"Ugh," I groaned. "Is everyone OK?" What in the world happened? How in the world did I almost lose to some old unicorn? I reached out to prop myself up with my hand.
"Yeah, barely," my friend Aria said, getting up off the ground.
"Owie! That hurt!" my other friend, Sonata, said.
"What are we?" Aria said, curiously raising her hand up and wiggling her fingers in front of her face.
"Humans, Aria Blaze," I said.
"Oh! I know what those are!" Sonata said.
Aria and I exchanged shocked glances; since when does Sonata, the girl with the brain of a three year old, know anything?
"You do?" I said.
"Yeah. They're those mythical, old-timey, two-legged creatures that live in the Frozen North," Sonata explained.
I figured as much.
"Oh yeah, that's exactly what they are," I sarcastically said, rolling my eyes.
"For realsies?!" Sonata exclaimed.
"No," I said.
"Oh, okay. If you say so," Sonata said.
"Dagi, what're we going to do now?" Sonata asked.
"Yeah, Adagio, what are we going to do?" Aria said.
"We've been banished to this completely unknown world with no place to go."
"Don't worry, I've been here several times before," I said.
"What? When?" Aria said.
"I was curious about these alternate worlds as well as the creatures who existed within them, but it would have been too difficult to sneak here unnoticed. I'd taken advantage of the fact my family was close with Celestia so I could get special permission from her to access these worlds," I explained. "She wouldn't give me the permission I needed so I sang to her to 'convince' her to give me what I wanted," I added.
"You're smart," Aria said.
"It's a gift," I said, tossing my hair.
"Where did you get it? Or who got it for you? I mean," Sonata said.
"It's a figure of speech, Sonata," I said.
Sonata definitely was not the brightest nor the sharpest person, but what she does have is cuteness. Her cuteness makes us look innocent and harmless, but we could really make someone pay if they messed with us.
I got to my feet and placed my hands on my hips.
"Follow my lead, I'll show you where we're staying," I said.
"Or, we can follow my lead, and you can tell me where we need to go," Aria said.
I whipped around and grabbed her by the collar of her shirt.
"My lead," I said firmly.
Aria crossed her arms and pouted angrily.
"Oh, and Aria sweetie, green isn't a very pretty color on you," I sneered.
Aria glanced down at her fringed jacket.
"It's not green, it's aqua," she fired back.
I rolled my eyes. I didn't expect Aria to misinterpret my insult since that's usually Sonata's thing.
"I meant jealousy isn't a good look for you," I explained, walking off.
Aria let out an annoyed huff.
She thinks she can be the leader? Please. She's not even on the same level as me, not to mention she gets worked up so easily.
"Where are we going?" Sonata asked curiously.
"I have an apartment in the city that's the perfect size for the three of us," I said.
"Where's the city?" Aria asked.
"Just follow me and you'll find out," I answered firmly.
We walked down the sidewalk. I figured while we're here I ought to show them around a bit.
"So to the left is a local boutique, called Carousel Boutique. I've never been there but the reviews on the internet are decent," I explained.
"What's the internet?" Aria asked.
"It's a place on computers and mobile devices where people can go and look up stuff, shop, read fan-fictions, etcetera," I explained.
"Cool! I still have that cell phone you gave me once, can that get internet?" Aria said, intrigued.
"Yes. You can also download music via the internet, but most of it is by a bunch of auto-tuned wannabes," I said.
Contrary to what you may believe or may have heard, we actually weren't banished thousands of years ago (which means I'm not thousands of years old, thank you very much). History books have it all wrong. For example, the books say that we're Sirens but really we're half-pony and half-Siren, and the books call us 'the Sirens' but really we're the Dazzlings.
"And on the right is a high-end furniture store, which I get all my furniture from," I said.
Aria and Sonata were paying close attention. I walked down a bit farther.
"Here's Canterlot Café. It's a pretty nice place to hang out," I said.
I kept walking along naming all the different places. It wasn't long until we reached the building that our apartment is in.
"And here we are," I said as we arrived at a very fashionable high-end building.
"This place is cool," Aria said, impressed.
"Isn't it? I only pick the most stylish things," I said.
"I love it!" Sonata chirped.
"It is very stylish," Aria said.
"Thanks," I said, "now come in."
I opened the door.
"Good evening, Adagio," the receptionist greeted. "How're you?"
"Fine, thank you. And you?" I said.
I didn't actually care, but I didn't want to come across like anything and cause suspicions to arise.
"Great, thank you," the receptionist said.
I gave her friendly smile as I walked off. I stopped in my tracks, remembering that I probably should introduce her to the girls and make mention that they'll be living with me. I introduced her to the girls, who went along with my mild-mannered attitude.
The girls and I stepped into the nearby elevator.
"So what does this thing do?" Aria asked.
"It takes us up as many floors as we need to go after we hit those buttons- which Sonata is now pressing like a maniac," I said.
Sonata turned around with a happy grin on her face after she had hit every single button.
"It looks like a Hearth's Warming eve tree!" Sonata said, beaming.
I slapped my forehead and groaned.
"Great, now we have to go up all of these floors," I said. "But for realsies, doesn't it look like a Hearth's Warming tree?" Sonata said, completely ignoring me as usual.
"Sonata, shut up," I said.
Sonata pouted and looked at me with huge eyes.
"Sonata, I'm not going to fall for your cuteness attack," I said. "Save it for an idiot like Aria Blaze."
"Hey!" Aria exclaimed, "I'm not an idiot, Adagio."
"Sure," I said sarcastically, "anyways."
It took about an hour or so for the elevator to finally get done stopping at every other floor before it stopped inside of our penthouse (that's right, we live in a penthouse).
"Don't ever do that again," I told Sonata.
"Aww, but it was so fun!" she protested.
"No," I said firmly.
"Okay, fine," Sonata said.
We walked into the main room of our penthouse.
"Wow," Aria and Sonata breathed.
"Nice, isn't it?" I said.
"Yeah," Aria said, "It's impressive."
Everything was decorated to fit the styles of all of us (minus Sonata's childish tastes, those are in her room).
"C'mon, I'll show you all to your rooms," I said.
I led them up a set of stairs into a large corridor with with two large rooms on either side.
"Aria, you and I are on the left. Sonata, your room is on the right," I explained.
"Sweet! I don't have to be next to Sonata!" Aria said.
"Trust me, that was done on purpose," I said.
"Well, I guess I owe you for saving my life, kind of," Aria said.
I laughed lightly.
"That's not necessary," I said, "I'm doing all of us a favor."
"Yaysies! I don't have be near Aria! Thanks, Dagi!" Sonata exclaimed.
I gave the girls a chance to settle in and adjust to their new surroundings. It was somewhat displacing, knowing it was next to impossible to go back to Equestria. The mirror was probably well guarded should we ever try going back, not to mention it doesn't even open for thirty more moons.
"While this is a nice place, I don't think I'll be satisfied for very long. I want to go back to Equestria," I finally said.
"I wanna go back to Equestria too. This world has... whatever it has," Aria said, "but I'd be much happier back in Equestria."
Sonata nodded in agreement.
"Well, it's settled then. We'll collect as much negative energy as we can to regain our power so we can go back to Equestria," I said with a smirk.