world. "Look at me now, I'm soaring high." she sang to herself. "It's never boring in the sky!" "Almost got it." said Flash as he tied a red wire and purple wire together on the chandelier. "There! That should do it." he looked over and saw that Pinkie was now in the room. "Hey Pinkie, how about a little light on the situation?" "Okie Doki Loki!" She sang to the tune of the Dragon Ball theme as she flicked the switch with her drum stick. Sadly, Flash forgot the number one rule about electricity, never use the red wire. The bulbs in the chandelier started spazzing with sparks while the vacuum cleaner got away from Pinkie's grasp. Meanwhile, Rainbow, who was still lost in her own world, had just finished the fifth verse of her song, "GUITAR SOLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" she started playing air guitar and bumped into the ladder, causing Flash to fall on to the vacuum and pop the bag. Back in the kitchen, Twilight was hard at work with the sink. "Sink fix-up, sink fix-up, let's finish the job here." she was so caught up in the pipe and the song, that she failed to notice the dust cloud from the vacuum until it was too late. "A-AAACHOO!" she sneezed and broke the pipe. Water started squirting everywhere in the kitchen, it even soaked her from head to toe. Deciding to see where she went wrong, she got out to turn herself when- "Twilight!" called a girl with light yellow skin and big orange eyes. "Twilight! she said again as she came into the room. "We've got problems." "Oh yeah," Twilight laughed. "Tell me about em'." A few minutes later, Sunset, Rainbow, Pinkie, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Flash, and Twilight were all gathered in Twilight's bedroom, discussing how to fix the problems they had. "The electrical wiring's shot." said Flash "And the vacuum cleaner's had it." said Pinkie Pie "Plus, Flash isn't a very good electrician." said Rainbow. Everyone glared at her. "What? I thought we were talking about our problems?" "Anyways," said Applejack. "What we need is money to fix this place up." "Agreed." said Twilight, who was being dried off by their aunt. "But how?" asked Sunset. "We're only high school juniors with part time jobs! The only one of us who really makes a lot is Rarity and even still that's not a lot." "Well," said Aunt Luna. "You're father always used to get money from Canterlot Records to keep things going." She took the towel off her niece's head as she fixed her hair. "Hey good." said Twilight. "Then why can't we?" Her sisters blinked. "Excuse me?" said Sunset finally. "We were all left half the company. It can't be that hard. One of us could do it." "Not it!" said Sunset. "Not it!" second Applejack. "Not it!" Rainbow "Not it!" Rarity "Not it." Fluttershy "It not!" Pinkie "Not it!" said Twilight. She face palmed. "Why do I always fall for that?" Her sisters laughed as she sighed. She may have been the oldest but she still fell for the childish pranks and jokes her younger sisters played on her. "Well then, I guess I'm it." She got up from her seat and walked over to her closet, grabbing her favorite outfit.