Author's Note

This means the inner spirit is talking. at least that's what I'm calling it for know.

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Chapter 9: New girl,old friend

Black,that is all Scootaloo could see in the endless void of darkness. She walks for what felt like eternity until she spoted a full body mirror. When she walks infront of it the image she saw wasn't her reflection. It's fur and mane were darker, it had leather wings like bats, its eyes were black with red slitted pupils.

"Hello,Scootaloo.".It greeted in her voice but more echoey.

"Who are you? She asked the thing in the mirror,it laughed at her as if she had told a good joke.

"I'm you of course,well an old part of you but still."That rose an eyebrow from Scootaloo. Just was that suppose to mean? Just before she was about to ask another question the mirror began to crack.

"Looks like we'll have to finish this another time."It said not even being fazed by the cracks in the glass surface. The void began to shake like an earthquake,Scootaloo was having a hard time keeping her balance.

"Wait,I'm not done,who are?" The cracks on the mirror grew larger as the void shook more violently.

"I'd love to indulge your curiosity but we simply don't have the time, so I leave you clue." The image from the mirror leaned forward,Scootaloo almost thought that it actually was leaning out of the slowly breaking mirror.

"Memmory is the key."The mirror broke.

Scootaloo jolted upright in her bed,her clock read 6:00am. It was a dream, and yet it felt so real to her. Her head was swarming with questions. What was that dream about? Who was that thing in the mirror?

"And what the hell did memory is the key suppose to mean?!" She yelled frustrated at the empty room. Knowing the answer won't come to her anytime soon she got up and took a shower, after about fifteen minutes she got out of the shower and dried off,after she finished drying her head she saw the thibg from her dream in fer reflection,she blinked and the image was replaced with her own reflection. She quickly got dressed and came down stairs to make breakfast. An hour of baking latter Scootaloo finished making waffles for her and Trixie, the latter soon came down stairs to see freshly baked waffles on the table.

"Oh mistress,you didn't have to make me anything." Trixie said embarrassed that someone else would make her anything this early.

"Consider this my apology for leaving you alone at that picnic,especially after what happened between me and Rainbow Dash." The incident at the picnic was only a week ago and yet the young mare felt guilty for forgetting her roommate.

"That was a week ago,it's fine,now hurry up and eat or you'll be late for school." The two mares ate in a comfortable silence,after Scootaloo finished she said good bye to Trixie and headed off to school.

In two hours Scootaloo had arrived at school,but it seemed to be buzzing with some sort of rumor,something about a new girl. All she heard while walking to first period was what everyone thinks the new girl is like,some hope she's nice,others hoping she was rich, she even heard some of the guys hoping she was hot or cute. When Scootaloo Sat down in her seat the bell rang signaling class has started. Not a minute later Cheerliee stepped inside with a large grin.

"Hello class,now today is a special day for we have a new student joining us." She waited tell the whispering had settled down before continuing.

"Now I want each of you to be nice and give her a good time,alright you can come in!" With that the door opened again and a mare walked in. She was a dark blue eath pony,she she had a nicely brushed black mane and tail with a red streak running through them,yellow eyes,she wore a red dress that went waist level and was tight enough to show a little of cleavage.dark jeans and blue heels.

"Hello,my name is Aurora wave." She introduced herself in a voice that would belong to a noble family. She looked across the room to scan everyone's expression,but when her eyes stopped on an orange pegasus she gasped in surprise.

"Oh my gosh Scooty!" Aurora had rushed to tackle Scootaloo into a tight hug almost crushing the other mare.

"H-hey Aurora,long time no see.".Scootaloo greeted between breaths as she was being squeezed. Everyone in the classroom was looking at them in confusion, except for Sweetie Belle who was staring at the the new girl with jealousy in her eyes. After Aurora had released Scootaloo she was assigned to the empty seat behind her, Cheerilee had decided to assign Scootaloo with the task of showing Aurora around,much to Sweetie Belle's displeasure.

