Chapters Norm, Genie of The Dazzlings
Norm sulked in his lamp, laying on his couch while glaring at the dart filled image of that brat, Timmy Turner. He had no idea how the kid managed to get his lamp from Francis, he had helped the bully hide the damn thing, but the kid found it and forced him back in his lamp before he could finish his 'master's' wish. He swore the kid had the most improbable of luck. Stuck with Vicky and having clueless parents who are ready to abandon him for a chance of fun, yet no villain, even an all powerful genie like himself, can beat him. It's like he's made of deus ex machina.
Norm growled as he gonged up another dart, before expertly tossing it at the Timmy poster, where it landed between the kids eyes. Norm had been peeved by the brat before, but had been comforted by the fact he could try again later, having tricked that whack Crocker into wishing that his lamp would always land in front of someone, instead of just somewhere random. But now, now, "Damn Turner and his lawyers!"
The irritated genie let out his fury on the defenseless, dart filled poster, reducing it to scattered bits of atoms. Apparently Turner found him to be to much of a nuisance to be left alone anymore and decided to get rid of him. A nuisance! Not even a threat, but something bothersome. If he was honest that's what was really bothering him, not Turner using that damn lawyer to create an iron clad wish to banish him with. That's not to say he wasn't peeved about that either, he was, but, really? He, a magical genie is considered a nuisance? He growled at the thought.
The pink hatted wonder had wished up, with his half-wit fairies, a crack team of lawyers to write out a wish that would leave Norm unable to do anything to Turner. Hell, it even prevented him from being in the same universe ! Talk about the ultimate restraining order. And, to add insult to injury, Turner had forced him to carry out the wish himself, making sure that even after he eventually lost his fairies, Turner was eternally safe from Norm's wrath.
"How?" Norm screamed in rage, shooting up from his spot on his couch and literally exploding in a fit of rage, "How could I lose to the bucked-tooth brat! He's eleven! It shouldn't have been that hard!" The genie floated there for a few seconds fuming in rage and indignity, spewing insults and swearing revenge, before slowly bringing himself down into a more calm state and slid back into his sofa, cupping his head in his hands. "Ah, what's the point? The kid got me, there's nothing I can do. I mean, hell, he even got those lawyers of his to make it so I can't even trick some half-wit into wishing me back. I give up." The genie gave a sigh of resolution. He wasn't normally one to just give up, but he had read the wish-contract that Turners lawyers had churned out, and the thing was like smoof, he just couldn't get out of it.
'Perhaps it was all for the best.' Norm couldn't help but think, even though the traitorous thought caused him to cringe a little. 'I've become obsessed with ending Turner. I mean, by god, I managed to get a week of free time out of that Francis kid, and what did I do with it? Plot Turner's demise! I should have been out there in the company of a few lonely she-genies, not plotting to destroy some kid.' Norm let out a groan. 'I guess I'll just have to settle for taking my frustrations out on the next half-wit to find my lamp.'
The lamp began to fill with smoke, which wound itself around the genie, causing him to roll his eye's. "And speaking of half-wits . . ." Norm was whisked away with the smoke, which flew up towards the top of the lamp, and out into the outside world. As he was summoned, he couldn't help but idly note that it appeared that that crack pot's wish still worked, even in a different universe. With the usual dramatics, Norm made his way out of the lamp, already thinking of ways to make his new master as miserable as possible.
Not even sparing a glance at the no doubt pathetic excuse of a human to find his lamp, Norm snapped his fingers, and with the ever present gong , summoned an all to familiar note card and began to read, "Hello *insert humans name here*, my name is Norm," He decided to get fancy and gonged up a large read sign with 'Norm: Magical Genie' on it, "And I shall be your genie today."
Norm looked up from his well used queue card to get a good look at his current master, well, masters, and just had to curse his luck. There, holding his lamp frozen in mid fight, were three girls. Three homeless girls if their looks and the house around them were anything to go by. Clothes that looked more like rags, dirt matted hair and skin, and rather thin frames that indicated they had not been getting much to eat. And the house around them, if it could be called that, looked like a single spark would light it up. "Aww fez, I hate it when I'm right." He mumbled under his breath. The three in front of him were undeniably pathetic. Hell, he was half tempted to just gong them up some new clothes and a pile of sandwiches on the spot. However, that might give them the idea he was nice, which he really wasn't. On the other hand he wasn't a total jerk, and it looks like these kids already had it pretty rough already.
'Damn, why couldn't it have some bratty rich kid. Or a Canadian, one of these days, Canada, one of these days.'
"Adagio, do you see that too?" The one with blue hair and matching blue skin, something he noticed and dismissed as unimportant, asked in what was clearly supposed to be a whisper. Supposed to be a whisper as she said it loud enough that Norm didn't even need to use magic to hear her.
"Yeah, I'm seeing it. And I'm not believing it." The orange one in the middle, Adagio if the blue one was to be believed, stepped forward with as much confidence as she could muster. She walked right up to the genie, who was just floating there with an raised brow, before poking him in the chest. "If you really are a genie, prove it."
Norm stared down at the girl in front of him incredulously. "Really, kid?"
"Yes, really." Adagio said with a smirk, walking back to her two companions. "If you really are a genie, it should be little trouble for you to prove yourself."
Norm rolled his eyes behind his glasses, 'Such an obvious ploy.' "And I suppose my entrance wasn't proof enough?"
"There was a lot of smoke, you could have set up anything." She countered.
"I'm floating."
"Wires in the ceiling."
"I don't have legs."
"Costume."
Norm leaned in so that their noses almost touched, "You and your friends are all clean and wearing brand new clothes."
Adagio blinked. "Wha~?" The two girls let out a shocked gasp behind her. Turning around sharply, the girl was greeted with her two fellows in fresh outfits and nearly sparklingly clean. With a quick look down she confirmed that she to was one hundred percent clean.
Norm smirked as he watched the three examine their new clothing in wonder. He was almost positive Adagio would think she out smarted him, tricking him into giving her something for free as proof of his magic. He was fine with that. It was better than letting them know he did it out of pity. Sure he was a jerk, all genies were, but that didn't mean he was a bad guy. These kids were worse off than nearly any other master he had had in a long while. They were obviously orphans or runaways, the old crappy house had signs they had been living here for awhile.
"Wait, how did you know our exact sizes?" The purple one asked suspiciously.
"I have this thing called magic, kid. Lets me do all kinds of neat stuff. Like snapping up some perfectly fitting clothes without knowing the specifics." He smirked as the blue one laughed a little, gaining a frown from the purple one. "Now that we have established that I am a genie, let's kick back," He gonged up a rather nice black sofa, before gonging them all onto it, "relax and learn a little bit about this wonderful world of genies!"
With another snap a large T.V. gonged into existence, before suddenly turning on. After a bit of static the screen showed a bright pink background with the words 'So you got yourself a genie?' on it.
"Ah, genies. You got to love us." Norm's voice came from the screen as the film began to play. Norm, who was floating over the sofa sipping from a glass of water, answered the unasked question of the girls beside him. "We wanted to get Bill Murray to narrate for us, but he canceled at the last second, so I had to step in." He took a long sip, "I think I did alright."
