Against the Shadows

by DazzleMLP84


Darkness Gets Closer

In the year 2032, in a dark apartment building towards the end of town. Ruby Shine was sitting in a recliner staring at a twelve year old at the other end of the room.

The girl had the same skin tone and a similar shade of red in her short straight hair to Ruby. She also had darker red highlights and piercing blue eyes. She was wearing a black hoodie over a dark red t-shirt, a black ruffled skirt, and a pair of black converse. She had a ruby pendant on indicating that she was somewhat siren. A look of respect crossed her face as she looked at her mother.

"Mezzo Sharp! You were supposed to get Allegro and bring her here so we can repeat what I did to Adagio! Ugh! I thought my daughter would do what I say, unlike those traitors, Jade and Opal!" Ruby said yelling at the twelve year old.

"Well it's not my fault that she has a magic wand, so she can't be contained. Plus I don't have anything against her." Mezzo fought back

"Yes, you do. Her mother took away my powers, and her grandparents tried to eliminate our species. You have a very good reason to go after her!"

"I'm not completely a siren, MOM! I'm also half-human, because of Dad."

"You will never mention your Father ever again. Am I clear?!"

"Why, do you not want me to mention Dad? He loved me a lot, but you just divorced him and took me with you."

"Your father was not in favor of me hurting, Adagio's little princess. So I had to divorce him."

"I want to go live with Dad!"

"What?!"

"I'm out! I don't want to continue this feud anymore!"

"Listen! You will do as I say, and if you don't, I'll do the job myself and I will make sure you never see your father."

"Fine, but I'll tell Allegro that I really don't want to..."

"NO! You will do it, like you want this to continue. I'm not willing to give up this fight yet, and you aren't getting my way."

"I thought you cared about me."

"I don't care about anyone, Mezzo. It's in my nature, it should be in your nature too, but I think your Father gave you way too many kind traits. You want me to care about you, well turn Allegro into a siren and I'll care about you."

Mezzo looked up at her with her respecting eyes, as for a moment her facial expression turned to anger.

"I'll do it!"

"That's my good girl. Now remember, you must do it before the clock strikes midnight in three days. That was the day I turned Adagio into one. If you don't then, Allegro will remain as a Alicorn princess from another dimension like her mother. And we can't do anything about it. Don't blow it, if you fail to do it to her, I will take action."

"Don't worry, I will give you that revenge you promised Adagio. You don't have to go after Allegro." Mezzo said running away into downtown.

Mezzo sprinted as fast she could until she reached the rich section of town. She walked around the area looking at all the houses. She stopped as soon as she reached the Carmel villa on top the hill. She took out a bobby pin, as she picked the lock. The door opened and Mezzo sprinted inside. She looked around at the beautiful decor of the house, the living room had a chocolate brown sectional and two recliners with a huge flat screen TV. Frantically she looked around the house for Allegro.

"Allegro, you can't hide from me for long. Please come out and it'll make it easier for both of us."

Suddenly she found a note on the coffee table in the living room, and slowly she read it to herself.

Dear Mom and Dad, I'm sorry that I'm not here at the moment. Twyla needed help with babysitting her sister, Periwinkle, while Flash and Twilight were out of town. So I agreed to help her out, I will come home when Periwinkle falls asleep so don't worry about me. Love You, Allegro.

"Not very helpful, Allegro. So you are gone, you are just asking for this to be hard. Well, I'm still going to find you and you will have the same fate as your mom." Mezzo said accidentally knocking over a jar pens right next to her. One of the pens glowed a UV light showing some words on the back of the note. She used the UV light to read the back of the note.

Okay, what I said on the front wasn't true. I just wrote that down so you wouldn't worry about me. The truth is I went back in time to the year, 2016 to avoid Ruby and Mezzo. They have been after me since I turned twelve and I don't safe for these last five days without one of you home. I would've told you this sooner, but I was too scared how you guys would react. So I wrote this on the back in invisible ink. Please don't worry about me if you are reading this, I will be home after it is past the day you were turned, mom. If I never see you again, I want you to know that love you guys so much and I really do miss you. Love you, Allegro.

"Thank you, for giving me your location, Allegro. I knew you would leave something behind indicating where you are, but I never thought that you would make it tricky to find out. Now all that's left for me to go find you, I hope you like nightmares." Mezzo said tapping on her watch as she transported back to 2016.

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At Sunset's house in 2016, Sunset and Adagio were fast asleep. Adagio was asleep on the couch, while Sunset was on her bed. Sunset started to toss and turn .

Sunset began dream. She was in a dried out forest with fog all around her. The forest had a constant feeling of unsteadiness.

"Hello? Is anyone there?" She called out.

"Only me." Summer called back, walking towards Sunset.

"Who are you?"

"Someone you will meet later."

"Can you please tell me exactly who you are?"

"No, I can't. I don't have enough time, my friend, Allegro is in danger."

"Is Allegro, the girl that looks like Adagio?"

"Yes, she is. I can't say anymore, if I do we'll both be in more trouble."

"No, you won't. Tell me everything and me and Adagio can help you. We already dealt with danger more than once."

"I know that already."

"How do you know that?"

"Once again, I can't say."

Sunset suddenly woke up, covered in sweat.

"Sunset? Why are you up?" Adagio said starting to wake up.

"I had a dream."

"What was it about?"

"A twelve year old girl talked to me. She said that her friend was in danger, and she couldn't reveal her own name otherwise she and her friend would be in trouble. All she said was that we would meet later and her friend looked like you. She looked a lot like me, but she also had hot pink highlights. She was wearing a hot pink shirt with a rosette in the center, a blue jean skirt, hot pink ballet flats with gold straps, and had a rosette in her hair."

"Did she tell you the name of her friend?"

"Yes, it was Allegro."

Adagio quickly woke up with recognition as soon as she heard that name.

"Allegro?!"

"Yeah, why does that matter?"

"That was the name me and Flame Charge chose if we were going to have a daughter later on."