Born Down In A Dead Man's Town.

"What in the nine circles Tarus are you wearing Sonata?!" Adagio asked as she took one look at her siren sister Sonata dusk. Sonata wore a black tee shirt with the word Bane written in a special text and color that looked like blood. She had a black leather jacket with shoulder spikes on them and she had goth patters of eyeliner and ratty worn jeans with everything from fish hooks to buttons on it. She chuckled into her hand softly as she struck a pose, her hands out and flairing as she jutted her hips out.

"It's the latest craze at school Adagio, everyone is into the band Total Mayhem." She said as she took out a tube of black lipstick and puckered her lips together as she applied some. Her other sister Aria wasn't so agreeing with her in that regard. She stood off to the side and scoffed rolling her eyes.

"Total Mayhem ugh! Bunch of posers if you ask me. I mean all they do is cover songs by bands that have come before them when are they ever gonna make any material of their own? I mean how can a crappy cover band get as popular as the very bands they try to be?" She said as she blew a lock of her hair out of her face. Sonata picked up the remote to their TV and chuckled with a flick of her wrist to turn it on. It was a live coverage of their concert in New Orleans,

"It's all about the image girls, I mean just look at their lead singer! Did you know this guy...only goes by the band name Mayhem. He supposedly dies years ago and came back from a faked death as P.R stunt. Just look at him too, they say he never takes his zombie makeup off. My Goddess it's like Tom F'en Savini did that makeup job!" She said as the face on the TV became one with a hideously sick green and dark black lips and eyes as yellow as the sickly unseeing eyes of a dead man. It was like a living Mary Shelly Frankenstein with hallmarks borrowed form the cinematic one.

"Lame..." Aria said as she clicked it off. She collapsed onto the sofa and pouted. "Sonata, just when I didn't think you could get any goofier." She sat back as Adagio awnsred a knock at the front door. It was Sunset Shimmer; she had been walking around in the rain to their house, her clothes were soaking wet and her hair was lying flat against her face.

"Sunset? "It's nice to see you but, heavens girl what are doing out in this weather?" She said stepping aside and guesturing her to enter. Sunset wiped her feet on the rug as she entered.

"Nice to see you girls too, but...this isn't exactly a social call." She said an all too familliar looking book protetced from the weather under her arms. Adagio look one look at the book and knew it was serious if it meant....writing to her friend from "far away."

"I'll put some coffee on." Was the only thing she could say to assess the situation.

Dear Twilight; I know this will sound crazy, but I need to know if you know any Equestrian ledgends about a necromancer that may have been banished by someon...some pony like Starswirl, similar to how he banished the sirens here.

"Oh you just had to bring that up didn't?" Aria said with a scoff as Sunset blushed and apologized as she continued writing. The four of them had gathered around the Dazzling's kitchen table. Mugs of coffee steaming away as they tried to find a connection between Sunset's dream and the rise of that band...Was there a connection? Was it really another threat from their old home only far more dangerous than anything they'd ever faced?

"Sorry girls, but it was the closest I could compare." She continued, There's this rock and roll band that's drawing in crowds like crazy and all they do is cover other songs by other bands, their lead singer matches a lot of these old Equestrian texts on living zombies and necromancy...Which I swear I was looking up solely for research purposes. Anyway, I need to now because...just as this band came around. I had this horrible dream, we...that is myself and my friends and even that mirror version of you.

We were in a stadium and everyone in the stands except for us and some of our friends...they where...dead Twilight. Everyone we know in this world and yours was dead. Blood was running down the stairs and drains into the stadium like a basin. I think it was a vision of what could happen. I'm writing because I just have to be sure, sure that this is something I'm gonna need to call every thing and everyone we have to...I just need to know. Do you know or can you look up if any pony that practiced the dark arts and necromacny was sent here to strip them of their power?

Sunset Shimmer.

It felt like hours before the book began to shake and glow, when Sunset opened it up...she didn't know how to feel about what Twilight had written back.

The statute; tonight.