The Spell

“Twilight, you should really start hurrying it up.”

It had been five minutes since the princess grabbed to book, reading its contents to find some kind of counter spell, something that could return what the book called ´Kandarian demons´, to their dimension in the depths of hell. So far, there was no answer to this interrogative and it was driving Twilight mad.

“Twilight!” Sunset called once more, this time getting the attention of the princess, whose face was covered by several drops of sweat.

“Ugh! I can´t find anything to stop this!”

Sunset sighed. “Did you try the final pages already?”

Instantly skipping some lectures to reach the end of the book, Twilight was greeted with a horrible truth. “No, this can´t be!”

“What?” Asked Sunset.

Twilight turned to look at her, as her expression grimaced. “The last pages... They´re gone.”

Letting out a grunt, Sunset walked towards Twilight, getting a look at the book and discovering that indeed, the last pages had been taken. “Adagio must´ve taken them.”

“Then we have to get them from her.” As the princess said this, she skipped once more through the pages of the Necronomicon, looking for something else of interest between its weird content.

Soon enough, Sunset got a look on something rather interesting. “Wait!” Placing her finger on the book to stop Twilight from changing the page, Sunset returned a few lectures, stopping in a particular image.

“What is that?”

Twilight took a look at the picture, before reading the passage in silence. As the princess did this, Sunset waited for the short version, while she she analyzed the image.

Between to towers, laid a man in what looked like a blue shirt, with something attached to his right arm, the object looking awfully a lot like a chainsaw, which he held up high; on the other hand, the man was grabbing another tool, this one strangely resembling a shotgun releasing some kind of spell; lastly, she noticed the strange gibberish underneath.

Finally, Twilight stopped reading and readied herself to explain. “It has been quite some time since I saw this kind of language, but I think I can make most of it.”

“So?” Asked Sunset.

Returning her eyes to the page, Twilight spoke. “It talks about a hero that fell from the sky, some kind of chosen one. It is said that it was this man that stopped the advance of these... ´deadites´ forever.”

“Well, it doesn´t seem like he did a very good job.” Replied Sunset. “Is there any way to summon him?”

“Unlikely.” Twilight shook her head. “This story goes way back in time, I doubt even the chosen could last that long.”

Sunset placed one hand under her chin, when suddenly she came up with an idea. “Twilight, this books basically brings the dead back to life, can´t we just try to bring this guy?”

Twilight shook her head in response. “The Necronomicon only deals with evil spirits, I don´t it is going to bring something that could stop its power.” Sunset sighed in response. “It seems we are on our own, no chosen one to help us.”

Handling the book to Sunset, Twilight walked towards the door to look through the window, but not to search for any kind of danger, but for her baby dragon, now turned dog. She didn´t exactly know where he went, but the princess could only hope he was okay.

Suddenly, a voice caught Twilight off guard.

“KLAATU, VERATA, NIK...”

“Sunset, wait!”

BOOM!

Just before she could stop the girl, a loud thunder collided against the earth, almost blinding the two girls in the process, with a very intense white light.

As soon as the effect was gone, an angry Twilight turned to look at her friend. “What did you do!?”

Sunset panicked. “I was just trying to see if this chant worked.”

“No help will come from the book, it is downright evil! Sunset, we can´t just play with every single word that comes inside, we could be awaking something far worse than these deadites!” Replied the princess, her tone returning to normal.

Giving away a deep sigh, Sunset couldn´t help but to feel bad about her actions. Twilight was right, something bad could have happened. “I´m sorry, Twilight, I thought this could help.”

“Don´t worry, Sunset, I´m sure you just wanted to help, but we don´t need another kind of demon going after us.”

Sunset opened her mouth to reply, but was interrupted by a sudden noise coming outside of the locker room. Instantly getting into motion, the two girls placed themselves under the windowed door.

Something was walking outside and even if its steps were barely audible, they could still hear them. Watching around the room, Sunset noticed a broom and proceeded to grab it, before turning to Twilight, who nodded in response. The princess grabbed the handle, getting ready to head out, until...

“Twilight? Twilight!”

“Spike!?” Almost screamed the surprised girl, as she opened the door completely.

The princess released the breath she was holding, as soon as she took notice of an all too familiar dog. She had feared this evil took hold of her friend and although Twilight wasn´t sure how exactly he was untouched, she was glad to have found him.

