//------------------------------// // Meeting the parents. Part 2 // Story: A tied date... Literally // by CaioCoia //------------------------------// Adagio who managed to maintain calm even in the worst situations when she and her sister's schemes were found out during ages, always had a plan in mind for situations when an unexpected event happens. Even in terrible events when the people over the world thought they were witches and want to burn them in fire, she always had a plan. That’s why she was ahead of the others during centuries living on earth. But this time… she was feeling she was a fish outside the water. “I told you Velvet, the students weren’t the same as you and me, they cannot enjoy the most simple things of life. They always have problems with technology. I fear someday this thing will just make humanity more harm than good.” The mother of her boyfriend was venting while the weirdest part was… they were doing an arm wrestle while she was doing her best to maintain her composure… she was losing to his mother… She was even losing her breath while she was doing her best to push it to win, but prayed for any sign of help she was needing at the moment. “Well honey, it’s because the world is always going forward, and even if we enjoyed our time as teenagers, we aren’t saints either, remember some of your old jobs as teenagers?” The prayers were heard and the other mother of her boyfriend spilled the beans, making the rival of arm wrestle lose a bit of her grip, but that was enough to recover and attack. Adagio was sweating bullets but it was enough to make a good approach to win the game, but suddenly the sound of the timer was loud enough to make both women stop their game. “Dang it. And here I thought I was going to win easily.” The woman who was holding Adagio’s hand released while she got up. “That was a low blow Velvy. All of us made bad choices when teenagers, even you.” The purple-haired woman was giggling in her place, while she glanced at Adagio who was still trying to recover her breathing. Adagio gave to Twilight Velvet a thankful look. “I should ask Aria to train me on that.” She was feeling sore on her right arm. But it seems the second test was over, the talk and questions during all time and having little challenges on it was indeed difficult. She could swear she had felt worse. But at least she hadn’t to pay much of the treasures she had, like when she dated the prince of Persia once, that greedy bastard. Hearing the giggling from the kindest and the most terrifying woman she met on the same day, she says Miss Velvet winking to her like she knew something like that would happen. "You did good, it's rare to find someone who could keep with Celly in something." The compliment of the woman who had a knife on her hands, made Adagio be wary of her. "Why Spike is taking so long to take that bath?" Adagio was doing her best to remain calm but thinking about the time, she and Spike's mothers already finished the stew and the fish was already cooked. "Thank you, Miss Sparkle." Twilight Velvet smiled while the principal walked to the oven and took off the stew and made the preparations over the table. "I wouldn't say she pick up with me, it was more like, she was struggling to survive while you cheat on giving a little too much information." Principal Celestia narrowed her eyes on her wife, while in response Miss Velvet smiled sweetly at her. "Touching." That was the tough inside over Adagio's mind. While she received in hands from the Principal a good glass of water, which she needed at the moment. "Well the test 2 is finally over, thankfully test 3 will be far easier than before. This time I can have Spike as my help." "I'm back." Hearing the voice of Spike made Adagio sighs in relief. "Speaking of the devil." Adagio smiled when she saw Spike clothed but surprisingly his hair was wet but in a way, he looked even more stylish when he was before. "Oh my." "Glad to see me?" Spike's grin made Adagio blush, but she remained calm and did her best to hide it from him and his family. She grabbed his arm and pulled him outside of the kitchen... "Woah, calm down... It seems they made the terror of mother over you." "You have no idea, I didn't expect your mother and your stepmother being so..." Adagio whispered with Spike, while she still trying to find the right words to describe... "Intense?" Spike interrupted while nodding his head. "Yeah, they can make everyone terrified... You must see what they did with Cadance. She didn't step on this house until New Year's Eve..." "I don't follow your logic." Adagio doesn't understand the problem... "She met them on January 5th..." Spike finished, making Adagio eyes's shrink. "But looking at you and them, I have to say, you are taking pretty good so far... what did you do?" Adagio smiled proudly of herself, while she patted Spike's head like he was a little kid. "Oh Spike, Spike, Spike... I'm not called leader of Dazzlings for nothing. In my experience of thousand years, your mother wasn't the first mama bear person I found..." She smiled, but then after remembering the knife over her neck, made her smile drop and shrive a bit. "But I have to say... your stepmother can be called of Mama Dragon for a good reason." Spike looked at Adagio confused but decided to ignore it because he didn't know what happened with her stepmother and Adagio, but he knows one thing... Usually, his stepmother is someone so kind and couldn't hurt a fly, but yet all the girls who visited his house ran away for a reason... But he couldn't put a finger on what... "Adagio." Suddenly a voice came near Spike, which made Adagio flinch in her place, she remembered that voice... It was the only person who made her plans with her sister destroyed in the first place... Turning her head, she found the bacon-haired girl wearing a formal dress instead of her actual leather jacket but what surprised Adagio more, was the fact the same girl who defeated her and her sisters was now using a ponytail? "Sunset Shimmer... Before we start the beef... why are you wearing a ponytail?" Adagio could sense she was ready to argue with her nemesis who took away her singing, but the new hairstyle made Adagio change