Him. Yes, he'll do. There was something familiar about him. He smelled familiar, too. His scent was nice, inviting. A dangerous smell for a human to have. Oh but he was so gorgeous. If she wasn't so hungry she'd seduce him for her other needs. A tingle ran up her spine from excitement. She couldn't wait to get a taste of his energy. She was practically drooling as she watched him walk down the street, blue hair shining under the light of the streetlights.
She had to get closer. She just had to. Concentrating all her power she made the lights turn off for just a moment. Just so she could get a little bit closer. They flickered back on and he stopped, seeing her in the shadows of the alleyway. She smirked.
"Hello?" He asked. "Is anyone there?" He called out.
She didn't answer.
He started walking faster. The fear. She could smell it. She could smell it coming off of him as his stride turned into a full on sprint.
Now was her time to make her move.
She ran up to him with incredible speed, surprising him. She practically moaned in delight when she saw the petrified look on his face. It was delecious. She pulled him close by the nape of his neck and kissed him, beginning the process of removing his energy. He didn't struggle, though she believed that to be because he passed out from shock.
He tasted so good. Just as good as she thought he would. She squealed happily as she felt him growing weaker. Though, for some reason she stopped once she realized that he was nearly drained. Just like she had with the other three victims. She didn't know why. That wasn't her style. She guessed her body was responding to something. Oh well. Guess it was time to go back home. She removed herself from the young man and left him in the street.
On to find her next victim.
"You know, if you're leading an evil night life, it'd be nice if you told us," Dash sniped, pushing Sunset.
"I told you, I'm not behind this!" Sunset barked, pushing her back. "I think I would know if I was some life sucking creature!"
"How do we know you're not lying? You've lied to us before! You're the reason why all of this happened too! It'd make sense that you'd want to get close to us just so you could tear us apart again!" Rainbow accused.
Sunset was red in the face. "You're starting to sound like Trixie! I told you I've changed! I'm trying! I'm trying so hard!" She sobbed. "You can't even see that because you're so wrapped up in finding something to use against me so that you can kick me out! Your friendship shouldn't be a test or a thirty day trial! It should be just as genuine as Twilight's! God! This is Christmas all over again! Some friends you are!"
"Fine. Christmas was our fault. But you still have evidence stacked against you!" Rainbow said pointing at her.
Sunset smacked her hand away. "Yeah, evidence with no proof, you idiot! If you can't prove I did it, it's not evidence at all!" She balled her fists. "You know what? Screw this. I'm leaving." She strode off.
"Every time a problem comes up you leave! What does that say about you?!" Dash called after her.
"And every time there's a problem you some how blame it only on me! Now what does that say about you?!" Sunset rebutted, raising her middle finger before turning back around to continue her walk down the street.
The other girls glared at Rainbow.
"Oh whatever. Let her go. We don't need hee anyway." Rainbow mumbled. She opened the van door and got in.
The girls sighed and got in after her too.
Twilight's readings were going off the charts! The magical output wasn't just coming from the school, but from six moving bodies as well! She couldn't exactly tell who they were, but she definitely knew they were students at that Canterlot High!
Once she found out who these six teenagers were, she could question them and possibly get DNA samples to analyze. If she had solid proof that magic existed, nothing could stop her from exposing it to the entire world with those six teens as her main attraction! She'd be a legend in the science world!
Spike barked. She bent down to pet him and scratch him behind the ears. "Not now, Spike. I might be on to something." Twilight told him.
He nudged her towards the door.
"Alright, alright, I guess it's time for your afternoon walk." She patted his head and got his leash off her lab table. After hooking it to his collar, she shoved her homemade magical detection device in her lab coat just in case she ran into one of those students.
It was unusually cold for mid spring, but Twilight thought nothing of it as she lead Spike around to do his business. When he was done, she tugged him in the direction of home, but he didn't budge.
