Red Moon

Drake and Dawn arrived at their hideout with Sunset, Rarity, and AppleJack. Dawn carried Twilight over to their queen and placed her on the floor.

“Mmm, more converts.” The queen said as she licked her lips.

Sunset bowed before the queen. “My name is Sunset Shimmer, and it will be my pleasure to serve you.”

“Excellent.” The queen said. She then stood up from her throne and looked down at Twilight. “And who is this?”

“This one is named Twilight Sparkle.” Dawn said. “She is still weak from being drained of so much blood.”

The queen knelt down and helped Twilight up to her knees. She then stroked Twilight’s face as she woke up.

“Where…where am I?” Twilight asked in a meek voice. “I feel so hungry.”

“You just need to feed to build up your strength.” The queen said. She then used one of her long, red fingernails like a razor blade to cut open her wrist to let out her blood. Upon seeing it, Twilight could not hold herself back. She bit into the queen’s wrist and drank as much blood as she could.

The queen stroked Twilight’s hair. “My, my. Aren’t we thirsty?”

Twilight stopped feeding and looked up at the queen. Her eyes turned blood, and a pair of fangs grew in her mouth. Twilight’s skin became pale.

“What is your name?”

The queen stood up and walked out of the shadows. She was tall, 7-9’. Her skin was white, and she had blood red eyes. The queen had long, sharp red fingernails and red hair that was tied up in a bun.

“My name is Erzsebet Bathory.”

After everyone had returned to Cassidy’s house, the Dazzlings sat on the couch while they waited for Cassidy and Eli to shower off all of the blood they had on them and to put on new clothes. When Eli and Cassidy walked into the living room, Sonata could see that the wounds they had were healed.

Cassidy and Eli sat in chairs across from the Dazzlings. Cassidy leaned forward with his hands together.

“You obviously have a lot of questions for the two of us.” Cassidy said. “Go ahead, ask us anything.”

“What the HELL happened tonight!?” Aria shouted out.

Cassidy let out a deep sigh. “You three have been pulled into the middle of a war that has been going on for far too long. The world that you see everyday is not the real world, but merely the sugar coated topping. The true world is dark. I am a werewolf, and so is Eli.”

All three of the Dazzlings' eyes went wide.

“You’re werewolves?” Adagio said.

Eli nodded his head. “Correct.”

“Then what about those weird new kids?” Sonata asked.

“Their names are Drake and Dawn, and they are vampires.” Cassidy explained.

“What about Sunset, Rarity, and AppleJack?” Aria asked.

“They are also vampires.” Eli said. “They have been bitten, and now they have been turned.”

“Wait, so that means the other night when Indigo Zap attacked me she did so because she was turned into a vampire?”

“That is correct.” Cassidy said.

“Are you the one who saved me?”

Cassidy looked Sonata in the eye. “Yes, that was me.”

Aria threw up her hands. “Whoa, whoa, whoa. You said something about a war. What do you mean by that?”

“Just as Cassidy said.” Eli replied. “There is a secret war going on between vampires and werewolves.”

“How did it start?” Sonata asked.

“At one point in the distant past, werewolves and vampires split off from mankind. Both sides struggled to survive at first, but then vampires discovered magic.” Cassidy explained. “They used it to give themselves powers, such as the ability to fly and hypnotize their victims. Soon, they were at the top of the darkworld food chain.”

“They enslaved werewolves.” Eli said. “We were their soldiers, servants, bodyguards, and even sex workers. What the vampires didn’t know was that werewolves studied magic in secret. We discovered ways to kill vampires.”

Aria rolled her eyes. “Let me guess, crosses and holy water.”

“Those don’t do shit.” Eli said. “Silver, garlic, and ultraviolet light will kill vampires.”

“So will making them bleed to death, such as ripping out the jugular vein. Ripping them to pieces also works.” Cassidy added.

“Do werewolves have weaknesses?” Adagio asked.

“Yes. We can also be killed by silver, as well as by wolfsbane.” Cassidy said.

“Vampires and werewolves do have one thing in common. We both have a healing factor. Any damage that we suffer to our flesh will heal quickly.” Eli added.

“About this war, how long has it been going on?” Sonata asked.

“It’s been raging on for 500 years.” Cassidy said. “Sometimes vampires gain the upper hand, sometimes werewolves. In recent years however, vampires have been winning.”

“Why is that?” Aria asked.

“Vampire numbers have been growing. Everytime someone is bitten by a vampire, they turn into a vampire permanently. The only way to kill them all for good is to kill the head vampire that is in charge.” Cassidy said. “And we Know that she has come here.”

“Do-Do you eat people?” Sonata asked with a worried voice.

Eli chuckled and shook his head. “No, we don’t eat people. Cassidy and eat human food. But when we have to, we eat wild animals.”

“I have one last question. Do people who are bitten by werewolves become werewolves?” Adagio asked.

Cassidy sighed a little. He looked down at the floor for a moment before looking back up at the Dazzlings. “Yes. In fact, I was human before I was turned into a werewolf.”