//------------------------------// // Silence: The Noise That Quells All // Story: The Siren Song: Razzle Dazzle // by Shadowmane PX-41 //------------------------------// As the girls ran closer and closer into the storm, the wind began to get louder and louder the stronger it got. They knew that with all this destructive force building up, Silenzel would not be an easy opponent to fight. As the girls all progressed forward, The Dazzlings drew their swords and watched as the rain-infused winds began to pick up. The winds were at least 89 MPH at the moment, he wasn't here at the moment, but was going to arrive shortly. "Mommy, Auntie Twilight..." Adagio looked back at them with a rather considerate look on her face as she stopped amidst the storm, her black coat beginning to become caught in the gusts of winds that now ravaged the place. "I think you should get out of this city..." "No way, girls! I've been taking care of you three for ten years now!" Sunset said, trying to defend herself and stand by her children. "I'm not about to leave you three on your own whilst you fight the most powerful hurricane in history!" "This isn't a hurricane, Mommy! This is a deity of Euphoria called Silenzel!" Aria said, trying to remind Sunset of that one vital piece of knowledge as they continued to push against the almighty winds. "I may not remember much of my time as a Lyrican Siren, but I do know that Silenzel was responsible for the Blissens' extermination!" "Extermination?" Twilight asked, putting a finger to her chin in curiosity. "What did he do to get the Blissens killed?" "No matter where Silenzel goes, no matter where he hides, a hurricane always follows him..." Sonata reminded herself as she began recalling what her brother used to tell her when she was a Lyrican. "At least, that's what my brother always used to tell me..." Lyrica, Ten Thousand Years Ago... "Congratulations, Sonny!" Orchestral gave his sister a massive hug once she'd reunited with her brother in a massive Lyrican hall. There were musical symbols draped all over the banners and tapestries, and a massive message that read 'Congratulations, New Sirens!' in the fires behind King Allure's throne. "You're working for the Balance of Lyrica now!" "Thanks, Orchy!" she said back, giving him a smile as he patted her back in accomplishment. Sonata was a rather valiant Siren back on Lyrica, and her brother did commend her for it. Eventually, when the hug ended, the two talkative siblings went into a rather lengthy discussion on who they were now working with. "So, Sonata. As a Furen, you've got complete control over the denizens and monsters of Dystopia," Orchestral began explaining as he examined the red pendant that was now draped around Sonata's neck. "Oh and by the way, there's a massive difference between denizens and monsters down there. Hope you can tell the two apart." Sonata cracked a little smile and let out a little giggle at Orchestral's joke. It was true that there was a difference between the beings of Dystopia and the monsters of Dystopia, but in truth, they all looked like infernal beings from the darkest corners of hell. "What about you, brother? What do you have power over?" Sonata asked, looking curiously at Orchestral Chill's blue pendant. "Well, little sister, I'm now aligned with the forces of Euphoria," he began explaining as he picked up a book of Blissen and began flipping through the pages until he found what he could call into battle. "While the humanoids of Euphoria are quite powerful in their own right, the six deities of Euphoria are quite powerful as well..." "Who are the six deities, out of curiosity?" Sonata asked, looking at each of the giant peacekeepers with her curiosity starting to grow. Even though she and the other Dazzlings had just been granted their pendants from the three queens of Dystopia, Sonata was still interested in what her brother communicated with, since he was a Blissen Siren. "The six deities of Euphoria are Courageour, Silenzel, Obedium, Judgialze, Hierarxe, and Honous; with his trusty steed, Chival..." Orchestral showed Sonata each of the mighty deities of Euphoria for an equal period of time, so that all of the images sunk into her mindset. "Each one of the deities has power beyond anything that Equestria and the Human World could ever muster. For example, Silenzel here has the power to create supercells that go up to 500 MPH in terms of wind speed. Believe me, that's quite deadly... You wouldn't want to take tacos to one of his little battles..." "I'll be sure to remember that if I ever see him..." Sonata smiled, thinking about that sweet Mexican delicacy upon the mere mention of its' name. Present Day... "Not only that, but he said that Silenzel's most powerful hurricane was 500 MPH in wind speed..." Sonata said, worrying Twilight and Sunset with what she'd remembered over the course of that last memory. "Now I might just be ten years old, but even I can tell that that isn't a good thing..." "500 MPH in wind speed?!" Sunset immediately showed a massive amount of panic at that moment. She might not have been a big expert on science, but