Twi-Bite: A Vampire Story

Canterlot Hospital - Morning

Twilight woke up to find the doctor she met last night, Silverwood, sitting in the same room as her. He looked as if he was watching over her the entire night. She tried to sit up in the bed to look around, but she was stopped by the restraints around her body. She looked down her nose to see a muzzle wrapped around her mouth. Twilight looked to the doctor in confusion.

"What's going on? Why am I tied to the bed and wearing a muzzle like Hannibal Lecter?" she asked.

The doctor got up from his seat and walked over to her left side. He looked down at Twilight with a small smile.

"You just went through your first night of the first stage of vampirism. You don't remember what happened?" he asked.

"Not at all," Twilight said shaking her head. "But why does my mouth taste weird?"

"You broke into the blood storage area and helped yourself," he replied.

Twilight's red eyes grew as wide as coins. She looked up at the ceiling.

"If it makes you feel any better, I was able to stop you before you could munch on your friends," Silverwood said.

"Wait! I attacked my friends?!" she shouted.

"More like 'tried'. I shot you with a silver dart before you could hurt them," Silverwood replied.

"Where are they now?" she asked.

"I sent them home after giving them a crash course on vampirism," Silverwood said.

Twilight squinted her eyes at the doctor. "You know about vampirism?"

"I know everything there is to know about vampires because I used to hunt and kill them," Silverwood replied.

"What?!" Twilight shouted.

"Perhaps we should get your friends here to discuss how we'll move forward," Silverwood said taking out his phone.

"Are you expecting me to ignore the fact that you're a former vampire hunter?" Twilight asked.

"All will be revealed soon enough," Silverwood said.

...

A Few Hours Later

The Rainbooms, along with Nurse Redheart, arrived at the hospital and gathered in Twilight's room. Silverwood had drawn the curtains over the windows for Twilight's comfort. Twilight no longer wore the muzzle and was freed from the restraints. They all ran to Twilight and gave her a group hug, despite the previous night's events.

"Twilight! Are you okay?!" they all asked collectively.

"I feel like... I really have to pee," she said before running to the bathroom and shutting the door.

Silverwood shrugged. "Makes sense. Blood contains mostly water".

As they waited for Twilight to come back out, they detected the strong smell of ammonia in the room.

"Why do I smell ammonia?" Fluttershy asked.

"Vampires produce and secrete ammonia as a byproduct of their blood-based diet, just like vampire bats," Silverwood replied.

Twilight emerged a few minutes later. She returned to the bed with a tired look on her face. Silverwood tucked her in and pulled a bag of blood out of drawer to give to Twilight. Twilight gently pushed away the offered bag, despite her stomach growling at the sight of it. Silverwood placed the bag on her lap instead.

"The transformation tires you out. You have to feed to undergo the transformation healthily. If you don't drink blood, it will become painful for you once you enter the second stage," Silverwood said.

With that, Twilight took the bag and reluctantly started to drink the blood through the tube in the bag. At first, she was drinking slowly. Then, she started to gulp it down greedily until the bag was a plastic raisin. She sighed with content as she slumped back onto the pillow.

"I'll bring you a new bag every few hours. Make sure you drink all of them," Silverwood said. "But something tells me that I don't need to tell you that".

"What do we do?" Pinkie asked.

"I would suggest that, for now, you keep her company until the sun goes down. I'll restrain her at sunset," Silverwood said.

"What about school? You said that Stage One lasts for a week," Sunset asked.

"One of you can bring her homework and assignments here for her to work on during daylight," Silverwood replied.

"What happens after I become a fully mature vampire? What will I do?" Twilight asked.

"I'm going to put you in touch with Nightlife," Silverwood said.

"What's Nightlife?" Applejack asked.

"It's a vampire counseling program I help run here at the hospital. Once you've matured, Twilight, I'll invite you to the group and introduce you to other vampires," Silverwood said.

The girls were shocked. There were other vampires in the city? And they came to the hospital for counseling? This was a lot to take in at once.

"Don't worry, Twilight. These are very nice people. I've know them for a long time. Besides, you have good friends here," Silverwood said.

That made Twilight feel a bit better. She thought about the inevitability of her meeting other vampires with anticipation. It would be nice for Twilight to be surrounded by other vampires like her. They could help her to adapt to this new state of being better than she could on her own. Besides, it wasn't like her sire was going to show her the ropes.

"I hope they'll be able to help me out once I become a full vampire," Twilight said.

"I know they will, Twilight. The oldest among them lived during the time of the Roman Empire, so she has centuries of experience," Silverwood said.

That statement caught the others off-guard. Since the time of the Roman Empire? That would make this vampire two-thousand years old at the very least. Obviously, the part about vampires being immortal was true to them, now.

"Well, it seems I'll have a lot of time to adjust to this," Twilight said with a laugh.

Everyone except Doctor Silverwood started laughing. Silverwood just looked at all of them with a smile.

It looks like Twilight is going to have a smooth transformation. I just hope her sire doesn't cause any trouble, Silverwood thought.

"Yeah, we'll be here for you all the way, Twi!" Rainbow assured.