Fangs: The Order

by Sapphic

A Familiar Situation

*~~~~*~~~~*~~~~*~~~~*...Octavia...*~~~~*~~~~*~~~~*~~~~*

"P-Please? Just a little..." There was desperation in her voice, a voice that shot a pang of pity and sympathy through my heart, though it was somewhat countered out by the situation we were in.

My first instinct to her wanting to feed on me was to push upwards with my hooves. Which, to my surprise, ended up effectively lifting her up from me despite the pressure she was applying. She whimpered as I lifted her up, with some effort on my part of course, like a dog might. She even clinched me slightly when I tried to set her down, her grasp pleading as it slipped but she made no attempt to try anything to forcefully stop me.

The second couch hit mare she huddled up into a ball with her head tucked in and ears flattened. It was beginning to get questionable how dog like she could act.

"Please..." At this point she sounded pained as she nestled her head into her shoulders while her hooves snaked over to cover her head up.

"Vinyl..." Was all I could mutter in pity as I looked at her crumpled form.

"Is there something I can do to help?" I blurted. It sounded about as awkward as I thought it would.

Her ears perked up in attention at her name and a single, bloodshot, eye peeked up at me with a glimmer of hope in its eye.

I realized what she was hopeful for - she was hoping I was going to voluntarily offer up my blood to her - and I slowly and sadly shook my head. I may have considered it if she wasn't acting so depraved for it, it was almost feral.

Her hoof closed back over her eye and she went back to her single pony huddle, her hooves seeming to clinch around her head even harder. It looked like she was having a massive head ache.

"Shakes..." She panted.

"Shakes?" I mused with her.

Shakes would be the go to in almost any circumstance like this one, so it would make since to go to her. Maybe she could make another one of those drinks that took Vinyl out of this kind of mood. Not only that, but her sister could help as well with her magic. I settled on this suggestion and nodded.

"Do you want me to go get her?" I asked.

She nodded shakily from her position on the floor.

I was hesitant to go at first, but I turned slowly and trotted to the door, taking a glance back at Vinyl before heading out the door and rushing down the hall quickly. I wanted to help her this time, I hated debts.

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I felt awful for just uping and leaving Vinyl on the floor whimpering, and it wasn't admittedly the first time I had done it either, but I had no other idea on how to go and get Shakes without leaving her. The only other option was to carry her on my back where her head would have laid tempting close to my own neck and I wasn't going to put that temptation on her. Mainly because I had a good idea on whether or not she would give into that temptation.

I found myself rushing down the sidewalks of Canterlot with hooves that were going numb from the impact they made onto the cobble. I had to stop running every so often as to not incapacitate myself. Then who would get Shakes? I never thought about it, but I was lucky that the bar was somewhat close to my apartment; it definitely made getting advice from the one pony educated on the subject of Vinyl an easy task.

I happened upon Shakes and her sister on the way out of the door of the bar, both of them chuckling lightly to themselves while Sweeps levitated the keys to the door to lock them shut.

Shakes happened to see me and tapped her sister on the shoulder and pointed to me with a look on her face that spelled concern.

As I approached I slowed down, trying to catch my breath so I could speak to them coherently rather than heaving out every word like a fool.

I found myself delivering a hybrid of both.

"Octavia?" Shakes greeted me with a questioning look on her face.

"Shakes, it's-" I found myself breathing in, sounding much like I was in panic. It seemed to spur her suspension as she eagerly pressed me to continue.

"Yes?"

"Vinyl, she's- I don't know but she-" I breathed in to try and get out at least one sentence.

"She wanted me to get you." It came out better than expected.

The two sisters looked to each other before Shakes turned back to me.

"Is she 'hungry'?" She asked.

I nodded.

She smirked and turned back to her sister with an expectant look, resulting in a deep sigh from Sweeps who then pulled out a small satchel and tossed it to Sweeps lazily while mumbling something under her breath. There was a jingle as the pouch moved through the air and a more punctuated one as it landed in Shakes' hooves.

