Path to Sunny Town:

Laharl looked at the ground with small sets of hoof prints and gave a sniff, "Five came through here."

Issac gave a confused look, "Five, didn't we have three follow us?"

"The other two are fillies, a little older than the other three, ones pink and the other is grey, high class because of the fancy perfume smell and the grey one must be wearing glasses cause her track are a little wobbly."

"How do you know all this?"

Laharl put his head up, "When your dad teaches you how to gather intelligence, it comes easy." They continued down the dark path following the tracks. The further they went in, the more the darkness crept in on them. Evil whispers were heard over the sounds of the animals. Red dot like eyes were watching their every move, as if observing the enemy before the battle.

Laharl could hear some of the voices in the forest. "They are different from the others that come through."

"They would make great additions to the town."

"This will be easy."

"I'm so hungry." His concentration was broken by the sound of a horrible wail just ahead of them. Out of the ground came a dark, black figure with the same red eyes and skin dripping off its body. "I'M HUNGRY NOW," it wailed before charging at both men. In a flash, Laharl stood on his hind legs, wrapped his arms around the creature's neck and stood on the back of its legs. The creature wiggled about not being able to break free, "You two will never save those delicious children, they will be ours."

As it laughed, Laharl made a quick jerk and a loud snap was made. He let go of the creature and it dropped to the ground, now motionless. Issac went over for a look, "Is this what passes as a zombie in this world?"

Laharl got back down on all fours, "Yeah and it looks like this will be difficult." They continued on and suddenly a scurrying sound was made.

Both men looked back and the body was gone. "Shouldn't we go in with our regular forms," Issac asked as they just walked on.

Laharl shook his head, "We have to get use to these pony bodies eventually, so now is the perfect time to break them in." They continued until they found a hedge opening with light peaking out. "Well," Laharl said in a worried tone, "into hell we go."

Zecoras' Hut:

Twilight, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Applejack were stunned as they heard from Zecora what recently happened. Rarity was sobbing uncontrollably, "My little sister, My Sweetie Belle...how could this happen?"

Applejack stomped her front left hoof down in anger, "Ah knew somth'in was wrong with those two boys. When Ah see them again, Ah'ma gonna buck them so hard..."

"Hush now," Zecora yelled, "you must have faith in them."

Twilight gave a puzzled look, "Zecora, why didn't you rhyme?"

She looked at all six mares, "I am trying to talk like others, how am I doing?"

"Don't know why you're doing it but you are doing a good job." Zecora smiled only to disappear when Rainbow put on her goggles.

"I'm going to this Sunny Town to save the girls and give those two guys what for," she said before she was about to take off.

Zecora stood in front of her, "Child stop this, you don't have the power to save them."

Applejack stepped forward, "And those two varmints do?" Zecora led the girls to her cauldron and in the image of Laharl taking down the zombie pony in the forest.

She pointed her hoof at the image, "See how he takes down the Bloody Hoof with ease and see how calm and focus he is." Fluttershy saw and was amazed how quick he was.

Pinkie jumped up and down in excitement, "I know, I know, I know, let's throw them a "Thanks for saving the girls" party when they come back."

Applejack made a serious face and put up her hooves, "And then Ah'm gonna throw them a "Ah'm gonna kill you two for getting my sister and her friends lost in a zombie town" after party."

Twilight went over and smacked Applejack across the face, "Applejack stop this. It's not their fault and they are going to save them, so have faith."

Applejack rubbed her face and broke down crying, "Ah lost my Ma and Pa when Ah was young and Apple Bloom was just a baby, Ah don't want lose any more family."

Zecora walked over and hugged the crying mare, "Shhhh child, we must wait for them to come back with the fillies."

Sunny Town:

Both men felt disgusted at all the sunshine and happiness around the whole town. It wasn't that it was all happiness, it was that the happiness was all fake. Ponies that walked by put on a happy face when looking at the two new stallions that came into town. Laharl knew it was a lie, all of it. Darkness can be felt all around and the smell of death as well.