The video continued, "I mean, uh, one. We got a really cool hat." Norm appeared on screen with a large smile, with a arrow pointing at his fez. The scene changed to a fisherman in a turban rubbing a oil lamp, releasing a stereotypical genie. "And two, we can do anything as long as we're doing it for some idiot human that rubbed our lamp. And it always goes the same way. Wish one? Something stupid," The fisherman mumbled something unintelligible before the genie snapped his fingers, making a giant sandwich appear, "Like a giant sandwich or something."
"Someone is actually stupid enough to waste a wish like that?" Adagio asked, not seeing the crest fallen look on the blue ones face.
'I should probably ask their names at some point.' Norm thought. "Yeah, that whole sandwich thing is actually why we bothered making this video."
"What a bunch of idiots." Purple sneered. Blue slumped further. Clearly she was one of those who would wish for a giant sandwich.
"The second wish," The video Norm continued, "A big reality changer. Something to do with money, and power." The man on screen mumbled something again and suddenly there was a giant palace with banners barring his face all over the place, before the scene moved in on him being surrounded by women and gold. Adagio perked up instantly at the mention of power, making Norm smirk as his video self went on to the next part. "Until it goes horrible awry. Which it always does." The man was tossed in jail and Adagio sunk back into her seat.
"And then comes the third wish."
"I wish I never met you!" The man screamed, causing the genie to be sucked back into his lamp as the world around the man went back to how it was during the first scene.
"Where we get sucked back into our lamp." The movie ended with a white screen with the words 'The End. Filmed in Genie World, USA.'
Norm snapped his fingers, causing the T.V to vanish and looked over at his masters. Purple was doing her best to remain indifferent, Adagio was smirking, and blue, well, was in his face with the biggest smile he had ever seen.
"So," She began, drawing it out, "We can wish for anything? Anything at all?"
"Yup." Norm replied, "Any three things, rule free. Though, you have to share with those two." He was half expecting her to be put out at the prospect of sharing, but she just kept her smile.
"Then I wish for unlimited wishes!"
'What.' Norm thought in surprise, he was pretty sure his jaw dropped. Normally someone would ask before wishing for that, allowing the genie to give their usual bluff, and even if the human wasn't a complete idiot and called their bluff, they would only wish for three more. And even at that they would often forget to renew the wish after the second set. 'Aww, smoof. Can this get day get any better? I'm going to be stuck granting these three wishes forever! Well, until they're dead. But I got to give it to her, she went big. I mean, infinite wishes? Normally a kid would need a fairy for that.' That was when an idea struck the genie. 'Oh, this is going to be good.'
"Sonata, you idiot, you can't wish for that!" Purple said in annoyance.
The newly dubbed Sonata looked over at Purple with confusion. "Why not?"
"Because it's against the rules. Haven't you ever seen the movies?" Adagio replied in exasperation.
"But he said there were no rules." Sonata replied meekly. She let out a small 'eep' in surprise when the genie wrapped an arm around her from behind.
"And so I did kid. Three wishes, no rules. And that includes wishing for wishes." He said with a smirk, which only widened at the wide eyes of the other two. Sonata was smiling in joy at having been right about something.
"You mean we get. . .?" Adagio began hesitantly, seemingly unable to comprehend her good fortune.
"Infinite wishes? Yes ma'am." Norm replied. "You know," Norm began, raising his hand, "I think this is the beginning," He readied his thumb and middle finger , "of a beautiful friendship."
Gong!
Norm, Genie of The Dazzlings
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Let Me Tell You What That Spells to Me
"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."
Author's Note
Honestly, villains can never take the easy way. Who else is excited for Arias turn? Anyone? No? Just Sonata then.
Norm, Genie of The Dazzlings
We're Here to Let You Know
We're Here to Let You Know
"We're waiting for our dad to finish his meeting with the principal." Sonata cheerfully replied, ignoring or oblivious to the tension in the air.
Rainbow shot her an incredulous look. "You have a dad?" Rainbow may not have been the smartest kid in school, but even she knew that the sirens she had faced a few months before didn't have parents here. They were from an other dimension after all.
"Of course we have a father," Aria began, once again using what Sonata had dubbed her 'nice voice', "Everyone has one." Aria smiled brightly, before taking a few steps forward and extended her hand in greeting. Slightly baffled, Rainbow took the offered appendage. This was not how she expected things to go when she heard from Fluttershy that the sirens were back. "My name is Aria MacDonald and these are my sisters, Sonata," She pointed at the smiling siren who was rocking back and forth on her heels, "and Adagio." Adagio gave a shy little wave from where she stood behind Aria. It had been decided that, since the first time they were here Adagio had clearly been confident and in charge, this time she would act shyer and let Aria take the lead, something Aria was actually happy about. They let Sonata be Sonata, because Sonata couldn't be anything but Sonata.
"Uh, nice to meet you?" Rainbow said uncertainly. She had been expecting a confrontation, hell, that's why she had come in the first place, looking for some action while the girls wrote to Twilight for assistance. But so far the three were acting nothing like the scheming jerks from a couple months ago. Aria's expecting look reminded Rainbow that she had yet to introduce herself. "I'm Rainbow Dash." She stepped to the side, exposing Fluttershy who had taken cover behind her. "And this is my friend Fluttershy." Fluttershy gave a timid wave.
"It's nice to meet you both." Aria smiled brightly. Yeah, there was no way she was the same girl as that siren, she was acting way to cheerful.
Sonata happily skipped over towards Fluttershy. She wanted to get close to the girl, to find out where it would hurt her the most to strike at, to rip away what she cared for most and then bathe in her tears. Most would not think that the normally bubbly siren to be ruthless, or clever, and she wasn't. She just really knew how to hold a grudge. Being hit in the face by a swarm of magic butterflies hurt a lot more than one would think.
"Can I borrow five bucks? I forgot my wallet at home." She asked sheepishly, rubbing the back of her head.
Oh, and she knew a pushover when she saw one. Why should she pay for food when there where others perfectly willing.
"Oh, um, I guess so. I brought a sandwich anyway."
Sonata's grin threatened to split her face as her prey handed over a small pile of dollar bills.
Norm was not having a good time.
Celestia, the gorgeous sister of Luna and Principal of the school, dropped a few dozen more papers in front of him with a smirk. "I need you to sign these, they're to allow your daughters to use the schools internet and electrical equipment. And once again, one for each of your daughters."
Correction, Norm was having a terrible time. He had already signed about sixty papers already, being forced to sign each individual form three times, and was starting to think that some of the forms were made up. Like that one a couple minutes back, a waiver of the ability to sue incase his young masters were brainwashed by a she-demon in order to invade an alternate dimension? Preposterous! And there was another one saying that they could not be held responsible for the sudden disappearance of students during the full moon. Perhaps he shouldn't have tried hitting on her the moment he walked through the door.
"I need these in triplicate." Another small pile.
Yeah, he really shouldn't have tried. It was just to bad he couldn't gong it done, he would have been done twenty minutes ago and then he could have gone on to enjoy those blissful moments between wishes.
"I think that's the last of the papers, Mr. MacDonald." Celestia cheerfully announced after Norm finished the last bit, a form of consent allowing them to take his children to the hospital in case of emergency or something like that.
"Well that's a relief. Thought I would vaporize the lot if I had to sign one more thing." Norm muttered.
