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// 32: Meanwhile... 
// Story: Humans Meet Ponies 
// by TwiPON3 
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Seth's Point of View




"Okay," Sunset asked me, "Spill it. I want to know how you became a vampire. You obviously weren't one before I woke up in the hospital with Princess Twilight crying about me."
"I'm friends with Luna."
"That explains how you've always gotten away with your bullshit. I want to know about that first."
"Sit down with a cup of coffee, this'll be a long story."
"Okay, so when I was a Freshman, I knew I should keep to myself, because I didn't want a repeat of Delmarva...




Flashback #1, Tuesday 11 October 2011 12:05p, Canterlot City High School





---Vice Principal Luna's Point of View---

"Luna," my sister said, "I really think that we should do something," Tia said, pacing back and forth, "I'm worried."
"About who? Him or us?"
"Both. In the three months of him attending Canterlot High School, so much of himself is degraded."
I looked out the window and noticed the storm clouds closing in. It had thundered already, but that storm had passed an hour earlier. This one was supposed to be just a heavy downpour, "I'll do it," I said, getting up and leaving her office.
"Thank you."
"Don't mention it."
I owed her a favor anyway, and we had spent this time profiling him. The results came back that Celestia could accidently cause some kind of a living hell to happen, but I could get through to Seth.

---Seth's Point of View---

"Great," I said to myself, seeing the storm clouds approach, "At least my food won't be dry. Right, Twilight?" I looked around my sapphire-blue Acer Aspire One, "Oh right. You're gone."
I always sat at the picnic tables outside of the school's lunchroom, regardless of the weather outside. I had a whole table to myself, and I was away from all of the bullies. Not that I was particularly liked anyway. Or ever hungry, for that matter.
Maybe I should just hit Greg up for money and buy up all of the food or that weird drink that's like booze to me. Wait! What am I thinking? That's crazy!
What was I thinking?
I opened up LibreOffice Writer and my story that I was working on, Delorean Trip in Time, when I noticed VP Luna heading toward the lunchroom.
"Someone's done something," I said as the netbook slowly loaded the document that I had been working on for almost a month now, "Go, baby, go."
When the document loaded, the loud and fast ticka ticka ticka of my typing could easily be heard from a distance, so I knew that I was in the zone. I kept myself just enough in a gray area where I would still notice where someone was headed, given that they showed up, "Twilight, you'd be proud," I said to myself.
Luna was noticibly closer now, but she wasn't headed into the lunchroom. She was coming to me!
Control-S, Control-Q, Control-Alt-L!
The file slowly saved on the laptop running Windows 7-skinned-Linux Mint, then locked just as she made it to the picnic table, "Is this seat taken?"
"No. I'll move."
"No, don't."
"Huh?"
"I was wondering... if you'd like someone to talk to for a bit?"
"What do you mean?"
"I just figured," she began, "that you'd like to not be alone today for your lunch break?"
"Well, it couldn't hurt."
If she pulls ANYTHING, I'm marching my ass out and NOT coming back for at LEAST a week.
"So," she began, "What's it like out here?"
"Well, it's just... normal... and peaceful... out here. Not to mention comfortable."
She looked at my unopened carry-out plate from the lunchroom and my drink, "What'd you get for lunch today?"
I rested my elbows on the table and set my head in my hands, "Just a slice of sausage pizza and a coffee, black with sugar," I said, opening the plate to reveal the slice of homemade pizza, "Why?"
"Just curious."
"Alright," I said, "What the hell did I do?"
"Oh, you didn't do anything wrong."
I closed my laptop and put it in my bag, "Am I supposed to do something here?"
"Maybe we could tell each other about ourselves?" she said as I sat back up.
"There's not--" a solid downpour began, "This is fuckin' lovely," I said putting my hands on the bench and crossing my legs, "No friends, Co-Principal Luna is out here, I'm doused with rainwater, and I can't see."
"How about we go into my office, okay?"
"Sure, why not?"
We went into her office where I tried to continue my lunch.
"So, how long have you lived in Canterlot?"
"Tell me about yourself first," I said, wiping all of the water off of my glasses with a washcloth VP Luna kept in her office, "Also, what is so fascinating about me?"
"Well, as you know, I'm the Vice-Principal of Canterlot High. My sister, and only sibling, is the Principal."