'Did they...? Did they bet on this?' I asked internally.

Shakes smiled widely before turning back to the door of the bar.

"Guess we should start making the drink then. Octavia, you might wanna sit down and take a breather." She said, pushing open the door and holding it open.

I walked into the bar with worn and aching hooves, a fact that expressed itself every step with a pulse of pain in every step, and made my way over a booth as Shakes had suggested. I scooted into the seat and found myself pressing back into the seat with my full weight. I would have tried to keep my composure, but the run over here had really taken it out of me for some reason.

I decided to watch as Shakes and Sweeps began to bring a variety of bottles and lay them out on the bar counter; some of them from the shelves behind them and others requiring one of them to rush into the back to get. They put up some small talk occasionally and began to mix the drink slowly, the nose burning smell of several bottles of alcohol filling the room and almost bringing tears to my ears.

As my breath began to even out my mind began to slink back to the thought of Vinyl. I didn't have any solid idea of what she might be doing right now, but if I had to guess then I would say she was in the same place. It still mad me feel a bit guilty of how I had left her curled in a ball on my living room floor while she was shivering, but I had to do something and I figured if I was left to my own devices then I would only end up getting fed on. Still, it felt pretty bad.

"Think that'll do it?" I heard Sweeps ask and I tilted my head back up to look at the two.

"Maybe. I like my liver so I wouldn't know." Shakes replied, putting a lid on the silver shaker she was using.

"So you don't use this stuff for anyone else other than Vinyl?" Sweeps chuckled.

"I'd probably have a few murder charges if I let it go public. It really doesn't have any other purposes anyways." She said, turning to me.

"You ready Tavi?" She called over.

I nodded and got up from the booth, heading over to them. The burning in my nose increased dramatically as I neared them. Shakes smiled at my reaction.

"Lead the way, I'll let sis hang back on hold the drink with her magic so are sense of smell isn't gone by the time we get back to your place."

I nodded and started out the door again, this time going at a slower pace both to pace myself and not lose the two sisters.

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I was surprised to see the desk mare in the lobby at my apartment and wondered if she ever left her position, she seemed to be in the same place every time I came in. She gave me a brief raise of an eyebrow, eyeing me and the two sisters following close behind me carrying the drink shaker like it was a bomb. She simply disregarded us after that.

Shakes made a few comments on it as well.

"Cheery mare down there." She mumbled, covering her nose as the smell of the drink shaker began to fill the confined space of the elevator.

"She's normally like that, I haven't bothered to ask her why. I'm not quite so sure I want to know either." I said curtly. As rude as it sounded coming from my mouth, it most definitely was the truth.

The door to the elevator opened and Shakes gasped for fresh air the second she near fell out into the hallway. Her sister gave her a chuckle but I simply moved past her and to my apartments door. The thought of Vinyl had been mounting in my mind for the last half of the trip back here and I found myself anxious.

I nearly burst through the door, the sisters following close behind with what I assumed was a similar feeling.

I trotted over around the couch to find a disturbing sight.

Nothing.

Nothing was there but a small damp area from where I had assumed Vinyl had been laying, other than that there was not a single sign anyone had been there in the first place.

I was struggling to wrap my mind around the sight when Shakes finally spoke up.

"So where'd you put her? Your room?" She asked, glancing around the room.

"She was...right here." I said, rubbing my eyes in the vain hope Vinyl would be there when my eyes opened.

Shakes seemed to be taken aback.

"So you just left her in the floor?" The question sounded rhetorical.

"I did."

"A blood hungry, unstable, unpredictable, magic capable unicorn vampire. And you just left her?"

"Yes." I was turning a bit meek at this point.

"And you never, not once, though to put her in your room and lock the door?"

"I-I didn't."

The sound of her hoof hitting her face was astoundingly loud, like if you hit a wall with your face. And even more impressive was the sigh she let out, I would be willing to bet that you could hear it during a hurricane. Her hoof slid down her face slowly, revealing the deadpanned look of Shakes who took deep breaths.

