Bad Hunger

Luna woke to the sound of a beast tearing into the flesh of its recently killed meal. Her eyes fluttered open to finde herself surrounded by bars, and strong ones by the look of them. She sat up weakly and tried to take in her surroundings, things were blurry at first but they got better. She was in a cave, decently large in area and certainly tall enough to fly in. Her eyes drifted to what was making the noise, and what she saw nearly stopped her heart. There at one end of the cavern was King Sombra, with his teeth buried in the neck of a half living pony, and apparently drinking the blood of said pony. The pony struggled weakly for a few more seconds before going limp, and lifeless.

Luna saw that Sombra’s teeth had penetrated the main artery in the ponies neck, yet no blood came, he had drank all of the blood from the pony’s body. He looked up at her, and smiled.

“You’re awake, finally.” He said in his unnaturally deep voice. “The master will be here soon, he will be quite pleased that I managed to catch you.”

“Where am I and what have you done to that pony?” Luna demanded.

“You are in the Darklands, a place just in northern Germaneigh. You will be brought to your knew home soon enough.” He said darkly, “As for the pony, I just had my daily meal.”

“Let me out of here monster!” Luna demanded striking the bars of her cage.

“You are in no position to be calling me that, thrall. You should see yourself, terrifying.”

Luna looked over herself confused about what he meant, then she saw what he was talking about. Her coat had grown darker, her mane had changed from a smooth wave to that of a cosmic colored fire. Her wings had changed to a feathery batlike appearance. Even her cutie mark changed, it was still a crescent moon in a black nebula, but now the moon was red as blood. Luna ran her tounge along her teeth in thought and stopped cold, she had fangs growing from her top and bottom jaws, the ones on top were on the outside and longer, but her bottom fangs weren’t to be trifled with all the same.

“What have you done to me?!” Luna shouted at him.

“What I was told to do, nothing more nothing less.” Sombra said.

Sombra turned and went around a corner Luna hadn’t noticed, and returned dragging a defensless Pegasus mare. Luna couldn’t tell if she was red of coat and covered in dust or grey of coat and covered in blood, she hoped it was the former. Sombra approached her cage, opened the door and stepped in. Luna wanted to bolt, but she couldn’t, not when it would cost an innocent mare her life. Sombra then took out a dagger and made a shallow cut on the mares neck, not in a place it would kill her, but where blood would come from the wound. Then he dropped her, stepped out of Lunas cage and closed the door behind him and locking it.

The effect was emmediate, the metallic smell of blood filled Lunas nostrils, her eyes narrowed fixed on the mare. Lunas mouth began to water, the blood just smelled so good, so enticing. Unaware of what she was doing and powerless to stop herself, Luna lunged foreward and forced the mares head to the side before sinking her fangs into the main artery in the mares neck. Luna began to feed, feed on the blood of the mare that she was to drink dry. The mare struggled weakly for a few seconds, before going limp, dead.Lunas senses came back to her and she began to take shuddering breaths and taking shaky steps back.

“Good, you will do well under the master.” Sombra said to her.

Luna glared at him but said nothing. Why did she do that? Why did she just drink the blood of some poor defenseless mare without hesitation?

“Because your instinct told you to.”

Luna glared at him again.

“I’m a vampire, I can read your thoughts like an open book. Don’t worry, you will get used to this soon enough.”

Luna didn’t want to get used to it, she wanted nothing to do with this. She remained silent. It wasn’t long before a cloaked pony made his way into the cave from around another corner in the opposite end of the cave. Luna turned to see a large unicorn stallion pulling down the hood of his cloak. He had a pitch black coat, and the same color mane, his eyes were like that of Sombra, blood red and serpentine. She had no doubt that he had fangs like she did now. Sombra bowed to the stallion.

“Master, I have done as commanded, I think you will be pleased.”

“You continue to serve me well my friend, rise, show me who it is you have brought for us. Introduce me to the new member of our little family.” The stallion said in a not quite as deep voice as Sombra, but it certainly had more command.

Sombra rose and approached Luna’s cage, “Princess Luna of Equestria. Her instincts are strong, as are her senses.”

“Yes,” The Master said, “I can smell it on her. She will be a fine addition. Bring her along, its time she came home.”

“Yes master.” Sombra said before opening the cage. “Out.”

Luna, no matter how hard she tried not to, obeyed. Sombra chuckled.

“You can fight all you want, the thing about being a vampire is that you have no choice but to obey the one that turned you.” Sombra said. “Now follow us. And pick up a cloak before you leave the cave.”

Luna followed Sombra and the Master to the caves exit, where there was a pile of cloaks beside the mouth of the cave. Luna grabbed one and put it on pulling up the hood, it was still daytime, and vampires cannot be in sunlight without going through some serious pain. Luna followed the two stallions with her eyes downcast, her life had just gotten a lot harder.