***Olivia's POV***

I open my eyes. I sit up and stretch out my arms, then put on my glasses. Even this far away from home, morning rituals don't change much.

Ah, crap! I'm so used to doing this, I forgot I have a roommate! I look at Rarity. Luckily, she's still asleep. I breathe a sigh of relief. Being nearsighted is one of the few things I've never told anyone, including Cloudflare. I look ugly in my glasses, so I always wear contact lenses. The only time I wear glasses is for a few minutes after I wake up.

The past month has been the best month I've had since April of my freshman year. Not only do I have 9 friends who don't mind hanging out with a girl who only has one complete leg, all of the teasing I was subjected to at CHS has stopped. Well, aside from two freshmen, but I do my best to avoid them. I've also cut back on using foul language. I'm not sure if it's because I'm less stressed out or I got all of it out of my system when I blew up at Principal Cinch, but I'm kinda glad that's all behind me.

Although I enjoyed being Cloudflare's girlfriend at the start of the school year, there wasn't any chance of going back to that when we reunited at the Friendship Games. After being away from each other for so long, the spark wasn't there anymore for either of us. We're still very close friends, though not as close as Lyra Heartstrings and Sweetie Drops. Those two are so inseparable, it's as if they go a bit further than best friends.

When Cloudflare and Sunset act like a couple – hand holding, flirting, more hugging than any of my other friends do – it bothers me a tiny bit. Part of it is a little jealousy since I was his girlfriend earlier this school year, but another part is because I still don't 100% trust Sunset. She hurt both of us before, and knowing her history with romantic relationships, I don't want to see Cloudflare's heart get broken.

I grab my bag and look through it. Should be near the bottom... Yup, there it is. I pull out a small mirror, then my contacts case. I remove my glasses and put my contacts in. After checking to make sure my stump is still in good shape, I put on my prosthesis, then my other sock. That takes care of everything I don't want people to see.

***Cloudflare's POV***

I walk into the dock area. With the new dock pretty much finished, everybody is taking part in some of the actual activities. Olivia, Sunset, and Twilight are near the dock. As I walk toward them, something in the water catches my eye. A sailboat crashes into the dock, destroying a good portion of it.

"What happened?" Rainbow says as she runs over to us.

"I didn't mean to!" Twilight says. Wait, what?

"We didn't see anything," Sunset says, "so we don't know what happened." She, Rainbow, and I run over to the dock to check on the other students.

"Are you okay?" I ask them.

"Yeah, we're fine," the muffin girl says. "I don't know what happened. One minute, we were in the middle of the lake with no wind, and the next, the boat shot off like a rocket and crashed into the dock! It's as if the sailboat suddenly became a speedboat."

Timber motions for the students at the dock to follow him.

Pinkie gasps. "You don't think it was the spirit, do you?!"

I sigh. That's more absurd than the story itself! The timing would be too convenient. 'Have you heard the legend of Gaea Everfree?' 'OMG it's Gaea Everfree!'

"Spirit! Show yourself! The Great and Powerful Trixie commands it!"

"You gonna be doing that in your show?" I ask.

"Maybe. Maybe not. You'll just have to wait and see."

"What's that?!" Rarity says. I look at her, and she's pointing to the lake. There's a spill of something purple near her, and it's sparkling.

Whoever's doing this is really going the extra mile for authenticity.

"Oh, man..." Rainbow says. "All our hard work... Ruined!"

"At least the fishies are eating well." Fluttershy putting the animals first, as always.

"Let's salvage what we can out of the water," Sunset says. "Maybe we can still fix this."

"We have to try!" Rarity says. "Camp Everfree needs a runway!"

AJ looks annoyed by Rarity calling it a runway, and I get why. "Dock," she says.

"Dock, yes. That's what I meant." Rarity doesn't seem bothered by it, though.

Where'd Twilight go? I turn around, and I see her run into the forest.

"Sunset, can you check on Twilight? She ran into the forest."

She sighs. "Alright. I'll get Spike to help track her down."

"I doubt she's gotten that far already."

"The forest has several branching paths. It'll be quicker with a dog's help." She runs to the tent area, and I start getting the broken boards out of the water.

After applying some more sunscreen, I leave my tent. Olivia is standing in front of the entrance to the Emerald tent, facing it. I approach her from behind. She has her earbuds in, and she's... singing? In all the time I've spent with her, she's never sung. Her singing voice sounds great, so I don't know why she never let me hear it.

I listen to her sing the entire song. The chorus is the most intense overall, but she really ups the intensity during the third one. It's as if a storm is actually building.

"I should listen to the rest of the album one day," she says after the song ends.

"I didn't know you could sing," I say.

She quickly turns around. "Cloudflare?! H-how much did you hear?"

"Everything after the first verse."

She sighs. "I didn't want anyone to hear that..."

"Why not? You sound amazing."

"No I don't. I hate my singing voice."

"I don't know why, 'cause it sounds great. Almost as good as Sunset's."

"Really? You're not just saying that?"

"I'm serious. You've got a real talent. I just wish you would've let me hear it. I mean, you heard me try to do Vocals in Rock Hero."

"Heh... Yeah, I guess..."

"Now both of us can sing."

"Except I can sing well."

"I've gotten better since you last heard me. Actually, strange thing about that. You know how Spike was able to speak after getting caught in that magic stream?"

"Yeah."

"Well, after my hand slipped into AJ's, my singing voice improved."

"Sure it did," she says sarcastically.

I clear my throat, then sing the first verse and chorus of my favorite song.

"See?" I say after I finish.

"Okay, I get it," she says angrily. "You can sing. You don't have to make a freakin' competition out of it." She walks away.

"I... wasn't." What was that? Does she think I was trying to one-up her?

I return to the picnic area. Olivia is sitting at one of the tables.

I walk over to her and sit across from her. "How's it going?"

"Ehh, I've been better. I can't believe I acted like that..."

"Yeah, what was that? Why did you think I was trying to show you up?"

"I don't know! While you were singing, all of a sudden I felt... annoyed. Angry, even. I genuinely thought you wanted to prove that you had the better singing voice."

"Prove I had the..." That sounds almost identical to what the sirens did. But... "No, it couldn't be."

"What? You know why that happened?"

"Maybe, but I don't want to say anything until I know for sure."

"Well, while you think it over," Olivia says, "I'm gonna go practice my archery skills."

"Have fun."

She stands up and walks to the archery targets.

There's no way I can do that stuff. I was directly exposed to magic at the Friendship Games, but that wasn't the stuff the sirens had. Besides, up until today, the only effect it had was an improved singing voice. I know it wouldn't affect my other friends, but it also didn't affect Apple Bloom when she heard me, and she's magicless. Not to mention the other problem with me having siren powers: There's no way I could've gotten them in the first place. I never wore any of their pendants, I didn't taste siren blood, they didn't suck my blood... They did put their hands on my shoulders, but that was to feed on my negativity, and I'm fairly confident Equestrian magic of any kind isn't contagious. If it was, half the school would be ponying up every week.

That, or somebody's messing with me. It's probably one of Rainbow's pranks. Makes a hell of a lot more sense. If so, I'm amazed she got Olivia to play along.