> Princess Celestia: Vampony Hunter
>  by Dr. John Trotson
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> Chapter 1
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Prologue: Some may know Princess Celestia as the great and powerful ruler that had a great life. But the real question is, why haven't we heard all of it? You must be thinking to yourself, "But we have heard most of it! Isn't that enough?"
Sadly, no. Celestia's life was full of many things that someponies would only see in their nightmares, and, she kept a secret diary containing stories of her life from birth to her assassination, and what you are about you are about to read is the true story of 

Princess Celestia: Vampony hunter.

Part 1: Filly


Chapter 1 
"Birth,  was never really the beginning of all of this."- Celestia in a letter to her sister.

A young Celestia,  hidden inside a bush, watched her prey with like a hawk. The butterfly landed on a flower a few feet away; the net getting heavy in Celestia's glow of magic. She had to make her move now. She recalled this moment years later:
'I knew I had to catch that butterfly, it was a rare one; not yet in my collection. I lined up my net and dropped it down on the butterfly, and it caught it perfectly inside. I hopped from my hiding spot and bounded over to claim my catch, but when I lifted up the net I found the butterfly missing a wing. I looked around for it and found it a few feet away. I tried to attach it but being a young filly, I did not know that technique did not work. I simply sat there and watched it struggle. I brought out my jar and slid it in there as carefully as I could, then I brought it to my mother to see if she could "make it better", but sadly she shook her head and said, "It won't make it sweetie".'

Her mother took the now dead butterfly out to the gardens and dug a quick hole and buried the butterfly. This was Celestia's first experience of death, and sadly, more of it was to come.

II
Celestia was of course born of royalty and, while still small, was treated with upmost respect. She was greeted by servants and guards in her adventures through the castle, along with all of the three races of ponies.
Ponies were still not a united species yet, so they had to travel to the different colonies for royal greetings and other business. Celestia remembers those moments years later:
'Oh it was wonderful to see all of the different ponies out and about! The Pegasus ponies were so nice as to teach me how to fly and do amazing tricks but father would worry about me and forbid me from doing those type of moves in the castle. I would go as far to say that he was over reacting, but maybe accidentally knocking a 400 year old priceless chandelier wasn't such a good move...'

And the unicorn ponies were hired to teach her proper use of her magic.

'I never liked Ms, Frixenfroth, she was extremely boring'

And the earth ponies taught her how to work with plants.

' I was very fortunate to have help from one of the earth ponies, who was also a close friend of my mother, helped me with my garden out behind the castle. She was also expecting a little girl, and said I got to pick out the name.
Seeing as all of the names of her family had to do with apples, I decided on naming her, Apple Smith.'


III
9 months later Celestia's mother gave birth to Princess Luna. Celestia adored her little sister. They played around the castle gardens and around the castle. One time though, when they were playing hide and seek in the castle, Celestia was searching for her little sister and came across the slightly open dining hall  door and peeked inside.  It was dark inside, but she could make out 2 figures in there.
Her Father and a very grey looking pony were arguing about something about wages an costs. Celestia writes:

'The gray mare had a very strange look to him. His eyes seemed to be all black, I'm not sure if it was the lighting though. He was smaller than my father, then again, everypony is smaller than my father, but seemed to have a bigger stature over my father. He and my father were arguing about money and that my father owed him some. Though I knew my father could easy get it, he seemed like he was not handing it over anytime soon. The gray pony simply smiled and said, "I know you'll pay up in someway." And walked towards the door. I quickly transported away from the door and his behind some nearby curtains. 
He walked out and to my surprise, vanished. I looked around then I felt breathing on my left shoulder. I turn to see him smiling behind the curtain with me. I, of course, let out a scream and my father came running out.'

The pony lifted up Celestia and brought her from behind the curtain.
"Looks like we have an ease dropper," he said with an evil grin.
"Leave her be Barts," Celestia's father returned angrily.
Guards, having heard her scream, rushed to the scene. Measuring his odds, he put Celestia down and backed away.
"I'll get my payment one way or another, my king," he said, and with that he disappeared.
The guards looked at their king, unsure of what to do, until after several moments of silence  he  finally said,"I want every part of this castle looked over and watched tonight. Bluemane and Grunt, I want you to escort my daughter to her room and check on my wife."
The two guards nodded and took Celestia to her chambers.

'There was something about what he said that unnerved me that night. When I got to my room, Luna was in there, obviously bored after nopony came to "seek" her. I apologized and told her why I never came to to find her. Let's just say she didn't want to sleep that night. I told her it would be all right, but had trouble going to sleep that as well. I was too young to realize the size of the threat, and what it meant. I just hopes nothing bad would happen.'

Her hopes were diminished when the next morning a cry rang out through the kingdom,"THE QUEEN IS DEAD!"

