"So... we're listening."
Adagio took a deep inhale, and then exhaled. She wanted to approach this as calm as possible.
"Alright. So you girls know that we've been on this planet for as long as you know, right?" Adagio asked.
"All the way back to the Middle Ages with King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table," Bon Bon piped up.
"Right. Well, this..." Adagio found herself stuck, trying to find the right words. "This... this is a little hard, I... I want to say this right."
"Its okay," Trixie patted her shoulder.
Adagio sighed again. "Okay, I... I can do this. Alright, so you all know we've been here for a really, really, really, really, really, reaaaalllly long time. And this is going to sound insane, but there's a perfectly good reason for that."
Lyra gasped. "You're aliens from another planet!?"
Adagio scowled. "No."
"You're changelings who can take on the form of anyone you want."
"No."
"Demons from the underworld who've been around for hundreds of years?" Bon Bon asked.
"No."
"Robots from the future sent back in time and had been stuck in the past years?" Amethyst queried.
"Girls. Allow me to explain." Adagio raised her hand up.
The girls slumped back in their chairs, and pulled out a few soda cans, popping them open making some hissing sounds.
"Okay, so, here's what's up. You may want to get comfortable, because this is where its going to get... tricky."
"In a world far away from what you call Earth, we lived in a wonderful place. Unlike your planet, we possessed something your world did not. We had magic. Our kind consisted of many animal forms who lived on this world, but most of which lived in a part of the world we call our own; Equestria. Equestria was home to Earth ponies, unicorns, pegasi, griffins, manticores, changelings, and more than we can even name. And that's where we three came in. Sirens."
"Wait, wait, hold on!"
Lyra raised her hand up, and the three sisters looked at her.
"You mean to tell me, you three are actually from a place filled with fluffy unicorns?"
"As childish this may sound, yes. Yes we are."
Lyra's face went from confused, to having a silly grin on her look. "Okay, that's awesome!"
"A little far-fetched, but please, go on." Octavia nodded.
"Right! Anyways, where was I? Oh yes..."
"The three of us were indeed sirens. Baring much resemblance from the sirens you have in your Greek culture, but there's some things about those that are different from us. We never wished to bring harm or chaos upon anyone or anything. All we wanted was family, but we never got it..."
Within a dark and damp cave, a small baby sea creature in a light shade of orange crawled on its own two feet, looking at its surroundings. No one around. There was only that small baby, and two other eggs in a small hay-made nest.
"M-Mama?" The seapony called, trying to look around. "P-Papa?"
The seapony crawled around some more, and let out another cry. "Mama! Where are you?"
"I was all alone. No mother, no father, no aunt, or uncle, no grandparents... no one."
The baby seapony huddled close to the two eggs that were still in the hay nest, wrapping herself close to them and whimpering. Tears ran down her face. All alone, with no one to love. Who would abandon a poor baby?
But just then, she heard a small tapping sound. Her ears perked up, hearing the sound, and she looked around. Where did that come from?
"H-Hello?" She whimpered.
No sound, no reply.
She put her head back down in the hay, whimpering and sniffling some more. But then she heard that tap again. But that was much closer than she had heard last time. She pulled her head up and looked down at the two eggs. One of them was starting to shake. And the top of it was being jabbed at, like if something was trying to get out.
A small little smile was starting to appear on her face. Were these abandoned eggs actually holding something alive in them? Could they be?
Pieces of the egg shell started to crackle and break, falling into pieces. A small purple nose could be seen, pecking its way out of the egg. The orange seapony moved a little closer to the eggs, watching the shaking one start to break apart.
After a few minutes, the egg had finally broken and a little baby seapony flopped from the shells. Its shade was in bright purple, but its fins were of a darker color. The baby slowly wallowing around in the hay, trying to pull itself up from the small bit of light that was offered, and her eyes slowly opened up. Her eyes locked on to the larger seapony in front of her, who had nothing but a smile.
"Hey little one." Adagio sniffled, her eyes in pure joy of the baby in front of her.