"What was that?" Celestia inquired, turning from where she was standing near her filling cabinet.
"Oh, nothing. So," He began, trying to cover his verbal blunder. Wouldn't do to have her suspicious of anything supernatural going on, "The girls are good to begin classes? I know Aria is eager to get back in the swing of things and Sonata is looking forward to making friends." Well, the part about Sonata was true, he was pretty sure Aria just wanted to hang around in her pajamas and play that Crash Nebula game he stole from Turner. Hah! He knew it was petty, but by smoof he was going to exact his revenge however he could, and thanks to that fez dammed contract, that wasn't much.
Celestia nodded with a smile. "That's good to hear." She slid over three papers to Norm, making him moan until he noticed that they were class schedules. "They are free to begin class at once, though they can take the day off and begin tomorrow if you feel that would be best."
Norm took the papers with a smirk, "Thanks, I'll just let them decide. Though knowing them they'll want to start right away."
Within her castle of crystal and wood, Twilight Sparkle, alicorn princess, stared at the message that had suddenly appeared in her journal in shock. Which quickly turned to annoyance.
"Discord!" The princess shouted in annoyance, "How many times have I told you to leave my books alone?"
A pair of eyes and a pouting face appeared on the page of gibberish, "But this isn't a book. It's a journal, two very different things." Letting out a sigh at Twilights narrowing eye's, Discord slid out of the book, returning the message to it's original state. "Be that way then. It's not like it was anything important, just some nonsense about some sirens coming back for their revenge." The chimera pulled a nail file out from a bouquet of daffodils that had not been on the nonexistent coffee table between the two sitting powerful beings, and begin filing his left claw. Oddly enough this produced a lovely violin like sound.
Twilight let out a sigh, having had a similar conversation with Pinkie earlier. Though she had to admit the music was actually very nice. "Discord, when I said books I meant all types of reading mater- . . . did you say the sirens were back for revenge?"
Discord stopped his filling, thus ending the music Twilight was enjoying. "Did I?" He tossed the file away where it turned into a kitten that bound off down one of the castles many halls, no doubt it would wind up at Fluttershy's house soon. "I suppose I did."
Twilight looked at Discord with a very serious expression. "Do you know what this means?"
Discord sent her an equally serious expression. "Yes I do." He nodded solemnly, before a pair of suit cases appeared before him. "Road trip!"
Twilight looked at him equal parts shocked and confused. "Wait, what?"
Wasting no time, Discord grabbed Twilight and with a snap, transported the two of them to another dimension, leaving behind only a note for Spike and the girls explaining they had left to save the day. And that they needed more milk.
With a sudden flash of light, the odd duo appeared in a world full of humans. Humans that were all yellow and overweight.
"Well, this isn't right." Discord muttered as he stared at his claw in confusion. He had really meant to land in that other world he had heard so much about, not wherever they were.
"Discord." Twilight growled warningly. She really didn't want to deal with his antics today, not when her human friends, and Sunset, were in possible danger.
"Just hold on a minute, Princess," He began as he prepared to snap his fingers again, "This may take a few tries."
Author's Note
And thus I put off any possible help from Twi for at least two to three chapters. And I get to set up a meeting between Norm and Discord, Yay!
Anyway, not as long as I wanted, but I feel it works. Feel free to comment and thank you for reading this humble fic.
Norm, Genie of The Dazzlings
When I Get Shoved In My Lamp
Norm walked through the principals door, and wasn't that annoying? Floating beat walking any day. Anyway, Norm walked through the door to a very amusing spectacle. Well, amusing to him. A blond haired girl wearing a Stetson and a girl that with hair that looked like a kindergartener got hold of it were trying, and failing, to drag away and gag a pink haired girl who seemed to be trying to talk through the blonds hand away from a perplexed Aria. A girl with hair that reminded him vaguely of tulips was attempting to apologies for the pink girl. Standing next to her, looking rather uncomfortable, was yet another girl. This one almost looked like the definition of class, if it wasn't for the stain on her shirt. Adagio was doing a fairly good impersonation of Aria's shadow, standing directly behind her fellow siren and trying to look as shy as possible.
And finally he came to Sonata, who was sitting next to the door with yet another girl. Seriously, were there no guys in this place? The girl in question had pink hair like the girl who was being restrained by her friends, but this one was rather quite. She also happened to be brushing Sonatas hair, something that the blue siren hated to do herself, since she often got bored half way through doing it herself. Idly the genie wondered what all these students were doing at the school so early, they had arrived a good forty minutes before the first scheduled class yet here were six students just hanging around before school. Eh, they were probably in a club or something. Putting it out of his mind, the false father of three turned his attention to the pair closest to him.
"So what's your favorite animal?" The pink haired girl softly asked as she continued to brush Sonata's hair. It seemed as though Norms exiting of the office had gone unnoticed.
"I just love skunks! I mean, they have those cute little masks, and they steal food! I can totally relate. And they're just so cute and cuddly and . . . "
"Um, Sonata?" Miss Soft voice gently interrupted, "That's a raccoon."
Sonata sat up suddenly, startling the girl in the process, and turned around with a incredulous look on her face. "For realsies?" At the other girls nod her face turned into a mask of confusion, something Norm had come to understand was a sort of default setting for the siren. "Then what the fez," Norm smirked, seems she picked something up from him, "is a skunk."
"Skunks are mammals known for their ability to spray a liquid with a strong odor. They're black and white." The girl happily explained, and looked prepared to go into more detail, however Sonata cut her off.
"Like tiny stinky pandas?" The blue siren asked eagerly.
"I suppose you could say that." The reply held a mixture of confusion and exasperation.
Sonatas face lit up, "That's so cool! I wonder if No-Dad," She quickly corrected herself, "Would let me have one?" Just think of all the possibilities! Sonata thought to herself. Like letting it loose in Aria's room! That'll teach her for using up all the hot water. Oh! And I can get Norm to make it so that the smell never washes out! Sonata softly started to giggle to herself, creeping out the other girl.
Norm cleared his throat, announcing his presence to the assembled teens. "There will be no skunks in our house, Sonata. Besides, you know your not allowed to have a pet."
"Aw, come on Dad." Sonata whined, pouting.
"No, not after what happened with the gerbil." Confused looks were sent Norms way by everyone present, though luckily none of the six girls Norm didn't know noticed the sirens equally confused looks.
Sonata let out a sigh, figuring she wasn't going to get her way, "Fine." Sonata looked down into her lap, before suddenly looking up in a motion so fast that Norm was sure could not have been healthy. "Oh! Dad, I want you to meet my new friend Fluttershy!" Said girl, who had been trying to puzzle out just what one could have done with a gerbil that it warranted a ban from pets, looked up when she heard her name and offered a small wave. "Fluttershy, other assorted peoples who are not Fluttershy," The other girls looked over, blonde and art show had managed to get pinkie under control, "This is my, our," She corrected after being lightly kicked by Adagio, "dad, Norm!"
Norm pushed his glasses up, they had slid down a little, before offering a fake smile and wave. "Hey how you all doing? Good? Alright, well, I got to go and do stuff soo . . ." Norm tried to make a quick exit, but was blocked by the energetic pink girl who had been standing with blonde and art project, furthest away from him.
