The Protectors: log one

"Shit!"I thought to myself.
My familiar shuttered as a different personality took control.

"Come let’s kill these leaches, devour their flesh, and bath in their blood!" My familiar said with a mad look in his eye.
I opened the door and stepped in. The spell was still unready. The great hall was 200 feet long. Gargoyles lined the walls.

Two giant tables sat length wise. Vampires were everywhere. Some sat at the tables others hung from the walls and the ceiling. At the head table Blood Heart sat on a giant ornate obsidian throne. Drinking from a golden chalice. Three other empty chairs sat at the head table. Balloons and streamers where everywhere .A giant cake sat to Blood Hearts right. The hall smelled like blood and wine. It was very festive.

"Glad you can join us Silvermane. Blood Heart said calmly.

“Glad to be here.” I said.

"Could you please stop casting your little spell?" Blood heart asked nicely.

"No I think I'm good.” I answered.

The vampires all took a step towards me, drawing their swords. Blood Heart raised his hoof and they stopped.

“So whose birthday is it?” I asked, stalling.

"It’s my daughters.” Blood Heart answered

"Really, I didn't bring anything. By the way how did you know I was coming?" I asked quickly still stalling.

“I had an informant.” Blood Heart answered.

The door to his left opened up and two skeleton warrior walked in. They were dragging a beaten, bloody Abby Sprocket behind them. They dragged her body and laid it down in front of the throne. Then backed away with a bow. Blood Heart tosses his chalice towards the skeletons. It hit one of the skeletons on the head splashing it with wine. He grabbed Abby Sprocket by the mane and lifted her up. Until her neck was close to his mouth.

“It’s odd, none of my animal servants informed me of your arrival. I'll have to teach them the cost of treason. "Blood Heart said.

“You are their king. I am their god .They know better than to incur my bloody wrath" My familiar said Blood Heart didn't hear him not being mystically aware.

"Luckily for me I have spies everywhere. Now you’re going to end that spell of hour’s and surrender or Miss Sprocket here is going to make a nice snack. “Blood Heart threatened calmly. Abby looked at me. Her eyes said a lot. She was terrified and desperate. Begging me to save her and to end the pain. I knew those eyes all too well.

"Go ahead, I don't care." I answered

Blood Heart bit into her neck, and sucked her blood out. Then he dumped her body next to his throne.

"I didn't know ponies could be so cruel. “Blood Heart said amused.

"I'm not a pony "I said and entered my war phase.” By the way did you know a vampire by the name of Long fang?"

"He's my son." Blood Heart said defensively. "If you harmed him I will...”

"Harmed him .Oh I did far worst. I killed him!" I lied.

A collective shock spread through the room at this. Blood hearts eyes changed from being blue to red. The spell finished, and I cast it. Ninety eight spell circles shot from my horn like a fire work. Everywhere they landed a portal opened and a chaos solider stepped out. Chaos soldiers are creatures made of plasma. They took the form of animals. Mammals, reptiles, birds, each a different color.

“Come my children .Destroy every undead in this accursed place. Render their flesh, burn their souls, and devour their corpses! “My familiar commanded.

Then he let go a psychic roar. The chaos soldiers joined in as they attacked the vampires. Blood Heart Launched himself off his thrown at me. Ignoring the chaos soldiers. Intent on taking revenge for his son. A grey and brown blur intercepted him and knocked him through the wall.

Greycloak gave me a look that would make a demon shit itself. He grabbed me and pulled me closer until my face was only two inches away from his.

"You save that mares life or I will make you regret this day." Greycloak said with a terrifying resolve.
Greycloak flew out the hole after Blood Heart. A griffin vampire clumsily attacked me swinging the sword downward. I sidestep to the right .Then I grabbed his sword claw broke it and ripped the sword from his claw. I stabbed him through the heart. Pulled the sword out and cut his head off. His body crumbled to dust. I ran across the hall. Dodging everything that attempted to get in the way.

I got to Abby’s body and raised a shield around us.

"Okay what to do what to do.” I thought to myself.

I placed my hoof on her chest and cast a spell. My flesh fused with hers. Our blood streams flowed into each other. My nannies activated detecting the infection. I ordered them to enter Abby's body and begin purging the venom. That was only half the problem. Vampirism is as much a magical transformation as a medical one .Abby's familiar, a giant gear, was slowly turning black. I accessed all the types of magic my familiar was capable of producing. Light, dark, love, chaos act. I began pumping it into her body trying to reverse the process. None of it was working! I tried combing them. Applying them in different orders. Her familiar just grew blacker and blacker as vampirism consumed it. Suddenly there was a spark. This strange magic sat there like a candle in a dark room. The magic felt calm and persistent. Defiantly not something my familiar would produce. The tree that must be where I got it.

"Fuck it" I thought to myself.

I injected the strange magic into her .It worked! Her familiar returned to its natural color, bronze, the magic did a little more than expected. Miss Sprocket's cuts and bruises. Healed, and she opened her eyes. She looked at my hoof and tried to jerk away. She then looked up at my face, and screamed.

"Calm down it’s...” I was interrupted as Abby Sprocket punched me in the face.

"Get away from me you monster!" She screamed.

