Loneliness is about the Scariest Thing out there.
Chapter Two
Loneliness is a Disease, Too
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Fluttershy woke up with a pulsing feeling in her heart of worrying. Her wings were tucked away in her sides and her ears were down beside the temples of her head. She looked down to face Rainbow Dash.
There lay the sweet cyan pegasus. Nothing but silence filled the cloud, and the harsh breathing that exited Fluttershy. Rainbow Dash had looked perfectly fine, sleeping there.
But silence was a bad thing, too. Fluttershy would have to wake Rainbow Dash up from her sweet slumber and welcome her back to reality. Although Rainbow Dash did most all of the work, Fluttershy knew that she was too weak to manage for herself and would need as much help that she could get.
Tapping her creamy hoof on Rainbow Dash's side, she finally spoke up. "Rainbow Dash? You need to wake up now." She spoke in her sweet voice. It was sweet and quiet, which was a problem.
Rainbow Dash, instead of waking up, growled under her breath. It didn't sound too much of a familiar growl of Rainbow's, and that triggered an alert on Fluttershy.
"Rainbow Dash," she started to cry slightly, poking her hoof on Rainbow Dash's shoulder rapidly. "Please wake up."
Rainbow Dash was rolled over by this rapid tapping, and had shown her face within the darkness of the cloud.
Her maroon eyes were no longer ones of joy, but instead glowing white of hatred and hunger for love and kindness- not to mention flesh and organs. Her jaw rolling down, like a door on it's last hinge. Ugly, and disastrous. The neck veins were large again, and looked something of rolling hills on the side of a mountain. Her ribs were shown, and her stomach was pulsing in and out, digesting her saliva. Putrid. Everything about this vision may never leave Fluttershy's head again.
That is, if Fluttershy keeps her head. Her screams were loud, and almost curdled the milk inside of a cow. Fluttershy's screams were so loud, her face changed to the bright color of pink, like the pink on her friend Pinkie Pie, who might have died when the disease took control of Ponyville. Its a small town, and wasn't too difficult to start attacking ponies.
This image also opened another, of the first pony who was dead. Or the first pony who got attacked in front of Fluttershy. The three ponies were flying south, and were relaxing cooly. The grey pegasus that they were flying with during this time, looked down. She saw a familiar pony, who was her best friend. Relaxing her wings as she dropped down to the sky, she was pausing for a second.
Rainbow Dash shouted after her, before hearing a dark scream that made her want to scream in reaction, and the scream made it's way down to a moan. The grey ponies wings opened again, but they were oddly darker, and looked much more ominous then her bubbly grey and blonde looks. Her wings started to pulse, and she flew up high enough to meet eyes with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash. She let out a moan.
Fluttershy shouted loudly, as she moved backwards, closer to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow couldn't respond in this case. This pony was like a student to her, and had taught her a few things in prior past. Fluttershy looked up and saw her friends face, flushed of color and wetness starting in her eyes.
"Derpy!" Rainbow Dash shouted. "You're all blood, and you're dark grey, what happened?" Rainbow Dash moved her hoof forward.
Derpy's face started to turn slightly. She was facing away from the two. Once her face made the turn, there was a glowing sensation from her eyes. Her jaw was mangled into pieces, and you could see her bone. Her throat missed a large chunk of flesh and was pulsing with the blood in her veins moving slowly.
Fluttershy screamed loudly, getting ready to clamp her wings shut. This was the beginning of the nightmares, and it would only be getting worse. Rainbow Dash shouted with fear, and had no weapon. Her wings looked ready to clamp, too.
Fluttershy woke up from the dark image to look back down at the current image in front of her. Until she felt a shove on her shoulder. Looking backwards, there was nopony there. Another shove. Fluttershy started to cry more, her whimpers louder than her screams, too.
Fluttershy blinked open her eyes again. Rainbow Dash had let her hoof off from the side of Fluttershy's neck. "You okay?" Rainbow Dash muttered, sweating. Her eyes were normal and her jaw was tight on her head.
Fluttershy was curled up in a ball, with water flowing down her eyes. The cloud wasn't too damp anymore and was actually lighter colored. This was a nice sensation on Fluttershy's body, but this also meant that the sun was out, and Rainbow Dash would now be in danger.
The color of their sweaters determined who would be a scout at the time, because of there being less danger at morning, Fluttershy would scout at this time. Always looking for a masacre and death- especially walking dead. At night, Rainbow Dash would hover low to scout out easy prey, but it didn't matter much to Fluttershy. She looked like a star during the night with her sweater.
"I'm okay... I guess." Fluttershy wiped the tears off from her eyes and looked up. The cloud was already losing it's top. Fluttershy could feel the sun's warm rays on herself. It didn't bother her too much, but wished it were night all the time. She could sleep her life away and prepare for the after life.
