Chapters You’re Supposed to be Dead.
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.
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.
Luna followed Sombra across the vast sea toward equestria at blinding speeds. They ran atop the water as though it were solid ground and their movements left a trail in the water. Luna looked around, her sister was keeping the cycle going and likely worrying her tail off. Luna shed a single tear, she used her wings fo fly just above the water and wiped the tear from her face, it was blood. The reality of what she was turned into hit her again and a crushing feeling of shame. She touched back down on the water and continued to run beside and behind Sombra.
Please sister, help me. Luna thought to herself.
Celestia couldn’t sleep, no matter how hard she tried. Her sister had disappeared without a trace, just gone one night. Celestial had noticed that she didn’t raise the moon, so she went to Lunas chambers to see what was wrong. When she came in she found the room trashed as though there had been a fight, and a single note left on the bed. The words written only scared Celestia even more.
She belongs to us now.
Celestia had not had time to set up a proper investigation before the press was forcing their way in. They had been pressuring her for information that she didn’t have, and for the first time ever she showed anger. When they had asked too many questions she had roared at them loud enough to shake the foundations of the city that she had no information at the time. She hadn’t been that loud in a long time.
She had ordered an investigation, they had found next to nothing. The guards were interrogated and they said that they had gone into the room after hearing a commotion and found princess Luna fighting with a cloaked figure. They had attempted to attack this figure only to get thrown out the window and land in a rose bush. The fight then came down to the gardens when Luna was thrown from the balcony. The strange pony landed on top of her then bit into her neck, drawing blood.
The gardens were inspected and there was indeed some blood on the ground and the hounds confirmed it as Lunas. They had followed the scent to the coast and the trail ended there. The other nations were made aware of this and were searching for Luna themselves, either because they were allies to equestria or friends to one or both princesses, or they were enemies of the nation and would demand a heafty ransom for her return.Celestia hoped that it would be her or one of her allies that found Luna, they may not be able to afford the ransom option.
Celestial rose the sun and left her chambers to get breakfast and an update on the investigation. She saw that there were three stallions in white collared cloaks with a black cross on the back. The collars of the cloaks reached their jawline and came forward as to hide their faces. There were two hounds with them, both were white and with furry coats, looking more like wolves than dogs. The three stallions faced her and bowed, before rising.
“Greetings princess Celestia of Equestria,” The stallion in the middle said with a heavy Germane accent, “We are rangers from Germaneigh, we have been sent to help in your investigation.”
“Help that is most welcome.” Celestia said with a smile. “The chief of investagions should be here soon. He can fill you in on the details.”
The chief of investigations decided to show up at that moment.
“Well speak of the devil,” Celestia said.
“Good morning princess Celestia, I’m afraid there hasn’t been much improvement.”
“Hello,” Said the stallion to the Chief, “I have been sent by King Conrad to assist you in your investigation.”
“Well then, I will need to fill you in on some details.”
Luna hid in the alley with Sombra, they would need to wait for nightfall to carry out the mission. She sat hidden by her cloak trying to telepathically contact her sister. She had to focus hard on it and she could not lose focus because of the vast distance between her and her sister.
Celestia!
Luna?! Where are you?
In the City, but I wont be for very long. Celestia, I have no control over what is happening, please help me.
Luna, what do you mean?
I mean I have no control Celestia, there is a castle in Germaneigh that not many know of, perhaps not even Conrad. That is where I will be guranteed to travel between. Celestia I dont know how this will turn out, but you must understand, I have no power in what is happening.
Luna please, tell me what’s going on.
Luna hesitated, I cant tell you, it will take to long. But I can show you.
Celstias eyes glowed white as she received the memories from her sister. Of waking up in a cage. Of Sombra being alive. Of drinking the blood of a mare. Of the horrible feeling that came afterwards. Of being unable to resist any order given by Sombra or the strange pony called the Master. Of being ordered to kill Fleur De Lis and Fancypants and their children. Of Sombra pleading to allow the children be spared. Of where she was now.
