Bad Hunger

Luna was working against herself. She didn’t know how that worked but she was. Luna had been ordered to hide from the guards that Celestia had sent out to find her, but he never said not to give away her position in other ways. The problem was that Luna tended to hide without meaning to. She could just be standing off to the side and only the ponies that were trained to see the unseen ever knew she was there, and even then she scared them when she finally emerged. So she tried very hard to be seen while being forced to follow the order to hide. All that disappeared when Sombra found out what she was doing.

“Actually try to hide. As in make sure that only those with more skill than you have a chance of finding you.” Sombra ordered.

So Luna could no longer leave any trail as to their whereabouts. So she and Sombra hid until nightfall, then that began to move. Celestia had begun taking care of the full cycle again, so Luna missed the chance to give away their position. She and Sombra glided through the lit city with ease and silence. They moved swiftly and without missteps, nopony suspected a thing. They quickly found the large home of the noble family of Fleur De Lis, and entered through the window.

Luna crept into the hallway to hear the tramping of hooves. And emmediately cloaked herself in shadow. Down the hall marched a group of guards escorting her targets. She grew hungry, the swelling veins and artery’s in their necks were too tempting. She cast a sleeping spell with her lunar magic and emmediately began to feed on Fleur De Lis. Once she drank her dry, she did the same to Fancypants and the guards. Once her hunger had been sated she looked up to see Sombra grinning at her.

“I see you were hungrier than I thought.” He said.

“It’s not something to be proud of.” Luna whispered.

Sombra chucked at her, “We had best be going, sunrise will be here in a couple of hours, we should either find shelter or speed back to the castle.”

Luna followed him with her blood soaked cloak billowing behind her. She and Sombra sped across the gardens and around a corner where they stopped. In front of them was a pony in a high collared white cloak, with a stake of blackthorn in his hoof.

The pony tried to stab Luna with the stake in the chest, but he was stopped when his leg was snapped in half by Sombra. Luna emmediately bit into his neck and drank him dry as she did the guards and targets. Sombra looked at her curiously.

“You have a much larger apitite than most newbloods.” He said licking his lips in thought.

“I’m not proud of it.” She said.

“It doesn’t matter.” He said. “I will be taking you on a feeding raid in a couple nights. I will report to the master, you can go to the library and read up on some information if you wish. Let’s go.”

Luna followed Sombra as they sped across Equestria and the ocean back to the castle in Germaneigh. Luna pulled up her hood when they arrived because she saw the sun peeking up on the horizon. She followed Sombra into the castle and he told her where the library was. With nothing better to do she went there.

The books were for free use and there was even a practice room for new skills and powers learned. So she just picked a book at random and began reading. The cover read Shade, Night and blood magics: tome I. She read it from cover to cover nine times and just about memorized the thing before moving on to the second tome. She wasn’t sure how long she spent reading each and every tome before Sombra came to get her. He cleared his throat to get her attention when she was about three quarters of the way through the twenty sixth tome for the eighth time. By then she had no idea how much knowledge she had memorized but she could tell it was a lot.

“It’s time,” He said, “Follow me. I’m taking you along with us on a feeding raid.”

“How exactly does a feeding raid work?” She asked getting up.

“We raid a village, take all of its inhabitants alive and burn it to the ground. Then we drink most of them dry, but save a few for later feeding. We even have a colony of them below the castle for long term hiding.”

Luna’s heart sank. To think of so many innocents dying because she and some other vampires were hungry made her feel dirty, but she wanted to do it too. She wanted to feed from ponies, from fellow ponies that would not be able to defend themselves from her or her fellow vampires.

She closed the tome and returned it before following Sombra out of the castle, where a group of vampires waited. They consisted of nine stallions and four mares. Two were batponies, three unicorns, four Pegasi, and the rest earth ponies. One mare approached them.

“Are we ready?” she asked.

“We are.” Sombra said and turned to Luna. “When the raid begins, go through the village and drag the ponies from their homes. Feed off a few of them if you wish, but save most of them for the feast. If they fight you, drink them dry.”

“Understood.” Luna said.

“Let’s go.” Sombra said to the group.

Then the entire group sped off into the woods, toward the village they were to raid, and raze.

Celestia was furious. These vampire hunters showed up with the intent to find and kill her sister because of what she was forced to become. She had demanded awnsers from them, and she got them. They had intended to find Luna and either take her captive or kill her. They had intended to put her in a cage like an animal, or kill her. She had them put out of the city and said ‘return to your king’.