Darkness Ensues

Applejack stood against the door of her beloved barn, frozen in fear. “Stop it! Please! Stay back!” Applejack begged. Applejack looked around the ground for ANYTHING to use as protection from her blood thirsty friend. Her eyes fell upon a stick, and she grabbed it. When she rose back up, the first thing she saw was the fires. They were all emitting from Ponyville. Applejack wondered if any of her other friends survived this catastrophe. Snapping back to reality Applejack raised the stick at the purple maned pony. The turned Rarity continued trotting towards Applejack. Moans escaped her mouth as she approached the quivering earth pony, leaving a trail of blood behind her mutilated leg. Applejack swung the stick as soon as Rarity got into range. The stick hit Rarity’s neck, and snapped. Rarity continued her assault, the stick having no affect on her. Applejack tried to run, but Rarity then pounced on her, and dug her teeth into Applejack’s neck. The last thing Applejack could hear was the sound of her friends teeth crunching with eat bite she took. She could see the fires from Ponyville growing ever so large, and then her vision faded to black.

13 Hours Earlier

The sky was blue, the flowers were blooming, and Twilight was coming back from Canterlot, she was called there by Princess Celestia early that morning. Twilight’s friends were there to greet her as she arrived. The first thing they noticed was that Twilight was extremely pale, even for her.

“Uhm, Twilight? You alright sugarcube?” Applejack asked, worried for her friends health.

“Yeah Applejack…” She took a long pause. “I'm alright! Everything's fine! I just.. Need to lay down..” Twilight’s voice lowered as she said that last phrase. She then continued to walk to her castle, ignoring the constant calls from her friends.

“That was..weird.” Rainbow stammered

“Yeah, it was wasn't it? I do hope she's alright, the poor dear.” Rarity expressed her concern.

After exchanging small talk,they all walked back to what they were doing before greeting Twilight.

Pinkie looked at the clock. It was 6:30 P.M, closing time. The day was going a lot slower than normal. It was noon when Twilight came back, and it seemed like an eternity has passed. As Pinkie started cleaning up, she noticed that there was commotion outside.
“Hey, what's going on?” Pinkie asked as she exited the building

She first noticed what she saw as a fight. A stallion was on top of another, the stallion on top was snapping his teeth on the other. Pinkie was distressed once she saw the fight, and pulled the stallion off the other.

“Hey, stop fighting! That's not ni-” that's all she got out before the stallion dug his teeth into Pinkie’s leg.

The ponies around her pulled the stallion off Pinkie, many of them getting bit in the process, and held him to the ground. The group tried getting answers from him but all they got was various growls and even more teeth snapping.

Pinkie saw that they weren't going to get answers from him so she left and trotted to Rarity’s boutique, knowing that Rarity could stitch up her wound.

2 Hours Later

Rainbow Dash flew around the now darkening Ponyville. Night was closing in. She noticed that it was extremely quiet, even for the evening. Although, she could swear that she could hear very faint growling coming from...somewhere. She couldn't exactly pinpoint where she could hear it, it almost sounded like it was coming from everywhere. She disregarded the sound. She decided that she would visit Scootaloo at the orphanage. As she got closer she got an increasingly bad feeling. She didn't know why though, she felt like it was related to her encounter with Twilight, but she couldn't be sure. Those bad feelings became true when she heard screaming coming from the orphanage. Rainbow broke down the door, and almost as soon as she did 3 orphans ran out. She galloped down the hall and was about to run up the stairs, then she saw it. It was a filly, eating another filly. Adrenaline rushed through Rainbow’s body. She had to find Scootaloo NOW! She galloped through the bloodied halls, seeing the massacre that had unfolded. A scene straight out of a horror movie.

She busted down Scootaloo’s door and found something...unsettling. It was Scootaloo, in a corner, sobbing. “Hey Scoots, kid i’m here, don’t worry, nothing is gonna hurt you!”

Scootaloo didn’t respond to Rainbow’s comfort. Rainbow Dash grew ever so worried by the second, so she picked up Scootaloo and escaped through the window.
Rainbow Dash knew she had to find her friends, she had to find out what was going on, and if possible, how it stop it...

Rainbow Dash flew through Ponyville, except things were much different this time.. The screaming was louder now, and now she was able to tell where it was coming from...Everywhere… There were ponies on the streets, running, crying, and some… Were eating other ponies. In just a few minutes the streets went from empty to a massacre. The smell issuing from down below caused a gag reflex from Dash. She knew right away what it was. The smell of death..

Scootaloo seemed to snap back into reality in the midst of all the chaos and automatically held on tighter to Dash.

“Rainbow! What’s going on...I’m scared!” The filly cried into Rainbow Dash’s shoulder.

Rainbow felt like crying herself, the gore, the smell, and the chaos that was happening down on the streets were all enough to nearly break her, but Scootaloo and her friends safety was enough to make her hold on. She flew to Rarity’s Boutique, seeing as it was closest to the orphanage, and knocked frantically on the door, still holding Scootaloo. No answer. She knocked again, this time much faster, and much louder. No answer again… Rainbow Dash bucked the door down, and saw a sight that nearly caused her to pass out. The inside of the shop, was covered in blood. And Pinkie Pie, lay on the ground… Dead, her head looked like it had been crushed… Her entrails were completely exposed.. In fact, many of them seemed to be missing. Rarity was nowhere to be found. Rainbow only hoped that she managed to escape.

Not being able to look at the horrid sight any longer, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo flew to Twilight’s castle. She hoped that whoever was left of the six of them, met up there..

Author's Note

There should be another chapter up soon. Hopefully by tomorrow night