Vinyl was hungry, and it was the kind of ravenous hunger that shouted she had to eat something soon! If Vinyl was lucky her rations would be waiting for her at the post office. Still sitting on her bed and looking out her window Vinyl watched the evening sun going down. It was already eight PM leaving her fifty minutes to get to her first gig at the club. She slid off the bed, her hooves gently hitting the wood floor. Using her magic to levitate her signature sunglasses they were now resting over her eyes. She slowly adjusted them making sure that no one would be able to see her eyes. Then she levitated her hair gel. Unscrewing the lid she took a bit and start a working it into her hair. Vinyl had packed saddlebags the night before so she was ready. Before levitating the bags onto her back she double checked the contents one more time. Knowing she had everything she need she confidently left the room.
In the kitchen, Blaze, bless his heart was at the stove scrambling some eggs. Glasses of orange juice were sitting on the table along with a skillet full of hash browns. When a bottle of catch up caught her eye, Vinyl begin to salivate.
"Good afternoon, sleepyhead, when you said you usually sleep through the day because you work at night you weren't kidding", Blaze chirped. With a pleased smile on his face as Blaze set two plates full of eggs on the table.
Vinyl quickly sat down looking at the wonderful smelling plate of eggs. Checking the time she said, "Yeah, it's mainly because I work till one in the morning most nights", said vinyl taking a sip from her glass with orange juice. " I hope you had a good day at work."
"Oh I haven't actually gone yet , you see I work at night too", Blaze said taking a bite of eggs.
Vinyls, when hearing this, turned her head to look at him her eyes flickering to his neck for a second and then up to his eyes. "Oh, I didn't know that, so what do you do," said Vinyl, finished she levitated her plate to the sink.
"Well, I am a bartender at the club where you booked some gigs", said Blaze as he took his plate and glass over to the sink and started to wash them.
Vinyl nearly choked on her orange juice, "So that's why the bouncer seem to know you".
"Yeah, we should probably go, it's eight thirty and we're supposed to be there at nine" said Blaze trotting to the door.
Levitating her saddle bags onto her back again she walked through the door as Blaze held it open for her. I was a five minute walk to the club and a fifteen minute wait in line to get in even though she was the DJ. She was going to need a conversation topic.
She waited at the curb as blaze locked up the house and stored the keys in his saddle bag. With a few powerful flaps of his wings he landed right beside her in seconds. As the new friends began to trot to work, Vinyl searched her brain furiously trying to figure out something that they could talk about. Vinyl looked over at Blaze and opened her mouth to say something but stopped when she saw that he was looking away. Her eyes drifted to his neck. She felt a tingling sensation around her teeth and quickly shook her head looking away. What was she thinking? The problem was she knew what she was thinking.
"So why did you leave Canterlot?", asked Blaze inquisitively.
"Well. Canterlot was so big and so crowded it felt like I had no room to breathe.", replied vinyl as they walked with the club and site now and thankfully there was only one or two pones is in line. " Plus there's been a lot of murders recently , and so soon after the invasion of anterlot. It make you wonder is anyone truly safe in a really big city. If you disappeared no one would know until they found your body."
" Yeah, that's enough to scare any pony. I never really like big cities much." Commented blaze with a thoughtful look on his muzzle.
"So why did you move to Ponyville." asked vinyl.
"Well kind of the same as you knowing that the changelings are out there all the time and they can replace anyone it's better to be in a small town where everyone knows you and it's more likely to spot one".
Looking away from Blaze vinyl notice that they were almost to the club and luckly there was no ponies in line. Vinyl could hear the sound of the thumping music. She could feel the vibrations through the earth. But more than anything she could smell the ponies inside. It was a quick stab of hunger that jolted through her body. By now she was used to hunger pains and could hide them fairly well, but this one was so strong she couldn't help but wince a little. She hope that blaze didn't notice it .If he did he didn't say anything .
