Family Begins With You

by Jmaster49


Arc X Episode V: The Vamp's Past

Keiji did as requested, and as soon as school was over, he met up with Sunset right outside of the building on the sidewalk. “Hey…so what are we doin’ here?”

“Meeting with one of the people who are also from Equestria,” Sunset explained as she looked around at the crowd of students walking out of the building, “She should be here any second…”

“Like, heyyyyy!” Sonata chirped as she walked up to them.

As soon as he laid eyes on her, Keiji flinched, taking a step back from the sudden shout. Then, he rolled his eyes and muttered, “Oh…it’s you again. From the diner. Why are you here?”

“Like, duh,” the blue girl waved her hand sarcastically as she responded, “It’s because I’m from Equestria too, ya shortstack.”

“Don’t…don’t say that ever again,” the boy muttered, “Alright. Spill. What were you?”

“It’s not just me,” Sonata stopped to turn and wave at her sisters as they left the school also. “My sisters and I were like, these super deadly Sirens. We sank ships and caused mayhem over the oceans…until Starswirl banished us here because he couldn’t control us.” She put her hands on her hips and smirked proudly while standing tall. “Joke’s on him. Living here is totally better anyway.”

Keiji threw his head back and scoffed. “Tch. Is that so?”

“Yup-yup,” the blue girl replied without missing a beat, “I mean, it was kinda hard to adjust to having a job and needing to know how to drive…but we managed.”

“Oh god don’t even get me started,” Sunset interjected with a chuckle, “It took me forever to learn how to ride a motorcycle. Then getting my license was a pain in the ass.” She looked over in Keiji’s direction--the boy showed a minor spark of interest via staring at her when she mentioned motorcycles. “Hm? What’s up? Something on my face?”

“No,” he shook his head, “It’s just…I find the motor vehicles fascinating. J-just a little,” he quickly deflected while breaking eye contact and looking away.

The girls looked at each other with confident grins on their faces.

“We’re getting somewhere,” Sunset whispered, “Let’s take him to the farm next.”

“I’m so on it,” Sonata whispered back, “And maybe I’ll be able to find out more about him and why he was banished here…”

Sunset sighed. “Yeah…It’d certainly help us understand him more, that’s for sure….”

Fed up with their inaudible whispers, Keiji finally called out to them. “Hey. Are we going somewhere or what?”

“We are,” Sunset took the lead, “Follow me.”

They began to follow her, and in the meantime, Sonata tried to make conversation with the vamp-boy.

“So…what brought you here to this world, Kei?” she asked cautiously as to not set him off.

Keiji walked along with his hands in his pockets, and shot her a side glare. “You really wanna know, huh?” He sighed, and went on. “I suppose it’s only fair since you told me about how your experience and how you ended up here…”

“...Hm?” Sonata tilted her head.

“...I’ll make a long story short.”


As a noble in Equestria, Count Bloodlust was constantly pestered by his father--Archduke Rosangio--to learn from him in order to lead their small village located in Trotsylvania, Equestria. However, Bloodlust often refused his father’s desire to learn about politics and other affairs regarding their village. Instead, he spent most of his time in a laboratory he made for himself where he concentrated on developing blood-related enchantments from the supply of blood that he obtained from various subjects living in their territory. Subjects that wanted nothing more than to be rid of those controlling vamponies…

His mother? That was an entire situation unto itself. Archduke Rosangio was quite the charmer and had taken multiple mares in concubinage despite having a true wife that he was officially married to. But one in particular caught his eye…an earth pony mare that had come from a Far Eastern land: Japone.

Needless to say, he started up a relationship with her and she gave birth to a bastard child: His first son.


“All the children born before me were batpony mares,” Keiji continued, “But as the first stallion, I was given automatic seniority.” He crossed his arms and scoffed. “How goddamn ironic is that? I was given a direct path to a throne I didn’t want while my half-sisters were sitting there wanting it, much older than me, but couldn’t have it because of some dumbass traditional rule…”

“Oh…” Sonata mumbled, unable to think of how to reply to such a thing. “...What happened after that?”

“They treated me like shit and my parents argued back and forth every day and night so they didn’t not. And soon enough, mom couldn’t take it anymore…”


Indeed, Rosangio and his little affair-mare--Kamui--would routinely be at each other’s throats, yelling back and forth all day and night. Why? The vamp-stallion desperately wanted his son to ascend but the Eastern mare refused to allow it as he was unfit to rule and did nothing but stay in his lab.

…This led to an exchange of physical abuse from both sides as they would often attack each other, but never try to cause grievous, noticeable harm. Rosangio knew that he couldn’t match an earth pony’s strength, so it never went beyond minor scuffles and slaps.

To make matters worse, various sisters of the Rosangio Family would routinely mock, prank, bully, and even beat their half-brother for taking what was rightfully theirs. But not only that, they routinely faked injuries and shifted the blame onto him, conspiring against him to their stepmother--”Keiji’s” mother.

“He’s trying to use forbidden magic, mother. Can’t you see he’s a problem?”

“He’s going to sully our family name, mother. We need him to be dealt with.”

“All our lives we have waited for our chance but we mares are constantly kept down. It’s time we fight back.”

And you know what? The Japonese mare agreed. She wasn’t going to be a victim of a system that was designed to keep her down. So she would start with her own adolescent son…

Once she gathered the evidence she needed, she exposed everything about Count Bloodlust to the public. His lab that was filled to the brim with experimental documents, the cursed dolls he made in order to extract blood from ponies, and expose the fact that he was a bastard child…not from her of course.

“Take him!” she yelled to the crowd of Trosylvanian ponies down below, “He is the reason for your troubles! Make the Duke hate himself!”

“...Mother, why--?!”

And right before she forcefully dragged him out of that window, Kamui looked him in the eye and said, “I never loved you.”

And with a quick toss, the young bat-stallion was thrown to the crowd. Kamui had gotten the ultimate revenge against the stallion that had brought her into an unfortunate situation.

By the time he reached his son’s room in the castle, it was too late. “...You…you ticălosule! What did you do to my boy?!”

Without an ounce of remorse in her body, she turned and said, “I made things right. Now you watch him suffer.”

“...”