Black Clover

This is an archive of evidence proving the existence of a long-lost MLP animation from 2014. The video in question was titled “Black Clover” and it was posted on the MLP Forums site by user “zebra2,” with a link containing the video, alongside four file attachments, those being three images and an audio snippet. Three days after the post was created, the video was taken down, presumably due to the graphic, nauseating content recounted from users in the replies.
The thread and files have been recovered thanks to a Wayback Machine link. 
According to users in the replies, the video involved Zecora, a character introduced in Season One of FiM, and “so much gross shit in the book” as told by one user.
The video’s contents were unknown up until a Reddit post from 2023 was made, describing the video in full and asking if anyone has seen it. What you are about to read is an account of what the OP had seen before the deletion. The video was around eight minutes long.
The animation started with a fade-in sequence to the intro and high-pitched, melodic cries could be heard. The background consisted of dark gray fog, and the title appeared, written like it was scrawled in tar. The scene then switched to Zecora in her hut, going through different cuts of her brewing up some sort of potion, looking back at a book while doing it. Eventually, she finished, and she was about to head over to another room. Suddenly, she heard a loud war whoop outside. She tried to ignore it, but it continued, prompting her to investigate the problem. 
After getting her cloak on and potion packed, she headed outside and followed the source of the noise through the Everfree Forest. Overtime, she accidentally triggered some traps but managed to dodge them just in time. Keeping in mind that these traps may have been set up by someone out to kill her, she tore off a thick branch from a nearby tree and carved the tip of it, doubling it down as a walking stick and an emergency weapon.
Traversing through the woods even further, Zecora spotted a bright light coming from deep in the woods, along with some deep humming. She rummaged through the leaves, and squinted her eyes to get a closer look, before the scene cut to what she was looking at. 
A small bonfire, surrounded by other mares and stallions. Each one was wrapped in a single, dirty cloak by their waist, as if they were made with parts of skinned animals. Their manes were extremely greasy, littered with bugs and rotting leaves. Standing next to the fire on both hindlegs is another stallion, clearly the leader of the group. He was dark gray in color, his hair just as messy as everyone else’s, but his attire was mostly different. He wore necklaces intertwined with tongues and teeth, and some sort of ash was besmeared over his face. 
Zecora stepped out from the forest and asked for the cult’s attention, speaking in rhymes like she usually would. This caused everyone to pause in their place and stare right at her, eyes colored in a repulsive yellow. The cult leader gestured to Zecora to come sit with him, pointing to the opposite side of the fire. She sat in front of the stallion, and after taking a sip of some yellow, opaque liquid from the hollow skull of another pony, he began talking to her in unintelligible gibberish. Zecora interrupted the stallion, telling him to wait a moment, before pulling out that same potion from the beginning and drinking it whole. 
The stallion spoke again, with subtitles now translating what he was saying at the bottom of the screen. He told Zecora that a god by the name of Ekrov came to him one night, informing him that end times were ahead. The only way to keep him and his people alive was to provide a number of sacrifices, that number being one-hundred one. Zecora asked the stallion why that specific number, and if he’s heard of Princess Celestia. The stallion stated that Celestia was a false prophet meant to feign hope, hence why she hasn’t fought most offenders herself throughout her reign, and that the number, one-hundred one, was the age he would die. He was ninety-eight, and the sacrifices were up to eighty-nine.
Zecora was visibly uncomfortable, but it got much worse when a cult member limped toward the leader with a foal on her back, before collapsing on her stomach. The leader kneeled on his hind legs and held the infant pony with his two front hooves, whispering to the cultist.
“Thank you. Your share will soon be rewarded. Let the lamb’s consumption from the lion commence.”
Seconds after saying that, he unhinged his jaw, and sank his teeth into the poor foal, taking a massive bite out of it. The foal screamed and wailed, but not until he took a second bite, rendering the baby pony deceased. Zecora was absolutely appalled. Tears welling up in her eyes, all while the cult members were dancing and whooping like no tomorrow.
What ultimately made her snap, however, was the response of the foal's mother. They locked eyes, and she softly smiled at Zecora. A smile that showed her desperation disguised by a mask of loyalty.
Zecora, gritting her teeth with rage, shouted at the cult leader, with the stallion responding in gibberish. The two of them argue as if Zecora understood what he was saying. As told by the OP, he remembered them saying something along these lines:
“You just took the life of a poor foal... have you no soul?”
“Ekrov instructed that we all feast on our own sap, so we can fill ourselves with the fluids of life before our awakening. We must reproduce to hell and back to appease him! He will arrive, and your charlatan of a queen will be no more. We will be erected in statues of silver in the clouds.”
“If you have to cannibalize in order to wake, have you ever considered that your god is fake?! The way you serve your people is vain! You are no master, you are INSANE!”
“Must I have your innards gagging your mouth, and your hindlegs to be gnawed to the bone to prove our point?! Refer to me as your chief!”
“I will do no such thing… but great pain to you, I will bring!”
“Insolence! Your attempt to soil the glorious name of Ekrov will fail! Your sacrifice to him will be sufficient for our rhapsody! Kill the spec-”
The stallion wasn’t able to finish his sentence. Zecora pinned him to the ground at the quickest speed she could muster and shoved the sharp end of her walking stick into his throat, spilling the mysterious liquid he was drinking earlier against the dirt. Gagging and heaving noises could be heard for a small amount of time, before he finally fell limp. Zecora looked up, seeing that the rest of the cult members were staring directly at her with fear and wrath. The silence was broken with a third of the cultists loudly sobbing over the sudden death of their leader, and the rest rushing toward her, filling the skies with their war cries, bows and stone axes strapped to their sides. 
Zecora rushed through the forest, with the cultists in pursuit. She occasionally tripped over a few branches, and even accidentally stepped on a spike trap set up by the cultists, causing her to shriek on her way out. Eventually, she made it to her hut and slammed the door, barricading it with a large table. She scavenged her hut for items to defend herself, all while looking for something to wrap her stabbed hoof with. 
The noises of the cannibal cult’s war cries roared on the other side of her door, and they were pounding against it in an attempt to let themselves inside. Rushing, Zecora wrapped her hoof with a torn piece of her cloak, before grabbing several potions and putting them in a satchel. Seeing that the door was getting closer and closer to being broken down, she picked up a nearby, homemade dagger with her teeth.
The view zoomed in on Zecora’s sweating face as the banging noises against her door grew to be more intense. Suddenly, the video cut to black and stopped right there, on a cliffhanger ending.
As of 2024, “Black Clover” still has not been resurfaced. Aside from the file attachments given in the retrieved thread, there have been no previous finds. If you feel like you have found a potential lead, one that can possibly conclude this search once and for all, feel free to leave a reply below.
----Audio music by aviansymphony, Art by RedxGamer, Background Vectors by FabulousMoustache and 90Sigma
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