EQUESTRIA'S ESPADA!

CHAPTER TWELVE!: "New Blood!"

By, Vladimir

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"APPLE BLOOM!!!" He hears Applejack scream at the top of her lungs after a gunshot had gone off. Apple Bloom slowly drops to her knees a her blood splatters across the ground around her. A gaping hole in the center of her chest and her wide tear filled eyes staring up at him as she collapses onto the ground. Drakes, Zom-Ponies, and Griffins to attack once again in their stunned moment.

Apple Bloom looks up at Spike and Applejack as they hold her hands tightly within their own. Orihime rushes to them and a yellow/orange dome forms over her. She coughs weakly and the dome melts away before she can heal.

'What's happening? Why is her ability not working?' He wonders before feeling Bloom's hand tighten onto his. Looking down he see's her looking up at him with teary eyes. He feels tears forming as her pulse starts to waver and slow down. Time seems to slow as Chrysalis fires multiple bullets in a rage as Celestia sends her guards after the Griffins and Drakes as they hide behind trees and speak into a radio about more back-up. The Hollows howl in hunger as they charge, only to have black spears pierce their heads and kill them.

More red eyes peer from the shadows of the forest and arrows rain down towards them. Zom-Ponies rise from those who had been bitten or partially eaten, as strange looking Griffins wearing black suits and masks carrying rifles send bullets down upon them.

He looks into Bloom's eyes as she speaks to him softly.

"Spi...Spike. A...Ah wan' ta th-thank yah." She whispers out weakly.

"For what? We're going to save you, Bloom. We'll heal you." He tells her firmly as he feels her grip tighten on his hand. She smiles weakly up at him.

"Fer th' fun we had when eva yah w-would visit...Ah l..loved it. Ah wanted ta tell yah this...a-aftah tenigh', bu' Ah guess Ah won' get tha chance, so...A-Ah'll tell yah now." She says before coughing up crimson liquid that splatters against his cheek lightly. Her blood drips down her chin gently as her eyes seem to be losing their light.

"What...What is it?" He asks.

"C-Come closer..." She squeaks out tiredly with a weak voice. He moves down closer to her and she whispers out, "Closer...". He moves his face before hers and she leans up and kisses him gently, her blood gently passing his lips and into his mouth as he feels her tongue enter. He blushes heavily, but closes his eyes and leans into the kiss feeling love oozing from her and into him. He feels his tears slide down his cheeks and drip onto hers.

He pulls back and looks down at her with teary eyes as she weakly laughs.

"Ah finally did it..." She coughs.

"How...How long?" He asks in sorrow.

"S-Since Ah met yah..." She says softly. He places a hand to her cheek and cups it. "Ah...was gonna ask yah if ya'll would accept me....bu' Ah nevah got th' chance." She says weakly with a small smile. Dash and Gilda had moved to their side as Luna and Nightmare along with Chrysalis had been listening as they let lose hell upon the Griffins and Drakes.

"We would have." Dash says with a sniff. "We would have accepted you, Apple Bloom. We accept the ones who hold love for us and Spike, you know that." She whispers out. Bloom flashes Dash a small smile.

"Thank...y-yah, Dash." She says softly. Gilda bows her head gently.

"I know I didn't know yah too well, but I could tell you had a thing for him, hell, you had a thing for us. So I would have accepted yah with open arms." She tells the dying mare who's eyes lose their shine and dull slightly.

"Ah'm glad...Tha' Ah could know tha' mah dream was a possibility...." Bloom says with a smile.

"I...I could heal you, Bloom, to help you reach your dream and live it! Just please, stay a little longer!" He begs her. She smiles up at him lovingly and cups his cheek gently. She leans up and he leans in and kisses her gently, she reciprocates and kisses him back sending him more of her love as they close their eyes once again. Parting she looks up into his eyes and her smile seems to weaken slightly, but holds it's loving quality.

"Ah....love yah S-Spike. Don' ferget tha', an' don' cry ovah me, please, smile fer meh." She says softly as her hand starts to grow cold. He closes his eyes and opens them as new tears form and gives her a soft smile. She nods her head weakly and closes her eyes gently. "It's...so warm...." She says as heat forms in her chest, but her body grows colder and colder. "It's...so nice..." She tells them weakly as her breath stops and her hand gently falls into his lap.

He grips her hand tightly and bows his head as tears of sorrow and pain rip from his tightly closed eyes. Rain drips down as if the world was mourning for the loss of a pony that had much to live for. Throwing his head up he cries out to the top of his lungs as rain falls upon the world. Silence reigns to him as he weeps in sorrow loudly to the heavens.

