Fluttershy sat up and looked around. The music in her head grew louder when she looked in particular directions. Octavia Melody. Tree Hugger. Her eyes went wide and her wings flared in surprise, when she faced the tree. "It's beautiful…" The song she heard grew even more amazing after her words and without meaning to she was singing back with that odd new part in her head.

Octavia's eyes went wide. "She has music inside her, she feels it and…" The mare's mind ran fast, searching for the likeness she knew. "She conducts."

The tree rejoiced, the sounds of all the ponies linked with it rose in volume. For a moment the music of each blended together, not the same, but all parts of a wonderful song. Then again, longer. Finally, all the voices of all the seed-touched ponies rose together and the tree bloomed, the song it sang was still not the whole tune, the mare before it wove even its own voice into the song she built.

At last the world faded back for Fluttershy, the music lowering in intensity. She had no clue what the song she performed was, but it had come to her from another mind, another link. When the pegasus turned to face the two mares responsible for her gift, there were tears of joy in her eyes. "I'm home." The next song started, one filled with delight and love, and none of the ponies who carried the tree's seeds could resist the pull to sing along, nor did they mind.

Walking into the chocolate shop, Vinyl shook her head. Her headphones were still in place, but the roar of song that had come earlier had left her overwhelmed. She knew it was something to do with the tree, and she knew that was where her Tavi was.

"Hi Vinyl!" Lyra was practically bouncing in place. "Up for something special today? Sweetie has been working on a new blend."

"Got a sample?" Vinyl used her magic to ease her cans down, music blaring from them. When a small chocolate floated over to her, wrapped in golden magic, she opened her mouth. Bliss flooded outwards from her taste-buds, there was a flavor she recognized in there, but mostly it was something amazingly sweet and chocolate. She chewed slowly, her eyes closing behind her shades; she would not speak until she was done, lest she waste some flavor. Finally, she inhaled deeply, swallowing the last. "How much of that are you legally allowed to sell me?"

Lyra laughed, pulling out a bag of the chocolates with her magic. "I can sell you as much as you want, should I tell Bonny her latest creation is good?"

Vinyl barked a laugh. "You tried them, right?" Lyra nodded. "Then you know what they are like… what is the special ingredients? I heard Tavi say she sold you some… well…"

"There is that, and something else." Lyra looked left and right, then carefully locked the front door with her magic. "Milk." She giggled.

"Milk? What about it?" Vinyl couldn't stop herself, she opened the bag and, just before the first chocolate found her lips, added, "Better make that two bags."

"My milk…" Lyra took the offered bits from the counter and put another bag up. "Don't tell any-" She didn't get any further, she got a kiss on her nose. "Vinyl!"

"You are a very naughty mare, Lyra Heartstrings, naughty… and tasty." Vinyl popped one of the chocolates in her mouth and turned, trotting out the thankfully unlocked door.

"Sweets? She said I am tasty!" Lyra turned to look at her wife, standing in the doorway behind her with a big grin. "What?" It was odd, Sweetie's eyes were slowly crossing, her grin getting more and more goofy. A glance under her wife showed Lyra that Nuzzles was, apparently, thirsty.

Muffins was late to breakfast, as she had been since the wedding. Walking at her side was her… "Wife." She tasted the word, but no sooner had she said it than a smiling blue face looked up to her.

"Wife. I like it." Rainbow shivered as a big gray wing settled over her. "I like it a lot. Missus Dash."

"What makes you think I am taking your last name?" Muffins giggled and nipped at Dash's ear. "You should take mine!"

"You don't have a last name." Rainbow froze when a purple alicorn blinked into being right in front of them. "Hey Twi-"

"Have you seen Sunset?" Twilight looked around, clearly in a state of panic both the other mares had seen before. When neither reacted as quickly as she wanted to she vanished and puffed back into being behind them. "Where is she? Nopony has seen her since yesterday."

"She… she had been giving us some space… I haven't..." Rainbow trailed off.

Twilight blinked again and was back in front of them. "I can't even feel her magic, she lit up like the sun!" The alicorn suddenly trembled. "I am responsible for her!"

A huge gray wing wrapped over Twilight's back, pulling her in close to Muffins. "Princess, we will search and find her, together."

Rainbow moved in on the other side of the princess. "Come on Twilight, let's find-"

"There's a note in her room." Gel trotted up to the trio, Shining at his back. He looked back at the alicorn, waiting for Twi's brother to read it.

I haven't tasted alicorn before. Bring my mother and I might hold off on it yet, bound of course. Edge of town, north side, just after dark.

Gel almost recoiled from the anger that poured from Rainbow Dash. It flowed from her in a torrent and a chill gathered around her. "How dare it. Where is the other vamp?"

"Safe, but she-" Gel was cut off by Shining.

"She will go, if we show her this. Cady made a promise and everything…" The former stallion shook her head. "This is my domain…. Gel, we never saw-" This time it was Shining's turn to be cut off.

"Tell me what you want, Shining. We are family now." Gel held the mare's eyes, getting a little nod from her. "Okay, let's not talk out here though, is there somewhere safe?"

"Don't you dare leave me out of this. She is mine!" Rainbow Dash, the only 'normal sized' pony in their little group, seemed bigger than all of them, and to Gel, she seemed bigger still.

Maddie woke, warm flesh pressing against her side. She was in a bed, a soft bed, with Sunny at her side. She yawned and stretched, the muscles that would have once protested at not moving for hours on end smoothly shifting. She wasn't hungry, but being so close to Sunny made her hungry.

