The slam of a door echoed across the one bedroom style apartment as a girl walked inside throwing the keys down.
A note had been left on the table for the orange haired girl, which she picked up.
“Damn boss called Sonata and I back, won’t be home till later tonight, don’t wait up”
~Aria.
The girl stared at the sheet of paper for a few seconds before her fingers curled and violently crumpled it up throwing it across the room, where it landed with a soft thud on the mahogany floor boards.
Sauntering over to the couch in front of the giant plasma screen the sisters had managed to get before they lost their powers Adagio grabbed the remote and turned it on. It was news.
“Great” she muttered bitterly.
As the reporter continued her discussion on the oddities surrounding Canterlot High, the siren felt a rush of anger flow through at the mention of the school.
“Canterlot High” she managed the words through gritted teeth.
The very place of her greatest failure, and most humiliating defeat. To make things worse they’d been beaten by...children- infants, nonetheless. She began grinding her teeth as the thought dawned on her despite it almost being a year now.
Every time Canterlot High was mentioned she could always feel herself going into a rage. It was a topic she never wanted to remember, ever again.
It took awhile for Adagio to even realize that she’d been clawing into the sofa she was sitting in. Sadly it seemed her claw marks had done some damage to her favorite seat, motes of foam slightly popped out where the eldest siren sister had clawed.
She frowned. “Great” she sighed begrudgingly. “Rent will be due in a week and now I’m going to have to worry about fixing this” she muttered to herself lifting a hand to rub her temple.
As the siren did so an image caught her eye. It was a picture of her and her sisters during the , battle of the bands, when they had been wearing the dresses they used to attend that very fateful night of their defeat.
The frown only grew as she remembered how they had to sell those clothes in order to earn enough to rent this...pathetic excuse for a home she thought her eyes scanning the slightly less than satisfactory building.
The siren couldn’t help but sigh again as something else caught her eye. The jewelry box next to the photo. Getting up from her stationary the siren walked over and opened it, a mixture of anger and grief falling on her like a waterfall as she stared at the shattered remains of her pendant.
Their heritage. Their magic. Their everything.
It was something they’d managed to get for the other jewelry they had before the battle against those children, she grimaced. The jewelry which they had to sell in order to survive.
For a while the girl stared silently at the remnants of what used to be her magic, before she quietly closed the lid to the box setting it down gently, moving over to the only room in the building.
It’s been nine months since the battle of the bands, during that time span and their brutal defeat the siren sisters had arguments over who’s fault it was. When everything went wrong, why everything went wrong. They’d been through various trials.
The first was their horrid defeat, leaving them not only without magic, but made them feeling nothing but...vulnerable.
Even after they’d been cast into this horrid jail, they still had their pendants. The one thing that had made them feel safe and secure the entire time, it was knowing they had those pendants. Knowing they were there that kept them going through the tough times, gathering magic. Just enough so they could return home. But then the Rainbooms suddenly destroyed any chances of the three sisters returning at the hands of their defeat. They were so close, oh so very close.
“Till the Rainbooms ruined everything” a scowl forming as she walked into the less than stylish room. The only thing in it was a small wardrobe, the bed and three pillows. There were sheets, but no covers, something they’d need to fix eventually if they wanted to continue living in this awful world.
Laying down on the bed, Adagio stared at the faded paint on the ceiling that seemed to be peeling away, with time. Something she and her sisters had begun to realize they may have a little too much of.
“When did my life become such a sad sham?” she thought staring at the blank ceiling before her.
“Was it really that bad to hope for something good to happen to us when we got here?” she thought the image of Sonata’s shoulders heaving as she sobbed the night they were defeated. The terribly sad and anger filled look Aria had, and the moment she realized...she had failed them. Not just as their leader, but as their older sister.
A burning sensation began to sting the siren’s eyes as the thought from nine months ago imprinted itself firmly in her mind.
No she thought biting her lip and forcing the tears back. Crying is something she would never bring herself to do. Especially not now, not when her sisters needed her the most.
“Didn’t cry when we lost our pendants” she muttered swallowing the lump in her throat. “Can’t cry now.”
