“Luna merely hoped for a sweet dreamless oblivion. Well, that’s not much of a comfort. Maybe it will be something better. I asked Discord and he only chuckled. But Celestia held that there will be a cleansing of some kind and a period of atonement and then we move on to better things.” – T. Sparkle, Views of the Immortals on the Afterlife
— “Reflections”, Autobiography by Starlight Glimmer
The well-dressed king approached the flying sirens boldly with a smile. “Hello. Thank you for coming. Your majesties, the um Dazzlings, the Queens of Pop as Knight Corporal Gwendolyn says. It is a pleasure to greet adventurous fellow royalty. I am King Gerald.
“‘King’ Gerald, so like the hound dog guy. It's nice to meet you '' the light blue Sonata giggled. “I hope we get to meet the rest of your band. But yes, that's us, we are the Dazzlings, the best singers in all of Equestria.”
“In all the world,” said Adagio.
“Well probably”, said Aria.
“You have my thanks. Your journey here has returned two of my missing griffons to me, and a strange third?”
“Our fan, yes. We brought them back ourselves. The little griffons weren’t quick enough to save her, and she’s hurt.” Sonata explained.
“They are treating her right now.” said Aria, “uh, we made sure.”
Sonata pointed to her companions. “The purple one is Aria Blaze, I'm Sonata Dusk. The yellow one here is Adagio Dazzle, she’s in charge, we’re her bandmates.
Aria said “We came as quickly as we could. We were afraid that if we didn't get help, our fan might die.”
“Your fan?” asked the king.
“Yea, she’s this little green dragon hatchling. She got hurt, um down south…. in what this one”, she indicated by pointing a hoof at Gerrard “said was an accident.”
“My word, and you’ve flown all that way?” asked the king.
“Eh, more like three quarters of the way,'' said Aria. “We’d have gotten here sooner, but we were afraid to go too fast.”
“We’re fast,” said Sonata. “Took us what Adagio, three, four hours?”
“As if, three hours tops. We didn’t pick them up until after lunch, remember those seals?”
“Mmm, crunchy, crunchy seals.” said Sonata. “I love seafood.”
“You love anything crunchy,'' said Aria.
“Well, you must be exhausted. We were just sitting down to supper. Could we have you join us over there on the front lawn? We would love to offer you a glass of wine or coffee or anything really, and we must say that we are looking forward to having a chat so we can get to know each other a bit better.”
“He says ‘we’ a lot. I only see him. Is there a small or invisible griffon I’m missing?” Sonata whispered loudly to Aria. “I don’t smell anyone else.”
“That's the royal we idiot,” said Adagio, “He means himself and Griffonstone, okay? He’s speaking for everyone.”
“You do that a lot too,” said Aria. … Adagio gave her a death glare.
“Indeed. You are such wonderful creatures to have gone to all this trouble. The kingdom owes you a debt of gratitude. Let us at least offer you a nice meal and a rest. I assure you whatever you desire, the royal kitchen can make it.”
The king began to lead the three sirens to his palace.
“Now bandmates - that is a form of vassalage I am not familiar with. But if you are all queens it must work for you.”
“Can they make fish tacos?” asked Sonata hopefully.
“I'm sure if you explain what it is, they can,” said the king.
Sonata wiggled from snout to tail in the air and squeed. Aria laughed and Adagio rolled her eyes.
“So, yea, bandmates.” said Aria. “Well, like Sonata said, Adagio is in charge, but we all work together to solve our problems and we all make suggestions and argue about it, but Adagio always decides, like where we’re going and where we’ll sing next.”
“Yes, you mentioned you were singers, do you sing for everyone?”
Adagio smiled and boasted “Oh yea, we've sung on tour, in Canterlot, band competitions, the Everfree, the Starswirled Music Festival, cafes, villages, cities, big crowds, small crowds, you name it. We’ve been together since forever. We’re famous in two worlds, you know.”
“Really, my word. I’m afraid I don’t know where Pop is, said the king.”
“Don’t worry, we’ll show it to you,'' said Aria.
“It’s always been in our hearts.” said Sonata.
Adagio and Aria stopped. Adagio looked at Aria, and the two looked at Sonata together and smiled. “That's the smartest and most poetic thing you've ever said Sonata. I’m going to write a song about it.”
Sonata smiled. Adagio took her hoof and smiled. “Let's go get those tacos.”