In The Dark
Prologue
Prologue 4 - A Beautiful Blood-Sucker

The moon was just starting to rise up into the Equestrian sky. At that hour, a pony was awaking from her beauty sleep. Sitting up in her bed while letting out a small yawn, she took off her sleeping mask and looked around the room. Everything was the way she had left it the previous night. She hopped out of bed and went into the bathroom for a shower. After the shower, she went over to her dresser and pulled out a black scarf, and black leggings. She slipped the leggings on her forehooves, and the scarf around her neck. She lightly brushed her mane, trying to keep it as good as possible, and then left her bedroom.

She trotted down the steps of her home, and walked into the kitchen. She stood there and saw her little sister sitting at the table.

“Good evening, Rarity,” Said the teenage ghoul.

“Good evening Sweetie Belle,” Rarity happily said in return. “Would you like something to eat before going to bed?”

“No thank you. Just the usual.”

Rarity nodded and grabbed two wine glasses. Rarity then went over to the fridge and pulled out a blood pack from inside. She went over to the counter and grabbed knife, and went back over to the glasses. She first poured the blood pack into the wine glass, and then threw the empty blood pack out. She then began the more complicated process. She took off one of her forehoof leggings, and moved that hoof over the other wine glass. She then levitated the knife over, and quickly slit the leg her forehoof. She let out a quiet, and quick painful gasp, and let her own blood fall into the glass. After the glass was about three quarters of the way full, she moved her hoof away and slipped her legging back on. She levitated the glasses over to the table and sat on the opposite end of Sweetie Belle.

“I wish you didn’t have to go through so much pain for me,” Said Sweetie Belle

Rarity picked up her glass and started to drink, setting her glass down she gave Sweetie a sincere response' “I know dear, but it’s the only way to keep your ghoul powers active. But don’t worry that much about me. The blood I drink will instantly close up the wound.”

Sweetie looked at her sister. “I know but it still pains me to see you in pain.”

“Don’t worry Sweetie, I’ll be fine in the long run,” Rarity reassured her sister.

Sweetie sighed, “Alright. But I now need to know something.”

Rarity looked at Sweetie Belle. “What’s that?”

Sweetie Belle lit her horn and levitated the box that Rose delivered earlier that same day over to her. “Rose dropped this off. It’s from Fluttershy. I saw what was inside.”

Sweetie Belle got in her sisters face. “Why do you need this?!”

Rarity looked away from her sister and sighed. “Do you remember what I told you? About the Circle of the Sun?”

Sweetie looked at her sister in confusion. “Yea, I do. But what do they have to do with this?”

“Because, my sister, they’re here. According to a dear friend of mine, the ponies of the Circle have started hunting for Vamponies and Ghouls here in Ponyville.”

“But Rarity, can’t you fight? You have your hunting knife and your powers. You can Dominate your enemies, you can see their auras, you can destroy and steal their blood. Why do you need this?”

Rarity spoke with a sweet voice. “Sweetie, my powers, and skills can only go so far. Against the flame, I’m useless. If they were to put me in front of the sun, I would die. I don’t want that to happen. Which is why I got it, I just want to protect us.”

Sweetie Belle sat back in her chair, still levitating the box. “But why this?”

“Because, this is now the only way we can survive.”

Rarity gets up and walks over to her window, looking out. “What I mean is, we have to find a way to survive. Every day that passes, is another day that we live on. But more and more of our fellow brothers or sisters die, by the hoofs of the Circle.”

Rarity takes the box from her sister and opens it. She levitates, out of the box, a stainless steel Colt Python Revolver. She sighs. “I don’t like going to extreme measures. But more and more Vamponies are turning to guns to defend themselves. Technology is moving forward, and we must follow as well.” She sets the gun down. “A war is coming, I can feel it. Between the Vamponies and the Circle. The guns of war are now the only option to defend ourselves”

Sweetie Belle spoke up. “But don’t guns hurt Vamponies as much as regular ponies?”

Rarity looked at her sister. “Yes, they do. But, as I said, It’s now the only option.”

Sweetie Belle looked down. “I’m scared.”

Rarity walked over and hugged her little sister. “Don’t worry. I’ll be the one to survive. Trust me.”

Sweetie Belle hugged back. “Alright. I trust you.”

“Good. Now go to bed. It’s late.”

Sweetie Belle nodded and started to walk up to her room. “I love you Rarity”

“I love you too Sweetie Belle”

Sweetie Belle then left and went to bed.

It’s late in the evening, as Rarity is working on the orders of the day. During the day, ponies come in and place orders, to Sweetie Belle, for outfits or repairs to their own outfits. Then at night, Rarity completes all of the orders as quickly and precise as possible. Then she gives them back to Sweetie Belle to give to the customer. Thankfully, none of them question how fast one little filly can get work done so fast.

