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// S1E02: Just A Regular Day, Pt. 2 
// Story: My Little Zombie: Friendship is Dead Season 1 
// by Nortes432 ft Spitfire 
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	"Bye Rarity!" Spike called, leaving the Carousel Boutique. He closed the door behind him as he turned to the town of Ponyville, a grin crawling across his face. He happily walked about, heading back to Twilight's house. Before he made it even half-way home, though, he was cut off by a yellow pegasus coming to a halt right in front of him.
"Fluttershy?" Spike asked, staring at the scared pegasus. "What's wrong?"
Fluttershy took a deep breath and said something, but Spike couldn't comprehend it.
"What was that?" He asked again.
"Henry...bear...GONE!" She said in a scared yet quiet tone. 
"What?! He's gone?!" Spike asked. "You mean, missing?!"
Fluttershy shook her head quickly. Her legs were shaking, and she looked palish. Her face was soaked with tears. "I mean...dead..." She said before bursting into tears once more. Spike's eyes widened as she said this.


Intro


An hour later, Twilight rushed towards Fluttershy's cottage, hearing about the loss of her friend. As soon as she arrived, she was presented with her other four friends talking silently to each other, all sad and gloomy. Nearby, Spike and Fluttershy were staring at a makeshift grave, with the words 'R.I.P. Henry The Bear' etched into the stone at the end. Fluttershy was not herself. She was completely broken from head to hooves. She seemed hurt all over, and her entire face was soaked with tears. Spike laid a claw on Fluttershy's side, patting her comfortingly. 
Twilight ducked her head, knowing how Fluttershy felt about the situation. She dared not to ruin things any more, and simply trotted over to her. She patted her friend on the back with her hoof, and Fluttershy immediately threw her hooves around the alicorn. Twilight frowned, and slowly wrapped her hooves around the pegasus, petting her soothingly. 
After what seemed a while, Twilight, along with the others, prepared to disband the funeral before it gets too dark. Twilight suddenly stopped, as things clicked in her mind.
"I will spend the night with Fluttershy." Twilight announced to her friends, turning back to her friend.
Fluttershy was almost speechless. She only looked at Twilight from an angle, her eyes barely visible behind her long mane that was shielding her face. 
The band of four ponies and one dragon slowly dispersed and went their own ways, back to their homes. As soon as it was clear, Twilight turned around and looked at Fluttershy. "I think we can bring Henry back." Twilight whispered. Fluttershy said nothing, but it was evident that she was shocked by the statement.
She summoned the package she received not too long ago. She slowly opened it, slightly curious of what there is to find inside. As the folds were unsealed and flipped open, Twilight's eyes rested on a small flask with a strange, green liquid inside. "What...is this stuff?" She asked herself.
She raised the flask out of the box and in front of her. Examining it thoroughly, she thought about her choices. It can't be that bad... She told herself. Plus, if I walk away and this would have worked, I would not be too proud of myself. It's worth a try, even if it is false hope.
Concluding that she will fall through with her plan, she carried the flask over to the grave. She looked at Fluttershy, awaiting approval. She nodded, and Twilight began to dig up the grave. After what seemed like forever, she hit her mark, and revealed the face of Henry. Fluttershy shielded her face, holding back tears.
Twilight, fighting both emotion and stench, opened the flask and carefully poured the liquid onto the bear. After the last drop of liquid left the flask's opening and splattered onto the bear, she closed the flask and stared long and hard at Henry.
"I-Is he...back?" Fluttershy whispered in an almost incomprehensible manner.
"Not yet..." Twilight muttered. After an hour, Twilight concluded that she should go home. She told Fluttershy that she will return in the morning, and to leave the grave open, just in case Henry comes back in the middle of the night.
First thing, next morning, she returned. To no avail, however, she was presented with the uncovered grave of Henry, now with a terrible stench due to the exposure to the air. She covered the grave slowly, and headed to the cottage. She tapped the door twice with her hoof, and waited patiently for Fluttershy.
Fluttershy slowly opened the door. She looked up at Twilight, still depressed. Twilight shook her head, and Fluttershy looked back down as a tear rolled down her face.
The flask was false hope. But, something was bothering Twilight. What was the flask for? Who sent it? Questions floated in her head, but she pushed them back as she stepped inside, attempting to comfort her friend.
Spike stayed at the library, Twilight's orders. He was tasked to reorganize the library, before he was allowed to visit Rarity. He silently took the books and placed them in alphabetical order, which seemed to take forever. Owlicious helped him to reach the high places that would take forever for him to reach.
After what seemed like days, Spike was finally done, and went off to visit his love interest, Rarity.
Rarity, on the other hand, was ready to throw work to her assistant at anytime. She was on a major mission: To create a new line of clothes for Sapphire Shores. As soon as Spike showed up, he was thrown cloth and jewels and put to work faster than Twilight could ever do.
Twilight had spent almost the whole day at Fluttershy's cottage. It was getting around 2 in the afternoon.
"It's time for me to get food for the animals." Fluttershy told her friend.
"Alright then." Twilight said, looking at Fluttershy. "I'll head back to the library. It's been a while since I read a good book." She added with a smile, trotting off.
Fluttershy took off after he friend, closing the door and flying off to fetch the meals for the many animals she cared for.
Twilight trotted up to the cottage. It was around 6, and things have gone awfully quiet around the cottage, even more so than the chirping of birds, there was no chirping.
She slowly opened the door. "Fluttershy? Are you h-"
At that moment, life in Equestria changed forever.