The dead move.

"Okay, well my Pegasus acquaintance should be with us in a little while." I really hoped she would be okay, to many ponies were dying already. "In the mean time though would you like to tell me what got you to this point, I mean from what you said earlier, you know about running like that for over an hour, you must have traveled quite the distance."

She took another drink of water from the bottle with her telekinesis, that would be so useful to have. "I worked in a daycare for small colts and fillies, I was the nurse." She was shaking a lot now, if this was going where I thought this was going, I did not want to hear it. "One of those...things, got its way into the daycare."

"I-I understand, please don't say anything more." I do not need this, I did not need to hear this.

"No, no you don't. The infected pony never got past the main room, all of the kids were fine, but one of the other workers was bitten, it's spreading faster. I have always watched viruses and outbreaks, it's a weird hobby but it's also a useful one. It used to take weeks for it take hold and turn them, now it can take just hours."

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"From what little I know about whatever this is, it takes over the brain or something of a pony and then makes it violent...or maybe just lets them only have the most basic of primal instincts?" She threw her fore hooves in the air. "I don't know, I'm not an expert."

"But you were in the medical field right, sure a daycare nurse is not much..." Before I could finish what I was saying she started speaking, loudly.

"I'll have you know that I am quite proud of where I worked and of how important my job was, without me some of those little ones might have had long lasting, lifetime long, problems!"

"Okay okay, just keep it down, we do not need anymore of those things coming towards us." Loud is bad, therefore do not be loud, easy as pie, right?

Directly after finishing that though, we heard a pretty loud crashing sound coming from my attic, either they could jump, ridiculously high, or the Pegasus was back. "By Celestia if they can jump I am going to flip so much shit." The unicorn looked at me with a look of bewilderment, damn, guess I am really that vulgar.

I went to my stairs, my right hoof blade ready to go in an instant, then a thought stuck me, I knocked on the door. She knocked back. "It's me." I opened the door, and then she hugged me, ooooookay this is happening.

"So, uhm... what happened?" I pushed myself off of her, not comfortable with being touched without knowing about it before it happens. She looked quite afraid. "Please don't say you were bitten by one of them."

A look of horror came onto her face. "No! I mean no, no I wasn't. It's just..I-I saw they are capable of, these things aren't like normal ponies, they don't get tired." I had already gathered that much from the unicorn downstairs, on that note I put a hoof on her shoulder and then motioned to the stairs. "They stopped chasing me eventually, they saw an easier target..." She was now visibly shaking, shaking so hard that I could feel it in my hooves, she was making the ground around her move, how does that even happen? No, now is not the time for this, got to comfort her and crap.

"Come on, lets go down stairs, get some water in you, relax a little and then we have to go." She nodded, shaking less, but still shaking. She began nodding, then started going towards the stairs, then she fell down.

"Oh please tell me you were not lying about not being bitten!" I inspected her body, nothing perverted you sicko. She had no marks, not a thing, what surprised me is that she appeared to be in really good shape, except her wings, from what little I knew, they were really weak.

I picked her up, easier said than done, and walked rather precariously down the stairs, dropping her here could mean some seriously bad news. I made it to the living room and saw the unicorn, she had fallen asleep on the couch, great, now where am I going to put this Pegasus?

"Put me down." She had spoken rather quietly, although slightly angrily. I got down on my I got down on all four knees and then shrugged the right side of my body which effectively had her move slightly to my left. I repeated this two times more and she finally had gotten off of my back, and fairly gently at that too. "Oof." Okay, maybe not that gently, I tried okay?!

"Ya know, I don't think that I have had two mares over wanting to sleep so near to me in a long time." The Pegasus hit me on my left forehoof. "Ow, it was a joke. So whats your name anyway, I really don't like this whole, ""work with me without knowing a thing about me deal."" that we have going on."

"My name is Storm, Rainstorm." Well, that's not ominous as Tartarus. She went back to sleeping...on the floor... I decided to go ahead and pick her back up and go upstairs again, my bedroom was up there, she would need a nice comfy area to sleep at. After the semi-difficult task of getting her up there I decided to go ahead and sleep on the floor in the living room, grabbing a blanket and pillow in my teeth I walked down to see that the unicorn was still asleep. I shut my eyes and began to dream of better times.