A Few Hours Ago

Asura was busy training his "Monster Hunter" squad members. During this, he never once left the though about that dreadful story and when his instinct screamed at him. He also didn't felt safe leaving Twilight going alone to visit Zecora in the Everfree forest. He made sure that Zecora would be safe by ordering 5 thousands Timber Wolfs to guard her. He did left some infected insects to keep an eye on Twilight.

With his "Hive Mind" was able to clearly see what the infected insects were seeing. He saw how Twilight walk towards the Everfree forest and how she met the filly Apple Bloom at the entrance of the forest. He also saw how the filly begged Twilight to join her in seeing Zecora. His heart was attacked by cuteness when he saw Apple Bloom cute puppy dog eyes. Twilight tried to resist the filly's cute attack and she failed.

Asura saw Apple Bloom jumping around in glee and joined Twilight. He saw both of them walking into the forest. As they went deeper into the forest, Asura started to feel something strange. The path that he used was changed as if the forest was shifting. He saw them coming towards an abyss where the filly fell but she was saved by twilight. Then he saw a log that acted like a bridge above the abyss. He found it strange as the log was not there a few moments ago.

Asura saw the girls crossing the log and continuing their way. After a while, they finally reached Zecora's house. He was pleased to see Zecora fine and being guard by the Timber Wolfs. He saw Twilight giving her some books and the crates the was filled with Heart Desires. Zecora smiled and thanked them but then he heard a strange sound.

"... Blank ..."

Immediately, the infected insects turn around and look at their surrounding in order to find the one who said that but found no one. Asura's instincts was screaming inside his mind about this. The insects stop when they saw the expression on Zecora's face. Her smiling face became serious all of a sudden when she heard that voice. He then heard what she spoke as a warning and telling the girls to leave the forest as quickly as possible before closing the door and locking it.

Asura was confused by Zecora's actions. He was more confused when the Timber Wolfs began to move around as if they were trying to find something. Asura was getting a bad vibe from all of this creepy things. He kept on training his squad members while he hid his worries. However, his worries only grew when he saw the girls path being blocked by a huge trunk.

Asura saw how Twilight was able to life and throw away the tree trunk with her magic. However, several more huge tree trunks fell and block the girls path. 'Now where did these tree trunks came from?' He thought. Asura saw Twilight continuing to life and throw the logs away. His attention came back to Apple Bloom when she found a space between two trees. Being curious, the filly walk through the space and explore it. The insects divided themselves into two groups. One group stayed with Twilight while the other when towards Apple Bloom.

A short time later, fog covered the area around the filly who continued to walk ahead. Later, Asura saw that Apple Bloom stumbled upon a strange village in the middle of the Everfree forest. He saw only Earth ponies living here and were busy hanging up party ornaments and food etc. He saw a stallion welcoming the filly but he felt some bad vibes coming from the stallion. The filly walk around the village and talked with some of them. She even helped two of them to form a couple. Asura smiled at her helpfulness.

However, his smile fell when the ponies said that they knew nothing about Cutie Marks which made him confused. True to their words, he saw that the ponies didn't had any Cutie Marks on their flanks. Why don't they have Cutie Marks since they become adults? No matter. He will find the answers later. The insects continued to follow the filly and found her sneaking her way into a locked house through the window.

Inside Asura saw that it was filled with crates with windows shut and dust everywhere. This must be a store house. His thought were broken when he heard someone crying. Of course the filly went to see who was crying and found a mare. His heart jumped when he saw the make walking towards the filly and thought that she was about to attack her but sigh in relief when she asked who she was and what was she doing here. However, his interest peaked when the mare told the filly to get out and away from this curse village.

The mare pushed the filly through the window and closed it. The insects then followed Apple Bloom to another part of the village where she saw another path. She took that path and found a house away from the village. She tried to enter but the door was locked. So she went around the house. Asura was curious about what the house would hold, so he ordered his insects to enter the door's key hold and opened the lock.

*Click*

The sound gained the attention of the filly and before she reached the door, the insects entered the house and spread around. The filly entered the house and looked around. There was nothing there besides a fireplace were the fire was burning and a table with something on it. Apple Bloom went to the table and dusted off the dust. She found a picture to which Asura saw a grown mare and a filly. He concluded that they were mother and daughter.

Apple Bloom felt cold and went near the fireplace and sat near it. After warming up for a while, Asura saw the filly starring at the fireplace. She became stiff as a statue when she saw something and became scared. Asura was confused and saw the filly running outside in fear. He then looked at the fireplace and gasped at what he saw. Bones. Small bone. Bones that were the size of a filly.

Asura's blood boiled in anger. How dare they do this to a filly! The infected insects immediately followed Apple Bloom back to the strange village but found something else. The village that looked full of life was now barren of any life. In fact, it looked like that village was a relic. The buildings crumbled, rotten food, dead grass but most of all, silence. Absolute silence. There was no sound of any kind except of the filly walking through the village.

Asura saw that Apple Bloom was walking towards the village exit as she was scared from all of this. Then he heard something cracking which gained the attention of the filly. She went to check what it was and to her horror saw a skeletal corpse digging itself from the ground. Asura immediately cursed at the obvious clues. A lost village in the Everfree forest. Only Earth ponies living here. No knowledge of Cutie Marks. This was the village that was swallowed by the forest. The resident of this village have become cursed and turned into zombies.

Asura said, "Damn it!"

The members of his squad look at him in concern. Silver Streak asked, "Is everything alright Asura?"

Asura shook his head and said, "Sorry guys but I need to get going."

Knives asked, "What's up?"

Asura said, "There seems to be some trouble going on in the Everfree forest and I am needed there right now."

Silver Streak asked, "What's going on? Its it the enemy? More monsters?"

Asura said, "Zombies."

This got them to stop in shock. Knives said, "Zombies?"

Asura nodded. Knives said, "Rotten corpses that move around and eat the living?"

Asura nodded again. Knives said, "Seriously?"

Asura nodded and Knives said, "I'll be dammed. Never in my wildest nightmare would I ever believe a zombie exist."

Asura said, "I am going there. All of you, continued your training for 2 more hours and then take a break for the day."

The members nodded and Asura jumped into the air and flew towards the Everfree forest with "Jet Voice".

Asura used "Hive Mind" to check on Apple Bloom's situation. He saw that the filly ran away from the zombies and towards the exit. Asura immediately ordered the infected insects to make more of themselves and protect the filly. The infected insects flew towards the forest and found a hive of hornets. The infected insects immediately attacked the hive and began to infect them. Soon a hoard of infected hornets were made that immediately flew back towards the filly who was almost about to get jumped by a bunch of zombies.

The infected hornets attack the zombies by stinging. When that didn't work, they began to attack their faces and blinding them by filling their empty eye sockets with their numbers. This gave Apple Bloom enough time to push aside a rick and ran through the empty space.

By this time, Asura already reached the entrance of the Everfree forest. He dived down with such force that *Crash* left a huge crater on the ground. He couldn't see from above so, he dash on the ground and used "Soru" to blurred towards Twilight first as she was the closest. Through his insects, Asura saw Twilight was still busy throwing tree trunks away from her path while Apple Bloom was running through the forest and away from the zombies. For the time, the filly was safe.

At Twilight's Location

Twilight panted in exhaustion after she threw away the 58th tree trunk from her path. She sat on the ground and rested. She then raised her head to look at her progress and saw that .... nothing changed? She look in disbelief and jaws agape at the scene in front of her. After all of that, the number of tree trunks didn't look like they were decreasing at all. It was the same as before. She growled at the scene before her like it was mocking her.

Twilight stand back up and gather her magic. She had it with this and shot a magic beam at the pile of tree trunks. *Boom* She panted in exhaustion as she used up most of her magic in shooting a magic beam. When the dust cleared, Twilight's jaw dropped to the ground when she saw that the tree trunks weren't even damaged.

Twilight shouted in anger, "Oh come on! Why you no get out of my way!"

She girted her teeth as she glared at the pile of tree trunks. She was about to shout something at it when suddenly.

*Crash*

Twilight closed her eyes and made a magic shield in front of her when the pile of tree trunks exploded into thousands of pieces that scattered around. It was like something rammed through it. Slowly, she opened her eyes and gasped when she saw that Asura was standing in front of her and the path was cleared from the tree trunks. In fact, the nearby trees were blown away which made the path much wider then before.

Asura was running towards Twilight first as she was the closest to reach. On the path, he jumped over the abyss, charged through trees that sprout out from the ground to block his path. This didn't slow him down and he kept on running towards Twilight. Soon, he was a pile of tree trunks that blocked the path and behind them was Twilight. He scoffed at the weak play of blocking his path and dived at pile of tree trunks and shattering them.

Asura was now standing in front of Twilight who liked really weak from magic exhaustion. She was busy with throwing away tree trunks one after another. He sigh in relief as she was at least fine.

Twilight look up at Asura in disbelief and said, "Asura?"

Asura hugged her and said, "Thank haven your alright Twilight. I though something happened to you."

Twilight hugged him and said, "What do you mean something happened to me? I'm fine."

Asura smiled and said, "This forest isn't safe right now Twilight."

Twilight asked, "What do you mean?"

Asura said, "Some dark relic has come back to life and you need to get out of here right now."

Twilight became scare at that and said, "Is it that much danger?"

Asura nodded and said, "Yes it is Twilight."

Twilight said, "Okay. I'll just grab Apple Bloo-" She look behind and saw no one. She shouted, "Where is Apple Bloom!? I told her not to leave me alone!"

Asura said, "I will be looking for her Twilight. You need to get out of here. I'll send you away with my Sound Orb."

Twilight look at him and said, "Please find Apple Bloom. Protect her."

Asura smiled and kissed her. He said, "Of course I will Twilight. Not only I will protect her but I will also deal with the evil that has returned."

Twilight smiled and nodded. Asura said, "When you reach Ponyville, make sure not to let anyone enter the Everfree forest until I arrive okay?"

Twilight said, "Okay Asura. I'll do that. Be safe."

She hugged him and he hugged her. Then he released her and said, "Sound Orb".

Twilight was covered in a sphere made of sound that launched her into the sky and towards Ponyville. Asura then dash down the path but stop near the entrance to Sunny Town. He saw that another tree sprouted out from the ground and blocked his path completely.

Asura scoffed at the stupid attempt of stopping him and said, "Bitch please."

*Crash*

Asura backhanded the tree out of his way and simply walked between the space between the trees. His anger kept on increasing as he made his way towards that damn town full of zombies. During his walk, he kept on thinking about the safety of Apple Bloom and the mysterious ghost filly. Maybe he can do something for her.

Ponyville

Twilight landed in front of the library and quickly teleported away towards her friends. She quickly gathered her friends as she begin to do what Asura asked of her.

Rarity asked, "Twilight dear. What got you running around that you have to gather us so fast?"

Rainbow said, "Yeah Twilight. Are you trying to become the fastest runner?"

Twilight said, "No girls. This is an emergency that needs to be done right now!"

Trixie asked, "What's the emergency Twilight?"

Applejack said, "Yeah and where is Apple Bloom? She is late."

Twilight said, "This has to do with why I gathered all of you girls."

Applejack became fearful of her sister's safety and said, "Is Apple Bloom okay? Is she safe!?"

Twilight said, "Asura has gone to find her. I'm sure she is safe at the moment."

Swift Tail said, "At the moment? What do you mean at the moment!? Is someone trying to harm her!?"

Gilda said, "What!? Who could be out there hurting a filly?"

Spitfire said, "We'll teach that bastard a lesson of what happens when someone hurts a filly."

Applejack asked, "Where is Apple Bloom Twilight?"

Twilight said, "She is in the Everfree forest."

Applejack said, "Twilight!? What was she doing in there!? Don't she know that its dangerous going in there!? And how she get there!?"

Twilight said, "I found her on my way to Zecora's house and she just tag along with me after she pleased with me to come with me."

Rarity said, "Dear. You can't just allow a younger one to accompany you to that dreadful place."

Twilight lowered her head and said, "I know but I couldn't refuse her when she did her cute face thing. You know that right?"

Everyone knew what she was talking about. The younger one's cute puppy dog eyes are a weapon of extreme cuteness that can give anyone diabetes and cute heart attack. No one is resistant to it.

Applejack said, "Okay. I get it what you are saying but what about Apple Bloom? What happened? We need to go there now!?"

Applejack turn and was about to run towards the Everfree forest but Twilight stopped her and said, "Applejack stop! Asura told me to make sure that everyone is away from the Everfree forest until he comes back from it."