"Wait!" The girl exclaimed dramatically, "Don't you want to know our names? I know my parents always want to know the names of all my friends."
"Yes, father," Aria began, a smile on her face that was not entirely kind, "It's only polite that you allow our new friends," She struggled slightly to say that, " to introduce themselves."
"Fine, fine. Go ahead, introduce yourselves or whatever." The genie replied with a wave.
The energetic pink haired girl rushed in closer to Norm and shook his hand energetically, "Hi there, my name is Pinkie Pie! It's so nice to meet you!" The girl continued to shack his hand furiously until he yanked it away from her, though she continued to move her hand up and down for a few more seconds.
"Nice to meet you too, who next?" He took a moment to look around before pointing at the blonde with the cowboy hat. "You, country girl."
"I'm Applejack, nice to meet you!" She looked ready to say more Norm just pointed at the girl next to her.
"Your turn."
The rainbow haired girl blinked in surprise, before she gained a slightly cocky smile, "Names Rainbow Dash and . . ."
Norm pointed at the purple haired girl near Aria, ignoring the grumbling of Rainbow and Apple Jacks laughter.
"Greetings, I am Rarity." Once again it looked as though she was going to say more, only to be cut off as he pointed to the girl on her left.
"Sunset Shimmer." Short, sweet, and to the point, with no indication that she wanted to say more. Which Norm had had to admit he liked.
"Anyone else? No? Good. Well, I'm off." He began, making his way towards the exit. He noticed that Sonata, Aria and Adagio had made to follow him, which made him pause for a moment, "Oh, that's right. Celestia said you can start today if you want. Even got your schedules and everything." He quickly handed out the schedules and made a b-line for the door, only pausing to shout over his shoulder, "I'll see you around three, have a good day!" Before exiting the building.
Sunset glanced at Aria, motioning after Norm, "What's with him?"
"Oh he's just got to get to work, I'm not surprised he's in a rush, he really hates being late."
Once out of sight, Norm quickly gonged back into his lamp. Well, it wasn't really a lamp anymore. Adagio had had him turn his lamp into the three necklaces they wore so they could have a easier time contacting him. He didn't mind since it allowed him to spy on them easier throughout the day, never know when you might need to make a sudden appearance to save your master from some horrible fate. Or when you could get some prime blackmail material.
Arriving in the traditional puff of smoke, Norm quickly gonged up a golem, made to look like Britney Britney , to let him know if anything went wrong while he was away.
"Man I love these in-between wish moments." Norm grinned. "To Vegas!" Gong!
Norm, Genie of The Dazzlings
Sonata idly tapped her pencil on her desk as she sat back with a bored expression on her face. The clock mounted over the teachers desk read half past eleven, meaning she still had a good fifteen minutes before she could leave for lunch. She was currently in math, and she was bored out of her mind. The work sheet she had been given was ridiculously easy and had taken her barley five minutes to finish. The teacher, a man named Simple Solution, had been skeptical when she had handed in her work sheet, but after going over it had told her to just sit quietly at her desk.
Which she had been doing. For thirty minutes. The agony.
With a moan of boredom, Sonata slid back in her chair till her chin was barley above her attached desk. Looking around from her new position, the blue girl couldn't help but be puzzled when she noticed that nearly every other student was still working on the paper.
The stuff was stupid easy. From what she could gather this was all review, so why was everyone else having a difficult time?
Sonata let a bored sigh escape her lips. "I wish Norm was here." She muttered, thinking of all the non-boring things she could do if the genie was there with her.
Suddenly, with the familiar gong and a puff of purple smoke, Norm appeared floating in the class room. He had slightly changed his appearance, he was now wearing a black tux and was adorned with various gold items.
"Alright let's see seven!" The genie cheered, seemingly not noticing that he had changed locations. Giving his hand a shake, the genie tossed a pair of dice forward, nailing Sonata in the forehead.
"Ow!" Sonata cried out at the unexpected pain, rubbing her forehead where the dice struck.
Norm, who had previously had his eyes closed, opened them at Sonatas cry. "I'm back here already? Dang, should have known it wouldn't last long. Never does." With a snap of his fingers Norm was back in his normal apparel.
"Norm? What are you doing here?" She picked the dice off the floor, "And why'd you throw dice at me?"
Looking at the dice in Sonata's hand, Norm couldn't help but smirk, "Well would you look at that? Seven again." Norm took the dice from Sonata and tossed them over his shoulder, where they landed in a shot glass in the casino he had previously been entertaining himself. "Sorry about hitting you, blue, was playing a game and hadn't noticed you called until I let those dice loose. So what do you need?"
Sonata was confused, which wasn't unusual for her. Norm had explicitly told them that the only one who could call him was whoever was currently in control, which most certainly was not her. So why had he come when she wished for him? Wait. Wish. No, it couldn't be. Could it? He had admitted that genies had lied about wishes before, what with the only three thing, so it wasn't that much of a stretch, was it?
Norm watched with amusement as his young mistress puzzled out the truth of the situation. It was hilarious to watch her face scrunch up as she thought, her tongue sticking out the corner of her mouth. He had figured she would be the one to discover he had lied about the turn rule, after all she saw through the fake limited wish rule.
As he waited for her to puzzle out the fact that she did not have to wait to make wishes, he messed with a couple of the blue girls class mates who we're currently frozen in time. He couldn't let any of the other kiddies find out what he really was, could he? Deciding he didn't like the fat kid trying to copy the girl in front of him, he maneuvered the small pocket mirror the girl had been using so it showed the boy peering over her shoulder.
"You lied about the rules again!" Sonata exclaimed, she tried to stand up quickly, only to get caught on the attached desk and knocking the wind out of herself, causing her to crumple back into her seat. "Oww..." She moaned.
Norm couldn't help but laugh at the girls misfortune. "Of course I lied," the genie replied after he calmed down, ignoring Sonatas glare, "I'm a genie, it's kind of what we do." He floated over to Sonata, "Plus, can you imagine all the work I'd have to do if you guys knew you could wish for anything at any time? I'd never get any rest!" Norm waived his hand dismissively, "But that's not important. What is important is how your going to use this to your advantage."
"My advantage?" Sonata asked, puzzled.
"Yes your advantage! What, we're you planning on running off to tell Cheese Puff and Tassels?"
Sonata gave Norm a odd look, "Cheese Puff and Tassels?"
Norm rolled his eyes, "Adagio and Aria."
"Oh!" Sonata exclaimed, before tilting her head in confusion, "I still don't get it."
Norm slapped his face before moaning in exasperation, "Forget it kid, just a couple of dumb nick-names I gave them. Now, how are you going to use the fact that you are the only one to know that my rules are bogus?"
Sonata looked at Norm for a moment, before smiling widely.
Three hours later, Six Flags Magic Mountain
"This is awesome!" Sonata shouted in excitement, hands flung into the air without a care in the world as the rollercoaster made yet another sharp turn.
"I know, right?" Norm said next to the blue girl, shouting to be heard over the combination of wind and screams.
For the past three hours the two had been going from theme park to theme park riding the most exciting rollercoasters they could find, bypassing lines with just a smidgeon of magic. Oh, and it helped that everyone was still frozen in time. Yeah, that really helped. Getting off the ride the two slowly walked, and floated, past the line of people stuck in time. As they did so, Sonata snatched a cone of cotton candy from a fat kid that looked to be in the middle of a tantrum.
