//------------------------------// // Enter Lunar Relic // Story: Night of the Flutterbat // by Lunarpony //------------------------------// In Twilight's Study sat Twilight flipping through book after book in search of any information about Vampire Ponies so she could help Fluttershy with her epidemic. She had been searching for hours and her eyelids were heavy from the endless search. "Ugh!" she growls throwing a book against the wall, "Not a single book I grabbed has any information I can use!" Twilight looks out of the window in her study to see that the sun was going down. She decides to head to Fluttershy's cottage before nightfall to check on her. Twilight walks down the path to Fluttershy's cottage when she sees Discord sitting on the sidewalk looking quite glum. Twilight worried about him walks up to see what was wrong. "Is something wrong Discord?" she asks him. "Oh Twilight it's nothing." Discord sighs "Are you sure?" Twilight asks "You look pretty beaten up about something to me." There was a silence before Discord spoke, "It's Fluttershy" he sighs "I went to talk to her and get this... she yelled at me... for no reason..." "That is very strange..." Twilight says "I was going to go talk to her do you want me to tell you how it goes?" "I'm fine." Discord sighs again. 'man she must have said some pretty harsh things to Discord... I have never seen him like this before... but from Fluttershy? She would never be able to live with herself if something like this happened' Twilight thinks before she walks up to the door and knocks. "Hello Fluttershy?" she calls as the door is opened by a depressed looking Angel. "Oh hi Angel is Fluttershy home?" Twilight asks the small bunny who nods "Can I see her?" she asks the small rabbit who jumps out of the way to let Twilight in. Twilight walks into the small living room and up the stairs to Fluttershy's bedroom where she knocks on the door only to be met with a cold "Who's there?!" from Fluttershy "Fluttershy it's me Twilight Sparkle!" Twilight says from behind the locked door. Soon she hears some hoof steps and Fluttershy opens the door. Twilight looked in horror at the sight before her. Fluttershy had bat-like ears already growing on her head. "Oh my gosh Fluttershy..." was all she could manage to say. "I know... I am a monster..." she sniffs "Every time the sun goes down this starts happening." the innocent Pegasus cries. Twilight felt bad for her friend, 'if only I could find a way to fix everything' Twilight thinks "Fluttershy would you like to talk about it?" Twilight asks her friend who shakes her head. "No..." she says "I just want to be left alone until morning." "Are you sure Fluttershy?" Twilight asks and the Pegasus nods. Although Twilight wanted to help her friend so bad she respected her wishes and walked out of the small cottage and back to the Library where she called for Spike. "How can I help you Twilight?" he asks her "Do you know what happened to the book titled 'Encyclopedia of Equestrian Animals' by any chance?" she asks the small dragon "Why yes a Unicorn checked it out yesterday." Spike says "Said he needed it for some research on The Vampire Pony that is attacking Ponyville." "Oh who was it?" Twilight asks 'If I can get to this pony maybe they can help me with some kind of cure or something...' she thinks "Uh yeah the Unicorn's name was Lunar Relic I think..." Spike says "He owns a shop not to far from the Library." "Lunar Relic?" Twilight asks her assistant who nods in reply 'Where have I heard that name before?' she thinks to herself pondering for a moment. 'Oh yeah! He's the one who showed me the first attack he was the one who witnessed it!' she realizes "Thank you Spike!" she says walking to the door of the Library "Where are you going Twilight?" the purple dragon asks the young Alicorn Princess, "I am going to talk to this Unicorn see if he or she can help me." Twilight says before closing the door behind her and walking down the small road into the Ponyville Market. Twilight strolls down the streets before she comes across a shop she had never seen before "Lunar's Artifacts shop, item repair and artifact restoration services." she reads aloud "This must be the place!" she shrugs walking in. As she walks in she hears a ring of a bell propped above the door. She looks around the shop and sees shelves stocked full of different books, scrolls, statues, and other replicas of old items. Soon a dark red Unicorn with a dark purple mane and a long beautiful silver stripe in the mane that went along with the neatly groomed tail none the less walks out of a back room with his horn illuminated with a medium shade of purple "Welcome to my humble shop." he says slowly backing up with a large marble bust of a Unicorn in the grasp of his levitation spell. Slowly and carefully he puts the large bust on a counter and looks a Twilight. "Oh my!" he gasps "To what do I owe the honor of having you here Princess Twilight?" he asks "Well I am looking for Lunar Relic." Twilight replies "Spike says he has a book I was looking for in the Library not too long ago." "Pleasure to meet you Princess Twilight." the Unicorn says walking out from behind the counter to show his Cutie Mark as a dark red book in front of a large bright moon. "I am Lunar Relic but please call me Lunar," he says with a bow "Now what can I do for you, your highness?" he asks "Well first off Lunar you don't have to be so formal." Twilight chuckles "And second I would like to know if you know a lot about Vampire Ponies?" she asks Lunar's eyes lit up in either a mixture