Malnourishmentby emeraldhuskydragon0ChaptersPrologueChapter 1Chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4PrologueThe clacking of hooves on fire worn cobble. A cloaked figure sprinting across the streets. It was dark as ink outside, save the lanterns on posts. The shadowy figure paused and took a step back, revealing tears flying from their face. They stood there, staring at an orange maned yellow pony replacing the broken lantern on a pole. “One wouldn’t hurt... right?” The figure mumbled in a muffled voice. The pony changing the lantern turned around to face the mysterious being. “What was that?” The pony, now revealed to be a stallion with an orange slice in a lemon for a Cutie Mark, asked. “Is something wrong? Are you lost?” He asked in a genuinely concerned voice. The shadowy figure sniffed. “Oh... I’m so sorry...” the figure mumbled, falling to the ground. The stallion foolishly came closer. “This will hurt you more than it’s gonna hurt me...” A sniff came from the figure. “What’s gonna hurt?” The stallion said, as he took a step closer. “Is someone hurting you?” The gap between the figure and the stallion was around a foot long. The figure looked away. “No... don’t be concerned... I’m so sorry for this... I’m a monster... The nicest ones hurt the most...” The stallion was worried now. He opened his mouth to say something, but before he could say anything else, the last thing he ever saw was a flash of fangs and two tear filled red eyes. There was a blood curdling cry of fear and pain, quickly cut off as the stallion fell to the ground. If you listened closely, you could hear a sucking sound and the sound of somepony crying. At last, the figure stood up and took a step away from their prey. On the stallion’s now pale and shrunken neck, there were two round holes. Those two round holes are a tell-tale sign of a vampony victim, and not the last you will see. A faint trickle of blood came from a hole as the figure pressed a shadowy appendage on where the stallion’s heart should be, and the figure started drinking again. Once again, the figure stepped away, this time more than two steps. The figure sniffed as they looked at the sucked dry stallion lying on the ground. “I’m so sorry... I wish I could have stopped myself... I’m a monster... But I was so thirsty...” The figure said, sniffling, and they speed-walked away into the dark night, away from their most recent prey. *One sunrise later* It was a sad day for Citrus Burst. Her lemon scented fireworks broke some stuff, the grapefruit crop was smaller than normal, and when she left the magic underground bunker farm thing, well, it would be best if you read for yourself. Citrus angrily tramped through the citrus orchard. She had her sad sized grapefruit crop in a cart trailing behind her, and her mane was still singed in spots. As she dragged the cart of fruits behind her, she could smell... oh no... “No, no, no, no!” She dropped the cart and sprinted like all heck had broke loose. Out she ran of the bunker entrance, and onto the flame worn cobble. She came to a stop just in front of a paled yellow earth pony stallion with an orange mane. She kneeled before the corpse of her dear brother. This... no. “No, no, no! Orangeade! Don’t be dead! Please! You were supposed to live a happy life with that mare you liked! You were supposed to be there for me! You... you...” Citrus broke off when her voice cracked. She slumped before the corpse with loud sobbing. He seemed oddly... thin... “Orangey?” Citrus stood up, and walked around him. She pulled back his dull, lifeless mane to reveal... two holes... two perfect holes... “Vampony... Bitemarks...” Citrus let go of her dead brother’s mane. She stood up, and looked down on the corpse, tears flowing freely. “You’re still skinny as a stick, ya know?” Citrus gave a sad smile. She looked up into the cloudy sky, her crying stopped. “You are leaving me... just... like...” Tears again, but slow. “Mom... Dad...” Citrus looked back at the corpse. “I swear upon the Great Seedling’s orange filled antlers,” Citrus took off her grapefruit colored Stetson and looked to the sky. “I will avenge your blood on this wretched leech, or die trying.” And with that, lightning flashed and thunder boomed, ruining the possibility of a nice morning. Suddenly, however, a hole was punched in the clouds revealing a blue Pegasus and a cockatiel colored gryphon. “Come on Tiger, the storm is scheduled for tomorrow!” Said the Pegasus. “But Crystal, the pony down there swearing death to something above another pony’s corpse like she needed a change in scenery to make this-“ Tiger’s Eye was cut of by more angry Pegasus. “No! The storm happens tom- wait what?” The blue Pegasus looks through the hole in the sky and gasps. “Tiger, get the rest of the weather team to clear the clouds away. This looks serious.” Crystal Skies jumped through the hole and glided down to Citrus. “He was a good stallion.” Crystal said to Citrus. Citrus nodded and moved some of Orange’s lifeless mane from his neck, revealing the bite marks. At this Crystal gasped. “A vampony drank him dry. He... my brother... I will avenge him. Nobody messes with a member of the Citrus fam and gets away unscathed. I will hang their vampony dust in the lanterns above the family’s dining table and hang their evil cloak-“ “That’s awfully over the top, huh Citrus?” Crystal asked mildly disturbed. “You were always the melodramatic pony around here...” “Yeah, that was a bit much. But...” Suddenly Citrus has a stake of some kind of citrus wood and a ring of garlic around her neck and on her head. “I will never ever forget what the vamponies did to my parents. Never. Now I have yet third reason to kill every single vampony on sight.” Author's Note Hello irregular schedules of postage and annoying Spellflame comments to continue! Chapter 1Fluttershy flitted around her cottage. She dusted a shelf and noticed a blinking light flashing behind her. Thinking it was Angel and his shenanigans again she turned around to see... Angel ENTERING the room with a black suit and a red flashlight. He saw Fluttershy and bounced back into the other room. “Oh... where...” Fluttershy noticed her flank was flashing. “Oh...” The map had called her! This wasn’t good. “Twi...?” And then the door to the cottage got kicked open. There stood Twilight, with her Cutie Mark glowing as well. She stood in the doorway, wielding a map and wearing a saddle pack filled with part snacks, part books. Mostly books. “Fluttershy! Let’s go!” Twilight said rather loudly. “We are going to another unknown town! Maybe we could-“ As Twilight broke off into rambling about possible new friendships, Fluttershy finished her dusting. All too soon however, Twilight started hyperventilating about the possibility of finding another powerful unicorn with a bone to pick with them. Fluttershy weakly threw the feather duster at Twilight, and the rambling stopped. “Twilight! Calm down! We have to get there to know what’s going on...” Twilight nodded. “I’ll show you!” Twilight said, and in a flash of pink, they appeared in the map room. Above the map, three