The Pinnacle of evil.

Adagio Woke on the 16th of May to her alarm clock. It was time. Luckily whoever sent that letter had planned for the portal at Canterlot High to be open at the right time, so it was far simpler to get to Equestria than it might have been. She checked out of her hotel and got a taxi to Canterlot High, the other side of town. It was a school day, so she had to dodge some people as she worked her way to the portal, some may recognise her. When she got to the portal she took a cent out of her pocket and gently tossed it through at the portal. It went through. She would look a bit stupid if she tried walking through it and it was solid. The siren went through to find two Canterlot guards staring at her in fear.

“Hello Gentlemen. I hope you have a lovely day.” She said as she fired a beam of destructive magic at the roof, and bounded through it. The Dazzling’s pendants were destroyed in the human world, but they didn’t need them here. Adagio transformed into her siren form and started flying. Soon after she started flying, a navy blue alicorn flew past her, chased by a white one. The Princesses? She forgot they still existed. Celestia caught sight of her, and by the looks of it fainted. She fell all the way down to the river below and landed with a satisfactory splash. Adagio caught up to the blue princess and started a conversation.

“What are you doing out here?” Okay she admitted to herself that wasn’t very friendly, she might shoot me.

“I- ugh, I just need to go somewhere” The princess replied

C’mon Adagio, think, friendly conversations. “Where are you headed?”

“The Dragon Mountains…” She trailed off

“Huh, same here, weird huh?” Adagio realised she was very bad at this. “We both seem to be headed there with some kind of evil intent, so… why don’t we head there together?”

“That would be a good idea.”

The duo rested in the forest near Dodge Junction, and continued their journey in the morning. They woke to a very loud rumbling coming from the direction of Dodge City.

“Earthquake?” Luna asked, startled.

“We’ll see” Adagio said as she walked to the edge of the forest. “Nothing looks wrong.”

Luna stepped out onto the road and looked at the desert surrounding her, not finding anything out of the ordinary. The rumbling got louder. And louder. And louder. Luna turned just in time to see the herd of buffalo charging towards her, but not in time to take off and fly. She spread her wings only to get hit by the herd, throwing her to the side and injuring her wing.

“Come on Luna, let’s go.” Adagio called impatiently.

“Sorry, it’s just my wing.” She said through gritted teeth.

“Can’t you cast some sort of spell to make it better quicker?”

“I can, but it will take around a day to heal properly.” Luna said before casting the spell that would heal her wing.

“I guess we’ll just have to walk it.” Adagio complained before transforming into her pony form.

During their trip through the swamp they had used a vine to bind the princess’s wing, so she wouldn’t use it instinctively. Once they had left the swamp there was only the long climb between them and their destination. Luckily, there was a small collection of huge black crystals, hosting places of rest for the two. Luna was just about to clamber up onto the second crystal when she slipped and fell, sliding halfway down the distance they had already climb, crying out as she did so. Adagio noticed a head poke out of the cave above, before she had to jump away to dodge the stairs that had erupted out of the mountain. Luna’s mind was racing, someone else was already there, maybe it was the sender of the letter, maybe it was someone who had intercepted the meeting, and was going to kill them both as soon as they got up. No, if they were going to do that they wouldn’t have given them stairs. When the pair reached the top of the stairs, a dark, cloaked figure stood at the entrance to the cave.

“Your invitations, ladies?” The figure asked. The princess and the siren both retrieved their invitations and passed them to the cloaked individual.

“Right, now we may begin.” The voice said as it took down its hood.