"Are you sure they'll make in time?" Sonata asked as she looked around the airport entrance for the rest of The Rainbooms. She was stressing over the time that her plane would leave, and that Twilight's friends wouldn't arrive on time "The plane leaves for Battletone soon..."

"I'm sure they'll be here in time, Sonata. This is a Battle of the Bands that could very well determine the fate of all three worlds..." Twilight said, putting a hand on Sonata's shoulder to calm her down. "Just like with Canterlot High School, they won't want to miss out on fighting the bad guys and saving Equestria and Earth..."

"Hmm... I can't help but get the feeling that The Blasters were pretty much inspired by us at this moment," Adagio said, sighing as she looked up at the sky above her. "I mean, seeding multiple innocents with music, making you girls all fight and feud with a little push, and starting their own Battle of the Bands? They're basically just male versions of us now. I wouldn't be surprised if they sing the Second Life Song themselves if they survive this..."

"There they are!" Sunset said, pointing towards The Rainbooms in the distance, who were sprinting down to meet them at the entrance of the airport. Sunset ended up waving to her friends to attract them all to her and The Dazzlings.

"Sorry we're late, Sunset. Rarity just wouldn't stop going on and on about bein' formal..." Aplpejack rolled her eyes as she looked at Rarity, who seemed to be pulling four suitcases at once.

"It IS one of the biggest events this world has ever authorized, we will be performing in front of billions and billions of Blasters fans and they might have a formal dress code for all of the participating bands," Rarity said as she used her fingers to emphasize her point to the country girl. "We might end up rejected for not wearing appropriate clothing."

"Applejack, before you start, you need to remember that complaining about small details will only make The Blasters stronger and stronger with every passing second..." Twilight said, getting Applejack to turn to her and look her in the eyes. "And that goes for the rest of you," she got the rest of The Rainbooms to look at her with her commanding words. "Rainbow Dash should be loyal to all of us, Pinkie should know that this is for the fate of the worlds, Fluttershy, you'll get some of your songs in this battle. Oh, and Sunset, be sure to let us know if we're veering towards too much harmony or too much hatred, alright?"

"Sure thing, Twilight." Sunset said, sharing a little bit of a smile with Twilight as the entire group walked inside the airport to get themselves checked in for their flight.

"So, we need a plan in terms of the songs we sing. Anyone got any good ideas?" Rainbow Dash asked as they were gathered around a restaurant, munching on different meals whilst they waited for their flight. "We can't just keep on using the same songs we practised at CHS, otherwise The Blasters will be able to find some way to sabotage them to take us down before the tournament even begins..."

"Listen, Rainbow Dash. Songs don't necessarily matter just as long as you can execute them well enough," Adagio said, slurping on a milkshake shortly afterwards. "Truth be told, when Lyrican Sirens are corrupted with Dark Magic, they tend to just make songs up as they go along, but still retain the main chorus that they were handed down by Euphoria or Dystopia to seed the humans of Earth and the ponies of Equestria."

"Even so, that doesn't mean we won't be seen as lazy if we just keep repeatin' the songs we sang back then..." Applejack said, putting a piece of the apple pie she'd been eating in her mouth.

"What about you, Dazzlings? What are you going to be singing when you take to the stage at Battletone?" Twilight asked, seeing as how Adagio had posed the question, but hadn't answered it herself.

"Actually... I haven't thought of that..." Adagio put her fingers to her chin, then ruminated on the songs that had been uttered when they were corrupted. "Pretty much the only song that we can repeat is Under Our Spell, since The Blasters have already flared up the battle, and that they'll probably want the winning band to play a completely separate song to theirs..."

Trio, Quartet, Quintuple
Exterminated by a fool

The Emeralds fought as well
But ended up in Siren Hell

Three bold figures killed Hades
But they also fell to their knees

And the six Sirens of our fate
They know nothing but peace through hate

Three mysterious figures were singing at the back of the restaurant, perking up the ears of The Rainbooms and The Dazzlings. Their faces were completely obscured, and their voices seemed like they were in perfect harmony.

You want to live? Don't hold your breath
This isn't life, it's living death

But never fear, we've got our songs
We'll personally right these wrongs...

The figures' voices seemed to be so mysterious, that they made everyone around them seem rather guilt-ridden and angry at one another. Small insults and whispers started to break out in the restaurant that gradually got louder and louder.

Lost in granite, The Angels
Died to death's own toxic smell

Percussion, Wind and Drumroll
Got shot down a fiery hole

Femme Fatales from Lyrica
They died by Celestia's Star

And those known as The Dazzlings
Failed to know what grief greed brings...

Their voices seemed to be amplifying with each verse, striking the minds of some of the people outside of the restaurant as well. However, The Rainbooms and The Dazzlings were quite surprised that they were still singing, especially since Adagio, Aria and Sonata were part of their song.

You want to live? Don't hold your breath
This isn't life, it's living death

But never fear, we have our songs
We'll personally right these wrongs...

The figures were more visible when everyone had started sparking up arguments all over the argument. Beyond their hoods, the figures all had locks of black and blue, white and grey, and emerald hair.

