A new type of vampire

Watchman hears screams in his sleep. Seeing ponies running from him, he wakes up.

“Welcome, Watchman, to ze Night Stalkers” a female voice says as he opens his eyes to see a gray mare with fangs

“Where am I?” he asks groggily.

“Where you belong.” the mare replies.

“Who are you?” Watchman asks.

“My name is Laetitia Barnave, and I am ze leader of ze Night Stalkers.” the mare replies

“Oh. Hi, then!” Watchman says, and Laetitia gives him a look, but it fades and she smiles. Watchman then realises that Gabriel isn’t with him.

“Where is the filly that was with me!?!” he asks, panicked.

“All in good time, but first we must discuss some sings.” Laetitia replies, beginning to walk.

‘The accent I am going to need to get used to.’ Watchman thinks.

“You should keep your soughts to yourself!” Laetitia says, stunned Watchman stops for a second, until he remembers that some vampires can read minds. Laetitia walks into a room. With Watchman following her, she sits in a chair and motions for him to sit as well.

“Now, we must go over ze different vampires before anysing. Ze first zing is when a vampire bites its victim. It has 24 hours to have ze victim drink vampire or pony blood. If zey drink pony blood, zey turn into what we call half breeds. Zey have some of ze powers of us vampires, but none of our weaknesses. If zey drink vampire blood, well you can probably imagine, but if zey do not consume any blood zey will turn into “corpses” as we call zem.

Zey are like us vampires, except zey kill for fun and zey are like ze living dead. Zey have only enough brain power to walk and attack, but if zey were let in here, zey would extinct us. Now zat zat is out of ze way, I want you to be my right hoof stallion.”  Laetitia says.

“Wait, what?” Watchman asks.

“I want you to join me.” Laetitia replies. As Watchman contemplates the strange mares intentions, he searches her face, but sees nothing.

“Ok. You need some time to sink about it, but in ze meantime, let us go to a show” Laetitia says.

“I guess that would be okay.” Watchman replies. Laetitia motions for him to follow her, then walks down a brightly lit hallway, the sides are decorated with something that looks like tinsel when Watchman realises it is actually barbwire. The walls are a dark yellow with columns. In between each column is a window that shows the outside.

“So, what is this show you are taking me to see?” Watchman asks Laetitia, but she doesn’t respond.

The mare keeps walking until they enter a sort of arena. It is circularly shaped, the seats on the outside with a roof for protection from the sun. The arena is of course not covered, but the strange thing is, the arena isn’t empty. There is an odd sort of pedestal in the center, making Watchman want to question it, but he decides it might be rude. Watchman and Laetitia take a seat and a pony walks out into the arena. It is Vinyl, and the sight of her makes Watchman a bit confused, but he continues to watch anyway.

“This pony who faces you today, has failed in her mission to kill the vampire she made! And because of that, she must be punished!” says a stallion on a podium, “The punishment is DEATH!” he finishes, and a large stallion walks into the arena wearing a peach mask.

“That is an executioner.” Watchman thinks, “This is bad.” Watchman wants to help the mare who he thought was his friend, but his hate for her has not fully left him. Vinyl lays on the pedestal, her head lying off of it

“Vinyl Scratch! Do you have any last words?” the stallion asks.

“Yeah, I do. Two words: Fuck! You!” Vinyl replies, and with that the executioner raises his axe. Watchman looks away, terrified, and hears a chop, and a thud. He looks back to see his friend’s head on the ground, but something odd is happening. Smoke swirls around it, and Watchman recognises the cleft note cutie mark. He starts to twitch slightly, the executioner holds something up.

It is gabriel, alive! The large stallion throws the filly onto the ground, and Watchman is overcome with rage. He pulls out his pocketknife he keeps with him, hearing Laetitia laughing. He stabs her in the chest, and she gasps, seeing the fire in his eyes. He stabs her again, and hitting her heart, she screams, turning to ash.

Running down the aisles towards the arena, he jumps into the arena, the large stallion swinging his axe at Watchman after seeing him. Watchman slides underneath of the blade and jumps on the stallion’s back. Repeatedly, Watchman stabs the executioner in the neck. The large stallion drops his axe and Watchman jumps off, grabs the axe, and with one swipe, cuts the stallion’s head clean off, and he turns to ash.

Screaming with all his might, Watchman lands next to the collapsed stallion’s ashes, but doesn’t fall unconscious. Watchman struggles to stand, and staggers to Octavia’s lifeless body. He picks up her bowtie and starts to yell again. He then remembers Gabriel, and runs to the filly. She is covered in blood and dying.

He has no choice left, he bites her neck and cuts his foreleg. She drinks his blood. Watchman hopes it is enough to let her live, and slowly she stirs, the cuts slowly seeping away until it is like they were never there. Watchman picks up the filly and he runs.

He runs out of that horrible place he is in. He runs into the woods that surround the compound. He falls… and blacks out.