"Are you sure this is the place Adagio?" Aria asked me, skeptical to my leadership skills as always.

"Of course it is. I wouldn't bring you idiots here if it wasn't." I muttered in annoyance, curving around the jagged rocks as best as I can, Aria and Sonata in tow.

"Adagioooooo..." Sonata whined. I tried to ignore her. "Adagiooo~!" She whined louder.

"What?" I sneered, even though she can't see my face.

"Are we there yet?" She whined some more.

"Shut up." Aria smacked the back of Sonata's head, surprisingly able to move her arms in this caved in portion of the temple.

"No, we are not there. Why would you think we're there?" I asked her, silently thanking Aria. I swear, sometimes I wish we left Sonata in that damn cave all those years ago. Sometimes.

Most of the time. "I dunno." Every time she opens her mouth.

I groaned and finally pushed out into a large opening. "Finally..." I grunted, catching my breath. I took a moment to step forward and look around. The walls of this chamber are carved all over, ethereal images of god-likes and mages, creatures and monsters all wielding the powers humans only had in their dreams now. Some depicted even the god-likes forming the moon from nothing; of them calling the light out of the pitch the world once existed in, in the form of the sun. Then, above the only door in the chamber, there is a red circle. "That's what we're here for." I almost breathed the words out, stepping towards it.

"Great. Lets hurry up." Aria shoved pass me, dragging Sonata by the arm.

"Why did they lock all this power away?" I asked, starting to walk. Though still behind them, I can only study the images along the walls in awe-struck confusion. "Did they fear what their fellow man would do with it? Are humans that destructive?"

"Who cares, I'm starving." Aria yelled from the next corridor, "Hurry up, you can gawk at the stupid drawings later."

I sighed. "And you wonder why you're not in charge you impatient little..." I grumbled, following after them. I steped into the next hall, the walls of this one depicts the process man went through to seal the core. Each inscribed with some ancient language, telling of the highest levels of arcane prowess I never thought possible. I caught up to Aria and Sonata; they had stopped to catch their breath. "You two okay?" I asked, concern seeping into my tone.

"Go to hell..." Aria said between breaths. And like that I didn't care.

I walked pass her, purposely shoving her aside as I did. "Likewise." I then walked into the next room and gasp. "It's… Huge." I say as I stand in awe. I thought it wouldn't be nearly this big. The carvings showed people being half it's size… Were they bigger due to it's influence back then? I start to wonder what would happen if it were unsealed entirely, but I ignore those useless thoughts. We were just going to tap into it and leave until we could find a more… accessible source of food. Assuming it didn't repair our medallions that is.

"Whoa." Aria whistled, stepping up next to me. "So what do we gotta do?"

I groaned, "I explained this to you already." I look back at Sonata. "Give me your medallion, seeing as Aria can't remember, I'll fix yours with mine and let her figure it out."

"Hey!" Aria yelled, but she was too tired to do anything.

Sonata walked up and gave me her medallion, "But I don't remember either!"

"I never expected you to remember," I snatched the little baggie of her medallion's parts. "you have a brain made of peanut butter." I muttered, rolling my eyes.

She licked her lips, "I love peanut butter."

"Of course you do." I walked towards the core, shifting her medallion pieces in my hand as I pulled my own out of my pocket. I felt it, even from this far away. The hairs on the back of my neck prickled, with each step my field of view warped, just slightly. The thousands of tons of unknown metal chains around it shimmered, sparks zapping between them. Something in me noticed then exactly what I was approaching; the actual size of what this was.

Not it's physical size, but just how immense it was. To approach that much power… It reminded me of when Starswirl approached us when we stormed the royal palace. When we were standing in between him and the royal sisters, each with their magic charged to the max. We thought we were going to trample them, like they were nothing compared to us. We never imagined just how much power they had. But this… Was nothing like that. They made me feel small. This made me feel nonexistent; like I was approaching an actual god to beg for my life.

"Adagio?" Sonata called from what seemed like an eternity away. I turned to her, just now realizing I was hyperventilating and tears were streaming down my face. She just stared at me, even Aria looked concerned. I shook my head and looked back at it.

I forced my mouth closed and gulped my saliva down so forcefully it hurt. I took another step and the world died away, all I could see was the blood red wall of power in front of me. It consumed me. I couldn't scream; I couldn't run away. And then it screamed, I thought it screamed. Maybe it didn't. Then I was standing in front of it again, so much closer than I wanted to be. My throat felt raw and dry; it burned. I opened my mouth to talk, but my voice was rough and dying.

I could reach out and touch it now, but I wanted to run. I heard the whispered screams of my companions, but I dared not turn around, I dared not risk staring into… Whatever that was again. My only option was… But my hand was already on it by the time I realized I had no other option. It felt like solid water, slimy and dry. I pulled my hand back and squeezed it before shifting the gemstones from my and Sonata's medallions into each hand.

I licked my lips before I placed Sonata's medallion onto the surface. It rippled around and through my hand without touching it. I didn't feel it, but I felt it feel me. It touched my very being, something far deeper than my physical form. I shuddered before placing mine on it too. Bolts of pure magic arced between the two gems, searing my hands. My raw throat unleashed a fresh screech as I pulled my entire body away, but my hands were melding into the core. I pulled harder and harder and I heard Sonata and Aria screaming my name growing louder, then I realized why I couldn't hear them. The chains were whining and creaking, thousands upon tens of thousands of tons of metal creaking and screaming as they were over powered.

Then the skin on my hands stretched and tore, most of our now molten gemstones melding to what was left of my skin. I tumbled back as my hands spurted blood all over me. I shoved the bleeding things onto the dirty, crumbling stone ground, sending more pain spiking through me, but I shoved up and ran. Aria and Sonata grabbed me and had to lift me into the air and hold every limb on my body to keep me from escaping. "Adagio!" Aria screamed as I kneed her in the jaw, "Calm down! You're okay! It's over!"

But I just ignored her and kept screaming and struggling to get away from them, to get away from my friends… My family. I tasted blood as they threw me on the ground and held me still. I heaved and pushed on them before collapsing from exhaustion. My eyes were wide as I panted non-stop, failing to breath. I felt like I was drowning and hyperventilating at the same time. "Adagio?" Aria called to me again, now that everything had calmed down.

My eyes twitched as I glanced down at her, she looked terrified. I'd never seen her so afraid. "What just happened?!" She panted with me but still managed to yell, she and Sonata were so afraid as I sat there, tasting my own blood and being covered in it at the same time. They started to get up, afraid the moment they let me go I'd get up and run. But that was pointless. No matter how far I ran, I couldn't ever escape that. They sat next to me, Aria held my hand with Sonata's gem melted to it. "What the hell..." She whispered to herself, being as careful as she could with my hand. It felt like she was beating it into the ground none-the-less.

"A-Are you okay, Adagio…?" Sonata asked. I would've normally yelled at her how stupid that was to ask, but I couldn't. I just looked over at her, where she was just sitting there with tears on her cheeks and her eyes wide.

I opened my mouth, but words never came out. Then I felt it again. The hair on my neck stood on end. They felt it too, each of them shuddered and stilled. Their eyes were wide as they felt just the edge of it's influence. "...R...u...n..." I forced air out of my mouth, trying to form words without my vocal cords. They couldn't hear me. I twitched as it began creeping into my mind again, I could feel it in my mind, playing inside of me. This perversion of my mind again, I couldn't let it again. I sat up and smacked my bloody hands on each of them, shaking them and slapping them into reality again.

As they realized where they were, who I was. They realized what I wanted from them. They helped me to my feet, each of them on either side, and then we ran.

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