//------------------------------// // 1. A Second Change // Story: A Dazzling New Life // by Joshua the Dragonslayer //------------------------------// The Dazzlings were out on the streets trying to find a way to get money. It had been two years since the Dazzlings lost everything to the Rainbooms. So now here they were with no way to get money but by begging citizens like homeless people, but then again they were about to be homeless anyways. With no jobs and no pendants to get them into getting money, the Dazzlings were now in a situation where they were running low on money, and on food. "I'm hungry." Sonata whined, as her stomach growled. "Can we get something to eat?" "For the last time, no Sonata." said Adagio. They had been walking around town all day and they hadn't been able to get even a dollar. Along with Sonata's consistent whining, it wasn't helping their situation. "We're out of money." "Then how about you seduce a guy like always." grumbled Aria. She too was sick and tired of being in this situation and would've much rather not even be alive at all. "Or maybe I'll beat the crap out of someone so that I can steal their wallet." What the Dazzlings didn't know was that someone had heard them from an alleyway. He was dressed in a big black cloak so that no one could see his face. He had then started to slowly follow the Dazzlings back to their home. When the girls finally got home the strangers decided to make his presence known. "Excuse me but are you girls hungry?" asked the stranger. The Dazzlings turned around and were shocked to see the strangers behind them. They had not known they had been followed, how long had the stranger been following them? The three all looked at each other and then back at the stranger. He had pale skin and long brown hair with some grass-like green eyes, he also stood much taller than any of the Dazzlings. "Who are you and why do you ask?" asked Adagio as she looked up at the stranger in a serious tone. "You can call me Tom, and as for helping you out... I heard what you guys talking about trying to find money so I thought I could give you dinner for the night, my treat." The stranger, who was now known as Tom said genuinely. The Dazzlings looked at each other again and thought about it until Sonata spoke up. "Yes, please! We haven't eaten anything for a week and I'm starving!" Sonata said in a begging tone. Aria and Adagio looked at Sonata with pure anger but then their stomachs rumbled giving them away. Adagio sighed, knowing there was no way out of this. "Fine but where will you take us?" Adagio asked with a little hesitation. She didn't know this guy and as far as she was concerned this could very well be a trap of his. "There's this all-you-can-eat buffet five blocks from here if you want." said Tom as he started walking his way to the buffet. "If you want to eat then I suggest you follow me, you don't have to trust me but I'm of no harm to you. If you don't follow me then you can happily starve for a bit longer if you wish." Sonata was jumping for joy when she heard that and immediately started following him. Adagio and Aria just shrugged their shoulders, but yet also decided to keep their guard up and went along with the stranger. What the Dazzlings were hiding was that this was going to be their first actual meal in two years. Once they got to the buffet the girls immediately went to go get some food. Tom paid for their entry into the buffet and then merely stayed at the table as he watched and waited for the girls as they got their food. When they came back to the table they all had big plates, stacked high in the air full of all kinds of foods. Tacos, pizza, burgers, you name it, and it was on those plates. Once the Dazzlings sat down they immediately started to eat their food like ravage bulls. "You girls eat as if you haven't eaten anything for years." said Tom, observing the way they were eating. "You sure it hasn't been a week since you last ate anything?" Tom watched as the girls would stuff their mouths full of food and devour it in a matter of seconds. "Well we have eaten, just not an actual meal like this since those Raingoons defeated us two years ago." said Aria with food in her mouth, as she then picked up a piece of chicken, stuffing it in her mouth. Tom kept a happy expression on his face. He knew these girls were the sirens and that the Raingoons were actually the Rainbooms but he acted as though he knew nothing. What he wasn't going to tell them was that he was there that day and that he too actually had gone to that school, but they didn't need to know that. "Who are the Raingoons?" Tom asked, even though he knew exactly who they were. "They were a band of these seven girls that defeated us and took everything from us." said Aria, as she glared down her plate as if it was the Rainbooms. "Yeah! They cheated their way to the Finals and then cheated to beat us." said Sonata as she hmmped and looked down at her plate sad as she remembered what had happened two years ago. "They took