As Rarity continues her work, her door opens and a elegant white unicorn walks in. Rarity doesn’t look up from her work, or even acknowledge that a pony walked through her door at this hour.

“You aren’t even going to attack me?” the unicorn asked in a french accent.

Rarity didn’t stop working. “If you were a threat, I would have known. My Auspex Discipline is always active when I work”

The unicorn rested against the wall and smiled. “Ah, yes. The skill to see auras, I should have known that was active. You never work without it.”

Rarity stopped working and looked up at the unicorn. “Yes, you should have, Fleur De Lee.”

Fleur looked over at her and chuckled. “You always could find a way to say my name and make it sound like something out of a drama show”

Rarity smiled. “So, what brings Canterlot’s most famous Vampony into my shop today?”

Fleur’s smile faded. “Nothing good. According to some rumors, a ship is coming in from the great Griffin Kingdom. The ship is believed to be carrying a lot of cargo. Amongst the cargo, there is rumors going around that a Sarcophagus is on board”

Rarity looked at Fleur with a confused look. “Who and Why would anyone need a Sarcophagus?”

Fleur walked over to Rarity. “This isn’t any old Sarcophagus. It apparently holds the body and soul of the great Vampony lord, Alirasia.”

Rarity’s eyes went wide with shock. “They found him, Are you sure?”

Fleur shrugged. “I don’t know. But as I said, it’s only a rumor. All I know for sure is that it’s on it’s way to a Museum in Baltimare.”

Rarity sat back in her chair. “A museum huh? I really wanted to get a look at it. Just to see if it really was the old Sarcophagus.”

Fleur smiled and walked behind to Rarity, and she put her fore hooves on Rarities sides. She moved her muzzle to Rarity’s ear and spoke in a quiet, but seductive tone. “Then it looks like you and I are gonna have to pull off another heist, just like the old days.”

Rarity blushed a little at the gesture, and spoke back in the same quiet and seductive tone. “You know my cat burgling days are over. Besides, how would we get in?”

Fleur slowly moved her hooves up and down Rarity’s sides. “You leave that to me. I know a few ponies that can get us in. All we have to do, is avoid the security. Get in, look at the Sarcophagus before it goes on display, and then get out. Just like the old days.”

Rarity tried to move closer to Fleur. “There was less security back in the day.”

Fleur chuckled. “That means more hiding in tight spaces for us. Remember how fun that was for us back then?”

Rarity giggled. “Oh yea, I remember.”

Fleur gave a quick kiss to Rarity and then moved away from her and walked over to the window. “It will be tough though. Even just to look at a millennia old Sarcophagus”

Rarity sat back up in her seat. “When was it ever easy?”

Fleur looked out the window. “Fair point.”

Rarity continued her work as Fleur stood by the window looking out. After a while, Fleur started to see smoke in the distance. “Rarity dear, what time is it?”

Rarity stopped her work again and looked at Fleur. “Around eleven in the evening. Why?”

Fleur continued to stare out the window. “What time did you say the Circle of the Sun started to hunt at night?”

Rarity thought out loud about that question. “Let’s see...that would be around this time. I think I mentioned that in my last letter to you.”

“You did, I was confirming it. I think a Vampony might be in danger” Fleur pointed out the window.

Rarity got out of her seat and looked out the window. “That smoke is near Fluttershy’s cottage.”

Fleur looked at Rarity. “You don’t think…”

Rarity’s eyes went wide again. “Oh no! Go over there and get her away from that area! I would, but I can’t leave my sister alone here. And if the Circle is here, then anypony away from civilization is in extreme danger.”

Fleur nodded. “I’ll bring her here. It’ll be safer that way.”

“Alright, just tell her I sent you And hurry. If that is Fluttershy...we may not have long.”

Fleur nodded and rushed out the door.

A few minutes after Fleur left, Rarity went to her kitchen and grabbed the gun again. She looked in the box and found the holster for the gun. She strapped it to her side and holstered the Revolver.

She then used her Auspex Discipline and looked around her shop and home. She looked around and saw nothing on her first floor. She then moved her head up and saw the aura of her sleeping sister.

She let out a sigh. “Glad to see you’re still…” Before she finished, she saw the aura of another pony, standing in the same room as her sister, with a red aura around the pony.

Rarity bolted up the stairs and barged in her sisters room. Before the other pony could react, Rarity quickly tackled the pony.

“AHHH!” The pony yelled out as it struggled. “Get off of me you stupid bitch. I have a job to do. And it doesn't involve killing a cunt like yourself”

At this point, Rarity could tell this pony was a stallion. But before she could do anything, he picked her up and kicked her in the gut, and into the wall. Rarity fell to the ground, and the stallion’s head illuminated a small glow. A knife is levitated up into the air.

“However, I can’t have any witnesses.” He attempted to stab Rarity with the knife.

However, it never hit her. Rarity opened up her eyes and looked down at her body, there was no knife mark, or knife. Her body wasn’t stabbed. She looked up at the pony, who was looking down next to Rarity.

