//------------------------------// // Part 6: A Very Shy Bloodbath. // Story: Vamp Pinkie // by Paganbrony //------------------------------// Vamp Pinkie. Part 6: A Very Shy Bloodbath. It hadn’t taken long to get the bath ready, and as Fluttershy called for Pink, a moment or two passed then the somewhat reluctant vampire stepped into the bathroom and slowly made her way to the tub. Pink looked at the steaming water and the giant mountain of bubbles on top, a vampire having a bubble bath wasn’t exactly in line with the image so to speak she mused, then her next thought… How could any pony manage to get so many bubbles in one bath? As she looked Pink realized Fluttershy was stood watching expectantly. Slowly Pink dipped a hoof in watching the water around it as it turned brown, it was slightly too hot but Pink took a second to clear her mind then got in. Pink had barely settled before Fluttershy appeared in front of her, a loofah in her mouth and a determined look on her face. “W-Wait what are you …?” Fluttershy advanced as even the white bunny outside flinched when Pink screamed. “Noooo…. …Stop!!!” Angel the bunny looked at the hole he was making at the bottom of the front door, his jaw ached from all the chewing but a couple of more inches and he’d be through ready to defend his mistress. That’s of course he thought judging by the scream and following cries for mercy she needed rescuing, shaking his head he knelt once again to continue his work as the night sky began to disappear before the coming dawn. It was hard to scrub the protesting mare in the bath but Fluttershy persevered, Pink however, didn’t like being treated like a filly as she was forced to allow Fluttershy to help her clean up since she couldn’t reach certain places on her own, but when the yellow Pegasus started to scrub near her flanks she wrestled the loofah away from her and did it herself. Finally the deed was done as Pink sat on a towel on the floor dripping Fluttershy stared at the filthy condition of her bath tub back to the bedraggled guest who was looking decidedly better for it. As Fluttershy picked up the towels she’d prepared and began wrapping Pink in them before fetching a brush and igniting a furious battle with the wet, knotted and severely limp mane before her. “Feel any better?” Pink nodded as Fluttershy began to make headway into her fight, more than a few minutes later she began on Pink’s tail having gotten her mane to at least look less of a bird’s nest. Pink slowly dried herself, unwilling to talk she sat quietly head down like a filly who had just been told off by her mother, it wasn’t until Fluttershy finished that Pink looked up and out of the corner of her eye saw the clock on the wall. “Oh no, that can’t be right…” She cried as she ran to the bathroom window and opened it… Outside the first rays of sunlight were beginning to break apart the night sky. “Noooo….” She wailed loudly… It was dawn! Panicking she slipped on the wet floor, (the floor having been covered with water from her bath time battle with a loofah and a crazy pony). As Pink lay on her back she could feel her body cry out for her to rest, to escape the sun and bed down for the day. “Oh my…” Fluttershy had also looked at the clock and spied the sun’s rays advancing towards her home. Pink scrabbled to her hooves and ran for the door but landed face first spreadeagled as she suddenly stopped mid stride, looking behind her she was shocked to see Fluttershy holding her tail in her mouth. “I-I have to go, I have to go now!!!” Pink shouted angry and confused. Letting go of Pink’s tail Fluttershy gave Pink a gentle look before asking. “Where…? …To your old shed?” Pink was becoming frantic but replied. “I don’t have anywhere else to go…?” “You could always stay here?” Fluttershy smiled timidly not looking directly at Pink, who just stared back with a confused fearful look. “You’d let me stay? Here in your house?” Fluttershy nodded. “Why?” Pink asked as she again watched the sunlight through the window as it crept closer. “That’s what friends are for…” “You’re my friend?” Pink’s heart thumped slowly in response but quickened causing her to jump as she felt it. “What’s wrong?” Fluttershy asked concerned at the strange look on Pink’s face. “It’s OK…” Pink managed before she could fully respond… “When a vampire is warm or near a lot of heat… (Pink looked at the dirty bath) Our body’s sort of respond.” She placed a hoof on her chest. “I just forgot it happened is all”. Fluttershy closed the gap between them and placed her cheek on Pink’s chest, as she felt the slow irregular beating within she asked. “Does it hurt…? ”Pink shook her head. “Just weird...” She said looking away. Fluttershy smiled as she stepped back. “Please stay, I promise I’ll keep you safe… And warm…” Pink looked confused again. “Warm?” Fluttershy blushed slightly before continuing… “I only have the one bed and my sofa’s too small to sleep on.” She looked away from Pink as she added, “I hope you don’t bite in your sleep...” She laughed quietly. Pink’s face flushed (thanks to her blood actually flowing for once) before she too smiled. “I don’t know what to say, I’ve never had anyone care about what happens to me before.” “It’s OK, you’ll get used to it, I had to when eventually I made friends too.” Fluttershy paused. “You might not believe me but I used to be very shy and didn’t have any friends before I