A Toxic Desolation

Mare Do Candy

Sweetie Bell stood in wounder in the middle of the marvelous candy store. Gummy Mares, Candy Corn, skittles, twix, Twizzlers, and starbursts. A fillies dream, but no candy there could outshine Sugarcube Corner's. Sculpt filled his little wolf mouth with gummy mares and Candy Corn, causing him to get a sugar rush Twilight didn't approve off, and the crusaders went off, throwing candy in large bottles, and jugging them down.

"Ok guys. It might be a candy store, but you can't just eat the candy without paying for it!" Twilight said softly.

"Actually, we can. Only on Nightmare Night." Rainbow Dash spoke, eating a hoof full of Twizzlers. Twilight gasped, clapping her hoofs together, and ate a bucket of twix bites. Pinkie ran inside, catching her breath. Fluttershy gave her a cup for gummy mares, which revived the party pony's strength.

Pinkie sighed, looked around, then grabbed about five wooden shelfs. All the candy fell on the floor, which the fillies ate.

She hammered them to the door, and did the same thing with the windows.

"Pinkie Pie? What are you doing?!" Twilight asked.

"They're coming! I don't know how, or what happened, but there's, there's, there's zomponies out there!" Pinkie yelled, jumping next to a small unicorn named Dinky.

"What are you talking about!? Zomponies aren't real Pinkie!" Twilight argued, removing the wooden planks. Twilight screamed, as she saw a group of zombies running towards the shop. "Why are they running!? They should be walking!"

Sculpt whined, and cuddled up to Twilight. Rainbow Dash wrapped her bright blue wings around Scootalo, and Applejack protected Apple Bloom. Rarity decided to do something brave for her sister, and she jumped in front of Sweetie Bell, and walked her to the back of the store. Same with Rainbow Dash, and Applejack.

"Sculpt! Over here!" Apple Bloom yelled to Sculpt. When the wolf didn't move, Apple Bloom ran up to him, grabbed his puffy grey and white tail, and dragged him to the back of the store with the others.

"Does this place have a basement?" Twilight asked, backing up. She nailed the planks back onto the door, then backed up with the rest of the mares and stallions. No one responded. Just Applejack stomping, and walking around.

"I doubt this place does, but we haft to check. I think I saw a ladder. It probably leads to an attic of some sort." Applejack stepped up. She tapped each wall of the store with her hoof, in till she saw a birch wood ladder, with square nails. She whistled to everyone, pointed at the ladder, then ran up.  Everyone followed her, and Derpy Hooves shut the door behind her . . .

It's Still Nightmare Night . . .

Sculpt sniffed. He could smell a dirty flesh from outside the store. No smell of rotten flesh, but it smelled as if someone was struggling to get in and escape the zomponies. Sculpt whined and whimpered, but his mother wouldn't let poor Sculpt escape the attic and help the stallion. He bit Rainbow Dash's wing, and pulled her towards the exit.

"Ugh. What now kid?" Rainbow complained cruelly, plucking some uneven feathers from her beautiful wings.

"I can smell a stallion out there. Cold and hungry! We need to get out to him and let him in before the zomponies find him!" Sculpt whimpered, showing the pegasus his pair of bright blue eyes.

"No can do Skull, or whatever your name is. I'm not your mother, and Twilight would kill me if I even let you step half way down those steps. So, you stay up here, I stay up here, were all stay up here. Got it?" Rainbow Dash explained with a following chuckle. She began to walk back to the farthest part of the attic, with her pals.

"I'll tell Rarity about your little 'session' with Soarin." Sculpt laughed wickedly.

"Why would Rarity care?" Rainbow Dash turned around, growling at the little twerp.

"Because, I know and see everything. I'm a wolf. A wolf who can hear five miles away, and I can run faster then a poor pegasus pony can fly. I can run and see everything, and even if I don't see, I can hear conversations. Why do you think there's always this weird sound coming from Twilight's room everytime you go there? Huh? Well that's me laughing at the fact that you think a poor wolfie can't tell the difference between a white plastic cup, and a glass cup." Sculpt slammed his rump on the door out of the attic. He crossed his arms, smirked, then looked up at Rainbow Dash.

"Rarity and Soarin! Come on kid . . . Lets go get that little f-" Rainbow Dash began.

"Woah! Woah! Woah! Not to far now!" Sculpt looked around, opened the attic door, and slowly walked down with Rainbow Dash behind him. They couldn't see a stallion or a mare, but they heart a strange yell coming from the light. Rainbow Dash flew up, punched the light, and could see the night sky. She flew up on the roof, looked around, and was about to go back inside, in till she saw a stallion fighting some flying zomponies.

Rainbow Dash charged at the monsters, closed her eyes, and slammed the flying zomponies to the ground. She then watched the pegasus turn around slowly. Blood splattered on his face. Rainbow Dash gasped, blushed, then spoke.

"Its you . . . Bu- But where is Spitfire?" Rainbow Dash asked glumly, facing Soarin.

"Over here . . ." Soarin flew over to a section on the roof. Spitfire layed next to the attic. She could see Twilight and the ponies inside.

"What happened to you!?" Rainbow Dash teared up, flying over to Spitfire. She stopped flying, and stared at Spitefire's right hoof. It was covered in bite marks, and blood covering it.

"Zom . . . Pony . . . Bite." Spitfire struggled to say. Rainbow Dash and Soarin grabbed Spitfire, and flew her inside the shop. Sculpt jumped for joy, then grabbed a pile of bandages from the counter. He wrapped it around the bite marks, grabbed some sugar, and sprinkled it over her arm.

"Come on." Sculpt said like a manly man, leading the pegasi inside the attic. Twilight gasped, ran to hug Sculpt, then growled at Rainbow Dash.

"Don't worry! The kid hid the whole time. I'm the one who gave those zomponies a punch or two. But we found Soarin and Spitfire. Now don't freak out . . . Spitfire got bitten, slightly! We wrapped it up in bandages, Sculpt put some sugar on the bandage, and now she's all good." Rainbow Dash attempted to make a horrible excuse.

"Fine. But no more going out there!! Ok. We can't eat candy forever, so some of us might haft to go into the city. I suggest we find a buddy for the night, and sleep side by side. The fillies will sleep in between each stallion and mare. We're not risking a filly getting bitten tonight."

Twilight explained, grabbing Sculpt. She and Fluttershy showed all the fillies the middle of the attic, and there were about 50 fillies in the store. (There was a lot of fillies eating candy off the floors . . .).

Rarity saw Soarin, blushed, then hugged him. She then walked back over to Sweetie Bell, hugged her, kissed her on the forehead, then layed down on the outside of the circle next to her.

Twilight got paired up with Derpy, Fluttershy with Dr. Hooves, Applejack with a bright green stallion, with a dark green and orange mohawk mane, and Pinkie Pie with Spitfire. All the unicorns used they're magic to sew a large  blanket, big enough to cover the fillies completely, but allow them to breath perfectly, and to cover up the adults up to their necks.

Soarin sighed, walked over to Rarity, and slept next to her. He placed a hoof on her cutie mark, then fell asleep, leaving Rainbow Dash staring outside the attic window, and watching the zomponies. While she was at it, she carved some weapons, then found a spot next to a handsome red pony, with a manly, dark red mane. She then slept there, tears rolling down her cheeks . . .