It's been a full year since Applejack and Rarity were killed at the hooves of the black alicorn. Twilight has been handling it the best out of the remaining four friends, mainly because she was trying not to think about it by burying herself in her studies. Fluttershy is now even more shy than ever, barely even responding when anypony trys to talk to her. The only residents of Ponyville she seems to be able to talk to are her animal friends, nopony knows why. Pinkie Pie was also having a hard time dealing with AJ's and Rarity's passings, but within a few weeks she was bouncing around again like the normal Pinkie Pie. Impacted by far the worst out of the four was Rainbow Dash, she didn't have any more nightmares, but she still remembered vivid images of AJ and Rarity's corpses. And she knew that they would never leave her. She may have gotten back to normal, but that was outside home, whenever she was alone she would just sit and cry because of both deaths. Even Tank couldn't make her stop crying, all he could do is provide someone to hold on to. Sweetie Belle had moved in with the Apple family at Sweet Apple Acres. She shared Apple Bloom's room with her and whenever one of them found themselves crying about their dead sister, the other was there to comfort them. They even decided to let Scootaloo join them so that they would all be there for each other, even though Scoots hadn't lost anypony to the alicorn, she still wanted to be there for her friends. And they were obviously greateful for the support.

The one year anniversary of Applejack's and Rarity's murders was a long day for everypony. Filled with memories of saddness and despair at either hearing the news, or being one of the few ponies that followed Rainbow to retrieve the corpses for a proper burial. Nopony said a word that day. They didn't need to. They all knew how they were feeling that day and were just trying to get past the memories.

Author's Note

Well isn't this just bright and sunny? I did want to give them some time between the first murders and the next massacre so I made it one full year. Next chapter will begin some action (hint: somepony gets ponynapped) not gonna say who. But just leave it at that.