Chapter 7: Farewell to Magic

"And I'll just put that here and...Ta-da! You have hooves once more!"

I was helped onto the ground and felt my new hooves firmly touching the ground. I started walking around on them and they felt perfect. I started running and they felt fine, in place.

"Thank. Twi." I struggled saying.

"It's no problem at all, Thunder." Twilight said. "If only you were there to help me with Spike."

"I. Sorry." I replied.

"You couldn't help," Twilight continued, "you had no legs."

She broke down into tears as I walked up to her. I let her rest her head against my infected body. The infection only spread if I did something to somepony else, like bite into them. It didn't matter if somepony's head was laid up against me.

"Thunder, you may be gone, but you're still alive to me." Twilight said through her tears.

I felt touched by her words. "Thank. You. Twi. Light."

We walked outside to bury Spike properly, along with the rest of our friends. We gathered up their bodies, one by one, and brought them to the park. Digging seven holes, Twilight used her magic to lay each of them to rest.

"Our friends weren't always perfect," Twilight started, "but they meant the world to us. We will never forget the true spirits that resided within everypony here. They will be in our thoughts and heart for as long as we shall live. Today, we lost the final friend to the hooves of the infected. He, along with the rest of our friends, will truly be missed."

I started putting the dirt back in each hole, completely unaware that I was slowly falling apart. Once the holes were all filled back up, Twilight came up to me.

"Can you do me a favor?" She asked.

"What?"

Twilight sighed before asking for her favor. "I want you to infect me."

"Why?" I said, astonished by the favor at hoof.

"I don't want to live like this anymore." She told me. "I'd rather die than live each and every day alone. You're slowly deteriorating, and sooner or later, you'll be gone too."

I shook my head no but started thinking about it further.

"You. Sure?" I asked.

Twilight nodded. "One hundred percent. Please infect me."

I took in a long, stingy breath, letting all the air I took in back out. I opened my mouth, closed my eye, and ripped into Twilight's chest, ripping out her heart.

"Thank. You, Thunder." She said through her deadly pain. "This. Means a lot...to me..."

She let out one long last sigh as I shut her eyes. I fell to the ground shortly afterwards, breaking off the new legs I had just been given. I looked to my left and saw some zombie ponies headed straight for me. I closed my eye as they started feasting upon what was left for me. My last thoughts pounded my brain as I was slowly being devoured. The last thing I thought about, other than my Fluttershy, was Twilight.

"Thank. For. Being. Good. Friend. Twi." I said as the last zombie pony swallowed my head.