A Colt's Darkness

by GimmyJibbsJr

Odd secret of a pony part 3

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Sweetie Belle, a young mare who was practically dating me, might be killing criminals without anypony knowing. Damn shes good. Spirit and Sweetie Belle left after getting praised for being such wonderful sources of entertainment. They had thirty minutes left.

"Can we go get some food? I'm starving." Sweetie Belle complained. Spirit chuckled.

"Sure, it will be to celebrate your victory over beating a colt who can't really sing." They both laughed and went to a food court. They served meat, chicken and pig. Sweetie Belle ate the food without hesitation and so did Spirit. The griffins were impressed by the only two ponies, they ate meat like nothing. Spirit was focused on Sweetie Belle. She just tore it apart. and she didn't drink her water normally. It seemed to be pouring onto her canine teeth that were slightly larger then a normal pony's canines. He finished first and then Sweetie Belle finished just seconds after. They payed the bill and left. They wandered the streets that were very dark. It was unnecessary for torches to be put up, griffins can see in the dark. Sweetie Belle led them back to the castle, somehow she could see very well in the dark.

"Here we are!" She shouted as they got to the castle. They quickly ran to their room and began to use up the last of their energy so they could fall to sleep easily. They soon argued over who got to use the shower first. Sweetie Belle went first, as she did Spirit prepared himself for a bad situation. He put his knife in a place it would be easy to grab along with the silver pendant. They were perfectly hidden. He was ready for almost anything. He then remembered he had to take a shower next and would have to move his weapons back to the hidden spots in his jacket. After his shower they sprang into their beds and went to sleep.

"Give me something I can use, Sweetie Belle." He whispered to himself. Then, as if on cue, she got up out of bed and left the room. Spirit grabbed the first aid kit and the wolf-bane Celestia had given him and started to follow Sweetie Belle. Already the first night and I might just die. WOW. Sweetie Belle went into a forest that was near by. Spirit didn't even notice this at first. There, he saw a griffin, male by the looks of it and he looked pretty roughed up. Before he could get closer, Sweetie Belle lunged at him

"TIME TO EAT!!" She screamed. The griffin was surprised and the dead in an instant. Well that escalated VERY quickly. Spirit thought. He peaked out to so her sinking her teeth into the neck of the griffin. Shes the vampire? I thought she was the lycan. She quickly drained him of blood and began ripping chucks of meat from the body. Is she both lycan and a vampire? That is cool, I also love how I'm so calm over this...

"So, there really IS a vampire lycan." Sweetie Belle turned to see a female griffin with over twenty swords that resembled the silver pendant he had. Oh lord no.. Silver swords?

"I will be quick, these swords are made of silver and will be the tools to end you."

Motherfucker, I knew it! Spirit was pissed off.

Bleeding Out

"I, Gilda the monster slayer, challenge you to a battle to the death!" Gilda threw five of her sword at Sweetie Belle. She just barely dodged the attack. Spirit let loose and the monster inside of him ran to protect Sweetie Belle. The swords that were thrown earlier went straight through several trees like a knife through hot butter. Gilda threw ten more swords at Sweetie Belle. Spirit Jumped in front of her and took the ten swords for Sweetie Belle. She just stared at him. The swords didn't go through him. "Well, looks like I can kill two monsters in one d-" A knife was sent flying into her head and killed her as quickly as she appeared.

"Fuck off." Spirit said coldly.

"Just... shut up." Gilda immediately got back up and threw several more swords. They all pierced Spirit's armor and ripped his intestines to bits. Using his dark powers, Spirit lodged the knife from earlier deep into Gilda's heart. Then he spun it in a circle, ripping the heart to bits. This had truly killed Gilda. "That escalated quickly." Spirit coughed, at the same time spitting out large amounts of blood.

"How did the swords not go through you?" Sweetie Belle began to cry.

"I put the dark magic of my 'evil' form inside of my body to reduce the puncturing power of the swords." He smiled. "Don't cry, you silly filly..." Spirit wasn't going to make it, despite having such incredible powers. "That 'Gilda'... was a monster as well. She would not have been able to throw the swords so hard if she wasn't..." He coughed up more blood.