Celestia sat there dumbstruck, her little sister had been abducted by vampires. And what’s worse, forced to become one of them. Her shocked expression didn’t go unnoticed, the three stallions seemed to know exactly what happened. Even their hounds looked at her.
“She contacted you,” The same stallion said, it wasn’t a question.
“Telepathically yes, she is in the city.” Celestia said to them. “Put guards on Fleur De Lis and her husband and tell them that we believe they are targets for assasination.”
The guard next to her bowed and followed his orders.
“She has been turned, hasn’t she?” The stallion asked.
“What do you mean?”
“I mean she has been turned into one of them.” The Germane ranger said. “Vampires.”
Celestias eyes narrowed. “How did you know.”
“It’s our job princess,” he awnsered pulling out an aspen stake holding it like a dagger, “we hunt them.”
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’.
Trees ruched past her as she sped through the forest with her fellow vampires. They sped across the forested land in the direction of the village they were to murder and kidnap. Luna followed them with hatred but could not deny the hunger she felt. She wanted to do this but at the same time wanted to stop. She enjoyed draining ponies of their lifeblood but at the same time it disgusted her. Her moral and mental war with herself continued to rage, however, what ever decision she came to would be insignificant. She was still compelled to obey her vampiric masters.
They were running for a minute and a half before they came to the edge of the village. Fields stretched out before her filled with ripe wheat ready for the harvest. Off a little farther was a small town, with several one and two story buildings, and barracks. The vampires gathered around in a small circle. Sombra began to give instructions.
“We will take each house by storm. Break down the doors and drag the ponies out. Me and some others will take care of the garrison. You may feed from some of them emmediately but save most of them for later.” Sombra instructed. “Turn the children. If any of the inhabitants fight you, feed off of them, drink them dry and discourage further resistance.”
So the attack began. Luna and most of the other vampires were to storm each and every house, and drag the ponies from their homes to be herded back to the castle. Sombra and the rest were to do the same to the garrison. Luna broke through a door to one house and seized the stallion and mare who had been up to... recreational activities on the couch. Luna was thankful that her deep hood hid her tears, she hated this, to do such horrible things yet be powerless to stop herself. She threw the couple out to another vampire who dragged them to where the citizens would be herded. Luna searched the rest of the house, to find a young colt sleeping soundly. She just about broke into sobs, she had been ordered to turn any children found, no matter how young.
The colt was young, very young. He had a green coat and a straw colored mane. He was too young to have earned his mark.
Luna approached the colt on shaky legs. She stood over him, her tears glistening in the moonlight, and she felt pressure grow in the roots of her fangs. Venom, thats how they did it, they injected venom into the pony’s bloodstream to turn them. Luna closed her eyes to keep back the tears. She opened them again and leaned down, then bit down on the colts neck.
He did not stir. Luna felt liquid flow from her fangs and the pressure in their roots reduce. She pulled back to see the colts veins grow black. The dark coloration in the green colts veins approached the colts heart. And he was corrupted. Luna picked him up and held him with a wing. She walked out of the house and waited by the group of captive ponies, where the couple she grabbed tried to attack her. Two other vampires grabbed them and held them back however.
“What have you done with our child?!” Screamed the desperate mother.
Luna could not force herself to reply, she could not tell a mother that she had just turned her only child into a monster. Luna looked away, and the couple saw a tear drip down from beneath the hood. They looked at her closely, and they saw her face. They recognized her as princess Luna of equestria, with tears staining her face, and her expression one of pure anguish. They could very clearly see the heartfelt apology in her eyes, and the sadness at what she had done.
The next ponies to come to the herd were the garrison. The soldiers were put into the group, and they were a little protective of the ponies in there. They emmediately surrounded their fellow citizens and faced outward, telling the vampires that they would have to be the first killed if they wanted the rest.
