The sound of blood drops splashing against the floor was all she heard, her eye focused on the trail of blood that leaked down her messy black mane, her other eye slightly blocked by splattered blood, she then heard the sound of her breathing. Her left arm raising to wipe the blood off her face, her vision clearing as she looked to see her posture, she was on her knees.

Looking up and forward, in front and around here were bodies, slashed apart, stabbed, neck snapped, decapitated, and so on, she noticed all of them were with pale fur and such, wearing messy and ripped clothing with gear.

"Most impressive Helsing, well done my dear~ Your status as a Slayer was not to be underestimated."

The Vamppony was Anthro, wearing a long coat and bandage make-shift gloves and armored pants and boots, not knee-high like Helsing's.

Helsing was soon back to reality after hearing that voice, she immediately grabs the sword that was on the floor next to her, quickly standing up as she grips her sword, her leather boots stretching and adjusting with her movement, her black and ripped cloak by her side, it was removed leaving her in her sleeveless shirt, the adjusting her leather gauntlets and gloves, her snow-white fur shined in the blood-soaked room, she adjusted her stance and readied her sword.

"You have no idea." She simply says.

"Oh but I do and it is beautiful to watch."

"You speak like you won't suffer the same fate."

"Who knows if I do? I'm not a fortune teller after all."

Helsing charged and yelled as he finished that sentence.

The Coated Vampony immediately takes out his Dagger as he clangs it against Helsing's Blade, the two duels as the Vampony slashed at Helsing a few times, the Slayer moving back and dodging the slashes, using her sword on the last one to block the little blade, she kicks the Vampony in the shin, hitting him in the head with the hilt of her blade, knocking him onto his back, Helsing immediately swings her blade down towards his neck but is stopped last second by the Vampony, his dagger keeping the blade inches away from his neck, Helsing pulls the sword back instantly, smirking as she instead pierces her sword through his arm, making him drop the Dagger...then again he can't hold it anymore now.

The Vampony yelled in pain as his horn glows, shoving the Mare back...he lightly chuckled as he got up, blood dripping from his chopped off left arm.

"I've underestimated you now my dear." He laughs and grabs the dagger with his right arm.

"I'm gonna kill you, and then I will kill your master."

"Ha! Like I give a shit about him, you're all mine Helsing!" He says as he charges towards her.

Helsing shook her head as she then immediately adjusts her hood so her face wasn't visible to anyone. Fluttershy and Applejack in front of her, leading her.

"So how far are we?" She asks.

"Not far, about half a mile, we have access to their private home that the Saddle Royal Family was happy to give them." Applejack says.

"Guess this was your only hope, that your allies would aid you all." She says.

"We know they would, the Sisters are close friends with the Princess and Prince, they knew each other for years, I remember when they visited Ponyville." Fluttershy says.

"I see."

"So what are you gonna do? When you see them?" Applejack asks.

"I...I don't know, but please let me reveal myself when I would like to." She says to the two.

The two nod at her as they approached a large home, two stallions posted near the door as one of them spots the three.

"Ah, you two are apart of the Elements correct?" One Guard asks.

"Yes, are the Princesses available?" Applejack asks.

"They are, who's your friend?" He asks.

"This is Helsing, she wished to speak to them." She answers.

"What for though?"

"Let's just say it's been a while since they've seen me," Helsing says.

"Uh-huh, and what's the cloak for? Not only that, you don't seem like you're a pony."

"The cloak is to hide my identity and what does the second part have to do with why I wish to see the Princesses?" Helsing asked.

"Look, she's with us, we can vouch for her, she's not gonna do something." Fluttershy then says.

The Guards look at each other but then notice Helsing's weapon, "Fine, but you wouldn't mind leaving your weapon would you?"

"I do mind." Helsing says sternly.

"Why not?" The Guard asks with a skeptical look.

"It must stay with me, no one else may touch it." Helsing says.

"Why is that?" The Guard continues questioning.

"Look stallion, I'm not going to do anything if you listened to Flutters." Helsing says, getting pretty annoyed now...these Guards are starting to be a pain in the ass.

The left guard sighs, "Fine, but don't try anything." He says sternly.

"Thank you." Applejack says as the Guards open the door for them, holding it.

The door shuts behind them as they both hear the two Sisters conversating.

"What we should be trying to do is find a way to get our home back, any kind of way possible, we need to start looking at risky options Sister."

"What kind of risky options?"

