In The Dark
Prologue
Prologue 3 - A Kind Guardian

In the world of darkness, Vamponies need a place to stay. They don’t stay in coffins like the books say they do, no most Vamponies live in homes, just like normal ponies. The main difference being that most homes they live in don’t have windows, or have very few at the least.

Their homes also vary in location. Some are located in middles of towns, some are located in the sky, while others, might just not be near the town at all. This is one of those cases.

It was broad daylight outside in the small town of Ponyville. Ponies left and right were going about on their way to wherever they needed to go. Whether it would be work, or school, or the shopping district, they were going somewhere. Out off all of these ponies, one was different. Trotting along in Ponyville square was a white mare. She had red flowing mane and tail with white stripes, and her cutie mark was that of a rose. She had her saddle bags strapped onto her tightly, so the item inside wouldn’t fall out. She walked along with a smile on her face headed towards the Carousel Boutique.

When she arrived, she softly pushed on the door and let herself in. The bell above the door rung to announce her arrival.

“One moment,” a young voice yelled in the back of the store.

The alabaster mare looked around at the many colored dresses, gowns, and suits in the store.

“Rarity sure does some fine work,” the white mare thought to herself.

As she continued to look around, she heard hoofsteps behind her. She turned around to see a teenage Unicorn mare behind her. This mare had a white coat, and medium longish pink and purple mane and tail. Her cutie mark was of a microphone with a heart around it.

The Unicorn looked up at the mare and smiled, “Hello Rose Blade.”

“Hey Sweetie Belle,” Rose replied. “How have you been?”

“Good. And yourself?”

“Never better,” Rose smiled.

Sweetie motioned for Rose to follow her and she did. The walked into the adjoining kitchen and sat at the nearby table.

“So, what brings you here today,” asked Sweetie Belle.

Rose opened up her saddle bag and pulled out a leather box. “Good thing I wasn’t stopped in the middle of town with this. I would have probably gotten arrested.”

Sweetie Belle looked at the box wondering what it was.

“It’s for your sister,” Rose spoke up. “It’s from Fluttershy.”

Sweetie Belle used her magic to open it up. After a quick look on the inside, she gasped, and closed the box. She looked up at Rose. “Why the hell would my sister need this,” She said in a shocked tone.

“I have no clue,” Rose said with an apologetic tone. “All I know is that Fluttershy asked me to deliver this to you, so you can give it to your sister.”

“I understand getting blood delivered to our home, but not this!”

“I know it’s not what you were expecting, but I can’t question Fluttershy. And you shouldn’t question you sisters intentions. We both must follow their orders. They did make us Gouls after all.”

“That’s true. I know she’s kind and all but...i’m just worried what she will do with this.”

Rose got up and put a hoof on Sweetie’s shoulder and smiled. “All we can hope is that nothing bad will happen.”

Sweetie sighed, “You’re right.”

Rose nodded. “I must be getting back to the cottage. Have a good day Sweetie Belle.”

“You too Rose Blade.” Sweetie waved a hoof goodbye and Rose saw herself out.

As Rose returned to the cottage, she noticed that all of the animals were gathered at the bridge. Rose, with a worried look on her face, quickly ran over to see what was wrong. She made her way through many animals, until reaching the center of the circle. She looked down and saw that there was a rat, on the ground, missing a leg.

“Oh, dear Celestia, you poor thing. Here,let’s take you inside,” said Rose.

As they made their way inside, most of the animals followed. The larger ones, stayed outside. Rose quickly set the Rat on the table and went over to the first-aid kit. She grabbed some badges, string, and a needle. She made her way back to the rat and started operation.

Being Fluttershy’s ghoul, she gained some of her traits. Mostly the ones about tending to the animals. Rose had also developed a softer voice, than before she was a ghoul, and she also gained the ability to talk to and understand animals. She was almost the little sister equivalent to Fluttershy

As she started by stitching up the wound where the leg was missing, she finally asked the question, “How did this happen?”

