Later that afternoon...
"Who were those figures?" Twilight asked The Dazzlings once they were back on their soft, comfortable beds once more. Since the recent attack on the school, The Dazzlings had to have been held off of the educational system until there was a reasonable explanation for what had happened back there.
"Not even we know, ok?!" Aria said, flustered at the fact that Twilight had asked for names now. She and The Dazzlings had no idea how to respond to that question, seeing as the five figures didn't give out their names before, during, or after the fight. "They just said that we were the ones that their masters were after, alright?"
"Hold on a second, Twilight..." Sunset grew concerns upon stockpiling all this information. She knew exactly where this was going, and dreaded Twilight's reactions to it. "There are five of those figures, right? You lost five pony friends..."
"Yeah, so what does that have-" Twilight's eyes widened at that logic. She could finally piece it all together. The five figures' reasons for keeping their identities secret. They were her Equestria friends that had been defeated and brainwashed by The Blasters. "No... You don't mean..."
"I think those five figures that attacked The Dazzlings were your friends from Equestria, Twilight..." Sunset said, putting a hand on Twilight's shoulders.
"You're saying that my pony friends were turned into Furen Sirens?!" Twilight exclaimed, throwing her arms out to the sides for added drama.
"I'm afraid so..." Sunset turned towards The Dazzlings once more. "But the real problem here, is convincing Adagio, Aria and Sonata here to tell the Furen girls apart from their real aunties..."
"Those figures also left behind a riddle for the three of us to answer..." Adagio said, raising a finger to point out another vital piece of information.
"Oh? What did they tell you girls?" Sunset got closer and kneeled down towards them, her ears perked up and ready to receive another philosophical riddle from The Blasters and their Furen apprentices.
"It's still only been a few hours since the battle, but we can still remember it off by heart..." Adagio cleared her throat and began reciting the riddle that she'd received earlier. "Come the resurrection, three Furens were reborn. But they could only survive off others' scorn. They travelled Equestria, spreading spite and hatred. But they were soon stopped by Starswirl The Bearded..."
"Starswirl..." Twilight remembered that Starswirl played a critical role in all of this as well. Had it not been for his impetus, Equestria wouldn't have been spared from the Balance of Lyrica's cold judgement.
"Trapped in new vessels with impure magic, they started a feud that became quite tragic..." Aria added on, her face turning into a rather guilt ridden one. Since she and her two Furen sisters were a part of this lore, it implied that the three of them had been badly behaved...
"A Battle Of The Bands was the game to attract. But for The Dazzlings, twas their last act..." Sonata said, hiding a part of her face in her hair. She and the other Dazzlings knew now that they'd done something despicable in their past, but still couldn't piece it all together.
Suddenly, The Dazzlings put their hands on their temples and clutched tightly in pain. Another ancient memory was starting to resurface. Hopefully, this one shed some insight on their darker past...
As the moving memory began to resurface, The Dazzlings let out another scream as the screens returned once more. Sunset and Twilight watched as the moving memory began to resurface...
Ten Years Ago...
The moon hung in the sky like a mystical orb, illuminating the streets below. like a majestic flashlight. That didn't distract Twilight and Sunset from what was happening next.
Inside a particular café, everyone seemed like they were seething with anger for one another. Negative conflicts built up as everyone expressed their hatred for one another. Whilst all this was going on, three shady figures sat at the end of the café, singing a rather familiar chorus over all of this spite.
Twilight and Sunset immediately saw The Dazzlings, garbed in hooded coats, singing the chorus that structured the first song they sang to the kids of CHS together. They could see now that they took in negative energy as the conflicts died down in the end.
That was barely worth the effort, Adagio," Aria said, unhooding herself once the singing had finished. Sonata did the same, but only a short while afterwards. "I'm tired of fast-food. I need a meal."
"The energy in this world isn't the same as in Equestria," Adagio explained to her two tainted colleagues as he too revealed her true face. She looked rather sympathetic whilst she explained why they were devouring conflicts in a small, isolated place. "We can only gain so much power here..."
"Uggh! I wish we'd never been banished to this awful place..." Aria muttered, her expressions as lifeless and cold-hearted as could be.
"Really? I love it here!" Adagio said in a little fit of sarcasm as she forced a small grin, but immediately shed it afterwards.
"For realsies?" Sonata asked. "Because I think this place is the worst!"
"I think you're the worst, Sonata..." Aria deadpanned upon hearing her Furen sister's remark.
"Oh yeah?" Sonata spoke, as if trying to provoke Aria even further. "Well I think you're-"
"Uggh..." Adagio groaned as she put the palm of her hand to her face. Little did she know that a sudden storm was brewing outside. "I'll tell you one thing; being stuck with you two isn't making this world any. More. Bearable..."