The three stroll in seeing Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, with Luna sitting up straight with her hooves on the table with Celestia calmly sitting down on her side of the table, the two then notice the three.

"Oh! Applejack, Fluttershy, we didn't hear you come in." Luna says.

"It's alright your highness, we're kinda dropping in unannounced anyway."

"I see...who's our mysterious friend?" Luna asks.

Helsing stared at Celestia, her eyes a bit wide as she looked at her, her mind flashing more familiar memories.

You are still my student, and I am still your Mentor no matter what.

It's time to fulfill your destiny.

Helsing almost didn't notice or felt it as much, her eyes lightly watered as a tear slowly fell from her left eye.

"Oh dear, are you alright?" Celestia asks, her tone turning a bit Motherly. The two mares next to Helsing looking at her with concern as well.

Helsing soon snapped out of it and sniffed, wiping the tear, "Yeah, I'm fine...sorry about that, my name's Helsing, I traveled far to find you and the surviving population of Equestria."

"It must've been a dangerous trip then." Luna says.

"Indeed, but I see you carry a sword, it must've been hard to defend yourself still since most weapons don't kill or hurt them." Celestia says.

She shrugs, "It wasn't too bad."

"Helsing here brought Angel Bunny with her, he was alive this whole time still."

"Wow, I'm guessing you're very relieved Fluttershy." Celestia says with amusement.

"More than very." She says with a smile.

"May we ask why you hide yourself?" Luna asks.

"I don't wish for anyone to truly know my identity." Helsing answers.

"Is Helsing your real name then?" Luna raises a brow.

"No--I mean yes, it is." She says, almost slipping up from the question...the same question that she's still asking herself.

The Sisters lightly tilted their heads.

"It's...complicated." Fluttershy says.

"Would you mind removing it here? We can keep it a secret." Celestia says, standing up from her chair, her four hooves clopping against the floor as she approaches the three.

Helsing froze at the question...half of her wanted to reveal herself...more than that, she wanted to hug her mentor, her guardian...but the other half was afraid of what she would say, that and thinking that it isn't the right time.

"Uh...I," Helsing struggled, her hooves tapping the floor, "I...don't...I--"

"It's alright, you don't need to if you are not comfortable with it." Celestia says.

Helsing silently thanked her mentor, happy that she still can read a pony...well for her, it's somewhat.

"I want to help you with the Vamponies." She says.

"Oh, well this is unexpected, we've been looking at our options but none have worked but so far we didn't wish to take any options that would mean casualties." Luna says.

"I can understand that, but at the same time, any option you can think of might not work, I assume no books survived from the Canterlot Library?"

"I mean the Castle is still there and the books are still there but no, we never got any."

"I figured, to be honest, I'll need massive help anyway to figure the whole thing out." Helsing says.

"What do you mean?"

"Helsing lost her memories, but they've been returning throughout her journey but not all of them have returned yet." Fluttershy explains.

"Oh you poor dear, so did you come here so we could help you?" Celestia asks.

"Yes, but in doing so I need to be honest but I don't know if I am ready yet." Helsing says.

"Why not?"

"I...I don't have enough memories recovered that's why...I..."

Helsing sighs and looks at the Sisters, "I guess I really can't even go through with this unless I do show you."

The Sisters just looked confused about what she meant, however, that would be answered as the Anthro breathes and slowly but surely...removes her hood.

The Sisters gasp, Celestia's reaction was much more exaggerated than Luna's...her eyes slowly welling up as she sees the familiar purple fur and mane, her horn and face...

"T-Twilight?" Celestia asked through her breaking voice.

Helsing couldn't resist as she ran towards her teacher and immediately hugs her.

"Oh my faust...Twilight...I-I thought I lost you, I thought I lost my former student." Celestia says quickly, tears falling.

Helsing didn't say anything as she felt the White Alicorn's forelegs wrap around her gently like a mother holding her filly.

"H-How though?"

"That's why I need your help...I wanna tell you the whole story but I need to tell it to the others as well." Helsing says...her purple eyes lightly shining at Celestia.

"How many memories have come back so far?" Luna asks.

"Enough for me to remember my friends & you two, mostly after seeing someone or something again has it returned to me, some are random, I saw a couple of flashes of what I believe happened during the Vamponies Invasion." She says.

"And where did the name Helsing come from?" Celestia asks.

"It's...it's my name." She says.

"What do you mean?" Celestia asks.

Helsing sighs, "I'm not the same mare you know Princess, even my voice isn't my old one, nor is my body, what I did to get here is not the things I would do normally."

