MANNULUS mortem

by pork984

Rating: teen
Tags: Tragedy, Adventure, Sad
Length: 1387

twilight sparkle has only a few hours of life remaining. she wants what ever few survivors there are to know the truth. the truth about the plague that killed her friend ,family

When a plague overtakes equestria its lone survivor has to live and tell the story of what happened here in equestria.

Twilight sparkle fights day after day against the danger of death. she has lost everything her friends mentor and her family. she is alone or so she thought until a Saddle Arabian pony knocks on her door. Twilight sparkle will face the ultimate challenge finding the full truth behind the disease that has earned it name MANNULUS mortem (aka Pony Death) will twilight find out the truth before the end. will she die without uncovering. join her and her recordings as she finds out

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-01-25 01:10:05 UTC

chapter one

Twilight sparkle lay in bed. Tears stream from her eyes. She has never felt the pain she felt today.  it put her into so much agony. she looks to the side of her bed. A camera lay next to it. she sighs and her horn glows. The camera turns on. he makes it start to record.

"my name is twilight sparkle." the words chokes out from the depths of her heart. "Equestria has fallen....all is lost. do to a plague" she tears up more as she levitates the pictures of the ones she held dear. she lays them before her.  "patient Zero was infected in ponyvill. but we cant truly tell for sure." she pauses and cries whispering to herself to be strong and carry on. "we believe patient zero was infected around midnight. we know this do to infection rate." she starts to cry so hard. she knows she has limited time to say what she needs to say. she straightens her neck and clears her throat. "me and my friends where in Canterlot when it all started. Celestia wanted us for a simple decorating task." sighs "but none of that is important. all that matters is that if your listening and you know how this all went down" she wipes her mane out of her face "We where about to finish when the letter arrive. it was from big mac." sighs "I read it and it clearly depicted distress."

"dear Apple jack. Apple Bloom and her friends have come down with something. she cries for her sister. you.  Please come quick she needs you. love Big Mac"

"it ended just like that. of course I thought nothing overly big about it at the time. all it was to me was just another poor sick pony." she tears up. "so when a week later Apple Jack returned and Apple bloom was dead. I was devastated" she hits her hoof on the bed in anger. her eyes s full of tears. "how...how  could such a thing happen to a beautiful filly." she feels like stopping the camera Twilight is letting her emotions get the best of her. " I still cant believe they're gone" she cough and cries at the same time. she losses track of how much time she has wasted crying. she eventually comes to her senses and starts to talk again. "it was long until Sweetie Bell passed as well"

Twilight sits for a couple seconds as if lost in thought.

"After their funerals Rarity and Applejack where rather silent...... they didn't really want to talk about it." she sighs she taps her hoof "I remember Equestria as a lively beautiful place.... I find it hard to picture that world now" she stands up out of bed to go show you what the world looks like now. she levitates the camera and puts a mask on. she steps out into the halls. dead corpses line the floor along with body bags. all of the bodies appear to have been bleeding from the eyes. she has tears coming from her eyes as she walks. then she speaks her voice muffled slightly by the medical mask. "we know the symptoms but we still never found a way to stop it. you bleed from the eyes that's the big one. If your watching this you probably know more about it than I do." she looks at the camera when she suddenly bleeds from her right eye. the camera cuts

chapter two

The camera comes back on. Twilight is crying into the pillow of her bed, she starts to choke out some words. "I have it I'm going to die.... I have no choice you have to hear the rest of how this all happened." she sits up and gets close to the camera blood still resting in her eyes. she takes a deep breath. "so after we all got back to Canterlot. Rarity seemed to be more astatic about the death of her only sister. At least on of them was making it easier on the ones around them. Applejack was mostly silent. constantly looking at photos and memories." twilight takes a drink of water her eyes start to bleed again. so she puts a tissue over them.

"Nopony seemed to realize just what was happening. This thing that had killed Apple bloom was now infecting Applejack." she tears up. "you would have wanted to kill yourself if you where me a week from that day." she hits her head board in frustration. "I walked into that room and she was lying there face down in her pillow. she faced me and her eyes where bleeding." she waves her hooves around in the air as she speaks "I had no idea what was happening to her. nor did I know Applebloom had faced it as well...Applejack never told us anything about what was happening to her"

Twilight stands up and makes the camera levitate alongside her. she bleeds a little more heavy from the eyes now. she grabbed some more tissues. "I helped her out of bed risking my life without even realizing it yet." she pauses as if lost in thought again. "she kept mumbling about not knowing what she had to do today." she sighs. and tears up. "seeing your best friend fall apart like that was just so..... Heartbreaking." she levitates some of the pictures she saved of her and her friends. she shows you the back showing a written story on the back of each.

"I  had to write down their last moments... what else could I have done." she sighs again and wipes her eyes. which have stopped bleeding for the moment. the fur under her eyes now crusted with blood. "I...I. Just wanted to know what was happening to Applejack! so immediately brought her to Princess Celestia" she smiles and  shakes her head. "you wouldn't believe the look on her face when I brought in disoriented and confused Applejack." she sips her water "her face immediately showed she was just as confused as I "I noticed something that was really odd" she says getting close to the camera "Celestia was talking to some pony from Saddle Arabia..I took no notion to it then." she takes a glance at the camera as she speaks. "that when she told me something that bothered me.."

"Twilight please take Applejack out of the room I will attend to the problem after I'm done with what I was doing"

"she then continues talking to this Saddle Arabian" she raised an eyebrow as she took another drink of water she scrapes her hoof on the ground. she starts to bleed from the eyes again and she puts her hoof to her face. her hoof appears to be dry looking. she then sighs. "another symptom is dryness or chafing of the hooves." she says levitating a tissue to her eyes. she sat there and held it to her face. she was wasting time. precious time. she held it there for a really long time. when she finally took it off her face her eyes looked red and irritated. blood rimes the bottom edges of her eyes now. she now looks more sickly than she usually does. she ruffs up her mane and walks around in the background. as if she had forgot what she was doing. she stops and stares at the camera. she walks up and stares "is this thing on...... was I using it." she shuts off the camera.

it turns back on and records "my name is twilight sparkle and this is day two..... I found myself in the library last night! that's when I cut the camera last night." she pauses "I'm scared I'm starting to feel better" she hits her own head with her hoof. "yes feeling better could be good but that is also part of the disease. it goes dormant in then comes back. attacking like a timber wolf!" she grunts loudly. " that's stage two the stage that kills you" she tears up falling backwards. "now I really need to finish telling you how this disease got to the point it is now........ughhh ill finish telling you even if it kills me" she has a pouty face now. she is about to sing when suddenly there is a knock at the door.