"Mayor Mare!" Please, disguised as her sister, trotted up to the earth pony leader of the town. "Excuse me, I have a favor to ask."

Turning around at the voice, Mayor Mare couldn't help but smile; helping ponies was something that wasn't just fun for her, it was what her special talent was all about. "What can I do for… D-D-D-Daring Do?" Four hooves started dancing nervously as the Mayor of Ponyville seemed to have instantly been rocketed to maximum fan-girl levels. "Is that… do we have a convention or something? I didn't see any planning requests. Is that really you?"

Please Do nodded—the lawyer in her had not a problem in the world with the lie, the pony in her cringed. "Sure am, want an autograph?" The reply somehow had Mayor Mare bouncing now, the older pony suddenly disappearing in a cloud of speed-summoned dust. She was back almost as quick, a whole stack of Please's sister's books on her back. "Okay, let's go somewhere I can sign them all for you, I can ask my question too." Her sister's career and fame didn't faze Please one bit, it helped that she was her biggest client. Following a breathless mayor indoors, she quickly found a seat at a table.

"Sorry about the… I still can't believe it is you…" Mayor took three deep breaths, but they barely helped at all. "You have a problem? What can I do to help?"

"Well, I don't want to intrude on Princess Twilight, but I do find myself needing somewhere to stay while in Ponyville. I was house-sitting for Rainbow and Muffins, but now that they are home that little deal is over." Please flicked open books, scrawling her sister's name and one of her usual quotes under each autograph.

"Oh! That will be easy to handle!" Mayor rubbed her hooves together, watching the stack of signed Daring Do novels grow. "Slice and Dice, a nice couple and their foal, have moved in to an empty house that I know has an extra two rooms in it. We could head down there right now."

While Please hated the idea of getting a family involved in whatever madness her sister was now caught up in, she couldn't look a gift-mare in the mouth. "No we can't." Please closed another book with her wing, dipping the quill once more. "You have two more books to get signed."

The sound Mayor Mare made could only be defined as 'squee'.

Slice Trick looked at the filly in his living room. "You be good, okay? I am only doing this favor because you are kin." Flexing his carapace, the drone twitched. "Time to moult this off, I wonder if I should choose a new-" he was cut off by knocking at the front door of the house. A flash of green fire took away his changeling form, wrapping him in the pretty off-green fur and blue mane he used for his Dice Trick disguise. "Coming!" The mare trotted through the living room, glaring at the filly, who took off at a run for her bedroom.

Mayor Mare smiled brightly at one of the newest permanent residents of Ponyville. "Hello missus Trick." She watched as the mare smiled and felt she had certainly picked the right house for them. "I am here to ask a huge favor."

Slice raised an eyebrow, normally they would scowl at such a blatant supplicant, but in this horrible, tasty town, allowances had to be made. "Oh? What would that… oh! Where are my manners? Come on inside!" She stepped back into the house, giving the two ponies room to follow her. "I was just preparing dinner. What can I help with?"

"We have a bit of a celebrity in town, Daring Do!" Mayor Mare clearly expected more than the blank stare she got, at the name-drop. "Adventurer? Lots of books about her? Oh well, she needs a place to stay and I remembered you had spare rooms here."

The offer stirred something in Slice, he tilted his head and grinned broadly. "And you wanted to know if she could stay here? Of course!" It was a real smile this time, Slice was almost giddy at the thought. A celebrity, one of his own tribe…

"I would pay, of course!" Please cut in, holding up a bag of bits. "I just need to stay for a month or two, hardly any time and I may be gone early. I will pay all up front and you can keep any left over." It was generous, but then Please Do knew when spending a little extra would make you that much more welcome.

"Bring your things over, you can have your pick of the two spare rooms, sorry though, little Cuddly took the bigger of the three smaller rooms." Slice knew she wouldn't be spending all that long in them, besides, he was so itchy in this old shell that he wanted to get right on this. "Doing any business here?"

"Oh no, just relaxing, getting away from all the crazy adventure!" Please tried to sound convincing, the truth was she hated 'adventure' in equal measure to how much her sister loved it. "You will barely even notice I am here."

"Wonderful, well, I will leave you to settle in." Mayor Mare wanted to get back, she was sure she had some extra copies of some of Daring's books.

"The two rooms are through here." Slice led the way, guiding Please to the hallway at the back of the house. It had a door leading out the back, and three more to the smaller bedrooms. "Cuddly has this one, you can take your pick of the other two." She gestured to the other two doors.

It seemed perfect to Please and while the middle room was closer to the back door, she decided to put some space between herself and the mare's filly. "This one will do." She opened the door and walked in. A bed, wardrobe and not a lot else. "Just going to unpack!" She began unloading her sister's things from the bag she had. It felt a lot better to her, not mooching off a princess.