"Okay. What's new?"
"Well, when I was in school, I had social anxieties, just like you," she sighed, "But over the years, I've learned to accept the fact that there are other people in my life."
"Yeah," I said, looking to my soaking-wet laptop case, "That."
"Earlier, I saw your laptop, and it had something on the lid," she said, suspicious as to whether I had some kind of talent behind the artwork, "Would it be okay if I took a look at it?
I pulled the crappy netbook that I so much enjoyed out of my bag and set it on the table, showing her where I turned the lid into a canvas, "I just took a few K-pop songs and put them altogether in a scene," she looked at it, "Well, my favorites, anyway. Gangnam Style, Korea, New Face, and Gentleman."
"Shit, that's good."
"I wanted to put I LUV it with the group too, but, in the end, I decided against it because I had already run out of room."
"Huh. I sketch some," she said, pulling out a notebook from a drawer, "Here. I don't even let Celestia go through it," she handed it to me, "I think I can trust you, though."
I took it and looked as some of the sketches. They were amazing, to say the least.
Shit. This is good. DAMN good!
"Are you trying to be a sketch artist of some kind?"
"I just do this when I get stressed."
I noticed a small pair of fangs, so I flipped through the notebook and found something suspiciously different about her, "Do you believe in vampires?" I asked.
Damn that was stupid.
"Yeah. They actually are real."
"How do you know?"
"I know someone really close who is a vampire."
You.
"Who?"
"I'll tell you later," she said as I finished my lunch, "You seem stressed."
"Yeah. How do you put up with it?"
"Well, there is sketching, but my favorite way to deal with it is gaming. Have you ever played Xbox?"
"Not really. I'm more of an 8-bit gamer. Atari and Nintendo."
"How about some one-on-one this afternoon?"
"Sure. You are the first person at this whole school who actually seels like they give a damn about something other than themself."
"Oh," she said, shocked at what I had just said, "What?"
"Yeah. The guy who sits by himself everyday, JUST so he doesn't have to put up with people wishing he was dead of all the damn things doesn't have a person in the world outside of his house."
I must've buttdialed someone because I heard a shocking WHAT!? from my pocket behind PSY-Korea.
"What's he sayin'?" a southern-accent said.
"People want him dead?" a raspy voice said.
"I think so," a timid girl's voice said.
"Mah God, Darling!" an English-accent said, "One should NEVER wish that upon someone else!"
"What song is this?"
"Pinkie Pie, Darling, I think that-"
I picked the phone up and shouted over the now-blaring K-pop, "Yeah? And I'm here to STAY! So GET THE HELL OVER IT!!!!!"
"Have a cup of coffee first!" the first voice said as a pink arm shot through the phone, holding a large Starbucks coffee, "Black with sugar!"
"Gee, thanks," I said, taking the highly-caffinated drink, "I was out anyway."
The arm retreated and a pink mouth protruded from the phone screen, "Enjoy!"
"Okay..." I said as the mouth retreated, "Any other body parts I need to look out for?"
"Nope!"
I slid the phone across the table with my foot.
"That was... weird," VP Luna said.
"Agreed."
"Dash, Ah'm just sayin' 'at Ah don't feel right eavesdroppin' on someone else's chatin'."
"Oh, for the love of Jesus Christ in Heaven, will you just push the red button that says END THE DAMN CALL already!?"
"Sorry, Darling," and the call ended.
"What was the name of that song," VP Luna said as I stopped the music, "Oh, and you can just call me 'Luna' now. We're friends, if you want."
"That's nice," I said, opening the crappy laptop, "I guess you can read something I've written. It's not any good, though."
"I'll be the judge of that," she grinned, showing fangs again as she snatched the computer.
"Just a heads-up, it's really slow."
When the file finally opened, she skimmed over it, then looked up at me, "It's actually pretty good."
"You think so?"
"Yeah," she said, putting the computer back in my bag.
"At my old school, I would have already been strip-searched."
"For what?"
"Who the hell knows?"
"How's your homelife?"
"Pretty good. Greg, my cousin-"
"Greg Universe? The musician?"
"Mm-hm. Anyway, he lets me do pretty much anything that I could think of. I mean, I could practically get away with murder for God's sake."
"So, is he home now?"
"Nah. He's on tour with the rest of the band. They should be back by Friday night, though."
"Would you like to spend the week with me?"
"Sure. Have you ever played Just Dance?"
"I've never played with someone before."

