"SONATA! GET YOUR WORTHLESS SPACE CADET ASS OUT HERE RIGHT NOW SO I CAN CUT OFF YOUR FINGERS, YOUR LEGS, YOUR CLIT, YOUR HAIR, AND YOUR EARS, IN THAT ORDER!!"
Fluttershy screamed, bolted out of the kitchen, and locked herself in the bathroom.
Everyone else stared in the direction of the enraged shrieking, eyes wide. "What the hell?!" Sunset exclaimed.
"Someone's PMSing," Uncle Rear observed cattily.
"I-is that...is that Adagio?" Twilight asked shakily, her face pale.
"Oopsie," Sonata said with a giggle. "Guess that last GIF I texted her was maaaaaybe pushing it a bit too far."
Flash whipped his head around to stare at Sonata, his mouth going dry. "Wh-what the hell did you text her?!"
"Umm..." Sonata touched a finger to her chin in a pose of thoughtful cuteness. "A dog eating a pile of poop?"
"Oh, ouch," Uncle Rear said.
Twilight blinked. "Huh? I don't—"
Flash groaned, burying his face in his palms. "You didn't," he moaned.
Sunset shook her head and sighed. "Okay, I know Adagio is kind of a bitch, but she's usually more...composed than to overreact to something like that."
"Eh, she's been really on edge lately," Sonata said. "And then there's the whole, well, I refused to come home when she called, pretty much ordered her and Aria to bring my stuff here..."
Another window shattered. Flash flinched. Uncle Rear frowned, standing up. "Alright, enough is enough," he said, marching to the front door. "I'm all for screaming drama fits, but only up to the point where some little tramp starts breaking my brother's windows." He threw open the door. The teens inside heard him yelling at Adagio, who yelled back; a minute later, Uncle Rear returned to the kitchen, a stiff-legged, frizzed-out, puffed-up Adagio in tow, radiating hate and malice at the room at large.
"SO-NA-TA," she growled as her gaze landed on the target of her ire, "I am going to make your life a living hell if you don't get your ass home right now!"
Sonata folded her arms and returned Adagio's glare with a frosty stare. "Fuck you," she said.
Adagio's eye twitched. "What did you just say to me?" she said in a soft, dangerous tone.
Sunset frowned and stood up. "I'm pretty sure she said fuck you," she said. "And I don't blame her. I'm not cool with her just deciding she's gonna live here and we're still dealing with that, but if this is what she's been putting up with? I don't blame her for telling you to eat shit."
Adagio whipped around to glare at her. "You stay out of this, you reject from Equestria!"
Twilight stood up. "That. Is. ENOUGH!" She walked over to Adagio, meeting her furious stare with calm composure. "You're not impressing anyone with all this screaming and breaking stuff," she said. "If you don't sit down, calm down, and get ready to talk this out like a reasonable person, Sunset and I are going to drag you, physically, back through the portal to Equestria and deal with you there." She paused for one deep breath, then added, "And in Equestria, I'm an alicorn."
She let that hang in the air for a long moment.
Adagio, visibly seething, plopped herself in the chair Fluttershy had vacated, arms crossed, aiming a sullen glare at Twilight.
"Woooow," Pinkie breathed into the heavy silence, popping candy-coated licorice bites into her mouth from a little purple carton. "You go, Twilight!"
Fluttershy reappeared. "Umm...there's a lot of broken glass in the living room," she said. "I, umm...I'll sweep it up if—"
"Broom and dustpan are in the laundry closet," Flash said absently.
"Okay," Fluttershy said. "Umm...good luck with...all this..." She disappeared again.
Twilight took a deep breath. "Now—"
"Oh, and um, sorry, but...there's an awful lot of implements of murder on the front lawn," Fluttershy said suddenly, reappearing before Twilight could get going. "Umm...maybe somebody should do something about that?"
"Lock it all up in your van," Sunset said absently. "We're confiscating it."
