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// Chapter 12 
// Story: My Pet Nightshine 
// by TwiPON3 
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As I was coming to the exit, I remembered that I had promised someone something. Raven... Twilight, maybe? Either way, I remembered her when I saw her leaving the stands.

"Shit," I said, getting out and running to her, "Sorry, I forgot!"

She saw me running over to her and evidently tried to meet me halfway, but it ended up with both of us being knocked flat on our asses.

"Why are you in Vice-Principal Luna's car?"

"I take it you come here often."

"Yeah."

"Anyway, after our race, Nightshine is going home with Celestia and Luna's borrowing my car to rake in cash."

We both started walking over to her car, "Ah, so you still up for the potion thing?"

"Yeah, I just can't be at it for too long. I gave her my number so when she calls, I have to get over to my house. She helped me find something in the city, AWAY from the Everfree district."

"Ah, is it nice?"

"Mid-70s apartment, I think, but after we move my junk into it, it'll probably be 80s to mid-90s style."

When we got to the car, I drove and she gave me directions to her place, literally a few miles away from the track. When I pulled into her driveway and went into her house, I could tell why she had a problem with labels.

"Okay, where's the one from earlier?"

She reached into her bag, smelled of a few, then handed me the one from earlier, "Okay, this is for wings," I said, looking up to her, "Spread 'em," she opened them to reveal a pair of Pegasus wings, "This is for Pegasus wings," I said, giving her back the bottle.

"Alright," she said, changing the label to read ფეგასუს ვინგს.

"Oh, one more thing before we start," I said, getting her attention as she set several bottles down, some labeled, some non, "Could you teach me witchscript some time?"

"Sure," she said as I followed her into the kitchen, where she opened a cabinet of unlabeled bottles, smelled one, and said, "Cucumber water! Salty-sweet cucumber water!" as she closed the cabinet, and turned to face me like a deer in headlights, "Don't-"

"Think your badshit crazy? No," I said as she labeled the bottle ფოთიონ ნეუთრალიზათიონ.

"This one I know flushes a potion's effect from your system," she looked at me, "You don't already have any, considering you're a vampire, right?"

"Not since late 1955 when I had my ring charmed. I used to go and get one so I wouldn't burn in daylight, then a few years after I met Sunburst and we became friends, he put a charm on my ring, then until sometime in 1983 when I got my watch, he put the exact same charm on it, and I've worn it literally constantly as-" she started pulling heavy curtain panels over the open windows, darkening the room, "What are you doing?" I said after a minute when she was pulling the last one closed, completely darkening the room.

"You'll need to take them off," she said, fumbling to the light switch, "I don't know how charms will react to these if you're wearing them at the same time we do this."

"Colder."

"What?"

"Vampires have, in one group of terms, night vision?"

"Why, exactly?"

I took off my glasses, shot my fangs out, turned my eyes red, opened my wings, and began walking over to her, "So when it gets dark," she looked in my direction, seeing the vampire in me come out, "We can see where our next meal is."

"Please don't!"

"Oh, but I will," I said, eyes now glowing crimson as I forced the panicking girl against the wall, next to a light switch, six inches off of the floor, "And this was all..." I moved to her neck.

"Please, I'll do anything!"

"Just..." I moved to her neck.

"No! Let me go, I'm begging you!"

"For my lunch," I whispered in her ear, hearing her heart rate shoot up to an almost ungodly amount.

"ANYTHING!!!"

I pulled my fangs back and bit her with my front teeth so I wouldn't puncture the skin before letting her go, "Ahright," I said, turning on the light, "You can live."

"What...!?" she said, several shades paler, "What... was that about!?"

"It was funny," I said, trading my glasses for my watch and ring.

She thought on it a little, "In a twisted way!"

"My point stands."

"You don't-"

"Not unless someone tries to kill me," I said, "Two idiots in 1934 or 1935 put themselves to a bet, I left them for dead in the end."

"I did the same thing with a potion when someone from the Everfree district came at me with a cross, knife, and a noose."

"We'll be good friends," I said, helping her up after she got her color back, "Now we need to start labeling your work."

"Yeah," she said as we went through the process of turning into various creatures, feeling bloated, having to breath water, and me set in a bathtub full of ice for a little bit, just to name a few. Altogether, we were at it for an hour and a half before Luna called.

"Hey, I'm leaving to go to your place now."

"Ahright, I'll be there in a bit."

"Bye."

"Hey," Raven said as I was getting ready to leave, "Before you leave, can I come and help?"

"Sure."

"Also, we should do that in Everfree."

"It'll take a week to get moved out and the house back to the Central Committee, so definitely," I said, grinning as we walked out the door.