The Sad Solicitor
(Like every other story of mine, this will have an OC. This will take place during the events of Rainbow Rocks. It will slightly affect the series of the show, but will end generally the same.)
A young man with relatively long black hair dressed in a violet jacket over a light blue short sleeve shirt and light blue shorts with red and white tennis shoes walks up to Canterlot High School, a octagonal mildly cracked violet gem on a pendent swinging with every step. He opens up the doors into the school and walks over to the Principals office. He opens up the door and approaches vice-principal Luna. "Yes, how can I...?" Luna asks before stopping in mid-sentence at seeing who it generally was. "Yes, I was wondering if I could attend the..." The young man asks gently but gets startled by the abrupt simultaneous interruption by the vice-principal and the principal who came into the room to see what might be going on.
"NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT! WE KNOW WHAT YOU ARE! YOU ARE NOT WELCOMED HERE!" Luna yell out without reservation at the request. The young man stumbles a bit backwards from both the instant refusal and the sheer ferocity that was put into the refusal. The yell was loud enough to startle several of the students that were walking by the office at the time.
"B-But I don't m-mean any harm." The young man answers shakily as his body quivered more than his voice. "I-I know you know what I-I am. I am asking for a ch-chance to prove I'm different." The young man adds on slowly taking a step forward.
Despite the animosity that Luna and Celestia hold toward the young man, they calm down slightly. "We're sorry, but we cannot risk the chance." Celestia answers calmly in an attempt to keep Luna from exploding again.
The young man takes a deep breath and nods his head before leaving the office, passing by the Dazzlings, Adagio seeing the young man's gem. She whispers something to Aria and Sonata as they keep walking that the young man doesn't hear. The young man eventually leaves the school and rests outside the gates.
Later that day, an assembly is held for the school. "There is a young man who may be roaming around the school near the grounds. You are not to talk to him under any circumstances. Outside of that, the battle of the bands is coming up soon, we hope that everyone has fun and may the best band win." Luna calls out, the mention of the battle of the bands causing the atmosphere of the room to turn from slightly relaxed to mildly heated and restless feel, causing the rainbooms and Sunset Shimmer to grow anxious. The Dazzlings were enjoying the feeling and could care less about what Luna has to say about the young man.
"Ousted from the school, he'll be an easy one to win over." Adagio whispers to Aria and Sonata. Sonata smiles somewhat unaware of the ill nature but Aria grins about as maliciously as Adagio, not caring about how ill-natured it is.
"We may find use for him. If not, he'll be good for a meal." Aria adds on, contributing more to the high amount of confidence that the Dazzlings were having regarding the battle of the bands.
The young man walks around for a while before stopping off at a park outside the high school, he rests atop the hill and looks down toward the field that was being set up for the battle of the bands. He opens up a portal with his magic and a second one slightly higher up above the ground and a bit away from the first one. He picks up a pebble and tosses it into the lower of the two portals. It appears out of the other portal and back into the portal it was initially tossed into, the cycle continuing endlessly. The young man watches the cycle, unaware that there were three people watching him.
"Hello there~" Adagio says sweetly behind him along with Aria and Sonata, who are both looking at the portals, Sonata being impressed with it. Aria, on the other hand, was figuring out a way to use it to their advantage.
"Can I help you?" The young man answers surprised by the Dazzlings appearance, but glad to finally have some company after a relatively long time of being alone.
"You look lonely. We can be your friends if you want." Adagio lied with ease. All she wanted was the boy's assistance and/or a meal, but after seeing him create two portals, she realized that he can be a lot more use than she initially expected.
"Sure, that'd be nice. My name is Cumulus Shroud. Shroud for short." Shroud answers smiling warmly, falling for the lie.
"I'm Adagio, this is Aria and that's Sonata." Adagio responds motioning to herself, then to Aria, and finally to Sonata. Aria has a moderately bored look on her face while Sonata looks mildly happy to have made a friend as she now has someone to talk to outside of her sisters.
"It's a pleasure to meet the three of you." Shroud answers happily, glad to have made some friends, though he remains unaware that for the most part he wasn't their friend. He was just someone for them to use.
"Anyways, would it be alright if we asked you for a favor though we haven't been friends that long?" Adagio asks smirking that she's got him like a puppet where she has the strings.
"Of course, what is it?" Shroud asks curious, believing that it must be something important if she's asking him so shortly after becoming friends.
"There's a battle of the bands about to occur. I don't expect it to happen, but if we lose, our gems will be destroyed. Can you assist us?" Adagio asks motioning to all of their gems before getting pulled aside by Aria.
"What are you thinking? We don't need that runt's help to win." Aria whispers angrily.
"I know that, but I'm hoping to get him to spill the beans on all the magic he can do." Adagio answers pulling away from them turning to face Shroud.
"Sure, but I'm not sure what I can do. I can sense you all have immense magic. If I can be told the type of magic you all have, I should be able to assist as well as I can." Shroud answers somewhat depressed before closing his eyes.
"All of have magic that relies on our voices and songs." Adagio answers keeping the description as brief and vague as possible while still providing an answer.
"Well, I can easily work with that. My magic revolves around space. I can allow your voices to reach further. I can also repair your gems if they do get broken. All I need is to get a sense of each of your individual magic." Shroud answers as he runs his pointer finger against each of the Sirens' gems. "There we go. I can't sing that well, so I will leave that up to you three." He later adds on.
The sirens nod their heads and turn to take their leave before Adagio turns to face Shroud. "That stage is where it'll take place." Adagio says simply, treating him like an idiot so she feels like she has to state the obvious.
Shroud nods his head, "Okay. In case your gems do get broken, I'll be able to collect the pieces with my magic without touching them physically. I won't give the repaired gems back immediately. It will show that I can repair them and the people who broke them will come after me to keep me from repairing them later on." Shroud answers making sure the full extent of his concern is understood by the Dazzling.
Adagio doesn't say anything as she just turns to walk away with the rest of the Dazzlings, all three of them smirking mischievously out of Shroud's immediate sight as Shroud walks in a different direction.