The purple seapony gave cooed and babbled, trying to move towards her with what it could. Adagio just used her little tail and helped scoop her up closer so she could hold her.
"Its okay. Shh... its okay, I've got you..." Adagio said, holding her close. The baby babbled back at her and hugged her, making Adagio smile even more. This adorable baby was with her, and now she was no longer alone. Even if she was the only one here, she promised to watch over the newborn, and if possible the other one as best she could.
"From that day, I promised to watch over Aria, and then later Sonata, take care of them, and give them the thing I never did get... the love from a parent."
"Oh come on!"
Aria was moaning. "Did you have to tell them that? Seriously?"
"They need to know everything, and they have a right to know. Besides, you were adorable as a baby."
Aria's cheeks flushed profusely. "No I wasn't..."
"Yes you were." Adagio giggled. "Anyways..."
Over a few years, Adagio started to watch after the baby as best as she could. A few rough patches went along the way, but in the end things turned out well. The baby was now no longer becoming a baby, but was becoming a little older. So much so she started to learn how to talk, and Adagio couldn't have been more happy.
"A-Adagio..." Aria cooed.
"Yes Aria?"
Little Aria pulled herself up closer, snuggling up next to her. Adagio just smiled and nuzzled her back.
"I-I love you, Dagi..."
Adagio giggled. "I love you too, little Aria."
But as they were in perfect relaxation, they heard a new sound. The sound of a tap. Both of their ears perked up and they glanced back at the other egg that was in the nest. They never touched it since Aria had been born. Adagio always kept up the hope that one day that there was gonna be a baby in the other one just like Aria was.
The two of them slowly crawled over back into the nest, their hooves clopping against the smooth rocks. They turned their eyes to the egg, and watched carefully. Another tap, and they saw the egg shake.
Adagio let out a gasp. "The baby's coming!"
Aria slowly crawled around in the nest, trying to brace herself for the incoming hatch. The eggshell started to get pecked at from within, pieces falling apart. Shells and shells started to fall off, and crumble until finally, a big enough hole was made for the baby inside to flop out.
A small cyan seapony flopped out and rolled around in the hay, struggling to get itself moving. Adagio couldn't help but smile.
"Oh..." Adagio used her tail and helped the blue seapony on its belly, and watched its hooves extend out to touch the ground. The little blue seapony looked up at Adagio, who's face was nothing but happy.
"Can I name her, can I name her?" Aria said with a little giddiness in her voice.
Adagio looked at her younger one. "What name did you have in mind?"
"Finstrike! We'll make her the most powerful seapony of all, muahahahaha!" Aria said, acting as maniacal as she could.
Adagio just shook her head. "We're not naming her Finstrike. It needs to be something less intimidating, something that rather fits her with us, something like..."
The blue seapony moved itself up and pushed its head up against Adagio's chest, trying to snuggle her. Adagio smiled and she held her close. She could hear the baby cooing in the form of a small musical tone.
"Sonata."
"Sonata? Why are we calling her that?" Aria asked.
"Because much like you Aria, you two make the most wonderful music that lets me know you two are perfect the way you are."
Aria brushed her own hoof, looking down. But she was scooped by her eldest's other arm, and pulled in close for one giant group hug. Aria wanted to resist, but she couldn't. She instead just smiled and hugged her oldest sibling back.
"Having Sonata and Aria had made my perception of life grow brighter. When they hatched, it was like... nothing was pure darkness and dread. I had two to call my family, and even though I was the one taking care of them... I grew to love them as my own."
The girls around them couldn't help but smile, hearing Adagio's story. Especially at the little tidbits of young Aria and Sonata. However Amethyst had a bit of a deadpan look on her face.
"Okay, how long til this got bad?"
The others collectively groaned.
"Really?"
"You just had to ruin her story?"
"Couldn't interrupt her, could you?"
"Girls." Adagio intervened.
Everyone went silent.
"Its fine. But if I can continue?"
"We all grew older with time, eventually becoming teenagers. And at that time, we decided to leave our hiding hole and go explore the world around us. Of course, I had to keep them from getting out of trouble, but that didn't mean they got in trouble when I wasn't around..."
