Dead Equestria

When Thunderlane went back upstairs after an hour of sleeping peacefully beside Derpy, he found the street around the house almost devoid of ponies. Cherilee was no longer in sight too, probably had wandered away too like the others. Those who are still there are only 4. He went to inform Amethyst, who was at her and Dinky's bedroom.

He went inside loudly, earning a frown from the unicorn mare “Shh, Dinky is sleeping” she said in whispered tone “So how many are them outside?”

“Only four know” he said.

“That's good, we could go out now” she told him “But we have to be careful. They're probably just waiting for us to come out” she said. She remove her saddlebag from hook of the wall-mounted rack on the wall behind him and opens the door before walking pass by him and going out of the bedroom. Thunderlane followed her soon after. They went down the stairs and Amethyst woke Derpy.

“... W-What time is it?” Derpy said before she let out a yawn.

“Derpy, me and Thunderlane are going outside so we could find his little brother, Rumble. Take care of Dinky for me okay?”

“Okay, Amethyst” Derpy said. Amethyst went back to the living room and began removing the furnitures blocking the front door. She levitate the furnitures with her magic one-by-one until nothing was left. Amethyst cautiously open door, glancing to her side. She let out a yelp and immediately shut the door just as a jaw narrowly hit her face.

“Are you okay, Amethyst?” Thunderlane said.

“I'm okay. One of ponies almost took a chunk of my face” she said before quickly open the door, hitting the pony who had tried attacking her. The pony collapsed and tried to stood up long enough for Amethyst and Thunderlane to get out of the door and trot into the street. Thunderlane see some of them walking aimlessly, some walking to a door and angrily banging against it, many houses have been fortified with wooden boards, some not with a few doors open, he could even see a blood trail leading to a house. He swore he could hear crunching coming from the said house. He grimaced

He didn't want to imagine whoever the poor pony in the house looks like.

Amethyst went to the open doorway and took a peek. She let out a gasp and quickly shut the door. She look like she just seen Tirek sucking somepony's magic. He didn't want to question her as she told him to continue. Surprisingly, there no ponies on the street, perhaps they went somewhere? Yeah, maybe that could explain why they're alone.

“So how far is my house from us?” he asked, hoping for a good answer.

“Far” Amethyst replied. Thunderlane's ears flattened “But don't worry, I got my knife in my saddlebag” Thunderlane was going to say anything but only grunted in response.

They heard moaning somewhere, making them stop. They glance around but see nothing “Be on guard” Amethyst told Thunderlane. They went to look for the source of the moan. They slowly went to a nearby houses.

Thunderlane tried to open the door but it didn't budge “It's locked” just as he was to turn around, he heard Amethyst scream. He quickly glance to see she was no longer beside her “Amethyst!?”

“I'm alright” he heard her yell. He trot to corner of the house and saw the unicorn mare sitting near a limp body of an earth pony stallion, a knife embedded on his head covered by his orange mane “W-What happened?” Thunderlane asked as Amethyst stood up.

“He almost jumped at me” she pointed at style “B-But i didn't mean to kill him”

Thunderlane move his gaze to the dead stallion, blood flowed down from his head to his muzzle, his eyes staring lifelessly at them, his neck was torn and flesh and red muscle is exposed. Thunderlane's eyes widened and he even had to cover his mouth and stop the urge to throw up his breakfast.

They then heard moans and snarls. Oh uh. They glance around them to see ponies coming out and slowly walking towards them. They are all attracted by Amethyst's scream!

“Oh sweet Celestia, we gotta go!” Thunderlane said, helping Amethyst stand up. The insane ponies are closing in at them, snapping their Jaws, and letting out moans and snarls. Thunderlane paused to look at the knife and pondered if he should take the knife or leave it to be. Since he's a pony and ponies commonly do not use violence, he leave the knife still stuck on the head of the pony corpse and followed his partner violence is not an optiom he thought, glancing at the ponies behind him There's still another way. Those... things are still our neighbors

“Thunderlane, there's more ahead of us!” he heard Amethyst yell. He stop to stare at a large group of ponies a few meters away from them, looking at them with utter hungry looks.

“Horseapples, where did they came from!?” he said to his partner before looking around for a way to escape. He saw a house with an open door but he decided not to go and in for they will be trapped inside there are possibilities it has an insane pony inside. He look around once more and saw a street with only a few insane ponies coming towards them “There!” he shouted his companion. He quickly galloped pass the ponies followed by Amethyst, some almost caught his mane or even his tail but he managed to pass them.

