"Nobody ever takes the Mars option." Norm mumbled to himself as he parked the light blue sedan in the parking lot of the high school. "It's always some convoluted plot." The genie, currently disguised as a human, meaning he turned his tail into a set of legs and stopped floating, got out of the car, and was quickly followed by his three masters. They had changed out of the magically restored rags into some proper clothing, though they had complained that it was too plain and not their style. Well what did they expect? That he would magically know their styles and personal fashion choices? Well, yes. He could have gonged them up the perfect outfits for them all, in their styles and they would have loved it if he wanted to. But he didn't. So all three of them were wearing plain colored T-shirts and pants with white shoes and some necklaces that Adagio had wished up.
He tapped his foot impatiently as the three grabbed their bags from the back of the sedan. Honestly, what kind of semi-immortal wants to bother with school, even for revenge? After Adagio had come back from the kitchen, having forced Sonata and Aria to clean up the pots and pans that the two had somehow caused to fall over the floor, even though they were all safely stacked in a cabinet near the floor and had no reason to tumble out and all over the place, the girl had taken the time to explain to Norm their situation. They were sirens, from an parallel universe where everything was pretty much ponyfied that were banished by some wizard dude roughly a thousand years ago and had been causing mischief to maintain their powers while stuck in this human world. Oh, and they wanted revenge on a bunch of teenage girls, one of which is a pony princess, for foiling their attempt to drain the school of negative emotion through mind control and destroying their magical singing voice and turning them human.
Norm was laughing for a good ten minutes when she had finished.
"Well, what are we waiting for ladies? Let's get this show on the road." Norm began walking towards the school, the three following behind.
"Are you sure you know what to do?" Adagio whispered as they passed a group of girls sitting around a statue.
Norm snorted. "All I got to do is finalize your enrollment in this dump, it's not exactly rocket science kid." He ruffled her hair, ignoring her protests, "How hard could it be?"
Adagio was about to retort, when a woman's voice cut in.
"Excuse me," A woman with light blue skin and blue and purple hair walked up to the group, who were now standing in a hallway filled with trophy cases, "Are you Mr. MacDonald?"
Norm looked over at the woman and plastered a smile on his face, while Adagio walked back to her fellow sirens, swiping at Sonatas hand which had been making it's way towards her hair. "Yes Ma'am! And you must be Vice Principal Luna, I recognize your voice from the phone. Though I must say," He lowered his glasses, allowing his purple eye's to show over the rims, " I much prefer talking to you in person."
Luna shot him a flat look. "Yes, well, if you and your," She glanced suspicisly at the sirens standing behind Norm, who smiled at her innocently, "Daughters would follow me, we have a bit of paper work we need you to fill out before they will be allowed to attend class."
"Let's go, girls." Norm said as he followed the rather attractive Vice Principal.
The sirens nodded their consent and followed. Adagio had came up with the 'ingenious' plan for the sirens to act as though they were their human counterparts, while Norm posed as their father, so they could get into the school and learn more about their enemies. Norm wasn't a big fan of the idea, neither was Aria for that matter, but it wasn't exactly like he had a choice in the matter, not after Adagio had wished that he and Aria would follow her overly complicated and totally unnecessary plan.
Why couldn't she have chosen Mars?
Sure she could have just wished to know all of her enemies secrets, or for everyone to just accept the fact they were suddenly back in school, or even make them forget they ever left or why they were mad in the first place, but no. It has to be some over complicated plot full of chances for error and deceit. Honestly, the young and mortals have no common sense. Makes me glad I don't have kids. He shot a sidelong look at his young masters. Well, actual kids. I'm just glad she didn't wish for me to be their father and just that I would pretend I was for this stupid plan of hers. It would probably end with all of us embarrassed beyond belief.
"Here we are." Luna announced as they stopped in front of a door, "I must ask that your children stay outside as we finish the paper work. It should not take more than a few moments and I trust that they," She shot the teens a suspicious look, "Shall be able to stay out of trouble?"
Aria stepped forward, a pleasant smile on her face. "Of course, Vice Principal Luna. We would never dream of causing any trouble." Norm wondered how much it hurt Aria to act that nice. "Have a pleasant conversation, father."
Norm nodded, stepping into the office, Luna following a second later.
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"I think I'm going to hurl." Aria moaned after the door was completely shut. The normally sour siren put a hand to her stomach and the other against the wall, the act of being nice taking its toll on her.
"Oh suck it up."Adagio rolled her eyes at Aria's dramatics. "It can't be that bad acting even a little nice, and if it is your just going to have to buckle up and deal with it. You got to act that way through every class and social interaction in and around school for now."
"Don't remind me." Aria groaned as she sunk to the floor.
Sonata happily plopped down next to Aria, "Come on Aria, it can't be that bad! And if it is, just imagine all the horrible, mind numbing things you can wish for when it's your turn with Norm! That ought to cheer you up!" Sonata stared off into the distance and shivered, a look of horror and joy on her face, "I almost pity them." The look on the blue sirens face slightly unnerved Adagio, though her reminder that it was almost her turn with the genie did get a smirk from Aria.
"Your right for once, Sonata. It is almost my turn," Aria smirked, "And soon the world shall know my wrath!" The siren chuckled evilly, only to receive a smack to the head, courtesy of Adagio. The purple siren let out a yelp of pain. "What was that for?"
Adagio sent her an unamused look, "You were going all crazy again. And besides, we're still in the hall way, so get back in character."
