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Blind and Spellbound at CHS
the start ... all it takes a seed and mayhaps a bit'o magic
"yellow?? this thing on?"
"it's working. the green light on, master Kai."
"oh, green means 'on'? cause I can't see remember?"
yes, sir
"thanks Halloween. so i'm Kai, Kai bound sword. and i am currently flying to a new world. one that my blind aura eyes won't be a hindrance. and this incorrigible pumpkin doll is Halloween. say hello, Halloween." Kai said into the microphone.
"greetings little black box. you are doing a grate job as a scribe." Halloween crooned in her husky, sing song voice.
"good. now our reality is coming up in 12, . . . 10, . . . 7, . . . 4, . . . 1 . . . . . . breaking fourth wall now!
Canterlot city
the ally behind sugar cube corner
5:40p.m. on a Wednesday
three girls were panhandling all they were worth in front of the sweets shop. they were once the majestic sirens, the dazzlings. a whistling growing in pitch till KA-BOOM
a ball of something hi the back parking lot.
there a teenage boy wearing a pair of black slacks, brown work-boots, a sandy tan long-coat, gray long shirt, a white fedora with a blue, red and yellow braided ribbon. the well dressed teen was standing in the middle of a rather large bonfire. working to quell the blue-white flames was a smallish, famine figure that was wearing a ratty ivy green cloak and a pumpkin as a helmet. the figure was hefting a comically big duffle bag. just then the boy spoke.
"welcome my fellow casters! what do I owe the honor? you should know my power is equal to the teach fear to a eldritch nightmare. now name, gender and either source. come now me and Halloween don't have time to dally."
the purple haired siren, by the name of one 'aria blaze' spoke up in a non-caring tone. "why should we? what would we gain? it's not like we're rolling in cash."
the smaller girl(? named Halloween by some cruel trick of fate,) who had finished fire duty spoke in. "a powerful ally is surely worth a thousand vaults of gold."
the siren with orange poufy locks looked thoughtful then, a 'adagio dazzle'. "sonata! aria! guppy huddle!"
Halloween was giving me a read on what these jokers were. I could see water/void mana in each. but if I could trust them was doubtful. but a pawns they would do wonders.
the authoritative one, the one who's name reminds me of cheese, spoke. "okay you got me and my sisters attention this is our turf do well and you'll move up our ranks but embarrass any of us, look out!"
"how dare matchsticks seek to tell a bonfire is your lesser. I aught to aarrgggaa!"
"beta, gamma, delta."i said pointing to adagio then aria, lastly sonata. "tell me your name first will do. and tell me why your level is so high but your so weak. then we find a way to get better."
even blind I could feel the power behind 'beta's' glare. even I felt a bit of a shiver IMPRESSIVE, VERY IMPRESSIVE
"do we have to?" the one dubbed 'gamma' whined. "yes if he can get our voices back I would make a pack with discord himself, now hush!!" beta snapped fiercely. "I am adagio lead siren of this troop the one with the rotten attitude is aria. and the one being a mime in a box is sonata.
". . . kai, kai bound sword. the pleasure is undoubtedly yours my maiden of the sea. I was wondering about the mix of water/void magic in your soul." I say nonchalantly.
I donno daga unless he can get us some food and a decent bed tonight. he no good. no matter if he has magic, without our pendants we're normal." the siren known as sonata said in a voice that managed both bubbliness and sadness.
I whip out three 2.5X3.5 paper talismans out of Halloween's bag. I hand them, one each, to the maidens of the sea.
"you have been stripped of your purpose, now I will be your master in exchange for you new voices and powers.you will no longer be sirens of war. if you take my deal. but I'm not in a hurry to make you choose how about we ate first then we'll talk at my place must be better then the squalor of the poor house. by-the-by is there a pizza house near by?"
"yeah there's Leo's Italian, but we can't afford to pay up front." adagio said clearly pissed.
"leave the heavy work for me, myself and I. my spellbinder is the best thus I am
Blind and Spellbound at CHS
pizza pies, portals and other things
the dazzlings lead me and Halloween a few city blocks turned into an establishment that smelt of herbs and cheese.
