1 - Bringing Darkness

Elizabeth looked around the circle. She examined all the shapes she had drawn with the special chalk, each a picture-perfect reproduction of what was in the book.

The old tome had not been easy to find, no real magic ever was. Liz pulled out her notes and double-checked the scrap of paper she had written the chant down on in phonetics. The bleat of one of the sheep startled her. The woman looked at the poor creature in the eyes. "I don't like this bit, but better you than me."

Stepping to the side of the circle, she brought the curved dagger to the palm of her left hand and started the chant. While she sounded out the words, her brain ran over the translation for the Latin. 'I summon thee, I summon forth. I bright out that which came before. I beseech thee, I call forth. I blight this day in your name.'

Some blood dripped from her palm to the ground and a strong sensation of electricity poured into the room. The blood on the floor flowed up and stained the chalk crimson. Elizabeth didn't waver. Keeping the chant going, she only halted when the electricity and darkness in the room coalesced into a shape within the circle.

There was a wrongness about it. Everything on Earth was fashioned by millions of years of evolution, but this thing was not. "It has been a long time since I was called." The demon stretched their wings, but not so far as to leave the circle.

"I bind thee!" Elizabeth blew the special dust, gathered from the pews of a church. The demon coughed. "I BIND THEE!"

"Alright, alright. Stop that." The demon waved a taloned hand in front of them. "You really think I would put at-risk my first summons in a thousand years?"

Elizabeth blinked and took in the sight before her. Standing nearly seven feet tall, the demon… demoness, was built about as you would expect. All curves and softness, she sported long, goat-like legs, leather wings and a pair of small horns peeking out through her blood-red hair. "Then you agree to discuss a contract?"

Eyes flaring with excitement, the demon nodded. "A contract, that would suit quite nicely. What are you willing to give?" Her eyes roamed down then up the human before her, she licked her lips.

"Two sheep and I will release you into this world." Elizabeth didn't like the last bit, but from what the book said, that would make almost any demand be met.

"You invite me into your world, a world likely not ready for me. Then you promise to let me free? Human, I think I am in love…" The last word, the demon spoke from her dark and diseased heart. Elizabeth's skin crawled at the feel of it in her ears but she couldn't back out now.

"Yes, that is what I offer." Elizabeth inhaled deeply, her chest rising and falling catching the demon's eyes. Suddenly, the woman felt dirty just from the fact this monster had looked at her. "What I want is… what my heart desires."

Laughter, horrible, pealing laughter, filled the room. The demon dropped to a knee and almost started coughing again. "Your heart desires? That is very open to interpretation. Are you sure you don't want to clarify it?"

This made Elizabeth pause. "Uh, I want… I want to go to Equestria."

A moment passed as the demon drew on the knowledge it needed. "Ah, fiction. A place exists in the multiverse that matches your dream, however." The demon flicked its fingers, a dark cloud showing a scene from the show Elizabeth loved. "Very well, I can set you there. You will pay with letting me spend a whole night with you."

"No, the sheep and your freedom." Elizabeth shuddered at the thought of what the demon would do. The book had warned her, of demons only needing an hour to break most mortal minds with pleasure, pain, or both.

"Are you sure? You would enjoy it, I promise." The words of the demon would melt stone, they sent a shiver of hot lust down Elizabeth's spine. Seeing her target unmoved, the she-demon sighed. "Sheep and freedom it is. Please tell me you at least got rams?"

A hot blush came to Elizabeth's cheeks. "No I…" It suddenly hit her, the demon had agreed. "We have a deal?" A simple nod was her reply. "Then with your word and mine, our contract be made." A crackle of energy sparked in the room and Elizabeth felt a little worry at what the demon would do. She reached the toe of her foot forward and scuffed the stone, breaking the chalk circle.

Wet heat flowed out like the tide. It poured around Elizabeth, it nearly drowned her. She dropped to her knees at the ache that suddenly filled her body. "Would you like to renegotiate?" The demon had wrapped one arm around her, a wing too. Elizabeth was pinned in the grip of the creature.

"No… send me…." It took real willpower for the woman to say the three words, the demon could almost taste how hard it was for her to fight what her body ached to do now. Elizabeth's anger flared. "Send me!"

The demon turned the woman to face it front on, it caught her up in wing and arm, dipping her low. Elizabeth looked up in terror as the demon leaned over her, bringing its lips down to her own in a kiss. Aching pain, need, pleasure, and desire all wrapped and coursed through her, but the kiss ended a second, an eternity, later. "Very well, go, leave your world to my tender care."

Elizabeth vanished from the room. Standing straight and spreading her wings, the demon took in her surroundings. "Oh forget sheep, I have a whole world to…" She flung a hand at the door, magic pouring from her to try to fling it open. The concrete that had been poured on the other side, however, didn't let it give. "Clever, I will get out though."

The demon's face had been the last thing Elizabeth had seen before sunlight stunned her. She had been locked in that bunker for days waiting for the concrete to set outside; hers had been a one-way trip.

"What'cha doin'?" A voice cut through her, Elizabeth lifted her head and blinked. Bright yellow and looking all kinds of adorable with a red bow in her mane, was Apple Bloom. Elizabeth's mouth hung open, she shook. "You don't look so good, maybe I should get you to the hospital…" Apple Bloom reached out with a hoof, pushing the woman's jaw closed, only for it to drop again. She repeated this a few times.

