The Spell

Six month earlier

“Who is Dagan?”

Fire surrounds the field, consuming the green grass beneath its heat; I can hear the sounds of million feet a mile away, marching to their destination... an army of the dead, an army of darkness.

The skies turned red with the blood of the fallen, they are adorning the once beautiful gardens rounding the inmense white castle at the top of the mountain.

I look up and see its structure shadowing over millions of black blurs surrounding the place, waiting for its leader to hand her head to them.

“Hey!”

From the balcony, a figure steps out, her once wonderful flying hair, which is half burned now, is covering the silhouette´s face, succeeding in keeping her tears a secret from the evil.

The million army separates into two bands, giving way to a sole figure. He walks towards the front of the army, his right hand grabbing the sword laying at the side of his torso.

Suddenly, he stops midway and turns to look at me. What is he holding in his left hand? It looks... It looks like...

“Adagio!”

In a moment, the girl´s head twitched, as she was forced to go back to reality, taking a look at her surroundings. She was inside the small apartment the three sirens had acquired.

“What?” Adagio finally said, as her sight was placed on her friend.

Aria grunted. “I asked, who is Dagan?”

Adagio looked at her left hand, noticing the Necronomicon, which she held under the table and close to her backpack. Before the other siren could notice, she placed it back inside. The girl faced her friend, staying silent for a few seconds before being able to collect her thoughts.

“He...” Adagio began. “He is not important.”

Aria grunted. “You serious? You´ve been talking about him for whole week, I figured you had fallen for one of these trash bags called humans.”

Adagio frowned. “I would rather be kept inside a box for a century than coo-relate with these abominations!”

“Then who is Dagan?” Far from the response Aria was waiting, Adagio simply chose to stare at her, her mouth shut and giving her friend a silent ´not important´, which made Aria roll her eyes, before walking away. “Whatever.”

The siren went to her room, leaving Adagio at her desk. She looked around her, taking notice of her surroundings, the apartment the sirens had bought, which wasn´t too much, but it wasn´t too little either.

It was a three room home, spacious enough for the sirens to at least feel comfortable. Inside Adagio´s room, was a bed, with its sheets showing a yellow coloration. To her right, was an immense bookshelf, filled with magic-related books.

Adagio had figured that magic in the human world was nonexistent, but she still had hope she could find only one book that could give her a chance... Yet she found nothing.

Her gaze went from the normal size TV to the desk in front of her. A lamp illuminating her workspace from the darkness of the night. A few pencils and a notebook covered the table and the thing that was beneath. Then she remembered.

Adagio turned to look at her door, noticing that while Aria had gone out of her room, she had left the door open. The two of them were alone, with Sonata volunteering herself to go for something to eat. Adagio would be surprised, but knowing that Fridays were the days for ´Taco night´, it wasn´t so strange for her seeing the siren going on her own.

Standing up from her chair, the siren silently went to close her door, placing the lock on it, before returning to her seat. Adagio had thought she had no usable books, when in reality, she had the most special.

Quickly opening her backpack, the siren took out the skin covered item, its eyeless face staring at her while she placed it on the table.

Adagio stared at the book in silence for a few moments, before she began to reach with her hand. The siren felt the rough skin that covered the item, as she opened it to see its contents.

The place suddenly went cold again, as Adagio rushed trough the first pages until she reached the sixth one. The siren read in silence its words for a few seconds before releasing a deep sad sigh.

“I wonder how you felt.” She whispered. “How you managed to cope with you exile, with your loss.”

The siren turned the page, with the next showing a huge hand covering the two pages. “The world was yours, but he took it from you, just as the old fool took ours from us, yet...” The siren placed her hand over the book´s image. “Yet you fought again, you fought for your kind.”

Without the siren noticing, her room began to get darker, but not to the point of her seeing nothing. “Is... is my moment coming? For me to free us from this exile?”

“Adagio...”

In a moment, the white printed in the book, began to turn red with blood under the siren´s own hand. It wasn´t long before she felt something warm, making her take her hand off the book and look at what had happened.

Adagio gasped in surprise.

Present day

“Tear the chosen one apart!”