Luna felt the colt she held in her wing stir and she pulled him out to look at him. His coat and mane darkened and he developed fangs in his mouth. He opened his eyes to show they had a red tint and a serpentine appearance. He looked up at her curiously, it nearly broke Luna’s already fragile heart. The colt looked at the group of ponies.
One of the soldiers from the garrison had grown so furious that he charged Luna and tried to strike her. Luna made no attempt to stop him. The blow never landed. The colt had launched himself onto the soldier and bit down on his neck and began to feed. The soldier was dead a few seconds later, and the colt having drank his fill walked groggily back to Luna. She lifted him from the ground and cradled him in her wing as she had before, and he slept. He looked so peaceful as he slept, so innocent.
Sombra told them to begin moving and they began to herd the ponie back to the castle. Along the way all of the turned children woke up at some point and fed off of any of the ponies who fell behind or who were in the back of the group. Luna held the colt she turned close to her in a protective way, in an almost motherly way. As they marched the moon grew closer to the horizon, and the castle came close. They left the forest and the gates rose to admit the group into the castles walls. Safety for vampires, but doom for the ponies they herded. A group of caretakers took the children to the nursery where they would be taught, fed and cared for. Luna returned to the library while the other vampires went about their own business after they put the ponies in the mines beneath the castle.
Luna slipped silently into the realm of dreams, the realm only she could access, the realm she could be safe in. She moved across the dreamscape and observed different dreams as she did. When she came across a nightmare she silenced it, when she came across a pleasant dream she observed. Such was the duty she had been assigned to since she was of age. The only strange thing was that she could not alter her form in the dreamscape, so she would be seen as the monstrosity that she was by any who caught a glimpse of her.
There was one nightmare that caught her attention like no other. This was a memory, that took place several millennium ago. It showed the Master giving orders to the dreamer, whom she quickly identified as Sombra. She observed how he was forced to do atrocities that were branded into his mind, things that slowly ate away at his mind.
He had been ordered to go into a city and kill everyone he saw. He had begged and pleaded to the master to allow them mercy, to let them live. The master had refused, and ordered him to go, and destroy the city entirely. Sombra was compelled to obey, and it tore him apart as he was powerless to stop himself from killing a child in front of their parents or their parents in front of them, only to do the same to them afterwards.
He had been ordered to go into the mines as a taskmaster and to whip any of the ponies who weren’t working fast enough. He had held back as much as his slight semblance of control would allow, yet still the masters orders compelled him to lash any of the slow workers across the back. He had mostly lashed the younger and elderly ponies. He remembered clearly how he had broken down into tears once he was alone.
Luna watched, tears threatening to break through her own eyes, as she watched horror after horror ravage and destroy Sombra from the inside. And from then on she saw him differently, now she knew that he was just as much an unwilling slave to the master as she was. He had no control over what happened or what would happen from there. She finally understood why he had begged him to spare the children of Fleur De Lis and her husband. She finally realized that he was no monster. Just a pony who was forced to do monstrous things.
She dissolved the dream entirely, knowing that any more would cause even worse damage to his psyche. When it was dissolved Sombra sat facing away from her, tears spilling from his eyes. He turned to see her, and just in time to be wrapped in a comforting embrace.
“I’m sorry, Sombra, I never considered what it would be like for you.” Luna whispered. “I’m sorry, to have judged you so quickly.”
Sombra hugged her back and panted, “I’m sorry, for what I did to you. I’m so, so sorry.”
“Don’t apologize for something you could not have prevented.” Luna told him her voice almost cracking. “You are just as much a slave to him as I am.”
Sombra squeezed her tighter, and after several minutes he finally uttered, “thank you.”