 Twilight and I used to play that at Indigo's.
"How about I take you to your house so you can get your clothes."
"Sure. 43 Quicktime Circle."
We went to her car, and she asked me about my music.
"What do you like to listen to?"
"Well," I said, "There is some weird shit from North Korea that I either strangely enjoy for the hell of it, or just make fun of. Then, there's Air Supply and K-Pop. I have a thing for stuff from the '80s like Walk Like an Egyptian, and Eye of the Tiger, then there's Gloria Gaynor, I'm not sure, actually. I guess that it's just what I find on YouTube that I like."
She unplugged her phone from a Line In to Cassette adapter, "How about you put some of that music on?"
"Sure," I said, taking my iPod Touch 4, plugging it into the stereo, and started my playlist lableled K-POP, "What first?"
"Any of them."
I tapped Korea and let it play. After a few seconds, I set the PDA in the cupholder and saw Luna smile.
"Good, right?"
"Shit! It's good. It's damn good!"
"This is the best part!"
"What?"
"Do it with me. You'll like it."
"Korea, deo keuge! Korea, deo keuge! Korea, deo sege! Korea, oh, oh, oh!"
As she drove onto the circular road that held my house, she seemed almost nostalgic. When she pulled up to my house, she asked to come in.
"You can just park in the driveway, or I can open up the garage for you, assuming Greg's junk is out of there," she looked at me with a confused look, "The upstairs is being soundproofed."
"I'll just park in the driveway. Would it be okay if I came in?"
"Sure," I said as we both got out of the car and went in. The door was pretty much always unlocked, but a few people thought I was nuclear, so they steered clear of the house usually.
"Do I need to get my own bedding?" I said as she followed me down to the basement, "Because it's no trouble."
The basement was partitioned for two areas: 85% for a decent lab and 15% for a bedroom.
"Where... are your clothes?"
"The cabinet next to the one with the labcoats."
"Where?"
"Next to where the stairs come out into the room."
"Do you want me to help you?"
"Just make yourself comfy if you want."
"I think I'll help, then."
"Suit yourself," I said, getting a blanket and pillow off of the couch that served as my bed so I could put them in a suitcase of some kind.
I was suddenly thirsty, so I reached for my Yetti cup that I poured Dr Pepper in this morning, but something about it smelled different.
I have got to stop setting these things next to my chemicals.
I didn't notice the initials LS on the lid.
"No matter," I said to myself before turning to Luna, who already had a week's worth of clothes in a bag.
"What do you do at the end of the day?"
"I don't do anything."
"Would you just like to go over to my house then?"
"Sure."
"You want a bite?"
"Not really."
"Sure? I can get something from upstairs."
"I'm sure."
We went out to her car, and she drove me straight to her house.
Wow. It's nice.
"You know," she said, "I have a gaming cave."
"Can you show me?"
She took me downstairs to a basement that was almost as big as the one at my house, "Damn. You have it all."



"And that's how I got to know Luna."
"Okay," Sunset said, drinking from a coffee mug that read Wорлд'с Бест Вампире, "Now, how did you become a vampire?"
"I asked Luna to do it in exchange for me giving her vacation time."
"I should have guessed."




Flashback #2, Monday 20 January 2014 8:30a, Canterlot City High School




I made my way to Vice-Principal Luna's office, and those words rang in my head time and time again. We were REALLY good friends, but she didn't exactly let everything go unseen.


Seth, please come to Vice-Principal Luna's office. Now.


