The Spell

The sun was only four hours away to rise on the horizon and every student and teacher now turned deadite, were rounded up around Equestra´s portal. From the inside of the school, three figures made themselves be seen.

Aria and Sonata walked behind Adagio, who made her way between the possessed students and towards the statue. As the siren made it without a problem, every deadite was instead seeing with watering mouths the other two girls.

“Psst.” Suddenly, Sonata called Aria. “Is it just me or she´s acting a little weird?”

Aria rolled her eyes, clearly annoyed at her friend. “And just now you noticed it? Be honest, did you suffer a fatal injury in your head when you were little?”

“No need to be that rude.” Exclaimed Sonata, a frown appearing on her face, which was only replied by a grunt from Aria.

“Yes, I need to, its not everyday you find someone as stupid as...”

“Come on, girls,” interrupted Adagio, her eyes still fixated on the statue, “there is no need to fight, we have achieved something great.”

“And what is that?” Asked an annoyed Aria. “Taking control of this stinking world?”

Adagio chuckled in response, placing herself alongside the portal. “No, this world does not matter, but rather the one behind this mirror and now we have the tools to enter.” As the words left her mouth, the siren took out a few pages from her pockets, setting them up high for her friends to see. “These pages contain the spells necessary to allow us cross the portal.”

“And?” Asked Aria. “As soon as we set foot in Equestria, the princesses will not even give us the opportunity to walk a meter.”

“Well... We wont be going alone.” Answered Adagio, making the two sirens realize her plan.

Aria wide opened her eyes. “You didn´t summon these demons just to get rid of Twilight and absorb her magic, did you?”

The siren chuckled, turning her gaze towards the rest of the deadites. “When the first light hits the statue, the portal will open, allowing us to release the Necronomicon´s evil into Equestria.” In a moment, Adagio´s eyes turned red. “We will be free, we will no longer remain chained in the misery of the observer! After this day, we will have the freedom we have long searched for!”

Turning her eyes towards the two sirens, Adagio noticed the unsure expression on their faces and decided to act. “Isn´t that what we wanted? To find a way back to the world we deserve?”

Aria and Sonata turned to look at each other, not knowing what to answer. Yes, they craved to return, but they did not know for how long these Kandarian demons would remain loyal, not to Adagio, but to them... Considering they were for a start.

On her part, Adagio took the time to admire her physique, every single feature on her face and every single hair on her head. “When dawn comes,” she turned to look at the two sirens, raising her finger, “its shinning light will illuminate this side of the mirror and...”

BANG!

In a moment, the crystal Adagio was pointing at, was shattered, catching the attention of the surprised siren, who turned around to look at what happened, when a sudden voice caught her off guard.

“And that´s why you don´t buy second hand.” Adagio roared in anger at the approaching figure, who held a shotgun in his hand. “You want to avoid those kind of problems? Shop smart, shop S-mart.”

Adagio hissed, walking towards the figure. Her face showed clear anger, as she recognized the man standing in front of them.

“You...”

The man smiled. “That´s right bitch... Me!”

One hour earlier

“Wow, hey! Why the hell was that for?” A book went flying over the man´s head, who did everything in his power to stop the wrath of an angered girl.

Suddenly, the man was tackled to the floor by Sunset, who grabbed his limbs to stop him from moving, then turned to look at her friend. “Twilight, now!”

“Now what?” Asked the confused man, as something hard found its way to his head.

In a moment, the human male was attacked by numerous punches committed by a purple teenager holding a broom stick.

“Oh, stop it, you little bastards!” Screamed the man, who did his best to protect himself with his only free hand. “Not the face! Not the face!”

The punches continued for a few moments, before Twilight stopped her rage attack, taking a few deep breaths in the process. As she did this, the man turned to look at her, a frown clearly visible on his face.

“Are you done playing piñata?” His question was soon answered by a another hit.

This time, the guy had enough and used all of his strength to get up with Sunset still attached to his back. “Oh, you little...”

Throwing Sunset away, the man turned around in time to stop another incoming attack with his hand, then took the weapon away from Twilight´s hands and broke it with his knee, then proceeded to grab the girl by her hand and pin her to the ground.

Far from the punch Twilight was expecting, the human simply stared at her. “Answer me a question, do I look like one of those damned things to you?”

“No you don´t,” answered an angry Twilight, “but you killed one of my friends!”

“Listen to me, Barney girl!” Called the man. “That thing there was not your friend anymore.”

What?” Asked Twilight, calming herself more by each second that passed.

“Once these deadites get to you, there is no turning back, not even if they voluntarily leave the body.” Twilight widened her eyes in horror at this new fact. “Your friend was already dead the moment this asshole took control of his body.”

As the news hit against her hard, Twilight remained in silence, her eyes wide open as she struggle to swallow the man´s words.

