//------------------------------// // Regrets // Story: The vampony of Manehatten High // by Fanged Rainbow //------------------------------// It had been several days since I had nearly killed Ruby, and school had been... quiet. But that was quick to change when she showed up. It happened in the corridors on the way to my second lesson. "You!" she yelled, slamming me into the wall, anger the only emotion in her eyes. What had I done? Oh right, nearly killed her. "Wha-" I panicked, unaware of what had happened. "Shut up!" she yelled in my face. She was pissed, I saw the reason why in her upper jaws. Fangs! That wan't planned. I gulped, unsure what she would do, and by the look in her eyes, and the stake in her hoof told me. I was going to buckin' die! "Woah, Ruby, calm it!" Soaring Skies yelled in my defense. It gave me just the opening I needed to break free and gallop down the corridors, I didn't bother hiding my true speed - or form. I transformed into a half demon half pony, causing everypony great panic. Mistake? Maybe. I didn't care, I was running. When a group of ponies got in my way they began to cower, I was charging them practically. I jumped onto one, crushing his skull slightly, he was alive still, if just. I looked back to see Ruby still chasing me. Well, buck. I kept running. I only wanted to escape, I had nowhere to hide, nowhere to run. no sanctuary at all. Except one place that is, the manehatten sewer systems. I knew them well, occasionally hunting does go wrong. Then it occoured to me, I couldn't get out, the doors were locked during the school day to stop ponies skiving. That was a problem. Just like the fact I was still being chased by Ruby! "You made me a monster!" she yelled "I'm going to end you!" "Get lost!" I yelled in reply. I turned to face her, she was fumeing. I bared my fangs and prepared to fight, but I wasn't expecting the power she had in her kick. She sent me flying into the wall. I decided to break the window and jump out, using my hoodie to keep my body shaded. As I ran I passed a mare as I ran, she had a light amberish grey coat and a pale, light grayish cyan and light opalish gray mane. She had worked with the element of generosity I belive when Princess Twilight visited the city. I yelled back"Sorry!" to her as I continued fleeing Ruby, whom still hadn't given up the chase. "Leave me alone!" I yelled at her. "I'm not losing this!" she yelled back, her stake in her magical grasp. I took of flying into the air, thankful that I was a pegasi, and that I could use dark magic. That came in handy later... I landed on a random rooftop and panted for breath, running as super speeds took it out of me. Unfortunately Ruby found me. I was too exhausted to fly or fight, so I jumped. I came crashing down on top of somepony, biting into their neck and sucking them dry. I normally wouldn't be so aggressive, but this time my life was on the line. I didn't pay much attention to who it was... Then I ran, and fled into the sewers, just like I previously planned. Now there was some commotion, I was seen in public killing somepony, Ruby wanted to kill me, and I had only limited time before she inevitably found me. I just ran, taking a left turn down a four-way intersection, the a right at a two-way, before running into a large cylindrical room. It was my gangs hideout, but non of them were there it seemed. "Yo, Night Wind? Emerald? Raze?" I called, there was no response. "Anypony?" I called out, repeating myself three times... Still no response... Then I heard her voice, Ruby's voice echoed in my head. "I'm coming!" she taunted. "I will find you," she screamed "And I will end you!" I used what energy my meal had given me to fly into a small gap in the walls, they led into a tiny cave, room enough for one pony. I hid there, Ruby's voice trailing in and out of existence. "Where are you?" I heard her call. "Come on out..." came next, trailing of into the background. About ten minutes later of silence and she piped up again. "Come on out, please... I won't hurt you," she lied. She was right behind the wall to me. I was terrified. The stench of the sewers didn't help either honestly, I wanted to just wish myself away after another twenty minutes. She had sat down by the sound of it, we were both leaning on the same wall I guessed. "Please let me talk to you," I asked apologetically guessing she was still angry. I heard her crying. "I'm sorry Starlight, I want the suffering to end... I let myself get over come by rage..." "Huh?" "My own mother was killed by a vampony, my father died fighting one too. I wanted to avenge them, and I took it too far." "Ruby..." This time there was no response. "Ruby?" I called, I wanted a response, and the lack of one was worrying me. I let me curiosity get the better of me and peeked out to see her. She was dead! I climbed out in a hurry to look at her corpse... Suicide, she had driven her stake through her own heart! I couldn't believe my undead eyes. Firmly held in her right forehoof was her wooden stake, which was half-buried into her heart... Then, surprising myself, I cried.