The moon rose into the horizon as Princess Luna raises it. She and Celestia stood on a balcony looking over Equestria. “I have a bad feeling sister.” Luna says
“I know…I have it too…but I am sure it will go away soon” Celestia answers “Still…it is strange…what could be causing it?”
“It could be some nocturnal animal in the Everfree.” Luna answers “I mean who knows what can come from there?”
“You’re right sister we are worrying over nothing” Celestia smiles
Meanwhile, Lunar and Twilight open their eyes to find themselves tied up within a tree. “What…happened?” Twilight asks still groggy looking to see Lunar on the other side “Lunar?” she asks in surprise
“Yeah, we’ve two been captured by somepony but I can’t see a thing.” He says
“You’re awake…” a voice echoes as four pairs of hungry red eyes pierce the darkness surrounding them. Then the room lights up a bit as moonlight beams in and they see Flutterbat, Scootaloo, Trixie, and Rarity were all vampires.
“Wh-what is going on here?” Twilight asks
“Well I think it’s pretty obvious…” Lunar says to her “We are about to be dinner.”
“Oh no…” Applejack’s voice chuckles as she walks into the light “You are going to become one of us.”
“A-Applejack?” Twilight asks in shock; she couldn’t believe that three of her closest friends were vampires!
“You know Celestia will find out about this!” Lunar yells
“Oh I wouldn’t worry about her darling.” Rarity says “We have that covered. Anyone who finds out is killed or becomes one of us.”
“Now we can do this the easy way or the hard way.” Applejack says as Twilight forms a spell “I wouldn’t Twilight, you might be able to free
you and that other unicorn but your magic is useless against vampires… we are much too powerful.”
“So what will it be?” Fluttershy asks
“I will never join you!” Lunar spits
“You have no say in the matter.” Rarity says “Too bad too, you are such a handsome pony to see your neck messed up like that is rather sad.”
“Is that supposed to be a compliment?” Lunar growls “Twilight may not be strong enough to harm you with magic but I am!”
“Don’t make me laughs!” Applejack chuckles “She is the Element of Magic! You are not more powerful then she is!”
“Twilight may have more Magic then me…but I know the class of spells that can harm Vampires better than almost anypony else!”
“Is that so?” Applejack chuckles “Funny.”
“Now Twilight!” Lunar yells and Twilight cuts the ropes with magic as the other ponies leap for the two Lunar shouts a spell “Sol!” he yells making a fiery wall between him Twilight and the others as they run out of the tree.
“Now what?” Twilight asks as they run
“For now keep running!” he says “I know Vampires have greater speed then us but that wall of fire I made should keep them back long enough to reach my shop.”
“What will we do there?” Twilight asks
“I have an old stone you might be able to put to use…it amplifies magic. I hate to say it but we need to tell the Princesses.” Lunar says as they see Ponyville coming up. Back with the group of vampires the wall soon dies and Applejack looks out of the door with malice
“After them!” she screams as she, Rarity, Scootaloo, Flutterbat and Trixie fly out of the tree after the two.
Lunar and Twilight could hear the vampires giving chase and they pick up the pace. Quickly they enter Lunar’s shop where they tumble to the back and he grabs a stone from a case. “Here.” He says putting in on her back “Use your magic to teleport us to Canterlot hurry!”
“But I have never tried a teleportation that long before!” Twilight objects
“That is what the stone helps with.” Lunar says “Come one!”
“Alright…” Twilight sighs quickly using a teleportation spell and the two are transported to Canterlot just as the four vampires run in.
“They are gone?!” Applejack hisses “how?”
“Slippery little ponies…” Scootaloo groans.
“What do we do?” Rarity asks
“We let them go…” Applejack spits “We can take care of them later…”
Meanwhile in Canterlot Luna notices the two arrive and she flies down. “What brings you here in the middle of the night Twilight?” she asks
“And who do you bring with you?”
“Princess Luna you need to wake Princess Celestia it’s an emergency!” Twilight says
“What is so important?” Luna asks
“Vampire Ponies.” Lunar says. Princess Luna’s eyes lit up when he said that and she leads the two inside to the throne room. She then returned with Celestia both frantic.
“What do you know so far?” she asks
“The queen is well…” Twilight starts “Applejack.”
“So all the attacks were true…” Celestia sighs “Who else?”
“Trixie…Scootaloo…Rarity and…and… Fluttershy.” Twilight says trying not to cry at all.
“Without a cure we will have to banish all of them!” Luna says
“But then we lose two Elements of Harmony!” Celestia objects
“Zecora is working on that.” Twilight says
“Alright but who is your new friend?” Celestia asks
“My name is Lunar Relic.” He says greeting the princesses “I am the one who has helped Twilight with the cure. Also we have grave news…”
“What?” Luna asks
“Applejack…. she wants to take over Equestria…” Twilight replies
“She what?!” Celestia asks
“The vampire part of Applejack wants Equestria to be ruled by vampires.” Lunar answers “Unless we can find a way to get her blood and distribute the cure to all of Ponyville she may very well succeed.”
“So what do we do?” Luna asks
“We have to protect Equestria at all costs.” Celestia answers “We will not let vampires take our fair land! We will destroy them and save those effected by this curse!”
“We also can’t just kill them.” Lunar injects
“Why not?” Luna asks
“Do you know how to kill a vampire?” Lunar asks
“Sunlight.” Celestia says “I have that power.”
“Not be rude your highness but that is actually not true, a common misconception actually. You see Vampires are not killed by the sunlight their powers are only reduced and their always uncomfortably warm.”
“So how do you kill one?” Luna asks “You seem to know a lot about them.”
“That’s the thing, in all my research I have done on them there is no way on how to kill one listed!” Lunar answers “The only thing we could do is cure them.”
“So what is the plan?” Twilight asks
“Wait for Zecora to finish the potion would be my first suggestion.” Lunar answers “We could get an idea of how much we will get.”
“But what about the Queen Vampire Blood?” Twilight asks “From Applejack? I read it may not work if we don’t have it”
“I know I am the one who made the thing.” Lunar answers “This may sound crazy but I have noticed dry pony blood on a few trees down in Sweet Apple Acres. With luck it is Applejack’s from when she works. I wouldn’t be surprised if she bleeds a bit when she works so hard. Just a small drop is all we need anyways.”
“How do you know all of this?” Celestia asks “Even the Canterlot Archives does not have that kind of information what is it you do for a living?”
“I am a freelance researcher. I have traveled all over Equestria and lands beyond in search of artifacts, knowledge and relics from ancient time as well as information on anything from apples to zebras.”
“Alright…well if you know so much maybe you could consider working with Twilight now and then on research?” Celestia asks
“Well if she wishes to pass on tasks to me I would be honored to help her complete them.” Lunar smiles “But right now we need to focus on what we are going to do about the situation at hand.”
“We can’t just lower the moon everypony would go crazy.” Celestia says thinking
“I am sure we will figure something out…” Twilight sighs