I need to do something! What can I do!? Spirit is going to die because of me... Wait! I have an idea! Sweetie Belle channeled both of her lycan and vampire powers and stared at Spirit's body. She slowly leaned in and bit him.

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Spirit woke up and looked around. Pitch black. He turned around to see three ponies. He only recognized one of them. There was an extremely hairy, purple colt with large canine teeth and orange eyes. He also had claws on all four of his hooves. The second one he didn't recognize had a blood red eyes with a purple coat and had longer limbs and sharp teeth. The other one was his monster or "Sombra" form.

"Well," The red eyed version of him started. "This is interesting."

"What happened?" Spirit asked.

"You died for Sweetie Belle." Sombra Spirit said. "She then gave you her powers and it is reviving you. That is where these two come in." He tilted his head towards the other versions of himself, or he assumed they were other versions of himself.

"I have the embodiment of your vampire powers." He bowed, in doing so he was now on even height with Spirit. "This is the embodiment of your lycan powers." The hairy one jumped forward with his canine teeth sticking slightly out of his mouth.

"Hey." He said in a raspy voice.

"So, now what? Do I have the powers of a Lycan and vampire?"

"Yes," Vampire Spirit said. "but you can live in sunlight and thanks to your Sombra form you have a resistance to silver or holy objects."

"The two of us won't make a fuse of you controlling us." Vampire Spirit said. "Same goes for him." He said while pointing to Spirit's Sombra form.

"He won't? You're sure of this?" Spirit said with concern.

"I wish I could." His Sombra form said. "These two are now keeping me from taking control of you. That's why I LET you control me, but with these two... I can't make any move against you now."

"Good, and it should stay that way." Spirit said. "Hey, when do I wake up?"

"In ten seconds. By the way, you will be able to talk through your mind. That is how we will communicate." The Vampire Spirit managed to finish before the real Spirit woke up. He whipped his head around to see that he was in the King Quetzal's castle. He then glanced to the mirror to see that he was very tall, but he didn't look like his vampire form.

"What the hell..." Spirit mumbled before hearing a voice.

"I didn't have time to mention this, but usually when somepony becomes a vampire they become naturally taller." Spirit looked around only to realize that his vampire form was talking to him. As he got up and looked into a mirror, Spirit looked closer at his face and saw a barely developed beard and mustache. His mane were longer and in his eyes, the bags under them hadn't changed, and his mane and tail were still roughed up a bit.

"So, you are awake..." Spirit turned to see Sweetie Belle with large fangs and a combo of orange and red eyes, somewhat hairy, but still kinda cute. Spirit put on a convincing smile.

"Hey Sweetie Bell!" Spirit wanted to know what happened to her, he wanted to know what turned her into this.

"I'm so sorry, I didn't want anypony else involved with what I was doing..." Sweetie Belle was on the verge of tears.

"Hey, don't be sad. It was my fault for following you into the woods."

"Then I would have been killed by Gilda and that would have caused trouble for everypony back at the base"

"So it was for the best that I followed you, right?"

"I guess, but we need to leave. Now"

"Why? We only arrived here yesterday and I feel great to be honest." Spirit said with a tone that seemed happy.

"A secret society of griffins is waiting outside and wants us dead, that is why we need to leave. You killed one of their best last night. King Quetzal said we could take any weapon we liked to help us escape." Sweetie Belle pointed her hoof at the wall of weapons. Spirit quickly took the sword with a deep purple handle, sheath, and guard. It was a double edged blade that resembled the sword of his favorite video game character, when dreamed he was a human.

"Good, now all we have to do is kill a bunch of griffins that also want us dead." Spirit said. He could feel his new power flowing through him, and released it. With this, a blood red fog surrounded him and allowed him to transform without being seen. His teeth grew into sharp pointed daggers and his eyes flipped to a dried, crusty red color. He grew a few inches taller, and armor formed around his body with small open slots on his back. He could feel a sharp pain emitting from this area and noticed that he grew bat-like wings. He stood on his hind legs and held the sword in his right hoof using a deep blood red fog that formed a hand. He glanced over to Sweetie Belle who had done the same as him, though not quite as menacing.

