Vamp-pony Ch.6
"Twilight. C'mon sugar cube we need to talk" Applejack shouted through the door as she knocked on it. Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Spike crowded around her as she tried to get Twilight to open the door to her room.
On the inside Twilight hid under her bed, stroking her tail as she tried to ignore the voices shouting through her door.
"It's ok Twilight, you'll think of something, you're a smart pony. Mommy says you're a smart pony so you are and you can fix this." She tried to think but couldn't concentrate with the banging on the door and the shouting voices. She needed them to go away so she could think, but if they went away they might tell somepony else then she'd be in real trouble.
"It's no use, ah can't get an answer out of her" Applejack sighed stepping aside, Rainbow Dash stepped up and pounded on the door.
"Twilight, you get your flank out here right now." She demanded "Get out here and undo this hypnotism, everypony knows your a-" suddenly Dash's wings opened and beat as hard as they could, sending her unexpectedly backwards and tumbling down the stairs.
Sighing Spike stepped up for his go, knocking politely in the door he spoke loudly
"Twilight? How you doing?"
"I'm A Good Pony. Mommy Says So!" Twilight's voice rang through the door
"Oh great, we got a level Five" Spike sighed
"That bad?" Applejack asked
"It's not good. The only one's I've seen Twilight listen to in this state is her mother and Princess Celestia." Spike sighed and leant his head against the wall.
Fluttershy stepped up to the door and gently cleared her throat, gently knocking on the door she gently said "Twilight you're being a bad pony"
"No I'm not, I'm a good pony. Mommy says so" Twilights voice rang out sounding more desperate than before.
"You're being a bad host, and if your being a bad host then your being a bad pony" as Fluttershy finished speaking they heard some noise then a heavy thud on the door, Twilight's voice sounded clearer.
"NO. I'm a good pony" opening the door slightly Twilight peared out to her friends "please don't be mad"
"We're not mad Twilight, but we would like an explanation. Can you please come out and tell us" Fluttershy smiled as Twilight slowly opened the door and mumbled something.
Stepping out of the room Twilight looked at her friends with a shamed look on her face, Rainbow Dash walking back up the stairs with an annoyed look on her face.
"Do you hate me? For keeping who, and what, I am from you?" Twilight asked, almost unable to look at Fluttershy and Applejack.
"Heck sugar cube we know who you really are. You're our friend," Applejack smiled "even if you are a fairy tail creature."
Twilight smiled slightly "I guess I should start by answering any questions you have."
"Well ah guess the thing ah want to know is, what's real about a vamp-pony and what's story? Are you really immortal?"
Smiling slightly more Twilight sat down "that's the first question everypony asks, make yourself comfortable girls this is going to be a long explanation."
The others simply listened as Twilight explained as much as she could about vamp-ponies; the slow aging, the drinking of blood and the various abilities that she had. She explained about her family and turning Rarity into a vamp-pony as well as explaining why Rainbow Dash had been acting so weird.
"Ah can't belive y'all is nearly sixty years old," Applejack spoke as Twilight finished "must seem pretty childish the things we do sometimes."
"Not at all, most of my life I either spent in the castle studying or at home studying. Accept for my BBBFF I didn't have any real friends until I came to ponyville" Twilight felt a lot better having fully opened herself to her friends and none of them had pitchforks or flaming torches pointed at her.
"No wonder you're so much of an egghead and boring at times," Rainbow Dash smiled mischievesly "you're an old mare, everypony knows the older you get the more boring you are. Except for me, I’m gonna be awesome forever."
"I told you Dash I'm still young compared to other vamp-ponies" Twilight rolled her eyes; she knew Dash would make fun of her age sooner or later.
"Oh speaking of other vamp-ponies, have you ever met any others? Except your family that is." Fluttershy asked
"A few, most were through my parents and a few were chance meetings. Those ones didn't generally end well, I usually ended up doing something embarressing" Twilight blushed; she knew the others would make her talk about her past and she wanted to, no matter how embarrassing it was.
