"Are you sure this is the place, Rainbow Dash?" Sunset asked once they had arrived at the house that had been marked on the leaflet. It was quite expansive with 4 floors and was the perfect place for a wild party. The lights were all on in the windows and they could make out people dancing inside of them.
"Of course this is the right place," Rainbow Dash said as they rung the doorbell. "Why else would there be party music blasting out of the walls, people dancing inside and a banner which says 'Welcome To The Party'?"
"Good point." Pinkie said, agreeing with Rainbow Dash's logic. Pinkie was quite easily persuadable whenever a party was seen nearby.
The girls waited for the door to open for a few seconds. When no-one came, Rainbow Dash rung again, knowing that The Blasters weren't going to leave their guests out. They wouldn't be rude to any of their adoring fans, especially for an open party.
Eventually, the door opened and Fortissimo Blast was on the other side of it. He noticed Adagio, Aria and Sonata and almost flinched in surprise. Instead, he kept his composure and invited the ten of them in. Stretching his hand and swishing it in a welcoming gesture, which got the girls to walk inside.
"Oh, hi! Welcome to the party, girls," He said as he stood to the side to let them in. "Come in, come in. There's plenty of room."
"Oh... My... Gosh!!!" Rainbow Dash looked completely ecstatic as she got a good look at the hunk of a man which was Fortissimo. The happiness on her face was undeniable. "Ohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygoshohmygosh!!! Fortissimo, it's such an honour to meet you!!!"
"Well, milady, it's nice to meet you as well." he said in his usual gentlemanly tone for such an event. "That's a nice costume you're sporting tonight."
"Oh, hehe... Thanks." Rainbow Dash blushed. Her musical idol had complimented her clothes. In her mind, she said "OMG! He likes my costume! This is going to be the BEST Halloween party EVER!"
"So... Fortissimo, is it?" Sunset introduced herself to the leader of The Blasters as kindly as she could. "Nice to see you here. I'm Sunset, Sunset Shimmer."
"Wait a minute..." Fortissimo remembered that name and was surprised upon hearing Sunset say it to him. "Sunset Shimmer, as in THE Sunset Shimmer?"
"Yes..." Sunset said, surprised that Fortissimo knew who she was. She thought that such a high-class man would never have discovered a stranger like her. Furthermore, she was curious to know how he knew about her. "How did you find about that, anyways?"
"I have my sources..." He said as he looked at Allegro and Orchestral, who had just appeared behind him, still sporting their Halloween costumes.
"And if I'm not mistaken, those are your children," he said, trying to keep his composure. His sister was right here, as an infant. He wanted to say how long it had been to Adagio's face, but he had to keep it secret for now. "Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk. Am I right?"
"H-How did you know?" Sunset looked even more surprised at this. She thought that Fortissimo knew far too much as to what he was letting on.
Fortissimo was a little worried. He needed to make a response quickly, one that was plausible and shrugged off Sunset's suspicions. He started to sweat a little as he made up possible answers one after another. He then discarded them just as quickly, thinking that Sunset would find those ideas to be far-fetched.
"Uhh... Is something wrong, Fortissimo?" Sunset was starting to suspect something was up, if such a man like Fortissimo was starting to struggle with words. She could tell from his worry that he was hiding something from her and wanted to know what it was.
"I used to host a music school before I started The Blasters. These three little angels were some of the best students in my class." he said, sighing as he finally had a plausible excuse finally brewing in his head.
"They also excelled in every aspect of music," Allegro aided Fortissimo with the story, as he finally had all the fabrications figured out. "They mastered Pop, Country & Western, Heavy Metal, Jazz..."
"But their favourite form of music was Acapella; the pleasure of music-less lyrics," Orchestral finished up. "I do have to wonder, though... How are they babies again?"
"Trust me, it's a long and confusing story..." Sunset said as she made her answer as short and sweet as she could.
"Well, I think I can manage." He said, as if he knew what had happened to the three of them.
"You sure about that?" Sunset said, raising a brow as she now looked at Fortissimo, Allegro and Orchestral with a little curiosity. "This is a story that's way out of your league..."