Taking her friend by surprise, Twilight wasted no time into locking the dog into a warm hug, which lasted a few seconds, before she released him from her grasp and held him in her hands. “Where were you, are you alright?”

“Yes, I escaped when everything started.” Spike answered, a thin grin on his face. “Twilight, what is happening? I went to Canterlot high when I saw most students rounding up around the statue, I tried to get close but Luna attacked me.”

“Did she hurt you?” Asked Twilight, clearly worried about the dog´s well being.

He gave her a small chuckle as a response. “No, I managed to escape, I figured I would find you here when I didin´t see you at the school.”

As soon as he finished, Twilight once more pulled him into a warm embrace, moments before Sunset decided to get close.

“Spike,” she called him out, grabbing the dog´s attention, “Did you see any of the Dazzlings around there?

“No, I didn´t, there was only a huge crowd of humans, maybe they were inside,” Sunset grunted at his response. “I also heard some of the students talking about someone named Dagan, or more like praising really! Everyone in Canterlot high looked like zombies.”

Twilight and Sunset turned to look at each other. “Dagan?” Asked the princess, getting a nod from Spike.

“Do you think this Dagan was the one who gave Adagio the book?”

Standing from her crouching position, with Spike on her arms, Twilight faced her friend and opened her mouth. “It could be, but nothing is completely certain right now, our best bet is to head towards the school and search for the Dazzlings.”

Heading towards the door, Sunset gave her friend a smile. “You know? I wasn´t expecting a suicide mission when I called for your help, which makes me wonder if you were the one that brought us bad luck.” Twilight rolled her eyes, a grin appearing on her face, as Sunset turned to look at the dog. “I´m surprised you managed to get here without getting attention.”

Spike gave her a worried look. “About that...”

CRASH!

Just before Spike could finish his sentence, a loud sound came from the outside, alerting the three friends, who placed themselves behind the door. Twilight grabbed a backpack that laid on the floor alongside her and placed Spike inside it, meanwhile Sunset looked outside.

The girl grunted. “Seems like you didn´t get rid of Luna after all.”

Moving towards the door, Twilight noticed that indeed, Luna was outside, running around the place like a lunatic. The princess turned to look at Sunset. “Lets wait until she´s gone.” Sunset nodded.

The silhouette of Luna was running around the place in circles, a lunatic smiled carved on her face. It almost seemed like she was only playing with them and could only hope that she went away. Soon enough, Luna stopped on her tracks and remained still, not a single muscle moving.

Spike, Twilight and Sunset remained in complete silence, staring at the bizarre image. On her part, Twilight thought the demon was resting, giving them the opportunity to escape, as such, she turned around to stare at Sunset. “This is our chance.”

With a nod from her head, the trio went out outside, being careful to avoid getting the deadite´s attention.

Slowly making their way behind a possessed Luna, the trio could see the school in the distance. As soon as they found themselves at a considerable safe space, the girls turned around, now confident that they had escaped an unnecessary confrontation, when...

Crash!

The sounds of feet moving caught the trio by surprise, who turned around to look at Luna and much to their disdain, she was no longer there.

“Um... Twilight?” Said a terrified Sunset, never taking her eyes off the spot.

After a few seconds of heavy breathing, Twilight finally managed to gain enough courage to speak. “Yes, Sunset, I know, Luna´s gone.”

“Where...”

HE HE HE HE HE!

A diabolical laugh caught the two girls by surprise, who slowly turned around to see where the sound came from.

Their eyed widened as soon as they saw what happened... Luna was behind them, a kill look on her face and a full grown smile plastered on her face.

A few tense seconds passed before the deadite spoke. “Where´s my little doggie!” As soon as the words left the Kandarian demon´s mouth, she raised her arm, which held a long pointy knife, before bringing it to the two frightened girls.

Moments before the knife made contact, Sunset and Twilight moved from the way, then began their run towards the school.

Not wasting any second, Luna went after them, but instead of running like a normal human would, she went on all four legs, still managing the get a lot of speed.

“Dead by dawn!”

“No, not again!” Said Twilight, feeling the weight of the situation once more.

Sunset turned slightly to face her friend and talked. “We need to get to Canterlot high, fast!”

From the inside of Twilight´s backpack, Spike came into view, eyes widening at the scene. “What the Heck is going on?”