"Like what darling? Surely you have a tale to spin from your long experience of life?" Rarity asked as elegently as she could without outright saying Twilight was old.
"Alright I'll tell you but you're going to laugh when you hear how much of a fool I made of myself."
"Count on it" Rainbow Dash smiled.
---***---
Over 20 Years Ago
Twilight stood outside the club with her friends? Acquaintances? They knew each other through their families as they donated blood to Twilights, and while she got along with them she never really made any attempts to get to know them beyond what was needed.
Usually Twilight would be busy learning and practising her magic but tonight, at the insistance of her parents as well as Princess Celestia, she was visiting one of the cities nightclubs to celebrate a birthday.
Even outside she could hear the music playing away inside, her 'friends' talking excitedly as the line moved and they enterred the club, the music growing louder and louder as they walked down the stairs until finally the entered the party room.
Twilight had never seen so many ponies packed into one room before, she couldn't help but think it had to break a few health and safety rules. Twilight followed the small group to the bar and looked around the room, the flashing lights hurt her eyes and she had to focus to keep her hearing of the music low or else she might go deaf. Nightclubs were definetly not a vamp-ponies friend.
"I love this DJ" a pony shouted next to Twilight, her mane was a golden yellow with a white coat. "She's new to the scene but ponies says she's gonna be the next big thing."
"Really?" Twilight asked as she accepted a drink from another pony, using her magic to lift it as she took a sip. Looking over the crowd she tried to see the pony playing the music, she'd never seen a DJ pony before and wouldn't mind seeing what kind of cutie mark they had.
Focussing through the flashing lights as best she could Twilight saw the pony playing the record, the oddest thing about her was she was wearing sunglasses. Sunglasses inside a dark club? How was she seeing what she was doing?
Twilight watched as the DJ pony scanned the room, watching the other ponies dance and enjoying her music but once her gaze moved to Twilight she stopped, and slowly a smile spread across her lips. The pony added a record and slowly phased out the last song and started up the new one.
"Alright you ponies in love and looking for love, time for you to hit the dance floor" the DJ pony shouted above the crowd and started playing the new song. As soon as Twilight’s group recognised the song they started singing along with it.
~What Is Love?
Pony don't hurt me
Don't hurt me, no more~
"Come on Twilight," the blond haired mare shouted and grabbed Twilight, forcing her to follow her "tonight we all get a pony."
Twilight was dragged against her will to the dance floor which was already full of ponies dancing together and some looking for somepony to dance with. Twilight blushed and felt more awkward than the time she accidently gave Princess Celestia a mustache, thankfully Celestia laughed it off and never mentioned it to anypony.
Twilight's friends danced around her to the song but Twilight just stood there not knowing what to do, she looked around the dance floor watching the other ponies do simple moves while others did weird ones that didn't go with the music. Twilight looked up at the DJ and saw her watching her and still smiling, Twilight looked away almost instantly but found her gaze always moving back to the DJ.
Before Twilight knew it the song was finished and the ponies started to leave the dance floor, around her Twilight’s friends laughed as she heard the DJ shout to the crowd
"And that was my final song of the night ponies, I hope you enjoy yourselves and dance harder for the next DJ." Before hopping down from the set the DJ looked at Twilight and motioned with her head to follow her. Before Twilight could react she heard her friends laugh again.
"She wants us to follow her, let's go." Grabbing Twilight again the small group of ponies followed the white coated DJ backstage, only stopping briefly as she informed the security griffon to allow them to pass.
Backstage was an open area, the mares pointed, giggled and talked in hurried whispers as they walked, following the DJ at a slightly distance until finally the found a door with the word 'Vinyl' on it.
"In here ladies, this is where the party really is." The now named DJ pony Vinyl said confidently, opening the door she revealed her room to the small group. It was probably bigger than most rooms in the club and most likely the biggest room for the DJ's for the night; it had a sofa, a small bar in the corner, a comfortable bed which was big enough to hold three fully grown ponies and of course a door leading to the bathroom.