That one word, Now.
She's let me get away with a lot of shit in the past, but I don't think I'll get away with this so easily. Maybe she's in a good mood. Unlikely, ESPECIALLY considering how pissed she was when she came up to that dump on Thursday.
The door was within arm's length, so I'm sure that she sensed me, especially considering that I came up as silently as possible, even going so far as to take my Japanese Kimono Sandals off and carry them, essentially making me barefoot, "Come in."
"Yes?"
"Close the door."
The only source of light in the dimly-lit room at this point was the light coming in from the mostly-folded blinds, "Please sit."
"So...?"
She slid one of my notebooks to me. It was labeled Сцхоол Схит. ПРИВАТЕ!!. My stomach sank.
"I see that you've known that I'm a vampire, correct?"
"Yes...?"
"I could expel you for what you did Thursday. I should expel you, but knowing what I do know about you, it wouldn't do any good. Besides, you did potentially save Sunset Shimmer's life.
"I don't get where you're going with this."
"I need time off," her fangs extended, "And I'm sure you do, too."
"I'm not intimidated by the fangs."
"And I saw what you did in the library, too. I'm impressed."
"Thanks," I smiled.
"So, you're not mad?"
"Well, there was the destruction of school technology."
"That."
"But, I will overlook it," she said, "On the condition that you pull me some time off. You're probably shaken as well, so you can do yourself the favor, too."
I thought for a second, then got another sly grin, "Make me a vampire?"
Her eyes turned from opal to red, "Let me get to your neck. It'll only hurt for a minute, but it won't be bad. The fangs are going to be pretty weird to talk around at first, though."
"Is that how you were?"
"I was born a vampire. Celestia wasn't though."
"Neat."
"Ready?"
"Sure."
"On the floor, on your back," she said, earning a confused look from me, "It works best if I bite at your jugular."
"Oh!"
I got on the floor and got ready, but Luna was obviously a little worried about something, "What is it?"
"If someone comes in, sees the mess, what we're doing, and gets somebody. They'll think it's a sex scandal."
"Good point. Still wanna do it now?"
"Doesn't really matter to me."
I emptied my laptop case and set it on the floor where my head would be (making sure that the mess would be normally covered by the laptop, even though it would blend in with the others), "Mess is taken care of."
She locked the door, "Door's locked."
I took a few coins from my bag and wedged them between the door and the doorframe, for extra security, "Now we're safe."
"Okay, get ready."
I got back on the floor, "Hai."
She chuckled, "Japanese. Funny," she went to a somewhat-serious tone, "Now, you can't make any noise. Squeeze my arm if you have to."
"Got it," I said, giving a thumbs-up.
She bit down, and I reflexively began to squirm, but squeezed her arm with my left hand and made a fist with my right one.
Oh God! Getting my blood sucked out is the weirdest thing ever!
"Okay," she said, getting up and sitting on her knees, "I'm done. Feel alright?"
"Yeah."
I felt of my throat where she had bitten down, and felt two holes, along with a bloody mess, "This is noticeable," I said to her as she licked the remaining blood off of her face.
"Sorry. This is going to be weird," she said, "but I need to lap at the wound for it to close."
"Okay," I said.
After Thursday, this almost does not deviate from the status quo.
She lapped at the bleeding holes in my neck for about two or three seconds before getting back up, "Okay."
I sat up, and she looked at me with somewhat of a shocked expression, "What?"
"You have wings."
"I'll start hacking," I said, getting up and putting my crap (minus the laptop and my smartphone) back in the bag.
"Good idea."
After about five or so minutes, I had Lu about two months worth of personal days and myself checked out, "What now?"
"I'm not sure," she said, handing me a few bags of blood, "They're A+. I think that they're really sweet."
I drank one, then realized how thirsty I actually was, "This is sweet."
She smiled, then I knew that our friendship had became a lot closer, "Hungry?"
"Hell, yeah," I said, putting my laptop in the bag.
"What's a place you like?"
"Frank's Diner."
"Go get your books from class. I'm in a 1984 Honda Civic CRX Hatchback. Navy-blue."
"I figured."
"I'll carry your computer and meet you at the front."
"A'ight," I said as we both left the office.
The walk back to the classroom was overly-satisfying. Normally, I would get bullied by most people because I'm friends with the school's Vice-Principal, but now everyone who saw me did their best to avoid me. Not that I wasn't above taking revenge out on them, though. At one point, I heard some people talking.
Those girls from Thursday.
I walked right by them, along with a sixth girl that looked similar to Twilight before I lost touch with her.
"What the hell?" the athlete said, noticing my eyes, fangs, and wings. She immediately turned to the timid girl, "Fluttershy, don't turn around!"
"What? Why?" she said, turning around to me, "Oh my goodness!" she yelled as she fainted before being caught by the athlete and farmer.
"What in Celestia is going on in your world!?" the purple girl said.
Wow. She REALLY sounds like Twilight.
"Mah God, he's looking this way!"
"Need anything?" I said, walking toward them.
"C'me on, Flutt'rshy!" the farmer said, "Don't quit on 's!"
When I made it toward them, the usually-hyperactive girl's hair deflated as she went into a small state of panic, "Are you okay?"
"Yes, Darling! We're okay!" the vain girl said.