In a second, every deadite outside turned to look at Ash, who, even though maintained a straight face, was mentally cursing himself. ´Brilliant, next time make sure your brain does the work instead of your...´ He thought.

A sudden attack coming from a deadite, cut Ash´s thoughts, who stepped aside just as the kandarian demon jumped against him. As the deadite made it to the floor, Ash pointed his shotgun at the downed enemy´s head and shot.

Turning around, the man´s heart almost stopped, as he saw an army of crazed students launching themselves for the kill.

“Well, shit...”

Was all he managed to utter before he swung his chainsaw to cut a deadite in half, then raised his shotgun once more and shot another in the head.

Ash figured he wouldn´t last long outside, forcing him to take cover inside of the school. ´Hope those two manage to break that damned portal´ he thought, stopping midway to swing his chainsaw against a demon´s head, before giving a one hundred eighty degree spin once more to cut the other coming from behind in half. As the chainsaw made its way through the deadite´s torso, Ash raised his shotgun and shot an close by kandarian demon... Then everything went to shit.

The incoming swarm of demons forced their way into the door of the school, entering the enormous hallway as if they were some kind of twisted avalanche.

“Shit, shit, shit, shit!”

Outside the school, three figures watched as an army of deadites made it inside the place.

While Adagio witnessed the scene, the other two sirens could not help but to stare at their friend in silence. They saw her expression, the way her face changed upon seeing the man enter the scene, the way she reacted and it was getting on their nerves.

“Adagio?” Asked Sonata, getting the attention of the siren. “Do you know him?”

Adagio opened her mouth to respond, but words would not come from her mouth and instead came from Aria. “What kind of stupid question is that? Of course she knows this guy!” The siren turned to look at Adagio, an accusatory look on her face. “Don´t you, Adagio?” The siren turned to look at Aria, her expression showing amusement. “Why don´t you cut the act and tell us what exactly is happening?”

“I already told both of you, We´re going to use this demons to...”

“That´s enough Adagio, stop it with the stupid answers!” Aria relied. “Tell us what is happening! How do you know this guy? Why didn´t you tell us you had the Necronomicon?”

Adagio stared at her for a few moments, frown still in place as she contemplated whether to answer or not, however, Aria kept talking.

“Who is Dagan? Why are these demons following him?” Adagio lowered her head in response. “Oh come on, Adagio! We´ve bee together in this for too long, I thought we were a team! Don´t we deserve some kind of recognition? Or we simply were your crap eating bodyguards!?”

Sonata frowned. “Hey, I´m not a crap eating bodyguard!”

“Shut it, Sonata!” Answered Aria, her eyes never leaving Adagio, who found herself looking back at her friend.

A few seconds passed before she gave a deep sigh. “Very well, I...”

CRASH!

Just before the siren could even answer, a sound came from behind the statue, getting the attention of the three sirens who turned their gazes towards the source of the sound and spotting two well known girls.

“Twilight, Sunset!” Roared Adagio, her eyes starting to glow red, as she began to levitate.

An unnatural power started to come out of her, surprising both the sirens and the two girls, who could only watch silently.

Ash had provided them with a secure path to avoid the sirens from going to Equestria and they took it without failure. The mirror was broken, as well as the sanity of the siren that was now looking at them.

“Twilight?” Called Sunset, who noticed the night getting darker.

“Yes?”

Adagio´s face started to deteriorate, her teeth sharpening as the seconds passed and scaring both the girls and the sirens. “ROAAAAR!”

“Run!” Answered Sunset, before running away from the raging siren.

The two figures sped up across the school´s garden, with Adagio flying behind them, alongside the other two running sirens.

“How is it that she can use that kind of magic?” Asked Sonata.

Aria grunted in response. “Is that damned book that´s handling her powers, but the fool hasn´t realized its influence is changing her!”

“And what do we do?” Asked Sonata, trying to keep up with the enraged Adagio.

“We must make sure she doesn´t kill them!”

Sonata couldn´t help but to feel surprised. “Why?”

Aria grunted. “No Equestrians, no way for us to get back!” Normally, she wouldn´t worry about Adagio loosing her head, but something was very wrong with her and she knew it. “That book she´s been reading, it has done something to her.”

