private Vampires in Equestria

[Lightning Bliss 1,674]

@@arkman575,

 

Her eyes went wide with fear as Seth firmly escorted her inside, with her wing drapped on his back. She would have vocally protested for taking such risks of running into the vampires...but her sneezing and now coughing, was getting worse by the moment. She always did love the cold, she found it to be less of an effort flying or running in it, and when it came to royal labors and traveling, she found it easy to bundle up in her cloaks or blankets, as she always had them as backup in her saddle bags. But this time...she had been exposed to a winter blizzard the night before, slept through it...then traveled the whole day working up a sweat carrying Seth on her back...in the cold.

 

"So...*sneezes and wobbles a bit* stupid...getting sick..." she moaned quietly best she could as he found them a quiet place in what appeared to be a tool shed, thankfully with heaters. She allowed him to lay her down against some plane tarps that protected the vehcicles from most elements, while he got to work on positioning the heaters. "I don't...underssstand why...I always...gget sick...wwhen exposed to cold...Wasn't...*sneezes* *sniffs* that bad..." Her eyes grew heavy to her annoyance and only made her feel worse, if not weaker.

 

"What if...Boom...Atlas...*sneezes and coughs loudly* Sidewinder...find out?" She tried desperatly to keep her voice down despite the violent sneezing and coughing. Her body began to tremmble involuntairly despite she was in a warmer place...a clear sign a fever was taking hold. "What if they hear us...what if I give away...*sneezes* ...what if I can't...fly cause...*sneezes* No... no I can still fly...fever or no fever...We have to stop them if they leave tomrrow..."

[arkman575 312]

@@Lightning Bliss,

 

Seth looked to the mare with a saddening look. "I'm sorry for making you suffer Bliss. Try to get some rest. I'll keep an eye on you and make sure they don't find us. They can't hear us across the air field." He reassured. He walked over then and felt the pour alicorn's head. It was burning hot. "...Damn... just try to stay warm under these tarps and heaters." He suggested. It was the only way to sweat out the fever.

[Lightning Bliss 1,674]

@@arkman575,

 

She nodded relcuntantly and curled up under the blankets and tarps, coughing out the infection and trying to shake out the fever. "It's...ok Seth...wasn't you're fault...*sneezes* who predicts...we are...sharing a room with..." she began to drift off into sleep as the need became more urgent, "-with vampires..."

[Bada3oom Box 77]

"Yeah, probably shoulda guessed that building C would be that obvious." BadaBoom chimed in, noticing the glow that overtook Sidewinder when "Breezy" was mentioned. Boom figured that there was indeed a history between the two, now nearly clarified to be stronger than she'd originally thought. Keeping her humorous remarks to herself for now, the mare pressed over to Atlas once again nudging him a bit, so he'd rise to his own hooves.

 

"Come on adventurer, hundred years from now you'll be laughing about this, when your current belongings are considered valuable antiques, heheh." Not sure if her latest comment would sway the Pegasai from his funk, but it was the best Boom could muster at the moment. She actually liked the sound of that herself, like a type of saving bonds. With that she began to move through the rather drafty hanger towards the exit, slowly as to make sure both Pegasus were following her lead.

Edited June 30, 2014 by Bada3oom Box

[Firehearted 120]

@@Bada3oom Box, 

The last statement did nothing to help. Atlas shivered sobbing to himself on the floor just feeling bad for himself.

Get a hold of yourself, Atlas! What would you uncle think! Or anyone you know for that matter.

 

I can't handle this! I just want to be a normal pony!

 

​Tough luck, friend! Get your sorry flank up. You've never seen Hunter crying like this have you?

 

Yeah but he's been like that for years.

 

You talk like he's some freak! You're at the same level as him just less furry. The voice in his head was right. He was acting foolishly. He was strong! He had been through worse! Marginally but still. He was Atlas Lightfeather, explorer and adventure. He had taken on many more much more powerful then him and won. He could conquer himself.

 

Atlas dragged himself to his hooves. 

"Sorry about that. So we're staying here for the night. Right. Let's get moving" He hoped Boom's statements were out of fellowship rather than pity but he would take it either way.

 

He had a long road ahead of him and he had taken one step of many.

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Edited June 10, 2018 by ----

[Bada3oom Box 77]

"Apology accepted, still waiting on the first one ya owe me too, ya know?" Boom retorted sarcastically to Atlas's comment, though it probably wasn't best for her to do so in that particular manner. With Sidewinder taking the lead Badaboom kept pace trudging through the snow, looking down the length of the run way. The frozen white particles stacked deeply, and no doubt would have to be cleared before the day was up, if the trio really did plan to leave the morning following.

