Bleeding Nights

In the City of Manehattan

A homeless woman was running down the street of the currently sleeping neighborhood with a bleeding arm and terror in her eyes. She had to get away from the area as fast as she could or find a place to hide from her unseen attacker.

It was so quick. All she knew is that she was walking down the street to the homeless shelter when she started hearing a strange growling noise. The noise sounded like it came from some large animal. She couldn't see where the sound was coming from as it was too dark to hear. But she was able to make out where the sound was coming from.

There was an alleyway unlit by any light from the buildings or the streets. It was simply an endless expansion of black. After the woman had looked down the alley for a few seconds, a pair of glowing red eyes suddenly shone to gaze at her with a look of primal hunger.

Suddenly, a dark shape shot out of the darkness and zoomed past her, knocking the woman to her feet. A strange pain shot through her arm as soon as she stood up. She looked down at her right arm to see a bleeding bite mark. The shape indicated human jaws, but the teeth marks were anything but human. It appeared as if several thick needles had punctured her arm.

Panicking, the woman glanced around her to search for her attacker. She didn't know where it was, and she didn't care. All she knew was that she had to get away from this place. She took off in the direction of the homeless shelter with no hesitation.

As she was running down the street, she had begun to notice that the bite to her arm didn't hurt anymore. She couldn't feel any pain in her arm at all. Still, she didn't know what attacked her, but she didn't want to stay and find out what did.

In her rush to get to the homeless shelter, she got the feeling that she was being hunted. She looked behind her to see dark shapes darting between the buildings at great speed, getting closer and closer to the poor woman. In her peripheral vision, she could see a silhouette flying around in the dark sky.

She began to feel her legs getting weaker and weaker. Her legs and arms started to feel numb. Her thoughts were becoming muddled and fuzzy. Something inside was making her feel strangely euphoric. She chuckled at the situation despite her potential danger.

With what little rational thoughts she had left, she realized that she wouldn't be able to outrun her pursuers. She ducked into a somewhat lit alley with a flickering outside light and hid behind a dumpster.

As she settled down behind the dumpster, she poked her head out to see if her pursuers had tracked her there. In the flickering light, she could see some of the shapes stop in the street outside the alley and seem to look around for her. The shapes were humanoid and seemingly female. Their heads moved in a way that an animal's would when tracking prey. When the light flickered on and off, the shapes were instantly gone. The woman smiled and sighed with relief.

But when the light flickered again, the female shapes were suddenly standing in front of the woman's hiding place and were looking right at her! The woman would've screamed if she didn't feel strangely calm about the entire situation. She couldn't feel any of her limbs. They felt too weak for her to get very far, anyway.

Now that the shapes were in the light, the woman could see that her pursuers were indeed female, and beautiful. In fact, they were teenagers from what the woman could see. There were three in total. One of them was a girl who wore a purple T-shirt, black short-shorts, and black sandals. She had golden fluffy hair that looked pleasing to the touch. The one on her left had dark purple hair with mint-green streaks tied in two twin-tails. She wore a light green jean jacket with no sleeves, purple jean shorts, and red sneakers. The last one on the right was a pretty thing with light blue hair with darker streaks running through tied in a single ponytail. All of these girls had pale skin, claws, glowing red eyes, pointed ears, and smiles revealing sharp teeth. Their eyes communicated hunger.

The one with the fluffy golden hair suddenly pushed the entire dumpster away with only one hand! The dumpster crashed into the far wall with enough force to crack the bricks. The only movement the woman could do was to simply slump to the ground. Her vision swam as she gazed up at the girls who were now surrounding her and looking sown at her with drooling grins.

From the darkness above the buildings, a single dark figure seemed to hover above the girls and look down at the scene with the same red eyes as the girls. The girls all looked up at the figure with some bizarre form of reverence.

"Master, can we have this one?" the golden-haired girl asked.

The figure looked from the woman to his apparent minions. His reply came slowly.

"I already had a homeless drunk I found sleeping in the park. You are more than welcome to have this one. After all, what kind of alpha would I be if I didn't ensure my nest was fed?" the figure replied in a deep male voice.

The girls collectively turned to the woman. In an instant, the girls jumped at the woman and bit her. The one with the golden hair took the woman's throat, the purple-haired one took the woman's right wrist, and the blue-haired one took the left wrist. They all began to drain the woman's body of blood.

Since there were three of them feeding off the same source, it didn't take long for the woman to lose consciousness and die. When the girls were finished, the body looked like a desiccated shell. The process was like a juice box collapsing on itself after someone sucks out all the juice.

The figure hovered above the girls and pointed in the direction of the park he recently came from. "Bury the body in the park. They'll never find her there"

The girls took the woman's body and flew off towards the park to bury her. Once they landed in the park, the unseen figure turned to his nestmates.

"Bury her in a random location in the forest. It'll be harder for the humans to find the bodies if they're spread out over a large area" he ordered.

The girls all set about their task. They found an ancient-looking tree and buried her under it. After the task was done, the girls regrouped with their alpha.

"What do we do now, master? Do we return to the van and have some naughty fun?" the blue-haired one asked.

"Not right now. Right now, Adagio, Aria, and Sonata, we have have to go to the next town. The town of Canterlot" the master replied.

"Why? What's so special about that town?" Aria asked.

"Because there is something special there. Something I need"

"What is it?" Adagio asked.

"Apparently, there is a Darkblood in Canterlot" he replied.

