A couple of months ago, I met a mare who was deceptively more complicated than her outward appearance and attitude made her out to be. In fact, it was that carefree and cheerful attitude that made her complicated and interesting. But more than anything was the fact that she wasn't normal in the literal regard, she was something out of fictional books and stories told to scare people.
Admittedly, she did scare me before - and still does from time to time - but that only added to a dangerous curiosity that I had towards her, which ended up building into something of a relationship, which in turn bloomed into something you might consider romantic.
"Hey Tavi, where did you get your bow tie from?"
Some people think that opposites attract in terms of relationships, and most would think that that case applies here - which it understandably can.
"My parents. Why? Were you planning on buying one?"
"Probably not since I can't tie them, but it looks pretty though."
I wouldn't think of her as an opposite in the slightest. I'd even call her more similar than different, but that being said it's almost impossible to compare yourself to someone of her origins. She's seen things from times taught in history books and before, just how far back that goes is still up in the air, but it's presumably pretty far.
A hoof pressed gently into my cheek, stirring me from thought.
"You're thinkin' stuff again, aren't you?" She asked curiously.
I blushed a bit and nodded, looking away from her in an attempt to avoid her gaze - which was back to being hidden behind a wall of purple.
Silence seemed to ensue after that, Vinyl pulling her hoof from my cheek and scooting close to me so that we sat in the center of the couch. Vinyl had seemed to stop what had started at the park prior to teleporting back home, and I couldn't help wonder why - that being said I hadn't exactly attempted to pursue it.
It was finally dawning on me that this was the make or break moment in regards to this whole "converting" thing, in all its silent glory. I guess I had expected a more climactic build up rather than a disruption at dinner and me walking out.
"Ehm-" I cleared my throat as some form of bravery worked its way up inside me. "-Vinyl, do you..." I began to ask, though a chance glance over to Vinyl revealed her in no better a shape than I - her cheeks red like blood on snow.
"V-Vinyl?" I asked with a bit of concern.
"S-Sorry. This kinda thing is a bit... uhm..." She said before she mumbled off.
I gave Vinyl a sympathetic look, thinking that this might not happen after all, until another idea popped into my head - something much more coy and creative.
"One second." I said, pushing off the couch as Vinyl looked at me with a mix of surprise and confusion.
I trotted around the couch and into the kitchen, rubbing my hoof across the wall as I walked in and letting it slide over a small switch that let artificial light flood the kitchen. The bulbs seemed to be approaching the end of their trip judging by the brightness they were at, but that wasn't a particular priority in my mind. An embarrassing smile coming over me as I recalled what Vinyl had done here, before locking eyes with another familiar object.
The knife holster.
'Perhaps a small...incentive would make things easier for her.' I thought to myself, thoughts scolding themselves at how weird they were.
I hesitated after I drew the knife, my own reflection staring back at me in the metal of the rather small blade - I hadn't picked the biggest knife in the holster, one maybe three or so inches long. But I only needed a few seconds to make a decision and begin lining up the knife with the base of my hoof.
A clinch of my eyes and a quick, gentle drag made me question if I had even managed to break skin, but looking back at my hoof I managed to make out a hardly noticeable trace of dark red in my grey coat.
"That should be plenty..." I whispered to myself, almost feeling giddy at the aspect of teasing Vinyl. She had so many ways to tease when it came to me, though I had a big one on her.
I slid the knife back into its spot among the holster, letting familiarity guide my hoof as I stared at my other, bleeding one.
'I guess this is it...' I thought to myself, flexing my hoof to test how the cut responded to movement, only to find it hardly increased the blood flow.
I turned back towards the living room, only to jump slightly at the sight of Vinyl staring at me as she stood in the arch that separated the kitchen and living room - remaining just outside the reach of the dimmed light from the kitchen.
"Vinyl...you scared me..." I sighed, though after the words left my lips I felt the scare that had left return as I looked more closely at Vinyl. She seemed only half present.