Though The Blasters didn't freeze
They couldn't kill the Deities

January, June and May
They died a very different way

Symphonia, big and tall
He was baited by bloodshed's call

And our almighty King Allure
Was killed by species made impure...

The figures then uncloaked themselves, revealing the black and blue haired Lyrican to be a male with a mullet. The other figures were also male, but one of them had emerald cornrows for hair whilst the other one had spiked grey hair. The other shocking feature was that they were all wearing functional Furen pendants, which were already assimilating the anger of the other restaurant patrons there.

You want to live? Don't hold your breath
This isn't life, it's living death

But never fear, we have our songs
We'll personally right these wrongs...

They then reached into their pockets to collect something for them to look at whilst they sang.

These felled fighters, all they had
Was a power that seemed quite bad

KIA, they lie in death
Not one uttering one small breath

They never had the chance to prove
What it was they came here to do

Doomed to die, a helpless cry
Emanating as they touched the sky...

With each different verse of the song, the mysterious Lyricans pulled out groups of Furen and Blissen pendants, all of which had been destroyed either slightly or completely beyond repair. The other things they pulled out besides the pendants, were small pictures of each of the Lyrican Sirens whom those pendants used to belong to, and put them underneath the destroyed crystals that were once used by those same Sirens.

You want to live? don't hold your breath
This isn't life, it's living death

But never fear, we have our songs
We'll personally right these wrongs
We'll personally right these wrongs
We'll personally right these wrooooooooooonngggsss...

As the song ended, all of the negativity that everyone felt for everyone flew up into their Furen pendants, making them glow red before they finished consuming it all...

"Lyricans?" Twilight asked as she watched the three Furens finish up their song and put all of the destroyed pendants and pictures back in their pockets.

"Yes. And judging by the red gems around their necks, they must be Furens who survived the war..." Adagio said, eyeing up the three figures that were once part of her kind.

"Anyways, we should probably go over to meet them..." Sunset said as she got up from her seat and began walking over to the mysterious Furens, who just put their heads back into their hoods, concealing their faces once more.

"Are you sure about that, Sunset?" Aria grabbed onto Sunset's arm, stopping her halfway. "These are Furen Sirens you're dealing with. You've heard their song, they've marked you and they can now absorb the Magic of Friendship just like The Blasters can..."

"Even so, we need to know whether or not they're allied with The Blasters, or are free-roaming Sirens..." Sunset, turning back to Aria to speak to her. She showed a great deal of sympathy for the three Furens as she looked at the three of them leaving checks before rising to their feet. "If they're sided with The Blasters, then we've got even more problems on our hands. But if they're free-willed, then we've got a chance to befriend them and add their efforts to ours, so that we have more of a chance to defeat The Blasters..."

"I agree with Sunset, Dazzlings. We need to know if they're allied with The Blasters or not..." Twilight said as she got to her feet as well and walked over to the hooded Furens. She eventually got in front of the departing Furens and said, "Hi. My name's Twilight Sparkle. We're hoping that you could answer a fe—"

"You're heading to Battletone, right?" the first hooded figure spoke to her, cutting her off mid-sentence with a wave of his hand. "Pretty risky decision, pitting yourself up against two different Lyrican bands..."

"Three, to be precise," Adagio got up and stood next to Twilight, with Sonata and Aria close behind her. "Remember us? I know that the great war has been a rather horrifying experience, but I can personally assure you that there's nothing t—"

"Adagio?" the first figure spoke, suddenly changing his tone as he remembered who she was.

"Requiem?" Adagio herself was quite surprised that the hooded Furen had remembered her.

As the hooded figure with the black and blue mullet removed his hood, both he and Adagio said, "It really IS you!" before they pulled themselves into a rather tight hug.

"You know them?" Rainbow Dash looked quite bewildered as she watched the Furens all reunite after what seemed like forever to them.

"Yeah. Orchy and his friends might be our brothers, but these Furens were our boyfriends back on Lyrica!" Sonata said as she uncloaked the Furen with the emerald cornrows for hair. "Andante! How've you been, my snuggly little love muffin?"

"Just fine, Sonata. The war may have messed my back a little, but it's just a scar now. Nothing too bad or anything..." Andante said as he too pulled Sonata into a rather tight hug. He seemed so happy to have seen Sonata once again, and his hug was proof positive that he would never have to be sombre ever again. "Not that a simple scar would ever stop me from meeting you again, my sweet little Furey cake!"

"So, if that's Andante and Requiem, then I can only imagine that the last one is-"

"Bellicoso. Bellicoso Inferno, at your service, ladies..." the final hooded figure, the one with spiked grey hair said as he revealed his face as well, cutting off Sonata's sentence.

"Bellicoso? My one, true love?" Aria herself looked rather surprised that her boyfriend had also survived the chaos of the Lyrican war. "Is that really you?"

"Yes, Aria. We've made it. We're back together again, just like I promised you..." he said, blowing her a kiss that made her blush in front of the rest of the girls.