even she was well aware that 500 MPH would be enough to kill someone, even if they were prepared for it. "That's around 10,000 Wingpower back in Equestria!" "10,000?!" Twilight immediately showed the most worry of all. She knew just how powerful Wingpower was in terms of first-hand experiences. "That's roughly ten times the size of the Pegasus hurricane I saw as a unicorn! Dazzlings, this is a life-threatening fight ahead of you!" "Exactly, which is why you need to get out of here, so that your legacies will live on!" Adagio said, acting more philosophical when she saw the panic wash over Twilight and Sunset's faces. "Don't worry about us. We'll be fine! You just have to get out of here!" "What?!" Sunset called, the wind's speed beginning to pick up beyond comprehension. "I SAID YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF HERE, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!" Adagio screamed over the roaring winds, but not even that was powerful enough to reach Twilight and Sunset's ears now. The wind speed was now coming up to a rather powerful 150 MPH, causing the five girls to kneel down and push against the roaring winds. "WHAT?!" Twilight and Sunset screamed, their voices completely silenced by the roaring winds that now surrounded the center of the city they were now standing in. As the winds reached 156 MPH, a giant orb of light descended down upon the center of the city, before molding itself into a humanoid being with a dragon's head and a fluttering cape on its' back. The new figure was garbed in golden armour with blue streaks running down each end. To top it all off, he was wearing a giant blue Blissen crystal around his neck. "Ahh... The fabled Dazzlings..." the figure began speaking, his voice reaching all five of the girls' ears, despite the completely deafening noises of the roaring hurricane. "Despite all these years, as well as your defeat in this world, the three of you are still as beautiful as a descending sunset..." Euphorian Deity SILENZEL Silence "And here I thought that the other Blissens were taking it too far..." Adagio said, her voice still muffled to everyone else but Silenzel's. "It seems that not only are you attacking innocent humans, but you also seem to be driving them to near extinction as well..." "It is a necessary sacrifice, Adagio Dazzle," Silenzel continued to speak as his winds picked up, destroying the road that all five of the girls now stood on. Once the roads were destroyed, he watched as the five girls were now high above the ground, standing on broken pieces of asphalt road that he'd brought up into the air. "These humans must be punished for their war against us Lyricans..." "But that's not your decision to make, Silenzel!" Aria said, feeling rather steamed that Blissens were starting to act this way. She'd never seen such infidelity from beings that were claiming that she and The Dazzlings were infidels themselves. "This is an act of terrorism, which is something you Blissens stand against, not for!" "Ever since the war that ended the Lyricans, we Blissens no longer feel any remorse for butchering humans and ponies," Silenzel began to talk. "These brutes and ruffians only think for themselves, and are too weak-minded to accept that there are some species that don't deserve their wrath." "They go against the peace of the worlds, so they are nothing more than demons, demons of their true selves..." he spoke on, looking primarily at both Sunset Shimmer and Twilight. "Humans and ponies only fight for themselves, not for the good of all three worlds. Because of this, they are driven by selfishness. They believe that their species should be the only one that is still alive." "While I am committing an act of mass death and destruction, it is to be done to safeguard the Balance of Lyrica, and make these monstrous demons of humans and ponies see the terrible crimes they have commited," he continued with his philosophical words. "I bear no grudge with the three of you, Dazzlings. In fact, you are needed to be kept alive, so that we can finish our acts against the Human World and Equestria..." "What are you talking about?" Sonata asked as the girls grew their wings and extended hair. "What do you mean by the fact that we need to be kept alive?" "Simple, upon the Song of Resurrection's completion, the Siren species will still believe that they are at war with the Human World and Equestria!" he spoke, his voice booming across the mighty winds. "When the Sirens return, they'll all still believe that ponies and humans are fighting them. And once they are revived, your brothers will take charge of the army of sirens, and purge Equestria and the Human World of their sinful kind!" "That's mass genocide, the worst crime that Lyrica has ever had to validate..." Adagio said, her voice now calm and serious. "You being a part of this genocidal act is considered infidelity of your own accord, Silenzel..." "Now, I'm not one of those shitty philosophical types, but I do know that your actions are beyond commendation, and are deserving of nothing but massive pain and torment..." Adagio said as The