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// So many questions... (And a few answers) 
// Story: The vampony of Manehatten High 
// by Fanged Rainbow 
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I looked down at Ruby's corpse for a moment... Had she really done it?

No... Somepony else was here! I smelt them, and the smell of decay. Ruby hadn't been dead long enough to produce that. I looked about and spotted another corpse. A black stallion with a light blue mane. "Night Wind?" I asked it. There was no response he was dead. So was Emerald. Raze was missing though.

Then it clicked. Raze was behind me. I turned and saw a wolf like form watching me, his red eyes fixated on me. Suddenly he became a white crystal pony with a purple and blue striped mane. "What are you doing here, Starlight?" he asked.

"This is our hideout. what happened to them?" I asked him.

"I happened," he replied.

"Why?" I asked, shocked and angered.

"I'll tell ya, but only because you won't be 'ere much longer," he smirked making me uneasy. "I killed 'em because I can, simple as."

"I knew you would do something like this at some point, Lycan!" I yelled in fury.

We began to circle each other, slowly moving around the circular pit in the center of the room. I stepped over the stream of sewage as I stared at him. He waded through it, his own gaze locked on me. "Raze?"

"Hmm?

"Look out!" I yelled at him, charging at him. He was caught of guard by the attack  and sent across the room.

"Heh, not bad...." he responded, galloping to me, taking his wolven form. I countered by flying upwards, out of his reach. He pounced, catching my leg and dragging me down, so I smashed his head with my hoof. 

"Get of me!" I yelled at him.

"Gahh, stop that!" he responded to me as I continued to hit him, my hoof coming down harder each time. I ignored him, until he bit my leg. I screamed in pain and kicked his face, making him drop me.

I fell into the waters below and cringed, blood streaming from my leg. It was no good to drink either. "Oww..." I whined as I slowly got up. My body protested with the continued fighting, burning up heavily as my bruised began to show, and the blood continued to drip from my leg.

Raze jumped down, a caring look on his face, but that changed as soon as I charged. "Not so easily fooled are you?" he mumbled just loud enough to hear. I replied by smashing his furry muzzle in. He jumped and turned into his pony form. begging for mercy. "I give, I give!"

His muzzle was bloody, his right eye black, and his left forehoof bent in an unnatural way. "You give?" I asked.

"Yes!" he cried.

"Alright, first things first. Why?" I asked.

"Pardon?" he blurted out.

"Why?" I roared in anger.

"I had to, I'm a henchman! I swear! She was too!" Raze pointed at Ruby.

I gave him a stern look. "Really?"

"Yes! There are four of us being led by a pony called..."

"Called?"

"Called, Nightcore!"

"That's a type of music." I commented.

"Damn"

I frowned and pulled my hoof up to strike.

"Stop!" he begged, tears in his eyes.

"Give me one good reason why?" I asked, fury in my veins.

"I'll be truthful! He's called Filthy Rich!" he admitted.

"Filthy Rich?"  asked confused. I knew him, he was a founder of Ponyville's son. Why would he be in Manehatten?

I pondered that as I left Raze bleeding. What would Filthy Rich want with me? Was my mothers death his instructions? Was it really him? It didn't matter how I found out as far as I was concerned, so long as I found out. Murder, torture and... other things... were not  going to stop me finding out.

I went home to ponder. The cops had left, giving me time to log into my hacking group. Anonymous. I logged on, and headed straight to the forums, making a new post titled 'Filthy Rich!' after typing it I re-read it aloud, even though nopony could hear me.

"I have a new target, Filthy Rich. I've been attacked by two ponies, one claimed both of them were henchmen of his... I need info on this, and I can't do it alone." I smirked and posted it, a response came in less than five minutes.

I read it aloud too. "On it, this is odd and needs to be looked at, other people complained about something similar."

I took interest in it and did some more research.

After researching I went back to my post, and read the newest reply. "Somethin' is up with this pony, we should get some ponies onto the IRC." So we did.

After half an hour or so I logged of and looked over to my lock boxes. I was continuing to ponder, but I wanted to take my mind of it. So I switched of my laptop and began picking away at some of the locks.

One of the locks opened with ease, what I saw inside brought back a sad memory, my fathers fang. I loved my father dearly, he taught me how to hunt, fly, fight and how to pick locks! I loved him, yet he left me and my mother without a trace. Why he did it we never found out. I held it to me, it was my last memory of him, and as much as it saddened me, I felt happy to have something though.

Then I heard a crash.

"Oww..."

Ruby?