1000 Ways To Die

Date: September 7, 2014
Location: Everfree Forest, Zecora's Hut

The Everfree Forest is a dangerous place to be in but one zebra isn’t afraid and lives in it. Zecora. A couple that are travelers are looking for magnificent things. The stallion’s name was Magnifier, and the mare’s name was Polisher. They always looked for many things. They finally saw Zecora’s hut.

“Oh, honey look I think somepony lives in there,” Magnifier said.

“Really let’s check it out.” Polisher knocked on the door and out came Zecora.

“Hello, you two I’m sorry but I’m a bit busy and I’m also in a hurry,” Zecora said about to close the door.

“Wait listen were travelers and we want to see if you have somethings we can buy.” Polisher said.

As soon as she said that Zecora decided to let them in. She needed some extra bits anyway.

They looked around and saw the masks that Zecora had. They also saw some potions.

“Hey, how much for this mask.” Magnify said holding a mask.

“It’s not cheap I must say. It’s 200 bits give or take.”

“I’ll take it. It looks pretty cool too put in our collection.” Magnifier said giving Zecora 200 bits.

Zecora sold many things to these two couples and was getting many bits from them. She was getting the extra bits she needed. What did she need it for? Well for a new bed since her bed right now is old and is about to break and she had a stallion she met in Ponyville coming over in two weeks ready to get it on.

“Hello. Excuse me.” Polisher said making Zecora stop fantasizing about her stallion and pay attention. “My husband wants to know how much for those?” Polisher asked.

Zecora saw Magnifier and saw he was holding a pepper that Zecora got from one of her relatives. He looked like he was ready to eat it.

“Sir if I may say that is not a pepper you would like to eat today,” Zecora said stopping him.

“Oh, come on I can take it,” Magnifier said.

“Sir-“ Zecora was interrupted by Polisher.

“Relax he loves pepper. He won the pepper eating contest at the picnic we had last year with our family.

“I don’t care how much they cost I’m going to try one,” Magnifier said eating the pepper in one bite.

Zecora tried to stop him but she was too late. Magnifier looked okay until five seconds his face was turning red.

“Are you okay sweetie?” Polisher asked.

“Yeah, it’s just…hot” Magnifier said.

Magnifier should have listened to Zecora. He just ate a Ghost Chili Pepper. Peppers are measured in Scoville units. The Ghost Pepper is 1,041,427 SHU. That’s 400 times hotter then Tabasco. Magnifier made a big mistake. His mouth felt like the inside of a pizza oven.

“AHHHH!!! I NEED SOMETHING TO DRINK!!!” Magnifier shouted and saw Zecora’s refrigerator. He grabs a jar from the fridge to douse the flames.

Zecora tried to stop him again but again was too late. I take back what I said. Eating the pepper wasn’t a big mistake. Drinking that liquid was. Magnifier drank the liquid and his face turned redder and he began to spit out saliva uncontrollably and then instead of saliva he began to spit out blood.

“Sweetie!!! Oh My Celestia!!!” Polisher shouted.

You see Magnifier would have survived the Ghost Pepper. What he wouldn’t survive was the deadly rattlesnake poison that Zecora collected to sell to Universities so they can study it.

Finally, Magnifier spit out so much blood and finally, he fell to the ground…Dead...And he was still drooling blood.

“AHHHHHH!!!!” Polisher shouted.

Zecora just shook her head. Hey, does anypony know about venom from snakes? Oh, Fluttershy you know a lot about animals tell us about the venom Magnifier just drank.

“Well..Um. There was probably enough venom in that jar to kill 500 ponies but the fact that he had eaten a hot pepper brought the blood rushing to his mouth. His mouth must have had open wounds it went straight into his blood system. He was not going to survive it. I really don’t have a problem with snakes. They all love me and don’t bite me. Still, I have to give them venomoid surgery just in case they bite somepony so they don’t inject venom.”

Magnifier shouldn’t have eaten that pepper. Guess he was a bit of a dummy. He bit off more then he can chew. He washed it down with some fatal snake venom. The ghost pepper won. Now Magnifier is a ghost…Forever.

Way To Die #62: Chili Today…Dead Tomorrow