Bleeding Nights

With Spike and Twilight's Nest

Spike woke up to the feeling of his phone vibrating. He opened his eyes to see that he was still cuddled up with Rainbow in her coffin. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone.

Thank God I put my phone on "vibrate". I don't want to run the risk of waking a Strigoi, he thought in relief.

He put the phone up to his face and saw that the time was 6:57. That was just before sundown, which meant that the girls were going to wake up soon! But the reason his phone was vibrating was because his mom was calling!

Spike knew that he had to get out of this coffin and answer his mom quickly. He had to get out of this coffin, avoid waking up Rainbow, and answer his mom's call.

Spike carefully and quickly untangled himself from Rainbow's thankfully relaxed grip. He got out of the coffin and silently ran up the basement stairs to the kitchen. He hit the "Answer Call" on his phone to talk to his mother.

"H-hey, Mom. How's your business trip?" Spike said between pants.

"It's going really good, honey. Why do you sound out of breath?", Luna asked.

"I left my phone in the kitchen and I was playing video games with the volume turned up" Spike lied in response.

"Well, how are things going on at the house? Did you meet the new neighbors?"

"Things here on the home front have been uneventful. Also, yes I met the neighbors".

"Are the neighbors nice?"

"Yeah. They're a bit eccentric, but they're really nice"

"Sounds like they're fun to be around" Luna said with a laugh.

"They even offered me a job"

Luna gasped in pleasant surprise. "A job?! They offered you a job? What do they have you do?"

Spike had to tread carefully here. He couldn't just tell her that he was tasked with guarding a nest of Strigoi while they slept during the day. He had to think of something quick.

"They want me to help them around the house while they work"

"They want you to help them? Oooooooh! It's like you're Mommy's Little Butler!" Luna squealed over the phone.

Spike's only response was to blush. "Moooom, I like to think my job is a bit more important than simply being a butler"

"Well, stay safe and have fun. And remember: I love you, honey"

"I love you, too, Mom"

"Okay. Bye!"

"Bye, Mom"

Both Spike and Luna hung up. Spike sighed with the relief that his lies worked. Part of him felt bad about lying to his mother about what he was doing, but he didn't know how to explain his new Strigoi employers.

A small cough sounded from behind Spike. He turned around to see the girls standing behind him with loving smiles on their faces. Spike smiled sheepishly.

"How much of that conversation did you hear?" he asked them.

"Long enough to hear your mom call you 'Mommy's Little Butler'!" Pinkie said with a chuckle.

"Your mother really loves you, huh?" Twilight asked.

"Yeah. My mother's been the only one to raise me" Spike replied.

"So, how was your first day on the job, Spike?" Applejack asked.

Spike recalled how he didn't really do his job, per say. All he did was cuddle with Rainbow the whole day. But he didn't want to tell them that.

"It was pretty uneventful. Everything was pretty normal here" Spike replied.

Applejack suddenly looked at Spike with a serious expression. "Spike, I can tell that you're lyin'"

"What do you mean?" Spike asked.

"When you lie, there's a slight inflection in your voice" Applejack replied. "Now why don't you tell us how your day really went".

Spike glanced at Rainbow for a split second at sighed. "I was looking to see if Strigoi slept in coffins like the lore said. So I looked all over the house to see anything that resembled a coffin. Eventually, I found your coffins in the basement of the house"

The girls all chuckled.

"Yes, we sleep in coffins" Rarity said.

"Do you have to sleep in coffins?"

"No, it's a personal choice for us. There's something about the closeness of the coffins that makes us feel safe and secure" Fluttershy said.

"Oh. Either way, it's pretty cool you sleep in coffin" Spike said.

Spike was about to walk past them when Pinkie suddenly grabbed his arm.

"Wait a minute, Spike" Pinkie said.

Pinkie started sniffing Spike's hair and chest. It was as if she was trying to find a specific scent on him. Even through his shirt, Pinkie's breaths tickled his skin.

"I can't help but notice that you have Rainbow's scent on you" Pinkie said after a few more sniffs.

Spike couldn't believe it! He was hoping they wouldn't find out about that! Well, it's all out in the open now! The other girls, especially Rainbow Dash, looked at Spike with shock on their faces.