"Lets go Sweetie Belle." Sweetie Belle turned to see that Spirit had already activated his vampire powers.

Seeing him like that, it reminds me of how I just made a monster of a pony worse. Yet, I still like him... Sweetie Belle thought. She was still stunned by the new look. She quickly recovered and embraced Spirit in a hug. "I'm so sorry..." Spirit only gave a small smile and returned the hug.

"Its okay Sweetie Belle. lets get going." Sweetie nodded as they left. Spirit got all of his things and followed her. As they made their way to the castle entrance, they saw the royal griffin guard fighting a large gang of at least 400 griffins who were wearing white hoods and wielded knives that seemed to puncture the armor the guards were wearing. Sweetie and Spirit walked past the guards and met with the closest hooded griffin.

"What are you all doing?" Sweetie Belle started. The griffins stumbled back upon seeing TWO vampires instead of one. Spirit was very intimidating. Spirit stared into the griffin's eyes, which caused the griffin to tremble out of pure fear.

"ANSWER THE QUESTION!" Spirit shouted with commanding tone. Sweetie Belle had begun to see ways of how this could work for her, just by this one experience.

"W-we a-are here to kill a vampire. We didn't know there were two of you. Well, it looks like we will have to kill you too!" The griffin ran at him and was simply cut in half by a sword that was being fed blood red magic

"Drink his blood." The vampire in Spirit's head said."Just drink it. It will be fine." The thought hadn't bothered Spirit, he was already tempted to do so. Not because it was in his nature, but because he wanted to see what they tasted like. Along with that, to strike fear into them. Quickly enough, Spirit allowed his other new power flow from him, and he grew large patches of fur as well. His eyes were now a combo of red and orange-yellow. He quickly landed hunched down next to the dead Griffin and began to devour it with great speed. The griffins in the crowd all stepped back in fear, but didn't move much afterwards. HE quickly finished his meal and stood back up, staring at the griffins.

"So, are you ready?" Spirit asked.

Riot

"Yes, lets slaughter." Sweetie Belle stated.

"Good, I kinda want this to be done. Like, fast." Spirit ran to the herd of griffins and slashed several in half, he sucked down most of the blood along the way. Sweetie Belle began to rip them to bits and soak herself in blood. She absorbed the blood through her coat and gained more power. Both of them then shot a dark, crusty blood red stream of energy form their hooves and mutilated several more griffins. They then began to get close slashes from the griffins, but Spirit merely ripped off there heads and drank the blood. Sweetie Belle kicked up the knives they were used by the enemy and shot them towards the remaining griffins. She killed at least fourteen. Spirit then charged at one and struck it with his "hoof". Causing the griffin to explode into fragments, these fragments ended up hitting other griffins. Some even died upon being hit. Sweetie Belle used her magic to lift a large piece of concrete and smashed it onto the enemy griffins. She smiled in delight upon hearing the the bones snapping and blood splatter. In the distance they saw a chariot coming down, no doubt their way of escape. They also saw many more griffins in hoods coming towards them. "Sweetie Belle! We need to go! Now!" Spirit called. They both ran to the chariot and killed many more griffins along the way. As they ran, Spirit swiped about ten knives from the ground. They turned back into their pony forms upon reaching the chariot, the ones pulling it didn't even see their monster forms.

"Lets go! Hurry!" Sweetie Belle called. The pegasi pulled the chariot as Sweetie Belle shot magic bolts at incoming griffins, she hit seven of them while some retreated. They had finally crossed the border back into Canterlot. The griffins didn't follow after that because they saw the whole royal guard armed to the teeth ready to fight. They then quickly brought all of their stuff to the base stopped to make a plan.

"Who else knows of your secret?" Spirit asked.

"Scootaloo, Applebloom, Octavia, Vinyl Scratch, and Princess Luna. Why?"