Dazzlings unfurled their wings and lit up their enhanced swords. "But hey, why let Euphoria punish you, when we can do it ourselves!" Silenzel held his hands out in a clutching fashion, bringing up two giant orbs of Blissen Magic, which shone a radiant glow. With his two orbs raised, he smashed the two together, creating a massive thunderclap that rang through the ears of all five of the girls. Upon his little taunt's completion, the two orbs generated a massive spectral armour-shaped aura for Silenzel. The Dazzlings quickly ran across the piece of road that they were standing on and leapt for the other segments, making sure not to jump too high so that the wind caught them. Their movements were rather awkward, considering that their wings were caught up in Silenzel's ferocious hurricane, but they were fine on all other accounts. Just when they thought they were safe in a massive part of what looked like a destroyed garden caught in the hurricane, they noticed that some of the clouds around them glowed a bright blue when Silenzel's pendant activated. Without warning, lightning began streaking from all of the lit up clouds, as if it was some kind of buzz saw of lightning that Silenzel was conjuring up. The Dazzlings watched as the lightning came closer to them, and they nimbly dodged most of the strikes, but kneeled in pain when the final ones impacted them. It had left them roasted beyond comparison, with their clothes near-destroyed by the intense power of Silenzel's storm. Since they couldn't talk to each other over the roaring winds, they decided to watch what one of them did, and hope that the others would be co-ordinated in silence. Adagio watched as Silenzel tightened his grip on the orb in his left hand and performed a powerful left hook. Silenzel hit the piece of landmass that The Dazzlings were standing on, sending it hurtling far into the air. As it was coming back down, Silenzel followed it up by punching it clean through, stranding The Dazzlings in the midst of his roaring hurricane. He watched as they were thrown around helplessly, like ragdolls in a washing machine. then he let out a smile as they landed with a painful CRASH! into three different platforms scattered around him. Adagio got up slowly, her body still aching from the impact of all those pieces of landmass she'd smashed into during her flight. When she got up to her feet at last, Silenzel was closing in on her, preparing a deadly uppercut that would finish her off for good. "That's it, Silenzel..." Adagio braced herself for an upcoming attack. She had a plan and was ready to put that plan to good use. "Come on and attack me..." When Silenzel drove his fist up through Adagio's platform, she took a daring leap of faith and landed straight on Silenzel's arm. When she made it on his arm, she ran towards his orb, seeing that his spectral armour-shaped aura was still there. Upon reaching the orb, Adagio did her best to keep her balance whilst also hacking and slashing away at Silenzel's orb. Silenzel noticed that Adagio was attacking one of his orbs, so he charged up a powerful spell in the other orb. He wanted to ensure that his orbs survived this battle at all costs. His hand was about to smash down on top of Adagio, when it was suddenly knocked away by two Hippocampi. He turned his head in fury and saw that Aria and Sonata were doing their best to hold their summon, giving Adagio some cover whilst she continued to cut the orb to pieces. Adding power to each one of her swings, Adagio quickly saw Silenzel's first orb was starting to break apart. She performed more powerful swings, breaking the orb even further. Then, with one final charge, she blasted straight through the orb and leapt towards another platform, jumping through the explosion of Blissen Magic as if she was flying out of a smoke screen. As Silenzel clutched his left hand in agony, he shot seething eyes of fury towards The Dazzlings. He was now seeing just how much of a threat the three of them could be. He barely even noticed that his armour was starting to fade as he performed an H-Bomb with his two fists, smashing The Dazzlings down to the earth. He watched as they bounced back up upon impacting the ground, so he dealt them another powerful punch, sending them flying out of the hurricane. The Dazzlings finally let out screams at this point. They'd never been aware that Silenzel was capable of such power. Their screams were quickly silenced when they took a lightning bolt towards their backs. Their agony was only intensified as they were launched back inside the hurricane, landing on top of a flying church with such force that they smashed through the roof and landed inside the construct. They quickly unfurled their wings and flew up to the roof of the church, grabbing onto the roof, seeing as going any farther would mess up their flight once again. They pulled themselves up and stood on the roof, with Silenzel giving them a rather sinister glare. They took a quick look at the area around them, and saw that if their jumps were good enough, they would be able to find a path straight to Silenzel's other