Death is life

by burningblackdragon

Rating: teen
Tags: Tragedy, Horror, Sad, Mystery, Dark
Length: 3060

A meteor hit in the everfree forest and ever since then, the dead have risen and are hungry... For us.

Twilight's log: Three days ago a meteor crash landed in the Everfree forest. Celestia sent in four squads of royal guards to investigate, all of which never came back out except for one soldier who had a bite mark on his front left leg. he is in the hospital and rumor says he tried biting one of the doctors. The forest has been quarantined and fenced off from the outside world. When I go near the fence, the guards tell me to back away but I swear I hear moans, and growls coming from the forest, not to mention the smell of rotting meat. I have yet to ask celestia what's going on though. Twilight out.

P.s. Just because I made it be in twilights point of view doesn't mean the story will be in her point of view. I just did that to make a good description.

P.p.s. I honestly tried to keep my priorities on the story but i just couldn't do it becuase i have other stuff to do in life, so sadly its cancelled

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2017-04-19 03:10:16 UTC

The calm before the storm

"Spike. I need you to send a letter to princess celestia." Twilight said as she paced around the room

Spike replied "ok just let me get the paper and quill." and then he ran of.

As she paced around, her sense of ergency kept getting bigger. She felt like something bad was gonna happen.

"Guards, a fence, the smell of rotting meat, and the sounds... This makes no sense." Twilight whispered to herself.

Starlight walked into the room. "What was that?" She asked.

"Oh nothing. Just feeling a bit nervous, that's all." Twilight replied.

Starlight shrugged her shoulders and walked back out. About a minute later, Spike came back with a paper and quill.

Twilight looked at spike and gestured him to start writing.

"Dear princess Celestia, ever since that meteor landed, all the Royal guard have been acting strange. They forced Fluttershy to move because she lived too close to the Everfree forest, and even though I'm a princess, they wouldn't answer me when I asked them what's going on. Earlier today, one even pointed their spear at pinkie when she got too close to the fence. It would be well appreciated if you told me what's going on. Sincerely Twilight Sparkle." She recited.

And with a burst of green fire, the letter faded into smoke which trailed up to Canterlot. Not even a minute later, Spike burped up a letter. It read "dear Twilight sparkle, do not worry, everything is under control. Sincerely princess Celestia.

"Well if the princess says it's under control, then it's under control." She said to herself.

"Goodnight Spike" she said to Spike before he left the throne room.

"Hold him down, you don't want him trying to bite another doctor!" one of the doctors said.

The former royal guard soldier growled, squirmed, and bit where ever he could as two of the doctors strapped him down.

"We tried everything to cure him. What makes you think this will work!" Another doctor said.

"It's good to at least try!" The first doctor said.

"Well then do it!" The third doctor said.

The first doctor went quiet and started to perform a very complicated healing spell. When he touched his horn on the guards head, it went limb. Suddenly the guard started squirming more than ever and managed to snap the straps that restrained it, quickly getting up and biting a large area out of the doctors neck killing him in no time at all. Another doctor pressed the alarm which flashed red and made a ear piercing sound. There was the sound of screams and then... Nothing except the sound of the alarm and growls.

Twilight woke up to a loud knocking on the doors of her castle. As she walked down she caught a whiff of rotting meat again and looked out the window in the direction of the Everfree forest. She opened up the door to see Zecora was the one knocking.

"Hello Twilight, good to see you today in the morning light." She rhymed.

"Hey Zecora, glad to see your ok." Twilight said.

"Yes, if I had not seen the meteor overhead, I would have surely been dead." Zecora replied.

"So what do you need?" Twilight asked.

Before Zecora could speak, she was cut off from a royal guard walking up to Twilight.

"Princess Twilight. Princess Celestia has requested your audience to the Royal castle. It is urgent." He said.

"Sorry Zecora, the princess needs me." Twilight said.

"It is alright, I understand you are doing what is right." Zecora replied.

