Just an Old Ponytale...
Chapter 7-
'She was enraged. "So it was all your fault, wasn't it?!"
Twilight flinched. "Y... yes..."
A deathly stillness filled the air of Lyra's house as Twilight regained her consciouness. "Owww..." She said rubbing the back of her head with her hoof. When her eyes opened, she only saw nothing but darkness. This sent Twilight into a panic as she quickly remembered the previous events that had taken place. "Pinkie!" she screamed, tossing her hooves like a frantic maniac. After knocking and banging around in what felt like a small encasement, she finally came crashing thorugh the closet door. The distraught pony swiftfully battled her way through the tightly weaved bedsheets that overlayed her. She leaped in anxiety, briefly surveying the bedroom with horrible apprehension. The room was unchanged with the exception of a puddle cosisting of red liquid mixed in with the downpour coming from the shattered window. A feeling compelled her to move closer to the broken pane, a feeling of hope and optimism.
"Oh Pinkie... Please be alright." she murmured to herself while the observing the smashed opening. The sight of the crimson essence and the thoughts that followed sent a bone chilling shiver down her spine.
After satisfying her need to investigate the scene and contiplating an idea of what had happened, she made her way down the stairs back down into the hallyway of the building. The eery silence still lingered about in the atmosphere of the dissipated home. Twilight slowly crept through the seemingly long corridor as every step now seemed to amplify while she moved. Louder and louder the steps grew as she continually edged towards the end of the passageway.
CRASH
Twilight's hoof tore through one of the water rotted wooden planks in the floorboad. This nearly caused Twilight have have a heart attack as she impusively drew her leg back. "Oh Celestia that scared me." she shakefully muttered to herself while she held a hoof to where her heart should be.
THUMP THUMP THUMP
"O.K." she sighed to herself putting her hoof down. Twilight caught her breath a bit before she decided to take another step. The plank that was now under her hoof made a loud creeking noise, but supported her weight. "O.K. Twilight, you can do this." she softly whispered to encourage herself. "Just take it one... step... at... a... time..."
BOOM
A part of the roof behind her collasped, causing her to let out an intense shriek. She whisped herself around. The rain had bore through the shilings and weakened the upper floors. "This house is literally flaaing apart around me." The on edged pony cautiously backed away from the pile of dibris after once again having the daylights scared out of her and lightly pressed onward into the room at the end of the hall. The kitchen. She slowly lingered into the rooms interior. Noticable water damage could be seen on the ceiling above her as she entered the room. Twilight gazed at the half-opened fridge and percieved the barren insides, stripped of the slightest morsel of substanence. The sheer sight made the unicorn's stomach give a low rumble. "That's exactly how I fell." Twilight softly moaned a ill, disgruntled snarl whilst clasping her gut with her front hoof.
After thinking about how wonderful it would be to have some food and making herself all the more hungry, she fianlly decided that it was about time for her to start making her way towards the front door. "I probably should get out of here before the whole house falls in on top of me." she explained to herself as to find a reason to leave. As she walked back through the halls to find the living room, she started taking notice of the pictures hanging from the walls. All the happy faces of Lyra's friends and the framed photos of her family in Canterlot. "I'll never understand why she moved here." she said to herself. Twilight even found herself saw "Awww..." to a small picture of Lyra as a filly stuck in the corner of the family portrait in the center of the hall.
Over the course of what seemed like forever, Twilight was able to locate the living room of the hazardous abode. She looked around, only now realizing the extent of damage done to the home. To her left was the window that her and Pinkie had climbed through and to her left was the totally destroyed funiture that laid soaked and ripped in all sorts of ways. In front was a table that had been knocked over in what appeared to be the area of a struggle of some sort.
A sense of shame fell over Twilight as she looked at the horrible scene before her. "This is all my fault." she serenefully scowled to herself. The feeling was old and not one that if she wasn't accustomed to anytime before, she was now. The unicorn just shook the emotion off. "I have to keep focused. Not all is lost Twilight, you know that. All you have to do is wait for Zecora to return and she will fix everything." She dusted off the the pain and headed for where the front door would be if it had not been destroyed by the "infected". Just before she left however, Twilight peeked back at the room. She tightened her fist. "Don't worry everypony. I'm going to fix this." she said, looking over her shoulder. "I promise..."
She walked outside, the rain once again pelting her with unforgiving consistancy. Twilight felt alone for nopony could comprehend what she was going through. "Oh Applejack, if only I hadn't have made you help me..." She said with a glimmer in her eye. 'Now is not the time to cry, Twilight.' she thought. 'Now is the time to take action!' Feeling around in her saddle bag, she found that she still had her frying pan. "I guess Pinkie thought that I would still need it." She chuckled. "Oh Pinkie..." The rain felt a bit lighter than normal. "Heh, it's a wonder I haven't gotten sick yet." she joked.
The winds had seemed to pass which posed a serious problem for the town entirely. Without the winds current to constantly blow the rain away, there would eventually be a flood of backed up water. Twilight obseved the streets that were covered with half an inch of the clear liquid and took this into serious consideration. "I need to get to higher gro-" She froze. She felt a warm breath run down the back of her neck.
Twilight's muscles stiffened as she tried to process what was happening. 'Was I so caught up with the weather that I simply didn't notice him coming up?' The breathing turned into a low growl. Twilight's eyes were streached to their limit.
'RUN!' was the only thought that came to mind. 'Run you fool before you're bitten!' Her mind was screaming at her, but her body wouldn't move. The growls became louder. 'What are you waiting for!? RUN!'
Twilight took off. While she was in the heat of pursuit, she was splashing water everywhere causing every other zombie within a small radius to take notice. Soon she was being trailed by a whole group of the revolting monsters behind her. "This isn't good." she told herself as she ran. Her stamina was giving in. "I don't have the energy to teleport to safety." Twilight stopped for a moment and face-hoofed. "Duh, why didn't I do that BEFORE!" The crowd was gaining on her. Twilight ran even faster than before, but was almost give out.
SLIP
Twilight had done the same thing Pinkie did and slipped in the water. She came tumbling down and rolled a good few hooves, just on the edge of one of Ponyville's few dangerous cliffs within the city. Twilight immediately tried to get back up. "GHAAA!!!" she screamed and she fell back down, holding her left hoof. The bone was broken. It didn't take long for the "infected" to quickly catch up with the now incompacitated Twilight and rapidly started to circle her. Twilight looked at the mob around her and the cliff behind. She crawled to the cliffs edge with her good hoof as the zombies were only mere hooves away. She peered down the small cliffside to the seemingly unforgiving ground below. "If only there was... another way..." she thought as she pushed, sending herself over the edge and down the cliffs side...