Hello again everyone. Rarity here with another topic that has been misunderstood in the vampire world.

It is believed by most that a Vampire will catch fire and turn to ash within direct sunlight. How this came to be something people believe is far beyond anything I can understand. While, yes, the sunlight is a bit harsh at times, it is not something we shy away from. True, we are creatures of the night, but so are Owls and I don't see any of them catching fire, do you?

Adding on to that, I want to point out a fact none of you realize. Moonlight is simply sunlight reflected off the surface of the moon. Were a Vampire to be weak to sunlight, they would also be weak to moonlight, though not as much as only a small fraction of the suns light is reflected from its surface.

Some of you must be thinking that I am wrong and some of you are slightly correct. While Vampires in general are not weak to sunlight, there are lesser vampiric creatures who are. They are referred to as Ghouls. Soulless beasts who feast on innocent people. They are creatures of pure Chaos and Darkness who will in fact perish in direct sunlight. Why?

The sun is held in the sway of Princess Celestia's incredibly powerful magic. Magic that aligns along the powers of Harmony which are the only true weapon to combat Chaos. This power is shared with the Sun and its light shines with her magic.

Creatures of pure Chaos like Ghouls cannot survive very long in sunlight due to it being laced with Harmonic Magic. As some of you may know, sunlight soaks into the skin and too much of it might cause a sunburn or worse things...

For Ghouls, those worse things are Death as the sunlight and Harmonic magic soaks into their skin and very being, eating away the Chaos that holds them together until...Poof.

Hm, it seems we have quite a bit of extra time on our hands. I had hoped this explanation would've taken longer. I suppose we have time for another topic then.

This is a rather touchy subject for me. As some of you are aware, a young vampire goes through a rather...different...form of puberty where our animalistic instincts get the better of us.

Normally there is warning beforehand and the older members of a clan will take action to prevent a catastrophe. Vinyl was rather busy at the time and I had been, for lack of better words, poisoned.

When that man captured me, he bled an innocent woman and forced me to drink a goblet of fresh blood laced in magic...then he put together a trap to ensure Vinyl would get me home and when the time was right...well, you know the rest of course.

The Change is something that cannot be fought, cannot be stopped, until its run its course. It can last a day, a week, or even a month. During that time one would be kept underground, heavily tied down and kept in the bindings of several powerful spells to prevent any undue harm to an innocent soul.

Normally a trusted on-hand nurse maintains the vampires health until the Change has run its course. Had Vinyl been given the chance to lock me away it would've fallen to her to keep me alive.

Had Sweetie Belle been taken away, that duty would've fallen to Miss Octavia, who I am proud to say really took her new life to Heart. From what I've heard she is an official Caretaker and is working alongside Vinyl and the Princess to take care of vampires they've found lost and alone on the streets.

You may be wondering...why I would not let Vinyl take Sweetie Belle...As I said, the process requires being locked up underground from anywhere between a day to a month or longer. Would you have the strength to chain down an innocent little girl and listen to her scream and cry, day in and day out? It isn't right, nor fair!

L-Luckily, Sweetie Belle was different. That girl she is so fond of, Scootaloo, got through to her. Something Vinyl only managed after the two of us had nearly beaten the stuffing out of one another.

I apologize, I seem to have gone on a rant. T-Thats all I have for today. If you have any questions, feel free to ask and we will answer them in the next installment.