Lord of the Night

I spent that day in a cave I found in the Everfree, which had been previously occupied by a bear, sidenote, I can now turn into a bear. Regardless, I spent the rest of the day looking for a new name for Peewee, throwing it up between Fiery and Red, eventually flipping a reasonably flat rock, so he was now named Red, which he actually seemed pretty pleased with. Considering that I was now able to go out during the day, because of the cloak, I found myself unwilling to, my whole body screaming out that it was a bad idea, so I decided to travel mainly at night. I wasn’t quite sure what Red ate, so at about noon, I sent him out to catch or collect food, and was pretty surprised when he came back a few hours later with a cupcake, but to each his own I guess.

I slept for a few hours, but I found myself awaking at exactly sundown, so morphing back into my Pegasus guise, I wandered out of the cave, with my saddlebag on my back containing the bits, the map and my cloak, in search of both a crazy griffin, and blood. I realised as I walked a reasonably well beaten path that I hadn’t even tried to fly yet, so running at a sprint I flapped my wings repeatedly, trying to gain air, but found that even if I did get off the ground I quickly grew tired, so I decided to hire the next Pegasus I saw to aid me.

I was thinking this, when abruptly I smelt pollution, monoxide and methane, and all the other smells that humanity had created through its greed. Looking up I saw a griffin flying straight towards me screaming “Watch out here comes the fantastic flying chicken”. Hoping to scare him off, I changed back to a vampire, causing him to crash into the ground next to me, but almost immediately he was up again, and started to claw at my face, yelling at me, “you false hope hallucination, flee from me for you bring nothing but lies”. “I'm not a hallucination” I replied deftly avoiding his strikes with my superior speed, unable to attack as his razor sharp claws where keeping me busy. Stopping for a second he seemed to think about what I said, but then shouted at me “that’s what they all say” and then flew up in the air and dove down at me claws extended. With little hope of giving back his sanity, I bent and then leapt hitting him fall force in the chest as his claws ripped at my face, however once I connected he stopped immediately and died, reminding me of the time I had seen a person suffer a stroke. As I dropped back to the ground with him on top of me, I bit into his next, earning a mouth full of feathers, but also the blood that I so desperately needed. I changed into a griffin, with black fur and red wings, and tried flying in this body but found it escaped, just as much as it had as a Pegasus.

Turning around, I changed back to a vampire, deciding to travel like this, unless I saw somebody else. I looked around for Red, and saw him in a tree, looking at me, curiously, as if saying “yeh, you had that, I could tell”. I smiled, so he flew over to me and landed on my shoulder. I dropped down on my knees, looking at the griffin, which it seemed, was tattooed with the mark of a five headed dragon, and decided to leave the body of the griffin lying on the ground, to let some other monster deal with it. I continued on my path, taking the map out from my bag and looked for the next nearest sighting, a large pink dragon that had been kidnapping male beings, and eating any females it encountered. This sounded strange, so I set of for Appleloosa, which was near where most of the attacks had been occurring, as I hoped to gain some information on the dragon. Venturing of into the night, I walked down the path, with Red flying ahead of me.

After walking for what seemed the better part of three hours, I found another large cave, realising it would soon be sun up, I ventured in, where I immediately realised I was not alone. I realised this because, I saw another light source in the cave, and so I stuck to the sides of the caves, red upon seeing this flew up to my shoulder, and, somehow, lowered the brightness of the light he was creating. I crept into a large chamber in the cave, where I started to smell the same pollution smell, which the griffin had created; I assumed this was what Luna meant when she talked of me knowing. I however was more shocked by what I saw in the cave, a large pink dragon, which had a noticeably large, five headed dragon mark on her hind quarters, similar to the griffins. However this was not what took my eye, but rather the fact that the huge pink dragon was mating with a comparatively smaller stallion, moaning loudly, surrounded by other male creatures, griffins, diamond dogs and the like, who either looked dead to the world, or extremely scared. This so shocked me that I stumbled, knocking a rock on the floor. This noise caused all the creatures in the cavern to look at me, even the pink dragon, which stopped mating, and turned to look at me before saying “oh my god a human, I haven’t had sex with one of you since I got here and became a dragon”. I turned around and immediately started running away as quickly as I could, Red took a few moments to realise this, and immediately started following me, as I heard the dragon shout “oh, a cat and mouse game, how fun” along with the sound of flapping wings. Just as I was about to leave the cave I saw that the sun had arisen, and I was about to get burnt, so I twisted and ran the other way not really thinking, just remembering the pain I had experienced in Zecora’s hut. I almost immediately found myself picked up in the claws of the dragon. Who upon doing this, turned around and waddled back to the cavern, accidently knocking me unconscious on the side of the subterranean tunnel.

I came to lying down on the ground, surrounded by males of many different types. They looked at me fearfully, I assume because I was human, but near to me that I could see that most of them had gone through what I now considered the worst thing in the world, the few that didn’t visibly appear to have gone through it looked even more scared, I however decided to not let this faze me as I figured at the very least I could distract her till night, then flee, even if I did leave the rest of these guys behind. I saw Red on a cleft in the cavern looking down at me, I waved and he visibly relaxed.

On seeing me awake one of the unused stallions came up to me, and asked “what are you?” I replied “I am Clash, a Vampire”, deciding to leave the title, as I didn’t feel decidedly lordly at that moment. I sat up and looked around, seeing the dragon was mating with a diamond dog, who was in quite visible pain. I stood up, and yelled at the dragon “are you truly a former human, you who consorts with dogs, horses, and overgrown chickens”. The griffins near me angered at this but I whispered to them “I don’t mean it, I'm trying to make her angry”, upon saying this, they all started to move as far from me as possible. The dragon meanwhile looked at me and said “ha, who cares what they look like, as long as they satisfy my urges, now you shall be my next lover”, and with this she got up of the, now dead, diamond dog, and advanced menacingly towards me.