“What do you mean?” Asked Sonata.

“Something contacted her! And I bet my life it was this Dagan that screwed with her head!” Sonata didn´t respond and simply gave her a worried look. “We go with her, if we see she´s about to do anything stupid, we stop her, think you can do it?”

Just before the siren could even answer, a powerful blast caught their attention, who turned their gazes to find a fire crater on one side of the school.

The roaring Adagio flew as fast as she could to catch the two fleeing girls. Her way to enter Equestria was destroyed and could no longer sustain her army, something she would not take lightly.

Letting out another roar, Adagio shot a fire ball, this time succeeding in hitting both girls and sending them to the floor. Quickly rushing towards their way, the siren got hold of Twilight´s neck and lifted her from the ground.

“I knew you would bring me problems.” Twilight tried to struggle against the unnatural strength of the siren. “Do you have any idea what you have done?”

Suddenly, Sunset found herself tackling Adagio, although much to her surprise, the siren did not even flinch and instead grabbed her with her other hand.

“And you, waste of space!” The siren hissed. “I know it was you who brought him to this world!” Sunset began to feel her throat being squeezed each second that passed, yet she could do nothing to free herself.

“Adagio!”

A distant voice called the siren, but she did not answer to it, as her eyes were solely on the unicorn that had brought the chosen one.

On her part, Twilight noticed to color leaving Sunset, who did her best to fight for her life. In a moment of desperation, the princess began to kick Adagio´s face, trying to divert her from killing her friend.

The siren took notice of the blows a little too late and felt the impact full force, however, even if she stopped crushing Sunset´s throat, the siren wasted no time to focus on the princess.

After letting Sunset fall to the floor, Adagio used her strength to send Twilight against a wall, leaving a mark on it, the she approached the downed girl.

“Adagio stop!”

Both alicorn and siren heard the call, yet did not bother to pay them any mind. Blood was about to paint the floor.

The hallways of the school seemed to get smaller by the second, as Ash rushed through them, occasionally shooting a deadite before continuing his march. He had to loose them, otherwise there would not be a king to stop the Necronomicon.

It wasn´t long before he noticed the playground right ahead, from where he could go around and look for both Twilight and Sunset. In a moment, Ash turned to look behind him, noticing the, although smaller, still imposing horde going behind him. He had an idea.

Through all of his years and across the places he had visited, Ash had learned a few magic spells, even some coming from the Necronomicon itself and this was a very great place to test them, even though they were a bit risky inside a tight space. He had to make it to the playground.

Just before he could continue with his plan, a force threw him to the floor. Ash got up quickly to see a rather disturbing light blue female with her lower jaw hanging.

“A ´ant ´I ´oggie.” The deadite tried to say, regardless of her inability.

A rather amused Ash looked at her. “Here, let me help you.”

BANG!

A well placed shotgun blast ended the demon for good, allowing him a free pass. Ash got on his feet and took a look at the destroyed demon´s face. “Geez! Now, you truly are ugly!”

Sensing the pressure, the man continued his run, soon making it to the playground´s doors. Ash brought his shoulder to the front and opened them with force, letting him step into the open space.

“That looks like a good spot.” He said to no one on particular, as his sight was placed at the middle of what looked like a football yard.

Not wasting any more of his limited time, Ash placed himself at there to start the spell, however, another demon made it to his way.

“You little bastard!” He roared in anger, trying to take off a small yellow skinned girl with red hair.

The small demon laughed maniacally, as she tried to stab Ash with a pair of scissors. Ash felt pain on his shoulder, as a metal object found its way inside, forcing him to react and get hold of the imp, before pinning her to the ground.

“Hey, do you want to know who is adorable?” Ash asked, placing his shotgun over her head and taking a well placed shot. “Not you.”

Just before he could even give a breath of relief and contrary to the last deadite, another full grown and very strong demon gave him a knock out punch on his cheek.

Ash got on his feet quickly to see a tall man in a red open shirt and light orange hair. “You hurt mah´ sister! I was going to do that later!”