"Oh. Um." Fluttershy worried at the hem of her skirt. "It's just that...I don't know if I want to handle some of this...stuff..."
"Just imagine you're using it on Zephyr Breeze," Pinkie offered.
Fluttershy nodded. "Right, got it." She disappeared again.
Twilight blinked, staring after her. "What the—"
"Don't ask," Sunset said.
Shaking her head, Twilight returned to the task at hand. "Right, so, just so I have all the facts, explain this whole showing up here breaking stuff and threatening to mutilate Sonata."
Adagio glared at her. "It's no concern of yours, Princess," she spat. "This is between me and the worthless ditz."
"I am NOT worthless!" Sonata snapped. "Just because you're an arrogant, conceited bitch and Aria hates literally everything doesn't give you the right to call me worthless! Besides, you two can't even feed yourselves without me around to cook for you!"
"Is that so?" Adagio challenged.
Sonata snorted. "Adagio, before the Battle of the Bands, you had exactly three skills. Singing, manipulation, and sex. Now you're down to two." She fixed Adagio with a haughty smirk. "Sure, you can probably whore your way through life like you've ALWAYS DONE, but now that none of us have our magic anymore, what's even the point of me putting up with your bullshit?"
Adagio's left eye twitched. "My bullshit?"
"Yeah," Sonata challenged, leaning forward and narrowing her eyes. "Your bullshit. Whose idea was trying to take the Equestrian magic at CHS? Whose idea was the Battle of the Bands? Whose idea was it to spread the plague across half of Stirrope?" She threw up her hands. "THE PLAGUE, ADAGIO! THAT WAS ALL ON YOU, AND FOR WHAT? We only got enough juice out of that to keep us fresh and tasty for about sixty years! Just long enough to find the next war to feed on!" She pinched the bridge of her nose. "You think I wanted to kill tens of thousands of humans just to stay young, cute, and sexy? We could've waited for something bad enough to happen all by itself! HUMANS LOVE MAKING EACH OTHER MISERABLE!"
Everyone stared at Sonata.
Pinkie shrugged. "Well, she's not wrong," she said.
Adagio raised an eyebrow. "And you've ever had any good ideas, hmm?"
"YES! I HAVE!" Sonata shouted. "How about, I dunno...giving up, falling in love, starting a family, growing old surrounded by people who love you?" She threw her arms up in the air. "I'd have been fine with being an old granny a hundred years ago! Immortality kinda starts to suck after the first couple hundred years!"
"Really," Adagio drawled. "Then why didn't you strike out on your own sooner?"
Sonata pursed her lips, sitting back in her chair. "Because I didn't wanna, okay? As long as I kept hanging around with you and Aria, I didn't actually have to put any effort into anything. I can't help it, I'm lazy." She shrugged. "But now that we can't magic people anymore, there's no point in staying together. You can't do jack except screw guys to get them to do stuff for you, and you and Aria are both such complete and total bitches I can't stand being around you anymore. So I'm done." She crossed her arms, glaring defiantly at Adagio.
Sunset blinked. "Wow," she said. "I...had no idea you were dealing with all that," she said.
"Neither did I," Flash said, eyes wide.
Uncle Rear looked back and forth between the Sirens. "You're immortal?" he asked.
"Well, we were," Adagio said sourly, glaring hotly at Twilight and Sunset. "Not anymore, of course. You and your little band of friends took care of that."
"It was your own fault," Twilight said. "You didn't give us any choice. You turned the entire student body of CHS against each other. We did what we had to do to save the world from you."
Adagio snorted. "Typical pony hero complex," she snarled. "First that bearded bastard, now you and your goody-goody friendship magic."
"Well what did you expect, Adagio?!" Sonata cried in exasperation, throwing her hands up. "We're evil! HELLO!"
"I'm getting a little sick of your tone," Adagio snapped, glaring at Sonata.
