The Spell

It was a long day of preparation. The battle of the bands would soon begin and everyone participating was getting ready.

There had been some problems between a certain alicorn and the Dazzlings, however, things were going be sorted out in the concert given by the school´s students.

Suspicion about the siren´s nature had arisen between Twilight and Sunset, however, their spells seemed to avoid them from uncovering the sirens. Everyone´s fate rested in the concert.

As the multiple students prepared, the trio of sirens spent their time inside the locker room alongside the auditorium.

“You done reading that thing?” Asked Aria, an annoyed look visible on her face and an expression shared by Adagio, who turned to look at her fellow siren. Feeling the weight of the stare, Aria simply grunted. “Whatever.”

“What are you reading, anyway?” Asked Sonata, her usual smile shinning on her face.

Getting one last look at the book, Adagio closed it and turned to look at the siren, a wicked smile on her face. “Something that is going to help us greatly.”

“A guide?” The blue haired girl asked, getting an amused look from Adagio.

“Of sorts.”

As soon as the words left her mouth, the Dazzlings caught a glimpse of an incoming figure, which was soon revealed to be Sunset. The former unicorn had seen activity inside the place, while she was hanging out with the rest of the Element´s counterparts and decided to take a look inside the place.

Sunset caught a glimpse of the weird book on Adagio´s hands, making the siren place it inside her locker, before gazing towards the young girl with a furious look on her face. “What are you doing here, you waste of space!?”

With a frown of her own, Sunset turned to leave the place, but not before she took one look at the sirens. “Why? Afraid of me discovering one of you tricks? You will not succeed in whatever you are doing!”

With those words, the girl left, leaving the Dazzlings alone in the locker room.

Once they were alone, Adagio closed her locker, a smile returning to her features. “I guess I have one trick you wont see coming." Suddenly, the siren´s head gave one little shake, catching the attention of her friends, who gave her a confused look.

“Hey, you okay there?” Asked Aria.

After being silent for a few seconds, Adagio finally turned around and gave the sirens a reassuring smile. “Yeah, let´s get ready for our grand entrance tonight.”

The other two turned to look at each other, struggling to know what just happened.

Night had arrives, as news about the Rainbooms forfeiting the match were now made public amongst Canterlot high´s students.

This did not stop the final competition from taking place, with the Dazzlings taking the stage for their final performance.

It had been a lot of work for them, but everything was now in place to create chaos and feed of everyone present, or at least, that´s what Sonata and Aria thought the plan was

Adagio had seemed to be acting rather strange lately, regardless, this was not the moment to worry about it, because they had a lot of people to ´entertain´.

Things were now set in place and the stage was for the sirens. Every single student was present and ready to hear the song from the three students. As they prepared, Adagio took notice of a curious movement on top of a hill, which was not too far away from the scenario. Twilight and her friends were there, ready to fight against the Dazzlings spells.

However, Instead of feeling nervous, Adagio chuckled.

“Welcome Canterlot high!” Greeted Adagio, her wicked smile hiding behind the microphone, as she kept looking towards the Rainbooms. “Tonight, we were going to give you one last performance, one for the ages.”

Behind her, Aria and Sonata looked at each other, a confused look on their faces.

Adagio continued. “However, we changed our initial idea and instead came up with something special, something all of you deserve!”

The crowd went wild, as they all expected the greatness of the immense spectacle that was about to unfold. As the cheers kept coming, Aria and Sonata prepared themselves to sing, an action not followed by Adagio.

Suddenly and much to the surprise of everyone present, the siren´s eyes turned blood red, as an invisible force took hold of every single student present with the exception of the other two Dazzlings.

“What the Heck is happening?” Asked Sunset from afar, as she tried to get free from the invisible hold, however there was no answer coming to her, the reason being everyone was completely shocked about this.

Back to the Dazzlings, Aria took one step up front and grabbed Adagio by the arm. “What do you think you are doing?”

An smiling Adagio turned to look at her friend and responded. “Something that will set us free.”

After the words left her mouth, she returned her sight to the scared crew and cleared her throat to speak, her eyes never leaving the spooked sight of the Rainbooms.

The spell continued to get hold of the Element´s counterparts, making the girls unable to stop the Dazzlings from doing whatever they were about to do, stop them from gaining control, the problem was... They were about to do something no one would have ever expected, something far worse.

With a huge smile on her face, Adagio opened her mouth, but not to sing, but to spell the words that would bring doom to everyone.