So they stayed there for a while, and considering time means nothing in the realm of sleep,they stayed there for what seemed like hours, neither of them intending to move away from the other. Luna did not know how or when they laid down but she didn’t try to change it when she noticed. If anything she only snuggled closer to him. Luna began thinking, perhaps this wasn’t as bad as she originally thought, not with Sombra by her side, and she knew now that was where he would always be.
Over the next several months Luna had been spending more and more time with Sombra. They agreed to keep the relationship they had started up hidden from everyone else and agreed that when in the company of others Sombra should treat her unfairly. Sombra was reluctant to agree to this and it took some convincing but eventually Luna got him to see that they would be less suspicious if he treated her badly in public. But when alone he would treat her very kindly, he would often apologize for his treatment of her in public on that day.
She found it cute that he thought he had to apologize for something she had agreed to previously. As time grew long and more difficult the more they leaned on one another for support, this eventually grew into something that neither had predicted. One night they met in the gardens and after talking for a while Luna kissed him, surprising them both. He had remained paralyzed for a second or two but eventually began to kiss her back. From there, things only got spicier.
“What is the one thing you have always wanted to accomplish?” Sombra asked her a few days later.
Luna blushed at this, “Well its... its stupid, you shouldn’t worry about it.”
“Come on, tell.” He said gently nibbling her ear, earning a giggle.
“Alright just stop teasing me like that.” Luna said, “I’ve always wanted to be a mother.”
Sombra was a little taken aback by this, her, wanting children? It wasn’t rediculous in fact it was a great goal to set. “Why is that stupid.”
“The idea in and of itself isn’t stupid. But me wanting it is. I have no chance to bear children. It’s not that I am infertile or unwilling to become pregnant, no it’s my position and the fact that everyone either views me as a goddess or a devil. They see me as either unattainable or not a good idea to approach. I have never found anyone who has been more than a moderately good acquaintance, I’ve never had friends before, I’ve been alone most of my life.”
“Well, you are most certainly approachable to me.”
Luna looked at him, hope in her eyes.
“I’ll see what I can find in the library.”
“Luna, we’re going to Equestria.” Sombra said to her, “all of us. The invasion has begun.”
“What? Invasion? Why?” Luna asked panicked.
“Because the vampires need more land and more blood. They cant survive without it and the young ones need it more than most of us. They plan to take Equestria by force and turn its younger generations, while taking the elder generations for feeding. We leave in an hour, with the amount of vampires we have and not to mention the gargoyles we could take equestria in a few days time. Thats what he plans to do, and we have been ordered to be the ones assaulting Canterlots walls, along with one hundred others.” Sombra said to her. “I hope this goes well, because if it doesn’t more ponies will die.”
“Where do we go?” Luna asked.
“Straight to the city we’ve been assigned to take. Come Luna, we had best get this over with quickly.”
Luna ran with Sombra across the ocean again, this time with hundreds of gargoyles and vampire ponies along with them. Soon water turned to grass and the mountain of Canterlot came into view. Sombra told Luna to go to Canterlot and warn her sister of what was coming. She, without anyone seeing her, left the camp that they had set up in the everfree forest and sped across the plains to Canterlot.
About five minutes later she was in the city, jumping across rooftops to get to the castle. She dodged guards and dove into allyways to avoid citizens. She eventually made it to the castle, when she did she put the door guards to sleep and began to sprint through the hallways and up staircases until she came to the doors of her sisters chambers. She put the guards to sleep and opened the door. She didn’t take time to look around, she just set the envelope with the letter she had written on the desk and leapt out of the window.
When she got back to the vampire camp she emmediately went to Sombra’s tent. She knocked on the support pole and waited. Sombra answered a second later with excitement in his eyes. He pulled Luna into the tent and gave her an open book.
“What’s this?” Luna asked.
“You said that you wanted to be a mother, so I did some reading like I said I would. You can be a mother while a vampire, only its a little bit different than most other beings.” He answered.
“How different?” Luna asked reading lightly.