“Ah!” he glanced behind him as soon a he heard a yelp and saw one of them biting several strands of Amethyst's mane “L-Let go of me!”

Thunderlane quickly approached them and pushed the stallion off Amethyst. She let out another when some of the strands of her mane are pulled off by her attacker. She bucked her attacker out of anger and fear and ran along with Thunderlane.

Thunderlane gave her a glance “Are you okay?” he asked, very worried of her after she narrowly escape them.

“There's no time for asking me. All what is important right now is we should go and hide until they give up!” Amethyst told him in response. They heard moaning infront of them and saw a load of them wandering on the street “Seriously, how many ponies have become crazy!?”

As the ponies noticed them, Thunderlane glanc to his right “There!” he said, pointing at a house “Let's go!” he said. He quickly opens the door and let Amesthsyt go in first before going inside and shutting the door. They found themselves inside a living room, all the windows all bordered up that even lights couldn't get inside, furnitures are disorganized and some objects scattered all around the place. It's obvious whoever live inside the house desperately tried to survive. And failed.

“Who's house are we in?” Amethyst said, looking around her surroundings.

“I don't but I don't want to find out” Thunderlane said. He reluctantly opens the door leading to the kitchen. The kitchen was more worse than the living room. The window was broken and the remains of the wooden boards used to fortify the window lays on the floor. A pool of blood coated the floor along with a blood kitchen knife. He shut the door “Looks like they managed to get inside the house” he said.

“Then be quiet. They could hear us” Amethyst told him.

“Just stay here in the living room while i'll go and check out the second floor” Amethyst reluctantly agreed. He cautiously went up the stairs, there he saw blood splatters on the floor. Once he found the living room, he went inside.

The wall of the bedroom is colored pink, indicating whoever lived here is a mare. On the left is a bed, a bedside table and a lamp laying on top of it, and a study table, which has expensive-looking treasure box sitting beside it to it's right, on the right is a cabinet. Thunderlane knew somepony is in the room, that is because as soon as enter the bedroom, he could hear banging and snarling from inside the cabinet. He saw a blue book laying on the study table, it's cover is coated in blood, however, Thunderlane could still see the title of the book.

Sunshine Bow's Diary

He had never heard of Sunshine Bow's before. Maybe she was one of the evacuees from Maneponia or even from Hoofside? It had been days since many ponies coming from those cities came when the outbreak occurred.

We wondered what happened to the ponies in those cities and in Blue Wings' while Ponyville and Canterlot had to deal with growing number of insane ponies.

Curiousity took a hold of him and he flipped the cover, revealing the first page which was an introduction.

I don't know why I'm making an introduction despite my diary is a personal item and does not need to be revealed to anypony i don't know. I was inspired to make a diary by my friend, Sweet Memo, a friend of mine i met at school. She was the most sweetest pony i' ve ever met. I found out she was making a diary, thanks to those bullies who tried to loot her saddlebags while nopony was looking. She was very thankful of me. I could swear she had tears threatening to fall down from her eyes.

Sweet Memo, if you ever found this if it goes missing, here's a thank you gift for you: I love you for being my best friend

On the end of the second paragraph, Thunderlane could see a kiss mark. He decided to skip the pages until he went to the recent one. The cabinet was still making noise, and snarls can be heard inside. He guessed Sunshine is the one trapped inside the cabinet.

Day 196

The page, Day 196 had some dried blood covering a few letters. She might probably had been attacked while writing.

Ponies outside are getting crazy. One second a unicorn bit off a pegasus' ear and then everypony is running around. Wood went out to help somepony but they bit him! They bit his neck! How could they do such a thing! I wanted to help but he stopped me. Then, in a blink of an eye, more of them pounced and started to eat him like a buffet. I ****dn't bring myself to go out but he's my husband but once I tried to go out and rescue him, he told to go back *nd 'block' the windows and the door. I did what he told but I'll never going to put a wooden board to the door. He might came back alive and he needs help. All I did is ran back to my b**room after obeying his orders and tr* to block off those horr***ing screams with my hooves. I swear-

She had never got a chance to finish what she was writing. Thunderlane felt sorry for the mare who survive long enough to be sane for a few hours, only for one of the ponies outside the streets manage to get in and attack her and now, she trap herself inside her own cabinet, not wanting to hurt anyone. But where was her attacker?