"Woah, this room's yours?" The blond pony asked as she stepped in and started looking around
"Just for tonight, the club gives this room to the DJ they want most, and every pony wants Vinyl Scratch," Vinyl moved over to the bar and expertly started mixing drinks as the group started giggling slightly. "Here you go Purple Rain try this, I mix drinks almost as good as I mix music."
A glass floated to Twilight and she took it in her own magic, something about Vinyl seemed off about Twilight. The unwavering confidence in her voice and body movement, they way she could get others to react and the fact she still hadn't taken off her glasses was bothering Twilight. She'd never met Vinyl before but there was something familiar about her.
"What's a matter Purple Rain? Don't like the drink?" Vinyl asked snapping Twilight back to reality. Twilight heard her friends giggle again as they enjoyed their drinks.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle, not Purple Rain" Twilight took a small sip of the drink and pulled a face, her vamp-pony constitution stopped her from getting drunk easily but she had no taste for alcohol and this drink was so strong if she dropped a flame in it the ceiling would've got scortched.
"Sparkle huh? Name matches your mark, though that's not the only reason to look at a flank like yours" Vinyl watched as Twilight blushed and repositioned herself.
"Careful Twilight, I think she likes you" one of the ponies teased before falling into a fit of giggles with the other ponies.
"Well Sparkle why don't come over here and tell me what’s your pleasure so I can mix you up a new drink." as Vinyl wrapped the glass in her own magic she saw Twilight hesitate slightly "Don't worry, I don't bite. Hard"
Ignoring the fresh outburst of giggles Twilight slowly walked over to Vinyl, as she approached Vinyl gave her a large smile and that's when she saw them. A pair of canine teeth amongst the rest, something a normal pony doesn't have.
"You're a vamp-pony?" Twilight asked in a hushed voice
"Took you long enough to figure out," Vinyl laughed, "I had you pegged the moment I saw you."
"But how? We've never met before" Twilight watched as Vinyl raised her glasses as showed her eyes, they were strange even for a vamp-pony.
"Kid when you've lived over a century not much can get past your eyes" Vinyl dropped her glasses down again as somone shouted
"I thought you were gonna make her a drink, or are you too far looking into her eyes?"
As Vinyl dropped her glasses back down she used her magic to start mixing another drink "some good friends you got, or are they something a little more... Personal?"
"W... Well our families are close. We've, we've known each other since they were fillies and-" Twilight could feel her face burning again, she felt like she could melt a marshmellow on it and was afraid that if this kept up much longer she'd have a permanent blush on her face without the use of make up.
"They're your doners, I get ya." Leaning closer Vinyl whispered "Be honest, things sometimes went a bit further than a simple bite on the neck."
"What? No I never-" Twilight started but got cut off by Vinyl
"Come on, you and one of them, or more. Alone together, she's feeling good, you're feeling good. You've never used your seduction to push yourself over the edge a little?" Vinyl smiled as she looked between Twilight and the ponies on the sofa.
Twilight knew of the vamp-pony seduction, it was on her mothers 'The Talk' list and was an even longer, and more embarrassing, talk than about being safe. It was a form of the vamp-pony hypnosis but much much weaker, it could effect a large group as well as the vamp-pony themselves as it released the inhebitions and let instinct have a firmer hold. What do top predators do best other than hunting?
Twilight knew the theory behind it but had never used it herself, she was always in her studies to have much of a social life and she was ok with that. Improving her spells and magic for Princess Celestia was more important to her.
"I... I can't hit on them. The age gap is too big and... And" Twilight had trouble trying to think of more reasons, but she could feel Vinyl trying to use her seduction on her. Her friends had quietened down and she could feel their eyes watching them as it affected them.
"Trust me Twilight, sooner or later you'll be like me. Preferring young stallions, and younger mare's." Vinyl forced the drink she'd been mixing onto Twilight who held it shakily in her magic.
"How... How young do you prefer your mares?" Twilight asked, her voice ending as a squeek. Vinyl suddenly standing right next to her and stoking her hoof down the side of Twilights face and whispered into her ear
"How young are you?"
