Blood Moon

Finally Celestia began to lower the sun and Luna began to raise the moon. Rainbow had cleared the skies and it looked like it was going to be a spectacular night for viewing the moon. Right as the sun dipped completely below the horizon and the moon was completely above the horizon, everypony was up on Twilight's balcony, except one. Rainbow Dash had yet to show up and this frustrated the others.

Applejack looked off in the direction of Rainbow's house and asked, "I wonder what could be keeping her?"

Rarity grunted, "She better not be doing what I think she's going to do."

Pinkie laughed, "Come on everypony, she'll show up."

Twilight however was not so sure. She sighed, "Well I'm going to go see what's keeping her. Don't worry girls, I'll return with her, even if I have to carry her here with my magic."

Twilight flew off towards Rainbow's house and pounded on her door. Rainbow opened it to find a rather unhappy Twilight standing there. She asked, "Uh hi Twilight, what's up?"

Twilight replied, "Rainbow, I thought you were coming to our blood moon party."

Rainbow sighed, "Well uh...."

Twilight grabbed her in her aura and continued, "Well whether you like it or not, you're coming. I'm not about to let you go pull some prank on Fluttershy or anypony else for that matter."

During the trip Rainbow was rather quiet as she was not used to being held in somepony's aura. While it only took a few minutes, the trip seemed to take forever to Rainbow. Once they arrived Twilight gently set Rainbow down. The four glared at Rainbow which made her nervous. She said, "Look, I know you think I'm going to do some sort of prank but I'm not going to. You didn't have to bring me over here and foalsit me."

Twilight sighed, "Well with you we can't be too careful."

Pinkie added, "Yeah and besides, you'd miss all the treats!"

They headed in and grabbed some cake and punch before heading back out onto the balcony. When the moon first began to rise, it was not much in the earth's shadow so it looked like it normally would but as it began to rise higher into the sky, it began to turn red. Pinkie shouted, "Oooh, oooh, it's starting to turn red!"

Everypony began to cheer and narrowed their focus much more intently on the moon as the sky darkened further and the moon became redder and redder.

After an hour the sky had become sufficiently dark and the moon had become red enough that she believed the perfect time to go through with her prank had come. There was just one problem, getting past Twilight and her friends. While they were talking Rainbow began to squirm. Twilight asked, "Rainbow, are you ok?"

Rainbow replied, "Twilight, can I use your restroom. I really have to go."

Twilight replied, "Sure, you know where it is."

As Rainbow headed back into the castle she had a huge smile on her face. She knew which window she could exit through without being seen, the one in Twilight's bedroom. She opened the window just enough that she could creep out, close it back and fly off. She circled around the backside of the castle so that she would not be seen. When she returned home she headed straight to her closet where she had her vampony costume.

As she began to get dressed she couldn't help but laugh hysterically. She had always been one who liked pranks but despite that, as the time drew closer to when she wanted to do this, she began to have second thoughts. One part of her wanted to do this because blood moons are so rare that this would be a once in a lifetime opportunity but the other part of her wanted to not go through with it and return to Twilight's castle.

She looked at herself in the mirror in her costume and laughed, "Come on Rainbow, you can't pass this up! It's the only blood moon you'll ever see and besides, it's not like anypony's going to die over this!"

After convincing herself that nothing bad would come of this, she took off in the direction of Fluttershy's cottage, laughing over the fact that the prank she was about to pull would be epic.