"What do you mean, and why would that matter? We've all done regrettable things--"

"I liked it, I loved it as if I've done it before for my entire life Princess, there was only one thing I regret doing and that's it, everything I did I treated it like it's the way I am, I'm not me Celestia, at least not fully," Helsing explains, "It's like I have someone else inside me like it's why I have this body, look, and tone."

Celestia's horn glows...gently tapping Twilight's...

Helsing could feel Celestia searching her mind...looking at what is wrong, she could see the purple lights as she looked but quickly she watches it redden as she searched for her soul and such. She slowly began to see a red orb and a purple one huddled together, amongst the fiery red and ancient runes flying everywhere. She saw Twilight in her normal Alicorn form as she looked right at Celestia...then behind her was a White-furred anthromorphic mare, she was covered in scars shaped in the same runes, her eyes blood red but no fangs showed, she had long black hair, she wore no clothing as she looked at Celestia. Soon her and Twilight both sat, backs against each other lightly due to how Twilight sat obviously, Celestia spotting a large circle with a crossing star, runes traced on the edges of the circle, almost looking like that was glowing itself.

Celestia's eyes open as she gasps slightly, stumbling back as she shakes her head, "You're not wrong on what you were thinking Twilight, there is another soul inside you, a dangerous one and it looks like her influence is much more power than yours."

"I know." She then says, looking at Celestia.

"How would you know," Celestia then notices her eyes were red now, "what are you doing in my student's body?"

"It's my body, what the hell are you talking about?" She looks at Celestia.

"Do you not know what is going on either?" She asks.

"I don't but I got most of my memories...I and your student have slowly been retaining our memories, we both have an idea of who we are, we're just missing the details it feels like now," Helsing says as she heads over to the chair Celestia was sitting in, taking the chair and sitting in it herself, "but we both saw you in our mind, and we both just recognized our old selves so there's that at least."

"Do you even know what all those runes are on your body?" Celestia asks.

Helsing looked at her calmly, closing her eyes as she removes her gloves and removes the cloak, her tank-top covered a majority of the runes but not all obviously as she looks at them...

Helsing breathed shakingly, panting almost, staring at her hands, looking at the bleeding cuts, seeing they were in the shape of runes, looking at the ones on her arms, watching the blood drop within the red circle that was drawn on the floor, candles lit as they lied right on the line of the circle, she grunted lightly...then she yelped slightly in pain, her groans and moans gaining a bit of volume as she clenched her body.

Behind her was the old stallion, a dagger cutting and carving into her back, blood slightly leaking from the cutting wounds, "Hold still, you will pull through this child...I promise," he then continues and Helsing could only hold her screams of pain as the blood continued to drip from her body, "the magic will work once I am finished."

The knife soon went to her neck, the first cut in Helsing lightly yelled in pain, feeling the marking be carved into the side of her neck, but the Stallion never pushed deep enough to cause problems, but Helsing still could only hold so much as light yells continued to escape from her lips.

"Yes, I do."

"I thought I did recognize them when seeing you, do you know how dangerous it is--"

"I do! Very very dangerous, I know what it is, what it can do, and the consequences of it when one isn't careful." Helsing says with slight annoyance.

"Can you two please stop playing the pronoun game and just tell us what you're talking about?" Luna says.

"Blood Magic." Helsing answers.

Luna's eyes widen, Helsing's stance never changed as the two Sister's stern looks met her gaze, Fluttershy and Applejack looking confused.

"What's Blood Magic?" Applejack asks.

"A form of magic that makes dark magic its bitch, while Dark has possibilities of corrupting the user or turning against them sometimes, Blood Magic uses rituals, chants, and someone who can take what it throws at you," Helsing stands and raises her tank top to show more runes, a deep scar embedded in her belly and it was only a simple stab would do, "The name isn't for show as the name itself drains your blood as you use it, rituals do not use much, all you need is a simple cut, but spells drain your blood and the more you do it, the more it begins to change you and your health, if you don't keep a lid on it, the magic can kill the user in both the long run or if you cast too many spells."

"Blood Magic also includes a large variety of killing spells, from a simple neck snap to deaths that no other could ever see, slow, fast, torturing, you name it. One of the many reasons it is forbidden." Celestia said, "I do wish to know Helsing, why are the runes scarred into you, last I checked the runes had to be drawn within a circle."

