//------------------------------// // Part 1: A Vampire in Ponyville. // Story: Vamp Pinkie // by Paganbrony //------------------------------// Vamp Pinkie. Part 1: A Vampire in Ponyville. Sunset over Ponyville, Twilight Sparkle watched for a moment from her front door and to no-pony in particular sighed. “It sure is beautiful tonight”. As librarian for Ponyville, royal protégé and element of harmony, Twilight had a busy life and thanks to her multitude of friends it was unpredictable, rarely made a lot of sense and was generally exciting. But not this night… Tonight was going be different she swore, tonight she would finally try that spell again. Checking about she saw no pony around, returning inside the part house part library all tree Twilight ran around the house closing all the windows and curtains turning out useless lights until job done she stood in the front room, a full length mirror positioned facing the center of the room she’d left there since her last aborted attempt. Twilight nearly screamed as a knocking sound came from the door, she’d been trying for six weeks to do this… “It’s OK…” Twilight muttered. “Just a little longer… then it’ll be time.” As she reached the door she breathed deeply and opened it, the visitor broke into song as Twilight face hoofed, then screamed. “STOP THAT RIGHT NOW!!!” The pink party pony stopped her song eyes wide in shock. “You OK Twilight… You seem a bit down?” “Not one more party, it’s been four this week I have work I have to do!” SLAM!! Twilight stormed away from the door as she regretted shouting at her friend and fellow element of harmony but this was too important to her, looking up she came face to face with her pink friend. “I’m sorry Twilight! I don’t know what I’ve done but I promise I’ll make it up to you! Hey I could throw a ‘cheer up Twilight’ party or an ‘I’m really sorry Twilight’ party… humph…” Twilight stopped her dead with her hoof to Pinkie’s mouth. “How in Celestia did you get in?” Twilight eyed the still closed front door, “Ugh never mind, Pinkie I have studying to do and I don’t want any interruptions ok”, “Okey dokey” Pinkie looked around the library. “Is Spike here, maybe he’d like to come?” “No he’s on official Canterlot business for Celestia” Twilight cocked her head slightly her inquisitive nature getting the better of her “So… What’s the party for?” Pinkie hesitated, putting a fore hoof to her chin she looked thoughtfully upwards. “I don’t know, my pinkie sense was all a twitchy twitch.” “Uh what do you think it means? Is the sky going to fall on our heads?” Twilight long ago had given up trying to fathom Pinkie’s precognitive abilities or her randomness for that matter. “No silly, it means someone new is coming to town! So I’m organizing the party for when they arrive!” Eyes narrowed and temper returning Twilight stepped behind Pinkie and tried to bundle her back out the door, as she began to push she slipped on the rug beneath her on the floor and in a hoof jerk reaction bit down on Pinkie’s tail to stop herself as she fell. BAM!!! Twilight lay face down hooves splayed, shaking it off she looked up slowly and immediately realized Pinkie was crying! Pinkie was stood looking at her rump and significantly reduced tail, as a slow trickle of blood rand down the back of her leg. Twilight tried to apologize but in doing so nearly choked on the clump of pink tail still in her mouth, “Mph… cough, cough, P-Pinkie... I…” But before Twilight could finish Pinkie had run for the door and with tears streaming behind her opened it and ran away. “Damn it to the moon.” Twilight cursed, should she follow? “No, I’ll apologize tomorrow.” Twilight told herself this as to her this experiment was far more important than her friends feelings she reasoned after all she was about to make history and prove to Equestria that she, she alone was the next great unicorn magician, nay sorceress! On par with; no… Greater than Starswirl the Bearded! Then, then Celestia would treat her as an equal and welcome her with open hooves maybe a k…. Twilight shook herself out of her daydream; after all she had magic to perform! Clearing a suitable space in the room’s center and bolting the front door Twilight fetched the book she had been studying from its safe place hidden in the algebra section of the library. The safest place in Equestria she’d been told by a librarian in Canterlot. It cover tasted horrible in her mouth as she carried it to the room’s center, after all she thought… It WAS made of stretched pony skin… It also was written in blood at the very dawn of time and had a ponies face for a cover. If any pony found out she’d stolen it from Celestia’s hall of forbidden objects (a secret stash of all things evil, malevolent or strange) she was doomed. Laying the book down, she shivered, she hadn’t wanted to use this tome but she’d had no choice, her research clearly showed the spell she needed was contained only within this one book. Carefully she opened it with her magic and skipped to the page she needed, this was the only way since every bookmark she’d tried had burst into flames. After fetching chalk, moving her rug and sweeping the floor haphazardly she carefully etched out the diagram in the book onto the floor, a giant circle adorned with complex runes and symbols and ancient druidic writing. It took a while since using her magic to do this