After giving Aurora a tour around the school and classes she took Aurora to the table the Crusaders usually eat during lunch. When they sat down at the table Applebloom was the first to speak.

"So Aurora, ya know Scoots?" The way she acted when she saw Scootaloo rose some questions in the young farmer's head.

"Oh yes,we both knew each other back in Manehatten,although I would never guessed we'd meet again." Aurora found it a good time to start hugging Scootaloo as she answered, Sweetie Belle did not like it.

"By the way aren't you gonna introduce your friends Scooty." Scootaloo blushed at the nick name as she ate her lunch.

"I told you not to call me that in public." She complained as she controls her blush.

"Anyway, this is Applebloom." She said as she points to the country mare who wich gave a friendly nod.

"And this is Sweetie Belle,my marefriend." Both Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle blushed as they let their relationship be known to their friend, Applebloom rose a curious eyebrow at this.

"Since when did this happen?"

"Last week." Sweetie Belle answered, Aurora couldn't help but squeal in joy.

"Finally! I thought you would never get into the love game." Aurora was squeezing Scootaloo with renew energy at this point.

"Well I'm happy for you two." Applebloom said with a smile.

"So how did you two meet anyway?"Sweetie Belle asked. When Scootaloo managed to separate herself from the blue earth pony she answered.

"Well, back in Manehatten I was walking the streets until I saw Aurora being bullied by a couple of thugs, so I thought I help her out,then one thing lead to another and were friends." Aurora nodded her head in confirmation.

"Even in Manehatten ya always get into a fight eh?" Applebloom commented with a knowing smirk.

"Hey, in Manehatten you have to show your tough or you'll be dead in a second." Aurora nodded in agreement. So the group of four talked a little bit more before the bell rang and they moved on to next period.

After school Scootaloo wanted to show Aurora her place and Sweetie Belle wanted to come along as well,incase something happened between these two. When they made it inside they were greeted by the sound of a mare's voice coming from the basement.

"Mistress,I found a new technique I would like to try out." Trixie said coming up stairs to see her mistress plus Sweetie Belle and a mare she never seen before,her cheeks turned red as she realized that they probably heard her call Scootaloo mistress, but not as red as Scootaloo's.

"Scootaloo, are you in a harem or something?" Aurora joked.

"Hello, my name is Trixie." Trixie introduced a bit awkwardly. About twenty minuets latter of explaining everything to Aurora, the four mares enjoyed dinner. They talked a little bit on light topics before Aurora brought up a serious matter.

"I still can't believe your taking a lot of risk with what your doing with these two." Both Sweetei Belle and Trixie looked at each other confused before looking back towards Aurora.

"What do you mean?" Sweetie Belle asked with a raised eyebrow, Aurora looked back to Scootaloo with a serious look.

"You haven't told them?" Scootaloo sighed as she placed the fork down.

"I was hoping to avoid it,but I might as well now." She cleared her throat before she began her explanation.

"You see, while there are many types of vampires and coves, there are some of the old fashioned vampires that lived a thousand years. Some of them don't really like it when a mortal knows who's a vampire and when they find out they have every intention on killing that mortal and the vampire that reveled themselves." Scootaloo stopped look at the two listening mares,she noticed a tinge of fear in their eyes. "It's basically the same thing with pure bloods and half-bloods not following the traditional blood pact."

"So,does that mean that were in danger." Sweetie Belle asked in a shaking tone, Scootaloo smiled and placed a hand on hers as a sign of comfort.

"Not while I'm around." This seemed to cheer Sweetie Belle up a little bit.

"You two are so cute." Aurora giggled as she sees the two couple blush. After finishing dinner Aurora decided to leave for the night, she stood outside of the door while the other three are inside giving her their farewell.

"It was great seeing you again Aurora." Scootaloo said as she hugged her old friend, a little too friendly for Sweetie Belle.