"Apple Bloom?" Elizabeth giggled. "I did it, I made it!" She was on her feet in an instant and doing a dance. "I made it, I am in Equestria!"

"Well where else would you be?" Apple Bloom tilted her head. "Wait, you don't look like you are from around here. You kinda look like the odd ponies Twilight was talking about."

"Equestria Girls, okay so…" Elizabeth looked at the filly, spotting a cutie mark. "Oh, so season five… or six."

"What'n tarnation have you found?" Applejack trotted over. "Oh, well hello thar!" A hoof was offered to Elizabeth, she balled her fist and bopped it back, giggling and falling down to roll in the grass. "She had too much dark cider?"

"Ah just found her!" Apple Bloom shrugged and professed her innocence. "Maybe we should call Twilight?"

"Well, ah think yer onta somethin'." Applejack leaned down and ducked her head under the nonsensical human, hefting her up onto her back. As she did, however, there was a crackle and spark that jolted the girl as her hip banged against Applejack’s.

"Ow, what was that?" Elizabeth managed to get her feet back under her. Her hip felt really odd. "What happened?"

Applejack hadn't felt whatever the woman was raving about. "Ah dunno, you sure do need to see Twi though, she can fix darn near anythin'."

It seemed as good a plan as any and Elizabeth got herself upright properly and stretched. The odd tingling was still in her hip, but had migrated to both sides now. Realizing it was just three girls, she blushed a little as she pulled down the jeans she wore, just far enough.

"You got ah cutie mark!" Apple Bloom was excited. "Did you just get that?"

Elizabeth was shocked. The picture on her hip, of a cloud leaking lightning, worried her a little. "I… that wasn't there before." It really hadn't been, she had thought about getting a cutie mark tattoo on her 'flanks' but this wouldn't have been her choice. "What… I don't understand?"

"Twi'll sort it all out." Applejack's insistence was impossible to fight and so, with her pants pulled back up over her cutie mark, Elizabeth walked with her. They skirted town, but she could see everything was there. All the houses, all the ponies. A tremble of delight ran through her.

"You'll see." Applejack made to rap on the big doors of the castle but they opened a second before she could.

"Applejack!" Spike looked up, and up, and up. "Whoa, a human?"

"Hi Spike. Apple Bloom found her out near our farm. Figured Twilight would be the best to see about it." Applejack patted Elizabeth on the hip with one hoof. "She home?"

"Sure is, just head on in. Rainbow Dash and Rarity came over to discuss a new flight suit for Dash." Spike held open the door, marveling at seeing the human. Something occurred to him, however. "You don't look exactly like the humans we know about…"

"Let me guess, too plain? I bet they have all different shades of skin and hair." Elizabeth couldn't help but tease a little. "I am not from there, but somewhere a little similar."

"Oh, well, head on through. I am just heading to market to buy some things." Spike trotted out and was gone.

Elizabeth closed the door behind them and was almost having a squee attack. She was in Twilight's castle, with Applejack. She was about to meet the Princess of Friendship herself and two of the most awesome ponies in Equestria. There was a sharp pressure behind her and she stumbled and fell.

"What'n Tartarus is wrong now?" Applejack closed in and leaned down to get under Elizabeth, giving her something to lean on.

"I… ow, it hurts… why…" Reaching her hand back, Elizabeth felt to her backside, where the pain was coming from. She didn't care about modesty, she pulled her jeans down sharply and the pain eased. Her bright green tail spilled out and flowed beautifully. "What…"

"A tail? Why didn't you say you had a tail? No wonder it hurt…" Applejack smiled, trying to offer a little emotional support. "It's fine if you aren't nothin' like those other humans, we won't kick you out of Ponyville or nothin'."

The reassuring worked, so far as Elizabeth realized something very odd was happening to her. Cutie mark. Tail. A tremble ran through her. "I think I am turning into a pony…"

"Well, let's get you to Twi, she's smart as a button." Applejack pointed forward with a hoof and, with her jeans riding a touch low to let her tail spill out, Elizabeth walked deeper into the Castle of Friendship.

"Applejack!" Twilight's voice sounded just like in the show and Elizabeth felt an odd darkness flowing over her, of the world seeming to spin just a moment before everything went dark.

"Did she faint? Darlings, you really should support a mare when she has a moment like this." Rarity trotted over to the fallen human, lifting her up with magic and carrying her to a nearby couch.

"I am fast, Rarity, but not that fast." Rainbow Dash looked down at the fallen creature. "What is she? Looks a little like those marauding monkeys in Daring Do-"

"She's human." Twilight cut her friend off. "Almost the same as the ones in Canterlot High… this is really strange though. Applejack, where did you find her?"

"Down near m'farm. Apple Bloom found her. She complained about a tingling in her side, when she looked she had a cutie mark she said weren't there before. When we came in, she seemed to grow that there tail. I don't think yer gonna have a human much longer, Twi." Applejack gestured to the green flowing tail.

"She's waking up." Rainbow Dash leaned over Elizabeth, so when the woman opened her eyes she was staring up into a face that was at least one-fifth cooler than any she had seen before. "Hi!"

Darkness pooled around Elizabeth again and she fainted for the second time.

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