Prince Of Darkness

by RegalCrescent45


The Warning And A Day With A Bookworm Pt. 1

POV Third Following Alucard

Morning swiftly approached the gleaming city of Canterlot. Small birds fluttered and chirped about as if nothing was wrong... while in fact there was something terribly wrong. The princess of the night was almost late setting the moon to make way for the morn.

Fortunately she has a sister to help her when she herself falls short, and today is one of those days. After all, who wouldn't want to sleep in the day after their husband decides to drop in? So when one of the figures in the Lunar princesses bedchambers starts to stir, it's no surprise that it's Alucard himself. The vampire looked around the room with his bleary eyes and tried to shake the sleep from his head, once that was accomplished he peered around the room until his eyes settled on the note resting upon the writing desk opposite the bed.

Getting up while trying not to wake his sleeping wife, Alucard made his way over to the desk and carefully picked up the scroll. tip toeing to the balcony he steps out into the cold morning air. As the moon slowly dips below the horizon and the sun slowly takes its place in the brisk morning sky, Alucard stood there enjoying the cool breeze for a few moments he turns his attention back to the scroll still clutched in his hand. It was a rather small roll pf parchment from the look of it, but from his experience small never meant it wasn't bad news. With an almost crippling feeling of trepidation he broke the seal and unfurled the roll of paper. There written dead center of the parchment was a single word, one that in fact meant nothing to the man holding it.

Millennium

Deciding not to think too hard about it he put it in his pocket dimension with a flash of crimson light. After which he re-entered the room and made preparations for his day... and the first stop was to get something to eat. While he could just find something to drain of blood he would rather wait until he needed it before resorting to such drastic measures.

Making his way to the dining hall he passed through the infirmary, and he had the sudden urge to check in on the young prince that was currently there being treated. After talking to a few terrified nurses, go figure, he discovered that the stallion was placed in the private wing reserved for members of the royal family.

Entering the room he spotted the one he was there to see almost instantly, and to his surprise the stallion was awake and reading a book of some kind!

"Ahem... Good morning nephew, I hope your recovery is going well?"

"Are you the creature everypony has been talking about? The one that single hoofedly stopped the changeling invasion?" The young prince exclaimed, Alucard was expecting fear to be present in his eyes. However upon closer inspection he saw nothing but admiration in them, almost as if this stallion looked up to him, though he could not fathom why.

"I don't think you received the whole story young Blueblood, I was not alone. I had a small army of my own that did most of the work. I just handled things before they got too hectic." The vampire responded. "Also, I have to ask... Why do you not fear me like the majority of the castle staff?"

"Well... I think the main reason I don't fear you is because you helped free me from my prison. Being locked inside ones own mind is the most unbearable feeling I've ever known. I saw my body doing and saying things that I would never dream of doing, all while being powerless to stop it from happening." The white stallion replied from his hospital bed.

"I know how you feel, I was almost possessed by the same entity that claimed Luna so long ago. However it found my mind to be quite a terrible place to be and fled to a more usable host. Namely Luna herself. The Limelight was in control of me for a total of an hour before it fled my mind in search of a more suitable host. That was an hour where i was trapped inside my own mind waiting for it all to end. At one point I was hoping that either one of the guards or Celestia would end my torment and by extension destroy the Limelight as well." He explained, looking off into space as if remembering it as he was speaking. "Well I must be going young Blueblood, Do try and get better quickly, hm?"

Leaving the Infirmary area of the castle, he made his way to the dining hall and was met with a rather odd sight, sitting alone at the table was the same lavender unicorn from the previous night.

"Good morning Twilight Sparkle, May I ask to why you're up so early? I would think the majority of ponies would still be sleeping as the sun only rose a half hour ago." He said as he approached the table and sat down opposite the unicorn.

"Oh! Good morning prince Alucard, i just couldn't sleep very well last night, mostly because of all the questions I wanted to ask you!" She replied energetically.

"Well once I have some sort of breakfast, we can move to the castle library and you can ask me all the questions you like, miss Sparkle."

"Please, call me Twilight... I'm not all that comfortable with formalities." She said, returning to the papers she had around her. They looked to be letters of some kind.

"What are those, if you don't mind my asking that is." He spoke up after letting the servant know what he wanted to eat.

'oh. these are just past reports I've sent to the princess over the last two months, telling her what I've learned about friendship and such. I like to re-read them to remind myself how much my life has changed for the better ever since I let friendship into my life." She said with a sweet smile.

After a few minutes of small talk Alucards food arrived and he ate rather quickly, he had a lot to do today and needed all the time he could get after all. Though it looked like he would be spending most of his day with Twilight here answering and possibly asking questions. Finishing his food he waited for Twilight to pack her papers up and they wandered out into the corridors. After about fifteen minutes of idle chatter and walking they arrived at the library. The librarian , a unicorn by the name of Leather Bindings, led them to the far back where they could talk undisturbed for a while.

So for the next several hours Twilight grilled the prince on several subject matters, like what is was like living during the founding of Equestria and weather or not he knew Starswirl the Bearded. However one question caught him off guard...

"I've been meaning to ask, Why did princess Luna attack you in the dining hall last night? It seemed like she wasn't holding back at all!" The lavender unicorn exclaimed.

"Ah... that is a story indeed. It goes back to the Griffin Minotaur war..."

To Be Continued... (I'm a dick aren't I?)