"V-Vinyl?" I stammered a little.
Her response was to place a shaky hoof forwards, receiving an opposite reaction as I took a step backwards. This reaction got a small smile out of her, almost as if she were amused, which only made my heart beat faster.
Stepping into the light of the kitchen, I made out the beads of sweat sprinkled across her coat.
'Perhaps...this wasn't the best idea.' My mind
She took another step forwards, this time much more steadily and confident, which resulted in me taking an ever farther step backwards and towards the other archway that went out of the kitchen and towards the door to the hallway.
She gave a sudden jolt forward, which was all I needed to turn make my break towards the door. It was admittedly odd that I was running considering we decided on my transition, but I wanted it to be more, I guess, her instead of her hunger doing the work. I suppose I overestimated how sensitive she was to blood after the whole ordeal with The Order.
I found myself hitting what felt like a brick wall and falling back onto my haunches. I wondered briefly if I had accidentally hit a wall when I turned towards the exit, but I could've sworn I felt something soft about that "wall".
And a voice soon spoke up to confirm that.
"A-Are you leaving?" A trembling, and borderline hurt sounding, voice asked from in front of me. Vinyl's voice, oddly.
I looked up to see Vinyl, frowning with a pair of wide, dilated and teary eyes. It was odd to see her actually being hurt by me running away, rather than playing with me like a cat would a mouse .
I felt a sudden surge of what could've only been guilt - which made me question myself considering the situation at hoof - as I found myself stumbling for an apology.
"No! I, was, uhm, just...surprised was all." I said, chuckling nervously, letting the room fade to silence.
The sound of plastic dropping from where Vinyl had been standing tickled my ears as it finally registered that she wasn't wearing her glasses anymore.
"Really?" She said, still sniffling.
"Truly." I said as sincerely as I could, feeling a bit of heat rush to my chest as Vinyl went into a wide smile. I even closed my eyes and let out a sigh of relief.
"Good."
My eyes went wide, showing an empty space where Vinyl had been standing as her hot breath tickled my ear.
"Because that was your only chance." She said with the hunger that I had been expecting.
I turned around quickly and stared her dead in the eyes with agitation, which seemed to take her off guard based on the way her ears flattened and how her half-lidded eyes opened fully, looking almost scared.
"I knew you were toying with me." I said, more of a matter-of-factually tone than an accusing one..
It wasn't that big of a deal, it was part of who Vinyl was to playfully tease - and I doubt anything I could do would change that nature. But toying with my emotions was something that Vinyl did often - and I would've at least liked something straightforward during an occasion as important as this one.
"T-Toying?" She stammered, the lust and hunger gone from her voice, replaced with the sound of a child when caught doing something they shouldn't.
"Oh don't act like you don't know you do it Vinyl." I said, waving my hoof.
"B-But I-"
I let out a sigh as I realized what I was doing.
"I'm sorry I ruined this Vinyl. I, well, just don't know what I want to do, if that makes any sense." I said, prodding at the ground with my hoof in contemplation.
"I know it's an 'intimate thing' for you, and I'm sorry that I messed it up, but I've never exactly been good at these kinds of things where an innuendo was meant to be picked up on." I said, air quoting.
"T-Tavi..." She stammered, but my rambling just more or less talked over her.
"I'm not even sure how I miss them, I mean my parents find them and they raised me fine from what I can tell, it's just that-" I continued, waving my hooves around as I spoke, more out of frustration than anything.
"Tavi..."
"-I tend to overthink things, to the point where the only ones that can get through clearly are the ones that are displayed clearly, like a question or-"
I suddenly felt myself forced onto my back and my head lightly hitting something wooden. Hooves pressed into my own, locking them in place like steel cuffs as a pair of red eyes looked at me.
I probably would've said something, but this time there was something different about Vinyl this time, not in the way of how she would usually get when hungry or something, but something more. She was looking at me in a way that made me both want to curl up and blush at the same time.