Twilight walked with the guard and saw a chariot with all her friends already on it except Rainbow Dash, who prefers flying. All her friends greeted her as she stepped onto the chariot. When the chariot took off, they all got another whiff of that horrid smell of rotting meat.

"Why what is that absolutely awful smell?" Rarity asked as she covered her nose.

"Don't know, but it smells worse than a dirty pig on a tuna boat." Applejack declared.

Fluttershy's just screamed "evil' in her dramatic voice, and pinkie pies face turned an unhealthy shade of green as she covered her mouth, but It was no use, she threw up over the side.

"Boy, that was a doozy!" She said in her excited tone.

When the mane 6 landed in Canterlot, they noticed a hospital that had been quarantined much like the forest.

"Ooh, that must be SOME party!" Said Pinkie Pie excitedly.

"Those aren't party lights, Pinkie. Those are alarms coming from that building." Twilight said to Pinkie.

As they made there way to the castle, Twilight over heard a doctor speaking to a royal guard. Most she made out was "not even our best healing spells work on it."

"What's it?" She thought to herself.

She continued the ponder over what they were talking about until her thoughts got cut off by Apple Jack.

"Whatcha thinks going on at that there hospital?" She asked.

"I don't know, but I believe it's connected to the meteor that landed in the Everfree." Twilight answered.

Twilight, not paying attention walked right into the castle doors, she blushed in embarrassment but quickly recovered. The two royal guard ponies opened up the door. The mane 6 were all shocked to see princess Celestia was standing right there.

"Quickly, come in we have much to talk about" Celestia said.

As they walked in they saw wooden boards on all of the Windows.

"Just preparing for the worst, that's all" said Celestia when she noticed them looking.

Celestia led them to the Royal library and motioned for them to have a seat.

"I'm sure your worried as much as I am about the meteor?" Celestia asked twilight.

"Oh um.. Uh yes I am worried, very worried." Twilight replied.

"Well now your questions are going to get answered, all of yours." Celestia regretfully said.

She knew everyone's chances of surviving were one in a million.

"First of all, about the meteor." Twilight started saying. "What is with it, why does everything seem so mysterious ever since it crash landed?" She asked.

"It turns out that in that meteor contained an infection that once it takes affect it puts the host in a coma and revives them as one of these." Celestia answered.

She motioned them to come to a window, they all looked outside and to their Horror, they saw the back of the hospital along with ponies covered in blood, missing limbs and a moan so soulless and evil it even had rainbow dash slightly shivering, Fluttershy's on the other hand ran to a corner of the library with a look of horror.

"Wha...what are those?" Rarity asked.

"Former doctors and nurses of the Canterlot hospital, the guards dubbed them as "zombies", I just call them gouls". Celestia answered.

"Please tell me you have them under control?" Twilight begged.

"Yes we do, we are trying to make a cure but if we cannot, we will execute them." Celestia said as reassurance.

Even though she knew that there was hardly anyway of stopping them, she still wanted to try.

Rainbow dash sighed in relief but was still a little scared.

"But just in case the worst happens, I want all of you to where your elements of harmony at all times and stay in your homes."Celestia said to them all.

Pinkie pie burst out, "oh they're all just grumpy, I'm absolutely, positively, cupcakeliciosly sure a party will make them feel better!"

"Actually darling, they're all... Dead." Rarity corrected Pinkie.

"Pffft, then how are they moving silly." Pinkie sarcastically asked."

"Because of the infection I just told you about." Celestia calmly said.

"Oh... Silly me." pinkie said.

"You may all go now but before you do, twilight, I'm having your very own Royal guard be deployed to your castle." Celestia said.

"Are you sure princess, I don't think I'm responsi-." Twilight tried saying but got cut off by Celestia.

"Yes, I am sure, ponyville I the closest area to the forest and it requires a fighting force in order to possibly survive. Celestia declared.

"Well if you insist princess. Goodbye" twilight finished.

"Goodbye all of you, have a safe trip back" Celestia replied.

Celestia went to her chambers to continue a spell she was working on.