The original plan they had come up with, was now overshadowed by a sinister idea, an idea that was about to break hell loose with just voicing words that for anyone, would seem harmless. After this moment, nothing was going to be the same again.

“Kanda... Es-trada... Montos... Ea-grets...

Out of the open area, an invisible force forced his way out of the deepest pits of hell and unto the land of the living, savoring the moment as the underworld´s legions were summoned to conquer, to kill.

Gat... Nos-feratos...

The forces of hell were now on the run, going towards the source of the chant, for they craved to consume.

Kanda... Amantos...

Twilight turned to look at Sunset, equally on a loss for words at the Dazzlings´ change of plans. They were not ready for what was about to come, as the invisible forces made it to the auditorium.

Kanda.”

BOOM!

Suddenly, the sky exploded, before it was covered in thick gray clouds, widening the smile of Adagio. The other two sirens came alongside her, grabbing the girl´s arms, as the other two began to shake her in an attempt to snap the siren out of her trance. After a few seconds, Adagio turned to look at them.

"We now have our chance, come with me after I´m finished here."

Releasing her from their grasp, Sonata and Aria turned to look at each other, silently deciding whether to go with her or not. Adagio had changed, something had happened and it was something they had to know. Finally taking a decision, the two sirens complied. Things had gone different than they expected, but at least they had stopped Twilight and her friends from fighting against them, still, both Aria and Sonata could not shake the feeling away that something very wrong was happening.

In a fit of desperation, Twilight used all of her strength and will power to escape the spell holding her, but it was to no avail.

On her part, Sunset turned from her friend to the rest of the people in the auditorium, her eyes widening in shock and horror at the scene unfolding in front of them. Her heart pounded faster, as her mouth managed to utter. “Twilight, we have to get out of here.”

Looking just below the hill, the princess noticed that everyone was changing amidst the fog, screaming in pain and agony, as the evil spirits entered their vessels.

It wasn´t long before the horrible screams came to a stop, followed by an agonizing silence. The two heavy breathing friends looked at each other, then the mist that surrounded them, barely noticing the shadows amongst the smoke.

Both Sunset and Twilight felt their hearts stop, as the quiet ambiance was soon changed into small chuckles. Soon enough, everyone inside burst out into a high pitched mocking laugh.

“No, no, no, no...” Muttered the princess, taking notice of the diabolical change the Element´s counterparts were going through, whose faces turned into a wicked smile.

A loud roar made it to the entirety of the Auditorium, before leaving the whole place in dead silence. Everyone was smiling and staring blankly at every direction, not exactly taking notice of neither Sunset or Twilight.

No move nor sound was made, and it was starting to get on the nerves of the two uncontrolled friends, whose face pale had numerous drops of sweat running down their faces.

On her part, Twilight wanted to ask what had happened, yet the words could not come out of her mouth, thankfully or rather sadly for her, her doubts would soon be answered, by the one who had chanted to the evil spirits.

A wicked smile appeared on Adagio´s face, as she looked directly at Twilight. “They belong to us.” The princess shook her head in denial, making Adagio widen her grin, before opening her mouth again. This was it, they had the two friends on their grasp.

Their lives were about end...

“Destroy the princess and that sad excuse of an unicorn!”

As soon as the words left her mouth, everyone´s heads turned towards the two terrified girls.

Placing their sight upon her friends, Sunset and Twilight noticed how the Elements counterpart´s heads had turned one hundred eighty degrees, their smiles never leaving their faces.

It wasn´t long before the spell that had gotten hold of everyone inside the auditorium, was now gone, letting the twisted people free to start a bloody carnage.

There was no time to speak or even make a move before the denizens of hell launched themselves to sodomize the two girls.

Sunset and Twilight, who were the ones right behind the Rainbooms, wasted no time to turn around and try to flee.

They didn´t know if it was because of magic, of simple instinct, but their legs suddenly allowed them reach a very high speed to escape the infested auditorium.

Two figures could be seen going out of the haunted place, running at full speed for dear life across the now tall grass. As the run went on, Twilight looked behind her and noticed a horde coming towards them, with some of the possessed even using the trees as a way to speed their march.

“I´m gonna eat a pony!”

“I want a new place to hide my stick!”

“Good, bad... You are the two dead bitches!”

“Your whore princess is ours, pony!”

The demons´ words certainly did nothing to alleviate the tension the two friends were going through, as they rushed as fast as they could through the tall grass. Soon enough, the duo took notice of the school in the distance, the place where they could get refugee from the demonic horde.

