Escape to the North

           FOR ALL NIGHT UNITS.

         I announce a full MOBILIZATION. All bats must go to their Recrutation Points in whole Equestia. I want all soldiers in Ponyville's forest in three days. Don't be late.

                                                                                                                                   Princess Luna.

                   "Take this letter and send it to the Night Headquarters. There's no time to waste," said Luna to her bat soldier before she gave him the letter.

          Most ponies think, that the bats soldiers are a vampires, but they are wrong. There are just black ponies unicorns, often pegasi,with a blue manes and under a Luna's command. But they have a distinguishing feature- ears similar to bats, that’s why they call them bat soldiers.

              "As you wish my queen," the black pegasus salutated and flew away.

                 "Soldier!" Luna stopped him in half way through the corridor.

           "Yes, Madam?" a bat soldier freezed immediately and turned to Princess.

     Luna looked at him. Is it neccesary? Yes she thought.

           "Wake up Vampires. Their time has come," she said sadly. The pegasus saluted again and disappeared behind the doors.

Vampires. Bloody monsters that live in South's Mountain. I created them. They aren't even real ponies, but brutal parts of my history,

Luna  looked through a window, fighting with her pangs of conscience.The sun was gonna slowly going down. If anything won’t go wrong, Luna’s whole army gonna be in the Everfree Forest in two days. Nobody will find them, because Celestia will be too busy looking for wolve’s pack’s trails, and all explorations groups will be moving along the river.

I hope, they don’t find Twillight and wolves before us,

thought Luna, looking trough a window. Another group of Solar knights disappeared in the forest near a river.

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Hmm... I think Werewolf will need some companions, but I won’t give him my incompetent soldiers. Beast need a beast to help. Hmmm, aha!

          Celestia jumped off from her throne. She had wolves. In her hall were five of them. There were dead, but it wasn't problem. After a revived Werewolf, her dark power has grown in strenght. Maybe she could give them a part of her magic. Yes. It's a good idea, Celestia lit up her horn, and the dead bodies started flying, surrounded by a black glow. The corpse fell down on the floor as the magic aura disappeared. Their fur color turned black, and their legs were replaced by a dark fog. The revived souls got up. Their eyes have been replaced by dark red dots. Monsters like this have a special name:

       "Shadows! Welcome to the world of the living," Celestia smiled evilly

     The monsters stayed in front of her. They didn't breathe. The shadows stood like a black cold tombstone. Froze in one pose and... nothing. Even their red eyes were looking at one point, somewhere under Celestia. Some ponies say that Shadows are the souls, which are lost between two worlds, because black magic pulled them out from the underworld. They wanderer through the world without reason.  Only the powerful wizard of darkness can create monsters like this.

     “Go! Find those wolves and bring them back to me,” ordered the Fallen Princess and dark clouds with a red eyes disapeared.

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         "Who's there?!" Twillight got into offensive position and lit up her horn. Something was moving in bushes few meters away.

              "Nie strielać," Grey came of the bushes with a smile. (it means "Don't shoot". Russian :D).

              "Oh. Hi Grey. Where is the rest of your herd?" asked Applejack with a bitter smile on her face.

              "Over here," wolf stood up on two legs, rose his arms and turned around like a ballerina. The wolves begin moving out from the bushes on all sides.

            "Good to see you,"Twilight said flatly. Wolf grinned more, but something wasn't right for him.

            "I expected six ponies, but as I can see you brought only four your friends.Where is Pinkie Pie?" he asked, raising an eyebrow. Rainbow Dash started crying again. Everything was clear. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't think that it could happen,"  Grey lost his joyful expression.

         "Did Luna visit you?" asked the purple alicorn, ignoring her friend’s condition.

         "Eyup, She was in my dreams and scared me!” he said with fake anger; “But it's okay. Everything is alright. She said what happened to Celestia", Grey smiled again and lowered his head. "I knew that something was wrong," he whispered to himself, looking around conspiratorially.

        Twillight looked at him with a questionable stare.

              "I know, I know. Some wolves are being disappear, so I decided to change a place. I wouldn’t move out if the missing wolves would be very young. Sometimes, cubs lose their way back home, ”Grey raised his finger up like a teacher. After that he put his hand on his snout  “but those wolves were very experienced hunters!' he almost yelled.

"So we must move as soon as possible," said Twillight, and Grey waved his hand. The herd disappeared as quickly as they appeared.

           Rainbow was still sobbed; "Those dead eyes..."