Staring off into space Adagio felt her eye-lids become heavy. Slowly she blinked as sleepiness enveloped her mind, before she knew it the siren was sound asleep. Dreaming of returning back home with her sisters. Their magic and true forms restored.
A pair of footsteps loudly clamped their way inside the one bedroom apartment. The two younger sisters walked in shutting and locking the door as they entered. Aria walked over to the chair and flopped over it with a sneer on her face.
“Work. Was. A. Biiitch!” she exclaimed kicking off her boots as she brushed a bang out of her face.
“Aria!” the younger sister exclaimed. “Watch your mouth young lady!” she scolded.
“I’m older than you idiot” she stated grimly.
“Oh...yeah” Sonata said twirling her thumbs around looking flustered.
Aria rolled her eyes before getting up, and moving over to their room. Opening the door the two found their older sister awake, laying in bed.
The siren lifted her head up. “Hey you two” she stated propping herself up in the bed patting either side. “Join me?”
Sonata immediately left Aria’s side and sat next to Adagio, flashing a small weak smile Aria’s way she said “Cmon Ari, don’t be a sour puss.”
Aria simply rolled her eyes with disgust and stood back watching her two sisters. Though after a couple of seconds the girl sneered "Bite me" she muttered, reluctantly joining her sisters on the bed, she faced Adagio.
“What’s this about?”
The siren remained silent for a while, thinking of what she wanted to say.
“It’s time we try and find a way back.”
“But Dagi we can’t” Sonata said gloomily. “We don’t have our magic anymore remember? They took it away from us” she frowned taking out the shattered remains of the pendant in her pouch.
“Don’t remind me” Aria scowled. “What makes you think we can get back without our magic anyway?”
“They used Equestrian magic right?” Adagio paused making sure her sisters understood where she was going with this. When they nodded she continued. “Well since we’ve been trapped in this infernal place, we’ve never sensed magic like that before right?”
The two nodded, “Then that means” she pressed waiting for them to suss the point. Aria’s eyes lit up, which made her break into a grin. Sonata took a second to follow up before saying
“They must have bought special tacos from an important taco stand!” she exclaimed.
The two sirens gave her a confused look.
“W-what in Equestria do tacos have anything to do with what I’m saying” Adagio almost yelled.
“I’m hungry” she pouted.
“You’re always hungry” the twin-tailed girl commented.
“Am not!” Sonata retorted, clearly offended by the statement.
“Are too!” Aria said flipping one of Sonata’s bang’s with a smirk.
“Am not!”
“Are too!”
“Am-”
“GIRLS!!” Adagio screeched slapping both hands over their mouths. “I’m saying that if Equestrian magic got in here somehow. Then we need to figure out how and from where.”
Her sisters nodded in agreement as she removed her hand from their mouths.
“But you know there’s no way they’re going to tell us how exactly they got access to magic right?” Aria said.
“Maybe if we force them?” Sonata suddenly said.
The two sisters paused, Aria looking more surprised that Sonata would ever recommend violence and not something food related. Adagio on the other hand looked pleased.
“Not a bad idea” Adagio said a smirk creasing her lips.
“You sure?” Aria asked skeptically, doubting they’d ever go through with it. “I don’t think three girls without any magic powers of any kind let alone trapped girls now working for a living, will pose much of a threat” she said flatly.
“Oh...we’ll find a way” Adagio said confidently getting up from the bed and walking towards the wardrobe. Pulling out a drawer, she stuck her hand inside and dug out the picture of the Rainbooms that had been used to represent them, before the battle of the bands. Next she pulled out a pair of scissors.
“We’ll get them to talk... And we’ll make sure everyone pays, not just because we lost everything in this pathetic world, but because we were punished without a true reason” she said snipping the heads off of each Rainboom but stopping at Sunset Shimmer.
“And we’ll make sure that before we leave. We ruin everything they’ve worked for. Much like how they, ruined us.” and with that scissors chopped off Sunset’s head severing it from the rest of the poster.
As the paper fell slowly to the ground the three sisters watched it fall to their feet.
Adagio smirked.
“We’ll make them all pay" her words radiating pure and utter hatred.