"Earlier you said that you didn't want anypony else involved. I could have just dismissed it as you talking about your victims, but that would be wrong of me to assume that." Spirit glanced off to the cloud of griffins heading back to their Kingdom. The two quickly headed into the base and had set up a plan. They would get the five other ponies who knew what Sweetie Belle was in one room and they would have a talk about everything. The two ignored all greetings and only brought the five ponies Sweetie Belle named off.

"We can all talk in here." Sweetie Belle pointed to her bedroom door. Spirit didn't question her. He entered the room after everypony else entered.

"So, when did you five find out about Sweetie Belle's secret?" They all looked at each other and looked back at Spirit.

"What are talking about? What 'secret'?" Vinyl asked. Everypony else nodded.

She is lying. Spirit thought.

"When did you find out Sweetie Belle was a vampire lycan hybrid?" Luna, Octavia, and Vinyl all lunged at him. They all transformed into monsters as well. Vinyl was a vampire, Octavia was a lycan, and Luna was both. Spirit activated his vampire powers and countered their lunge. Applebloom and Scootaloo both jumped back at the small "boom" of energy. Octavia and Vinyl were shocked, just like Luna.

"You have these powers to?!" Luna was surprised.

"Yes, I saved Sweetie Belle and she gave me the power of both lycan and vampire in order to save me." Luna looked at Sweetie Belle.

"Is this true, Sweetie Belle? Did you give him those powers."

"Yes, it is true. Spirit saved me and he was dying. I had no other choice." The three mares deactivated their powers and asked for details of what happened. Spirit explained everything.

"Now, you have to explain everything." Spirit said calmly. Luna stepped forward to tell the story.

"On Nightmare night, Sweetie Bell and her friends came up to us to say hello and ask us 'What is it like to be a princess?' I explained everything to them while Octavia and Vinyl Scratch followed. We soon went to see a zebra that lived in the forest off at the edge of town, her name is Zecora. She is the local witch doctor. When we entered the forest, we were ambushed by four timber-wolves. Scootaloo and Applebloom got out of the way, but Sweetie Belle was bitten and losing a lot of blood. So we used our powers to kill all of the timber-wolves. We had to give her our powers. Both of them in fact, due to the bites being so bad. We kept it a secret from everypony for about three years." Spirit was convinced that she wasn't lying.

"We should come clean and tell everypony else." Spirit said. They all gave him an odd look.

"NO! WE CAN'T TELL THEM! THAT IS THE WORST POSSIBLE THING WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW!" Luna shouted.

"Well, why the fuck not!?" Spirit yelled.

"Celestia said that no matter who was a lycan or vampire, they would be banished. I don't want ot be banished again..." Spirit kept a calm look.

"Why is that?"

"Lycans and vampires killed some of our famliy about 1,000 years ago. We were bitten in the first war and we went rabid. We made the excuse of wanting eternal night while we lost control..." Spirit was didn't seem to care.

"Is there a way she will reconsider?" Spirit wanted Celestia to know the truth.

"Well, if you can beat her in combat then she may reconsider..." Luna was thought for a moment. "OH NO! YOU ARE NOT GOING TO CHALLENGE HER!!! YOU ARE INSANE IF YOU CHALLENGE HER!!" Luna was livid.

"But you have stronger magic then her."

"TRUE, BUT WE CAN"T USE IT SO EFFECTIVELY LIKE SHE CAN!! YOU MUST NOT GO TO CELESTIA!" Luna was scared.

"...Well, time to go fight Celestia." Spirit said in the most plain voice. Octavia and Vinyl jumped on top of him and pinned him to the ground.

"NO! You are not gonna fight her! Vinyl shouted.

"We will not let you!" Octavia followed along. Spirit only activated a quarter of his vampire power and threw both of them off. Their impact on the wall left very visible dents. Luna stayed back. Spirit and Sweetie Belle left the room.

"So, you are actually going to fight her?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Yes. I am."

"Why?"

"If Celestia really will banish you for what you are and I can't save you, I will have failed one of my only objectives that I have set for myself. I will not let you be banished. I will stop her before she gets the chance." Spirit's eyes turned a combo of orange, blood red, and green and let out small bits of purple particles. Sweetie Belle felt happy, surprisingly. Spirit was trying to defend her. Not even himself, but her.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"No, I think I can handle this. I just need to get something from my room." Spirit gave a caring smile to Sweetie Belle. "Just get to a safe place." Sweetie Belle quickly gave him a kiss on the cheek.

