Equestria Girls: Battle of the Bands

Chapter Seven

Twilight woke up in the middle of the night, unable to stop worrying about the counter-spell she needed to make before the first day of the Battle of the Bands. Everyone else was asleep, finding a place for their sleeping bags or mats in Pinkie's room. 

She could always count on Pinkie to manage to find room, even as she slept in her own bed. Spike was sleeping beside her, being careful not to wake him up, Twilight stood up slowly, thankful to see him still deep in his sleep.

She stood up and opened the drawer she put Flutters's notebook in. There was so much pressure put on her, and she barely even started a single line of lyrics for the musical spell that could stop the Dazzlings. Quietly closing the door, she carefully tip-toed over the others as they snored away, nearly losing her balance as she almost missed Dash's arm laying outstretched where she was sleeping. At least she had enough practice as a human to right herself back up before she fell on someone.

After navigating her way over the obstacles that were her friends, Twilight made her way to the kitchen, laying the book down on the counter and opening it up to her pages. She grumbled at the terrible handwriting, cursing her fingers and wondered how Spike was able to write with his claws so easily. 

Grabbing her pencil in her mouth, the only easy method of writing she could do with no magic, she began trying to write down a song to use as the counter-spell against the sirens. It was harder than it seemed, spending at least half an hour writing the spell, and anything that came to mind was absolutely terrible.

"Twilight?" The human alicorn was interrupted, when she saw Sunset enter the kitchen, "What are you doing here?"

Twilight forced a smile as she looked at the spell, "Oh, I was just-" She paused, looking down at the notebook. "Something occurred to me and I wanted to write it down...you know, before I forget it."

"At this time of night?" Sunset said as she turned her back to the fridge. "Your brain is always up to something, huh?"

"Yeah, I guess it is," Twilight said as she took the book in her hands. "But hey, I can't complain, we only have one shot at this. It must be perfect." She turned to look at Sunset, wondering why she was up so late. "Why did you get up so late, anyway?"

"Oh, I, um-" Sunset said as she opened the refrigerator door. "I couldn't sleep. You know?"

"Your brain?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah..." Sunset said. "...My brain".

"We can talk about it if you want," Twilight told her, realizing that maybe it was something personal, maybe related to her past.

"Oh, don't worry... It's just... some thoughts. I'll sort them out." Sunset turned to look at the refrigerator, she was going to get something to drink. She opened the door, surprised to see dozens of cans of whipped cream filling the entire space. "Ok, who the heck stocks up this much whipped cream?"

"This is Pinkie's house," Twilight pointed out.

"Right. Always keep forgetting about that." Sunset just shrugged and pulled out a can, not sure which of them were already in use. She sprayed a small dollop on a finger, sucking the fluffy cream. "Must be nice to have everyone come to you to solve their problems...instead of waiting for you to cause a problem..."

Twilight looked down at her song, so many mistakes and revisions in the last thirty minutes making it more and more of a disaster waiting to happen. "Just because everyone expects something from you doesn't mean it's guaranteed to happen."

"And you can't stop them from expecting the best if things turn out bad," Sunset said.

"Which only makes things harder," Twilight said. "Because the last thing you want to do is-"