All of Equestria was silent. Even the sounds of birds chirping was absent from the once lively place. the once beautiful land was now dead. Buildings rotted with their windows boarded up, the skies were cloudy and dark, and the land was enshrouded in eternal dawn, the sun starting to rise, but the moon still up, forever.

The princesses Celestia and Luna, were dead, as was most of equestria. Very few remained after the infection started. These survivors were few in number, and spread apart all over Equestria. The rest of the land was populated by the survivors friends, and family, but they were Dead. T

he outbreak started all of a sudden with no warning. It had all started with poor Flutter Shy, and once it started to spread, nothing could stop it. The princesses couldn't, the royal guard couldn't, even the mane six stood no chance. These pony's, now walked the earth, and flew in the sky, as Zombies.

Equestria... was gone, nothing more than an apocalyptic wasteland filled with cowering pony's and ravenous undead monsters.
There was no hope, only death.

Standing on a cliff overlooking ponyville, was a blue stallion with a brown mane. A cutie mark of a long sword sat on his flank. His brown eyes surveyed the seemingly abandoned and empty town which had once held so much joy, he looked away, trying not to cry.

His name was Swift Blade, a wandering earth pony swordstallion.
Before the outbreak, he had come upon Ponyville in his travels, not intending to stay, but after hanging around for a while, he had made to many good friends and couldn't force himself leave, so he stayed. Now he was one of the last pony's in all of equestria, alone.

His gaze hovered back to Ponyville. He had to go down there.

After it started, he headed out into the chaotic streets to find his friends, and the one mare he truly cared about, but he was to late, when he had found her, she was already one of them.
It was FlutterShy. Before he had decided to stay, he had met her while wandering by the Everfree forest one day, and after becoming good friends, he fell in love with her, but he never told her how he felt. He didn't want to mess up their friendship.

She was one of the reasons he stayed in ponyville, so when he found her, his heart felt like it had shattered. She had been turned. If it wasn't for the fact that he had thought about finding a cure after seeing her tear into one of her friends, he probably would have just given up and let himself die right there. All his other friends were dead as far as he knew, he had seen enough of them as zombie pony's to figure that out. Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Blues, Cloud Kicker, Lyra, Bon Bon, Caramel, even good old Lucky. none of them had made it, hell, he had even had to kill a few of them.

After finding Fluttershy he ran into Bon Bon, and he was forced to end Bon Bon like she was an animal, a Celestia-damned animal! He had been shocked at first to see her, but had snapped out of it when she lunged at him with intent on eating him, or at the very least bite some flesh off. He pulled out his sword which he had with him at all times and tried to get her to stop, begging her, screaming at her to stop, but this thing she was now knew no fear and no remorse, so his warnings did nothing.

He was forced to stab her through the chest, but was shocked to see that she just kept coming, he stabbed her again and again, but she just wouldn't stop.

Seeing no other option, he sliced her head off. her head had fallen to the ground, a bit of blood dripping from the neck as the severed head rolled across the ground, and it kept snapping at him. It just wouldn't stop, so, eyes tearing up, he drove his blade through her head, ending her life.
That was how he discovered that these things only went down by destroying their head. Of course, it didn't bring him any comfort in discovering how to kill the monsters.

Before he had time to mourn or contemplate what he had just done, more of them showed up and he had to run.
On his dash to escape he had to kill another, where he reared up and crushed the monsters face against a wall. Blood had splattered across his hooves as he withdrew from the dead things head, he didn't have time to clean it off, so as he ran out of the town, blood hit the ground, making a trail of splattered blood leading from ponyville to a little pond where he had washed his hooves off.

That was two days ago, and now he stood on the cliff. Swift Blade glanced at the long sword in the sheath on his back. it had come in handy. it was his partner, after all, if he didn't have it, Bon Bon or one of the others probably would have eaten him.
Suddenly his eyes teared up, and he chocked back a few sobs. ''Why did this have to happen... why in Celestia is this happening!'' he cried out. The only answer was silence.

The cause was unknown, so he didn't know what had started this, but he knew one thing, he needed food.

It had only been two days since it started and he hadn't had much to eat or drink in that time, he was starting to feel the effects of hunger as his head spun a little and his stomach growled like a hungry beast.
The stallion wiped the tears away with his hoof and picked up the bag by his hooves in his teeth and swung it onto his back. He would find time to think and grieve later.

he turned from the cliff and started heading down, towards Ponyville, hoping he would find something to eat and maybe some other survivors, if there was any left. He began his long journey back to ponyville, trotting down the dirt road, passing dead mangled corpses and dying plants as he went.

He was completely unaware that somepony was watching him, and not noticing the swarm of undead Pegasus headed right for him.

Author's Note

This is my first book ever, so let me know what you think as honestly as possible.

now the next chapter will focus more on the present, with lots more zombie pony's!

Thanks for reading!