Vinyl slid down into the big tub, giving a happy sigh that had nothing to do with a stallion in any way, shape, or form.

"You look great." Cheerilee waved her legs under the water, gliding through the big tub to reach her friend. "But how do you feel? I love the fetlocks, by the way." She pressed in beside Vinyl.

"Like I just woke up from a dream, like the world is better than I ever hoped it could be." Vinyl reached one leg out and pulled Cheerilee a little closer. "My mane… Zephyr was amazing." She blushed a little, realizing how it sounded when she said it like that. "I mean he is really good at that."

Snorting with a serious case of the giggles, Cheerilee nuzzled Vinyl's chin. "Just stop, Vinny. I get what you mean. Who did your hooves?" She lifted up one of Vinyl's legs with her own, inspecting the work.

"Bulk Biceps. Apparently he is pretty solid with this kind of thing, gave me the same hooficure work he did Shining Armor." It ticked all kinds of places that the big stallion had done the same for her as he had for such a stallion. "Breezietale."

"What's wrong?" Cheerilee looked up at her fillyfriend, concern filling her features. "Are you okay Vinyl? Why did you use the-" Her stream of words were cut off as the perfectly trimmed and neat hooves of her friend grabbed the sides of her face and she was pulled into a kiss. It wasn't what Cheerilee had expected, but she wasn't going to say no.

Vinyl kept her lips pressed to her lover's, staring deep into Cheerilee's eyes as she tried to express her love with each movement and touch. When Cheerilee seemed to recover from the initial shock and press her tongue forward, Vinyl let her own lips part. "Mmmm." Words couldn't describe how she felt, how good it was to feel herself for the first time in her life. She sucked lightly on Cheerilee's tongue and wrapped forelegs around her.

Which is how Lotus found them, wrapped together and embracing. She immediately turned, a smile on her face, when she heard a soft splash.

"Wait, Lotus." Vinyl still held Cheerilee against herself, but had tilted her lover to the side a little. "What's next?"

"Hold on a second." Cheerilee booped Vinyl on the nose. "Are you done with your time-out, or do you want out of the day completely?" She studied Vinyl's red eyes, saw them focus back on her and gaze into her own.

"Let's keep going with it today." The moment Vinyl decided the hypnosis should restart, it did; it slid over her and she relaxed into it, not realizing how on-edge she had been. "Always surprising when it starts working, there is more practice needed with it."

"Are you okay Mizz Zcratch?" Lotus approached the big pool, carrying a stack of warm towels on a little cart.

Vinyl inhaled, smelling Cheerilee, scented oils and soaps, as well as flowers. She gave her fillyfriend a squeeze. "You know what, Lotus, I really am."

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"You can start it any time you want." Cheerilee kept at Vinyl's side on the train, on the way through Manehatten. "You know you can, what am I saying." She pressed a little more firmly against the unicorn, felt Vinyl not budge an inch.

"Yeah, but… it feels better to be doing this as me, than what that… it isn't magic, but it feels like it." Vinyl didn't have to toss her mane anymore, the style she wore it in now was short enough that it literally couldn't come down to her eyes. "Buuuuut I am not ready for the crowd at the front. Let's go around to the back entrance." She could see the queue in the distance, waiting to get into the club where she would make her comeback.

Navigating the back-alley got the pair to the guarded rear entrance. "Miss Scratch, Miss Cheerilee." Unmoving Wall's cheeks almost twitched at seeing the two mares. "Is good to see you. Big show tonight, completely full."

Vinyl closed her eyes and focused on everything but that horrible feeling that crushed her when too many ponies were close. She was reaching for it, her mind almost ready to let the hypnosis take hold again, when a neck and head pressed in against her, fitting perfectly against her own neck. She snapped her eyes open and looked at Cheerilee. A warm center filled the place where the hypnosis would push into, if she let it. The warmth from the mare was solid, firm, more than a little male. "Sorry, things stacked up." She nuzzled Cheerilee. "All my things inside already, Un?"

"Da, of course." Unmoving did what his name suggested he couldn't. "All ready."

"And if you see a scrawny, but tall pegasus with a big mouth and a backstage pass, send him in." Cheerilee smiled to Un, she already knew what was coming when his gaze to catch Vinyl's again for a confirmation. This was Vinyl's gig after all.

"I almost forgot about Zeph, this show is partly for him." Vinyl strutted a little, her confidence restored. "It gets easier each day, Cheery, but sometimes I just…" She took a breath, lifted a hoof up and ran it through her short mane. "Buck it, let's get up on stage. Forget set up, forget all the normal crap, they want me, they get me."

Cheerilee's eyes widened and she trotted after Vinyl. I was an idiot, she isn't a mare, she is perfect. The lights in the club itself were already flashing and strobing to the music, but it was still all automated. The volume level was already high, thanks to the automated warm-up music playing, but when Vinyl stepped up behind her deck a roar started that almost deafened Cheerilee.

"I am sooooo sorry I left you guys hangin' for a while, but I needed a break. Do you want to know why?" Vinyl's stage-act took over, she was playing a part she had played so many times before. She reached out with her magic, grabbing Cheerilee's forehoof, dragging her forward. "Because this mare is HOT!"