Thunderlane felt nervous. He just found out he and Amethyst is inside a house with an unknown pony is totally not friendly. Well, there's one inside the cabinet and it could be the attacker or Sunshine herself. Seriously, he didn't have any plans to open the cabinet unless he had a death wish. He cautiously walk towards the open doorway of the bedroom. He look to the left, only to find a stallion stagger out of a room. He was a brown earth pony stallion with orange mane with a cutie mark three tree logs. The stallion was as muscular as Big Macintosh which serves as a bad news for Thunderlane. An average pegasus can be easily pinned down by an strong earth ponies like Big Mac and the stallion he's hiding from. He let out a gulp. If he or Amethyst get caught by this stallion, they'll be done for!

Or atleast only him since he left the unicorn mare at the trashed living room.

He quietly hid himself behind the wall when the stallion turn to his direction. He then slowly close the door and went to find anything that could get the stallion's attention. Thunderlane noticed there was a picture frame beside the diary and and decided to look at it. There, smiling for the camera is a teal blue unicorn which is probably Sunshine Bows. The unicorn mare in the picture has green eyes, yellow mane and tail with pink streaks. Her cutie mark is not shown. Next to her is a unicorn stallion with same appearance as the 'earth pony' stallion outside the corridor. Thunderlane took note of the horn on the orange mane. He placed the picture frame on the table and takes the diary instead “I don't want to destroy take away their good times in their picture. It deserves to stay here intact” he said before opening the diary and tearing the introduction page “And whoever is Sweet Memo, you and Wood deserves to be remembered” he went to the doorway again, looking at the stallion. He noticed the stallion's forehead was covered in blood, indicating he was 'once' a unicorn “I hope this works“ Thunderlane throws the diary. It flew pass the stallion and hit the wall with a thud. The stallion turn around and began to snark at the wall. Thunderlane lifted an eyebrow at this behavior Not only it averted the stallion's attention but he is also attacking the wall? he thought. He quickly took the chance to get out of the second floor, quietly.

When he reach the living room, he saw Amethyst, sitting on the couch, the ponies outside has gave up trying to break the front door but that doesn't mean they are safe.

“What did you find?” Amethyst asked.

“Nothing except for the owner and her husband” Amethyst's ear perked up “Both gone insane now” the unicorn's ears flattened.

“I guess we're too late to save them” she said “We should go now, we have a foal to save” she told him, referring to Rumble “But we won't going through the front door, they haven't leave yet”

“How about try going through the back door?” Thunderlane suggested.

“I'm not sure about that but we should try” Amethyst glanced one last time at the door before following Thunderlane to the kitchen. She took note of the dried blood on the floor, then at the broken window “So who's house are we in?”

Thunderlane let out a sigh “Sunshine Bow's”

“Sunshine Bow? I haven't heard of her” Amesthsyt said.

“She's one of the several ponies from the northern cities, you know the ones affected by the epidemic” Thunderlane casually told her “I read her diary and found out she's from Maneponia” he said as he open the door

Amethyst frowned “Hey it's not nice to read somepony's diary even in situations like this”

Thunderlane didn't say anything as she led her outside the house. Despite they manage to avoid the ponies from the front door, there are still a few milling around on the street where they are now. Thunderlane turn to look at his companion “What are we going to do now?”

“Why are you asking me?” Amethyst asked him. Thunderlane only rolled his eyes “Okay, fine. We ran” Thunderlane deadpan at her, causing her to sigh in annoyance “That's what i did when i went out to find food besides, they don't even ran, they just... walk”

Thunderlane let out another sigh “Fine” he said “But let's try walking pass them without making any sounds. I don't want to quickly get chase by them”

“Yeah, sure” Amethyst agreed.

Both ponies are nervous as they began to walk away from the house. There are a few ponies who would look at them while the rest would ignore them. Thunderlane felt sick when he smell dried blood from them, Amethyst felt the same too and both of tried not to cough, gag, or retch lest they'll be chased by them again. They were now silently walking through the streets ignored by mad and insane ponies.

“I think it's working” Thunderlane whispered to Amethyst.

“Be silent, they'll hear you” Amethyst told him. Thunderlane rolled his eyes and turn his eyes to look back where he was going. Surprisingly, none of those ponies went to approach them which is a good news since the were now walking a few meters away from Sunshine's house. Thunderlane could slowly moves his head to look around, and everywhere he look he saw ponies with bloodstained on their bodies, a few dressed. As he look around, he nearly gasped at a sight of a pony he never expect to walk around. The pony he was looking at in surprise and horror was Blue Wings, who stared back at him with glazed, lifeless eyes. Thunderlane's mouth fell open slightly, his eyes shrinking into pinpricks, and he he stood frozen like a statue.