Applejack stopped and look at her. She asked, "What do you mean that Asura would be back? Back from where?"

Twilight said, "At the moment, Asura is in the Everfree forest and is looking for Apple Bloom. You don't have to worry about your little sister now that he is looking for her."

Applejack sigh and said, "Okay Twilight. Just tell me your story and where all of this started."

Twilight nodded and said, "Well, we both went towards Zecora's house and gave her the books I took from her. I also gave her the crates full of Heart Desire. We greeted each other but something strange happened."

Mellow Hooves said, "Strange?"

Twilight nodded and said, "Zecora happy face became serious and said that we needed to get out of this forest immediately and then she locked her door."

Redheart said, "Well, that is strange."

Pinkie said, "So what happened next?"

Twilight said, "We did that and walk back towards Ponyville but the path we took had a tree trunk laying there which blocked our way. So I simply threw it away but another strange thing happened."

Ditzy said, "What?"

Twilight said, "Several more tree trunks fell on the path that completely blocked it. I then began to throw them away one by one and after throwing away so many tree trunks, the number didn't seem like it was going down."

Fluttershy asked, "Then what happened if you don't mind?"

Twilight smiled and said, "Well, when I began enraged from it, suddenly the pile of tree trunks exploded. I covered myself in a magic shield to protect myself from that. When the dust cleared, Asura was there. He break through the pile of tree trunks like it was nothing!"

Gilda grinned and said, "Well, you know that he is a monster hunter. Nothing can stand in his way."

Aloe said, "What happened next?"

Twilight said, "Asura quickly hugged me and said that he was happy that I was unharmed. When I asked why he told me that something is in the Everfree forest. Something evil."

Lotus said, "What? What is it?"

Twilight said, "Asura told me that it was some kind of ancient evil that has returned and its in the Everfree forest."

Applejack shouted, "Evil!? Apple Bloom is not only in the Everfree forest but there is an evil there as well!? We need to do something right now!"

Twilight shouted, "Don't panic girls! We just need to do what Asura told us!"

Fleetfoot said, "What did he said?"

Twilight said, "He told me that he will be looking for Apple Bloom and at the same time, he will deal with whatever the evil is. That is why he told me to make sure that no one goes into the forest at the moment until he is done with the evil."

Lyra air fist and said, "Yeah! Asura can beat whatever that evil is."

Bon Bon said, "Considering that he is a monster hunter, evil does come into being his prey."

Mayor Mare nodded and said, "I agree with Asura. He may be the only one who can face an ancient evil. I will tell the civilians of Ponyville about this immediately. Would you girls help me with that?"

The girls nodded and Aloe said, "Of course Mayor. We will gladly help you."

Mayor smiled and said, "Thank you girls."

Applejack look at the Everfree forest with eyes full of worry. She was really worry about her little sister. Twilight saw this and hugged her. She said, "Applejack. There is no need to worry. Apple Bloom is safe now that Asura is looking for her. He will protect her like he does with us."

Applejack hugged her and said, "I know Twilight. I'm just worried about her."

Twilight smiled and said, "Just wait for our coltfriend Applejack. He will fine her and keep her safe."

Applejack smiled and nodded. She said, "Okay Twilight. I know Asura will do anything to keep us safe. Lets go and help Mayor with the announcement."

The girls nodded and went with Mayor. They announced it to everyone about the danger of an ancient evil in the Everfree forest which chocked and scared them. They then made a barricade on the edges of the forest in order to make everyone wary about the danger of the evil. The girls sat together with everyone and hope that Asura and Apple Bloom is safe.

Back To Asura

As Asura was running, he saw how Apple Bloom was saved by one of the zombies. This one at least had flesh that looked a bit rotten. Her name was Mitta and it looks like Apple Bloom trust her. His anger grew when he heard how she lost her daughter just for having a Cutie Mark. The village killed her and Mitta tried to protect her filly but failed. He girted his teeth at this foul and disgusting act. He will have the zombies dead and make paste of their corpses.

Asura stop running when he saw something small hiding behind a tree. Whatever it was, was glowing white. He walk towards it slowly and was shocked at what he found. It was an Earth filly with grey fur and golden glowing eyes. She had orange mane with lighter orange highlights and a Cutie Mark of a magnifying glass. What shocked him the most was that her body was transparent white. The filly was a ghost.

Asura look down at the ghost filly with eyes full of pain. To die at such a young age made his heart ache. The filly look up to the human with an innocent face and smiled.

The ghost filly said, "Hi! I'm Ruby. What's your name and what are you? I have never seen someone like you before."

Asura's heart ache more at the innocent way the ghost asked. He gave a soft smile and said, "Hello Ruby. My name is Asura and I am a human. The reason you have yet to see someone like me is because I am the only human on the planet."

Ruby eyes widen in awe as she see the huge cross on his back. She said, "Wow. You must be like super strong to life something like that thing on your back."

Asura smiled and said, "Yes. I am strong and the only one who is able to life this cross. It is called 'The Punisher' because it is used to punish those who have hurt the innocent."

Ruby eyes widen at that but then turn into a frown. Asura saw this and asked softly, "Ruby. What is it? Why are you sad?"

Ruby look down and said, "Does that mean you are here to punish those who did bad?"

Asura said, "Yes. I am here to punish them for what they did to you and what they are trying to do to Apple Bloom."

Ruby look up to him with fearful eyes and begged, "Please. Please don't hurt my mommy. She didn't had any choice. She was forced to do .. i-it and I have already forgiven her. Please spare her! Please!"

Asura saw genuine concern in her eyes. She was afraid that he was going to hurt her mother Mitta. He smiled and kneel down. He put his right hand on her head but it phase through her because she was a ghost. He then used "Armament Haki" to on his hand and he was able to touch her head. Ruby was surprised that someone was able to touch her. She leaned into his hand as she was not touched by anyone in a long time. She felt safe.

Asura said, "I promise not to hurt your mother. I am only going to punish the ones who did all of this."

Ruby smiled as she was lost in the bliss of his touch. A while later, she said, "Thank you."

Asura nodded and said, "Ruby. I want you to stay behind me as I deal with them. Okay?"

Ruby nodded and began to follow him. Asura began to walk down the street towards Apple Bloom. From the perspective of his infected insects, he saw how the zombie Mitta saved Apple Bloom and told her to run. Then he saw Mitta charging at the zombies in order to buy time for the filly to escape. Apple Bloom wanted to help the kind zombie but could do anything. He saw how the other zombies began to attack Mitta who look behind her and shouted for the filly to run.

Apple Bloom could do nothing but run away as she cried. He saw the zombies beat Mitta who had a smile on her face as she was able to help the filly escape. After beating Mitta, the zombies took her away while a group of zombies went towards the filly. Asura began to walk fast towards Apple Bloom as the zombies were getting closer. He didn't run because he told Ruby to follow him.

His anger increased when he saw through his infected insects how Apple Bloom was surrounded by zombies. Asura was a far from them but was gaining on them. He growled when he heard the zombie in front of the filly saying, "Come. Join us. We’ll protect you ... Forevvvvveeeerrrrr!"

Asura really wanted to smash its ugly face in with his fists. He immediately used "Echolocation" on the entire Everfree forest and made a sound map. He located the zombies and the filly's location and position. He became enraged when he saw the zombie about to bite Apple Bloom making her scream.

"KKKKKKKYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Asura took out 'Haven' with his right hand and took aim at that zombie.

The bullet shot from the pistol and flew towards the zombie. There were several trees in its way but the bullet simple shot through them without slowing down. In just one second, the bullet reach its target and hit the zombie's head.

*Sprolk*

The zombie's head exploded in bone and rotten flesh. Splashing around Apple Bloom and missing her completely. Her eyes open and look at the now headless zombie standing in front of her like a statue. Then a few seconds later, the zombie fell backward and died. The other zombies look at their headless fellow and laugh.

One zombie said, "Good one buddy. Now come on get up."

Another zombie said, "Yeah! Come on. We got a filly to turn into one of us."

However, the headless zombie didn't move at all. A zombie got worried and walk towards the fallen corpse and nudge it.

The zombie said, "Come on. Enough joking around. Get up!"

The zombie kicked the corpse but it didn't made a move. It kick it again and it didn't moved. The zombie kicked it a couple of times but got no result. This got them scared when they saw that one of them died right in front of them.

A zombie shouted, "How is this possible!?"

Another zombie shouted, "We can't die! We are immortal!"

A zombie shouted, "This can't be happening! Who killed him!?"

The zombies looked at Apple Bloom and saw her in a state of shock. They advanced on her and were about to turn her into one of them but.

*Thud*

The zombies stopped at that sound. They look around to see what it was but found nothing. They again advanced on the filly with intent to turn her into another zombie.

*Thud*

The zombies stopped again at that sound. They look around and saw nothing. They waited to see where that sound came from.

*Thud*

This time, the sound was much bigger. The ground that they were standing on trembled for a moment.

*Thud*

The trees shivered from it. Their leaves rustled from the incoming doom.

*Thud*

The grass began to turn brown and shriveled.

*Thud*

The flowers shriveled up and died.

*Thud*

The trees began to wither and its leaves turned into dust.

*Thud*

The birds flew away and animals ran from the area immediately.

*Thud*

*Thud*

*Thud*

*Thud*

*Thud*

With that final stomp, the ground stop trembling. The air stood still. No sound was made. There was total silence. Everything around the zombies died and turn to dust. Even the zombies were scared at what it was that did this. They stood still as they look around to see what kind of being could do all of this. Then one zombie saw something in the dark.

The pointed at it and shouted, "Look!"

When every zombie look in that direction, they all stopped. If they still had a heart then it would have stopped beating. They all saw two red glowing demonic eyes that send shiver down their spine.

The zombies were trembling in fear at the demonic eyes. Their though of turning the filly into a zombie completely vanished and was replaced by running for their lives but they couldn't do that as fear coursed through their bodies. Apple Bloom was confused as she saw the zombies standing there. She look into the direction that the zombies were looking and froze when she saw the demonic eyes. She too was going to tremble in fear but couldn't when she felt that the hate and rage was only being directed towards the zombies.

Slowly, the moon light shine upon the shadowy individual and was revealed to be a 9 foot tall hulking being with a murderous scowl that can send even a beast running for their lives. Every part of the being's muscles were bulging as rage course through his body. None of the zombies dared to make a move at this being as they felt raw power emitted by him.

Apple Bloom saw him and shouted, "Asura! You came!"

Asura nodded without looking at Apple Bloom. Ruby was behind him as she felt safe with him. However, someone decided to break the silent. A pair of arms emerged from the ground and grabbed his left leg. A zombie jumped out of the ground and bite his right arm. Apple Bloom screamed when she saw him being bitten by a zombie. The other zombies who were stiff as a statue felt dread filling inside their body. Like something really bad is going to happen. And it will.

The zombie who held the human's leg smiled and said, "Ha! We got a big one boys! Don't know what is it but it is going to become a part of our village!"

The zombie's smile soon fell when it saw that the human didn't even flinched when he was bitten. Asura slowly look down at the zombie who was biting his right arm. He then lifted his arm while the zombie didn't let go of his arm. Asura brought his arm towards his face and glare at the zombie who was still biting his arm but stopped when it saw the human's red eyes. The zombie began to feel fear when it noticed that the human flesh was not damaged, but also, his flesh was not even being rotten.

Asura growled that send shiver down the zombie's spine. Then to everyone's shock, a huge mouth fill to the brim with razor sharp teeth emerged from the human's abdomen.

*Ggggrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

The mouth on Asura abdomen growled and then to everyone's horror, the mouth snap at the zombie who was biting his arm.

*Chomp*

*Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh*

The zombie screamed when its lower body was caught in the huge mouth. The mouth began to chew and pulled in the rest of the zombie's body. The zombie fearing for its life cling to the human's right arm.

The zombie screamed, "Aaaaaahhhhhhhhh! Help me!"

However, none of the zombies made a move as they were stiff from fear. They were so shocked to see that their curse didn't effect this being. Not only that but it was also eating them. A zombie.

*Crunch* *Crunch* *Crunch*

The zombie screamed as its body was being eaten, "Aaaahhhhhhhh! Make it stop! Please! Help me!"

Too bad, his pleas fell on deaf ears. The zombies tried to move in to save their fellow zombie but their bodies refused to move as the human's killing intent wash on all of them except for Apple Bloom. To her, she felt like a protective aura wash over her that kept her safe from the zombies. She didn't flinch from seeing the zombie being eaten by Asura's abdomen mouth.

"NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-"*Crunch*

Soon the zombie was pulled in and eaten whole as the human's abdomen mouth chewed it and ate it. Everyone besides the filly stood in fear. The zombies were horrified when they saw one of their fellow zombie being eaten by this being. They never thought that something could ever eat them since they are walking rotten corpses. They seen on zombie eaten in front of them and now it was time for the other one. The one who was grabbing the human's left leg.

The zombie whose only upper body was out of the ground, who was grabbing the human's left leg, look in fear as he saw his friend being eaten right in front if him. He came out of his shock when he saw that some form of flesh was moving on his skeletal hands began to sink into the human's left leg. Soon, the zombie was being slowly pulled towards the leg.

"Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! My hands!"

The zombie screamed in horror and tried to pull itself away from the human but could not free its hands. Small tendrils came out of the human's left leg and wrapped around the zombie's arms and began to pull it into the leg.

"Stop! Release me! Or I'll-MMMMMPPHHHH!!?"

The zombie's scream were silence when its face made contact with the leg. Its whole face sink into the flesh and was devoured by the virus.

*Crunch* *Crunch*

The zombie's bones were being crushed as it was being pulled into the human's leg. Soon the zombie's body begin to be pulled into the flesh. The zombie's legs were flailing around as it tried its last attempt to free itself from the devouring flesh but to no avail. Soon, the zombies was pulled into the human's left and devoured completely.

Silence reign the air as the zombies look in horror at the being in front of them. This being not only was able to kill them but also eat them as well. The whole time the second zombie that was being devoured from his leg, Asura didn't even gave a single glance at it. He kept on glaring at the group of zombies in front of him. After the zombie was devoured, he look at Apple Bloom with a soft expression and flick his head behind him. He signaled Apple Bloom to come behind him to which the filly understood and immediately got up on her hooves and ran behind him. She saw the ghost filly was also standing behind the human. She didn't say anything to her as she was scared from the zombies.

The zombies didn't dare to stop the filly for they didn't want the being to target them. Too bad that they already pissed off the one who they needed to clear off. Apple Bloom was breathing heavily as she was shocked to see something like that. Sure they were zombies who did bad thing but they didn't deserve this. Do they? She questioned herself. She then recalled for what the zombies did to the filly. Her anger came back at that thought and said in her mind 'They deserve it. They deserve everything Asura is going to do to them!'

Asura look behind him at Apple Bloom and Ruby. He said, "You two stay here while I deal with them. Close your eyes and cover your ears."

The two fillies nodded and closed their eyes and covered their ears. Asura then slowly turn his face back towards the zombies and scowled dangerously. He began to slowly walk towards them. With each step he took, the more fear raised inside the zombies. Asura's walk turn into running and lunged at the zombies. The zombies screamed in fear and were tackled by the enraged human. He got six of them in a bear hug and *Crunch* crushed them and devoured them.

The zombies saw this and began to ran away. However, it was too late as the human blurred out of existence and appeared in front of them. He raised his right leg and *Crunch* stomp on on zombie, crushing it and devoured it. The other zombies tried to attack him out of fear but that made their downfall. Asura grabbed two of them with their heads and *Crunch* crushed them. Tendrils shot out, pierced the two headless corpses and pulled them into the human's body and devoured them.

Asura punched and kicked the zombies whose bones broke easily being rotten walking corpses. Tentacles shot out and devoured the broken zombies. He grabbed two zombies and shoved them into the mouth on his abdomen and ate them. After that, he saw some zombies running away from him which made him angry. Several tentacles shout out from his abdomen mouth and flew towards the fleeing zombies. The tentacles wrapped around them and reeled them back in it huge mouth and *Crunch* ate them.

Other zombies latched onto his huge body and tried to tear his flesh with their teeth and claws but they were unable to harm him. Several tentacles shot out and grabbed the zombies who were on him and pulled them into his flesh and devoured them. He *Bash* kicked three of them which severed them from their abdomen due to such strength. Tendrils shot out from his leg and devoured them. Soon the group of zombies were eaten. Except for two zombies.

Both of the remaining zombies sink into the ground in order to escape. However, one of them failed to escape from the hulking behemoth. Asura lunge and grabbed on zombie that sink halfway. He pulled out the zombie and *Chomp* bite of its head. *Chomp* He bite off its arms, *Chomp* bite of its chest, *Chomp* bite of its abdomen and finally *Chomp* he bite off its legs. In five bites, he ate the whole zombie.

Asura let one of the zombie escapes for it to make its way back to the rest of them. He wanted to make them feel despair and lost hope as the zombie tell its fellow zombies about the incoming being that is able to not only kill them but devour them as well. The mouth on his abdomen recede back to normal. Asura walk back to the fillies and kneel down. He petted both of their heads (Armament Haki touch with Ruby) which made them open their eyes and saw that there was no site of any zombie in the area.

Ruby said, "Mr Asura. Did you punished them?"

Asura smiled softly and nodded. He said, "I sure did. They have been punished for all the bad things they did."

Ruby eyes widen in awe as well as Apple Blooms'. Asura said, "Apple Bloom. I am going to send you home, so you won't get hurt."

Apple Bloom said, "But I don't wanna. I want to see you punish them for what they did to ... to ... to ruby."

Ruby gasped and her eyes widen in shock as she realized the filly knows what happened to her. Asura smiled sadly and said, "I already got the general idea of what happened to poor Ruby."

Asura look at Ruby with sad eyes. He knows all of how she died and why she died. Ruby's village was scared about getting a Cutie Mark which to them is a curse mark and when Ruby got her Cutie Mark for helping her friend, the villagers killed her. Asura was disgusted and angered by this act but felt sad for a filly to go through such a thing. Not only that but she even forgave her mother for not protecting her. Such a pure heart Ruby has.

Ruby look down in sadness and said, "I'm sorry Apple Bloom. I was just so lonely and when I saw you, I only wanted to be friends but because of my mistake, you arrived at Sunny Town. I'm so sorry."

Apple Bloom smiled and said, "It's okay Ruby. I forgive you. If you didn't met me then I would have never found that village and Asura wouldn't be here to punish them. So in a way, it turns out well in the end."

Ruby smiled and said, "Thank you Apple Bloom."

Apple Bloom nodded and look at Asura. She said, "Okay. I am ready to go home."

Asura nodded and with a "Sound Orb", he send Apple Bloom to Ponyville. After that, he then march his way towards Sunny Town. With each step he took, doom crawls near the zombies home. Ruby kept following him to see the rest of the zombies punished for what they did to her.

Sunny Town

A group of zombies were dragging a beaten zombie towards a house. The beaten zombie was Mitta who went against the other zombies in order to but time for the filly to escape. She regret that she couldn't save her daughter but she didn't regret saving Apple Bloom which made her smile. The other zombies dragged her to a house and throw her in.

A zombie said, "You did a very big mistake going against your own friends."

Mitta scoffed and said, "I have no friends because they all turned into monsters."

A zombie said, "Monsters? We are not monsters. We have simply transcended life itself and now we live forever."

Mitta said, "Stop trying to delude yourself! We have become monsters and we need to die!"

Another zombie said, "We are not monsters and we will not die. We will spread this gift to the filly as well."

Mitta shouted, "Don't you dare touch her you rotten piece of shit! She is a filly for god sake!"

The zombie said, "Whatever you say, we will turn her into one of us and have a new member of Sunny town."

Mitta said, "You all are nothing but heartless monsters."

The zombie ignored her and said, "Grey Hoof will deal with you later. For now thought, you will stay in this house like a prison."

With that, the door was slammed shut and locked. Mitta slump to the floor and began to cry as she fears for the filly's life. She said, "Please Apple Bloom. You must get away from this forest at all cost. Safe yourself and forget about us."

Unknown to her, some insects were on the ceiling as they watched everything that was done here.

Outside Of The House

The group of zombies went to meet with Grey Hoof who was in the middle of the village. He saw the group and welcomed them.

Grey Hoof said with a smile, "Welcome my friends. How goes the conversion? Where is our newest little member?"

A zombie said, "It didn't go well."

Grey Hoof's smile fell and said, "What do you mean?"

Another zombie said, "We were chasing the filly but one of our own went against us to save the filly."

Grey Hoof asked, "Who?"

A zombie said, "Mitta."

Grey Hoof sigh and said, "Her? I should have known. Anyway, lucky for us, I think ahead and send in a separate group from yours after the filly. They will be upon the filly and soon we will have a new member joining our village."

The other zombies cheered but it soon stop when one zombie came out of the ground with an expression of horror. Grey Hoof recognize him as Gladstone who was part of the other group.

Grey Hoof said, "Hey Gladstone. What happened? Why are you-"

Gladstone shouted in fear, "Death is coming for us! It is here! The bringer of our death! A monster is on its way here and it will kill all of us and eat our corpses!"

This confused the other zombies at what he said. Gladstone was trembling in fear and kept on rambling things. Grey Hoof came and shook his shoulders to get his attention.

Grey Hoof said, "Gladstone. What happened? What are you taking about?"

Gladstone became crazy from immense fear when he saw how that being attacked, killed and ate them. And since being a pony species makes them a prey, his fears doubled. He kept of rambling things that didn't made any sense to others. Grey Hoof tried to bring him back to normal but failed. In the end, all he understood from Gladstone that something prevented the group of zombies from turning the filly into one of them and that whatever it is was able to killed them.

Grey Hoof sigh and said, "Take Gladstone to his house and look after him."

Two zombies came and took Gladstone away to his house. Grey Hoof turn to look at the other zombies and saw that they were confused and a bit scared at what they heard from Gladstone. He needs to calm their fear or things would go out of hand.

Grey Hoof smiled and said, "There is no need to worry my friends. Gladstone is just going through a trauma. He will be temporary out of commission but in time he will return back to his senses."

Three Leaf said, "What was he talking about? Death or something like that?"

Grey Hoof said, "Its nothing but the rambling of someone that has gone crazy."

Starlet said, "But what if what he said is true? What if something is out there that is capable of killing us?"

She began to tremble at the though of death. Roneo pulled her into a hug and said, "Now now dear. We have been living for a long time. I doubt that there is something that can kill an undead."

A zombie said, "But what he said about eating us? Is there something that prey upon undead?"

Roneo said, "Come now. That's just silly. I mean look at us. We are walking corpses. Who wants to eat us? Even the beast of the forest stay clear of us."

Grey Hoof nodded and said, "That is true. Gladstone just said those things because he has gone crazy. There is no need to worry about dying."

Starlet said, "Then what do we do now?"

Grey Hoof said, "The filly is still out there in the forest. We will try to convert her into one of us. I want a group of us to go after her. I will be personally leading this group myself."

Three Leaf said, "But what about that thing out there that prevents us from reaching the filly?"

Grey Hoof said, "There is no need to worry. The group that I will be leading will be huge in numbers. If there is something like that out there then our numbers will take care of it. Now I want all of you to come with me but some of you must need to stay here in case the filly returns here by mistake. Also, I want two of you to look after the house Mitta is locked in. Do not let her out."

The zombies nodded and almost all of the zombies accompanied Grey Hoof and went into the forest. The few that stayed behind looked after Mitta imprisonment. They thought that whatever is out there can't stop them and their curse. Little did they know that their time is becoming shot and short with each passing moments.

With Asura

Asura kept on walking towards Sunny Town. He was not in a happy mood at all. No. He was Pissed Off! Through his insects, he was able to gather info about what happened to Sunny Town. He was also able to gather its dark secret. He knew that the filly Ruby was killed when she found her Cutie Mark by helping one of her friends. However, what he didn't knew is how she was treated the moment she got her Cutie Mark.

When Asura devoured the zombies, he saw their memories of the past when they were still living. He saw how they first loved the filly like she was one of their own but everything changed when it happened. When their eyes laid upon her Cutie Mark, they only saw it as a curse mark as they feared the Cutie Pox. Their love for the filly was immediately changed into fear and hate. They hunted the filly like a virus that needs to be purged.

Asura was angered and disgusted at how they killed the filly. She didn't get a quick death. Rage course through his veins and red aura swirl around him. His eyes glow red with anger and as he walked, nearby plant life withered away into dust. His Killing Intent was too much that the plants began to die as he came close to them. Animals fled from the area and birds flew from the trees. Asura didn't paid them any attention. His mind was focused on getting to Sunny Town and kill every last one of those rotting bastards. Except for one.

Ruby kept on flowing him from a distance. She was happy that she get to talk to someone. She as happy that she became friends with someone. She was happy that someone was able to touch her in such a long time. She was happy that her friend was going to punish all of the zombies that were responsible for her death. She was but a bit afraid of the red aura around her new friend that killed plant life near him. That's why she is keeping some distance away from him as that red aura felt like malice.

