The party lasted til ten o’clock at night. The girls didn’t have school the following day so it was ok if they stayed out late. Once the party was finally over, Applejack took them home in her truck. Sunset was sitting in the front seat as Rarity was in the back being squished in with the sirens against the window. She was very unhappy about being packed in the back like a can of sardines. Applejack said she could sit in the tail gate if she wanted to. But she refused to sit in the tail gate with Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Rainbow like some wild child as she put it.
Applejack soon dropped off the sirens first at the Alternative House. The trio said their goodbyes and left. Rainbow and Fluttershy jumped into the back with Rarity. Pinkie Pie on the other hand stayed in the back loving the wind in her hair. Applejack then drove off to drop the other girls off at their respective homes.
Rainbow Dash leaned up from her seat. “Ok Sunset. What’s this plan of yours? They really are hiding something from us.”
“I agree with Rainbow Dash. No make-up in the world makes you look so.. Icky.” Rarity said fixing her hair.
“Yeah. Adagio was lying through her teeth like the time Applebloom ate the last plate of cake and tried to blame it on Wynona.” Applejack added.
“Yeah. Tomorrow morning lets all visit them. And try to get to the bottom of it.” Sunset said with a concerned look on her face. “That is all we can hope to do. I am worried about Sonata and the other two. I can’t help but think this might be linked to their gems.”
“You mean those tacky things around their necks that we destroyed?” Rarity asked.
“Yeah didn’t they feed off of our negative energy or sumthin?” Applejack added confused as to what Sunset was getting at.
“Yeah but.. Maybe that’s how they feed. Like eating.” Sunset replied.
“Oh no. You mean they might be starving to death?” Fluttershy asked with worry in her eyes.
“But wait, they look strange not.. Hungry.” Rainbow added.
“I’m not sure. Lets just wait til tomorrow.” Sunset replied. “At the moment, I can’t think of anything until I know more about this. Like I said it might be linked to the gems that we destroyed weeks ago. I just hope they are ok.”
Sunset lowered her head with a worried look. As the girls sat in silence Applejack looked in her rear view mirror. She grunted as she rolled down her window.
“PINKIE STOP MOONING!!” Applejack said yelling out the window.
It was the next day as the three sirens were awake. The girls were getting dressed and getting their clothes packed. Adagio had told Sonata that they were going for a trip. Sonata was confused at this because she knew they only had one day off school. So Adagio made up a lie saying that Principal Celestia gave them time off for being such good students. Sonata was happy to hear that she was such a good student. But didn’t understand how Aria was a “good” Student due to her grades being C’s. Aria just flipped Sonata off for the smart remark and continued packing.
As the girls were finished packing they put on their hoodies. Just as Adagio was about to open the door Twist woke up and asked where they were going. Aria told her it was none of her business and to go back to bed. Twist looked over to Sonata and put her glasses on to see her better only to be shocked.
“Oh my gosth Sthonata!” Twist said in horror.
“What? Do I have something on my face?” Sonata asked confused touching her face.
“No.. Your um.. Make-up looksth like it’sth decaying.” Twist replied with disgust. “All of you galsth make-up doesth.
“What?” Sonata asked feelings hurt.
“Twist doesn’t mean that Sonata haha..” Adagio said putting up her hoodie and trying to comfort her fellow siren. “She just has something on her glasses.”
“Yeah isn’t that right ginger?” Aria said glaring at Twist, cracking her knuckles.
“Ah yesth sthorry It’sth justht my glassesth.” Twist answered afraid of Aria. “You galsth look pretty.”
Sonata was still confused as to why her pasty skinned roommie would say something so mean. She even started to think about yesterday at all the weird stares the students gave her and her two friends. She dwelled on it as the three girls started walking out the room. As the girls were about to leave Ms. Harshwinny called them.
“Excuse me Ms. Adagio. Where might you be going this early?” Ms. Harshwinny said with her face looking like she just had botox injected.
“Oh we are going to the Diamond D Mall Ms. Harshwinny we will be back later today at five.” Adagio said.