"Alright, we'll look around and see if we can find where she may be hiding - assuming she's hiding and left. Octavia you can look in your room since it's, well, yours. Me and Sweeps will check the other places." She said, still sounding a bit annoyed.

I nodded and head down the hall to my room while the two sisters spread through my living room, kitchen, and even to the bathroom.

I found that my room was untouched for the most part, all my music notes and furniture were in the same place as they had always been.

Almost.

An open window stuck out like a sore thumb in my room.

I found myself walking over to it as my mind pieced it together, sticking my head out the window and peering off to see if I could somehow catch the fleeting sight of Vinyl. I wondered, well it was more of a heavy assumption, if she had just simply hopped from the window and went out into the city. I guess she planned on feeding one way or the other and with me no longer there she was going to go for the next best thing.

Anything.

I felt a bit betray, and a little hurt, by the quick abandon of her and found myself gazing out the window still as if she would appear somehow.

I didn't see anything.

A gentle tug at my back hoof got my attention and just as I turned to find the source it turned to a violent pull that took my off my hooves and crashing to the floor with a loud thud. I looked back at my hoof to see a familiar haze wrapped around it that made my eyes go wide just before the pulling returned and sucked me under my own bed.

I was pulled under the dimly lit bed and slid to a stop with big red eyes in my face, a hypnotic look in Vinyl's eyes that left me speechless. I briefly wondered how exactly she ended up on top if I was the one sliding under the bed, was she floating? And also, how was my bed big enough to fit two grown mares underneath it?

The light of her horn lit her smile - a loving one, but loving in a different way. Diluted eyes stared at me with an unreadable plan behind them. I snapped out of it and was about to speak, but her hoof shot up and pressed over my lips while her head shook gently.

The sound of hooves came into ear shot as Shakes and Sweeps entered the room.

"Octavia?" They asked in sync.

There was a brief silence before one of them spoke again.

"Horse apples." I heard Shakes mutter as she rushed over to where the window was open.

"What is it?" Sweeps asked with concern.

"Well... I think Vinyl might have abducted Octavia." Her pitch rose a tone or two when she said 'maybe'.

"What!?" Sweeps recoiled.

"Yeah..." Shakes murmured awkwardly.

Was this her plan the whole time? To make us think she had ran away only to take advantage of our hope that she was still around. Well, now that I thought about it, hiding under the bed would be Vinyl's first hiding place if she had to hide; I guess she also accounted for us over thinking her since she was such a...character.

I began to speak into Vinyl's hoof to let them know that I was under the bed, but the feeling of something sharp on my neck silenced me before speaking. She had somehow managed to get a fang up to my neck and patiently waited for me to go on with my call for help, as if challenging me.

I couldn't work up the nerve.

Shakes and Sweeps paced through the room for awhile, Shakes muttering curses before they wordlessly walked out the door and shut the door behind them.

"Are we just leaving?!" I heard Sweeps call just before the sound of a door closing from the living room.

'A-are they really just leaving me?!' I screamed at them internally.

Vinyl didn't seem to have a problem with their decision and I could almost feel her smile innocently as her hoof lifted from my mouth and went up to pet my head. I was oddly comforted by the strokes of her hoof, not to mention she was already snug against me to the point where the warmth of her body was almost overwhelming.

Her hoof seemed to slowly be tilting my head to the side, my neck becoming more and more exposed to her sharp fangs. I didn't exactly realize her doings until the light pressure of something on my neck shot a numb pain through my neck, though I didn't exactly react to it and found myself letting it happen. A gentle burn ran through my neck as I let out a small moan from the sensation.

She leaned back from my neck and smiled warmly at me, a comforting feeling seeming to force itself over me as I found myself smiling back for some reason. My mind seemed to be operating in increments; only processing a short bit of the situation before forgetting about it and going on to process the next part. It was like short term memory loss to the degree of a gold fish.

