It was Monday morning and Sunset again woke up with a gasp and a cold sweat. It'd been three days since the Fall Formal and she still had those horrible nightmares. This made Sunset worry. Not much happened Sunday except she ran out of food to eat and only ate two meals. That is if you can even call what she ate a meal.
Sunset got out of the bed and took a quick shower before getting ready for school. Vice-Principal Luna told her, Snips and Snails that they'll get in school suspension for two weeks plus they'll have to help rebuild the wall they destroyed. However, Sunset convinced Vice-Principal Luna that it was all her fault and Snips and Snails were only following her orders. So they got released from rebuilding the wall while Sunset still had to help the construction team alone. But she was completely okay with that. 'I probably deserve it.' She thought.
After leaving her home, Sunset arrived at school early as usual. The construction crew wasn’t there yet but Vice-Principal Luna was standing near the statue waiting for her arrival.
"So you came?" Vice-Principal Luna said in a disinterested voice.
"Y-yes Vice-Principal Luna," Sunset said timidly.
"Good. You'll be helping the construction crew until school ends. You get a break at lunch period. Is that understood?"
"Y-yes." Sunset said. Without any more words, Luna turned around and went inside the school.
Sunset then walked up to the Wondercolt statue where the portal resided and touched the currently inert portal. She released a heavy sigh and sat down, her back to the now cold stone and rested her head on her knees as she waited for the construction crew.
Eventually, the students slowly started coming to the school and Sunset could already feel the hateful glares. She could hear the names she was being called. She looked up for a moment and saw Fluttershy looking at her. But, she had a concerned, sad look on her face completely unlike any other student. Sunset wanted to say something but stopped remembering what happened with Rainbow and dropped her head back onto her knees.
Principal Celestia looked down at the fiery-haired girl through her office window with a thoughtful look. Just two days ago the girl in question was a bully who literally turned into a she-demon. But now all she can see is a girl who is the complete opposite. A girl who seemed filled with so much regret and guilt.
"Tia?"
The sudden voice snapped Celestia out of her thoughts. She turned around and saw her sister staring at her with a concerned look.
"Oh...Luna. When... when did you come in? I didn't hear you."
Luna let out a sigh before speaking again. "You're thinking about her aren't you?" Celestia nodded looking away. Luna followed her expression towards the window. "You sure she's changed?"
"I'm sure of it. That night, she looked broken. Lost. You said it yourself, she didn't argue when you told her to clean the debris that night. Then she convinced you to let go of Snips and Snails from helping the construction team. Why would she do that if she didn't want to change?" Celestia answered before her face became more conflicted. "Then, there was the way she acted when I asked her to give her a ride home. It makes me worry Lulu. She was lying. Did you look into where she lives?"
"Yes, I did. It's an old house in the far side of Canterlot and It's owned by an old lady. Sunset doesn't live there. It seems she gave us a false address."
"I thought so. Princess Twilight came to me a few moments before she left and told me that Sunset is from that other world too. Which means she might be living alone since she came to this world three years ago." Celestia explained. "And with the state she's in, I can't let her live alone Lulu. I need to see if she has proper living arrangements."
'And take her in if she doesn't.' Luna thought to herself. "Very well. I'll see what I can do. It might be better if you talk to her though, Tia." Luna said.
Fluttershy walked into the cafeteria after her morning classes and walked towards their usual table. Her friends were already there and were talking about something. After getting closer, she was able to make out that they were talking about Sunset.
"I'm not going to be friends with her. She'll just stab you in the back the moment you turn around." Rainbow grumbled.
"M-maybe she... won't?" Fluttershy offered, unsure about the girls' reaction.
"She won't? Fluttershy, she shoved you to the floor at the mall."
"She did what?!" Applejack asked in disbelief.
"Yeah, and she was going to attack her. It's a good thing I was there or who knows what she could have done."
"I-it was an a-accident, a-and she was going to help me up. N-not h-hit me."
"Well I don't know what happened there but we did promise Princess Twilight that we will look after her. And we Apples always keep our promises." Applejack declared.
"She's right. I too don't like Sunset one bit, but Twilight's the Princess of Friendship. So if she says Sunset can change, maybe we should lend her a hand." Rarity said.
"Do whatever you want, but I'll keep my eyes on her," Rainbow said annoyed.
Their conversation was cut short as they noticed that the cafeteria was suddenly quiet. They looked at the doors and saw the reason for the silence.
It'd been a few hours since the construction crew arrived and they gave Sunset some work to do. They weren't some merciless slave drivers. They only gave Sunset small jobs, like filling blocks with mortar or carrying things around even if they knew that it was supposed to be her punishment. They didn't know what exactly happened, only that it was her fault.
Even though it was light work, Sunset got tired quickly, which Sunset figured was a side effect of the Elements. Maybe they weren't quite done with her yet.
After what seemed like an eternity, the school bell rang for lunch and one of the construction workers told her to get some rest.
After a small nod, Sunset began to walk towards the cafeteria slowly, looking down. She could feel the glares and knew the quiet muttering was about her. She could make out some of them, but what she heard only made her wish she hadn't.
After a walk that felt much longer than it was, she came to the cafeteria. It was full of noises. But as soon as Sunset stepped inside, It was suddenly so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Sunset glanced towards the students who were looking at her with hateful glares. Sunset slowly and carefully made her way inside the cafeteria and picked up a tray before joining the line, while the students kept their distance from her.
