//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: A New Day // Story: Flutterbat's Return // by Raidah //------------------------------// Her head felt numb, and her thoughts were foggy at best. She groaned, and instantly regretted it. Her head hurt, a lot. She slowly opened her eyes, her vision blurry. She groaned again, feeling something pushing down on her. Her vision focused on the ceiling of her barn, and she found some comfort in that fact. She looked down, and saw the rainbow coloured mane of her marefriend. "R..." she started. "Rain...bow?" Her lover looked up at her, a small smile tugging at her lips. But something was off. Her eyes, they weren't magenta as they usually were, but red. She tried to move, but Rainbow held her down. "Shh, it's okay AJ," she cooed, nuzzling closer into Applejack's chest. "Don't move, you're still a bit weak." "W-what's goin' on, RD?" Applejack asked. "I..." Rainbow started, but decided that Applejack was in no state for the explanation she would have to give. "I'll explain later, right now, just let me hold you." She tightened her hug and nuzzled even closer. Applejack wrapped her legs around Rainbow and hugged her back, and soon her wings found themselves wrapped around the pegasus... Wait, wings? Applejack looked again, yep, there were wings attatched to her. It was then that Applejack realized that her sides were on fire, probably from growing the appendages. "Rainbow," she began. "Why do I have wings?" Rainbow looked at Applejack with concern, her eyes tracing down her body to her wings. "I said I'll explain later," she said. "Rainbow, what happened to me?" Applejack asked sternly. Rainbow looked into her eyes pleadingly, clearly already unsettled by it enough. "The same thing that happened to me," she said, standing up so Applejack could see what had happened to her. Her wings were now bat wings, her ears were elongated and she had rows of razor sharp teeth in her mouth, accompanied by two extra long fangs on top. Applejack then looked herself over to see that the same thing had happened to her, large leathery wings now sprouted from her sides and she could feel the extra sharp teeth in her mouth with her tongue. "How...?" Applejack started. "How did this happen to you?" "I don't know," Rainbow said. "But I think that it's connected to the bites on my neck." "Fluttershy's fault, then," Applejack said. "What?" "I said, it was Fluttershy's fault. She's th' one that bit ya and made ya like this," Applejack explained. "No," Rainbow said, not believeing her. "Fluttershy would never-" "It wasn't her fault," Applejack cut her off. "When Twi turned her back ta normal, I guess she still had a bit of vampire in her." Rainbow went silent. Applejack grabbed her and pulled her back down. "C'mere," she whispered. Rainbow did as told and layed on top of her lover, happy to be reunited. She lowered her head until their lips found each other and they shared a long and passionate kiss. She didn't hesitate to insert her tongue into Applejack's mouth and begin wrestling for control with the mare below her, but in Applejack's weakened state it would be a miracle if she could manage to flip them over. She simply went with it. She then broke away as she had one question for Rainbow Dash. "Why did you do this?" she asked quietly but seriously. Rainbow looked at her with pleading eyes yet again, begging her not to be mad. "Because I couldn't stand to not be with you. I don't want to live in a world where I'm not with you, and if I didn't turn you, I might have never seen you again," she said, tears starting to form at the corners of her eyes. "I love you too much to let that happen," she said, burying her face in Applejack's chest. Applejack gently stroked Rainbow's mane as she cried into her, holding her close. She planted a gentle kiss on Rainbow's head as she rested her chin on her mane. "It's okay, Rainbow. I understand," Applejack said. "I woulda done the same for you." She panted heavily, her midnight black coat clinging to her body as sweat dripped off of her. She collapsed onto the bed beside her love, who was also exhausted. She stretched out a wing and layed it across his chest as she breathed into the wall, laying face down on the bed. "You gotta stop being so good at that," her red coated partner said, his deep blue eyes tracing over her toned and sleek body. "Why?" she panted. "So you can have all the fun?" "No, so I can have a chance at showing you what I can really do," he said, trailing a hoof from the base of her ear down to her wing. "Hmph," she laughed. "Good luck with that, Sharpie." He nuzzled closer to her, wrapping his leg around her slender frame as she turned to look at him with her firey red eyes. "I love it when you call me that," he whispered into her ear. "Do you now?" she whispered back, planting a quick peck on his nose. "Yeah, I really do," he said, nuzzling even closer until their lips were a mere few centimetres apart. "Well," she said. "I guess I could call you it more often. But then you'd have to think of something for me." "Oh, Night," he said. "If only you weren't so difficult." "But that's what you love about me," she smirked, knowing she had him right where she wanted him. "Either way," he said. "I'm not done with you yet." He then closed the distance between their lips, kissing her as passionately as he could while she just lay back and enjoyed the ride. After several seconds, she got up and crawled on top of him, straddling his hips while not once breaking their kiss. She then slowly stuck her tongue into his mouth, swishing it around with his as she started grinding on his pelvis. Outside, the light yellow vampire waited silently on the other side of the window, watching as the two lovers clashed bodies like there was no tomorrow... And for one of them, there wasn't.