The Ashes

by Scylight


First Blood

Two hours had passed since Rainbow Dash found out that she was a vampire. Fate had once again threw another curveball at her. She had been rejected by the Wonderbolts for no reason, and now had lost her precious wings only to be replaced by evil bat wings. Since that time she had covered herself up so her friends would not find out about her predictament. Luna had already promised her that she would not tell for her saftey of her friends, and herself.

Yet there was still one thing that was lingering in Rainbow's mind, why would she want to go away. Luna had told her that by midnight she should leave town without even saying goodbye. Her whole existence seemed like it was falling to pieces with nothing to help it get better.

She didn't really want to leave her friends behind after they had all thought they had lost her forever. Yet she was even more scared about what might happen if she didn't leave. Would she be able to hide her new disability from the town's ever prying eyes? Could she hide her new wings which clearly stood out from the crowd? Would she be able to control her new thirst for blood?

Even then she could tell she was getting thirsty and by now it was starting to get unbearable. She knew that any moment she might lose control of herself and attack a pony, or worse kill the pony. She placed her hooves against her temples trying to get the thought of killing a pony out of her head. Tears began swelling in her eyes when her doctor walked into the door.

"Hello Ms.Dash, I have to say you are quite durible, we all thought you were dead", the doctor said smiling while writing on his clipboard.

"Yes and please don't remind me", she requested trying and failing to come off nice. Her tone of voice shocked the doctor slightly.

"So I see you are a bit agitated but I expect nothing a less of a pony who was on her death bed a couple hours ago", the doctor responded.

"Yeah like I didn't know already", Rainbow muttered under her breath. The doctor began to ask typical question that Rainbow began to think he wrote them down before hoof. Not only that he was quite annoying and smug about everything.

Kill him

"What was that, I thought I heard a voice", Rainbow interupted suddenly.

The doctor sighed and replied, "Rainbow there is no voice, now please calm down".

Kill him, and unleash me

No she couldn't give into the voice, she had stay strong. She noticed however that she was staring at him intently.

Unleah me Rainbow

Drool was now coming from her mouth as the hypnotic voice spoke to her, enticing her to attack the doctor.

Unleash me

She couldn't take it anymore she had to do it. She was just about to pounce when she was brought back to reality by his voice.

"Are you okay", he asked sincerly looking back at her with the same kind of intesity.

Rainbow suddenly began to hyperventilate as he realized what she was about to do him if he hadn't spoke up. "Get out!", she screamed.

"Excuse me", he replied.

"I said GET OUT", Rainbow screamed with such intensity that it nearly knocked the doctor over. After that he raced out of her room with lighning speed. Rainbow bent over and began to cry into her hooves. She needed to keep her friends safe.

***

"I can't belive she's still alive, I mean she was never dead, but woo whoo", Fluttershy yelled the best she could despite it barely being over a whisper.

"Yes, I can't belive it either, but it does seem suscpicious a bit to me", Twilight reponded.

"How so, that's if you don't mind me asking", Fluttershy asked.

"Fluttershy you didn't see her untill the hospital, at my house she looked like she was already dead. Also the Princess kicking us out of the room in the middle of a converstion, and also the way she came out all crying. Now she wants to stay in Ponyville for the night. I don't know about you, but all of this eems like it's connected", Twilight responded.

"Oh I see, and that reminds me can you help me feed the animals. Right now I'm so occupied with one injured beaver that I think I could need and extra hoof", Fluttershy asked.

"Of course, I can see what I do", Twilight responded smiling. "I just hope that Luna and Spike will get along".

***

"Those are my snacks!", Spike yelled holding his precious Pony Crackers tightly.

Luna who was standing on top of a bookcase with a singed tail already clearly fed up. "So be it horrible beast", Luna spat.

"Oh it is on", Spike said before he suddenly tackled Luna off the bookcase.

***

Night had falled over Equestria despite Luna never really setting it. Rainbow was still couped up in the hospital with her thirst only growing. Cold sweat was beating down her muzzle as her face wore an uncomfortable look. She needed to get out of there before she loses control.

She slowly lifted herself out of bed making sure not to make to much noise. She slowly walked over to the window before opening it letting in a blast of freash air. She took a deep breath of fresh air which reminded her after rainfall. She shook her blanket of revealing her new bat wings which had just replaced her beloved cyan wings. After a few teat flaps she made her way out to the ledge before taking gliding off.

