Sanguinem Sitienti

Twilight ran quickly down to the main office, but she decided to stop by the clinic as it was on her path. She heard it first, the roars, screams, and occasionally someone would speak, crying out for help or begging for blood. Next, she smelt it, the smell of copper filled blood and burnt flesh. Finally, she saw it, the clinic's door was opened ajar, but the window into the room had been broken, with fur and flesh hanging to pieces of glass that remained. Looking through the window, she saw her students, all of them, roaring and growling, and the corpse of a little filly lay in the bed. Twilight had to bite her lip to not draw the attention of her students, afraid of them attacking her, but more so of attacking them. She forced her eyes away and continued running to the office, ready to put an announcement out over the loudspeaker.

She burst through the front doors of the office and ran to the intercom system, the secretary looking at her in panic. Twilight quickly turned on the intercom system and opened her mouth to speak, her words catching slightly.

"Students and Teacher's alike, I am putting the school under lockdown, lock your doors and remain out of sight from the hallway," she quickly shut off the intercom as she heard her mistake before she saw it. Violent screams filled the hallway as the sick roared and screamed in anger. They sounded feral, something Twilight had never heard a pony sound, and it knocked the breath out of her chest. The secretary sat silently as she listened to the screams and roars, jumping as a loud thud echoed throughout the school, louder than the screams. "Celestia helps us."

Pinkie and Rarity had just finished their lunch when they heard the announcement. Twilight sounded terrified as she spoke, which made both Rarity and Pinkie scared, knowing Twilight was rarely scared, panicky, yes, scared, no. The screams that followed the announcement made Pinkie take a step back and for Rarity's coat to nearly melt off her. The screams and roars echoed throughout the school and bouncing outside to where they were as they ate. Pinkie looked at Rarity and felt tears well up in her eyes.

"What is that Rarity?"

"I-I don't know, Pinkie, dear," Rarity told her friend as the two of them stood still. The large glass walls looking out at the school's courtyard shook slightly as the screams continued on. Rarity slowly took a step forward, afraid the school itself was gonna eat her. She held her breath as she walked forward, Pinkie following behind her closely. "We need to find Twilight, okay, Pinkie?"

"O-Okay," Pinkie's mane had darkened slightly as she walked slowly into the school.

Applejack had locked the door to her classroom, having moved her four students into a corner, as the screams got louder and quieter, originating from everywhere in the school. Her students cried softly as they sat in the corner, afraid of the screams as they continued with halt. Applejack joined her students in the corner and tried to console the kids as they cried. Something slammed into her classroom door, silencing everyone as the door was slammed into harder. Applejack felt tears well up in her eyes as she heard the wooden door start cracking, the pins in the hinges bending with every thud as closed her eyes and began praying for a miracle. She hugged her students as she began crying too, the door flying open as the lock finally broke.

Fluttershy had all of her students sitting in the corner, some trying to help her console the more scared students. Several students cried out as a low thudding pierced the thin veil of silence they had. Fluttershy tried to not focus on the thudding and more so on the crying children.

"M-Miss, Fluttershy, who is trying to get us?"

"I-I don't know, Light, but I don't think they know we're in he-," Fluttershy was caught off as another scream, this one less animalistic and more of a cry of pain, echoed through the school. Fluttershy felt sobs well up in her throat as she tried to push out the thoughts of dead ponies. "Everyone, you must remain quiet, no talking, crying, even stop breathing if it makes to much noise."

Yaks, changelings, griffins, and ponies alike nodded as they tried to stop their crying and hyperventilating.

Rainbow Dash had moved most of her class into the upper level of bleachers, the only place out of sight from the hallway. She had silenced the class fairly well, telling them that she would protect them, but she was unsure if she could.

She looked in the direction of the metal door as a soft knocking echoed from it. She didn't move like she was told.

"P-Please, help me!" A soft cry called out from the other side of the door, and one Yak stood quickly, her face pained.

"T-That's my sister, miss Dash, we have to help her," before Dash could give her an answer, the Yak raced down the bleacher stairs and to the metal doors.

"N-No, stop!"

"W-What, why? It's my sister, she won't hurt anyone!" the Yak ignored the rest of Dash's commands and slowly opened the door. She called out for her sister as time seemed to slow for Dash. The metal door blew inward, breaking the door off its hinges as the Yak flew a few feet, landing on her back with a yelp. Outside the door, Dash saw several bodies laying on the floor, as several ponies, yaks, and griffins flew and rushed into the run. They looked sick, their veins bulged out around their neck and eyes and glowed a sick purple, their eyes were bloodshot and had a misty red haze in them. The fur around their mouths was matted with blood. The students rushed in and quickly descended on the yak who screamed in pain as the other students bit into her body, letting blood flow into their waiting maws. Chaos quickly descended on the gym, the sick students rushed the fleeing students, resulting in them being killed, and Rainbow broke as she saw her students get slaughtered in front of her. She forgot logic and quickly flew out of the gym, sinking into her mind as she flew for Twilight's office, flying over dead bodies and infected students.