My sharpened fur lacerated her hoof, but as the first drop of her blood hit the ground the wounds healed. I detached my hoof from her chest.

"Fuck it. Just stay inside the shield” I said before joining the battle.

It was going surprisingly well. . Most of the vampires were drunk. The alcohol made most of the vampires clumsy and slow. That and the vampires didn't know how to kill the chaos soldiers. The tables burned from being in contact with plasma. The gargoyles surrounding the room came alive and joined in.

I took a sword from a dead vampire and used it to kill more vampires. A massive storm raged out outside. Bursts of thunder shook the room.

I was ripping a vampire’s head off when the room started to shack. The sound of stones breaking filled the room. Two vampires and one of the chaos soldiers got sucked out the hole Bloodheart made. I realized what was going on and ran back to Abby Sprocket. One of the gargoyles was trying to smash through the shield. I cast a spell, and the gargoyle fell to the ground cut in half. I jumped into the shield as the roof became covered in cracks. I began pumping magic into the shield to reinforce it.

"What’s going on?" Abby Sprocket asked desperately.
With a load crack half the roof tore off. Everyone in the room began to get suck up through the roof.

"Blood Heart created a tornado. Right on top of his own castle." I yelled in response.
The entire room was torn from the rest of the castle. I t spun in circles.

"He can do that?” Abby asked.

"Hes a celestiadam vampire! Of course he fucking can.?” I responded.

The room crumbled to pieces. The shield, with us in it, got caught in the tornado. We tumbled through the air smashing into random debris. The tornado threw us in a random direction. I cast feather fall on the shield right before we hit the ground. Despite the spell we hit the ground like a cannon ball. The dirt flew everywhere and the shield cracked. My head slammed against the shield and the world went black.

I opened my eyes. The shield was cracked to shit. I stood up and Abby fell off my back. I looked down at her. Her stomach was covered with lacerations. I ordered report from the nannies. They only reported that she was knocked out, and the lacerations. I attempted to lower the shield. My head burst out in pain. I looked up at my horn. It was broken in half. It started to regrow, but it would take too long. I punched the shield and is shattered. I grabbed Abby and carried her into the forest.

I made it to the clearing with Abby Sprocket, and returned to my noncombat phase. I played her on the ground carefully. I started to field dress the cuts.
My familiar appeared next to me

“There is more blood to be shed." He said as he indicated towards the castle.

"I’d rather not incur Greycloak’s wrath. If I just left her alone one your subjects would eat her. “I responded.

My familiar turned away from me in disgust. I looked back to Abby body. I tore a part of her shirt off and a small picture fell out. I used the shirt to banding her up. I picked up the picture and was shocked at what I saw. . On the picture was Abby of course with two other ponies outside a shop. On her left was a purple unicorn. Probably no one of importance, but on her right was the doctor.

My familiar shook again as his playful personality took hold. He jumped next to me.

"I thought this dimension didn't have a doctor.” He exclaimed.

"It doesn't.” I responded.

"Your full of surprises Miss sprocket. "I said to her.
Being knocked out she didn't respond. I reached into her other pocket.

"Are yes pick pocketing her?” My familiar asked exited.

"Yes, yes we are.” I answered

"Yay! Thievery." My familiar responded.

I pulled out a hay bacon strip, a pocket watch and a key. I placed it all back into the pocket. I walked over to the log I was sitting on earlier. I pushed the log over and there was Long fangs sword. My blood stained he blade. The blade was made of meteoric iron. The hilt had a giant blood drop shaped ruby set in the hilt. The pummel looked like a bat head. The cross guard looked like a pair of bat wings. I picked up the blade and leaned it against a tree trunk. I sat in the middle of the clearing, and waited.

About twenty minutes later Abby stirred. She sat up and winced.

"Don't move." I told her.
She looked around at the clearing. Then she looked down.

“Thank you for saving my life.” She said.

“Don’t thank me. I would have left you for dead .Thank Greycloak for forcing me to save your pathetic life . “I told her in a calm cold voice.

She looked at me in shock. She probably couldn't comprehend any pony being so heartless. She looked away UN able to make eye contact. She sat there for a few minutes before she noticed where we were.

"This is the ever free forest. We need to go before something finds us. "She warned.

“Nothing in this forest is going to attack us .They have too much respect.” I explained to her.

She looked at Long fang’s sword.

“Mind if I?” She asked

“Be my guest, but be careful not to cut yourself. There’s enough dark magic in that sword to kill a chimera. "I warned her.

I picked up up sword and handed it to her. She carefully picked up the sword and held it close to one of the glowing flowers. .

“Its elven. Meteoric iron, Hand and a half sword. Well balanced “she said thinking out loud. “Whose blood is this?" She asked me.

"It’s mine." I explained.

“I thought you said that there was enough dark magic in this to kill a chimera?” she asked.

"Let’s just say the darkness holds no sway over me.” I explained.

“Okay." She said confused.

She set down the sword, and looked down at the flower. She started to pick it.

"Don't pick those. If it doesn't kill you. The creatures in this forest will. “I warned her.

She let go of the flower. She took the watch out of her pocket and started taking it apart and putting it back together.

I picked up the sword and sheathed it.
We waited.