When a pair of ponies sluggishly walk pass Blue, she was gone. Thunderlane realized it was a hallucination, and what replaced his dead friend was a cyan pegasus mare with green eyes, ferrari red mane with two alizari crimson red stripes, and tail with the same color but with ruby red stripe instead (The tail reminds him of Spitfire's own tail) . The mare stared at him, never to blink or never even broke her gaze. She was staring into his soul.

“Thunderlane, why are you looking at her?” the staring contest was broken once Thunderlane glance at Amethyst, who was looking at him with concern. For the unicorn mare, it was very weird for her sane partner to just suddenly stop and stare at a random pony, and that expression, he looks as if he just saw a ghost.

“I-It's nothing, let's go” Thunderlane tried to urge her to walk. It was successful, but Amethyst doesn't look like she's going to let that go unanswered.

“Once we found your brother, you have some explanation to do” Amethyst gave him a look of suspicion before looming away and walking to where they are going. However, a snarl stop them. They glanceto look at the pony Thunderlane was staring at earlier glaring at them like a Timberwolf “Oh, horseapples” they realized the mare had noticed them. Literally, and catching unwanted attentions around them. “Quick run!” Amethyst yelled to her friend before full sprinting away from the ponies around them. Thunderlane immediately followed her as ponies began to shamble towards them, moaning and snarling as they gave chase in a slow pace.

Thunderlane looks back at the growing group of ponies, a few ponies in the vicinity joining to create a large mob “Why are we even running? They're so slow like snails!” as if an answer, a pony fell from a house and hit the ground head-first infront of him. He let out a shriek just as the pony lift her head and growled at him.

Amethyst took her eyes off the street to glance at him “They're unpredictable! Some might be probably hiding behind corners, inside houses, or are just out the street. Think about casually walking around until finding yourself rip apart like a paper or even like a tissue paper!” this didn't not help as more and more ponies are attracted by her yell “Oh, Horseapples,
! i think all of Ponyville is chasing us!” Thunderlane didn't say a word, though he did gave her a 'message' with an expression which says 'it's your fault'. Amethyst rolled her eyes.

She suddenly halted, causing Thunderlane to hit her rear. He let out a yelp of pain and clutched his muzzle with his hooves “W-Why did you stop!?” he then looks to where she was looking and felt his heart beat cold. More of them in the front, moaning and snarling at them. Amethyst led Thunderlane to a nearby house. Unlike Sunshine's house, this one has no signs of struggle and all the furnitures are perfectly arranged.

“Now, what are we going to do now?” Thunderlane asked.

“Find another out here, i guess” Amesthsyt said “But first, we have to find something that could be useful to bring back home like bandages and food” she then walks to examine an antique cabinet. The duo began to hear the ponies outside banging on the door but she told Thunderlane to ignore it, the latter decide to go inside the inside and check the fridge. To his relief, he found a few foods including some dandelions and 2 daisies.

“So what did you found?” he glanced behind him to see Amethyst, standing on the doorway.

“Some food to eat” he said casually “I think it's time for me to check the second floor while you are busy putting those goodies in your saddlebag” he leaves the furniture open as he went to the stairs, passing by Amethyst, the latter walking to the refrigerator.

Just like the first floor, the second floor was no different other than a painting laying on the floor and a few blood marks on the wall where the painting once hang, next to it is a door which he opens, revealing a bathroom. Inside, there is one toilet, a shelf with some items, and a white curtain. Thunderlane picks up a toothpaste from the shelf and examines it “It can be still useful. Nopony wants to have a bad breath” he said to himself “I wish i had my own saddlebag with me” putting the item back to the shelf, he then looks at the white curtain, curious to what is hidden behind it. He push aside the curtains, revealing a purple pegasus mare, standing on a bathtub, and glaring at him with dead golden yellow eyes. He quickly spread the curtains to conceal the mare and immediately went out of the bathroom just in time for her to tumble out of the bathtub.

“Maybe i should tell Amethyst not to open the door” he voiced his thoughts loudly. He then shouted at the direction of the staircase “Hey Amesthsyt, don't open the bathroom door, somepony as crazy as those ones outside is taking a bath on a bathtub!”