"Trust me, ladies..." he said, cracking a little smile. "I can handle any excuse. Whether it's an experiment gone wrong, or their little sisters bequeathed to you during their holidays, I can handle any explanation..."
"Alright then, but you might not believe it when you hear it..." Sunset took a deep breath and began to recall all the events that had occurred with The Dazzlings. "Do you remember almost two years ago, there was a Battle Of The Bands at Canterlot High School?"
"Ah yes, I'd heard a great deal about that little contest..." Fortissimo said, recalling the day when his little sister had been defeated at her own game. "It started with the arrival of three new students, from a place they had long since forgotten..."
"They manipulated everyone in the school, like puppets. And as such, the Battle Of The Bands was set in motion." Allegro said, looking very closely at Aria as he too remembered that day. "The acts all decided to go for each others' throats in an attempt to seize the glory by any means possible."
"Even if it meant sabotage, ambush, cruelty and disdain..." Orchestral said, making the whole ordeal sound much more philosophical than it needed to be. "There was a widespread of hatred running amok during the whole ordeal."
"When the final battle came, there were unearthly powers revealed from both of the grand finalist." Fortissimo said, reminding himself of that final battle very well. There were three spectral monsters from one side, then a giant rainbow alicorn from the other. Needless to say, the outcome looked cataclysmic as an explosion of rainbow-coloured energy engulfed the stage and audience in its' wake. The shocking thing though, was that everyone survived that explosion..."
"We were merely nobodies at that time, unknown cretins wandering the streets without a care in the world..." Allegro went on with their side of the story. "However, once the battle had come to its' climax, we saw the three new students running from the school. Tears dripping from their eyes and their clothes stained by the uproar of booing patrons we'd just heard."
"We paid no mind to them at first, but then we saw another unnatural occurrence..." Orchestral went on. "We saw three balls of light, accompanied by a wonderful song. There was also a trail of energy streaming behind them, as if it was some kind of magic dripping out of the orbs. However, that is the last we had heard of the new students that kickstarted the Battle Of The Bands..."
"Wow..." Sunset was at a loss for words. She'd never thought such rich and famous rock stars like The Blasters also had a more philosophical side to them as well. She reflected on all those words for a brief moment before Allegro spoke to her again.
"You know, there's more to a party than just talking." he said, trying to get the group to do something else. "You could have something to eat, partake in a little dancing and even just try scaring the living daylights out of everyone with your spooky get-ups."
"Just go, have some fun," Orchestral said as he, Allegro and Fortissimo went over to another room in the house. "But most of all, have a nice time, ladies."
"Alright then. See ya'll later!" Applejack said, letting The Blasters do what they intended. "What a nice boy band. Ya don't usually see many nice boy bands nowadays."
"I know," Sunset said, as she admired how gentlemanly The Blasters had acted. "They seem so polite, even after The Dazzlings possibly controlled them."
"Whatever. Mind-controlled or not, they are such hot stuff!" Rainbow Dash said as she watched the three of them talking to each other. She couldn't make anything out over the blaring party music and talking guests, but she could catch their lips moving. Then she sighed in content. "I wish I could date them..."
"Uggh! I had to act like a complete stranger to her!" Fortissimo complained to Allegro and Orchestral. "Even though we have to wait for them to mature once more, I still won't live that down, treating my poor little Adagio like that!"
"Fortissimo, I know it seems like a dishonourable thing for us Sirens to do, but we have to wait it out for now." Allegro said, trying to remind Fortissimo of the positives of their situation. "Whilst they're growing up, we can feast on more power than they could ever imagine!"
"And besides, the Ultimate Amplifier is such a complex device. It would take around a decade for it to finish construction..." Orchestral said as well, glowing a sinister shade of red and blue. "The more power we can take from this world, the better. And besides... I can already feel my Siren powers returning to me..."
"So, in short, we have already reached a state of power where we can perform our Siren Summons?" Fortissimo asked.
"Yes," Allegro said as he felt his pendant underneath his costume. "They're almost 2 years old now, and we already have access to our Siren Summons. By the time our little sisters return to their regular ages, the whole Battle Of The Bands at CHS is going to be a mere footnote in the history we'll make with our powers..."