I looked at the timid girl, "No it isn't. I'm taking a look whether you like it or not."
The only one of them that dared to get in my way was the athlete, but that didn't last for long.
"Stay away from her!"
I shined my fangs at her.
"Don't hurt me."
I went over to her, felt of her head, and checked her vitals.
"Dash, s'mtimes you do stupid things!"
"What?"
"Yer lucky 'at ya ain't bleedin' ta death right now!"
"I'm super fast, and I have wings."
"So's he!"
"I need a bottle of cold water. Or ice."
The pink girl gave me an ice pack, so I set it on the timid girl's head, then she slowly came back to.
"Oh, I thought I saw a vampire," she said, regaining coherency, "Oh my goodness!" she crawled backward as fast as she could.
"Jesus, kid. I don't kill."
"I thought you always wanted to be a vampire, Fluttershy," the pink girl said, her hair instantly poofing back up.
I rolled my eyes, "We're not animals. Red eyes, wings, fangs, ability to manipulate things," I counted on my fingers, "The only characteristic that all vampires share is the eyes and fangs. Some vampires have wings, some can manipulate things, some can do both, and some can't do either. I just happen to have a pair of wings. I can't manipulate things, though."
"So, you're not an animal?" the timid girl asked.
"No," I shook my head, "I'm not."
"Oh."
"I'll go get my stuff, and I probably won't be back today," I said, walking back to the classroom. I heard them start talking again, but it was about me being a vampire. I didn't take offense to it, but a part of it did freak me out.
"I didn't know he was a vampire, Darling. He sure kept it covered up."
"He wasn't!" I heard the hyperactive one say. She made me freeze in my tracks, "Seth was a regular human before this morning when he went into Vice-Principal Luna's office, he and her have a friendship that started a few months after he moved from Delaware to Canterlot that MIGHT have caused him, and all of us by association, not only because we saved everyone, but because he found where Sunset was, even though he did it illegally. Anyway, that's besides the point. He went into Vice-Principal Luna's office this morning with just his laptop, but the way he was told to go to her office was enough to make him think that he had screwed up bigtime! Not to mention that he already knew that Lu, that's his nick for her, was a vampire herself! She just happened to be born one, so they struck a deal: Seth hacks and gets both of them out without any reprecussions, and Luna turns him into a vampire. Princess Twilight's from an alternate pony world where events run parallel to our own, so I'm sure that him and her are friends in Equestria, that is the name right?" she giggled, "Of course it is, Silly! Anyway, Princess Twilight and Pony-Seth, who is a pegasus, are, like really great friends! That explains the wings. The logic behind his friendship with Vice-Principal Luna, is a different story, although I do know that him and Princess Luna, she's the pony equivalent of Vice-Principal Luna, but a night-goddess instead, along with being a vampire herself, too, they try to have all of the fun that Seth and our Luna has, making Luna have the ability to manipulate things, as well as have a pair of wings!"
Judging by the way she said that, I could just feel that she had the world's biggest grin on her face.
"Pinkie Pie, Darling, I don't think that's what happened."
I went back over to her, but the farmer went into a small panic, "Pinkie, Ah thank ya've messed up bigtime!"
"How did you know about that friendship?" I asked, "I'm a secluded person."
"Just a hunch!"
"What about Equestria?" the Twilight-esque girl said.
"You're a pony princess. Of course it would only make sense!"
I received a few glances, "That is the same girl whose hair deflated when I said I wasn't going through a mirror-portal," I said, backing away from the group, "See ya."
I got my books and met Lu out in front of the school.
"Hey, what took ya?"
"You know those six girls?" I tossed my bookbag into the back seat.
"You had a run-in with them," she said, putting the car in gear and leaving the parking lot, "Am I right?"
"Yeah," I said, kicking my feet on the dashboard, "Don't mind me getting comfortable, do ya?"
She glanced at me, "No. I don't. This car is 30 years old, anyway."
"How did ya get it?"
"eBay. How do the wings feel? They don't hurt, do they?"
"No. Not really."
"Are you still okay?"
"Yeah. The wings are cool, I feel better than ever, and I'm NOT in that idiot-coop anymore."
We were at a stoplight, so she put her head on the steering wheel and just laughed, "God, that's funny."
"What do I need to expect? Now that I'm a vampire."
"The Sun won't kill you, but it will feel a bit uncomfortable. You'll start sparkling after being out in it for a while, which I assume you don't ever do to begin with, let alone all day, which is when that starts."
"Yeah, I don't."
"You won't live forever like they do in the movies,"
"Thank God."
"A shitload of strength,"
"A'ight."
"Night vision. Everything will look like it's daytime,"
"Hot damn."
"Obviously, you'll have to drink blood occasionally,"
"Fine with it."
"You can make yourself look like anything or anyone,"
"Sweet."
"There are two levels of manipulation: basic and true. Any of us can use basic manipulation, but a lot of us don't have true manipulation."
"What's the difference?"
"Basic manipulation is being able to control things on a small scale, usually not very significant things, but the ability is still there. True manipulation is affecting everything on a large scale," she could tell that I was at a loss, "I took computer classes in school, so naturally, I made some digital mischief. You, on the other hand, could take out anything you can connect your laptop into."
