A bad Doctor

Location: Everfree Forest

Twilight Sparkle princess of friendship and her five friends, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash, walking several hooves ahead what was their 'new friend' if they could call him. who wreaked incredibly severely for being a walking corpse or a 'zombie' as the giant ashy blue pony put it, Twilight was lost entirely in thought questioning how a zombie or even a pony can come back from the dead.' She had so many questions as thinking to herself as her friends muttered quietly to themselves with the zombie himself following the six ponies behind with the smell of rot following him, Applejack and Rainbow Dash slowly trots next to Twilight, calling to her to catch her attention with both of them having worried looks on their faces.

"Twi, can we can talk sugar cube?" Applejack leaning close to her while keeping an eye the giant dead pony only to see him staring at all of them individually with a vacant blankly stare only a corpse would make and then stare off out in the dark forest almost as if there were somepony there.

"I don't like him Twilight not one bit, even without that disgusting smell; look at him; he's a giant ugly zombie for celestial sake.

“ How can even a pony come back from the dead? I thought that when ponies are 'dead,' they stay 'dead dead,' right Twilight?"

Rainbow Dash added as she and Applejack stared at Stitchings making sure he heard them, only to no longer see the giant rot, smelly dead pony following them as they all stopped looking around for him in the forest's dark. The rotten smell is still around, only to follow the scent leading off-path traversing through a rough patch in the shrubs and giant hoof prints following his smell as Twilight and her friends follow the broken path leading deeper into the forest. Only to see the trail lead to an open semi-flatten area and a large stone area seeming to be ruins of a housing foundation, large house foundations to be exact, with the giant dead pony standing overlooking the old crack stone foundation ruins. The six ponies look over, staring at Stitchings, only to hear him chuckle lightly before making all six-stop in their place, staring at him as he chuckles his rough patchy chuckle.

"I was born here, and this very place was the mansion of the Stitchings, my blood family right, oh how I missed this place, my birth and now death home almost cliché but yet at least my family died with me, resting in Blazing pieces hehe."

He said and turns his head to a complete his entire head completely around one hundred and eighty degree as he stares at the six ponies making Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rarity, AppleJack and Rainbow stop and flinch at not only the harsh tone he said but how his head faced the completely opposite direction it was meant to be as they all stared horrified at the site of the pony as he smiles at them making a weird growling noise only to end it with a light chuckle that made Fluttershy hid behind Twilight with Pinkie and Rarity stare shaking in fear and Rainbow dash holding Applejack before Twilight turned her head keeping her eye on the giant zombie.

"Haha-ha I... don't... get it. I think he's a bit of a loosie-goosie"

Pinkie crossed her eyes gesturing her hoof in a circle next to her head as she made sticking her tongue out, with rarity nodding as she stares at the giant zombies clothing of choice disgusted by it

"Indeed darling, and have you seen his attire, though its stylish, the past could used a remolding its certainly very outdated and looks as if its been burnt along with his awkward figure."

"I have a real bad feeling girls"

"I may have been dead and rotting for over nearly over a millennium and though my ears are burnt off, my senses are more shaper then a scalpel gutting a stallion."

All the Mares stare at the giant dead pony as they watch his body move to face them as he lowered his head to tower over their heads, walking over to them as his smile turned snarl and staring directly over their heads as they lowered their bodies over the towering dead with his smell growing stronger. He watched the six ponies wince at his 'unique' body traits, which made rarity gag heavily, Pinkie's face turning green and vomiting, Rainbow and Fluttershy covering their faces with their wings as Twilight and Applejack held their breath from not and shaking in fear as the dead pony towers over them. Now getting a closer look at him, he was more than just a giant. He was taller than even princess Celestia by a couple of hooves, maybe even more as Twilight stares more eye to eye with Stitchings; Twilight could see on his body had small bulges crawling under his coat and what little skin was on the part of his burnt, rotted and decayed skin only to see maggots' crawling out and from the skin making her disgusted by sight.

"E-Excuse me D-Dr. Stitchings, I would like k-know how you came back f-from the dead, if you wouldn't mind?

He raised his head back up and sighed as he sat down on the cracked stone floor foundation and sighed frowning as he stares at the six and then his clawed hand then gently touching the right side of his head before gazing back at them as his frown went to a sadistic crooked smile taking a breath.

"Well tiny ponies share with me your ears and hear the tale of how a pony died and came back awakening from not only death but having the very darkest pits of Tartarus and hell that I had to crawl out and be spat out from."

A few hours of lies mean words, angry ramblings and a few crying questioning mares

"And to which that is when I climbed from that coffin unearthing myself and to how we met up to this moment.

Pinkie was crying waterfalls of tears along with Rarity and Fluttershy with tears dripping down her face as Applejack took her hat off holding her it to her chest looking away along with Rainbow Dash looking away empathetic the undead hornless unicorn as he sit there blanked face staring at six mares as they wiped the tears of there eyes and faces as Twilight with her ears folded down looking up at Stitchings with curiousity and empathy at him.