"You too Scooty, and you two as well." Aurora replied, Sweetie Belle and Trixie said the same thing back, though for Sweetie Belle she tried not to let her jealousy get in her voice. She was suddenly garbed from behind in a firm hug, she looked back to see a grinning Scootaloo.

"So, are you gonna explain why you've been jealous all day?" Sweetie Belle was caught off guard but refused to admit it.

"I don't know what your talking about." She lied defiantly,but it failed on the account of her red cheeks.

"Oh come on,I've notice the way you've been acting so just admitt it already." Sweetie Belle sighed and decided to get it over with.

"I'm jealous because of how close you and Aurora seem to be." Scootaloo smiled a little at the confession and gave Sweetie Belle a peck on the lips.

"I swear, me and Aurora are only friends and nothing more."

"Yes,we may look like a couple but truth is that I think Scootaloo as a little sister." Aurora added in, hearing this makes Sweetie Belle feel a little bit better.she going to apologize but was interrupted a distant growling in the distance. Up ahead on the path way stood about a dozen ponies, they were all growling like feral beasts and their eyes only shine blood red as they moved towards them.

"Mistress,what are those ponies doing?" Trixie asked getting an uneasy feeling of the approaching ponies. Scootaloo stood in a protective stance in front of Sweetie Belle as she turned into her vampire form.

"They're ferals, vampires who have lost themselves to the blood lust,they are basically animals in pony form." She said while Trixie gets in a ready stance and, to Sweetie Belle's surprise Aurora does as well.

"Aurora your gonna fight too?" Aurora gave Sweetie Belle a confident smirk.

"Yeah, I'm not exactly helpless, you ready Scoots?" She looks to Scootaloo to see that she was sporting the same smirk as her.

"You know I am,how about you go first." Scootaloo suggested , Aurora grinned as she moves forward. When one of the ferals charged towards her she just smirked and let it get closer, Sweetie Belle only watched in confusion and worry as the feral got closer to Aurora.

"I don't understand,what is she gonna do?" She looked to Scootaloo,and saw that she still has that smile on her face.

"Take a closer look." She simply said, Sweetie Belle looked back to Aurora to see what exactly she was looking for. She saw it, down in Aurora's right hand she could see that it was being surrounded by some sort of liquid appearing out of thin air.

"Is that water?" Trixie had seen the liquid as well but could make it out better than Sweetie Belle due to the fact that vampires can see more clear in the dark.

"Yeah,Aurora has the ability to manipulate water and use water based magic." Both Trixie and Sweetie Belle had an expression of confusion,before one of them could ask they heard the loud howl of the feral,bring their attention back to Aurora. The feral was close enough that it was about to take a swipe with its claws. Aurora sidestepped to the right to doge the attack, after the feral hit air Aurora crossed her right hand to the left side of her body like one would when preparing to slash their sword. The water surrounding the apendage extended to almost resemble a gauntlet blade, with the edge long and sharp and the rest of the water remaining on her wrist. Aurora made a slashing motion with the water gauntlet across the feral's neck,when the water made contact it cut through the flesh easily as if it were a real sword and cut its head off.

Both Sweetie Belle and Trixie were stuck in awe at what they have just witnessed,Scootaloo chuckled at their reaction.

"Yeah,when Aurora uses her powers she can convert the air around herself into water,it may look like normal water but it's as strong as steel." Three more ferals charged at Aurora at once, she intercepts them by summoning a large pillar of water from underneath them sendi them flying up in the air.

"That's my cue." Scootaloo flew straight at the airborn ferals with crimson night summoned in hand and sliced through the three ferals as she flew past them.

"Trixie stay back with Sweetie Belle, Aurora and I can fight the guys but I'm counting on you to protect her from any unexpected attacks." Scootaloo ordered looking back at them.

"You can count on me!" Trixie exclaimed, Scootaloo smiled a bit before she focused back on the remaining ferals. Just when she was about to charge straight at them she suddenly had an idea. She flew down next to Aurora.

