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// S1E14: Ending An Odyssey 
// Story: My Little Zombie: Friendship is Dead Season 1 
// by Nortes432 ft Spitfire 
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	It has been five weeks. The caravan has gotten tired, hungry, and bored. Fortunately, there was very little loss during the trip. Twilight moved tiredly to the front of the caravan. Secret was already up there, trotting next to the front cart. He has constantly been improving himself, and now he could walk blindly amongst a crowd so long as he had a guide. In this case, his guide was Rainbow Dash, who trotted beside him. Even though her wings was still broken, Rainbow was still determined to push herself past her limits. That kind of strength and endurance is what pleased Spitfire.
Twilight stepped up next to Rainbow. "Greetings to the both of you." She said. 
"Greetings." Secret said, keeping his eyes locked forward. 
"Hey." Rainbow greeted, nodding her head to her friend.
"How is it going?" Twilight asked.
"Tiring." Secret said.
"Couldn't have said it better myself." Rainbow said. She looked up as Spitfire began to approach the group.
"Stop!" The Wonderbolt shouted, landing in front of the caravan. She quickly ran up to Twilight. "Canterlot! It's so close!" She said happily. The whole caravan heard the news, and began to celebrate.


Intro


Everybody was taken up with glee. After five long weeks, they have finally reached Canterlot. They were almost safe, inside the castle walls. The caravan was now fully awake, and they quickly got together and rushed to get to Canterlot faster. The pace was doubled, and the remaining energy was wasted on getting to the walls of Canterlot.
They were so close, but soon, they will realize that they aren't in the safe zone yet.

The caravan quickly halted as it came into sight. Not too far away, there was a giant dragon. It was apparent that it had been turned, but the hard scales showed very little rotten flesh. The beast had no signs of a week spot. 
"How are we going to remove that?" Spitfire asked.
"I'm not too sure." Twilight said. "We can't go around, we're on a mountain." The alicorn and the pegasus floated to the side of the mountain path to get a better view of the dragon without disturbing it. Spitfire looked back through the binoculars.
"I'm not sure if we will be able to kill it easily." Spitfire said.
"Do we have something that will cause a big explosion?" Twilight asked. Spitfire shrugged, and the two flew back to the caravan. 
Twilight, Rainbow, AJ, and Spitfire all searched the caravan for the much needed explosives. Unfortunately, they did not have any. "Are we stuck here?" A pony asked.
Twilight sighed. "For now." She answered. "We should head back some and set up camp." The caravan agreed, and they dragged their carts back to a safe distance and unpacked to set up camp. 
Applejack trotted up to Twilight. "Ah think Big Mac got himself a lil' cough." She told her.
"Take him to Zecora's tent." Twilight told her. "She's got some stuff for him." Applejack obeyed her advice, and went over to fetch Big Mac. She took him and led him to Zecora's tent.
She trotted up to Twilight. "Somepony else have ta take his cart if we ever decide to keep going." Secret stepped forward. "I could try." He said.
Applejack nodded. "Thank ya, Secret." Secret shook his head and walked off. Applejack looked at the dragon. "We ain't got no explosives. All we got is guns, and they won't go through his spikes. How we gonna kill him?" She asked.
Twilight thought back. She thought about Spike, but he was just a baby. He could not compare to this beast.
Secret stepped up and interrupted his thoughts. "I know something." He told them. "Their weak point is in the mouth." He said, opening his mouth and pointing inside. "Any shots to the mouth will cause him to die quickly." 
Applejack looked at him. "Ya tellin' me that we gotta get eaten to kill that thing?" She asked. "Ain't no way we're losing anypony else after we got so close!" 
Secret shook his head. "There's no other way we could kill him with explosives. Somebody needs to make a shot into it's mouth."
"Who's crazy enough to walk up to a dragon and get eaten to kill it?" Rainbow asked, overhearing their conversation. She walked up beside Applejack. "Surely we could get a sniper team or so-"
Twilight shook her head. "It would take forever to get someone to snipe the dragon from here." She said. "And even if we did, it would take more than one bullet to take it out. It will surely shield it's mouth if any more harm."
Applejack sighed. "So there is truly no other way, is there?" She asked. Secret and Twilight shook her heads.
Rainbow stepped up. "I'll do it. I had a good run, but there is no way I'd let someone else go before me." She said, taking hold of a shotgun that was lying in a cart.
Secret stepped forward and took the gun from her. "I'll do it." He said. "You still have potential. I'm a nobody, nobody will miss me."
Applejack pushed Secret away and took the shotgun from his grasp. "Ah'll do it." She said. "Ah've been through worse." She headed towards the dragon's direction. The group fell silent as she trotted off.
Before she could get close to the dragon, a red blur tackled her to the side and took her shotgun. Applejack looked at her attacker. It was Big Mac. He took off towards the dragon. Applejack realized that the stallion was protecting his younger sister. "Big Mac! Don't!" She shouted.
"Nope." He said under his breath as he rammed into the dragon. The dragon looked at him and snorted. It grabbed him and carried him to it's snout. It opened it's mouth widely and threw him in. While inside, Big Mac struggled to gain balance, and as soon as he did, he aimed his shotgun to the roof of it's mouth. "Nope." He grumbled, firing blast after blast into the dragon's cranium.
Outside, Applejack was in tears. The other ponies watched in shock as the dragon was destroyed from the inside. It slowly tumbled to the side, and fell off the cliff of the mountain path. 
Twilight, Secret, and Spitfire quickly gained their conscience. They rushed over to Applejack to comfort her.
Big Mac. Stallion of few words, but a great brother and a hard worker. Applejack will never forget what the stallion did for her that day. Nobody will forget the sacrifice.