"Let it be..."

"Let it be..."

The retreat...

"Move-your-ASS!"

"Get her arm Dagi, I can't..."

"I'm fine you moron, go , move!"

Even in the early light on another painfully frozen Canterlot City morning, the trio of half starved sisters still could make out the flashing of police cherries. With what little the siblings owned, or had stolen, slung over her shoulder in a discarded big box store bag, the once proud lioness hissed her commands from chapped lips.

"Sonata! Get your sisters fat ass over that fence, NOW!"

Before her, the shattered Alpha female watched in mute horror. She had known better then to duck into the alley. She knew it was the last one, and not this one that wasn't sealed. Maybe it was the breaking of her own code, or ego, that had allowed Aria to finally convenience her to turn to petty theft. The spoils of that mornings raid upon the hapless and still confused bushiness mans belongings hung in her chilled grip.

"All this for a stupid, slagging laptop...MOVE IT, THERE COMING!"

Adagio Dazzle, having skirted the chain link via a trash can, left it tipped forcing her kin, i their weakened state to scale the barrier. Cursing loudly she glared at the well furnished leather satchel in her gloved hand. Snow had gathered on its embellished finery the "M.B", its odd white in the back leather seemed almost as out of place as the trench coated mans straw hat, being worn in the dead of winter.

Fifty dollars, maybe. They could score for the stolen electronic. Her heaving breath, both of fear and exhaustion ran the alleys narrow space, bloodshot eyes turned back as her free hand hacked at errant strands of her filthy mass of hair  clearing the vision only made her cringe. Passing over a half dozen cuts or bruises on her once perfect face, was enough, but the mere stink of her own mane had the prideful Alpha sickened. Adagio repeated her plea to the almost comical scene before her. If in perhaps another time, another age, she would have fallen to her knees. Squealing in laughter at the sight of her sisters. But that day was not this one.

"Uff..I...I fuc..grrr! Nata I got it! Get your hands off my ass!"

"Ehhh?! Well where else am I supposed to put them for Celestia's sake!"

"Now isn't the time you retard!"

"NO...YOU ARE!"

"GIRLS!...Running from the humans here, MOVE IT!"

The arguing duo of gaunt siblings snapped to attention finally. Aria with a bandaged paw, wrapped in newspaper and a dirty scarf, hanging a few feet from the linked fence. Sonata beneath her, with frozen blue fingers gripping her co-criminals bony hips through grimy garments, nodded and redoubled there efforts. With one final effort, Aria yanked with her good arm, her roar coupled by her Sisters who pushed. "The ol up and over" didn't see worse days as the once bruiser of the trio collapsed into her Alpha siblings arms. Adagio let out a sigh of relief and held her sickened and wounded sister. Snarling the moment away, the lioness moved Aria to her shoulders. Like a stubborn Bull, Aria grumbled about being fine and able to do i on her own. Yet as her ruby eyes locked upon the about facing Sonata, Dagi could feel Aria's exhaustion as the once bovine like female, now a shadow, leaned heavily upon her leader.

"Sonata! W..ha..?"

The Bullish bruiser groaned through a still hurt left eye, the nights at the homeless shelter often having lead to fist fights for a bunk, or because someone looked at her or her siblings wrong. Her oldest Sister followed suit with the gaze, both looking upoun a fist making blue Wolfess. The she wolf of the group turned slowly away from her kin, to stare back down the alley they had come. Almost visable hackles rose, as her scrawny starved form began to hunker into a fighting pose. Aria couldn't help but smirk at the sight of her sibling. Just a few months ago the spoiled, ditzi, and pot bellied little strumpet of the Sirens wouldn't have been able to pick a fight with a hamster. And now..

"SONATA MOON DUSK! YOU WILL...NOT...do what you are thinking, get over here...NOW!"

The roar, born from an often sickly and weak throat these days. Now all the song of a cannon being fired, came from a glareing Alpha bitch. Her tiny form leaned upon by a purple mass of slowly rising anger and pain. The pair watching their youngest sibling through the fence.

