a bite too many
After a couple long hours the stallion came back and walked in front of Nightshade
“He agreed to talk with you, but only you, no one else should see our home let alone enter it,”
Nightshade looked back at her sister before turning back to the stallion.
“Go on ahead, I need to talk to my group a little bit,”
He nodded and smirked before trotting away. When he was far enough away Nightshade turned to address the group and got to her hooves
“Alright, Angel, I need you to lead everyone to somewhere more safe and I need you to keep them in line. Do you think you can handle doing that without having sex?”
Angel smiled and laughed a little bit.
“I'll try my best sis, you be careful in there ok?”
She hugged her sister before stepping back and leading the others away. Nightshade turned to where the stallion had gone and followed him in hesitantly, avoiding the more fresh looking blood puddles.
“So um, how far is this place?”
Nightshade said as a hint of fear made her voice shake slightly, and the stallion darted to her side causing her to jump.
“Not all that far, by the way, you seem to look a lot like that princess, you know, the one who raises the moon?”
She rose an eyebrow as he said this.
“You don't remember their names? They are like, the most important royals ever,”
He just shrugged and looked ahead, which made nightshade question his societies knowledge outside of the horde. They walked further in until the smell of blood was truly strong and they entered a large room full of ponies covered in blood and surrounded by the bodies of the dead, blood drained animals. Nightshade swallowed hard and stopped
“I don't know if I can do this, what if I never get to survive this,”
She said to the stallion, and he stopped and turned to her, resting a hoof on her shoulder in a comforting way.
“If anyone gets to taste you it'll be me, I just met a beautiful mare that rivals the night itself with her radiance, I'm not just going to let my kind suck her dry,”
She smiled and took a deep breath before standing up tall, and he started to lead her further in and up to a group of mares that looked more than satisfied surrounding a stallion with a pale coat that looked pinker in certain places.
Nightshade stood in the most militant stance she could to force herself to look bigger and cleared her throat before speaking.
“Sir, may I ask you about a possible chance to walk amongst ponies again? And a chance to feed on something more sustainable than prairie animals,”
The stallion raised his head and met her gaze before smirking.
“What are you proposing young mare?”
He said as he sat up and some of the mares looked over at her.
“Well, you see, we're trying to unify Equestria the way it should be and we've already made allies with the changelings in this region. We thought it would be wise to make allies out of the stronger creatures of Equestria first and work our way to the others, your kind happens to be one of them, sir.”
The stallion nodded as though he was considering it and stood up to address the rest of the horde as Nightshade stepped back.
“Would this alliance be worth risking for a more abundant food supply!”
He practically shouted to the other vampires, and a majority of them cheered which lifted her hopes a little bit.
“how can we be sure that you will not betray us?”
He said as he stepped closer to her and leant down over her, forcing her to reflectively recoil and move closer to the ground.
“I will keep an eye on her sir since I met her first it should be my responsibility,”
Said the scarred stallion as he stepped forward and bowed.
“Then it's settled, you will go with this mare and inform us of any changes in the alliance, and in return, we will respect whatever new laws you make in this plan,”
He turned his attention to nightshade and she nodded.
“Thank you, sir, you won't regret this,”
She bowed and opened her wings to truly make an honourable gesture, before folding them and turning to walk out with the scarred stallion at her side. When they had left the horde and gotten far enough away from it he stopped her and stepped in front of her.
“Why didn't you tell me you were an Alicorn?!”
Nightshade just folded her ears back as she looked up at him.
“Is it that big of a deal? I mean I still bowed to him and showed him the respect that is required to make a proper alliance so what's really the big problem here?”
He was about to say something as the sound of hoof steps and wingbeats, as well as buzzing, cut him off.
“So, how did it go? You didn't get hurt did you?”
Angel said as she checked her sister for bites, and Metamorph walked up to her as well.
“That was really brave of you, I never thought ponies could be so brave,”
He turned his attention to the other stallion and looked at him for a little bit before looking back at her
“Is he coming with us?”
“Yes, but he's my responsibility so don't worry about it, now we have to head to Canterlot and send the message of unity to every region of Equestria, we're going to have a lot of work to do so let's get going.”
With that, she opened her wings and flew ahead with her sister at her side and the changelings close behind, while the scarred stallion galloped underneath them. Starting the long journey back home.