"Excellent," Fortissimo smiled as he felt his pendant vibrating quite heavily. It had taken in so much power over the years and now it was ready for Fortissimo to utilize his full power. "Until the Ultimate Amplifier is ready, we keep these gems secret for now. Don't let anyone see them, alright?"
"You have our word, Fortissimo..." Orchestral said.
"For now, let's keep the party going..." Fortissimo said as he returned to all the partygoers, who were getting down to some Halloween-themed songs. "Let these humans have their fun for the time being. A day like this only lasts once, after all..."
"Oh! Here's a good one!" Pinkie said as she readied another of her Halloween jokes. "Where do Vampires keep their money?"
"Where?" The girls asked.
"At a BLOOD bank!"
That punch like got the group laughing. Pinkie had a reputation for making special holiday-themed jokes when the time called for it. Even The Dazzlings understood it and were in on Pinkie's humorous jokes, chuckling with her clever and accurate punch lines.
"Even I have to admit, that was a good one..." A voice said, walking over to the girls. It was Trixie, in what looked like a Necromancer outfit. Her face was even painted and had a special contact lens which made her look like she was an actual Necromancer.
"Oh! Hi, Trixie!" Sunset waved as she held The Dazzlings up to her. "You're celebrating this party as well?"
"As much as I, The Great And Powerful Trixie, don't like to engage in such loud and obnoxious events, I just had to make an exception for The Blasters," She said as she looked at Fortissimo returning to the room. "Just look at that gorgeous hunk, Fortissimo. I wouldn't mind telling him all my magic secrets..."
"I know, isn't he just magical?" Rainbow Dash said as she and Trixie both looked at Fortissimo, sharing in idle conversation with another of the guests, who was dressed as a cyborg.
"So, anyways," Trixie said, clearing her throat as she turned back to Sunset. "How are things working for you now, Sunset?"
"They're working out alright..." She said. "I got some rest, got praised for saving CHS and I got kids." She said as Trixie now took notice of The Dazzlings.
"Well, stick me in a box and saw me in half..." Trixie said, admiring Adagio, Aria and Sonata, blissfully unaware that these were the Sirens that plagued CHS a couple of years back. "I never took you for a mother, Sunset."
"What can I say?" Sunset smiled as she stroked the hairs of each of her kids, causing them to nuzzle into her costume. "They just happened to catch my eyes... And my heart."
"Awww..." The girls said as Sunset and The Dazzlings began to bond. A sight like this hadn't been seen from Sunset for a while, at least not in front of the others. They were all on board with The Dazzlings now and all their cute little actions were adored by all.
"I wove yoo, Mama..." Adagio said as she looked up at Sunset with a smile. Knowing that Sunset thought the same way about her.
"I love you too..." Sunset said as she stroked Adagio's hair some more. "I love all of you, very much."
Suddenly, the music stopped. And everyone began to feel frightened as the lights went out as well. Even Trixie looked a little terrified as the darkness quickly enveloped the room.
"Who killed the lights?" Rainbow Dash asked, but got no response. She couldn't make anything out in this darkness, not even the windows could help her out with her vision. The room was engulfed in pure darkness.
"It wasn't me, Rainbow Dash," Sunset's voice said in the pitch-black darkness. "What about you, Trixie?"
"As much as I would like to take credit for this, I don't really want to." Trixie said as she looked for someone in the darkened room.
Suddenly, a pair of eyes flickered in the darkness which were accompanied by a creepy-sounding song. They were extraordinarily bright, so everyone was looking at the flashing eyes. Some of the ladies and gentlemen screamed in fear, as if something out of their darkest nightmares had come to life.
"Oh god! Oh god it's real!" One of the voices said in the darkness. Clearly a male who was utterly terrified. "He's here and he's coming to kill me!"
"Not tonight!" Another guest panicked, a woman of sorts. "NOT TONIGHT!!!"
Suddenly, it all stopped, the eyes disappeared, the song stopped and people were fearing for their lives. They waited for something to come out and finish their lives. There was silence for a few seconds before something popped out of the darkness.