butterflies and a familiar magic spark hovered around a small town near the border of the hostile side of the Dragonlands. Twilight beamed a large smile. “Since it’s summer break, we can go with no problems!” “Umm... ok... Are you gonna teleport us or...” Fluttershy asked. Twilight facehoofed. “Yeah, we will teleport. Sorry Fluttershy!” And with that, they teleported unknowingly into a possible death trap. Pinkie bounced into the room! “Aww, I didn’t get to give them my going away on another friendship quest cupcakes! Ah well, more for me!” Pinkie said as she monched on the round frosted mini cake. Chapter 2As Twilight and Fluttershy appeared in the town, something seemed... off. Sure, it looked like any other village, with houses and stands selling fruits and vegetables, but there was a stand or two selling... different stuff. They walked to one of said stands, and glanced at the items. “Garlic, silver, and... stakes?” Twilight inquired. Fluttershy stayed back, not wanting to bother anybody. “Twilight, What’s that smell...?” Fluttershy asked. “I smell delicious fruit... and something else...” Fluttershy looked at the stand and meeped. “Fluttershy? Are you ok? We should be looking for a friendship problem.” Suddenly, there was a loud bell sound. It rang 8 times. At the sound of the bell all of the creatures, not all being pony, packed up the stands and sprinted into houses. The various creatures hung silver and garlic on the doors and windows, and one even hung colored garlic like Hearth’s Warming decor. The only creatures on the flame worn cobble were Twilight, Fluttershy, and a white and blue changeling. Fluttershy and the changeling made eye contact. Out of habit Twilight cast a scanning spell, revealing... “You! You are the one who left that CRAZY energy surge! How did you end up here?” Twilight asked. The changeling just stood there, in silence. “So, you’re here early. Script said that you would be more likely to walk or fly... ehh... Follow me. Quick.” The changeling made a follow me gesture and speed walked to a treehouse. They took flight and entered a large window. Seeing that this would be the only way to know what’s going on, Twilight and Fluttershy flew after the changeling. Suddenly, Fluttershy whipped around mid air, flying backwards. “I think I just heard a whoosh...” Fluttershy mumbled, and she turned back around to fly after Twilight. They landed in a treehouse, where a little fluffy green, blue, and white dragon was sitting at a table with an autumn colored winged jackalope on his head with the changeling. There was coincidentally two chairs left at the table. As the two ponies sat down, a blue glow came from the changeling’s neck and some silver shutters closed over the large window with a BANG. Fluttershy jumped at the sudden noise and Twilight readied a spell. “Before I tell you what is happening like the script says, my name is Winter, the dragon is Emerald, the bunny thing is Autumn. There is a vampony in this town.” Fluttershy and Twilight gasped and Emerald blew a small green flame into an oil lamp. “It already killed three ponies... Blazing Blade, LanceMint, And Orangeade.” Fluttershy fainted, and Twilight gasped, horrified. Emerald nodded sadly. “The script says you all came here to fix a friendship problem. It has to do with the vampony. Suddenly, Pinkie appeared in the treehouse with a sign that read SPOILERS and she wielded it menacingly. “Pinkie!?” Flutters and Twi cried in unison. Pinkie shrugged and disappeared. Taking it as Pinkie being Pinkie they looked back at the strange trio. “Well,” The dragon stated. “You might not wanna leave, because vamponies usually prowl at this hour. Winter seemed to know this, because she made some beds. It’s all we can do, because the inn is closed due to... vampony issues.” Fluttershy regained consciousness, and stood up. “Why do we always get caught in crud like this?” Fluttershy whined. Suddenly, out of the blue there was a scream, and the scream was cut short with a dull thud. Winter shrugged and Twilight ran to the blocked window. She pushed open the window and peered through with pure terror. Outside, on the flame worn cobble, a cloaked figure was hunched over the body of a pony. There was audible gulping noises as the vampony drank their fill, and Twilight did the best thing she could think of at the moment. “Hey you! Stop!” Twilight yelled at the figure. The figure jumped up, revealing two blood soaked fangs and two strangely... tear filled... red eyes, although the shadow of a hoof covered everything else. The figure whipped around, fear in their tear filled eyes, and lunged at the half-dead pony. The figure pressed hard on the pony’s chest, and everyone in the treehouse, minus the again unconscious Fluttershy, could only watch in horror for fear they might be next. The vampony took one final gulp of blood and jumped off the bloodless corpse. They ran off into the night and to all the sensitive ears of the creatures in the treehouse, they heard something. ”I’m so sorry...” Came the muffled, quiet cry of the vampony. Twilight feared for her life now. Actually, she was an alicorn. She feared for Fluttershys life, and Emeralds and Winters and Autumns. Twilight had to see if the pony could still live. She jumped out the window and flew to the corpse. There lay a pale, drunken-dry mare. The mare’s coat was a mint color, with a white and powder blue mane. Their cutie mark was a white crystal with a mint leaf behind it, and they had two holes in their neck, still with a little blood left on it, due to the speed drink and quick getaway of the vampony murderer. Twilight teared up at the sight, wishing this pony’s family members the best of luck at coping with this situation. The rest of the squad landed beside Twilight. “Oh, not JavelinMint, that’s the second Mint that got killed... Poor SpearMint, she must be having the worst of times right now with one sister dead, this will just made it worse...” Hoof steps in the darkness. Fluttershy and Twilight both whipped around to see an orange pony with a lemon and lime colored mane and a grapefruit colored Stetson. The mare had a ring of garlic around her neck and maybe a ring on her head too. The mare took off the Stetson and held it above her chest. “Aw crud. Yet another pony that wretched leech sucked dry...” the last four words were emphasized like a curse word and said like they tasted like manure. “If that blasted batty bucket o crud gets their grimy fangs on another of mah neighbors, so help me I will-“ The rest of the sentence broke off into death threats and curses. “Easy there, Citrus. We got guests. Please go home.” Said Winter. Citrus put her hat back on and glared at the fang holes on Javelin’s neck. “Easy there? EASY THERE?! That batty *bleep* done murdered my BROTHER land sakes, and you want me to take it easy!?” More profanity and death threats, and maybe a bleep at Winter or two. “Well, according to my calculations, if you stay out here, you have a much higher chance of being sucked dry by the vampony.” Twilight said in lecture voice. This received a death stare from Citrus, and Twilight shrunk