scootaloo: knight of shadows

Two weeks has past since Scootaloo fought the shadow lycan and the mysterious power that aided her victory,and since then sweetie belle has been having confusing thoughts of her vampire friend, every time she sees her she feels her cheeks burn, and when she is away from her Sweetie belle yearns to be by Scootaloo's side. Sweetie belle was walking out of school with her two best friends who were talking about something, she wasn't paying attention as her mind was distracted figuring out her feelings to her pegasus friend. However she did noticed her sister, Rainbow dash and Applejack at the end of the path off school grounds.

"Hi guys what you three doing here?" Sweetie belle asked making Scootaloo and Applebloom look and see the older mares.

"Well you see darlings, some ponies has come to ponyville and it would seem that they were on a q search for something" explained Rarity, hearing this made Scootaloo narrow her eyes.

"Yeah and it was really weird cause they have a lot of weapons like swords, and shields and other stuff." Added rainbow dash, scootaloo knew who these new ponies are and what those weapons were meant, she clenched her hand in irritation as a single thought crossed her mind. Hunters.

"They heard about ponies like those, they might be one of those hunters that go after supernatural creatures" sweetie belle voiced out as if reading scootaloo's mind, this drew curious looks from the other ponies except scootaloo.

"How do y'all know that sweetie belle?" Applebloom asked with a raised eyebrow, sweetie belle looked away from her farmer friend.

"I heard rumors from ponies about it" she answered with out looking at applebloom's direction.

"They sound totally awesome, hunting down evil monsters that no one knows about" said rainbow dash excitedly with an enthusiastic smile, this made rarity scoff at the pegasus.

"Really, you get wild so easily, have you forgotten how brutish they look, I doubt they even have manners" stated.

"Ah have to agree they don't look too friendly." Added applejack with a tip of her hat" which is why we came here, so we could warn ya to try and avoid them if you can" she warned with narrowed eyes.

"Any idea on what they are hunting for anyway?" Asked scootaloo.

"Yeah, apparently they think a vampire is in ponyville and are staying until they kill it" said rainbow dash not even noticing that sweetie belle's eyes had widened.

"If you ask me, if there is a vampire here then I hope those hunters kill it, the town will be better off with out those monsters around." Rainbow dash added also not seeing how scootaloo's whole body tensed as well as rarity and sweetie belle.

"Don't you think that's a bit harsh dash?" applejack asked

"Whatever, you agree with me on this don't you scootaloo?" Rainbow dash asked as she raised her hand to the orange pegasus for a fist bump, still not seeing her discomfort. Scootaloo however, doesn't seem like she was looking by the way her mane shadows her eyes, she walks past the three mares ignoring the outstretched fist.

"I'll see you guys latter" scootaloo said without looking back. This made rainbow dash confused along with applejack and apple bloom, rarity and sweetie belle looked at her with worry of what is going on in her head.

"Scootaloo" sweetie belle whispered low enough to be unheard.

Scootaloo walks through town with no destination as she thinks back to some of her days in manehatten,monster,freak,demon, she heard it all,and yet it seems worse when someone who was like a sister to say it something like that,even though it wasn't directed towards her directly, this is why scootaloo never revealed her secret to anyone in years, it would only cause more pain.

"Its a little weird finding out your a vampire, but your still my best friend" "Quite right darling, you have always put some one else's need before your own, if you have been a vampire this whole time as you say then who are we to judge." Sweetie belle and rarity's words from the night scootaloo revealed herself to them popped into her mind, it made her feel a little better knowing that at least two ponies accepts her. She stopped in front of a building that oddly looks edible, sugarcube corner was the best sweet shop in town, and scootaloo thought she could satisfy her sweet tooth. She stepped inside and stoped at the front counter where an energenic earth pony stood behind. She was light pink with darker pink mane and tail that were puffy with curls, baby blue eyes, she wore a dark pink t-shirt, pink tight jeans, her cutie mark is three ballons, two blue and a yellow in between.

