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Crisp leaves swirled in the frost-tinged air as doting parents dropped their little fillies and gentlecolts off at school. Tonight was the fall formal, the biggest social event of the semester! The theme this year is "Enchantment Under the Sea," and no expense was spared in making this underwater fantasy as real as possible. The gym has been carefully decorated by staff and volunteers with the finest crepe paper streamers and blue lamé strings; a disco ball has been located and set up, filling the darkened room with dancing points of light. Towards the front of the gym, beneath the basketball goals, is the DJ's setup; a plastic banner proclaims her to be an affiliate of "101.5 Annihilation Radio, your home for dubstep, electric house and music to dance the night away to!" Unfortunately for the DJ, none of that is allowed here; this is a school dance for children, so the music is... relatively tame. For now.


On the east wall of the gym, there's a table with punch and refreshments- mostly cookies, but there's also a bowl of pretzels and another of potato chips. Fish-printed napkins and styrofoam plates sit at one end; paper cups at the other. There's a couple of punch bowls; one with a red fruit punch and the other with blue. The west wall of the gym has its bleachers extended to supply seating for any wallflowers or snackers. A foal could easily get into mischief under those bleachers... if they can get past the chaperones' watchful eyes!

The chaperones are a mix of parents, teachers, and adults who got roped into this somehow.













Tonight is certainly a big night for everybody at the dance! Who knows what might happen here? Lessons might be learned, purposes might be realized, crushes might develop- or break- and fun might be had! Anything is possible at Enchantment Under the Sea. Anything.

With a pounding heart, Morning Glory unlocked the doors of the gym and started taking tickets from the line of waiting foals.

"Welcome to Enchantment Under The Sea!" she said brightly, taking the seafoam colored tickets and writing down names. Tonight had to go well, it just had too. She had put so much effort and time into this dance, from decorations to food to parental involvement. If all went well, it could become a regular thing and parents would have further confidence in Glory herself as Phonyland PSD.

She'd debating not dressing up but her mare friends had disagreed. Noel and Spica had dragged her to a formal shop where she'd rented a long off white dress covered in sequins that flashed mutedly, giving her the look of a sparkling pearl.

Foals began dispersing around the room, spotting friends, getting drinks, shouting requests to the DJ. "Ok Glory, here we go.." she said to herself.



Belldandy froze at the door of the gym. She hadn't wanted to come originally, but was sort of guilted into it by her siblings. She'd never have a memory like this, they'd said. You'll have fun, they'd said. You can't stay playing your flute all day, that one had been her mother, but her siblings had agreed. So here she was, dressed in a gown of light blues that fell off her in layers like the crashing of the waves. (At least thats what the stallion who'd sold the gown to her parents had said, as well as it went with her eyes.) With heart and stomach in throat, she'd moved up the queue, finally handing Miss Glory her seafoam ticket. Once inside the gym, the pull of the darkest, further corner under the bleachers was like a magnet. Head down, hoping no one noticed, she started shuffling for the safe spot.

Paws Button was absolutely ecstatic about the dance. She just loved any chance to have fun and this seemed like an opportunity to do it with a lot of people. The excited filly was hopping her way around the makeshift dance floor, but her outfit wasn't quite like everyone else's. While many phony had dressed up in dresses and suits Paws was wearing something more comfortable.

The white filly was wearing a skirt that matched her hair in color, a small pink backpack strapped onto her back. Peeking out of the knapsack was a teddy bear with one button eye and an embroidered x for the other. That's right. Paws was cosplaying at the school dance and it wasn't even something ocean related.