back. “Umm... I really think WE should get inside a house Winter, listen to Twilight please. I don’t want to die...” Winter cast an empathetic look at Citrus, and nodded at Emerald. They flew towards the treehouse and through the window. Emerald closed the window and sat at the table. “Um...” Fluttershy mumbled. “I think I found our friendship problem...” Author's Note The last chapter... sorry about the length... Will never do that again. Never again. Also yes Blazing Blade was reformed Mary Sue. Chapter 3Twilight looked at Fluttershy with an astonished look. “You did!? Wow, Fluttershy! Umm... What is it?” Twilight asked. Fluttershy hid behind her hair. ”Um Citrus and um the vampony” Fluttershy mumbled quietly. “They said sorry when they... um... ate Javelin...” Fluttershy looked close to nausea. Winter looked at a folder and a watch, although neither of them were there earlier. “Welp I gotta go you can figure this out yourselves... or CAN you?” Winter inquired, then she teleported away. “Wow that was a nice teleport I wonder if she can teach me that?” Twilight asked nobody in particular. Emerald looked at Twilight with a what face. Twilight coughed into her hoof. “Anyways, Fluttershy, WHAT!? Vamponies are evil! They drink pony blood! They KILL ponies, Fluttershy! I’m fine with thestrals, they don’t kill ponies, but VAMPONIES do! The vampony probably said sorry to throw us off the trail!” With this, Fluttershy meeped and hid behind her hair. Emerald facepawed. “Pretty sure Fluttershy is right, but just like every cheesy mystery movie out there, we gotta find the pony who did it.” Emerald stated. “The vampony might get you while you try to solve the problem.” The two mares looked at Emerald. “You know what, maybe we should just go to bed...” Fluttershy mumbled. Emerald nodded. “I second that. We really should sleep.” As the ponies (and dragon) went their separate ways, Twilight started thinking. “What if Winter is the vampony?” *One morning later* Twilight sat up and rubbed at her eyes. She could hear a sizzling sound, and a smell a delicious smell. “Was this a dream..?” Twilight muttered to herself. She looked around and saw a fluffy green dragon making some kind of breakfast. “Nope.” Twilight stood up and looked around. Fluttershy was sitting at the table, fork in hoof and eating a crepe, and said fluffy green dragon noticed that the alicorn was awake. “Oh, hi Twilight! I’m making crepes! Ya want one?” Emerald asked. Fluttershy finished chewing a bite of crepe. “He is a very good cook.” Fluttershy said as she got another forkful of crepe. “Well, it won’t hurt to have some breakfast before we hunt a mystery murderer. Wonder who’s gonna die next? I don’t even know most of these ponies though...” Pondered Twilight as she sat at the table. Suddenly, a crepe flew to the stack of plates in the middle of the table. It radiated a pleasant smell... like... Oranges. “Go on Twilight, that’s yours.” Said Emerald as he poured more crepe batter on the pan. Twilight levitated the crepe to be in front of her. She magicked a fork to stab the pleasant smelling pastry, and bring a piece to her mouth. When Emerald finished making his crepe, it smelled of mint. They ate their crepes in silence until... “Twilight? Should we search for possible vampony candidates this morning? I kinda don’t want to I just want to see what the shops are selling... if that’s ok with you...” Fluttershy mumbled around a bite of crepe. Twilight nodded. “I will search. You can see what everypony’s selling.” Twilight replied. “Um, the stores are mainly stocked with herbs and citrus but now they have vampony... uh... repellents too.” Emerald said, finishing his crepe. The two mares finished their crepes too. “Ima just wash these...” Emerald said to himself as he took the plates. He held a sponge over a plate then stopped. “I can wash these later. You guys need a tour guide!” Emerald proclaimed. Fluttershy snickered, and Twilight shook her head. “Emerald, tours are for places that don’t have the town’s demise just lurking close in the shadows.” Twilight said. “But you could get lost and some of the creatures here don’t trust... uh...” Emerald pointed at Twilight’s wings and horn. “You need someone to help you not get lost and stuff.” “True.” Twilight said. “Let’s go.” The trio flew out the silver lined window and landed in a picture perfect interspecies town. A cockatiel colored gryphon and a scorpion looking changeling were nuzzling, a little blue dragon was enjoying some berry juice as they talked with a brown dragon pony, a white and blue pegasus cat and a blue pegasus with a purple beanie on were trying to get a navy blue batpony to hold a compressed cloud, and numerous other creatures were buying herbs and fruits and other goods from more other creatures. All in all, it seemed like a perfectly normal interspecies town. “Wow!” Twilight said to Fluttershy and Emerald. “This place reminds me of my friendship school!” Emerald stared at Twilight. “You have a friendship school?” Asked Emerald. A few creatures turned around and the blue dragon began to choke on their juice. The dragon pony took the juice and put it on the table as she gave the dragon a worried look. All the creatures got back on track but the dragon was still choking. Twilight and co headed to the table. “Miss, are you alright? “ Twilight asked the dragon. The dragon coughed out a strawberry chunk and they cleared their throat. “I,” they coughed again, “am so sorry for worrying you, I-“ The dragon started coughing again. The brown dragon pony looked at Twilight. “Hi I’m Fluffernutter and this is Blue Raspberry, she um...” Blue coughed into a claw and shook herself. “It’s alright, I’m fine I just choked I’m fine...” the dragon mumbled, and they continued drinking the juice. Fluffernutter shrugged. “So are you looking for something?” Fluffernutter asked. “Why yes actually we are looking for creatures who could possibly be vamponies.” Twilight stated bluntly. Blue half spat half sprayed her juice on the ground. She put the cup down and flew onto the roof of a nearby building. “Vampony!? Where!?” The dragon looked downright terrified as she clung to the roof. Fluffernutter facehoofed, and Emerald sighed. “We said um... We said we were looking for one.” Fluttershy said quietly. The blue drake glided slowly back into the seat with a nervous look on her face and continued to drink her juice, albeit slowly and guessing the possibility of certain creatures being vamponies. Fluffernutter tapped her chin. “Maybe check all the creatures with fangs?” She asked. Twilight jumped up, done with pondering. “Winter has fangs! She’s mysterious!” Twilight informed them. Somepony cleared their throat behind the group. “I’m not a vampony. Changelings are supposed to have fangs.” Came the all too familiar voice of one Winter the changeling. Author's Note Gosh dang it I want a crepe now. I have all of this story all planned out. Kinda reminds me of Mafia... The game where you get cards and the Ace card is the killer and the townsfolk aka the other players have to figure out who the Mafia is before they all die. Oh, there