The Next Day
Whooves couldn't believe the day he had. All the monster stories in all of Equestria couldn't have prepared him for the kind of day that his first turned out to be. It was scary, it made his hooves shake and hurt from how nervous he was. If anyone found out that he wasn't a monster, they would kill and likely eat him on the spot. If he wore pants he probably would have left stains in them. Despite all of that, he wasn't to sure why he couldn't brig himself deliver the withdrawal form sitting in his hooves. There was no rational reason as to why even looking at it made his heart ache, like he was leaving a place he never wanted to leave.
Why..why can't I do it! He screamed in his own mind as he pounded his hoof against the large brick wall that circled the main courtyard. He winced from the pain, cursing himself under his breath. I have to leave here, I'll die if I don't, but why can't I bring myself to go!
You're hardly average to me..
Maybe it is because of her. He thought to himself. I should be running away scared from her, but I really like her. Faust am I really this easy to figure out!
"Yo, Whooves isn't it? What's up?"
Whooves looked over in time as a large beefy hoof slammed him up against the stone wall that surrounded the school. He gagged a bit as he felt the first bits of blood and phlegm racing up his throat as the wind was instantly knocked out of him. "WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE!?"
"W-what the...the hell are you talking about!?" Whooves said between his gasps as the pressure on his stomach became more and more intense.
"A little weak stallion like you getting a mare like Derpy, no fucking way. What's your secret? Some kind of mind controlling monster, or are you just a little mare yourself hiding behind the guise of a stallion." Snowflake said as he ground his hoof deeper into Whooves' stomach. "Come on out with it!"
H-he wants to know what I am!? Gotta think of something gotta think gotta think. He thought to himself before blurting out from a punch to the side of his head. "V-vampony!"
Snowflake stopped for a moment, his eyes shaking in a bit of false fear as he busted out laughing. "You? A vampony? There is no way in Tartarus that you are one of the strongest breeds of monsters in Equestria!"
Whooves didn't even have time to respond before he hit the ground and a kick sent him back into the wall. His eyes slowly drifted closed as he felt the beefy stallion spit on him. "If I ever see you near her again, I'll kill your scrawny ass right in front of her. You got that?"
He slowly nodded as he watched the larger stallion walking away, the breath slowly and painfully returning to his lungs.
That's it. I'm gone.
Whooves stood outside the entrance to the school, his bags packed and ready to run. "I think that is everything, at this point I don't really care I just want to get the hell out of here!"
He instantly froze as he felt too hooves wrap around him from behind. "There you are Whooves! I was so worried after I heard what happened earlier! Are you ok?"
He slowly turned to face Derpy, who was staring at him with a look that showed real concern for him. He watched her gaze drift down to his bags. "Y-you're leaving?"
"Yeah, I am. I just can't handle this place it's too scary and I've almost died twice in the last two days." He gripped his bag tighter and faced the path in front of him. "Maybe it's just better if I got back to Canterlot and go to a regular pony school."
"No!" She snapped as she grabbed his bag and pulled it away from him. "I won't let you go to some regular school!"
"Derpy this isn't your decision. I decided that I just can't handle it here." He said pulling on his bag, but making no progress against her superior strength. "Derpy, let go!"
"No! I am not losing another friend to stupid mortal ponies!" She screamed pulling the bag again. "I hate them all!"
Whooves let go of the bag and stepped back, a shiver ran up his spine as he felt the anger radiating from Derpy, a few red tear drops falling from her eyes and onto the ground below her. "I went to a pony school before here. All of them were just so mean and hateful about everything." She said as she looked at him. "They made fun of me for my eyes, for telling them what I really was. I confided in them and all they ever did was push me down and show me nothing but the worst that they could be!"
T-that's not right...what pony would ever do something like that He thought to himself before he reached out to his bag, which was promptly pulled sharply away from him. "I'm not letting you go Whooves, I finally found a friend for the first time in my life and I don't want to lose you."
Whooves didn't know what to say at that moment. He stood silently, the shock and fear from everything slowly turning to anger as he looked at her. "So if I was nothing more than a normal stallion, would you hate me too?"
Whooves could have swore he saw her eyes go normal just for a split second as she gave him a puzzled look. "What?"
"Derpy," He sighed before walking over to her, a few tears rolling down his cheeks, "It was a mistake for me to come to this place. I'm no monster or even special. I'm just a normal, mortal stallion."
Derpy froze instantly and slowly backed away from him. "No, that can't be. Nopony has ever.." She slowly trailed off as she backed further away.
He fought back his tears and took a deep breath. "So that's how it's going to be huh? I'm just a horrible pony to you now? Maybe I should just go."
He slowly turned around just in time for a hoof the size of him to slam into his side and send him flying into a nearby willow tree. He screamed in pain as his hind hoof snapped like a twig, an indention of his body left in the tree. He looked up slowly, the ringing in his ears drowning out Derpy's screams as Snowflake stood over him, although he was far from his normal self. He had grown nearly 10 feet in size, his muscles and limbs bulked up more than they had been on his own. His muzzle had split right down the middle, a sinister looking set of teeth and a long tongue flailing about.
Whooves slowly tried to stand as he felt the hoof connect with him again, a large amount of blood pouring out from his mouth as he felt more bones throughout his body snap. Snowflake laughed in an almost demonic growl. "I told you I'd kill you, you little shit!"