As Asura walk closer to the village, something strange happened. The sky began to turn red as the moon shine. Silence reign the air. Only the sound of Asura's power foot steps echoed through out the forest. Asura kept on walking but soon came to a halt when he heard something. Silence took hold of the air as he search his surrounding. When he found nothing, he used "Echolocation" on a huge area of the forest and found it. Several things were coming from underground. These things began to raise towards the ground and dig themselves out from the dirt. He saw a huge hoard of zombies coming out from the ground.

Asura remained silent as he glared at the hoard of undead. Ruby quickly hid behind on of the trees when she saw the zombies. She was afraid but not for her new friend but for the zombies. She was amazed and shocked when she saw that the undead curse didn't worked on him and he was able to permanently kill them. She was happy that the mean zombies would get punished by her new friend. She also hope that he can somehow help her mother as well.

Soon the zombies dig themselves out from the ground and look at the strange being in front of them. They stare in awe at the hulking being that looked to be made from mass of muscles. Grey Hoof look at the being with interest and thought how a great addition it would be for this being to become one of them. With that in thought, he approached the being with a smile.

Grey Hoof said, "My, what a strange being you are. You look really strong. What are you?"

However, he didn't got any answer as the being choose to remain silent. Grey Hoof waited and said, "You don't talk much do you?"

He only got silence as an answer. Grey Hoof said, "Well, no matter what you are, I would be happy to welcome you to our village. I would love nothing more than to extend our gift on to you. Would you accept it?"

Grey Hoof extend a hand towards the being who look down at his hand. Then he saw the being slowly bring his hand towards his. Grey Hoof smiled that he got someone easily like that. However, his smile soon fell when he got what he least expected.

*Bash*

Grey Hoof was launched back when his face met with a huge fist. He flew over the zombies and *Crash* hit a tree that broke in two. Grey Hoof fell on the ground in pain. He grunted but stop when he felt something that he didn't felt in a long time. He felt pain. But that was impossible. He was a zombie who don't feel any pain. Yet, here he is feeling pain all of a sudden. Why?

Grey Hoof growled and stand up. He said, "So you want to play the hard way huh? So be it. My friends, attack him! Make him one of us!"

Play this music for the undead slaughter.

The hoard of zombies growled and began to surround the human so that he would not be able to escape. When they surrounded him, the zombies began to advance on the human. He smirked when he saw the human was just standing. Maybe he given up or something. However, his smirk fell when he saw the human reaching beside his waist and pulled out two metal objects. He saw the human pointing the objects at the incoming zombies and.

*Blam* *Blam* *Splork* *Splork*

Two loud noise emitted and in the next second, two of the zombie's heads exploded in gore and rotten flesh and brain matter. The two zombies fell on the ground dead. The other zombies stop and look at their fallen fellows with wide eyes. Well, they didn't really had eyes or flesh to begin with but you get the point. The stare at the two zombies for a while and saw that they were not moving. Dread began to fill their bodies as they realized what happened. The two zombies who live for a really long time were now dead.

*Blam* *Blam* *Splork* *Splork*

Two more gun shots hit two more zombie's head, killing them while they were distracted. This got their attention and the zombies were both angry and afraid. Angry that they saw their friend die in front of them and afraid that this human was somehow able to kill them. They don't know whether to attack or flee. The curse they received from the forest made them think that they are immortal and thought that they could never die. That is till today.

*Blam* *Blam* *Blam* *Blam*

Asura didn't gave them a chance and began to shot a storm of bullets upon the hoard of zombies. He aim his guns at them and *Blam* shot them. The bullets flew towards them and hit their heads which *Splork* exploded into bone and rotten flesh along with some brain matter. He got a Head Shot. He began to slowly walk forward and shot them.

Asura got so much into the shooting that he began to dance around as he shot. He took a step and *Blam* shot a zombie who lunge at him. Three zombies came from his right. He quickly turn his head to the right and aim 'Haven' at them.

*Blam* *Blam* *Blam*

Asura shot three bullets at them which hit each of them on their heads. He got three Head Shot. Another three zombies came from his left this time. He didn't turn but instead lunge forward while aiming 'Hell' at them and *Blam* *Blam* *Blam* hit them without even looking at them. He got another three Head Shot. Also, as he was shooting them, he kicked a zombie who fell on its back. Then he brought down his feet upon its head and *Crunch* stomped on it.

Two small groups of zombies began to charge at him from both of his sides. Asura saw this and grinned. He crossed his arms with his 'Heaven' aiming left and 'Hell' aiming right. Then he *Blam* *Blam* *Blam* *Blam* *Blam* *Blam* unleashed bullets on the walking corpses. Each of the bullets hitting their heads and exploding into rotten flesh and bones. The zombies then surrounded him from all sides. Asura began to spin on a spot and *Blam* *Blam* *Blam* shot them in all directions. When he was spinning, everything slowed down in his eyes which made him able to aim at their hands and *Blam* shot them as she spin around.

Grey Hoof got angry and signaled his fellow zombies to attack him at the same time. The zombies nodded and charged at the human like a wall. Asura saw this and aimed both of his pistols at the incoming hoard of zombies and *Blam* *Blam* *Blam* *Blam* began to shoot at them. As he shot, he slowly stretched his arms to his sides. He shot in a wave like motion and just like that, the incoming wall of zombies fell to the ground dead as their heads exploded.

Grey Hoof saw how his fellow zombies were dying like it was nothing to the being. When he came here with the zombies, he thought that he was the predator and the being was the prey but now the table have turned against him. They were now the prey and the human was the predator. No. He can't let this happen. For a long time they have lived and managed to turn whoever had the bad luck of coming across their village. He did so much for his village and he won't let it end like this.

Grey Hoof was about to join the battle but stop when he saw something horrifying. He saw several tentacles shooting out of the human's body and wrapped around the headless dead zombies. The tentacles then reeled them back towards the human and were pulled into his body. The corpses were devoured. Grey Hoof watch the scene in disbelief. The other zombies too stop and watch the scene in disbelief.

Grey Hoof came out of his shock when he heard screams. He look again and gasped at what he saw. Several zombies who were near the human were now in the air as they were pierced by several tentacles. The tentacles came out from the human's body and skewered them. The zombies tried to free themselves from the tentacles, even bite and scratch them but to no avail. Then the zombies were pulled towards the human and were swallowed whole by the viral flesh. They were devoured.

Grey Hoof couldn't believe what he was seeing. His fellow zombies were now being killed by this human. And not only that but the human was also eating them. His mind stop when he recall what Gladstone was rambling about.

"Death is coming for us! It is here! The bringer of our death! A monster is on its way here and it will kill all of us and eat our corpses!"

When he understood the meaning of what Gladstone said, he paled. Now Grey Hoof was feeling something else that he didn't feel a long time ago. Fear. Absolute fear began to coursed through his rotting body. His fear double when he saw the human pointing the gun towards him and was about to shoot him. Thinking for his own life, Grey Hoof quickly grabbed a nearby zombie and used it as a meat shield. His effort pays off as the bullet only damaged his meat shield. He took this time to quickly sink into the ground and ran away as fast as he can.

Asura killed the remaining hoard of zombies and devoured them all. He put his guns back on his waist and continued down the path towards the cursed village. Behind him stood a flabbergast ghost filly Ruby. She knew that the human could beat them but to the point where he wasn't even scratched once? This was an amazing feat. Also, she was a bit scared that he ate them but this is for the grater good. If they run free then there are risk of others being converted into them. She shook her head and followed him to the cursed village.

Sunny Town

Asura arrived at the village and saw how ancient it looked. Crumbled buildings, dead grass, destroyed furniture, rotten food etc. He ignored them and walk straight towards a building that held someone. This someone he had promised the filly to save. When he got closer, he saw two zombies guarding the house. The two zombies look at him and were about to say something but didn't got the chance when Asura appeared in front of them and *Splork* squashed them into paste with his hands.

After devouring the dead zombies, he grabbed the door and ripped it off and threw it away. He entered the house and and saw a zombie on the floor who was crying. This zombie was different because it has most of its flesh. He walk slowly towards the zombie and look down at her.

Asura said, "Who are you?"

The zombie stop crying and look at who said that. Her eyes widen when she saw a hulking figure standing in front of her. She scoot away from him in fear and said, "Stay away! Don't touch me!"

Asura ignored her and walk closer to her. She tried to scoot away but he held her by the shoulder, preventing her from escaping.

The zombie shouted, "No! Don't touch me! You'll be cursed like the rest of us!"

However, Asura didn't let go and just held on to her. Soon, her struggling came to a stop when she realized that the curse was not effecting him.

Mitta said in disbelief, "How? How are you not effected by the curse?"

Asura said, "I am not weak to let something like a curse to effect me."

Mitta was shocked to hear that. She didn't know what to say. To hear something like that was something she didn't expect to hear. She then thought about the filly's safety and said, "Please. There is a filly out there in the woods. You have to save her."

Asura said, "You have no need to worry about the filly. She is safe."

Mitta sigh in relief and said, "Thank you. What happened to the others?"

Asura stand up to his full height and said, "I killed them. Permanently."

Mitta was scared but at the same time grateful. Scared that someone was able to kill them and grateful that he killed them.

Mitta smiled and said, "Thank you. So are you here to kill me too?"

Asura didn't say anything and simply stare at her. Mitta nodded and said, "Its okay. I understand. Go ahead. Kill me. I deserve it after what I did."

She closed her eyes and waited for her death at the hands of this being. She though about when she failed to protect her daughter and let the monsters have her. She failed as a mother and now retribution is in front of her. She will die with a smile on her face. She waited for her end.

"No."

Mitta opened her eyes and look at the being in confusion. She said, "I .. I'm sorry but what did you say?"

Asura didn't do anything for a while and then said, "No."

Mitta was taken back by that and said, "No? No? What do you mean no? I deserve to die after what I did. I deserve to die after I failed to save my daughter! I deserve to die because I was a failure as a mother! Why would you let me live!?"

Asura stayed silent for a while and then said, "I met your daughter's ghost. She has never hated or held a grudge against you. She loves you and she told me that she has forgiven you a long time ago."

Mitta eyes widen at what she heard. She couldn't believe what she was hearing. It can't be true. For all she did, she deserve to die but she receives forgiveness instead. Tears began to fill the sides of her eyes. She needs to confirm something first.

Mitta whispered, "W-what was h-her n-name?"

Asura heard her and said, "Ruby."

That did it. A dam of tears flow from Mitta's eyes as she began to cry without restraint. She couldn't believe that her daughter didn't hated her. She always thought that ruby would held a grudge against her but she didn't. She never hated her mother even when she died.

Asura look at the crying mare with pain filled eyes. A mother is crying for her child's forgiveness. A mother who regretted everyday for what she did a long time ago. It hurts his heart when he thought about his mother. Would she have cried if he would have taken her place? Of course she would have. What kind of mother wouldn't cry for their children's safety. Seeing this mare cry in front of him made Asura angry. How dare this village force her, a mother to let her child die.

As Mitta cried out her eyes, Asura's sound map alerted him of another group of zombies coming towards the house. By the size of it, this must be the last of the zombies. Asura gritted his teeth in rage at the incoming zombies. He will show them what consequences they have made for their disgusting act.

Outside The House

Grey Hoof first thought about nothing but running for his life but then his pride got in his way. Why would he let something like the human get into his way of protecting his village. He did everything to make his friends happy and even converted others so the village would expand. Now only 30-40 zombies were left alive while the rest were killed by the human. He will not let this go. He will have justice.

Grey Hoof then gathered the rest of the living zombies and together they did one final march against the human. Except for Gladstone who was still crazy and locked into his house. No matter. Grey Hoof will kill this human for running his perfect village. After that, he would leave the forest in order to find other beings and convert them into one of them. He will remake his own village again.

As the last group of zombies were marching towards the house in which Mitta was confined and the human entered it, they heard crying from it.

Starlet said, "Is he making Mitta cry?"

Grey Hoof said, "Leave her. She is not important."

Roneo said, "Grey Hoof. How could you say that? She and you used to be-"

Grey Hoof said, "I care not what we were once! She has gone against us and for that, she would be punish severely."

Three Leaf said, "So what happened to the rest of us?"

Grey Hoof said, "That ... thing killed them."

This shocked them and Starlet said, "But how can that be? Its impossible!"

Grey Hoof said, "Its very much true. I saw that thing kill our friends like it was nothing."