is a narrator as well. Chapter 4Twilight stood still as a statue. “She’s behind me isn’t she?” Twilight asked. Winter walked up to the table and put a hoof on the table. “Twilight, do I have red eyes?” Winter asked Twilight sat down in the chair. “No, but-“ “Am I getting sick over this?” Winter held up an entire head of garlic and waved it in front of her own face. She put the garlic down. “Well, no-“ “Am I getting sick over this?” Winter put on a silver necklace, took it off, and then put it on the ground with the garlic. “I’m not the vampony. Can you-“ Winter sighed. “Sorry, that wasn’t nice of me. Um I’m still a bit mad over an incident with the narrator. We should find the vampony.” Twilight nodded. “We could say to the ponies that we are trying to find a vampony and we need to do a mandatory check of everyone, but we only need to do one test.” Twilight said and Fluttershy nodded. Suddenly, the blue hat wearing Pegasus, the white cat Pegasus and A navy blue thestral walked up to the group. The blue Pegasus looked at Emerald, then to the rest of the group “So, you are actually serious about this?” Asked the blue Pegasus. “Well then.” The blue Pegasus opened her mouth to reveal... what a shocker! No fangs! “Yeah ima normal Pegasus I gotta find more clouds because Tiger over there got rid of them all. We are gonna have a doozy of a storm sometime soon just warning you.” Said the blue Pegasus. She flew off into the distance, presumably chasing a cloud. The white cat Pegasus was next. “So... since I’m part cat I have fangs...” the cat Pegasus said. “It’s all good. Here, hold this.” Winter said as she held out the silver necklace from earlier. The cat Pegasus held it for a while. “Am I a vampony?” Asked the cat Pegasus. Winter shook her head and took back the silver necklace. “I gotta help Crystal, those clouds won’t fetch themselves.” And with that the cat Pegasus flew after Crystal. Twilight spoke up. “Now for Fluffernutter and Blue.” Twilight stated. Winter plopped the necklace on Fluffernutter’s head and waved the garlic around in Blue Raspberry’s face. Fluffernutter derped when the metal landed on her head, and Blue flinched as if Winter was gonna punch her. Winter took back the items. “Hmm... neither of them... Ok, Bass Blast." The silver necklace was plopped on her head and yet again, the pony derped. The necklace was removed from the Navy blue thestral and given to Twilight. “Well Twi, you might wanna hide. You have...” Winter looks at a clock that wasn’t there before. “Ten seconds.” Winter flew into the sky. “Ten seconds?” Twilight asked Emerald. Emerald shrugged. “I learned to just go with it.” Emerald answered. Suddenly, Fluttershy meeped. She pointed at the distance. There, flying towards the town, was a large, feral, adolescent dragon. It roared menacingly at the town, and made direct eye contact with Twilight. “Aaaugh!” Twilight cried. “A feral dragon! It will destroy the town!” Fluttershy hid behind Twilight. “If I get to it first, I can vanquish-“ Twilight stopped. Suddenly, a blue speck appeared in front of the giant dragon. Autumn hopped on Emerald’s head with an excited look on her face. The camera moved to and zoomed in on the blue speck. The blue speck was no other than Winter, the changeling. There was a charging sound as a ball of energy formed in Winter’s mouth, and dragon readied a fire blast to fry the puny little bug hovering in its way. The dragon loosed its fiery blast, catching the bug horse full on. Fluttershy fainted and Twilight gasped. Winter... gone. Just like that. “Crud. Just like that... Gone... Poor Winter...” Twilight said sadly, but Emerald shrugged. “Ehh. She’s fine. She’s gotten hit by worse.” Emerald said flatly. Now, a crowd had gathered around the four. They all watched the dragon. The dragon had a snobby look in it’s eyes and it roared triumphantly. Fluttershy got up and whimpered. ITS OVER “Winter..? You should have yeeted this overgrown lizard already... are you actually... gone?” Emerald said to himself. He looked down, tearing up. ITS NOT OVER Suddenly, Winter appeared above the triumphant feral dragon’s head. She spat out an orb of blue magic and kicked it hard to make impact with the dragon's head. "Get nae naed!" The orb lands on and blasts the dragon's head into the ground. The giant feral dragon gets up, rubs his head, and flies away. The townsfolk cheered. It was a good day, until... A bell rang. It sounded off eight times. This halted the cheering and started the panicking. Creatures rushed to and fro as they gathered up stands and materials. Soon, doors were locked with silver and garlic, and the only creatures on the fire worn cobble street were the two mares, a lil green dragon, and a jackalope, with a blue and white changeling flying towards them. Fluttershy looked around nervously. She tapped Twilight's shoulder. "Twi?" "WINTER! Are you okay? I saw you get destroyed by dragon fire!" Twilight said. "Twi." "I was so worried, you usually defeat them faster!" Emerald said. "Twi." Winter placed a hoof over both Emerald's mouth and Twilight's. "Twilight, listen and look." Fluttershy pointed at a hooded hooded figure in a very far off shaded alleyway, bent over another figure that was laying on the ground. They could hear muffled crying and the sound of drinking. It was the vampony. Twilight was about to shout, but a silver laced wood stake wrapped in garlic was chucked like a spear at the vampony. Citrus let out a blood curdling war cry as she threw another stake at the vampony. The vampony jumped up out of the way and ran, blood spraying from a wound on the pony on the ground. The pony on the ground was now revealed to be a blue mare with a white and black mane. She had a heart shaped mint leaf with a mint candy in front of it for a Cutie Mark and looked dangerously close to death. Citrus ran to the half dead mare and angrily glared at the possible corpse. "SpadeMint, so help me if you *bleeeep* die, ima tell your sister you leaped into the vampony's evil jaws!" Said Citrus Burst angrily. Suddenly, a large brance came flying at the near dead pony. "Oh no yah don't!" Citrus shouted. She jumped up to catch the branch like a dog and she successfully caught it. Unfortunately, the branch's speed pushed back the fruit farming mare well over sixty nine yards away. The vampony took the opportunity to run to the dying pony and they lapped up all the leaked blood. As this was happening, Citrus was getting up and sprinting towards the vampony and the corpse. She was too late however, because the vampony had taken one last large slurp after pushing on where the heart goes on the corpse. The vampony stood up and looked at the bloodless corpse. "I'm a monster... if only I could have stopped myself... but the hunger... these ponies... they would still be alive... I really messed up this time..." the vampony said to nobody in particular. They ran off into the black of night , with an angry Citrus chasing them from far behind and Twilight, Fluttershy, Emerald, Autumn, and Winter staring at them from afar in fear. Author's Note Who do you think did it? I plotted for a while thinking I would reveal the vampony in this chapter, but nah.