An ear-splitting scream was heard as the figure came out of the darkness, lunged forward towards all the screaming guests before disappearing inches away from them in a veil of smoke.
When the lights turned back on again, The Blasters were there, looking at all of the terrified party guests. They had noticed The Dazzlings hiding behind Sunset and they kind of felt a little sorry for what had happened, but then remembered that they had more guests than just their sisters to apologize for.
"What's wrong, guys and gals?" Fortissimo asked once everyone had calmed down after that little jump-scare. "You look like you've seen a ghost..."
"Fortissimo?" Sunset asked as The Dazzlings came out to look at them again. She looked mortified at what had just happened. "What was that?!"
"A little something called scary. I can tell it on your face, you were terrified back there." Allegro said as he lightly pinched Sunset's cheeks, teasing her a mild amount.
"Fortissimo... You pulled a Freddy on us?" Trixie asked, a little confused at what had just happened.
"Is that a bad thing?" He asked, shrugging his shoulders as if to try and keep the guests at his party.
"Actually... I have to commend you!" Trixie began clapping. Her applause was accompanied by the applause of all the other guests at the party. "Of all the Halloween parties I've been to, I've never been to one that was quite as scary as this!"
"Wait, why is everyone clapping?" Sunset asked Rarity as she saw her friends applauding as well.
"Well, every Halloween party has a moment where everyone is truly terrified by something with special effects," Rarity begun to explain. "Stuff like zombies rising from the ground or the taps spewing blood or something."
"But The Blasters pulled off a Five Nights At Freddy's thing for their party. Can you believe it?" Rainbow Dash said as she was clearly amazed at The Blasters' feat of horror. "No wonder they're so successful. No other Halloween party I went to pulled a Freddy on their guests."
"Wait, you'we awwight wid dis?!" Sonata looked mortified, the poor girl looked like she'd been through hell with that little fright. The terror on her face was undeniable as she now looked at all of the girls. "Dat ting twied ta kiww us aww!"
"Lighten up, Sonata. It's Halloween," Pinkie said to Sonata to calm her down. She then reminded Sonata of the words that Adagio and Aria had been trying to tell her all this time. "Things like this happen so frequently that you begin to expect it in the end."
"Yeah, Sonata. Scawes awe quite common at Hawwoween," Aria said, bearing a smile that seemed a little sinister. "I'm suwpwised yoo haven't accepted dat fact yet."
"Anyways. Now that that little fright is out of the way. Enjoy the rest of the evening, everyone!" Fortissimo said, as kindly as usual.
The rest of the night was pretty much filled with dancing, laughter, Halloween music, jokes and scares. But after a while of it all, Sonata began to finally accept the chills and thrills of Halloween. She'd seen people quite scared by others, so she wanted to try it out for herself.
She spent some time playing with Adagio and Aria. Trying the best to find out who truly was the scarier. The three of them tried the best to try and jump-scare the other two, with little effort.
Sonata had tried her best to scare the others, but didn't get quite as scared a reaction as when Adagio and Aria tried. Even so, that didn't bother her and she tried her best to frighten the two of them. At long last, Sonata was finally starting to enjoy Halloween.
"Aww, look at that..." Sunset smiled as she got the girls to all look at The Dazzlings. "They're all playing together..."
"That's so adorable!" Pinkie squealed in delight as she saw how much fun The Dazzlings were having with each other. Then she remembered another key fact about infants their age. "But it's soon gonna be past their bedtimes."
"They can stay up late tonight. My treat..." Sunset smiled as she saw her little stars playing happily. The smiles on their faces were undeniable. After all the pain and suffering they'd had to bear before they sang the Second Life Song, life for The Dazzlings was finally starting to look up.
10:30 PM
Once the party was over, Sunset and The Dazzlings were walked home by the Humane 5. They were sharing some last minute chatter before they had the chance to return to their houses to get some sleep.
"If they look that amazing, I can't wait to hear their songs!" Sunset said as she and the girls got closer and closer to her house. "Which is why I kind of downhearted at that party. We didn't get to hear their marvellous voices and amazing skill with instruments..."
