//------------------------------// // Melancholy Mornings // Story: Starlight’s Dimensional Drama // by Starlight Fan //------------------------------// In loser class, Team Amazon stared at Starlight’s sleeping state, well the girls were anyway. Cody was busy shivering right next to her as he was wrapped in a blanket, while Team Victory was trying to lift their spirits after their third loss. “Awwwwww, she’s like an angel.” Sierra cooed happily. “Ugh, give me a break.” Heather scoffed, “She’s just sleeping.” “I know. No one can really say that they’ve seen a unicorn sleep before in real life.” Sierra squeed. “How can she even sleep in these rustic quarters?” Courtney asked incredulously, “It aches of defeat in here.” Suddenly Starlight started shuddering in her sleep before screaming out, “Twilight… TWILIGHT! Don’t listen to Cozy Glow! No no no no no no no no!” “Oh crap, she’s having a nightmare.” Gwen’s eyes widened in horror. DJ, Leshawna, and Lindsay immediately ran over to see the situation and were horrified when they saw the tears in Starlight’s eyes as she continued to suffer her nightmare. She began kicking her legs back and forth and screaming, “No! Stop it! Leave her alone!” “Someone’s gotta wake her up!” DJ cried out in worry. “I’m on it!” Leshawna nodded firmly before trying to hold down Starlight’s back hooves but she still was treated to a blow to her belly from Starlight’s front hooves. “DJ! You hold her front hooves!” Leshawna firmly commanded. “But if I touch her, she’ll…” DJ backed away fearfully making Leshawna roll her eyes. “Courtney! Get over here!” Leshawna commanded sharply. Courtney nodded before holding Starlight’s hooves down, she began struggling a bit before jolting all of her hooves onto both Courtney and Leshawna’s faces before finally opening her eyes, breathing heavily as she did so. When she saw Courtney and Leshawna on the floor holding their cheeks, she gasped in shock. “Wh-What happened?” Starlight asked in concern. “You just kicked Courtney and Leshawna’s faces in your sleep while they were holding you down.” Lindsay gasped in fright. “I did what?!” Starlight cried out in horror before looking at what she just did, Courtney immediately got up and glared at the unicorn. “Ugh! What is wrong with you?! We were just trying to wake you up but you just had to kick us in the face! I don’t know why we have to be stuck with you! You should’ve just been sent to a zoo!” Courtney spoke furiously, causing all those around her to gasp, before glaring at Courtney furiously, well except for Gwen. “I’m really sorry, I had no idea. I was having a nightmare and-“ Starlight began apologizing before sighing, “But I shouldn’t have been so reckless. I’ll just go to first class.” Starlight then teleported out of the room leaving Courtney with the angry gazes of pretty much all the contestants in the room. “Wow, and I thought your Total Drama Action performance was brutal.” Sierra huffed in anger. “That was so mean. Sunset didn’t deserve that.” Lindsay said sadly. “It’s Starlight, Lindsay.” DJ told the blonde. “Oh right, I keep thinking Sunset is her name for some reason.” Lindsay said with an apologetic frown. “You have no respect, do you Courtney?” Leshawna said furiously, “First you bargain all our lives and then you tell a sapient being she belongs in a zoo like some farm animal!” “W-Well…” Courtney faltered before somewhat regaining her composure, “She kicked us in the face!” “She was having a nightmare! What did you expect her to do?!” Leshawna asked incredulously, “Be calm about it?!” “I… I…” Courtney couldn’t say anything, Leshawna wasn’t wrong in what she said. After that DJ, Leshawna, and Lindsay retreated back to where they originally sat while Sierra got up to head to the dining hall, “I’m gonna go to the dining hall. I can’t even be in the same room as you right now!” Heather nodded in agreement before following Sierra, but no one saw the smirk in her face when she left. ’This is perfect. This is all I need to convince Sierra and Cody to eliminate Courtney.’ “I’ll… just go sit with Team Victory.” Cody said angrily before shuffled over to where DJ, Leshawna, and Lindsay were, obviously not wanting to be near Courtney OR Sierra and taking the chance to avoid both of them. Only Gwen remained next to Courtney, she had to admit, the goth knew how Courtney felt when it came to being shunned by the cast over a mistake but given how Courtney was, how easily could she confront this issue with her? Meanwhile, Starlight teleported to the entrance of first class where most of Team Chris was, Owen, Tyler and Izzy were just eating bowls of cereal, and Noah was laying on the couch while wincing a bit. She had no idea where Alejandro was. “Hey guys.” Starlight feigned a smile as she entered first class, to which Tyler was quick to greet her. “Oh hey Starlight! Here to check up on us?” Tyler asked curiously. “Yeah, Chris wants me to check up on the winning teams in the morning.” Starlight giggles nervously. Izzy suddenly jumped over to Starlight and gave her a narrowed gaze, “You seem upset.” Starlight was shocked Izzy was able to figure that out, but she refused to falter in front of these humans, “What makes you say that?” “Because Izzy can see your lip trembling and the tears in your eyes.” Izzy explained with a suspicious gaze. “Pfft.” Starlight waved off with a false smile remaining and wiping some stray tears, “I’m fine.” “Uh… dudette, I totally saw you wiping your eyes.” Tyler admitted. “You do not have a good poker face.” Noah nodded. “Come on Starlight. We’re your friends now, you can tell us.” Owen reassured the equine encouragingly. Starlight sighed before speaking, “No getting past you guys, huh? Okay, so earlier today I was having a nightmare and I ended up thrashing in my sleep which caused me to kick both Leshawna and Courtney in the faces!” Owen and Tyler gasped in shock while Noah’s eyes widened. “Well… Courtney didn’t take it well and said it was a mess having to deal with me and I should’ve been taken to a zoo.” Starlight explained sadly. “Ugh, don’t listen to Courtney.” Tyler said firmly, “She’s a jerk with a capital G at times. Last season she was so ruthless and kept belittling people for the smallest of reasons.” “Yeah, you haven’t been much of a bother to us.” Owen smiled reassuringly, “What happened was an accident, and Leshawna doesn’t typically hold grudges for accidents. Courtney, uh…” Owen giggles nervously which Starlight caught the implications of quickly. She doubted Courtney would be forgiving her for a good while. “Well, I appreciate the help guys, but I do feel I should stay here for a bit and let things cool down.” Starlight smiled warmly at the members of Team Chris. “No problem. Having a unicorn be my roommate is one of my top one hundred goals.” Izzy nodded enthusiastically. Starlight giggled, but this time more earnestly. Though her mind thought back to what Courtney said, if she was that mad at her over this, she could only imagine how angry she’d be if she knew about her full past, how upset the rest of the contestants would be as well. Starlight shook those thoughts out, they didn’t need to know about that yet and if it turned out she was stuck here, she was unsure if they ever do.