moved here.” Pink tried to look shocked but gave up as her new friend led her out the bathroom. As the sun burst over the horizon Fluttershy pulled her quilt over Pink as she nervously settled in the bed. “I’ll be doing some cleaning if you need me, but I will be up in a bit.” Brushing a few stray hairs away from Pink’s face with her hoof as the now clean pink mare reluctantly drifted into sleep Fluttershy glanced at the towels draped over her windows that gave the room the extra bit of darkness despite her thick curtains. Satisfied she left the room to tend to her chores before she too retired to bed, her eyes blurry from a very long scary evening, proud with herself for what she’d done Fluttershy slowly made her way downstairs. Sometime later Fluttershy awoke with a start, looking around she realized she’d fallen asleep while cleaning her sofa. Gradually the evenings events came back to her as she searched for the noise that had awoken her, looking around she saw a small hole at the bottom of the her front door. “Angel!!!” She cried in shock, she’d left him outside last night! Desperately she scanned the front room, nothing… Her blood ran cold as she remembered her guest, and her vulnerability. Fluttershy galloped upstairs not stopping at her partly open bedroom door she careened into her room as Angel Bunny finally pulled the towel down and threw open the curtains. In one swift motion Fluttershy crossed the room and swatted Angel Bunny from the window sill as she desperately pulled the curtains closed again. Angel Bunny recovered and jumped at the curtains again, Fluttershy ignored the screams behind her as she swung her hoof batting Angel Bunny to the floor stunning him; recovering the towel she rushed to replace it before picking up the weakly struggling Bunny and hurling him out of the room slamming the door. Fluttershy span around and saw Pink huddled no longer screaming but whimpering loudly beside her bed. The yellow Pegasus ran to her but froze as Pink snarled viciously at her. “I’m sorry… Please I’m sorry, I’m so sorry…” Fluttershy burst into tears as she saw that Pink was cradling her right foreleg that had been above the covers. Pink tried to back away her fangs still bared as the pain tore through her. Fluttershy ran from the room, as she passed a recovering Angel she picked the dazed bunny up and ran downstairs and outside, throwing the new protesting Angel into a nearby animal cage and slammed the door shut, she locked it, swore violently at him, the rage in her eyes quietening him as she turned and ran back indoors, stopping to grab her first aid kit from the kitchen she once again galloped to her room. Inside her room Pink was crying and trying to make herself as small as possible as Fluttershy burst into the room. The two stared at each other… Eventually Pink relented hiding her fangs as she saw how distraught Fluttershy was whilst holding a first aid kit in her mouth unsure if she should move. Fluttershy dropped the box and began to apologize to Pink and crying even harder as Pink hissed at her for trying to approach her again. After several minutes of Fluttershy apologizing and crying Pink finally spoke “Alright enough already just leave me alone.” “But you’re hurt, let me help you…” “No!!!” Pink didn’t look at her as she added, “That stuff’s no good anyway, I’ll heal myself.” “Y-You can do that?” Fluttershy breathed a sight a relief. “Of course I can…” Pink snapped back as she realized Fluttershy had somehow gotten closer when she’d looked away. “H-Hey I never said you could come near me!” Pink cried out in pain as she jerked her foreleg away, the movement sending shooting pains up her leg. Fluttershy closed the gap and sat in front of Pink despite her following threats and protests. “W-Well a-are y-you g-going t-to h-heal y-yourself…” Fluttershy stammered as she saw how badly Pink’s foreleg was burned. “I will when I’m ready…” She mumbled turning her head away as fresh tear rolled down her cheeks. Seconds turned to minutes as the pair sat not looking at each other until Fluttershy finally said. “You can’t can you?” Pink just sat there silently as Fluttershy retrieved her first aid box and began applying burn remedies and bandaged the foreleg. As Fluttershy finished wrapping the bandage around the foreleg, she asked softly. “Is it because you haven’t fed for so long…?” Pinks silence answered for her, Fluttershy put one hoof below Pink’s chin and raised her head forcing Pink to look at her, with the other she brushed her own mane from her neck and smiled weakly as she moved as close to Pink as she could, her head turned away her exposed neck a hairs breath from Pink’s muzzle. “Get away from me…!” Pink’s voice cracked as desire and hunger long battled but never beaten rose within her. “It’s OK…” Fluttershy whispered… “It’s alright.” “No…” Pink couldn’t think straight the temptation making her salivate, she wanted to run to escape but she was trapped against the bed. “Please.” Fluttershy squeaked as her nerves began to fail her. “No…” Pink shouted as she forced Fluttershy away. “D-Don’t, don’t ever do that again you hear me!” Fluttershy just sat there as Pink withdrew into herself. After a few moments Fluttershy stood and without a word forced Pink top get back into bed, the vampire no longer had the strength or will resist and as Fluttershy moved towards the door. Neither made a sound until Fluttershy