"Right..."
"Now, swap that power and those abilities between us, then picture those as vampire manipulation abilities."
I gave what Luna said a thought, "Oh. Makes sense."
We hadn't been paying attention, so we didn't know when we were at the restaurant, "What do like?" she asked.
"A bacon burger."
"Those are so good."
We went in, had our order taken, then picked back up, "What's your game?"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"You know, console?"
"The S-Nes."
She laughed into her hand, "What?"
"S-Nes? That's... that's just a weird way to say it. Usually, people call it SNES or Super Nintendo."
The waitress brought our food out to us, then Lu shot her fangs out, "What... are you doing?"
"Huh?" she put the sandwich down, "Oh, it's a lot easier to eat this stuff with fangs."
We both managed to devour the large sandwiches in two minutes, flat, "Oh, and don't worry about getting fat, either."
"How?"
"A vampire's body utilizes every bit of food they eat. I mean, we don't even have to eat! It just feels nice. And, there have been times where I've wondered what it's like to be a normal human."
"Boring," I replied without missing a beat, "You have to eat and worry about weight and all of that junk, unless you have an ungodly-high metabolism, and you can't do anything that you told me in the car."
"Do you have any idea about how easy this is?"
"Helluva?"
"Right, you are."
We left the restaurant and got back in her car, although she just sat in the driver's seat with the clutch and gas depressed as she threw the key in the cupholder.
"Sleep is the same way as eating is. Vampires don't need it," she said, this time solemnly.
"Are you okay?"
"That day I came out and sat with you at that picnic table, I hadn't slept at all since the first week of school had ended. Tia wanted me to go check on you that day, but I was debating against it. Just like I had done every other day, actually. Every night, I would pace back and forth in my basement, wondering if you'd be okay. I would have came out sooner, but I was constantly afraid that I'd just... go straight for your neck and finish you in one go, or at least scare you shitless. If I knew how you felt about vampires and wanting to be one, I would have went to you earlier. When you picked up that cup of blood at your house, I almost had a meltdown. I probably would have if you had drank any. That's just how scared I was. Later when we were playing on the Xbox 360, I wanted, so DAMN bad, to tell you everything. That night, at 2:30 after you had fell out, holding a pot of coffee, that had spilled all over your pillow and cover, I originally thought 'Well done, Luna. Well friggin' done.'. I remember looking at the warm and sticky mess, debating on how to clean it. Seperate the liquid from the bedding? No, I might make a horrible mess. Just pull it off of him? No, I don't want to WAKE the guy. I need Celestia.. All of those thoughts, swimming in my head were making me debate whether or not I should've came right out and said everything, or if I should have even taken you in. Not that I'm trying to hurt you-"
"You're not."
"Anyway, I went upstairs and saw Celestia in the kitchen, doing the one thing that I thought I'd NEVER see her do: panicing at 2:30 and using coffee for comfort. We both managed to keep ourselves collected, even though we were handling the situation rather badly. I don't know how, but we managed to wake you up. What was probably the worst part was when you came upstairs, looked us both in the eye at the kitchen table, and, while you were only half-awake at that, said, and I quote, 'Luna, just tell me that you're a vampire I'm okay with it. Celestia, stop worrying so-damn-much.' We both worried on that for a while before I cleaned up the coffee that you had spilled in your sleep while you were prowling through the refridgerator. I, honest to God, had no idea that you knew. Anyway, a few minutes later, you came back down stairs with a can of soda, or pop, as you call it, confusing me and my morals a little further," she sighed, "then you came over to where I was at the couch, sat your drink down, hugged me, said 'Thank ya, sis.", tried to open a spot on your arm for me to drink from, which you managed to do, but I closed it, then passed out on the arm of the sofa. Tia saw the whole thing from the top of the stairs, making for a very awkward moment, before leaving and going to bed. I seriously thought about pulling another night, something I knew I could do with no problem, but I sat down and pulled you off of the arm of the couch, which ended up in you holding me in your sleep, then me falling asleep too, leaned up against the back of the thing. The next morning at around 9:30, while we were supposedly having a contest to see who could drink the most coffee to wake themselves up, I was debating on whether to tell you."
"That's heavy," I said as she finally started the car and drove off.
"Now, I finally know that I could've told you all of this sooner"
"And turned me into a vampire."
"I just... keep beating myself up over it."
"Don't," I said, "That's a topic that neither of us knew to bring up, even if there ever was a right time to. Although I bet it feels good getting that off of your chest, doesn't it?"
"It does on SO many levels."
"And get this," I said, "If you hadn't ever turned me into a vampire, you'd still be beating yourself up over nothing."
"I guess you're right."
"Care for a little one-on-one?"
"360?"
"2600."
"You're on."