To any normal pony from this world wouldn't notice the details, luckily he wasn't. Out of nowhere came a grey stallion with black mane and tail with a smile on his face. He spoke with a low voice, "Welcome new ponies to Sunny Town. I am Grey Hoof, mayor of this wonderful town and party planner."

Laharl and Issac put on a happy face to fool Grey Hoof. Issac spoke in a semi-excited voice, "Hi Grey Hoof, I'm Issac," he points a hoof at Laharl, "and this is my brother Laharl. We were watching some fillies and they seemed to have run off from us. You wouldn't have had to see them have you?"

Grey tapped his muzzle with his hoof and pointed it behind him, "I think I saw three go that way with," then his voice got dark, "two other ones."

The men then got more concerned for the girls' safety. Laharl spoke up, "Well... we'll just collect them and get out of your hair."

As they walked off, Grey gave a sinister look, "Please," he said in a sinister voice, "take your time." They looked at each other and then looked around at all the party tables and favors.

The food look so good they trotted over to take a closer look at the food. "That was fucking weird," Issac said in astonishment.

"Ehh, I've seen it too many times before," Laharl said in a bored voice.

"So what do we do now?"

"We look for the girls, find the problem to this place, solve it and get the hell out of here."

Issac sniffed the food, "Smells good but has some other scent to it." He picked up an apple fritter and gave a deep sniff, "Nerve Toxin?"

Laharl nodded, "Yeah, to keep ponies from leaving," he took the fritter and licked it a little, "you would have to eat a whole lot of these or other goodies here to feel the full effect." They put down the food and continued to look for the girls.

Not too far off, there was an orange stallion with blue mane and tail arguing with a white mare with an orange mane and tail. When the fighting was done, the stallion sulked back to a two story white house with black windows. He sat in front of the door as if he was guarding it from anyone from entering it. The guys walked past the mare hearing her talk to herself, "Oh Roneo, I love you so," she lowered her head in sadness and started to cry a little, "why do you not love me?"

They continued to walk and over heard the stallion presumed to be Roneo, "Oh Starlet, my love for you is so great... mere words cannot describe it," he lowered his head, "if only I didn't lose your gift." Paying no mind to them, the guys continued onward into the strange town. Issac then let out a shard yelp and sucked on his right hoof.

Laharl looked at him dumbfounded, "Taste good?"

Issac took his hoof out made an angry face, "No you ass, I stepped on something hard." Both of them looked down and saw a huge ruby.

Laharl picked it up and examined it, "Nice, really nice."

Issac looked back to where the two ponies were, "You think that's the gift that Roneo was looking for?"

"Don't know, I guess we have to go back and ask." They both turned around and walked back to the house. Laharl presented the gem to Roneo, "Hey guy, is this yours?"

Roneo looked at the gem, went wide eyed and took the gem over to Starlet. "Look Scarlet," he presented the gem to her, "proof of my love for you. I found it while in the woods and lost it sometime back, but now it's here."

She lowered the gem and kissed Roneo on the lips, "Oh Roneo, it's beautiful... but not as beautiful as our love." They continued kissing while the guys watched. "You know," Laharl said stepping closer to the house, "if they were real and or alive, that might be sweet." The guys entered the house hoping they weren't seen.

Inside the Dark House:

The air had a musty, damp smell. Death also loomed here, as if the house was used for constant murders. There was some light peaking through the dark windows. Just enough to barley light the entire room, but there was still darkness all around. There was a sound coming the other side of the room but wall were built up to prevent finding the sound.

The sound was someone crying, a female. Laharl tried busting through one of the walls but was knocked back on his back. Issac looked over him, "You okay man?"

"Yeah," Laharl said getting up, "someone must have knowledge of dark magic to prevent anyone from bursting through." He closely examined the wall and found some writing, "I was right. This is black magic...looks like we have to go in through the opening."

