The legend of Lake Parthenope

The manager of the cabin rentals shuffled the papers on his desk as the three young ladies sat patiently on the other side of his desk, he couldn't help but pick up a hint of malicious intent as they smirked at him playfully. "Okay ladies; that's the two story cabin with the patio and the cable package, you do have the required five hundred deposit to pay for the rental?" He asked with the air of a cheerful salesman, Adagio leaned back in her chair before waving her long shapely fingers with ruby red painted nails over his face, blue sparks emitted softly from the tips.

"We already gave you our deposit." She said smirking as her eyes glowed with a soft hue of blue mixing with her natural crimson,

"You already gave me the deposit." He said dreamily smiling and melting at her touch as she ran her fingers over his face.

"You just put it in your wallet by mistake." She said with a giggle giving a little pinch like a baby on his cheek. making him go redder than a tomato.

"I just put it in my wallet by mistake.....Oh Silly me I put your deposit in my wallet that uhhh that goes in the lock box not there." He said chuckling nervously as he put five hundred of his own simoleons unknowingly in the box. The three half human sirens looking at him giggling silent inside, it felt so good to have this power back...but then...why didn't it feel AS good as when their vocals alone made legions of people want to adore them? "Well everything seems to be in order would you ladies like a tour of the lake on the way?"

Aria quickly raised a hand saying a casual "No that won't be nessi." But Sonata in her usual perky happy go lucky self chimed in front of her a blue hand over her mouth as she rebutted with a cheerful.

"Of course Mr. we'd be happy to have you show us around to our cabin." She said with a giddy little "SQUEE!" Making the slightly older and more...refined and intricate of the trio look at her, Aria in annoyance and Adagio the same. The manager placed a tan fishing hat with several tacky lures and hooks nestled in the brow on his head and lead the three girls out into the fresh mountain air of the Everfree National park; tall oaks and pines surrounding the one hundred and ninety one square miles of the crystal blue waters. They made their way down the trail from his office cabin; the manager going over how the cabins were arranged on the other side of the lake for them, and a little bit of the lake's own mythos.

They reached the top of the ridge where the cabins were arranged the Sweetstuff's just a short walk away, Sonata couldn't keep herself from giggling and blushing as she read the number over the front door, Sixty-nine. "Real mature Sonata," Aria chimed when her friend noticed the crudeness of the placement. just outside the two story cabin, made with logs in the style of the frontier tradition, two stories with a lake view balcony for the upstairs bedroom.

"Do you gals know where the name lake Parthenope comes from?" The manager asked leaning over the patio railing and looking out over the placid surface. The Dazzlings did know that name all too well, back in Equestria in a memory all but lost to time, the name Parthenope had been that of the mother of Adagio Dazzle, while Aria's had been Ligeia, and Sonata's was known as Leucosia. The very same sirens that had lured all but the bravest of the Greek sailors to their deaths, the ones who had hoped their daughters would carry a legacy onward but where probably now (if they were even still alive back in Equestria) only looking...up at them with shame for their failure. He told the legend of the sirens right on down to the detail of Odessus foiling their mothers by having his crew plug their ears, while he was tied down to the mast. Not realizing just how much it was hitting them on an emotional level.

When the sirens (the mother's not the daughters) failed to capture Odessus, they met with a terrible fate. The Fates to be exact. The fates in their infinite wisdom and in being neither aligned with good or evil, simply felt that the elder sirens failure was a sign that they had outlived their usefulness in making their web of the known world spin. They wordless and emotionlessly cut the sirens lifelines, as they do with all but the most immortal of beings. They took The Dazzlings mothers from them and the rest....well...you get the idea.

"You see that little island out their on the center of the lake?" The manager asked pointing to it. The girls looked out and did see a small island no bigger than maybe a pitcher's mound with very muddy ground around it. The island had only one notable feature about it, a statue of a beautiful looking woman on the little space that could be offered to it, and a white carved wooden canoe tied to a stake on the bank. "To this day we still don't know who carved that statute or why, but when Parthenope Lake was first founded our founders mistook it for a statue of one of the sirens from The Odyssey, so we named the lake after Parthenope."

"Mistook?" Said Adagio looking looking at the statue not taking her eyes off it. It was almost as if...It was calling out to her...calling her...home. "Why or how for that matter, Would anyone mistake that for a statue of a siren? What else could she be?" She said softly still looking at the statue feeling an odd sense of familiarity and also clarity.

"It's not of the siren...but the mother, That is a statue to the Goddess or muse of music, Terpsichore."

"Why name the lake and town after the siren if the statue's of the muse?" Adagio asked.

"We didn't realize the error until a note was left on the mayor's door one day saying it's not to Parthenope it's to Terpsichore, signed The Artist. hmmm you know if you ask me I think it's better off that statute be to the muse rather than the siren, who would want something so vile, and disgusting a creature as a siren on the middle of a beautiful lake am I right ladies?" He said without any idea, just how deep his words where cutting the three. On the surface; they seemed to nod and say "yeses" and "of courses," but inside they felt as if they guy had indirectly just insulted them and got a kick out of doing it.