Surprisingly with her new wings she was able to fly even better that her previous wings. She didn't know if it her being a vampire had any effect in it, she decided to enjoy it why she could. This is what she lived for, the wind in her mane, the air rushing past her ears. She wasn't even paying attetion were she was going untill she was face to face with The Everfree Forest. But instead of going into the forest the dipped down heading for an all to familiar cottage.

Time for us to feed

"No, I would not kill Fluttershy", she yelled at the voice.

Not her, the animals

Even though she was relieved that it didn't want to kill Fluttershy but her animals would be just as worst, but it seemed she had no say in it as she now couldn't control her body. She landed right next to a pack of bunnies who looked at her curiously. She tried her best to control herself but to no avail.

Feed me

She then attacked the animals.

***

"I can't thank you enough for your help Twilght", Fluttershy thanked Twilght.

"The pleasure is all mine", Twilight responded gleefully as she levitated a duster and continued to clean around the room.

There was suddenly a screech from an animal coming from the outside. Twilight saw Fluttershy race out there to help the injured animal as Twilight followed in suit. "Fluttershy, wait for me", she yelled to her friend.

Something was wrong here.

***

In the matter of seconds Rainbow had devoured five bunnies leaving only two left. Blood stained her muzzle and most of her coat along with her two new fangs gleaming in the moonlight. The two bunnies that remained huddled up as Rainbow began sizing them up for bite. All of a sudden a small squee came from her left.

She turned her head to face her friend Fluttershy already shivering with fear. "Rai-rain bow?", she squeed.

Despite her mind protest she walked toward her friend with a menacing smile plastered across her face. "Heellooo frieennnd", she said before another morsel of food came into her view.

***

When Twilight had finally reached Fluttershy, her friend seemed like she was terrified. What animal could get her so scared besides dragons? She tried to move her friend but she seemed to be scared stiff.

Her train of thought was interuppted by a frightenly familiar voice, "Oh, Twilight has also come to the massacre".

She slowly turned her head to find a Rainbow Dash covered head to hoof in blood. Her wings had turned in to large bat wings. Even more terrifing she had large fangs that seemed to glow in the moonlight. She began to breath heavily as she saw Rainbow size her up before charging. In desperation she picked up one of Fluttershy's flower pots and hit Rainbow over the her head, cracking the pot. She sighed in relief as she had just hit her just in time. She levitated her up with her up with her magic before setting Rainbow on her back.

She turned to a still scared Fluttershy before saying, "Don't tell anypony about what happened here".

***

Minutes later Twilight reached her humble tree home but it soon became clear something wasn't right. That was confirmed when she opened the door to find Princess Luna having a tug of war over a box of crackers with Spike.

"We can explain", Spike said while trying to put on his best innocent silence.

"Twilight you have finally arived. I was getting worried that you wouldn't come", Luna stated.

"I see you were worried but now we have bigger problems", Twilight said while entering with Rainbow throught the door. Luna gasped in shock when she saw Rainbow come in knocked out. "I think you know why she was out of the hospital Princess Luna".

"I thought I was keeping you all safe by telling her to leave", Luna stammered.

"So you did cause all of this", Twilight screamed in anger. "Now Fluttershy has some dead animals and we both could have been injured or killed by her. I don't know what is going here but it is becoming to much for me", she continued on the brink of tears.

"I know none of us could have saved her from this cruel fate but I can-", Luna was then interuppted by Twilight.

"What has she become", Twilght asked sadly.

"A vampire", Luna replied solemnly.

Twilight couldn't take it anymore as she broke down crying into her hooves. Luna lifted a wing over Twilight's back to comfort her. "Don't worry, I'll help her so she could return to her normal life but you have to trust me", Luna said. Twilight looked up and nodded slowly. Luna then turned her attetion to Spike who had been quiet during the coversation and she asked,"Can you please write a letter to Tia to explain that I'll be stayin here fro quite a while". And with that Spike hurried to write the letter.

***

Author's Notes
I had a great time writing this chapter as well as the entire story. As of right now the plot has been finalized and would be roughly twelve chapters. Also the reason why I'm not using the term Vampony is because I wanted too so don't keep talking about.