Short Stories

“Hey Applejack,” started Twilight, “would you do me a favor?”

“Sure,” Applejack responded. “What is it that you need?”

“Well, I need to test this spell that I made which gives earth ponies wings and a horn.”

“Alright, but I have a very bad feeling about this. Are you sure it’s safe?”

“I checked it 537 times, so it should be fine.”

Applejack would have asked more, but it was too late for Twilight's spell had already half encased her in a sparkly cocoon.

When she emerged, Twilight gasped, “It worked. Yes, it actually worked!”

"Wait just a darn tootin’ minute here Twi. You said that it would work before you cast it.”

“Yes, but what I didn’t tell you is that transfiguration spells have a nasty habit of exploding.”

“I could have exploded!”

“But did you?”

“No. But, I could have.”

“But you didn’t. Now, please fly to that cloud and back.” Twilight said while she took out a notebook.

“Ok. But I still have a bad feeling about this.” Applejack commented while she took off.

As she flew, Applejack thought to herself, ‘Was Twilight really willing to risk me exploding? No, she would never risk the life of her friends. Right? Man am I tired.’

Once Applejack neared the cloud, Twilight watched with a look of absolute horror on her face as Applejack suddenly dropped, and landed on the ground with a sickening splat.

Twilight ran up to the location, and cried, “Nonononono. Please don’t be dead. Sweet Celestia, that’s a lot of blood.”

For a lot of blood it was. It was on everything, on Applejack, on the grass, on the trees, in the pond, even on the squirrel running in the general direction of a cottage.

Fluttershy, having just been notified by a very blood squirrel that somepony had just died, ran to the site of the incident.

Once she got there and saw who it was, she said, “Oh no. Who could’ve done this?”

But before she could look around she heard a "Fluttershylookout" from above as a purple, pony-shaped, blur fell on her from a height of 5,000 feet. Killing both of them.

Rainbow Dash, upon hearing Fluttershy’s name being called from the sky, and the sound of two ponies hitting each other with a lot of force, rushed off to the site.

And low, there was a very, very bloody scene consisting of an orange splat that had once been applejack, and a mush of purple and yellow which was once Twilight and Fluttershy.

“Horseapples,” Rainbow said. “Somepony's gonna have to tell the Princess about this.”

Celestia, upon receiving a very decorative letter, which she had first assumed was a friendship lesson but was actually a death notice, went at once to Ponyville to punish whoever was responsible.

When she got there, she was greeted by Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash, who showed her Twilight’s notebook, which along with notes about Applejack, held a rather disturbing suicide letter:

My dearest friends. Today, I attempted a spell that I was working on for three months which gave earth ponies wings and a horn. While testing it out on Applejack, it failed and she fell to the ground and died. I know I will never be able to live with this guilt, so I will now kill myself in the same way that I killed Applejack. Goodbye.

Celestia looked up at the three ponies after reading it, and said, “Very well. I assume you have made funeral arrangements?”

“We have, your Majesty.”

“Good. Right now, however, I have more pressing issues brewing within the frozen north.”