"Hey I just got an idea on killing these guys in one shot,and it's pretty awesome." She said excitedly as she produced some sparks of red electricity,Auroa got the hint immediately as she formed a sphere of water the size of a basketball, she threw it straight at the approaching ferals, once it reached the center of them it expanded into a large dome with the ferals inside drowning. Once it expanded Scootaloo used crimson arc to electrify the dome and the ferals trapped inside,after a few minuets the dome of water dispersed and dropped all of the ferals that are now reduced to smoking corpses.

"Well that was easy." Aurora commented,she turned to look at Scootaloo and saw the serious expression on her face as she looks over the dead ferals.

"Something doesn't feel right,all of them have the exact same magic signature." Just when she said she felt a strong source of power followed by the sound of laugher from a dark male voice.

"You have good senses,Night Wing." Said a stallion as he rises out from a forming pool of darkness. Once he fully emerged everyone present could make out his features.he is a deep red unicorn with black mane, obsidian armor both upper and lower body,a black cape that reaches to the top of his ankles. But the most defining feature is the crimson slitted eyes of a vampire.

"Allow me to introduce myself, I am General Red Dawn of the Dark Moon society." Red Dwan introduced with a respectful bow,this didn't ease Scootaloo as she didn't drop her fighting stance.

"Dark Moon?" Sweetie Belle asked from where she was with Trixie at the house. Red Dawn rose from his bow as he gave them an explanation.

"You see, Dark Moon is a society of supernatural creatures like werewolves, orcs and vampires, we dedicate our lives in this society for one being that will lead us to a new world." He said with a proud smile on his face. Everything he said gives Scootaloo a bad feeling along with a sense of danger. 'He gives off a large amount of power as an intimidation act,I better watch step with him' Scootaloo thought.

"And just who is this being?" Aurora asked with her body tensed as she waits for a possible attack. The question made Red Dawn smile wider showing of his sharp fangs as he gives out one name.

"Nightmare Moon." The name caused everyone's eyes widen and pupils to shrink in surprise and fear.

"There's no way Princess Luna would go back to being that monster." Trixie said not believing what this stallion is saying, hearing Luna's name caused the general to laugh loudly.

"You actually thought I meant that weak faker,oh how naïve you all are." He said while wiping a few tears out of his eyes from laughing. Once he calmed down he had a serious expression on his face.

"No, I mean the real Nightmare Moon, the only reason Luna ever had that was name was because our mistress needed a body,but soon we will be able to create an soulless body that she will call her own!" Scootaloo and others couldn't believe the nonsense that he was saying, but there was an important question lingering for this moment.

"None of this explains why your here." Scootaloo growled,she did not like this stallion one bit, especially the way he insults the night princess.

"Ah right,you have proven to be quite the specimen and a threat to us from what Lust had told us." Hearing Lust's name caused all but Aurora to tense up.

"So she's one of you then?"Scootaloo asked even though she probably knows the answer.

"She is, but enough talk,show me what your capable of Night Wing." Red Dawn challenged getting into a fighting stance.

"My name is Scootaloo, I'm not that kind of pony anymore." Scootaloo said denying her old name from years ago before she moved in Ponyville. Red Dawn however doesn't seem convinced.

"That's not how it looked when you slaughtered those hunters last week." Scootaloo was confused, she didn't remember seeing any hunters last week.

"What are yo-Ah!" Scootaloo shouts in pain as she grips her head in response to the painful pounding that throbbed in it.

Red Dawn took advantage of her pain and attacked with an uppercut to send Scootaloo into the air, the attack seemed to have brought Scootaloo back to her senses as she righted herself with her wings in the air. She flew towards him and tried to punch him but he blocked it, he went for another punch but Scootaloo knocked it away and kicked him in the chest making him slide back a few feet, she then used night shatter and sent twenty shadow blades,but just when they made contact Red Dawn smirked and lit up his horn in a dark red aura and the shadow blades were suddenly ripped into ribbons in seconds leaving everyone surprised.