“The dazzlings summoned various demons with the Necronomicon´s aid.” Twilight answered, still on the run.

Reaching inside the backpack, Spike took out the aforementioned magical object. “You mean this book? Man, it surely gives me the creeps.”

“Leave it inside, Spike! Don´t touch it, we don´t know what else it is capable of...”

Just before she finished her sentence, a shining object made it past the trio, with the pointy end of the knife cutting some of Twilight´s hair. None of them had enough time to react, before a maniacal Luna jumped against them. Soon enough, the deadite had Twilight pinned down and facing the floor, meanwhile Sunset landed a few feet away from them.

A scared Spike noticed the widening grin of the deadite, as it looked at him with hungry eyes. “Little puppy too big for my mouth! Let me fix that!”

Placing both of her hands inside her mouth, Luna began to pull apart her own jaw from the upper side of her mouth, ripping the skin of her cheeks. Quickly pulling both hands away, the deadite went for the kill.

A wooden stick found its way to Luna´s head, as she was about to bite Spike. The deadite was sent to the floor, blood going everywhere as her body touched the ground.

“Twilight, come on!” Exclaimed Sunset, pulling the princess to her feet. “The school is right up ahead, we need to move now.”

A moment of silence came from the girl, who noticed the blood all over them, forcing her to remain catatonic for a few seconds, before a hand shook her from her trance.

“We need to move now!”

Finally shaking her head, the princess returned to reality and gave Sunset a shaky nod, before they resumed their run.

The screams of the deadite could be hear behind them, as the trio made it to the back doors of the place. Sunset used her body to push both doors, letting Twilight and Spike come after, then closed them as fast as she could and locked it.

A brutal force collided against the metal entrance, leaving a mark in it, however, it did not brake. Not wanting to stay and figure if the door could handle, the two girls ran away into the long hallway and inside Celestia´s office.

Quickly closing the door behind them, Sunset dropped to the floor, catching her breath in the process, meanwhile, Twilight took hold of the dog and held him in her arms “Spike, are you okay? Did she hurt you?”

The dog looked at her, his eyes wide open, as he tried to stomach what had happened. He forced himself to speak, but words could not come out, not after such a traumatic experience. Spike´s chest could be seen moving at a high speed, proof of his uncontrolled heavy breathing. After a few moments, the first tears started to come out from the dog, making Twilight place her hand on the dog´s cheek.

“Spike?” She called gently, not wanting to startle him.

“Her... Her m... Mouth.”

Quickly understanding the situation, the princess took hold of Spike and placed him in a warm embrace. “It´s okay Spike, you´re safe now.”

As the moment of silence passed, before Sunset got close to the duo, placing herself on one knee, as she placed her hand over Twilight´s shoulder. “Is he okay?”

Twilight sighed in response and shook her head.

“Twilight,” Sunset called, “we need to move, do you think he can make it?”

Twilight sighed again. “I... I don´t know, Spike is... “Instantly feeling something weird, the princess turned to look at the dog. “He´s asleep.”

“Oh, okay.” Answered Sunset, a little surprised at this turn of events. “Cool self defense system.”

“Yep.” Not long passed before the two recovered their senses, making them focus on the goal. “Sunset, we need to move, the faster we find the Dazzlings, the better.”

The girl grunted. “Not that crazy to return to the freak show, you do realize all of our friends are possessed?”

Twilight lowered her head. “I know and I don´t know how we can get them back, or even if we can get them back.” Turning her gaze towards Sunset, Twilight let out a sigh. “I can´t believe this is happening. Oh dear, did you see Luna?”

Sunset shook her head. “Look, let´s just keep moving, if there is a way to get everything back to normal, then we need to act now.”

“I know,” answered Twilight, “but what if there isn´t a way? We don´t know how far this possession went, for all we know all the city could be infested.”

“The more reason we need to get answers from those sirens.” With those words, Sunset turned around and headed towards the door, placing her hand on the knob, before turning to look at her friend. “You ready?”

“Not really.”

With one movement, the door was opened, giving way to the two girls, with Twilight behind setting Spike on her backpack. The hallway was surely dark, although not to the point where they could see nothing, which gave them a sigh of relief.

The duo started to walk, watching in all directions in search of a deadite. It was all rather quiet, not a single sound, just as the forest alongside the auditorium.

