Chapter 1 It was a sunny, radiant day. You could hear the birds singing and the trees swaying. Running shadow was out at the town park, soaring. Lucky coin( another Pegasus) was with him. " hey shadow! Think you can pull off a 360?" Lucky challenged. " you bet" shadow replied. Soon shadow was up high in the air. Then he dove straight Down, and just before hitting the ground, flew up at an angel which caused him to shoot around in a circle." Yeah!" Shadow yelled to the world, as he flew around. As soon as he landed a cyan blue pony approached them. " I see you've been trying some new tricks. Maybe you want to learn some from the best flyer in equestria?" Rainbow dash said, her voice ever so smooth. " sure thing rd. but I bet your 360 ain't as good as mine." Shadow spoke challengingly. " do you want to learn? Take it or leave it." She said not amused by shadows joke. " but i will have to accept you challenge, so..." She then took off and shot up to the sky before flawlessly pulling off the stunt shadow just did. When she landed , shadow and lucky just stared. " does that mean I win? Obviously it does cause I always win." Rd said with a big old grin on her face. For the next hour shadow and lucky learned new stunts from rainbow dash. By the time they were done, shadows mother appeared. " hey thunder! Good kid you got there. Best student I taught." Said rd laying on a cloud. " you taught them? Wow, what do I owe you?" Said shadows mother, already looking into her saddle bags looking for bits. " don't worry, you owe me nothing. Any flyer with as much potential as shadow is on the house." " that is so kind of you. Now shadow and lucky I will have to get you two back home. Thanks again rd!" Thunder said leaving the park with the two Phillies behind her. Little did they know what the next days adventure will hold for them. When shadow got home he quickly started to pass out. Unfortunately ( for shadow) sky watcher came by to his house. " who is it?" His mothers melodious voice sang. " it's me sky." Stated the friend of shadows. As shadow struggled to get out of his bed, he realized why sky was here. He was going with his friends to the local ' cemetery'. Shadow went over to the door to talk to sky. " hey shadow, me and the other fellas want to go grab cup cakes from sugar cube corner. want to come?" " sure sky." shadow awnsered. they then took off to get their confections, and then plan the night. later that night that shadow, lucky and sky watcher entered the main gate into the cemetery. " this is so creepy." Lucky said. " yeah. It's almost scary like nightmare night. Just no night mare moon. " " in fact, I would prefer nightmare moon right now." Shadow spoke. They then walked among the head stones till they reached an ancient tomb. " the unmarked tomb. No pony knows what's buried here. The only sign says that if we open it, a curse will be put on the land." Shadow read. " ha! As if curses were real!" Sky watcher said. " um forgetting something?" Lucky said. " does the names unicorn, alicorn, discord, twilight, rarity and magic ring a bell?" " oh sorry." The 4 young colts and fillies, then lifted the stone lid off the stone box. " wow! That box!" Was all sky watcher could say before a figure teleported behind them. " children? What have you done?" Spoke celestia in a frightened tone. Then a pulsating green light glowed in the middle of the box. It then grew brighter and brighter. Then it rocketed sky ward. Like a fire work it blew up into thousands of tiny fractals of light. They fell then staying their dark green color. Celestia stood with her mouth closed, staring at the lights. " children. We have to get out of here." She said. But they were too late. The lights hit the ground and were absorbed into the ground. Five seconds later, the cemetery started shaking violently. It stopped then. Suddenly, a dark blue , rotting hoof shot out of the ground. Then a purple hoof, followed by other, multicolored hoofs reached out of the dirt. Then they climbed out of the ground. Then another and another. Soon the grave yard was filled with dead corpses in various states of decay. There was an old corpse of a stallion, whose mummified remains showed his dry bones. Another was fairly recent, with her body just starting the decay process. Then there was sound of wood cracking behind the young ponies and celestia. The sound was followed by a low moan that sounded scratchy due to its dry vocal cords. It sat up straight and stared at the living ponies. It then stood up and made its way out of the tomb and towards the scared ponies. All 5of them took defense positions( with celestia and golden star with horns up and the rest with wings out and rocks in hand, ready to dive bomb the zombies) and began to fight. Celestia and golden star shot a good number of the undead with pure magic bolts. The zombies that were hit had a foot long hole where they were hit. The Pegasi dropped rocks on the