our only chance at life." said Adagio, as she stopped eating and looked down at her plate. "Thanks to them we're poor and helpless, with no way to live like we are now. If only we could get a second chance at life." All three girls looked down they knew what they did was wrong and they wanted to change but their pride stopped them. Tom smiled, the Dazzlings he knew two years ago were no longer the girls he was looking at now. "How would you girls like it if I could give you a second chance?" The Dazzlings immediately looked at him with shock in their eyes, almost as if he just solved world hunger. They thought about and as they looked at each other, they knew what their answer was. "Yes, we would." said Adagio as she nodded her head, her voice full of seriousness but yet some hesitation lingered. Could this stranger they had just met be able to help them get what they wanted? A second chance? "Fine but we must be alone for it to work." said Tom as he looked around at the rest of the customers in the buffet. "We wouldn't want any onlookers to see what's about to take place." "We can take you to our place." said Sonata as she then wiped her mouth and stood up. Adagio and Aria nodded as they too wiped their mouths and stood up, as they walked out of the buffet and back to their home where they would hopefully get their second chance in life. With that, the four of them took off and started their journey back to the Dazzling's place. The Dazzlings wanted a second chance and they were going to take this opportunity. After about a ten-minute walk/run they got to the Dazzling's house or what they call home. It was an average two-bedroom one bathroom house. The four then walk inside the house and into the living room of the house. "Okay for this to work, all you have to do is three simple steps, okay?" asked Tom as he looked at the Dazzlings making sure they paid close attention to what he was saying. The Dazzlings all shook their heads agreeing with him. "Good, now first you must all sit in a circle five feet away from each other." said Tom as he stated the first step. The Dazzlings did as they were told, and sat in a circle five feet away from each other. They all looked at each other wondering what would happen and if Tom's plan would actually work. "Good now you must hold up your left and repeat after me, 'I state your name, promise that my days of being evil are over and that I will change for the better'." said Tom as he stated the second step. "I, Adagio Dazzle/Aria Blaze/Sonata Dusk, promise that my days of being evil are over and that I will change for the better." the Dazzlings said as they repeated what Tom had told them to say. "Good, now finally I want all of you girls to drink these potions that my business and I made." Tom then gave the girls the potions and saw that they were a bit hesitant about the potions. "Before you ask no they are not going to harm you or anything. They will do as you want and give you the second chance you want so badly." "So what is it like everyone's going to forget who we are? Will we get our necklaces back? Will we be able to sing again?" The Dazzlings asked as they asked another question after another. "None of those things, you will be actual humans, no necklaces, no powers, just ordinary human beings. But you girls will have to restart your lives." said Tom in a very serious tone. "You girls we revert back to babies." The Dazzlings were surprised, they didn't know that if they wanted to have a second chance they would have to turn back into babies again. They wanted to change, and they wanted people to forgive them but they didn't expect anything like this. They all stayed quiet as they thought. On the bright side, they would be able to be kids again and not be homeless like they were about to be, but on the bad side, they weren't sure if this was the best idea. As if they all knew what each other was thinking they simultaneously agreed. "We'll drink the potions." The three Dazzlings agreed as they stared at Tom seriously. "Okay, but before you drink the potions someone will have to take care of you when you're babies, do you have anyone in mind?" questioned Tom. The Dazzlings immediately knew who would be the best candidate for the job. "Sunset Shimmer." said Adagio without hesitation. "She once also had a life like ours but with her friends she changed, she gave us a chance but we didn't take her help." Adagio sighed. "Now thinking about it, that was probably the right thing to do from the start instead of being so stubborn." Tom knew Sunset, she was a very kind, young woman. She was a very good friend of his when he was still at Canterlot High. He knew she wouldn't say no and he knew where she lived so it wasn't like he didn't know how to tell her what happened. "Of course, once you all drink the potions I will take you there immediately. Sunset is a very good friend of mine so I just know she would want to take you in as her kids. Plus she does owe me a favor, after all." Tom then looked at the girls and