would affect her spell so she gripped the chalk in her teeth, but when she’d finished and dusted herself off (not being a natural artist she was covered in chalk) she looked at the finished product and smiled as she brimmed with excitement. Twilight moved the book and herself outside the circle directly opposite the mirror, bending down she read again the instructions giddy with excitement as she was about to contact another world! A little under a year ago she had read an article where a respected scientist had theorized that other dimensions, ones he called ‘parallel dimensions’ existed alongside theirs where life was the same in some ways and different in others! Twilight had spoken to Princess Celestia about it and she let Twilight into a secret that in the distant past to contact another version of your self was possible, however, the secret had been lost over time. A few months later though Twilight had found a reference in a very old book that said the secret could be found in the darkest of all tomes, the Necroponycon ex mortis! There was only ever one copy of it and Twilight, as student to Celestia, knew where and after researching theft and burglary from her books she had waited till Celestia had gone on an extended world trip and then stolen it. She was sure Celestia would forgive her since she was doing this not only for science and magic, but so she could report on the magic of friendship from other dimensions! She imagined Celestia’s pride in her greatest achievement. Twilight concentrated on the words before her, steadily she began to chant the first part, then when done she awkwardly picked up a small knife in her mouth and with a flinch drew a small amount of blood from the end of one of her forelegs and dripped it onto the circle. Dropping the knife and resuming her chanting starting now on the second part, her heart skipped a beat as the chalk began to glow as small arcs of magical blue lightning started traveling around the circle. ‘This is it!’ She thought as the blue energy jumped to the mirror sporadically hitting things around the room as well, then a strengthening wind began to form whipping around the room catching anything light enough and swirling it around. Finishing the chant Twilight was ecstatic until she noticed a faint glow on the floor, she leaned in close as she dared and squinted past the flashes of light. What was it? She wondered, then she realized… It was a couple of Pinkie’s tail hairs!! Glowing brighter and beginning to levitate they caused Twilight to panic, the instructions had strictly forbidden any trace of a living being within the circle whose lightening was turning a familiar color of pink. ‘Awwww F……’ she managed before the whole room exploded with magic. What felt like hours was no more than seconds as Twilight flew backwards out of the rooms main window she screamed, but even this was cut short by her landing, glass showering down around her. Groggily Twilight dragged herself to her hooves covered in glass and cuts and as black smoke poured from her window, short bursts of magic still sparking here and there, she face hoofed and cried out in anger. “N-NOOO…” Twilight bemoaned the damage but most of all the difficulty hiding such a spectacular failure from other ponies, not only the locals but the royals too, never mind every unicorn for miles around would’ve felt that, magic like cutie marks were unique to the individual, she was screwed. “Oh no… The book…!” Not stopping to think Twilight ran forward and jumped back through the window. The room was obliterated, if she hadn’t gone out the window she would have been toast she realised, all around her books smouldered and small fires were burning all over. Careful not to step on anything sharp or hot she made her way through the thick smoke as she tried to see through the haze, as she neared the remains of the mirror squinting through the smoke she could barely make out the shape of a pony sat on its haunches among the smoking books and papers displaced by the blast. “Um… excuse me hello?” The shape moved and looked in her direction, Twilight saw bright blue eyes pierce the haze. Twilight coughed deeply as the smoke grew thicker, pausing to control her breathing Twilight focused as she knew those eyes. “Pinkie is that you?” The shape didn’t answer as it continued to stare directly at her. “Oh… No...” Twilight wondered if Pinkie had for the lack of a better term ‘teleported’ into the decimated room and been hurt by the blast! Rushing over Twilight skidded to an abrupt halt she saw it was definitely Pinkie, but her mane… Oh Celestia, Twilight swore softly. The last time Pinkie had straight hair hanging to one side like that… Well she’d gone seriously off the deep end. “Hey Pinkie *cough* do you *cough* want to go outside?” Twilight got no response but couldn’t help but twitch as Pinkie stared her up and down with an expression that looked like curiosity. “What’s the time” she asked. Twilight barely heard Pinkie but confused she answered, “About eight o’clock.” “Is that day or night?” “Pinkie, we don’t have time for twenty questions, the place is on fire!” A blue eyed stare was her answer. “What is wrong with you, look it’s night ok, now can we get out of here please!!” Twilight pointed to the window with her hoof, Pinkie slowly rose and stepped past Twilight but uncomfortably close with her