//------------------------------// // Terror in Paradise, part two- Night of the living Truly // Story: My little Short Stories // by Paradise Oasis //------------------------------// Terror in Paradise, part two- Night of the living Truly "Paradise, come back!" Wind Whistler exclaimed, as she ran outside after the other mare. "Please don't let yourself be troubled by that odious nag's bile, she doesn't know what she's talking about!" "I-it's all my fault..." The Pegasus wept bitterly, staring at her own refection in the estate's pool. "I never should have helped bring the others out here. They're all gone because of me..." "Now Paradise, that's simply not true!" The blue mare protested. "Those mares made their own choice, and if they were here right now, I'm sure they'd tell you the same thing!" "BRAAAAAAAINNNNNSSSS!" A half-rotted earth mare sudden leapt over the wall, followed quickly by nearly a dozen others. Only a few wisps of hair still stuck out of her mane, and her ribs shone through the holes in her rotted white hide. "Ahhhhhhhhh!" The two living mares screamed in terror, hugging each other as the ghoulish ponies surrounded them. "FAKIES!" "Hello, girls...." A raspy voice emerged from the half-rotten earth mare, a half smile covering the still fleshy part of her face. "Sooooo good to see all of you again!" "T-truly?" Wind Whistler asked, trying to hide her disbelief and terror creeping into her voice. "I-is that really you?" "Oh no..." Paradise whimpered, terrified beyond belief. "I-It just can't be!" "Why don't you come and find out, Windy." Cupcake hissed, putting a skeletal hoof down behind Truly. "In fact, we think you'll just be dying to join us!" The fakie zombies took and step forward, and Wind Whistler immediately broke into a gallop, yanking the other mare along with her as she ran. "Come on, let us expediently depart this location!" She wailed, as they ran back inside, locking the door. "We need to warn the others!" The drooling beasts galloped quickly after her, only to have the door shut in their faces. While the bloodthirsty horde tried to smash their way through the enchanted doorway, a still entirely fleshy zombie broke away from the others, and started looking around for another way inside. It was then that a twinkle-eyed unicorn mare trotted out the side door, and spotted the snarling fakie. "Ohhh, Magic Star, you came back!" Fizzy's face suddenly lit up, as she rushed over and hugged the fakie. "It's so good to see you again! Where in the world have you been?!" "Brains?" The uncertain zombie asked, as the other mare dragged her along. "Oh sure, your family will be happy to see you!" Fizzy giggled, as she made her way back to the castle. "But whew, we really need to get you a bath! You smell like you've been buried underground or something!" ... "Gypsy, bar the doors immediately!" Wind Whistler wailed, as she and paradise ran back inside the estate's living room. "We are under assault by the legions of the undead!" "Awww, what're you yakkin' about, Windy?" The still hyper Gusty snorted. "The undead? This ain't halloween, ya know!" "RHAAAAARRRRR!" several voices screamed out, as half-rotten zombies smashed thought the windows. "BRAAIIINSSS!" "Guzty, zhe iz right!" The horrified roma pony threw up a shield between them and the invaders, as the huddled in the center of the room. "Girlz get ready to vight vor your lives!" The fakies came pouring in, as the mares tried to fight back. The two unicorns blasted away at the zombies, while the two Pegasus threw every loose piece of furniture in the room at them. "My apologies, Cupcake. I really sorry about this." Wind Whistler broke a chair over the growling, slobbering mare's head. "We really have no desire to bring harm to any of you." "Oh really, brainiac? Coulda fooled me!" Mimic hissed, a green misty could emanating from her mouth. "You went though all that trouble to save me, then you let this happen to me? Some friend you are!" "These things can talk!?" Gusty asked in surprise, as she blew Cupcake's nearly fleshless corpse against the wall. "What the heck's going on here, anyway?!" "Paradise, how could you leave us all to die?" Gingerbread asked sadly, stopping in from of the distraught Pegasus. "I thought you were our friend." "Oh, Gingerbread... I..." The mare tried to hole back her tears. "I'm so sorry...." Paradise's guard down, the fakie leapt at her with bared fangs. Gingerbread's teeth were inches from her throat, when a beam from Gusty's horn vaporized the moster. "Paradise, don't let your guard down!" Wind Whistler yelled, as she spun and dove around, trying to avoid Lofty the elder's bite. "Gypsy, why in the horsemaster's name would these creatures return to life?!" "My incantion! Guzty's interruption must have used my magik to call zhem back from zee great beyond." Gypsy realized, trying to push several of the beasts back with a wall of energy. "und now zhey vant revenge vor dizubing zhem!" "Y'all wanted ta give me a piece of yo mind, Gusty!" Truly hissed, in a near-demonic voice. "Naow, we've ahll decided ta come back and take it!" "Gusty, I know what they want!" Paradise told her, kicking Cupcake's corpse out one of the windows. "You have to apologize! It's the only way to appease thier restless spirits!" "Wha? Now way!" Gusty snorted proudly, as she tried to hold back a bunch of the fakies with a wall of wind. "I'll never apologize to that miserable little-" "Gusty, she was your friend! She was a friend to all of us!" Wind Whistler protested, back-kicking Lofty's fakie out of the air. "Please, swallow your pride, and make your peace with the deceased!" "Guzty, vou zummoned zhem by you vords!" Gypsy pleaded, throwing up a shield around all of the exausted mares, as the remaining fakies swarmed in. "Only vou can zcare zhem avay!" "All right already!" Gusty wailed in defeat, turning towards the lead fakie. "Truly, I'm sorry! I'm sorry I called you a traitor! You did what you thought was right, and I have no right to judge your actions!" The fakies suddenly all stopped at once, staring at the still living ponies in the room. Finally, Truly turned towards the terrified unicorn mare, and a genuine smile seemed to cross her decomposed face. "Thak y'all, Gusty." The mare replied, her voice actually sounding normal again. "Thiat's ahll ah needed tah heyah." And with that, the fakies all suddenly dissolved into a large puff of smoke. And when the air around them cleared, the windows, the furniture... all of the estate appeared as if nothing had even happened. "What did... did that just..." Gusty sputtered out id disbelief. "What the heck just happened?!?" "I recommend we not think about it, my friend." Wind Whistler replied, trotting out of the room with the unicorn. "Let us just get the lights off, and close down the estate before we head back to the castle." "Darlink, are you goink to be all vright?" As the two left the room, Gypsy trotted over to Paradise. "Zhat must haf been a very terrible experience for vou!" "Yes Gypsy, I'm going to be all right, thank you." The Pegasus stared out one of the estate's windows, at the glittering stars above. "I'm just thinking about my friends, both those still here, and the ones who have passed on..." She stood up, and motioned her head towards the door. "Come on Gypsy, let's go home to the castle." "Zhat iz a vunderful idea!" The roma pony replied, a smile crossing her face. "Ztill, I cannot zhake the veeling ve've vorgotten somezing..." .... In one of the castle's windows, two mares were seated at a decorated table. Clearly in the middle of a tea party, the unicorn levitated a teapot up to pour some more of the hot liquid. "Sooo, would you like some more, Magic Star?" Fizzy asked, adjusting the party hat on her friend's head. "BRRRRAAAAAAAAAIIINNNNNNSSSSS!" The drooling mare replied, exasperated that the pony next to her obviously had no brain matter to eat. "Oh, Magic Star, you are such a kidder!" The blue mare replied with a giggle. "You still really need a bath, though!"