So far they had been witnesses of a horrible experience and while injuries such as the one Luna made upon herself look far too bad, they still had hope they could fix this.

The walk continued without problems, as the two girls reached an intersection. They had no clear idea on where the Dazzlings were, making their search the more stressful for them. Several photos and trophies were on the floor, with many of the lockers either open or down on the floor.

Suddenly, the walls began to make a cracking noise, almost as if the ceiling was alive. Focusing on her thoughts once more, Twilight wondered why these deadites were close to the portal. She was almost sure demons could not enter it, however, there was a sick feeling on her chest that wouldn´t simply leave her.

Amidst the silence, Twilight turned to look at her friend. “Sunset, about what Spike said, do you think these Kandarian demons made it to Equestria?”

She sighed. “I sincerely hope not, but even if they did, I´m sure the princesses will...”

“HELP!”

A sudden voice caught them by surprise, instantly stopping their advance, as they turned to the source of the call.

“Twilight,” called Sunset, “that sounded awfully a lot like...”

“Please, someone help me!”

The princess was soon assaulted by recognition. “Celestia!” She turned her gaze towards Sunset. “We need to hurry, she´s in danger.”

The two girls suddenly found themselves running towards the cafeteria, passing down the lab, when Sunset suddenly stopped midway, her eyes completely lost in the door´s window and inside the room. Noticing this, Twilight faced her.

“What´s wrong?”

Sunset shook her head, as she set her eyes on the road ahead once more. “Nothing, It´s just that I could have sword that deer head was laughing at me.”

“What?” Twilight asked, not exactly knowing what to think about this, making her shake off the thought. “Let´s just get to the cafeteria.”

Leaving the strange illusion behind, Sunset continued her run behind Twilight, getting ready to fight whatever is in the other side of the doors.

“Someone, please!”

“We´re coming!” Screamed Twilight, as she pushed both doors with her shoulder, instantly bursting inside the place. “Celestia!”

Just in front of the two girls, laid the principal chained by her hands, blood dripping down her stomach,as well as her forehead; besides her was a rather particular guy. Sunset narrowed her eyes.

“Flash.”

The boy turned his head around to greet the two girls, his face obscured by the darkness surrounding them.

“Girlfriends!” He called out, passing his hand through Celestia´s hair, then her face and finally her breasts.

Twilight frowned. “Let her go, Flash!”

The boy chuckled. “Why? I haven´t fucked in a millennia.” The two girls placed themselves in battle position.

“I won´t ask again, Flash.” Said Sunset, greeting her teeth. “Let her go.”

The tired principal turned to look at Twilight, her eyes pleading for the princess to save her. “Twilight, please, don´t let him hurt me.”

The deadite gave her one slap to the face, before giving one step up front, his face serious, with most of it hidden under the shadows. “You want her? Come get her.”

As the words left his mouth, a sinister cackle made it to the entirety of the room, forcing the two girls to attack. The due grabbed their hands, as a white light emanated from them. It wasn´t long before a powerful beam was released towards the Kandarian demon, who had launched himself against the two girls.

The blast made impact as they expected, leaving Flash´s body fall to the floor and leaving the place free for the girls to approach the principal.

Not wasting any second, Twilight grabbed one kitchen knife to cut the ropes surrounding Celestia´s wrists, letting her fall to the floor. Instantly reaching for her, Twilight held her in her arms.

“Celestia, are you okay?” Asked Sunset.

The principal let out a weak smile, as she tried to recover her strength. “Yes, I am, thank you Sunset.”

“We should get out of here, the whole school is in trouble.” Replied Twilight, getting Celestia to her feet.

The principal used as much force as she could to stand up, looking at her surroundings, then faced the duo. “Thank you girls and thank you Twilight, I knew I made the right decision when I made you an alicorn.”

Upon her words, Twilight couldn´t help but to smile, whereas Sunset lowered her head. She had been her student in the past and while the girl knew she had failed the princess, she still saw her with love. In the end, she had no anger against Twilight, she simply had proved to be a good friend for her.

Soon enough, the moment was ruined by the sound of a maniacal laughter, getting the attention of the two girls and the principal. Sitting on the floor, was a still smiling Flash, looking at the girls with a mocking face.

“Where are the Dazzlings?” Demanded Sunset. “And why are you laughing?”