smiled. "Okay, now before you drink the potions I just want you to know that there are no takebacks once you drink it you will have your second chance." Tom said as he stared at the girls. "I don't know about you two but I'm in." said Adagio as she looked at her two sisters. "Oh what the heck, fine I'm in." said Aria as she looked over at Sonata. "See you girls in the new life." said Sonata as she looked at her sisters. The three girls gave each other one last hug and they then began drinking. The Dazzlings drank the potions and almost immediately did they feel like they were floating in the air. Then a golden sphere came to them engulfing them in the light. When the light dimmed there were three cute little babies. The one to the left was baby Aria, the one to the right was baby Sonata, and the baby in the middle was baby Adagio. They all had cute little skirts with their little diapers on them. And they were all sleeping by each other. Tom smiled at the scene and pulled out his car keys and picked up the now-baby Dazzlings. He put them in the passenger seat in their baby carrier, which he just happened to bring with him in case the Dazzlings did say yes, and drove off to Sunset's house. After about a twenty-minute drive he had finally pulled up to Sunset's house. He hid the carrier and knocked on the door. After a good ten seconds, Principal Celestia opened the door. He may have forgotten to mention that Sunset lived at Celestia's house. "Ah, Tom how nice to see you today, are you here to see Sunset?" asked Celestia as she smiled at Tom. "Nice seeing you too ma'am, but no I have something for Sunset actually it's kinda an emergency." Tom said as he held the baby carrier in his hands. Celestia was surprised, not only by the way Tom sounded but also because of the baby carrier in his hands. "Of course Tom right way. Sunset! Tom has something for you immediately." Celestia yelled out for Sunset. Sunset was in her room on her phone listening to music when Celestia called her downstairs. When she heard it was an emergency she ran down the stairs to see Tom with a carrier in his hands. She looked around and wondered what was the emergency. "Tom, what's going on is everything okay?" asked Sunset bracing for the worst. "Sunset, I ran into the Dazzlings on my way home tonight." told Tom. He paused as he looked at Sunset and Celestia's faces who both had unreadable faces. "Anyways, I fed them dinner and they told me they wanted a second chance. I wanted to help them so I gave them a potion that would give them the second chance they wanted." Celestia and Sunset were impressed with Tom's ability of kindness to the ex-sirens but they still wanted to know what did Sunset have to do with the problem. "So why I'm I needed for this emergency exactly." said Sunset in a confused tone. "Because they wanted you to take care of them with your kind nature. Plus you do owe me a favor for that car problem you were having." "Sure, I'll be glad to help the Dazzlings where are they." asked Sunset in a nice tone. "That's the problem." said Tom. He pulled the carrier in front of him as he opened it Sunset and Celestia saw three little babies sound asleep. "Aww." both Celestia and Sunset cooed as they saw the sleeping babies. "Who are these three beautiful little girls?" asked Sunset as she smiled at the three cute babies. "Sunset, Celestia meet the... Dazzlings." said Tom in a worried tone. Everything was quiet, Tom opened his eyes to see a very, very mad Sunset. "THEY'RE WHAT!!!!!!!!" yelled Sunset, her face more red than normal. "Sunset, shh you might wake them up, please they wanted to change and they wanted you to guide them. Please I'm begging you not only for me but for these three little girls." Tom begged. "You're their only hope, they wanted you to help them, so please give them the second chance they've wanted." Sunset could tell that Tom was being serious. She was the Princess's protege after all and plus, she did owe him for the car lift, and she definitely didn't want these three cute little girls to go to some sort of orphanage. She sighed. "Fine, I will look after them but when they get older will they likely start to remember everything that happened before?" asked Sunset. "No they won't." replied Tom. "This is their new life and you with Celestia's help will guide them." "Fine, but the others will hear about this, okay?" said Sunset as she raised her eyebrow at Tom. "Yeah tell them you need all the help you can get." replied Tom, he then looked down at his phone and sighed. "Sorry, Sunset but I have to run before Twilight finds out I'm gone from the laboratory, bye Sunset, bye Celestia." said Tom as he walked out of the house and back into his car. "Bye Tom." said both Celestia and Sunset, as they watched Tom drive away from their house. Sunset and Celestia walked over to where the sleeping Dazzlings were. Sunset sighed, it was now up to her to give the Dazzlings the second chance they deserved. And thus marking the beginning of the Dazzling's second chance.