The new bat in town

by Smrrt

Chapter 3

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"Urrgh, I hope they have some bloody steak or something." Flutterbat growled, clenching her aching stomach.

"Are you alright sis? You look pale. More than usual I mean." Fluttershy spoke with concern.

"Only you would notice." Bat snorted at her sister's comment. "I'm fine. I have just holding myself back with the blood consumption. You know, people in Germaneia actually care, when they find a homeless dude unconscious in front of their hospitals with most of his blood missing."

"B-but you-"

"He stole from the other homeless." Bat interrupted her sister. "He deserved a little beating to say the least."

"That's horrible! No one deserves to be hurt, no matter what they have done!" Shy whisper- shouted at her sister, who only sighed, but still managed to crack a smile.

"Never change, Shy. There are not enough people like you in this world."

The two became silent, after they entered the cafeteria. Luckily for them the line wasn't that long as of yet, so they quickly came in front of the counter. Much to Flutterbat's annoyance, there wasn't anything unhealthy, meaning her stomach would be pretty empty for most of the day. To add to her dismay, most of the food that was offered was vegetarian food.

Forget diet. This is torture!

She got herself some fish and a bunch of apples, which the school apparently had more than enough, and waited for her sister to get her own order. Of course Fluttershy being Fluttershy went full vegetarian on the opportunity. As far as Flutterbat remembered, her one minute younger little sister stopped eating anything that even had only parts of an animal in it, when she was freaking three years old. It resulted into some interesting situations during their time kindergarten.

"Alright, where are your friends?"

"Oh, we usually sit at the other end of the hall."

"Lead the way. Might as well introduce myself to them."

Fluttershy smiled at the prospect of her sister finally meeting her friends, but everyone who knew her could see that it was a little uneasy. It hurt Flutterbat more than she let her sister notice.

On the table sat already five girls. Flutterbat recognized three of them, as she already met them today. But she only had the name of one of the girls. Every one of the girls looked up, smiling, when they saw their friend sitting down at the table. The smiles vanished and were replaced by confused frowns, as they noticed the other girl with Fluttershy.

"Well, hello there Fluttershy...and Flutterbat, wasn't it?" Rarity asked carefully. The other four girls gave Rarity a short glance, before refocusing on the new girl. Bat sat down next to Shy, looking straight back at Rarity.

"Yeah, that's me. Judging from your expressions, Shy never told you she had a twin sister, huh?" Bat spoke and took a bite into her apple, careful not to accidentally suck it dry in front of the others.

"Hell no! I mean she never even told me, about it!! What the hell, Shy?!"

"You must be Rainbow Dash." Flutterbat stated turning towards the blue skinned girl.

"THE one and only! I guess at least Fluttershy told you about ME!" Rainbow smirked with confidence.

"Your hair gave you away. She also said that you're really loud."

Pinkie Pie giggled at Rainbow's expression.

"Anyways, the reason you never heard of me, is because I pretty much asked her not to mention me to anyone."

This certainly surprised Fluttershy's friends. Before any of them could ask, Flutterbat answered the question before it could be stated: "I suffer from a special condition, a sickness. As a kid, I needed to be home-schooled and barely could leave the house. I was afraid to be called a freak or something, so not even you Rainbow Dash ever heard about me."

"Hey wait. I visited Shy a couple of times." Rainbow Dash interjected.

"Remember our parents never allowed you into their own room and our mom's workroom? Well the workroom is actually my room. Though, I never was there, when you visited. Had to spend a lot of time in the hospital." Flutterbat resisted the urge to spit out the salad.

"Oh. Sorry to hear."

"Never mind that." Bat waved off. "They got some new medication for me. Now I can actually have a normal life, instead of hanging out indoors the entire day."

"Well, that's good, I guess." Sunset smiled nervously. "I'm Sunset Shimmer by the way. You know, I'm sitting next to you in history."

Slowly, Flutterbat put her fork down and stared Sunset directly into the eyes, slightly unnerving the other girl. "So, you're pony girl. Or do you prefer unicorn girl?"

The eyes of the others went wide. Fluttershy tried to hide behind her hair, pretty much giving away it was her who gave Sunset's origins away.

"You told her?" Sunset asked Fluttershy, who nodded meekly.

"Considering that apparently the entire school knows it, plus those weird ass transformations Shy showed me, you can't really blame her for telling me, can you?"

"I didn't blame her for anything." The unicorn protested. "I'm just surprised, that's all."

"Uh huh." Bat nodded. "By the way, I never got the names of the rest of you."

"Oh raght. Pardon me, sugercube. Ah'm Applejack."