On her part, Twilight found herself incredibly surprised at one particular fact. “How the Heck they know we are ponies!?”

“Are you kidding?” Replied an stressed out Sunset. “This isn´t exactly the time!”

As soon as Twilight was about to reply, a strong force tackled her to the floor, forcing Sunset to stop her advance and look at the source of the princess´ fall.

Smiling on top of Twilight was a rather crazy principal Celestia with her arms up high and ready to tear the flesh out of the girl´s bones.

Reacting quickly, Sunset tackled the principal to the floor and helped Twilight to her feet. “We have to move now!” There was no answer, Twilight was simply too scared to even acknowledge her, however, the run continued.

Trying to loose the horde, Sunset threw barrels and everything she could find to the floor, in order to stop the demon´s advance.

As Sunset sis her best to create as many obstacles as she could, Twilight noticed the janitor´s small warehouse and had an idea. Focusing as much as she could and grabbing Sunset´s hand, the princess conjured a quick spell to create two holographic clones of themselves.

As the magic began to take form, a confused Sunset turned her head, noticing the approaching demons getting closer. “Twilight, whatever you are about to do, do it quickly!”

They were going out of breath, their chests were on fire and their throats completely dry from the sheer amount of force they had been using to escape. They would not be able to resist for much longer.

“Twilight!” Sunset screamed, feeling each time more anxious.

Soon enough,the princess succeeded and managed to create the doppelgangers and just as they were about to reach the warehouse.

Smiling, Twilight pulled Sunset towards her, as they forced the door open with one strong push, successfully getting inside as the two holograms kept running.

Not wasting any second, Twilight got on her feet and quickly closed the door, then hid herself under the window.

As the duo tried to control their breathings, they could notice the demon horde going past them and unto the doppelgangers.

The last of them had just passed, allowing Sunset and Twilight to release the breaths they were holding, as they simply sat in silence, in order to catch their breaths.

The two friends were completely quiet, not daring to speak as they struggled to comprehend what had just happened. They had expected the Dazzlings to use their songs to create an internal fight amongst the Element´s counterparts, but what they had done instead, wasn´t only unexpected, but completely sinister.

“Sunset, are you okay?” Asked Twilight, speaking quiet enough to avoid them being spotted.

Sunset turned to see her friend, her breathing still heavy. “I´m... I´m okay, thank you.”

Twilight smiled in response. “Don´t worry, Sunset, that´s what friends are for.”

The girl grinned in response to the princess´ mention of her. It was hard for Sunset, to be able to regain humanity and achieve retribution for everything she had done and while the rest of Canterlot high did their best to hate her, at least Twilight managed to consider her a friend.

However, this was not the time to thank her. “We need to get out of here and search for a way to get them back to normal.”

“I know,” answered Twilight, her face grimacing as she spoke, “but where to start? I wasn´t aware the Dazzlings had that kind of power." She grunted. "I don´t even know where Spike is, he simply disappeared after the Dazzlings used a spell to keep us still.”

Upon hearing the words, Sunset took her sight off the princess and unto the floor, thinking about what had happened. She didn´t know about the power either, but she had a hunch it wasn´t theirs.

Suddenly, her eyes widened, a memory assaulting her. ” Wait a minute,” said Sunset, catching the attention of Twilight, who turned to look at her, “I remember seeing Adagio placing some kind of book inside her locker.”

“What kind of book?” Asked Twilight.

“It was... Weird, the cover had some kind of face, I thought she simply loved horror novels, I mean, who doesn´t?” Answered Sunset.

The princess placed her hand under her chin, deep in thought about this fact. If there was indeed some kind of magic book involved in this and it was one that could create this kind of massive possession, she shuddered to even think what book it was.

In all of her years as a student, she had been in contact with the occult and while she was restricted to practice any of its arts, she had enough knowledge to come up with a bunch of books that could match the power description of the artifact in Adagio´s possession.

However, she could not be certain about the thought of a magic item being involved. “Do you really think this book could have some involvement in this.”

Sunset closed her eyes and let out a grunt. “I don´t know, but she did look kind of startled about the fact that I saw her reading it.”

“I guess we have to go with that by now.” Answered Twilight.

Sunset grunted again. “We have to go outside.” The princess sighed in response at the girl´s words, she wasn´t particularly happy about the idea. Sunset continued speaking. “Which book you think she´s using?”

“I don´t know,” answered Twilight, “but I hope it is not the one I´m thinking.”