Roneo said, "Then what are we doing going directly towards the thing that can kill us? We need to get away from here!"

Grey Hoof said, "And where will you go?"

Roneo said, "Well ... I .."

Grey Hoof said, "As long as that thing is alive, there is no place for us to run to. That thing will keep on hunting us down until the last one in dead."

Three Leaf said, "Then what should we do now?"

Grey Hoof said, "We need to do everything and kill that thing. For as long as it is alive, we won't be safe where ever we go."

Starlet said, "But .."

Grey Hoof said, "I know, I know. We will surely die if we do nothing. We must kill that thing even at the cost of some of our lives. If not then-"

*Bash* *Crack*

They stop in their track when they head something cracking. They look at the house in front of them and saw a part of its wall having a huge crack on it.

*Bash* *Crack*

They jumped back when the wall bulged out for a second and a spider-web crack formed on the wall. It look like something from the inside punched the wall from the other side.

*Bash* *Throom*

The wall bulged out and exploded into thousands of pieces and dust flew around. The zombies became alert as they saw the wall explode. The dust flew around which blocked their vision of what happened. Soon the dust settled and they all saw a huge hole in the wall. It was big enough for them to enter the house. However, they heard heavy foot steps coming from the house.

Soon a huge hand emerged from the hold and grabbed the side of the broken wall. Then a leg came out and stomp the ground creating some cracks. They all held their breath even if some of them didn't had them anymore. From the wall, a being crouched out from the hole and shocked them when it stood to its full height.

Besides Grey Hoof, the other zombies look up and saw that it was a 9 foot tall hulking being and it look Pissed Off.

The being's eyes were blood red that were filled with rage. His eyes glowed red with malice and hatred. Blood red aura flew around his entire body which killed off nearby plant life. His muscles bulged which look like they were tougher than iron or even steel. His veins became visible on his exposed flesh. He stood tall as he glared hatefully at the remaining zombies.

The zombies stood paralyzed on their spot in fear. They were expecting to see a beast or something that was capable of killing them but never did they expect to see something like this. This being that stood in front of them was not a beast or a monster. It was a demon.

Grey Hoof was afraid too but he masked it and said, "Come on. We are not afraid of it! We can do this!"

Roneo said, "I .. I don't think we c-can do a-anything against him."

Three Leaf said, "Y-yeah. That t-thing is a ... a d-demon."

Grey Hoof said, "Don't think like that! We need to kill that thing or we will die! Think of you friends who were killed by this thing! We can't let this thing live!"

The zombies nodded and soon their fear turn to rage and began to advance towards the human. Thinking that with their anger, they have overcome their fear and would be able to kill the human. How foolish.

Asura heard their bullshit and growled demonically. He lifted his right leg up and *Crash* stomp the ground that send out a small tremor throughout the village which shocked the zombies.

Asura said, "Don't get cocky, you lower life forms. For the murder of an innocent filly, I sentence you all to death. May your souls rot in the deepest level of hell for eternity!"

With that, Asura's back began to bulge like something was making its way out. He screamed in anger as his back exploded and from it two bloody wings emerged and from each of the wings, several bloody arms emerged that have white veins running through them. All of the 10 bloody arms from each wings rose in the air, blocking some of the moon light. From the point of view from the zombies, they would have seen that two hands came in front of the moon that made it look like the hands were grabbing the moon itself. Shadows of the bloody arms were cast upon the zombies who look in fear at the horrible scene in front of them. A scene that could only be called the Angel Of Death.

The zombies couldn't move from the demon in front of them. Their instinct were telling them to run as far away as possible but they couldn't move as fear took control of their bodies.

"Ggggrrrraaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!"

Asura roared at the undead and his 20 bloody arms launch at them. The bloody arms moved like snake at a fast pace where they became a blur. It was like a shadow was cast upon the zombies as they blocked out the moon light. It was the Shadow Of Death.

The zombies didn't get a chance to dodge the incoming arms as they were being ripped apart by them. A bloody arm lunge at a zombie and *Keerripp* ripped its head off. Then another bloody arm came and cut its spine. The hands of the bloody arms were as sharp as his blades and *Shing* cut the legs of the zombie into pieces.

Another bloody arm moved and skewered a few of them. Then it lifted them into the air and other bloody arms came towards them and *Keerriipp* ripped them apart. A bloody arm grabbed an arm of a zombie while its other arm was grabbed by another bloody arm. Then the bloody arms moved in the opposite direction making the zombie scream as its arms were slowly being ripped off.

A zombie had its spine ripped out by a bloody hand. Another was crushed by several bloody arms while another was cut into several pieces. A bloody arm held a zombie in the air by one of its leg. Then another bloody arm grabbed the zombie's other leg and slowly were spread apart as the zombie screamed as it was being *Keerriipp* ripped in half, from its abdomen to its head.

Three Leaf stood there with a horrified face as she saw her friends getting slaughtered like a bunch of animals. She wanted to help them but she couldn't even move as she was trembling in unbridled fear.

She said, "What are you? What in hell's name are you!?"

*Slash* *Kerip* *Crunch*

She didn't get a chance to even scream as several bloody arms lunge at her and ripped her apart. The last thing she was were the demonic eyes of the human who was glaring at her and the rest of the zombies.

As the zombies were being minced by the human, few zombies were able to ran away from him in fear. Roneo, Starlet, Grey Hoof and a few other zombies were able to ran away from the slaughter. Grey Hoof ran for his pathetic life from the human who slaughtered his friends. What made him think that he or any other would be able to even injure the human. He was a fool who only though about himself and now everything he did has been destroyed by the human. He didn't think and just ran as far as possible from the .. that ... demon.

Roneo and Starlet ran away together. They too were scared shitless from the slaughter. They decided that they would simply ran away and live together with each other. The other zombies also had the same thinking as the undead couple but unfortunately, their lives would end today. The human would not leave any of them alive.

When the slaughter was done, the bloody arms grabbed the severed pieces of the zombies and brought them back to the human who devoured them. After that was done, Asura's sound map showed him that there were still a few of the zombies left who were getting away from the area. He growled as he let hem slipped out of his view but he would not let them leave the forest at all cost. The curse from the ancient time will be eliminated once and for all.

Asura snap his finger and created several seeds. What were special about these seeds were that they were some of the most dangerous carnivore plant from the Gourmet World. He put all of the seeds in his left hand and used his virus to mix them together. The end result was a huge red seed the size of a tennis ball. The seed was complete. Now for the nutrition.

Asura plunged his right hand into his chest and pulled out a piece of his heart. He brought the piece closer to the seed. A root sprouted from it and plunged into the piece of heart and began to drain all of its nutrition. Soon the piece of heart was consumed by the root and the seed began to glow red. With the piece of his own heart inside the seed gives him full control on it.

Asura brought the seed closer to his face and said, "You will become the guardian of this forest. You will spread throughout this forest and create your weapons. You will hunt down and eliminate my enemies and devour their corpses. You will also protect the ones I am protecting. You will be my eyes and ears throughout this forest. You will be a line of defense for me to use when the time come."

Asura then plunged the seed into the ground and said, "Now, grow and spread. Spread throughout this forest but stay within its borders. Hunt down the zombies that have ran away except for the one in the house behind me. Kill them all. Except for Grey Hoof. I want him alive. Do not let me down."

The ground began to tremble as the seed began to sprout several roots that spread below the ground. Soon its root dug deep into the planet and spread throughout the forest. From its roots, several plant life began to grow in different part of the forest. Some of these plants were very dangerous but with Asura's complete control over it, they would not harm the innocent. Lets see what kind of carnivorous plants were made.

The first one was an enormous, semi-sentient plant beast. The entirety of its body is made of wooden roots and branches interconnecting and crisscrossing with one another giving it a very peculiar and random body shape. It has blue gem-like eyes, sharp teeth and its body is mostly light green in color. It is called the Goblin Plant that has a Capture Level 33.

Next is another big and sentient plant beast. It has a big and hard bur as its main body with many brown spikes covering it whole. From the bur, there were several thick, green branches that had flowers at the end of with mouths that were filled with sharp teeth. This plant hides underground and uses it branches with the flower mouths to attack its prey on the surface. This is called Monster Plant that has a Capture Level 47.

The next one is a crafty carnivorous plant. This special plant hides itself by disguising itself as an innocent bean plant. In this way, its prey won't know and when it does, it would be too late for it. This one is called Wicked Beanstalk that has a Capture Level 42.

The next one is a huge plant that has two huge leaves that acts as a mouth. The edges of the mouth has sharp thorns that will act like teeth. This plant will attack its prey and held them inside its mouth for a short time while the plant digest its prey with acidic juices. This one is called Giant Venus Flytrap with a Capture Level 27.

The next one is a different kind of carnivorous plants. This one have modified leaves that featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive acid fluid. It has two long vines that uses it to catch its prey and shove it into its mouth where it is melted in acidic juices. It is called Giant Pitcher with a Capture Level 26.

Next one is a flower type carnivorous plant. This plant is a rose that sends out sweet fragrance that lures its prey towards it before catching them and eating them. It is called Rose Thorn with a Capture Level 29.

This next one is a combination of plant and a fish species. Mixing the DNA of a piranha with a Venus fly trapper, a new dangerous and aggressive plant is born. This plant does not hide but instead hunt for its food. It has a huge mouth filled with sharp teeth. It would directly attack and consume its prey. It is called Piranha Plant with a Capture Level 37.

The final plant monster is a mobile one. This plant has four plant like limbs that moves on all four at the speed of a turtle. It may lack speed but to counter it, it has a huge flower on its back. Inside the flower, there are several long worm like tentacles that will shoot out towards its prey and reeled them inside the flower where it would be eaten. It is called Rosa Santana with a Capture Level 38.

These types of monster plants sprout all over the forest. Soon these monster plants reached the zombies who ran away.

Starlet and Roneo who have been running away stopped for a rest but that soon turn out to be their downfall.

Roneo said, "I think we are safe for now."

Starlet said, "What was that back there? It was like the devil himself have come to punish us for what we did long ago!"

Roneo hugged her to calm her. He said, "Its okay. Whatever that was, we are far away from it."

Starlet said, "But what if it comes for us?"

Roneo said, "Its okay my love. If it comes to that, then we will simply run away from it."

Starlet sigh and said, "How long would it take for us to be safe?"

Roneo said, "For as long as possible. I will be there for you in every step to help you."

Starlet smiled and hugged him. She said, "Thank you Roneo for always being there for me."

Roneo smiled and said, "As I said before, I'll always be there for you my love."

They embraced other for a while as they were lost in each other bliss but it soon broke when two green tentacles lunge out of the ground and wrapped around them.

Starlet shouted, "What is this!?"

Roneo shouted, "I don't know!"

The tentacles lifted them both in the air. The zombie couple look towards the ground where the tentacles and saw something else coming out from the dirt. It was a Giant Pitcher and its mouth opened for its prey that were the zombies which scared them.

Starlet scream, "No! No! Let me go!"

Roneo struggled to free themselves from the tentacles but they were tightly wrapped and were slowly moving towards the plant's mouth. Starlet was screaming fearfully as she saw the mouth getting closer to her. Roneo stop struggling as he saw their demise coming closer. He accepted his death and hugged Starlet.

He said softly, "Its okay my love. It will be over soon."

Starlet cried, "I'm scared."

Roneo said, "Shhh. Just close your eyes and rest."

Starlet could do nothing and closed her eyes as she waited for death embrace. Roneo closer his eyes and softly kissed her. That kiss was the last thing that give any comfort to both of them as they were slowly swallowed by the plant and melted by its acidic fluids.

The other zombies didn't fare well as they were attacked by the monster plants. Some were grabbed by the Goblin Plant and were eaten. Others were attacked by Giant Venus Flytrap while Piranha Plant simply attacked them and devoured them. Some zombies came across Rosa Santana and were quickly pulled into its flower by its tentacles worms and were eaten. The remaining zombies witness their fellow undead being eaten by plant monsters and were terrified.

A zombie said, "The forest is angry at us! Its bringing punishment to us!"

Another zombie said, "Quickly! Climb up the largest tree! We will be safe from the plant monsters!"

The zombies began to climb several tall trees that looked like a bean stalk but if they were paying attention, they would have some movements from the vines. When the zombies reached the highest point of the tree, they took a breath of relief. However their relief soon turn to terror when several parts of the tree came to live and formed several giant snake heads with razor sharp teeth. The zombies screams were heard throughout the forest as they were eaten by the Wicked Beanstalk.