"Good luck, Spirit." She ran back to her room that was now empty. Spirit stood there, bursting with happiness.

She kissed me. She really kissed me. Jeez, I feel incredible. Spirit was elated. "Well, let's get going!" It was the Lycan Spirit. He went to his room, got supplies that he would need and went to Celestia. He exited the base and walked into Celestia's throne room. "Guards, you may leave." They left without question. Now the room was empty, the only two occupying the room were Spirit and Celestia.

"Ah, Spirit. So good to see you again! Why are you back so soon?"

"I needed to tell you something." Celestia raised an eyebrow. "I have discovered that Sweetie Belle is a lycan vampire hybrid." Celestia went wide-eyed.

"Are you sure? I haven't heard of such a thing for a long time."

"Yes I'm sure. What do you plan to do?" Celestia's expression hardened. She was silent for a moment.

"I shall banish her." Celestia stated flatly.

"...Seriously?" He said.

"Yes." She said.

"Well, they were right..." Spirit chuckled to himself while Celestia remained confused.

"Who are 'they'?" Celestia was getting serious again.

"Luna, Octavia, and Vinyl. They are lycans and vampires as well." Celestia's face showed the expression of horror. "The real reason I returned is because there was a small war that occurred in the griffin Kingdom. A griffin called Gilda tried to kill Sweetie Bell and had nearly killed me as I killed her. To save me, Sweetie Belle gave me both lycan and vampire powers." Celestia was shocked beyond belief. "You will not banish her, or any of them. You would have found out eventually if you had looked into it. You actually can't banish me because I'm your best chance at beating Sombra."

"So, why are you telling me this?" Celestia was curious.

"To show you that if you harm any of them, I will take you down. I may not have the leadership skills like you, so I won't kill you. Obviously." Celestia got up from her throne.

"So, how about this. We shall fight. If I win, they are all banished and you will be banished after you kill Sombra. If you win, I will not banish them or you, ever." He will give up and leave, I know it. Celestia thought.

"I except those terms." Spirit said without a second thought. Celestia was surprised.

"Good, we shall fight without restrictions. Prepare to lose, Brawny Spirit."

So, guys, can you lend me your powers? Spirit wanted the message to get to his inner monsters. "Yes, we can all help you." His Lycan form said. Spirit smiled and laughed manically.

"This is going to be great!" They both shouted. They both activated their powers. Spirit only started with his vampire and lycan powers mixed, he planned on saving his Sombra powers for later. Celestia had coated herself in golden armor that shined like the sun for a moment. Celestia hadn't seen this form of vampire lycan hybrid form before. Spirit's armor had covered his whole body, showing no weak points. He grew bat-like wings with large patches of fur jetting out of his fore-legs and hind-legs. His teeth were even sharper and longer. He was holding his sword, eager to fight. He was learning how to use his new forms thanks to the voices in his head. They told him how to move and how to fight.

"So, shall we go to an uninhabited area?" Spirit asked.

"Yes, we shall." Celestia then teleported everypony in the base to a stand that had just appeared from nowhere. They were in a desert area, only things there were mountains and really big rocks. Spirit took in the surroundings and looked back at Celestia.

"So, shall we begin?" Spirit was ready, awaiting to see if Celestia was as powerful as he was led to believe.


Author's Note

Sorry, if it took a weird turn. This is only to help Spirit grow stronger, even if I do decide to let Celestia win. The next chapter is going to be all about the fight. I can't wait to get that one out and I can't wait for some feedback! Also, shout out to Multitraveler for helping me find some good songs for this chapter and the previous chapter. Go check out his story "Vast Imaginations" It is really good and it deserves a lot more praise then its getting. Also, Spirit's sword is supposed to be like the Master Sword from the Legend of Zelda. It can only be wielded by Spirit as well and it can destroy evil OR good. Hope you enjoyed it!

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