It all started several months ago, when a mare discovered her special talent. Her skill at working with dead bodies, she began her job at the local graveyard almost with cheer.

But the unicorn had grown bored, dead bodies were her destiny, but there had to be something more. She started to study the art of death, reading up on spellbooks that were arcane and forbidden. The art of necromancy was what she discovered.

She was never good with the graveyard, but manipulating death was something she could do with ease. With her new talent she changed her name, now lost to history, to the name of Rezura.

It wasn't long before the guards of Canterlot came down to Ponyville to arrest her, but by then she was too powerful to stop. She easily slew the troops and reanimated them to do her bidding.

Celestia was furious with the small unicorn, but she had a kingdom to defend. This is the story of how the Apocalypse happened in this peaceful world of Equestria.

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My name is Jackpot, I live in the city of Manehatten, and as such, my wings never were as strong as they would be. Both of my parents were Earth Ponies, I got my wings from my grandfather who passed away recently.

My coat was a light green, my mane was a minty shade of green. Eye color? A soft lavender. My cutie mark was recently discovered, it was a four leaf clover.

I never was the social pony, I usually let my mane stay in front of my face to hide from those who would observe me. Being the shy one in my family was odd, as both of my parents were social ponies and business ponies.

So it was no surprise when there was a knock at the door, but since nopony was expecting somepony to come over. I jumped and nearly hit the ceiling of our house.

My father answered the door, his styled blue mane swishing in the air

I saw a Pegasus guard at the door, he conversed with my father for a while, until the guard walked inside and up to me

"I'm sorry to report, but all pegasi are being relocated to Cloudsdale due to a recent threat." He said, "I'm Captain ThunderHooves."

"J-Jackpot." I said quietly

"Nice to meet you." He said, then turned to my parents, "I wish you could be there for him, but neither of you have the wings."

They nodded, my mother burst into tears, my father comforting her

"Is there a royal document?" My mother asked

"Right here ma'am." ThunderHooves showed her the form

"When does it take effect?" my father asked

"Right away, I'll be waiting until he packs his things of course." ThunderHooves answered, then stood by the door

I trotted up the stairs slowly, unsure of what 'new threat' the captain had been speaking of

I went into the small closet sized room I had, it was fine for me. I went about and packed my saddlebags, gathering some small accessories and a few other things that I could use out there.

I slung my saddlebags over my back, and trotted down the stairs, ThunderHooves smiled encouragingly

I looked to my parents, they didn't seem to be very happy with the situation and kept shooting glares the captain's way

I looked to the floor and stepped forward, it was time to go.

The ride was in a air balloon, like me, there were several ponies that couldn't fly very well

The ride was quiet and peaceful enough, not much happened. Several ponies were chatting but most remained silent. I took the time to observe several of the ponies that were coming up to the floating Pegasus capital

Once we landed I remained back, waiting for the other ponies to get off

Captain ThunderHooves nudged me, "C'mon Jackpot, shake a leg."

I stepped out onto the puffy and soft clouds, being from Manehatten I didn't usually use or even see many clean white clouds like this one

I picked a piece up in my hoof, not used to touching clouds

Then I decided to take a look around, I was shocked to see exactly how many pegasi lived in Equestria. The usually quiet city was filled with pegasi, not too many but just enough to make me back up a few steps

ThunderHooves was behind me, "I wasn't sure how many pegasi lived here, but now I can see exactly what we have here."

"A-are you sure this is a good idea?" I asked

"No idea" the captain told me, "But while we're here, let's find the meeting where we'll be assigned a place to stay."

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A studious and friendly unicorn named Locke was at work, he was assembling the army that Equestria would use in the war. His mane was khaki and his mane was a light brown, his glasses sat over a pair of light blue eyes. His cutie mark was a spellbook.

Now Locke was not finding ponies to work in the war, but he was creating combat golems. His special spell was one that is commonly called 'golemancy'

Since it was not confirmed that ponies could be infected by the zombies, Celestia and Luna had issued a pass that all pegasi would go to Cloudsdale, so no zombies could get there

Rotting wings weren't able to fly well enough to get up there, so it was logical to remove wings from the equation.

Now without the guards, Equestria needed an army, golems can't be infected so it wouldn't be a loss if they got destroyed

The castle seemed empty without the guards. Locke was in charge of making the golems, but Celestia and Luna were the ones giving them orders.

The sky was grim, without the pegasi to clean the skies it was getting rather cloudy. The residents of Cloudsdale were using these clouds to make more houses for their new arrivals.

Locke felt lousy, as he always did after making golems. He'd feel better after he got a drink of coffee. While he trotted through the corridors of the castle he felt a chill run down his spine.

Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but whenever Locke got a chill it meant that something bad was going to happen, not to him but to someone else.

He prayed to Celestia that whoever that chill was for, that they would be okay.