“Well for starters, both parents have to consume the same pony, flesh and all, save for the bones, and the father must eat the heart. Once thats done both parents will be fertile and virile. Then they share a bed and then the female is pregnant for three weeks on average, give or take a day or two. But the great thing is that the child or children are not compelled to obey anyone, they have free will and their power is ever growing, just like a pureblood vampire. If you have children then they will be free Luna. They wont serve the master.”
Luna looked up at him, hope in her eyes. That soon turned into a hungry grin. A grin that made Sombra nervous.
“Luna, why are you looking at me like that?” Sombra asked.
“I think you know.” Luna said before kissing him.
Sombra was taken completely off guard, and soon melted into the kiss. Luna pushed him onto his back and straddled his pelvis, positioning his erect member under her dripping marehood. “Just relax,” she told him, “Let me do the work.” So she did. She slammed down onto his pelvis, taking his entire, monstrous dick into her folds, making both of them moan. Luna began to bounce up and down on him to take him deeper.
“L-Luna, I didn’t think you meant me when you said you wanted children.” Sombra gasped.
“A-are you c-complaining?” She teased.
Sombra sighed in pleasure, “no.”
Luna giggled slightly, and gasped as Sombra thrust upward. Luna grinned at him, “I assume you want to be on top then.”
Sombra blushed lightly, and didn’t answer. So Luna took that as a yes and spun quickly spun, switching their places. So Sombra was suddenly on top of her, and she grinned up at him and gave her rump a wiggle.
“Damn Luna,” He said, “your posterior is just so sexy.”
Luna giggled as he thrust into said posterior. “Feel free to smack it.”
That statement almost made him blow his load on the spot, but he smiled at the words. “Oh really.”
Luna gasped when she felt his hoof make contact with her flank. She began rocking her hips back into his even faster to meet his pace. So their fucking went up another notch and soon they both came. Luna’s cunny squeezed his member and milked it of its seed, while his length shot endless amounts of cum into her depths. Luna had begun to cry out in ecstasy, and so did Sombra, both of them caught in the satisfaction of becoming one. Luna felt sombra collapse onto her, and he rolled onto his back pulling her up to rest on his chest.
“I think the entire camp heard this.” Luna stated.
“No. I cast a sound blocking spell before you arrived so that no one would hear our discussion, I never thought you would do that though.” He told her.
“You’re glad I did.” She said.
Sombra sighed. “That I am.”
So Luna snuggled into him and they waited for morning.
It was time, time for them to take Canterlot. Luna stood next to Sombra before they began the assault, she wished that she did not have to go through with attacking her own home. Sombra made sure to catch her attention, his expression showing concern. A silent question and answer passed between them, and Luna hugged him before the attack could start. When she pulled away she heard him whisper to her.
“I’ll be with you, every step of the way.” He assured her.
Their only task was to immobilize as many as they possibly could, only to kill if they had to. This was not for the safety of the citizens but more out of wanting food for later and for workers. They werent told to go anywhere in particular, so Sombra would be able to stay by her side. She would follow him, she would help him, and the only pony she had no intention to spare was Blueblood, the world would be better off without him in it. So she smiled at him thankfully, and that was when they were signaled to begin.
Luna was thankful for her cloak and hood, then it would be less likely for her to be recognized. But then she decided to take the hood down, she would not hide from them, they deserved to know. So she and Sombra sped off with the rest of the vampires and gargoyles to take the city of canterlot. They arrived at its walls very soon and they easily scaled them.
Luna looked at the line of soldiers there waiting for them, the captain looked directly at her, he couldn’t believe his eyes. He stepped foreword, calling out to her in disbelief. Luna cast a mass sleeping spell on all of those present, putting all of the equestrians to sleep. The vampires moved onward to the city, tearing families from their homes like they did during the raid. They packed the civilians into the square and left a small guard while the majority went to the castle to take it. Luna and Sombra among those who left for the castle.