The girls were shocked. A Darkblood was a human-Strigoi hybrid, usually born when either a pregnant human woman is given Strigoi blood and turned or if a Strigoi has sex with a human. But since sex with a human was considered taboo among the Strigoi, Darkbloods that were naturally born were quite rare.

"A Darkblood? What is a Darkblood doing there? Is it part of a nest?" Aria asked.

"From what my sources within the town told me, this one didn't even know that Strigoi existed until very recently" he replied.

"What exactly do you want with a Darkblood? What's so special about this one?" Sonata asked.

"That's what I find so interesting. It would seem that this particular Darkblood is the son of not a Noble, but one of the seven Elders" he replied.

"What?! One of the Elders has sired a Darkblood?!" the girls asked loudly.

The Elders were the direct offspring of the original Strigoi, the Grand Progenitor, Queen Veratos. They were very old but very powerful. Even stronger than Nobles.

"Yes. I want to see how strong this Darkblood is. It may be the key to achieving our goals" he replied.

"If he's a Darkblood born of the Elders, he's sure to be immensely strong" Adagio said.

"If he is, I'll try to get him on-board to help us out. If he refuses to help us, I'll just have to kill him for wasting my time" the alpha replied.

The alpha walked to his nestmates and began stroking their hair. They looked at him with looks of love and admiration.

"Shall we get going? We have no time to waste" the alpha said.

"We'll follow you anywhere, Master Plasmius" the girls stated at the same time.

With Spike

Spike was sitting in his bedroom waiting for the sun to come up. He had a lot on his mind, to say the least. He had discovered that vampires, or rather Strigoi, actually exist, been fed on by one, and to top it all off, was hired by the same Strigoi to guard them during the day. His entire worldview had been shook.

If Strigoi exist, I wonder what other creatures exist?, he asked in thought.

He watched as the sun came up over the horizon. Once it did, he got ready to go to his first day on his new job. According to what Twilight said, all he had to do was make sure no one came to the house during daylight. If anyone asked, he was the younger brother of the master of the manor. The fridge would be stocked with plenty of food for him, since they wouldn't be able to eat it. Apparently, Strigoi can't eat human food. There was a TV and a PS-5 for him to entertain himself while he was on watch and he was welcome to the guest room in case he got tired. And he was getting paid to do it, too. Spike was sure other people would be jealous of his situation.

He walked up to Carnstein Manor and took out the key from under the mat. He opened the door and locked it behind him to protect his new employers.

I wonder if they sleep in coffins like the lore says?, he thought.

Despite his better judgement, his curiosity demanded that he answer that question. He began to look around the mansion to see if they did indeed sleep in coffins. He went from room to room looking in them. There was a library, a music and dance hall, and an indoor swimming pool. It was an amazing house. He looked all over the house for the girls to see coffins.

Where do they sleep? I've looked all over this house and haven't seen any sign of them!, he thought.

Then, while was walking to the living room, he saw the door to the basement. Spike's eyes widened.

I haven't searched the basement, yet, he thought.

He went to the door and opened it with a creaking sound. The basement door opened to reveal an unlit basement. Spike couldn't even see the bottom, it was so dark. Taking out his phone, he turned on the flashlight and walked down the stairs.

As Spike swept his flashlight around the basement, he could see that the basement was quite large with various dust-covered boxes and crates. There were cobwebs strewn about the rafters and the spaces in-between the crates. A few rats scurried away from the beam of Spike's flashlight. Spike made it to the far side of the basement to see what he was looking for: six large coffins.

These coffins were of different colors and designs. From the different colors, Spike could tell just who was sleeping in the coffins.

Now I'm wondering if the girls actually sleep in these coffins, Spike thought.

He went up to the closest coffin, a dark blue one with a rainbow painted on it that obviously belonged to Rainbow Dash, and put his hand on the lid. He wanted to only open the lid of few centimeters and only look inside for a second to see if Rainbow was in the coffin. He opened the lid and looked inside.

He put a beam of light inside the coffin and sure enough, Rainbow Dash was inside. She had a blanket wrapped around her and looked like she was sleeping restlessly. She was tossing and turning at random times while making whimpering sounds. Her face's expression was one of strain. She looked like she was either having a bad dream or having trouble staying fully asleep. The sight made a sting of sadness spread throughout Spike's body and mind.

Maybe I should get Rainbow a teddy bear or a body pillow for her to snuggle with, Spike thought.

As soon as he finished his thought, Rainbow's clawed hand reached out and grabbed Spike by the wrist. Spike didn't have any time to react before Rainbow pulled him into the coffin with her. Rainbow wrapped her arms around Spike and smothered his face in her ample chest. Spike tried to gently pull away but her grip on him was too strong and the size of the coffin prevented much movement anyway. Spike looked up to see Rainbow's sleeping face visibly relax from having something to cuddle with. The sight made Spike simply accept what was happening.

Maybe I'll just stay here for now. If it'll help Rainbow sleep better, I'll do this for her, Spike thought.

Since he was in this position, he had the time to notice different things around him. He noticed that Rainbow's body temperature was quite cool. Not ice cold, but she wasn't as warm as a human. Her breasts were quite soft and almost absorbed his head. Rainbow also smelled nice. She didn't have a normal feminine scent, but instead she smelled somewhat like pine needles and vanilla. This wasn't the worst situation for Spike to be in.

Rainbow started to breathe softly in Spike's hair and unconsciously began stroking his hair. Spike wrestled one of his arms free and started to stroke her hair in return. Spike smiled at Rainbow's sleeping face.

"Sleep well, Rainbow. Sweet dreams" Spike whispered before he himself fell asleep.