"now ask for a table when it comes to money I'll pay. but only one small pie and a pitcher of iced half'n'half lemonade/sweet-tea. first we get you a meal then we talk shop." I say, putting any argument to bed that they might have had.
"goodie!"
"whateves"
"interesting. you intend to feed all five . . ."
"four. I run on quantum ether."
"uh, four of us on such small servings. how do you think you'll manage it?"
"why don't you trust me? have I ever miss lead you girls?" I snark like only a man who knows his fate was his to mold.
"we've only known you ten minutes, if that!"
"like aria said. we're still deciding. but the food wooud help tip the scale."
"then prepare for a feast."
we are met by our host for the night. then our waiter took the order asked for twelve and a half dollars I reach into the duffle bag and bring out a large-ish red egg smash it against the table rubies scattered from where the egg had been.
"I don't know the going trade rate of gem to food. but they tend to be high difference tending to favor gems, you may have all these ruby if you keep what is going to be happening at this table hush-hush and if you meet mustard there may be another egg in the deal, fail you WILL be sorry indeed. contract?"
"yes SIR
"before we eat we should give thanks, 'la bal havmescimo ala carnna dread mo salla stella maxo grandiose'(1. thank dark balance for what we shall receive."
"amen!" sonata chirped happily.
"hurray. you used a bless that took way too long." aria said in a stiff monotone.
"hhmmmm?" adagio murmured thoughtfully.
"well take a slice and pour a glass, eat till your belly full, drink till your thirst is vanquished, and relax for your bones are weary. be safe."
"thanks for the grub." the dazzlings and tore in to the pizza like sharks would a dying whale. the pitcher never ran dry no-matter how much we pour and the pizza pie filled every gap in it's wheel.
after an hour or three they slowed to a stop.
the three starving sirens sat back and enjoyed there meal
sonata dusk had consumed 23 cups 1/2-n-half plus 10 pizza pies, groaning happiely all the while.
aria blaze downed 15 glasses of ice cold drink and 14 pies herself eating like this was going to be the last meal she ever ate. from the noise.
adagio dazzle kept her control if not moaning as she ate 12 and a 1/2 pizza pies then proceeded to wash that down with a veritable flood of 1/2'n'half/lemonade. I actuality lost count some where after 50th cup. all the while eating with prideful energy.
"finished? good. remember those blank cards? return them to me." I ask they do not comply. or more apply miss dazzle stopped them.
"why? why, should we? what will they do? you hold more power we had in our prime combined surely you don't need us. so I will ask again for my sisters' sakes, why?" came an eerily quite monotone. voice scripted raw and emotionless.
"you got it both right and wrong. yes his magic is en'massive and he can become much stronger in the future, he is a spellbinding godling, but without a living mortal anchor he would be powerless despite having the power. them de rules. the cards hold the news we need to take your revenge."
"girls hand her the cards " the siren leader ordered. " he may be our benefactor but unless he works a miracle and restore our singing voices, uhg!"
"I'll give you your voices and a less risk Absorption pendant: two silvery rings and a golden ring and a glassy frosted orb. allit needs is your siren stones. but they will test you.
the dazzlings grabbed the nightmare music pendant just as they graspt the young sirens flowed with power making all three orgasm, violently. and vanish
I wave down a busboy cleaning up and hand him a large green egg. thanks to the restaurant the pie was wonderful the tea was both sweet and cold. I may com back if I can find my way.
Blind and Spellbound at CHS
testing sonata, sonata's judgement
test o' the passive one
place: ???
p.o.v. of sonata dusk
wowwie, that HURT!!!
I open my eyes and look around. and find myself alone. no aria. no adagio. no pumpkin head. no strange blind boy. no one I then look at myself. I was still human, ehh, 50/50, better/worst. but that's new. I am wearing a new outfit. the one a minstrel colored jade green and ruby red. I'm in an old equestrian town square. boy that brings up memories all of them the happy times with my sisters. my sisters, then all the bad memories flood my skull. I walk to the fountain and sat down and cried. cried hard.
