//------------------------------// // Chapter 8: Sunset's day-off. // Story: Sunset Shimmer's Magic Adventures, Volume 1: A new timeline.. // by Justafanfictioner //------------------------------// Sunset spent the entire morning listening her friends’ stories of their trip. She then told them what she accomplished in the meantime, such as her preventing a war with catastrophic repercussions and having an epic dual of cards with Calypso, Eris’ ex boyfriend. Then, in the afternoon, she went to see Twilight, which summoned her. The princess awarded her with the greatest honor a pony could receive: The title of Hero of Equestria, along with a shiny medal to show she saved it. She also received from each of the leaders of Equestria a gift. Thorax gave her a huge chunck of anti-magic rock, Ember gave her a big and shiny diamond, Queen Novo gave her a shard of the Seaponies’ sacred pearl, The griffon lord gave her a huge box of their famous scones, Prince Rutherford gave her a bagpipe, the Abyssinian King and Queen gave her a bag of gold, among those. When the ceremony was over, she returned to her world, showing off her gifts. Pinkie Pie made one bite of the scones, while Rarity was fawning over the diamond. Applejack took the gold bag and shared it with Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash got the Bagpipe, which she accepted with a sour attitude. Twilight took the anti-magic rock, intending on deciphering it’s secrets and who know, weaponize it for future battles. The only gift she kept for herself was the pearl shard she got from Novo. The next day, Sunset decided to test the pearl’s magic, by taking a hot, foamy bath. At her surprise, the lower part of her body turned into a mermaid tail. She submerged her head in the water and realized she could breathe underwater. Satisfied of the results she got, she headed outside to meet Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Diamond Tiara and Cozy Glow. “Hey girls!!” said Sunset. “Sorry to be a bit late!!” “Hi Sunset!” said Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Applebloom at the same time. “That’s a nice pendant you got there!” said Diamond Tiara. “Where did you got it?” “It’s a gift i got from a queen” answered Sunset. “She told me it got magic properties and it does!” “Tell us!!” shouted Applebloom. “What does it do?!” “I could show you at the end of our monthly group activity!!” said Sunset. “Cozy, you haven’t said anything since i arrived. Even Tiara made an effort, her who’s habitually acting like a spoiled bitch!!” “Hey!” said Diamond Tiara. “Brat, i mean brat” said Sunset, amused of her reaction. “I hate those activities” said Cozy Glow. “They’re boring!! Arts and Craft? Friendship Circle? Freaking Ogre and Oubliettes?! Those are the lamest activities ever!!” Sunset used her magic discretly to hear Cozy’s thoughts. Obviously, they didn’t match her words. She actually wanted to spend time with her and the other, but was too proud to admit it. “Oh, it’s too bad, then” said Sunset. “I actually wanted to play some video game with you, go see a movie, do shopping and maybe play tricks to random people today. But i guess it would be too boring for you...” “Okay, i guess that’s cool” said Cozy. “I’ll come with you, but don’t expect me to open myself to you...” Sunset smiled for herself. They headed for the Arcade, where she took pleasure beating the girls at games. Even Cozy Glow had fun, that she tried her best not to show to the others. They then headed for the Mall, where she had to fight to get the new video game she wanted. After she got her hands on the game, she bought smoothies for everyones. They headed to the theatre to watch the new Daring-Do movie and had lots of fun. After doing all those activities, it was almost the end of the afternoon. They used the rest of it to play random tricks to people. Cozy took a lot of pleasure into that activity, and she didn’t try to hide it. “So, how was the day, girls?” asked Sunset. “Perfect!!” answered the CMC’s “It’s certainly not my parents who would do those activities with me” answered Diamond Tiara. “They’re so fancy and busy working, i’m sometimes ashamed to be in public with them. But not you, Sunset, you’re actually cool!” She gave her 1000$ cash. Sunset was surprised. “It’s a gift” said Tiara. “To thank you for this wonderful day.” Sunset hugged Tiara. She looked at Cozy Glow. “Am i still boring?” she asked. “You’re....Okay, i guess” answered Cozy. “I take back what i said about you this morning.” Sunset peeked into her mind to learn what she was really thinking. She was satisfied to hear that Cozy found her cool. Tiara’s dad arrived with his luxurious car and took her in. Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo returned to their home, leaving only Sunset and Cozy. This one told Sunset she was heading home as well, waving her hand at her. “Well, i guess i’ll head back home too” said Sunset. “This game won’t play itself!!” While her and her friends were doing their regular activities, Sunny and Chrysalis were at the Casino where Discord was supposed to be. Sunny was wearing a thight and risqué red dress and Chrysalis, her, was wearing a thight, revealing black dress. Obviously, Every men present were staring at them, making their wives jealous. “With an outfit like that, we are sure to get everyone’s attention!” said Sunny. “I can sense the stares full of lust of all the mens on us.” “Yes, it is appetizing!” said Chrysalis. “They would not hesistate to dump their wives if we told them to come to us...” “We are not here to snack” said Sunny. “Nor to fuck...We are here to find Discord.” “Is he even here?” asked Chrysalis. “Only one way to know...” answered Sunny. “Let’s cause a chaos so intense that it will get Discord’s