Slice knocked once on Cuddle's door before pushing it open. "I hate you." The changeling filly sat on her bed, staring daggers at Slice. "I hope they find you and squish you!"

"You want me to glue your snout closed again? I remember the silence… wonderful." Slice closed the door behind herself. "Now, we have a new victim… guest, staying. Don't you bother trying to warn her, I am going to keep you locked in here until tonight, and then it will be too late for her. Then I can give up on this damn stupid 'playing two ponies' crap and get her to knock some sense into you too." Dropping a bowl of thin porridge on the dressing table, Slice turned and left the room—locking it as she left.

Walking down to the open door of her new lodger, Slice fixed a happy smile on her features. "I am heading out for a while, make yourself at home. If you are hungry, there is porridge on the stove."

"Thanks, if you want to cover meals, I can pay more?" Please had already taken off the silly top that Daring always wore.

"I wouldn't hear of it. You take care now." Slice turned and, instead of leaving the house, she descended to the basement through the side doors. Once downstairs, and with the only entrance locked, she let her fire restore herself. "This is going to be great." The changeling stallion itched at his shoulder and grunted.

A cracking sound echoed around the small, subterranean room. Slice lifted one leg, but it left the dark black exoskeleton behind, pulling free of his old shell. Repeating the action, he shoved one hoof down, between the discarded old legs. The gap in his chitinous belly opened and tucking in and pushing down more, Slice fell free of his old shell.

Panting, whimpering softly, the freed changeling waited as his soft, seemingly boneless body hardened its new outer layer. It took nearly two hours before he could fathom getting his legs under himself. Like a newborn horse foal, he was wobbly on those legs, but he turned and looked at the statue-like shell.

The eyes softly glowed with blue energy, powering his horn and using a simple spell to extend his sight to magical auras, Slice saw that the whole exoskeleton glowed with potential. "Now to trap the pony."

"Ah gotta get back to the farm." Applejack ate the griddle cake, chewing the seared oats and corn.

Apple Bloom looked around the ponies in the room, adults were always annoyingly complicated. She wanted to be with her big sister, but her little shoulders, she decided, were up to a bit more load. "Ah can take up some more chores, AJ."

Twilight was surprised at the filly working her way into the conversation, but she promised herself she wouldn't make her regret it. "That would help, I am sure." She smiled to Apple Bloom, reminding herself that she was the filly's big sister too, now. "Maybe we all can-"

"Twi, it is Applejack's farm, let her ask first." Gel kissed the alicorn on the nose, getting a giggle from Apple Bloom. She had watched as her big sister had gotten so much happier recently, growing closer to Twilight and Gel. On the spot, she resolved to spend more time with Gel in particular, but all her new family.

"Ah couldn't ask that!" Applejack tried to protest the fact that the farm needed any help. "Yer both royalty, ya can't go getting' yerselves mixed up on the farm!" It stood to reason, after all, the few times AJ had gotten help from Twilight, the mare had mostly messed up… mostly.

Twilight stuck her tongue out at Gel. "See? We can't wait for her to ask for help, Gel. Applejack would never ask anypony for help. So I am telling you, my wife, we are going to start helping on the farm, so find things two well-meaning but completely inept ponies can do."

"You win." Gel booped Twilight on the nose. "Let's head down to the farm now then, see what we can all do to make sure things keep moving."

"Don't Ah get a say in it?" Applejack looked between her partners, then to her little sister. All three shook their heads. "Ah horse-ap… darnit." She corrected her almost-swear, remembering her little sister was there. "You can teach them." It was a flash of inspiration, Applejack pointed a hoof at Apple Bloom. "That can be your new chore, get these two fancy ponies ready to get their hooves dirty!"

The filly raised her hoof and sketched a firm salute at her sister. "Ah'll get this prince and princess ready to muck about!" She turned and couldn't help giggling, as she saw the surprise on her new big sister and big brother's faces.

Sunset had a pile of books beside her desk. She had spent the previous night carefully selecting books from Twilight's library and moving the clunky old school desk down to her basement. "This… could be interesting." She flicked a few pages in on 'Afternoon Dancing's guide to dark magic'. "Oh, oh this is perfect!" She began taking notes furiously, her quill darting across her page.

The castle seemed to ooze a sense of protection toward both vamponies, neither finding the usual need to sleep the day away in a death-like coma, which meant there was twice as much time to do things. A sound from outside their chambers stole the alicorn's attention and she set her quill down. "Hello?"

A knock came and she trotted over to the door. "Hi, Dash." Opening the door revealed a grinning Rainbow Dash to Sunset. "You know nopony has a heartbeat quite like yours."

The statement surprised Dash right out of her confidence. "Uh, you okay Sunset?" When the alicorn backed up, she followed her inside and closed the door. "Oh sweet Celestia no, you aren't stuck doing egg-head stuff, are you?"