"you look sad. that won't do.
just remember joy in your heart given free is a magic that makes you both strong and unique."
huh, was that somebody?where?!
"oh let me introduce myself, I am Aquafina water sprite." a diminutive lace winged figure. and the feminine made from water.
"smile, be joyous only then will the music spark in heart and though your pipes.
*clip, clop, clop* *clip, clop, clop* *clip, clop, clop* *clip, clop, clop*
a pony parade dressed in black entered the square the forms of two beaten sirens. the sirens were strung hooves above there heads bound to poles.
I scream but nothing but silence leaves my lips.
no, my voice!!! if only there was a way to save my big sisters.
Aquafina had left. leaving behind a fiddle and bow. yes, awesome!
I pick up the musical instrument and begin to play.
even I, some worthless mute can sing. now let us see how bad these ponies dance!
I play fast and slow, high and low. always from my heart. sorrow rage and joy pours into my bow. then only then the bow dances over the silver strings replacing my mute mouth. and one by one the ponies dance enthralled by my harmonies. until the only on not merry making was my sisters' executioner.
I start to play like I'm possessed by the muse of music herself. the reaper pony throws her white mask aside and it's like looking in a funhouse mirror my equine eyes meeting my human eyes.
"for listening to a stranger and playing against the flow. I give and bestow our mage power key. now go to you true sisters. and remember joy is the root of you. you are the source of passive."
the would started to dim till the world turned black I passed out soon after.
judgement acquired: verdict pass
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Blind and Spellbound at CHS
fight for your life aria, fight for your judgement
trial of the crossed sword
place: ???
aria blaze's p.o.v.
augh, did anyone catch that bus? *drip, drip, drip,* I hear something, water, precious water.
I open my left eye then my right one I'm in a cavern a circular platform in the center the air had the distinct bite of winter frost. I look at my arms, body and legs human ugh and I was covered head to toe in bear skins. I realize I'm alone when I see sonata's jewel fragments black opaque and lifeless along with adagio's gem stone in similar condition. music above! she sold her powerless life for a hellish one.
she unsheathes two fine double eager knives each inscribed one "sonata, a loving sister" the other "adagio, a strong sister".
my cell door opens and one of my jailers is unrecognizable heap of metal it takes me to my meal: loaf of bread, glass of water, a hunk of cheese and some bacon strips. at least i think
then back to my cell.
soon a wendigo watch me that night i try to sing, talk, anything but to no avail. i cruse my self this realm was the icy wast of hell and try to sleep.
next morning i hear roll call "level B7, A block, wall 3, cell 0985 you been given a chance to leave. your opponents will be your sins. do you understand?"
i nod my acceptance. all i could do really. but now, now i had a fighting chance.
time jump
swordplay sung with knives and had my sisters! whoa? am i going crazy? no. i'm good. just . . . just i'm scared and alone. makes me want to listen to sonata prattle. wow, i can't believe i thought that.
my foe wielded a grate ax over it's metal shoulder. without warning the thing attacked. i jump to dodge then i evade for my life. just as i figured my enemy was not going to tire anytime soon. i started to look for weak points but my blood was pounding in my ears . . . . like a drum! if there was a instrument i could always sing to it is the heaven send drum. seeing my tormenter's helmet was my ticket outta'her!
but that ax is the worst, man now I miss sonata more now. what would adagio do? heh, this is what I'm restoring to?
I cut both of my pigtails twist and tie into a noose and attach to my adagio dagger. and hook me myself and I a steel clad boot. not waiting for my opponent to get free from my little trap. I buck the big overgrown hatchet of stage. with a running start I jump and release my inner bongo star! boom ban da boom ban da boom! my enemy, it collapsed and a white siren with icy blue eyes.
I bow cause the fact she's a siren not just that she was ancient as well as gorgeous.