of surprise or just sheer horror at the mention of the name. Soon though he speaks to her "Not here." he says "If that's why you are here follow me." he whispers leading her to the back room where he had come out of with the large bust. Inside was an assortment of spell books, other artifacts and a shining bust covered by a rag. Twilight looks at it but Lunar warns her "I wouldn't take that off if I were you." he says "that statue reflects moonlight in a very interesting way you might go blind. Besides I am not done restoring it yet." he says as they move into another room with a table and chairs. Lunar offers her a chair which Twilight gladly accepts as he sits down across from her. "So why did you bring me all the way back here Lunar?" she asks him "Simply put to keep this conversation private." Lunar says "There are more Vampire Ponies around then you might think but you are interested in a certain one from the looks of it." "Why yes..." Twilight says as Lunar pulls out an assortment of weapons "Well how do you want to kill it?" he asks "WHAT?!" Twilight yells in surprise "I don't want to Kill her!" she says "Oh... I see" Lunar says understanding the situation "So why is that?" he asks putting the weapon drawer away. "Can you keep a secret?" she asks him "For a Princess I will guard it with my life." he says with a bow "You remember showing me the Vampire Pony victim the other day?" she asks him and he nods "well the thing is the Vampire Pony is my friend Fluttershy." "Wait Fluttershy? The Pegasus that lives with the animals by the Everfree Forest?" he asks and Twilight nods "I see so I guess you want a cure..." Lunar says with a sigh "Yeah do you have it?" Twilight asks with enthusiasm "No... I do not have a cure only a scroll with the ingredients to a potion for curing it." Lunar sighs opening a cabinet with his magic and handing a scroll to Twilight. "here it is." he says handing it to her. "Thank you Lunar Relic, how much for the scroll?" she asks "Normally it would be 25 bits but for you Princess you can have it for free." Lunar says "If it means helping one of your friends then to me you can just have it." he says as they walk out. Twilight fixes her eyes on the bust that he had brought out earlier, "this is quite the collection of models you have here Lunar" she comments "Oh these are not models these are actual artifacts like that Unicorn head I brought out, it is a Star Swirl the bearded head from old times I just finished restoring. It is what I do here." he says "Now I will wish you luck Twilight Sparkle on fixing your friend. If you need anything else my door is always open." "I cannot thank you enough Lunar Relic." Twilight says "I better get this to Zecora's so she can get to work." "Oh Zecora does not have one?" Lunar asks and Twilight shook her head "Well that is a surprise if she wants I can make her a copy." "Lunar you have already done so much I think she can suffice." Twilight says with a smile quite surprised by the Unicorns Generosity 'he and Rarity would be like two peas in a pod' she thinks "Like I said it's no big deal I can't just let someone who is in so much emotional pain because of a friend go without help... it reminds me too much of what happened to me." Lunar sighs "Hopefully I will see on Nightmare Night then!" "Yeah." Twilight says as she leaves the shop before walking the path to the Everfree Forest to give the scroll to Zecora. "I hope Zecora can brew this for me." Twilight sighs looking into the night skies. "Oh I hope Fluttershy's okay..." she worries before a dark shadow zooms by overhead. Twilight shot up in fear and began to walk faster. "Rainbow Dash if that's you this is no time for a prank!" she says looking around frantically before she was tackled by Flutterbat "Fluttershy!" she gasps as the Vampire pony hisses at her "Please it's me Twilight Sparkle don't you recognize me?!" Twilight begs in her mind she slapped herself 'of course she doesn't all a Vampire Pony knows is blood lust...' Twilight closes her eyes feeling the breath of the Vampire Fluttershy on her neck but before the bite could occur... "Lunarica ifira!" Twilight hears a familiar voice use a Moon Fire spell to knock Flutterbat off of her. Twilight then sees Flutterbat grabbed by a vale of dark purple magic as she turns around to see Lunar behind her "wha- you followed me!" she yells "I was going to remain in the shadows until you got to Zecora's the Everfree Forest is a dangerous place especially at night." Lunar says as the restrained Flutterbat floats over to him "Besides you'd be going right by Fluttershy's house and if she was in there you'd be hit instantly." "So what are you going to do with Fluttershy now?" Twilight asks although she knew he was probably going to kill her "You're going to kill her now huh?" Lunar looked at her in shock "What?! oh no I would never! Not to her! I am going to take her back to her hut after putting her under a sleeping spell until morning that is." he says "You should get going." "Thank you again Lunar." Twilight says before continuing into the forest, soon she arrives at the Zebra's home and she knocks as Zecora opens the door, "Ah Twilight what brings you here under the moonlight?" she asks "I got a recipe for curing Fluttershy." Twilight says handing Zecora the scroll "Ah now might I ask where you got this from for this is not one that is easy to get." Zecora asks her "I got it from a Unicorn named Lunar Relic." Twilight says as Zecora looks at the scroll "Well I will leave you to it." Twilight says before exiting the Zebra's home