After getting her food, Sunset turned to make her way towards a table far away from everyone else and walked there. She saw the girls that defeated her just last week looking at her. Each had variations of glares aimed at her, except for Fluttershy which puzzled her. Then again she's the kindest girl in the whole school, probably in the whole Canterlot so she concluded that she might be trying to be kind to her. 'A kindness I don't deserve. Especially from her.' She thought.
Any other thoughts she might have had were cut off as the tray she had been holding suddenly flew into the air and dropped onto the ground with a loud clank. She turned her head to the side and saw Lightning Dust walking away with a smug look on her face. She looked down at her meal she had in a while, which was strewn across the floor. She honestly thought about picking out whatever was salvageable she could from the ground. Her pride was buried in the hole she crawled out of at the formal. But she was stopped by the sudden laughter that erupted from around her. She looked around and saw everyone laughing at her.
She knew something like this would happen. Sooner or later, the students will be a lot less afraid of her and would want to get some revenge on her. She didn't think they'd try anything physical yet. But clearly, she was mistaken. It was just a matter of time before someone actually hit her. Rainbow already almost did.
'Maybe I should go. I can make it without food for a couple more days.' With that last thought, Sunset turned around and ran out of the cafeteria.
Ok you got a decent idea but seriously ..grammar, pacing and spelling check!
the grammar is bad, the misspellings are annoying and the pacing is too fast.
I'm not trying to be mean but someone had to say it.
Another great chapter, poor Sunny though, she shouldn't starve herself, even if she is scared.
Good story and stay safe
This might sound a little cruel but I'm hoping that someone oversteps the boundary during their revenge and Sunset does nothing so that the Human 5 have a change of heart
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Yeah thanks for the criticism? I guess.
I'm still learning. I'm not native english. I'll try to improve my writing as much as I can.
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Don't worry, I have planed out how to do that. Sunset being starving is a part of that.
Glad to see a new chapter finally and good luck with the chapter and stay safe
Rainbow, shut the absolute hell up.
rainbow is acting very out of character here neither pony or human rainbow ever showed any signs of trust issues to some one who was trying to reform
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Man you love Rainbow don't you. Okay first of all, I only watched FiM till season 6. So I'm gonna talk about three reformed villains till season 6. Yes I know Rainbow is the element of loyalty and she shouldn't have trust issues with reforming villains. But I see Human Rainbow and Pony Rainbow as two people. First we have nightmare moon, she was, until the events of the first episode, a fairytale. Then suddenly she appeared out of nowhere and tried to kill rainbow and her friends when they went to stop her. I mean a menticore is a pretty dangerous monster. But after she was defeated, she turned out to be Celestia's sister princess Luna so when celestia herself forgive her, what else can rainbow do. Then we have starlight glimmer. I'll talk about discord later. This time, no one knew about starlight. And when they met her, she trapped them and took there cutie marks to turn them into her cult. After she was defeated at her town, she came back again and almost destroyed reality. But no one except her and twilight knew that. They later tell the whole thing to others but rainbow didn't actually experienced it. Either way, she knew Twilight a lot better now and she was friends with her for a long time so she whouldn't have any problem forgiving starlight when twilight forgave her. Then we have Discord. It was Celestia's idea to reform him and no one even Celestia herself didn't liked the idea except fluttershy who befriended discord and turned him good. Even after he was reformed, it took Rainbow a few more episodes to actually trust him. But again she didn't knew about what discord can actually do unlike Celestia and Luna. Then we have at last, Sunset shimmer. This is a different case. For one we now talk about human rainbow here. Since Sunset came to the human world, she began to bully everyone and became the queen bee for two and a half years. She split up Rainbow and her friends when they were in freshman year. Even Rainbow and Fluttershy broke up who rainbow knew since they were kids, probably since pre-school. And then Sunset stole a powerful magic crown, turned into a she-demon, mind controlled the entire school in hopes of conquering a world and tried to kill her and her friends. Rainbow knew about Sunset and knew what she did for two and a half years. She did promised to twilight to look after Sunset but she only knew twilight for about two days. And I'm pretty sure her being a princess means less for the humans because they are not from that world and don't know how being a princess works. Pony Rainbow knew twilight for a long time and knew what she did to earn the title unlike human rainbow. So in this story, she decided to follow whatever her friends do. So when they decided to give Sunset a chance, she decided to be neutral towards Sunset.
As for other characters, Applejack gave Sunset a chance because Apples are honest and they don't break promises. Rarity is generous and she would never break a promise made to a princess like a proper lady. Pinkie is... if you want the short answer, because she's Pinkie. Or because she is the element of laughter and she try to help everyone be happy. As for Fluttershy, she helped Sunset not only because she's the element of kindness, but also because of her love towards Sunset.
So thats it. Sorry for my blabbering, I hope I made everything clear. Also I don't hate Rainbow. She is one of my favorite characters.
Man, even if I'd been one of Sunset's targets (and I've dealt with bullying plenty of times), Lightning Dust's actions would've disgusted me.
I would have said the Lightning Dust,"Jesus Christ get some original material are we in Middle School"
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Fluttershy’s love for Sunset?. I feel like I’m missing something.