Standing now at an open field away from Canterlot and the river, Sunset looked to the sky. It was getting colder as winter drew near. Twilight brushed her hair down and snatched the pieces of paper that decided to fly away. It was slightly breezy where they were. Twilight brushed her hand over the cover of the huge book she had and showed it to Sunset.

"This is the book I used to research on Sirens."

She opened it and turned to the page where she could identify the seven types of Sirens.

"Here, it says that there are several types of Sirens. The one you are is a Draconneqi Hybrid."

Sunset frowned against the wind that whisked around her.

"What can Draconneqi Hybrids do?"

Twilight bit her lip and let her eyes skim over the page.

DRACONNEQI HYBRID SIRENS

These Draconneqi hybrids are the descendants of both the Salamander and ancient Draconneqi. Appearing to be much like Soul Sirens, they are generally mistaken as such by creaturologists(that's not a real thing, but lets just say it is. It's Equestria). What distinguishes them are the large wings they possess and the long manes. Most Sirens do not have long manes. It is believed that they appear during full moons and bask in the light as a source of food. Not much is known about these mysterious creatures since they hide away.

Whether or not they are an aquatic type of Siren species is debatable. Presumably, they were around by 541B.L.

Sunset looked over the page and jutted her chin out in disbelief. The author of this thing made a whole stupidly large book on Sirens...but had no clue as to what Draconneqi Hybrids even eat. She sighed and crossed her arms against the cold air. Her frustration was starting to build.

"So...I'm a Draconneqi Hybrid. But this guy doesn't even know what we do. What's the whole point of bringing this thing if it isn't going to be of any use?"

Twilight practically flipped the whole book on its side as she let the pages fall very close to the end of the book. Skimming the pages, she squinted and scanned the words for something that she had her mind set on finding.

"Ah. Here it is."

Sunset leaned over and looked at what she was pointing at.

Once a jewel is separated from the Siren all magical properties from the creature are immediately stored into the jewel. If the jewel were to be broken in the process, the power is to be divided between each shard. Creaturologists have found evidence of it being a sport of earlier ponies to kill Sirens for their precious life giving source. Seeing it as valuable to their pockets, they hunted them down. The jewels would be crushed into fine powder and served in wine to royal families to symbolize their strength.

In this process, however, early Equestrians had become aware of the jewels' magical properties.

Ponylore states that there was once a mare who came across a group of sailors jumping and fussing by the coast of the Alicorn Ocean at night. She asked them what was wrong and saw that they were arguing over who gets what fraction of the treasured jewel. The mare, who had never seen such a beautiful thing, reached out to touch it while they weren't looking. Suddenly, the power of the jewel's shard surged out and attached itself to her.

One moment, she was a pony. The next, a Siren. In absolute surprise and fear, the sailors ran away and the mare disappeared into the ocean. Legend says, she was last seen by that ocean shore. But there have been claims that some have seen a mare slip into the water and turn into the enchanting creature and vanish. The Siren turned mare has now been named the Demi Siren.

Whether or not this ponylore is true, it is indeed a possible thing. Creaturologists have found that normal Sirens can only live with a complete jewel. When the jewel is fractured, the Sirens tended to die. However, the shards showed strong pulses of energy whenever a living organism came close to it and a sort of magnetic field was created between the two. This, the Creaturologists theorize, could indicate the strange occurrence that a fractured jewel could possibly attach itself to another organism.

Reading the last part Sunset's eyes widened. She raised a hand to her arm and rubbed it as she processed what she read.

"This could be what happened to me...So..."

She glanced down at her hands.

"I'm a...Demi Siren?"

Twilight tilted her head and frowned.

"I believe so. And there isn't much information on that either. So, we're going to see what you can do and I'll record it. That way I have data and can track your strengths and weaknesses. So when the Sirens come to retrieve the jewel, we'll be ready."

Sunset looked out over the field they stood in and felt the wind pierce through her jacket. They were there to do research.

Sunset turned back to her and nodded.

"Let day one of the study start."

Author's Notes:

This one is a bit short, yes. But bare with me. The real action won't be here until whenever. They're still in the middle of figuring things out.