Master of the Monster

“So, it’s over?”  asked Twilight still agitated.

Seras closed her eyes and took a deep breath.  “Yes, it’s over” she finally said. “The coward ran away really far. I can’t felt him anymore”

Fluttershy sighed relieved.  “Okay, since this is over from now… Seras, do you mind if I restrain your powers again? I mean, if you don’t have a problem with that…”

Seras bowed. “I only exist to serve you, Fluttershy. If you want to restrain me, go ahead and restrain me until you need my full strength again”

“Okay, officially she’s creeping me out”  said Rainbow Dash unnerved by Seras.

Fluttershy made a shy smile and whispered. “I’m reactivating Restriction Seals 1, 2 and 3. From now on your power is at minimum until I need you again”

They all felt how the dark aura coming from Seras diminished considerably to almost nothing. The vampire didn’t seem to care too much about it, just bowed to Fluttershy again and walked to the window.

“That fight made me very thirsty. Can I go hunting now, Fluttershy?”

The shy pegasus smiled warmly. “Of course Seras. Just remember to hide from the other ponies”

Princess Celestia stopped the vampire.  “That won’t be necessary. We still need to interrogate you, so I took the liberty to order some transfusion blood from Canterlot General just for you”

“I appreciate it, but that’s not your decision to make; after all I’m forbidden to drink blood from ponies”  said Seras coldly.

“It’s okay Seras”  said Fluttershy. “Please, I need you to obey the Princesses as you obey me. Besides I prefer you to drink donated blood than kill a poor little creature instead”

Seras bowed. “Thank you, Fluttershy”

“Very well”  said Celestia. “I’ll order the servants to bring you the blood. In the meantime…”

“Let us do it, sister”  said Luna walking to the door. “We’re late to our Royal Duties; so we’ll bring the blood to this monster when we return.  Just wait for us before starting the questions”

“Thank you Princess”  smiled Fluttershy.

Luna nodded leaving the ponies alone with Seras. Nopony said nothing for a while; just saw how the sun descended and the moon rising instead. Seras let scape a sigh of relieve.

“What?”  asked Twilight. “You don’t like sunlight?”

“Is deadly for most of my kind. Not for me, I just hate it”

Celestia frowned a little hurt, but let it pass. Now she could understand Luna.

“We’re here!!” Announced the Princess of the Night pushing a cart full of transfusion blood. “Now it’s time to explain things to us, monster”

“As you wish” said Seras taking one of the packages and started to drink the red content. The ponies shivered while she ended one package and took another. Her red eyes were glowing creepily. “Where do I start?”

Rarity approached carefully. “How long have you being in our lands?”

“Since always”  said Seras. “As you saw in my memories, back in my time, the dominant specie was the creatures known as humans. I was a human myself until the day I died and turned into this creature by my first master. It was a loneliest existence, because as a being of darkness, I can’t die. I had to watch how every human I knew, every person I shared a bond with, passed away as mortals they were. Even my master gave up, allowing a human to destroy him”

She let scape a tear of blood and continued.

“Three years of insupportable loneliest later, I decided the only thing I could do was sleep, so I locked myself into my coffin and closed my eyes for over a million years. Waiting, always waiting. Then I woke up, only to realize the humans were gone a long time ago and the dominant specie now were the equines”

“I don’t understand” mumbled Pinkie. “I can’t imagine anypony who can sleep for that long. In fact, the only pony I’d seeing who can more than three days without get bored was Granny Pie; and that was only in her later days”

Ignoring Pinkie, Applejack stared at the vampire. “What Ah’ don’t understand is how you survived that much without feed or drink or whataver ya’ vampires do to live”

Seras smirked and took her third package of blood. “I’m not alive, Applejack. But answering your question… as long I sleep in a coffin filled with the soil of my birthplace, I can survive even if I not drink blood in a very long time”

Luna frowned. “Tell us, Seras Victoria, how can you assure us you’re not a threat to our little ponies? How can we trust you’ll respect that dark bond you share with the Element of Kindness?”

“I can answer that”  said Fluttershy. “When Twilight felt her the first time, I asked her to hide her power to my friends… and instead of that, she voluntarily restrained her powers to my will with a dark ritual. Now I’m the only one who can decide if she can use her powers or not”

Celestia frowned and used her magic both in the monster and the master of the monster.

“What you found, sister?” asked Luna.

“Is like Fluttershy said. Seras voluntarily limited her powers to Fluttershy’s wishes with some kind of unknown ritual. But that’s not the end… this power over her will pass from generation to generation until Fluttershy’s legacy finally end.

The ponies gasped in shock. So now Fluttershy’s descendants  were also part of the deal? This was unbelievable. How the yellow pegasus ended with such responsibility for her and her future heirs?

Seras didn’t say anything. After all, that was exactly the same deal her master Alucard made with Lord Van Hellsing the day he was finally defeated.

“I don’t like this”  said Rainbow Dash unnerved.

“Sister, we don’t like this neither”  said Luna.

“There’s nothing you can do?”  asked Twilight.

Celestia nodded.

“Indeed, I have something in mind that can finish Seras’ pain once for all; but first I need her to pass a difficult test. Do you agree, Seras Victoria?”

“There’s no way you can finish my pain… unless you know a way to make me mortal again, but that’s not possible”

“Why do you think is not?”  chuckled Celestia.

Seras raised an eyebrow.  “Are you serious?”

“Tia never jokes”  assured Luna. “In fact, we know what she has in mind”

“Then I agree. Only if Fluttershy…”

Fluttershy quickly nodded.

“Then I agree. What do I have to do?”

Celestia looked at the broken windows of the hall.

“Normally I’ll only ask you to reform and become a good pony… but considering the situation, I have to ask you if you can help us deal with our enemy besides the reform. Can you do it, Seras Victoria?”

“The difference between Sombra and me is abyssal. And armed with my Fallconnen I can destroy any kind of dark threats in the matter of seconds…”

“I have no doubt you can finish Sombra without any help”  sighed Celestia. “What concerns me is the reform part. Seras, I need you to return to your old self: the kind hearted woman you were until that Alucard character turned you into what you are now”

Seras smiled.  “I’ll do anything if I can be mortal again. No matter how difficult it seems, I’ll do my best”

Celestia smiled too and turned to Fluttershy.

“And Fluttershy, as you reformed Discord, I trust you can reform Seras too. That’s my request to you: you remind Seras her old self, so you’ll be the one who guide her back to the way she was. If you success at this, I’ll reward you very well…”

Fluttershy gently petted Seras’s head.

“Oh, that won’t be necessary your highness. As long as you cure Seras from her curse I’ll be happy to help”

Celestia smiled again and nodded. All the ponies were relieved. It was going to be a difficult path, but anything was impossible for the magic of friendship.  At the end, they left the Palace to go back to Ponyville.

But Luna stopped Seras before she board the train.

“One last question, Seras Victoria. What happened with the Diamond Dogs who were chasing your master?”

“I ripped their throats and drank all their blood. Now their souls belong to me”

Said that, she boarded the train and left while Luna just shivered.

“Monster…”