Finally, after a few seconds of the mocking laugh, Flash´s face turned serious. “The sirens are deep up your ass and to answer your question of why I´m laughing... Well, it is simply because you are so gullible.” A widen grin appeared on the deadites features, making Twilight frown.

However, contrary to the princess, Sunset held a worried look. “Twilight,” the girl turned to look at her friend, “how does principal Celestia know about alicorns?”

Upon hearing Sunset´s words, Twilight couldn´t help but to widen her eyes in both shock and fear, just before an evil laugh came from behind them.

“Uh oh.” Was all that Twilight could say before she felt an object penetrating her shoulder.

The poor girl couldn´t help but to scream in pain, as the kitchen knife found its way to her bone. Instantly reacting, Sunset grabbed a nearby plate and crashed it against the principal´s face, then reached for Twilight and helped her to her feet, before running towards the kitchen´s exit. As the two girls ran, a distant shot was fired, however, they did not pay attention to it.

Two forces made their way behind them, but they were too far to know where the two girls were, giving them the opportunity to hide inside another room and wait for them to pass.

Pushing a nearby classroom´s door, Sunset and Twilight got inside, finding themselves hiding from danger yet again. As the sounds of moving objects stopped the silence of the school, Sunset turned to look at Twilight´s injury.

“How do you feel?” Asked the girl, getting a grunt from response.

“How do you think? Celestia just stabbed me with a knife.”

Rolling her eyes, Sunset tore one piece of her cloth and placed it around her shoulder. “Stop being such a baby and for the record, that wasn´t Celestia, at least not anymore.”

As she was in the verge of crying, Twilight couldn´t help but to give her friend a thin smile. “Sunset, thank you.”

The girl was about to answer, when they heard someone approaching the classroom where they were hiding.

Taking refugee behind the huge desk in front of the classroom, Sunset could notice that the approaching figure was none other than Flash.

“Are you here, girlfriends?” Asked the deadite. “I don´t know about you, but you two plus this classroom really turns me on.”

The figure suddenly turned towards the direction the two girls were hiding and approached the desk, scratching the walls of the classroom with his now long nails, a perverted smile on his face.

“Come on girls! There´s enough Flash for the two of you and we can always sort things out in a threesome!”

The girls found themselves shaking uncontrollably, doing their best to remain as silent as possible. They could only pray the deadite would leave the place.

Sweat began to run from Twilight´s face and not only from the tense situation, but for the horrible pain on her shoulder. She was at least glad that Spike was well protected inside the backpack, at least she didn´t have to worry about him, however, she still had the Necronomicon inside with the dog.

On her part, Sunset took the decision to have a look out of their hiding, only to see if the deadite was gone, however, what greeted her was the classroom completely empty.

Sunset´s face paled as soon as she noticed what had happened.

“Waifus!” Screamed the demented Kandarian demon, as he used his hand to grab Sunset by her head, before throwing her across the room. His eyes once more focused on the hurt princess, who did her best to crawl away from the deadite.

“You know,” said the demon, preparing himself to jump on Twilight, “you are my favorite, Twilight, I always wanted to savor your skin... As I rip every flesh from your bones!”

Just as the perverted deadite was about to launch himself towards the downed Twilight, a gun blast resounded across the room, culminating with the boy´s head exploding from the impact.

The princess let out a scream of surprise at the sudden scene, then turned to look at Flash´s dead corpse between her legs. Quickly realizing this, Twilight backed away and tried to clean herself from the blood splatter.

“Twilight, are you okay?” Said Sunset, who had just made it to the princess side, however, the young girl did not answer.

Twilight´s eyes had noticed something at the other side of the door, a shadow that was approaching them and the thing that had killed the Kandarian demon. It wasn´t long before Sunset realized what Twilight was staring at and was soon fixed in the figure.

Not wasting a second, they got on their feet and in combat position, just in case it was dangerous.

Soon enough they recognized the silhouette as human, even though his right hand held what looked like a chainsaw, with the other one holding the tool that had killed the deadite.

The shadow came to a stop in front of the two frightened girls, who simply stared at what was clearly a man. They waited for him to make a move. Finally, after a few moments of silence, Twilight managed to speak. “Who... Who are you?”

“Me?” Answered the figure. “Well, they call me by many names, some call me the chosen one, others call me the handsome devil, but for you baby... I´m the king.”