"Never again.." I mumbled to myself as I stood up on shaky legs. I looked at the unconscious mare on the ground and with a grunt pulled her onto my back and dragged her to the bed in a corner. I dumped her onto the bed, my fatigue too strong for me to do anything more. I collapsed beside the bed, my head hitting the cold unforgiving stone floor on the way down.

Fluttershy

I woke up in a completely dark room, my eyes taking a few moments to adjust to the darkness. "Where... where am I?" I called into the room. Well it was not really much of a room, it was more of a cave, with a stone floor and few furnishings. I shivered, my fur was not quite thick enough to repel the piercing cold. I slowly put a hoof onto the cave floor, which was surprisingly warm compared to the frigid atmosphere. 'Must be some sort of spell.' But that didn't explain why my hoof was wet. I pulled my hoof back up and examined it, it was covered in a red liquid. I looked down at a pony in a dark cloak with blood pooling from under the pony's hood.

"Hey Silver, I'm home and you won't believe what happened tonig-what in the fuck happened here?" A white unicorn mare with a two toned blue mane walked into the room, thick purple sun glasses covering her eyes. "What the fuck did you do!" the white mare screamed at me. I looked down at my hoof, she must of thought that..

"N-n-no I didn-" I tried to explain.

"N... not her fault..." A weak voice from below me cut me off. "I..." The voice fell silent again.

"Silver!" The white mare disappeared in a flash of neon blue before appearing next to Silver. "Crap, crap, crap!" The unicorns horn glowed a mixture between neon blue and a violent red. The colours began to swirl around each other creating a dark purple hue before a small beam emanated from her horn and struck Silver in the forehead. While the pony was using her magic she took Silver's cloak off revealing burn marks across her right side along with cutiemarks covered up by a brand in the shape of a sun that were glowing like hot coals.

Vinyl

'She had to use it didn't she, the one thing I told her not to do. She can't do that anymore!' I poured more magic into the healing spell, watching as the skin on her forehead started knitting back together before my eyes, a few minutes was all it took. I cut the spell out, the room returning to it’s normal brightness. She seemed to be fine, besides the fact that she was resting in a pool of her own blood. I glanced up to see a concerned looking vamp-pony mare with a worried expression on her face. I narrowed my eyes, I recognized her from somewhere. My eyes slowly grew in realisation. 'That's one of the elements or harmony!' I looked back down at Silver. 'You're going to have a lot of explaining to do.'

"So...." I began trying to break the silence that had fallen between us, she didn’t respond. The silence lasted a few more minutes before I made my second attempt. "Uh, I thought you were a solar pegasus." I winced at my lack of tact. 'Yes Vinyl the best thing to ask a pony you've never met why they are a bat pony, real smooth.'

"I... I don't really remember much, I was just helping my friends with a problem they had with some bats and then I wake up on the ground like this with nopony nearby. I was so worried that something had happened that I flew straight back to Ponyville to find a force field around the town and my friends having a picnic in the park."

“Most towns have magical force fields around them that keep vampire ponies out.” ‘But that doesn’t explain why her friends would just leave her…’

Silver

'What happened?' I tried to pry my eyes open but they wouldn't obey. 'Why am I so cold?' It felt like ice was running through my veins instead of blood, I felt like I would never be warm again. I heard voices, distant murmurs that I couldn't quite make out; I tried calling out to them but my mouth refused to move. My body was slowly going numb from the cold, was I dying?

I didn't have very long to think about it before I felt small surges of warmth pulsing through my body, it had a familiar feeling to it. Vinyl. I relaxed, knowing I was in safe and capable hooves. I let my mind sink below the waves of the dream world.

The second time I woke up, was not nearly as good as the first. It felt like shards of glass were embedded in my head, I winced; magic backlash, I should have seen that coming. I managed to crack my eyes open to view the thankfully dark room. I seem to be laying in Vinyl's bed. There was something soft and warm pressed against my back, I tilt my head to the side and spot the tips of a neon blue mane. Definitely Vinyl's bed, but where was Fluttershy? I slowly edged away from Vinyl's body in an attempt to escape, but my body froze, not letting me move a muscle. 'What's happening?' I focused on trying to move my wing... nothing. The chilling feeling of fear began to coat my brain.

"It's fine" A voice cut through my panicked conscious, a voice I recognized, a voice that I have not heard in years.

"Luna?"

Author's Note

This chapter took quite a bit longer than I thought it would, I apologize. I am also currently looking for an editor, PM me if interested.

If you see any typos that have evaded me be sure to point them out.