"Yeah? Well I'm getting a LOT sick of YOU!" Sonata retorted. "Like I said, I'm not coming home and you can't make me, and I'm not the least bit afraid of you!"
"Oh, you will be," Adagio seethed, eyes narrowed.
Fluttershy walked back in. Flash sat back in his chair. "Okay, look," he said. "All Sonata needs from you is her stuff. If you're not gonna bring it over, I guess some of us can go get it and bring it here?"
Sunset blinked, looking at Flash. "Wait, what?"
Flash shrugged. "Look...I didn't get what Sonata was going through until just now," he said. "I mean, after this morning...this morning was pretty messed up, yeah, but I get it now. I get all of it."
Sonata gasped happily. "You mean...?"
"You can stay," Flash said. "At least until you can find someplace better to go, get yourself kinda put together and get on with your life." He stood up, jamming his hands in his pockets. "I mean, it sounds like you just want a clean start, we've got a guest room, I'm sure I can smooth this over with Mom and Dad..."
Sonata jumped up and threw her arms around Flash, giggling happily. "Oh thankyouthankyouthankyou!" she gushed. "I won't be a burden or anything, I promise!" She kissed him on the cheek. "Wow, sleeping with you may be the best thing that ever happened to me!"
Sunset's eyes widened. Pinkie's hair deflated.
The temperature in the room plummeted.
"Wait," Twilight said softly. "What?"
Twilight, if you're gonna kill anyone... go for Sonata, last thing Flash needs to worry about is how his parents are going to pay for his funeral...
That ending was... priceless.
Wow someone might actually die. Who I don't know, but yes there might just be a murder after all.
And then Twilight remembered that coincidentally there was a big fish tank in the basement of her castle........
Wow, Sonata is a actually a badass. I'm in shock. Though that ending does not bode well. I hope Twilight's anger is pointed at Sonata and not Flash.
WAIT, WHAT!?
Hah. I like Sonata actually standing up for herself - and showing she's not perhaps QUITE as far gone as all that.
Slight tactical error, though, at the last...
I always said that about family, even if you are a close, the less you see each other, the better you are.
And oh boy, Sonata you just signed your or Flash or both death warrant.
Read the description and thought to myself "Which ex? The magical horse thing from a different world, or the other magical horse thing from a different world?" At that point I thought about that, and thought to myself "Maybe I should reconsider what fandoms I am part of."
....fuck
You seem agitated.
Oh shit!
THANK YOU. It seems even Twilight has her limits and she's just reached it.
Human Zephyr is significantly worse than Pony Zephyr.
Which is why I make it a point to occasionally just post something nice for no real reason on a whim.
She's right you know.
What exactly did you THINK was going to happen, that she'd just sit by and LET you?
On one hand I hate you for this cliffhanger, on the other, it's fucking brilliant.
That was an exellent chapter.
Ok... how long will it take for Sonata to make a move on Flash again? Because the other running interference will be hillarious.
I get the reaction at the end when they learn that Flash slept with Sonata with Sunset and Twilight but Pinky?
okay that was an amazing chapter. I thought sonata and adagio were gonna fight. now I think Twilight might wanna get to Sonata first. I noticed Aria was very quiet all through it tho
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Nah...kill Flash and PIN the crime on Sonata. His uncle will understand.
On a sidenote,leak info that the sirens 'ancestors' engineered the PLAGUE....that will change public opinion fast...
Interesting variant of "to the pain." Usually it's the eyes that go and the ears that stay, so the victim can hear the horrfied cries of woman and children as they scream "Oh God, oh God, what is that thing?"
How do you distinguish a frizzed-out, puffed-up Adagio from the standard model?
Why do I get the feeling someone's going to see that weapon loadout in Fluttershy's van at the worst possible time?
Okay, I'll bite: How did they spread the plague? Spread rumors that kept people from going after rats or bathing?
