//------------------------------// // Part 9: One Last Chance for Redemption. // Story: Vamp Pinkie // by Paganbrony //------------------------------// Vamp Pinkie. Part 9: One Last Chance for Redemption. Fluttershy walked down the main high street of Ponyville with a swing in her hoof despite the awful weather; to her the world was all new with new sensations and smells… Her every instinct was improved as was her strength and her hunger… So much hunger… Noticing a light in a window she flew up to investigate… Inside two ponies were getting into bed and seemed to be arguing. Fluttershy knew these two and she took great pleasure in the feeling of crashing through the window as they fell about screaming… At the clubhouse of the crusaders Twilight had reluctantly left Rarity to her grief and walked in the direction of Ponyville, she had wanted to stay to comfort her dear friend but she knew there was work to be done. The only chance she had was to somehow out-think the monsters but with no point of reference flying blind and going into shock at the contents of the clubhouse Twilight kept walking doggedly as her mind was made up. …Which was good because as she made it to Ponyville she found a pair of stallions from the weather patrol banging on the door of a familiar two story sweet shop? As Twilight questioned the two Pegasus they told her they’d seen a Pegasus smash through the window above and heard screaming but they couldn’t get the door to open and were too beaten by the storm to fly up and no pony was answering… Telling them to get back she used her magic to force the door, preparing by putting a stake in her mouth she ran in the moment it was done leaving them outside, rushing through the shop towards the stairs at the back she prayed she was in time… Twilight went two steps at a time as she made it to the top of the stairs and without stopping she burst through the bedroom door stake in mouth and a fiery expression on her face. Lyra and Bon Bon both looked up at her from their bed as Fluttershy lay between them nuzzling Bon Bons neck as she too looked at the new arrival. “Oh look it’s my murderer… Want to try and finish it teachers pet…” Twilight stood aghast as she failed to respond. “Perhaps you would like to join in…? These two jumped at the chance when I offered them the chance to live forever together in endless pleasure… In my service of course…” “…It’s that or death… They chose…” Bon Bon shuddered as Fluttershy licked the length of her neck Twilight mustered all of her courage as she pointed a hoof at Fluttershy and announced her intent to slay her for the dead fillies as her horn glowed and she bit down on the stake… “You think your feeble magic and a toothpick can overcome me… You forget…” Fluttershy’s voice became laced with anger as her wings spread. “I am the master of animals…” Fluttershy laughed uncontrollably as her head flew back and she opened her mouth in a silent scream… As the vampire mare went back to maniacal laughing Twilight tried to work out what she was up to… After a moment she was disturbed from her thoughts by a sound that was becoming louder by the second… …The sound of… Wings… Lots of wings… Twilight caught on too late as a swarm of bats erupted through the broken window, as if under enchantment they made straight for Twilight and as they began smashing into her biting and scratching she was forced to run for it… Behind her Fluttershy’s triumphant laughter rang in her ears as she beat a hasty retreat from the town still pursued by the swarm that was slowed by the storm. Getting back to her dinner Fluttershy decided it was about time to start the appetizer and as she sunk her fangs into the neck of the cream mare she reveled in the sharp tang of blood and the resulting cries of pain. Meanwhile… …In an old barn not too far away were Applejack and Pinkie Pie standing over Pink. The UN-dead mare herself was totally broken as she lay there, stuck in a different world feeling unfamiliar strong emotions she just couldn’t escape, the only pony who had ever just excepted her in any world was now a vampire and she was about to die… Applejack and Pinkie Pie were arguing again and despite the state they were in after their scuffle and the tears afterward they were still locking horns over Pinks fate. Pinkie Pie was trying to calm Applejack down but the farm pony was resolute towards beating the whereabouts of the missing ponies out of Pink and then as she put it ‘put the thing down permanently’. The party pony was adamant that Applejack should back off and calm down so she could tell Pinkie what was going on, and then they could listen to what Pink had to say… “Damn it Pinkie… There’s nothing to tell, Twilight summoned that thing by accident…” …”It killed Fluttershy and now Applebloom and the other fillies have gone missing.” Pinkie Pie hesitated as she got her mind around the facts as told by Applejack, turning slightly she looked down at Pink who’d recovered enough to stare back with hollow eyes. Pinkie Pie couldn’t think of anything to say so she kept it simple as tried hard to give the vampire a weak smile. “Hi…” Pink didn’t reply but her mind became calmer and she managed to nod a little as she blankly