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// Oh this'll be fun 
// Story: The Vampire Protection Program 
// by InkHeartBrony 
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I stood on the edge of the fire escape. Underneath my hooves overgrown moss and vines crept along the stone building, the darkness of night kept me hidden from view, but Luna's stars and moon gave me enough light to see in the eerie silence and the slight wind that whistled in my ears.

Below late night taxi's flew in the streets as very few ponies walked and often stumbled with a drink in their hoof and a drunken grin on their face. 

I was three stories up the apartment building, wearing my dark cloak which concealed my saddlebag full of the right tools I needed for this Manehattan trip.

I turned my head to look around the pole, and into the dimly lit room of the apartment. The window was open just a crack, and I pushed it slightly to open it just wide enough for me to sneak in.

I quietly stepped through, and found myself in their bedroom, with the bed empty and white sheets thrown aside. Dirty clothes were strewn across the room with the occasional lime lying around on the floor. 

The owner of this room seemed to have a certain taste for limes, meaning I was in the right apartment.

I glanced at the door, still closed with no sign of a pony coming through it.

I looked at the drawers, made for clothing but might be hiding what I need.

I started to open the drawers frantically, searching and making the room even messier than before.

"Come on, come on!" I whispered to myself, frustrated. "It has to be here somewhere!"

"Is this what you're looking for?" A new voice said.

I looked at the door, and saw it open, with a mare standing in the doorway, leaning against the wall with a smirk on her face. Her coat was bright lime green and her mane was bright blond and poofy held up in a bun with a large black bow. On her head was her horn, and her dark blue eyes looked at me with amusement.

In her hoof dangled exactly what I came here for, one rusted gold key dangling from a keychain. 

I still didn't know why she had taken it in the first place, why she needed it or how she even knew it was there. I had used the key once and found an important spell book, but kept it closed to save for more important times. Times like these, and now when I truly needed that book, when I truly needed the key, it was stolen from me by this mare. 

Yeah, really convenient timing.

"Didn't know vampire's had such a taste for limes." I said, kicking forward a lime in front of my hoof.

"Didn't know nerds climbed into ponies homes and stole their things." she raised an eyebrow.

"Well that's because it's not your's. You stole it from me and I'm here to take it back, Sour Tart."

"Are you sure about that?" she tilted her head. She chuckled, and closed her eyes, opening them to reveal crimson red eyes. Her pupil reduced to a thin black slit like a snake's.

"Well I don't want you finding that little thing, hmm?" she grinned, baring her fangs and hissing.

I cracked my neck and opened my wings, flying straight at her and crashing into the next room, she found herself lying against her bookshelf with books falling on her head, while I took the the key right from her hoof with a simple flick of my magic.

I hit her in the jaw with my hoof and she groaned. I turned around, not seeing as a book fell into her hoof and she clutched it. She stood up, and hit the book against the back of my head.

"Go read a book!" she yelled, and hit me as hard as she could. I didn't even flinch or move. I turned around, and picked up a nice big dictionary from the floor. 

I looked at her with disappointment, and raised an eyebrow with a look that said nice try.

"Yeah..." I said, looking into her not-so-fierce, glowing red eyes. "That won't really work."

I raised the book above my head and my torn cloak fell to reveal my face. My messy mane dark as night with a purple and bright pink stripe through it, with my lavender coat a bit tangled and messy (and a bit muddy too) from clumsily falling in a bush earlier, and professionally rolling into the mud with a sigh.

My dark purple eyes stared into hers with an amused look. The same amused look she wore only a minute ago, that I stole from her just like this key.

I slammed the book down and her body was crushed into nothing more than a cloud of dust. Well, the dictionary doesn't get all the credit, I might have zapped her with magic as well.

Strange that she didn't use her own magic to prevent her death, but I ignored it. Another monstrosity dead, and I got what I needed.

"Maybe you should learn to read first." I said to her, smirking.

I put my hood back over my face and concealed myself underneath it.

I left the apartment and flew off into the midnight sky and made my way back to The Golden Oak library in Ponyville, with the key jingling in my bag.

No vampire messes with Twilight Sparkle.