Spreading

The royal guard constantly tried to enter the forest and the hospital but It was no use, who ever went in either area never came back out. Celestia was trying not to let any unicorns or pegisi in because the ghouls may be too dumb to know how to use magic but they might learn how, and pegisi, there's a chance ones wings might be intact and it could fly over the fence, she knows because she saw the ones that were pegisi could flap there wings, one even did manage to fly over but was quickly dispatched of by a unicorn, and was thrown back over the fence. So far they haven't responded to any medication or spells the doctors gave them, they also don't seem to remember their loved ones... Or anything for that matter.

"Come on, something has to work." A doctor said.

"Just stop trying, can't you see that these things are dead, even if you found a cure all you would do is make it a still corpse instead of a moving one." A guard responded.

"Your out of line soldier!" Luna said in the Royal Canterlot voice.

"Oh...uh... Pri...princess Luna, your majesty I didn't notice your arrival." The Royal guard nervously said.

Ignoring the guards ignorance, princess Luna said. "He's right, all your doing is just making it limb, there's no need for a cure, quarantine the forest and the hospital in domes, and fill them with toxins."

Saying what she needed to say she walked away back to the Royal palace.

"Doctors, you heard the princess, prepare domes around the quarantined areas and fill them with toxins!" The guard screamed out.

Twilight was having a bad nightmare, the ghouls had escaped their quarantines and devoured her friends and family, they finished them off and started to limp over to Twilight.

"No p...please, I'll do an...anything to live." She said in fear.

No response came from them, only the growls and moans, of her former loved ones.

"Please someone, help me!" She screamed out.

Twilight woke up with in panic, she noticed she was crying when she looked in a mirror. From the look of her beds condition, it was a rough night last night, she quickly remade her bed using a cleaning spell. The smell of rotting meat passed by her nose again, the smell brought back memories of her dream.

"Please tell me it was just a dream." She begged herself.

She looked outside a crack in her boarded up window and lucky for her, everything was normal.

"Thank Celestia, That must not happen." Twilight said in worry.

She decided to call rarity using a new communication spell she made a while back, she walked up to a mirror in her room and casted the spell, the mirror began to Fog up.

"Now all I need to do is wait for rarity to answer." Twilight said.

(This part is a prequel to the first part of this chapter)

Celestia was inside the royal chambers sitting on her bed casting a future sight spell that could allow her to see in the future, she was seeing if their was anyway for her and most of the ponies in aquestria to survive, all she saw was ruins in every vision but suddenly she saw a vision past by with her, Luna, twilight, and cadence alive and well, that's all she saw though because the spell shut off before she could get a good look in detail. she rushed towards Luna's chambers and opened her door.

"Luna go tell the guards to eleminate the ghouls using toxins, I want as little casualties as possible." She said to Luna.

"You saw the vision too, didn't you sister." Luna asked Celestia.

" yes, I did." Celestia answered.

When Luna left, Celestia walked down the halls of the castle. Now that she saw that Vision, Celestia held hope for the ponies of aquestria unlike she did a day ago when talking to twilight and her friends.

"That vision must happen" she begged herself.

She continued down the hall, when a thought came to her.

"Discord." She thought. "Since they don't respond to harmonic healing spells, maybe they respond to chaotic healing spells... If there are chaotic healing spells".

"Discord." She said.

Suddenly a zipper appeared on a wall of the hallway, it unzipped and out came discord, the lord of chaos.

"Yes, your majesty." Discord said in a sarcastic tone.

"Discord, is it possible for chaotic magic to heal." Celestia asked discord.

"Hmm, well there is life for a life, necromancy oh and body possession works on dead bodies too." He replied.

"Those only bring back the dead, wait bring back the dead." She said to herself.

"I know what your thinking, and it's not going to work." Discord said in a joking tone.

Snickering, discord said "get this, (chuckle) chaotic magic doesn't work on them."

And then he dropped to the floor laughing. Celestia just looked at him and rolled her eyes.