End of chapter 1








> Chapter 2
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Chapter 2
"Life contains many sacrifices." -Starswirl the Bearded

In the early hours of the morning, the shout was heard. Celestia, being only a filly, and Luna being just born only a year before, the scene that laid before them was chaos. The princesses were woken by the ruckus that was being made and stood, staring blankly into their parent's room, looking at the crowd that had formed in there.
They finally managed to push their way through the crowd and were now standing at the foot of the bed. Their father looked up at them, his face filled with tears. Celestia  walked over to him, pushing away the crowd as she went, and joined her father at the side of the bed. 
Her mother wasn't dead yet, she still was alive, but barely. Her mother pulled her close and said a single word, "Live."
At that, the moniter sitting beside her flat-lined and Celestia and her sister were shoved out of the room.

'My mother had me make that single promise, one that would save my life, many many times. My sister and I sat out in the hall, wondering what would come of this. My mind wandered to last night, though the thought of it made me wonder if anything that happened today was the result of last night, was the cause of this....'
 "I'll get my payment, one way or another...."

II
A few days later after the the funeral, that was held in the queens favorite spot in the garden, their father brought  in a visitor to the girls.
"Girls," their father said at their bedroom door, "I have someone you would like to meet!"
The girls, who were playing in the room, looked at the door in excitement. It opened to revel their father standing with something neither one of the girls have seen before.
"Girls," their father gestured at the beast, "this, is Discord, he is a close friend of mine and your new sitter."

'Looking back to the first time I met Discord, he was very... Intriguing. He was a instant target of adoration in Luna, she absolutely enjoyed him. I remember I so rudely pointed and said what is "it."
This  got a laugh out of them and my father explained that Discord was a draconequus, he has the head of a pony and a body of everything else. I'll admit, Discord was the best sitter we had, he would entertain us with his magic tricks everyday when our father went on royal business outside of the castle. Our mother would usually watch us, but now she was gone.'

III
Life went on as normal, Celestia practiced magic and soon became very strong. Several years after her mothers death, Celestia was called to her fathers bedroom. She was greeted by her father who told her to sit down on the bed. He was drunk, and he was about to tell the story of how his parents died, as he always did when he was drunk. 
The original story was that his mother was killed in freak accident involving his parents going hikeing and getting crushed by a huge boulder. Although the story was different this time around.
"My parents and I," he started, "were on a trip to a dragon gathering, although our trip was side tracked. The cart took the wrong turn to the volcano, I told my mother about she too noticed that we took the wrong turn. She told the driver but he simply ignored her, and when she demanded to stop he stopped, unhooked his reins and walked to the door and yanked it open. He then grabbed my mother and father and pulled them out and threw them against the mountain wall, I screamed and he turned on me. His eyes, his eyes were like charcoal, I have never seen anypony like this before.
"He was about to come after me, but something stopped him and he turned back on my parents and went towards them. He ran up to my mother and pinned her against the wall and put his hoofs around her head and twisted. There was a grisly snap, and my mother slumped to the ground. The pony then grew fangs and bit into her, sucking out her blood. 
"I was in shock, I wanted to call for help but no pony was around to hear me. My father then tried to assault the pony but was picked up by it and thrown into the air. The pony then caught my father with his fangs and ripped out his jugular. The pony then turned to me and bowed dramatically, and yelled, "Sic semper tyrannus!" and disappeared. 
"I was left to look at my parents dead bodies and wondered if I would survive. I then heard a huge roar and looked outside. A giant dragon was soaring overhead and I tried to flag it down, it saw me and flew down. All  of a sudden, a giant boulder detached itself and landed on my parents, crushing what was left of them. The dragon landed and I told it who I was and told him that a boulder crushed the driver and my.. Parents.
"I couldn't tell him the truth. I couldn't tell anyone, nopony would believe me."

'I remember looking at him with horror, a vampony? I have only heard about those in legends. But what my father was saying sounded sincere. He continued, "It was a vampony who killed my mother"
"Quiet," I pleaded, not wanting to hear anymore.
"It was a vampony who killed my fath-"
"Shut up," I yelled.
"And it was a vampony who killed your mother."
"SILENCE!" I screamed and ran from the room. I left my father to weep.'

IV
For the next few days, Celestia pondered the thought of vamponies, and thinking of Mr. Barts. Then she gained an idea.
Celestia and her father were out in the gardens when Jack Barts walked up.
"What are you doing here Barts," the king asked angrily, "and tell me why I shouldn't have you executed on site."
"Oh I'm here to pick up somthing," he replied, "It's a shame you couldent get it to me earlier and we could have avoided this whole mess."
The king was royally confused, then Celestia walked up with a bag and dropped it at Bart's feet. 
He opened it and it was filled to the top with bits. Jack was to busy admiring the bits to notice Celestia hovering out a wooden stake. She then brought it down and stabbed Jack, he looked up in horror and hate, his eyes turning black, then exploded into black dust.
Celestia then collected back the bag and walked back towards the castle. Her father still standing there in shock.
"You've killed us." he said finally.
Celestia stopped and replied, "on the contrary, I killed them."
"There will be more."
"Then I shall need more stakes!"

End of chapter 2

 














> Chapter 3
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A/N This: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jMy9T-Y-Sto  
inspired a lot of chapter 3 so feel free to listen.