"Impressive, if you had been fighting against any normal pony or vampire then that would have worked,but unfourtanetly for you I have been training my whole life in deconstructing shadow magic." Red Dawn said with a smirk on his lips, Scootaloo growled in response and summoned crimson night into her hands.

"Then I'll just have to be more creative with my powers." She charged at him and slashed downward at him, he dodged and created a sword of his own from the shadows. The two vampires charged at the same time and clashed blades,both pushing for dominance over the other. However just when Scootaloo seemed to be gaining the upper hand ten shadow like tentacles slowly rose from the ground behind her.

"Scootaloo behind you!" Sweetie Belle warned, Scootaloo looked back and saw the tentacle like shadows rushing towards her, she jumped to the side and avoided the fatal blow,but she couldn't avoid getting a cut to her side that bled a little.

"Bastard, are you a general because you use cheap tricks?" Scootaloo growled as she eyed Red Dawn carefully for anymore tricks. Red Dawn chuckled at the accusation.

"Of course not, that was just a demonstration of what a vampire unicorn is capable of, a pegasus such as you can never reach my level." He stated giving himself an air of superiority. Scootaloo charged at him again with crimson night and the clash of swords continues, when Red Dawn blocked another swing from Scootaloo she used the close distance to use crimson arc and electrify him causing Red Dawn to stumble back in pain. Scootaloo didn't give him a chance to recover and mad a diagonal slash leaving a large cut across his chest. Red Dawn grabs his chest in pain, he looks at Scootaloo with sheer anger has his horn lit again with red electricity as he fires his own crimson arc at her. The attack hit creating a large cloud of dust on the spot, a minute latter ten black blade like tentacles shot out from the dust cloud towards Red Dawn.

"Don't you learn anything you can't hurt me with your shadows." He said as he began to deconstruct the incoming shadows,however when he destroyed them it revealed that Scootaloo had managed to hide inside them. Unable to react in time due to his surprise she had managed to cut his right arm off.

"Gah you bitch!" Red Dwan cursed loudly as he stared at his disembodied arm. Scootaloo didn't seemed fazed by his outburst as she stared at him with a hard stare.

"Don't underestimate your opponents because of their race, unicorns are not the elite race in this world." She lectures at the angry unicorn before her. Red Dawn's face soon went from anger to amusement much to everyone's confusion.

"It's been a while since someone cut a part of me off." He said as his horn lit up as he levitates his right arm back to its original place,once the appendage made contact with the rest of his body the place the cut was made mended its self leaving no trace of it ever being there.

"I must admit you are quite the clever one aren't you." He said as he flexes his fully healed right arm,his horn is still lit up though and Scootaloo had a bad feeling in her gut all of a sudden.

"But I'm afraid I have to put this game to a close." Scootaloo suddenly felt a strong pressure pressing down on her to the point where she collapsed to the ground on her stomach, she took notice of a dark red aura around her body. Red Dawn walked up to her with an evil smirk and his blade ready to swing down on its soon to be victim.

"Good bye, Night Wing." Just when he was about to bring his sword down on her neck he was blasted away by a powerful stream of water.

"Like hell your killing my best friend!" Aurora yelled as she took a protective stance between the two vampires, this didn't seem to faze Ded Dawn except making him very annoyed.

"Oh please, a mud pony like you can't do anything to counter my magic." He demonstrated this by repeating what he did to Scootaloo on Aurora, just like before she fell to the ground, leaving the only ones still standing is Red Dawn, Trixie and Sweetie Belle.

"Trixie can't you do anything to help?" Sweetie Belle asked almost pleadingly as she watches her beloved vampire mare friend in a dangerous position as well as Auora, sure she was jealous of how close those two were but that didn't mean she wants a possible new friend to get hurt.