The three seaponies flew in the sky, soaring above the above lands of Equestria. Down below, they could see a small town filled with a bunch of busy ponies. However, they couldn't help but notice some sad looks on some of the individuals working.
"Awww, they're so sad..." Sonata frowned.
"Thank you, Princess Obvious." Aria groaned.
"Can we go check it out? Please?"
Adagio floated in thought. "Hmm... well we aren't doing anything important right now. I don't see why not. Lets go take a look!"
All three Sirens dove down towards the small village, wind rushing right past their scaled bodies and brushing through their fins. They slowly came to a stop and hovered above, looking at the civilians. Everyone in a deep trance of depression underneath those ragged cloaks. No one was happy, no one looked okay with what they were doing, and the land was so bleak that they could practically see any color that was there was just faded into lifeless mush.
At first, the land around them was just as quiet and lifeless as the land itself. But in seconds, it went from quiet to as loud as a concert. People were starting to scream, and then more and more people started scream.
"Monsters!!!"
"What are those things!?"
"RUN!!!"
Adagio and her three sisters instantly felt frightened. One second in; ponies were practically mortified.
"Wait, please, everyone, perhaps we can explain?" Adagio tried to speak up over the screams.
Her voice didn't get through to anyone's heads. It just went in one ear and out the other.
"What do we do?" Aria said, her body swirling around above them, looking at all of the panicking ponies running around and screaming.
Adagio looked around some more and more. Her own thoughts were running rampant in her head. Mass hysteria all around, no one was calm. But as she hovered above them, she clapped her hooves together.
"I have an idea! Aria, Sonata, remember that music I would sing to you to help you sleep when you were younger?"
"Yeah."
"Mmmhmm."
Adagio smirked to the two of them, leaving them confused. Aria and Sonata turned their snouts at each other with confused looks, until their eyes blinked for a second. They realized what Adagio had in mind, and they smirked.
"Okay, lets try it!"
Adagio and her sisters stood together, and cleared their throats. Then with as much energy as possible, they all let out a choir of music with the voices of angels.
Ahhh, ahhh ahh... ahh ahh...
Ahhh, ahhh ahh... ahh ahh...
The ponies who were running around were starting to become quieter and more calm. Their screams of terror were becoming distant, and silent. They looked up at the three Sirens who weren't doing anything to harm or attack any of them. They were just hovering above and singing.
As the Sirens finished their song, they looked down to see all of the civilians slowly walking up to them and gazing at them. What they saw before them was no monster, but was an absolute beauty. The sparkle in their fish-like behinds, the glorious sharp fins, and the beautiful voices... it was like they were gazing at angels.
"Um... hi, everyone," Adagio slowly waved her hoof.
"Who are you three?"
"We... We don't know. I'll be honest, none of us know where we originally came from. But I mean this when I say, we mean no harm. We just wanted to look around the world and see if maybe we could meet some ponies." Adagio said with honesty.
Everypony murmured amongst themselves. The Sirens could only look at everyone with some fear themselves. Were they going to attack? Were they going scream and panic some more?
Thankfully the silence was broken.
"Ahem! Um, what's your name?"
Adagio looked down and realized the stallion's question.
"Oh, right! My name's Adagio, and these are my sisters; Aria, and Sonata."
"Nice to meet you all! So, you said you're not here to cause any harm?"
All three of them nodded.
The stallion smiled. "Well what are you standing here for? Come on down, lets talk. We want to know you three some more!"
"Yeah, how can you sing like that?"
"Where'd you come from?"
"You girls ever fight?"
"What do you eat?"
Everyone's questions started to overlap one another, but the three Sirens didn't care. Honestly, they were more happy than scared. Everyone wasn't afraid of them, and they felt more welcome than ever. It was like they could open up to them and start something new; friendship.
"It was that day we learned about our singing powers. We never knew why we had them, or how we had them to begin with. We just knew that from birth, all three of shared three particular rubies in our hearts that absorbed the love and care of those around us."
