Ten long, boring minutes had past within the small, dank, secret chamber behind the bookshelf. Lyra had finished the makeshift saddlebag, and Rainbow Dash had packed three books. One for Lyra, one for Bon Bon, and one she thought Derpy would find invaluable. It wasn't particularly interesting - it wasn't Daring Doo - but it looked like something important. The trio got to their feet as they prepared to leave, smelling the scent of blood outside. The blood on Black Midnight's claws suggested what they were smelling. A victim, or attacker...
Her next choice of words confirmed Rainbow Dash's suspicions. "They're out there. My pack."
They had a fight on their hooves. An entire lycan pack verses another lycan and three vamponies. Not a particularly fair fight, but one they had no choice but to engage. And so Rainbow Dash pushed open the passage, jumping out, alert, she raised her rear hooves suddenly, feeling the muzzle of some unfortunate lycan colliding with them, yelping as they did. The other canine ponies soon pounced at her, only to hit the floor as Rainbow Dash rocketed in the sky in an instant.
Lyra and Bon Bon were back to back, hooves raised defensively, and fangs bared. They stood ready, circled by a pair of lycanthropic stallions, who growled in hostility at the pair of vamponies. When they lunged at the pair of young vamponies, one was met with a pair of fangs in his neck, the other, meanwhile, had a hoof crushing his neck. He yelped in agony, dying under a pastel, green hoof. A sudden scamper and whimper gained the attention of the two new bloods, finding their leader annihilating her foes...
"Remind me not to piss Rainbow Dash off," Lyra commented, gulping as she watched the blue pegasus drove away several more of the canine ponies. "I don't want to die right after being gifted immortality..."
Bon Bon simply nodded, looking traumatized by the same sight. "Agreed."
And so, the four mares began to trot towards the Everfree Forest, everything had gone eerily silent, the only sound to be heard being the crunching of dirt beneath the hooves of three ponies, and the gently flapping of feathered wings. Not a single other sound...
Suddenly the near silence was broken by a low growl, and the snapping of a twig. A Timberwolf!
The large, magical, wooden wolf blocked the group's path, towering over them all menacingly as it prepared to lunge. Its attack was sudden, charging forward with an ear-shattering howl. The three vamponies scattered when the beast came lumbering forward. Rainbow Dash flew up, Lyra scarpered to the left, and Bon Bon hurried right, all three being missed completely by the humongous, clumsy beast's rampaging attack. Black Midnight was just as lucky, jumping up and rolling over the beasts back, confusing it as the last target disappeared from its sight.
The Timberwolf continued its blind charge, colliding with, - and knocking over - a large, twisted tree. It stammered, swaying on its feet as it attempted to regain alertness.
But, unfortunately for the Timberwolf, by the time it had come back to its senses, Rainbow Dash had left the beast in sheer agony, coming down and slamming into its back, which shattered it completely. The rotten wood that made up the creature splintered and cracked, flying out in every direction. What was once the Timberwolf was now just a pile of snapped twigs and cracked logs. It was dead...
Rainbow Dash stood over the corpse of the animal, panting slightly, out of shock more than anything else. Another twig snapped, getting her attention. It turned out to be Lyra sneaking back towards the scene. "I-Is it dead?" she asked, looking at the pile in confusion. "I... I've never seen a dead Timberwolf before. Can they even die?"
"I'm pretty sure it's dead..." Bon Bon stated, sighing as she kicked one of the smaller logs away from her hooves. "Let's just hope we don't find anything else that wants to make us dinner. Honestly, I'd rather be the one eating."
"Agreed," Rainbow Dash added, standing back to attention. "Come on, quicker we get to Ponyville, quicker we can eat."
The two over vamponies grinned, licking their fangs at the thought of blood. Food!
And so their trot through the Everfree Forest continued on, largely undisturbed by anything else but the eerie background - animals communicating. Mostly in was soft growls, chrips and squawks, being thrown threateningly at the small party of four as the continued to trot through the dark forests, though they were left alone, physically. The leaves crunched beneath Rainbow Dash's hooves, breaking the near-silence suddenly, only to replace it by the trotting off hooves across the leafy paths stretching down the forest floor.
Ponyville was just ahead... And the sun was still down.
The trio of vamponies reached the town, and quickly left for the cave beneath Derpy's house. But Black Midnight did not follow, instead, the lycanthropic mare returned to the Everfree Forest, leaving the vamponies to their bisuness. Rainbow Dash pushed the book she found onto a shelf, sighing slightly. She considered handing it to Twilight, but it just seemed like a bad idea, all things considered.
So, instead, she sat back down and bit her teeth into a blood bag, enjoying the coppery taste of the filling, crimson liquid. It dripped from her fangs and the cyan pegasus let out a happy sigh of relief, filled by the bloody meal. "Not as fresh as from the tap... But not bad," she commented, frowning as she tossed the empty, plastic bag in a nearby bin.
A knock came from above, suddenly, and the sound of several voices, including Derpy's. They got back just in time...
So, as Derpy and Vinyl came down into the coven's cave, while the others returned to their own houses, Rainbow Dash smiled, hoping to entirely hide the earlier incident. Yet Derpy's eyes caught the new book instantly, despite it been on a distant shelf, and frowned. "Where did you get that book?"