Ever since a young age Twilight had always been taught that as a vamp-pony she must always be level headed, show ad give respect to everypony she met and have poise and grace in everything that she did and try never embarress herself in public.
All this left Twilight's mind as she felt the stroking hoof and whisper in her ear, and as such she dropped the drink and simply screamed out
"BAD TOUCH!"
Before running from the room and back through the club, the flashing lights making her half blind and the music making her half deaf as she bumped into various ponies. Knocking into a plum coloured one with braces and wearing hoof-socks so bad they both fell to the floor, Twilight didn't even pause to say her apologies or help the pony up as she continued to run out of the club and back to her home. The idea of turning into a bat never enterring her mind.
---***---
Twilight sat and waited patiently as her friends roared with laughter around her, except Fluttershy who hid behind her mane and blushed as red as a tomato.
"I can't believe," Dash panted between laughter, trying to gulp down enough air to talk "you got hit on by Vinyl Scratch, and freaked out like a little filly with her first crush."
"Speaking from personal experience Dash?" Twilight smirked as Dash stopped laughing and blushed slightly
"I've got a better question," Dash ignored the sniggering at her expense; something had clicked in her mind that wanted answering. "If you're nearly sixty and that happened twenty years ago, what really happened to you when I first did the Sonic Rainboom as a filly?"
"That is a good question, did Spikey-Wikey really hatch on that day or is he older than you say?" Rarity watched as Spike brought some drinks and snacks on a tray being balanced on his head as he walked up the stairs, she tried to imagine him a little older which wasn't difficult since she'd seen with with a mustache. Not to mention the time when he went 'Greedy Dragon' on the town.
"Spike did hatch on the day of the Sonic Rainboom, but it was a bit different from how I told it originally. To understand the full story I need to go back to when I was a filly, and taking my magic test for the first time." Twilight watched as Spike served up the drinks, as everyone got comfortable again.
---***---
Twilight stood nervously in front of the magic examination board, she glanced to the side and saw her parents standing at the door her mother giving her an encouraging smile.
Twilight’s eyes snapped forwards again as she heard somepony say "You have passed the written part of the exam along with the question and answer with remarkable grades Ms Sparkle."
A grey haired mare with half-moon glasses looked down at Twilight, she was surprised a filly so young could answer the questions so well and indepth. She definitely saw the potential to be a magic teacher in her future, maybe even an examiner.
"Now comes the practical, stay calm and you should do fine."
"Yes ma'am" Twilight gulped, she tried her best to stay calm but her heart was beating a mile a minute and she was finding it difficult to remember how her spells went. In her head she tried her best to get them right. "If it’s a fire performance just focus on heating up the air, then do two circles. Will that be enough or will they expect something more? Perhaps it'll be an ice spell, or levitation. How do I levitate again?"
Twilight could feel her brow start to sweat, her mind was purposely forgetting things to make her fail the test, she could tell. She hated her brain at that moment.
"This is a pheonix egg," the grey haired instructor pointed to the egg being wheeled in "your test is to simply make it hatch."
"Ok. Hatch an egg. No problem" Twilight thought as she gulped again, she could feel all the eyes in the room on her expectantly. "An egg, hatchet it. No problem. It’s a phoenix egg; a phoenix is a bird of fire, so it needs some fire to heat it up. Right? How do I make fire again?"
Twilight looked from the egg to the examiners to her parents, who held worried looks on their faces, back to the egg. She needed to do something, anything, so she wouldn't look completely stupid. Closing her eyes and focusing as best she could, the magic was there in her she knew it, she could feel it. But for some reason it wouldn't listen, it wouldn't do anything.
Twilight heard some slight murmering and knew what the older ponies were thinking, and redoubled her efforts. But too much time passed and as she heard somepony sigh Twilight knew for the first time in her life she'd gotten a zero on a test.
Opening her eyes she could feel the tears swelling up. "Please" Twilight looked at the exam ponies "can I have a little more time? Please."