“With hoodies on in ninety degree weather?” Ms. Harshwinny asked with a raised eyebrow.
“Yeah. We are in a flash mob. But we don’t have trench coats so we are going to just use our hoodies.” Adagio replied back not removing her hood.
“Hmmm.. Ok fine. Don’t get into any trouble.” Ms. Harshwinny said walking away. “*sigh* teenagers these days.”
The three sirens started walking. As they were, Sonata noticed that Adagio was going the wrong way. She asked her why were they going this way. Adagio told the blue siren that they were going to the train station. Sonata was even more confused than ever now. The girl stopped walking and just stood on the sidewalk with her head down. Adagio and Aria noticed this and turned to face her.
“Sonata. We are going on a trip. We can go to the mall any time.” Adagio said trying to convince her fellow siren to come with her.
“Adagio.. I know you're hiding something. You're not telling me because you think it will hurt me.” Sonata said sniffling. “What you don’t realize is that it hurts me more when you leave me out of these things.”
“Sonata we don’t have time for this.” Aria said trying to be stern with her.
“No.. I can’t. Something is up and I want to know Adagio. I’m not that stupid.” Sonata was saying as she rubbed her eyes of tears. “People have been acting strange and Twist said we looked disgusting. On top of that this whole trip seems like a lie.”
“Sonata please understand it’s not that easy to explain.” Adagio said approaching her.
“I don’t want to go on any trip, not until you tell me what you're hiding Adagio!” Sonata demanded with tears flowing down her face.
Aria stood in shock as she witnessed for the first time in her life Sonata raising her voice up at Adagio. Even Adagio was shocked by this. Sonata then asked Adagio what was going on again. The yellow siren didn’t answer. Sonata then turned and ran away. Adagio called her name as the blue siren ran. Both Adagio and Aria chased after her. After running after Sonata they soon lost sight of her. The two sirens were out of breath and soon stopped.
“That ditz... is really fast..” Aria said out of breath. “Where could... she have gone?”
Adagio leaned on the wall catching her breath thinking of where she could have gone to. “I got it.”
“Oh my gosh Maud look!” Pinkie Pie yelled pointing her finger at the bottle of hand lotion. “I have found the bottle of hand lotion that I needed for some reason.”
“Mmmhmm you still could have gone to the Dollar store.” Maud said drinking her soda showing no expression on her face.
“Yeah but I just had a feeling. A feely kind of feeling that made me feel feelish.” Pinkie said grabbing the hand lotion and walking to the counter to pay for it. “I needed to buy this hand lotion from this mall for a reason that I can not even begin to fathom or the balance of the universe will come undone.”
“Hmm.” Maud said as she just looked around to see anything that sparked her interest. She looked outside the window and saw a girl with a hoodie on walking by. "Hey isn’t that one of your siren friends?"
Pinkie turned to see who Maud was pointing to. Sure enough outside walking away from the store was a girl in a hoodie. “Oh my gosh yes! And by the looks of it. It’s Sonata and she is sad.”
“How do you know?” Maud asked. “They all have hoodies.”
“Maud we've been sisters since forever. You should know that I know all my friends from height, weight, fashion etc. I know what all my friends look like down to a T or a P hehe.”
Sonata was walking into the mall. She wanted to be happy but just couldn’t. She needed to get away from Adagio and Aria and be alone by herself. She had no clue what was going on. As the sad siren was walking, she went by a lotion store and headed her way to the food court to sit down. She pulled out a chair and sat feeling worse than she had in a long time. She placed her head onto the table and started to cry. She was scared that she would lose her friends because of this thing that was happening. Her tears were short lived as she felt a tapping on her shoulder. She lifted her head up to see Pinkie Pie standing before her. She tried to hide her face not wanting Pinkie to be disgusted.
“Hi Duskie. Are you ok?” Pinkie asked with a huge smile on her face. “Can I help turn that frown upside down?”
“..Sorry Pinkie. But I don’t want you to see my ugly face.” Sonata sniffed.
