Moonlight Terror

It had been two weeks since Leeroy had been attacked and already he was being released by the Hospital, “Keep that wound covered at all times,” said Nurse Sweetheart, sounding enthusiastic as she ever did, “The last thing we want is it becoming infected.” She explained.

“I’ll make sure Nurse.” Leeroy nodded, listening closely to what the nurse had to say. He looked in the mirror in his room one last time, looking at the bandage that covered the entire left half of his face.

As Leeroy walked out of Ponyville Hospital he was suddenly tackled to the ground by two other pegasi, “Oh man it’s so good to see you again!” Said a very enthusiastic Thunderlane, happy to see his best friend again. “We all thought you were a gonner!”

“Yeah, you had us worried sick!” Blossomforth said, her voice still sounded like she was worried for the pegasus. “At least you’re fine now.” Her worried voice had been replaced with a much more upbeat one, she smiled at Leeroy, giving him a big hug.

“Whoa, what happened to your face dude?” Asked Thunderlane, staring at the bandage that covered half of Leeroy’s face.

“You know, I’m not quite sure,” Leeroy lost his trail of thought at this question as he raised a hoof to feel the bandage, squinting in pain as he put extra pressure onto the wound, “I just woke up with this bandage on my face.”

“Well whatever it is, it doesn’t look pretty.” Blossomforth did not even want to think about what could lie underneath the bandage, the mere thought of what it could be sent shivers down her spine.

“Well I’m sure you’ll have that bandage off in no time,” Thunderlane wrapped an arm around Leeroy’s neck in a friendly gesture. “At least you can start playing soccer again, the team really suffered without you.” Thunderlane was eager for his return.

“As much as I’d love to, I can’t play,” Leeroy said, not wanting to disappoint Thunderlane, “On account of this bandage, the Nurse said I shouldn’t be doing anything like that.” Leeroy explained.

“Since when did you listen to other people’s advice?” Thunderlane remarked humorously. Knowing he would not be able to change Leeroy’s mind set.

“Do you even remember what happened?” Blossomforth asked with intrigue, wanting to know what exactly happened to the unlucky pegasus. “There have been many rumours about what happened.” She informed Leeroy.

“All I remember is being mugged in a field,” Leeroy trying his best to remember, “And then, something came out of the darkness,” Leeroy was struggling to remember, “And then I woke up in a hospital bed, feeling so angry, I never felt like that before.

“Well you did nearly die.” Blossomforth looked at Leeroy with a blank face as he returned the look.

“And you were being mugged before.” Thunderlane added in good humour.

“Thanks for the reminder.” Leeroy responded sarcastically, wanting to wipe the memory from his mind.

The three pegasi began to make their way to Cloudsdale, the sun gleaming in the clear blue sky. “So how does it feel to be finally out of the hospital?” Asked Thunderlane, making small talk to pass the time.

“It’s alright I guess, having ponies at your beck and call sure is great though!” Leeroy liked the thought of having other ponies doing everything for him, “Although the food isn’t that good.” Leeroy weighed up the negatives to the positives.

***

Luna sat in her room, staring at the wall blankly, bored out of her mind with nothing to do. She thought about all the events that happened a week ago, she heard some of the pegasi that were attacked had survived, although one is badly injured and the other is now under psychiatric evaluation at the Cloudsdale asylum .

Luna did not know much about Lycanthropy, only that it existed in old myths and legends. The very thought of such a thing happening to her made her chuckle. These stories were only made up to scare fillies and colts, nothing more.

Luna wanted to take a stroll through the gardens to take her mind off of these preposterous ideas that floated around in her mind.

As she left her room a pair of guards outside her room began to follow her, “Please let me be, I do not wish to be followed.” Luna ordered the guards, who nodded and stayed their post at Luna’s bedroom.

As Luna walked through the gardens she couldn’t help but take in all the wonderful colours being put on display by all of the exotic flowers, bright pink, bright blue, dark red any colour that you could think of was in these gardens.

Luna walked past a tree in the middle of the Canterlot Gardens, she looked down and spotted a bunch of flowers that looked very out of place. “Beautiful flowers by the way,” Jack appeared behind Luna, leaning into her ear.

Jack frightened Luna, “You gotta stop doing that,” Luna was not amused, “It scares me so much!” Luna looked at Jack with her eyes half shut, staring into his cold black eyes.

“I’m sorry, but you do make this so much fun.” Jack laughed, not caring how much he made Luna uncomfortable.