stared at her spitting image. It was strange but as she looked at her counterpart Pink could feel her own mind becoming clearer by the second as the world around her seemed to swim back into focus. It took Pink only a moment to make her decision and when she did, that was final in her mind. “You going to kill me farm pony or are you just going to stand there like a slack jawed yokel…?” Applejack and Pinkie Pie both let their mouths hang open as they struggled to react to the voice that sneered from below them. Pinkie Pie was about to object or say no… Or say anything along those lines but as she floundered Applejack cut in first. “You want to die…? This some sort of trick…?” “I-I killed Fluttershy… So just hurry up and kill me… Or are you chicken…?” Applejack twitched. “Say that again…” “I called you a chicken…?” “No… The first bit.” Pink hesitated slightly as she tried to sound as evil as possible. “I killed Fluttershy.” Applejack’s composure collapsed after Pink spoke, trembling she turned her head so no pony could see her face. “Y-You’re lying…” “No I’m not! What’s the matter aren’t you going to do what needs to be done for your dead friend…? Aren’t you supposed to be the element of loyalty…?” “Silly… Applejack is the element of honesty… It means she can tell the difference between the truth and a lie.” Pinkie Pie watched as Pink swore under her breath. “You were telling the truth… You didn’t kill her… But then who…” Pink could guess what was going through Applejacks mind about her friend Twilight but as she dragged herself up to her hooves and winced as her wounds screamed for attention, she couldn’t give a damn. “Kill me…” Pink picked up the piece of wood Applejack had nearly staked her with and offered it to the farm pony. “Why…?” “It’s the only way you can save Fluttershy…” “Come again…?” Bewildered Applejack refused the proffered stake pushing it away with a hoof as she suspiciously eyed the dirty and beaten vampire. “If a vampire sires another and then is killed within three days of the new vampire rising, the new one will return to normal… Plus…” Applejack narrowed her eyes as she lowered her tone. “What’s the plus…?” “It hasn’t happened too often in my world… But as she rose I preformed a ritual meant to keep her soul in her body, it helps to keep the victim… Pink flinched along with the others at her poor choice of words. “I mean the new vampire under control… Same pony just a vampire the same way I was turned, in vampire high society it’s considered sport to see how long they retain their souls integrity surrounded by unimaginable sights…” “But it can go wrong in the first few days while they adjust and there is a chance their memories won’t return right away and their morals and personality can take even longer.” “Fluttershy got away from me; she was too strong for me… But she’ll be OK, I think it worked! So she should have been fine albeit a very bitter angry Pegasus who was killed in a brutal and violent way by a friend… However I sired her the link should be enough… So I’d say about a fifty to fifty chance.” “If ah kill you now…?” “Yes.” “Why… Why do you want to die so much...?” “I don’t but… I owe her that much.” Applejack even as angry and confused as she was couldn’t ignore the sad look and the teary eyes of the vampire. “Put that thing away before some pony hurts themselves… Ah need time to think about this…” Applejack took a second to look the vampire up and down and was horrified by the state of her, Pink was skin and bone almost, never mind being covered in cuts and bruises the length of her body. It was obvious her right hind leg was broken and because of her almost perfect resemblance to Pinkie Pie it was difficult to ignore all that and decide to kill her instead. Applejack stomped a hoof on the ground as she snorted in frustration due to the fact she just had to ask. “Where’d you get busted up that bad… Ah didn’t hit you that hard… Must’ve been a heck of a tussle…? ” Pink spoke in such a low tone it was difficult to hear but her reply surprised both of her audience. “Fluttershy did this…” “Oh you… Every pony knows Fluttershy wouldn’t hurt a fly!” Pink faced her counterpart and with a hesitant voice she continued. “She kind of went revenant when she woke up…” The blank stares she got made Pink roll her eyes. “She went crazy when she rose and she attacked me, I couldn’t control her like I should… Like I should have been able to...” “Oh…” The pair chorused their joint understanding but Applejack recovered first. “So a crazy vampire Fluttershy is out there and ma little sister is out there with her friends and you can save them by dying…” “Yeah pretty much…” “But why are you being so calm about it… You had some kind of change of heart…?” Pinks laugh was as hollow as her smile as she laughed at Applejacks words. “Now what’s so funny…?” “Yes… I suppose I did… But it was before I came to this world… I got myself banished when I refused to take the life of a mare… I just couldn’t do it… The Queen of the Damned was there at my party, she ordered me outcast from the realm and forever forgotten…” Pinks tone was a lilting far away kind of tone tinged with sadness and regret. Applejack shook her head as she replayed