"Why do you have Rainbow's scent on you, Spike?" Rarity asked with a hint of anger in her voice.

Spike knew better than to lie to them, so he told the truth.

"Well, after I found the coffins, I wanted to see if you all were actually in there. So I opened what I deduced was Rainbow's to see if she was in there. She was. Then I noticed that she was having trouble sleeping peacefully. Before I could do anything, she grabbed me, dragged me into her coffin, and cuddled me until just before you all woke up" he replied.

The other girls looked to Rainbow with what looked like jealous glares. Rainbow blushed, crossed her arms, and looked in the other direction.

"W-well, t-that explains why my coffin had your scent in it" Rainbow said.

The girls just continued to glare at her. Rainbow blushed deeper.

"Oh come on! You all know I've been having sleeping problems for the past ninety years!" Rainbow yelled.

"Well, if it makes you feel better Rainbow, you're quite nice to cuddle with. I actually fell asleep myself" Spike said with a smile.

That response only deepened the glares of the others. The air in the kitchen was suddenly thick with tension. Spike could see that he had to do something to disperse the tension. An idea quickly formed in his head.

"Hey, girls. Aren't you hungry?" he asked.

The girls instantly turned their heads toward him with those predatory grins they gave him the first night he was there. They started to scare Spike. He slowly started to back away from them.

"Uh... girls? Why are you--" Spike began to ask before Rainbow zoomed past the others to grab him.

Rainbow Dash grappled Spike with her claws and held his head to one side. Spike could see Rainbow open her mouth and could see her needle-sharp Strigoi teeth descend in front of her human teeth.

"Hey, wait a minute! Why do you get to drink from him, Rainbow?!" Pinkie asked loudly.

"Because he was my cuddle-buddy for the day! Besides, Twilight got to taste his blood the first night he got here!" Rainbow argued.

Before any of the girls could continue arguing, Rainbow snapped her head forward and sank her fangs into Spike's neck. He got the same results as when he was bitten by Twilight. He got over the initial few seconds of pain and started to feel very good. In a short amount of time, Spike was staring at the ceiling with a drooling smile on his face. His eyes were unfocused and glossy. Rainbow released her grip on Spike's throat and gently held him in her arms. The girls looked to Spike with worry in their eyes.

"Spike! Are you okay?!" Rarity asked in worry. Spike just continued to stare at the ceiling.

"Huh? I like turtles!" Spike said with a slur.

"Yeah, he's fine" Applejack said.

Rainbow scooped up the blissed out Spike and took him to the living room and laid him down on one of the couches. Spike was going to be out of it for a while. He was moaning and giggling on the couch while Rainbow licked at his neck to heal the wound. Strigoi saliva could heal the wounds made by their teeth while counteracting the anticoagulant properties of their venom.

While Spike was blissing out on the couch, Twilight looked to the others.

"Spike's going to be out of commission for a while. Shall we go hunting in the forest?" Twilight asked.

"Ready, Twilight!" the girls shouted in unison.

Twilight and the others went outside the house and peered into the night sky. They started to rise off the ground at a steady rate and then literally flew off into the forest to hunt for animals to feed on. But as they were flying off to hunt, the other girls in Twilight's nest had the same thought in their heads.

I'd like to taste Spike's blood one of these nights. It looked like it tastes good.

In The Everfree Forest

A quiet and clear night had descended over the city of Canterlot and the surrounding forests. A bright full moon sat in the sky, bathing the world in its beautiful soothing light.

A deer was wearily walking through the forest treeline near the edge of a large clearing. Every now and then, the deer would stop walking to listen and sniff for any potential predators that may be stalking in the area. She had to take these precautions to make sure she survived the night.

A twig snapping sounded to the deer's left. Her natural instinct was to freeze and look toward the direction of the sound. Given the canopy of the leaf-covered branches, she had to really focus to make out any form of movement in this forest. After a short while, another doe appeared from behind a large bush. The two deer regarded each other with a look of relief and they both walked out into the clearing.