They went through the only opening that was there and then it turned into a maze. After some walking and block pushing they came across a small room that had... nothing. While examining the room, Issac stepped on a board that was loose, "Hey Laharl, I found something here." Laharl turned into his human form, walked over and ripped up the floor board.

Issac turned into his human form as well, stuck his hand down the hole and felt something... bone like. Laharl did the same and they both lifted up a full grown horse skeleton. "I see you have found my remains," said a female voice. The guys turned their heads to find a grey mare with a blood red mane and tail. Her eyes were colorless and it looked like she had been crying. She looked them with a concerned look on her face, "What are you two?"

"Not ponies that's for sure," Issac said in a mock tone. Laharl displayed the bone remains in front of the strange mare and there was a small klink sound, like some kind of jewellery fell on the floor. He picked it up and it was a silver bracelet with "MITTA" written on the inside.

"Mitta," he said in an authoritative voice, "what happened here?"

She lowered her head and cried once more, "A curse upon our town. The residents you see outside brought this upon themselves." She sniffed back some tears, "They... they murdered all the children with the marks on their flanks." Laharl remembered all the ponies in Ponyville having marks on their flanks. Some had fruit, vegetables, objects like hammers and screwdrivers.

Then he recalled the crusaders mentioning "Cutie Marks". "You mean Cutie Marks," he finally said.

Mitta nodded, "That is what outsiders call them. Anypony that comes through our town with the marks are... ," she remained silent and then continued on, "ponies with no marks... become like them."

Laharl noticed she didn't have a cutie mark and pointed to her flank, "And what about you?"

She started to sob a little louder, "I defended my daughter and try to run off but we were captured and they took her away. I was left here, never to leave to go find her. I never got the mark, but she did. It was a magnifying glass, she was really good at finding things."

Issac interjected, "So how many bone bodies are there?"

Mitta muttered to herself for a moment and then looked up at them, "eight, including my daughter."

Laharl made a serious face, "They murdered their own kids out of fear... do you know where they put the remains?"

She pointed north-west, "In Grey Hoof's house in the back of the town and you should hurry before those five young fillies meet the horrible fate." Both guys nodded and Laharl put Mitta's remains in his coat. Just before they walked out the door, they turned back into their pony forms.

Sunny Town:

They continued back to where they were headed before, until they were stopped by a stallion with a brown coat and an orange mane and tail. "You boys enjoying our quaint little town?" They wanted to ignore him but they needed to know where the five fillies are.

Laharl put on a happy face, "Yes, it's very lovely. Say, you wouldn't happen to have seen five little fillies around have you sir?"

"Please, call me Gladstone and yes I have seen some fillies," he pointed to a small housing area in the back, "they looked like they were playing tag."

"Thanks man," and the guys just walked on to where he pointed. As they were walking, they came across a mare with a green coat and mossy green mane and tail. She was doing some gardening when she noticed the guys.

"You two looking for something," she asked.

Issac spoke up, "Yeah, we're looking for five little fillies and we were told they came this way." She pointed behind her, which looked like dark path, like the one before the entrance and she went back to her gardening. As the guys walked in the direction the mare pointed, Laharl lifted up his hoof and caught something in the air.

"Silly Three Leaf," the mare yelled, "you need to watch where your throwing random things," then she giggled. Laharl looked at the object and it was a key. As they continued onward, the forest got darker and more damp. They passed a rickety old shack that looked like storm after storm broke it down. Small headstones can be seen beyond the forest and both guys went in that direction to see the stone. There was a total count of "27" small headstones, each over a small mound with a name on it.

"Ponies who came here and didn't make," Issac said examining the stones. Laharl dug into one of the graves and let out a "whoa" loud enough for Issac to hear. "What is it," he asked.

Laharl turned to him and said, "This one is empty and if this one is empty, than all the others are empty."

"So what does this mean?"

"If we don't find those girls soon, we're fucked."

