Chapter 4: Blood Family

"RUN PINKIE!" Derpy yelled.

The herd of walkers finally caught up to them while they were on their way to Sweet Apple Acres. Derpy and Pinkiepie were galloping at full speed towards Sweet Apple Acres. The first thing that caught Derpy's attention was their red barn.

"PINKIE TO THE BARN!"

They galloped all the way to the barn. The doors were wide open so they kept on galloping until they were inside. Once they were inside they closed the doors as fast as they could. Once the doors were closed Derpy and Pinkiepie grabbed a long thick wooden plank and put it on the barn door in between two lock positions. Derpy and Pinkiepie were panting heavily. Derpy turned around and saw blood on the floor. Derpy looked up and saw skin on the floor.

"Oh shit. Pinkie we're not done." Derpy said.

She grabbed a .44 out of the duffle bag and aimed it right in front of her. Both hooves were on the side arm. She slowly started moved forward to look at the skin. She couldn't make out the color because there was too much blood. She saw one of the skins had a cutiemark. She picked up the piece of skin and examined the cutiemark.

"No. I hoped you wouldn't have died like this." Derpy showed Pinkiepie the cutiemark.

Pinkiepie gasped. The cutiemark was an apple pie. It was Granny Smith's cutiemark. Derpy put the skin down and moved forward, slowly. She started to hear crunching sounds with bones snapping. *crunch, crunch* *snap*. Derpy saw a bloodstream going behind a pile of hay. She looked at Pinkiepie and Pinkiepie had a shotgun aiming at the haystack. Derpy leaned up against the haystack and peeked her head around the corner. She saw a stallion eating a dead pony. Derpy pulled her head back and walked around the corner. She couldn't make out who the stallion was until it turned it's head towards Derpy's direction.

It was big Macintosh. He was eating Granny Smith. Derpy aimed the gun at Big Macintosh. Pinkiepie came up behind Derpy and noticed who the stallion. Pinkiepie lowered her gun. The stallion got up from the dead corpse and limped over towards Derpy.

"Big Macintosh." Derpy had tears welling up in her eyes. She aimed the gun at Big Macintosh's head. "I...I....I'm....I'm so.....I'm so sorry." Derpy pulled the trigger.

The bullet hit directly in the middle of Big Macintosh's forehead. Big Macintosh softly fell to the ground. Derpy lowered her gun and tears started to stream down her face. There was a moaning noise coming from behind Big Macintosh. Derpy looked past the dead stallion and saw Granny Smith standing up and walking towards Derpy. Derpy aimed her gun but Pinkiepie lowered her gun with her hoof.

Pinkiepie aimed her shotgun at Granny Smith. Granny Smith tripped over Big Macintosh and looked up at Pinkiepie. Pinkiepie put the gun up to her forehead. "I'm sorry." She pulled the trigger.

A piece of the skull was incinerated from the range of the blast. Pinkiepie looked to her left to see that Derpy wasn't by her side. Pinkiepie turned all the way around and saw Derpy walking towards her with a shovel. She stopped halfway and started digging. Pinkiepie understood what Derpy was doing and looked around the barn for a shovel. Once Pinkiepie found a shovel she started digging a separate hole.

Derpy kept on digging until she felt like it was deep enough. Once Derpy was done. She got out of her hole and waited for Pinkiepie to be done. Three minutes later, Pinkiepie was done digging her hole and they both picked up Granny Smith and slowly put her in one of the holes. After Granny Smith was in her hole, they grabbed Big Macintosh and put him in the other hole, gently. Derpy started burying Big Macintosh and Pinkiepie started burying Granny Smith. Once they were done burying the two ponies, Derpy made two crosses out of a pile of wood and hay to tie them together. She placed one cross on top of each burial. Derpy fell to her knees in front of the graves and started to cry. Pinkiepie stood next to Derpy and placed her hoof on Derpy's shoulder.

"Why did this have to happen? Why?" Derpy sobbed.

"I don't have the answers." Pinkie said.

"If this was the fucking princess. I'll...I'll..I'll fucking." Derpy was interrupted when Pinkiepie got on her knees and put her head into Derpy's shoulder.

Derpy felt the tears that were coming from Pinkiepie. Derpy leaned her head on top of Pinkiepie's and placed her hoof on Pinkiepie's back. After ten minutes of mourning, Pinkiepie fell asleep on Derpy's shoulder. Derpy made sure to stay awake until Pinkiepie woke up. Besides she couldn't sleep. The thoughts of Dinky started crossing her mind.

'What happens if Dinky was devoured by the walkers?' Derpy thought. 'What if she's been bitten?'

Derpy's thoughts were interrupted when Pinkiepie moved her head off of Derpy's shoulder and onto her lap. Derpy looked down at her pink friend who seemed peacefully comfortable. "She might not have gotten that much sleep since the apocalypse." Derpy thought to herself. Derpy started to slowly brush Pinkiepie's messed up mane. "This must be the longest she's slept." Derpy thought.

Two hours later. Pinkiepie slowly opened her eyes and noticed that her mane was being brushed. She looked up and saw Derpy. Derpy looked down and smiled at Pinkiepie. Pinkiepie smiled and started to sit up.

"Hello sleepy head." Derpy said.

"Hello." Pinkie yawned.

"Pinkie we have to find the others." Derpy said.

"Well we haven't finished searching Sweet Apple Acres yet." Pinkie rubbed her eyes.

"What do you mean?" Derpy asked.

"Well we've been in the barn the whole time and plus we have to check the cellar that's outside. And we have to check the house. Oh and don't forget about the crusaders clubhouse." Pinkie replied.

"Well we can't do that until the horde is gone." Derpy said.

"I'll go look from the balcony." Pinkie headed towards a ladder that lead up to the balcony.

Pinkiepie climbed up the ladder and went up towards the open windows. She peeked her head outside to see if the walkers were still there. Only one walker remained at the entrance of the barn door. Pinkiepie looked around the rest of Sweet Apple Acres. To her surprise, there were no walkers around for miles. Pinkiepie pulled her head back in and went down the ladder. Derpy looked at Pinkiepie and Pinkiepie had a smile on her face.

"Are there any walkers?" Derpy asked.

"One." Pinkie replied.

"Then let's go." Derpy got up and went towards the barn door.

Pinkiepie grabbed the duffle bags and stood in front of the door with Derpy. She handed Derpy her duffle bag and they pulled off the wooden plank from the lock positions. Derpy grabbed one door and Pinkiepie grabbed the other. They both looked at each other.

"On three." Derpy said.

Pinkiepie nodded.

"1...2...3."

They pulled the doors open and the walker started to walk in the barn. Derpy picked up a shovel and started to bash the walkers head. Once Derpy was sure that the walker was dead, she stepped outside and took a deep breathe. She looked up at the sky. No clouds, it was all sunny. A beautiful day. She looked back at the beautiful acre. Pinkiepie put her hoof on Derpy's shoulder. Derpy looked at Pinkiepie and smiled. Pinkiepie smiled back.

"Let's start searching." Pinkiepie said.

Author's Note

This chapter goes out to my friend 'rarityxspike'. I hope to talk to you again someday. Hope you guys enjoyed and make sure to leave a comment on what you think about the story so far. I'm trying to make a book out of it. Instead of a six chapter story. More like 10-20 chapters. Or however I keep on ending the chapters.