orb. Seeing an opportunity, they nodded at each other and made their own ways across the levitating maelstrom of debris that surrounded the deity from Euphoria. As Silenzel watched The Dazzlings moving all around him, he shot a glance back at Twilight and Sunset. Seeing that one of his hands was free, he used it to grab the two girls, holding them hostage. He held his two captives up and began brandishing them as weapons, if The Dazzlings got close to his other orb. Adagio used her fingers to motion Aria and Sonata to go and save Twilight and Sunset, whilst she headed for the second orb. Once she saw her Furen sisters take a bold leap of faith at the hand with Twilight and Sunset, she took a bold leap of her own towards Silenzel's other orb. Aria and Sonata used a powerful co-ordination of sword swings to cut off Silenzel's scales, making him howl in pain and open up his hand. Seeing that Twilight and Sunset had just been dropped, they took another leap of faith and attempted to grab onto them before they hit the ground. Whilst Adagio kept on hacking away at Silenzel's second orb, she watched as Aria and Sonata freed Twilight and Sunset, and saw the four of them hurtling towards the earth below. She kept on dealing slashes, in an attempt to weaken Silenzel's power and hopefully end his insanity. With another powerful string of combos, Adagio did a final vertical slash that not only destroyed Silenzel's second orb, but gave him a large cut on the palm of his right hand. She leapt off of his second hand after that and dashed down towards Aria, Sonata, Twilight and Sunset. She showed a rather serious face, knowing that she was not going to lose her family and friend at this moment in time. Letting out a scream, she became enveloped in a red aura and dashed towards the others like a meteor. Adagio quickly scooped up the falling girls seconds before they ended up as pancakes. Once she had a good grip, she returned them to another platform, and watched her attacks on Silenzel bear fruit. Silenzel's hands were now bare, and his armour broke up like shattered glass, falling on the hurricane he'd created. He could barely watch as all the shattered pieces of his impenetrable defense were now caught up in the middle of his own storm. Silenzel roared, intensifying his own storm by a large margin. Upon this, he saw a large number of vehicles of all shapes and sizes were entering the game. Trains, planes, and automobiles were all caught up in his violent tempest. There were even a few tankers full of explosive petrol. Truly, his seething rage was unquenchable. He'd never been this angry in his life. The Dazzlings watched as he took a train made out of fifty cars and slung it straight at them, door first. They all jump-kicked through the door of the front car and dashed forward through all the other cars with such unrelenting speed. They used their swords to cut their way through the sealed doors, leaving nothing spared as they eventually used the train to get up close to Silenzel. They leapt out of the train, yelling a battle cry as they drove their heels straight into his face. Their kicks actually knocked Silenzel backwards, weakening the storm and slowing down the winds. Then, they kicked a massive piece of flying debris right at his face, and leapt up on it before it impacted him. Whilst riding their debris, The Dazzlings dealt a powerful string of slashes to Silenzel's face, cutting parts of it open. Finally, with a powerful string of kicks, sword swings, and debris that Silenzel had brought for them, The Dazzlings finally watched Silenzel's pendant crack. Seeing this, they leapt backwards and landed safely on another piece of the road, so they could begin their final attack. "Eeeeee kirindre melzrek galga!" The Dazzlings said, painting another archaic symbol with their movements. However, before using their streams to call on another being of Euphoria, they put their hands together, amplifying the stream's power to a phenomenal extent. As their eyes shone red once more, their new beast came forth. Just like with Courageour, the skies turned red as blood, indicating that a Furen had been called. Even the very maelstrom itself had the clouds turn from black to red. From the red skies, a massive woman with six arms descended into the maelstrom. Two arms were purple, two were blue, and the other two were golden. The purple and blue arms grabbed onto Silenzel's ankles and wrists tightly, pulling with such force that it made the deity scream in agony. Whislt it was trying to dislocate Silenzel's limbs, the last two hands began punching his face in repeatedly. As the punches came faster and faster, the giant blue crystal cracked even more. And once Silenzel's face was grotesquely beaten up enough, the giant woman brought her free arms up and dealt an H-Bomb straight through Silenzel's skull and body. As the monster took this final assault, the arms and legs came off as well, breaking Silenzel up into a massive shower of destroyed body parts. The second Silenzel's pendant was destroyed by this final attack, the woman disappeared and the hurricane instantly died