zombies heads, making a diameter of blood and bits of bones scattered every where. But it was obvious they were out numbered, so they flew back towards town( except golden star. She rode on celestia.) when they got back, celestia warned the villagers. " there Is a mass of the undead that is ready to attack us any second. We need every pony to help defend the town. " celestia spoke. " we have a few ponies to thank for that." She said glaring at the children. " Pegasi attack with rocks and anything else to drop on them. Unicorns, use your magic to incinerate and shoot them. And earth ponies..." She then paused. " you fight with swords and spears and any other way, on the front lines. Don't let them take this town." Every pony either gathered weapons or prepped their magic. Shadow and his friends ran to find shelter, taking a place behind a rock. After an hour the undead showed up. The town gate was closed and was holding them back. But it had its limits. The gate crashed down and the war against the dead had begun. The pegasi( led by rainbow) attacked from the air, dropping bombs that were quickly made and quite ineffective as they only took out 3 zombies per two bombs. Some Pegasi had arrows and fired them down upon the zombies. Soon they ran out of bombs and arrows and had to go down to the ground and pick up any thing heavy to drop on the zombies. But by doing this made them easy targets for the zombies. One pegasaus( whose name was cloud snatcher) was trying to lift a micro wave up, but found it too heavy. Then two of the undead found him, and so they, ever so slowly, marched up to him. When cloud snatcher turned around, the two undead ponies jumped on him. One grabbed his bottom left hoof and the other bit his shoulder and held fast. They began to slowly pull opposite of each other until cloud split In half. After the air attack, the unicorns started shooting the zombies either burning them to a crisp or blowing holes through them. One unicorn was very clever and shot a zombie with a spell that made it explode and the explosion caught 5 other zombies. But even they were replaced by 10 zombies. The unicorns couldn't keep shooting, for some were being worn out by the relentless magic casting. 2 unicorns were shooting outside the town hall when a group of zombies found them and dragged them into the middle of their miniature horde. One of the unicorns committed suicide and blew up the town hall with every thing in it. The unicorns drew back and let the earth ponies fight the war they were already losing. They charged head on into battle some swinging their swords gracefully and proffesionly and others( including a certain pink hyperactive pony) were just swinging around and hitting anything in their path including other live ponies. But the undead horde kept coming, and coming like a multicolored plague. The living ponies retreated. " fall back! Fall back!" Cried a blue and green earth pony before he was pulled under the stampede of hooves. Shadow saw his head, under the zombies hooves, just as a undead hoof landed on the side of his head and crush it. Shadow and his friends turned away from the gory mess of ponyville. As they turned away they were shocked to see another pony with them. The frightened ponies faced each other, calmed down and recognized each other. " rainbow dash?" Lucky exclaimed. " I hid... I mean I flew down here to fight a few of the zombies and stayed here." " you mean you stayed here and watched your friends be slaughtered by the legions of the undead?" Sky watcher said ( he wasn't a big fan of rd) " what more could I do? We were being killed and one of our bravest weather pony's was saying ' hide! Don't fight any more. You won't live! Hide!' Before the zombies ripped his head off. I hid here because this is all every pony for themselves. I wish I could've done more. But..." She then broke into tears. " I couldn't." She was then full on crying. The young ponies stepped back a few feet to let rainbow dash have her emotional cleansing. They looked outside to see a seen of chaos even that greater of discords power. The zombies ran amok in the streets in hordes of zombies that filled up the roads. Some pony lit a house on fire and then it caught on to another house and then another. The smell of the death was strong and over powering, the sound of thousands of dead hooves scraping across the ground flooded the ears and the taste of ashes and rotted air was on the tongue. The seen was purely apocalyptic in every way. The children turned around to the emotional mess of a pony , deciding that talking to rd in this state was better than looking out unto the chaotic world that even discord would be horrified from. " rainbow? You feeling ok?" Lucky spoke. " I'm fine. It's just..." Again she was crying a river. ' there's no point In a conversation with her. ' lucky decided. They then took one last look out the rocks to the town they used to call home.