Taking a huge bite from her pilfered sweet treat, Sonata turned to Norm, a face splitting smile on her face. "You know Norm," Sonata began, taking another huge bite as the walked through the park, "This has been the best day I have had since I was banished to this universe."
"Oh yeah?" Norm raised a brow, tilting his sunglasses so his purple eyes appeared over them. "What was the first?'
Sonata smiled a not quite nice smile, "The day Aria slipped on a discarded taco at this fare and crashed into Adagio while we were singing. They both wound up crashing into this stall selling Mexican food, it was hilarious!" Sonata started laughing madly, Norm joining in seconds afterwards with his own chuckle. This lasted for a few seconds until Sonata let out an excited gasp. "I got it!"
"Got what?"
"What you were hinting at earlier, it's so obvious!" Sonata jumped up and down in excitement while Norm shot her a bemused look. Calming herself down, Sonata turned to Norm with a serious expression on her face (which was ruined by the cotton candy beard she was sporting) and took a breath. "I wish that Adagio and Aria had to follow the rules you have made for wishing!" Sonata exclaimed, thrusting her hand into the sky to strike a dramatic pose. "Oh, and some more cotton candy."
Stroking his goatee, Norm mumbled, "I was hinting at Mars, but, eh. This works too." Speaking louder Norm cracks his knuckles and prepares to snap, "As you wish, kiddo. One limiter, and a cotton candy, coming right up!"
Gong!
Sonata squealed in delight as her empty cone was suddenly topped with a small mountains worth of pink, cottony, sugar.
"You know you're going to have to go back to class eventually, right?" Norm idly noted as he watched his young mistress devour the conjured candy.
"I know." Sonata said between bites, "But first, more rides!"
Norm smirked, and snapped his fingers.
Discord and Twilight blinked away the spots as the appeared in yet another universe. Taking one look at the colorful bears merrily skipping around on clouds, the two couldn't teleport away fast enough.
Author's Note
Sorry about the long delay, this chapter was a pain in the left foot to write.
So Sonata can now make wishes anytime she wants, while Adagio and Aria are stuck to four at a time before being forced to pass the power to the other. Kind of scary. Also, after this it will be pure wish mania, with wishes and troubles popping up each chapter.
Norm, Genie of The Dazzlings
Norm reclined in his chair, a rather large lay-z-boy that he had actually paid real money for instead of just magicing it up, and watched his all-time favorite show, I Dream of Jeannie. "Ah, Barbara Eden, the only human to be able to pull off playing a genie on T.V. Well, except Robin Williams, but animation doesn't count. Still, he did a reasonable job portraying that big blue lug." Norm took a sip from his glass which contained his 'special' apple juice. Special in that it was made from apples from the tree of life and would burn through any mortal that dared to drink it. To Norm, it was like drinking hot cider. It had been a week since Adagio had begun her master plan, and Norm could not be happier. He had six to seven hours a day to himself, depending on how long the girls after school activities lasted (they had not been amused when they had found out he had signed them up for a few clubs without their consent), and he didn't have to worry about being called away all the time to deal with Sonatas random wishing since she had gotten caught up in school work. All in all things seemed to be going his way.
Suddenly, the door was kicked open as a wet and angry Adagio stomped in, followed quickly by an equally wet and angry Aria and a somehow dry and cheery Sonata. Norm looked them over once before turning his attention back to the T.V., just in time to watch Jeannie turn a man into a monkey. "Hahaha! Oh, that's classic! Reminds me of that women fifty years ago, shame that poacher came around before she could find a way to wish herself back to normal." The immortal muttered to himself before taking another drink. Maybe if I ignore them they will leave me to be. Norm thought wistfully.
Sonata skipped past the T.V. and went directly to the kitchen, with Aria following after, though she sent a glare Norm's way. Adagio however, decided standing directly in front of the entertainment device would be a fine thing to do. She stood there, quietly simmering in rage, waiting for Norm to acknowledge her. Norm, not really caring, simply made the television lift above her head with a bit of magic.
Seeing that blocking the T.V. was not working, Adagio decided it would be best to simply address the genie. "Norm." She said with barely controlled rage. Norm ignored her. "Norm." She said a bit louder, he continued to ignore her. "Norm!" She screamed, finally gaining the attention of the genie.
"What?" Norm shouted back, annoyed. He didn't like having his T.V. time interrupted.
"Where were you?" Adagio growled out.
"Excuse me?" Norm lowered his shades, sending a curious look at the dripping girl before him.
"You were supposed to pick us up from the school an hour ago! We got fed up with waiting and started to walk back, only for it to start raining on us!" The leader of the sirens threw her hands up in agitation, before thrusting a finger into Norms face accusingly, "So I’ll ask again, where the hell were you?"
Norm casually moved the finger out of his face, "If you must know, Cheese Puff, I was here, watching T.V. and relaxing. Something you might want to try sometime." Norm shoved his shades back into place and stood from his chair.
"And what's that supposed to mean?" Adagio growled. She knew how to relax, it was hard to do when you had to work with a bunch of idiots. Already she had to run damage control with all of what Sonata let slip around two dozen times in the first week! And if she didn't harp on Aria, the lazy girl wouldn't do anything. Honestly, she was the only one that seemed to care about getting revenge in this place.
"Well let’s look at what you've done with an all-powerful genie at your disposal, hmm." Norm cocked an eyebrow. "You wished up a better house, wished my lamp into your fancy-smancey necklaces and forced Aria, Sonata and I to follow your 'brilliant plan.'"
"And what's wrong with those wishes?" Adagio demanded.
"They're all so practical and boring!" Norm shouted. "A home? Jewelry? Plans for revenge? Talk about predictable. I mean, I was getting excited at first because I figured, 'Oh, she wants some reconnaissance so she knows how to hurt them? Alright, two days and she'll do something exciting with that last wish.' But nooo! You've just been playing the part of some shy wimpy teen who can’t look anyone in the face for a week and haven't done anything ! And you haven't even let the other two relax! You're always on everyone's case." Norm sat back in his chair, a little red in the face from his little rant. "Seriously, you need to relax." Norm took long sip from his drink. And rant followed by stupid wish in three, two, one . . .
Adagio suddenly got very red in the face, anger swelling within her. She prepared to verbally lash out at the genie, but forced herself to calm down. It would do her no good to get into a larger fight with the genie. "You know what, Norm? You're right. My wishes are boring and practical. You know why? Because I'm the one who has to be mature here, I have to watch over those two idiots," An indignity 'hey!' came from the kitchen, but was ignored by both genie and siren, "and make sure they don't do something that will get themselves killed! If Sonata had her way we'd be swimming in junk food and the moon would be made of cheese, or something like that, and Aria would just figure a way to get out of doing work. Or bring about the apocalypse." Adagio muttered, gazing off into the distance and shuddering a little. "And you," She began, recovering from the horrible visions that had played out in her head, "just float around all day doing nothing but watch T.V.!" She stomped her foot. "You don't even help with the chores!"
"What do I look like, a maid?" Norm snarked. "I'm an all powerful genie here to grant your wishes, not do your laundry."