Noting that the girl had calmed, the human let her go and stood right, staring at her for a few moments... Then something tackled him once more to the floor.

“Oh, come on! Not again!” Sunset had the man on the ground, as she started punching his face. “Get off me, you crazy bitch!”

Returning to her senses once more, Twilight stood up and walked towards the two of them. “Sunset, stop, let him go!”

However, her friend and the human were too lost to even hear her. Noticing none of them them was listening, the princess decided to step in the middle and grab Sunset with her arms. “Leave him be, he is not here to kill us.”

“What!?” Replied the angry girl. “Didn´t you see him kill Flash?”

As Twilight struggled to keep her friend at bay, the man stood up, cleaning his shirt off in the process. “I´m sorry to have killed your bed diversion, but that kid was already gone.”

Angered by the man´s statement, Sunset once more used all of her strength to get herself free from Twilight´s grasp. The angry girl launched herself against the man, once more pinning him to the ground, as she ended on top of him.

Twilight was about to aid this human, when she noticed something about him. The blue shirt, the shotgun, the red chainsaw and the knowledge he had about what was happening. Recognition hit her hard, almost making her facepalm at her stupidity. Now she knew who the man was.

Running toward the two, the princess once more grabbed Sunset, but she didn´t let herself get caught again. “Sunset, you have to let him go, we can trust him!”

“Are you crazy?” Asked the girl. “How do you even know that.”

“Because I think he is the chosen one.”

A right hook made it to the man´s winnie between his legs, making Twilight cringe at this. As the guy rubbed his member in complete pain, Sunset turned around to look at Twilight, her eyes wide open. “What?”

Calming herself a little more, Sunset began to stand up, leaving the guy on the floor, who was still occupied on the pain he felt.

“Look at him, who else would be crazy enough to come here? Who else would know what these things are? Also look at his clothes.”

Following her instructions, Sunset turned to look the man, analyzing his features.

A moment of silence endured before the guy talked again. “You know? Lets start with the first rule of this beautiful relationship: Stay away from little Ash.”

Letting the guy´s words slip by, Sunset got close to him, a worried look on her face. Getting on one knee, she gave the guy a helping hand. “Look, I´m sorry, I thought you were going to...”

“You though I was going to waste my time ripping apart your little pretty body, when there is an army of deadites outside? And you decided to attack me, instead of them?” Sunset closed her eyes, ashamed of their actions. “Girl, I would be very mad at you for such a dumbass action, if you weren´t so gorgeous.”

As soon as the words left the man´s mouth, Sunset couldn´t help but to furiously blush. It had been quite some time since someone called her that, Heck, she wasn´t even sure if someone or somepony had called her that in her life.

Interrupting the moment, Twilight, who had taken her backpack again, walked towards the human. “Are you really the chosen one?”

“That´s me in the flesh, baby, but please don´t call me that, it really sounds like one of those board-game heroes nerds play.” Standing to his full height, which was similar to Celestia´s, the man placed one thumb on himself. “My name Is Ashley J. Williams, just call me Ash.” Twilight chuckled a bit at this. “What´s so funny?”

The princess smiled. “Isn´t Ashley a girl´s name?”

Ash crossed his arms in response. “What about your name?”

Extending her arm forwards to shake Ash´s, which he handed, the girl´s grin went wider. “My name is Twilight Sparkle.”

After the words left her mouth, Ash couldn´t help but to release a loud mocking laugh. “Seriously? Is your name actually Twilight?”

The princess frowned. “Yes, why?”

“Girl, with a name like that, I´ve officially lost eighty percent of respect for you.” Twilight crossed her arms, and angry look on her face. “No seriously, the movies are painfully atrocious.” As the princess let out a grunt in response, Ash turned to look at the other girl. “And what about you? You look like the kind of girl whose name can melt any man.”

“I´m Sunset Shimmer.” Replied the girl, the blush on her face refusing to leave, which made Ash chuckle as he turned to look at Twilight.

“You see that, Bella? That´s what I call a fitting name.” The princess grunted.

“My name is not Bella.” Replied an annoyed Twilight, however her words went completely unnoticed by Ash.

“You know, you should really sue your parents,” Twilight replied with a ´what?´that once again was ignored by Ash, “although, if they are the soapopera kind of folks, I understand something went wrong inside their heads when they named you like that.”

Contrary to Twilight´s anger for having her name mocked, Sunset let out a hearty laugh, however, the princess would simply not stand for this.

“Can we stop making fun of my name and get out there to sort things out?”

Just before she could even give a step, Ashley placed one hand on her chest. “Woah there, girl! In no way I´m letting you go confront those lousy bastards, better let me do the work.”

Removing Ash´s hand, Twilight grunted in response. “We are not helpless you know?”

