Fireheart & Winter Lust

As the Years went by, Fireheart and Winter Lust started getting more intimate with each other as their love blossomed and grew over the years of living together. Also, things started looking up for the couple again as more raider and slaver groups began rising again. They even dealt with the enclave sometimes when they realized that the enclave was about as bad as raiders and slavers.

Though something had been happening that Concerned Fireheart as he noticed his mate seemed to sneak out of the place they called home sometimes, which worried Fireheart as it was most of the time during the daytime. At the same time, they were supposed to be sleeping, but she always came back unharmed, but something made him ask why is it she could walk during the day but he couldn't, which prompted him to begin to search their home one time when she did one of her escapades during the daytime.

When Fireheart did this, what he found shocked him. It was a book full of spells that allowed a Vampire to walk during the day without fear of death. This puzzled him why she kept this a secret from him for so long and why she was just using these spells. Did she grow tired of him, or was she bored of him, or was she seeing another Stallion or even a Mare being? He had found out she was into both genders before he panicked as he heard the door open and his mate's voice.

"Fireheart, dear, are you awake yet it's starting to get dark. We need to go hunting again for more villains, as you like to call them." Winter Lust giggled before entering the bedroom to see Fireheart lying in bed. He had managed to quickly return to the bedroom. He put the book away without drawing her attention before Winter Lust crawled up onto the bed and decided to snuggle and kiss the handsome Stallion she had fallen in love with. Who at this point was the King of their Coven that they had recently started like many other Ponies that were dying had been turned, causing them to join them in their tiny home.

Fireheart started to pretend he was just waking up, stirring slowly as she snuggled him before smiling at her and returning her kiss with one of his own. "Evening, my sexy little Vampire, Mare." Fireheart says with a chuckle as he finally starts to stretch and get up before asking. "so where is the Target location this time Dear?" Fireheart asked her quickly with a warm smile, with which Winter answered. "Old Appleloosa, it seems a massive group of slavers is held up there, and they have many enslaved ponies and whatnot that are in horrible health. Some may be on the brink of death."

Fireheart nods at this comment and stretches a bit before deciding to get ready for their outing. His bright blue eyes scanned the entire building before finally finishing what he needed to do, then returned to the living room and waited by the exit door as Winter Lust started to get ready before joining her mate at the door. Giving him a gentle kiss before he noticed what seemed to be a bit of pain in her eyes, as if this was the last time they would be spending time together or seeing each other. Causing Fireheart to wonder what was going on but thought it best not to mention anything about it.

After they were both ready to head out, they both exited the door and started heading off in the direction of Old Appleloosa. Still, Fireheart couldn't shake the feeling that something was seriously wrong or about to happen for some reason. His eyes still scanning the outside while they move quickly toward the location she mentioned causing him to look down into what seems to be a well-built compound, and he thinks to himself, these are not your average run-of-the-mill slavers. They are way too organized for this.

After they both scan the compound, they decide to head down, being as quiet as possible because even Vampire bat ponies are at a disadvantage against such numbers. Once they finally get inside the compound, Fireheart begins to look around for the enslaved ponies to work out a way to free them while Winter Lust scouts ahead to look at where most of the patrols and sentries are. After a while, Fireheart finds the area where many enslaved ponies are in cages dwelling in their own filth and how malnourished they look. This makes him angry that he wants to destroy this compound, especially when he notices that these sick monsters also had fillies and colts enslaved and not just adults.

As Fireheart is looking upon this horrible display, he suddenly hears a bunch of weapons cocking before he quickly turns around and notices that the entire compound is aiming a gun at him. His eyes widen as he prepares to fight and kill every one of these sick monsters, only for him to be quickly tripped and forced to the ground, only to have something snapped around his neck. He panicked, wondering what happened when he noticed that Winter Lust had moved him to the ground and snapped a collar around his neck, and he immediately asked her what was going on.

"Love, what the hell are you doing? Get off of me." he tries to shove her off using his vampiric strength before his eyes widen as he realizes he is fragile and unable to do much of anything. Before he finally realizes that the collar was enchanted by magic to take away his vampiric abilities and turn him back into a Mortal pony. His eyes widen as Winter Lust keeps him pinned to the ground before she looks up at the slavers and finally speaks, "there you go, just as we discussed, I give you a vampire slave. You leave my coven alone hope this slut will suffice for you...." Winter lust states, but he can hear a hint of pain and sorrow in her voice. He realizes that she made a deal with these slavers to turn him over as an enslaved pony in exchange for the safety of her damn coven, forcing him to finally stop fighting as he begins to cry and tear up from the realization that she sold him out.

The leader of the slavers finally grins as he walks up and looks Fireheart over before stating. "yes, he will do nicely. We may be slavers, but when we make deals, they are binding, so your coven will not be harmed. Now I suggest you leave my compound. We will take it from here, Winter Lust." the leader of the slavers said before she got off. A few of the group yanked Fireheart up to take him to a cage and toss him in with a few other enslaved ponies. Crashing into the cage hard as he collapses and slumps down, defeated, still in disbelief that his mate had legit chosen to protect her coven in exchange for his own life...

After this, Winter Lust gave him one last look before she quickly left, abandoning him to the Slavers as he lay there crying silently, unable to do much of anything to get out of this situation. He realized that she kept it a secret about the day walking spell. She had probably been trying to make a deal with these slavers for a while. They finally conceded that Fireheart sat up before one of the other enslaved ponies looked at him with a bit of pain for what had happened to him and that he got betrayed so severely by a pony he thought loved him.

Upon this happening, Fireheart finally curled up as the slavers looked at their new prize and left him there to go about their business, leaving Fireheart to spend the night locked up in a cage with a highly broken heart and the shock of such a betrayal. His eyes begin tearing up as the enslaved ponies curl up next to him to try and comfort him. Fireheart sniffling as he welcomes their calming embrace as he finally closes his eyes and cries himself to sleep silently, hoping that somepony anypony. Can show up to save him as he doesn't want to go threw the same stuff that happened to him at the beginning of this journey before changing to a Vampire bat pony......