"Well you could help out, you don't do anything all day. I'm sure you could use your magic to at least do the dishes!" Adagio threw her hands in the air in exasperation. "I mean, I have to clean everything around here, or else this place would turn into a bigger mess than it was before you came along! Aria won't help, I won't let Sonata help after last time." Adagio sighed and crossed her arms over her chest, "I wish that I didn't have to be the mature one around here, I really do, but if I'm not then no one will be. And then what?" Adagio turned to walk away, now that she had said her piece she really wanted to get out of her wet clothing.
"I guess we'll get to find out." Norm said with a smirk, just as Adagio walked out of the room. He hadn't had a chance to really mess with any of the three beyond his fake turned real rules, and was not about to let an opportunity like this to pass him by.
Gong!
Norm, Genie of The Dazzlings
Your Time Is Running Out pt.1
Author's Note
So I noticed I haven't updated in, like, forever. I am rather busy at the moment, but didn't want ya'll to think I went and died on ya, so here's part one of 'Your Time Is Running Out'. BTW, if you liked the last chapter, l have been considering taking it and making a side fic for this one from it. So if you want that, let me know, or tell me if you just want it every few chapters.
Your Time Is Running Out pt.1
Sunset let out a sigh of disappointment as she closed the magic journal that she had been checking for the past week. As she had come to expect there was no response from her friend on the other side of the portal. Honestly, she was beginning to worry that something had happened to Twilight.
Silently she put the book back on the desk she kept it on and turned her thoughts back on the past week. She had been tense after seeing the Dazzlings again, but had to admit the rest of the week had been relatively quiet. So quiet she was beginning to doubt that these girls were the Dazzlings she and her friends had fought in the battle of the bands. They acted so different from the girls she had fought. Adagio was shy and timed, rarely speaking up and always staying close to one of her sisters when she could, nothing like the confident and rather boisterous leader Sunset had the misfortune of knowing. Aria was sweet and kind, always willing to help and just having a general good vibe, nothing like the sarcastic grouch from before. And Sonata was, well, Sonata. Almost Pinkie Pie-ish in a way.
Then there was the fact that these three had a dad. She had seen Mr. MacDonald pick the three up multiple times and had even talked to him once or twice. None of them had tried to do anything harmful, in fact they had been down right pleasant. However, Sunset still had he suspicions. She didn't know if it was just her imagination, but sometimes she could swear she would see one or more of the supposed sirens glaring at her out the corner of her eye, mostly Adagio though. Then there was the fact Sonata was always bumming money off Fluttershy, always claiming to have forgotten her lunch, or needing bus fare or something . Rarity always seemed to be losing things while around Aria, though they always turned up latter and there was no way to prove the maybe-siren had anything to do with it.
Sunset shook her head. Perhaps it was all coincidence. She was getting paranoid. She could be misinterpreting the glares, after all she only saw them from the corner of her eye. Sonata only asked for small amounts of money, and did frequently take the bus to visit the animal shelter. Plus, it was only one week, she would get suspicious if it kept up, though. She only had suspicions about Aria's involvement with Rarity's constantly missing items, and anyway Aria always offered to help Rarity find whatever had turned up missing.
But, still, something about those girls left her uneasy.
I wish you were here, Twilight. You'd know what to do.
Aria let out a groan of frustration as she stared at the mess before her. She didn't know how or why, but in the time it took her to take a quick shower and change into some warm pajamas, purple shirt and pants with stars on them, the house had been turned upside down. Furniture was knocked over, pots and pans were scattered across the floor, flour was everywhere, laundry was piled in mounds in the living room, and Sonata was knocked out over the overturned sofa, drenched in milk. That's not even mentioning the shoe prints on the ceiling.
How is that even possible? Aria idly thought as she picked her way through the scattered DVDs/Blue-rays and silverware that were scattered across the floor. And where the heck is Adagio? And Norm, for that matter. Man, he is going to be so ticked off when he finds his favorite chair has been knocked over like this, it's going to be hilarious. I wonder if I'll be able to get his reaction on camera? Aria stepped past the aforementioned chair with a smirk, it had been knocked over and covered in flour, leaving it in a right mess.
Eventually, after much painstaking tiptoeing, Aria reached Sonata, and reached over to wake her in the gentlest way she knew how. "Hey, wake up stupid!" Aria shouted as she slapped the back of Sonatas' head.
Sonata shot up like a rocket, sending droplets of milk flying and rubbed the back of her head. However, instead of yelling at her like she had expected, instead Sonata tackled Aria to the ground, just in time as a small water ballon flew through the air right where Aria had been standing. The balloon explode against the floor, showering the floor in milk. Giggling could be heard coming from a pile of clothes not to far away.
"Sonata?" Aria growled out.
"Yes?" Sonata replied from her position on top of Aria.
"What the fez is going on here?" Aria shouted out, pushing the blue girl off her and sitting up, only to receive a water ballon to the face. Luckily, the milk-filled plastic projectile failed to explode, and thus left the purple girl dry, though it did nothing to sooth her growing temper.
"I have no idea." Sonata replied honestly, wringing some milk out of her hair. "I walked out of my room to grab a granola bar, and the next thing I know I'm being attacked by the invisible giggler!"
"The invisible giggler?" Aria asked, struggling not to face palm.
"Well, I haven't seen them, and they always giggle! What else was I suppose to call our mysterious attacker of mystery, hmm?"
Aria didn't bother with a reply, instead focusing on the pile of clothes, or rather, the orange hair that was peeking over the top of the mound of clothes. "You have got to be kidding me." Aria muttered under her breath, before quickly and quietly making her way towards the pile of clothes.
Norm laughed with glee as he watched the hockey players flounder about in the large pool that had formerly been a hockey ring, spectators and officials scrambling about trying to help the miserable Canadian sports men out of the water. With a sinister smirk and a snap, a octopus the size of a minivan gonged into existence and began grabbing at the players. With it's eight great tentacles, the spineless monster began dragging the screaming Canadians to their watery doom.
Satisfied with his work, Norm gonged himself from the hockey ring to a random Canadian town. Using his great magic once more, Norm turned every Canadian in the town, which was basically everyone, into a bear, before gonging all the new bears into the next town over, where they proceeded to run wild.
"There's nothing like going on a rampage through Canada to relax." Norm sighed happily, floating lazily over the carnage bellow. He watched the carnage for a few minutes, enjoying the pain of the country he hated most. Occasionally he would unleash some new twist, a tornado, earthquakes, tidal waves (never mind they were in the middle of the country), or some other natural disaster to add to his twisted fun.
Norm let out a loud laugh as a tornado sucked up a number of bears and Canadians, before depositing the people in a zoo habitat and the bears just outside. However, the Canada hating genie was brought out of his jovial mood when he suddenly felt it again. It being a large magical presence trying to teleport into the universe. With a sigh he redirected the incoming magical into a random universe. Again. This was the third time today, and he knew he would have to do it again. It was beginning to become annoying.
"Alright, that's done. Now, what should I do next…" Norm suddenly felt a very familiar tugging sensation. "Aww, smoof." Shoulders slumping, Norm snapped his fingers, gonging away, returning Canada to the way he found it, unfortunately.
