My Little Zom-Pony: Apocalypse is Magic

Dear Princess Celestia:

It all started so quickly. It's amazing really how fast everything you know can change. One day you're biggest worry is being sent back to magic kindergarten, the next the very survival of you and your friends rests in your dainty little hooves. This Letter is an attempt to reconcile the events, to give the perspectives of the ponies involved, and perhaps shed some light on what actually happened, in the words of the ponies who experienced the tumultuous shift from the pacifistic naive nature of ponies to survivalists who will do anything to survive. We don't know how the outbreak started, but we think we have it narrowed down to something in the Everfree forest. It's been speculated that Zecora was the origin of the curse, but those facts will probably never be known, as her hut was burned to the ground shortly before the whole mess started. What is known is that the team of pegasi sent to investigate the fire are generally considered to be the first to contract the disease. The meager population of Cloudsdale never saw it coming. Throughout the letter I use terms like curse, disease, blight, and plague interchangeably, because it was all of those things, and more. Those who didn't fall prey to the menace would be forever changed, some in ways worse than the blight itself. These accounts are factual, in the sense that they are as each pony experienced them. What is true and false is irrelevant in the face of such overwhelming chaos. All that being said, here is what happened, as told by those who managed to live to tell it.