Chrysalis bows her head and grits her teeth at some-pony so young dying, before firing hundreds of bullets that tear through trees like they were paper. Nightmare and Luna slice apart their targets in anger while even Celestia is pissed as she summons golden halberds to cleave apart Drakes and Griffins alike. Applejack sobs into Bloom's bloody chest as Dash and Gilda rush off to join the fight.
Ponies from the background grow furious and in a rage pick up whatever blunt objects they can find and rush towards the murderers of Bloom and many of the countless innocent ponies they had slaughtered.

Twilight and the others along with Scootaloo and Sweetie Bell crowd around Bloom's body mourning the loss of friend and sister.

Spike feels something rise within him, something that demands release. Getting to his feet he walks silently towards the battle as bullets wiz past him with arrows and other items. His eyes are covered by his waving hair that whips around in the wind as he stalks towards the ones who had killed Bloom.

He growls and his eyes glow crimson as his nails become the same. He jumps into the air before vanishing in the night as the storm rages. As the ponies mourn the loss of Bloom, they don't notice her right hand scrunch up slightly making claw marks in the soft dirt as her injury begins to close underneath her clothing.

Chrysalis stands with her revolver pressed up against a Griffins forehead and pulls the trigger blasting it's brains across the ground and it's blood to splatter against her cheek. She ducks under the swipe of a Drakes axe-hammer before kneeing it in the crotch and blasting it's head off with all three barrels smoking. Summoning a lime green scythe she holsters her revolver and uses the scythes pole to black a Griffins downward strike with a sword.

She kicks the griffin in his jewels before spinning around and slicing his head off before ducking under a Drakes claws and cuts it's hand off before spinning the scythe and slicing the Drake in half with such accuracy she manages to slice it clean up the middle. She jumps into the air as a Griffin swings down with a war-hammer and axe-kicks down onto the Griffins head breaking it's skull and having it's head roll across the ground letting blood spray into the air.

She changes the lime green scythe into a spear and stabs a Drake through the throat and spins around on the spears rod kicking Griffins and Drakes to the ground before pulling up to the side with the spear slicing the Drakes head clean in half. Changing the spear into a double edged sword she stabs backwards and pushes down spilling a Drakes guts as it groans it's last breath before dying.

She spin-kicks a Griffin to the ground and bends backwards dodging a broad sword and slides on her knees. Putting her sword up into the air she stabs a Drake in the stomach and pulls down spilling it. It's blood sprays through the air as it thrashes about on the ground. She stomps on it's head killing it and sending blood and gore splattering across the ground. She swings to the side parrying a Drakes claymore and then jumps up and cuts it's head off.

Pushing off of the body she spins through the air dodging more bullets and arrows before pointing a finger down at a group of Griffins and Drakes and forms a lime green Cero that makes their eyes grow wide. She grins wickedly and fires the beam that then creates a large pillar of smoke and flame as the explosion knocks her up higher into the air. Her sword dissipates and a katana forms across her lower back. She grips it by the silver hilt and unsheathes it where she then flickers and appears behind a staggering Great Drake. Re-sheathing her katana the Great Drake slides apart into multiple bloody pieces.

"How pathetic." She says mockingly as she flickers her wrist making her enemies blood fly off of her claw like nails. "Your nothing but trash." He growls out and goes to rush another Griffin, but stops as he screams in pain before a hand bursts from his chest. Her eyes widen as she see's crimson eyes looking back at her. "Love...?" She asks.

"GeT bAcK." He grunts out as if he were holding himself back from something.

"Alright." She says and then flickers away. She appears back with the ponies who all look slightly scarred. To the right she see's Celestia, Luna and Nightmare sitting on pieces of buildings away from the fight. "What's happening?" She asks.

"Spike had asked us to "get back". I assume you were told the same?" Luna asks.

"I was, I had just finished toying with some Drakes and Griffins, but then on the last one he told me to retreat. What's gotten into him? I mean I know he's an Obsidian and all, but he's acting totally different." She says worriedly.

"The death of Apple Bloom was a hard toll on our love. It would seem he is taking out his rage on the ones responsible for her demise." Luna says with a sad sigh. A soft cough catches them all by surprise after sitting in silence for moments on end. Looking over, they see the most amazing thing.

Apple Bloom, was sitting up.

"W-Wha' happened?" She asks while coughing and rubbing her throat lightly.

"APPLE BLOOM!!!" Sweetie Bell, Scootaloo and Applejack scream out and hug her tightly.

"Guys! A-Ah can't br-breathe!!" Bloom cries out as she coughs from lack of oxygen. The three mares let go of her, only to have Applejack hold her tightly and sob into Bloom's shoulder.