The rat started to squeak out the response in a painful tone. After the stitches where done, Rose responded. “So let me get this straight. On a walk outside the cottage, somehow you managed to get your leg caught in a hole and then a rock fell on top of it. Then you pulled on your leg so hard that it ripped off?”

The rat nodded to this statement. “As unbelievable as that sounds, Fluttershy is still not going to be happy with me that I let one of her precious animals get hurt like that.”

Rose wrapped some linen bandages around the rat, and set it in it’s bed. She left a note for Fluttershy explaining what happened and started on with the rest of her day. She started off by feeding the rest of the animals, cleaning up the house, making sure all of the water filters were filled, making sure that there was enough blood in the fridge, and lastly, cleaning all the cages.

By the end of it all, the moon was starting to rise. Rose did her nightly task and tucked all the animals in bed. She also checked up on the rat, who was sound asleep. She then made her way over to the couch and plopped down on it. She fell asleep instantly.

About thirty minutes of absolute silence later, there was a glow on the lock of the front door. The sound of magic spun around inside the lock, eventually clicking. The door silently opened and a pony wearing a cape, hood and soft boots walked in. The pony looked and saw Rose lying on the couch. It looked at her and then looked around for any more spots of life. Once it was satisfied that it was alone, the pony grabbed a large bag from underneath his cape, and used his magic to move Rose inside the bag and lift tie it up. He then throw the bag on his back and ran off, leaving the door opened.

Out in the middle of the equestrian fields, two more ponies, and some wood, lie and wait. They hear hoofsteps in the distance and look up. They see their friend in the distance, jogging up to them with a bag on his back.

“Did you get her,” the mare said in a scratchy voice

“Yes Veleta, I did,” Said the stallion in a deep panting tone.

The stallion dropped the bag, opened it and pulled the pony out. “This is the mare that lives at the cottage,” he said. “She slept the whole ride over. She must have taken some sort of pill to make her sleep longer.”

“Good work Jaken,” Said the other stallion in a wise tone. “Your skills are becoming, irreplaceable.”

The mare chuckled and lowered her hood. She was a tan unicorn with short brown mane scars all over her face. “I must agree with Temple. You are becoming indispensable.” She got up close to his face. “Another good job like this and I might just give you a go at me,” She said slyly and she turned around and brushed her long tail in his face. Jaken blushed at this jester.

“My Friends, please. Now is not the time for that.” Temple lowered his hood. He was a grey pony with a scar over his right eye. He had black spiney mane and white tipped hooves. “We must hurry before we are discovered. Jaken, please set up the wood. Veleta, keep a watchful eye out as we prepare to finish this vampony off for good.”

“Yes Leader Temple,” said Veleta as she walked off.

After about ten minutes of moving wood around, they finally finished. The final structure turned out to be a small wooden cage. “I’ll get Veleta,” said Temple. Temple walked off and Jaken started to drag Rose over to the cage. He opened the door to it and throw her in. He shut the gate and locked it.

Temple returned and levitated over a torch. Veleta pulled out her torch and she lit all three of them. The all lifted their heads up and said in unison, “We the Circle of the Sun, must vanquish those who are evil and cleanse the land that is tainted.”

At this moment a moan came from the cage. The three ponies looked down and saw that Rose had stirred awake. Rose looked around, and quickly got scared. She gasped multiple times and tried to get out, but was unable to. She looked up at the three ponies looking down at her.

“Who are you,” She demanded.

“We are ponies from the Circle of the Sun,” Temple responded.

“Circle of the Sun? Whatever just let me out!”

“Sorry Vampony. That’s not going to happen. You are a possessed being and need to be put down. Don’t worry though, your real soul will live on in the afterlife. While you're possessed soul will be destroyed,” said Veleta reassuringly.

“N-No! I’m not a Vampony! You can’t do this,” Screamed Rose.

“Silence! Don’t try to buy your way out of this. Now, my followers,” said Temple.

