Rainbow Heart

I had arrived at the gates of Canterlot with my 100 zombie ponies. It wouldn’t be long before we reached the graveyard. Upon arriving, the tombstones appeared to be brighter in the dark night, possibly due to the full moon that was out tonight. It had been a while since I had been in Canterlot. There were nothing but bad memories here for me. It was here on that day everything fell apart. My eyes began to tear up but I forced them back and wiped the surviving drops away from my eyes with my hoof.

It was now Nightmare Night evening.

“Stop right there!” a voice came from behind the zombie crowd.

It was Princess Twilight. I knew she would try to stop me. Regardless, not even her and her friends who were standing next to her could take on 100 zombies.

“Too late Twilight! The dead will rise!” I chided with both my horns glowing.

Out of the ground hooves began to force out of the dirt as the dead ponies awoke from their slumber and were making their way out of their filthy tombs. Their moans began to vibrate throughout the cemetery.

My inner five gathered around me for protection. It was clear we were going to be doing battle next.

Princess Twilight and her friends lined up opposite of me and my protectors.

“This is your last chance, Rainbow Heart. Return the zombie to their graves or else.” Princess Twilight said forcefully.

“Never!” I barked. “Zombie Elite attack!”

I removed my cloak.

Arcadia charged forward and tried to hurt Rainbow Dash using magic. She evaded the attack and counter struck with a dive bomb. When she got close Arcadia tried to buck her using his rear legs. Rainbow Dash dodged it and they continued to fight.

Solar Salute defended an attack from a charging Applejack aimed at Rainbow Heart. They continued to scuffle using hoof-to-hoof combat.

Bubblegum faced Rarity, completely unfazed by Rarity’s dainty and elegant attempt of a fight stance. She blew a large bubble with her gum and detonated it in front of Rarity’s face, covering Rarity’s body with the gum.

Rarity shriek in disguised and enraged said, “You are so dead!”

“Tell me something I don’t know.” Bubblegum said sticking a new stick of gum in her mouth.

Rarity threw a hoof at Bubblegum’s face who blew a bubble with the gum and made a shield to block the hoof strike. Their blows went back and forth.

Pizza Party and Pinkie Pie stared each other down, slowly moving towards each other. They stopped a distance away still looking at each other face-to-face. Pizza Party threw a pizza at Pinkie Pie who dodged it. Pinkie Pie returned by chucking a cake at Pizza Party. They continued with their food fight sometimes being struck by the other’s flying sustenance.

Cirrus angrily marched up to the trembling Fluttershy.

Cirrus stated, “I do not believe in violence.”

Fluttershy, easing up happily said, “You do?”

Cirrus confirmed, “Yes, so you need to submit to me, so I may be victorious.”

Fluttershy said, “Oh, I don’t want to. My friends are counting on me. But I will if it will make you happy.”

Cirrus, like a snobbish upper class pony, nodded and stated, “I accept your defeat. Now move along.”

That left only me and Twilight. As the others fought, we stood each other down on each side of the chaos. I winked and teleported behind Twilight jumping on her back, trying to get my front legs around her neck. She spread her wings and flew away before I could get a hold of her. I used a reverse gravity spell and landed underneath a balcony near where she was flying. I grabbed her and undid the spell while using a teleportation spell to ground her. Twilight countered with her own teleportation spell. She disappeared from underneath me to a safe distance. She discharged energy blasts from her horn at me. I dodge the first two, but had to use a magic barrier around me to deflect the other three incoming magic bullets. I summoned tentacles to grab and wrap her up capturing her. With a discharge of magic from her horn it hurt the tentacles and they receded. Twilight flew forward and discharged more horn blasts. I summoned more tentacles that whipped her and knocked her off course. I used water from the nearby fountain to make a ball of water and threw it at her. She regained her composure and stopped the water ball with a fire wall, the water evaporated when it hit the wall of flames. Twilight countered with a lightning strike from her horn. I hastily used my tentacles to form a barrier in front of me, almost getting struck by the natural disaster. When the tentacles were struck they immediately were in pain and collapsed. Twilight used levitation to use a tombstone and strike me from behind. Twilight teleported close to me. I bucked and kicked her in the chest. She fell back startled and numb for a moment. I jumped on top of her, knocking her on her back. It was a flawed mistake. It allowed her to fire a direct blast from her horn directly to my exposed forehead. It made me fly backwards off of her. I was hurt.

The others ceased fighting.

I had fallen. Princess Twilight lowered her head and connected her horn to my rainbow horn. She learned a magic trick from Princess Celestia, how to duplicate an unknown spell. By touching another’s horn with her’s and by casting a spell she could learn a spell from an unwilling pony. This gave her the information she needed to cast a counter spell. Twilight’s eyes glowed as her horn discharged the counter spell. The Canterlot zombie ponies were the first to return to their graves. Many of them had not even got out of the ground yet. Then the Ponyville zombie ponies had a long, exhausting, and mournful walk back to the Stones of Tears. None of them wanted to go back into their dirt boxes. Many of them cried as they marched back to their tombstones. Others pouted in anger.

Solar Salute had gotten in the empty hole in the ground with an open empty coffin. His name was etched into the tombstone, a helmet he really did not want to wear.

Flower Garden came rushing though the graveyard shouting, “Solar! No!”

She slammed on the breaks at last minute at the edge of the hole. Flower Garden with fear in her eyes clutched Solar Salute from the elevated position, while he stood up against the hole using his back legs.

She cried, “I have to lose you all over again. Why do I have to keep losing you?”

She teared up and looked into his eyes.

With love and compassion in his eyes, he said “It’ll be ok.”

A brief moment of time and space could not tear them apart. A divine embrace of true love. He gently pushed her embrace away against her resistance. They gazed into each other’s eyes.

Solar said, “I’ll be here waiting for you. There’s an empty grave next mine. I’ll be here waiting for you with my hoof outstretched. Then when the moment is right both of us will be together forever. I will always wait for you my love, even after death.”

Like rushing water over a cliff her tears struck the ground. Solar gave her one last kiss on the lips which she returned and the fallen forest leaves seemed to circle around them encouraging them to be forever in love. After the kiss, she mournfully accepted his pull back. He put his hoof on her cheek like he always loved to do. He pulled back and laid back in the coffin. He stretched his front leg closest to the undug grave next to his. The ground pulled back over his coffin like a blanket from the bottom up to the top of the coffin. Lifeless, Flower Garden collapsed on the dirt and cried.

“I love you.” She exclaimed.

Through the dirt and worms she heard him reply, “I love you too.” She laid there caressing the ground, her tears sprouting flowers on the fertile soil. Her special ability had always been making flowers grow. But now these tears meant more than making flowers grow.