“Ugly? Sonata you're not ugly, you're the prettiest blue siren I know. Well the only blue Siren I know.” Pinkie replied with a sad look on her face.
“F-for real? You won’t look at me disgusted?” Sonata asked nervously.
“Me and Maud, Pinkie promise. Cross our hearts, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in our eye.” Pinkie replied with a weak smile.
Sonata let out a sigh afraid of what was about to come. The girl lifted her head to face Pinkie and Maud. She grabbed her hood and brought it down with her eyes closed, ready for them to say she was gross. After five seconds of nothing she opened her eyes to see Pinkie smiling at her and Maud, well Maud had no expression on her face as always. “You're not sickened by me?” Sonata asked confused.
“No. I mean you do look different but I don’t care. You’re my friend and your looks don’t matter to me.” Pinkie said hugging Sonata.
“Th-thank you Pinkie. That makes me feel much better.” Sonata said hugging her back. “But.. What about you?”
“I’m not into judging people like other shallow girls.” Maud said still not changing her expression. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.”
Sonata was shocked to hear that Pinkie nor her sister Maud were sickened by her appearance. Pinkie sat down in front of her siren friend.
“But what is up with that make-up though?” Pinkie asked confused. “Not even Rarity’s cheap make-up looks that bad.”
“This isn’t make-up.” Sonata replied. “Adagio is hiding a secret and she won’t tell me. I want to get to the bottom of it. But neither she nor Aria will tell me.”
“Well here’s your chance.” Maud said pointing her finger behind Sonata. “They are coming this way.”
“Oh wow Maud your good at finding people today.” Pinkie said with a smile.
The other two Sirens approached the table. Pinkie waved at the two and asked them to join. Adagio declined the girl’s offer and asked Sonata to come with them. Sonata looked down at the table not wanting to go with them away from her other friends. She looked up and asked where they were going. Adagio instead of lying decided to be truthful.
“Ok Sonata. You want the truth, fine.” Adagio said with a sigh. “What is happening is the curse is coming back. The curse that will make us ugly. So that is why it’s best to get out of town before we are chased out.”
“Thats not true. Me and Maud still like Sonata even though she has this curse thingy.” Pinkie said to Adagio. “And we will never chase her out of town. I’m sure the other girls will feel the same way. So you don’t have to leave town.”
“It’s not that easy. Beside you two are just TWO people out of the entire town.” Aria barked.
“Well I’m sure the girls can help if you let us Adagio?” Pinkie told the yellow siren.
“Yeah. Adagio. Please let’s try to see if they can help.” Sonata pleaded. “That’s what friends do for each other. They help you no matter what.
Adagio rolled her eyes as she was getting tired of the conversation. She by no means wanted to ask Sunset - the same person who got her into this predicament - for help. She wanted to hurry and get out of town before the curse got any worse. Besides She knew that not even her friends could save them from this fate. “Sorry but no. They can’t help us. It would be best to just get out of town now.”
“You can’t always run from your problems Adagio. Sometimes you are going to have to face them.” Maud said drinking her soda.
“Yes. I think we should ask Sunset to help us.” Sonata said with a pouty lip.
“Really? Sonata you keep talking about how they are such good friends. And how they are always going to stand by your side. Well Sonata. Where are they? Where is the has been and her friends to shower us with the magic of frikin friendship?” Adagio asked starting to get annoyed with all the friendship nonsense.
“Coming right now.” Maud said pointing behind Adagio as the rest of the main six girls were walking out of Minty’s Secret.
“Hehe yeah I texted Sunset where Sonata was and she must have texted the other girls to come here to the mall as well.” Pinkie squeed.
“You gotta be kidding me.” Adagio said with a sigh.
Sunset and the other girls were walking toward them. She was looking right at Adagio who still had her hoodie up. She couldn’t see the yellow siren’s face. But she did look over to see Sonata sitting at the table with worry in her eyes. As the girls came to the table Rarity made a look of shock. This in turn made Sonata worry that her friends were going to turn against her like Adagio said.
