Twilight walked up to the door of Fluttershy's cottage and knocks on the door. There was no response for a while but soon Twilight heard Fluttershy, “Go away! I'm a monster!” she cried
“Fluttershy it's Twilight we need to talk about this!” Twilight says
“NO! There is nothing to talk about!” Fluttershy yells from inside
“Did you tick Fluttershy off or something Twilight?” Discord asks popping up out of her mane
“Discord!” Twilight says shaking him out of her mane she looked at him with a hint of annoyance “No, I didn't.”
“Well then why is she so upset? I came over because she and I were supposed to have lunch together.” Discord replies to the purple Alicorn
“Well...” Twilight sighs “A pony was found murdered last night by a vampire pony. I only figured out this morning since the only witness hid until dawn to tell me out of fear. I guess when Fluttershy heard the news she thought she really was a Vampire Pony.”
“Is it from that one thing down in Sweet Apple Acres?” Discord asks and Twilight nods “Well do you plan to tell Celestia?”
“I could never do that.” Twilight gasps “If I told any of the princesses Fluttershy would be banished to the moon! Or worse she could be banished to the sun!”
“So we may lose dear Fluttershy?” Discord asks
“Only if she really is a Vampire Pony but I can tell you for certain she is not!” Twilight says “And weather she likes it or not I am going in there to talk to her!” Twilight stops her hoof down and uses her magic to unlock the door from the inside. The two take a peak in and what they saw was a mixture of surprising, horrible, and depressing. There in the middle of the small living area was Fluttershy laid out across the floor looking at her blood covered front hooves tears were rolling down her face like a river.
“Oh my gosh Fluttershy.” Twilight asks “What happened,” the purple Alicorn walks up to the gentle Pegasus
“Don't you see Twilight?” she cried “I'm the one who killed that pony I am the Vampire Pony!”
“Fluttershy...” Twilight says in a depressed tone
“Why me?” she cries “If only there was some way to fix this!”
Just like that a light went off in Twilight's head “Perhaps we can!” she says “I bet Zecora might know of a brew we could use!”
“Why don't you use that spell you used the first time?” Discord suggests
“Wait a sec how did you-?” Twilight asks
“I read that diary remember?” Discord injects and Twilight gets a 'duh' kind of look as she rolls her eyes
“Either way without another pony or creature to take it we can't.” Twilight says “But there might be another spell in the Canterlot Library.”
“Please Twilight do whatever you can do help me!” Fluttershy cries making Twilights heart feel heavy
“Don't worry Fluttershy Discord and I will make sure we find a way to help!” Twilight says
“One more thing Twilight.” Fluttershy says “Don't let the others find out... I don't know if I could live if they knew about all this,” Twilight nods as she and Discord leave the Pegasus' cottage
“Now Twilight are you sure about all this? I mean curing a Vampire Pony probably is not an easy thing to do.” discord asks
“Fluttershy is our friend and a true friend helps a friend in need,” Twilight says “Besides look at her... I doubt anypony could standby idly when such a sweet Pegasus like Fluttershy is suffering so badly.”
Twilight leaves the town and heads to the Everfree Forest to go to Zecora's house within the woods. As Twilight trots through the paths she was humming Winter Wrap up. After a couple of minutes, she arrives at the zebra’s home and knocks on the door.
“Ah Twlight what may I do for you?” Zecora asks
“Zecora it's about the murder last night.” Twilight says the zebra signals with her head for Twilight to come in and sit down. After getting settled down Twilight explains to Zecora exactly what was going on “Well you see, that murder was done by a Vampire Pony and the only eye witness was a Unicorn who was walking to his store returning from a research trip. He said that the attacker was a Pegasus and when he saw the pony bite the other one he ran to his shop and waited till' morning to get me. So long story short I need to know is you have a potion that we could use to cure Fluttershy?”
“Fluttershy is the Vampire Pony?” Zecora asks “Or Could it have been a prank meant to be funny?” she asks not really believing what she was being told
“I know it sound really really dumb but up until this morning I didn't believe in Vampires at all. Except for the fruit bats and I bet the same applies for almost every other pony in Ponyville.” Twilight says “And I can't stand to see Fluttershy so... depressed,”
Zecora stood silent for a minute before she finally says something, “I will see what I can do but be warned I may no have a brew.”
“Oh thank you Zecora,” Twilight says with enthusiasm and a jump of joy. Leaving Zecora to her work Twilight heads home to Ponyville where Applejack and Applebloom were in the market selling apples.
“How ya doin' Princess Twilight?” Applejack asks her as she walks by the stand
“Applejack we've been through this you're my friend so you don't have to call me that.” Twilight chuckles
“Oh right my bad sugar cube.” Applejack says rubbing the back of her head a bit. “So on the topic of friends, have you seen Fluttershy around we're awful worried about her?”
“Yeah! She was going to take me and the other Crusaders to the Whitetail Woods so we could try at a bird watching Cutie Mark!” Applebloom says
'Oh dear! What should I tell them! I can't tell them about Fluttershy and the Vampire thing I promised her! But I don't want to lie to a friend.' Twilight thinks frantically before a light bulb goes off in her head “Oh yeah,” she chuckles “I was at her cottage earlier today.”
“Really how is she doin'?” Applejack asks raising an eye
“Well she was sick... and she was unable to do much and Discord and I went to talk with her and he his taking care of her. She says she does not want to be bothered.” Twilight lies “Now I really must be going I have some important business from Princess Celestia to get done!'
“Alright then see ya around Twilight.” Applejack says
“whew that was a close one....” Twilight sighs once she was far enough away.
“Hay twilight!” a certain Rainbow colored Pegasus calls as she lands next to her “Did ya hear about the Vampire Pony?”
“Of course Rainbow Dash I was the one who confirmed it after all.” Twilight says 'I really don't like this topic...'
“Yeah do you think it was real or just some jerk trying to put on a scare?” Rainbow Dash asks
“Uh… Who knows.” Twilight says with a hint of nervousness in her voice “What can't be ignored is the fact that somepony was murdered.”
“Yeah I guess you're right.” Rainbow Dash says “But Vampire or not when I find em I going to give them nice sweet present from the bottom of my hoof!” she says bucking the air as an example just when the two reach The Palace o Friendship
“Oh my looks like we are here I will see you around Rainbow Dash.” Twilight says waling in and closing the door before slouching against it “thank Celestia that is over I am not sure what I'd do if I hear that subject one more time,” Twilight pants as she walks to her study
“Hay Twilight how is it going?” Spike asks her
“Fine, so did anything happen in the new Library today?” Twilight asks
“Well Rainbow Dash checked out the new Daring Doo book we got in last night. A Unicorn came in looking for a spell to restore a Star Swirl the bearded bust he found while following the clues of a hunch he had on something I could really understand him.” Spike explains
“Oh really that's cool. Did you get it all taken care of?” Twilight asks and Spike nods “That's why you're my number one assistant,” Twilight says ruffling his spines before closing the door to her study