“Hell, after that serious beating, sweet cheeks here gave me, I´m sure you aren´t, but these deadites are not joke.” Twilight rolled her eyes. “I really need to know why these guys are surrounding that statue.”

Getting close to the duo, Sunset looked at Twilight, who nodded in response, before setting her eyes on Ash. “Actually, we may know why they´re there.”

The man turned to look at her, with an expression that said ´tell me´.

“To tell you the truth, it is... Rather complicated to explain what is at the other side of that mirror.”

Getting huge interest on Twilight´s words, Ash went through a lot of meanings behind the sentence. ´Behind the mirror´, this was the phrase that caught him off guard and it could only mean one thing. “You mean the thing is a portal to another world?” Twilight nodded. “Okay... “

“Please, don´t panic or anything for what we´re about to tell you,” started Twilight, “I know it could be a little complicated to understand or even believe but...”

“Come on, get on with it, pronto!” Reclaimed the impatient man, letting out a grunt from Twilight.

Just before the princess could even speak, Sunset got closer. “We are actually ponies that come from another dimension and that portal is our way home.”

“See there, Sprinkles? Easy and straight to the point, my kind of girl.”

As Sunset, once more, found herself blushing, Twilight couldn´t help but to feel surprised at Ash´s seemingly lack of response for the sudden information about them. “Wait,” she called out, “why aren´t you surprised?”

“Lady, you´d crap your panties if you saw to the kind of worlds I´ve been to.” Twilight grunted. “Let´s just say that a land of ponies pales in comparison to the things I´ve seen.”

Suddenly, Sunset got closer, interest clear in her eyes. “So, you are some kind of world traveler?”

Just before the man could even answer, Twilight stepped between the two. “Can we leave this for later? We need to find the Dazzlings before they find a way into Equestria and I´m not really feeling that comfortable around Flash´s dead corpse.”

“As I said before,” Ash replied, his tone serious, “I can´t let you go with me, these guys aren´t joking around.”

“And as I said before, you... Lady...named guy...”

“Wow, that was horrible.” Replied Ash, not really annoyed by Twilight´s words.

Already getting angry at the situation, the princess decided to cut things short. “Look, were I come from there aren´t only ponies, but also ponies that can use magic and I´m one of them as well as Sunset, so we´ll be coming with you, want it or not!”

After a few seconds of silence, before Ash let out a deep sigh. “Alright, it´s your funeral.”

“Don´t underestimate us, chosen one, we have been through a lot.” Said Sunset, a smile plastered on her face.

The man couldn´t help but to chuckle at her words. “Geez, just call me Ash, alright?” With those words, he began to walk towards the door, placing himself right at the exit, then turned around to look at the two girls. “From now on, you follow each and every single one of my instructions, if you don´t you´ll be most likely dead, understand?”

The two gulped in unison.

“Also, don´t... I repeat DON´T trust deadites, they will trick you into thinking they are the ones you love and when they get you on their lies... BANG! You´re a goner, you got that?”

This time, the two remained silent, their expressions horrified at this.

“Good, now let´s go.” Replied Ash, who went out of the classroom, with the two girls going behind him.

As soon as the trio went outside, Sunset and Twilight noticed an all too familiar corpse on the floor.

“Celestia.” Whispered Twilight, who turned to look at Ash. “Are you sure there isn´t any way to get them back?”

Ashley sighed in response. “If there really was, I would have used it years ago to bring back the people I´ve lost.”

Sunset lowered her head. “I´m sorry.”

“Hey! Don´t worry, things happen and that´s that, no point in loosing your cool about these things when you can just act.” Ash answered, getting a smile from the girl.

“Beautiful words for a demon killer.”

Ash chuckled. “Just part of my job, baby.”

The walk continued in silence, as the three figures approached the entrance of the school. Twilight had been observing the chosen one all time, trying to deduce what kind of man he was, sure, he would have to have a good soul for being the one to carry all this weight on his shoulders, but there were things about his personality that seemed a bit too rude for a being chosen to contain the evil. She figured this kind of job did things to one´s personality.

On her part, Sunset was struggling to have a clear idea about him, sure she liked Ash, he was kind of cool, but not everyone that found themselves in these kind of situation would always leave the battlefield intact. At least she was glad that the words she spoke earlier had worked. ´What were they?´ She thought, trying to remember the chant, ´I think it was Klaatu, Verata, Nik... Umm Nik, Nikle, Necktie, ugh! It was an N word, it was definitely an N word.´

“So...” Suddenly, Ash´s words caught the attention of the duo. “You were telling me these Dazzlings,” ´Stupid name´ he thought, “were the ones that wanted to get to your world?” Twilight nodded. “So that must mean they´re the ones that summoned these deadites with the aid of the Necronomicon?”