The chosen one grunted. “Oh god! A red neck!”

The deadite let out a mocking launch, as he launched a punch against Ash, who blocked it with his arm, before giving the kandarian demon one of his own, however, the deadite did not flinch.

On the corner of his eye, Ash noticed the incoming horde getting closer and decided to stop joking around and turn his chainsaw on.

In a moment, the man swung his weapon against the demon, who rather simply moved to the side to avoid it, then gave one step to the front and give Ash an uppercut, sending him to the floor.

The deadite wasted no time and grabbed the man with his two hands, raising him into the air, but just before the demon could do anything, Ash brought his chainsaw up front and cut the demon´s arm.

The chosen one landed on his two feet and used his shotgun to shoot the deadite´s foot. “Come on, red neck... Dance!”

In a roar of anger, the demon ignored the foot injury and grabbed Ash with his good arm, then pinned him to the floor. The chosen one noticed the horde coming closer to him and decided not to waste any more time.

The smiling deadite did not see it coming, as Ash grabbed him by the shirt and smiled.

“Aton Neran Ofas!”

In a second, a huge lightning made it to the ground, striking every deadite on the area and the demon on top of Ash, who used its body as a shield from the magic attack.

Soon enough, the attack had finished, leaving the chosen one under the now dead demon. Pushing its body to the side, Ash remained a few seconds on the ground to catch his breath, until something caught his attention.

Not too far away from him, a fire blast had exploded, making the man immediately know what was happening. “Damn, the bitch just got crazy!”

Sunset found her way to the floor, letting her catch the breath she almost lost because of Adagio. The girl grabbed her throat, still feeling the siren´s fingers wrapped around her neck.

In that moment, a lightning stroke against the earth, landing in the playground and catching Sunset´s attention. “What was that?”

Setting her attention away from the weird occurrence, Sunset turned to look at Twilight´s backpack just a few feet away from her, with Spike still inside. Not wasting a moment, the girl began to crawl towards the object.

It wasn´t long before she had the backpack on her hands and quickly opened it to reveal a still sleeping Spike. “Talking about a tough sleep.” Now that she knew he was alright, Sunset proceeded to search for the other important object.

A laud scream caught the girl off guard, as she saw Twilight flying over her, later landing against a nearby trashcan. Sunset had not time to waste.

With a smile on her face, she held the Necronomicon on her hands, until a shadow placed itself on top of her, wiping the grin on her face. Looking up, Sunset noticed Adagio, with the other two sirens.

Instincts taking her, Sunset got up quickly to leave with both the backpack and the book, sadly for her, Adagio would not simply let her go.

The siren gave one quick step up front and grabbed the girl´s arm, before taking the book from Sunset. Adagio looked at the Necronomicon for a few seconds, before an smile appeared on her face, as she turned her gaze towards the girl. “I will make sure you don´t make another mistake.”

A cold feel went through Sunset´s spine, as she saw Adagio raising her long clawed hand, alerting both her and the other two sirens. Adagio did not care and simply brought her claw against the girl´s face, until...

BANG!

Adagio´s hand was obliterated by a gun blast coming from the chosen one, who held a serious look on his face. The Necronomicon made it to the floor, but was soon grabbed by Sonata.

“Let the girl go.” Ash commanded, getting an angry look from Adagio, who found herself grabbing her wound. “I´ll give you five seconds, or I´ll be your judge, jury and executioner.”

She remained silent for a few moments, trying to make the words leave her mouth, but the pain of her newly acquired injury was too much to contain. Finally taking her decision, Adagio let go of Sunset, who crawled her way towards the knocked out Twilight.

Ash and Adagio looked at each other in complete silence, none of them making a single move, until the chosen one decided to speak.

“I don´t think your pretty... Hand, is made to hold that book,” he said, “how about you give it to someone who knows what to do with it?”

Adagio hissed. “And let you stop the army of darkness again? I will not let you stop me from freeing ourselves from this exile.”

“Girl, I don´t know who you think I am, but...”

“Oh, but I know who you are!” Adagio replied. “I know what you did, in fact, I know you better than anyone else.”

Ash gave her a confused look. “Who are you?”