"So all that rage, that pain and fear mixing the dark magic, no wonder you managed to come back to life, I, I'm so sorry for you and for your loss.

"Don't be, evil died with this house and yet though I maybe a dead pony that, seen and was blamed for the problem I still had Zara or what's left of her, her body burned but her ashes now forever par of my coat as her kin would say 'it was a sign of a loved family member, guarding and guiding their souls' if that makes sense.

He tells the purple alicorn in thought not even believing how he managed to lie to a princess of friendship but also how he managed to altered most of his past life to them, Pinkie some how suprising the unicorn hugging his left forehoof ignoring the rotten smell and maggots with all four of her hoofs wrapped around his crying her eyes out, to which lifting his hoof seeing her still clinging on to it as he tried to shake her off his hoof.

"You, you must have felt so sad and horrible, I'm so sorry for you."

"Pinkie is right, to think a family of nobility would just not only abandon a baby but even enslave him to be a servant living in the dark cold filthy underground is horrid."

”And you were alone, for most of your life no pony could bare with that type life."

The mares added, finishing crying and wiping the tears off their face; they all came close to Stitchings mind, the smell stopping as he stood up, looking down at them blank facing them, remembering his past how he murdered and killed his family and their staff along with burning the manor only to end it dying holding his dead adopted zebra mother in his hoof. Even how he was no longer himself but just a giant undead hornless pony and how the thoughts of his masters' commands and orders for him only to make the land he walked on felt his pain and rage, the only way for him to accomplish was to make sure that any sign of hope and resistant's would stop him, these six mares, making the 'elements of harmony' seemed to be one of many problems and obstacles for him. He thought to himself how he would kill each of them individually, and by his judgment, the weakest was the yellow-coated and pink mane pegasus being the weakest and apathetically cowardly. Yet, he could sense different animals and a hint of a draconequus; looking at them all, and they reeked of other species on their bodies. These ponies would be a challenging obstacle to overcome at his state and even power. He might have to play this friendly lie a bit longer.

"Well, I wasn't alone through the beginning of it, just life more hatefully towards mother Zara and me, but we managed then after the fires and her sacrifice, I was and now am still alone bucking cursed be an damn undead forever to live and rot, the magic of life surely does know to be kind and caring with other ponies and giving a royal horn up ones ass, imagine having my minitour-shit-for-luck and life 'heh' guess one could say its graving with joy."

Pinkie chuckles at his joke with the other five look away wincing slightly at his language as he let out a light chuckle and looks back at the foundation and shake his head and then look at the forest around them as he looks back down at them keeping his smile on what's left of his burnt face with a few cracks from his body as he got up.

"Well lets just hope the equestrian folk are more kinder if not the same."

"I'm sure for a pony of your 'physic' even the princess might agree just need, a sprucing up a bit here and their."

Rarity says keeping her distance as she examines the giant ponies body and attire along with rainbow dash hovering in the air, applejack leans close to Twilight seeing Fluttershy looking his wounds with Pinkie still hugging his forehoof, Twilight leaning to applejack as she hears her whisper.

"Twi' I reckon that nopony sees him, I mean it no offence but look at him he's not bigger than apple cart full of cider, but he reeks more then fertilizer left in the sun after a rainy day, and just look at him an actually zombie pony, I feel sorry for him I do but I don trust him."

"I understand what you mean look at him, sure he's big, could be clean and a new face plus a body but I'm sure he's more nice than he looks or even with his behavior and language, but maybe that might be from his experience I'm sure if we try to befriend him he might tell as about the past or better maybe he might tells us about how he became a zombie."

Twilight and applejack looking at the Stitchings, still not believing how a pony comes back from the dead, let alone know or have influenced by this 'dark magic' she heard and seen most types of magic, even the magic. Tirek magic of taking others, Discords chaotic mischief or what else they faced, but this dark magic he spoke about that had influenced him not only body and life but also how it managed to bring him from the dead, and by his story, he told them how it was by zebras spiritual magic. Twilight remembers how Celestia's teachings how the different types of magic from what her majesties to control the sun and moon, Cadence's and The Changeling love magic and her and her friends magic binding with the elements, but never studied anything much over dark magic maybe this is why Stitchings said that only zebra kin could access to it. How he called it 'Forbidden magic arts' Twilight thought this to herself in-depth, but she wanted to know more of the magic over and might even get a better understanding safely without breaking the rules and in the safe testing area.

"Excuse me Dr. Stitchings for asking about this, but you think you could take tests so I could further understand that 'dark magic' you mentioned, but with some conditions overseeing if that is ok?"

He looked down at the purple alicorn seeing her curiosity and nods making the the purple alicorn smile, he knew that he could use her curiosity to gain information of the land that changed from long ago and most importantly new information of possible new leaders, species such as the draconequus and many more, perhaps maybe even teach these little ponies the true meaning of sin and true pain that they will feel, smiling and nodding slightly at her.

“That is fine, but I must warn you, few can barely learn of it, those who want to pay a heavy price for it, but we’re ‘friends’ are we not, surely we can trade knowledge for knowledge, correct?”