Suddenly, a pillar of darkness rose up from outside, immediately catching Adagio's attention. Gazing at the massive influx of dark magic, she dashed outside, with Aria and Sonata close behind her. Then she watched a rather otherworldly display going on before her eyes.
A spiral of rainbow-coloured magic flew up after that, slamming down on the exact spot where the dark magic had risen, causing a massive column of Equestrian Magic to sprout upwards from that position. As the lights faded, Adagio's pendant resonated, causing the Furen Siren to let out a little gasp.
"Did you feel that?" she told herself, still trying to comprehend what had happened there. Soon, she got a valid answer, causing a devilish smile to grow from her lips. "Do you know what that is?"
Aria and Sonata didn't give any verbal answers. Sonata merely shrugged.
"It's Equestrian Magic!" Adagio said, tightly clutching Aria's shoulders as she got right up to her Furen sister's face.
"But this world doesn't have Equestrian Magic!" Aria said, trying to get Adagio out of her face with a short little burst of practicality.
"It does now..." Adagio relinquished her grasp on Aria and turned towards where all those lights had risen up. "And we're going to use it to make EVE£RYONE in this pathetic little world, adore us..."
Present Day...
The moving memory stopped, returning all five of the girls back to reality. They looked at each other in their current states, all sighing in relief once they saw that everyone was still okay.
"What was that about?" Aria asked, still unable to comprehend the memory that she and the other Dazzlings had undergone. Sure it was one of her old memories, but not even she could have guessed that one.
"That must have been when you three were tainted by the resurrection..." Twilight said, explaining to The Dazzlings why they'd acted so dark and mysterious in that memory. "So the three of you came to Canterlot High School, because of what we did?"
"I don't really know what you're talking about, Auntie Twilight..." Sonata said, still unable to piece together what Twilight was saying at this moment in time. What do you mean, because of what you did?"
"I've had a rather undesirable past, girls..." Sunset said, telling the girls as simply as she could why those rainbow lights had gone off. "I was a rather large jerk until Twilight came to CHS. My actions deemed me worthy of imprisonment, the way I pushed everyone around and split them up."
"That wouldn't have been so bad, if my dark desires hadn't turned me into a demon of the darkness, complete with wings and burning hair..." Sunset said, recalling on some of the most undesirable of her memories.
"You became a Power from Dystopia, right?" Adagio said, saying that Sunset's demon side bore a striking resemblance to one of the monsters that Adagio was remembering along with her other returning memories.
"Yeah, I guess you could say that... Sunset sighed, remembering how dark and sadistic she was when she became a demon and threatened Equestria with her dark powers.
"So the reason The Dazzlings came to Canterlot High was because of our little fight?" Twilight turned to Sunset, who now showed rather deep sympathy for Twilight. Now that that memory had been revealed to Twilight and Sunset, they were both feeling rather sorry for themselves. Their actions brought The Dazzlings to CHS, thus starting this chain of events that were still unfurling around them.
"I'm sorry, Twilight..." Sunset said, immediately sinking her face into her hands once again. All this madness was caused by her hand alone. She was the one who proved dark magic, and that brought a new threat to their attention. "If only we'd known..."
"Hey, it's alright, Sunset..." Twilight put one of her hands on Sunset's shoulders to help ease herself out of all the stress she was now feeling. "It wasn't your fault that CHS got attacked again. It was all down to fate."
"Are you sure about that, Twilight?" Sunset asked, still unsure whether or not Twilight was actually speaking the truth this time, or whether or not she was just trying to calm her down.
"Hey. I've seen many things just happen out of the blue like that," she began, easing Sunset out of her depression with some of her wise logic. "Sometimes things just happen, and we're not expected to know them. Don't stress over the unknown, just brace for it. After all, I've been preparing for the unknown to happen many times, and sometimes things worked out differently then initially intended."
"So, if that was one piece of our past, what about the rest of it?" Sonata asked, breaking Twilight and Sunset out of their little bondage moment once they found a gap in their conversation for her words to squeeze into.
"Well, can you remember the rest of it, Sonata?" Twilight asked, kneeling down towards the Furen child. "Of course, if you can't remember any more of your darker past, then maybe that's the best choice in the matter..."
"I think it'll just come back to us over time, Auntie Twilight..." Adagio said, reminding Twilight on how her returning memories were working for her and the rest of The Dazzlings. "I'll be sure to let you know if anything comes up..."
"Alright then, Adagio." Twilight smiled, tussling her long hair once more.
The five girls all made their way outside Musician's Delight and back into the corridor of the top floor, when they heard a little ding noise coming from Sunset's room. Twilight and The Dazzlings immediately saw Sunset walking into her room and watched as she picked up what looked like a computerized phone from her bedside table.
"Who is it?" Twilight asked, seeing Sunset was now pondering at the screen with a curious look on her eyes.
"It's the girls..." Sunset said, showing the little wall of chat bubbles to the rest of the girls. "It seems like one of the worst hurricanes in years is gonna bombard this city in a few hours..."
