A Vampire in Equestria

After the bath that Lapis had forced on them, they were all ready to leave, Lamia having finished with Lapis's food reserves not too long ago.

"Ohh, we should all eat together, Gale and Axel are missing but it'll be easy enough to get them, the more friends the better after all." Lamia exclaimed, throwing her hooves in the air.

"I think that's a good idea, our mission was for them to meet Alucard anyway." Magna said as he looked at Lapis, "But I don't want to abuse your invitation."

"Oh, don't you worry, it was my turn to invite anyway," Lapis said as he glanced at Lamia, remembering that she had emptied his fridge, "I suppose it would be best to go find the rest of our friends now."

"Let's go to Gale's house, it's the closest to yours, Lapis." Lamia said, pointing in the direction of where they should go, leaving the others to stare at the wall for a moment before shaking their heads when Lamia bounced past them on the way to the door.

"Okay, let's go." answered Lapis.

Inside Canterlot Castle, the news of the attack of the bugbear pack had arrived, at that time Celestia and Luna were worried about what was happening with King Sombra, and were allowing others to handle the less urgent affairs until the biggest threat was solved, but the news of how the bugbear problem had been solved by the arrival of something much more dangerous, alarmed the sisters.

"Flash Sentry of the royal guard reporting." said Flash entering the throne room before kneeling, his body covered in bandages, and one of his wings broken and in a splint.

"Rise." Celestia said, looking at the injuries that Flash had, "I received your message that the threat of the bugbears was eliminated and something new has shown up, could you explain what this new threat is?"

"As you wish your majesty," Flash said, rising. "It all started this morning, a strange unicorn was flying into the city, this caught my attention and brought me closer to investigate."

"A flying unicorn?" Luna said thoughtfully, "well, I'm going to assume he was using magic as there are spells for that, though the wings tend to be rather fragile and certainly not reliable for long distances."

"Yes, your Majesty, he did say they were magic," said Flash, trembling, "at that moment I did not give him much thought as I needed to prepare for my shift, but in the night when a herd of bugbears came to attack the city, I was injured, and that pony appeared again. "

"So it was him, the one who took care of the bugbears?" Celestia asked, as she watched Flash shake with a raised eyebrow, wondering why he would classify one of her little ponies as more dangerous than a pack of bugbears, even if they were strong enough to defeat them.

"Yes, he goes by the name of Alucard." Flash responded quickly.

"Why do you shiver Flash Sentry, did he do something to you or the citizens?" Luna asked.

"No, but his way of fighting, I have never seen anything so brutal, he eliminated them like flies, he made sure they suffered before dying, and his magic devoured them," exclaimed Flash, looking at the princesses.

"I see, would it bother you if I looked at your memories, so that I might see what happened for myself?" Luna asked, seeing the concern in her sisters eyes.

"Of course not, do what you want," Flash responded, "anything to get that monster out of Equestria."

Celestia was becoming very confused by what Flash was saying, she had to question why he kept switching between calling Alucard a pony and a monster, but decided to wait for Luna's verdict.

Luna approached Flash, and with her horn touched his head, with a glow, Luna was inside Flash's memories, after a couple of minutes she found the memory she was looking for.

As she looked around, she could see Flash Sentry laying on the ground injured, a couple of griffins nearby and a unicorn facing away from her, towards a group of bugbears. Looking at the bugbears closer, she couldn't help letting out a small gasp while exclaiming, "an alpha!"

"How beautiful. Nights like this, make me want a bite to drink. Yes... I could not imagine a more... perfect evening." sighed Alucard with a smile admiring the night causing a small blush to form on Luna's face. "Now, come on! Do what beasts do best and go wild!" He shouted as he focused on the bugbears.

Luna moved off to the side, so she could watch what was happening better and get a look at the unicorns face. It took a moment for Luna to pull her wide eyes away from Alucard to look closer at the bugbears.

The bugbears seemed paralyzed, but the leader of the pack managed to approach Alucard despite its trembling. From where she stood, Luna could make out the hesitance of the alpha, something that stood out to her, as the only time a bugbear let alone an alpha had ever shown fear around her was at the end of a fight with her, when she was ready to finish them off, never before the fight had even begun.

"Haha, I see, I thought you were beasts without reasoning," said Alucard between snickers pulling Luna from her thoughts. "No matter, I'm thirsty."

The leader of the bugbears launched the first attack with his stinger, Luna couldn't help but fidget slightly seeing Alucard not moving to dodge. The attack drilled into Alucard's right side, drawing another gasp from Luna as the bugbear roared, declaring its victory.

"Again, disappointment. Attack all at once, although the result will be the same." Alucard said quietly, while part of his face was missing, causing Luna's eyes to widen.

The leader began to attack Alucard without stopping, destroying Alucard's body, piece by piece. The griffin seemed to be in shock as tears fell down her face.

"Damn it!" Exclaimed Flash, staring at the lump of flesh that used to be Alucard.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the griffin screamed in despair, seeing Alucard's seemingly dead body on the ground.

