"Beep! Beep! Beep!"
I groaned, and slammed my hoof on the bedside table. Seriously, when did I get an alarm clock?
"Rise and shine, nerd! Get up!"
I turned my head, and faced a very annoying ghost.
"Go away Sour Tart." I complained, and pulled the blanket over my head... only for it to be pulled away.
I threw my head in the air and groaned so loud that the neighbors could hear it... and probably question it.
"Twilight?" Spike groaned. "Who are you talking to?" he rolled over in his bed and looked at me. Once again I was playing tug of war with a possessed object. Sour flew out of it, and landed beside Spike, who raised an eyebrow, and didn't see her.
"I'm um, talking to myself. Get up, we have some shopping to do, I ran out of ink... and broke my quill."
"Again?"
"Again."
Every time Spike spoke, Sour, who only I could see, mocked him. She mouthed every word he said.
"I don't know Twilight... I'm kinda tired..."
"Nope! You're not! We are going, getting out of the house-" I growled at Sour, "where we can be away for a bit."
In my magic I held many books, quills, and bottles of ink. In his claws, Spike held an ice-cream cone.
"So, Spike, could you carry this all home? I have to run an extra errand."
"Without me?"
"Yep!" I said, dropping everything atop him, making him drop his ice-cream.
"Woah!" he said, struggling to hold everything up.
"Hey, uh, Twilight?" he asked, looking at me worriedly as he carried everything back to the library. But I was already away's away.
I looked up at the sky, already seeing the dark colors of night blending with day. Creating beautiful pink and purples, yellows and oranges, as the sun set.
I trotted to the Ponyville hospital, opening the large doors to the large white lobby. I went up to the front desk, and cleared my throat as I looked at the nurse.
She appeared to be writing something down, paying no attention to me even when I said, "Good afternoon!" with a cheerful tone.
I waited a second, but she didn't say anything.
"Hello, Ms... Scope. I am PrincessTwilight Sparkle. I have come to ask a few questions about the blood donations here."
She did not look up, but pointed to the right. I looked to where she was pointing, and spotted a doctor with a stethoscope around his neck.
I smiled, walking up to him, "hello doctor. Do you, by chance, work in the blood donations area?"
"Oh, yes I do, Princess. Would you like to donate some blood?"
"Well, something like that, I was wondering if we could talk a bit in private. I have some questions, and a special request."
He nodded, "of course, Princess Twilight."
He brought me into a back area, an empty hospital room. "What is it that you need?"
I bit my lip. "Well, it's a bit hard to explain... but I need a blood bag, or two." his eager smile quickly turned to a frown.
"It's just... it's for a friend, and I- I need to borrow-"
"This blood goes to patients in need. If your friend is in need of blood she can come here and wait in line like every pony else."
"But, you don't understand, she has a bit of a special case and I just-"
"I don't want to hear further. I'm sorry, but if she needs the blood she will have to come here and we'll inject it into her just fine."
"No! She doesn't need to be injected... exactly. She needs an actual bag of blood... as strange as the request may seem. I-I have bits! I have some bits, if you would like to make a deal."
He stared at me blankly as I pulled out my rather large bag of bits. (Being an alicorn Princess pays well.)
"No deal. If you want to bring her that blood, you must wait in line for a little while."
I sighed. "I'll wait in line."
He directed me outside of the room and into another area, where a very large line of ponies sat. It went so far and around a corner, I couldn't see where the line went to.
I sat down at the end. Sighing as I leaned against the wall, in preparation for a long wait.
The line moved slow. I was probably there for hours to the point where I forgot what I was waiting for. Every once in a while I looked out the window or checked the clock, but it had been a while since I checked either, and just as I was turning around to check again, I heard a loud ding.
I felt my ears go back and pupils shrink as the clock struck midnight.
12 o' clock.
No, no, no!
I had completely forgot why I was here, and if it was midnight it was the hour that vampires awoke. It was the hour that Fluttershy would change, and be out of control.
I ran. I ran down the hall, out of the hospital, and to the cottage. Right on the outskirts of Ponyville.
But I didn't make it there. I found myself lost in the darkness, lost in the so familiar little village. I could see the movements, movements of the creatures I once fought.
I could see their yellow and red going eyes. I could hear the hissing and the growling. I ran.
I ran into the darkness and found myself behind a house. I slowly inched my way forward, seeing another alley.
I gulped, and ran for it. I tripped and fell onto the ground as I entered the new alleyway. I groaned, and stood up, rubbing my head, and opening my eyes.
That's when it was revealed that I had found Fluttershy. Not in her cottage, but here. With her wings spread, changed into bat wings. Her red eyes glowing in the darkness. Her fangs glinting, right as they pierced the skin of a young stallion she had pinned against the wall.
"Fluttershy!" I yelled. The stallion screamed in pain and horror. I didn't have my weapons, I didn't have anything, but still I tried to pry my friend off of him.
Oh, if only I was there to watch you.
She did not budge, but seemed to be getting annoyed. She removed her mouth from the ponies throat and hissed at me. Spitting blood in my face and making me back away.
"You're next." she hissed in a much deeper and threatening voice than I remembered. But if she was talking- that meant she wasn't completely gone.
"Fluttershy!" I yelled again.
"Cappy!" A new voice yelled.
Fluttershy stopped, and we all looked in the direction of the new voice, who stood on the other side of the alley.
A stallion stood, his body covered by a black cloak, on the front left, there was a very familiar symbol.
The symbol of the Night Hunters.
He rushed forward, tackling Fluttershy and pushing her to the ground. She hissed and fought back, but repelled and tried to run when he pulled a silver blade from underneath his cloak.
He pushed it against her throat, she kicked up her hoof and pushed away his hood, revealing his face.
He had an angry expression on his pale face. His teeth grit and his bright orange eyes sparkled. He had a spiky dark brown mane that hung over his face.
"You don't hurt my friend!" he growled in a Trottish accent, raising the blade over her.
"Wait!" I yelled, putting up a hoof.
He froze, and looked at me. "Princess...?" he asked in amazement. "What are you doing out here? It's dangerous! Glad I'm here to protect you, both of you."
The other stallion put his hoof to his bleeding neck, breathing heavily and watching his friend.
"No, wait, you don't understand! I came looking for my friend! Her! Please, don't hurt her! I can keep her under control!"
"Sorry Princess. I 'ave orders, and that's to kill them night beasts to protect ponies like you."
"You can't kill her." I said, my eyes getting teary. "I command you to lay down your weapon."
He stared at me, and slowly, put down his knife. He gulped, and suddenly he was the one pinned to the ground.
"Please! Don't!" he cried, the vampire mare grinned.
"Fluttershy." I said, suddenly grabbing her attention. "Listen to me. Don't hurt him. You don't want to hurt him."
"You don't know what I do and do not want!"
"Please. Look in my eyes, and tell me you want to kill a pony."
She did, she looked me right in the eye, and I could see the fear. The realization, the confusion.
"T-Twilight?" she stood up, and stumbled over to me. Her eyes still glowing bright red, and she hugged me. My eyes got even tearier.
"Well," said the Night Hunter, "if I can't kill 'er, and you two are huggin' it out now, I'll be on my way. C'mon Bottle Cap, I have a potion I need you to take, it'll heal your wounds."
"Twilight..." Fluttershy whispered, watching the two stallions go, "I think we have more to worry about then just my inner demon."
"Yep." I sighed, "we have Night Hunters, and not all of them will listen to me."