Aria groaned, "I hate this plan."
"Hey!" A familiar and not at all welcome voice suddenly called out from down the hallway, "What are you three doing back here?" There, down the hallway and accompanied by the ever shy Fluttershy, was Rainbow Dash, and she did not look happy.
"Correction," Aria groaned, standing back up, "I really don't like this plan."
Ah Norm, the most competent, and the most forgotten of Turner's villains.
Honestly now, if he only twisted the lawyer wish to summon a a lawyer that ALWAYS left a loop hole in contracts, or one that wasn't as smart as him.... But, he was caught off guard, and didn't have enough time to think about it before he granted the wish
Part of Adagio's plan evidently involves being nice and being near the Rainbooms. Why do I get the feeling this whole thing is going to backfire in the form of genuine friendship starting to form between one or more of the Dazzlings and whoever they're trying to take revenge on at that moment, them realizing it, freaking out, and wishing themselves back to how they were, followed by similar events over and over until they realize the magic of friendship is more powerful than that of a genie's? Then Norm finds someone he doesn't despise (maybe even the trio themselves?) and all hope of even caring about vengeance anymore is lost!
Or not. Happy writing!
Look on the bright side, it's a step up from humans.
Time to put those centuries of acting class to work! Oh wait.
Send Rainbow Dash to Mars and I will favourite this story 20 times
Suddenly in math class, a student's calculator displays POOF and 2 pixies fly out of the calculator to meet the non-unicorn Twilight... If only we had Pixies.
I want to see what Aria wishes for and when I think about it I hear: Death and Despair over and over again.
5889241 That's why I chose him
5889259 Actually, Turner used his own fairies for the lawyer. In this story at least.
5889273 Perhaps.
5889447 Just because it's a good thing doesn't mean it isn't funny as hell to the genie. And what acting class?
5889474 Tempting.
5889480 You know to much!
5889821 So do I.
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Exactly!
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5889923 what if the genie IS god? Hmmmm?
5890416 I would wish he does this every time someone challenges God
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5890461 But he's not stuck, in his first appearance he was summoned from a wild party. Also, who decides what better would be? The new god would still be weaker than the genie.
You had me at the cover alone! It really has been years since I last saw Fairly Odd Parents but Norm really is one of the bad guys you love to hate. One thing I will say is that there are quite a few missing or misspelled words dotted around, the first chapter especially. The only example I remember is:
I think 'hated' should be 'hatted' and 'wright' should be 'write'. There are a few more cases like this from what I've read. Speaking from experience, rereading the chapters a good few times (maybe even out loud) helps catch those pesky words and sentences and spell check misses.
That aside, I am enjoying the story It's not something I would have ever expected to read but I'm pretty glad I found it! Keep up the good work!
5890968 Bah, English is a bitch. I'll fix those when I get a chance. Anyway, glad you are enjoying this humble little story. It's nice to know that I was part of something unexpected.
I'm willing to bet that Aria's the ONLY one of them who's going to take the Mars option.
I know what you're doing with the chapter titles... And I like it.
For those of you who don't get it:
Gimmie the Wand
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Willow from Buffy the Vampire Slayer did it even better.
-First one: wisdom, knowledge and understanding about genies and wishes.
-Second one: ironclad, extremely detailed contract of her and her friends wish.
-Third one: a wish which would benefit all genies in the world, only if the second one worked as intended by Willow.
5893759 It is geniuses, if you want to be a genie. After all, who knows more about wishes and genies than a genie?
5891649 That would be a straight up nosedive into Tragedy Dark territory.
5895887 I can picture it now... The Humane 5, Sunset Shimmer, and Prime Twilight Sparkle all suffocating on Mars where there's no air.
5896452 Suffocating? Oh no, it'd be so much worse than that. It's not that Mars doesn't have air we can breathe, it doesn't have enough air period.
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Ah, Jesus! Thanks for the nightmare fuel!
5896486 Yeah, humans don't do well in vacuums. Which is the central problem with space: it's mostly just that.
I really want to see where this fix goes. Please do post the new chapter as soon as you can but don't rush it. That's the least we want from you.
And of course they didn't agree to the Mars suggestion because..... Plot development?
5897461 They don't agree to Mars for their own reasons. Adagio because it would be no chalange to just off them like that, Aria because, and Sonata because she doesn't want to hurt anyone. Suck 'em dry of all their energy? Sure. Kill? No.
I plan on resale sing three chapters a month, so one every week and a half or so.
Wait until the day he meets Yzma
Well, when they put it like that...
Yes, and I'll have the number 2. Large-sized, with mayonnaise and ketchup only, no cheese and a Diet Coke to drink.
GONG!
Thanks Norm!...HEY! You didn't give me the buns or patties on my burgers!
Maybe you should learn from Adagio's mistake and just wish for Mars. I heard Mars is a great place for revenge this time of year! Rocks, lack of air, abandoned robots that have been left by NASA. I even hear a few rumors that a little martian with a green war helmet lives there. Don't mention any ducks around him though. He really hates ducks for some reason.
5907084 Lol, I love Marvin. Fun fact, Norm MacDonald was the voice actor for Norm the Genie.
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"Norm, you were totally right. We SHOULD have just taken the Mars option!"
Oh no. I bet Aria has something very evil planned (based on her behavior)
Hue.
And his voice flows right into your dialog, even the internal thoughts. Well done there.