Blending in. Sort of.

Oh no. Sweetie Belle passed out. That means she lost too much blood, and if her body makes more, it will leak right out the hole again, and if she's pushed too hard, she might... no, Scootaloo. You're strong. You earned your Cutie Mark! You can make it through this. You flew over the hole and saved your friends' lives...

Wait a second...

Flew.

FLEW.

FLEW! I flew! I wonder if I can still fly? Probably, 'cause I earned my Cutie Mark by doing it! YES! I'm gonna get all the books off the top shelf now by flying!

Okay, time to save Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom. I stretched my wings. Stretch, go up, go down, go up, go down. I began to hover, then to lift myself off the ground. Then I gasped.

"WOOHOO!" I screamed, darting about the room as fast as I could, leaving trails upon trails of magenta sparkles in my wake.

"AHEM!" Apple Bloom brought my attention to my unconscious friend, pointing towards Sweetie Belle. I sheepishly giggled and went back to gathering the books off the top shelf and putting them down on the table. As soon we pulled together a seemingly endless pile of books that could possibly contain maps, we dove into it.

It had seemed like forever since we started reading these Celestia-awful books. It had the most detailed descriptions of every room, BUT NO SENSE OF DIRECTION OR PLACE SO WE COULDN'T EVEN MAKE A MAP ANYWAY.

Then a whisper of a chuckle wafted it's way toward us. It became louder and louder, unsettling us more and more. But to us, it seemed like... background noise. It seemed to be directed over the other side of the room.

Where Sweetie Belle was.

We turned over to what looked like a tall, shadowy figure, and Alicorn, with bright yellow eyes and two very sharp teeth. I remember that evil chuckle from that day, the Summer Sun Celebration, when she returned.

It was Nightmare Moon. With Fangs.

You don't think she's a... Vampire, do you?

No, that's not possible. But either way, we have to save Sweetie Belle!

So I lunged towards Nightmare Moon, staring death in the face for the third time that night, and...

...missed.

Nightmare Moon plunged her fangs into Sweetie's neck, and her eyes shot wide open. I heard a sickening slurping sound as Nightmare Moon was probably sucking out her blood. And all I could do was watch, mesmerized.

When she was finished, the tall, black Alicorn stared at me and laughed evilly, then disappeared into a cloud of shadow.

Suddenly, Sweetie Belle got up. Me, jumping with joy at her being flipping alive, rushed over to her. But all she did was stare. Then she blinked.

Then she released an unequisly shriek as she buckled over in pain. Slowly, she rose up from the floor, levitated by an orb of black-colored magic. Then she let loose the loudest, most high-pitched, pain-inducing and pain-caused shriek I'd ever heard.

When she came down, her appearance had certainly changed. She looked older, was taller by at least six inches, and was also thinner. Kind of like Fluttershy when she was younger.

Her ears were considerably pointier, and she had this unsettling feel to her. Then, much to our surprise, she spread a pair of large, leathery, white bat wings, opened her mouth to reveal to new, pointy fangs, and opened her eyes to reveal reptilian pupils and red irises.

Then she hissed, and dove straight for my neck.