“What exactly do you wish to know about us?” Adagio inquired cautiously, all three of the Sirens eyeing the other group warily.

Twilight cleared her throat and began with the most perplexing thing on her mind. “A few days ago, Sonata mentioned that you three were the last of the sirens.” The trio stiffened and Sonata looked sheepishly at her sisters for a moment. Twilight looked between them as she asked, “Could you clarify that? I thought you three were the only ones…”

“You mean your precious mentor didn’t tell you?” Aria snorted sarcastically. “There’s a surprise.”

Adagio shot her sister a reproachful glare. She knew Aria was not at all interested in doing anything with these women that didn’t involve giving them a painful death, but since they were being civil for the time being, it was only courtesy to reciprocate. Taking a deep breath, the lead siren murmured, “It is quite perplexing that your darling teacher didn’t tell you about it. Perhaps she didn’t want you to know that genocide was part of Equestria’s history.”

The group gasped in shock and all eyes found Twilight and Sunset. The pair looked to one another in utter bewilderment before their eyes switched back to the three women frowning at them. “Equestria’s had trouble with certain species before,” Twilight stammered. “B-but genocide?”

“Let me guess,” Adagio smirked. “Your precious history books told you that we sirens caused havoc because it was the source of our power and we wanted to rule over all of Equestria?”

“W-well, it only mentioned you three…” Twilight mumbled, shrinking on herself.

“Cause we’re the most famous!” Sonata chirped, nearly spilling her coffee. “We’re the ones Star Swirl couldn’t beat!”

Aria rolled her eyes at her sister’s ditziness while Adagio placed a hand to her face to quell her irritation at only having part of the story revealed. Sonata was simply happy to be telling someone the true story for the first time ever. Waving for Adagio to continue, she sipped her brown beverage almost giddily.

Taking a deep breath, Adagio began her tale. “We were among the last-born sirens. We don’t remember if there were any born after we were, but Mother took great care in hiding us. She taught me to use Aria and Sonata to mask my status so that I wasn’t an easy target for the hunters. At the time, our species was dwindling. Hunters took great pleasure in killing us to sell our tails, our fins, our gems. Sometimes, they didn’t bother killing us, but would carve the pieces of us they wanted and throw us back into the ocean to die.”

Rarity’s hands covered her mouth as Applejack removed her hat, her arm snaking around the purple-haired woman’s shoulders. Rainbow Dash kept Fluttershy close as she listened, knowing her mate was not at all fond of animal cruelty of any kind. Tears pricked Sunset and Twilight’s eyes while streaming down Fluttershy’s cheeks. Pinkie Pie simply listened to the story in uneasy silence.

“When Sirens are maturing, our gems form to absorb best the emotions we are feeling at the time. Some matured to absorb compassion, love, aggression and even friendship.” She smirked at the other side of the table before her face fell once more. “Unfortunately for the three of us, when we were nearing our state of maturation… the hunters took Mother.” Gasps were heard all around the table and Sonata crossed her arms, nails digging into her skin to keep from crying at the memories. Aria fought to keep the pain from her expression as well, but Adagio’s face was a blank mask as she recounted the events almost mechanically.

“She was swimming us to a new place to live, further out in the ocean to avoid the majority of the hunters. They expected that, though, and caught Sonata.” All eyes flicked to the blue siren before back to Adagio. “Their primitive status detectors told them she was a Beta and they were interested in getting a good pay for her. Mother cut Sonata loose, but caught a harpoon to the tail instead. Aria and I pulled Sonata with us, but Mother…” Adagio grit her teeth for a moment. “She told us to swim as fast and far away as we could. She struggled in the water, creating a diversion for us, and we swam. When we thought we were far enough away, we looked back…”

There was silence as the three women fought back their sorrow. Tears leaked from Sonata’s eyes and hers certainly weren’t the only ones. Fluttershy sobbed into Rainbow Dash’s shoulder and the expressions on Sunset and Twilight’s faces were nothing short of devastation. Pinkie, Applejack and Rarity simply waited for the sirens to continue, not wanting to push them.

Finally, Adagio took a deep breath. “Our hatred for the hunters and despair over our loss solidified the negative emotions our jewels absorbed. We modified our songs to cause havoc so we could gain power. It was our plan to conquer Equestria, but not just to rule it.”

“That would’ve been too easy on the current throne-holders,” Aria snarled, her fists clenched on the tabletop.

“We wanted to make them all suffer,” Sonata growled, magenta eyes harder than any of the other group had ever seen them.

Adagio’s lips twisted into a horrifying sneer as she said, “We were going to conquer Equestria and tear apart everything Star Swirl and those precious princesses had built up just to spite them, to give them the same taste of despondence we felt. They refused to remove our species from the hunting list, so we would make them part of it.

“Unfortunately, when Star Swirl caught wind of the plan, he attempted to finish us off himself. Our voices combined overpowered him, similarly to how we did you at the Battle.” The group shifted at the mention of their near defeat. “We were going to win, but he drew together his magic power and banished us before we could finish him off.”

“Coward,” Aria spat. “Couldn’t even take his death like a noble.”

Adagio rolled her eyes at her sister and continued, “Here we remained for thousands of years. We’re sure it only felt like a thousand in Equestria, but here it was so much longer. And with each passing day, our ability to feed grew, but only by a minuscule amount. Without inherent magic in this world, we needed to scrape by, unable to have a full meal as we used to in Equestria.”

Three sets of eyes turned on the pair of Alphas and the Sirens gave borderline sadistic grins. Sunset and Twilight shifted uncomfortably and Adagio purred, “Then you two brought magic here. You gave us the opportunity to continue our path of revenge on those who had wronged us so long ago. With the magic released from Princess Twilight’s crown, we could snub Star Swirl once more. He sent us here, so we would conquer this world instead and prove to him that no siren is weak.”

“So much for that plan…” Sonata sighed wearily, swirling her coffee as Adagio glared at her in offense. “Sunset Shimmer sent it all the way to Tartarus.”

“Now we’re gonna starve until our jewels regenerate,” Aria grumbled.

“Or starve to death if they never regenerate at all,” Adagio added, placing a hand to her head.

Author's Note

Yeah, yeah, adding history and all that jazz. There needed to be something to piss the Sirens off enough to fit with the ideology in the background I have for them.

Also, in case anyone is wondering, the hunters didn't track the Sirens for food, as explained. They wanted them for body parts, similar to fur poachers. The parts were for decorations and superstitions, similar to the albino massacres in Africa a few years back. The fins and gems and such were just used for jewelry or luck charms and such of the like.

All constructive criticism and feedback is welcome in the comments and votes!