Sweetie Belle slowly walked away from Applebloom, after what she did to Applejack there was no way Applebloom would want to talk to her ever again. After a few minutes of walking Sweetie Belle found herself standing next to a large lake. The water was so dark Sweetie felt as if she was looking into the night sky. She decided to lay down next to the lake, planning to look into it so she could reflect on what happened to her, and what she did to Applejack.

How could Applebloom ever forgive her for hurting her sister, and even Sweetie Belle knew that with the amount of blood she lost, the chance of Applejack surviving was slim. How could anypony forgive her for killing one of her friend's sisters, let alone an element of harmony. If they ever found a way to go back to being normal ponies she would probably get tossed in a dungeon, or worse, get sent to the moon like Princess Luna. What would it be like on the moon, would she even be able to live on the moon? Sweetie Belle's thoughts were interrupted when she heard a loud scream from up above her.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

Sweetie Belle quickly looked up to see Scootaloo falling towards the lake at a very high speed, as if she had fallen off a cloud...

"SCOOTALOO?!" Sweetie Belle shouted in confusion. It was well known to her that Scootaloo couldn't fly all that well, so the sight of her falling from the sky was extremely out of the ordinary.

"HELP ME!" Scootaloo screamed just before hitting the water which created a large wave followed by a sickening crack. Sweetie Belle slowly made her way towards the lake, waiting for Scootaloo to float up, and when she didn't Sweetie started to get scared. What if Scootaloo hit the water to hard and caused internal bleeding, or what if the lake wasn't as deep as she thought and Scootaloo hit the bottom?! Sweetie's questions were answered when the blackness of the water was interrupted by a quickly expanding circle of red.

"SCOOTALOO!" Sweetie Belle shouted as she ran towards the red circle. When she got close to the circle she felt her hoof touch something hard, causing her to reach into the water hoping to find Scootaloo unconscious, but instead she found only Scootaloo's head...

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"Zecora? Are you home?" Applebloom asked as she slowly pushed open the door to Zecora's hut. Her face was still covered in tears, and she had managed to take her sister's hoof with her. As much as she hated to admit it, she needed a hoof to replace the one she lost, and the only available one was Applejack's.

"Zecora?!" Applebloom shouted, hoping that by raising her volume Zecora would be able to hear her even if she wasn't in the house.

"Ah, hello young Applebloom, I am laying in the next room" Zecora said loudly, her voice sounding hoarse. Applebloom quickly made her way to the next room over, which she guessed was Zecora's bedroom.

"You okay Zecora?" Applebloom asked when she saw Zecora laying in bed with an empty bowl next to her.

"I am okay my friend, and I am sorry for your sister's end" Zecora said as she sat up, positioning a pillow below her back so she could sit comfortably.

"So, she actually died?" Applebloom asked quietly, the news of her sister's death still coming as a shock to her.

"As much as it saddens me, that is how it seems to be" Zecora said while looking at the hoof sitting on Applebloom's back. Applebloom followed her gaze and realized she had seen the hoof, and probably recognized it as Applejack's.

"Sweetie lost control and my sister tripped over a kinfe, which cut off her hoof" Applebloom explained, her guilt returning as she though about what happened.

"What was that about young Sweetie Belle?" Zecora asked, obviously having not been told of Sweetie's disappearance.

"I, uh, accidentally bit her, and she ended up like me" Applebloom admitted shyly.

"Ah, so now two of your group with no mark on their flanks, have become one of the terrifying Blanks" Zecora said, looking down at her forelegs in sadness.

"Yeah, but I don't know where Sweetie Belle-" Applebloom started to say before being cut off.

BANG

"ZECORA!"

"That sounded like Sweetie Belle..." Applebloom said as her friend came running into the room, jumping onto Zecora with tears streaming down her face.

"What has happened Sweetie Belle?" Zecora asked as she struggled to breath due to Sweetie Belle pushing her head into Zecora's ribs.

"IT'S SCOOTALOO, PLEASE YOU HAVE TO HELP HER!" Sweetie cried as she pulled Zecora out of bed, dragging her towards the main room of her house. Applebloom followed after them in confusion, stopping dead in her tracks when she saw what had happened to Scootaloo. Scootaloo's body was sprawled out across the floor, but her head was placed neatly on the table.

"What happened?!" Applebloom shouted, running over to Scootaloo's body as soon as the shock wore off.

"I was sitting by a lake when she fell from the sky, when she didn't come back up I went in for her, and..." Sweetie Belle said, her tears beginning to flow again. Applebloom quickly started to cry as well, leaving Zecora to do her business. Without saying anything Zecora took Scootaloo's head and body out of the room, leaving to two fillies to cry alone.

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"hey Sweetie Belle?" Applebloom asked, her sobs starting to die down.

"Yeah?" Sweetie replied, her own tears starting to dry up.