attention for sure!” Sunny used her magic to set a woman’s dress on fire. The woman tried to put the fire down by tapping on it. Her husband poured what he thought was water, but revealed in fact to be alcohol, making the fire even stronger. Desperate, the woman Riped her dress off her body and threw it away. The burning dress landed on a poker table nearby, setting it ablaze, causing the players around it to panic and run away. As Sunny expected, a tall man, wearing an extravagant outfit, with a white goatie, showed up. The man extinguished the fire and repaired the poker table by snapping his fingers and reassured everyone. He looked at the woman who was in underwears and with another snap, redressed her. “It’s okay!! Accidents can happen!!” said the tall man. “And you, lady, you should not mess with fire...” “Is it him?” asked Chrysalis. “You saw how he effortlessly repaire the damages she caused?” answered Sunny. “It’s Discord alright...Sombra’s intuition was good.” Discord appeared behind the girls and took them on the roof. “You’re pretty good at causing chaos” said Discord. “Setting a woman’s dress on fire and watch things degenerating into mayhem. By the way, i already know the reason of your visit, of course that grumpy old ram would need me for his evil plans.” Discord got a closer look on Sunny and Chrysalis’ outfits. “I’m going with you if you wear those on and do the sad cat dance for me” he said. He showed them a video of random girls doing said dance in a cat outfit. “I’m the Queen of the Changelings!!” said Chrysalis, offended. “I’m not going to do this humiliating dance, especially for you, Discord.” “Come on, i would do it naked if he asked me to” said Sunny. “Don’t, that would ruin the meme...I mean, the meaning of the dance itself.” said Discord. Sunny and Chrysalis’ dresses were replaced by sexy catgirl outfits. He then begged them until his body was in a vertical position. Sunny did the cat dance with a smiling face while Chrysalis did it with an embarrassed face. After two minutes of this dance, Discord told them to stop and replaced their catgirl outfit with their previous outfit. “A promise is a promise!” he said. “But i think it’s a bit too soon, you girls wanna have a wild evening?” “Fuck yeah!!” shouted Sunny Flame. “Let’s goooooooooo!!!” “Will there be drunk guys?” asked Chrysalis. “By the dozen!!” answered Discord. “Then count me in” she said. “Drunk men are the easiest to feed on” “Right...” said Discord. “I forgot that you feed on other people’s love. But why drunk men especially?” “Because my victims end up really weakened after i’m done sucking the love out of them.”said Chrysalis. “Kind of like what alcohol would do if consumed excessively. When people drink this much, it’s because they’re depressed and want to forget their misery. They’re so desperate to get love that they will lust over any women who talk to them. Those make them easy prey for me, since if they end up dead, nobody will miss them and they’ll blame alcohol instead of me.” “You’re so devlishly smart” said Discord. “That’s what i like about you...” Sunny was about to jump off the roof. “Cut the blabbering!!” she shouted. “Let’s fucking party!!!” Discord teleported the 3 of them inside the Casino. Chrysalis immediately went to the bar and started looking for wasted men. Sunny pulled out of thin air a massive empty bag and another small one, full of money. She exchanged her cash for casino chips and went to the first game table she saw. “Did she just pulled that huge bag out of thin air?” thought Discord, surprised. “She did...That mean she must have a bit of toonforce in her. That girl is decidedly more random than i thought...” Sunny was laughing at her opponents, because she won the jackpot by pulling a royal flush. “Hey, Discord!!” she shouted. “I just turned Fifthy Thousands dollars into Five millions!!” “I better keep a close eye on her...” said the Lord of Chaos for himself, while making a thumbs up to Sunny “I feel like she have a big role to play in the future.” Back to Canterlot, Sunset and her friends were watching a movie at Pinkie’s house. After spending the day with the little girls, she needed a moment with her friends. Then they all went to sleep. Later that night, Sunset had a vision, while she was deeply asleep. In this vision, she saw her friends defeated, devastated and laying down around her in a devastated street while one unknown shadow silhouette with red eyes was fighting another shadow silhouette with a sadistic grin. She woke up in fear and screamed, waking up her friends. “Are you okay, Sunset?!” asked Twilight. “I think i just had an horrible dream” she answered. “I saw you all around me, looking devastated, as if i was dying or something. Then, i also saw two shadowy figures fighting each other. One was visibly enraged and the other, amused.” “Dreams are a manifestation of our desires and memories, lying in our subconscious.” said Twilight. “Nightmares are a manifestation of our fears and insecurities deeply lying in our subconscious. I know you enough to know that your worst fear is to lose us...But we were alive in your dream.” “Then it might be a vision of the future” said Sunset. “I had lot of those recently...But never when i was dreaming...” “If i had to guess how you’d get yourself killed” said Pinkie. “It would be probably by sacrificing yourself to protect one of us...” “I would indeed not hesitate to sacrifice myself to save one of you, my friends” said Sunset, smiling. “You guys are the only family i have...” Her friends did a group hug to comfort her. Sunset smiled, not worried at all about that vision of her dying. All that mattered was her friends’ safety, and if she had to sacrifice her life to protect them, then so be it.