An after life world of ponies wouldn't be too bad, as long as a living pony disease didn't happen and there were limited amounts of ponies who could live and who couldn't. Rainbow Dash would be one of the first pegasi to be killed off. Her brutish ways would make her an almost invincible pegasus and murder would be easy for her.
"Thats good. Lets start heading out, now, though." Rainbow Dash spread out her wings, hooves and her back. She glared around the cloud, the emptiness of it was nice for safety, but rain clouds were easily dried up and flattened by the sun. This must mean that Princess Celestia was still alive. Good.
Fluttershy nodded and made her way to standing up, and watched as Rainbow Dash stepped back for the morning scout to look out. Nopony would possible notice her, right? Then again, there were not too many ponies left. Most were dead, and the ones that were alive were either being eaten, or running for their lives in a small chance of survival.
Fluttershy poked her head out of the cloud, it wouldn't matter soon anyways, the cloud would be gone. Her small wings moving softly and she had crawled out. The cost looked clear, and everything she saw looked just fine. What if they weren't, though? Some of the lessons she learned from her unicorn friend, Twilight, was pulsing through her mind. "Don't judge a book by it's cover" was the first thing to come up. It looked so sweet outside, but she also had to look towards the ground and up, any chance of Pegasus Zombies would be their demise- or mostly Fluttershy's.
Rainbow Dash flattened her ears as the cloud started to lower near her head. "Hurry up, Fluttershy." Rainbow Dash whispered frantically.
Fluttershy's forehead started to sweat, and her ears were down. "I'm trying." She almost cried, looking up and down, searching for any sign of the undead. Nothing was there, but who knew what would be waiting for them near Ponyville, the pressure on her shoulders were crushing.
"All clear." Fluttershy whispered, or said. Her voice wasn't too loud. This had Rainbow Dash up through the "ceiling" of the cloud, her cyan/rainbow trail clearly making her mark.
Rainbow Dash nodded. "Lets get moving to Ponyville then," she waved her wings in the sky, like treading water. "Time Turner can't live forever, especially not if this zombie thing is going around."
Fluttershy whimpered and flew up beside Rainbow Dash. "Let's get going then?"
"Yep." Rainbow Dash flew quickly to her right, knowing this to be the direction to Ponyville, the land were Fluttershy (and most of her other friends) lived.
The travelling to Ponyville didn't take too long, and Rainbow Dash had scouted out a few zomb-ponies. They were all moving around, bumping into each other, colliding. Leaving trails of blood, flesh and even sometimes limbs. Fluttershy was trembling at the sight, and her wings were close to clamping, if Rainbow Dash hadn't gotten her pistol out.
"See any pegasi?" Rainbow Dash muttered, glaring around at all the ponies. There weren't that many, probably only four or five. Out of the most of them, only two were recognizable. Crescent Moon, a stallion who looked familiar to Time Turner, but with a crescent moon for his cutie-mark, and Blossom Forth, a creamy pegasus mare with a watermelon colored mane, freckles and everything. Blossom Forth had two flowers for her cutie-mark.
Both of the pegasi were undead, and had bright glowing eyes. Blossom Forth's death was obvious, being burnt to death and being chewed on just around her rib cage. Her back was arching with boils and blood, the liquids inside of the bubbles were disgusting, and her rib cage was tainted with a tan-ish yellow color. '
Crescent Moon's death wasn't as obvious as Blossom Forth's but you could assume his neck tasted something good, considering there were three large holes in it. His bones being the same color as Blossom Forth's, and his wings were moving quickly. He might have died in midair. This would mean many more pegasi died in flight, bitten and crushed.
Rainbow Dash let out a quick gag, and lifted her pistol up and aimed it straight for Blossom Forth's head. Cocking the gun and pulling the trigger, it had hit her deadly in her eye, screeching was heard from all sides, Blossom Forth had started to curl up in a ball and scream her head off. Fluttershy covered her ears and started to cry.
Rainbow Dash looked at Fluttershy and rubbed her shoulder. "Few more. You'll know their dead when you hear that scream." She rubbed Fluttershy's shoulder and moved her hoof to Fluttershy's back. The creamy pegasus looked up, the screeching stop and Blossom Forth was in a pool of red water, it was more liquid-y than blood.
Rainbow Dash lifted her pistol again, and cocked it once more. Crescent Moon was standing still, turning around and glaring at Blossom Forth. Zomb-ponies either still had compassion for their own type, or just wanted to take what was theirs for their own. Either way, they are just like a community. Working together just to lose it together.
Aiming this bullet was more difficult then the last, Crescent Moon's wings didn't stop moving, and this had made it particularly difficult for shooting the head. Rainbow Dash thought of how weird it would be, to never stop flying. She'd be extremely fast, and could win anything. Crescent Moon started to move again, Rainbow Dash's thoughts were starting to cloud her mind up.
