Viventis Anathema - Story of a Cursed Mare

Grimwood didn't waste any second as she ran two legged toward the streets, armed with her chainsaw. Avoid any encounter was almost impossible as some of the monsterized ponies noticed her and blocked her way. There are different types, like a pegasus mare having wings made of bones or a earth stallion having side tusk growing from his mouth and the list goes on.

"Do you expect me to take it, isn't it?" Grimwood taunted.

Motivated by her provocation, all of the creatures rushed at her menacingly. Grimwood quickly reacted by charging two legged at them and shredding nine of them in one swing, and then immediately landed another other five monsters coming from her right. Blood was spilled and a few cut organs fell on the ground as the first wave of undead creatures were torn apart by her weapon before they could even touch her.

As Grimwood was finishing her job with them, another wave of mutated ponied furiously charged toward her. She dashed toward them and shredding many of them in one horizontal swing, leaving falling pieces of what used to be ponies in her wake. The quickly turned around to see the remaining ones charging at her.

She was about to attack when she noticed a mare pegasus with scythe blades protruding from her hooves diving toward her to slash her. Grimwood promptly stabbed her chainsaw behind her through the abhorrent pegasus' chest and slammed her weapon against a altered unicorn running toward, shredding both him and the winged creature's head in two.

Grimwood turned to see other three earth-pony monstrosities going toward her, guided by only hunger and instinctive cruelty and accompanied by a group of altered unicorns who followed them.

"Damn you, bastards! I have no time for this!" Grimwood shouted in annoyance.

Unwilling to waste anymore time with them, she pulled out three golden, four spiked discs with red jewels encased at their center and tossed them at horde. The objects managed to hit three of them.

As they touched their targets, the disks started to glow for a moment before exploding into a huge columns of fire that raised toward the sky while incinerating all of the creatures being hit by it. Grimwood watched the blazing column as it was shrinking in width before disappearing, leaving only ashes in it's wake.

"It's just getting worse and worse." Grimwood said in annoyance. "I need to run away before more of these are going to show up."

That being said, Grimwood rushed toward the infested streets of Canterlot. She trekked through the whole chaos, mowing down any monsterized pony she came across.

Seeing a square in her sight, Grimwood accelerated her ran. There are some normal ponies who were running in fear from these creature, while other faced a horrible death inflicted by them. Among them, she spotted two female pegasi, a red one and a green one, landing nearby a fountain.

Grimwood didn't know what they were doing until she noticed their bodies trembling in a weird way. The two mares slowly began to mutate themselves, having holes opening around their bodies, exposed muscles and bones, clawed hooves and their eyes becoming completely white.

Taking that as a signal, Grimwood didn't had a second thought as she pulled off two other fire amulets and toss them. As the amulets hit connected, they exploded in two columns of flames that were incinerating them, leaving them only a little time to let out a bizarre, hellish scream.

Ignoring their their fiery deaths, Grimwood she was about to resume her run but then noticed another mutate pony, being a unicorn with it's head being opened in a maw cornering a mare with a filly, a mother and a daughter. Grimwood promptly dashed toward the creature and beheaded it with her weapon. The two ponies looked up at their savior, shocked of the way this rescued had been done.

"Hey!" Blitz's voice suddenly called from above.

Grimwood looked up and saw Blitz Lane landing in front of her.

"You are just in time. This family needs a serious help and you are more than qualified to give them that," Grimwood said before turning around walking away.

"I don't need to be told by somepony like you." Blitz asked sternly. "But still, did you have still the intention to get through this hell all alone."

"Just do your duty and mind your business." Grimwood retorted.

As Grimwood walked away, Blitz reluctantly turned her attention to the two rescued ponies and approached them. "We can't stay there any longer. You have to follow me. I will take you to safety, i promise."

The mother and her filly followed suit and followed Blitz, hoping to find a way to save themselves.

As for Grimwood, she know she couldn't stay tranquil for even a second. The night was long and the city was still infested of those mutated things who used to be ponies.

"I can't continue my run at foot... It will take me a while to find the exit. I have to get to a high spot to find it... And maybe another type of exit."

An idea came up in the right moment when she noticed a tower next to her. Grimwood made her chainsaw blade retreating inside her metallic box and put it back to her back. She then headed toward the wall of the tower next and used his metallic claws to climb her way upward. Once she reached the top of the tower, Grimwood turned down to see the very edge of the waterfall falling down the mountain. She took a deep breath and gathered her own determination that she needed.

"Always better that being devoured, so fuck it." Grimwood said as she leaped from the balcony, falling down the void where the water falls.

She was diving at the very elevated height of the mountain without even screaming. She was deliberately looking down to her lake at the very bottom of it and let the force of gravity doing the rest. The fall looked like a eternity, but the speed didn't stop increasing.

Suddenly, a green blur tackled her. Grunting, Grimwood looked at what was hitting it and saw that being another monsterized pegasus with fangs and no eyes trying to eat her. The violet mare promptly put her iron claws on it's head and
instantly crushed it's skull into pulp. Both Grimwood and the headless creature continued the fall toward the bottom.

And after a while, the bodies reached the lake beneath the and were plunged into it's depth. Her descend slowed down, allowing her to avoid being slammed against the rocky part. Underwater, Grimwood got rid of the corpse of her aggressor and swam and emerged from the lake, with her black bag being still with her. She coughed multiple times and slowly swam toward the lake shore.

"I have to admit, that was the most demented way to escape from that inferno," Grimwood said to herself. "But that cannot be avoided."

Once out of the water, she shrugged off all of the water and scanned her surrounding. Grimwood realized to be in the woods not far away from the outskirts of Ponyville. Strangely enough, there was a tick mist engulfing the wood and a very unnatural silence.

"I don't like this atmosphere," Grimwood murmured. "And more importantly, I have now both the law and those monsters trying to track me down. I have to find a place to hi...."

Grimwood couldn't end the phrase that a sense of dizziness wash over her head. She tried to remain still but ended up stumbling, flopping on the soil. Her sight was getting dark. She tried to rose up but her body refused to move.

Just as her sight was getting worse, somepony appeared in front of her. A scarlet maned green mare who was looking at her with a very worried look.

"Oh, goodness," The mare said with a tomboyish voice as she approached her. "Are you alright?"

"W-what the... what the hell are you?" Grimwood said a second before her sight finally darkened and her consciousness passed out.