"Could you shut up? That scream has been the closest thing to real damage I've received in this tea party with bears." The blood on the floor began to reverse its flow and gather in one place as Luna looked on, frozen, and in the blink of an eye Alucard was as good as new. 'Just how powerful is he?!'

"What the hell are you?" Flash whispered to himself in disbelief.

"I guess it's my turn. Let's start this massacre!" shouted Alucard with a wide smile on his face, preparing to attack while the bugbear leader seemed to have a look of horror growing on its face.

On the right side of Alucard, a shadow began to form, taking the rough shape of a dog with multiple eyes, a hellhound. Before the leader of the bugbears could react, the hellhound began to devour it like candy, while the leader screamed in agony and despair, trying to run away, just to drown in its own blood as Luna flinched at the brutality.

The rest of the pack did not need another signal to decide that fleeing was the only available option, Alucard noticed that the others were fleeing, and took a moment to speak.

"My job is the extermination of monsters, and when I have a mission to eliminate, I do not leave any survivors." Alucard said in a distorted voice as if he had many echoes within himself, drawing Luna's attention. "So where do you think you are going, my little bears, the fun is right here!"

In less than a second, Alucard was already in front of them, a move that Luna couldn't even track, this time, multiple shadows began to take form, surrounding the bugbears.

"You decided to attack that guard in a ratio of fifteen to one," said Alucard, pointing to Flash. "The only fair thing would be for you to try the same, don't you think?" the shadows finished taking form, leaving everypony there in shock including Luna, a total of two hundred and ten hellhounds were now surrounding the bugbears while Alucard floated there with a vicious smile on his face that sent a shiver down Luna's spine.

"Now you can start, fifteen for each of you, I hope you enjoy your own game!" Alucard said as the hellhounds growled at the bears, "Excuse my puppies, they haven't eaten in a long time, so they are more than likely to play a bit rough."

And so the massacre started. The bugbears were being destroyed by the hellhounds, while a rain of blood covered the city of Vanhoover, Luna was very thankful that this was just a memory as the blood phased right through her, though she did step back as a hellhound passed in front of her, by the time Alucard's puppies finished, there was nothing left, even the blood that fell into the city had been consumed, much to Luna's continued shock.

On the ground was Flash and the two griffins. The three of them were frozen, looks of fear and terror on their faces, while Luna frowned at them before looking up at Alucard.

Alucard could see the looks of terror on the ponies below him, and not just them, but also the ponies that had left their homes to see what was happening.

"It was a pleasure to meet you guys, your ribs were delicious, until we meet again, goodbye." With that, Alucard flew away from the city in a seemingly random direction.

After taking a few moments to gather the facts of what she'd seen, Luna was left speechless, angry, sad, too many emotions were fluttering inside her for her to articulate properly.

"Is it true, Luna?" Celestia asked after noticing Luna come out of her trance.

"Yes, Alucard eliminated the Bugbears." responded Luna, not understanding the question properly while still assimilating what she had just witnessed.

"Then I will send an order for the guards to apprehend him," Celestia said.

"That monster doesn't deserve to be free, he's too dangerous, your majesty." said Flash drawing another unnoticed frown from Celestia.

"I'm sorry to tell you that such an order will not come," Luna exclaimed angrily.

"What do you mean, Luna?" Celestia asked in shock.

"That so called monster saved the lives of hundreds if not thousands of ponies," Luna said looking at Flash, "which was your job!"

"But your Majesty-" said Flash, just be ignored by Luna.

"And what did he receive?" Luna asked in a rhetorical way, "The fear of those whom he saved. His methods may be overly violent, but he saved your ungrateful life, and you repay him with fear and hatred."

"Sister, please calm down," Celestia said.

"No! Because no matter how much time passes, ponies still don't appreciate what others do to protect them, Alucard defended them, without obligation, and the reward he gets is what? Fear? A room in tartarus? Exile?! That sounds pretty familiar don't you think sister?" shouted Luna, "If you want to punish him, it will be against my will, and just so you understand sister, I will defend him, he's too important."

"Important?!" Flash squawked, but was ultimately ignored.

"Sister..." said Celestia a sad look on her face.

"The sadness in his eyes," said Luna with tears in her eyes, "The sadness he had when he saw the ungrateful faces of those he saved, he's not a monster... I'm not a monster, we are not monsters!" With that, Luna teleported to her chambers.

Luna was in her room, remembering what she saw in Flash's memories.

"I must find him, I will not allow Celestia to commit such an injustice again," Luna said to herself. "If Flash's memories are correct, he was heading in the direction of Thestral Valley, which would make sense, that would be the best place for a thestral to hide if they knew they were going to be pursued."

Luna flew in the direction of Thestral Valley, with the conviction of saving Alucard, she felt a kinship with him, both were branded as monsters for their methods when protecting ponies, both only received hatred from others, the times had not changed as much as Celestia had said.