Interesting idea that the sirens had to keep fueling their immortality with negative emotional energy. I'd assumed that they stayed fresh no matter what, but that just meant that the hunger pangs from not feeding could transcend mortal understanding. Just because you can't die doesn't mean you'll never want to.
Yeah, I just can't see the sirens staying together once they no longer need to. Centuries of habit might have them stay close for a while, but that familiarity bred a lot of contempt. Though right now, everyone in the room should be more concerned with surviving Twilight's wrath.
I hope fluttershy locked up all of the dangerous stuff
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Yeah, maybe that's because Aria isn't even there? Hard to say anything when you're not there.
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"I don't think about such things, and neither should you."
Personally, I don't understand how so many people are in the "Sirens can't feed on magic/emotions=Sirens starve to death & are dying" camp. It's pretty obvious that their gems and their ability to feed on emotions and magic is powering their magic, not literally keeping them alive. And a facet of that magic is their longevity. Without magic, they're mortal--they'll grow old and die like every other hairless ape. But they won't literally starve to death, as so MANY fanfic writers seem to assume they will.
Just move on Princess Virgin.
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sorry, I just assumed Aria was there due to sonata saying her name. don't be mad at me
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Twilight is entitled to nohing. Flash isn't really her boyfriend, and he has the right to choose not to wait for the magical pony princess to grace his world with her presence.
I thought for sure Flash would end up losing it and kicking everyone out of his house, but surprisingly enough he kept his cool.
I just hope Twilight keeps her cool as well.......towards Flash of course.
Most important question though is, do we even have enough popcorn for everyone? Because it sounds like the show is really getting started.
Twi's threat to Adagio was beautiful. She's not messing around.
Aaaaaand Sonata pointed out the obvious in the best way possible.
Shame that it's probably going to backfire now that the cat's out of the bag.
Twilight rampage in 3... 2... 1...
Unless she's going to be rational about it.
Pfffft, who am I kidding? This is not that kind of story
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I totally agree with you. My comment about Twilight going to murder someone was meant as a joke.
....Oh shit!
....fuck...
If magic was keeping them immortal, I suppose it might have made them immune to disease, although diseases could still exist in their bodies, at least for a time, making them carriers. Now that the magic is gone, a possible outcome is that they're no longer immune to diseases they were carrying, in which case they are in trouble. Especially Adagio, apparently.
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That confused me for a moment too, but then I remembered Adagio went by herself. If I recall correctly, Aria ended up just not caring. It's an easy mistake. I wouldn't feel bad about it.
Damn it Sonata! You were so close to everything being at least bareable! Now Twilight is about to go NUKE!
First Pinkie, now- I thought Fluttershy confiscated that. And that. Oh god, where’d THAT come from?! I didn’t know they made meat tenderizers that big. 😨
I loved Sonata's critique of Adagio and every reason why she has no intention of hanging around her 'sisters' any longer. It's sweet that she's decided to find some mortal and settle down; to live rather than desperately scrabble from scam to scam, trying to keep magical immortality that's become more of a curse than a blessing with every passing atrocity.
As for Adagio? She's continuing to assume advantage where she has none. Even if the girls' magic isn't reliable yet, just physically I doubt she'd be able to resist the four of them if Sunset and Twilight decided to follow up their threat to drag her back to Equestria to face the Princesses' judgement.
Tens of thousands of deaths? Tens of millions, actually: but then I wouldn't be surprised if Sonata is rather innumerate.
(Also, the notion of them spreading the black death really makes no sense with 14th century tech. Moving from city to city with a bag of rats or something isn't going to spread the disease any faster than it spreads by itself as travelers carry it in hundreds of different directions at once. Now, keeping the hundred years war going, that's something they could have had a hand in: some spectacularly poor decision making involved in that mess).
Oh shit, adagio is here!!! 😨
What?
It's still pretty f'd up pinkie.
Says the one who's plans always fail and are flushed down the drain. 😒