 

The sun shown brightly in the clear skies above but didn't phase Boom much, however she still had to squint her lime eyes in order to read the large obvious letters above the buildings down the way. Before reaching the door Badaboom let out a random laugh.

 

"Where you'll be sleeping, eh?" She repeated the words Sidewinder spoke inside, it just now hitting her. "As in, you won't be joining us, huh?" She shot a glance to Atlas moving in closer to Sidewinder's side poking him a little. "Your gunna be bunkin' wit Breezy aren't ya?" She continued to pry with a wide toothy smile.

 

Badaboom's giggles persisted until they reached the small wooden door of building C. Sidewinder didn't lie when he mentioned it wasn't a mansion, but of course Boom wasn't expecting one anyway. The place could've been described more as a garage fit to living conditions. It was roomy enough, and Boom most definitely didn't mind the set up. "Works for me." She stated plainly dropping her overweighted saddlebags on the bed closest to her, taking a spot next to her belongings. "Bet it rumbles nice, reverbarations gotta be kickin, care ta test it?" She asked jokingly pulling out her BoomBox from seemingly nowhere, placing it on the floor in front of her.

Edited July 1, 2014 by Bada3oom Box

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Edited June 10, 2018 by ----

[Bada3oom Box 77]

Badaboom's devious smirk widens as she lowered a hoof down to the power switch of her music player, completely ignoring Sidewinder's request for to stop snooping in his relation to Breezy. It was just far too much fun for Boom, pressing his buttons, it certainly seemed like a touchy subject for him, and if nothing else it was lightening her own mood. "You got it, bro. But hey think of it as me helpin' you out. Sure she may be angry, but I guarantee she'll come a runnin, haha." Though not actually turning her BoomBox on she tauntingly hovered a hoof over it almost reveling in Sidewinder's frustrations and sarcasm.

 

"I know, you autta know, by now,

Just when and how, dat dis goes down,

Give me dah opportunity, and you'll see,

Jus' how truly obnoxious, I can be,

Trust me friend, an ya won't regret it,

So cover yer ears, while I set the mood music."

 

Not even close to being her best display of skill, but then again that wasn't particularly what she was going for this time. Badaboom just wanted to give a set up for her next move which involved hitting the switch with an evil grin.

 

Rather than exuding the normal outrageous amount of physic defying wubs, BB's BoomBox instead let out a smooth peaceful melody. Badaboom filled her cheeks with a restrained laugh letting only a small portion putter from her lips before rolling onto her stomach, face buried in the pillow. Honestly it wasn't that funny, but to her it was down right hilarious.

 

With her joke concluded she clicked the switch once more, without looking using her hind hoof which dangled off the side of the bed, shuting her BoomBox down. Boom then regained her composure almost too instantly. "I'm not that mean, thought you'd caught on to that by now?" She added with obvious feigned sadness. Throwing another look to Atlas, to gauge his reaction to her last statement as well.

Edited July 1, 2014 by Bada3oom Box

[Firehearted 120]

Atlas watch Boom's harmless joke quietly. Th most he gave was a chuckle in his head. The building was a bit bare but he had had worse. He found himself a nice quiet corner nearby and began to softly sing to himself. Outsiders called it the Song of the Griffons but in there native tongue it translated into spring. The song was the only old griffon that was still spoken and the only old griffon Atlas could speak. He had heard it sung in modern text but it just wasn't the same. He had first heard it on his first trip to the Griffon Kingdom. He was at a small farming village in the northern lands.

 

He had just eaten a modest meal of stall bread, cold well water, and a soup of some form: the best the village could offer him. The elders had left him sleep in the main hall for the night. He was about to drift to sleep when he heard noises outside. He got up to investigate and found a group of griffons singing around a fire pit. Confused he step forward toward them and they just smiled and welcomed him in. They all appeared to be starving to death slowly. It then struck him. What the village had offered him could have easily feed more than him. It was cold out and Atlas welcomed the fire. Atlas stayed with them for the rest of the night. After the event he had sung the song many more times in other villages across the Kingdom.

 

He sang it slow and in a almost chanting fashion like it always was sung. If there was such thing as a comfort song this was his. He imagined beating drums and other instruments played during the song in his head leaving only a soft song to the outside world. 

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Edited June 10, 2018 by ----

[Lightning Bliss 1,674]

In the light warm glow of the falling evening, sick and misserable, Bliss's ears flicked up at the familiar sound of a boombox playing. Hearing it only made her fur stand up on end...the vampires were staying in a location not far from them if her ears were able to pick up the settltity of Boom's bass playing loudly. She coughed loudly again, making her chest ach as she pulled the blankets closer around her. She watched Seth seeming to be keeping guard of their arrengements as she tried to stay warm and fight off her illness.

 

"Probably for the better that I'm sick..." she mummbled to herself, "I bet ponies don't taste as good when they are sick to vampires..."