End of Flashback


Sci-Twi's Point of View

I know I should tell them about my dreams. Seth is smart, and he was always able to pull stuff from them that made sense. Ohh, but I can't. Not out loud.
Oh, for fuck's sake, Twilight Sparkle. Stop it. Now. I'll cut you a break, and I won't tell anyone. That is, assuming you don't wake up screaming again in the middle of the damn night.
"And that explains that."
The rest of the day until 15:00 went by fast enough with everything going on in that basement, before everyone coming BACK over for another party. That went smooth enough, but what wasn't was a feeling in my gut that I'm sure even Midnight didn't know about.
Even if she did, it would worry her. I don't want that, even IF she's horrible. This is MY fight, and I've got to fight it alone.
"Dude, Twilight," Seth said to me, "You okay?"
"I'm fine."
The rest of the day went rather normal until I went to sleep at 21:30, but my sleep was... disturbing... to say the least. Several nightmares killed any chance I had at actually feeling rested in the morning.




Sci-Twi's First Nightmare




I looked around and saw that I was on the same bus as I was several days ago when I went to Equestria for my first friendship lesson. Everyone was cold and distant, just like on any other city bus, but this time, Spike wasn't with me in my bag.
"Wow," I said, looking at my Casio Calculator watch.


07:38 49 AM
15 9-16


I, exactly like the first time, just thumbed through my Hotmail and text messages, mostly to keep myself occupied even though I didn't have anything unread.
"I must be going to CHS," I said, noticing the time and date and my surroundings.
The bus stop for CHS was a block and a half from the school. No problem there, but I had trouble at the school again: Manor and Blueblood were there, and they looked pissed. Manor's hand was bandaged and Blueblood was wearing what looked like a laptop bag.
"Please! Stop!"
I was gagged and stripped like the first time. What was different, though, was that everyone I knew that was still alive were there, too. Except for Midnight.
"Mmph! Mmph!" I said through the gag, trying to EMP the iPhone that was recording me being molested, but to no avail.
"You didn't deserve the help you got the first time," Sunset said, my vision severly blurring for some reason.
"Be a dear and look at yourself, Darling," Rarity said, holding a mirror up to me, "Oh right! You're blind!"
"Like shit you are," Seth said, putting my glasses on as I clenched my eyes shut, "Blueblood, Manor! Save some goods for the rest of us, why don't ya?"
I felt parts of my body change, then what sounded like a powerful handgun was shot immediately to the left of my head, scaring the living crap out of me.
Please!
Upon opening my eyes, I found that I was a normal human again. No Equestrian magic, no muzzle, no horn or tail, no anything! I was just... me!
"See yourself NOW?" Princess Twilight said, maniacally.
"Please... stop...!" I said, dryly before getting beaten to death.



I woke up screaming before punching two or three different people.
"Dude, Twilight!"
"Deary, everything's okay now!"
"C'mon, Sci-Twi!"
I hit another person before I became completely lucid again, "Please help."
"We're here, Kiddo."
I opened my eyes, only to find that the lights were on, and all of my friends, Shining and Cadence, Mom and Dad, and even Cinch for some damn reason.
"You put up a good fight, Twilie," Shining said, "On several of us."
I looked at Mom and Dad, "Oh my God, I'm so sorry!"
"It's okay," she said, holding a bag of ice to her face, "We know you didn't mean it."
"Dude, Twi," Seth said, looking at me, "What the hell happened?"
He was missing a fang and two teeth.
"I... had a nightmare."
"No shit," Midnight said, "You kept screaming for a handgun."
"I was?"
"Yeah," Sunset said, holding her stomach, "I'm pretty sure that you work out, too. You even knocked Big Mac out. Twice."
"Oh, Jesus."
"Just... Just go back to sleep," Seth said to me, "I'll be right here," he gave me his 375 Magnum that he used to use if he heard a noise in the middle of the night, "I can just go all out for it."
That was the last thing I remembered before I was out again.




Sci-Twi's Second Nightmare




I found myself back in the house. We had all just got there for the first time, but now, nothing was aggressive.What was originally a misunderstanding that was blown out of proportion to the accidental accusal of racism didn't happen. Instead, it was immediately realized, so I went upstairs, completely unnoticed by the others and looked in the refrigerator. There wasn't anything there that Seth could have gotten "drunk" from.
"That's strange."
"What's strange, dude?"
"Gah!"
I snapped back around, only to find Seth. He was smiling, but I could see where his fangs were showing past his mouth, and he had one hand on his hip.
"Something wrong?"
My eyes darted left and right for a minute, "No! Everything's fine!"
He walked closer to me as his smile faded, "No you're not, Twilight. I know when something's wrong with you. I mean, we've known each other since we were like seven."
I guess he does feel obligated to protecting me, somehow.
"It's just that..."
"Yeah?"
"All of your garbage from the refrigerator is missing."
His smile and pose returned, "Dude," he said, "shit happens. Besides, vampires don't need to eat and sleep like everyone else. Pretty much all of our energy comes from what blood we ingest."
`	"Wait," I said, "So you're not mad?"
"Hell, no. It's like I said: Shit happens."
Just then, he, Sunset, Ms Luna, and Vinyl all jumped on me and tried to kill me. I remember screaming, being tied down, getting cut open, and having something stripped out of me that resembled everything I had lived for and done, along with all of my life, as I had perceived it.