Luna cast a sleeping spell on everyone she came across, despite her growing hunger, and Sombra did the same. So they and several other vampires accompanied by a horde of gargoyles burst into the throne room. They were faced by a line of elite soldiers, Princess Celestia and the elements of harmony. The elements had already charged, but they only effected a single target, and Luna was said target. Unlike with Nightmare Moon however, Luna moved out of the way with plenty of time to spare, as did Sombra and all others in its path.
Reacting instantly, Luna and Sombra both cast sleeping spells on Celestia and the elements, before moving on to fight the elites. Several spears shattered on Luna’s hide as she and her brethren fought and slew numerous enemies, ultimately resulting in victory. They drank the blood of the corpses and dragged Celestia and the elements into the dungeons.
Celestia woke up on the cold stone of a cell. She got up and rubbed the sleep from her eyes before looking around. She saw two vampires on guard outside of her cell, and she noticed the two lifeless corpses beside them. The guards did not stay long however and left, after admitting two new vampires to take their place. These new guards were instantly recognized as Luna and the former King Sombra.
Neither said a word as Luna laid down in the far corner and Sombra moved to the farthest cell down. He opened the cell and pulled out a struggling stallion, and after closing the cell again he tore the stallion in half at the waist. He tossed Luna the lower half, she emmediately began consuming the flesh of the poor stallion. Sombra did the same thing with his half, and for ten minutes a horrified Celestia watched her sister and an enemy consume the flesh of an innocent pony. Only the bones were spared. Once they were done the blood that smeared the walls had painted nearly a tenth of the entire surface area.
“L-L-Luna?” Celestia asked cautiously.
Luna looked up at her wordlessly, and her eyes showed shame, guilt and anguish. She looked away.
No words were spoken until about an hour later when another shift change came, and Luna left with Sombra. They walked through the hallways en route to Luna’s old chambers and arrived there without any interruptions. When they entered Luna locked the door and cast a soundproofing spell. Then she looked at Sombra seductively, not that Sombra would have refused anyway. He soon had her pinned to the bed with him on top.
The Crystal Empire
Shining Armor struggled to fend of the hordes of unearthly monsters that now swarmed the crystal empire. He and his wife Princess Cadence were fighting a losing battle however, there were simply too many of them and none of them stayed dead for long. Shining Armor cast a shield spell in a last ditch effort to protect Cadence, and give her time to escape with Flurry Heart. He held it for as long as he could, but eventually he could hold it no longer and it shattered. He passed out, and his last conscious thoughts at that moment were of his wife and daughter.
Cadence stood holding her daughter close to her chest a few miles outside of the Crystal Empire. She had been accompanied by a unit of elite guards during her escape and they now urged her to move. She reluctantly turned and began to walk with the soldiers in the direction of canterlot. It would be a long march, but Cadence was determined to get her child to safety, Shining had laid down his life to get them out, Cadence would do the same for her child.
So the unit began to march off into the cold snow, hoping to reach canterlot, they did not know what fate awaited.
Cadence sat in the ruins of the everfree castle. She and her unit of elites had come to the outskirts of Canterlot to find that it had been overrun itself. They had fled, only Cadence and her daughter made it. It had been six weeks since Canterlot was overrun, and Cadence had been hiding where she was for four of those weeks. She had been doing her best to keep her daughter safe and unharmed, and thus far she had put together a meager shelter and gathered a good amount of food with the help of Zecora.
Yet this day was different, she had seen two cloaked vampires come into the castle and go into Luna’s old chambers, identifiable by the crescent moon painted on the door. She had sensed three different soundproofing spells be cast from inside and grew curious. So she had left her daughter with Zecora and began to investigate.
She had flown up to the balcony and landed quietly, she peered in and just about gasped from what she saw. Inside she saw Luna lying on her back with her legs spread to expose her vagina, and there between her legs was none other than King Sombra. He was crouched low near Luna’s mare parts and was apparently speaking to her. Luna was screaming in pain from what it looked like and sweat was pouring off every inch of her. She would occasionally grit her teeth and seemed to look like she was trying to poop.
