Crimson Night

“Good morning Twilight!” Fluttershy said happily.

“Morning Fluttershy...what's wrong?” Twilight asked when she noticed Fluttershy had her medical kit out.

“Oh, um. My cut reopened again so I have to re wrap it.” Fluttershy said.

“Here, let me.” Twilight said. Fluttershy was confused when Twilight licked the cut, but was amazed when it closed.

“So that myth was true!” Fluttershy said.

“Yeah...least I can do for what you did...” Twilight retorted.

“So...um...I was wondering...there are other Vamponies in other places...that much I know...but um...since you're getting all these...um...powers...would you be a very powerful one?” Fluttershy asked.

“Maybe...Zecora and Luna told me most Vamponies don't have more than a few special abilities, most ponies' blood isn't that powerful...but all of those other ones have been Vamponies for a long time, and they are all at full power, and they know their capabilities...I'm still figuring everything out and I'm not at full strength yet, I can't bring myself to completely leech on one of my friends...” Twilight said.

“Oh...I see. Oh, um...about the Timberwolf thing last night...um...I have a book on their behavior...you said they called you 'Pack Savior'?” Fluttershy asked.

“Yea they did. Why?” Twilight asked.

“Well, um...That means you have um...more authority than the leader...” Fluttershy said.

“What?!” Twilight exclaimed.

“At least until the um...debt is repaid. They are very traditional. If the debt is large enough, they would sacrifice all of their fighting wolves for you...and um...apparently you saved their entire pack...so um...that's a big debt.” Fluttershy said.

“Well it's a debt I don't really want to be repaid...I couldn't ask that of the Timberwolves...” Twilight said. Before either could speak again, there was a knock on the door. When Fluttershy opened it, she was startled by one of Pinkie's party cannons, for nopony could mistake that ball of pink nor shower of confetti instantly making the room into a party.

“Pinkie! What are you doing here?” Twilight exclaimed.

“Oh silly filly! I'm here for your congratulations on fighting the timberwolf and about being an awesome Vampony Party! I know it's kind of a secret so you two are the only guests but a party's still a party with three!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“Pinkie...” Twilight said lowly.

“Oh sorry, I was gonna come by and say hi to Fluttershy when I heard those howls and I saw you fighting the Timberwolf and I ran as fast as I could, but then I came back to see if you were alright and I saw you finishing him which was awesome!” Pinkie exclaimed as she passed out cups of red liquid. Fluttershy and Twilight gave her a look.

“It's punch!” Pinkie exclaimed. They kept giving her the look.

“Ok, ok. Twilight yours is mixed with a bit of my blood, I kinda saw what she did and I wanted to try it! Guess it didn't work...but just pretend it's punch I wanna know what happens if you drink my blood, cuz I don't even know what'll happen because I can do so much and stuff so drink!” Pinkie exclaimed, seemingly in one breath. Twilight sighed and drank, wow Pinkie's blood had a bit of spice to it.

“So...anything twitching?” Twilight asked after a few moments, gaining a giggle from the other two.

“Nopey Dopey!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“Huh...Whoa!” she exclaimed when she tried to pinpoint what was different, and was suddenly on the other side of the room. When she was moving, she moved in real time. But she realized while these black shadow things were around her, time and gravity seemed to be slowed, even for her body, but not her mind..

“Whoa you just got covered in like black shadowey stuff or something!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“But...everything seemed like it was in slow motion or something...maybe your amazing ability to defy gravity and be in two places at once sort of transferred over...or maybe it's just I can manipulate time? I don't know I'll have to study it.” Twilight said.

“Dark you just couldn't figure out what to give her eh?”

No...shush!

“Uh...what?” the other two asked.

“I didn't say anything.” Pinkie said.

“Right....well...I'd love to stay and party, but there's something I want to do that's kind of important...” Twilight said.

“Oh sure! Go have fun!” Pinkie exclaimed and pulled Fluttershy into a random dance to no music. Twilight laughed at that and gave Fluttershy an apologetic look when she looked at her with a 'Don't you dare leave me here with her!' look.

“Whoa...This is a lot harder looking...” Twilight mumbled as she looked at the course. “Well...better get starte- Oof!” She started as she jumped up to the starting platform, only to have a log swing down and hit her in the chest. She did a backflip and landed on her hooves, and with a huff, jumped back up. This time she jumped over the log and launched forward to the forest of log pillars in front of her.

Some of the pillars were short enough for her jump on top of, while others were so large she was meant to bounce off of. She would occasionally do a chain of bounces, but was confused when she found herself back at the starting platform...and on the ground with a sore flank after the log came back.

“Wait! I know!” she exclaimed. Delving into the newest ability in her arsenal, she slowed time...or whatever it was she did, and made her way up to the platform. She saw everything clearly and slowly. Her body was slowed as well, but her mind was sharp as ever so she was easily able to evade the log that was incoming.

Using this method, she was able to finally formulate a route that brought her to the end of the section. She deadpanned when she saw what was next. A much harder version of what she had just finished, complete with the chaser pillars and moving platforms. She groaned loudly and went back to the beginning to perfect the first section.

She realized that with the time slow, it was too easy. She stopped using it, and received many more bruises, and even a few bloody noses. But eventually she managed to get through the first, and second, stage without the time stop as night fell once more.

The third stage made Twilight think Luna wanted to kill her. It was almost exactly the same as the first stage, but EVERYTHING was constantly moving at varying speeds. She had noticed that her reaction time had increased greatly because of the time thing, but she didn't believe it was enough.

“Whoa...what...is this?” Dash said to herself. She had been flying over the Everfree to chase down some renegade clouds when she noticed something strange about a stretch of forest. She got closer and found it was just an illusion, and had dropped down to see the mother of all obstacle courses. She heard a few thumps and grunts, was somepony training in this?

Her question was answered when there was a yelp, a thump, and a Lavender blur flying through the air. Dash yelped and jumped over the fleshy projectile, and caught a Pony rolling and catching herself on her hooves.

“Is that...Twilight?” Dash asked. She was answered by the Lavender unicorn baring...her...fangs? With a hiss? What the hell?! Dash dashed off into the air, but found Twilight jumping up in front of her.

“T-Twilight what's going on?! Don't eat me!” Dash exclaimed.

“Dash..>Dash I'm so sorry, you scared me.” Twilight said with a pant after she helped Dash up after startling the Pegasus into falling to the ground. Dash looked at Twilight. She looked a hell of a lot stronger than before, she had a lot of bruises and it looked like her nose was broken now. She was rubbing at her nose, sniffling a bit in pain. But she was still baring fangs.

“Twilight? What's up with you now? Why do you have fangs and why are you so hurt?” Dash asked.

“Well...I'm hurt because of this damn course...the third stage is damn near impossible...that last one smashed me in the face...” Twilight said, her voice having pain evident and slightly less nasal.

“But what about the fangs?” Dash asked.

“Well...” she started and explained.

“Wait...so you're telling me Luna is like the queen of Vamponies? That's so cool!” Dash exclaimed.

“No she's not a Vampony, she and Celestia just created it...” Twilight said. She also decided to tell Dash about her fight with the Timberwolf, a little flaunting never hurt anypony.

“You seriously took down a Timberwolf all by yourself? Damn Twi, remind me never to piss you off.” Dash said with a laugh.