"I'm sorry Ms. Sparkle but your time is up, you've failed" the grey haired pony sighed and used her magic to pick up her pencil and put a circle next to Twilights name. She looked up at the teary eyed filly and couldn't help feel sorry for her, so much potential. "You can try again next term."
"But I... I practised so hard," Twilight sniffed doing her best to fight back her tears "I can do it. I know I can."
"Of that I have no doubt, but you're not the first filly to fail under pressure." Standing up the grey haired mare made to leave "Good day Ms. Sparkle"
"No, wait... I..." Twilight tried to think quickly, think of a spell that could help her but nothing came.
"It's alright Twilight" Twilight heard her mother say as she and her father walked over to her "You'll retake the test next term, and you'll be ready for it."
"I'm ready for it now" Twilight ignored the tears rolling down her cheeks, ignored the examiner ponies as they talked to each other about her and ignored her mothers kind hoof on her shoulder. There were too many voices too many ponies around, she just needed a moment by herself to think. Her heart was beating so heard she could hear it, she was starting to feel weird.
"Twilight that's enough, you did your best and no pony can fault you," Twilight's mother spoke firmly but softly like only a mother can to her child "We'll go to the ice cream shop before we go home, you can have anything you want."
The weird feeling kept rising in Twilight as did the pressure of her mother's hoof to turn her and leed her out. Her tears wouldn't stop and her heart just kept beating hader and faster "I want..." Her horn felt hot, she felt like she was going to explode "I WANT TO HATCH THE EGG"
---***---
"The rest you know, I accidently transformed my parents, I hatched the pheonix egg, Princess Celsetia put it all back to normal, made me her student and I got my cutie mark" Twilight smiled at the memory, and that she wasn't hopping through town saying 'Yes' over and over.
"What a lovely story, tell us darling what happened to the pheonix?" Rarity asked, the snacks had been eaten and the drinks finished. Now they all sat in a circle listening to Twilight's stories.
"Princess Celestia took her as her own pet, Philamena liked causing a bit of mischief even when she was a chick. But that was only half the story, next is the Sonic Rainboom and how I met Spike."
---***---
Twilight hung upside down in her bat form on the cieling of the cave; it was a good spot to watch from and the dragon were none the wiser.
Twilight had recently heard a dragon had taken over this cave to lay her eggs, and after expresing her idea of watching and researching how dragon eggs are watched over and hatched by the mother with Princess Celestia and getting her support, she headed straight for the cave during the night. She easily covered the distance in no time and had turned into a bat before entering the cave, now she would be able to watch the eggs hatch as the baby dragons are born with no problems.
It was fasinating to watch, each egg was placed in its own small pile of gold that the mother dragon then breathed fire on to melt it. Once the gold had melted she stopped, only breathing fire again to keep the gold and the base of the egg hot. Slowly the eggs began to move then over time began to crack as the little dragons inside tried to fight their way out, as their heads poked out the baby dragons gave a small cry grabbing its mothers attention.
As the babies fell from their eggs she picked them up and cleaned them, wiping away any eggshell or gold that stuck to them before giving them a smooth edged jewel to suck on.
Twilight watched enthraled as the eggs hatched, each dragon was a different colour to the mother; one had red scales while another was a dull green and the third was blue, the mother herself was was purple with a touch of dark pink on her belly and wings.
As the three babies were kept together Twilight watched as the mother watched the forth egg, she breathed fire on it several times but nothing happened, no shaking no cracking sound and no baby trying to get out. The mother gave a low groan and rubbed the egg slightly before regretfully turning her attention to her three new borns, scooping them up on one hand she walked to the edge of the cave before spreading her wings and flew away. Waiting a couple of minutes in case the mother dragon decided to come back Twilight dropped down from the cieling and flew to the edge of the cave before transforming back to normal, when she didn't see an outline of a dragon she turned back into the cave and looked at the egg.
As she approached it she couldn't help but feel sorry for it, she sat down in front of it and simply watched it for a while.
"I'm sorry your mother left you," Twilight didn't know why she was speaking to the egg, it couldn't listen to her. Not really anyway. "And I'm sorry you'll never have the chance to grow up, meet other dragons and... Do whatever dragons do." Leaning in Twilight closed her eyes and gently touched the top of the egg with her horn.