“Yes, they did,” answered Twilight, “but they do not have the book,” upon hearing the words, Ash stopped his tracks and turned around to stare at the two girls, “we have it.”

“And... If you have the book, why didn´t you try to get rid of them? Sprinkles, you´re really living up to your name.”

Twilight grunted in response to Ash´s words. “We do have the book, however, the Dazzlings stole some of these pages.”

Thinking for a second, Ash turned around to continue his march, followed by the two girls. “If they have the pages they need, why aren´t you freaked out about them going to your world?”

This time, Sunset answered. “If such thing had happened, we would have known by now, although why they haven´t, we don´t really know.”

“Deadite´s power diminishes with the coming of dawn, however, they can control weather to their liking.” Explained Ash. “I´ve seen some of their portals work with sunlight, even if the entire sky gives you the impression it´s still night.”

Twilight gave him a confused look. “Why would darkness creatures have doorways that work on sunlight?”

“It´s either some kind of mock to the light,” answered Ash, “or these bastards simply love being sodomized; either way, I´ve seen deadites powerful enough to withstand light and when this happens... You luck is over.”

Gulping in response, the two girls continued their walk across the long, dark hallways of the school. Same as before, everything was in silence.

On her part, Twilight was struggling to understand how the Heck these demons managed to remain so silent, then again, she had never been in such contact with the dark arts.

Not long passed before the silence was over.

“Dagan! Dagan! Dagan!”

As the trio approached the exit, they could hear several deadites chanting the name in unison, almost as if they were praising the appearance of a lord. For Ash, he made an effort to remember where he heard the name before, it simply was too familiar to him.

“Ash?” Suddenly, Sunset interrupted the man´s thoughts. “Do you know who this Dagan is?”

“The moment I know, you´ll be the first I tell,” Sunset smiled, “come on.”

As the chants continued, the trio placed themselves alongside the enormous metal doors and took a peek outside. Indeed, all the school was outside, with every single deadite surrounding the statue; Ash figured this was the portal the girls were talking about. Averting his sight from the statue, the chosen one spotted three girls walking towards the portal.

“So, these are the girls with the stupid name.”

“The Dazzlings.” Corrected Twilight, getting a dead pan expression from Ash.

“You have a problem in the head if you think I´m going to say it.” Twilight frowned. “I already have to bring myself to remember the worst two hours and a half of my life, each time I say your name.”

Just before Twilight replied, Sunset grabbed her friend by the arm, catching her attention. “Twi, aren´t those the Necronomicon´s pages?”

In response, both Ash and the princess turned around to notice Adagio holding the pages in her hands, as she held them up high.

As the two girls stared at the Dazzlings, Ash used the time to look at his surroundings. They needed the pages and they needed them now. Suddenly, the chosen one overheard some important information about the portal, proving his theory right and indeed, they could only cross when the light of the sun touched the mirror... He had to do something.

He figured that while these deadites couldn´t simply cross, with Twilight, Sunset and possibly him, was a different story. “Sprinkles?” Twilight turned to look at him. “How much self esteem you have to perform a suicidal mission?”

“Well, I...”

“Don´t answer me.” Twilight grunted. “These guys can only access two portals, the ones the sun can touch, not the other two.”

“Your point?”

“Can you enter the other two?” Asked Ash, making Twilight place her hand under his chin.

Just before the princess answered, Sunset asked.“Yes we can, why?” However, Ash simply smiled at her, making her realize his plan. “You really expect us to go on a suicidal run with that many demons?”

“Who said you were the ones to go up front?”

As soon as the words left Ash´s mouth, the two girls turned to look at each other, worried about this plan. They knew there was a back door that gave them a path to reach the statue from the other side.

Setting their gazes back on the chosen one, the two girls nodded, before turning around towards the back door.

On the way, Sunset turned around. “Ash, be careful.”

“When haven´t I been?”

Sunset grunted. “I just met you an hour ago.”

Ash chuckled. “And baby? It feels like I´ve known you all my life.”

The girl blushed, as she rolled her eyes, a thin smile appearing on her face. Soon enough, the moment was over, with Sunset going behind Twilight and towards the back door, leaving Ash to prepare himself.

Standing up, Ash readied his chainsaw, then grabbed his shotgun before getting close to the door.

“Time to give pain.” With a strong kick, Ash opened the door, then raised his shotgun to shoot at the mirror Adagio was pointing at.

BANG!

The siren wasted no time to look at him. “And that´s why you don´t buy second hand.” Adagio roared in anger at the approaching figure, who held a shotgun in his hand. “You want to avoid those kind of problems? Shop smart, shop S-mart.”

Adagio hissed, walking towards the figure. Her face showed clear anger, as she recognized the man standing in front of them.

“You...”

The man smiled. “That´s right bitch... Me!”