After saving his dinner from combustion, Ali went to take a stroll, leaving Mann to rest alone. He was thinking about everything from when he was roused from his sleep by three annoying fillies to the present. He was relatively happy with his predicament. Sure, he had a non-functional tail, a broken wing, missing teeth, and up until a few hours ago has his insides outside, but Ali saved him from death. He not only did that, but he healed him, fed him and even gave him a name. He could have left him, or even eaten him, yet he spent time healing what appeared to be a fearsome predator.

Why would he do that? He did say that what happened was unjust. Maybe he has some problems with ponies too.. I should ask him when he gets back. He also possess some strange magic.. He reanimated rabbit skeletons with nothing more than some rhymes. I may not know much about magic, but I’m pretty sure it should take more than a bit of sing-song to bring the dead back to life. Oh I have so many questions.. They’ll have to wait however, for I need to rest if I am to regain my strength.

And with that train of thought stopped, he placed his head on his paws and dozed off quickly.

SugarCube Corner, Ponyville

“I’m telling you, it was terrible! It killed Mr. Rabbit without any remorse. It had plenty already for something its size, but it killed even more.. I can’t believe I didn’t do anything to stop it.. It was so scary though...”

“It’s okay Fluttershy, if it comes around here again I’ll kick its flank in 10 seconds flat.”

“Y’all should have seen Dash beating up that manticore. Ah hope it’s dead. Don’t want it tryin’ tah eat anypony again.”

Fluttershy was sitting with Rainbow Dash and Applejack, telling them what happened in the forest and listening to their fight against the manticore.

“How could you say that Applejack?!? I’m sure it was roused from its sleep and didn’t know any better..”

“Flutters, it was chasing Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo and would have eaten them if we weren’t there. It’s a pony-eating monster.”

“Oh... Well, at least it can’t harm anypony anymore. I hope it didn’t suffer..”

It was at this moment that a sickly looking rabbit decided to hop out of the forest, into the town and towards Sugar Cube Corner. Both of its ears were dragging on the side of it’s head. If one looked closely, they would see that it had two black gems for eyes and its had no tail, but no one seemed to pay too much attention. It continued to hop about until it neared the door. Despite the fake rabbit’s size, it was stronger than it appeared, and was able to open the door without any problems.

Taking a leap nothing its size would have been able to do, magically assisted or not, it landed square onto the cupcake Applejack was about to eat, completely destroying it and startling the three mares.

“MAH CUPCAKE!”

“DEAR CELESTIA!”

“EEEP!”

The rabbit didn’t seem to realize it’s actions, but soon found itself under the sternest gaze on the planet. Fluttershy was using ‘The Stare’.

“YOU! HOW COULD YOU! YOU ARE GOING TO APOLOGIZE TO APPLEJACK FOR RUINING HER CUPCAKE, AND THEN AGAIN TO US FOR NEARLY GIVING US A HEART ATTACK!”

The rotting rodent “looked” at her, black soulless gems staring into Fluttershy’s wide angry eyes. They stared at each other for a bit, then Fluttershy’s glare started to lessen, while the rabbit’s gaze remained fixed onto her. She started to get uncomfortable, as the rabbit didn’t even blink, lacking muscles to do so. As she lost herself in the abyss that was the undead bunny’s eyes, Applejack called out to her.

“What’s wrong Flutters? This tiny rabbit givin’ ya trouble?”

Fluttershy snapped back into reality, and looked at Applejack with a worried look.

“That rabbit.. It wasn’t affected.. It didn’t even blink. It’s not talking either.. B-B-But the most eerie thing about him are his eyes..”

As if orchestrated, the rabbit turned around to look at Applejack and Rainbow Dash. They both fell into the same trance, the the dead rodent’s “eyes” seemingly absorbing their attention. Fluttershy was seriously scared by now. She was alone with a rabbit that looked sickly pale, and its gaze could be absorbing her friends’ souls, or worse! She had to do something, but she didn’t know what.

She started to nudge the rabbit off the table, until it fell. A *Thump* was heard, and the prismatic-maned pegasus and orange-furred both regained their senses. They were promptly hugged by a crying Fluttershy, who was blubbering something about never seeing them again.

In all that commotion, no one saw the rabbit leave the shop and reenter the forest.

Author's Note

Here is the second chapter of Necromancer. It might be a bit messy, but my writing time is limited. I hope you'll enjoy this, and I'll start the next chapter ASAP.