"Yer alive! An' yer okay!!" Applejack cries out happily through happy sobs.

"Well ya Ah'm fahn, bu' wha' happened? Wha's goin' on?" She asks in confusion.

"After you had passed, Spike has been...not Spike." Fluttershy says softly.

"W-Wha' do yah mean?" She asks worriedly.

"He's killing the Griffins and Drakes mercilessly, all because one of those Griffins shot a hole through your chest, which by the way killed you. Which brings up another question, how are you even alive?" Twilight asks bluntly.

"Ah...Ah dun'no. All Ah remember was tellin' Spike that Ah loved him, then a great heat formed in mah chest, an' then Ah fell asleep." She says.

"But your breathing stopped, even your pulse stopped! You died!!" Twilight exclaims.

"But Ah'm here now!" Bloom retorts angrily and her usual gamboge eyes flash crimson for a split second. They stare at her with wide eyes. "Wha'? Wha's wrong?" She asks.

"Your...Your a Vampony, Bloom." Scootaloo says in shock.

"Ah-Ah am? B-But tha' doesn't make any sense! Ah never-" She stops as her eyes grow wide. "Tha kiss!" She squeaks out.

"What kiss?" Nightmare asks.

"When Ah kissed Spike, Ah swallowed down some warm liquid that Ah thought was mah own blood." She says rubbing her chest lightly. "Ah guess he was bleeding, an' his blood is wha' saved mah life." She says with a soft smile.

"I see, well, that is certainly interesting." Luna says with a slight grin. "Guess this means you get your dream after all." She says with a wink. Bloom blushes heavily.

"Ah guess so. But we should tell Spike tha' Ah'm okay!" She says with a smile as she gets to her hooves, Nightmare goes to stop her, but it was too late. Bloom stares at the bloody bodies of the Drakes, Griffins and fallen Zom-Ponies and her eyes turn deep crimson and fangs form from her jaws. Her pupils thin into slits and she rushes towards the screaming.

Spike ducks underneath a large axe hammer and cleaves the Drake in half up the middle as multiple ripped apart and crushed Zom-Ponies litter the ground. He rolls to the side as his eyes glow bright crimson as he swipes to the side with his hands severing a Griffins head off as more fire their weapons or swing them around in hopes of cutting him only for them to miss and him to rip them apart bloodily.

He slides around on his feet as he dashes across the dirt ground pulling them apart and making their blood splatter everywhere as they keeping fighting back. He goes to stab his hand down at a lone Griffin only for him to miss as the Griffin is knocked aside by a blur of red and yellow that has wind coming off of it. He looks to his right to see something that shocks him.

He see's Apple Bloom drinking the Griffins blood as she holds him up lightly and has red translucent flames raging off of her body. Her eyes are no long their gamboge color he last saw, but dark crimson with slit pupils that hold a predatory hunger to them. His eyes begin to change back to their green cat like luster as he gazes upon the living, or undead in this case, Apple Bloom. She releases the dried up Griffin and looks him straight in the eyes.

He is frozen in a type of trance as an arrow clips his cheek just as Applejack had been running to them holding her lasso. The arrow pass her and his blood flies into her mouth as it whizzes by. She unconsciously swallows the black blood and keeps running with Dash ans Gilda at her sides as they rush to help them fight off the reaming Drakes and Griffins, which was about four each as eight in total.

He stares at Bloom who slowly walks over to him, she looks to be taller and far more adult than before as she strides over to where he stands stock still.She stands before him and gently cups his cheek gently before bending down and pressing her lips to his. He gets out of his daze as he closes his eyes and leans into the kiss causing her to snake her arms around his hips and pull him close to her form.

The crimson markings begin to vanish from his body as his hair shortens to normal as his crimson pulsating claws revert back into his black nails. She parts from him and he blushes heavily as he pants lightly. Her arms tighten around him and she looks down at him lovingly.

"Apple Bloom?" He breaths out as he gains control over his erratic breathing. She nods her head gently.

"Eeyup!" She chirps out with a smile. He feels a strange pressure in his chest as a bond forms and a second one begins to form. He grows confused, as does Bloom as they notice the new bond that connects them together and to the others. A cry of pain rips them from their thoughts as they turn to see Applejack on her knee's gripping her throat tightly as if it were burning her. Her eyes shut tightly as tears move down her cheeks gently.

"Applejack!" Bloom calls out as she rushes to her sister taking hold of his hand and dragging him along for the ride. The two speed over and slide down next to AJ as she coughs strange black liquid that drips down her chin gently. His eyes grow wide as her veins seem to pulsate with black energy as he notices fangs forming in her mouth.

