Oryx

One hundred years have passed since the griffon war ended. The vampires, Fundament, and Ecumene had been in an official alliance for fifty of those years, and combined into one nation for the last forty five, with the first five years after the war being strikes against the other races to cripple their economy so as to not attack us.

Sekana was now a master at using the Darkness, and had a division of ponies taught in controlling the Darkness at her command, while Balance was the leader of a strike force that answered to Didact, and the two often shared intelligence.

As such, Didact and I were aware of a travelling group of three individuals going from town to town, causing arguments to pop up rather quickly. Didact had dedicated intelligence squads find them, and the three were currently on their way to our city, which was on the side of a mountain, constructed using a mix of pony magic, Hive magic, Corpus tech, and Forerunner tech, disguised as medieval architecture so that terrorists wouldn't know what to target to make it fall to the ground.

From what the intelligence said, the three were a hybrid of ponies and fish, and that riots against a town's leader often followed their singing, and were on their way here now. As such, the cities security forces were on alert, and were to bring the three to Didact and myself. Alad was not included due to the simple fact he'd rather be behind the scenes.

"It just occurred to me," Didact said. "I think I know who these three are."

"And who would they be?" I asked. The two of us were in the throne room of the palace, with two thrones. One was made of obsidian, and had my personal touch of Taken energy, giving it a sort of glow. Didact's was, admittedly, more comfortable, having a slight curve in the back for him to lean back in with a gravitational field projected by the throne, two armrests, and a cup holder. He really likes using the "magic equals advanced technology" thing. Admittedly, it was hilarious seeing the looks of the first ponies to see his throne like that. His throne was colored dark steel with orange lights.

"If I'm right, this world's versions of Sirens," Didact said. "Basically a mix of Greek Sirens and the old fashioned Succubus. From what I remember of what Alad told me, a fight between them and a unicorn sorcerer in the comics led to the creation of every music style."

"Including pop music?"

"That's their specialty."

"Then we'll have to fix that now."

With that, the two of us waited for a few minutes. I spent that time thinking on what my brother was doing. Ten minutes later, the throne room doors opened, and Ecumene guards- pegasai wearing combat skins equipped with Suppressors- stepped in, with three fish pony walked in. The three were nude, and had no nipples or any visible reproductive organs. The one in front of the other two was colored yellow and was slightly taller than the other two, and larger in the chest as well. Not to self: if we kill them, have Alad find out why they have breasts. The second had an air of arrogance around her, and was colored lavender, the frills being purple and light blue. The third was. . .well, the most polite way I can say this is a female Caboose, her frills being dark blue and purple. In order of descriptions, they were smug, indifferent, and curious.

I gave a quick glance at Didact, and through a nod, I knew we were thinking along the same lines. "You three are the singers we've heard much about?" I asked, pretending that word had spread of them through official means. "I must admit, I expected them to be well dressed. Not nude as sluts looking for fun." By the way, not illegal in our Equestria. Even before I was Displaced, I never saw the point of clothes beyond keeping dry, warm, and protected during war. I mean seriously, we have something called sunscreen.

Anyways, the second part of that had some amount of anger flash from the leader before she held it in. The lavender one, though, didn't bother hiding her anger as she grit her teeth. "Indeed we are," the yellow siren said. "My name is Adagio, your majesty. It's an honor to meet you." Oh, you arrogant little bitch, thinking I can't hear sarcasm. I have had two teenage daughters and lived with my brother! Don't think I cant hear sarcasm. "The other two are Aria and Sonata."

"Do all your people have musically related names, or just you?" Didact asked.

"Our people," Adagio asked, "If I may ask, why did you ask for us?"

"Simple," Didact said.

"We wish to know why you decided to use magic to cause chaos among our subjects," I finished, a grin audible in my voice.

"Well, we must feed somehow," Adagio said.

