We were in Sugarcube corner at one point, discussing our plans for our next performance, or at least our next party.
Suddenly, a trio of girls strutted in, singing a literally hypnotic melody. Something about our magic rendered theirs ineffective on the six of us. The crowd of other schoolgoers in the place weren't so lucky.
Green smoke started to fill the area as the song went on. I looked to the other girls and took my guitar in hand. Fluttershy, Applejack and Rarity raised their instruments, Fluttershy following shortly thereafter. Pinkie wasn't able to bring her drums in, but substituted with the table we were seated at.
We started playing a counter-melody, snapping the crowd out of the spell, even sending some of the closer ones into Hybrid form.(1)
The three instigators were beaten back by the power of our music and quickly left the area.(2)
Obliging the crowd, we continued entertaining them for some time. We'd agreed that the very next day we'd inform the principals of this. However... that didn't go as planned...
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When we piled into the principals' office, the six of us started to explain the case, but Principal Celestia held up a hand. She said, "Yes, yes. we know about the battle of the bands and think it's an excellent idea."
Not only were they resolute in their decision to do it, but things were already scheduled. We had no chance to help them.
As we left, we noticed that their eyes were entirely shades of green.
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So what if we couldn't convince them otherwise? We just had to win. Easy enough, right?
Mmmmaybe not. The competition would be stiff. We needed Twilight with us. Sunset wrote into the book she had and in short order we had our seventh member with us. Twilight wasn't much for instruments, but she made a great singer. Being naturally Equestrian made channelling the magic much easier while in her proximity. After some practice, we were ready for the contest. We had to be.
As the contest went on, there were more skileed musicians and singers. Muffins' group and Snips and Snails were no problem, but Trixie's group and ESPECIALLY Flash's group were hard to get past. We had to pull out all the stops and put our souls into it along with our signature songs. It was no easy feat, let me tell ya!
Eventually we came to the finals and the Dazzlings (as they'd dubbed themselves) strode onto the stage, casting their magics over the audience like a blanket. They stood no chance and were mesmerized immediately.
Then we'd made a dramatic entrance (with Vinyl providing speaker power), belting our newest tune. When they'd manifested their siren avatars, we had to play even harder. Sunset joined in and threw off her signature jacket; we knew that it was time to kick it up SEVERAL notches, switching to a different song entirely.(3)
As the timer hit about 3:20 on that, Vinyl sent the energy into the ground, manifesting a giant Alicorn as our Avatar. Needless to say, we slammed their Avatars back, shattering the red stones in the pendants that they were wearing.
As the Dazzlings' voices cracked, their energy faded and we knew that it ws time for us to relax.
In the aftermath, the former sirens revealed that they were being controlled by the pendants they were wearing and for the last few yesrs their memories were a blank. When we'd shattered those magical stones, we'd freed them of that influence. We offered the olive branch, but they declined, rightfully stating that they'd likely become persona non grata(4). They just packed up and left for different lands.
It was even harder saying goodbye to Twilight this time, but she said that she'd visit now and again, since she'd laid a spell on the Mirror back home to let it open every New Moon instead of every 30. She even invited us to come along at some point.
If you said that things went back to normal after that, you'd be mostly right. But with Sunset fully in on our fun, things just got 20% cooler yet! The question was: What would happen next?