Malnourishment

by emeraldhuskydragon0

Chapter 3

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Twilight 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.

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