Blood Moon

After being briefed about the situation in Ponyville, some royal guards were dispatched to Ponyville while Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie remained in Canterlot. At first there seemed to be just silence until Applejack asked, "Your Majesty, I know you sent the guards down there to keep Fluttershy and Twilight from attacking other ponies, is there any kind of spell that could be cast upon them to turn them back to normal?"

Celestia replied, "There is but only my sister knows that magic. I know next to nothing about it so before we can even discuss this, we need to wait for her to wake up."

Rarity asked, "Couldn't we just wake her up now? This is an emergency after all."

Celestia replied, "I wish we could but waking my sister up during the day would not be a good idea. There have been times when she has been woken from her slumber and she was in a very bad mood. We will just have to wait until she wakes up on her own."

Several hours passed and finally the sun was dropping towards the horizon when Luna woke up and headed down to the throne room. While she was not surprised to see Spike with Celestia since he had been there for a few days, she was surprised to only see three of Twilight's friends, "Why are there only three of you here? Where are Twilight, Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash?"

Applejack replied, "Well your Majesty, some really bad things happened last night."

Luna asked, "What bad happened last night?"

Applejack replied, "Well it involved the blood moon last night."

Luna sighed, "Oh and what was that?"

Applejack continued, "Well this may go quite a ways back." She took a breath before she continued, "You see, a couple years back when Fluttershy was using the stare on some vampire fruit bats while Twilight was casting a spell on them to make them stop sucking my apples dry, the spell backfired and caused Fluttershy to become a vampire fruit bat."

Rarity added, "Then she began to suck Applejack's crop dry until we lured her to a huge apple and used mirrors to get her attention so Twilight could cast the counter-spell."

Pinkie finished, "But we think that the spell may not have completely worked because she turned into a true vampony last night."

Luna asked, "That could be but where are Twilight and Rainbow?"

Applejack added, "Well last night Rainbow decided she was going to pull a prank on Fluttershy because of the legends of vamponies and go scare her but once she got over there, Fluttershy must have already gone through her transformation because we found Rainbow laying there dead with two fang punctures in her neck and she had been drained of every single drop of blood."

Rarity continued, "And then she bit Twilight. We had to wrestle Fluttershy off of her or she would have been dead as well."

Pinkie finished, "And right before the sun came up, Twilight locked herself in an interior room of her castle like she was hiding from the light."

Luna hung her head low realizing that they had a serious problem on their hooves. She sighed, "Well we have a serious problem on our hooves. Both Fluttershy and Twilight have become vamponies and casting the spell to get them back to normal is very difficult."

Rarity asked, "And what makes it so difficult?"

Luna replied, "This is a spell that I have never had to use but I do know it. To remove the vampony part of them I will have to stare at them directly in the eyes, up close, for thirty seconds and doing that with a vampony is next to impossible."

Celestia suggested, "Sister, you could always hold them in your aura while you do this."

Luna replied, "I could but this spell takes a lot of power and with me using power to hold them in my aura, it may not work."

Applejack said, "Well it's always worth a try."

Luna replied, "That is true and I'm not sure which one will be tougher to deal with. Fluttershy since she still had some vampony in her to start with or Twilight because of her magic."

Celestia suggested, "Sister, with her being a vampony she may not be able to access her magic and given that Fluttershy has already killed somepony, I have a feeling that she is going to be more aggressive."

Applejack added, "Or perhaps more cautious because I'm sure she still remembers what we did with those mirrors."

Luna replied, "That is true. Twilight may come right at us while Fluttershy will likely try to catch us off guard."

Celestia looked out the window and saw that it was time for them to do their royal duties. She said, "Sister, we need to do our royal duties and then figure out what to do next."

Luna replied, "Alright but after we do our duties, I think we should head to Ponyville before any more lives are lost."

Celestia said, "Alright, after we do our duties all of us shall head to Ponyville."

As they headed out to do their royal duties Spike and his remaining friends couldn't help but be concerned. Spike asked, "What will happen if Luna can't get the vampony out of them? What will we do?"

Rarity replied, "Oh don't worry Spike. Luna is tough and should be able to get them back to normal."

While Rarity and her friends were pretty certain that Luna would be able to restore their friends to normal, Spike was not so certain. While he knew that Luna was powerful, he also knew that getting a vampony to stay in one place for very long is almost impossible and knew that if Twilight still had access to her magic, that restoring her could be impossible.