Adagio smiled. “Someone who will make things right!” With that, the siren used her power to lift herself alongside the other two sirens towards the sky.

Ash tried to fire another shot against Adagio, but it simply seemed to have collided against an invisible barrier. Seeing how an attack was impossible, the chosen one decided to go aid Sunset and Twilight.

On the sky, a rather scared Sonata couldn´t help but to feel the height getting to her, as she noticed the entirety of the city beneath them. The siren turned to look at Aria, who held a worried look on her face. Suddenly, she felt the Necronomicon being stripped from her hands, and taken in front of Adagio, who seemed like she was ignoring her wound.

The book was suddenly opened, as the other pages which had been taken away, were now reattaching themselves to the Necronomicon.

Adagio controlled the book, setting it in the page she was looking for. “The army of the dead will not be stopped this time.” Suddenly, a cracking sound was heard beneath them, as the statue holding the remaining two portals levitated alongside the two sirens. “The chosen one will not stop my entrance to Equestria.”

Back to Ash, he used his hand to left Sunset from the floor, before carrying the unconscious Twilight on his arms.

It wasn´t long before the girl took notice of Adagio, the book and the statue, instantly reacting. “Ash, the book!”

The chosen one turned to look above him, noticing the smiling Adagio with the Necronomicon in front of her, however, he was not worried about the portal, but rather the look she had on her face.

“Oh, no.” He muttered, getting the attention of Sunset, who could see the worried expression on Ash´s face.

“Ash, what is...”

“Kanda... Es-trada... Montos...

“Run!” Screamed Ash, pushing Sunset to move.

“Ea-grets... Gat... Nos-feratos...

The duo wasted no time in getting inside of the school, which unable them to notice the massive cloud taking over an entire city, covering houses and skyscrapers alike.

The ground began the shake, alerting the city´s citizens who struggle to understand what was happening. The earth began to crack, leaving countless holes on the ground scattered across the place.

“Kanda... Amantos... Kanda...

A moment of silence endured, before the cracks on the ground began to glow red, a horrible roar coming out of them, as thousands of evil spirits found their way to the land of the living.

Chaos was soon to take hold of the city, with its people running around in panic from the incoming evil. Buildings fell, vehicle crashed, people either died or become possessed in this hell on earth.

Roars made it to the skies, not only in the form of spirits, but also from the numerous creatures that crawled out of hell. Flying monsters, earth beasts and many more would soon call this place home.

As she flew alongside the other two sirens, Adagio couldn´t help but to smile, her body turning towards Sonata and Aria, who noticed the unusual red eyes on their friend.

“Hope is not lost, we have the portals, the Necronomicon and a city full of demons to stop the chosen one should he follow us.”

“What are you planning to do, Adagio?” Asked Aria, a worried expression on her face.

Adagio´s grin went wider. “Conquer.” With that, she used her power to take themselves away from the place to a far away position, where the ritual to enter Equestria could continue.

Inside the school, both Ash and Sunset felt the earthquake assaulting them, as they did their best to remain on their feet. Soon, they entered a classroom, before closing the door behind them.

The room was in silence, with neither of the two making a sound. While Sunset took the opportunity to look outside the classroom, Ash made his way towards the desk, placing Twilight on top of it.

It wasn´t long before, Sunset grabbed the backpack, taking the still sleeping Spike in the process and placing him close to the desk.

“Ash?” She called, noticing the chosen one looking through the window.

“This is bad and not the ´woman on her days´ type, but rather the ´we are screwed´ one.” He said, not taking his eyes away from the enormous clouds covering the sky.

Sunset got closer. “What for you mean?”

“That crazy girl has the Necronomicon and the portals.” Ash turned to look at her. “I don´t think she was kind enough to wait for us to kick her ass.” The chosen one returned his gaze towards the window. “She must be far away by now.”

“Then we have to go after her!” Said Sunset, grabbing Ash´s arm.

Taking his stare off the window, the chosen one turned to look at Sunset. ”And we will, only problem, there is a city of deadites between them and us.”

Sunset wide opened her eyes. “What do you mean?”

“Welcome to the city of the dead.”