I called my sword, which formed in my hand and leapt at the dragon, expecting my heightened abilities to allow me to fight her, but I realised I was wrong when I found myself flying through the air, hit by the dragons claws. I got up immediately though, and arose from the ground. Running at the dragon who was trying to heard me into a corner of the cavern, I slashed at her arm, pirouetting to avoid claw strikes, hoping to cut her down, however I soon realised something more drastic was required. I clambered up her leg and using the sword clambered up her side, and hacked at her arm, meanwhile, Red was dive bombing her, distracting her. I hacked at her elbow joint, until finally I cleaved of her for arm, and she screamed in pain, I was soon covered in her blood, as the dragon bled out before me, I felt invigorated beyond belief, as I converted to a black dragon with crimson spikes, slightly shorter than six foot, with wings and a tail, It felt like the one time I had cocaine, (don’t ask), only a million times better. I immediately started licking at the wound, and looked around for a receptacle for the blood, soon finding a small gourd, which I filled to the brim with the glorious liquid.

Eventually though it became apparent that the other people in the room where shocked by my actions, however, none less so than a dapperly dressed man top hat suit, Italian leather boots and buddy holly glasses, smoking on a cigar with whiskey in hand, whom actually seemed quite amused by my actions, did I mention, he only had a skull for a face. I stared at this guy for quite some time, shocked by both his appearance, and the very fact of his existence, eventually, he strolled ( I mean where talking Leo’s happy walk here) over to me, and said “hey my might morphing motherfucker, Baron Samedis the name, death is the game, but you can call me Sam the man, you wouldn’t happen to know how, a vampire like yourself, came to be in the place, where I got told the bitches was at, cause right now I am seeing a distinct lack of bitches, and I think I’ve been buggered by some trickster god, son of a bitch, and her owner”. With this verbal tirade over he looked at me with his head half cocked, in an expecting manner “hubbazawha” I replied. Seemingly sated by this answer, he backed off while I converted back to my human form, and I got on top of the dragon and yelling as loudly as I could, “I require the service of a Pegasus or griffin, to teach me how to fly, the rest of you are free to go, except for Sam”, whom was at this present time playing with Red, catching him in his top hat and releasing him again. With this announcement, I found all but a injured griffin ran away from me, with the injured griffin stumbling of, but I just walked up to him, and tapped him, he looked around saw my blood covered self, and fainted, the last thing he probably heard was Sam saying “I'm not carrying him, bloody griffins are as heavy as my mother”.

I went out of the cave and found that during my time in the cave the moon had arisen so I left in search of a pool and bathed myself, removing the blood from my body, then returned to the cave where I found, Sam looking at the 5 headed dragon tattoo I had seen on the body of the pink dragon, while the griffin was bandaged with medical bandages Sam had found in a forgotten saddle bag, and Red was eating another cupcake, the origin of which I had not a clue. I walked up to the griffin, slipping into my griffin guise before approaching him upon seeing me he shuddered but remained standing and so I proceeded to ask him to teach me to fly, at which point I would take him to Appleloosa, he nodded his in agreement and introduced himself as “Astro” so I headed over to ask Sam what the fuck was going on.

Sam, looked at me as I approached, still smoking his cigar, he said “look man I don’t want to tell you what to do, but there are easier ways to tell a girl you don’t want to play hide the ham stick”, I just looked at him “just saying” he continued. I cleared my throat about to launch into a whole 5 w’s and a h scenario, when he started to talk “Hey man, I'm a Haitian voodoo god, if that’s what you wanted to know, I was asked by this fully hot chick in a bikers jacket, who walked up to me and was all like, I know a place you might like to go, there are many beautiful people there, and so I was all like sure, and then I found myself looking at you going to town on that dragons body”. “ I looked at him, and said “we are in Equestria, I'm a former Australian human, my name is Clash, my title is Lord of the Night, and I don’t really know what’s going on, but you seem to recognize that dragon mark, which I have seen twice in the last few days, both times, on insane people who have been brought to Equestria and changed into different creatures”. Baron Samedi looked at me and said “first mother loving thing first, Equestria, as in that show for kids, that a whole bunch of older dudes like, ( I nodded my head), and secondly, this mark I have seen before, it brings some bad Babylonian juju, it’s the mark of Tiamat, there chaos god, but she is really evil, like a complete smorgasbord of evil, and she can be human, or a five headed dragon”, he then skulled a tequila that he made appear out of thin air.

“Well, I guess I have to find her, and ask her to stop,” I said, slightly sarcastically. Sam looked at me and said the one thing I didn’t want him to “why?” “Because it is the right thing to do,” I replied, agreeing with my little angelic self, the devil self adding silently, “and also because the blood from her will be glorious”.

Upon deciding this I got my map out of my saddle bags, which I saw where actually slightly different to the ones I had as a Pegasus, and looked at the map, deciding that the area with the most strange occurrences was my best bet, and pointed this out to Sam, who then said “well considering I can’t die, I may as well tag along, who knows, maybe I’ll get to have some crazy interspecies sex, while we’re at it”. And so we ventured out of the cave and into the night, myself, Red, Sam and Astro.

If anyone’s wondering what map I'm using it’s this one by troutking