I searched in the spell section. Pushing aside books and hardly glancing at the covers. I wasn't looking for a book, I was looking for a key hole, well, with a book behind the keyhole.

I had discovered it once, somewhere in this section of the library, where exactly it was, well- "Aha!" I said aloud.

Beside me I held up the gold key in my pink magic aura. I moved some more books away to give me more space, carefully I inserted the key into the keyhole, and turned, listening to the sweet sound of that simple click.

I let go of the key, and used my magic to tug on the drawer and open it. 

I put my hooves up on the lower shelves for me to see the book inside, and tugged it out of the dusty old drawer.

I wiped it with my hoof and blew on it to make the dust fly off. I smiled at flipped through the pages until I found the spell needed. 

I turned around and walked away from the drawer, shutting it and once again concealing it behind books.

On the floor were the books I had basically thrown around the room looking for the drawer.

I carefully read the pages, with each word and each letter beautifully written in ink with the author's graceful hoofwriting.

Hoofwriting that would make Rainbow Dash gag and fly away, say it's just too fancy for her.

I heard my front door creak open, and I greeted my five friends. I looked behind me to see Spike entering the room from downstairs with a look of concern on his face.

"Did you find the book?" he asked, standing next to me. I yawned and nodded.

"You must be tired from staying up all night looking for it."

I blinked, confused for a moment. "Oh yeah, I looked through these shelves a lot last night."

I totally didn't leave the house last night.

My friends, Rarity, Pinkie, Rainbow, Applejack, and most importantly- Fluttershy, made some sort of circle around me and all looked at me with concern.

Glad I had found the book on time and read through it enough.

I cleared my throat, "So there's good news and bad news. The good news is that I've found a spell that can get the vampire fruit bats to stop wanting the suck the juice from the apples."

I held up the book in front of me, and checked the writing once again. The pink glow of my magic lighting up my face with it's close proximity. I put the book down, and walked over to Fluttershy to reveal the bad news.

"But in order for the spell to work, I need the bat's full and complete attention." I turned my head, and looked at Fluttershy to make she she listened carefully to my words and understood.

She gasped, and turned away from me, putting up her hoof and covering her face with her mane shyly.

"Oh, no." she said. Yep, she knew what had to be done.

"Fluttershy, I need you to do your stare on the bats." I said, trying to be straightforward.

"Oh gosh," she looked down, "I don't know."

Suddenly, from behind Rainbow flew in front of me. That wild rainbow hair being the only thing I could see now.

"What's the problem?" Rainbow asked, I tried to look over her to see Fluttershy, who looked rather intimidated by her friend. "You've used the stare plenty of times before." Rainbow put her hoof down, and leaned her head forward, making Fluttershy lean her head back in reply.

"Yes," Fluttershy said, walking past Rainbow, "but it's not something I take lightly." she closed her eyes, and continued speaking, "I've made a vow not to use it except in dire circumstances."

Applejack walked up and stood next to her just as she finished talking. Glaring at Fluttershy, she said, "This circumstance is plenty dire to me." She leaned her head forward, and Rainbow did too, both of them getting in front of Fluttershy.

"Me, too!" Rainbow added, hunkering down on the floor and looking away as if she had experienced something traumatic. "Think of the cider!"

She got up a bit to sit down and raise her hoof over her head dramatically, "won't somepony think of the cider!"

She put her head to the ground as tears welled in her eyes, her last words were a bit shaky.

Fluttershy raised her head, "I'm sorry, I just don't like the idea of taking away the thing that really makes the vampire fruit bats-" she took in a deep breath, "-vampire fruit bats." and put her head close to Applejack's who leaned back, looking at Fluttershy stubbornly and annoyed.

"It just feels wrong!" Fluttershy claimed, looking up.

I looked over at Rainbow, who was still curled up on the ground, Pinkie and Rarity now stood there, and every pony looked at me when I began talking.

"But if we don't do this, there won't be any apples left for anypony here in Ponyville." I looked at Fluttershy, "Doesn't that feel wrong too?"

I watched Fluttershy, waiting for her to answer, and she looked around at all of us, scared and afraid of what she was about to say next and what we would think.

But she needed time, and couldn't answer us until later.

And that is where this adventure truly began.

When she said, 'Okay, I'll do it'.