“Thunderlane, you are drawing them to the house!” came Amethyst's loud angry reply. He didn't say anything lest he would attract more of 'them' outside. He dicided to went inside the bedroom. The bedroom was as neat and clean as the entire house save for some blood marks on the white pillow “It seems she was attacked before turning crazy” he said to him, referring to the mare in the bathroom. He could smell the blood. He had been receiving those kinds of smells outside but he's a tough stallion and it will took a very disfigured body to make him throw up. He decided to go and open a cabinet sitting next to the bed to reveal a few papers and books, a towel, and even a few medicines “Maybe she got some kind of illness” he pick up one of the books with a name written on the front.

Sea Feather

“Not also from here, i haven't heard of her before” he muttered before he went out go back to the living room, where Amethyst is busy boarding up the front door “Found another, haven't you?”

“Yep” she said casually before placing bookshelf to strengthen the barricade made out of furnitures “I don't want them to get inside the house while we're searching. Have you found anything?”

“Just seven medicines” he replied before showing it to her, his left wing was holding the small tablets when he went out of the bathroom and he could use his right wing for it was limp, which puzzled him. He had suffered fractured and broken bones in the past, sometimes, he even got a large nasty wound to his legs or even his stomach but never he felt any injured bodies limp or even felt like disconnected from him “I think I'm starting to blame Twitchy Bites for this” he muttered. Twitching Bites is an illness you'll get when bitten by Timberwolves, it makes the victim become as crazy as Pinkie Pie and the victim would start spouting nonsense over and over again until they fell asleep and their bodies would twitch hence the name, the effects of the Twitchy Bites will last for 3 days.

Somehow, Amethyst didn't heard it or probably just ignored him as she tossed a cream saddlebag to him using her magic “Here is your brand new saddlebag,” she said “I found it in the kitchen”

“Thanks” Thunderlane said, as Amesthsyt floated the saddlebag to his bag.

“No problem” she said “Let's go before they could get in”

When they got out of the house through the kitchen, they saw only a few of the creatures are walking on the street. Thunderlane speculated many of them went to the front door to help their buddies. Despite his claim, Amethyst decided to continue being cautious. She levitate out the knife she found in the house from her saddlebag. She had no intent to kill 'them'. She just want to defend herself and her companion.

The two ponies look around them. 'They' have already noticed them, however they move slowly like snails, some even dragging their hind legs with no care. Thunderlane examined one of them. This one was a stallion. The right cheek of the pony was torn apart, revealing his bloody teeth molar and premolar teeth. He was staggering towards them, snapping his jaw at them like hungry shark. The stallion also had a large grotesque wound on his neck and his coat is stained with dry blood, his eye was dull, devoid of any emotions, it look more like an eye of a dead fish. Thunderlane cringed at the stallion's wounds, no one could ever survive a wound to the neck. He began to think this stallion and his friends aren't ponies anymore.

His musings was cut off by a scream, and they glanced to where the source came from. A green stallion galloped out of a house, he didn't even bother to close the door behind him. His pursuers came out next, two mares, and a stallion, they are both covered in blood, snarling and moaning as the followed their victim. Thunderlane wanted to help the green stallion but he was making too much noise and many of 'them' came out of from behind the walls of houses, and from the streets. There was even a mare who came falling out of a window from the second floor of a house. Soon the green earth pony stallion is buried under a pile of bodies, he screamed as his stomach was ripped open by a dozen hooves of unicorn, pegasus, and earth ponies. The grotesque scene was not hidden from the eyes of the two witnesses. Thunderlane took a step back, he stared at feast with his mouth open in horror, Amethyst, in the other hand, put a hoof to her mouth, and let out a silent gasp. a few tears went out of her eyes. She uttered out a “Ohh...” she felt someone hold her hoof and is caught off guard. She yelped but her mouth silent by a grey hoof.

It took them several minutes to reach the street where Thunderlane and Rumble lives. Many things have changed ever since he escaped in the night. There are splatters of blood that weren't there during the night, some doors of houses are open, and a saddlebag lay in the open. His house had suffered some damage including the shattered window where 'they' have used to get inside the house. It was very silent and the street is empty and devoid of ponies hostile or not.

Amethyst was about to open the door when Thunderlane interrupts her “The door is heavily barricaded. Lets go through the window” he casually walk pass her to the broken window. He crouched and went inside the living room, Amethyst following behind his tail. It was suspiciously empty inside “My brother's bedroom is at the second floor”

“Lead the way” Amesthsyt said. Thunderlane nodded. He noticed a trail of black blood on the staircase but he still went upstairs.

He suddenly remembered what happened upstairs, he wished Blue Wings doesn't look that bad. He let out a gulp and peeked from the corner of the wall.