Just as Mademoiselle started to nuzzle and nose at the unicorn in ways that had Sunny's eyes fluttering, a knock came at the door. "Who is it?"

"It's Gel, there is a problem." The voice sounded full of steel and anger to the vampony.

"Come in, it is not locked." Maddie slipped from the bed, tucking Sunny back in. When the door opened and admitted the changeling she smiled at him, really smiled. "What problem is there that all the princes and princesses cannot solve?"

"He foalnapped a pony." Gel couldn't stop from stomping a hoof in anger. "He wants you, served on a plate."

"Then we go, you let him have me and I see if my skills are up to snuff." Mademoiselle stretched again, her body arching like a cat's. "Where are we going?"

A look of relief passed over Gel's faces, Maddie spotting it as a half-smile touched his lips. "Right, and the plan isn't so much you fight him, but we fight him." He saw surprise on the vampony's face. "You remember when I tried to grab you?" Maddie nodded. "Well, that was part of my tricks…"

"What do you mean?" Maddie was confused, but not for long, Gel seemed to flow forward. Horror was her first thought but, rather than back away, she took a step forward as he poured over her. She got the gist of his idea and smiled as the goopy changeling poured over her, sealing around her body. The first poke of him at her nethers had her jump a little, but he was smooth and gentle, pressing into her body, reminding her of how long it was since she had been with a stallion. Blinking through the holes created in the full-body covering, Maddie chuckled. "This… this is interesting."

"It is how I got you back here safely, during the day." Gel's voice came from, seemingly, all around Maddie. "Now let's go, you don't want to miss your meeting."

"I know he has to be dealt with, but…" Mademoiselle took a few steps around the room, getting used to the layer of living pony around her.

Gel gave a gentle squeeze to the mare, trying to make it reassuring, like a hug. "But nopony wants to kill their foal." He let her walk them, closing the door behind them. "You will have an escort, a pegasus." Gel gave the mare little prods in her shoulders, Maddie quickly picking up on his trick.

They neared a large balcony and Maddie felt her wings lift up and stretch out, it was singularly one of the most odd sensations she had ever experienced. The sound of thundering hooves broke her focus on the night ahead and she turned to spot Sunny Days galloping for her.

"Where are you going?" Sunny looked between the sky-blue 'hero of Equestria' and her new best friend. "What… what are you wearing?"

Mademoiselle tucked her wings back down and turned to kiss Sunny. "I am going to make this right." She kissed the mare again. "I will be back, later."

Sunny, this time, leaned in and stole a third kiss, pushing her tongue forward, practically shoving it against the sharp fangs. She gave Maddie her best longing-look and drew back. "You better be!"

It was a bit of a shock for Maddie, the unicorn made parts of her rouse in desire that had been severely lacking in any such for quite a while. The taste of blood only served to enhance her focus and she silently thanked the mare. "I will be back to taste more of you, later." She turned quickly, snapping her wings out and launching herself into the air. A rush of wind almost made her falter as a streak of rainbow light, crackling with glittering blue-white sparks, shot by her.

"That," the stallion put emphasis on the word, "is Rainbow Dash." Gel's words were perfectly clear, Maddie just now realizing that he was literally talking directly into her ear. "She will beat us, don't sweat it, nopony can keep up with her."

"Has she ever raced a vampony?" Maddie put her speed to good use, shoving back again and again with her wings, but even so she didn't catch the other mare until she saw the blue pegasus standing at the end of the road at the edge of the city. "Is he here?"

Rainbow nodded, lifting a wing to point at the shadows. "He is, you are now officially his problem. Where is Sunset?" The last words were called out by the pegasus, toward the figure that was shadow-on-shadow.

"Mommy dearest!" The pink pegasus stepped from the shadows of the trees, tossing his red mane. "It has been far too long, looking a bit modern, I see?"

Maddie felt a mix of desire and disgust. She had made him her son, but he had made himself into a monster. "I move with the times, which is more than you seem to. Our kind cannot find enough shadows to walk anymore, there are too many other things living there, things the ponies like more than us."

"I don't care, so long as I have you." Dark gestured with one wing. "Your snack is that way, if you get to her in time, she may survive the night."

Rainbow Dash was suddenly stricken, she looked at Maddie and Gel. "Go, find your friend." Mademoiselle smiled, showing her fangs. "I have an old score to settle. One of you stole my life from me, stole my friend's."

Gel almost didn't move quick enough, the mare was in motion and it was fast. He clung to her body as she snapped her teeth right where the other vampony had been a moment before. "Tsk Tsk Tsk. Mommy, don't tell me all this time has made you slow? Maybe it is because you don't drink the strongest blood, the final lifeblood." The blade-like wing-claw raked into Gel and he did what he could to reduce the effects of the slice from the stallion. "What… what was that?"

Barely having felt anything at all, Maddie let herself sink into the hunting, bloody, hungry beast within. "That was a friend." When she charged this time, she used both wings and her teeth to rake in and bite at the stallion.

Dash found Sunset, mainly by the smell of blood. When she saw the mare in an alley way, she gasped at the amount of red pooled around her. "No… no no no!" Anger and power boiled up in her, stronger than ever as she held her sometimes-lover in her hooves. "Gel will know what to do…" She picked up the alicorn and beat her wings. The wind grew, gusting, answering its beloved mistress' call.

Author's Note

Well, now you have done it Maddie, you have gotten trusted enough by Gel that he would wear you... what is that? He has before? Oh... Gel, you are such a naughty pony!

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