"Stop!" Derpy screamed as she grabbed a nearby tree limb and rushed at him. She swung the limb down hard against his back, but the brittle wood snapped instantly. He laughed again and whipped around, his hoof connecting with the side of her face sending her tumbling back a few feet.
"Still trying to save the little twerp, eh? Guess you get to die with him!" Snowflake yelled. Whooves felt a tinge of pain go through his body as he saw Derpy lying on the ground, a small pool of blood forming around her head as she struggled to get onto her hooves. He didn't care about the pain of his broken bones or his own well being at this point. He didn't care about the fact that she was a monster and he was just normal, he didn't even care that he could die. He had to get over to her, he had to protect her.
Snowflake walked over to Derpy, her head slowly turning to look at the towering mass of muscle that was looking down at her. "You could of had it all baby. A steady relationship with a true stallion, but no you just had to go for the weakling. You just couldn't play along could you? Now they gotta scrape you and him off the ground once I'm done." He raised his hoof and swung it down at her, Derpy's eyes closing at the sickening snap she heard, the one she thought meant her death.
But the darkness never came. She looked up to see Whooves standing over her, a few of his ribs poking through his skin and a torrent of blood falling onto her. "W-whooves?"
His eyes slowly opened as he looked down at her, a small smile on his face. "You know...I really thought you hated me...That stuff you said....it isn't true about all of my kind....just like the stories....aren't true about all of your kind." He laughed a tiny bit as he felt himself starting to stumble from blood loss. "I don't care about....you being a monster....i'm just happy....to have met you.....save yourself Derpy..."
Tears of sadness reformed in Derpy's eyes as Whooves fell to his side, his hoof brushing across her neck as he hit the ground. Instantly Derpy's tears stopped and she looked down at her neck, the cross was removed from it's chain and was now laying just beneath his hoof. She gasped slightly. "It...it came off."
Whooves' eyes snapped open as a blind flash of light sent him tumbling a few feet, Snowflake backing away slowly. Both of them felt an oppressive feeling hanging in the air around them, an almost electric buzz shooting through the air. Whooves looked towards the light to see Derpy standing in the middle of it, the cross from her neck laying a few inches away from her.
When I take this off, I get REALLY scary. Her words from earlier raced through his head as he watched her. Her hair slowly turned from it's normal blonde to a grayish sliver with just the slightest hint of a golden aura around it. Her wings slowly lost all their feathers, a thick leathery coating covering them. He caught a glimpse of her eyes, now blood red and no longer derped, her body growing a few inches as well. She laughed almost sadistically as two long fangs jutted from her upper jaw. The light faded and the whole world seemed bathed in a sea of red light. He laid silently on the ground, his body shaking and tensed, though he couldn't tell if it was from the blood loss or the fear of the mare standing before him.
Snowflake had nearly stumbled back on seeing her, and he too was now shaking where he stood. "N-no way...it's just a legend....she's not really a-"
"Vampony?" She cut him short, her voice now a bit lower and more seductive in tone. She chuckled slightly as she ran towards him, crossing the distance in a blink of an eye. She ran her hoof along his cheek and smirked. "What's the matter? Can't handle it. Come on, Derpy wants a hug."
Snowflake shook his head and raised his hoof, slamming it down on top of her head with all the force he could muster. He laughed a bit but stopped the instant he saw that she had stopped his hoof with her own. "T-that's impossible!"
"No, it's really happening." She laughed as she lifted him into the air like he was nothing, taking a second to let him fall before her hind hooves connected with his chest. The air was filled with the deafening boom as he was launched across the woods, his body flying through several trees before he came to rest halfway through a boulder. He didn't get up.
Whooves was awestruck by the whole ordeal, even tensing up as he saw Derpy walking towards him. There's no way that is what Derpy truly is. That power, the fear I feel just from looking at her. That's not the same mare i met earlier.
He slowly tried to get to his hooves, collapsing instantly but falling against her. "Don't die on me just yet. She needs you just as much as I need you." He heard her say before darkness overtook his mind. The last thing he thought was one of the first things he remembered about her from their meeting.
She smells like muffins
Two Days Later
Whooves shot up in his bed, sweating and nearly screaming as he realized he was back in his room. He looked around the single dorm as he began to calm down. He threw back the covers that had been neatly tucked around him, shocked to see that there were no longer any bones sticking out of him and his coat wasn't stained with blood. Just the dull feeling of soreness from a very long day. Did...did all of that really happen?
He looked down at the edge of the bed and saw a small piece of paper sitting attached to a small plate with a muffin on it. He grabbed the paper and unfolded it.
Whooves,
Hope you feel better soon. You're homework is on you're desk and enjoy the muffin
Derpy
He couldn't help but smile and laugh a bit at the note. He sat down the paper and grabbed the plate with the muffin. "You know Whooves, maybe this school won't be too terrible as long as you don't get yourself killed."
He sighed happily and bit into the muffin. The taste was a bit odd as he chewed it up and tried to figure out the flavors. Well it's chocolate that's for sure but what's that weird...metallic...taste. He swallowed the mouthful slowly and looked down at the muffin, noting the thick red filling in the middle of it. It took a second for it all to click together.
And for the second time this week, his screams could be heard all throughout campus.