The next day Celestia found Luna and Alucard hidden in one of the castle's warehouses, eating cheese and drinking wine, while chuckling about gods knows what. Celestia entered the room shouting in the Royal Canterlot Voice, making Luna jump out of her chair, while Alucard just sat there drinking his wine with a single eyebrow raised.

After a discussion between sisters, consisting of Celestia asking Luna how she could abandon her to deal with Pinkie and Lamia alone, and Luna replying that it was every mare for themselves, the discussion didn’t last long, and everything ended in a hug and Celestia promising to get her back for it.

"What a stupid feeling," Alucard said in laughter. "Well princess, this was entertaining, but I need something to burn the time, what do you have for me."

“What is stupid about my love for my dearest sister?” Celestia demanded, glaring at Alucard.

“Hmm, that’s for me to know and for you to wonder, Celestia.” Alucard said, heading out of the warehouse, just to be stopped by Luna.

“Alucard, wait, we still have to discuss your salary, lodgings and your missions,” said Luna, holding Alucard in her telekinetic grip.

Celestia’s expression changed abruptly when she heard Luna say that Alucard was working for them, with that she would be able to control him, her sister was able to leash Alucard until he could be proven to not be a threat to Equestria, this thought brought a smile to Celestia’s face, which Alucard took notice of immediately.

“Don’t get ahead of yourself Celestia, I work for Princess Luna, and for Princess Luna only, and the duration of my employment is also my decision, don't even think for a second you have a leash on me,” Alucard said, while wearing a smug grin.

Celestia's smile was gone as quickly as it had appeared. “How dare you to talk to me like that, I am the ruler of Equestria, the Princess of the Sun, and I deserve respect,” Celestia said, almost shouting, losing her usual calm demeanor which caused her to miss the look Luna sent her.

“Hahahaha, no, you demand it and you’ll have to do way more than flex your titles at me to win my respect, Celestia because I can do that to, and I thought it was a diarchy.” Alucard said, slowly approaching the princess.

Luna chose this moment to intervene, she knew Alucard wasn't happy with her sister because of what she did or at least tried to do against him. What Luna didn’t know is that Alucard wasn't taking this seriously, and he had a long history of fucking with others, regardless of whether they were friends or enemies.

“Alright that is it, calm down, both of you, there is no need to get rough, alright?” Luna said putting herself in the middle of Alucard, and Celestia's soon to be corpse if she kept messing up with Alucard, “Alucard is right sister, he’s a freelancer working for me, so he decides what jobs he’ll take and how to deal with such tasks.”

“Very well, I’m sorry I lost my cool, I have been partying for an entire day straight, and my fuses are shorter than usual,” Celestia said giving an apologetic smile waiting for Alucard to apologize.

“Very well, I shall overlook this incident, this time, Celestia,” Alucard said heading out the warehouse while yelling to Luna, “I’ll be back later, I wanna see the City.”

“...He didn’t even apologize, unbelievable, that stallion will only bring problems Lulu, I tell you.” Celestia said looking at Luna.

“I think what is setting you off, is that this is the first pony in a very long time that doesn't idolize you as a god.” Luna said while chuckling.

Alucard decided to explore the castle while leaving the princesses in the warehouse, discussing about him, which he didn't care about at all, this new world promised new opportunities and maybe even new challenges, everything was simply delightful and new.

Alucard soon came across a large set of doors and a guard presence that practically screamed 'Important' to him marking it as somewhere he wanted to see. Approaching the doors seemed to put the guards on edge and upon them getting a closer look at the unicorn with strange clothes several were quick to point their spears at him.

“HALT! Who are you, and what are you doing in this area of the castle, court isn't open yet so you'll have to wait somewhere else like everyone else,” one of the guards shouted, approaching Alucard. At that statement Alucard started to laugh, the night guard was the one that knew that Alucard was in the castle, the day guard, well, apparently not, he'd have to talk to Celestia about that, maybe.

Alucard was now inside the throne room, the first thing he noticed was the windows, they had pictures or drawings of ponies, some he could recognize, doing something worthy of immortalizing, or just simple art, he started to wonder about the windows and their meaning.

Then Alucard noticed the throne, one big chair, with some golden decorations, and symbols around it, the thing that caught his attention was the fact that there was only one throne, not two, he wondered why there was only one throne, as he sat on it he started to inspect the room, Luna and Celestia entered, with Celestia storming in.

