Love Is Power

A few hours later, Shocker and Grazia were awoken by the sound of a party.  Music and dancing and talking… sleep’s natural enemy.  Shocker sat up and stretched out his wings first and then the rest of his limbs while Grazia sat up behind him and yawned.  She leaned over on his back and looked into his eyes.  “You plan on going out?” she asked him and smiled.

“I did,” Shocker said and smiled back at her, “but I didn’t have a date to go out with.”

“Who said?” Grazia said kissed him on the cheek, “Give me a sec to brush my mane and we can go out there if you want.”

“Cool,” Shocker said as he too stood up and allowed his senses to come back to him.  “You plan on getting on the floor?” he asked after he yawned.

Grazia, now with a brush going through her mane, replied, “Probably not.  You know how I am around crowds.”  She blushed just slightly.

“Not even if it was with me?” Shocker asked and walked up to her side where he stood on his hind legs and massaged her shoulders.

“Now that changes things,” came the reply, along with a smile.  Grazia placed her hoof atop Shocker’s and the two of them kissed.  “If it’s OK with you,” she continued as she brushed, “I didn’t want to spend too long out there.  I picked up the new house classifieds and I want to flip through it.”

“Sure babe,” Shocker replied and patted her shoulders gently afterwards, “That sounds good.  I’ll flip through it with you.  Besides, I’m in it for the music.”

“Well,” she continued, “then that makes two of us.”  She smiled up at him and continued fixing herself up.

Once she finished, Shocker opened the door for her and they both walked down the narrow hallway which led out into the party.  Once out there, they saw that it was one massive party!  Flashing lights, loud music trademark of Vinyl Scratch, fog, and lots of dancing ponies.  It looked like something that might rival one of Pinkie Pie’s most intense parties!

In reality, this was what the two of them lived for and it didn’t take long for them to break away from their silent promise of “don’t party”.   As a matter of fact, they broke all of their party promises except for one: Grazia didn’t get out and dance.  The mare was terribly shy in the presence of crowds, though not in a debilitating way.  Shocker was resilient though and he knew that she would eventually come out onto the floor with him.  Grazia merely needed… coercion.

So coerce he did and Grazia gave after several attempts, mostly in the form of cute begging, and agreed to dance with him “for a little bit.”  They danced slowly at first, not in tune with the crowd around them but as Grazia seemed to warm up they got more into the music until eventually it was if they had been dancing to the track their entire life.

“You’re pretty good,” Shocker complimented her as he always did when they went to dance.

Grazia blushed and looked down where she mumbled a thanks, though impossible for him to hear.  Soon, the both of them got wrapped up in the music and way overshot the time they planned to be back into the makeshift home.  However though, the perfect excuse came along when Vinyl Scratch went off for her break.  “Hey all you ponies!” her voice called out over the party only to be greeted back with cheers, “This mare’s gotta go on break and you know what that means!”  More ponies cheered as a slow, romantic tune started up.  All the ponies found a partner, though most already had one, and Shocker and Grazia definitely had found one.

They danced slowly and romantically with each other, and even began to kiss and hug right in the middle of everypony as others were starting to do.  One did have to admit that these parties were a great place to find somepony.  Getting back to Shocker and Grazia though, it was apparent that the two of them didn’t want the romantic moment to end, but however they wanted something a little more personal.  They would bite and nibble at each other in a playful and sensual way until it eventually got to the point that Shocker suggested they retire to their private abode.  Grazia was all but happy to oblige and so the two of them walked to privacy together.