Within a few seconds later they trotted through the doors of the club. Once inside place Blaze was swept away by the crowd to the bar. Vinyl could see tears of joy coming from the pony behind the counter as she quickly to rushed out the door. She quickly made her way to the Stage where a tired unicorn stallion was finishing packing his stuff. They quickly exchange pleasantries is vinyl set up her equipment. A few seconds later she started her first track.
And music slowly came out the speakers building intention and speed. Slowly but steadily ponies wondered back onto the dance floor. And minutes all the ponies in the club we're dancing, falling over, laughing, and having a good time. Vinyl worked her magic turning to sea of ponies in front of her and to a group that would fall over soon as the music Stopped.
Hours past and vinyl was getting lost in the music. She could smell the sweat. She could hear the pulse of blood coursing through the ponies veins . The adrenaline and the excitement in the air was driving are wild. Her hunger combined with her credit and stinks for telling her this would be so easy. She quickly realized what she was thinking and drove the thoughts from her mind. As she looked out into the sea of ponies there was one thing that she noticed very well. They were all drunk. Not the drunk that they'd make a stupid decision no this was one more shot you blackout drunk.
She checked the clock it was Eleven fifty pm. Most of the time ponies would be this drunk at 12:30 at the least. She wondered what could be causing this and she looked over at the bar all she saw was a blur of the movement as blaze hammered out the drinks to the waiting ponies taking their bits putting them in the bits register. She decided to pay blaze A visit. She set a track to play in the loop as she trotted off the stage and over to the bar. She was due for a break anyway. There was only one or two ponies at the counter apparently trying seeing who could hold the most liquor without passing out. And Blaze was so eager to take their money. From what she could see a few shots more and they bothbe dead.
Blaze noticed her in an instant shoot right up to her and leaning over the counter and asked her. "so vinyl will be".
She knew she shouldn't drink but with all the things going on she wasn't thinking straight but one thought going through her mind was not to get something to heavy I want to be able to walk home and not have blaze carry me. I'll just have some apple cider.
Blaze whistled, "going for the big stuff already OK".
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An hour later blaze was practically caring vinyl out of the club. "Geez vinyl you nearly cleared us out. Good thing you weren't walking home alone". He joked as he pulled vinyl long."Let's get you home and in bed".
Five minutes past and vinyl's hunger had returned all she knew was that she had to eat had to feed on something. She walking and there was some pony beside her. She looked up and down the streets to see if there was any pony else around. Nothing ,good ,that would mean that she was able to do this right here. She looked back at the pony walking beside her or more like caring her. She knows that it was a stallion, "perfect" she thought as her fangs began grow. The pony looked at her "vinyl what's goi.... " He never finished the sentence she lunch for sinking her fangs into his jugular . She could taste the warm liquid go down her throat as she golped greedily from her victim. She started to feel very tired for some reason. Suddenly her sanity return to her and she knows what she was doing. She quickly tried to pull away.
"Blaze I'm so sorry I didn't mean to" she was quickly silence to by a hoof pressing against her still bloody muzzle.
"Vinyl it's OK I know what it's like to be starving to the point of almost death" came blaze raspy voice.
Within seconds blaze was on his hooves. Holding one of his hooves to his neck he began to walk. He turned around and looked at "are you coming or do I need to keep caring you home I think in this state will both fall fall over if I try to carry you."
Final shocked "how are you even standing houses that most ponies die".
"Well here's the problem with that sentence you said most so that leaves the motion that it is possible for some pony to survive and probably much less walk" he setting the tone that child her to her bones. "Now are you coming or not in seconds will be home and we can both go to bed and in the morning we can have a talk about THIS." He said ,this, as if she asked him to get her five puppies.
Within minutes vinyl and blaze on the doorstep of their home. Vinyl good faintly hear voices coming from inside. Oh sweet Celestya please tell me Octavia didn't bring guest. She thought and she opened the door to see Octavia and the one ponies that this morning she would've killed to see but right now would've been at the bottom of the list of pony she wanted to see.
Hello vinyl. Me and silver shield were wondering when you and ....BLAZE! Came Octavia's voice upon seeing final and then blaze.