the focus... Sunset who was raising her finger to accuse, suddenly stop her track and then looked at her ponytail... "Oh yeah, I had an interview a few hours ago, and I kinda forgot to take off the elastic while I washed my hair..." "But you took a bath, did you even wash your hair?" "Hey, it's my first time wearing a ponytail, don't shame on me. And what's your problem anyway?" Sunset Shimmer was defending herself, suddenly her voice became deep and slow and she even used her hands to express herself... "You firstly came to my school and make a mess, and later you came to my house, where I live with my family, and don't even say hello to me." "Oh, I'm soooo sorry godmother." Adagio took one of Sunset's Shimmer's hands and kissed, while she sarcastically talked. "But I'm sure you are not from Italy, and much less is someone who even was in a mafia in the first place." "Humph..." Sunset Shimmer humped, while she hid her grin while she remained with a serious face. But something passed on her mind. "Did you really meet the mafia?" "Aria hooked with one once. I prefer not to say how it ended." Adagio's monotone face, made clear she already answered that question some times, and sharing that kind of personal information wouldn't be worth it. "Really?" Sunset was now curious about but decided to be against asking further, she knew to not take curiosity to the extreme. "Well, that doesn't change the fact you made all that chaos over the school..." "Well excuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse me Princess, but I and my sisters need to feed our magic from negative energy, it was our way to survive during one thousand years, and it was until you and your wannabe heroes friends destroyed our voices and magic... If was the ancient times, I would challenge you in a duel." Adagio was faced by face in front of Sunset, while Spike looked nervously at what is going to happen... he was praying for a good distraction... "Spike, girls, the launch is ready..." The sweet voice of Twilight Velvet was the result of Spike praying being answered. That made both girls look at each and other and humph themselves... "Thank God it's over," Spike murmured, while he watched both his sister and his girlfriend going inside of the living room, where the table was with a banquet of stew and cooked fish. "Oh. It's smelling really good, you are really outdoing yourselves moms." Both mother and stepmother giggled in her place while they looked at the who was supposed to be two bored-looking girls while they tried to be getting along really well. At the moment Spike sit, he pulled a chair by his side, while it remained empty... Making Adagio raise's her eyebrows at him, while he remained in his place while preparing his plate. Leaving the two women with full pans and frying pan over the table, and with a cooked fish in the middle of the table. While the woman finished preparing the table, one of them looked really annoyed. "TWILIGHT SPARKLE, WE ALREADY DONE THE TABLE, YOU HAVE 10 SECONDS TO GET DOWN OR YOU WILL SUFFER THE CONSEQUENCES." Nobody other than the sweetest and the scariest mom who Adagio ever meet, Twilight Velvet knew how to treat sweetly and still be bold enough to scare the Tartarus of everyone she meets. "Alright, alright, I'm coming." Twilight Sparkle, now fully dressed and with her face washed and hair fixed, indeed looked like a decent person. "Oh, Twilight, I'm so glad you finally have the decency to make yourself presentable to meet me in your family dinner." Adagio smiled smugly while in her own mind she seemed to say that aloud while looking from her face indeed showed those words, which make Spike kick her lower leg making her yelp. "What's that for?" "Manners over the table, your face shows you want to make some trouble... You know my moms... They hate when someone is breaking the table rules." Adagio didn't expect Twilight Sparkle says that, while she went to another chair and pulled for her to take the dinner with them. Adagio takes a moment to appreciate what she experienced on that momment. One chair is pulled out... but nobody was sitting on that chair, even Twilight Sparkle decided to take another chair... It seems about the rules over the family, and knowing her boyfriend's family, it seems there are rules she should follow... That's a pity that was the third test because she would have enjoyed making a bit of more suffering over Twilight's Sparkle and Sunset's Shimmer day... But everything has a limit, and she seemed she already reached hers. So it was best to remain in silence while following the steps of her boyfriend. Well, it seems nothing would make things more awkward... "Hey, Mom. I came to visit the home, wouldn't you mind I have brought Cadance here to take dinner with us?" Then a voice interrupted everything which made, not just her, but her boyfriend's eyes went wide open. The moment the couple went inside of the dining room, they noticed me and the family around the table. "Oh hey... I didn't know you have visited... Well, do you remember Cadance? It's been 3 weeks since she came here..." "Oh hello everyone, how are you?" The female pink-haired girl with straps of yellow and purple made a huge surprise for Adagio, from Adagio's mind, she thought Cadance would have been 20 years older than the girl who was in front of her. But the thoughts were passed aside because now the moment it happened. Spike stood up from his seat. "Oh hey, Spike... How are... Spike?" The boy in front of Adagio seemed to change deeply... She remembered the thing about what happened at the restaurant... When she told him who was the other girl who gave the idea to the owner of the restaurant. "CANDANCEEEEEEEEEEE." Spike shout it out in deep hatred, which made not just Adagio jump from her seat but made Cadance sweat cold from her place. "It seems it wasn't the best moment... I better get going, see yah baby." Candence didn't let Spike take a chance to follow her, she seemed 3 times quicker than normal when she knew her life was in danger... Adagio watched amused from the perspective of a witness... While she just shrugged on her mind. "Just like Tuesday." That's was the thought inside of her mind on that moment.