The deer started grazing with little fear. Every now and then, one of the deer would look around while the other one would eat. The only sounds to be heard were the wing beats of bats eating insects and the leaves rustling in the wind. The deer could only smell the scents of the forest and the occasional scent of the other deer.

The first deer heard a rustling in the grass coming from the second deer. She looked up to see... nothing. The other deer wasn't there anymore. She disappeared. It was like she vanished into thin air. The first deer was starting to become suspicious. There was no cry of alarm from the other deer or the sound of her running away.

After staring in the direction of the vanished deer for a few minutes, a glowing pair of golden eyes glared at the other deer in a way that spoke "great danger". The deer was instantly spooked into running away from the owner of those eyes. She did not want to see what had obviously killed her companion.

She booked it across the clearing in an attempt to get to the safety of the forest. She had to run. She had to hide from this predator. The forest was getting closer and closer to her view. She would make it and survive.

A heavy object fell on the deer's back. No, three heavy objects. The deer was sent tumbling to the ground with the three objects holding her to the ground. These objects were holding her down with sharp claws. The creatures bit her in different places on her body with what felt like needles. One bit down on her neck, the other bit down on her chest, and the last one bit down on her thigh.

In a couple of minutes, the deer found that she couldn't move anything at all. She lost all feeling in her... anything. Her vision started to swim and become fuzzy. She started to feel cold from something she couldn't care enough to figure out. Her brain started to feel like it was filled with rabbit fluff. Her breathing started to slow down and her body started to feel tight. She became more and more sleepy with each passing moment. Soon, she fell asleep until she stopped breathing.

Once the three creatures were finished feeding, they all stood up to reveal themselves as Twilight, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash. Rarity, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie went to a local sheep farm to drink a few sheep and even a few pigs. Twilight and her nest fed on animals most of the time.

After a few minutes, the girls who went to the sheep farm found the others in the forest and landed among them to digest a whole night's worth of blood. All of them had noticeably distended stomachs from their feedings.

"Well, how was feeding at the sheep farm?" Twilight asked.

"Those sheep were a bit too noisy for me, but they were surprisingly docile once my venom worked" Rarity replied.

"Personally, I think the farmer of those sheep is inbreeding them. I noticed a few deformities in some of the sheep" Fluttershy said.

"I really enjoyed feeding on the pigs. There's just something about the feel of my teeth sinking into their flesh I really enjoy" Pinkie said.

"Well, we really had a successful hunt. I really enjoy actively hunting down prey, like a more natural predator would" Applejack said.

"This deer didn't know what hit her!" Rainbow said pointing to the drained deer at their feet.

"If it wasn't for our mysterious partner, we might not have been able to ambush the deer" Twilight said.

Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, and Rarity looked at Twilight with a hint of confusion.

"What partner?" they asked.

Twilight turned around and pointed in the direction of the clearing. Sure enough, a dark shape was making its way towards them. A shape with glowing golden eyes. Once it was ten feet from the gathered Strigoi, the shape stood up to reveal it's full form.

It was a tall creature, easily being seven feet tall. It was wearing a tattered T-shirt and what looked like black jean shorts. It was definitely feminine in form. There was a thin covering of rusty fur covering her body. A wolf-like head sat atop her shouders with reddish hair falling past her pointed ears. Her digitigrade legs and long arms were thick with muscle. Her muzzle was spattered with deer blood.

This creature was a Lupine, a species of Nightdweller that was the inspiration for the human myths about werewolves and skinwalkers. The Strigoi and Lupines were quite friendly with each other due to their similar standing in terms of power. They respect each other and their cultures. From what Twilight had seen of them and read, the Lupines were somewhat of a warrior culture, usually letting their claws and fangs do the talking for them. Lupines usually live in packs, but solitary individuals weren't uncommon.

The Lupine before the Strigoi girls started to change her form. She changed into an attractive human teenage girl with red and yellow curly hair and blue eyes. She stood before the girls with a smirk and unashamed of the fact that she was nearly naked from what her transformation did to her. Her DD-cup breasts bounced as she walked up to Twilight and the girls.

The girls smiled once they saw their Lupine friend. They had a long-standing friendship with this particular lone wolf.

"Hey Sunset! How's it going?" Twilight greeted her friend.