Rarity moved her head and looked to where the pony was looking. Her eyes went wide. “Sweetie Belle…?”

There she was, Sweetie Belle. With a knife sticking out from her side. There she was strewn on the floor, lifeless. She wasn’t moving, Rarity couldn’t even see her breathing for that matter.

The pony chuckled. “Such a stupid filly. The knife blade is heated. She’ll burn from the inside out. My work here is done.”

Before he could take a single step, the light flashed before his eyes. A loud bang emitted the whole house and outside the house as well. As a small flash emitted with the bang, the Stallions head blew up and blood went all over the room. It hit the wall behind him, the bed next to him, and the dresser to the other side of him. He then fell over dead, and blood started to pour out of his body and on to the floor. The blood quickly turned into a pool as it poured out of him.

Against the wall, Rarity has the gun levitated. Smoke is coming from the barrel of the revolver. After a second or two, she dropped the gun, and stared at the corpse. “Burn in hell you bastard.”

Rarity then moved over to the filly that was her sister. She pulled the knife out and just buried her face in her sister’s side. Rarity started to cry. “Why did you do that? Why did you sacrifice yourself for me?”

Rarity pulled her face away, now covered in blood. She saw the blood of her sister start to pour out of her body more and more.

She heard a little grunt and saw her sister open her eyes. Rarity gasped and looked at her sister. “Sweetie Belle! You’re alive!”

Sweetie Belle looked up at her sister. “B...barely. I...need...b-blood”

Rarity nodded and she slit her wrist. She put the bleeding part to her sisters mouth and Sweetie started to suck up the blood. As she did, her wound began to heal.

After the stab was closed, Sweetie got back up. Rarity then smiled at her, and then slapped her.

“OW! What the hell was that for?,” Sweetie asked.

“Why did you do that? You could have died!”

Sweetie met her sister’s eyes with her own. “The power of a ghoul, is always more powerful than a blade. You taught me that.”

“I know I did. But he said that the blade was heated.”

Sweetie rubbed her side where the stab was. “It was, My internal organs are still burning up some. But, some more blood should heal it right up.”

Rarity hugged Sweetie Belle tightly. “I thought I lost you.”

“It’ll take more than a blade to kill me sis.”

Rarity then heard her front door open.

She activated her Auspex Discipline again and looked down beneath her. She saw the aura’s of two ponies that she knew all too well. She then walked downstairs to greet the two ponies.

“Fleur! Fluttershy! You’re both alright.” She hugged both mares.

Rarity then noticed that Fluttershy had a sad look on her face.

“Fluttershy? What’s wrong?” Rarity asked in a concerned voice.

Fluttershy didn’t answer. All she did was walk towards the window and sit in front of it.

Rarity turned to Fleur. “What happened?”

Fleur sighed. “The fire burning was not of Fluttershy, but of her ghoul. The Circle burned Rose alive.”

Rarity gasped. “Oh dear, that’s awful.” Rarity then thought for a moment. “I don’t think that the Circle was looking to kill Fluttershy. Right after you left, a Circle member broke in and try to kill Sweetie Belle. I splattered his brains all over the room. She is resting now, trying to recover.”

Fleur thought about what Rarity just said for a moment. “Do you think that the Circle is targeting Ghouls now?”

“They might be. We should inform one of the Vampony Lords of this, they must know about the Circle’s movements.”

Fleur nodded. “Right, I’ll book us a midnight train to get us to Canterlot. We can try to make an appointment with the High Vampony Lord Luna. If not, we can try to find one of the Town lords. If I remember correctly, Ponyville’s lord is away for now?”

Rarity nodded. “Yea, Lord Redheart went out of town for an emergency meeting. Let’s just hope that Luna will listen to us.”

Fleur looked at the time. “Then let’s move. We have five hours till sun up. Get your sister, and any values that you may need, then meet me by the train station.”

Rarity nodded and Fleur left. Rarity then gathered up her knife, gun, and a few blood packs, and put them all in her bag. She strapped her bag to her side and started to leave with Sweetie Belle next to her.

“I’m coming with you guys,” A voice said behind her. Rarity turned to see Fluttershy, right behind her with blood on her lips. “I wanna get revenge for what happened to Rose. I wanna destroy everypony in the Circle.”

Rarity looked at Fluttershy with a concerned look. “Are you sure?”

“Yes, I am. Let’s go.” Fluttershy started to walk out the door. “Oh, and don’t worry about the mess in Sweetie’s room. I already took care of it.” Fluttershy licked her lips and walked to the Train Station, with Rarity and Sweetie Belle following behind.

Rarity looked up at the night sky. “Let’s hope this night, isn’t our last”

The White Knight moves forward to its destiny.

The Black Queen is plotting something

A Black pawn has fallen

The Game Continues

Author's Note

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Edited by: Basic Information