"No!" Twilight screamed at the highest pitch her fatigued lungs would allow as she watched as the infected Pinkie Pie snapped Rainbow Dash's neck to instantly send her toppling to the ground, for which the rest of her infected 'friends' would temporarily stop their pursuit of her to devour her already rotting carcass. Twilight had to shiver at how the laws of science, physics, and ethics had apparently taken a leisurely approach to their jobs for their entire horror-filled night for the sole purpose of making her suffer. The process of decomposition, which would normally take at least a couple of days, was presently working at impossible speeds to make her friends seem even more ghastly and horrible than they already were once they became infected with the strange disease.

"Oh mighty Celestia, what did I ever do to deserve this?" Twilight asked herself as she hid from the crowd of infected ponies behind a large tree, which she noted with a surprising calmness was the home to a small army of tarantulas. Normally such a sight as a tree coated from top to bottom with disgusting, wriggling, poisonous tarantulas would terrify her to within an inch of her life. However the things she had seen throughout her night had made such a sight seem rather tame.

"Celestia, just kill me now." Twilight moaned, both from the emotional trauma that she'd need a lifetime to recover from and the fact that some of the spiders had started to crawl on her back to produce a slightly relaxing sensation of a macabre massage. Twilight cringed at the thought of being massaged by the creatures and started trotting away as quietly as she could to get away from the insects without attracting the attention of the horrifying zombies.

"Would you mind if I licked the blood off of you?" A voice asked from underneath her hoof, Twilight looked down and in horror saw the decapitated, and decomposing, head of her mentor.

"I'm really thirsty dear and, as you can see, I don't have any of my own to drink." Princess Celestia spoke with the same kindness to her voice as she had always had. The only thing that made it so terrifying for Twilight was the exact words she was saying. The purple filly tenderly pick up Celestia's head with her hoof and brought it up to her face.

"Celestia, what have they done to you?" Twilight asked, her horrified expression still on her face. Celestia smiled.

"Well, as you can see they ripped my head off of my body and then tossed it aside as they made me watch them enjoy a feast of my body, plus a few others they found. It was quite enjoyable but could you please wake up now?" Celestia's head asked, causing Twilight to look at her with a dumbfounded expression.

"What are you.."

"Wake up sleepyhead!" Pinkie shouted with a grin as Twilight groggily woke up from her nightmare.

TO BE CONTINUED