The roar of approval washed over Cheerilee, she couldn't help but blush and lean in to nuzzle Vinyl's neck. Her pulse raced, it was one thing to have a coltfriend tell you, you are hot, and another to have a few hundred ponies scream in agreement. With adrenaline pumping, Cheerilee cut in. "I might be hot, but look at DJ-PON3! How smokin' is she?"

Vinyl stared at Cheerilee a moment, the rush of the screaming crowd feeding he acceptance of herself. "I got somethin' new for you—" Vinyl drowned out her own voice with the new song, the rushing tune with no beat. She lifted her cans up and brought them down on her head, her magic then reaching for the deck.

Cheerilee melted in place, the music was thumping so hard that she could feel it all the way through her body. She began to move, swaying to the music, remembering the time-changes as she did so. The crowd didn't have her advantage—having helped create the music with Vinyl—but that didn't stop them from trying.

Bouncing her head along, Vinyl was so happy she had gone through with the song. She added extra elements to it with her deck, but as with every song, it came to an end. A nudge in her side drew her attention back to Cheerilee, who was pointing. "Zephyr Breeze!" Vinyl pointed. "This next song is to the best mane-stylist in all Equestria!" She lifted a hoof up and roughed her mane. Swiping a fader, Vinyl brought the next song in, this one was much more "standard."

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"Your DJ has to go, everypony!" Vinyl was almost completely worn out; her legs shook, her magic was fading, but in her heart she felt it had been her best show ever. Lifting her cans off, she set them down and faded to the "canned music." Then she got a kiss on her cheek that almost completely filled her back up with energy. As she turned, the second kiss landed right on her lips.

Closing her eyes, Cheerilee melted against Vinyl's kiss, she pressed her lips to the mare like she wanted to press all of herself. Without a word both lifted up and they hugged.

Neither of them heard the thunder of the crowd as they saw their DJ making out.

Unfortunately for the two mares, their visitor was still a little short on tact. "Oh my Celestia, look at you two!" Zephyr's eyes danced at the pair. "You two are just darling together, and Viney," both mares stared at each other at the strange nickname, "that music is just a-mazing!"

"Thanks, Zeph." Vinyl dropped down, but kept one foreleg around Cheerilee's withers. "You helped a lot, with everything." She gave him a grin from behind her glasses. "If you will excuse us, I need to get this filly to bed." Vinyl leaned up, nuzzling along Cheerilee's mane and ears.

Nopony would have called her out for it, but at that moment a soft glow grabbed the volume slider for the booth speakers and wound them right up, any reply Zephyr might have made was drowned out.

"What was that Zephyr?!" Cheerilee lifted a hoof up to her ear, but her efforts to be heard were in vain. When Vinyl pulled her along to the exit, she certainly didn't struggle. As soon as they were out, Vinyl nuzzled her way through Cheerilee's mane. "That was a bit rude," she giggled at the attention, "but I am not complaining too loudly."

"You know the club puts their visiting DJ up in a penthouse, right?" Vinyl's smile could almost be described as lecherous. "Haven't had anypony to really enjoy it with before…" The unasked question hung in the air between the two.

Cheerilee tapped her chin with a hoof, as if in thought. "Well, I certainly don't have anywhere to stay tonight, maybe we could find out how warm their bed is?" She used the raised hoof to tickle Vinyl under the chin. Cheerilee giggled in delight when her fillyfriend let out a low whinny. "Thought so."

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"So that's it, Vinny?" Octavia set her bow down and looked across the room as her friend packed up her things. "In and out of my life like the noisiest tornado ever?" She wore a wide smile for the mare she had thought a horrible musician—at first.

Pushing her cans back, Vinyl finished tucking her deck into a box. "You know how it is, Tavi, just when you find somepony is comfortable to live with, you have to move on. At least you learned to actually play that thing." She pointed at the cello, a lopsided grin on her face.

"Why, the nerve…" Octavia Melody took up her bow and brought it along the strings, striking a deep note. "You uncultured lout…" She shook her head, the usual curses slipping away. "She has been nothing but good for you, Vinny. Make sure you treat her well."

"Are you done packing your—" Cheerilee walked into the house and stopped when she realized the two housemates were squared off against each other. "Both of you, she is just moving halfway across town, you can still meet up and talk."

"It's not the same." Vinyl and Octavia blushed when they both said the same thing at the same time.

"Good luck, Vinyl Scratch." Octavia set her bow down once more, got up, and approached Vinyl. A hoof-clop didn't seem enough, so Octavia gave in and hugged Vinyl. "Take care, and don't stop making those horrible thumping sounds."

"Tavi, you are the best cellist I have ever heard." Vinyl hugged back, letting a few tears trail down her cheek. Letting go, the two former housemates smiled at each other. "But then, I tend to lie a lot."

"VINYL!" Octavia's mock growl chased Vinyl and Cheerilee from the house, the former grabbing the latter and her deck on the way.

Author's Note

The end. Sorry for taking so long, but I had a rush of new patrons, and wanted to get them settled and their works made regular.

That is the end of Vinyl's little story, I know the end is a little sudden, but this never intended to go too far (and actually went further than I thought it would).

What is next for this series? I am thinking Rainbow Dash and Trixie Lulamoon might have some more fun coming up, their story is half-told; while we saw how the pair act when playing, they seemed to have a certain... magnetism, at the end, that needs to be explored further.

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