"Sup?"

Luna's eyebrows shot up as she stared at Alucard while Celestia seemed to flounder for a moment but pulling herself together and remembering why she was there. “Did you knock out our guards?!” Celestia shouted, glaring at Alucard, ignoring for the moment the theastral in her throne.

“Those were ours? I mean, on no, who did that!?” Alucard said trying to sound clueless about the fact that he was guilty as charged, but Luna simply stood there and gave him a look of ‘I know what you did, so apologize’ whilst trying not to smile, “I'm sorry Celestia, I wanted to see the throne room and the guards tried to stop me and I took exception to that, and you know the rest or at least the end result, but I assure you, they don't have any physical injuries that were my doing, though their pride might have taken a hit.”

Celestia was blowing steam from her nostrils, looking at Alucard and looking at Luna, back and forth.

“This can be considered an act of treason against the crown!” shouted Celestia approaching Alucard, while Luna just stood there watching everything play out, while eating some popcorn that she probably brought with her from the warehouse.

“I understand, Celestia, but I am not one of your citizens and I don’t follow you, nor your rules, it can hardly be considered treason when I never followed you to begin with,” Alucard said sighing, “Regardless my actions with those guards were rash and impulsive, and I apologize for it, and if it makes you feel better, I’ll even apologize to them, when they wake up. Assuming they don't run screaming that is.”

Celestia was about say something when Luna decided to interrupt, and play a part in this situation.

“Sister, I completely understand your concern, and I’ll make sure Alucard doesn't do that again, but he didn’t hurt them, so the guards can take this as a training exercise,” said Luna smiling, while approaching Alucard’s right side as he stepped down from the throne, “Don’t worry Tia, I’ll make sure he’s a good stallion.”

Luna and Alucard left Celestia in the throne room, dealing with the bureaucracy of the day, Luna took her time to give Alucard a tour of the castle, while presenting him to everyone working inside the castle, to avoid incidents like the one with the guards earlier.

“You know my sister doesn’t like you, and you still pull those stunts Alucard, hm” Luna said in a playful tone.

“As long as you enjoy my presence Princess, I don’t mind having her mad with me, besides you’re my employer, and for the time being your opinion is the only thing that matters to me, most of the time, maybe ten percent at least, which is a lot, believe me,” Alucard said chuckling at his own comment.

“So, I’m your princess?” Luna said approaching Alucard, so close that their muzzles almost touched.

“Yes, I've always had a weak spot for the night, and you’re the princess of the night, how can I say no to that question,” Alucard said grabbing her hoof and kissing it, “There is no reason for us creatures of the night to be alone, right?” Alucard said, remembering Seras.

“So as your princess, you have to do anything... to please my royal needs, right?” Luna said in a teasing and soft tone.

“Well, princess, be careful what you desire, it may be more that you can handle,” Alucard said looking at her eyes.

“You’re not an easy stallion to tease.” Luna said moving away from Alucard, “But now you have me curious, Alucard, perhaps we’ll test that later.”

“I’ll be happy to oblige, Princess.” Alucard said while staring at her flank, which made Luna blush red like a tomato, “After all, you’re quite the treat for the eyes,” and with that Alucard started to walk, leaving Luna, thinking. ‘It’s been a while since someone has treated me like a normal mare, that or the thousand years in confinement and Celestia pushing me to get some fun, I wonder which one it is.’

After a rigorous tour of the castle, Luna decided it was time to show Alucard his living space, she had been teasing Alucard the entire night, just for the mysterious thestral to turn the teasing against her.

“Alright Alucard, follow me, I’ll take you to your room.” stated Luna, which Alucard responded with a simple nod, “Your room will be in my side of the castle, I have plenty of rooms free... because I barely have any guards of my own, so I took the liberty of picking the biggest room besides mine of course.”

“Sounds good to me princess, lead the way.” Alucard said, following Luna.

“You’ll love it, I had the librarian put the best books she could find, for your entertainment, and I also added a minibar in case you get hungry and you don’t want to go out of your room,” Luna said with a big smile, like a foal opening gifts.

“Hmm a minibar,” Alucard muttered to himself while chuckling at the idea of a vampire minibar.

