THE TROTTING DEAD - Book Two

It’s been two months since this apocalypse started… a very hard and emotional two months. When this all started I took in Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo after Scoots’ parents turned and Rainbow killed them.

After a few days or so we found Twilight. She was working on some cure for this thing. I didn’t think it was possible. We didn’t get along for the few weeks she was around, she tried to kill me, she was going to use the others to test her “cures”. Scootaloo saved my life and we got away, but not before I took the shotgun she attacked me with and shot her in the chest, leaving her for the trotters to get.

We got back and Applejack wanted to find her brother, Big Mac. And of course… me having a kind of a history with her, I offered to help find and it went from there. We did eventually find him… but it was too late. A big metal bar went through his hind leg and there was no way to get him out… we had to put him out of his misery.

We started setting out for Canterlot the next day, leaving ponyville. The place I called home for four years of my life. Seeing it like this was hard… but not as hard as seeing my friends as walking, rotten corpses or just plain dead.

We ended off coming across some survivors, one of Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle’s friends was with them, so we decided to have them travel along because, why not?

We traveled a bit and we came across a farm that belonged to one of Aj’s relatives, he took us in and I left to go find BrokenFlare, the stallion that has kept me going through this on my own, I didn’t want anyone to be burdened.

I found some houses as I went on and picked up a sniper rifle and a hatchet, since I lost my other weapon. Was in good condition, then I saw… a stallion, hanging from the ceiling by a noose… he committed suicide. But something was off… he came back. He became a trotter. But he wasn’t bit, or scratched. That got me thinking… what if no matter how you die… you come back?

I left the house and I went to the woods for shelter. I camped out with the supplies I found but a couple of ponies found me and tried to take it all. I killed one of them and let the other one go. Sooner or later I got to a town and went to the bar to see if any cider was left. I ran into this stranger and… he says he knows where BrokenFlare is… and I’m going to get answers. Even if I have to kill him for them.