"So, none of you ever figured out why you were able to do that?"
Everyone at this point were munching on grilled steaks, burgers, and hot dogs that Bon Bon threw on the grill.
Adagio shook her head. "Sadly no. That part still remains a mystery to us. But this I knew for sure. If all three of us had these diamond beauties with us... then I knew for a fact we were a real family. I may not have known where we came from, but I did know all three of us were related."
Everyone nodded and gave a few collective 'ahs' to reply.
"Please, continue, this is fascinating," Octavia said, munching on a burger.
"No, no its not." Aria said, holding her head looking bored.
"As selfish as this sounds, we LOVED the attention of those around. The ponies didn't fear us for being a species they never had seen before. Being adored was a wonderful feeling. The compliments as we went on our daily lives, the crowds cheering our names as we showed off our skills and abilities, being praised for our beauty and divine colors, oh... it was absolutely wonderful. And the ponies, oh... they were even better than I had hoped..."
The same night that the Sirens met the small ponies of the village, all of the townsfolk were gathered at one giant campfire cookout. Even the Sirens were invited to their cookout. There were many kinds of food being served around, and there was even some cooked salmon passed around. The folks didn't like them as much, but the Sirens? Oh they absolutely adored the salmon! They scarfed them down like they hadn't eaten in years, much to a surprise to everyone.
"You girls mustn't have eaten in years, have you?"
Adagio shook her head. "No, we haven't. The only means of us being alive were feeding off the love we had for each other, and the water down at the ocean. There was barely any time where we could receive real food."
"Well you three don't need to worry about that now. You all are welcome here at our village any time, and we could use your help."
"Well of course. What sort of help do you need?" Adagio asked.
The stallion sighed. "Thieves. Kidnappers. There have been horrible ponies trying to take from what little we have, and we can barely sustain our own."
The three sirens looked at each other, raising brows, but they looked back to the stallion.
"I know it seems too much to ask, and its alright to say no."
The Sirens didn't reply back with nos, or anger. But instead, they just gave the stallion (and the rest of the village ponies for that matter) a friendly smile.
"We'd be happy to help you!" Sonata squeaked.
"After the meals you gave us?" Aria added on.
"We'll help you all in any way that we can." Adagio said. "You can count on us."
Everyone let out a small cheer.
A small tap hit Adagio's front hoof, and she looked down to see a small little foal looking up at her with hopeful eyes.
"You really are gonna help us?"
Adagio smiled. "We are. I promise." She gave the foal a little boop on the nose, making her giggle.
The foal just hugged her, and Adagio embraced her back.
"With a new village to call home, we had no need to hide back in our cave. The towns folk provided us with provisions to help us in our time of need, and we in return provided them services and aid."
As the townsfolk went quiet, all asleep in their little cottages, the Sirens were huddled around the burning fire. All of their bodies were enjoying the nice heat from the flame, and they had no need to cover themselves in blankets. The townsfolk let them sleep, and they received probably the most peaceful rest they had ever received in a long time.
"Okay, okay, okay, we get it! Can you girls move things along? How did you even get here?"
"Alright, I'll explain. If you can promise to not interrupt me, again."
The village had been flourishing more and more since the Sirens moved in. More crops had grown, the weather was nicer, and everywhere there were ponies who were happy. None of them were mad, or angry, or upset that the Sirens were in their village. Their company just made their dull village even more interesting.
"Okay, I checked over the horizon, there seems to be more land on the other side of the hill here that seems untamed. Claim it in time, we might be able to grow the village some more." Adagio said, speaking to one of the gardeners.
"Excellent! Thank you Adagio!"
Adagio nodded with a smile.
"Come on Grow, we've got work to do!"
As the two gardeners went off to work, Adagio soared back up into the air and met up with the rest of the townsfolk.
"I must say, progress is going great! We've just found untapped land, and plentiful amounts of green lush that should be enough to grow some more." Adagio said, facing some of the other citizens.
"That's great to hear Adagio. We should be moving right along soon and..."