Pinks words in her mind. “So what was so special about this mare…” “N-Nothing… Just like all the others… But I’d been off my food for a while… I was having trouble… Sleeping…” Pink struggled to admit the next part but she knew deep down that in the presence of her would be executioner she would have no other time to say it… “I have a need to party it’s been a desire of mine as long as I can remember… But they never were right… But I did everything I could to make the others happy… But it got out of control… I couldn’t take the horror anymore… I-I lost my appetite for it…” Pink fixed Applejack with a crazed look as all the horror’s played back in her mind. “I’ve always been different… It always felt like I never belonged in that world…” Pink sneered as she said the next part. “Or this one…” “That must’ve been some terrifying parties… Ah don’t reckon ah much fancy the sound of those…” “You said party…?” Pinkie Pie who’d been trying to think of a way to solve the troubles was sat tapping a hoof to her temple feeling strangely hungry for honey. Broken from her random train of thought she brightened up at the mere mention of a party, and without having heard the whole conversation (and before either of the others could stop her) she launched into a breathless stream of questions. “Do you like parties…? I love parties… I like the balloons… and the music… and being surrounded by my friends… Oh and I like the presents! Especially the ones I get for my friends…” “Uh… Pinkie darling…” Applejack was watching as the vampire seemed lost in the picture of color Pinkie Pie was describing, something she herself had never seen but something that had haunted her dreams… “…Oh and I like streamers! And I like cake, lots of cake… And more balloons… Did I say I liked balloons…? Oomph…” Pink removed her hoof from Pinkies mouth and flicking her mane to one side as per her usual style she gave a wicked Cheshire grin as she recounted her parties in the hope that damned hick would finally do what was needed. “Oh… Yes the more the merrier… My parties were the toast of vampire society for the very best in debauchery and sin… I’ve fed hundreds of innocents to the very cream of darkness’s finest followers… The blood would run in rivers down everything as we fulfilled the most evil of desires… I’ve killed countless individuals and bathed in their blood and torn the rests minds to shreds…” As Pink continued Pinkie’s eyes widened and her lips began to tremble as small tears formed at the corners of her rapidly horrified looking eyes. “All right… You’ve had your fun… And made your point… Now I’ll make mine… You’re fixing to die and ah’m going to see to it you do but first ah going to ask… Have you seen ma sister…?” “I… Haven’t… Sorry…” “Will y’all stop with the darn apologizing… …Makes it harder to do this, ah’ve never stuck a vampire afore...” “If it helps I can tell you more about my life…?” “Ah got enough to worry about without anymore nightmares… ‘Sides ah don’t think Pinkie can take too much more of that…” They both gave a sideways glance at the frozen and speechless pony that just kept opening and shutting her mouth. Pink couldn’t help but laugh as she fought back tears as she said ‘Oops…’ Applejack gave the vampire one last look as she stood and bent to pick up the piece of wood, raising her head and getting ready as she lined it up she jumped out of her skin as a voice behind her startled her out of her hooves. “Don’t kill her!!!” Twilight stood being buffeted by the storm outside as she stood breathless in the hole Applejack had made… “Um… Twilight…” “Not now Pinkie Pie… I’m a little busy…” “No… It’s…” “What??? What is it…?” “You have a bat on your butt…” Twilight looked at her flank and the small bat that was busily sucking her blood, her eye twitched as she summoned her magic. Pinkie Pie broke into tears as the heavily cremated remains of the earnest little creature floated to the floor. “I need her to tell me how to fight Fluttershy…” Applejack snorted and reared up, her eyes momentarily met Pink’s as she came down and in that moment she knew then it was the right choice… Pinkie Pies scream and Twilight's yell of ‘No!!!’ were drowned out as Applejack roared as the wood struck home. The farm pony stepped back, Pink looked at the chunk of wood sticking out of her chest and with a feint smile she collapsed sideways as her entire body was engulfed in spiritual flames as it turned to ash before every ponies eyes. Meanwhile back in Ponyville… Fluttershy had just finished sinking her fangs into the neck of the mint green unicorn in front of her as her partner died next to her, the mint mare too caught in Fluttershy’s commanding stare to react followed a moment later… Fluttershy felt something tug at her on a spiritual level… Almost as if it wanted to pull her from her very own body… As she reared and jumped from the bed she was neatly brought to her hooves then to the floor by the shock of pain that ripped through her. Still reeling as another powerful sensation of being pulled back from her body ran through her. “Nooo… Not yet… I… I’m having too much f… …Fun!!!” As the two mare’s dead eyes watched Fluttershy be consumed by a nimbus of light, she screamed…