A Vampire in Equestria

Alucard ended up accepting the offer to work for the crown as a monster hunter, under the condition that he was allowed to use whatever methods he wanted when on the job, mostly because of the peer pressure from Lamia and others to all go to Canterlot together, but also because he didn't really have anything else to do, so this job would keep him occupied while also giving him a friend with political power.

Celestia hadn't left any chariots behind, so Luna had to walk with Alucard and the others to the train station since not all of them could fly, and they would be bringing a fair amount of luggage.

Lapis packed all of his belongings with the help of Axel, which took a couple of hours, leading to Axel's mood dropping from the wasted time he could have spent packing his single set of saddlebags with all he was taking.

On the other hand, Lamia and Gale were happy to go to Canterlot, Lamia because she could make many new friends and Gale because he could finally fulfill his dream of being a Guard.

Gale was sporting an irrepressible smile, since Alucard had helped him to fulfill his dream, he had not stopped smiling since Luna accepted Alucard’s suggestion to allow him to become a guard.

Magna meanwhile went to say goodbye to his animal friends, which took him quite a bit of time, due to him having to walk through the forest to find them, it also took him a while to convince Hamlet to accompany him to Canterlot.

Axel, after helping Lapis to pack, went home to grab his tools before going to say some goodbyes, when he arrived at the train station he was significantly more messy and wearing a goofy grin.

Once inside the train, everyone started talking, mainly asking Alucard about his battle with the bugbears.

Luna couldn't help but look at Alucard in more detail, surprised with the change of attitude that he had around these ponies, with Celestia he had had an aggressive aura and his demeanor was something else, but with these ponies, he was relaxed and calm, their interaction made her smile slightly while watching them talk, while Alucard was quite eager to tell how he had defeated the bugbears.

"FIFTEEN BUGBEARS!? I'm not surprised that that weakling Flash is afraid of you." Gale exclaimed, surprised while Alucard was chuckling.

“Did the Bugbears taste any good?” asked Lapis, staring at Alucard with a curious look in his eyes.

"They were a unique appetizer," replied Alucard with an smile on his face, “By the way Axel, do you think those... mares you were with an hour ago will miss you? I bet they were quite the appetizers themselves.”

Axel who had been quiet while eating a spinach sandwich, choked while blushing. All he managed to do was sputter before Lamia spoke up "Hey! No fair, you guys only touch me when I'm in heat, yet you'll play with other mares, I want some no strings attached fun.” That comment made Luna spit her drink, while Alucard chuckle at her expense.

Magna, unable to help himself, couldn't help but mutter, "With you, it's always strings... or ropes."

Meanwhile, a few hours later, Twilight had returned from the Crystal Empire, and was talking to Celestia in the throne room, while her friends awaited for her outside.

“Keep it together, buddy… gotta stay strong… for Twilight…” exclaimed Spike to himself while breathing heavily.

Inside the throne room, Twilight was quite sad, thinking that she had failed her test.

“It’s beautiful.” Celestia said, looking through one of the clear windows watching the aurolia bolaris.

“I wish it had been me who ultimately made it so. But it wasn’t,” said Twilight, keeping her head down.

“Twilight, as I understand it, Spike brought Princess Cadence the Crystal Heart because you weren’t sure how quickly you could find a way to escape the tower. You weren’t willing to risk the future of the citizens of the Crystal Empire in an effort to guarantee your own. Far better that I have a student who understands the meaning of self-sacrifice, than one who only looks out for her own best interests.” Celestia said, while looking at Twilight with pride in her eyes.

“Does this mean?” Twilight muttered while looking up at Celestia.

“It does my faithful student, you have passed your test.” said Celestia, smiling at her before frowning lightly. “Though I do have a question Twilight, you said an entity stopped Sombra from chasing you once you got off the train, were you able to determinate who or what was it?”

“No, all we know is that Sombra left shortly after the encounter, heading away from the city, and nobody was hurt, it was thanks to that mysterious being that the shield that Cadence and Shining Armor made lasted as long as it did, by the time Spike handed the Crystal Heart to Cadence, Sombra had only just broken the shield and begun approaching the palace, just to be blasted by the Crystal heart,” said Twilight, changing her demeanor, she was very intrigued by the mysterious being that had seemingly made Sombra flee.

