The Dead Rise

Inspired by 'The Walking Dead'

Celebrating ten stories by Cameron

Chapter 1: The Hospital.

Ponyville, afternoon.

Derpy was at work which was the post office. She was opening a bunch of crates that were filled with packages of weight lifts. I wonder if some of these weights are for Bulk Biceps? She thought to herself. Derpy used a crane to open the tops of the crates. Dear Celestia, how many crates are there? She used all of her strength to try to pry open the crate. She succeeded but lost her balance in the process. She tumbled backwards off of the crate. When she hit the ground, one of the crates landed on her left wing and she screamed. "Ow! Fuck! Help!" She screamed. She struggled to push it off of her wing. But the immense pain kept her from pushing it off. She looked up and saw a crate falling towards her. The crate landed on top of her head and she was knocked out cold.

An employee arrived at the scene and immediately took action. He ran up to her and pushed the crates off of her. He looked down at her to see her lying unconscious on the floor. "Oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, oh shit." He repeatedly said while running straight to his employer to call an ambulance. Fifteen minutes later an ambulance arrived and took Derpy to the hospital.

Hospital, midnight. Dinky was crying on her mother. The nurse walked in and looked down at Dinky. "Are you all by yourself?" The nurse asked.

Dinky looked up at the nurse. "Yes," she replied, with tears streaming down her cheeks.

"Isn't anyone here with you?" The nurse asked.

"I'm with her." A voice called out.

"Rainbow Dash." Dinky sobbed.

Dinky ran up towards Rainbow and hugged her. Rainbow hugged Dinky back and Dinky was crying into her shoulder. Rainbow looked up at the nurse while Dinky was crying.

"How is Derpy?" Rainbow asked.

The nurse lowered her head, with a small shake of her head and looked back up at Rainbow. "She's in a coma. Her left wing will be broken for six months. The amount of weight that hit her head should have killed her but instead it put her in a coma. If she wakes up before eight months it'll be a miracle that she survived. Unfortunately we have to keep her here until she wakes up."

"I understand." Rainbow said.

Rainbow looked down at Dinky and Dinky looked up at Rainbow with tears in her eyes. Rainbow made a small smile.

"Looks like I'll be with you until mommy gets better. How does that sound?" Rainbow wiped the tears away from Dinky's cheeks.

Dinky weakly smiled. "Sounds fun."

"Let's go. Mommy needs to sleep for a while but don't worry we'll see her again real soon." Rainbow said.

Rainbow put Dinky on her back and they headed their way out of the room. Dinky looked back at her mother until Rainbow got out of the doorway. She kept on staring down the hallway while Rainbow was walking out of the hospital.

Five months and thirty days later. Derpy slowly opened her eyes and saw a flickering light above her head. She didn't know where she was until she slowly sat up and looked around the room. She noticed that she was in the hospital. She looked to her right and saw the heart monitor. The heart monitor was off.

"Why is the heart monitor off?" Derpy asked to nopony.

She looked to her left and saw a big blood stain under the door. She quickly started to get out of bed until she felt pain in her left wing and out of reaction she grabbed her wing with her right hoof. She started to get out of bed slowly and walked towards the door. She looked down at the blood puddle and put her left hoof to her chin.

"Why is there blood on the floor? Why hasn't the janitor cleaned it up at least?" Derpy looked up at the flickering light. "Why haven't they changed light bulbs? What's going on here?" Derpy said aloud.

The lights were still flickering and Derpy started putting her left hoof towards the doorknob. She slowly opened the door and noticed that there was a bed in front of it. She pushed the bed away from the door and looked down the right side of the hallway. She saw blood splattered on the wall with bullet holes in the blood spatters. Derpy looked to her left and saw the lower half of a pony and it looked like the top half was cut off by a corner. She walked up closer to the pony and noticed that the top half of the pony was gone. She saw a stomach with bite marks on it next to the remains of the body. Derpy's legs started to feel weak. She walked away from the body and quickly went down to the other end of the hallway.

Derpy reached the end of the hallway and saw six ponies laying on the floor with gunshot wounds to the head. Two of them looked like doctors and three of them looked like nurses and the sixth one looked like a patient for the hospital. Derpy stared at the dead ponies for a moment until she heard a bang noise. She looked to her right and saw two doors shut with a lock holding the doors together. She walked up to the doors and saw a note on the door. She looked closer at the note and started to read it. "Keep closed". The note said.

Derpy put her head against the door to listen for something. The doors started to slowly move and Derpy backed up and saw a hoof coming through the gaps of the door. The hoof had missing skin and cuts. Derpy slowly backed up with fear in her eyes. She turned around and saw a sign that said stairs. She walked up to the sign and it pointed towards a door. Derpy walked up to the door and stepped on something. She looked down and saw a flashlight. She stepped over the flashlight and opened the door and noticed that the stairway was pitch black.

Derpy went back for the flashlight and turned it on. It worked but the light was very weak. Derpy started heading down the stairs. When she got close to the end, the flashlight flickered and turned off. Derpy banged it against the wall but she stopped when she heard a moan noise. She slowly started walking down the rest of the stairs. Once she got to the bottom she started feeling the wall with both of her hooves for an exit door. She felt a doorknob and she quickly opened the door and went outside. The bright light shined in her eyes and she covered her eyes with her left hoof until her eyes adjusted to the light.

"Oh that sun feels so good." She moved her foreleg to see a truck full of dead ponies.

She slowly walked through the dead ponies. She examined all of the dead ponies slowly to see how many there were. She couldn't count all of them so she gave up. She walked around the whole hospital and saw paper flying around freely. She noticed some blood spatters not too far away from each other. She even noticed a few forearms and hindlegs laying on the ground.

"What the fuck happened here?" Derpy whispered to herself.

She walked around and saw the top half of a pony. When walked up to the pony, she sighed and closed her eyes. The pony made a moan noise. Derpy opened her eyes quickly and saw the pony started to crawl towards her. When the pony lifted it's face it had skin peeling off of it's forehead. Derpy slowly backed up and then started galloping away from the pony and ran towards the nearest road. She turned around to see if it was behind her. She looked around and saw nopony. She started walking down the road trying to find her way back home. She started thinking about Dinky and began to worry.

"Dinky I hope your alright. I'm coming my muffin."

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Author's Note

I hope you guys enjoyed. This is my tenth story so I decided instead of doing a sad one. Why not do something different. If you guys want more don't be shy just let me know in the comments. I'll give you guys a day or less. Depending on how fast I get comments.