//------------------------------// // Chapter 23: The First day of the rest of your life. // Story: The Legend of Sunrise Freezer, First Arc: Make peace with the past // by Justafanfictioner //------------------------------// 5 whole days have passed since Sunrise announced he will leave this world to explore others more exciting. These five days have been hard for the Main 7, who had to plan everything before they left their world. But you certainly want to know what happened in detail, so here is a summary of the last five days. [Flashback!!!!]-(Wednesday) The bell of the school rings and everyone soon leave, everyone except Sunset Shimmer and her friends. They were sitting at a table outside, talking about if they made their choices. “How Sunrise could say something like that?” said Sunset, trying to understand. “Well, he is not wrong, Sunset, said Applejack. We have family in this world, family we will have to leave and maybe not see again...” “No, this is more deeper than that, said Rarity. He maybe don’t want us to come with him, this is why he is make us doubting about following him...” “I think you are right, Rarity, said Twilight. Sunrise lived alone for almost 5000 years, fighting bad guys and working on magic. For him, leaving without us would not be so hard, he maybe don’t consider us as real friends.” “He also said something like: What worth more to you? Your family or your friends, said Pinkie Pie. That is some serious subject to think about” “He kinda went low on that one, said Sunset. This is like if we were not so important to him...” “Or maybe he want us to be safe, said Fluttershy. But i can’t be wrong!!” “I am sick talking about that, said Sunset. I think we should go home, i’ll see you tomorrow girls!” They make a group hug and split to their respective houses. The evening was pretty quiet, everyone still thinking about Sunrise’s words of today. The next day, They return to school, tired and even more uncertain than yesterday. Sunset see Sunrise walking in direction of the principal office and follow him and proceed to spy on their conversation subtly. “So, you really want to leave the school, Sunrise? Said the Principal Celestia. Can you told me why?” “I love studying, he answered. But i have a power nobody could imagine and i waste it while sitting on a chair for 7 hours a day 5 days by week. I need to use that magic in me to fight villains or just strong guys and personally, studying is what i did half of my loooooong life and saving the world is what i did during the other half.” Celestia was voiceless after hearing that. “This is not something personal toward you or your school, Principal Celestia, he said. I just needed something to do to fill my free time and school was the idea of one of my friends. This school is not where i will be learning and that is ironic said like that, i know...” “I understand, she said. If saving the world and fighting is what make you happy, then a high school is mostly the last place to go for that. But have you thought about schools made for superheroes, one of your friends told me you have the power to travel through dimensions, so maybe in one of them there is a superheroes school. Like that, you could combine two of the things you love the most.” “This is actually a good idea, said Sunrise. A school were i could be a teacher while saving the world from supervillains...i am sure i have heard about a universe like that...hum..”* “Alright, then, said Celestia, I will draw out your name from the school schedule. I really hope you will found your place somewhere else, i am just sorry my school was not the good one.” Sunrise smile at her “Don’t be sorry about that, a single thing can’t work for everyone, he said. I really appreciated the welcoming attitude of your students, this is a place perfect for people emotionally broke by loneliness or hatred. But i am not like that, i am a hero who need to save the day, possibly teaching things to people who need it!! Also, i will stay in school until Friday.” He leave the office and Sunset hide behind a trashcan to avoid being spotted. Sunrise don’t see her, because too occupied to think about where he will start a new adventure. She wait until he disappear from the hall then rush to her class and try to be subtle when she pass beside Sunrise. “Oh!!! Sunrise!! Haven’t talked to you since...Yesterday!!! She said on a falsely happy tone. How are you?!” “Are you okay, Sunset? He asked with a smooth voice. You seem to faking that tone, is that something wrong?” Sunset hold herself to kick him in the balls, frustrated by his attitude after what he said yesterday, like if he forgot about it. “We will talk after the classes” she said. Unfortunately for her, she is placed in team with Sunrise for a series of mathematical problems. Sunrise smile to Sunset when he see her nervous and put his hand on her right hand. Sunset remove it and begin to write on her sheet and the poor Sunrise start to doubt about something. ”Why is she so upset, he thought. Did i said something wrong...? Hum, i don’t remember...” ”I can’t resist to that face, thought Sunset. His smile is so charming than he make me want to kiss him...” “She maybe need a hug, thought Sunrise, perplexed. Or maybe a kiss? She maybe need love from me...” ”Oh no, he’s gonna hug me or something, she thought, stressed. If he hug me, i will be so embarrassed” Sunrise use his magic to stop time around him and Sunset, then hug her. “Sunrise, stop hugging me!!! She said. I don’t need your hugs or your smile, i am okay!!” “So why are you so upset?” he asked. “I don’t want to talk about it...you know why i am upset!!” she answered. “Is this because i neglected you these last times? I didn’t give you attention these few days...” Sunset don’t answer and stay silent. Sunrise begin to tickle her, but she brutally reject his hands away. Sunrise understand that he should let her alone and put the time back to normal. He ignore her for the rest of the class and also the rest of the day. When the school was over, he teleport directly to his chamber without trying to be subtle. Okay, for avoiding you a long and annoying chapter about this situation, i will told you that then next 3 days (Thursday, Friday and Saturday) were pretty much awkward silence between Sunset and Sunrise, while each member of the Main 6 finally took their decision. This is on a fateful Sunday than the tension between the two finally burst. That happened during the morning and there is what was said between the two friends.