Bad Hunger

Luna followed her vampire masters with a burning hatred in her heart. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn’t disobey them. She was silent throughout the trek, and kept her eyes on the ground as well. He thoughts kept returning to the mare she had drank from, the way she did it should have sickened her, but it didn’t. Luna found herself craving the metallic liquid that came from ponies, craving blood. She felt her mouth water at the thought of feeding. She tried to shake it from her head, but failed.Sombra noticed this and decided to speak with her.

“Don’t try to fight it,” He said gently, “It wont work, trust me.”

Luna looked up at him in surprise, not at what he said, but how he said it, with some degree of care. Then an absurd thought entered her head, she shook it away, it wasn’t possible. She continued to walk with her eyes on the ground in front of her. Then the group stopped, and Luna looked up at where they were. It was a massive fortress of black stone, the battlements had innumerable gargoyles along them, same with the walls of the castle itself. They looked frightening, and Luna guessed that they were for more than just decoration. The gates were three different solid iron portcullises, each one thicker than the last. Finally she saw the ballistae mountedon the walls battlements positioned between each gargoyle, about ten feet from the gargoyle on either side. Luna couldn’t help but feel a sense of awe at the nearly impenetrable defenses of this massive fortress.

Luna was broken out of her trance when the three portcullis began to rise, and she followed the two vampires in. There was a surprising lack of vampires in the late evening sunlight, until she remembered that vampires couldn’t go out in the day without solid protection. When they entered the castle itself Luna was greeted with a large feasting chamber with even more gargoyles.

“The others aught to be getting up soon,” Sombra said to her, “Then you can meet your new family.”

Not a moment to soon a mare stepped around a corner, and saw them. She bowed hastily to The Master, and he told her to rise. She emmediately came over and greeted Sombra then approached Luna.

“You’re new.” She said.

“Yes.” Luna said.

“It’s been a while since we’ve had a bloodless, when do you think you will feed first?”

“I, already have.” Luna said with a hint of shame in her voice.

“Oh, well then its best you get some sleep.” The mare said before turning to the master, “may I take her to the resting chambers for some sleep?”

“Yes, you may.” The Master awnsered.

So the mare turned and asked Luna to follow her, not that she had any choice. Luna followed the vampire mare down a few stone corridors lit by dim torches, left, right, down, right, right, left, down and a lot of other directions. Eventually they came to a room full of coffins, and Luna was instructed to lay down in on of the open ones. She did and the lid closed, she soon found herself drifting to sleep.

Luna opened her eyes and the lid of the coffin opened, to show Sombra and the Master waiting for her. Luna rose from the coffin, and faced them. The Master smiled and Sombra showed a look of concern, for what was beyond her. The Master gestured for her to join them.

“I have a task for you,” The Master said, “Sombra will accompany you for a few reasons.”

Luna said nothing.

“You are going to eliminate the Equestrian noble Flur De Lis, and her family.”

“Master,” Sombra said, “Allow us to spare the children. They have done no harm nor can they, and they wont be large enough to be problems before your plan is carried out.”

The Master looked at Sombra, so did Luna. Why would he care of children’s fate, he was nothing but a monster.

“Very well, you may spare the little ones. But eliminate Flur De Lis and her husband, and enything else you come across. But before you can get to that you will need to learn a few things.”

The Master said to follow him, and Luna obeyed. They found themselves in a training room.

“First you need to learn speed.” He said, “Let the dark magic flood into you and focus it into moving quickly.”

Luna didn’t know how to do so but she did it anyway. She felt a strange magic fill her being, and sprinted to the other end of the room. Fifty feet in two seconds, that is fast. She looked back at the two stallions.

“Good, now you must know how to use the shadows to hide you completely. Fill yourself with the dark magic and bend the shadows around you like a cloak, and you will be undetectable.”

Luna obeyed, she formed the shadow of a nearby corner around her and she became invisible and inaudible. She moved next to the stallions and dropped the magic, it wasn’t even a definite spell.

“You catch on quick, the last thing you will need to learn is how to shape shift. And no this is not an illusion spell, this is an honest to goodness change of form. However you will have to have fed off the creature you wish to change into. There are three different animals over on the far wall, feed off all of them, drink them dry if you wish, and then use the blood magic to change into their kind.”

Luna turned to see a nighthawk, a bat and an adder. The nighthawk would be useful for nighttime chases thanks to agility and speed as well as good eyesight. The bat would be good for finding quiet targets thanks to their hearing. And the adder would be good for sneaking around and eliminating targets without being seen. So Luna proceeded to drink each animal dry and change in and out of each of their forms to practice. When she had it down she turned to the master and he sent her and Sombra on the mission to eliminate Flur De Lis and Fancypants.