"Let it be..."

"It...it isn't that bad..."

Adagio Dazzle, Alpha of her pack, was wrong. It was worse. The eldest Siren starred into Fluttershy's family home upstairs bathroom mirror with a grimace. Stark naked and in the nude as she was, it was clear, her body was near death. A half dozen ribs clung to her brazen golden flesh like wet tissue, the subtle pokes of a spinal column shown through when she turned, hip bones exposed as a naked babe. A low growl purred from her starved chest.

"Damn it..."

"Adagio?"

Spinning with arms flinging up and down to guard her private areas, the look of disappointment became one of shock and embarrassment as the Alpha realized she had left the door open.

"Sorry, I just...wanted to talk with you, I didn't realized you where ahem..ahmm..."

"What? Naked in the privacy of a bathroom? What do YOU want bacon-head?"

Sunset Shimmer reset her gaze and locked a death glare on the Alpha of the Sirens.

"I really...really...do not like that name."

"Gee, and I do not enjoy being gawked at by some dyke bitch!"

"Maybe you shouldn't strip in someone elses house! Your lucky Flutters folks are on vacation!"

"Maybe you shouldn't have brought us here!"

"AND MAYBE YOU SHOULD HAVE JUST ASKED FOR HELP BEFORE NEARLY KILLING YOURSELF AND YOUR SIBLINGS OUT ON THE STREETS!"

The two grew silent at the outburst, Adagio still gripping her bossom and nether area turned away showing just how scrawny and shrunken her once double take rear had become.

"....My Sisters need this..."

"You, you need this Adagio."

Turning back she let her arms drop to a defensive stance, showing off her almost skeletal features in full.

"What do you know about what I need. You transplated Unicorn whore!"

Sunset stepped into the small bathroom and shut the door, adjusting her leather jacket with a show of power she opened her stance and softened her gaze at the defeated lioness.

"I know what it is like to live in this world without magic. Celestia damnit Adagio, magical beings can NOT function in this world without magic. We need it, you, me, your Sisters. Friendship IS magic here...look at yourself, look what has become of you. Damnit, talk to me!"

Adagio shrank under Sunset's words, she glared at her for only a moment before the quiver of tears shatterd the hate in her gaze.

"We ran..."

Blinking rapidly, Sunset shimmer felt the moment and stepped up with a towel, she wrapped the exposed siren in it and helped her to sit upon the closed toilet, she herself sat across from her on the edge of the bath tub.

Adagio took a moment, shifting her thinned jaw and eyed the leader of the Rainbooms. She was about to expose herself, not in flesh, but perhaps in emotion...and it was hard.

"Do you know what a Siren is, Sunset Shimmer?"

"Please, just Sunset. And I do, Princess Celestia taught me all about many if not all of the rare mythical creatures of our home, why?"

"One, one in a thousand beings born in Equestria, are a Siren. You are correct to call us rare. My Sisters and I are a "blue moon" if you will. My entire existence is bent around them, protecting them, loving them, keeping them safe and happy...so we ran."

Sunset felt her shoulders drop, and a lump form in her throat.

"You, YOU, broke us. If we had that battle in Equestria, the shattering of our gems would have left us dead. But here..here in this pathetic world, it just left us powerless. And as you so freely state, no magical being can survive without magic here."

Adagio leaned back, firmly holding the towel around her shrunken bosom, a glare appearing only to drop as she looked away.

"After the battle, we returned to our home. South side Apartments. Our spell had been broken, and I was rather shocked at how fast the land lord had realized we had been using them. An eviction notice was up on our door before we even could realize what had happened. Sonata...Nata wanted to get her toys, her electronics, Aria wanted her work out equipment..we couldn't take any of it. We HAD to run. What things we had of value I took, over the next few weeks we spent in a hotel, trying to coup with what happened, pawning off what we could...then the hunger came."

"The..hunger?"

"Yes Sunset Shimmer...the hunger. It was no subtle thing. We have always taken of human food..snort..Sonatas pot belly and Aria's fat ass are signs of that. Not all our feeding came from negative energy."

"Says the gal with hips that filled doorways?"

"Ahm, says the girl who was LOOKING!"