"And I'm Pinkie Pie. Do you like parties? I love parties! And cupcakes! Do you like cupcakes? Or do you love animals like Fluttershy? I have a little pet myself! An aligator! His name is Gummy and he's really, really small. That reminds me, my sister has a pet rock, Boulder! He-"

Rainbow put a hand over Pinkie Pie's mouth, perfectly stopping the girl from saying anything else.

"Yeah, sorry about that. She gets really excited, when she meets a new person." Rainbow Dash explained.

"Uh huh. Is she high or something?"

"Sugar High." Rainbow deadpanned, letting go of the pink haired girl.

"Hmm." Flutterbat swallowed her food, desperately trying to keep it down.

"Is the food not becoming for you, dear?" Rarity asked.

Shy's sibling waved off. "No, it's just not really that tasty. I'm on a diet right now."

"A diet?!" Rarity exclaimed. "Excuse me, darling, but I can assure you that you of all people don't need a diet. No offense, but you do look a little skinny."

"Oh you wouldn't belief how fast I get fat. When I start eating, I easily win every eating contest in the world."

"Oh yeah? How about one right now?" Rainbow challenged.

"Another time, alright? I'm way too drouzy for something like that. While we're at the subject of food, hey pony girl."

"Sis, please be nice." Fluttershy pleaded.

"Alright, Sunset Shimmer" Bat rolled her eyes "since you were a pony beforehand, did you ever try eating meat?"

Everybody at the table turned towards Sunset curiously. The "pony girl" had a hard time swallowing her fruit salad, the images of beef, pork and various other meat meals appearing in her head. And then from the animals they came from.

Flutterbat watched with amusement, as Sunset's face turned completely green. The girl quickly got up and made a mad dash for the bathroom.

"Wow." was all Flutterbat said, before she continued eating. However, there was an overall silence at the table and pretty soon the new girl found herself being looked at by the rest of the girls. Unimpressed, Bat looked at each of the girl's faces, until her gaze fell upon Fluttershy's disappointed face.

"Okay, fine. I'll go and apologize to her, jeez. Stop with the looks already."


At the woman's restroom Flutterbat found Sunset washing her face with cold water. The green on her face was gone, but overall she looked a little exhausted.

"Didn't expect you to react that way." Bats made herself known.

Sunset almost lost her balance, but laughed it off.

"Oh hey."

"Hey." Bats stepped into the room. "Sorry about that, by the way."

"Never mind." Sunset casually waved off. "It's just...back in my world....cows, sheep, mules and a ton of other "animals" are sentient creatures."

Flutterbat stopped dead in her tracks. "You're shitting me, right?"

Sunset smiled dryly. "Afraid not. Do you know how hard it is to keep your sister from going to the other side of the portal and get lost in Equestria forever?" In her mind, Flutterbat imagined a whole society of Fluttershy's, only that they're all ponies and do nothing but run and eat grass the whole day.

Shaking the thought off, Flutterbat resumed her steps. "Actually, this is pretty convenient. I wanted to talk to you alone, Sunset Shimmer."

"You do?" Sunset titled her head. The next instant, she found herself gasping for air, since Flutterbat had slammed her against the wall. With one arm she pressed the Equestrian against said wall, while with the other she grabbed into her pockets and took out a switchblade knife. Sunset's eyes widened, when she felt the cold steel against the bare skin of her neck.

"Just what game do you think you're playing?" Bats asked in an even tone.

"G-game?" Sunset gasped for air.

"Oh, you know. Just that you bullied my sister for the entirety of her stay here at this school, as she came home, wailing her eyes out?" Bats increased the force she used to pin her prey against the wall. "I was ready to fly back here and kick your sorry ass, but you know what? All of the sudden, everything is okay. Sunset had been and I quote "shown that what she did was wrong and that she truly regretted it". And all of the sudden you and my sister are the best of friends! I'm not an idiot Shimmer, so what the fuck did you do to my sister?"

Sunset's eyes widened in realization. Flutterbat was thinking of something similar to Stockholm Syndrome, when the victim of the kidnapping falls in love with their kidnapper. She needed to consider her words very carefully.

"You're not going to belief...anything I say, unless I "confess" I hypnotized your sister or did something similar." Sunset spoke as calmly as possible. Flutterbat could hear the heart of the girl beating as fast as if she was running a marathon.

"You're right, I won't." Flutterbat admitted. "Luckily I have a way around that."

And with that, the vampire girl stared directly into Sunset's eyes.


Author's Note

I wanted to include clop in this chapter, but sadly it just wouldn't have flown well with the story. I promise there will be clop in the next chapter, but I have yet to decide on the other participant. I had thoughts of the principals, Sunset as a follow up, Lyra or Bon Bon, since I recently read another vampire story including them, Octavia or Vinyl or both, the list goes on a little longer, but those are my top priority.

Do you have any suggestions? I should mention, I am fairly inexperienced in writing clopfiction, so bear with me please.

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