As he supported the DJ, Swift Blade kept an eye out for any threats, meaning anything that moved.

Vinyl groaned, ''Where are we even going, those bucking zombies aren't just going to give up chasing us you know''

Swift Blade stared at her with determination, ''To Sugar Cube Corner, we can get more supplies there, and maybe the Cakes or Pinkie Pie are still alive.''

''You sure Swift? Besides, the candy and other goodies there probably have gone bad by now, so that may not be the best idea''

Swift Blade looked down slightly, she was probably right, but...

He realized something, he wasn't feeling weak or woozy anymore, he hadn't had any time to eat anything while they were at the house, and there was no way it was adrenaline. So maybe... Swift Blade looked back at the mare leaning on him, ''Did you feed me while I was knocked out?''

Vinyl started to respond, but was interrupted when an earth zombie lurched out of an ally way, moaning that sorrowful song that they all sung.

It was a mare, with a red mane and tail, all dolled up. Her mouth dripped blood and some sort of black goop, her eyes were pus white and showed no sign of life, just ravenous hunger for the two pony's who stood in front of her.

Vinyl's horn started glowing, ready to cast a spell and destroy the monster, but the glow flickered, the cut from before must have been distracting her, and possibly was worse then Swift had thought.

Swift Blade slowly stepped away from Vinyl, to let her know he was going to take care of it, and drew his blade, ready to take the undead pony.

The mare lunged forward, teeth bared. Swift Blade brought back the sword, and swung the flat side of the blade into the mares face. A loud snap broke out as the mare fell backwards, blood spurt from her neck. The blow had been so hard it broke the zombie pony's neck.

Swift Blade ran back to Vinyl's side, and she leaned against him

''Lets get the buck out of here!'' Swift said, urgency in his voice.

''Yeah lets!'' Vinyl replied as the undead mare slowly got back to its feet, her head hanging to one side, a bone poking out of the side, blood fell from the wound and splattered on the ground.

Sheathing his sword, Blade and Vinyl continued on, moving as quickly as Vinyl could go on only three legs, due to the fact that the pain in her wound was beginning to get worse.

They cut through an alleyway as they continued their journey to Sugar Cube Corner, stopping every now and then to avoid small groups and even lone zombies, seeing as they wanted to get to their destination as quickly as possible, they had to avoid confrontation's. They passed by many boarded up houses, chewed up and mangled bodies, the poor souls who didn't make it.

Swift stared at one of the bodies they passed in particular. It was Rarity, the owner of the Carousel Boutique, and one of the most attractive mares in ponyville. Now she lay on the dirty ground, something she never would have allowed had she been alive, her white body covered in blood, her entrails hanging out of her stomach, bloodied and partially eaten. Her neck had a huge chunk taken out of it where a zombie must have chomped down on her.

The only reason she hadn't come back as one of them was the wound in her head. Somepony had crushed her head. One eye hung from a thread, while the other lay on the ground. Her purple mane splattered with blood and other liquids. The only other reason besides the mane that identified her was her cutie mark, three blue jewels.

As Swift stared sadly at Rarity's corpse, Vinyl looked at the remains of the seamstress and shook her head, ''Nothing we can do about what happened to her, no matter how sad it is''

Swift Blade looked at his companion and nodded. ''I know, its just...I just wish that everything could go back to normal... everypony would still be alive, and we wouldn't have to live in fear with no hope of survival.''

Vinyl smiled, ''Yeah, there's nothing I would rather do then go to a party and play some heavy beats and hear the sweet sound of wubs flowing in the air again...'' Vinyl's eyes twinkled as she thought of the good old days.

As Swift Blade watched the DJ reminisce, he started to realize just how beautiful she was. Her mane style was so unique and had that shine to it that was gorgeous to him. Her red eyes were something he could gaze into forever, her voice may be a little scratchy, but he didn't mind, and her backside- he cut his thoughts off, what was he thinking, what had come over him!?

''Swift Blade? You okay?'' Vinyl's voice registered in his thoughts and he returned to reality.

''Sorry, just... thinking about the past too'' He lied.

''Well... maybe we should get a move on'' The mare said, moving her gaze to three approaching zombies, one leaving a trail of gore in its wake as its guts slid across the ground as it moved.

Swift nodded and they started moving again, faster this time.

Turning a corner, the two pony's saw the most welcome sight they had seen in a while. Standing about twenty feet from them was Sugar Cube Corner. It looked about the same as ever,but there was a few changes. Now there were boards covering the windows, blocking off any sight of the interior, and a large plank was nailed up to the front door, blocking any exit to the shop. A few blood splatters covered the wall of the shop and stained the ground.

Swift and Vinyl started towards their destination, their journey finally reaching its end, but stopped in their tracks when a groan was heard.

The source was an pink unicorn with half its face missing and an woodcutters axe stuck in its back. Chunks of the undead mares brain hung out of its half face, her jaw hanging limp as it approached.

Vinyl recoiled in disgust and horror, and Swift grimaced, he hadn't seen any that were in this bad of condition. The unicorn started increasing speed as it charged, its groans becoming more frenzied.

Swift moved in front of Vinyl and drew his sword.

The zombie lunged forward, black goop flying from its half working mouth.

Acting fast, Swift dodged to the side and swung the blade down, knocking the beasts jaw off as the blade collided with the mares face. The unicorn flew backwards, blood and brain flying from its head. It hit the ground, and lay still.

the mares jaw fell onto the ground a foot from her, black goop and blood, seeping through the teeth.

Sheathing the weapon, Swift looked back at Vinyl, ''Lets get inside before more show up''

staring at the no longer moving zombie, Vinyl nodded, ''Yeah, lets go''

Swift turned so she could lean on him, but she shook her head, ''Nah, I can walk, I'm good.'' She stated, and started limping towards the shop, determination in her eyes. Watching her, Swift smiled.