"Wait you don't get the joke. no form of magic works on them besides attacks, shouldn't you be panicking... Oh your no fun Celestia." He said to her sarcastically.

"Your dismissed discord." She said in a annoyed tone.

"Well, Tata your majesty," discord said.

Then he melted into a puddle of goo and was gone. Even though Celestia didn't react in order for discord to not get a rise out of her, she was panicking, in her mind that is. Luna walked down the hallway and informed Celestia the order was given. And the domes should be done in about more than a week.

Rarity's horn began glowing telling her twilight was calling her, she quickly grabbed a mirror and casted the spell twilight taught her, after the mirror fogged up, an image of twilight appeared.

"Why hello darling." She said to twilight.

"Hi rarity, how are you." Twilight asked.

"Oh, other than what we saw the other day terrifying me beyond compare, I'm doing fine." Rarity answered with a slight sarcastic tone.

"Ok, glad to know your alright, how's Fluttershy" she asked.

"Not good darling, after rushing towards the boutique, she refused to open the door to the guest room except for when I bring food for her but then she slams it back shut." Rarity replied,

Suddenly the image of twilight began to flicker.

"Sorry rarity, the spells wearing off, I'll talk later" twilight said quickly.

Then the mirror fogged up and rarity saw her reflection again.

"Oh well, I better continue working on that dress." She said to herself. "But first, I must bring Fluttershy dinner."

She walked to plate that had a hay burger, sunflowers, and cucumbers on it, took it to Fluttershy's room.

"Fluttershy, food." She said in a sing song voice.

Much like the last three times, Fluttershy's, opened the door, took the food, said "thank you", and closed the door back, all in the blink of an eye. Rarity sighed.

"Fluttershy, please come out, the ghouls connot get you if they're fenced off." She begged.

"No, they're scary and mean." Fluttershy said back.

"Honestly, first nightmare night, now everyday." Rarity complained.

"If need be, then yes." Fluttershy's said in a stern voice, the same one she uses when her animals act bad.

"Well ok, tell me if you need anything darling." rarity said back.

Rarity then walked off.

Three days after the command was given to build domes, there have been multiple casualties of medics getting to close, construction ponies falling off the dome and into the quarantine zone, and guards trying to enter, all of which quickly get taken care of. The ghoul count nearly tripled the original amount, the fence was practically bursting from there being so many, a certain part of the fence was warped and bent from the ghouls all dragging and pushing on it when suddenly... It came down, they were free.

Celestia, seeing this all happen from the safety of the royal palace, stared in horror as her worst fear has happened

"No." She said under her breath.

The storm

After breaking down the fence the ghouls quickly bashed and slammed at the glass from the dome breaking that down with ease as well, all the guards tried to hold them off but quickly got overpowered and devoured alive along with the doctors and construction ponies, being able to smell the princesses the ghouls quickly headed towards the castle.

"Oh no, luna quickly teleport to the castle of friendship" celestia said with ergency.

They quickly teleported down to ponyville, once the ghouls could no longer smell them they quickly moved on to the still populated part of Canterlot leaving vile infection in their wake. The ponies of canterlot smelled an awful stench that was getting stronger and were quickly told to take shelter in there homes.

"What is that simply awful smell" prince blueblood said to a royal guard.

"It's nothing, just please get in your home and dont leave" the guard said.

"How dare you address me with such disrespect" blue blood yelled.

He started going to find the source of the dreadful smell, the guard tried to grab him but blue blood shook him off, once he saw what the smell was coming from it was too late, he went far beyond the safe point and the ghouls quickly locked on to him, he was too scared to move, the ghouls knocked him to the ground and started devouring him bit by bit, he screamed out in pain but no one heard, he started to drift into death but kept getting cut off by the ghouls biting into him and crushing his bones, finally his body gave out and he died, he quickly got back up and joined the ranks of all the other ghouls trampling and devouring the guards. Once all the guards were infected they started banging and trampling down all the doors of homes until nothing was left... canterlot was gone.