The stallions glare started to move around, unable to notice much. Until he looked up. Fluttershy swallowed quickly and started to poke Rainbow Dash, her hoof pulsing with fear. "Rainbow, Rainbow! Cre... Cress..." Fluttershy started to tear-up, and her wings were getting tight.
Rainbow Dash shook her head. She started to look around before seeing the brown stallion come up for the two, her eyes widening. Holding her pistol oddly, she went for a shot. The bullet twisted through the air, going at a super sonic speed. Rainbow Dash held her breath with fear, and everything was moving so slowly for her. The bullet hit Crescent Moon, but not in the head. Directly in the wing- making a large hole before it piled down to the ground, shooting an earth pony in the hoof, falling over with shock.
Crescent Moon's flying became sloppy as he screeched, not for death, but because he was hungry- and possibly calling for the other pegasus ponies to come out. Rainbow Dash finally started to get a clear image of how many there really were. She was right, five of them. Including Blossom Forth. Each of the dead ponies would get half of a meal if Fluttershy were to give up now.
"Shoot them!" Fluttershy shouted loudly, her wings flailing helplessly, Rainbow Dash glared at Fluttershy and nodded weirdly. Her pistol was up in no time, and Rainbow Dash had a better chance of aiming now. Crescent was first to go, with a new bullet hole- sharp in the middle of his forehead.
More screeching was heard, as Crescent Moon was falling, bleeding, dying again. After falling for quite some time, he had hit the ground with a loud thump of pain- Fluttershy could hear it. Blood splattered like a painting on the fresh grass, that took care of itself, the stains of the undead were a mark and memory of the pain. Were any ponies alive anymore? Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy were witnesses that there were, but it may only have been them.
Rainbow Dash didn't have much time to thing, taking the last bullet to penetrate the head nerves on the pony. Deep Blue, a mare pegasus, was next. Her curly brown hair and light blue coat was stained with real blood, and her jaw was hanging like a door on a hinge. She was too close to Rainbow Dash for comfort, and was an easy shot in the head. Falling down to her death, she twitched after hitting the ground and painting it with the red liquids.
Another pony was Milky Way, a fairly handsome white stallion with a dark brown mane. He looked nasty, with one of his hooves missing, and his tail ripped into pieces, he looked like he was devoured. His bones were broken, too, as if the undead couldn't get enough of him. Rainbow Dash cocked the gun with hope, ready for the murder of another. If something didn't stop her. The gun was out of bullets, and she had to put a few more in just to kill these last ponies.
"Fluttershy," Rainbow Dash shouted. "Take this gun and fill it up! You have bullets in your pockets, too!" Rainbow Dash threw the gun fearlessly, and it had hit Fluttershy directly in her face. Her hooves stuck out as it bounced off and she grabbed for the weapon, her grasp sweaty and hardly too tight. Slamming the bullets into the correct position, Fluttershy had forgotten one thing. She never learned to shoot.
Rainbow Dash was flying rapidly around in rings, trying to lose the few ponies on her trail. The zombies growling, trying to find their way to get a new meal. "Shoot them, now! Hurry Fluttershy!" Rainbow Dash screamed as Star Hunter, another zombie, was grabbing towards her tail and trying to rip it back. With a wing power of 11.0, Star Hunter would be the fastest to catch Rainbow Dash and pull her back to devour her.
Star Hunter, finally getting close enough, grabbed tightly on Rainbow Dash's tail with his hoof, and readied himself to bite sharply onto her tail, rip it off and eat her cutie-mark off from her hip. Until a gun shot was heard, and screeching followed. Fluttershy was sweating rapidly, her mane down in her face. The pegasus falling, like the others, screeched louder and louder- as if to tell Fluttershy what she had just done. It broke her heart.
There was one last pony, and Fluttershy didn't have the heart to shoot this one, she threw the gun straight at Rainbow Dash. Flying by, the dare devil pegasus latched her hoof onto the weapon and stared down the undead, who sat in midair, dumbstruck. Their glowing eyes turned to face Fluttershy, and they started their screeching.
Fluttershy caught a glimpse of who this pony was, and she swallowed darkly as she tried not to clamp her wings shut. Death wasn't an option and didn't want to leave Rainbow Dash surviving on her own.
Wave Chill. One of the wonderbolts were about to die from their biggest fan. Rainbow Dash didn't even take the time to say her sorries, or to look at who it was. She instantly pulled the trigger and slammed it into the stallion's mind. Screeching with pain and agony. Falling to his death, the two ponies were alive, only with ruffled manes and tails. Not to mention scarred minds and broken hearts.
Rainbow Dash started to tear-up, unlike Fluttershy who was already crying. "It's okay, Fluttershy." Rainbow Dash muttered, as she started to fly closer to the small town. There weren't any more dead pegasi, and the two didn't know if there were any other live ones.
All they new as that they were together, bound to survive this dark age. They were meant to find more living ponies. Or so they thought.