"Hey scoots, what's up" the pink mare asked whith wide smile on her face

"Hey pinkie nothing much, can I have the usual please?" Scootaloo asked

"Sure, I'll have it ready in jiffy" was all she said before rocketing into the kitchen, scootaloo smirked and shook her head at the party pony's energy. She took a seat at a table in the corner to wait for her usual, as she waits she saw four stallions sitting at a table a few feet in front of her, one was a yellow unicorn with brown mane and tail, another was a green earth pony whith large muscles with orange mane and tail, the other two are pegaus with matching red coats, the only difference is one had a yellow mane and tail, and the other had a blue mane and tail, all four of them are wearing matching brown leather armor, the thing that caught scootaloo's attention is their weapons.

'They must be the hunters I was warned about,great' she thought as she did her best to ignore them, that was when pinkie pie came to her table with two milkshakes in her hands, one white the other pink.

"One vanilla milkshake right here" she said handing scootaloo the white milkshake as she sat in the chair in front of scootaloo

"Thanks but what's the strawberry for?" Scootaloo asked indicating the other cup in pinkie's hand

"Oh that's for me, I thought I could join you while I'm on brake" she explained sitting down in the chair in front of scootaloo and took a sip of her strawberry milkshake.

"So do you prefer mares or stallions?" Pinkie asked randomly while scootaloo was drinking her shake, which she just spat out from the surprise of the question.

"Um,mares" scootaloo answered once she regained her composure

"Really, me to!" Pinkie said excitedly

"You have a girlfriend ?" Scootaloo wondered

"Nah, that's latter in the story" pinkie replied

"What story?" Scootaloo asked with a raised eyebrow

"Neither mind that" pinkie said winking at the reader, scootaloo shook her head in amusement at the random pony's antics.

"So you feeling better now?" Pinkie asked with less energy than usual.

"What do you mean?" Scootaloo asked

"You looked kinda down when you got in her." Pinkie said concerned for her friend, not many ponies realise it, but pinkie is capable of being serious when it comes to fer friends and their well beings.

"I'm fine pinkie thanks" scootaloo lied,not wanting to burden the pink mare with her problems.

"Scootaloo, I know your lying." Pinkie said with an amuse smirk on her lips

"No I'm not" scootaloo said defiantly

"Scootaloo, either you tell me, or I force it out of you" said pinkie with a mischievous smile on her lips. Scootaloo was gonna say something back but stoped herself when the stallions she noticed before started to surround four mares, upon further inspection she sees the four mares are rainbow dash, applejack, rarity, and sweetie belle, they probably came here too find her, pinkie pie noticed this as well.

"Hey what's going on over there?" Questioned pinkie pie out loud. There wasn't much ponies in the sweet shop today so the only ponies here are the hunters, scootaloo,pinkie pie and their friends, so it wasn't hard to hear what the stallions were saying.

"Hey, what a bunch of hotties like you four up to?" Questioned the unicorn as him and his friends check out the four mares in front of him.

"We came here because a friend of ours might be here and we were worried" explained rarity a little unease with the way the group of hunters are looking at them.

"Well, how about we help out, and get to know each other a bit better afterwards, if you now what I mean" the pegasus with the blue mane said with a hint of lust in his eyes.

"Thanks but I think we can manage on our own" replied applejack in a harsh tone.

"Um, excuse me" sweetie belle said getting the hunters attention

"Are,you the hunters that are looking for a vampire?" Asked sweetie belle shyly

"Yeah, about two weeks ago a huge amount of vampiric power spiked somewhere near this town" explained the unicorn

"Yeah and once we find it were gonna kill it" said the earth pony , hearing this again made scootaloo clench her teeth in anger to stop her self from shouting out loud at the hunters.

"What if the vampire isn't evil, and that it only used that much power to defend its self?" Sweetie belle asked hoping that her friend would have a chance of being spared if found out.

"Then we'll kill it nicely" joked the yellow named pegasus, making the hunters laugh

"Look, it doesn't matter if a vampire is nice or evil, they are worth a thousand bits, so we'll kill any vampire if it means getting rich" explained the unicorn, hearing this made scootaloo snap and decided to shut them up.

"Besides, not like anyone will miss those blood sucking fear-!" The earth pony was saying until he was interrupted by a kick to the side of his head sending him tumbling to the right of the store, the remaining hunters went to check on him but found that he is unconscious, they turned to see who was responsible, in the place where their friend was stood a lone orange pegasus with purple mane and tail with purple eyes that are filled with anger.

