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// Reckoning 
// Story: Love's Bloom 
// by Noble_Dreams 
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As she gallops into the wreckage of ponyville, her fur caked with blood and mud, her brow furrowed in a concentrated rage. She looks up, and her face drops. The library is gone. Fires still burn around her, and she can smell death on the air, so thick she can almost taste it. She gallops towards the school, the only brick building in town. When she arrives, she sees a dismal sight. The corpse of Ms. Cheerilee, her innards lay around her on the ground. Twilight takes a step back, and here’s a growl. She whips around, and her snout is mere inches from a werepony. Her horn lights up and the werepony is instantly obliterated, exploding in a mass of flesh and blood, spattering Twilight with its sticky flesh. She turns around again, looking for survivors, when she sees something small moving under the rubble of a nearby building. When she gets to it, she has to cover her mouth to stop from audibly gasping. Not even three feet from her, an abomination of the body of what she believes was once Applebloom is feeding on the internal organs and flesh of Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. She lowers her head and charges, goring the abomination of life straight through the skull. As she twists her head, burying her horn deeper into the creature’s skull, a sudden pain rips across her back. She whips around, flinging the now lifeless husk across the schoolyard, seeing a werepony on her back as it digs its claws into her back, tearing out chunks of flesh. Her horn glows again, and the werepony is thrust from her body, it hits a tree 40 feet away and slumps to the ground lifelessly. She runs towards the still moving Zombiebloom, lowering her head, her horn still glowing. She impales the living carcass through the chest, goring it on her horn, using her magic to inflate and eventually explode it. Twilight hears a twig snap, and she whips around, behind her is the large werepony, the one that spoke.

“So, you have survived? We did not think any of your kind would live. How long have you been in the area?” Said the werepony, in a deep, grumbling voice

“I’ve been here long enough! It’s time to end this! Here and now!” Shouts Twilight over the roar of the nearby fires; She lowers her head and charges, her horn and eyes both glowing as she draws power from the love she felt for Rainbow, and from the spirits of the ponies that still linger on the planet. The werepony laughs loudly as he swats her away with one swipe of his massive paw, flinging her into the side of the school building. In seconds he is on top of her, pinning her down with one toe. He laughs again, “I knew your puny race couldn’t survive long. We have taken back our lands, and we shall be free from you for eternity!” the werepony growled, darting his head forward just as a beam of light shoots from Twilight’s eyes and horn, it expands into a ball, and a shock wave is sent out across the land, killing every living creature it touches, whether it be pony, werepony, or an abomination of the two. As the shock wave expands, it leaves in its wake green plant life, restoring the continent to its original beauty. Twilight’s body is lifted to the air, and teleported to the top of the rock that marks Rainbows grave. As everything subsides from the sudden blast, a single flower falls to the earth, landing on the edge of Twilight’s lifeless body, a single bloom, marking the grave of the eternal love the two girls had for each other.