The world's going to hell all around them. It happened so suddenly, one day the dead remained dead, the next the dead rose up and attacked anyone who was uninfected.
Now Celestia, Twilight, Sunset, and the ponies who were in the castle when the dead began to walk again are trapped on the royal palace's grounds now that Celestia's given the order to lock Canterlot down.

The survivors in Canterlot are now scrambling to secure the palace so that they have a chance of surviving until they can determine if a cure can be created or if the world truly is doomed.

This fic is a complete and utter rewrite of Decay , certain parts of the story may have been drastically altered, removed altogether, or delayed until a later chapter. Tags may change as story progresses, you have been warned.

This fic contains: Suicide, Sex (possibly pornographic in nature), Profanity, Sunlestia shipping, and possibly more, you'll see~