Gladstone who was still rambling things inside his house didn't notice as several vines ripped through the wooden floor and a sunflower came out. Gladstone stare at the flower which began to bloom and when it did, a huge mouth with razor sharp teeth opened and roared at him.

Gladstone could do nothing but laugh madly as he was eaten by the plant. Soon all of the zombies were dealt with. All except Mitta. Asura's felt his anger decreasing as his sound map shown him zombies being eliminated by his monster plants. He sigh and began to walk towards the house that held Mitta. But before that, he stopped and look to his right towards a tree. Behind the tree was the small ghost filly Ruby.

Ruby slowly came out from behind the tree and walk towards the human. When she reached him, she look up to him and said, "Is it done?"

Asura smiled softly and nodded. He said, "It's done."

Ruby smiled and then look at the house where she heard her mother's crying. She frowned and walk into the house through the hole. Asura walk behind the filly and enters the house. Inside, he saw Ruby walking towards her mother who didn't notice her as she was to busy crying her eyes out.

Ruby stand besides her mother and took a breath. She said, "Mom. Its me, Ruby."

Mitta stopped crying at once and slowly turn her head towards the filly. Her eyes widen as she stare intently at the filly. She look at her hair, her eyes and everything in order to confirm that the filly was her daughter. When she confirmed it, tears flowed down from her eyes. She slowly raised her hand towards her daughter and said, "Ruby?"

Ruby smiled and nodded. Mitta choked and said, "R-ruby. I-I'm so so s-sorry. I couldn't -ddo anything to s-save you. I'm the worst-"

Ruby somehow was able to touch her mother when she put her hand on her mouth in order to stop her. She said, "It's okay mom. I never blamed you for my death. I would never hate you. You are my mother and I will always love you."

Mitta began to cry as she slowly hugged her daughter after such a long time. Ruby cried as well as she hug her mother.

Asura look at them with a soft smile. He is glad that he help them but became sad about how would he be able to help them now? One is a zombie while the other one is a ghost. Well, there may be something that he could do for them. For now, he needs to work on the zombie, Mitta.

Asura began to scan the biomass of the zombies that he ate. The info he got from it told him that the undead corpses has some kind of magic curse on them. Since the curse was magic base, he was immune to the curse and his flesh negated the curse. So this way, he may have a way of restoring life to Mitta but what about the filly Ruby?

Ruby is a ghost who is able to walk through this forest. Must be some kind of magic in play. How can he help her with that? He shook his head to get his thought together. First he needs to asked them.

Asura said, "Mitta. Ruby. Do you want me to put you to rest? Or do you want me to return life to you two?"

Mitta and Ruby look at him in shock. Mitta said, "You .. you are willing to let me live. More so even return me back to normal?"

Asura nodded and said, "Yes I am. Whatever happened, you have been forgiven by your daughter. So now, you have two choices. Either I put your soul to rest or bring you back to life. Which will it be?"

Mitta look down as she thought about her answer. She look at her daughter who smiled at her. She thought about what happened a long time ago but now, she is going to get a chance to repent and be a good mother to her. She nodded as she came up with the answer.

Mitta said, "In the past, I wasn't able to save Ruby but now I got another chance to atone for my sin. I would like to spend my time with my daughter if you can bring both of us back to life."

Ruby smiled and look at the human and nodded. She too want to spend her time with her mother. Asura nodded and walk towards Mitta. He put his hand on her head and covered her in a red membrane. Mitta was soon cocooned and inside the virus began to fix her from cell level. Each of her cells have died from the curse but now, they were being regenerated by the virus. Soon every dead cell came back to life as the curse was negated by making cells from Asura's own flesh.

Every rotten cell, bones, organs, muscles and flesh were restored back to original. After she was fully healed, the red membrane went back inside Asura's hand. Mitta for the first time in a long period of time, she as able to breath. She was able to smell and feel things. She opened her eyes and look at her body in disbelief. Her rotten body was replaced with grey fur body and her black hair was returned back to red. Tears fell from her eyes as she feels so alive. She look at the human with grateful eyes and said, "Thank you very much for this. i can never thank you enough."

Asura smiled and said, "Its okay. No needs for thanks. Now, as for Ruby, I must first need some of her DNA."

Mitta look at him in confusion and said, "Why would you need that?"

Asura said, "First is that Ruby is a ghost, so I can't help her like this. Second, in order to help her, I must have some kind of DNA or a body part that belonged to Ruby, so that I can help her."

Mitta and Ruby frowned as they both knew what happened to her body. Their eyes widen in realization at where they can find Ruby's body but frowned at what happened to her.

Ruby said, "I .. I know where you can find my b-body. Or at least what's left of it."

Asura nodded and said, "That's good. Show me where is your body. Maybe there is a way to bring you back to life."

Mitta and Ruby lead him ourside the village towards a lone abandon building. Mitta and Ruby both frown when they saw the building. They both stopped in front of the building as they didn't want to enter it.

Asura said, "Is this it?"

Mitta nodded and said, "Yes. You can find Ruby's body in there."

Asura nodded and walk inside the building. He saw that it was pretty much empty except for a fire place. He walk towards it and look into the fire. In it, he saw the remains of a skeleton that belonged to the filly Ruby. He sigh in disgust at the way she was killed. He reached into the fire with his right hand and absorbed all of the fire. Then liquid viral flesh fell from his hand and onto the filly's skeleton. The virus devoured it and returned back into his right hand.

Asura was immediately bombarded with the filly's memory when he absorbed the filly's DNA. He was horrified, disgusted and angered as to what he saw of the filly's memory. Her death at the hand of the villages.

Ruby's Final Memory

Run. I have to run! Don't stop or they will get me! I have been running for hours now and I am getting exhausted. I can still hear their voices behind me as I run. They are chasing me.

With each step I take, I am getting exhausted. My head aches and my sight is getting blurred with every minute. It won’t take any longer now until I collapse and once I do, they would get me ... No! I better try not to think about it. I have to try to concentrate as best as I can. I need to focus on surviving this and escape from this forest. Its getting darker and darker by the second. Luna’s sacred moon is gone, and with it all the light that led my way has disappeared.

Now, I am running blindly through this passage. I'm am getting exhausted and hungry. My stamina is running out with every step I take. It's getting colder and darker. Even the trees seems to get closer to each other that are now blocking my way. Suddenly, my legs give out, and I collapse onto the ground. Due to my running speed, I impacted the ground hard. Its very painful.

*Crack*

My eyes widen when I heard something breaking like a thick branch or something. I didn't move for a few seconds. I tired to move my legs and I gasped and shut mu mouth to not to scream as my brain registered pain. This pain was coming from my right leg. I look at it and saw that my right leg was broken. Oh god! What shall I do now? I don’t want to die!

Wait! I can see a small cabin not far from me! I stand up painfully and began to limp towards the cabin. Every step I take is like a sharp knife, cutting the inside of my bone. Tears of pain and fear are rolling over my cheeks and I'm starting to think about my mother who left me. The only one in my village who really loved me... at least, that’s what I thought. Why mommy, why?

I collapse onto the ground due to my broken leg. I wanted to scream but held it in as I don't want others to find me. I forcefully stand back up and limp towards the cabin. I collapse a few time and blood and dirt are becoming a muddy scab on my leg. I managed to arrive at the old wooden door of the cabin. I entered the cabin through the heavy door and immediately search around for something that I can use to block it.

Aha! There it is! There was a big wooden beam that was leaning against the window. Its perfect to block the door from the inside. I limp towards it and push it will all my strength. It's really heavy, but I somehow was able to drag it in front of the door. It's not much, but I guess I'm safe now. It's still dark, but at least my leg stopped hurting. Or maybe because it's already numb because of the pain, but that’s okay as long as I can escape from this village.

I sit in the corner of the room and made my self small in order to hide myself. I’m looking down at my right leg and wince at what I saw. The bone has pierced through my flesh and was sticking out. It was still bleeding and slightly burning. I try to push the bone back inside and shut my mouth as unbridled pain runs through my leg. Tears of pain fell from my eye as I though about my mommy. It tired to push the bone back in but to no avail. The bone didn't budge, so I just give up.

I fall back down to the ground, watching against the empty dark ceiling. I'm at the end of my strength now. I pray to god for my safety. I pray the god would send me some kind of help but it looks like no one hears me. Even if I survive from this and some how make it out of this cursed forest, I will die from starvation and blood loss. I began to look around the room in search for something that can be used as a weapon. This is in case I was found by them.

There isn’t much inside of this room. Only a empty bookshelf, an old table and a chimney. It's so cold. My body is getting weaker by the second and I think that I am going to die from this. No. Not now. I don't want to die. I want to live! I want to have friends. A family! My fears raise when I saw something getting closer to the window. They’ve found me! No! No, please! No!

I went under a table to hide myself from them. I held my breath and stay quite as I pray to god to keep me safe.

*Crash*

Suddenly the door was smashed opened. The wooden beam I used to block it was easily crushed into two pieces. Dust is flying through the entire room, which blocked my sight but I still can see their silhouettes through the dusty cloud. They were my neighbors and former friends. They are standing in front of the table that I am hiding under. They began to spread through the entire room and search for me. I try to be as quiet as I can while watching them.

"Come out dear, we just want to help you."

"You are just sick. Let us heal you."

"We will free you from this curse. It wont hurt I promise!"

"Don’t be afraid kid. Your mommy is already waiting for your safety."

Mommy? So she didn’t leave me after all.

"Found You!"

I screamed when someone grabbed my broken leg and pulled me out from under the table. So much pain from my broken leg.

I screamed and cried, "No! Please! No! It wasn't my fault! I just helped my friend! I don't want to die!"

"It's okay little one. Don’t be afraid. We know it's not your fault. It's a curse my poor girl. But don’t worry sweetie, we will fix you."

My throat is dry from all the screaming. My heart hurts, my eyes are tired and burning because of the tears. I can't move as I am being held by two ponies. The other ponies are standing in a circle around me while one of them is searching for something inside of her bag.

I pleaded with them, "Please .. don’t .. I don’t want to die .. I don’t .."

Starlet said, "Turn her around and press her against the ground!"

Starlet pulls out a long sharp knife out of her bag. Her red eyes staring into mine, burning my soul from the inside. She had such horrible eyes.

I screamed for my life, "No! Please no! Don't do this! Please! No! Nooooooo!"

They turn me around and pressed their hooves at my back which held me in place. I can't breath. My heart is crying, my mind is flipping and my screams are shrilling through the room.

Roneo said, "Don’t worry little one. It will only hurt for a little moment."

"Nooooooooooooooooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!"

It hurts. It hurts so much. I can feel the knife digging deeper into my flank. The pain is impossible to describe as the blade cuts through my flesh. I tired to struggle to free myself but my muscles won't react anymore. I can see my blood floating over the ground. I'm still screaming as loud as I can but the pain just won't stop.

After several minutes of unbridled pain, it stopped.

Starlet said, "Here you go dear."

She throws something on the ground right next to me. I saw that it was a big piece of flesh with fure and muscles attached to it. It was a piece of my flank along with my Cutie Mark on it. How can they do this to me. My mind is dead. I'm crying. that’s all I can do now. No more struggling.

Starlet said, "Only one more left to go."

She started to the same thing with the other side of my flank. However, this time it doesn't hurt anymore.

I tried to talk, "... plea... se... don’t... don’t... ple..."

I can't scream anymore. I'm accepting my fate, preparing myself for the end. Another piece of my flank fell besides me. My cutie mark ... gone forever.

Starlet said, "That’s all my dear. It wasn’t so bad at all, right? You're a big pony now, don’t cry."

Roneo said, "So... now that your curse is gone, do you want to see your mommy again?"

M... mommy? I want my mommy. I want to cuddle mommy, where is she?

Gladstone said, "Hey little one, do you want to see your mommy?"

I spoke weakly, "... yes... please... mommy."

My body is numb now and I can't move. Please mommy. Please take me into your arms and heal me. Please make the pain go away.

Three Leaf said, "As you wish. Light the chimney."

What? What does he mean? I can see two of the ponies. They are walking to the chimney and putting on a big warm fire. The warmth feels so good, it feels like love.

Gladstone said, "Don’t worry little one. Your journey and your fear will end now."

They began to pull me towards the flames. To the warm place. This will take my pain away ... finally.

Grey Hoof said, "May your soul find re-"

"NO!"

A familiar voice appeared from behind. Mommy? Everyone is looking around. I can hear someone screaming. What's going on?

"You dirty scums! How dare you do this! I will kill you! I will kill all of you!"