Not able to contain her blushing anymore, Aria said, "Oh to hell with it! Honey Buns!" and threw herself right into Bellicoso's arms in a rather gleeful fashion. It had been ages since Aria had felt happy around other people, especially with The Rainbooms travelling alongside her, so seeing her one and only boyfriend again was all the proof she needed to have a sense of euphoria.

"How long has it been, sweetums?" Bellicoso asked as he and Aria pulled into their own little hug as well.

"Far too long, handsome..." Aria giggled as she put her fingers through Bellicoso's hair and began playing with it.

"So, what are you three doing here, Laments?" Adagio asked the group once she was out of the hug.

"We've heard that The Blasters are still alive, and were starting this tournament called Battletone..." Requiem said as everyone walked out of the restaurant to speak with each other out in the open. "Not only that, but since we last saw them, they're wearing both Blissen and Furen pendants..."

"Something's clearly wrong with them..." Andante said as he looked out of a giant glass wall at all of the planes flying by or just landing on the runways. "Blissen Sirens can't learn Furen Arts. It's a direct violation of the tenets of being a Blissen Siren..."

"But ever since Allure perished in the great war, there's been no-one to enforce these tenets, which meant to The Blasters that they could do whatever they want and not care about the negative consequences..." Adagio said as she watched the Laments sitting down on special chairs in a waiting area.

"Exactly. The same thing happened when you three were corrupted with Dark Magic. We didn't engage The three of you when we watched you walking into the Halls of Composia, but we did hear about the fact that you'd been corrupted with Dark Magic..." Bellicoso said, furrowing his spiky hair as he was buried in thought. "When you were roaming Canterlot High School with skins of darkness, you could do all kinds of violable things to the Furen tenets and still get escape punishment. Even when your old pendants were destroyed, you were still unaccountable for your crimes, due to the fact that souls of Dystopia attack infidels through Furen pendants. Since yours were destroyed at the hands of The Rainbooms here, you were saved from rather gruesome executions..."

"However, that still leaves the problem of The Blasters..." Requiem said as he reclined on his chair. "I presume that you three are entering Battletone to fight them as well?"

"Yes, we are..." Adagio said as she remembered all of the sinful things that The Blasters had done to them and The Rainbooms. "Our brothers have turned innocent ponies from Equestria into Furen Sirens, left us to die in a prison, had Hierarxe completely erase Maneorca from this world, the list just goes on and on..."

"They've committed enough sins to be rewarded with death. And they haven't even gotten to the critical aspect of their plan yet..." Twilight said, turning the Laments' attention to her. "They plan on resurrecting the Lyrican Sirens, just to use them to murder billions of humans and ponies, saying that we are unable to follow the Balance of Lyrica and are threats to their way of life..."

"Well, that IS a crime punishable by death. Lyricans have had their time, we see that now..." Bellicoso said as he returned his gaze to the cloudy skies outside, with planes flying through some of them. "That is why we're gathering negative energy ourselves. Not only are we staying true to the Balance of Lyrica, but we're also going to personally end The Blasters' insanities..."

"Provided you can even make it to them..." Adagio said as she put a hand on her boyfriend's shoulder and patted it tenderly.

"Attention, passengers. The Skyburst flight 2J0PL4 to Dubairaffe, the venue for The Blasters' Battletone tournament is now boarding. If you have your tickets for flight 2J0PL4, be sure to show them to a member of staff operating at boarding gate 18 now." a woman's voice said on the airport intercom, getting The Rainbooms, The Dazzlings and The Laments to get up from where they were sitting so that they could board their flight to Dubairaffe.

"Well, that's our flight. Come on, girls. We're moving out." Adagio said once everyone started making their way towards the boarding gate so they could get on their plane.

"We're coming with you, Dazzlings. It has been a while since we've been involved in a musical competition..." Bellicoso said as he and the rest of The Laments followed The Rainbooms and The Dazzlings. "We too have a score to settle with The Blasters after what you've told us..."

"Very well then..." Twilight said as everyone started to form a line behind the staff running the boarding desk. "Oh, and my full title is Princess Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of Friendship."

"An honour to meet you, Your Highness..." Requiem said as he, Andante and Bellicoso performed a Lyrican salute for Twilight, making her blush in surprise.

"Still not used to that..." Twilight said through weak chuckles as her blushing began to cease.

Author's Notes:

Me: Have yoo evew had one of dose days when yoo just can't get da computew ta wowk?

Sonata: Well, there was that one time where Aria mashed all of the buttons on the keyboard when she got a virus on her laptop...

Me: I can bet it wasn't fun in da swightest...

Night Mist: Why'd yoo bwing dat up, bwodew?

Me: Oh, weww, my computews kept tuwning off when I twied witing dis chaptew today...

Autumn Breeze: Why's dat, bwodew?

Me: Weww, due ta someting cawwed Dwivew Powew State Faiwuwe, my Windows 8 keeps tuwning off aftew ten minutes of me tuwning it back on.

Aria: I think it needs to either go back for more fixing, or it should be scrapped altogether...

Me: Yeah, I tink you'we wight on dat note...