Then a loud, girl scream was heard. They both ran back to the area with the shack. "Where did that scream come from," Issac asked.

Laharl quickly looked around and pointed, "I think it came from the housing area." Then they both took off and when they got there, they found the five fillies being surrounded by the ponies they met while they were here.

"Oh good," Laharl said while he and Issac trotted over to the girls, "you found them, how lovely." Both guys corralled the girls and all seven of them walked back to the shack. While walking, Apple Bloom looked at Laharl with worry in her eyes and he looked at her with a smile on his face reassuring her "Everything will be fine". They got to the house and Laharl tried the key to the door and it would budge. He then kicked it open and everyone entered.

Grey Hooves Shack:

Sweetie Belle found a lamp and lit it up, giving the whole room light. "Well isn't this just perfect," complained the pink filly.

"Yeah, just perfect," complained the grey filly.

Scootaloo walked over and yelled, "DIAMOND TIARA AND SILVER SPOON, WOULD YOU BOTH KEEP QUIET!"

"Why should we," Diamond continued to complain, "you chased us here to this backwater town, followed by the creepy residents and now being kidnapped by two weirdos."

Laharl was getting annoyed, "If that is Diamond talking, shut your trap. I need to keep a look out."

Diamond looked shocked, "How dare you talk to me in that manner. Do you know who my father is?"

"No and I don't give a flying fu... crap."

Silver giggled, "You were going to say a bad word."

"Shut it," he said still looking out the window.

Issac paced around the room, "Anything out there?"

Laharl walked away from from the window, "No, we weren't followed."

He continued to walk till he stood in front of the unusable fireplace. Apple Bloom stomped the floor right next to him, "Mister Laharl, Ah think there might be something underneath us."

He bent down and stomped the floor himself, breaking the floorboard. "I think this is what we are looking for."

Issac walked over and helped him pull whatever was in there. All the girls circled around to see what they were pulling up. When they saw the skeleton, they all screamed and ran out of the shack. Laharl started putting the skeletons in his coat, "Shit, we have to hurry this up."

Sunny Town:

The girls ran through the town screaming until they were stopped by a hoard of zombie ponies. They looked so grotesque with their flesh dripping from their black bones and their terrifying red eyes. "So," zombie Grey Hoof said walking closer to them, "it looks like we will have five new members of our family tonight folk."

'Tonight?,' Apple Bloom thought. She looked up and she didn't notice that it was night. The moon was out and the stars shined bright. 'Ah don't wanna die now... 'sniff' Ah want my sis and bro'. One of the zombies came charging at them in full running speed. All the girls closed their eyes hoping it will be over quickly. Laharl: Blood Arcane: Cats Eye: The girls opened their eyes to see that the zombie fell over, cut in half.

They looked to their right a little and saw Laharl on his hind legs and a red blade sticking out of his coat. More zombies came charging in. Issac: Gum Gum Whip: Somepony's leg stretched out and knocked over all the charging zombies. It was Issac who did that kick.

The girls stared in awe at what the stallions were doing. Grey Hoof roared in anger and all the zombies charged in. Laharl: Blood Arcane: Sea of Blades: Laharl thrust the red blade into the ground and broke the blade that was attached to him. Then rows and rows of big red blade came bursting through the ground, cutting up all zombies blocking the entrance.

Laharl picked up Apple Bloom and Silver Spoon while Issac picked up the other three and bolted out of Sunny Town. They ran as fast as they could through the forest on their hind legs. Having to carry the fillies was not really difficult for the guys but that soon came to be when zombie after zombie came up from the ground, blocking the way out. "Laharl," Issac called out, "take these three while I deal with this blockade."

"I got it," Laharl called back.

Issac threw the three fillies in the air and Laharl wasn't that far behind and caught them before they landed on the ground. Issac started thrusting out his hooves which made it look like more hooves were being made. Issac: Gum Gum Gatling: He created a barrage of hooves, knocking down all the zombies in their path.