"They were...what I did was one of the ancient properties of Blood Magic, things that are not in any books at all, only a few would know the knowledge and with very good reason."

"Why?" Luna demands.

"Have you ever heard of Hell your majesty?" Helsing asks.

Luna shakes her head as well as everyone else.

"I don't expect you to, it's a land that has been ravaged by death, destruction, and many other things, the whole land fell thanks to Blood Magic." She says.

"What exactly happened?" Fluttershy asks.

Helsing looks at her and soon tilts her head down, closing her eyes as she tried to remember...

"What can you tell me, Master?" Helsing asks, looking at the old pony.

"It's not pretty, nothing about it was pretty..." The gruff stallion answers, he adjusts his seat and motions Helsing to sit.

"It was once called something nicer than Hell, the ponies there were like us too, standing on their two legs, they had evolved thanks to all the magic they have discovered and used. They had used this magic to prosper, soon becoming a nation on its own, it thrived...truly it did, but then, a Temple was discovered when looking at the further regions. It was covered in ancient runes and it held many mysteries, after a year, we cracked the codes and our discovery was an ancient spellbook. After reading the book and performing some of the spells it held in its pages, we determined that the Spells are too dangerous to be released to the rest of the nation, however, it seemed some of us thought it shouldn't be kept from everyone, someponies fascinations will sometimes be what brings everyone down. The book was stolen, we searched for it for a while, checking every inch of our land and when we found it...it was already too late.

The Ponies that had swiped it had already tried out some of its worst ones, we had discovered it had become a cult. They had already mastered the Blood Magic, soon beginning to attack our nation, sacrificing our citizens for their gains...this corruption finally lead to the birth of the many creatures that Hell is known to house, ones such as the Vamponies which were the worst as they could spread their ranks with the disease they carry, the more there are, the stronger they are, we had no choice and eventually, a mission to steal the book was put in motion, and it was a success, what we made using many different spells the book carried was a Slayer. We fought them, and fight we did, our chances started getting better, but our battle had already cost half of our population, even some of the Slayers had begun to be reckless in their mission to kill all the creatures to where casualties did not matter...our land wasn't recognizable anymore, everywhere there was death, blood, and destruction so a choice was made, we used the book one last time and it took every slayer and soldier we had to do it, using the Blood Magic we had basically created a new spell...I took part in it and not only that, I and your father were the ones who were chosen to live for this as this spell would drain our blood immensely, but combined and together, some may survive. We banished and buried the land deep within the layers of Equis, down to its realms where every creature would be trapped forever, Me and the select few others now name it Hell, named after the Temple that had started the whole war so long ago."

Helsing was struck a bit, learning the truth, listening to her Master of what she was involved in.

"Will the same happen to me?" Helsing asks, looking at her runes.

"Not if you keep your head straight, and you've been doing amazing with that, the Blood Magic never corrupted your judgment early on so that's a sign that you can do this." He says, his hands placed on Helsing's shoulders, speaking to her like a true mentor.

Everyone in the room looked at Helsing as she recited the memory...her red eyes opening as she sees all their expressions as if they were trying to process it.

"That's how far Blood Magic can reach, to where its influence will either kill or change you into a monster if you somehow figure out how to survive giving blood every time, like a sacrifice or something similar," Helsing says, "Master told me the story carefully and it always stuck to me, I use it to remind myself the Dangers of Blood Magic and to keep my head clear, not that I don't need it anymore."

"So...are you saying you are a Slayer?"

"The last one alive, and I want to help with your Vampony problem." She says.

"I see, but was it Blood Magic that merged you and Twilight together?" Celestia asks.

"Probably, I'm not sure but with how I am, it probably was." She answers, soon standing up.

"Is there a way to split you apart and be back to normal?"

"Not that I know of, the spellbook was buried somewhere not even I know of, and the info where it has probably died with my Master, assuming he's dead..." She says.

"What do you mean? Do you not know?" Applejack asks.

"I don't, I don't even remember how I ended up in that Tomb."

"Tomb?" Fluttershy asks.

"My whole journey started in an underground tomb in the midst of the everfree forest, I woke up without almost any of my memories." She says.

"Do you know how you woke up?" Celestia asked.

"A...a voice, but I'm not sure whose...but it almost sounded devious but not in a bad way." Helsing says.

"That's pretty cryptic." Applejack says.

"Yeah, I wish I could remember."

"Don't fret Helsing, your memories will fully come back soon enough." Fluttershy reassures.