I also managed to make out small droplets of red dashing her face.
I was confused for a moment, but a glance to my hoof revealed that all of my hoof motions had stirred up the blood flow in them, which must have resulted in my slinging droplets of blood onto Vinyl as I spoke.
She lifted one of her hooves from my limbs, bringing it to the base of my stomach and letting it slowly glide up, tingling in a way that made my legs tighten up.
Just when I thought she would go further, she stopped and lifted off of me, turning around and heading off towards the hall that led to my bedroom.
"V-Vinyl?" I finally managed to choke out.
She seemed to ignore me and walked out of sight.
"Vinyl!" I called a bit louder, only to receive silence as my answer.
The plausible, or responsible rather, thing to do here was to follow her. As I said, she seemed different this time around, and if a feeling weren't enough it was nothing like Vinyl to just get up and leave like that. Perhaps I had ruined the mood for her with my self diminishing ranting.
The logical thing would be to go get Shakes or her mother.
A moment passed as I considered the options.
I sighed and lifted myself off the floor and heading towards the darkened hallway that Vinyl had went down.
"I really should stop listening to myself." I mumbled.
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When I got back to my bedroom, which is where I assumed Vinyl had gone considering she wasn't in the bathroom, I found the door shut firmly.
"Vinyl? Are you alright?" I asked, giving the door a gentle knock.
Of course I would remember to knock before entering, and of course she wasn't okay - a point solidified by her lack of an answer. My hoof slid down from where it had knocked, gripping on the cool knob before I braced and walked in.
I expected for this to be another one of those scenarios where I open the door and find Vinyl not present in the room, walking further into the room before the door slams behind me and I'm met with a pair of hellish red eyes that might belong on a demon out of context. She'd done it before, and seemed to enjoy creating a thrill in other people, something that was present in all her interactions - from fighting to teasing.
Which is why opening the doors only to find her looking dead at me startled me, though I didn't have much of window to react before a white hoof shot out and yanked me into the room.
The ease at which Vinyl managed to grab and throw me was a reminder of just how much stronger she was than me.
The door slammed shut about as quick as I had opened it, a flickering haze of blue wrapped around the knob. I tried to lift up and get a better view - and to possible get a look at Vinyl - but something that felt like a collar yanked my head back down by the neck. The sensation was soon joined by numerous other bands, coming off of my hooves and essentially pinning me to the bed.
I didn't have to see them to know their origin, the blue hue emanating from them and lighting the room was more than enough of a hint. It also wasn't the first time Vinyl had done this. That being said, it was the second time, so I wasn't exactly knowledgeable of this predicament.
A shift in the weight of the bed caught my attention.
"Vinyl?" I called out. Of course it was her, but I just wanted something other than silence out of her.
She moved into view, straddling my waist and leaning onto me - essentially body to body with her face mere inches from mine. Muddled eyes looking at me before a gentle smile graced her lips - not playful, simply happy.
"C-Could you atleast s-say-" My protest was cut off at the feeling of a latching feeling coming from my neck, small pricks making themselves known in a familiar spot as they threatened to break skin.
And break skin they did, a sharp feeling coming from my neck that was followed by the feeling of what I could only guess was my blood being pulled out and into her mouth. It felt more, well, than one might expect - like a passionate kiss that took something out of you, literally. It wasn't exactly uncomfortable, but if it weren't something sensual then it might not be desirable.
Vinyl suddenly stopped her flow, exhaling through her nose before taking a deep breath.
A sudden flood of something warm ran through my neck, causing a pins and needles feeling as it ran through my veins and across my body.
'W-What the-' I asked myself, but even my thoughts began to become muddled as a gentle, fuzzy feeling came over me.
It was as if Vinyl had breathed something into me, inhaling a bit of my blood before breathing out a wave of warm, prickly sensations - a breath of life, in a way.
The stream of whatever it was Vinyl was using continued, the warm and fuzzy sensation turning to a hot and dizzy one. It was hard to keep my head still, and my mouth seemed to keep slipping open to the point where I felt I might be drooling on myself. I also managed to note that I was sweating.
