Cherry and the Friendship Games

chapter 18

Cherry was now sulking in her bedroom, even more than usual.

"Cherry?" Michelle asked. "Sweetie, are you okay?"

Cherry hummed and buried herself under her covers. Michelle was worried, she wanted to ask her daughter what could be wrong, but decided to make her something before going into Cherry's room, knowing how her daughter liked to be alone when she would be grieving or thinking about something. Cherry took a little nap as she cried herself to sleep, she was very emotional without her Element of Harmony.

She then heard someone tapping at her window. The perky goth sniffled, she wiped her eyes, rubbing them since they were rather weary at first. She slid on her eyeglasses and pulled back the curtains and rolled up the blind to see who was behind her window. And where she saw that it was Luna.

"L-L-L-L-L-L-Luna!?" Cherry's voice nearly strangled. She then opened up the window.

"You seem to be upset." Luna said.

"I don't wanna talk about it..." Cherry went back to her bed and looked away from Luna.

"You can't keep your feeling bottled up inside." Luna said.

"Sure I can, I've done it all my life..." Cherry ignored her.

Luna came to her side and looked her in the eyes. Cherry felt herself shrink underneath Luna's gaze. The gaze seem to have done it's job as Cherry was now getting ready to let it all out.

"Oh, Luna, Penn was just so awful!" Cherry bawled. "I mean, Teller told me this very sad story and Penn just pushes him around like he's nothing! Sometimes, I just want something bad to happen to Penn! I mean, I like Penn and all, but he is such a jerk sometimes!"

"He was just over filled with the anger he had with Teller for what he did on the phone." Luna said.

"The phone?" Cherry asked.

"Penn called Teller earlier, but Teller was busy trying to help the Equestrian magic world being in jeopardy," Luna explained. "He really leads a private life outside of entertaining with Penn."

"I'll say..." Cherry flopped back against her pillows.

"Now we have a problem." Luna said.

"Penn and Teller are arguing, I think the world is screwed enough." Cherry said.

"This involves his soul and a certain shadow." Luna said.

"What...?" Cherry asked.

"Cherry, listen to me," Luna came to her side. "Teller is--"

"No, I'm not listening." Cherry said, covering her ears, not wanting to hear the D word.

"Cherry, please!" Luna pleaded. "Teller is--"

"Lalalalalalala!" Cherry ignored the princess of the night. "Can't hear you! Lalalalala..."

"Cherry! Teller is dead!" Luna told her.

"NOOOOO!" Cherry refused to believe it, she then started to cry hysterically. "He's not dead, he's just fine!"

"I'm afraid he isn't..." Luna took her face briefly to make their eyes meet. "Teller is a close friend of mine in Equestria, he's closer with me than even Celestia and Cadence was just a foal when we last hung out together."

"It's not true..." Cherry was in total denial. "It's just not true... That's impossible!"

"I'm afraid it's true, you also need to know that Dr. Faciler now looks like him." Luna said.

Cherry unfortunately did not hear that, she was too busy ignoring Luna, in denial of Teller's death.

"Cherry, listen to me!" Luna demanded. "Dr. Faciler has done something terrible, he--"