“This was a nice spot to bury me by the way.” Jack told Luna, feeling that he should at least tell her what he thinks of his burial place, where no pony will ever dig up, hopefully.

“I always did like this tree, whenever I felt frustrated I would always come here and just watch the sunset,” Jack reminisced about his previous life, remembering all of the fun things he could do which he now could not.

“Although now I am un-dead,” Jack added, “I can watch the sunset on the top of the mountain, it is just so beautiful.” Jack was going off on a tangent, he never knew when to stop talking.

“And your point is?” Luna looked confused, not understanding the purpose of Jack being here this time.

“I just thought I would pop by to say hi. Hi Luna!” Jack seemed happy as he always is, he clearly had no intention of upsetting Luna this time.

“Just leave me alone.” Luna did not want to talk to Jack, no matter how nice he was being, she just did not want to hear what he had to say.

“One of those pegasi you attacked survived,” Jack only knew that Hoops had survived the ordeal, “He’s now in the Looney bin, poor kid had to be out in a straightjacket.” Jack felt sympathetic to Hoops, knowing that it was not his fault.

“And why are you telling me this?” Luna did not see the point to what Jack was saying.

“Just to tell you that you are ruining lives,” Jack’s tone took a more serious note, “You’re not just killing ponies, but now you’re driving them to insanity!” Jack went cross eyed, trying to make his talk a little more humorous than usual.

“And you think I did this?” Luna pointed her hoof at herself. Jack clapped his hooves together in a sarcastic manor.

“Well not you exactly, but the other part of you.” Luna knew exactly what Jack was talking about.

“You don’t expect me to believe this again do you?” Luna rolled her eyes, forever refusing what Jack was saying.

“Of course I’m saying it’s you,” Jack stared at Luna, “The pegasus who escaped gave a description of what happened, whatever attacked him looked a lot like you.”

“It could have been an escaped animal from the zoo.” Luna tried to search for an explanation.

“Yes, I’m pretty sure there are many Alicorn looking animals that can walk on clouds that are in zoos.” Jack interrupted Luna sarcastically, not giving Luna a chance to explain.

“Now I have to go, I’ve got a hot date with a corpse.” Jack said enthusiastically, looking forward to the night ahead, “But you know what to do, just jump, or other lives will be destroyed.”

“I will not be threatened by a walking meatloaf!” Luna had had enough with Jack.

“Fine, I’ll be on my way.” Luna turned around as she heard some guards coming towards her. As she turned back she noticed that Jack had disappeared.

“Are you okay your highness?” The guards had overheard what Luna was saying.

“Oh nothing.” Luna sat down and looked at her hooves, then up towards Cloudsdale.

***

Leeroy and the two following Pegasi touched down in the Pegasi town centre, so they could walk with each other even more.

“I see not much has changed.” Remarked Leeroy as he looked around.

“Well it was only a week.” Thunderlane replied, giving Leeroy a stare. The three pegasi continued walking, talking about anything that came to their heads.

They had gotten to the rural outskirts of Cloudsdale. “Well looks like this is my stop,” Thunderlane ruffled Leeroy’s hair as he walked to his front door. “I guess I’ll see you around!” Leeroy yelled as he walked inside.

“So,” Blossomforth said, eager to catch up with him more personally, “How does it feel to have your special some pony back?” she asked smiling at Leeroy.

“It’s not that bad.” He smiled at Blossomforth, being thankful to see her one more time.

The two pegasi walked and talked to a good half hour, Leeroy explaining how scary it was to be mugged. Blossomforth listened with intent, not ignoring a single word.

“Hey watch were you’re going jerk off!” Leeroy yelled at another pegasi as he bumped into him as he walked past, the frightened pegasus ran away from Leeroy, frightened.

“Whao, what was that about?” Blossomforth looked at Leeroy, surprised at his attitude.

“I… I don’t know.” Leeroy was never the type of pegasus to act like that ever, but he just assumed it was some sort of side effect after what had happened.

The rest of the walk home was unnerving for Blossomforth, she had never seen that side of Leeroy. They eventually got to Blossomforth’s cloud bungalow. “Well I guess this is me,” She gave Leeroy a hug and a peck on the check, making him blush.

“I’m sorry about earlier, I don’t know what came over me.” Leeroy felt embarrassed about the earlier incident.

“It’s fine, I can understand,” Blossomforth walked to her front door, “See you tomorrow.” Blossomforth blew a kiss at Leeroy, who stood in happiness as he watched her walk inside.