down to a gentle summer's breeze. The Dazzlings carefully flew Twilight and Sunset back onto the ground as they prepared to give Silenzel's corpse the final word. They watched as a series of cars, destroyed pieces of the road, and even a few houses crashed down into the earth, breaking up within seconds of landing. The Dazzlings then saw a falling tanker and got a wonderful idea. They leapt up, kicked the tanker, and smashed it right into Silenzel's remains, letting the petrol leak out as he let out his defeated words. "It seems like you truly ARE the fabled Right Souls of Fury after all..." Silenzel said as his disembodied lips began to move in the midst of all the splattered body parts. "Forgive me for claiming you were infidels, Dazzlings..." "That's alright. We get that a lot these days." Sonata let out a little smile as she awaited the next part. "Rather cold out here, isn't it?" Adagio said through wet hair as she and the other Dazzlings raised their swords and dealt the final blow. "You don't mind if we turn up the heat now, do you?" The Dazzlings threw their swords straight through the tanker, causing it to explode with such force that Silenzel's corpse now became a gigantic bonfire. Whilst this was happening, Adagio, Aria and Sonata found a bag of marshmallows, opened it up, and stuck the marshmallows on sticks, so that they were roasting them over the fires of their fallen opponent. After taking a few bites of their marshmallows, The Dazzlings walked away from the giant bonfire of body parts, still nibbling on the last pieces as the archaic seal from before arose at the feet of the fire. Many hands grabbed onto the fire, not even fazed by the extreme temperatures. They proceeded to pull Silenzel downwards towards Dystopia, enabling him to say his last words. "May Allure, The Siren King, grant you the power to silence all of your foes!" he screamed before he was finally dragged downwards into the seal, where the beings of Dystopia would have their way with him. Once the seal finally disappeared, The Dazzlings were pulled into a massive hug, courtesy of Sunset and Twilight. They'd been through some rather tough times in the past, but now that they were being commended for their actions, they let out big smiles once Twilight and Sunset gave them their affection. "I think we should go ahead and tell the people that it's alright to come back into the city now," Sonata said, looking at a column of smoke in the distance, where people would no doubt be camping. "You don't want to be in a tent too long, believe me..." "Tell me about it..." Twilight smiled as the five girls walked away from all the wreckage to tell the people that it was now safe to return to the city. "If I had to spend another night listening to Rainbow Dash's campfire stories, I might just have ended up calling it quits altogether." Whilst the five girls all shared a laugh, The Blasters were stood on top of a part of the city that hadn't been destroyed by Silenzel's rampage. They watched The Dazzlings from afar, seeing that their right sides were now blanketed in a demonic aura. "Another failure..." Fortissimo said, with a rather unimpressed tone in his voice. "It seems like the deities of Euphoria can no longer serve our purposes..." "Granted, we can still summon them, but they're just not seeming to tame The Dazzlings..." Allegro said, seeing all the mess that Silenzel had caused, in a failed attempt to subdue Adagio, Aria and Sonata. "So now what do we do, Fortissimo?" Orchestral said, looking at his rather angry leader with a concerned look in his eyes. "If we can't capture The Dazzlings with our monsters, what else can we do?" "Simple, Orchestral..." Fortissimo's sinister smile returned as he grew a rather angelic aura on his left side, seeing his comrades do the same. "The Dazzlings are the Right Souls of Fury. We do not necessarily need them. We just need their undying power of the Furen way..." "But how do you propose on acquiring that level of power, Fortissimo?" Allegro asked, seeing no clear route to where their leader was going with this. "Even if we acquire nothing but petty arguments from these miserable other species, it still won't be enough to acquire the Right Souls of Fury. They're linked to The Dazzlings, nothing else. As if it is their birthmark, in a way..." "While they are linked to our little sisters, that still doesn't mean we can't take them from them..." Fortissimo said. "After all, we Lyrican Sirens have power beyond anything they've ever seen so far. The Fall Formal incident... The Battle Of The Bands assault... none of them will ever be considered an attack ever again once our plan is set in motion..." "No... We plan on making a new era of history, by destroying all free will that these miserable life-forms were ever given..." he said as a portal opened up behind the three of them, enabling them to head back to Lyrica and plan their next move. "And to do that, we shall continue to test our little sisters. But this time..." The Blasters' eyes shone red and blue as they stepped backwards through the portal. "We shall do it, with our own hands..."