Who is that? I can still hear screams of pain behind me. It sounds like a fight is going on. The two ponies who grabbed me earlier disappeared. Soon after everything became quiet again. What happened? Where is mommy?

"... I’m sorry ... Ruby ... honey..."

That voice again. Who is it? Mommy? Its mommy's voice. She didn't abandon me. She still loves me. Tears fell from my eyes. Mommy.

"M- mommy?" I spoke tiredly.

I try to turn my head with the last remaining bit of my strength. I saw the other ponies laying on the ground wounded severely and bleeding. Even Starlet who cut out my flanks. Who did this?

Grey Hoof shouted, " You! You dirty daughter of the devil! I swear I will burn your cursed soul!"

He appeared in front of me. He was bleeding very badly and heavily breathing. He grabs me and throw me into the fire. Daddy. Why?

"Nooooooooo!"

A pony screamed and attacked Grey Hoof like an animal. I fell into the fire. I can feel the it. The warmth. I can feel how my fur is burning. I can smell my flesh burning from my bones. My eyes are melting and with it the last bit of light. The last thing I saw the pony who tried to save me. It was mommy who had a horrified expression with tears falling from her eyes. Her hands stretched out like she was trying to reach me and pull me out from the fire. She was held by two ponies.

I wanted to reach for mommy but I'm too exhausted. I want to rest. My journey is over, and with it, all my fears, my pain, my nightmares and my dreams.

Before death embraced me, I spoke to mommy one last time.

"... I forgive you mommy ... I forgive you ..."

Memory End

As soon as the memory ended, Asura fell on his knees and his hands. He was breathing heavily and his body felt weak. He saw Ruby's final memory in the blink of an eye. He was horrified and disgusted by what he saw. No young child should ever go through what she had gone through. Tears fell from his eyes. The filly was in so much pain because he felt her pain through her memory. How can her father do this to her. His own daughter!

Everything was silent around him. Then suddenly, the beating of his heart beast faster than before. Anger began to erupt from inside of his body. His blood began to boil. His muscles twitched and bulged from anger. His breath soon turn to animalistic growls. He clench his fist tightly and raised his right fist. He then brought it down on the fireplace where the filly was burned alive.

*Throom*

Asura destroyed the fireplace. He destroyed the place where she was killed mercilessly by her own father! Asura smash on the floor *Crash* and stood up. It wasn't enough to sate his anger. He look around the room, the very room where she was tortured and killed. It angered him to no end. This place, where she died. It must be destroyed!

"GGGGGGRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

With a demonic roar, Asura began to destroy the place. He *Crash* punched the walls and *Bash* kicked the floor. He destroyed the furniture and crushed them. He punched the beams that held the house. Soon the ceiling began to fall on him but it didn't as his body was drowning in rage so much that immense heat began to leak from his body. Soon with a roar, Asura unleashed something that destroyed the house completely.

The heat that was leaking from his body turned into red hot flames that swirled around him.

Then with a swing of his fist, he launch the flames upwards. The flames raise up like a volcano is erupting and completely and utterly destroyed the house that he was in.

A Few Moments Earlier

Mitta and her daughter Ruby stand away from that dreaded house where it all happened. They hated the place so much that they didn't want to come here. They never wanted to see this place again after what the village did to them.

*Throom*

They came out of their thoughts when they heard something breaking coming from the inside of the house.

"GGGGGGRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Then they heard a demonic roar which made them tremble in fear. Soon they heard several things breaking from the house. It was like something was hitting the insides of the house's walls and floors. Then bright light came from the house which blinded them and soon.

*Kaboom*

A pillar of fire erupted from the house that destroyed the ceiling. Soon the flame spread and burn the rest of the house into nothing but ash. Mitta and Ruby stare at the dreaded place that they hated with all their heart to be completely and utterly destroyed. There wasn't even a thing left from that flame explosion. Their eyes widen when they realized that the human was inside the house when it exploded. They became worried about him but soon their worries calm down when they saw the human coming out from that place without a single scratch or burn mark.

Asura walk towards them with a sad expression. He has seen the filly's memories and it still hurt his heart. To even go through such pain and still remain a pure soul. That was something amazing for the filly. He walk towards them and stop right in front of the filly. He look down at her with eyes full of sadness and pain.

Ruby was shifting nervously under his gaze. She said, "So um .. did you find my body or what remains of it?"

Asura slowly kneel down and petted her head with "Armament Haki". The filly was confused by this but lean her head into his hand. She really liked this feeling.

Asura said, "I'm so sorry that you had to go through that Ruby."

Mitta became sad by this. She knew what he was talking about. She said, "Is there a way to bring her back?"

Asura nodded and said, "Yes. I think I can bring her back."

Asura lifted his right hand a viral flesh began to drop on the ground. Soon the flesh began to join together and form a huge egg made of viral flesh. Inside the egg were the DNA of the filly Ruby. The virus began to create an exact replica of Ruby's body. First the bones were created. Then organs, veins, muscles flesh and skin. Everything was made from Ruby's DNA. After a short time, her body was complete. Asura put his hand on top of the egg and took back in the rest of the extra viral flesh, leaving behind the body of a filly that looked just like Ruby.

Ruby look at her body in disbelief. her body that didn't had any scar or wound, was laying on the ground in front of her. Her body was perfect for her. But the question now is how can she join with her new body?

Asura said, "Come here Ruby. I want you to lay beside your body."

Ruby nodded and lay on the ground beside her new body. Mitta said, "Is she going to be okay?"

Asura nodded and said, "Yes. She will be fine. Now I am going to merge her soul with her new body. This way, she can come back to life."

Asura first change his eyes into "Rinnegan" and then form some hand signs. He said "Human Path Soul Absorption" and grabbed Ruby's soul.

Human Path Soul Absorption
One of the Six Paths. This path will allows the user to learn everything that the target knows simply by placing their hand on the said target. Once this is done, the target's soul is ripped from their body, killing them. He can then absorb the soul into his body for late use.

Asura instead of absorbing Ruby's soul, he put the soul into her new body. With this Jutsu, her new body was able to absorb Ruby's soul and became one. After that was done, Asura sigh in relief. He was glad that it work because he was able to hear heart beat from Ruby's new body. A while later, Ruby's eyes open and she sat up. She look around in disbelief and then to her new body. She could not believe that it worked. She was alive.

Mitta quickly hugged her daughter and cried tears of happiness. Ruby also hugged her mother and cried with her. She was glad that she was alive and was together with her mother. Asura smiled at the scene which made him happy. He was able to reunite a mother with her daughter and was able to bring her back. he closed his eyes and thought about his mother and sister. Could he bring them back from the dead?

He opened his eyes when he felt someone touching him. He look down and saw Mitta and Ruby were hugging him with tearful eyes.

Mitta said, "Thank you so much for what you did for us. I can never thank you enough."

Ruby smiled and nuzzled into him. He smiled and hugged them as well. After a while of hugging, Asura said, "So what would you two do now?"

Mitta thought about it and said, "I don't know what to do now. The village is destroyed. We bot came from an ancient time. No one knows about us except for the filly Apple Bloom."

Asura said, "Well, why don't you come with me to Ponyville and live there with my friends?"

Ruby eyes sparkled and said, "Really? I can be with others?"

Asura smiled and nodded. He said, "Sure you can. There are other fillies who are about your age and I know that Apple Bloom would be very happy to see you as well."

Ruby smiled and look at her mother. She said, "Can we go mommy? I want to have more friends."

Mitta smiled and said, "Of course Ruby. Anything for you."

Asura then lead them towards Ponyville. On their way, Asura was informed by one of his plants that they have got him. He created a clone who lead Mitta and Ruby towards Ponyville who were baffled to see another human.

Mitta said, "Where are you going?"

Asura said, "Don't worry. I got something to take care of. I'll join you later. For now my clone will lead you two to Ponyville."

Mitta smiled and nodded. She said, "Stay safe."

Asura nodded and walk into the think forest. After walk for sometime, he came across the bastard that he was looking for. Grey Hoof.

Several thorny vines wrapped around the zombie that held him in place. Grey Hoof couldn't move or free himself as he was trapped. He couldn't even talk as his mouth was wrapped in vines. His curse was also not effecting the vines as they were made from part of the human's flesh. Asura walk towards him and stop right in front of him. He look down at Grey Hoof in hatred and disgust.

Asura spoke in a demonic voice, "You little piece of shit. How dare you kill your own daughter!"

Asura grabbed the zombie's head and began to crush it. *Crunch*

Asura said, "You really are trash. No. You are the scum of the world. A lower life from."

Asura kicked the zombie's legs and *Crack* broke them making him scream.

Asura said, "Your daughter loved you and what did you do? You killed her! You deserve to die a million times you piece of trash!"

He used "Razor Claw" to cut off both the zombie's arms *Shing* making him scream more.

Asura commanded the vines around the zombie's mouth to release. The vines unwrapped themselves and released the undead's mouth. Grey Hoof panted and grunt in sever pain. He was able to feel pain as his curse was being negated by the vines.

Grey Hoof said, "I did what I had to do for the safety of the village. Even if I have to kill that .. that thing."

Asura punch his stomach and *Crack* broke its spine along with some ribs. Grey Hoof screamed in pain.

Grey Hoof said, "Go a-ahead. K-kill me. I don't r-regret killing that filly. I w-will die and I will b-be reincarnated for the next life!"

Asura said, "Your not entitled to die just like that. I won't allow some scum bag like you to be reincarnated into another life. You know why? Because I am going to give you something worse than death!"

Asura formed some hand signs and put his right hand on Grey Hoof's head who look at him fearfully. Asura's eyes glowed red and stare into the zombie's eyes with hatred.

Grey Hoof asked fearfully, "W-what are you g-going to d-do to me?"

Asura said, "Your soul will be mine! For Eternity!"

"Human Path Soul Absorption"

Asura's right hand gripped the zombie's head tightly and slowly but painfully, he began to literally ripped out Grey Hoof soul from his rotting carcass. As Grey Hoof's soul was being ripped out, he screamed in unbridled pain. It was like a very important part of you was being ripped out of your body. Soon his screams were silenced when Asura held the zombie's soul in his right hand.

Asura glared at the soul in his right hand with hatred. He said, "You shall serve me for eternity. You will never be freed form your service until I say so. You shall never disobey me. You will be like a dog who shall obey his master's every command! Your soul shall never the rebirth cycle of life."

Asura opens his mouth and bite the soul. Then he slowly sucked the soul into his stomach where it will forever remain until he becomes useful. After eating the soul, he commanded the plants to do whatever they want the Grey Hoof's corpse. The vines wrapped around the corpse and dragged it down below the dirt where it was crushed and devoured by the plants.

After that was done, Asura sigh as his anger dissipate. The curse of Sunny Town from a thousand years was finally broken. Or in this case, devoured. To others, they would try to banish or kill evil but to the monster hunter, he would devour them whole and not leave a single trace of their body behind.

When Asura turn and walk towards Ponyville, his mind was suddenly bombarded with several visions. This made his head hurt like gun were being shot inside his head. He fell on to his knees and screamed as he felt immense pain in his head. Blood began to flow out of his ears, eyes, nose and mouth. His brain was being damaged due to seeing several of the visions. But what were these visions about?

The vision showed Asura that the filly Apple Bloom was running through the forest but this filly looked different. This Apple Bloom was running on all four limbs like a animal. She was a quadrupedal pony. He saw that as Apple Bloom was about to exit the forest, several zombie ponies emerged out from the ground and attacked her. Apple Bloom could not escape them and was torn apart from the zombies. She died and became a zombie like one of them.

The next vision showed that Apple Bloom was able to escape the zombies. This Apple Bloom looked human rather than a quadrupedal pony or an anthro pony. However, even thought she escaped, the zombies followed her back to Ponyville and turned everyone into zombies. Zecora was able to save Apple Bloom before escaping the dying village. Asura saw how broken Apple Bloom was as she saw her friends become zombies.

Another vision showed an anthro Apple Bloom never made it to Sunny Town as she fell from the cliff and into the abyss. She died. Asura saw several more visions that made him more angry than the last one. However, the most common thing he saw with these visions had were the zombies. Asura don't know why was he seeing these visions or what made him see them. However what he does know that the visions that he saw were from different realities.

Asura has managed to fix this Equestria's zombie problem and now he was being shown how other Equestria are suffering from zombie problem. Maybe because he was the one who was able to completely able to eliminate the zombie plague in this Equestria made him some kind of zombie hunter. Maybe he will. If there are other Equestrias out there that are suffering from the zombie plague, then he will definitely help them. Why? Because he has the power to do so that.s why. He won't sit around in this Equestria if has possess the power to help them.