was out the room and as she slid down the outside of the door crying Pink could hear her and she too cried as the darkness of exhaustion and sleep overcame her pain and the pain from her leg. The sun had risen to its highest point as Twilight finally exited from the Everfree Forest, normally the distance between Zecora’s place and the edge of the forest was fairly quick to traverse but Twilight’s bad luck with the forests inhabitants had continued to cause her grief as she’d been forced to make several detours and to run for her life as her injuries attracted all manner of monsters, several of which she was sure had been previously listed as mythical or extinct! As she once again enjoyed the warmth of Celestia’s sun Twilight looked around to find her bearings and realized it wasn’t that far to Fluttershy’s house. Badly in need of food and rest she stumbled doggedly on determined to put to rest her problems, and as her stomach rumbled yet again she quickened her pace as best she could. It didn’t take long to reach her friends house and as she walked down the path to the front door, a noise nearby made her jump. Angel Bunny had given up hope of escaping and had been sat mourning the loss of his mistress (in his mind anyway) when he’d spotted the purple unicorn approach and had frantically tried to attract her attention. Twilight stared at the imprisoned bunny as he waved and bounced up and down all the while pointing at the house. Twilight ran as fast as her hooves would carry her, as she made it through the door she skidded to a halt, Fluttershy was stood scrubbing brush in mouth by her sofa a bucket of water next to her. The first thing Twilight noticed was she’d been crying, a lot. Fluttershy dropped the brush into the bucket of water, a surprised look on her face… “Twilight…? Is everything OK?” The purple unicorn nodded confused, “Y-yeah are you OK?” Fluttershy nodded back. “Are you sure? You look like you’ve been crying, Angel’s in a cage and he was …” Twilight noticed the hole at the bottom of the door as she looked back. “I’m fine really … Angel was just being difficult that’s all.” She lied. Twilight blinked did Fluttershy just lie to her? Fluttershy out of all of her friends was second only to Applejack in the ‘you make it so obvious when you lie’ stakes. Twilight gave her a stony look as she advanced, Fluttershy backed away timidly as she tried to change the subject. “What happened to the library…?” “I tried to find you to check you were alright but no-one knew where you’d gone?” This time it was only partially untrue since she had indeed gone to check on her friend but had then run into Pink before she had spoken to any pony. Twilight visibly flinched as she remembered her precious dual library and home’s fate. Twilight cut to the chase as she told her what had really happened although she watched her closely, noticing the feigned surprise at the part about a vampire Pinkie. Twilight skipped the parts about upsetting AJ, Dash, Pinkie and Rarity making a mental note to patch things up later when everything was said and done. “So …” Twilight began… “What have you been up to Fluttershy, had any ‘other’ visitors.” She asked as Fluttershy shook her head. “So nothing happened, say in the last day or two?” Twilight’s eyes roamed the room. “That’s what I said, so if you don’t mind I’m a little busy.” Fluttershy attempted to show Twilight the door but froze as her friend gave her an angry look. “You’re lying to me!” “No I’m not, really, I just have to clean up that’s all.” Fluttershy began to panic a little as she said it. “Really then what about that.” Twilight pointed to the two tea cups on the table, one of which was the one Fluttershy used only for Pinkie since it was made of near indestructible materials due to Pinkie Pies tendency to smash lesser foes of the tea cup variety with her antics, Fluttershy having gotten it out while still believing it was Pinkie who was possibly coming to her house. Fluttershy by no means a natural wordsmith tried to lie again but only succeeded in squeaking miserably at Twilight’s suspicious glare. “Is it still here…?” Twilight demanded as she began searching for further clues around the place, “It…?” Fluttershy asked as an edge of frustration and anger crept into her voice, Twilight had entered her home without permission, called her a liar (guilty or not) then proceeded to call her vulnerable new friend ‘it’. Fluttershy who was tired, hungry and upset before Twilight arrived was positively livid as she rose to her full height; she raised a hoof and pointed to the door. “I don’t have time for this, please leave.” Twilight a little surprised and not relishing the idea of being thrown out of another friend’s house almost tried to defend herself until she saw Fluttershy’s eyes flick to a spot behind her before snapping back as she realized Twilight had noticed. Turning around Twilight saw nothing but pictures on the wall, her stairs a bookcase and… Twilight cried out as Fluttershy suddenly started forcing her towards the door. “Thanks for dropping by but I have stuff to do, please come by again soon.” “But not too soon...” Fluttershy added as she pushed harder. “L-Let… Go… Of… …Me…!” Twilight shouted as she used her magic to pull the yellow Pegasus off and then binding her with magic held her in mid air. “Let me go this instant!” Fluttershy squeaked furiously, “OK.” Twilight