//------------------------------// // Rescue // Story: The Vampire Protection Program // by InkHeartBrony //------------------------------// Her hoof slammed over my mouth, I didn't do anything to stop her pushing me to the ground. I could only cry. "Please!" she said afraid, "I-I don't know what happened! I-I was thinking of you last night, then I was thinking of Spike and how lonely he must be... I thought maybe it would be a nice idea to check on him after you dozed off, but something came over me! I felt like I needed to see him because he was all alone! Then I found myself here and- and-" She removed her hoof from my mouth and covered her tearful eyes. "I don't know what's going on!" she sobbed. I looked over her shoulder, and saw Spike, his small body faced away, but I saw his chest slowly rising and falling. He was alive. Even if he was covered in bites and blood, he was alive, and in need of a hospital. "Tell me what happened later, but right now, he needs a doctor! Whatever you did, I don't care at the moment!" I stood up, and scooped up Spike, and ran off with him and Fluttershy followed. It seemed Zecora had already left for her home, and soon we found ourselves in Fluttershy's cottage. We lay him on her couch. "Just, do something!" I yelled. "Fix him!" I put my face much too close to her's, and saw her eyes and not yet gone back to their teal. Instead she stared back at me with empty cold red eyes. Only now did I see the blood staining her coat and her tangled mane. She looked at Spike, and did nothing. "You're the doctor!" I yelled at her. "I'm also the pony who gave him the injuries in the first place!" she yelled back. I stepped back at her sudden anger. There were rare moments that Fluttershy yelled or got angry at all. "I'm the one with blood on my hooves! I'm the one who kidnapped him! And I'm the one who almost killed him! Maybe I don't even want to fix him!" She sat down, staring at her own blood stained hooves. "I'm a monster." she whispered, tears pouring down her face. She looked at me, stared right into my eyes. Her pupils so small afraid, afraid of herself. "You are not a monster." I said, sitting beside her. "You are Fluttershy. Whatever hurt Spike, wasn't you. It was something that took control of you." "How do you know for sure? I hurt him Twilight. You saw me, I- I really am a vampire. A real vampire." she put her hoof to her forehead, "oh, that's a lot to take in." "Fluttershy, I think it's time I tell you something." I sighed. "When I made it into the School of Gifted Unicorns, Princess Celestia told me that I had much potential. She said I was so powerful, that later on as I got older, she offered me a job." Fluttershy looked at me curiously, but that red glow did not fade from her eyes even as she calmly listened. "As I was about to graduate, she told me of creatures that lurked in the darkness. She told me stories of vampires and werewolves, how real they were, and when we discovered them. She told me it was around the time of Nightmare Moons defeat, that she discovered these... Monsters, and created a group called The Night Hunters. The Night Hunters job was to hunt down vampires and werewolves, to kill them and rid our world of their kind. I became a Night Hunter, and I hid it from you girls all the years that I've lived here. But I quit. Do you know why I quit hunting vampires, Fluttershy?" "Why?" "Because of you. Because when I saw you like that, looking so much like something I slaughter when night falls, I couldn't continue. When I looked at vampire, I saw your face... and I let her go. But seeing you now, I realize that... I'm glad I quite. I couldn't stand having to hunt vampires while one of my best friends is one. You've helped my perspective change, you've helped me see that, maybe not all vampires are bad." Fluttershy stared, and smiled slightly. In that smile I could see bloody fangs poking out, and I turned my attention to Spike. "Can you help him?" I asked. She nodded. "Gladly." "I still don't get it." Spike said, pressing the icepack to the two scratches on his throat, "I was kidnapped by the diamond dogs?" "Yep." I said, not looking at him as I put an assortment of gems into a bowl. "Guess they wanted revenge or something. Luckily we got you to Fluttershy and she helped a lot. Be sure to thank her!" He turned around, and looked at Fluttershy who stood far away against the wall, looking off at nothing. "Thanks Fluttershy." Spike smiled. Fluttershy said a quiet, "You're welcome." Coming up to me and putting his claws on the counter. He gasped, "Are those sapphires?!" He asked excitedly. I nodded, and he snatched the bowl from me, walking off into another room and happily munching on his jewels. I stood next to Fluttershy. "Don't worry, he'll be fine. He doesn't remember a thing. I won't ever let something like this happen again." "Okay, but I don't like being around him with all those open wounds." I looked at her, tilting my head. She blinked and her pupils shrank as her eyes glowed crimson red. "he just smells really good." she licked her lips, and I put my hoof over her mouth. She looked at me innocently. Her eyes returning to teal. "I'll get control over it... eventually." "Lucky for you I'm a vampire expert. You won't be hurting anypony else," I smiled at her, "and nopony will hurt you."