The three ponies raised their torches and through them onto the wooden cage. It caught fire instantly. Rose screamed at the top of her lungs as the cage burned. Due to the small cage, the fire quickly reached her mane, and caught fire. She tried to put it out, but it was no use. The fire continued to spread and more of her body caught on fire. Soon, she was burning all over. She was still unable to get out of the cage with the fire forming a ring around her. As she continued to burn, her skin gave off small crackles and pops. Veleta looked over to Rose’s right hindhoof and saw that her leg bone was showing. Veleta quickly turned away.

As the fire continued and the pony burned, off in the distance another pony rushed in.

“ROSE,” the pony screamed.

Veleta, Jaken and Temple quickly turned around and saw a yellow pony behind them. She had long flowing pink mane and tale, she was wearing black leather clothing, and she, what looked like to be vine tattoos going up and around her body.

Temple stepped forward, “Who are you,” he demanded.

As Rose tossed and turned she was finally able to get herself out of the cage. She fell over and onto the ground. She looked over to wear the ponies were standing and tried to speak.

“Flu….Fluter...help…,” her voice said in a very weak tone.

The yellow pony just stood there in shock. “I can’t believe it...the pony i’ve taken care of since birth. My ghoul and best friend. And these three…,” the pony thought in shock. She turned her gaze toward the three ponies again. She closed her eyes, and opened them again; changing her eye color from teal to red.

“Ugg…,” Temple said as his eyes widened and he looked down. Veleta and Jaken moved back. Temple continued to stutter. The yellow pony approached him.

“You monster. You killed my ghoul, one I swore to protect. I will make you suffer like she did. I am Fluttershy. Now DIE!”

As she screamed those words, Temple screamed at the top of his lungs. He looked down and saw that his skin was starting to be ripped from his body. Skin started to come off and blood poured out of his body. His face skin started to ripped apart as well. With blood flowing out of his nose, mouth and eyes and onto the ground. Fluttershy squinted her eyes more and Temple’s eyeballs shot out of his head. His horn was broken in half, and his mane was torn out his head with the scalp and skin still attached. Fluttershy’s eyes squinted one more time and the bones inside Temple’s neck started to rearrange themselves. In the matter of three seconds, all of his bones were sticking out of his mouth. And one bone, went right through his forehead. At that moment, Temple stopped screaming and fell over.

“I am known as the kind guardian to everypony. But when you kill my friends, or family, I will kill you in return,” Said Fluttershy confidently.

Fluttershy’s eyes returned to normal and she looked around for the other two. They were no where to be found.

Fluttershy quickly made her way over to Rose and looked down at her. Rose’s white body was now grey and black. She had burn marks all over her body and blood. Her bones were showing and there was a pool of blood everywhere. Fluttershy’s eyes started to water up and she broke down crying.

“I’m...so...sorry,” she said in between sobs. “I wish I could have done more.”

As she sobbed by her dead friend, another pony appeared behind her. Fluttershy looked behind her and gasped at who it was.

“You, what are you doing here?”

The mare behind her repositioned herself and looked at the body behind Fluttershy. The mare looked at Fluttershy and said in an elegant voice “I’m sorry for your loss. Come with me, Rarity would like to see you.”

Fluttershy turned to her dead ghoul one last time and sighed. “Alright. There’s nothing more I can do here. Let’s go.” And the two ponies trotted off.

Out a little ways into the field, Veleta and Jaken stood out of breath from running away. Veleta moved over to Jaken and smacked him across the face with her hoof.

“Ow,” he said as he hit the ground. “The fuck was that for?”

“You idiot! You grabbed the wrong pony!”

“I didn’t know who was the right or wrong pony! We weren't given a picture or anything to go off of. Not even a name!” Jaken got up. “All we knew was that we had to get the pony from the cottage. That was all.”

Veleta looked down at her hoofs. “I know. But we lost Temple in the progress.”

“Well, from what we saw, we now know that the Vamponies are getting stronger. Let’s report back what happened.”

Veleta looked up. “Alright. Let’s move.” The walked off into the rising moon. This night was going to be long.

A white pawn has fallen.

Author's Note

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Edited by: Basic Information