said as she released her suddenly dropping her hard on the floor as she bounded for the stairs. “No!!!” Fluttershy cried out as she fought to stand and give chase. Twilight barely made it halfway up the stairs when she was pounced on from behind, Fluttershy for her all timid mild mannered and cuddly cute persona had finally lost it. Years of being the quiet one, years of being ignored or teased or stepped on by others boiled over and in the worst display of anger before or since she attended the grand galloping gala she screamed as she hit Twilight in the face hard with her hoof! Twilight’s head shot back hitting the wall, dazed she could only watch as Fluttershy raised her hoof and hit her again, and again screaming like a mad pony for Twilight to leave. Crying at the violence and situation the two normally docile friends were in the pair still had great love for one another and as Twilight refused her life flashed before her eyes as Fluttershy’s hoof hit her like an anvil as the yellow mare yelled in frustration, Twilight felt something hit her shoulder as she snapped back into the wall. It was a picture frame fallen from its nail, using her magic and the last of her willpower she picked it up and lashed out with it before blacking out almost immediately as the effort took what little strength she had left. As she opened her eyes she quickly shut them again, pain and lots of it welcomed Twilight back to reality, as she tried to move her body screamed at the effort, realizing she was still on the stairs Twilight tried to focus on what had happened. Her eyes closed Twilight heard crying, who was crying…? She vaguely wondered this before it all came back, ‘oh no’ she opened her eyes as she realized she’d hit Fluttershy with that picture! Twilight didn’t’ care that Fluttershy had given her little choice or that she’d caused her friend to snap that way, she’d hurt a pony, a friend! Twilight pushed herself to a position so she could look down the stairs and immediately froze. The sight before her took a moment to register that Fluttershy was slumped at the bottom of the stairs her head cradled in the forelegs of ‘Pink’. Twilight forced herself to stand but fell again as her legs slipped on something. Twilight could only gasp in horror as she followed the trail of blood that ran down the stairs all the way to Fluttershy, as Twilight focused on her friend she saw the large shard of glass protruding from her neck and could hear her labored breathing with rasping uneven breaths. Had Twilight known more about medicine she would have realized Fluttershy was going into deep shock but all she could do was watch as the rapidly expanding pool of blood surrounded the pair at the foot of the stairs. As Fluttershy’s eyes flickered randomly and her breathing slowed, the pony who was holding her had stopped crying loudly and was sat rocking back and forth gently whispering ‘it’s OK’ over and over again but as she felt her only friend leaving her she made her decision. Twilight watched as Pink lowered her head and with her teeth pulled the shard free, the purple unicorn tried to scream for her to stop but nothing came forth as she saw Pink drag the glass across her own left foreleg and press the deep cut against the yellow mare’s mouth, looking up as she spat out the glass Pink fixed Twilight with a hate filled stare as she bared her fangs before burying them deep in Fluttershy’s wound staunching the blood flow. As Fluttershy choked on Pink’s and her own blood she coughed once, twice and lay still her last breath a choking death rattle that echoed into the following silence would haunt both Pink and Twilight for the rest of their young lives. As Pink withdrew her fangs her muzzle soaked with her friend’s blood she screamed in anguish. It seemed like hours passed as Pink and Twilight just stared at the limp form of their friend. Twilight’s head hurt as she tried again to stand but instead she once again fell as her hooves failed her and she slid down the last few steps on the floor. Pink’s eyes met hers and Twilight saw nothing but hatred… “You…” Pink breathed her dripping fangs bared as she screamed. “You…!” “It’s your entire fault, this was you!!!” “You did this! You killed her!” The ferocity and truth of her words shocked Twilight’s body to react and as Twilight fought off the pain, the exhaustion and her own shock at what she’d done, she raised a hoof as she tried to speak but recoiled in disgust as she realized she was now sat in her friend’s blood the friend she’d just killed. Not thinking and desperate to escape the nightmare she’d caused, her horn lit up as she teleported leaving Pink to scream in anger at the now gone Twilight. Nothing but pain, worse than anything she could have imagined ripped though Twilight as she teleported herself. Whether merciful or just the overload of pain Twilight collapsed as she reappeared barely registering that she’d done so right on the front porch of Sweet Apple Acres, as she heard screams and shouting her vision faded and she lost consciousness. An unknown amount of time passed but as drifted back to reality she could hear something. Voices, she could hear voices, one sounded like Rainbow Dash… She was crying!!! Twilight heard only snippets of what was said. “… place was smashed to bits … blood everywhere … no sign of her …” Other voices joined in as Twilight faded back into blissful oblivion.