Reappearing in the living room of his three mistresses, Norm shoved his sunglasses into their proper position and crossed his arms. "Alright, I'm here, what do you… What in Barbra Eden's fabulous career happened here?" The almighty genie shouted in shock at the absolute disaster that was formerly known as a house. It was trashed, wrecked, and the other occupants were no better. Sonata was caked in trash, her cloths rumpled and hair in disarray. Aria wasn't much better, missing half a pants leg, hair a mess, and had bite marks all along her arms. Both girls were leaning against a door Norm knew to lead to a rather large closet with looks of horror on their faces, Aria was franticly rubbing her necklace. The door was rattling ominously, like some rabid beast was trying desperately to claw it's way out.
Norm, Genie of The Dazzlings
Super Special Non-Canon Chapter One Go!
Author's Note
Happy Birthday oh fic of mine! Yup, it's been one year since I first started this on a lark. So I thought I should write something for it, and I really don't know what happened here. it kind of just went it's own direction.
I'm not sorry though.
Super Special Non-Canon Chapter One Go!
Using every bit of sneakiness that she possessed (which was actually a fair bit), Sonata carefully sneaked her way sneakily into the living room, making extra sure to avoid dragging her satchel into anything. It wouldn't die to give her position away. She didnt want to hurt what was inside. Today was a very, very important day, and she was determined to make it a great very, very important day. Carefully, Sonata creeped up behind the couch, directly behind Aria and Adagio, ignoring Norm's questioning look, Sonata leaned forward. The sack squirmed a bit, but Sonata choose to ignore it.
"Happy anniversary!" Sonata shouted at the top of her lungs, startling the two sitting girls so badly, they fell out of their seats. In the background, the T.V let out a round of laughs as it continued doing it's one job. Well, it did, until a sandal was thrown through it courtesy of an irate Aria. The two downed Dazzlings turned to yell at their idiotic third member, only to stop as two rather large presents were shoved rather abrubtly into their faces. "I brought presents!" The blue girl chirped. The more sane members of the trio accepted their gifts, while Norm looked on with a frown.
"What, nothing for me?" Norm asked with a scowl. Sure he could gong up whatever he wanted but it was the principal of the thing.
"Of course not silly, these are our anniversary gifts, gifts for us surviving another year with eachother, you've only been stuck with us for a week and some days."
"Well it feels like a year." Norm muttered to himself, before slinking away muttering something that strongly implied that Canada would not be having a good day.
Meanwhile, Aria and Adagio were eyeing their gifts suspiciously. Sonata had a habit of gifting things that were either A) dangerous, B) stolen or C) illegal and or immoral. Aria still had nightmares from the time Sonata had given her a 'baby' tiger for her birthday that she had stolen from the zoo. The 'baby' had actually been an adolescent and had weighed about twice as much as she had. She was lucky the thing had only mildly mauled her before it escaped out the window. And by mildly maul, she means it only scratched her to hell instead of tearing off an arm or causing other serious damage. Still, she was both traumatized and ticked off by the incident. Adagio was lucky, she had only been arrested three times do to Sonatas 'gifts', and deported once.
So it was with great reluctance that the two opened their presents.
"Sonata are these...tasers?" Adagio asked tentatively, lifting said item carefully out of its box.
Aria accidentally pressed a button on the side, causing her non lethal tool of self defense to start with a zap.
"Yup!" Sonata once again chirped, before dragging her sack around the couch so the others could see it. "I wanted to get guns, but they wouldn't sell me any. Apparently you need to be eighteen-not that I'm not, but they wouldn't take my 'immortal siren' explanation seriously- and pass a psychological exam or something. And then you got to get a permit and wait and blah blah blah." Sonata used her hand to mime some one talking while rolling her eyes. "It sounded like a lot of work, so I grabbed some tasers instead!"
"And why do we need tasers?" Aria asked in honest curiosity. She actually liked it, the idea of briefly electrocuting someone appealing to her violent side, and it wasn't illegal. What she wanted to know was why Sonata thought it would be a good idea. Especially since her original plan was guns.
"I thought, since we're mortal now, we could use some self defense. Also, have you tried making popcorn with a taser? It's delicious! And it's way faster than using a stupid microwave!"
"If you say so." Adagio muttered, before pointing at the struggling sack. "What's in the bag?"
Instead of answering, Sonata grinned fiendishly and opened the bag, revealing a bound and gagged Sunset Shimmer in a set of 'My Little Marsupial' pajamas. The bound equestrian turned human blinked to adjust to the light, before glaring tiredly at her captor. It was obvious that the bound girl had been crying, out of rage or fear was unclear, and had bags under eye's.
"Ta-da!" Sonata exclaimed.
"Sonata," Adagio began, voice dangerously low, "why is Sunset fezzing Shimmer bound and gagged in a sack!"
"Because she didn't fit in my duffle bag."
Aria stopped playing with her taser and narrowed her eye's, "Sonata, you don't have a duffel bag."
"Yes I do! It's purple, and has little pink ball things eating ice-cream on it!"
Aria growled, "That's my Kirby bag, and you know it!"
"Ya well, sharing is caring Aria!" Sonata stuck her tongue out at her fellow siren, feeling smug about her witty reply.
"Enough!" Adagio cut in before the argument could continue. "Now Sonata, why did you grab Sunset Shimmer?"
"Because she was the only one I could grab! I mean, I tried to get Flutterby, but she has, like, a hundred animals guarding her place! I think I even saw a bunny in a tank! And I couldn't remember which one was Rarity when I got to her place, and Rainbow Dash is off at some spots thingy, I kinda like Pinkie Pie, Purple Smart is in our old dimension and I don't know where Applesmack lives. So I had to grad Sunset." Sonata counted off each reason, raising a finger for each, and completely ignoring the looks of utter disbelief on the other three's faces.
Adagio raised a finger, looked like she was about to asked something, then stopped, thought about it and sighed. "Ignoring that, how long has she been in the sack, because honestly, she looks like cra-". She was suddenly cut off as Sonata placed her hand over her mouth.
"Language!" Sonata shouted, "There are young ears present." She pointed at the still bound and gagged Sunset, who was wobbling unsteadily from where she was kneeling on the floor.
Aria scoffed, "Really?"
"Yes, really." Sonata huffed, placing her hands on her hips, "I will not stand by and allow our youth to be corrupted by such foul language."
"But it's okay to kid nap them and shove them in a sack?"
"That's different." Sonata scoffed, waiving her hand dismissively.
"Ya? How so?" Adagio asked, arms crossed. Beside her Sunset collapsed, stomach growling fiercely, and managed to let out a pitiful moan.
"This is revenge! It has no rules!" Sonata shouted before flinging her arms in the air.
"So, wait. You kidnapped Sunset Shimmer in the name of revenge?"
"Yup, I mean, it's not like you were doing anything about it, so I thought, 'why not make gift of it?' So now we can do whatever we want to her for taking our powers!"
The three sirens as one gazed down at the bound Sunset, who could only let out a small whimper as they all adopted wicked smiles.