PrologueThe clacking of hooves on fire worn cobble. A cloaked figure sprinting across the streets. It was dark as ink outside, save the lanterns on posts. The shadowy figure paused and took a step back, revealing tears flying from their face. They stood there, staring at an orange maned yellow pony replacing the broken lantern on a pole. “One wouldn’t hurt... right?” The figure mumbled in a muffled voice. The pony changing the lantern turned around to face the mysterious being. “What was that?” The pony, now revealed to be a stallion with an orange slice in a lemon for a Cutie Mark, asked. “Is something wrong? Are you lost?” He asked in a genuinely concerned voice. The shadowy figure sniffed. “Oh... I’m so sorry...” the figure mumbled, falling to the ground. The stallion foolishly came closer. “This will hurt you more than it’s gonna hurt me...” A sniff came from the figure. “What’s gonna hurt?” The stallion said, as he took a step closer. “Is someone hurting you?” The gap between the figure and the stallion was around a foot long. The figure looked away. “No... don’t be concerned... I’m so sorry for this... I’m a monster... The nicest ones hurt the most...” The stallion was worried now. He opened his mouth to say something, but before he could say anything else, the last thing he ever saw was a flash of fangs and two tear filled red eyes. There was a blood curdling cry of fear and pain, quickly cut off as the stallion fell to the ground. If you listened closely, you could hear a sucking sound and the sound of somepony crying. At last, the figure stood up and took a step away from their prey. On the stallion’s now pale and shrunken neck, there were two round holes. Those two round holes are a tell-tale sign of a vampony victim, and not the last you will see. A faint trickle of blood came from a hole as the figure pressed a shadowy appendage on where the stallion’s heart should be, and the figure started drinking again. Once again, the figure stepped away, this time more than two steps. The figure sniffed as they looked at the sucked dry stallion lying on the ground. “I’m so sorry... I wish I could have stopped myself... I’m a monster... But I was so thirsty...” The figure said, sniffling, and they speed-walked away into the dark night, away from their most recent prey. *One sunrise later* It was a sad day for Citrus Burst. Her lemon scented fireworks broke some stuff, the grapefruit crop was smaller than normal, and when she left the magic underground bunker farm thing, well, it would be best if you read for yourself. Citrus angrily tramped through the citrus orchard. She had her sad sized grapefruit crop in a cart trailing behind her, and her mane was still singed in spots. As she dragged the cart of fruits behind her, she could smell... oh no... “No, no, no, no!” She dropped the cart and sprinted like all heck had broke loose. Out she ran of the bunker entrance, and onto the flame worn cobble. She came to a stop just in front of a paled yellow earth pony stallion with an orange mane. She kneeled before the corpse of her dear brother. This... no. “No, no, no! Orangeade! Don’t be dead! Please! You were supposed to live a happy life with that mare you liked! You were supposed to be there for me! You... you...” Citrus broke off when her voice cracked. She slumped before the corpse with loud sobbing. He seemed oddly... thin... “Orangey?” Citrus stood up, and walked around him. She pulled back his dull, lifeless mane to reveal... two holes... two perfect holes... “Vampony... Bitemarks...” Citrus let go of her dead brother’s mane. She stood up, and looked down on the corpse, tears flowing freely. “You’re still skinny as a stick, ya know?” Citrus gave a sad smile. She looked up into the cloudy sky, her crying stopped. “You are leaving me... just... like...” Tears again, but slow. “Mom... Dad...” Citrus looked back at the corpse. “I swear upon the Great Seedling’s orange filled antlers,” Citrus took off her grapefruit colored Stetson and looked to the sky. “I will avenge your blood on this wretched leech, or die trying.” And with that, lightning flashed and thunder boomed, ruining the possibility of a nice morning. Suddenly, however, a hole was punched in the clouds revealing a blue Pegasus and a cockatiel colored gryphon. “Come on Tiger, the storm is scheduled for tomorrow!” Said the Pegasus. “But Crystal, the pony down there swearing death to something above another pony’s corpse like she needed a change in scenery to make this-“ Tiger’s Eye was cut of by more angry Pegasus. “No! The storm happens tom- wait what?” The blue Pegasus looks through the hole in the sky and gasps. “Tiger, get the rest of the weather team to clear the clouds away. This looks serious.” Crystal Skies jumped through the hole and glided down to Citrus. “He was a good stallion.” Crystal said to Citrus. Citrus nodded and moved some of Orange’s lifeless mane from his neck, revealing the bite marks. At this Crystal gasped. “A vampony drank him dry. He... my brother... I will avenge him. Nobody messes with a member of the Citrus fam and gets away unscathed. I will hang their vampony dust in the lanterns above the family’s dining table and hang their evil cloak-“ “That’s awfully over the top, huh Citrus?” Crystal asked mildly disturbed. “You were always the melodramatic pony around here...” “Yeah, that was a bit much. But...” Suddenly Citrus has a stake of some kind of citrus wood and a ring of garlic around her neck and on her head. “I will never ever forget what the vamponies did to my parents. Never. Now I have yet third reason to kill every single vampony on sight.” Author's Note Hello irregular schedules of postage and annoying Spellflame comments to continue!
Chapter 1Fluttershy flitted around her cottage. She dusted a shelf and noticed a blinking light flashing behind her. Thinking it was Angel and his shenanigans again she turned around to see... Angel ENTERING the room with a black suit and a red flashlight. He saw Fluttershy and bounced back into the other room. “Oh... where...” Fluttershy noticed her flank was flashing. “Oh...” The map had called her! This wasn’t good. “Twi...?” And then the door to the cottage got kicked open. There stood Twilight, with her Cutie Mark glowing as well. She stood in the doorway, wielding a map and wearing a saddle pack filled with part snacks, part books. Mostly books. “Fluttershy! Let’s go!” Twilight said rather loudly. “We are going to another unknown town! Maybe we could-“ As Twilight broke off into rambling about possible new friendships, Fluttershy finished her dusting. All too soon however, Twilight started hyperventilating about the possibility of finding another powerful unicorn with a bone to pick with them. Fluttershy weakly threw the feather duster at Twilight, and the rambling stopped. “Twilight! Calm down! We have to get there to know what’s going on...” Twilight nodded. “I’ll show you!” Twilight said, and in a flash of pink, they appeared in the map room. Above the map, three butterflies and a familiar magic spark hovered around a small town near the border of the hostile side of the Dragonlands. Twilight beamed a large smile. “Since it’s summer break, we can go with no problems!” “Umm... ok... Are you gonna teleport us or...” Fluttershy asked. Twilight facehoofed. “Yeah, we will teleport. Sorry Fluttershy!” And with that, they teleported unknowingly into a possible death trap. Pinkie bounced into the room! “Aww, I didn’t get to give them my going away on another friendship quest cupcakes! Ah well, more for me!” Pinkie said as she monched on the round frosted mini cake.