"How...?" He asks softly as Bloom kneels down next to her older sister.

"Yer blood must have entered her mouth like it did mahn." She says. He looks to her in surprise.

"When?!" He gasps out in shock.

"When Ah kissed yah, yer blood was in yer mouth and Ah swallowed it. Guess it saved meh, huh?" She says with a small smile as AJ seems to calm down. He notes that Bloom's gamboge eyes are back but her pupils remain slit instead of round. He watches AJ open her eyes and he stares into her emerald slit eyes that glow brightly in the shadows.

"Spike?" She coughs out as she rubs her throat. "Wha' happened ta me?" She asks.

"Yah turned inta a Vampony lahk me!" Bloom says with a sad smile. AJ stares wide eyed.

"Bu' how?" She asks.

"It must have been when the arrow cut my cheek. Some of my blood must have entered your mouth and down your throat." He says with a light smile. "I hope your okay." He tells her as a bond forms with her and him. AJ feels the bond form and looks up over to Dash who grins widely.

"I got two friends part of this "herd" now! Awe yeah!!" She whoops out. Gilda raises a brow.

"What about me?" She asks.

"Your more of a filly-friend~" She purrs out as she wiggles her brows in a strange manner.

"True~" Gilda purrs back and kisses Dash lightly. He begins to wonder how they are still bonded, but soon remembers that they all do indeed love each other. He smiles lightly at them before feeling lips press against his. He shivers and looks down to see AJ kissing him as Bloom has her arms around his hips tightly.

"Wha' abou' us?" AJ asks innocently. He blushes heavily.

"Er....-"

"Your both accepted." Chrysalis says with a wink as she kneels down with them. His blush grows heavier as his Queen winks at him. "Though I do wonder what apple ponies taste like~" She purrs as Bloom and AJ blush heavily.

"Yeah...Chrysalis is the er...."lead dominant" for us." He chuckles out sheepishly as the Changeling Queen nips lovingly at his neck.

"Damn right I am~" She purrs out before getting to her hooves. "Now come on, we have to tell the others about this, if they haven't figured it out already." She giggles out. He nods his head and gets to his feet. Turning around he see's his friends and other mates standing there.

"Um, hi?" He asks.

"We'll accept them if they visit." Luna and Nightmare say at the same time.

"Though you will be staying here." Celestia says firmly shocking everyone.

"W-What?" He asks.

"Your having a vacation." She giggles out dropping her serious mask and a large smile graces her lips. "You need it seeing as you've been working non-stop at the castle and helping the Espada's with protecting our country. I think you need one, concidering how little rest you actually get." She says softly.

"I...Thank you, Celestia. But what about Nightmare and Luna?" He asks.

"We'll be at the castle with Dash and Gilda. We're needed to train the troops as it were. So you, Chrysalis, Bloom and AJ will have plenty of time to yourselves to get more acquainted. And don't even worry about us "getting lonely", we'll have each other." Nightmare says with a saucy grin as she eyes Luna, Dash and Gilda as if they were large pieces of Nightmare Night candy before they all vanish in a flash of golden light. He blushes lightly.

"Er, right." He says. "But where will we stay?" He asks.

"With us." Bloom and AJ say at the same time. He and Chrysalis smile lightly.

"Alright." He says.

"Nah wai' righ' there!" Big Mac says as he walks up to them. "Some-pony bettah star' explainin' what the hay is goin' on here!" He orders. AJ and Bloom glare at him as their eyes glow. "What the...?" He blinks in surprise before looking to Spike for an explanation.

"Er, well their sorta...Vamponies now. I think before I tell this story, that we head to the farm where Granny Smith is waiting." He tells Big Mac who looks to be having a mental break down. "Or before the giant red stallion collapse-" Big Mac thuds to the ground unconscious, "-s. Fuck." He deadpans before sighing. "Man this is annoying!" He groans out.

"We'll let you deal with that." Twilight says as she, Fluttershy and Rarity sneak away leaving behind a blood stained field, Celestia must have cleaned up, and the others behind with the passed out stallion.

"Let's ge' goin'." AJ sighs out as she lifts Big Mac up and begins walking towards the farm. Chrysalis, Bloom and him nod in agreement and follow towards Sweet Apple Acres to go and explain to Granny Smith what had happened that night.

'Oh this is gonna be weird!' He thinks to himself as he sighs and lets his shoulders sag while following his mates, his head bowed.

Author's Note

So, what ya'll think?! I know it's short, but I was planning on it to be short. The long chapters are coming soon though!
Comment below, let me know!
Ja ne!