The princess turned around and took a look outside of the room with the intention of seeing any kind of movement. She was expecting at least one of them, but what greeted Twilight, was simply the gentle breeze of the air, coupled by the obscured trees amongst the tall grass.

“I don´t know how it is that the grass changed size so quickly.” The princess muttered.

“Maybe a side effect of the book´s power.” Answered Sunset, as she placed herself alongside Twilight, looking outside as well.

After a few seconds of staring into the nothingness, Sunset turned to see Twilight and placed one hand over the princess´ shoulder. “We better move now.” Twilight nodded in response.

The door was slowly opened, with the two girls being careful not to make any noise, just in case one of them was close. Soon enough the duo went out of the room an unto the open camp, immediately spotting the place where the lockers resided, just alongside the huge stage.

“Let´s go.” Quietly said Sunset, as she started the slow walk, with Twilight going behind her.

On their way towards the place, the duo turned their head towards the sky, noticing the thick black smoke still covering the once shining moon, almost making it seem like it simply disappeared from the sky. They wondered if this event managed to affect everyone in the city, but they were not going to waste time looking into it.

“I can´t even see the stars.” Whispered Twilight, managing to get the attention of Sunset, who turned slightly to stare the princess.

“I can´t even see the sky at all, I have never seen anything like this.” With those words, she returned her gaze towards the road ans sighed. “This doesn´t feel like your average invader, does it?”

Twilight grimaced. “No it doesn´t.” She answered. “Not even the Everfree felt this wrong, I mean, there isn´t even a single sound.”

“Kind of eerie, actually.” Replied Sunset, getting one good look at her surroundings, before turning to stare at Twilight. “Come on, lets hurry.”

The princess nodded, before they continued their march. It wasn´t long before the two girls made it to the locker room, standing outside the place.

Sunset took one look inside, just in case something dangerous popped out, leaving Twilight to stare into the wide open space. The alicorn noticed the numerous trees around them and while they sure looked creepy, it was the fact that they seemed to have faces that spooked her, coupled with the illusion that they all seemed to be staring at her with what looked like lust in their expressions.

The princess suddenly felt an uncomfortable feeling between her legs, something that warned her to avoid getting close to the trees.

“Nothing inside.” Finally, Sunset´s words cut Twilight out of her trance and turned her gaze towards the opening door.

There wasn´t a single sound or even a movement, it was all dead silent. The once illuminated room was completely pitch black, a darkness that invited the duo.

Turning slightly to look at her friend, Sunset gave her a quick nod with her head, before taking Twilight by her hand and proceeding inside the darkness.

“Wish we had a flashlight.” Muttered Sunset, as she struggled to see inside.

The place was a wreck, almost as if a mini - tornado had passed inside the locker room. Clothes, backpacks and some books were lying on the ground.

“Great!” Said Sunset, a frown appearing on her features. “How are we going to find her locker or even that book with all the place trashed?”

“How about we try the only locker glowing in a strange blue light?” Taking notice of the princess´ words, Sunset noticed that indeed, amidst the wreck, only one locker remained completely untouched, with a weird blue glow emanating from it.

The two girls remained completely frozen, deciding whether they would get close or not, when suddenly, Twilight felt a small push on her back.

“Well, go get it, princess.” Sunset said, instantly alarming Twilight.

“Wait, why me?” She replied.

“Because for one, I´m not an egghead and two... Well, actually there isn´t any other better reason than that.” Twilight deadpanned at her friends words.

Finally releasing a grunt, the princess turned her gaze towards the glowing locker, slowly approaching it. Just as she was midway, the princess turned around to stare at Sunset, a worried look painted on her face. Sunset gave her a smile and a thumbs up, making Twilight roll her eyes, before returning her sight to the front. I wasn´t long before the young girl made it in front of the locker, then slowly reached with her hand.

With an almost quiet click, the door gave in and opened to reveal it contents. There, almost waiting for Twilight to find it, was the book and a twisted one at that, but ultimately one the princess recognized.

Holding it with her hands, Twilight´s eyes widened, as her hands began to shake. Taking notice of her reaction, Sunset got closer and took a look at the object on her friend´s hands, her reaction being the same as the princess.

“Is... Is that?” Asked Sunset.

As shaking Twilight turned to look at her friend, her face showing a concerned expression. She had heard about this particular book and the things it was capable of... This was definitely not good.

“Yes, Sunset, it is... This book is the Necronomicon.”