"No, I'm not stuck doing it, I want to do it. Having Princess Celestia here reminded me that while I have been studying all kinds of awesome stuff at Canterlot High, I neglected my magic study. Not much else I can do during the day."

"We could have some fun?" Dash reached a wing forward, arcing a slight jolt of static to the alicorn. "I mean, we have the maze just out there, or I could sneak up to Twi's room and borrow some things…"

Sunset's body gave a deep sigh, her thoughts suddenly distracted from study. "You pick." Her heart began to race, excitement rousing in her.

"I had to ask something of your… uh… is she your boss?" Rainbow looked around the room.

"Maddie is in her bedroom, I don't know what she does during the day… What are you going to ask her?" Sunset Shimmer tilted her head a little.

Rainbow puffed out her chest. "I want you to drink from me." She lifted a hoof. "I think it… it sounds pretty hot… I talked to Sunny…"

"My my," Mademoiselle had silently opened her door and slid into the doorway, "what has my lovely snack-cake been saying?"

Blushing red hot, Rainbow Dash gulped. There was a sense of old power about the thestral, it wasn't just that she seemed strong, but she seemed overwhelmingly strong. "That it feels really good to be drunk from, that it makes sex… really, really good…"

"I think Sunset is due to start trying to feed a little more directly. Very well, but no sex yet, none of that, and I have to be present any time you feed, do you understand, my filly?" Maddie looked squarely at Sunset, catching the other vampony's eyes and not letting them go.

"Y-Yes… please…" Sunset gulped and could only look away from Maddie when the older mare let her, and then she looked right at Dash.

"Very well, on the couch, and don't make a mess. You start with the left foreleg, above the fetlock." Maddie walked from her room, casually, over to the couch. Sunset and Dash looked at each other and grinned wide, it became a race to get to the couch.

Landing in a heap, Rainbow Dash struggled against Sunset but to her shock found the alicorn was a lot stronger now than she had been. "Whoa, you… little looser?"

Sunset looked down at Dash, not realizing how much strength she was using. "Milkjugs, remember?" She kissed the pegasus on the nose, getting a new look of surprise from Rainbow. "No?"

Rainbow Dash gulped, since being with Muffins, she had not let another pony do anything like what Sunset was doing. "Milkjugs." She shook her head. "No Sunset, I don't mind the drinking, it sounds kinda cool, but not this."

Sunset looked down and gave a nod, relaxing her steel-like muscles and letting Rainbow shift. Curling up beside the pegasus, she looked down at the left foreleg. Her eyes could see the slight trembles, where each and every blood vessel was. "This one." Maddie lowered her dark black wingtip down, pressing it to Rainbow's blue limb. Sunset could tell where she meant and leaned down.

A hoof pressed to the back of her head and Sunset shivered, knowing the feel of Dash's hooves. She kissed the leg first, then let her hunger out in a slight slip. Kiss turned to bite, Sunset wrapping her lips around the limb and clamping her teeth down.

"That doesn't feel fun at all…" Dash tilted her head, feeling the fangs of her friend bite deep.

"Bringing pleasure to the bite is a trait that takes much practice, Sunset is a little foal, her dam bringing home her first real meal to feed from. This particular vein flows slowly, is easy to close even if she messes up; better yet, nothing else nearby to accidentally bite." Maddie stroked Rainbow Dash's shoulder. "You like her?"

"Yeah." Dash looked at Sunset, the mare hunched over her leg now; she kept brushing the drinking vampony around the ears and mane. "And while I like playing with her, I only let my wife take control." She leaned forward and kissed Sunset's horn. It didn't really hurt, but it definitely felt odd.

"She will become a predator, a hunter and feeder of the sweet life of ponies. She will rail against being under your hoof." Maddie felt herself liking this mare more and more.

"She can decide that, and I wouldn't tell her not to drink, if she needs it." Rainbow blinked a few times, feeling a little odd. When Maddie noticed the symptoms in the pegasus she tapped Sunset on the nose.

"Enough, my filly, let your friend go." Mademoiselle's voice echoed in Sunset's ears, but she didn't want to let go, it was her first real meal, and it tasted amazing. The tap on her nose came again, but this time it was a firm rap. Sunset gasped and let go, falling back and away from Rainbow Dash. "There there, your friend is fine, you did her no harm an hour or two of rest won't cure."

Rainbow looked at Sunset, her heart beating a staccato rhythm. She nodded and reached out her right foreleg to her friend.

"She tastes so good… I feel… I feel great!" Sunset spread her wings and reached forward, wrapping a woozy pegasus in her forelegs. "Thank you, Dash."

"S'alright…" Rainbow liked the hug, but agreed with Maddie, she needed some more sleep.

Author's Note

Whoa, nearly 3k words on that one (according to libreoffice), just couldn't resist doing the full scene with RD, and Sunset's first real drink.

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