Chapter 2As Twilight and Fluttershy appeared in the town, something seemed... off. Sure, it looked like any other village, with houses and stands selling fruits and vegetables, but there was a stand or two selling... different stuff. They walked to one of said stands, and glanced at the items. “Garlic, silver, and... stakes?” Twilight inquired. Fluttershy stayed back, not wanting to bother anybody. “Twilight, What’s that smell...?” Fluttershy asked. “I smell delicious fruit... and something else...” Fluttershy looked at the stand and meeped. “Fluttershy? Are you ok? We should be looking for a friendship problem.” Suddenly, there was a loud bell sound. It rang 8 times. At the sound of the bell all of the creatures, not all being pony, packed up the stands and sprinted into houses. The various creatures hung silver and garlic on the doors and windows, and one even hung colored garlic like Hearth’s Warming decor. The only creatures on the flame worn cobble were Twilight, Fluttershy, and a white and blue changeling. Fluttershy and the changeling made eye contact. Out of habit Twilight cast a scanning spell, revealing... “You! You are the one who left that CRAZY energy surge! How did you end up here?” Twilight asked. The changeling just stood there, in silence. “So, you’re here early. Script said that you would be more likely to walk or fly... ehh... Follow me. Quick.” The changeling made a follow me gesture and speed walked to a treehouse. They took flight and entered a large window. Seeing that this would be the only way to know what’s going on, Twilight and Fluttershy flew after the changeling. Suddenly, Fluttershy whipped around mid air, flying backwards. “I think I just heard a whoosh...” Fluttershy mumbled, and she turned back around to fly after Twilight. They landed in a treehouse, where a little fluffy green, blue, and white dragon was sitting at a table with an autumn colored winged jackalope on his head with the changeling. There was coincidentally two chairs left at the table. As the two ponies sat down, a blue glow came from the changeling’s neck and some silver shutters closed over the large window with a BANG. Fluttershy jumped at the sudden noise and Twilight readied a spell. “Before I tell you what is happening like the script says, my name is Winter, the dragon is Emerald, the bunny thing is Autumn. There is a vampony in this town.” Fluttershy and Twilight gasped and Emerald blew a small green flame into an oil lamp. “It already killed three ponies... Blazing Blade, LanceMint, And Orangeade.” Fluttershy fainted, and Twilight gasped, horrified. Emerald nodded sadly. “The script says you all came here to fix a friendship problem. It has to do with the vampony. Suddenly, Pinkie appeared in the treehouse with a sign that read SPOILERS and she wielded it menacingly. “Pinkie!?” Flutters and Twi cried in unison. Pinkie shrugged and disappeared. Taking it as Pinkie being Pinkie they looked back at the strange trio. “Well,” The dragon stated. “You might not wanna leave, because vamponies usually prowl at this hour. Winter seemed to know this, because she made some beds. It’s all we can do, because the inn is closed due to... vampony issues.” Fluttershy regained consciousness, and stood up. “Why do we always get caught in crud like this?” Fluttershy whined. Suddenly, out of the blue there was a scream, and the scream was cut short with a dull thud. Winter shrugged and Twilight ran to the blocked window. She pushed open the window and peered through with pure terror. Outside, on the flame worn cobble, a cloaked figure was hunched over the body of a pony. There was audible gulping noises as the vampony drank their fill, and Twilight did the best thing she could think of at the moment. “Hey you! Stop!” Twilight yelled at the figure. The figure jumped up, revealing two blood soaked fangs and two strangely... tear filled... red eyes, although the shadow of a hoof covered everything else. The figure whipped around, fear in their tear filled eyes, and lunged at the half-dead pony. The figure pressed hard on the pony’s chest, and everyone in the treehouse, minus the again unconscious Fluttershy, could only watch in horror for fear they might be next. The vampony took one final gulp of blood and jumped off the bloodless corpse. They ran off into the night and to all the sensitive ears of the creatures in the treehouse, they heard something. ”I’m so sorry...” Came the muffled, quiet cry of the vampony. Twilight feared for her life now. Actually, she was an alicorn. She feared for Fluttershys life, and Emeralds and Winters and Autumns. Twilight had to see if the pony could still live. She jumped out the window and flew to the corpse. There lay a pale, drunken-dry mare. The mare’s coat was a mint color, with a white and powder blue mane. Their cutie mark was a white crystal with a mint leaf behind it, and they had two holes in their neck, still with a little blood left on it, due to the speed drink and quick getaway of the vampony murderer. Twilight teared up at the sight, wishing this pony’s family members the best of luck at coping with this situation. The rest of the squad landed beside Twilight. “Oh, not JavelinMint, that’s the second Mint that got killed... Poor SpearMint, she must be having the worst of times right now with one sister dead, this will just made it worse...” Hoof steps in the darkness. Fluttershy and Twilight both whipped around to see an orange pony with a lemon and lime colored mane and a grapefruit colored Stetson. The mare had a ring of garlic around her neck and maybe a ring on her head too. The mare took off the Stetson and held it above her chest. “Aw crud. Yet another pony that wretched leech sucked dry...” the last four words were emphasized like a curse word and said like they tasted like manure. “If that blasted batty bucket o crud gets their grimy fangs on another of mah neighbors, so help me I will-“ The rest of the sentence broke off into death threats and curses. “Easy there, Citrus. We got guests. Please go home.” Said Winter. Citrus put her hat back on and glared at the fang holes on Javelin’s neck. “Easy there? EASY THERE?! That batty *bleep* done murdered my BROTHER land sakes, and you want me to take it easy!?” More profanity and death threats, and maybe a bleep at Winter or two. “Well, according to my calculations, if you stay out here, you have a much higher chance of being sucked dry by the vampony.” Twilight said in lecture voice. This received a death stare from Citrus, and Twilight shrunk back. “Umm... I really think WE should get inside a house Winter, listen to Twilight please. I don’t want to die...” Winter cast an empathetic look at Citrus, and nodded at Emerald. They flew towards the treehouse and through the window. Emerald closed the window and sat at the table. “Um...” Fluttershy mumbled. “I think I found our friendship problem...” Author's Note The last chapter... sorry about the length... Will never do that again. Never again. Also yes Blazing Blade was reformed Mary Sue.