"Vinyl?" My voice wasn't stuttering anymore, but it now sounded like I was intoxicated. My tongue felt like it kept getting in the way of talking.
She didn't respond, the fluid continuing to flow in for a few more seconds before she finally stopped and gently pulled away from my neck, giving a small kiss to the spot where she had been latched to. Though, that small kiss seemed to explode across my entire body when she landed, to the point where I arched my back and grunted out of instinct - though the magical bonds kept me pinned.
'S-sweet...s-sweet Celestia what was that?' I asked myself, thoughts forming slowly as it seemed almost a challenge to think.
I didn't have much time after that to process it, as a hoof sliding up my stomach brought about the same feeling - every hair on my coat feeling like the small kiss Vinyl had given me. I couldn't even muffle myself, letting out a yip and arching my back even farther, though Vinyl gently pressed down on my stomach and slowly lowered my body back onto the bed.
She then settled her hoof into a gentle, circular stroke across my stomach.
"V-Vinyl! P-Please..." I found myself whimpering as the explosive feeling returned, but a gentle shushing sound came from Vinyl lips that seemed to buzz around in my ears as said explosive feeling gradually turned to a fuzzy and comforting one.
The sudden creaking of the door caught my attention, though only garnering the movement of Vinyl's eyes as we peered over to see a white horse walk inside and let out a heavy sight.
"Dear, I should apolo-" She began, though her closed eyes seemed to twitch and she cut herself short - mouth falling slightly agape as I assume she "saw" what was happening.
Silence took over the room as she, at least I assumed, drunk in the sight that was me being magically restrained to the bed while being straddled by her daughter that currently had her lips close enough to my ear that I could make out her shallow breaths.
Though colors were beginning to smudge together as I focused on Vinyl's mom, I could make out very clearly the near challenging expression on Vinyl face when I turned to her.
"...I, should, uhm, leave..." Vinyl's mother stammered, closing the door while mumbling an apology.
Though her leaving saved me the embarrassment, I also realized that Vinyl's mother was probably the only one who could get Vinyl off of me. And she seemed to be fairly reluctant to get anywhere near her daughter as of now.
"Hey Tavi." Vinyl said gently, though it still managed to send a shiver racing down my spine.
"Y-Yes Vinyl?" I slurred, my tongue limp.
"You're sure you want to go through with this? Things won't be...normal for a while, and some things won't be normal ever again." She said, her voice oddly serious considering the circumstance, but for a good reason. She knew how much this weighed on me, and I knew how much it meant to her, and she didn't want to proceed unless I was absolutely sure.
She had even dispelled the magical cuffs keeping me to the bed as an offer to let me leave.
I had considered the ups and downs to accepting an offer; not aging, being potentially hunted down by people I had never met before, all sorts of things made this commitment a big one. Yet, there was still all sorts of unknown effects that I had no idea about - something that could be both enticing and dissuading.
But my choice was clear, all based on a single benefit.
"Y-yes Vinyl," I said as steadily as I could. "staying with you sound like a fine idea."
Vinyl seemed to be shocked by that, her cheeks heating up as the most joyous smile I had ever seen appeared on her face. I could even make out the sound of her breath stopping and her heart racing.
Without a word, her horn sparked to life with a newfound passion, flaring towards the ceiling and nearly lighting the entire room as the cuffs reappeared and clamped back down around my limbs with a redoubled tightness.
"I love you so much Octavia." She said gleefully, wrapping her hooves around my sides as she suckered me into a passionate hug.
I found myself practically choking on the pleasure erupting from my sides, and the moan that followed only made my cheeks even more flush than they already were. And judging by the way Vinyl started to gently nuzzle my stomach - which physically gave the same feeling as butterflies in my stomach - she was just getting started expressing her gratitude; and she had a lot of gratitude to express.
It was going to be a long night.
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