//------------------------------// // Chapter 3: That was Izzy // Story: Zombie Land Equestria // by TheRayH //------------------------------// Sunny and Hitch went on all the city looking for the one who tried to introduce herself, but it was a big place to look just for one person. They stopped at a cafeteria to regain energy with a coffee and snacks, Sunny drunk her coffee too quick and prepared to continue on the search; but Hitch grabbed her by the hand before she could make a step. "Wow, Sunny; why such hurry?" Hitch took a drink from his cup, trying to make her slow down. "Don't try to slow me. I need to find her" She took a seat unconsciously. "We need to get them on work as soon as possible or CHS will be a failure for new friendships" "I see" Hitch drank again from the cup with a non expressive face. "All we know is that her name has the letters I and Z; it could be anyone and could be anywhere" Sunny couldn't argue that, but then she remembered that she was very good with paper crafts and she knew where to find them. When Hitch finally ended his cup she grabbed him and dragged him running as fast as possible. Meanwhile... In the house; our seven death girls are waiting for Sunny to return. Twilight was taking notes on how she was feeling now that officially was a living dead, most of the notes were saying that she was completely fine and nothing felt different from when she was alive. Fluttershy was the only one who wasn't feeling comfortable with that situation, she was feeling good but she was also very scared about all. "Fluttershy..." Rainbow walked closer but Fluttershy was completely lost in her feeling, so when Dash called her attention she screamed surprised making her eyes to fell from the sockets... literally. "I was going to ask if you were ok, but i already saw that you're still the same as always" "Looks like our bodies are way more delicate than they look" Sunset grabbed both eyes and helped Fluttershy to place them where they belong. "One thing's for sure, we can't let Sunny down" They all agreed immediatnly, but Applejack; she cleared her throat and step in front of everyone. "I agree on that, Sunset; but there one thin' ya may forgot" Applejack's voice was confident but everyone was wondering what they could have forgot. Applejack's face changed to one of disappointment "We've been dead for who knows how long, we have to make our bodies less... detachable if we're gong to perform again; specially ya two, Ranbow Dash and Pinkie Pie" "Relax your apples, AJ" Rainbow stopped the farm girl by landing an arm around her shoulders. "I did plenty of sports when alive, so i think i can't be detached as easy as others" "Let me doubt that darling" Rarity grabbed Rainbow's arm and pulled from it, it detached very easily. "I hope she finds that person; if it's talented we can make a good pair. One taking care of the make up and the other on the dresses; make way, i need a pen and get to work" The warm up will take longer than though, they're somehow relieved that their personalities are still the same as always, friends as they always been and closer than they've ever been. Back in the town... Sunny and Hitch arrived to the library, they have a section for paper crafts lovers or people who likes to do them; they walked inside the library, almost quiet despite of the children who were running all over the place. The section was barely noticeable, it was behind some bookshelves with almost no light; there was a big guy with a bunch of board games and tons of papers at one side. "If you come here... you must be looking for a challenge" The guy had a deep voice and light barely gave illumination to his face. "Actually we're looking for someone, i guess you haven't seen her here" Sunny wasn't sure if she had to be there, the guy was very threatening. "Everyone in this library has to go over me, after all i am the owner" He moved a bit so the light illuminated him better. "If someone is here... i know it" He had a grey tone skin, with white hair and beard, also with huge muscles for how the white hair confuses his age. "Really? Well, in that case we're looking for-" Hitch got interrupted by a slam on the table of the guy. "If you want to know something, you have to beat me in a small game" He pointed at the papers and tabletop games that were on the table. "I mean if you're brave enough for that" "I take that challenge" Sunny stepped forward and took a seat. "Sunny, what are you doing?! The time's ticking" Hitch suddenly got nervous, almost about to explode. "Relax, i can beat him. How hard coult it-" Several minutes later. "I've lost... i've lost to everything" "Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't" He laughed hard while taking back the boards to the boxes. Suddenly the light turned off and a door opened, hearing steps walking closer and closer until finally a slap sound echoed in the small group of bookshelves. "Come on Alphabittle, again?" A girl's voice was slightly shouting. "Shouldn't you be in the counter? What if a client walks in?" "But i..." He tried to excuse himself. "No buts, stop bothering customers; they come here to learn and you scare them" She insisted, Alphabittle didn't said a word and walked out of the section with one hand on the shoulder, where the it hit. "I'm sorry about him, i know him since i was little and sometimes can be a bit extreme" When she ended that phrase the lights turned on, she had a remote light switch; Sunny recognized her blue hair and purplish skin. "It's you, the girl that tried to talk to me in class yesterday" Sunny's emotions were flooding the ambiance. "We've been looking for you" "For me? Oh, now i remember you. I have to end what i started" She cleared her throat. "Hi, my name is Izzy Moonbow! Now with that settled, why were you looking for me?" Sunny explained Izzy the situation, skipping the fact that they were zombies; instead of that she todl that they had a bit of a problem that can't be solved by hospitals or medicine, in resume that they need her to give them a more alive touch. Izzy wasn't very sure about it but she asked one last thing... what was the plan that they were planning. "The plan is to make everyone at Canterlot High friends again" Sunny said confident of herself. "And they're the best option" "It's not a bad idea, fine by me" Izzy accepted almost not oponing resistance. "But i need to see them and check how they look if i'm going to give them... the spark!" They had no idea what that spark was about and they had no time for that, Izzy took a backbag and prepared for going back to Sunny's place. They just took a few minutes for arriving into the house, they saw every curtain down; Hitch and Sunny may had an idea the reason of why, Sunny held the keys and proceed to open the door; the seven girls in the basement heard the door opening and they run upstairs,they peeked from the corner, again with all of their eyes glowing in a bright red color. Izzy stopped moving but still had a wide smile on her face. "Is it them?" Izzy asked while pointing at them. "They doesn't seem so bad" "I like her" Pinkie whispered and got closer to Izzy. "Hi, i'm Pink-" She stumbled with her own feet and started falling to the ground, once she fell totally on it her head bounced out of her body like a gummy ball; being catched by Izzy in mid air. Everyone's eyes open wide by that, Sunny got nervous, Hitch almost felt like he was going to threw up and the other girls were completely froze. "You weren't kidding" Izzy looked at Sunny with Pinkie's head in her hands. "But let me say, this will need tons of sparks to make them shine" "Oh thank you! I though you would scream after seeing their... condition" Sunny's voice was relieved. "I've seen worse things, they're actually kind of cute." She wasn't shocked at all by all of them and proceed to look at them and saw the picture of their past. "Give me a few minutes. I need to test my limits" She said while hooking her hair into a ponytail. She pulled out tons of makeup from her backbag and started working on each girl taking as reference the old yearbook, by thirty minutes in she cleaned all the sweat from her forehead and showed their final look into a mirror; all of the girls checked their looks and loved how nothing corpse alike was in sight except for one thing. "Tell me" Sunset called the attention of Izzy. "Do you have something for our eyes?" She pointed at them, they still looked red compared to the brighter colors they used to have. Izzy raised one finger making them wait for a short time, she pulled out a set of contact lenses, one for for each color of their eyes... how did she got them already? None questions were thrown. When they put them on, they finally looked like when they were alive. "I have to admit, this is going in the good way" Hitch placed a hand on Sunny's shoulder. "For now, let's just not jinx all this" "What can i say? I really have good ideas" Sunny was confident about how all was developing. "Yeah, have you planned how are you going to ask for the principal to let them perform?" Hitch hit right into Sunny's feeling, that was the only thing she didn't planned. So she will have to convince the principal to let a bunch of dead girls to perform at events of Canterlot High, should be easy... right?