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Norm gonged back to the house much happier then when he left, though he immediately regretted returning as he was assaulted by what could only be compared to a cat going through a wood chipper whilst dragging its claws against a black board in a desperate attempt to save itself. In other words, the de-powered Dazzling's were singing. Gonging himself temporarily deaf, Norm took a moment to take in the scene before him without the horrendous sound causing him pain. His three mistresses were standing before a girl he barely recognized as Sunset Something-or-other bound to the couch. They had a karaoke machine before them, a collection of snacks on the coffee table and smiling the biggest smiles even as the poor bound girl screamed bloody murder. Or maybe it was because she was in such obvious distress. Either way, he felt a small amount of pity for the girl.
Norm sent the girl a small, pitiful look, before moving towards the kitchen. He could really use some taser popcorn after a long day of torturing Canada.
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Norm, Genie of The Dazzlings
We Interupt This String of Lyric Based Chapter Titles to Bring You Something Completly Diffrent; Or; Twilight and Discords Multiversal Addventures Part 1.
You can skip this chapter with little to no consequences.
Twilight and Discord appeared in a random field of fire in a flash of light, only to disappear in another flash of light seconds later.
"Discord," Twilight began with a sigh as the duo appeared in a world that seemed to be made entirely out of clouds, only to be whisked away as the irritated spirit of disharmony snapped them away to another world, "admit it," they appeared over a pool of liquid nitrogen, "we're lost." The duo reappeared in front of a small purple house with a gigantic satellite dish on it's roof. Strange mechanical gnomes sat in the garden, their dull red eye's coming to life at the pairs sudden arrival.
"Oh Twilight," Discord began, waging his finger in front of Twilights face, "Twilight, Twilight, Twilight. We're not lost," Twilight raised an eyebrow in disbelief, "we are hopelessly, horrendously lost!" Discord cried out, wrapping his mismatched arms around Twilight while crying orange tears that smelled suspiciously like hamburgers.
Twilight let out a sigh and patted the crying spirit on the back. "There, there, I'm sure well find our way eventually. Though, perhaps we should find someone to ask directions."
Instantly Discord stopped crying and stood back, an insulted look on his face. "My dear Twilight, how dare you say that!"
"Say what?" Twilight asked, confused.
The door to the house they had been standing in front of slowly opened, allowing a green dog to peek it's head out to gaze at the alicorn and spirit.
"You dare insinuate that I, Discord, Spirit of Disharmony, Master of Disaster, Lord of Chaos, Duke of Equestria, Knight of Saddle Arabia, ruler of the dimension omicri perci eight and five times winner of Equestria's first annual bowling tournament need to ask for directions!" Discord crossed his arms and huffed, "The very thought!"
The green dog slowly walked out the door, it's zipper shining on it's chest, and began walking up to the two, still unnoticed.
"You just told me we were lost! And what do you do when you're lost? Ask for directions! It's not a hard a concept to grasp!" Twilight shouted at her companion, stomping a hoof on the concrete.
The green dog sat down near the two, still unnoticed, and pulled a muffin out of . . . somewhere and began to happily munch on it.
"And who am I suppose to ask, Twilight? We're popping through universes, not going to the nerd store! It's not like I can just go up to some smuck on the street and say 'hey, do you known where Equestria High universe is?'"
Twilight was about to say something, most likely some remark about how Discord should have brought a map, or maybe something about the nerd store, when the little green not-a-dog spoke up in an adorably irritating voice. "Oo, oo, I know where that is!"
Discord and Twilight stared at shock at the green dog with the zipper on it's chest. The green dog just smiled and tossed the rest of it's muffin into the air before catching it in it's mouth, eating the entire thing in one bite. Discord and Twilight looked at each other uncertainly.
"You do?" Twilight asked, looking the dog over. Green fur over the majority of it's body save it's black arms, legs and ears. The oddest thing about it was the zipper on it's chest, but from popping up in all the random worlds lately, she dismissed it as just something creatures in this world had. The world where everything had a windup key in their back was creepier than having a zipper on your chest in her opinion. Besides, the thing was kind of cute.
"Uh-hu!" The creature answered, drawing it out, with a smile.
Twilight smiled at the green dog before turning to Discord with a smirk. "See? All we had to do was ask. So, uh . . ." Twilight stuttered, realizing she had no idea who the dog was, "What's your name?"
"I'm GIR!" The dog said cheerfully, before pulling a large pig out of . . . somewhere, "And this is my pig! I loves him." GIR cooed as he rubbed his face against the swine.
"Right." Twilight said, ignoring GIR and his pig. Discord looked extremely amused. "GIR here knows how to get there. So GIR, how do we get there?"
"I'll tell you," GIR began in a sing song voice, "but only if you dance with me." GIR smiled, his tongue sticking out. The little dog began to dance a silly dance on top of his pig, who just seemed bored. Or sleepy, maybe both.
Discord shrugged and began to shuffle, much like he did in that window pane almost a year ago. Twilight just looked at the dog in disbelief.
"Come on Miss Purple Pants, dance with me. Dance!" The madly dancing dog screamed excitedly. Twilight sighed and began to shuffle about, doing what could be loosely defined as dancing. The three danced on the sidewalk for a couple minutes, only tow of them enjoying it, gaining some attention from the passing humans. However, considering the house they were in front of always had something going on, they were mostly ignored.
"All right, we danced with you," Twilight said a few minutes later, "can you please tell us how to get to Canterlot High now?"
GIR smiled a wide smile, "I don't know."
Twilight nearly exploded, "What?" She tore at her mane, "I danced in the street like an idiot and you don't even know how to get there?"
"I know how to get there!"
Twilight glared at him. "You just said that you don't know!"
GIR tilted his head, "Oh yeah. Well I do now. The computer told me."
"And where exactly did this 'computer' tell you it was?" Discord asked in his best Marlon Brando impersonation, petting a cat while leaning in a chair. GIR, now wearing clothes like Michael Corleone, was quick and happy to respond.
"He said it was in universal coordinates . . . oh look, the ice cream man!" GIR ran past Discord towards the ice cream man who managed to spot GIR and began running like the hounds of hell were after him. And for good reason, because as soon as GIR got close enough, he launched himself at the poor man, crashing into him and his cart, sending ice cream everywhere.
Twilight watched as GIR began to devour the entire contents of the ice cream cart. "He's crazy." Twilight muttered in a mix of disgust and awe as she watched the dog shove a kiddie pools worth into his mouth.
"I like him." Discord said between licks of his own ice cream cone. He casually offered a cone to Twilight, who refused due to a sudden lack of interest in the frozen treat.
"You would." Twilight replied. "So are you ready to try again?"
Discord sneakily glanced over at Twilight, "I thought you wanted to ask GIR for directions?"
Twilight winced, "After seeing what he did to that poor ice cream man, I'm not so sure I want to. Besides, I doubt he really knows."
Discord nodded, "So we danced in the street for no reason?"
Twilight let out an irritated sigh, "It looks like it."
"Great!" Discord smiled, "Well, let's hope that this next leap, is the leap there! Arrivederci!" Just as Discord was about to snap his fingers, a green missile launched itself at the duo.
"I got choco tacos for you!" GIR shouted in excitement, making contact just as Discord snapped, sending them to the next world.
Author's Note
So this is what Discord and Twilight are going through. Popping up in different universes trying to find their way to Sunset and the others. Unfortunately they are completely and utterly lost. As for the whole GIR thing . . .
. . . I don't even know.