"I hope so...Princess is there a memory spell that we could use?" Helsing asks.

"Not that I know of I'm afraid." Celestia says.

"Dammit!" Helsing says, standing up...she sighs and looks back at Celestia, "I was hoping for some way to speed up the process of how I am regaining my memories by coming to you and the others, either you have something we can use or the Elements...w-wait the Elements! The Elements of Harmony," Helsing then runs over to Applejack, putting her hands on her, "Applejack do we have the elements still?!"

"They're gone..." Luna then says somberly.

Helsing slowly looks back at Luna, "What? What do you mean they're gone?" She asks.

"We attempted to use them if you don't remember, before you, Tempest, & Spike left the castle, you grabbed the Elements and brought us together, then that Vampony who killed Starlight showed up." Fluttershy says.

The Six Mares had all gathered, Twilight immediately hugging them all, "Girls! Oh, thank Celestia you're alright!" Twilight says through her faint tears.

"Are you alright Twilight? What happened?" Rainbow Dash asks.

Twilight sniffed and wiped her watery eyes, trying to suck it up, "Starlight's dead...she gave herself to save me and Tempest."

The five look at Twilight in slight shock and sadness.

"I'm sorry Twilight." Rarity says.

"Aww, how touching..."

The Six, including Tempest and Spike all look back to see it was Starlight's Killer, Sinister.

"You! Y-You monster!" Twilight says.

"Oh why thank you...your highness, I try," Sinister says, holding onto the dagger he killed Starlight with...soon bringing it up to his face as his tongue slowly slides against the side of the blade, licking the blood that stained it, "her blood was very delicious I must say."

"G-Girls! Elements now!" Twilight yells, her tone a bit angry but her eyes slowly building up tears again.

"Oh? You have a trick up your sleeve?" He asks with a smirk.

"I will send you to the deepest pits of Tartarus!" Twilight yells, her crown beginning to glow.

The others didn't hesitate as they felt Twilight's pain, their faces all staring at Sinister as they equip the Elements.

"Ooh sounds exciting, come on, give me your best shot Princess, hopefully, you'll do better than your student."

"SHUT UP!" Twilight screamed as her eyes glowed white, the six shining along with their Elements as they huddle together, all shining together as a rainbow beam is shot upwards, going down towards the Vampony, soon it hit him.

A few seconds later they're eyes widen as the beam didn't envelop him...instead he was absorbing it! He breathes softly as then Twilight's eyes stop glowing and soon they notice the colors of the beam splitting as then the Six feel like they're being tugged on! All grunting as they notice the Element Jewels begin to crack...their color slowly turning grey...

They watch as then the Vampony laughs maniacally, "Ha! Your inferior magical weapon has nothing on mine and not only that...I think that was the boost I need to get my full strength and magic back," His body began to glow red along with his horn as his body groans and crack, he grunts and feels his bones shift, "Finally...I can have my real form back."

"Go! Girls, go now!" Twilight yells...their necklaces and crown soon falling from their bodies as they all turned and retreated immediately into the Everfree Forest while Sinister was now occupied.

"It's like he just drank all that magic down like a Milkshake!" Pinkie Pie says

"Tell me that didn't happen!" Spike then says.

"It did..." Twilight says somberly, looking back as she could faintly hear the yells of Ponyville's citizens...

Helsing sighs as she looks at Applejack, "So that's it then, I have no choice but to just let them come back on their own."

Helsing then stands up and begins to head for the door.

"Twilight? Where are you going?" Celestia asks.

"I don't know," She says looking back at everypony for a split second, "but I need to think." She simply answers, putting her hood back up.

Helsing soon opens the door, exiting and shutting it behind her.

"What did that magic do to her, Princess?" Applejack asks.

"It changed her...It changed Twilight." Celestia answers.

Author's Note

I know that this is an exposition chapter, but I really wanted to show off some of the ideas that popped into my head last night, so I wrote while it was still fresh and flowing through my head, I was loving what I was coming up with, the Story of Equestria's Hell can be described by this song:

I'm glad to be writing again, especially with thoughts in my head, and I think you all just deserve it, think of it as a Christmas present~

So while typing, I had my usual rock music playing until I heard one that I think might be a good theme for this story XD, well then again I already found "Don't Fear the Reaper." as a good theme for Helsing, but this one also is really good...soooo...I'll have you guys vote!

Choose which one sounds like a good theme for Helsing and the story itself:

OR

Anyway, Merry Christmas Eve everyone!