"Yeah. The Blasters prefer to keep their singing strictly to stages in front of crowds of people, or whenever they have to record a new song for their CDs," Rainbow Dash further explained the men they'd seen tonight. "They do still interact with their fans, though."
"Ah could tell." Applejack said as they finally arrived at Sunset's house. Tonight had been a good night. The girls had all gotten their fair shares of candy, been to a fantastic party with a scary surprise along the way and now they were returning home for the night.
"Well, I need to get my Dazzlings to sleep for the night," Sunset sighed as she looked at her kids. They had been sleeping soundly in their little vampire, werewolf and ghost costumes after all the fun of the evening. "They're gonna need the energy for when they eat their candy tomorrow..."
"We understand..." Fluttershy smiled as she made her way home for the evening. She said her goodbyes to the rest of the Humane 5, as well as Sunset and The Dazzlings "They need it, after all the fun and frights they had tonight."
"See you girls soon." Sunset said as she opened the door and carried the slumbering Dazzlings inside. She then waved the girls goodnight before shutting the door and locking it up.
Once the door was locked, she quietly and quickly took the candy the Dazzlings had earned tonight and placed them in three different buckets. She then labelled the buckets with the names of each of them, so that they could tell who had what candy when they woke up tomorrow.
Then, she slipped the three of them out of their costumes and changed their diapers quickly, before they had a chance to even notice. Once the deed was done, Sunset carried the three Dazzlings to their room, laid them down in their crib and tucked them in for the night.
Once Sunset sang them their lullaby once more, they began snoring quite cutely. A sign that Sunset knew they were sleeping. Once they were deep in their sleep, Sunset walked out of the door, leaving it wide open for the night for once.
She then sighed once she'd shed her demon get up and slipped into her pajamas. "I gotta hand it to The Blasters. They sure know how to have a good Halloween..." Then she slipped into her own dreams, letting herself become motionless as she drifted off into her own personal dreamland...
"So we now have our powers back, do we?" Fortissimo said as he picked up his guitar. It was blood red and covered with archaic markings, possibly another language from another world. "Let's just test that theory..."
The Blasters played their instruments and sang a little tune. Their instruments all glowed a dark colour as they played and their singing sprouted their pony ears and additional hair. However, their wings and tails were dragon-like once they were conjured. Furthermore, their gems shot forth a torrent of darkness, conjuring up three giant Basilisks (One black, one dark magenta and one dark blue) with poison dripping from their fangs.
"Well, that's individual Siren Summons back..." He smiled as he petted the black Basilisk he had made. "All that power has allowed us to control both ourselves and our summons together."
"Which is another reason why my poor Aria met her inevitable defeat at CHS..." Allegro said as the three Basilisks disappeared into the pendants once more. "Now what about Siren Fusions?"
"This is gonna be fun..." Orchestral said as he readied his drums once more.
The three of them played another beat, one that unified all of their voices into one powerful choir. The dark streams from the pendants all smashed together this time, creating an enormous black Manticore with menacing claws, sharp teeth, a giant scorpion tail and seething red eyes.
"Perfect!" The three of them said together as they controlled the giant Manticore they had made. It slashed the air pretty quickly, shot its' tail into some blank patches of the garden they stood in, completely destroying them with little effort. After all that, it made a deafening roar before it disappeared back into the pendants of The Blasters.
"So now we have our full potential. Excellent..." Fortissimo smiled a devilish smile. "Now we need the Ultimate Amplifier to be ready for our plans to be completely unstoppable."
"With our powers back, we can rule this world as gods among men and women..." Allegro smiled evilly as his keytar glowed a dark purple colour, one that matched his style.
"...Crush any and all opposition that stand in our way..." Orchestral made a third evil smile as well, making streams of ice-blue energy shoot out of his drums with each hit.
"And take all of Equestria for ourselves!" Fortissimo swung his guitar, causing a black blade of Siren Magic to come out of the end of it. "Get ready, Celestia... Because soon, you're gonna have to face the MUSIC!"
The three Sirens let out evil laughs of an insidious nature once they had tested out their weaponized instruments. Their evil side was undeniable and it showed a large amount of danger for anyone who dared to cross their paths, even if their foes didn't even know it yet...