Chapter 3
"You aren't scientifically possible!"
-Twilight Sparkle 


Her father had been wrong about the vamponies. It had been quiet for weeks, but Celestia would not sleep; keeping a close eye out for potential vampony, most of the time she would scare most of the workers to death when she would leap out of hiding and attack them, only to find out that they weren't any threat.
 She worked out to get to top physical fitness and used an axe that one of the castles  lumber-stallions, actually one that Celestia was quite fond of.

'His name was Jack, he was a year or two older than I, but we still enjoyed each others company. Recently we have been having afternoon lunches together during his break out in the gardens, and after that, I fell asleep on his lap from lack of sleep every time. He also taught me how to swing an axe, though him being an earth pony and I an alicorn, we had different methods of chopping, but I enjoyed every minute with him.'

Life went on. Months went by and nary a peep from the Vampony population. Then it happened; late December, news spread around the kingdom about a few abductions. A few foals from each race had been been kidnapped from their beds in the middle of the night.
Celestia had her mission, and she was fully intent on accepting it. 

II

Celestia woke up early that morning. She crept down the dimly lit palace halls, eyes darting around. Finally, she came to he fathers chambers and creaked open the door. She stuck her head into the door way and looked in. Her father was awake, sitting on his bed.

'My father seemed to know what I was doing. I approached the bed.
"Are you going after those children?" he asked sadly without looking up.
"Yes." I replied.
"I don't want to have to bury another one of my family," he said, looking up.
"You won't have to."
"You aren't prepared," he replied sternly.
"I'm  prepared enough!" I shot back.
We stood there, in silence for a brief moment.
"Fine," he finally said, "go, but please, for mothers sake, do not die, I will not have any more death in this family."
I looked at the frail shell of what used to be the strongest stallion of all equestria, what used to be a beacon of hope and saftey, what used to be my... Father.
I left him in silence.'

III

Celestia walked towards the main door of the castle. She stopped, hearing something; she was being followed. She unsheathed her axe and stood at the ready. 
"You wouldn't hurt your own sister, would you?" said a voice that was not her sister. She got ready to strike, her assailant drawing near.
They finally appeared, to be her sister. 
"Who was the voice?" Celestia asked her sister, confused, sheathing her axe.
"Unkey discorwd!" she exclaimed.
And at that Discord stepped out of nowhere, as he always did. 
"Now here I was, thinking you were going to leave without saying goodbye," Discord said, jokingly.
Celestia smiled and ran over to hugged them both.
"I'll be back, don't worry." she told them.
"where are you gowing Tia?" Her sister liked to call her Tia a lot, it was cute most of the time.
"She's doing important business Luna, we should let her go." Discord said as he led Luna back to her chambers. He turned around and whispered, "Please be careful."
At that he and Luna disappeared  into the darkness.
Celestia turned back towards the door, it opened, and she walked outside. The early December morning air felt cold against against her fur, there had been little snowfall so she woulden't have to trek through miles of snow, then again, she could fly, so she did.

'I had no idea of where to start, I first remember that I triangulated the three races to one spot in the middle where I deduced the vamponies prospered. As a filly, I was warned to never go in there, now I know why.'

That evil forsaken place was Everfree Forest.

IV

Stalking through this unknown forest was unnerving for Celestia. She would go into immediate defense mode every time she heard a twig snap or some leafs rustle. Her horns glow would light the way as she quietly made her way to a river. Just before she reached the river, she froze and looked down. There were the bodies of the foals she was looking for, she shed a tear. Then she noticed somthing else, there was one foal missing.
Sadness was then replaced with anger and determination. She buried the foals and gave them a quick proper funeral.
When she got to the river, she saw a boat approaching, and there didn't seem to be a driver. She hid in the bushes at it got closer. Then, she heard a noise from behind her. She held her breath; the boat stopped and boarding plank extended. She dared to take a peak at the source of the noise.
It was a female Vampony with what Celestia knew to be the last of the missing foals, laying across her back, dead. Celestia fought back tears and continued watching, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
The female went to the edge of the river and promptly dumped the foal in. Celestia could hold back no longer.
She jumped out, unsheathed her blades, wings at full span, and flew towards the Vampony. 
The Vampony turned around and looked shocked, but then she smiled; her eyes turned black and her smile showed fangs. The Vampony lunged at Celestia and delivered a buck straight to the ribs, knocking her axe away and then turned around and kicked her in the face. Celestia fell out of the sky and landed on the boat. The creature then flew down at her but Celestia used all of her strength to roll and dodge the attack. 
The Vampony hit the boat head on, and stood up dazed. Celestia saw a chance to strike, but her axe was far away and the Vampony had finally snapped out of it and picked Celestia up and brought her to the edge of the boat, and plunged her under water and held her there.
Celestia was loosing air and was about to black out when the assailant let go and she heard her scream, "Traitor!"
Then there was silence.
Celestia was lifted out of the water and dropped on the deck. The last thing she remembered seeing was the head of the Vampony, not attached to its body, then she promptly passed out.

End of chapter 3