Sunset blushed wildly and flicked her hair.

"You where saying?"

"Yes, the hunger. Without the draw of negative energy from humans, we became gluttons if you will, on human food. Our bodies demand constant satisfaction, perhaps the human term "high metabolism" is warranted here. Yet as our funds diminished, we were forced to less sustaining foods. Our last meal at the hotel before they kicked us out, was a dozen pots of instant noodles...it only got worse."

The well fed leader of the Rainbooms blinked and made a face.

"Ugh, you ate those things, they are horrible!"

"Not as horrible as a half frozen hamburger out of a fast food dumpster!"

Sunset felt her skin prickle and turned green at the mention of such a task.

"Adagio..I..I had no idea!"

"Shut up and listen you dyke, I am not repeating myself...Sigh...Summer went well for us, despite leaving on the streets, homeless shelters and finally that accursed abandoned gas station...pan handling was easy. Sonata came up with the idea to get a job to support us, which oddly enough a local café hired her, my guess is because of her smile..and tits..that said, she did well for a few weeks. But with out a place to wash our cloths she started, well...showing up "unwashed" and lets just say she lost her job based on a odder factor."

"She showed up to work, stinking?"

"Ever live in a run down shell of a building, you don't get a lot of hot water there...shut up I'm talking here."

With a blink and a sneer, Sunset obliged.

"After that, and the remainder of her tips and paycheck spent...the hunger returned. It was Aria we noticed first to suffer. Tsk..girl is built like a brick wall. Thick, wide, powerful. Sonata enjoys ribbing her over her girth, but when her pants began to slip, and shirt no longer caught like a second skin...well...it went all down hill from there."

Adagio leaned back, adjusting the towel around her modesty and sighing openly. Her sunken eyes looking at the floor.

"I am sure you can guess the rest of the story."

"Adagio..."

"Silence...I did not tell you this for your pity, you horned sow!"

Jerking to her feet, the Alpha glared with knocking knees, her half starved legs trembling under the meager weight of her body, a fist raised she glared in earnest.

"I am Adagio Dazzle, and you are nothing more then some grease monkey dyke, you will not look down at me!!"

Sunset was on her in an instant, despite the pain of her recently puffed and blackened eye curtsey of one Miss Adagio Dazzle, she was hugging the skeletal remains of the once mighty Siren in earnest, holding her in her embrace and whispering softly.

"You are, you are...and no one will ever look down at you, not again."

Taken aback by the show of emotion, Adagio felt the stress of her burden slip and she took the embrace of the Rainboom Alpha, the two sharing a moment, if only that, in solace.

"Why..."

"Hmm?"

"why are you...you...doing this?"

Glancing up she leaned back, but Sunsets arms still firmly around the non-existant waist of the Alpha Lioness.

"Guess I got a chip on my shoulder, ya know. Twilight saved me, the girls...they gave me a home, family. I never had that in Equestria...wait...You spoke of Celestia! You...you cant possible know of her, your banishment here was like forever ago."

Jerking from the embrace she glared at the starved Siren and put hands upon hips.

"Sunset Shimmer..."

"No! Answer me, what do you know about my teacher!"

Adagio sighed and reached for what serviced as her bra.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you...I knew her as a filly, before her wretched needy Sister was even born..."

Sunset felt the hackles on her neck raise.

"Answer me..."

"Sigh...fine. Do you recall what I said about one in a thousand beings in Equestria are born a Siren? We are a, to use your friends name, a rarity. The King and Queen knew this, also knew of our songs. Sirens are NOT evil creatures despite what lies you've spewed to your human...friends...At a young age my Sisters still hatchlings, I was summoned by the Queen to...to..teach her first born."

"You...you..."

"Yes, I taught the Princess how to Sing..there are you fucking happy! Now get the hell out of here so I can dress!!"

A slam of the bathroom door later and Sunset was alone in the upstairs hallway, her face pale and eyes wide, the shock and realization of what had just been exposed to her like an anvil on her mind. Glancing back at the bathroom door, the lump in her throat grew. Suddenly she realized all to well the pain in the eldest Siren, the hate in her heart, and more over...why her distain lingerd on the turned human, unicorn.

"Adagio..."