[...] Sunrise had reunited the Main 7 to join him at the park, what the group accepted to do. “So, did you take your decision?” asked Sunrise. “We did, answered Rainbow Dash. I will come with you, i want to kick supervillains asses like you!!” “Me too, said Twilight. Having the chance to explore other universes is an once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that i don’t want to miss!!” “Who say different universes say different fashion styles, said Rarity. I have to see how people from other worlds wear!!” “I sure love my family, said Applejack, but if my friends want to come with you, i am in too!!” “Who know, maybe i will discover new species of animals, said Fluttershy, i want to come with you!” “And i am coming with you because traveling in another universe is one of the top 3 things i want to do on my to-do list before i die!!” said Pinkie Pie. “We all come with you, Sunrise, said Sunset. You can’t reject us right now...” “You girls are very stubborn, said Sunrise. I am surprised you want to come with me even if that mean abandoning your life in this world. You are really ready to do that for me, a guy you met for less than a month and know nothing of him? I knew friendship was something important for you, but not at this point. Why that much loyalty toward me? This is not like i inspired you or something!!! I just don’t want that loyalty blind your judgement, i don’t want you to come with me!!!” This last phrase shock pretty much everyone, even Sunrise, who realize he said out loud what he was thinking deep in his thoughts. Sunset break the silence by yelling at him; “You asked me Wednesday what bothered me, and i said i didn’t want to talk about it, she said. This is that i was talking about, We care for you, I care for you, Sunrise, but you decide to push us away like if we are not important for you!!!” She was crying of rage while saying that, her friends try to comfort her. “This is why i don’t want you to come with me, he said. You consider me important for you but i don’t feel the same. I just can’t accept blind loyalty toward someone who appear in your lives for less than a month. I didn’t expected to count so much to you, i didn’t want that to happen...” “So why did you stay here in the first place? Said Sunset. I invited you to stay in our world because i was thinking you would really trying to think to something else than doing hero stuff!! If you wanted that much to fight and save people, then you shouldn’t have stayed here so long!! You don’t consider friendship important, you don’t want a friend, you just want to beat villains and admiration...” “Sunset...I...” tried to say Sunrise. “No!! I don’t want to hear your explanations!! I don’t want to see you again!! If you want to go, do it, we will not follow you!!! I was wrong to actually open my heart to someone like you!!!” Her friends actually gasp of surprise and Sunrise decide to say what he had on heart too “And i should never had accepted your invitation!!!! He said. I was certain a normal life was the best idea for me and i actually give it a chance, but you know what, normal life suck!!!! This world is boring!! I don’t want friends, i don’t need any!!! Just come back to your boring lives and let me live mine!!!” Sunrise open a rift and jump toward and close it. Sunset run away from her friend, crying and very sad. “Let her go, said Applejack to Twilight when she wanted to follow her. She need to be alone after what they said to each other...” “So, we just throw away our lives for nothing?” said Rarity. “That is not to late for that, said Applejack, we can still reverse everything we did and continue to live normally.” “This is a good thing for me because i didn’t tell anything to my family!” said Rainbow Dash “Me neither!!! Said Pinkie Pie “Guess we have to told to everyone that we are here to stay” said Twilight. “Let’s just return home, darlings, said Rarity. I need to eat some ice cream to make the sadness in me disappear” “I think i will came to your house do the same thing, said Pinkie Pie, that will be a «Eating-Cupcake-and-Ice-cream-to-chase away-our-sadness afternoon»” “I have the farm duties to do, said Applejack, maybe working will help me change my ideas” “I will help you, A.J!” said Rainbow Dash “Me, i will close myself in the local animal shelter and pass the day with fluffy animals who love me!!” said Fluttershy, also crying. “I think i will told Celestia that me and you will finally return to school tomorrow, said Twilight. I see you later, girls...” Sunset enter in her room, her heart broken, shattered to pieces. She erase all the photos of Sunrise in her phone and look at the wristband he gave to her and feel even more sad. “You are an idiot, Sunrise, she said. You are a jerk, an asshole and a stupid liar!! How could i let you took my heart like that, i hope you made the good choice!!!” Meanwhile, Sunrise was not totally gone. He was in his dimension and actually used it to unleash the rage in him. “This is why i didn’t want to make friends in the first place, he said. I am a hero and friendship will just hold me back!!!” He have a thought for Sunset Shimmer and feel his heart pinching. He suddenly realize she was counting to him. He open the portal in front of Sunset door, knock at it and wait for her to open. She open her door and see Sunrise in front of him, looking sad as she was. He don’t said anything and kiss her, Sunset don’t hold him back. She just look surprised and shook by the emotion. “Sunrise...she said. Why are you coming back? I...” He put his finger on her mouth. “We owe each other apologizes for what we said to each other, said Sunrise. Me first. I am so sorry to said such mean things to you...i this is just that no one really loved me that much...I realized than you took my heart and i can’t think about a life of adventure if it’s not with you. This is why i ask you: Do you want to come with me?” Sunset smile of joy and hug him. “I am sorry too if i said the things i said to you, she said. I should have talked of that to you sooner, when you asked me if i was okay. I love you too, Sunrise and yes, i want to come with you, silly !!” “Don’t worry about the others, if they can’t come, this is because they simply can’t. They are important for their world, they are the Elements of Harmony like Twilight and her friends in Equestria. They have to stay in this world, this is a question of balance. I should have told you about that sooner.” “So why can i come with you and not them?” she asked. “Because you and me are not necessary to the survival of our worlds, Equestria and this world can survive without you. So this is why you can come with me. Don’t worry for your friends; When we will return in your world, i’ll bring us back to this day and here we could live normally...” “You can do that?” she asked “Darling, he said. I can do everything...Now hold on to me, we have a new world waiting for us to save it!!!” Sunset write a message to her friends before she left with Sunrise. Then the portal disappear. The message was saying pretty much she was gone with Sunrise, the reason why they couldn’t came with them and the fact she will miss them. Sunrise even let them a video of his apologies and a gift for each of them.