Meanwhile, everyone was waiting outside the throne room, they were all ready to comfort Twilight.

“She’s totally gonna lose it,” exclaimed Spike to himself while breathing heavily, “Keep it together, buddy… gotta stay strong for Twilight!” Before spike could say anything more, the castle door swung open, squishing him between it and the wall.

“I passed!” Twilight exclaimed, making everyone cheer.

Seeing the moment, Rarity began to sing.

"You were prepared to do your best

Had what it takes to pass the test

All those doubts you can dismiss

Turns out you were..."

“Prepared for this!” everyone sang together.

Alucard was staring at the singing ponies from one of the nearby windows that he had been walking past, with a face of confusion, and not only him, Axel and Gale were watching with him.

“Ok, can someone tell me, is singing for no reason at all normal here. Because I really don't feel like being in the middle of a musical,” asked Alucard while watching the girls sing.

“Ah, no idea dude…” said Gale.

“I’m sure that I don’t do that.” exclaimed Axel.

“I think they have a talent for it,” said Magna while lightly dancing along with the song.

"I think I can spice things up a bit." Alucard said, smiling at the others, causing shivers to go down some of their spines.

Gale and Axel shared a look before shrugging at him and going back to watch the singing.

The moment was ruined when Alucard somehow phased the front half of his body through the window while shouting, "Hey kids, wanna see a dead bugbear!?"

Twilight and the girls were startled by the sudden interruption from this mysterious pony, wearing weird clothes with only half his body visible, suddenly a revelation struck Twilight like a punch in the face, she recognized his magic signature, he was the one that helped them get to the Crystal Empire.

“You!” exclaimed Twilight.

“You!” replied Alucard with a smarmy grin.

Alucard's response made her falter for a moment, “What?” Twilight said, as she scrunched up her muzzle.

“No idea.” replied Alucard as he stared at her trying to look innocent.

Pinkie started to tremble like never before as she felt something, or rather someone with a familiar presence nearby, as she approached one of the doors closest to them, Lamia was doing the same from the other side and opened the door. This meeting, was the beginning of the apocalypse, or so those that were there that day always swore.

“Hello, my name is Lamia, I’m an thestral Pegasus, and I love to party!” exclaimed Lamia staring at Pinkie.

“Oh! My name is Pinkie Pie, I’m an earth pony, and I also love to party!” exclaimed Pinkie, which made Alucard shiver for a moment.

“I can’t handle two Lamias,” said Alucard while fading in the wall, “Till next time girls.”

“Wait a second!” exclaimed Twilight trying to stop Alucard to ask him some questions.

“What did he mean by two Lamias,” asked Rainbow Dash while looking a bit nervous about that statement.

“I think he meant, that this Lamia pony and Pinkie are pretty similar.” said Applejack while slowly backing away.

“I think I understand him now, everyone RUN! This is The. Worst. Possible. Thing.” Rarity said as everyone started to run, just to be stopped by Lamia and Pinkie.

“Everyone, I want you to meet my new bestest best friend Lamia.” exclaimed Pinkie while stretching her hooves more than should be physically possible.

While Lamia and Pinkie were playing with the girls, Alucard was telling the guys about another entity like Lamia, which made Lapis run, Gale hide, Magna faint and Axel enter into a coma like state, before Alucard noticed Hamlet out of the corner of his eye, seemingly staring at him with a pleading expression. 'Why is he looking at me like that?'

Later that night.

Luna and the guys were hiding inside one of the castle chambers, Alucard couldn't fathom the possibility of two Lamias, he was sure that at this moment the girls were either dead by an overdose of insanity, or unconscious. When Luna had confronted Alucard about why he was running with the guys through the castle, he simple said ‘Lamia met Pinkie Pie, and I am not dealing with that,' which made Luna understand the feeling of déjà vu she felt when she met Lamia, and also making Luna decided to hide with them, as Alucard had said 'two Pinkie Pie’s or Lamia’s were too much for anyone.'

“Do you think Lamia two finally left?” Lapis asked from under a bed.