There are 3 doors, one open while the other two doors still close, near the bsthroom door is a huge pool of dried blood. There was also a trail of blood leading downstairs and another trail of blood connecting to the other blood trail leading to Rumble's bedroom. There was something missing.

Where is Blue's body?

He went to examine the pool of blood. He pretty sure they just... ate her stomach. There's no way they could even a pony's skeleton, even if it's a pegasus skeleton.

As if a cue, the door of Rumble's bedroom slowly open with a loud creak. Thunderlane and Amesthsyt tensed. Thunderlane cautiously approach the Door. He slowly open it.

The room was messed up. The blanket laid on the floor infront of the doorway as well as the pillows and some random object. Sitting on the center of the room like a dog is a yellow pegasus mare. The mare is sitting like a dog, her head bowed. Thunderlane's heart beat cold, he knew who this mare is and he knew she died, he saw it before his very eyes but why is she still alive?

The word zombie was beginning to take over his mind, he let out a step back, however he failed, and he fell on his butt and made a loud a thud. Blue lifted her head and slowly turn around to face Thunderlane. To his horror, half her face is missing, revealing flesh, teeth, and blood. She stood up and charged at him. He let out a scream and immediately open his saddlebag to pick up his knife using his wing. He quickly stabbed her on the forehead, her body collapsed and made no move to stand up. She was dead.

But Thunderlane continued to stab her head. He was enraged, tears coming out his tearduct as he violently stab her head again and again and again. Blood covered his body, bits of Blue's brain matter came flying out, some even lucky to land on his body, but he ignored them. He just wanted to end her suffering

“Thunderlane!”

His eyes snapped open. He found himself stabbing the wooden floor instead of his friend. His wings loose grip of his knife and it fell on the floor. He turn around and see Amethyst, looking at him with worry and concern.

“Are you okay? You suddenly gone crazy and acting as if somepony's inside this bedroom” She said. He felt guilty for inadvertently scaring her by going insane like those 'ponies'. He should apologize, but he wanted to ask her first.

“Did you find Rumble?” he asked, returning his gaze to spot where Blue supposed to be laying. It was just all a hallucination. A bad one precisely.

“No. I think he manage to escape. Just take a look at the only window of the room, the glass are broken like the one we used to enter” he looked to the only the window to the right and saw the window she was referring to was broken. He was relieved to find out his little brother managed to escape but outside is much more dangerous than indoors now with all of those 'ponies' wandering around town, but he still put his beliefs that his little brother is safe, hiding somewhere away from danger.

“Amethyst” he said “I'm sorry”

Amethyst raised an eyebrow “Huh? What for?”

“For scaring you”

“I was just worried. You don't have to apologize” she said, her back facing him as she look at the streets from the broken window “I would be more angry for why did you abandon your brother to them”

“W-We were attacked. We tried to save somepony but many more came and we are overwhelmed. Rumble is sleeping throughout the situation until they followed us upstairs” Amethyst's ears perked up.

“You were with somepony else?” she asked.

“Yeah, a new member of the Wonderbolts. I saw her getting eaten, right on the spot where the pool of blood lay, the pony we tried to save turn against us soon after and I'm unable to get to Rumble in time” he explained, recalling the events that had led him to be seperated from Rumble. “S-She was a good mare, even though I haven't know much of her, she's very sweet and kind, she risked her life just to save somepony” Amesthsyt frowned as she saw another wave of tears begin to come out of his eyes.

“I understand what you feel but we have no time lamenting for your friend's passing. All we know she's now in peace and doesn't have to go through this” she said, trying to comfort him. She wasn't very good at comforting ponies, let alone stallions. She was much good when it comes to organizing parties, meetings, and festivals. She really missed her former job. She wanted everything to go back to normal after this, she didn't want to live behind walls everyday from everyone. She wondered what happened to Princess Twilight Sparkle, her assistant, and the rest of the Mane Six. She hoped they're all safe, most likely Twilight since she have guards to protect her from the 'ponies'. She approach and hugged her friend to console him. Even if the world had suddenly fall into chaos, friendship and unity is still very important no matter you go.

Minuette went out of the large building which housed the Princess of friendship (who happens to be her friend who formely live in Canterlot), and the only dragon resident of Ponyville. The Castle of Friendship. The unicorn found no one inside other than one of those 'things' who was formely one of Princess Twilight Sparkle's night guards. She had to put him down since he was blocking her way outside. Now with her mission to find survivors inside the castle is complete (and failed since she found no survivors) she's heading back to a certain bakery where her group resides.