eyes only leaving Twilight when she’d passed by but not before she had sniffed her mane causing the unicorn to shudder involuntarily. As they made their way outside, shivers ran down Twilight’s spine as Pinkie once again looked at her, but her attention was drawn to quite the crowd which had gathered outside the library with many carrying buckets of water. Several of the townsfolk asked if Twilight and Pinkie were OK or what happened? It took several minutes to get away from them and the expectant onlookers who eventually let them go sit down away from the hustle and bustle after Twilight told them it had been caused by a fallen candle. As Twilight sat down far from the madding crowd and hung her head in her hooves she wasn’t prepared for what came next. “So are ponies always like that around here, all helpful…?” “…Wherever here is, I suppose?” Giving Pinkie who was sat next to her a funny look her mind slowly caught up… “Oh my… It worked!” Twilight’s mood changed instantly as she remembered what she’d been attempting! “What worked exactly?” Pinkie’s tone was harsh as she poked a hoof at Twilight’s chest “Um, well you see, I was trying to contact parallel dimensions and the spell went wrong! I’m sorry I didn’t mean for you to end up here!” “This is Ponyville.” Twilight swung a hoof around hesitating a little before her mind came up with, “So you have a Ponyville where you come from?” “Yes.” Pinkie paused then replied, “But not like this.” “How do you mean?” “Don’t you have monsters?” Pinkie cocked her head to the side in a childish fashion. “Well … yes, but we beat them with the magic of friendship!” Twilight answered proudly as she held her hoof to her chest. The newcomer leaned forward wide eyed and an incredulous look upon her face. “Huh…? The magic of friendship…? Are you lying to me…?” “Uh no I promise… We really do…” Twilight beamed a nervous smile as the pink pony sniffed her mane again and then sniffed the air. “So… do you have zombies?” “Err… nope.” “Witches do you have witches?” “Um… Well not really like you mean but we have ponies others think are witches?” Twilight began to study this parallel Pinkie, her coat and mane were much less colorful than the Pinkie that Twilight knew, never mind the hair her eyes were just as bright and intense but in a bone chilling way as they never wavered or left her for a second. “Any were-ponies or were-rabbits?” The strange pony continued after she sniffed the air once again, “Or vampires?” “There’s supposed to be were-ponies in the Everfree Forest I heard, among other things.” Laughing Twilight couldn’t look her in the eyes as she nervously looked down, why…? She thought about it… This was Pinkie Pie right? No matter what dimension she told herself. “What’s wrong?” “Oh nothing Pinkie Pie” Twilight lied. “Why do you keep calling me that?” Looking up Twilight replied “Oh! Well that’s because in this dimension our version of you is called Pinkie Pie!” “Your version of me you say?” A dark look flickered across the strange ponies face. “So we look alike?” “Y-yes p-pretty much…” Twilight stammered, her eyes dropped lower and she caught a glimpse of the alternate Pinkie Pie’s cutie mark … but before her mind could process it the ‘other’ Pinkie spoke “You can call me Pink.” Twilight’s head shot up as she realized that ‘Pink’ had moved to only centimeters away. “O-k, uh Pink my name is Twilight Sparkle.” She froze as Pink moved ever closer… Now they were pretty much nose to nose. “Nice to meet you, Twilight…” She whispered that in her ear, moving her head downwards she nuzzled against Twilight causing the unicorn to shudder. “H-hey d-don’t, s-stop that, p-please…” Twilight’s voice broke as Pink gently kissed her neck, “I don’t, I mean not, no I… mean I…” Twilight was beside herself frozen with shock and embarrassment (and curiosity) when she felt something scrape gently across her skin, almost she thought, almost like teeth … pointy teeth … much like fangs kind of pointy … “AAAHHH…” Pushing Pink away Twilight lost her balance and fell on her back looking up at Pink who in the bat of eye now stood over her a playful smile playing across her lips, her hair hung to the left side, her right upper lip curled up revealing a fang, her eyes filled with… hunger! Twilight gasped. “Y-You’re a… But they are not real… Vampires don’t exist…” “They do where I’m from so in that case I’m one of a kind,” Twilight gasped, “So do you want to celebrate over dinner…? By dinner I mean you of course” Pink giggled as she slowly lowered her head towards Twilight’s neck baring her fangs further, stopping only to lick a drop of blood from one of the many cuts Twilight had received on her trip through the library window. “Maybe next time… …Or never…” Twilight cried out as she felt Pinks fangs pierce her skin, panicked she instinctively used her magic to teleport herself away. “Hmmm, promises… Promises” Pink muttered quietly while savoring the taste in her mouth, now that her first meal in months had vanished Pink surveyed the crowd as they fought the growing fire that was consuming the library, she could feel their hearts beating, hear their labored breathing pumping the blood faster around their systems. “Well I guess this is home sweet, new home.” Pink sniffed the air twice then melted backwards into the shadows dancing in the firelight her blue eyes the last to fade to black.