“Oh I’m sorry darling. It’s just the.. Um make-up is ruining your beauty.” Rarity said trying to comfort her.
“So.. You think I’m ugly then?” Sonata asked. “Guess you don’t want to be friends anymore.”
“Darling no. I’m your friend no matter what sweetie. Regardless of your looks.” Rarity replied.
“Yeah we all are Dusk.” Rainbow added with a smile.
“Darn tootin Sugarcube.” Applejack remarked.
“Yeah. We love you no matter what Sonata. Oh and even you Adagio and Aria...um if it’s ok with you.” Fluttershy said nervously.
“Well isn’t friendship just magical? I think I’m gonna puke.” Aria said getting disgusted.
Sunset looked at Adagio with a mad expression on her face. “Listen Adagio. Let us help you please. What ever is going on we can help. Or at least try.”
Adagio looked back at Sunset. “Why do you want to help us so much has been?”
“Because.. That’s what friends do.” Sunset replied.
Adagio gritted her teeth and clenched her fist. She couldn’t stand the idea of being friends with anyone. Especially the one who destroyed her gems. “Listen has been. We are NOT-“ Adagio stopped as she felt a hand grabbing her arm. She looked down to see Sonata with tears in her eyes.
“Please Adagio. Tell us what’s going on. I’m scared.” Sonata pleaded.
The yellow siren looked deep into the teary siren’s eyes. Even though she had no problems telling Sonata she was an idiot from time to time, the one thing that made her cold heart hurt was to see tears in her eyes. She let out a sigh and looked back at Sunset. “Ok Sunset. You win. We will tell you what is going on.”
The girls all went to a much bigger table so they could sit. Maud didn’t wish to be apart of the group because she felt that this wasn’t for her to be concerned about. That this was only for them alone. She went to Hot Topic to get a rock band T-Shirt. Pinkie waved to her older sister as she turned her attention to Adagio. All the girls were looking at the Siren trio ready to know what was wrong. Adagio and Aria let down their hoods revealing to them the curse.
“Ok Sunset. When you destroyed our gems two weeks ago, The Siren’s Curse came back.” Adagio said.
“Oh no.. a-are you going to starve?” Fluttershy asked with worry in her eyes.
“No. What gave you that idea? We're not changelings. We feed off of negative energy to grow stronger and break the curse.” Aria said crossing her arms.
“We needed those gems to feed off of negative energy to keep the curse away. It’s basically your faults.” Adagio said looking at Sunset.
“Hey we're not the ones who were trying to take over our school. You deserved it!” Rainbow added.
“Yes. Couldn’t you girls put on make-up or maybe get plastic surgery?” Rarity asked.
“It’s a CURSE. Meaning no matter what make-up we use or plastic surgery we get, the curse will shine through.” Adagio replied ignoring Rainbow’s comment.
“So wait you had to feed off of our hate to hide the curse? Applejack asked.
“That’s right cowgirl.” Aria replied.
“But wait, the legend said you Sirens were evil beings that fed off of negative energy and tried to conquer Equestria.” Sunset said.
“Evil isn’t born Bacon Head. It’s made.” Aria said.
“Yeah but you wanted the world to admire you.” Sunset added.
“Do you have any idea what it’s like to be us pretty little unicorn? Huh? “Adagio asked glaring at Sunset. “You have no idea how hard it is being a siren. To live in a world with pretty little ponies. Even Changelings looked at us in disgust. When we discovered our gift we had no choice but to use it. Just so we could be LOVED! Like every other creature in Equestria. It isn’t our fault that we turned evil. No it’s your kinds fault.
“Thats terrible. I thought ponies where nice?” Fluttershy said.
“In truth. It wasn’t ponies that made us evil.” Adagio said.
“Huh, then who did?” Sunset asked.
“Maybe it would be best to start from the beginning darling? You know to better understand how you came to be.” Rarity added.
“Fine you want to know the story of the sirens? Ok then.” Adagio asked.
The girls all nodded because they wanted to know the true origin of the sirens.