"I might with a new technique I found earlier,but I only have one shot." Trixie said as she watches her mistress in danger;with determination in her eyes she charges at Red Dawn as his attention stayed off of her, as she gets closer to him a condensed ball of red energy formed in her hand. Forgetting all about the half-blood Red Dawn wasn't prepared for the attack;when Trixie was close enough she shaves the red ball towards him and fired, creating a large blast of magic point blank. However when it was over it revealed the stallion has hardly taken any damage!

"Not too bad, although judging from how exhausted you look I take it that was the first Crimson Cannon you pulled off." True to his statement Trixie does look exhausted, the Crimson Cannon took up a large amount of magic leaving her low on stamina. Red Dawn then back handed Trixie across her right cheek sending her flying back the way she came until she slowed down to a stop on the ground, leaving her too tired to get back up.

"Trixie!" Scootaloo yelled as she saw all this,before she could say anything else she felt her mind go blank as darkness over came her.

Scootaloo finds herself back in the dark void in her dream, and like before the thing that looks like her in the mirror is there to.

"come now Scootaloo you an do better than this."It said as she shakes her head in disappointment, this is making Scootaloo frustrated as she looks at it in this place while her friends are in danger.

"What do you want from me I can't even move with his magic pressing down on me, not to mention he can demolish all of my shadow attacks." Hearing this only made the reflection sigh.

"Don't you remember how you defeated the Shadow Lycan?" it asked, Scootaloo knew exactly what it was talking about, the red aura that appeared when she delivered the final blow on that fight.

"That was a fluke I have know idea how that even happened."

"Then everyone you care about will die ." the reflection said coldly before the mirror began to shine a bright light.

Scootaloo's eyes snapped open wide still slightly out of it from talking to that thing again, when the last thing it said before waking up was finally processed in her mind there was only one thing she felt that moment. Her rapidly rising anger, she narrowed her eyes and gritted her teeth as she once again attempts to rise back to her feet, fueled with rage she manages to stand back up. Red Dawn quickly too notice of this and was quite surprised.

"Impossible,you shouldn't be able to stand with my power pressing down on you." He tried to add more pressure in hopes of knocking her back down but only succeeded in making her body hunch over slightly.

"Don't, hurt my friends." Her cutie mark began to glow a powerful light of red that was soon followed by a bright red aura around her body underneath Red Dawn's magic.

"ANYMORE!!!" The red aura completely destroys Red Dawn's magic as it shot outwards creating a red sphere of light around Scootaloo making her look like a beacon in the night, the power she was unleashing disrupts Red Dawn's magic around Aurora freeing her as well. Still being surrounded in the red aura Scootaloo charged straight towards Red Dawn with the speed that even a high class vampire couldn't match, she uppercuts him sending straight into the air,she quickly followed him and began to send a volley of punches into his chest, she then created a large sphere of red electricity in her right hand.

"YOUR DEAD!!" She fires the electricity and engulfed Red Dawn in a large beam of electricity that sounded like thunder, after the attack was done Red Dawn's body fell and hit the unforgiving ground, Scootaloo slowly landed in front of him, everyone present to the fight had begun to gather around that spot as well, with Sweetie Belle supporting Trixie to walk. The red aura had vanished by the time everyone was there.

"Alright Red Dawn your done,now tell us what we want to know." Scootaloo demanded as she glares at the down vampire, Red Dawn chuckled at her with out a hint of fear as his body slowly began to desintergrate.

"Hah, why should I say anything when I'm already about to die, but I will say this." He slowly rose his head slightly to meet Scootaloo's eyes.

"When I first saw you I thought it was a coincidence, but after seeing you fight I started to think about it more, and that burst of raw power confirmed it that you are definitely the same as her." He coughed up blood as his body desintergrates faster.

"What are you talking about?" Scootaloo asked impatiently with his babbling, Red Dawn smiles in amusement as if being reminded of a far away memory.

"I'm talking about one of the most powerful vampires in the history of Equestria." His body is know almost completely turned to dust as he says these last two words that will surprise the four mares.

"Your mother."