"It was so mean of you to leave me so vulnerable Tavi, who knows what could've happened if a burglar happened along and found me while you were gone?"

My first reaction to her claim was that I would have a new red carpet at the most, but the sound of her voice echoed in my head until I felt bad for doing it.

"S-Sorry." My voice was in shambles.

"Aw Tavi, it's okay." She cooed, the gaze in her eyes tuning to a comforting one as she leaned in close to me.

I felt her plant a small peck on my cheek.

"We all make mistakes." She whispered reassuringly.

"T-Thank you, V-Vinyl."

Why was I thanking her again? It felt a bit wrong.

I was drawn back to the situation at hoof by the gentle tickle of her warm breath on my ear as whispered something into my ears.

"Of course, I could take some compensation for your little offense to me." She said, her head dipping slightly and her nose grazing across a familiar spot on my neck.

"O-Okay..." I agreed, not exactly knowing what I was agreeing to but the burning in my veins was screaming that it didn't matter.

"Might need some more... I thought I heard her mumble into my neck.

The breath of her voice on my neck tickled, sending an astounding feeling through my body and forced me to turn towards her. My mouth seemed to run directly into the course of her going towards my neck, resulting in an unintentional kiss. I melted into it, an odd substance in my slightly numbed mouth that seemed to trickle constantly.

Vinyl recoiled slightly as the liquid stopped flowing and she pulled back a little. This only served as a means to drain the liquid from my mouth and into hers. She coughed a little, small droplets of whatever it was that was in our kiss and flinging them onto my coat.

"Uhg!" She sputtered. "So that's what that tastes like?" She said in disgust.

'What what tasted like?'

She groaned a little more, trying to lift up from me but hitting her head on the bottom of my bed and recoiling rapidly.

"Jeez this is...feels so...weird." She complained, her hooves shaking a little as if stressed by her own weight before she collapsed onto my body.

Her impact registered as the feeling of pins and needles while I found my eyes drooping a little, a feeling of tiredness washing over me as I found my spot under the bed more and more comfortable. Vinyl seemed to be feeling the same way, already pressing into my shoulder with a small groan and the mumbling of something about feeling sick.

She moaned a little as she tried to move, the feeling of her coat against mine sparking like electric. I felt a little concern wash over me at her suddenly odd acting and it somehow managed to stick in my mind.

"V-Vinyl?" I mustered.

She just moaned, rubbing against me and I felt a blush run through my cheeks. Though her movement slowly began to die down up until the point where she wasn't moving; her breath had evened out the way it did when she had fallen asleep.

I wondered what it was that had made her fall asleep, she had seemed fine. Or had she? It hurt to try and remember.

I tried to remove her body from mine, only to get the feeling of pins and needles through my entire stomach. I let out a small gasp at the feeling and quickly let her back down, the impact again shooting through my body.

I think I tried to remove her twice more, only to be met by the same result of her limp and sleeping form hitting my own.

It eventually got through to my head that I should just give up, lest Vinyl wake up. She looked so peaceful while she was sleeping, a small amount of drool coming from her mouth as she laid limply on my chest.

I smiled at the sight and managed to move my hoof onto her head, the mere feeling of wind managing to send the same feeling from my body through my hoof.

I finally let my eyes close, sleep encompassing me quickly as I drifted off.

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Author's Note:

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Comments

[SteampunkBrony]

Five bucks on tavi being a vampire after this.

[Guilty King]

I hope Tavi doesn't get addicted to this vamp drug.
Or maybe I do...
It would be fun either way.

[Witchery]

6633434 One can only hope.

[Hope Scratch]

i say make Tavi a vampire

[Twiggy Vampony]

Hmm that was a little dissapointing..
Wondering what vinyl did.
Would've been awesome if she did take some compensation.
Edit.
Oh i guess that vinyl got a taste of her own venom and got wasted, hmmm...
This is certainly having alot of twists and turns. I like it.