[arkman575 312]

@@Lightning Bliss, 

 

Seth had been spying out a window, trying to see if he could find anything worth seeing in the snow. He saw them enter the C building, and could easily hear the boombox playing. "Well, I'm not sure on the taste of sick blood, but it wouldn't be healthy." He said with a slight laugh. "Speaking of which... we have a bit of time on our hands, maybe I could do a little cemetery with the vampire venue. I could possibly reduce the amount of mental influence if I had the chance to study it." The wolf audibly thought. He then left his post to grab a few things from the utilities: a heat plate, a butane hand torch, some glass cups, a measuring cup, and some water from the sink. He began to set up the gear, however, he did need one last thing. A microscope...

[Lightning Bliss 1,674]

@@arkman575,

 

"Reduce the effects of the vampire's control of your mind?" She sneezed abruptly, trying to come up with sentences seemed to be pointless as she kept getting inturrupted by her own body functions. "Is that even...*coughs* possible? I remember what you were like...when *SNEEZES* you were...him... So horrible Seth... not that I'm *SNEEZES* one to talk... Blight was a monster... her hate...anger...thirst for blood...it was unqench-*COUGHS*-ing..."

[arkman575 312]

@@Lightning Bliss, 

 

"I know... and that's what I want to prevent." Seth said, running around the storage shed for more random supplies. "The funny thing is, the more I think about how all this began, the more i remember. I told you about the battle of red dawn, right? That battle took place during a red moon. It was thought as an omen, I just thought we kicked up so much smoke that it caused the effect. We had pushed the ponies back into a deep forest. They seemed afraid of even entering it, but they feared us more. Is there a forest in equestria that almost seems 'haunted'?" He asked, beginning to heat the black liquid in the vile.

[Lightning Bliss 1,674]

@@arkman575,

 

"The only forest that comes to mind when I think of 'haunted'....is the Everfree *sneezes* forest..." She paused for a second to blow her nose away from his direction before turning back...and suddenly dawning on her... "The prophecy... Seth did you say that battle happened on a red moon?"

 

She grabbed the book again, it seeming to react to her touch when she opened it. She flipped quickly to the page she couldn't read...only to find she could still read it. "It says in this book...right here...under the night of a bloodmoon...a Vampire Princess will emerge, after taking the royal blood... Seth...?" She shook then, "royal blood to any of us means...alicorn blood...Is there...going to be a bloodmoon any time soon you think?"

[Bada3oom Box 77]

Unfortunately ignoring the singing done by Atlas, though vaguely familiar the song in which he preformed to himself, Badaboom was relieved to see he was entertaining himself outside of a internal conflict over what he became. Figuring it best to let him continue to unwind, until he so chose, Boom placed her attentions on Sidewinder. "Only one more question," she started giving a sarcastic smirk of her own in response to his. "Is any pony gunna need assistance in clearing the runway? Seemed rather full of inconvenience." She asked. "If so I'd gladly lend a hoof, if not to just get back home. Not saying here is bad, but you know..." Boom continued.

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Edited June 10, 2018 by ----

[Bada3oom Box 77]

Badaboom looked over her shoulder to Atlas. "Nice tune there, feel free to come on out in a bit. If ya wanna get a work out." She announced before pressing through the open door, closing it behind her. Following the hoof prints of Sidewinder her ears perked as he began speaking, not giving an opportunity to respond until his question was complete. Boom had given a lot of thought towards the subject to which his inquiry entailed, but truthfully didn't yet have a real answer.

 

"I've actually been trying to figure that one out myself, for the past two days. I'll definitely give ya a shout when, that is if, I think of anything conclusive." The quick response was all she could fit in before the pair arrived to the small little home, just outside the air field. The moment the door swung open Sidewinder was greeted with a tackling hug. Boom moves just her eyes up and to the left, to sarcastically not pay attention.

 

Following the greeting, Breezy shuffled through a pile of seemingly nonsense to find a clipboard, where she scribbled some unreadable words across it. "Ya don't need a name or nothin' to add onto that?" Boom asked peeking to the messy clipboard once more. "Heheh, just playin', but jus' so ya know dah name's Boom, you'll be hearing it a lot." She gave her usual introduction, not remembering if Sidewinder had already done so.

 

"A shovel...right." Were Badaboom's next words glancing around for said tool. "Oh, I'm sure I'll have fun, probably not as much as you, but, haha. I'll just be goin' now. If you hear something like an explosion don't worry, it's just me clearing the runway." Boom turned around with a friendly nod to Breezy Skies, and a little smirk to Sidewinder.