In the dark of the cave Twilight's vamp-pony abilies were heightened. Sight, sound and hearing were all improved in the shadows of the cave. As she touched her horn to the egg and closed her eyes that's when she heard it, a small faint heartbeat. Not daring to move, not opening her eyes Twilight concentrated. Again a small heartbeat. The baby dragon was alive and it was sleeping in the egg.
Standing up Twilight thought quickly about what to do. She couldn't just leave the egg here incase some creature might find and eat it along the baby. She couldn't wait here with it since she didn't know when it was going to hatch, that left only one option.
She'd have to take the egg with her.
Twilight reminded herself of her exam all those years ago where she had to hatch the phoenix egg; perhaps they'd be able to do the same with this one.
Carefully and slowly Twilight lifted the egg out of the cooling gold, turning she walked to the edge of the cave and looked down at the forest. She'd be able to survive the jump easily enough but not the egg, luckily there was a small path leading down the side of the mountain she could take.
"Looks like it'll just be me and you for a while" Twilight smiled at the egg, it was a shame it wasn't night then she'd be able to get back to Canterlot in no time and show Celestia the egg.
That's when she saw one of the strangest things, a shockwave of light and colour moving across the sky followed by a thunderous noise and a massive gust of wind threatening to throw her back into the cave.
The sound was deafening, the colours amazing and the force behind it all almost too much to stand against. But as quick as it came it all passed, Twilight had crouched low and dug her hooves in to withstand it all. As she looked to check the egg was ok she was shocked to see the it was gone, and in its place was a purple and green baby dragon, yawning and sucking on its own tail.
"Wow" was all Twilight could say, whatever had just happened had been strong enough to wake the baby up and remove the egg, now instead of an egg to protect she had a baby dragon. What did baby dragons eat? And did she have any?
"Hey little guy" Twilight moved the baby dragon closer and looked into his big innocent eyes "I'm Twilight, welcome to OUCH"
As she moved the dragon closer he'd grabbed her mane and tugged on a small fistfull of hair.
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"Even as a baby Spike had a strong grip, and enjoyed grabbing ponies mane's" Twilight smiled as Spike blushed "Princess Celestia was surprised when he did it to her the first time"
"What can I say?" Spike blushed more as the girsl laughed around him "I liked to grab things."
"What happened when you got back to Canterlot?" Fluttershy asked as Rainbow Dash gave Spike a 'You've-got-guts' noogie.
"Well since I was the first thing Spike saw I was imprinted as his mother, no matter where I went he tried to follow, and everytime he was away from me he cried none stop. So Princess Celestia had me and my family raise Spike, with the help from dragon experts of course. Though sometimes I think it was a punishment for bringing him to Canterlot and giving him the opportunity to pull out some of her mane."
"I should think so, messing up a ponies mane is bad enough. But to mess with a mane like Celestia's is unimaginable" Rarity squeezed Spike's cheeks together and couldn't help but put on a baby voice "but these cheeks are so adorable you can't help but forgive Spikey-Wickey."
"Thanks," Spike managed "but weren't we laughing at Twilight's expense?"
"Yeah, let's save the embarresing baby stuff for later and get down to business." Rainbow Dash floated in the air and moved closer to Twilight "Like getting rid of this stupid hypnotism thing."
"Well, I suppose I could if you promised, pinkie promised, not to tell anypony who doesn't already know I'm a vamp-pony." Twilight took her time speaking, porously saying each word slowly just to annoy Dash.
"YES, fine I Pinkie promise" Dash shouted, going the the motions with her hood "it doesn't really matter anyway, all of us know."
"Um, not everypony" Fluttershy spoke up, surprisng Dash and causing her to poke herself in the eye "Pinkie still doesn't know."
Twilight realised this, the most random pony in all of Equestia and knower of random things didn't know she was a vamp-pony. Probably. Slowly a smile spread across Twilights face.
"Girls, how do you feel about pranking Pinkie?"