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// Two Sides Of The Same Story 
// Story: After The Song 
// by BioQuillFiction 
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We were all sitting in the living room/kitchen of Aria's apartment. Twilight, Applejack, Rarity and I were sitting on the couch, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie where sitting on the floor and Aria sat on a metal fold out chair. "So first before I tell my story I know that Twilight knew what we were when she got here, so what did you read on us?"

We all looked over to Twilight. "Well the book said that you were three majestic creatures and..."

"Wait, wait, wait. Majestic? Your book called us majestic?"

"Yes."

Aria began laughing for a few seconds, then quickly stopped with a smile on her face. "We were anything but majestic. When we changed from..."

I interrupted. "Changed?"

"I was getting to that. We changed from ponies to sirens..." Pinkie Pie gave out an unneeded gasp, but I’ll admit we all had a look of shock on our faces.

"So wait? You three were ponies but became sirens, how?" Twilight asked.

"The pendants. Their dark magic over times changed us from a Pegasus, unicorn and earth pony into three sirens."

"Who was what?" Rainbow blurted out.

"Well I was the Pegasus, Adagio was an earth pony and Sonata was the unicorn. Can I go back to the story now?"

"Yeah."

"Anyhow we were fifteen when we found the pendants. We wondered off into the Everfree Forest."

Twilight and I shouted out simultaneously. "The Everfree forest!"

"Yeah." Aria chuckled a bit. "We were warned but we were fifteen and didn't have our cutie marks so we got desperate." Arias voice changed to a shaky sad tone. "Do you know what happens to fillies who don't have their cutie marks at age sixteen a thousand years ago in Equestria!?" We all shook our heads. "They get put to work in a brothel house!"

"That's horrible!" Fluttershy shouted and continued to move over to me. "What’s a brothel house?"

"It uhh well..."

"It's a house full of prostitutes." Aria plainly said. Fluttershy’s face turned a bright red and covered all but her eyes with a nearby pillow. "We only had three to five months until our birthdays came and past. We were willing to do anything, even risk dying in a forest via strange magical beast. After about seven or eight hours passed we found this cave deep in the forest and inside was this chest that had the pendants in it. We put them on and at first nothing happened."

"At first?" I questioned.

"We didn't earn our cutie marks but as late as it was we headed back home. Days past before we noticed anything, we eventually noticed when some ponies were arguing there was a green mist around them."

"The negative energy."

"Yeah, at first we just thought it was pressure causing hallucinations, but when we saw it flow into the pendants we got curious. After a month passed we started noticing physical changes. Our ears started to grow pointed and spots on our coats were being replaced with scales. Soon we left our home out of fear of being burned at the stake. Witch craft was a common fear and we looked like what they assumed witches would be like."

"Assumed?"

"No pony ever saw really saw or caught a real witch so unicorns had to watch what spells they used."

"Well of course, there is no such thing as witches." Twilight blurted out.

“Yeah, Sonata lucked out only knowing one spell, levitation but that's beside the point. After we started changing we soon found out what the pendants did. Long story short when you run away from home one of the few things you do to pass the time is sing. After we found out what we could do the rest was history."

"That's it?"

"That's it, like I said the rest is history. You can read the rest in a history book in Equestria." Aria got up and walked over to the bedroom, checking on Silver Dust. "Still asleep, good" I saw Arias face when she said that, like she was relived. "Well then it's late, you girls should head back for some sleep."

Pinkie Pie yawned and helped some of the others that were sitting on the floor up and started walking out. Twilight and I were the last to leave. I stopped at the doorway for one last thing. "One last question Aria."

"What?"

"You were glad Silver Dust was asleep, that she didn't hear that story. You never told her about yourself before did you?"

Aria gave a heavy sigh and tapped her fingers on the door ready to close it. "She is the only thing in this world I care about. I love her and she loves me, if I told her what I was, what I did, she would see me as a monster."

"You don't know that Aria she's your daughter, how could she hate you if you've been nothing but kind?"

"What about you? It may not seem related but could you tell your family what happened, what you did, what you became! Would they still see you the same way?"

Aria and I stared at each other in silence. She closed the door and I walked back to the car wiping a small tear from my eye before I got to the car. Twilight greeted me. "Why did you take so long?"

"Just... nothing special." I got in the car and we drove off. "So what are we going to do now?"

"What do you mean?" Rainbow replied

"Well they are... were best friends before and after the pendants. We broke their pendants and their friendship. No matter how odd it was they fell apart we at least should find Sonata and Adagio and..."

"Oh no! We kicked their butts and no way are we putting those three back together!" Rainbow protested.

"What could they possibly do!? Aria has a daughter and she never told her about what happened! There is no way in hell that she would do anything bad that would reveal that!"

"How do you know!?"

"Because I asked her Rainbow!"

The car was silent. After a good twenty minutes Rainbow broke the silence. "Fine, but only in the name of friendship and because you would have gone off and done it alone, maybe got Twilight to help but that still wouldn't be enough." I smiled and felt glad that they were giving them a chance, a lot like they gave me a chance. It only took a push from a friend to get them going.