The stallion droned off and gazed off to behind her. So did everyone else apparently. Curious, Adagio turned her head and looked just on a hill that looked down at their village. A group of ponies were gathered together, only these ones were not like the villagers. Only one individual looked like the villagers, and everyone else appeared to be wearing clothing that was much more fresh and made of stronger materials.
Each of them stood out, but the one that stood out the most was the one that was in the wizard garb. A red hat, cloak, and long white beard.
Adagio cleared her throat, and she turned herself around to look at those on the hill.
"How may we help you? Are you all new here?" Adagio said, making her voice echo up to the seven ponies.
The ponies said nothing, but just glared at her with looks of anger. Determination. Bravery.
"Oh! Is it because of me? Oh, well, allow me to explain. You see--"
"None of us came to have a conversation with you," The bearded unicorn said.
Adagio blinked. "Oh. Okay, well, how come you are here?"
"We heard about you three being in this village, and its time you all scrammed out of here."
"Why?" Adagio asked, raising a brow.
"Because you three have been terrorizing this village for far too long, and scaring them non-stop!"
Adagio blinked, and a small chuckle escaped her jaw. "Wait, wait, hold on. I think I can speak for all of us when I say this is a big misunderstanding. You see--"
"You and those other two have no place in this society or anywhere else in the world. There is no need to associate with those who have looks like yours!"
Adagio's head looked back at her own fish tail, wiggling it slightly.
"You must be joking."
"I, am not."
Adagio now felt a tiny bit of rage coming on. Her teeth were snarling, and the fangs were now flashing. Just from the air, her sisters came swooping down and landed right next to her, standing as big as they could to show off their massive size.
"We've done nothing but help these ponies. Where did all of these accusations come from?" Aria barked.
"These are not accusations, they are facts. You three are monsters, and you must leave before you terrorize these villagers any longer."
All three of them were now snarling.
"You like to repeat that again?" Adagio growled. "Say it. I dare you."
"Now!"
The wizard fired a big powerful beam from its gray horn, firing right behind the Sirens. From that small beam came more danger. The beam started to grow into a bright big orb, and expand itself, creating a vortex. Within the vortex was nothing but blackness and and darkness. It was like a black hole of nothingness.
The Sirens only looked at the portal for a second, because the minute they looked at the others all three of them received giant rocks hitting their heads. Their groans filled the air as they were hit, but it didn't stop there. Beams of magic hit their bodies, forcing them to back off and pushed them back even further. The sounds of intense pain and anger echoed throughout the land, and virtually no one was around to see it. Not even the ponies in the village could do anything to stop them.
"Please! Stop!" Adagio pleaded, feeling another beam hit her chest. This one was much more powerful, and it striked precisely at the gem on her body. The gem didn't break apart, but it was starting to crack under the pressure.
"You have done far enough, sirens."
"Please! We mean you no harm, please stop! We'll explain everything if you just stop! Please!!!"
Adagio watched as her sisters cried out in pain. Sharp sticks, rocks, and laser blasts to their bodies only forced them back even further. She couldn't stand the sight to see her sisters in pain. And the more and more they were pushed, the further back they went. their tails were almost within a few inches of touching the portal.
"Your days of causing trouble and panic are over. Goodbye Sirens... forever."
Everyone fired all at once, hitting the Sirens once again. All of them fell back, and they were quickly absorbed by the portal. It dragged them in, pulling with all its strength. None of them had the energy to grab onto something and try and pull out. It was too late.
The last bit of light vanished away before Adagio and her sisters passed out, the stress upon the pull. The portal closed, sealing them from Equestria, and it let their bodies be pulled through its spiral of travel.
They were not awake still, but a new portal did eventually open up. It tossed all three of them right through it, and they came hurling through the dark and gloomy skies. Their bodies were now looking like giant meteors about to hit the land upon the impact, and they flew right over tons of acres of land.
All three of them collided with the ground, and dug through most of the dirt during the crash. The pits that they dug in were steaming from the crash, a vapor of smoke rising up into the air. None of them were awake when they had crashed. And none of them heard the sounds of clopping hooves of horses and the sound of shouting men...