It was looking at a huge bull rampaging through a fine china shop. Eventually everyone got out safely and headed to Zecora's hut. Laharl dropped the girls and pointed to the hut, "Get inside and don't come out until we finish out here." They all nodded and went in.

Zecora's Hut:

The fillies went to their respected family or friends except for Diamond and Silver who went to Zecora. After some crying and comforting, Applejack looked out the window and saw the guys putting a bunch of skeletons in a pile. She and the other Girls started to go outside to see what was going on, until Apple Bloom grabbed a hold of her legs, "Mister Laharl said to stay inside until they were finished." Applejack looked down at her with a serious look on her face, "Now, now sugarcube, we're just gonna give the boys a hand."

Outside Zecoras' Hut:

The six mares walked out and saw a coat less Laharl, head bowed and hooves pressed together, saying something in a strange language. As they stepped closer, Issac came out of nowhere before them. Applejack looked angry, "Move or Ah'm gonna buck you so hard, your brains will fall out all over the ground."

Issac didn't budge or look worried. Rainbow Dash made a loud battle cry and charged forward, hoping to get past Issac. He stretched out his arm, catching her and throwing her back to her friends. Laharl threw his fore legs up in the air and yelled, "AND NOW THAT I RELEASE YOU FROM YOUR EARTHLY PRISON, MAY YOUR SPIRITS FIND THEIR WAY TO THE CELESTRIAL PLANES TO HAVE THE REST YOU WERE ALL SO DENIED!"

He then created a small white fire threw it in the bone pile, lighting it up and destroying all the bones. Then out of nowhere, loud howls were heard in the direction of Sunny Town. Laharl bent over to pick up his coat and put it back on. Twilight stepped forward, "What have you two been doing this whole time?"

When Laharl was done he turned to the mares, took out a cigarette, lit the end with a lighter started to smoke, "Seeking out evil, killing it and saving ponies...you know, the usual day of our lives."

The girl looked at his cool demeanour and started to worry a little.

"YOU... YOU RUINED EVERYTHING FOR ME!" Laharl and Issac turned to see zombie Grey Hoof and his "friends". Laharl grunted, reached down and pulled up some kind of thin, red string. Grey stepped back while the other residents of the town were caught in the string. Laharl: Blood Arcane: Red End Line: He pulled really hard on the red string and small slash sounds were made.

Then Roneo, Starlet, Gladstone and Three Leaf fell into pieces and the remains burnt in black fire. Grey growled at seeing what became of his comrades. Laharl inhaled the smoke, took out the cigarette and blew the smoke out, "Now it's just you Grey Hoof." Grey looked around and saw the fillies behind the mares. He grinned and charged for them hoping he would make it... but he was wrong.

Laharl held out his hoof and stopped Grey in his tracks. Laharl smiled and spoke in an evil voice, "Goodbye Grey." Laharl: Peiue Graveis: A light came from under Grey Hoof and he started to disappear from the earth. He let out a loud howl before he completely disappeared. Laharl took the done cigarette, threw it on the ground and stepped on it, putting it out.

Issac walked over, patted Laharl on the back and walked off into the night. "HEY," Applejack yelled at them, "WE AIN'T DONE HERE! WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU TWO ARE AND WHAT YOUR DOING HERE?"

Laharl responded, "We will talk tomorrow, but in a place where we can't be heard from."

Pinkie shouted back, "HOW ABOUT THE SUGAR CUBE CORNER?"

"Fine," Laharl responded, waving at the mares as he and Issac walked off into the night. What will they tell the girl tomorrow?

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Authors Note: Credit for the "Story of the Blanks" goes to Donitz from newgrounds. Thank you for letting me use the game as a reference. Please check out the game at portal/view/573755. Redone number 4 is now a whole chapter. If anyone wants me to put it back into a two parter, please let me know. Also, if anyone knows some good rhymes for Zecora in this chapter, that would be helpful. Ciao!