"I'm not mad at you for what you did" Applebloom said quietly, not looking up at Sweetie Belle.

"What?" Sweetie Belle asked, knowing what she was talking about, "But..."

"I know, but you couldn't stop yourself, it was the curse" Applebloom said, walking over to Sweetie Belle and sitting next to her. The two of them quickly hugged, but broke apart when they heard a noise from the room Zecora had taken Scootaloo into. A few minutes later the door opened, an orange blur coming out and running towards Applebloom and Sweetie Belle.

"Hey guys!" the blur said as it hugged the two of them, causing them to do a double take. There's no way she managed too...

"Uh, guys, you okay?" Scootaloo asked, pulling away from her friends, only to be greeted by their blank stares.

"Scootaloo?" Sweetie asked quietly.

"Yeah?" Scootaloo replied, raising an eyebrow at her.

"Is that really you?" Applebloom asked, causing Scootaloo to step away from them.

"What's wrong with you guys?!" Scootaloo shouted, her face softening up when she caught a glimpse of herself in the window. She slowly walked over to look at herself more, noticing a strange glow to her eyes. When she got closer she realized why her friends where acting so weird. Not only were her eyes black like theirs, but her pupils were glowing blue, and it looked like her head had been stitched back on.

"If you would come with me Applebloom, I can help you in the other room" Zecora said, causing all three of the fillies to look at her, suddenly remembering that they were at her house. Applebloom quickly grabbed the hoof she had brought with her before running into the other room, interested in how Zecora managed to bring Scootaloo back to life. As she disappeared behind the door with Zecora Sweetie Belle stood up, deciding to talk to Scootaloo.

"So..." Sweetie Belle said, lightly kicking the floor.

"So?" Scootaloo asked quickly, causing Sweetie Belle to flinch.

"What was it like being dead?"

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Sweetie Belle sat down with a thump outside of Zecora's hut. Scootaloo had insisted that they go outside to talk about her being dead, but all Scootaloo had said was that she didn't know what happened, it was as if someone had just turned her off, which anoyed Sweetie Belle. Because of her being a Blank, she might never know what it's like to die.

Meanwhile Scootaloo was running around trying out her body, taking note of how stiff it was feeling. She wondering if she would be able to fly now that she was dead, but she couldn't flap her wings at all. When she looked she noticed that the feather's had been mangled and torn, making it impossible for her to get even the smallest bit of thrust out of them. As Scootaloo made her way over to Sweetie Belle the door to Zecora's hut opened.

"Hey guys!" Applebloom said happily, skipping towards them with her new hoof.

"Hey Applebloom" Sweetie Belle said as she jumped up to hug her friend. Even though she had only been inside for less than an hour, her happiness was extremely refreshing.

"Um Applebloom?" Scootaloo asked as she walked over, "Who's hoof is that?"

"It's, uh, Applejack's..." Sweetie Belle said quietly. An awkward atmosphere started to settle before Scootaloo asked another question.

"How does it fit on you?"

"Zecora put something on it, and when she sowed it on it just shrunk to fit me" Applebloom said with a shrug.

"Huh, that's weird" Sweetie Belle said while examining the newly sowed on hoof. Scootaloo looked around for Zecora' expecting her to come out and say something to them, but she didn't.

"Where's Zecora?" Scootaloo asked while Sweetie Belle prodded Applebloom's hoof to see if she could feel it.

"She said she had to go lay down, I guess she isn't feeling very well" Applebloom said, flinching when Sweetie Belle whacked the hoof, "What the hay was that for?!"

"Sorry, I was just seeing if you could feel it" Sweetie Belle said while blushing, embarrassed at what she just did. Applebloom started to laugh, which caused the other two to start laughing. Right then they didn't feel as if they were dead or monsters, they felt exactly like they had before this whole thing started. Young, happy, and with long lives ahead of them. They only stopped laughing when Scootaloo started to cough from her body still being stiff, causing them all to come back to reality.

They were dead, and there was no other way to say it. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle were cursed to stay alive forever, and Scootaloo was somehow brought back to life after loosing her head. It almost seemed like something you would hear about in a horror story around Nightmare Night, but it was 100% real.

"So, I guess we can't get our cutie marks anymore" Scootaloo said, looking back at her flank sadly.

"Yeah..." Sweetie Belle said, doing the same.

"Well then, why don't we change our group's name?" Applebloom suggested, her optimism surprising the other two.

"What we call ourselves? The Cutie Mark Zombies?!" Scootaloo said sarcastically.

"Actually, I kinda like that name" Sweetie Belle said shyly, causing Scootaloo to stare at her in confusion.

"Well, why don't we go with that then?" Applebloom asked honestly.

"Well, if you guys want to, then fine" Scootaloo said, a hint of annoyance in her voice.

"Ok, so from now on we are..." Sweetie Belle said slowly, allowing the others to figure out what she was doing.

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