"A hurricane?!" Twilight looked completely panicked. She'd forgotten that she now had a human body since she was in the Human World. Without wings or magic, she was now panicking on how she could possibly survive a hurricane.
"That's no hurricane, Auntie Twilight..." Aria said as another memory began to return to her. It depicted a giant humanoid being with a dragon's head, a Blissen pendant around its' neck, and a hurricane spiral roaring around it. "That's one of the six deities of Euphoria; Silenzel, The Hurricane of Soundlessness..."
"Silenzel?" Sunset said, looking at Aria with a rather inquisitive look on her face.
"There are six deities of Euphoria that my brother always talked with before, during, and possibly after the war," Adagio began explaining as more and more memories of her Lyrican life began to return to her. "Courageour was one of them..."
"Do you remember the others?" Twilight asked once more as she picked up the books of Furen and Blissen once again.
"Yes. The six deities of Euphoria are Courageour, Silenzel, Obedium, Judgialze, Hierarxe, and Honous, riding his trusty steed, Chival..." Adagio said, reminding not only herself, but the rest of The Dazzlings on what they were up against. "They're the very entities that embody courage, silence, obedience, judgement, hierarchy, and heroism..."
"You can tell they're from Euphoria, because they wear giant blue pendants," Sonata went on, seeing more and more memories rush back into her mindset. "In short, they're all giants with blue gems draped around their necks..."
"So, Silenzel's coming to get the three of you?" Sunset asked as she got to the bottom of the stairs and looked outside at the blackening clouds.
"I think our brothers are getting tired of waiting, so they're going full-scale invasion, just to find us..." Aria said, seeing the black clouds almost instantaneously.
"If they wanted to see us, then why didn't they just come and find us after all the things we did at CHS?" Sonata said as she too saw the darkened sky outside. "I'm pretty sure that if you want to see someone, then you should just go for it. It works for daters, so it should have worked for our brothers..."
"Twilight! Have you found anything in the book of Blissen on Silenzel?" Sunset asked, seeing that Twilight was now buried into the pages of the book.
"I do have his capabilities in battle..." Twilight showed a picture of Silenzel in the book, as well as some text on the next page. "You might want to read this, girls..."
"It says here that while Silenzel is unarmed, his mere presence causes a massive hurricane to roar through whatever world he travels through..." Twilight said, giving a long story short description on the entity from Euphoria. "His hurricanes have been known to hit a minimum of 158 miles per hour, ripping anything up from its' position on the planet, so that he can use it to not only defend himself, but attack his opponents as well..."
"That's gonna be enough force to level the entire city, and leave at least a thousand people dead!" Sunset let out a little shocked gasp as she looked at all the facts and figures on Silenzel.
"I guess that The Blasters no longer care what befalls the other two species..." Twilight said, seeing a lighting bolt appear from the clouds.
The five girls then walked outside and stared at all of the black clouds, as if they were an omen of impending doom and destruction. If Silenzel was able to successfully annihilate the town, then that would leave The Dazzlings as the only survivors. And even if they were to survive that carnage, they then worried whether or not The Blasters would arrive and kick them whilst they were down.
Suddenly, something in Adagio's mind clicked, and she got a rather serious look of action on her face. She pulled out her sword, which resonated brightly in the midst of the storm ahead of them.
"We have to fight him..." Adagio said to herself, loud enough to alert all of the girls to her words.
"You'll be up against the most destructive force of nature ever experienced, Adagio..." Twilight said, reminding Adagio and The Dazzlings on how intense this next fight would be for the three of them.
"I know, Twilight!" Adagio said shooting a rather unamused glare back at her. "I do go to school, you know. We are starting to learn these things..."
"Alright then, just letting you know how dangerous this next fight is..." Twilight said, returning to her own mindset as she returned her gaze to the stormy skies ahead of her.
"Anyways, if we fight this thing and win, then the hurricane will instantly die down, and the city will be saved!" Aria said, thinking on what would happen if Silenzel were to perish in combat. "Granted, there will be some property damage, but I'm sure this world's dealt with hurricanes before..."
"Come on, girls... We've got a date with destiny!" Sunset said, running down the roads to the heart of the city, where the girls would have to deal with some of the most destructive wind they'd ever see in their lives. She looked back for a brief moment and saw that Twilight and The Dazzlings were right behind her.
The five of them showed serious looks as they ran towards the most open space in the city, where Silenzel would be waiting for the five of them. They watched as all the other humans were swiftly and orderly being evacuated from the city by advanced military forces, but they ignored that and ran towards the storm...
"Run, Dazzlings..." Fortissimo said as he watched his orb once more with a rather sinister smile. He was all alone this time, seeing as Allegro and Orchestral were nowhere to be seen, and his Siren 5 were absent as well. "It's time for you three to be reacquainted with Mother Nature..."