Trotting up to the front door, Swift glanced at Vinyl, ''Should we knock?''

Vinyl simply smiled. Her horn glowed a lovely shade of magenta and the axe that had been lodged in the dead zombies back became surrounded in the same magenta glow, then floated up and moved over to Swift. The axe fell to the ground and the glow disappeared. Vinyl gasped a little, sweat fell from her face, ''That... was... hard...'' she panted. she was still weakened from earlier.

Swift Blade stared down at the axe with uncertainty. ''Should I? I mean, what if...''

he was cut off by Vinyl when she glared at him ''Just break the bucking board already!'' she said as her voice raised.

Swift nodded and reached down, picking the axe up with his hoof. He swung the axe back, and brought it down on the thick piece of wood.

CRACK!

The board cracked. Bringing the axe back again, Swift Blade swung the axe down and the board broke off, splinters flying in all directions, falling to the ground at the stallions hooves.

Vinyl whooped and grinned ''That's what I'm talking about! Good swing Swift!''

Swift handed the axe to Vinyl, who stuffed the weapon into her pack.

Swift Blade drew his sword and used the blade to push the door open with a creak, ''Alright, lets find out what's in here.'' He stepped inside the once lively goodie store, glancing in all directions for any possible threats, but the shop seemed empty.

Vinyl followed him inside and looked around, ''This place doesn't look as nice as it used too, not to mention its empty''

''Maybe their hiding!'' Swift Blade argued, ''There has to be somepony here!''

Vinyl simply sighed, ''There wont be, they wouldn't have been able to barricade the front door from the outside unless they left or died and somebody else put that board up to keep ponies from going in, face it. Sugar Cube Corner, is abandoned!'' The DJ said, her tone hasher then she meant it to be.

Swift Blade's face fell, tears formed in his eyes. His head fell and he started to sob, tears falling from his eyes.

''I had to hope, that's all that's keeping me going, hope that there are other ponies out there besides us, hope that maybe there's a bucking cure!''

Vinyl realized how much this meant to him and walked up beside him, putting a hoof around his neck in comfort. ''I'm...sorry, I didn't know what this meant to you Swift...''

Swift Blade nodded, wiping the tears away with a hoof. ''We have to have hope, that's what will get us though this...''

Vinyl nodded, ''Your right, I guess we should still take a look around''

''Yeah, come on'' Swift said.

the two pony's began slowly making their way towards the counter. The lights were dim, and flickered often, causing the room to plunge into darkness every few seconds.

Swift Blade shuddered, a chill creeping up his spine, maybe this wasn't a good idea after all. As he stopped in front of the counter Swift drew his sword and stood ready. Vinyl walked over to Swift and reached into his pack, pulling out the kitchen knife he had snatched form the house earlier. Looking into each others eyes, they nodded in unison, and charged around the counter, ready to strike.

There wasn't anything there though. Swift Blade sighed with relief, and Vinyl lowered the knife.

''All good'' Vinyl grinned.

Swift Blade trotted behind the counter and started checking out the goodies on the shelves of the counter, but he was gravely disappointed. Most of the treats had gone bad, they had rotted due to the fact that they had sat there for two days without any kind of refrigeration.

Swift sighed and stepped away from the counter.

''Well what did you expect? The goods would still be intact after two days of no refrigeration.'' Vinyl said mockingly. Swift ignored the comment and started walking towards the kitchen door, but when he tried to push it open, the door didn't budge.

Vinyl approached the door and turned to Swift, ''Is it locked?''

''No, I can feel the door trying to open, but it must be blocked from the other side, no way we can bust in'' He replied, frustration in his tone.

Vinyl nodded, ''Then we better check out upstairs''

Stepping around a fallen table, the two pony's started climbing the stairs, darkness at the very top. stopping at the top stair, Vinyl's horn started to glow, lighting a small space around them. ''Sorry, I have to conserve energy, so this is the best I can do for now'' She apologized.

Swift shook his head, ''Its not your fault, it will do''

The dim light illuminating some of the small space around them, Swift and Vinyl started towards the Cakes room. the door was closed, Vinyl suddenly stepped back from the door, horror in her eyes. Swift looked down at the spot on the floor where she was looking, and stepped back. A pool of blood had seeped from under the door and Vinyl had stepped in it. Trying to shake the red liquid from her hoof, Vinyl started moving backward, towards the other door, the one leading to the twins room. Her backside pushed against the door, and it opened.

Vinyl turned to the now open doorway and recoiled in shock, her mouth hanging open as she tried to say something, anything, but words had failed her, Swift ran to her side and peered inside the room. his eyes widened to the size of saucers.

What he saw inside, would haunt him for the rest of his life.

Inside the dark room, a rocking infant crib stood. Blood dripped from the edges, and stained the walls around it. Partially chewed organs and other pieces of gore lay strewn around the crib, some draping the crib like some sickening form of streamers.

Swift felt like he was going to hurl, quickly turning away from the gruesome scene, he started to sob. Tears falling from his eyes like a waterfall, as he choked and cried. Slowly recovering from the sight, Vinyl turned around and stepped in front of Swift and placed a hoof on his shoulder, tears beginning to fall from her eyes too.

Behind them, the other door started to slowly open, but the two pony's were unaware of this. They continued to cry as the door opened up completely, and a rotting form stepped out, moaning for the taste of pony flesh.

Author's Note

Sorry for the late chapter, I had a lot of stuff going on.

now that was a long chapter, so is it really hopeless, is there really no pony left alive, and of

course, what will happen to Swift and Vinyl? next chapter will answer that!

can I get some more likes? I could really use the support. thanks guys!