"I...I will stop them, y..y...you..two.."

Even at the pinnacle of her out of character action, Sonata Dusk still stumbled at the mention of her full name. Peeking back and letting her tiny fists fall slack she starred at her Sisters, for three long heartbeats. Until she vaulted the fence at the expense of far to much energy considering the Sirens conditions. Helping with Aria's weigh she seemed another element again, tears soaked her frozen cheeks as she nuzzled at the bruisers neck like a lost puppy.

"Ari!..Ari!!"

Her smile came weak, but natural as the dysentery ridden bull of a girl leaned upon her siblings.

"Shh, shh little one, I'm ok."

Throwing a cat call over her shoulder at the fast approaching police, Adagio lead the duo out of the other side of the curving alleyway. If anything these past long months have allowed the Sirens a knowledge of there knew frozen hell home. It was just a few alley cuts and a abandoned factory floor away from their new hideout.

"Come on girls, with this fence we can eat for a week..or a few days for Aria!"

"Ha! This from miss hairball for a head, thought ya hated stealing from the miserable humans."

Sonata gave a almost childish giggle even as she dragged the exhausted weight of her Sister for herself, as Adagio had to lean away for another hacking cough.

Not one to allow her own weakness to break the moment of victory, the lioness slipped back under her bull of a sisters arm and the trio broke out into another alley way.

"Hmmm, yes I do regret the act, it is just so...ugh, pathetic."

"You mean like, ahm, us?"

With a sneer she sighed and looked over at the ragged features of the only two things that mattered on this cursed hell hole of a world, her Sisters.

"Yes...just like us, and honestly, I am starting to think I wouldn't have it any other way!"

Her free hand shot out to slice the air as her siblings laughed, coughed, and spat blood for a few moments, allowing silence. Just like the old days, the action alone enough to bring some hunger and fire to the eyes of her darkened kin.

"Besides, what are we but Sirens! What...would this pitiful world expect us to repent, forget...what, join the RAINBOOMS?!???"

There trio of barks, roars and snorts of laughter was almost, musical despite being off key. Sadly as the night behind them, all good things came to an end. For as the sun rose and spilled into the run down factory the trio where making their way through, a new voice spoke over the weakened females revere.

"Eh! Like we would take you losers anyways!!!!"

All three of the females froze, hearts in throats as they knew well the scratchy voice of the former Rainboom lead Singer. Sonata was the first to turn, her teeth born at the tomboyish winter coat clad jock that had followed them in. Her eyes like daggers, she went to step forward to the threatening female, only to be stopped by Aria, her shoulders squared and the bruiser rose to her full height. A snort leaving her as she glared at the cause of her ruined eye. The two brawlers just glared at one another, even as other feminine figures shifted into the morning light.

Even Sonata could do the math as the odds grew worse by each pair of boots to step out. Adagio let out a low growled sigh, the prideful lioness flicked her near five feet of matted, frozen, filthy and stinking orange hair like a lady of court, one hand rested on bony hip, she took her pose between her Siblings like a ruling matriarch looking down at her pride.

Sonata took her place at her Alpha's left, hunkered low and tongue lashing slowly to wet her frozen lips.

Too the lioness right standing like a half starved brick wall of purple and stolen winter garments, Aria stole the air around her to give the very stink of seeking a fight.

As the six Rainbooms loomed around them in a half moon, Adagio felt her mind swirl. Fight or flight? Could they even make it a block if they ran in their condition. What about Aria's hand, or Sonata's feet or her own...sighing inwardly the Siren grinned. Her drawn cheeks giving an almost skeletal like feature to her ruined face. Lifting her frail hand slowly, her words came not a hum, or a whispered lyric. They hissed out with all the venom her ruined throat could allow.

"Now you need us...'

Sonata spread her arms out wide and lowered her posture all the more, looking to the world like a animal ready to pounce.

"Come and meet us..."

Despite the pain of her hand, Aria slammed her fist into palm and grunted, the winter wind catching her over grown pigtails, snapping like annoyed tails.

"Nothing will stop us...now!"