That was when it hit Cadence, she noticed a bulge in Luna’s stomach area and her teats were much more full. As though she was ready to nurse. Cadence knew by then that Luna was pregnant, and something told her that Sombra was the father.
Cadence knew she shouldn’t be watching this but couldn’t look away. So she stayed put.
Sombra stood just between Luna’s legs and helped coax the child out. Luna wasn’t screaming as much as one would expect, she screamed, just not very loudly. So Sombra didn’t really have to worry about his hearing being damaged. It wasn’t too long before the foals head could be seen, Sombra grabbed it with his magic and began gently pulling it out. It took about five minutes before the foal was completely out. Sombra held the child in his forelegs and cradled it gently.
“It’s a colt.” He told her.
Luna looked up at him with a smile, her pain instantly forgotten. “Give him here.”
Sombra did so and laid next to her. “What should we call this beautiful child?”
Luna looked down at the colt. He was black of coat with a curved horn like his fathers and wings with feathers like that of a owls, like his mother. His eyes were a deep blue and in his mouth was a set of six fangs total. Four on top two on bottom. He was a rather large foal and he was rather active after what had just transpired.
“Hunter,” Luna replied, knowing instinctively that was what her son was. “His name is Hunter.”
The two managed to hide the child’s existence for fifteen years, that was how long the vampires remained in control. During these years they had educated Hunter with acedemics and other skills. They had trained Hunter to be exactly that, a hunter, and not to hunt just any prey, but to hunt vampires. As a result he was rather skilled with a bow, stealth, daggers and spears. But this could not last. The Master discovered the treachery of the two lovers and ordered them be brought to him. Hunter escaped, and he began doing what he was raised to do. He began to hunt.
the hunters are now hunted
Hunter crouched in the trees, his bow in hoof and his asp shafted arrow notched. He kept his eyes foreword, inhale, exhale, release. The arrow zipped across the distance almost faster than any vampire could react, and it was certainly fast enough. The twang of his six armed bow muffled by the fuzz attachments to each string on both ends. The bow was a solid piece of wood cut to make three arms on each end where there would usually be only one, this gave the arrow extra force, speed and distance.
His target, a vampire night guard, was struck in the heart by his arrow. The iron tip cut through the vampires flesh and its aspen shaft had done its job in killing the vampire. The vampire fell to the ground, dead. Hunter stalked forward and began searching the area for any further vampires, he sniffed the air for the telltale scent of the vampire. He found none in the area and retrieved his arrow. After that he dropped to the garden floor and stalked over to the entrance to the dungeons of canterlot. He moved through the halls with unmatched silence, he slew any vampires he came across until he reached the cell he was looking for.
Inside was a dark blue pony with a wavy mane that imitated the night sky. It was Luna, his mother. And in the cell next to hers was his father. Both of them had been removed of their horns and Luna’s wings had been cut off. He saw that she was awake, and clearly unwell. She looked back to see Hunter there, and she just about leapt in joy at seeing her son safe. Sombra came to the bars of his own cell to meet him in a hug.
“Hunter, my son what are you doing here?” Sombra asked.
“Getting you and mother out.” He replied, he began picking the lock.
Luna’s eyes widened at this. “No, don’t, he will know you’re here once you open either of these doors. Go, leave us.”
“No. I wont stand by and let you suffer for my sake, especially when I can do something about it.” He stated, “I will get you out, and I’ll get you to safety. And what’s more, I’ve found a way to free you two from The Master’s control. Vlad Dracul wont be able to control you anymore.”
Luna and Sombra exchanged glances at this, but what none of the trio realized is that there were eight different ponies watching.
Luna placed a hoof under her son’s chin and lifted his gaze. “Go, we will be fine, go, do what you know you must.”