"What's with you? C'mon, let's go back home!" Twilight commanded as she struggled with this leash. But Spike didn't move. Not an inch. In fact, he was staring at something, a low growl rumbling from his chest. She looked in the direction of what he was staring at and saw the girl she had bumped into the day before.
She seemed to be very angry at something. Twilight felt a beeping in her pocket and realized that her magic detector was going off. The readings of magic on this girl seemed to be going off the charts! No wonder Spike was growling at her! There was definitely something off about the magic inside her. It seemed...old, ancient even. She wondered why. This girl must be one of those six magical units.
Before she could realize what was even happening, Spike took off after the girl, barking and yapping along the way. "Spike! Come back!" Twilight yelled. But he didn't heel. He kept on running. Groaning, Twilight began jogging after him.
Sunset was in her own little world when she heard the barking of a dog in the distance. She didn't think anything of it until the barking seemed to be getting louder and closer. That's when it occurred to her that there was a dog chasing her.
Jesus Chirst! Why now of all times?! She thought to herself as she broke into a sprint. She looked behind herself to see just how big of the threat it was and groaned. You've got to be freaking kidding me! It's Twilight's dog too! She skidded around a corner, narrowly avoiding being hit by a car. Spike was gaining on her, and she knew if she stopped he'd tackle her and keep her still until Twilight arrived.
She slid over the hood of a parked car, trying to put some space between her and Spike. But to no avail. The dog was just too fast. After a few seconds he was right on her tail again. She hopped a fence, clearing it, but groaned when the end of her leather jacket got snagged onto a frayed piece of metal. "Dammit!" She said through grit teeth, tugging and pulling at it as Spike yapped at her, trying to jump over it himself.
Growing even more pissed by the second, she continued to pull at the snared jacket. "C'mon! C'mon!" She growled. She felt something trigger within her and with an almost inhuman growl, the cloth tore free with a loud rip.
Without a second thought, she took off running, her tattered leather jacket the least of her worries.
Twilight finally caught up to Spike, out of breath and sweaty. She really needed to get him a stronger leash. (Or work out enough to be able to stand her ground against him). The dog was whining, something he almost never did. For a moment she thought that the girl had hurt him, but nothing seemed to be wrong with him. No scratches or bruises. He looked to be fine.
She glanced around and saw that the girl was nowhere in sight. But that didn't stop Twilight's magic detector from going off. She walked around with it until she heard it get louder and louder as she got closer to the fence. When she stopped in front of it, she saw the torn piece of what she assumed was the girl's leather jacket.
"How on earth did she tear this like that?" She mumbled to herself. As she picked it up, Spike started to growl. She bent down and patted him. "Good job, Spike. Now we have something to analyze."
A few hours later, back at her laboratory in her family's basement, Twilight ran the piece of leather under a DNA scanner in hopes of picking something up. Her computer alerted her to a piece of red and gold hair embedded in it.
A few minutes ago, she had hacked into the Canterlot Hospital database. Maybe now that she had information on the DNA, she could match it to a file at the hospital, and finally get this girl's name.
She searched for females who stayed at the hospital over the past six months. A bunch of files came up, but once she typed in Canterlot High it was narrowed down to one. She clicked on it, and opened it.
"Sunset Shimmer. Age: 18. Sex: Female. Date of birth unknown?!" Twilight frowned. That didn't sound good. "Known living relatives unknown. Admitted for injuries caused by debris." Twilight tapped her chin before coming to a realization. "Wait a minute!"
She rolled her chair over to her board filled with graphs, pictures and readings. She plucked the graph reading from the night of the Fall Formal and compared it to the date on Sunset's hospital file.
She gasped.
It was the same exact date!
"Spike! Do you know what this means?!" She exclaimed, scooping the terrier into her arms. The puppy responded with a head tilt. She twirled him around in her arms. "It means that I was right! And that we're on to something!" She hollered, dancing around.
Caught up in her little celebration, Twilight failed to notice the red mist seeping off the leather jacket piece.