"Scootaloo!" Shouted all four mares

"What the hell scoots, do you know who these guys are?" Asked rainbow dash, worried for the younger pegasus mental state.

"Yeah, they are the hunters you warned me about earlier" said scootaloo, not turning to look at them.

"Why in the world would ya do that if ya knew who they are, that's completely reckless" said applejack with a disbelieving look.

"Who cares about her reasons, she's gonna pay for disrespecting us, let's get her!" Exclaimed the unicorn, the three hunters charged at scootaloo at once. The unicorn drew his sword and made a vertical slash, but scootaloo sidestepped and punched the hunter in the left cheek making him stumble a bit before swinging his sword again horizontally, scootaloo dogged by jumping,the blade passing from underneath, while still in the air scootaloo swung her right leg quickly and gave the unicorn a hard round house kick, the force of the kick sent scootaloo further up in the air while at the same time it sent the unicorn flying through the store's window and outside.

"Woah, I didn't know scoots could fight like this" rainbow said amazed at what the young pegasus can do.

The two pegasus hunters flew towards scootaloo from both sides, they both have spears pointed right at her.

"Oh no, their gonna kill!" Rainbow shouted worried, she opened her wings to save her but was stopped by sweetie belle

"No, she can do this watch" she said not letting the older pegasus get involved.

Just when the hunters were close scootaloo righted herself and kicked off the hunter on the left then the one on her right, using them as living sprinboards to get even higher, she flipped so that her feet made contact with the ceiling, she then sprung from the ceiling and outstretched both arms and open palms as she moved towards the still dazed hunters, she caught them by the necks and slammed them down the floor as she landed, knocking both of them out, when she stood back up the earth pony from earlier had regained his conscious and drew his stone hammer, he rushed at her and swung his hammer down on her.

"Scootaloo!!!" The four older mares screamed thinking that she was dead, but sweetie belle knew better. When the hammer was about make contact scootaloo caught with her left hand, stopping it from crushing her.

"Do you know why I'm In such a bad mood?" Scootaloo asked looking at the other mares watching her in awe

"Its because of ponies like these hunters" she said her voice sounding more firm indicating the hunters.

"And ponies, like you." She said starring straight at rainbow dash making the pegasus confused on what she was talking about.

"You always judge someone for something that's out of their control and what makes them so different" she continued, her free hand clenching tight as she continues.

"But the thing that has me in a foul mood, is that you think that something ponies see as a freak should die just because it exists and not cause it did anything wrong" at this point the aura from when she fought the lycan appeared at her fist.

"And these hunters are even worse, they kill anything that gives them fortune" the glow gets brighter as her anger increases

"Just what the hell gives you the right to decide who should die and who lives!" Her voice rises in volume as she gets close to the end of her speech

"Every living thing has the right to live as they choose!" The hammer above her starts to crack, as if the pressure of scootaloo's rage is crushing it.

"Ponies, vampires, who cares! everything that is a live should be treated equally!" After that statement the hammer broke into dust and pebbles, scootaloo turned around and faced the bigger pony with hate and anger radiating off of her.

"AND ANYONE WHO THINKS THEIR SURPERIOR TO THAT ARE THE REAL MONSTERS!!!" She yelled with all of her anger and hatred as she punched the stallion with her glowing red fist and sent him straight into the wall of the other building outside. After an intense.moment of silence scootaloo sighed as she starts walking outside.

"Sorry about the mess pinkie pie, I left my money on the table for ya." She said raising her hand goodbye with out looking back. As she walked home she heard another set of footsteps behind her, turning around she sees sweetie belle running up to her.

"Hey belle did you need something?"she asked looking at the unicorn before her

"I told rarity that I was gonna spend the night at your place to keep you company" sweetie belle said slightly blushing, scootaloo smiled at her friend's concern.

"Alright then let's go" scootaloo said continuing walking home now with company.

"After you left apple bloom went to see if you were at sweet apple acres while the rest of us went to sugarcube corner, I can call her and see if she wants to join us if you want" sweetie belle offered.