Asura slowly stand back up to his full height. He was silent because he was incredibly pissed off from what he saw from the visions. He needs to fix this an he will do this right now. He first make sure that he was alone in the area. His sound map showed that no one was near him and that his clone was leading Mitta and Ruby towards Ponyville. You. He was alone and no one can disturb him right now.

Asura snap his finger and used his power to create several dimensional gates that leads to different Equestria that are facing the zombie problem. He knew that there should be many but not this mush. He look around and saw that he was surrounded by hundreds of dimensional gates. He counted them quickly and found 2357 dimensional gates around him. What's more is that the number kept on increasing by the second.

Asura wasted no time and formed some hand signs. He shouted "Shadow Clone Jutsu" and made 5000 clones. He ordered each of his clones to take a single dimensional gate and enter different Equestria. Asura told his clones to do what ever they need to do in order to save that world. They were also told to save as much lives as possible. He also unlocked their limiters and told them that they are allowed to use whatever amount of power they require in the other Equestria.

With that said, the clones begin to enter the dimensional gates and into several Equestria. Asura just stood there and think about how he was going to permanently fix this zombie problem. After a few seconds, the clones that entered the dimensional gates, began to exit them and returned back here. They dismissed themselves and Asura gained their memories. He saw that the clones were able to eliminate the zombies in different Equestria and save several lives. They also were able to turn the zombie ponies back into the living.

Asura was proud that his clones were able to save other Equestrias. He saw that the dimensional gates of the Equestria that has been fixed disappeared. However, instead the number of dimensional gates going down, several more dimensional opened up. Asura girted his teeth as he saw how many more Equestria were facing zombie problems. He needs to fix this but how if more and more dimensional gates just keep on open up.

He got it. The multiverse theory. It states that there are parallel universes are also called alternate universes, quantum universes, interpenetrating dimensions, parallel dimensions, parallel worlds, alternate realities, alternate timelines, and dimensional planes. Each plant that exist from one another is different. If this is the case then there is suppose to be one Equestria where all of this zombie curse started from. If Asura is somehow able to find this specific Equestria and fix the problem, then he might just be able to fix the rest of the thousands Equestria.

If Asura is able to stop the zombie curse from happening in the first place then he can make it seems like it didn't happened at all and other Equestrias will be automatically fixed. With this in mind, he pulled out one nail from his left bicep, right bicep, left shoulder blade, right shoulder blade, neck, left kidney and right kidney. He pulled out 7 nails from his body that gave him access to 70% of his full power. His powers increased from 10% to 80%.

With this much power, he used his reality warping to send out his mind across the multiverse in order to find the one specific Equestria. After a while, he did it. He found that Equestria. He will personally deal with this problem with his own hands. The clones continued to enter other dimensional gates and fixed those Equestria. Asura made a dimensional gate to that specific planet and walk through it.

On Another Equestria Quadrupedal Version

Ruby was hiding in an abandon cabin. She was scared and breathing heavily. She hide in a corner of the room and pray to god for her safety. Her fear only rose when she heard something. In the next moment, the door was smashed opened and in came the other ponies who were hunting her. They look around the room and found the filly in the corner of the room. They all slowly walk towards the filly with hate in their eyes as they spew bullshits against her Cutie Mark.

"There she is!"

"She has the curse mark!"

"She is cursed!"

"We have no choice."

"Destroy the curse one!"

"Cut out the curse mark!"

Ruby pleaded with them, "A-all I wanted to do was help Roneo find his present ... I only wanted to help!"

However, her plead fall on deaf ears as they advance on her with intent to kill her. She could do nothing but cover her head in her front hooves and prayed that someone would save her from this nightmare.

"I hear ... your voice."

Ruby heard a voice which took away all of her fear.

*Throom*

Ruby's pray was answered when the ceiling was destroyed and something landed between the filly and the ponies. Dust flew around which blocked their vision, but they could still see something within the dust. Something that was very big. The ponies of his world were quadrupedal and adults were about 4 feet tall. However, the ponies became afraid when the figure within the dust began to stand to its full height that terrified them.

Whatever the being was, it stood at 9 feet tall. When they dust settled, they all gasped at what they saw. It was a hulking being that scared the shit out of them. The being flared down at the ponies who were about to hurt and kill the filly. No one made a move in the being's presence as they felt dread growing inside of their stomach.

Asura said, "You dare hurt an innocent filly?"

What came out of the human's mouth made them shiver as they feel malice and hatred in his voice. But why would this being be worried about another species?

Starlet said, "She ... she has the curse mark. She must be destroyed."

She only got a terrifying glare from the human which shut her up in fear. Asura said, "This is no curse mark."

The ponies were confused at what they heard. If its not a curse mark, then what is it?

Roneo said, "If its not the curse mark then what is it?"

Asura said, "What the filly got is called a Cutie Mark. Your species will get these marks when they discover their special talent. The filly's special talent is finding lost objects. She discovered her talent when she was helping her friend to find his lost present."

Starlet said, "No! It can;t be! That is a curse mark! We need to destroy her or her curse will kill us all!"

Grey Hoof nodded and said, "I agree with her. For the sake of the village safety, she must be destroyed."

Asura was disgusted by them. He look behind him and saw the filly curling into a ball and crying silently. She heard what her own father have said about killing which angered the human.

Asura slowly look back at the ponies and said, "You won't reconsider your answer?"

Grey Hoof said, "No. This must be done for the sake of the village."

Asura was silent for a while and then he said, "Okay."

The ponies relaxed visibly as they thought the human have agreed with them. How wrong they were.

Grey Hoof smiled and said, "That's good. Why don't you help us in destroying that-"

Asura cut him off as he appeared in front of Grey Hoof in the blink of an eye and *Kerip* skewered him with his right hand. The other ponies were horrified when they saw their village chief being skewered by the human.

Grey Hoof coughed up blood and said, "W-why?"

Asura simply said, "You gave me no choice. So now die."

Grey Hoof found himself dead when Asura *Kerip* ripped him into several pieces with his hands. When he was done with Grey Hoof, Asura look at the other ponies who were trembling in fear as they see their village chief torn into pieces right in front of them. Their fears only worsen when the saw the human turning his attention towards them. The ponies were trembling in fear as they saw his flowing red eyes that feels like he is gazing into their souls.

Asura said, "All of you are scums for what you were trying to do o the filly. For that, die."

Asura lunge at them and began to tear them apart in the most painful way possible. The ponies were ripped apart with his bare hands. He also ripped out their organs and tipped off their heads. The remaining surviving ponies began to run towards the exit but Asura appeared in front of the path and blocked their escape route. Screams filled the cabin as ponies were being torn apart by the enraged human.

Soon the screams stopped when all of the ponies died, except for the filly. Asura devoured their remains and walk towards the crying filly. He kneel down in front of her and softly hugged her. This stopped her trembling.

Asura said, "Its okay little one. The mean ponies will never harm you again."

Ruby sniffed and said, "R-really? Are they gone?"

Asura said, "Yes little one. They are gone. I promise you that they will never come near you again."

Ruby stopped crying after a while and asked, "Thank you. Um what are you Mr ..?"

Asura smiled and said, "I am a monster hunter little one. I hunt monsters who harm the innocent."

Ruby look at him with stars in her eyes. She said, "That's so cool."

Asura smiled and lifted her up. He said, "Come on. Lets get you back to your mother."

Ruby became sad and said, "I don't think that's a good idea."

Asura asked, "Why is that little one?"

Ruby said, "When I got my Cutie Mark, my mother was scared and look me in fear. She didn't do anything to save me from the other ponies."

Asura bend down and hugged her. He said, "That is not true little one. As we speak, your mother is frantically searching for you. She wants to save you and is trying her best to find you first."

Ruby asked, "R-really?"

Asura smiled and said, "Yes little one. Your mother loves you. She never hated you for that mark. She was just afraid of what the other ponies would do to you."

Ruby nodded and waited for her mother. After a while, another female pony came. It was Mitta and she was breathing heavily. Her hair was frazzled and she was crying. When she look at Ruby and found her safe, she immediately ran towards her and hugged her. She cried and apologized to her for not helping her when she needed her. Ruby hugged her and forgave her. She didn't hated her mother at all.

Ruby said, "Mommy. I want you to meet my new friend who saved me from the mean ponies."

Mitta look at the human in shock but smiled that he saved her daughter. She said, "Thank you for saving my precious daughter."

Asura smiled and said, "Anytime."

Mitta said, "What happened to the rest of the ponies?"

Asura said, "Lets just say that you will never meet them again."

Mitta understood what he said and thanked him. Asura's work here is done and was about to leave but stooped. There is still one thing that needs to be done. He gave information to Mitta about the so called curse mark. He told her that it is a disease that ponies can get when they eat specific flowers from the forest. He also told them about the Cutie Mark and that Ruby had earn her mark by discovering her special talent which is finding lost objects.

Asura also gave her the seeds of Seed Of Truth and told them how to grow them in order to cure ponies if they caught Cutie Pox. He told her to spread her knowledge about this to anyone she meets so that they won't turn out like the ones he killed. After that was done, Asura left that Equestria and returned back to his home.

When Asura came back, he saw that the dimensional gates were dissipating. It looks like he did it. The zombie curse has been dealt with on the Equestria where it originally happened. This caused a chain reaction with the other Equestria where the zombie curse just disappeared. it was like it never happened in the first place. However, those Equestria that his clones fixed were not effected by this as they were already fixed, including his own Equestria.

Well that's done. Asura did a huge fix to the Equestria multiverse. Now they are safe from the zombie curse. After he was done with that, he dismissed his clones and began to walk towards Ponyville but stopped when his plants informed him of something very important. He began to dash deeper into the forest and soon came across a cave. He entered it and found something that he heard from the princesses. The Tree of Harmony.

He stare at the tree and took in every detail of its beauty. Truly, this tree was very beautiful. He walk around it and look at it from every angle. He also saw that there were 5 small balls on the branches that had some shapes in them. There was also a star shape space on the tree trunk. This showed that the Elements of Harmony were taken from this tree. When he was close to the tree, he felt like someone is trying to talk with him.

Asura soon realized who it was. It was the tree of Harmony. However, Asura failed to understand what the tree wanted to say to him. Asura didn't care what the tree means. he didn't had time for it and left the cave but stop right outside of it. He thought about the safety of the tree since its an important thing for Equestria. Asura plunged his hand into the ground and used his virus to create a sentinel plant being. He created the watcher of this forest, Ancestral Root. Capture Level 52.

Ancestral Root will act like a guardian for the forest. It will look out for other beings like the ponies and keep them safe from harm. Asura created another plant creature called Dead Wood. Capture Level 54.

Dead Wood will act like a guardian for the Tree of Harmony. It will protect the tree from any harm and will stop from enemies to come near it.

After creating these two plant creatures, he began to dash towards Ponyville as his work in this forest was finished. Also, since he created plant monsters that are much more dangerous than Manticores or Timber Wolfs, he renamed this forest from Everfree Forest to Death Forest. Fitting name for such a forest that now contains dangerous plant monsters.

While he was running, Asura checked his power level/ He found that his power increased from 154% to 160%. That's good. He then limited his power level back to 10% while sealing the rest 150% of his powers by plunging the nails into his pressure points.

One in his left bicep 10%
One in his right bicep 10%
One in his left shoulder blade 10%
One in his right shoulder blade 10%
One in his neck 10%
One in his left kidney 10%
One in his right kidney 10%
One in his left lung 20%
One in his right lung 20%
One in his heart 40%

After that, he checked on his Gourmet Cells for the girls. He found them to be 8.79% complete. Still a very long way from having this complete. He also learned two new skills from fighting the zombies. "The Angel Of Death" and "Hibashira".

The Angel Of Death
This is a new mode that he can transform into. This transformation will make him create two bloody wings. 10 bloody arms emerge from each of the bloody wings. he can use these bloody arms to rip and tear his enemies into pieces.

Hibashira or Fire Pillar
He can used the heat generated from his body to shoot out flames straight upward, destroying a target above him. It can also be fired downwards to clear any enemies that might be below him while he's in mid-air.

He got two good skills for dealing with hoard of monsters. Asura appeared at the edge of the Death Forest alongside Mitta and Ruby. The clone dissipated when the original came. Asura then lead them to Ponyville to meet his friends. When they were near the village, Asura saw his friends were coming towards him. He smiled at his lovers and friends. It would be a long day for him to explain the things happened in the forest. And also, that he changed the forest name to Death Forest.