Again, I woke up screaming and accidentially injuring more people. This time, Indigo, Seth, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Starlight Glimmer.
"Twilight! Wake up, dammit!"
"Dude, PLEASE come back to The Land of the Living!"
When I became fully awake and aware of my surroundings, I realized that my wrists and ankles were restrained to something, which only unnerved me even more.
"What the hell is going on!?" I cried.
"Dammit, Rainbow Dash!" Seth said, coming over to untie me, "You just DON'T do that to people! I don't care WHAT the hell is going on! You could at least be humane about it!"
"Look who's  talking!" she replied, "You're a vampire! That has to be even worse than tying her up! I mean, she almost HIT me! Besides, you said so yourself! It could blow someone's head off!"
"Are you okay, Twi?" he said, helping me up.
"Y... yeah."
"No you're not."
"DAMMIT! If you won't tell, then I'll just say it right here, right now. You had two nightmares, the first one was from that day where you were raped, and everyone just kept it going. The second one was that every vampire that you know began attacking you and killed you. Ironically, the one to start attacking you was Seth!" she looked at the vampire, then subsequently became scared of what she had just said, "Oh God,  I'm SO sorry! Don't kill me!"
He sat down next to me and put an arm around my shoulder, "Someone had to say it, Midnight. I was literally counting the seconds until it was said.
She replied with only a sigh of relief.
"That's how I feel right about now," he said, adjusting his position on the couch to where he was sitting against the back and the armrest.
I held Seth's waist, leaned against him and fell asleep again, feeling safer now. This time, I actually had a wonderful dream.




Dream #3




I looked around, and found that we were at some kind of dance, and the song that was playing was Two Less Lonely People In The World by Air Supply. It was live! Everyone that I had ever seen was there.
Okay. What's the catch?
I found that I was slow dancing with Seth. I noticed something different about him now



He was dressed like Daniel Krumitz from CSI: Cyber.

He was three inches taller.

His hair was parted in the middle, making it go around his face, and was somewhat shorter.

He had his wings unfolded, his eyes were crimson, and his fangs were out (Just thought I'd put that there because I don't usually see him like that).

Neither of us were wearing our now-usual eyeware. He was wearing a regular pair of eyeglasses, and I wasn't wearing any at all.


"Hey, Seth?"
"Yeah, Twilight?"
"Did you get taller? Also, are we in love?"
"So what, if we are?"
The song began to slow, everyone around us stepped back by about three feet, and a spotlight made its way to us.
"Every love is here and now, there's..."
The song slowly stopped at the end of that phrase, everyone had stepped back, and the spotlight now shone on us, leaving both of us confused.
"You can do it, Darling!"
"Go on now, Sci-Twi!"
"You can do it!"
"Seal the deal, Twi!"
"Go on, now!"
"Go for it!"
We looked into each other's eyes, and knew it: We were in love.
Should we?
The two of us leaned in for a kiss.
"Just don't bite my tongue."
When our lips met, everyone started cheering, and the band finished the song.
"...Two less lonely people in the world, and it's gonna be fine!..."
"I guess that answers my question," I said as he picked me up and held me for another kiss.
"Guess it's settled, then."
"Is this supposed to feel... like this?"
"I'm a six-foot-tall, bloodsucking, human creature; you're half-unicorn now; and you find this weird?" he said, putting me back down, "I'm just going to go with it."
"You know," I said, "the only times I've actually been kissed were when Blueblood and Manor were molesting me. This one actually felt... nice."
"If they try to do that again, I'll tear them apart," he said with a smile, "They know what I'm capable of, and I've taken a guess that you'd help me kick their asses, too."
"That'd be lovely," I said, returning his warm smile.
Several more scenes passed by me: dates (some to Japan and a now-unified-under-the-Southern-government Korea), high school graduation, college, hanging out with our friends, then stopped on a proposal at a Japanese Teppanyaki Restaurant. In none of the scenes, we were dressed up. Seth wore the same style of outfit, and I was just wearing my normal clothes. Neither of us had aged a lot in terms of appearance, either. I must've stopped wearing glasses, but Seth alternated between his and a regular pair.
"Twilight," Seth said, now 23, "Would you make me the happiest person on Earth?" he got down on one knee and presented me with a ring, "If you'd marry me."
The entire restaurant went quiet, and I could feel everyone looking at each other and smiling.
"I'd love to."
Everyone in the restaurant became happy, a few people even clapping and cheering.
The next scene that I stopped at was the wedding. More like an hour before.
"Oh, but I insist, Darling! A wedding just isn't a wedding if it's not formal!"
"Rarity," I replied, "We're not going for that. I mean, we're already a vampire and half-unicorn getting married. Besides, we both agreed: We're too different to try to be normal, so let's not make what we do normal."
Time sped forward to the next hour: We were at the altar, and nobody was dressed for a normal wedding. None of Seth's family was here, but all of mine, our friends, and their families were there. I'm sure he liked that more.
"Do you, Twilight Sparkle, take Seth C DeMeats to be your lawful wedded husband?"
"Why not?"
"And do you, Seth C DeMeats, take Twilight Sparkle to be your lawful wedded wife?"
"I'm not ruining this day for anyone."
I giggled at that.
I'll take it that's a 'hell-to-the-yeah!'.
"You may now kiss."
We shared a kiss that was as passionate as the first date.
"I now present to you, Mr and Mrs DeMeats."
"