              "Can you shut up?" Twillight turned to her with furious eyes.

        Everyone looked at the young princess with an amazment. Rainbow Dash immediately stopped sobbing and froze.

              "Twillight... what did you say?" asked Rarity with disbelief ans her eyes widened.

           "What? The sobs were beginning to piss me off" she wildly waved her hoof.

              "TWILIGHT! W'at the hell is wrong with ya?" shouted Applejack as she came closer to the alicorn almost putting her face on Twilight’s forehead.

              "Nothing. I'm fine,"  Twi turned back to her, and went into the forest’s shadow.

     Ponies was still in shock.  “What happened with Twilight?” Everypony was thinking, but Applejack knew the purple alicorn’s secret.

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         When Spike came into Luna's room, he found her looking for something in her wardrobe. Her room was huge, but there wasn't so much furniture. Only bed against an empty wall, a small desk in the opposite side and huge wooden wardrobe next to the bed. In the corner stayed big mirror with golden decorations. The room was lit up by the moon’s luminosity, which was flying through a small window.

              "Princess, how can I help you?" the small dragon asked unsure while stopping in the middle of the room.

    Luna straightened up, but she didn’t turned her head. Her eyes were concentrated on something in her wardrobe.

         "No, thank you, Spike," her voice was overflowed with pain and sadness, but she was trying to speak soflty.

The dragon turned to the doors, and began moving in its direction.

         "Wait, stay with me. You are only whom I can talk to right now. Don't leave me,"The princess of the night turned to Spike, and tried to speak calmly, but she sounded very imploringly. She sat down on her bed and sighed as Spike sat down on the floor.

            The alicorn began staring at the blue walls of her room. Spike felt a bit uncomfortable. He wasn’t sure if he should say something or not?

     This awkward moment was broken by Luna’s sighs. Something weighed heavily on her hearth and wouldn't leave her alone.

         "For a thousand years I didn't see my sister". The Lunar Princess took a short breath, trying to not cry. Her voice was shaking. "For a thousand years I was looking at Canterlot with hope, I'll come back soon...," even if she tried so hard not to show her weakness, this time she failed, and some tears ran dow her face. It was painful. Very painful and Spike knew it. He tried to say something, but a strange cloud of aura came in the room through an open window. Luna wiped her tears quickly, before a strange magic dust stopped in front of Luna's face and a red eye with a claret line on a middle, appeared there.

              "Vampires are ready for duty my Master," said  mysterious voice without any emotions.

             "Vampires? What is this?" asked Spike while pointing at the magic dust.

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           "Good. Vampires, go to the North! We will meet you there. When you are there, let me know," said Luna with a serious facial expression.

                "As you wish my Master," answered the stranger, and the magic aura disappeared.

                "Can you tell me, what that thing was?" Spike repeated his question while pointing at the place where the mysterious cloud use to be.

      Luna took a deep breathe. Yes, it wasn't a secret anymore.

         "Vampires. Brutal “souvenir” of times when I was a Nightmare Moon," she said calmly, but a flash in her eye was proving that it was very difficult for her to talk about her past.

              "Half ponies- half bats?" Spike raised his eyebrow.

              "Not exactly. Dead ponies combined with vampires,"corrected Luna, looking at Spike. He didn't understand. "You see, when I was evil I killed many ponies, before Celestia came to defeat me. I revived them, and combined their souls with wild vampire spirits, before ordering them to go to the South and hide in mountains. I gave them  immortality and great strenght. However, there is a way to kill them."

          "What is this?"

            "You must hit them in their heart. Don't expect it will be easy. I made them a special armors. Indestructible plates of my magic. There is nothing on this world what will be able to penetrate it," Luna smiled bitterly and looked at the window.

         "How many do you have?"  Spike was fascinated, but a bit scared too.

              "Hmm... when I sent them to the South, I had one thousand and five hundred. I guess, maybe some have been killed by spiders in caves, so I think it will be one thousand and two hundred. One thousand two hundred evil and immortal monsters. Equestria should be glad, they are under my control," Luna gasped.

           "C-can Celestia can take control over them?" Spike’s eyes widened as he imagined the evelasting monsters at the fallen princess’s service. No pony knew what Celestia would use them for.

          "No way. As I said, Vampires have a part of my soul. Even when I die, nobody can take control over them, because they'll die too," Princess came to Spike. "So don't worry," she put her hoof on his arm. The small dragon calmed down.