“Her name is Pinkie Pie, and I do not think so, it’s been twelve hours of non-stop music in the castle, so they are still here,” whispered Luna.

“It can’t end like this! I finally get to become a guard and this happens!” exclaimed Gale, hiding inside a lamp, poorly.

“If we don’t make any sound, they can’t smell our fear.” whispered Magna cowering in a jacket that was inside a closet with Hamlet in one of the pockets of the jacket, “that’s what my animal friends do.”

“I can’t! I just can’t, two Lamias, don’t get me wrong I love that girl, but two of her!” exclaimed Axel while chewing on his hooves.

“As long we don’t make any sounds, we’ll be able to survive this night.” said Alucard from one of the shadows in the room.

Suddenly the door of the room they were hiding opened wide, like someone had bucked the door, in the doorway there were five mares, looking awful, their manes were in an awful state and their bodies had confetti all over it, especially Rainbow Dash, which at this time looked more like she should be called Confetti Dash.

“SO HERE YOU ARE!” exclaimed Rarity while laughing maniacally.

“We've been spotted, everyone run for your lives!” exclaimed Gale throwing the lampshade off his head and flying full speed towards the door just to be tackle by Rainbow Dash.

“Don’t even think about it buddy!” exclaimed Rainbow Dash.

“If you’ll excuse me Ladies.” Lapis said while slowly getting out from under the bed, and after that slowly approaching the door, “I have some work to do, the art here won’t make itself you know,” as soon he got close to the door Rarity used her telekinesis to stop him.

Axel slowly approached the attached bathroom, trying to hide himself again, as soon as he got to the door Applejack lassoed him like a cow, “Where d'ya think yer going Pal!”

“Where is Alucard!?” Twilight shouted, appearing rather manic and at that moment Lamia and Pinkie entered the room, surprising everyone.

“Oh oh, hide and seek, let's tag team Lamia!” exclaimed Pinkie with a smile while bouncing around.

“Let’s win this!” replied Lamia with a similar smile while bouncing around.

Almost immediately, Pinkie went to the closet and started to poke the jacket that Magna was using as a hiding spot, making him eep.

“Oh! I found one!” Pinkie exclaimed.

“That’s Magna! You’re good at this!” exclaimed Lamia, while Magna and Hamlet accepted their defeat and got out of the closet as if they were walking to their execution.

“Now where are you Alucard!” Pinkie and Lamia shouted at the same time almost like a horror movie.

“He’s in that shadow!” exclaimed Lapis, “If I’m going down, we all are!”

“So much for loyal friends.” Alucard said as he materialized his body out of the shadows, Luna had copied Alucard's idea and hid inside a shadow the moment she felt Rarity open the door. “But it’s also a wise choice Lapis, by the way, Princess Luna is inside that shadow.” Alucard said, pointing his hoof across the room.

“You dare to betray your princess!” Luna said, materializing her body out of the shadow she had been hiding in and approaching Alucard, which made the girls get embarrassed for not realizing that Luna was there.

“Apologies, but as Lapis stated, it's everybody for themselves in this situation, and I don't have a princess,” said Alucard approaching to the point were their muzzles were almost touching each other while he smirked.

“So here you are sister.” Celestia said with her mane looking like a cake and a fire in her eyes.

“Though, my dear Princess of the Night, we can still escape.” Alucard said, making Luna smile.

“Indeed,” Luna replied.

Before they could do anything, Celestia spoke up, smirking at them, "I've already taken the liberty to put an anti-teleportation field around this room, so don't think you'll be getting away from us."

Luna simply smiled at her, "You seem to have forgotten my preferred method of escape, dearest sister." She said before turning into a nebulous cloud of energy and phasing through the wall.

They all heard a chuckle before looking over to where Alucard had been just in time to see the tip of his horn and hat disappear through the floor.

"I forgot she could do that," Celestia muttered to herself before looking at Twilight just in time to see a few hairs spring up from her mane along with the twitching of her brow. "Come along my little ponies, let's get back to the..." she paused for a moment as a shiver passed through her before finishing, "party."

The guards on duty that day would forever remember it as the Day of the Two Terrors, a horror story they would tell their foals and grandfoals to scare them into line for generations to come.