Chapter 3Twilight looked at Fluttershy with an astonished look. “You did!? Wow, Fluttershy! Umm... What is it?” Twilight asked. Fluttershy hid behind her hair. ”Um Citrus and um the vampony” Fluttershy mumbled quietly. “They said sorry when they... um... ate Javelin...” Fluttershy looked close to nausea. Winter looked at a folder and a watch, although neither of them were there earlier. “Welp I gotta go you can figure this out yourselves... or CAN you?” Winter inquired, then she teleported away. “Wow that was a nice teleport I wonder if she can teach me that?” Twilight asked nobody in particular. Emerald looked at Twilight with a what face. Twilight coughed into her hoof. “Anyways, Fluttershy, WHAT!? Vamponies are evil! They drink pony blood! They KILL ponies, Fluttershy! I’m fine with thestrals, they don’t kill ponies, but VAMPONIES do! The vampony probably said sorry to throw us off the trail!” With this, Fluttershy meeped and hid behind her hair. Emerald facepawed. “Pretty sure Fluttershy is right, but just like every cheesy mystery movie out there, we gotta find the pony who did it.” Emerald stated. “The vampony might get you while you try to solve the problem.” The two mares looked at Emerald. “You know what, maybe we should just go to bed...” Fluttershy mumbled. Emerald nodded. “I second that. We really should sleep.” As the ponies (and dragon) went their separate ways, Twilight started thinking. “What if Winter is the vampony?” *One morning later* Twilight sat up and rubbed at her eyes. She could hear a sizzling sound, and a smell a delicious smell. “Was this a dream..?” Twilight muttered to herself. She looked around and saw a fluffy green dragon making some kind of breakfast. “Nope.” Twilight stood up and looked around. Fluttershy was sitting at the table, fork in hoof and eating a crepe, and said fluffy green dragon noticed that the alicorn was awake. “Oh, hi Twilight! I’m making crepes! Ya want one?” Emerald asked. Fluttershy finished chewing a bite of crepe. “He is a very good cook.” Fluttershy said as she got another forkful of crepe. “Well, it won’t hurt to have some breakfast before we hunt a mystery murderer. Wonder who’s gonna die next? I don’t even know most of these ponies though...” Pondered Twilight as she sat at the table. Suddenly, a crepe flew to the stack of plates in the middle of the table. It radiated a pleasant smell... like... Oranges. “Go on Twilight, that’s yours.” Said Emerald as he poured more crepe batter on the pan. Twilight levitated the crepe to be in front of her. She magicked a fork to stab the pleasant smelling pastry, and bring a piece to her mouth. When Emerald finished making his crepe, it smelled of mint. They ate their crepes in silence until... “Twilight? Should we search for possible vampony candidates this morning? I kinda don’t want to I just want to see what the shops are selling... if that’s ok with you...” Fluttershy mumbled around a bite of crepe. Twilight nodded. “I will search. You can see what everypony’s selling.” Twilight replied. “Um, the stores are mainly stocked with herbs and citrus but now they have vampony... uh... repellents too.” Emerald said, finishing his crepe. The two mares finished their crepes too. “Ima just wash these...” Emerald said to himself as he took the plates. He held a sponge over a plate then stopped. “I can wash these later. You guys need a tour guide!” Emerald proclaimed. Fluttershy snickered, and Twilight shook her head. “Emerald, tours are for places that don’t have the town’s demise just lurking close in the shadows.” Twilight said. “But you could get lost and some of the creatures here don’t trust... uh...” Emerald pointed at Twilight’s wings and horn. “You need someone to help you not get lost and stuff.” “True.” Twilight said. “Let’s go.” The trio flew out the silver lined window and landed in a picture perfect interspecies town. A cockatiel colored gryphon and a scorpion looking changeling were nuzzling, a little blue dragon was enjoying some berry juice as they talked with a brown dragon pony, a white and blue pegasus cat and a blue pegasus with a purple beanie on were trying to get a navy blue batpony to hold a compressed cloud, and numerous other creatures were buying herbs and fruits and other goods from more other creatures. All in all, it seemed like a perfectly normal interspecies town. “Wow!” Twilight said to Fluttershy and Emerald. “This place reminds me of my friendship school!” Emerald stared at Twilight. “You have a friendship school?” Asked Emerald. A few creatures turned around and the blue dragon began to choke on their juice. The dragon pony took the juice and put it on the table as she gave the dragon a worried look. All the creatures got back on track but the dragon was still choking. Twilight and co headed to the table. “Miss, are you alright? “ Twilight asked the dragon. The dragon coughed out a strawberry chunk and they cleared their throat. “I,” they coughed again, “am so sorry for worrying you, I-“ The dragon started coughing again. The brown dragon pony looked at Twilight. “Hi I’m Fluffernutter and this is Blue Raspberry, she um...” Blue coughed into a claw and shook herself. “It’s alright, I’m fine I just choked I’m fine...” the dragon mumbled, and they continued drinking the juice. Fluffernutter shrugged. “So are you looking for something?” Fluffernutter asked. “Why yes actually we are looking for creatures who could possibly be vamponies.” Twilight stated bluntly. Blue half spat half sprayed her juice on the ground. She put the cup down and flew onto the roof of a nearby building. “Vampony!? Where!?” The dragon looked downright terrified as she clung to the roof. Fluffernutter facehoofed, and Emerald sighed. “We said um... We said we were looking for one.” Fluttershy said quietly. The blue drake glided slowly back into the seat with a nervous look on her face and continued to drink her juice, albeit slowly and guessing the possibility of certain creatures being vamponies. Fluffernutter tapped her chin. “Maybe check all the creatures with fangs?” She asked. Twilight jumped up, done with pondering. “Winter has fangs! She’s mysterious!” Twilight informed them. Somepony cleared their throat behind the group. “I’m not a vampony. Changelings are supposed to have fangs.” Came the all too familiar voice of one Winter the changeling. Author's Note Gosh dang it I want a crepe now. I have all of this story all planned out. Kinda reminds me of Mafia... The game where you get cards and the Ace card is the killer and the townsfolk aka the other players have to figure out who the Mafia is before they all die. Oh, there is a narrator as well.
