POV Twilight
It has been almost a week since the conflict with Nightmare Moon, and the princess has asked for me and the other girls to come to Canterlot to discuss a few things regarding that night in its entirety. The chariot arrived early this morning and has been flying for the past fifteen minutes, looking over the side I noticed the Ivory colored city spread out below us. The chariot tilts forwards as the ones pulling it come into the royal gardens for a landing.
Upon landing, we start heading for the throne room with me leading the way because I was the only one in the group familiar with the layout of the castle. After a good five minutes of walking through the brightly lit hallways we come to a set of massive oak doors, one with the sun emblazoned upon it while the other had crescent moon on it. When the two guards spotted us coming towards the doors they quickly pulled it open with their magic to allow us entry to the room.
"Twilight my faithful student! It's good to see you again." Princess Celestia said while sweeping her gaze over the group.
"It feels good to be back in the castle, but why did you call us here in the first place princess?" I replied tilting my head in confusion.
"As my note explained, I wish to speak with the six of you about what happened at the old castle a week ago. Or more specifically what you saw while we were there." She stated while her eyes seems to stare at something the rest of them couldn't see.
"Yea, like what in the hay was that thing that walked in on us in the throne room!" Says Rainbow Dash.
"Yes, about that." The princess looked a bit uneasy with this topic and I was curious as to why that would be so.
"What was it princess?" I ask.
"That was one of the oldest living beings on this planet Twilight, and before you go storming off to question him i would advise against it. He can be very easily angered, I've seen him burn an entire forest when somepony set him off before." Celestia stated giving me a hard look that meant she was serious. Truth be told right before she said that i was planing on going back to the castle to talk to him and try to get him to answer some of my questions about him.
"Now, before i start telling you about that being... i must have you all know something. Nothing leaves this room after it has been said, nopony besides the seven of us plus Luna knows this being is even still alive. The reason for this is because if somepony were to anger him, Equestria would be destroyed by his wrath..." She continued with a grim look upon her face.
"But you could stop him right princess?" i ask, hoping against hope that she said yes.
"I'm afraid I am no match for him Twilight." she said with a heavy sigh. "The reason being that I cannot being myself to harm him. I am unable to hurt those i see as friends, and he is one of my oldest. You must understand that i haven't seen him since before Luna's banishment, so seeing him still there at the old castle brought back some old memories of when we all would spend time together." She said looking off into space for a few minutes.
"Who is he anyway? We don't even know his name yet!" Rainbow Dash complained.
"I'm sorry, I haven't ever told anypony his name. So I'm not use to starting with that bit. His name is Alucard, and though he may have many titles. There was one that rose above the rest, Prince of Darkness..." Celestia stated, her gaze once again coming into focus. "However, That was not his oldest title, that was just what he was known as for the last millennium or so. His oldest and most fitting title, is Vampire King."
Hearing that last part made everypony in the room save the princess gasp, and Fluttershy even fell over unconscious from fright.
"Vampire King?! So he's a ruler as well? I never saw anything written about a King of the Vampires... wait, what are vampires? " I ask, my mind a whirlwind of questions without any answers.
"A vampire, my young student... is a very strange being indeed and I know you haven't read anything about them. Simply put they do not exist here." The solar princess stated.
"But if they don't exist... how can he be the king of them? That doesn't make any sense!" Rainbow Dash said from somewhere to my left, I on the other hoof couldn't comprehend what the princess was trying to say to me right now.
"He is the King because of one simple fact, before he came to Equestria... he was the oldest living among his entire race." She claimed.
"What d'ya mean 'before he came ta Equestria?'? Wasn't he born here like everypony else?" The farm mare asks.
"No, Alucard simply appeared one day out of the blue and has just stuck around. He even helped during a few of Equestrias key moments, like when me and my sister defeated tyrants and the like, he would stand by our side and fight with us to make this country safe and whole once more." Celestia said as the accepted a cup of tea a servant has brought in from the side door off to the right of the thrones.
"As I said before his story is a long one, how about i tell you all over some lunch?" She continued upon looking at a clock hanging in the room and finding it to almost be noon.
With that the group headed off to the dining hall for some food while they continued listening to the story about the creature known as Alucard.
POV Alucard the night before
The dream realm, it was something the monarch both admired and despised. He admired it for its ability to take away the stress of a hard day and allow a being to be in total bliss, However there are always two sides to a coin. The other things that the dream realm can do to a person is that it can make them relive their most painful memories time and time again.
In Alucard's case, it happened to be the latter of the two. Blood soaked dirt, fire and ash everywhere he looked. Bodies of his comrades laying on the ground horribly disfigured and mutilated beyond recognition. He himself was covered head to toe in blood and his armor had chunks of flesh that was shredded from his enemies lodged in the spaces between the plates. His sword was completely covered in blood and gore after a full half hour of fighting on the battlefield.
Unbeknownst to him or anypony else, somepony was trying desperately to enter his dream realm and relieve him of the images that were forced to the front of his mind. However because she was still weak from her recent return from the moon, Princess Luna didn't have enough power to force her way into his mind from all the way in Canterlot..
The following morning he awoke to yet another lonely day in the castle. He then began to think about what he saw earlier that week, Celestia and Luna standing in his throne room with a group of unknown ponies.. what did it mean? He has seen hallucinations during his brief madness after Luna's banishment, but nothing quite like this. During his insanity he would imagine Luna coming home after a short vacation or something, but the visions never included Celestia or other random ponies. Maybe this wasn't him just seeing things?
He was so lost in his musing that e didn't notice the sun dip below the horizon to allow the moon to take its place in the night sky. However when he looked up he nearly passed out from shear happiness, the image of the Mare in the Moon was gone from the face of the lunar object. This could only mean one thing for him... Luna has finally returned.
POV Celestia present time
As we enter the dining hall, we find seats at the long table I normally use to entertain foreign diplomats. After the food was ordered and we are all settled the six mares in front of me look towards me expectantly.
"Well I believe I should begin at the start. Now listen closely my little ponies, this tale is one I do not tell often and don't like to repeat." the Solar Alicorn explained.