Alucard and the others had arrived at Gale's house, the city was welcoming, Alucard could notice that much at least. It was quite the small house, just from the outside you could tell that it was mostly just one room, consisting of a kitchen, bedroom and living room with a small enclosed bathroom on one side.

"Gale, we're outside, come out!" shouted Lamia, while knocking rapidly on the door.

Almost immediately a pony opened the door, he was a pegasus thestral with purple fur, and his mane and tail were blue with purple stripes.

"Hey Lamia," Gale said hugging Lamia immediately. "What brings you guys here?"

"Well, I wanted to introduce you to my new friend." said Lamia, pointing to Alucard.

"It's a pleasure," said Alucard.

"Wow, you're a thestral unicorn! This is great!" Gale said admiring Alucard's horn.

"I do not understand the social rules here very well yet," said Alucard, moving away from Gale, "but I feel that this is inappropriate."

"And you'd be right, so stop staring at the poor pony's horn, it's bad enough that half the city was doing the same," said Lapis, frowning at Gale.

'Half of the city was watching me? I didn't even notice, which is strange, I guess I was entertained with Lamia and her friends, they are quite a vivid bunch.' Alucard thought.

"Excuse me, it's just that, in our history, pigs are more likely to fly than a thestral unicorn is to be born." said Gale.

"Now that you mention it," Alucard asked thoughtfully, "why is that?"

"Well, that's a horrible story," Lapis replied sighing, "A thousand years ago, the thestral unicorns were hunted down by extremists, Princess Luna had fallen into her corruption, and the extremists, seeing that Celestia had banished her sister, decided to take the initiative by killing all the thestrals that they could, they were especially focused on the thestral unicorns."

"By the time Celestia managed to intervene, the population of thestral unicorns was almost zero," said Magna. "She didn't know until it was too late, I mean after banishing her sister, she went into a serious depression, or, that's what our books say at least."

'This sounds so familiar to my world, religious organizations annihilating other creatures, the irony travels through space and time apparently.'

"Oh I see, excuse my curiosity," said Alucard, thinking of a way to change the subject, "who was the last pony that you wanted to present to me?"

"Oh yeah, Axel is the last one, we have to go find him." Lamia said, changing her sad attitude for a more upbeat one.

"No need to keep looking beautiful, the stallion of your dreams is right here." a voice in the back of the house answered.

"Axel came to fix my kitchen," Gale said immediately. "I kinda messed it up cooking a pie."

"All done partner, next time, don't cook anything that needs more than twenty minutes of your attention." Axel said, leaving the house, the stallion was an earth thestral, his coat was dark brown with light spots on his back, his tail and mane were also brown but with white stripes running through them, his cutie mark was a hammer with nails around it. "And you must be Alucard, if I heard right." Axel said, shaking Alucard's hoof.

"Indeed, my name is Alucard," he replied.

"Well, any friend of Lamia is a friend of mine." Said Axel with a big smile on his face.

"Now that we are all together, let's go and eat." Declared Lapis, "I was thinking of buying some food to go and then setting up a picnic, what do you guys say?"

"Hahaha, way ahead of you," said Lamia while laughing, "I already order the Lamia special plus friends, the delivery will be in the usual spot for our picnics."

"Darling, I told I was going to pay," exclaimed Lapis.

"And you did." Lamia replied, seeming nonplussed.

Lapis froze for a moment before inspecting his saddlebags, before realizing that the bits he had brought were gone, "Okay, we are going to be discussing our friendship terms later."

"No we won't," Lamia said while jumping away. "Now, follow me!"

"The worst part is that she's right, she has this weird power where you can't get angry at her for more than twenty seconds," said Lapis with a huge sigh, following Lamia.

"Hahaha, she's like our little sister, how can we get mad at her." replied Gale also following Lamia.

"Damn right she has that power," exclaimed Axel, galloping to Lamia's side.

"You are going to love the Lamia special plus friends, it's twenty pizzas, half vegetarian, half pepperoni, with a chocolate cake as dessert." Explained Magna, walking by Alucard's side.

"Sounds like something I would like to try."

Luna was flying in the direction of Thestral Valley, thinking about what she saw, a thestral unicorn, possibly the last for a very long time, receiving the same injustices as his ancestors did a thousand years ago.

Luna knew that Celestia had realized that she was going in the direction of Thestral Valley, because she felt a lot of guards following her from a distance along with Celestia, she was fifteen minutes ahead of them and gaining as the chariots for the unicorn and earth pony guards were slowing them down.

When arriving at Thestral Valley, Luna began to look for magical anomalies, this would be useless in Canterlot, thanks to the large number of unicorns, but in Thestral Valley there was only a few unicorns and only one of them was a thestral unicorn, making finding his magic signature a foal's game with him being the only unicorn that would be outside of the tourist area.

After a couple of minutes of tracking his magical signature, Luna finally saw him, he was on a picnic with a group of other thestrals.

"Found you," Luna whispered to herself as she flew down to where Alucard was.