Blood Moon

It had been dark in Ponyville for a couple hours when Celestia and the rest of her convoy arrived in Ponyville. The first place they headed was to the castle where everything was strangely quiet. They had expected to see at least a couple guards at the base of the castle but none were to be found. As they continued to walk around Ponyville nothing seemed to be right. Finally they saw the guards along with a smaller pony off on the far end of town so they headed towards them.

When they arrived they found Snails crying and the guards gathered together looking down solemnly. Celestia first walked up to Snails and asked, "What happened my little pony?"

Snails cried, "It's Snips your Majesty, he-he was killed by the vampony."

Celestia pulled the colt close and replied, "I'm sorry."

Luna saw the guards gathered together looking down and asked, "Guards, what happened. Did one of your own die too?"

A guard replied, "Yes Your Majesty. The same vampony that killed Snips killed one of our own as well."

Given that nopony had given a description of the vampony, Luna asked, "Guard, what did this vampony look like?"

He replied, "It was yellow with a pink mane and tail and I think it had three pink bats for a cutie mark."

Applejack heard this and said, "It was Fluttershy." She began to look around and nervously continued, "We're gonna have to be on the lookout in the event she is still hungry."

Rarity looked off towards the castle and added, "And we're going to have to watch out for Twilight, especially if she hasn't fed yet."

Celestia looked down at the two victims and said, "Guards, get these two to the morgue in the hospital so they can be prepared for burial." She looked at Luna and the other ponies and continued, "The rest of you, we need to be on the lookout for Twilight and Fluttershy."

Applejack asked, "Your Majesty, even if we do see them, how are we going to catch them so Luna can remove the vampony from them?"

Luna replied, "I will likely have to grab them with my aura and then remove the vampony from them."

While everypony knew that would be the best option, Luna had her doubts as to whether she would have enough strength to hold the vampony still and cast the proper spell at the same time.

While they were gathered together talking, a lavender vampony was watching from her balcony. She had watched Fluttershy make her kills earlier and realized that since Fluttershy was chased off and the other guards had headed to the hospital, that her time to feed had arrived. She also knew that she would have to use her wits given that Celestia and Luna were present but was confident she would get a meal.

While the five were talking about which one would be harder to catch and fix, they saw a shadow fly overhead. Rarity asked, "Hello, is anypony there?"

Again they saw a shadow fly overhead but looked up in horror when they saw Twilight bearing her fangs with her horn lit up. Pinkie screamed, "It's Twi-bat! Everypony run for your lives!"

Luna knew she was going to swoop down so she lit her horn up, readying herself to grab Twilight in her aura. Twilight saw this though and cast a protective bubble around herself.

*HISS!*

Once Twilight cast the protection spell she swooped down and went straight after the first pony she saw, Rarity. She pounced on Rarity and sank her fangs in, causing Rarity to scream out in pain. Celestia tried to grab Twilight with her aura and rip her off of the struggling unicorn but couldn't because of the strength of Twilight's spell. Celestia then jumped on Twilight and tried to rip her off but she just couldn't do it.

As Rarity continued to lay there screaming as Twilight fed on her, her friends were panicking and given that Celestia could not free Rarity from Twilight, Celestia yelled, "Sister, you've got to do something! Do your stare on her."

Luna replied, "Sister, she is enveloped in her own aura so there is no way I could even put a dent in it."

As Rarity's cries became quieter Luna and Celestia knew there was one last option. They would have to use their combined power to lift Twilight off of her. They both fired at Twilight but since she transformed into a vampony, her magic was much stronger and their energy just bounced off of her bubble. Finally Rarity went quiet and Twilight crouched more protectively over her, making sure to get every last drop of blood.

Pinkie began to cry uncontrollably and Applejack, who has always been good at keeping her moments of distress silent, charged toward Twilight crying, "You monster! How could you do this to Rarity?"

Twilight looked up, bore her fangs and took to the sky again circling the four wondering which one she should feed on next. She intensified her protection bubble and looked at the biggest target, Celestia. Luna saw this and shouted, "Sister, cast a protection bubble around yourself! She's coming for you!" She then looked at Applejack and Pinkie and continued, "Get over here by me, now!"

The two did as ordered and Luna quickly cast a bubble around the three but when Celestia lit up her horn to cast her own spell, Twilight's eyes began to glow a dark pink and she fired a powerful bolt of energy at Celestia, temporarily dispelling her magic. She pounced on Celestia and cast a larger protection bubble, to cover both her and Celestia. While her magic was temporarily disabled, Celestia was thrashing about in the bubble trying to shake Twilight off of her. While she was able to a couple of times, the confines of the bubble were just too small and finally Twilight was able to latch on to her and sank her fangs into Celestia's neck.

Luna saw this and quickly broke the bubble that surrounded her, Applejack and Pinkie and began to do her best to save her sister. She began firing powerful bolts of energy at Twilight's bubble but each time she did, it simply bounced off of it. As Celestia's thrashing began to become weaker and her cries became softer, Luna knew she had to do something that could be not only fatal to her, but Twilight and Celestia. She rammed her horn into the bubble and fired a powerful bolt of energy. It broke the bubble but sent her, Celestia and Twilight flying.

Very quickly Twilight recovered from hitting the ground and took to the sky again, speeding towards Celestia. Luna too was quick to recover and also sped towards Celestia. Luna would arrive first and mustering up all the power she could, she put up a protective bubble around her and her sister. While Twilight began to try to break that bubble, Luna would check on her sister.

Luna saw that Celestia was barely breathing and had a bad feeling Celestia may not survive. She pulled her close and cried, "Tia! Please be ok."

Celestia was very disoriented and barely knew what was going on. She thought it was Luna talking to her but was not sure given that Luna normally addresses her just as sister. She weakly asked, "Luna, is that you?"

Luna cried, "Yes Tia, it is me." She took a closer look at her sister and saw that not only were the fang marks very deep, that she had lost a lot of blood. She continued, "Tia, we have to get you to the hospital."

Celestia's breathing became more shallow as she replied, "Luna, do not worry about me. It is too late to save me. You need to protect Applejack, Pinkie and the rest of Equestria." She saw Twilight pounding against the bubble and continued, "And you need to remove the vampony from Twilight." As her breathing became more erratic she finished, "I see it Luna, I see the light."

Luna pulled her up and cried in agony, "NO, PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME TIA! NO, PLEASE NO!"

Celestia gave her one last smile, closed her eyes and breathed her last. Luna began to cry louder than she ever had in her life, "NO, PLEASE NO!" She broke her bubble which allowed Twilight a direct path to her but she would be quick to counter. She began firing powerful bolts of energy at Twilight, scaring her into the forest. She yelled, "CURSE YOU TWILIGHT SPARKLE, CURSE YOU!"

Applejack approached Luna and said, "I'm sorry your Majesty. Is there anything we can do for you?"

Luna screamed, "Just leave me be. I want one final moment with my sister."

While both Applejack and Pinkie wanted to console the princess, they realized that giving her her space as she requested would be the best thing to do. While they rushed to Sweet Apple Acres for cover, Luna levitated the remains of her sister to the hospital to be put in the morgue so that she could be prepared for burial. As she left the hospital Luna said to herself, "Don't worry big sister, I'll exact revenge for not just you, but for all of Equestria."