After a while Luna and Alucard arrived to their destination, Luna was excited to show Alucard his room, she began the tour inside his room, which was huge, it even had a living room inside, and a small library as Luna had mentioned.

“This is beautiful princess, I’m forever grateful for your generosity,” said Alucard, smiling at her.

“Oh pssh this? It's nothing , I just thought my employees deserve nothing but the best!” shouted Luna with a weird smile on her face.

Meanwhile in the deeps of the castle, by the training ground for the night guard, Gale was in a small room, with one bathroom, and he was sharing it with five other ponies of the night guard, the room was so small you had to take turns to get out of it, Axel who decided to also join the night guard as a handypony was in the same room as gale, and was extremely uncomfortable with so many wieners in a room so small.

“I didn’t sign up for this!” Axel whispered to Gale.

“It's not like I wanted to be part of the weiner festival idiot!” replied Gale trying to get comfy on his bed. “As soon as the party ended the current captain came to lead us to our rooms, I was ready to share a barracks, but this is stupid.”

“Maybe Alucard can help us, or maybe he has it worse,” stated Axel.

In another room, a little bit bigger than the one where Axel and Gale and the other four guards were sleeping, was Lamia, Magna and Sir Hamlet, Lamia didn’t mind sharing a room, and Magna was nervous of being alone in canterlot so he decided to share with Lamia, while Hamlet on the other hoof was squeaking, complaining about not getting a royal suite.

“Calm down Hamlet, it's not that bad, besides we got to meet new ponies,” stated Magna making hamlet turn his back on him, “besides I know you got friendly with miss Fluttershy, but I can't blame you, she’s quite a friendly pony,” this made Magna blush a bit.

“Oh for the love of food, you like her!” exclaimed Lamia popping out of nowhere, “I gotta tell everyone!”

“Oh please don’t, besides I don't know if I like her,” replied Magna blushing furiously, “It was just was nice to meet someone else that likes what I like.”

“Alright I pinkie promise!” shouted Lamia.

“Pinkie what?” asked Magna with a confused expression.

“Oh, it's a promise Pinkie Pie taught me yesterday at the party, she says you never break a pinkie promise!” stated Lamia.

‘Neverrrrrrrr,’ Pinkie’s voice was heard inside Lamia and Magna’s room, making magna shiver a bit.

“What the hay was that!?” exclaimed Magna looking around, while Hamlet was holding a nail like an sword ready to defend himself and Magna.

“Oh that? I dunno,” replied Lamia, while going to the bathroom.

Luna couldn't help but giggle when she noticed Alucard glancing around the room and grumbling something and plasma, seventy inches and blond bitches, she had no idea how those things were connected or what dogs had to do with anything but it was humorous to her regardless.

In the throne room, Lapis and Celestia were discussing the new window he needed to design, Celestia explained to Lapis what had happened in the Crystal empire, and how Twilight and Spike had retrieved the Crystal heart, and handed it to Cadance before anything bad happened.

“Alright, I’ll make sure this window overshadows the other ones, I shall start working on it immediately!” shouted Lapis getting in the zone, the art zone.

“I know you will, after all, every piece of art you have design so far has been unique and of exceptional quality,” Celestia replied calmly to Lapis, smiling as the artist completed zoned out leaving her to move on to other things she needed to do.

Luna decided to stay with Alucard to chat a bit more, she told him about her past and how she came to turn into Nightmare Moon allowing the demon to possess her just to gain more power, this made Alucard drop a tear of blood, which went unnoticed by Luna as she kept on talking about how her subjects now feared her, and that how Alucard treated her was something she treasured, having someone to talk normally to is quite refreshing she had said to him.

“I have my fair bit of gruesome stories of my past, but we’ll discuss that another night, my princess,” stated Alucard approaching Luna, as soon as he got close to her, he got on two hoofs and hugged her.

“I’m glad you recovered your soul, losing yourself for power is a fate I do not wish on anyone,” said Alucard, “for as long as I serve you, you will never again have the need of power, I will be your sword princess and your safe haven.”

Author's Note

I took me quite a while to finish this chapter, xmas and family blah blah

for the people that is here for the bloody action, wait a bit, the next chapters will contain all that your heart desires.

next chapter title - One Choice.

btw people, the titles have clues about the enemy our crimson fucker will have to deal with, so good luck is this treasure hunt.