Just seeing the other girl was a blessing. Curled up together, Sunset and Twilight laid on the bed and hugged. Celestia let them have this day before the real talk would happen. It was better this way anyhow.

Sonata smiled as she hopped around the grass outside, chasing an imaginary bird. It was getting dark out and the sun was setting. Adagio watched the girl play in the grass. She was a simpleton but she loved her nonetheless. Aria, on the other hand was busy sulking by the stream near their abandoned home. She was skipping stones and watching them plunk into the water.

Much like their life was compared to that skipping stone. Just as the stone skimmed the water just barely and hopped up from the water's surface, they were able to escape certain consequences by just a hot second and keep on advancing to the next thing. It was after so many of these lucky breaks that they finally were caught and the punishment weighed heavily on them. Much like the rock sinking to the bottom.

Aria tossed a stone lazily and it only skipped twice. She swore under her breath and picked up another stone.

Adagio kept watching, wondering what Aria thought of her. Adagio knew for a long time that she wanted to be the lead. Adagio would've given her the chance to show herself worthy, but she was too headstrong. Always acting on impulse and not reason, she flung herself blindly into situations that she had no idea how to control.

If only Aria knew how to be a better leader would she let her have a chance.

One skip.

Two skips.

Three skips.

Plunk!

The sky was getting to be even darker now, yet they stayed out. Adagio closed her eyes and thought back. Way back to a time when they were little. It was around 751 B.L. As a young Draconeqi Hybrid, she and her sisters wandered the mountains of Equestria searching for a place to belong. When they were born, neither of their parents were there. All that remained of their trace was blood on the cave wall they were born in and nothing else.

Not quite understanding the way of the world, they wandered into pony villages and were run out by defending stallions. It wasn't exactly a life you'd call fun. Always having to hide from those that want to harm you. Fleeing from ponies that don't understand what you are and are afraid. It was when they got older that they found a way to live without having to run away.

When they had been banished to this world by Starswirl was when their life had gotten better, actually. Here, they learned how to fit in without people constantly being scared. With this advantage, they learned to use their powers and fed off the rage of those around them. Everything was ok, except that they couldn't use extensive amounts of magic or they'd run their jewels dry of it.

When they had found the Equestrian magic, they were given all the power they could ever want. But now that their jewels were completely broken...

No power.

And Adagio knew it was taking a terrible toll on her sisters. Looking down at her arm she nudged the sleeve of the sweater she was wearing to reveal the red part of her skin. Rubbing it slightly she saw the skin come off as red ash and crumble, falling into the grass. She pulled her sleeve up and sighed.

They were dying.

They were falling to ash without their power. It happened ever so slowly but it was still happening. Adagio sighed again and looked to Sonata. Her little sister had come to her just last night crying about how her skin was turning to dust even more. It pained her to think they couldn't go on without their power. Now that they no longer were the owners of the jewels and were now claimed by Sunset, they were crumbling away.

That night Sunset found the jewel shard, the fragment binded itself with her life force, never to be removed unless taken from her and attached to another life force. Once it did that, the power no longer was connected to the Sirens and they began to die. That was the way of the Sirens. Death comes at the lose of power.

It was out of desperation that they were going to fight for this power. And they needed it fast.

Ring around the rosie,

a pocket full of posies.

Ashes, ashes,

we all fall down.

Author's Notes:

I'm sorry if this chapter was boring. I needed to put in a filler to give me time to think. I'm still thinking about Reunite and Regret. It's very sad...It was so sad it stumped me for a little about how to cheer the mood so I decided to move on from them to the Sirens.