Blood Moon

Once they got into the castle Twilight headed immediately to the library where she would begin to do research. Since vamponies are thought to be nothing more than a legend she knew she couldn't just look in any old book, she would have to look in a book about legends. Once she found the book she was looking for she began to search through it hoping to see if there are any legends on how to stop vamponies.

As she was looking through the book she ran across the well known legend involving garlic keeping vamponies at bay. She sighed, "Well girls, if this old legend is correct, if we eat a lot of garlic and wear garlic around our neck we should be able to keep Fluttershy from attacking us."

Rarity replied, "Alright but where are we going to get all this garlic. The local shops don't carry much of it."

Twilight sighed, "That is true and I don't have any here in the castle. Spike ate the last of it a couple days ago and I simply don't like it."

Pinkie suggested, "Maybe we should head up to Canterlot and get some. I'm sure there is plenty of it up there that we could get."

Applejack said, "It sounds good to me, Ah'm ready whenever you are."

Twilight yawned, "Well I think we should wait until it is daylight. Since Fluttershy is a true vampony now, she won't be out and about in the day. She'll probably find a dark cave in the Everfree Forest to hide in."

Applejack replied, "Sounds like a plan then. Tomorrow morning we'll go to Canterlot and get some garlic."

For the rest of the night they stayed indoors despite the fact that this would be the only blood moon that they would see in their lifetimes. As the night progressed and dawn drew near, Twilight began to become more tired and a bit paranoid. As the moon reached the horizon and daylight would arrive soon, Twilight headed into an interior room and shut herself in.

Her friends followed and pounded on the door. Rarity asked, "Twilight darling, are you ok? Why are you locking yourself in a dark room?"

Twilight screamed, "I don't know. I just know I can't go outside right now. Just go!"

This caused her friends a great amount of concern and while she told them to go, they began to discuss this more in-depth. Applejack said, "Ah don't know what's going on but Ah'm worried about Twilight and why she's suddenly acting like this."

Rarity began to think and asked, "You don't think that bite from Fluttershy did something to her do you? You don't think Twilight is becoming a vampony too, do you?"

Applejack replied, "Well that would explain why she's locking herself up in a dark room right before sunrise. Ah think we're going to need more than just garlic in Canterlot, Ah think we're going to need to speak to Celestia."

Rarity suggested, "Well I think we need to get going. If that is the case, we need to see if there is something we can do before we have two vamponies prowling the night."

Her friends nodded and headed towards the train station realizing that the situation that was developing was much more serious than they first thought. Having one vampony is bad enough, but having two would be worse and each pony they bit but didn't kill, would create another one.

The sun had yet to rise when they headed to the train station so they were still leery about Fluttershy being out on the prowl. Luckily right as they got to the station the sun peeked above the horizon, which meant that she would likely be hiding in the dark and more importantly, that Celestia would be awake when they got to Canterlot.

The ride to Canterlot seemed agonizingly long for them but once they arrived, the very first place they rushed to was the castle. The guards knew who they were so it did not take them long to get to Celestia. When they got to the throne room they saw Celestia and Spike, who had been there for a few days, talking. They rushed up to Celestia who could see the panic in their faces.

Celestia asked, "Girls, what's wrong? You look terrified."

Spike noticed that Twilight and Rainbow was not with them. He asked, "Where's Twilight? Where's Rainbow? Where's Fluttershy? I thought they would be with you."

Applejack seemed to be the least panicky of the three so she said, "Princess Celestia, Spike, we have some bad news. Fluttershy has turned into a vampony and killed Rainbow and after that, she bit Twilight."

Rarity added, "And once it began to get light, Twilight began to get really nervous and then shut herself in an interior room."

Pinkie finished, "We think the blood moon had something to do with Fluttershy becoming a vampony."

Celestia asked, "What would cause Fluttershy to turn into a vampony and what would cause Twilight to hide right before dawn."

Spike remembered the events that happened when the spell Twilight cast on the vampire fruit bats backfired. He suggested, "I wonder if Fluttershy's transformation had to do with that spell so long ago and some lingering effect that the blood moon set off."

Celestia asked, "What are you talking about?"

Spike replied, "Well a couple years ago vampire fruit bats invaded Sweet Apple Acres so we had Twilight do a spell on the bats to get them to stop eating the apples while Fluttershy was using the stare on them."

Applejack added, "Unfortunately the spell backfired and caused Fluttershy to become a fruit craving vampony. Twilight was able to ultimately reverse the spell but I wonder if it completely worked because this blood moon caused her to become a true, bloodthirsty vampony."

Celestia asked, "I remember the incident involving the vampire fruit bats but why would she suddenly become a vampony?"

Spike added, "And how do you know she became a real vampony?"

Applejack replied, "Well the thing is, we found Rainbow dead right over by Fluttershy's cottage. We thought Rainbow was going to pull a prank on Fluttershy with the blood moon but when we got there, we found her laying there dead with two bite marks in her neck and she had been completely drained of her blood."

Pinkie added, 'Yeah and then Fluttershy was flying up in the sky and swooped down on us and bit Twilight."

Rarity finished, "Luckily we were able to rip Fluttershy off of her and I was able to chase her off with my magic or she would have been dead too."

Celestia asked, "And you said that Twilight has shut herself in a dark room in her castle?"

The three nodded in unison causing Celestia to sigh. She knew that this was likely a situation that would require a lot more than just her magic. She replied, "Well girls, we have a serious problem on our hooves. It sounds like the blood moon did cause Fluttershy to become a true vampony and with her biting Twilight, that has caused her to become one now too."

Spike asked, "So will they only be like this on blood moons or what?"

Celestia replied, "No. Both of them will now be on the hunt every single night for new victims."

The three along with Spike gasped in horror. Applejack asked, "Y-your Majesty, what are we going to do? Are we going to need to evacuate Ponyville?"

Celestia asked in return, "Rarity, you said you were able to chase Fluttershy into the forest with your magic, right?"

Rarity replied, "Yes your Majesty."

Celestia said, "Well I think that we should put unicorn guards down in Ponyville. If they see any vamponies flying around, they can fire energy at them to scare them away."

Pinkie did not like the idea of this. She asked, "You're not going to have them strike them with energy are you?"

Celestia replied, "No, they will just fire at them. If we can keep them out of Ponyville, everything should be fine."

Applejack said, "Well alright then, let's get some of the unicorn guard rounded up and get them down there!"

Celestia agreed and headed to talk to the unicorn guard. After hearing about the situation, they were nervous about going down there but knew not to disobey orders from Celestia so they caught the next train to Ponyville. All Celestia could do was hope for the best and hope that the unicorn guard could stop any further attacks.