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// Epilogue 
// Story: No glitter, just rarity the vampire! 
// by MidnightFMare 
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	I am napping in a tree when I hear rarity calling my name. I drop out of my tree and tap the porcelain mare on the shoulder; she turns around and smiles at me
“Come with me, if you would” she says, leading to the everfree. When we get there, she seems to focus on distant sounds and jumps on a fat rat; crushing it with her hooves. She repeats this and levitates the carcasses to me
“Uh… not to be rude but, I don’t eat meat… or fruits or vegetables for that matter; but if you have any bread that would be good!” I say, backing up 
“Oh! I’m sorry! It’s just that opal eats rats and… Oh dear…” she blushes (She is REALLY cute when she blushes all over /I>3<I\)
“That’s okay; you don’t have to worry about it. I’m just happy to see you out and about… Rarity, what are you-“
She bends her neck towards the dead rats and suddenly takes a bone-snapping  “CHOMP!”  out of one of the rats, splattering her mane and face with blood
“BY ODIN’S WELL-KEPT EYESOCKET! Rarity! What’s-“ then I see them, though smaller, she still has canine teeth
Wiping the blood of her muzzle and licks it clean… wait, eating rodents? Pouncing? Small, sharp canine teeth, licking herself clean… and now that I think about it, her eyes are slightly slitted… oh by the source of chaos… I did this to her!
I look at her eating and sigh “I’m sorry, I am so very sorry rarity. I’ve turned you into a feline-pony hybrid… I didn’t know that my bloods’ copying ability could be absorbed… I’m so very sorry! Why fate, why?!” I shake my fist at the sky “Just when I think I’ve done some good, it’s that unforeseen consequence that ruins it all! Someday, someday I will break this cycle! Mark my words, I WILL! And when I do, I will fix  EVERYTHING! ” 
“What are you talking about, I’m not a cat! Oh, the rats? Zecora said that I would have a little hunger for meat and blood for a few weeks; I do this every other day to replenish my bodies’ iron. Being a vampire apparently means that my body stops making it. I thought that if you ate some, then I could slip some for myself when you weren’t looking… What?” She replies, looking up at me
I sigh and sit down “You have no idea what I just went through. And if you needed blood, all you have to do is ask. But my hand is still healing so where- oohh… Not my shoulder… getting… warm fuzzies…” I wrap my arm around her barrel, her hair tickling my neck and warm breath in my ear; I drift off to sleep
Night falls and I am awoken by the howls of timberwolves and looking around, rarity is asleep on my chest. I pick her up and carry her back home, to the boutique and upon finding a sleeping sweetie belle on rarity’s couch, I heft her onto my other shoulder and lay them both in rarity’s bed, wishing them sweet dreams from the mistress of the night
I fly to single, always bare tree on the top of canterlot’s mountain and climb up it, turning into a cat when I reach the top
From my solitary perch I look down upon all of equestria, my eyes wide and alert, tails hanging over the branch and move with the wind 
A wide smile spreads across my face as I look at the moon
“I wonder what my next adventure will be?”

 The end…