[arkman575 312]

@@Lightning Bliss, 

 

Watching the bubbling liquid carefully, the wolf listened to Bliss's explanation and question. "Well, if the everfree is cursed... then during the war, we might have destroyed the first ponyville. As for the bloodmoon... when I still worked with Luna, she gave me a few facts about lunar orbits and how it's different from what wolves see. She also mentioned a few rare events that are known to happen. 'Bloodmoons' as she called it, are only to occur every thousand years. That... might be close to now, but wolves lost all records of time when the ponies attacked the capital. Celestia might have a log of the old battles in Canterlot... but I can't be positive. The funny thing is... why was there a blood moon when the battle took place?"

 

He then walked to the window as to check if there was going to be a problem, then noticed @Bada3oom Box and sweeping the runway. "Bliss... try to stay as quiet as possible... They are right outside the door..." he said in a low tone.

[Lightning Bliss 1,674]

@@arkman575,@@Bada3oom Box,  @,

 

 

If Bliss weren't already a shade of white, she'd be as pale as a ghost...She tried to muffle her coughs as much as possible when Seth informed her of two vampires being just outside on the runway... "They must be...*coughs lightly* trying to...clear *cough cough* the run way..." She grabbed her nose then abruptly, feeling a powerful sneeze coming on and held her breath for several seconds. No...don't sneeze...don't sneeze...they might hear... She panicked for a moment feeling that the sneeze wouldn't go away so lightly...then relaxed as she felt the need subside.

 

"We've got to disable their plane...If I'm not better by the time they take off...I may just have to fly with you..fever or no... *SNEEZES LOUDLY*" The sneeze billowed out of her nose and mouth before she could stop herself. It echoed the entire tool room...If any pony was within a few yards of the building...they would defiantly hear it...And for a vampire...it was child's play.

 

(OOC This will be my last post till my moving is done and we get internet back up on July 9th. Sorry for the hold up!)

Edited July 3, 2014 by Lightning Bliss

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Edited June 10, 2018 by ----

[Firehearted 120]

@@Bada3oom Box, 

Atlas wandered out of the building. 

"Need any help Boom? I've got nothing better to do..." He made his way to Boom out on the runway. "Get some shovels or somehting?" He was a bit better than he was earlier in the day. He still seemed a bit down and stressed but better. "Say... since we're going to be trekking across Equestria... Would you mind giving me... Counseling?" That was the real reason he had bothered to come outside. "It's just... Earlier and still. I need help here" He couldn't believe he was asking the same pony he had tried to rip the heart out he was now asking for help. "I'm tense and stressed. I just need some help" The question was out of the blue. "You've been like this for who knows how long"

[Bada3oom Box 77]

Badaboom made her path back to the runway, without anything in particular to clear off the snow. Sure there was a shovel around somewhere she glanced over the buildings when suddenly-

A very audible distinguishable sound came from behind one of the walls, some pony had sneezed, rather violently too. Raising a brow to this the mare pressed her way in the direction of the sound, surely whoever the culprit may be would know where to find a shovel.

 

However the familiar voice of Atlas drew her attention from behind. Swiveling in place to make eye contact with the Pegasus she smiled a little weakly at his offer of assistance, even if it was to just entertain himself, as the second portion of his initial statement led her to believe. "Nah, I kinda asked, but indirectly as to where a shovel could be found, but didn't get an answer. Gotta be somewhere obvious I assume."

 

Before Boom had the opportunity to motion towards the building clarified to hold occupants, she was inquired to lend some counseling. "Uh, I've been born like this so...quite sometime, heheh." She blushed a bit, not wanting to give out her age. An easy subject to avoid she nodded. "Tense huh? Seems 'bout right. Yer scared, confused, and most likly overwhelmed entirely by recent events." She laid out her assumptions.

 

"Not really sure what I can say to loosen ya up 'bout it, but...if you got any specific questions? I may be able to answer those." Badaboom offered, ignoring the need for a shovel and the building behind her altogether. For the moment at least, her friend would definitely hold priority over the runway. Especially given just how questionable their friendship was, still completely rough around the edges.

[Firehearted 120]

@@Bada3oom Box, 

"Yes, actually. I do have some questions. First though I just want to apologize for almost ripping your heart out again. I don't know what got a hold of me" He nervously kicked at the snow. "How am I going to hide this? My family and friends are going to question why I've stopped aging in a few years" He thought he knew what her answer would be but he didn't want to hear it. "I know only one pony who I could possibly tell and that's Hunter. I don't think I told you about him... He was the only real legend I believed in before, well, I became one... And... How do I control myself?" He began to go hysterical again. "When I just looked at Seth and Lighting Bliss something told me to just bite them. Every time I look at one of these mechanics one of my first thoughts is what they taste like!" He felt himself slipping again and caught himself. He got his footing once more and slapped himself internally. Don't break down. Now is not the time. You are strong.

Edited July 5, 2014 by Firehearted