"Ah, so, you are like changelings then?" I clarified. "But instead, it is negative emotions you feed on. Surely you understand one of the laws we made was that using magic to influence one's emotions is illegal, correct? The punishment being imprisonment, the duration depending on the effect. As you influenced the populations of multiple towns into hating one another, the sentence could very well be your life times. And with your bodies, I am certain quite a few prisoners will enjoy having fun with you. Perhaps even a few guards." As soon as I began explaining just how deep in shit they were, Adagio looked panicked, most likely not expecting something like this. She opened her mouth to protest, possibly even to beg. "However," I said, cutting her off, "there is something in there not publicly known.""

"W-what's that?" Adagio asked.

"If we deem it useful towards our rule," Didact said, "the offenders will become members of a special group, each one reporting to one of the three of us. The last one was to me me, so, if you three accept, you will follow Oryx's orders."

"And as I am a fan of letting people know just what they're signing up for," I said. "Whatever crimes you committed to get into the group will be expunged from your records, or in your case, the record will remain non-existent. However, you will be a part of the group for the rest of your lives, and must follow my orders. Otherwise. . .well, I'm sure you've seen my special forces." That got each of them terrified, as the common myth about my forces is that they have no soul, which is incorrect. While it is corrupted by Darkness, the soul is still there. It is the will that removed, so they follow mine. Of course, modifications I made over the years give them enough to speak if they fell a plan f mine is not sound, but that is it. "If you choose not to accept this offer, you will be imprisoned. And please, don't try to use your magic on us."

"The minute we were aware of your abilities, we had special software installed in the armor of the guard escorting you," Didact said. The software was also known as a music player. "And Oryx's forces had spells placed around them by changeling mages to protect them from mental control."

"So, what will it be?" I asked.

"Oh, sounds fun!" Sonata shouted, clapping her webbed hands together.

"Sonata, you're an idiot," Aria said, crossing her arms. "How do we know they won't just send us on a suicide mission?"

"Well it's either that or rot and die in prison," I said. "Your choice. Just know the choice is individual. If one agrees but the others don't, the other two are getting locked up." I was playing on what I remembered of them, the memories of that damned force watched session coming to my mind. Good for something, I suppose. Adagio looked out only for herself, Sonata would most likely follow, and Aria would stubbornly refuse, and if she accepted, it would be begrudgingly.

As I expected, Adagio was the first to speak. "Well, if that is the only option," she said, her voice having a fake, defeated tone.

"Yay!" Sonata shouted, throwing her arms in the air excitedly.

Aria only said, "Fine," her arms still crossed. If I was physically capable of it, I would have given off a toothy grin as I held my left arm towards them, white and black flames licking my hand as the three sirens began to shake.

"In that accord, then, you three are to join my kind, and be subservient only to my allies, my daughter, and myself. Instead of Adagio, Sonata, and Aria, your names are to be Cezne, Sevnol, and Thesral," I said as the Darkness energies began to change their bodies, the webbing of their hand vanishing and their middle and index fingers combining, along with their ring and pinkie fingers, resulting three fingers per hand. Their faces became flatter, for lack of a better term, and their eyes took on a blue glow as a bony helm grew on their heads," giving them a horned appearance. "You are no longer sirens," I said as Adagio tried to sing, most likely as a last ditch effort to control me, but it came out as screeching. "You are deathsingers. Where your songs once brought anger to all, now they bring only death to those who hear them. Your greatest passion is now what is the most lethal. That is the punishment for your crimes. The only way to remove it is to die."

The flames on my hand died, and said hand went to an arm rest on my throne as the former sirens looked at themselves in horror. "Didact, what is the progress of your naval forces?" I asked.

"Depth charges are being put on warships now," he replied. "As well as torpedoes."

I nodded. "Good. I feel the siren people will not take this well."

Author's Notes:

Originally meant to have Discord, but decided he'd get curbstomped easily by Oryx just taking his will, so went right to the sirens. Then again so did the sirens, but with them, it serves a story point.