My Little Zom-Pony: Apocalypse is Magic

Day 0:

Rainbow Dash:

Man! It was crazy how it all went down! It all started the day of the fire in Everfree. I was just chillin out in the clouds. My training that morning had left me exhausted and I thought I could catch a few winks before I had to check in at the weather station and get the next days orders. So naturally I was napping on my own patch of cumulus, not a care in the world right? So anyway I'm woken up from my nap by a group of weather pegasi stealing my cloud bed! I was all like "C'mon! I'm trying to get some sleep here!" It turns out they weren't exactly weather pegasi but the Fire Department from Cloudsdale. One of the more gruff of the bunch claimed it was "imminent domain for the safety of Equestria" I grumbled a bit and gave the cloud over. I think he was just being lazy and didn't want to go to the other side of the town for another cloud.
So anyway after being awoken I realize it might be a good idea to actually do my own duties today before I get written up again, so I hastily moved some clouds about, a few cirrus over sweet apple acres, a couple puffy ones I personally shaped into a lightning bolt shape over city hall, nothing major. That's when I noticed the steam rising from the Everfree forest. "Oh so that's what the fire ponies were doing" I thought to myself. After I was finished with all my chores I thought about going to help, but they seemed to have everything covered by then. I saw a couple of them carrying the cloudstealer between them back up to Cloudsdale. "Prolly got too close to the thermals of the fire and crashed, what an idiot! Serves him right." Even as I thought this, I was still a little concerned. He looked like he was bleeding from one of his wings.

Later on, after visiting a bit with Twilight in town, I made my way back to the weather factory to check on the next days meteorological charts and assignments, only to find that the weather factory was locked, and it looked like the red spectra had been splashed all over the place. I assumed Derpy crashed into one of the pipes again and they closed the factory for repairs... yeah, its a mystery. Anyway, I figured I'd check the hospital and see if whats-his-face was alright, since I practically had a free day off and i know how much it sucks being a lain-up pegasus.

As I approached Cloudsdale General Hospital I noticed there seemed to be more red spectra everywhere. Jeez Derpy musta really covered herself in the stuff and been flown here for insurance sake. As I reached the doorknob though I noticed something was off about the spectra that coated the windows. I nearly threw up when I realized... it was blood. There was blood everywhere. and not just on the door, but upon closer inspection it seemed like all of Cloudsdale had been spray painted red and there wasn't a single pony to be found. Then, I heard the screams...and the moans. They were coming from inside.

What I saw when I went in there would change my life and destroy everything in my mind that I thought was important and replace it with another, survival. There was blood and ... meat... everywhere as you walked in to the building, and the waiting room looked like it had ransacked by an F5 Tornado full of tomato soup. I slowly looked around, trying to find any sign of life. I heard a whimper from behind the desk and found a meek little nurse pegasus huddled under it. "What happened here?" I tried to ask her, but before I could I watched her eyes go wide as she let out a blood-curdling scream and pointed behind me. I turned and saw the cloudstealer, or what was left of him. His left wing looked like it had been chewed half through, and the half that remained looked like it was rotting, like it had been left out for a week. He let out a low gurgling moan as blood and what I assume now were bits of pony bubbled out from between his clenched teeth. "Omigoshomigoshomigosh" I said, backing away from the creature. My back hit the wall as the thing looked hungrily at the nurse, whose screams were joined by a gurgling bleat before both were silenced as he dug his teeth into her throat, biting down hard and stamping down with his hooves, tearing the throat out of the poor mare before chewing it and swallowing. The nurse's body began to convulse into death spasms as I went into fight or flight mode. I turned and quickly gave the pony a buck that would have made Applejack blush, but there was nothing I could do for the nurse. Her body stopped shuddering and her eyes went glassy. She was dead.

The assailing pony didn't seem phased by the brutal kick and was starting to make his way back to his feet. His eyes looked like giant pools of lifeless grey that stared out into nothingness as he met eyes with me. I was just about to run when something caught my back left hoof. I looked and it was the nurse! The DEAD NURSE! The gaping wound in her throat was still just as gaping as ever and her eyes were dead like the others, but her grip was firm and unyielding as she held my leg in place, preparing to bite at it. "GET OFF!" I cried as I brought both back hooves down on her head. It made a sickening crunch and bathed my whole hind quarters in blood and mare brains. My senses went into overload. I knew I had to get out. There were more moans from the back. I didn't stick around to find out how many there were. Like a flash I was out the door and flying just outside of Cloudsdale. I turned back for a moment and saw as hundreds of deformed moaning pegasi pursued me only to fall lifelessly to the ground below with audible thumps and splats. Apparently they can't fly. I took off with a speed I scarcely knew I could muster and headed with a sonic rainboom to the one pony whom I had any amount of hope in to figure out what was going on. Twilight Sparkle.

Twilight Sparkle:

I was surprised to see Dash again so soon, I figured after work she would go lazing about or be training like she always did. I noticed something was amiss immediately when i looked into the blue mare's wide eyes and beheld her blood-covered body. "What happened to you Dash?" i asked as she barreled in and began sobbing on my floor.

"I killed her Twilight!"

"WHAT? Killed who?" I asked

"The Nurse Pegasus, and maybe the Fire Pony I don't know"

"Dash, calm down, you're not making any sense"

"I was in Cloudsdale right? So I was going to check on the fire pony i saw who got hurt earlier and he ripped out the poor nurses throat Twilight! So I bucked him across the room."

"I thought you said you killed the nurse, now you are saying he did?"

"Well, he did, but then she tried to bite me so I... Stomped her head in."

"After she was dead?"

"Yes, I mean no, I mean... I watched her bleed out and die Twilight, then she just got up and tried to eat me!"

"Just like the fire pony did?"

"Yeah! so I stomped her, high-tailed it out of there and flew here as fast as I could. There were more of them Twi! I watched them fall out of Cloudsdale...I don't think they can fly."

"They?"

"Yeah those creatures. those ponies, whatever you want to call them."

"Rainbow, this is important. I need you to calm down and try to think coherently and explain to me everything that happened in detail."

Rainbow Dash took in a few deep breaths, steadying her shaking limbs. She told me exactly what had happened. I inherently believed every word, because it was beyond Dash to come up with something so brutal, so horrifying on her own. As she finished her tale the sun was just starting to set. "SPIKE!" I cried

Almost instantly Spike was there, broom in hand like a toy soldier on parade. "Spike, we have no time for siliness, I need you to grab 'Deadly Diseases and Curious Contagions', 'Dark Arts of the Dark Hearts', and 'Ancient Pony Rituals J through Z'" I was already levitating a considerable pile of the books up by my desk and opened three of them, scanning through them with my magic. After about five minutes of the most condensed studying ever seen by pony-dom, I thought I'd found an answer. "Right here" I said, pointing to a copy of 'Ancient Mysteries'. "It talks of a creature called the zom-pony, or the draugr. Ancient ponies thought they were vengful spirits of deceased ponies who walk the earth and feed on pony flesh, turning the victim into another zom-pony."

"Wow, that's absolutely fascinating, now how to do we stop them? And what caused this?: Dash said irritably.

"That's all there is..."

"Well that was helpful!" Rainbow Shouted, throwing her hands up in frustration. "What do we do now?"

"I think we need to get our friends together, now." I said, growing more concerned by the second. "Wait a second... You said you think this whole thing started in the forest right?"

"Yeah... and?"

"That's awfully close to..."

"Oh no..."

"FLUTTERSHY!" We both said in unison.