"rise my child of rage, while your blades will always be sharpest. BE WARNDED ,you must be careful not to cut what means most. such is the way of attack magic. it been a pleasure meeting you my child, daughter of Aquafina mother of the sirens. now take the mage power key and do mind the dagger in your mouth young lady. less you come back, then your sins won't be as forgiving."
that's when the seen faded to merciful black.
aria blaze judgment: verdict, pass, barely
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Blind and Spellbound at CHS
adagio's trail, and the dazzlings final jugdement
adagio's defense evaluation
place ???
adagio's p.o.v.
I awoke in blackness. then a snow white silhouette of a sea pony with a horn atop her head. a humming like that off a lullaby.
"hmmm hhmmm hhm mmm" as those notes filled the air adagio remembered a similar sleep aid she still often used on sonata when she had a bad dream. even though she a grown woman and not a kid anymore.
"w-who are you? how do you know the s-siren's lullaby?" I ask bitter cold wrapping me like a frosty blanket.
"my, my, myyyy! aren't you the inquisitive guppy. as to who I am my names are many: 'the singer of ruin', 'the first sailorsbane',
'mother of sirens', but
my jaw dropped like so much lead. after I picked my jaw off the non-existent floor. the old questions gone. now a flood of new ones entered my head I near passed out the only my once smart mouth could manage was a "mother?"
"yes, dear. even thought I am the ancestral siren my power is limited from the spirit world. even more so without your crystals to amplify my power.
"THEN WHAT GOOD ARE YOU?" I scream tears well in my eyes.
"to tell you how to help yourself gain power greater then before. but right now thou need calm thy self." the black faded into a grave yard the white ancestral siren mother darkened ice blue fins and hooves, horn a deeper shade of the same icy blue.
two head stones had no flowers. "here lies the siren aria blaze" was the one on the right. the one on the left was inscribed
"here lies the siren sonata dusk"
"no this can't be real!! it must be an illusion! an illusion made by bound sword, ya, that is the only explanation." I wail.
"oh ho, no! what you see is very real. kai clued me to your plight and gave me right to act. what you see is what may be if. sea berry tea?" aqua said hoof holding a teapot.
just then two silver apparitions started to move around the yard.
"the grave diggers will kill what is left of your sisters if you do nothing." note chided.
"how do I fight them? tell me, no matter the cost to me I will protect what is left of my sisters."
"your conviction was the final lock witch has been opened. repeat after me:
my voice is my shield. my shield is my weapon. my weapon strikes true. come o' bellzaharpra."
a coral staff topped with a wondrous deep blue harp, the crest of the harp was covered with shell bells.
I grasp my new voice on my hands and I vent months of pent up frustration.
I take to school the grave diggers, the lesson plan; the true meaning of pain!!!
my staff hits a stunning blow every time. bellzaharpra chops the head, but the grave digger cut me on the arm.
"ho fighting with rage will lead a defender to the road to hell! now cry. cry so this won't have to come to be. mmmm this is good tea."
now my fighting has been pitiful. my anger and want for revenge have been the glue holding me together. but with what can be stairing me from the other side of destiny's shotgun and my back to my headstone. I..... break..... down..... HARD!
the clouds a light blue turn deep purple then the storm brewing hail the size of apples assault the two silver crypt robbers then comes the blizzard freezing the monsters solid taking my chance with a primal scream I smash my foes to so many toothpicks sent flying.
"tea, dearie?" note asks holding a hot cup up.
"yes grand ma I'd love a cup." I say as I take the cup."
"spunk never lose is for it eases the years." she quips grinning like a cat after a big canary dinner.
then I was plunged in to darkness.
judgement: pass with flying colors
team assessment: while each caries sins. they carry them for family. while their individual power is so small it's laughable. the desire each possess make them truly formidable. the nightmare pendant witch feed them not though power of rage but the essence of fear. a better match possibility 6.125%, synco-rate: adagio 97.259%, aria 86.111%, sonata 99.999%.
congratulations!! operation 'siren reborn' is a go!
adagio now war siren
aria now war siren
sonata now war siren
the newly empowered war sirens felt something warm and heavy clasped round their necks. some thing soothing yet exciting. like meeting the hot older sibling of an old friend with none of the worry. oh this goddling may be the best thing ever!!!