"Nah, it's almost late anyway so let's keep it between us" scootaloo said looking at the sky, seeing it get darker by every minute.

"You know, when you started fighting those hunters, you looked a little scary" sweetie belle said as they continue walking

"But I wasn't frightened, I knew no matter how scarey you can be you'll never hurt me" she finished with a big smile on her face, scootaloo didn't reply, instead she smiled and kept on walking.

Thirty minutes latter scootaloo and sweetie belle made it to scootaloo's home,once inside scootaloo decided to take her shoes and socks off to allow her bare feet to cool as she walked towards the coach.

"So, you feeling better from earlier?" Sweetie belle asked worried that her friend might be depressed for a while.

"A little bit" scootaloo with out facing sweetie belle, hating to see her friend upset sweetie belle thought of how to cheer the pegasus up, and suddenly she got an idea as she wore a mischievous smile, she walked quietly towards the unsuspecting mare until she was close,then she tackled scootaloo too the coach, scootaloo landed with her belly on the couch while sweetie belle sat on her back.

"Hey,what's the big idea!" Demanded scootaloo

"Oh you'll see." Sweetie belle said as she adjust her position on her friend's back so that she was straddling her facing her legs.

"You know, you had me worried when you walked off alone from school," sweetie belle said as she looks back at her friend "and you never said sorry,so you need to be punished." She finished as she reached and grabed scootaloo's left leg and brought it toward herself so that her left foot was facing up wards, she wrapped her right arm around it for a better hold. Realizing what her friend had in mind scootaloo started to struggle out from under sweetie belle,forgetting about using her vampire strength.

"No please! not that, anything but that!" Scootaloo begged as she tries to escape, sweetie belle didn't respond, instead she placed her left hand on the foot and wiggled her fingers against it making scootaloo squeal with laughter as her foot wiggled trying to escape her hold.

"HAHAHAHAH NOHAHAHAHAH STAHAHAHAHHP AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH" scootaloo laughed she she tries futilely to escape this torture

"Tickle tickle tickle" sweetie belle teased, enjoying the sound of her friend's laughter

"PLEHEHEHHS STOHAHAHAHAHAHP IHIHIHIHIHIHIHIT AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH" scootaloo kept laughing as she jerks her leg trying to pull it away

Sweetie belle had another idea and plucked a feather from her friend's wing

"Lets see you handle one of your own feathers" said sweetie belle stroking the feather up and down scootaloo's foot making the pegasus laugh harder

"NO NOAHAHAHT THE FEATHER HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I CAN'T TAKE IT HAHAHAHAHAH" scootaloo laughed

"Coochie Coochie coo!" Sweetie belle teased again as she sawed the feather between the pegasus's toes.

NOT MY TOES HAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAH, AAAHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA" beg scootaloo as she bangs her fists and her other leg against the coach. This went on for fifteen minutes, sweetie belle stoped and dropped the feather, giving scootaloo a chance to breath a few minutes.

"And now for the next phase of your punishment," sweetie belle said as she moved scootaloo's foot closer "I wonder how your foot will taste sweetie belle said sticking her tounge out, hearing that last part made scootaloo's eyes widened in horror

"No wait don't pleaaaHHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH" she was interrupted by her laughter when sweetie belle started licking her foot

"HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH NO HAHAH NOT THE TONGUE THAT'S WORSE HAHAHAHAHAAHAHA" scootaloo begged laughing her head off. Sweetie belle licked every where from the arch to the toes, she focused more on the toes since that seems to be her weak spot.

"NOT MY TOES HAHAHAHAAHAHA PLEASE ANYWHERE BUT MY TOES HAHAHAHAH" scootaloo kept begging. Sweetie belle repeated the process a with the other foot and finally let scootaloo go

"Your evil" scootaloo said once she got her breath in normal, sweetie belle giggled at this

"Sorry, but I had to cheer you up" she explained, scootaloo smiled and hugged her friend.

"Thanks"

"Besides, your so cute when tickled tourtured" sweetie belle added making scootaloo blush

"Welll I'm not the only one, come here!" She yelled before getting revenge. And so the two friends enjoyed their little tickle fight until they decided to sleep for the night.