Chapter 4Twilight stood still as a statue. “She’s behind me isn’t she?” Twilight asked. Winter walked up to the table and put a hoof on the table. “Twilight, do I have red eyes?” Winter asked Twilight sat down in the chair. “No, but-“ “Am I getting sick over this?” Winter held up an entire head of garlic and waved it in front of her own face. She put the garlic down. “Well, no-“ “Am I getting sick over this?” Winter put on a silver necklace, took it off, and then put it on the ground with the garlic. “I’m not the vampony. Can you-“ Winter sighed. “Sorry, that wasn’t nice of me. Um I’m still a bit mad over an incident with the narrator. We should find the vampony.” Twilight nodded. “We could say to the ponies that we are trying to find a vampony and we need to do a mandatory check of everyone, but we only need to do one test.” Twilight said and Fluttershy nodded. Suddenly, the blue hat wearing Pegasus, the white cat Pegasus and A navy blue thestral walked up to the group. The blue Pegasus looked at Emerald, then to the rest of the group “So, you are actually serious about this?” Asked the blue Pegasus. “Well then.” The blue Pegasus opened her mouth to reveal... what a shocker! No fangs! “Yeah ima normal Pegasus I gotta find more clouds because Tiger over there got rid of them all. We are gonna have a doozy of a storm sometime soon just warning you.” Said the blue Pegasus. She flew off into the distance, presumably chasing a cloud. The white cat Pegasus was next. “So... since I’m part cat I have fangs...” the cat Pegasus said. “It’s all good. Here, hold this.” Winter said as she held out the silver necklace from earlier. The cat Pegasus held it for a while. “Am I a vampony?” Asked the cat Pegasus. Winter shook her head and took back the silver necklace. “I gotta help Crystal, those clouds won’t fetch themselves.” And with that the cat Pegasus flew after Crystal. Twilight spoke up. “Now for Fluffernutter and Blue.” Twilight stated. Winter plopped the necklace on Fluffernutter’s head and waved the garlic around in Blue Raspberry’s face. Fluffernutter derped when the metal landed on her head, and Blue flinched as if Winter was gonna punch her. Winter took back the items. “Hmm... neither of them... Ok, Bass Blast." The silver necklace was plopped on her head and yet again, the pony derped. The necklace was removed from the Navy blue thestral and given to Twilight. “Well Twi, you might wanna hide. You have...” Winter looks at a clock that wasn’t there before. “Ten seconds.” Winter flew into the sky. “Ten seconds?” Twilight asked Emerald. Emerald shrugged. “I learned to just go with it.” Emerald answered. Suddenly, Fluttershy meeped. She pointed at the distance. There, flying towards the town, was a large, feral, adolescent dragon. It roared menacingly at the town, and made direct eye contact with Twilight. “Aaaugh!” Twilight cried. “A feral dragon! It will destroy the town!” Fluttershy hid behind Twilight. “If I get to it first, I can vanquish-“ Twilight stopped. Suddenly, a blue speck appeared in front of the giant dragon. Autumn hopped on Emerald’s head with an excited look on her face. The camera moved to and zoomed in on the blue speck. The blue speck was no other than Winter, the changeling. There was a charging sound as a ball of energy formed in Winter’s mouth, and dragon readied a fire blast to fry the puny little bug hovering in its way. The dragon loosed its fiery blast, catching the bug horse full on. Fluttershy fainted and Twilight gasped. Winter... gone. Just like that. “Crud. Just like that... Gone... Poor Winter...” Twilight said sadly, but Emerald shrugged. “Ehh. She’s fine. She’s gotten hit by worse.” Emerald said flatly. Now, a crowd had gathered around the four. They all watched the dragon. The dragon had a snobby look in it’s eyes and it roared triumphantly. Fluttershy got up and whimpered. ITS OVER “Winter..? You should have yeeted this overgrown lizard already... are you actually... gone?” Emerald said to himself. He looked down, tearing up. ITS NOT OVER Suddenly, Winter appeared above the triumphant feral dragon’s head. She spat out an orb of blue magic and kicked it hard to make impact with the dragon's head. "Get nae naed!" The orb lands on and blasts the dragon's head into the ground. The giant feral dragon gets up, rubs his head, and flies away. The townsfolk cheered. It was a good day, until... A bell rang. It sounded off eight times. This halted the cheering and started the panicking. Creatures rushed to and fro as they gathered up stands and materials. Soon, doors were locked with silver and garlic, and the only creatures on the fire worn cobble street were the two mares, a lil green dragon, and a jackalope, with a blue and white changeling flying towards them. Fluttershy looked around nervously. She tapped Twilight's shoulder. "Twi?" "WINTER! Are you okay? I saw you get destroyed by dragon fire!" Twilight said. "Twi." "I was so worried, you usually defeat them faster!" Emerald said. "Twi." Winter placed a hoof over both Emerald's mouth and Twilight's. "Twilight, listen and look." Fluttershy pointed at a hooded hooded figure in a very far off shaded alleyway, bent over another figure that was laying on the ground. They could hear muffled crying and the sound of drinking. It was the vampony. Twilight was about to shout, but a silver laced wood stake wrapped in garlic was chucked like a spear at the vampony. Citrus let out a blood curdling war cry as she threw another stake at the vampony. The vampony jumped up out of the way and ran, blood spraying from a wound on the pony on the ground. The pony on the ground was now revealed to be a blue mare with a white and black mane. She had a heart shaped mint leaf with a mint candy in front of it for a Cutie Mark and looked dangerously close to death. Citrus ran to the half dead mare and angrily glared at the possible corpse. "SpadeMint, so help me if you *bleeeep* die, ima tell your sister you leaped into the vampony's evil jaws!" Said Citrus Burst angrily. Suddenly, a large brance came flying at the near dead pony. "Oh no yah don't!" Citrus shouted. She jumped up to catch the branch like a dog and she successfully caught it. Unfortunately, the branch's speed pushed back the fruit farming mare well over sixty nine yards away. The vampony took the opportunity to run to the dying pony and they lapped up all the leaked blood. As this was happening, Citrus was getting up and sprinting towards the vampony and the corpse. She was too late however, because the vampony had taken one last large slurp after pushing on where the heart goes on the corpse. The vampony stood up and looked at the bloodless corpse. "I'm a monster... if only I could have stopped myself... but the hunger... these ponies... they would still be alive... I really messed up this time..." the vampony said to nobody in particular. They ran off into the black of night , with an angry Citrus chasing them from far behind and Twilight, Fluttershy, Emerald, Autumn, and Winter staring at them from afar in fear. Author's Note Who do you think did it? I plotted for a while thinking I would reveal the vampony in this chapter, but nah.
