Play that Funky Music, Ms. Scratch

We talked for a while about anything that popped into our heads or that was led from previous conversations. We laughed and joked about some of our funny stories, like her stories about her days in college and mine about the time I was in the Palace Guards. Sometimes, she would reach out and placed her hand on top of mine, which I graciously accepted it as a sign of acceptance, and I was starting to feel very comfortable around her as I had never felt before with another mare.

“Yo, Vinyl!” a female voice shouted next to our table. We looked up and, standing next to us, three mares stood over, all looking at Vinyl with recognizing looks. The one in front, a pink earth pony with a curly mane, wore a short black skirt with a purple blouse with the top three buttons unconnected so that much of her bust was revealed. Behind her was a blue unicorn with a blue and white mane and she was wearing a flowery dress as if she was going on a picnic that stopped just a few inches above her knees and carried a flower in her mane up against her right ear. The third pony was a pegasus with a light purple coat, with a white mane with a pink bow in it. She wore a tie-dye tank top with blue jeans with huge rips and holes in them along down her legs.

“Berry Punch! Minuette! Flitter!” Vinyl greeted each one individually with hugs as they kissed each others’ cheeks. “How are you girls doing? I’m so glad that you could make it!”

The four of them started talking, which, from what I could get out of it, was that the three were friends that she had made when she first moved here from Los Pegasus. I ignored them as they catch up while I just listen to the music.

“Hey, Red Badge,” Vinyl shook my shoulder to get my attention. “I want you to meet my friends.” She introduced them to me one at a time, which all of the mares greeted me warmly. “This guy here is my hero,” she said as she patted my shoulder. “He stopped some dumbass thief from taking my money.”

Her friends gave their approval with praises and coos, which made me blush as I tried to turn away to hide my embarrassment.

“Aww, he’s shy,” Flitter said as the mare giggled.

“You sure know to pick them, Vin,” Berry said. “This is, what, the second time that you were rescued by a stallion? Only this time, you got a face to go with the hero.”

“Berry,” Minuette lightly chided the mare. “Ix-nay on the ero-hay.”

“What?” Berry said. “That was so long ago that I’m sure most ponies have forgotten about it.”

I was a bit struck by that statement and wondered what she meant by that. Vinyl, however, shushed the mare up, clearly not impressed by Berry’s outburst.

“Sorry,” Minuette apologized for the mare. “She had a few before we even arrived here.”

Vinyl relaxed, a smile forming on her face as if she knew exactly what the blue unicorn meant. “Typical.”

“Hey, the hell’s does that mean?” Berry challenged.

“Hey, Vinyl,” Flitter chimed in, “would you mind playing some of that new music you were working on?”

Vinyl, to my surprise, looked at her friends with some nervousness. “Oh, I don’t know,” Vinyl said, scratching her mane. “I think it’s a bit too early. Besides, I not too sure about it.”

“Oh, come on. You were always like this, and each one has been a huge hit in the club, right?”

“Yeah, but…” she gave a small giggle. “I guess I’m still not used to ponies calling me a ‘musical genius’ all the time.”

“So, are you going to play it?” Minuette jumped in.

“Sure,” Vinyl nodded. “But, on one condition.” She pointed at me, which I looked at her with confusion. “I want you girls to show him a good time as his reward for helping me.”

“What?” I cried.

“Is that all?” Berry said, looking at me like a predator that had cornered her prey. “Too easy.”

“Alright, then. He’s all yours.”

Vinyl was about to walk away, leaving me alone with her three friends, who all looked at me as though they were going to rip me apart. I quickly got up from my seat and grabbed her hand, stopping her from abandoning me. She turned to me, a bit surprised by my action.

I tried to talk, but my mouth only spoke in gibberish as I tried to control my mouth and tongue to communicate my feelings about what she was doing to me, that I did not want to separate from her. Not because I was frightened out of my mind, but because I just want to be with her, even though I couldn’t explain why. I wasn’t even sure what the hell I was thinking.

But, before I could form the first word, she pressed her lips up against mine to silence me. My whole, entire body went solid like stone as she electrified my brain from that warm and luscious touch that she was giving me. My lungs froze, refusing to breathe and my eyes were focused on her red eyes as they stared right back at me, and I could see that longing return and it drew me in closer to her as I slowly started to return her kiss. The moment ended with a small smack as she released from me. I breathed heavily through my mouth as I stared at the white unicorn, who slowly formed that coy smile.

“Don’t be afraid,” she spoke in a soft and encouraging voice. “Just enjoy yourself.” She then moved her head next to mine, resting her chin on my left shoulder as she moved her mouth to my ear. “I’ll join you down there soon,” she whispered. She walked away down the ramp, giving me one last wink as she disappeared into the crowd.

“Hey there, lover boy,” Berry tapped me on the shoulder to grab my attention. I turned around to find Vinyl’s three marefriends all looking at me. Their expression had softened, making me feel a little comforting to be around them, but I was already missing Vinyl. “So, what you think of her?”

I turned back to search for Vinyl, but she was nowhere to be found. I looked back to her friends and started to come up with an answer as her kiss and words lingered in my mind. “She’s…unique.”

“Yeah, she definitely is,” Berry said, slapping me on the shoulder.

“She can be pretty headstrong, especially with the colts and stallions,” Minuette joined in, standing next to me. “The fact that you are on her good side showed that you are doing something right.”

“I wouldn’t know that.” I rubbed my lips as I could still taste her. I turned towards Berry, remembering something that she had just said. “Excuse, Miss Berry?”

She looked at me with a stern look. “What the fuck do you mean ‘Miss’? What, you think I’m old or something?”

“No, no!” I waved my hands to keep her from pressing any furthered but she pushed her face right up to mine, pressing her nose hard onto my nose as her eyes stabbed me like daggers.

“I’ll have you know that I’m 26 years old, bucko! Sure, I may be older than half of the ponies here, maybe even three quarters of them, but I still got it.”

“I do not doubt that-”

“Here, have a feel!” She grabbed my hands and placed them on her breast. I tried to pull them away, but she held them there with her hands as she pressed her body into me. My fingers formed around the shape of her breasts, wrinkling her blouse as she looked at me as if she was expecting me to instantly fall in love with her. I had to turn my nose away because of the stench of alcohol that radiated from her mouth. “So, what do you think? They're nice, aren’t they? 100% natural!” She proclaimed proudly.

Before I could think of an answer, both Minuette and Flitter pulled her away, which she resisted a bit as I sat back down in my chair and turned away. I could feel a reaction in my groin and I tried to keep it down.

“Sorry about that,” I looked up and found Flitter smiling apologetically as she sat in the other chair. I looked at the two mares and Minuette was kissing Berry on the lips. “Believe it or not, that was the worse she would get.”

“How much did she drink?”

“She had two whole bottles of chardonnay two hours ago at a restaurant not far from here. She could hold her liquor pretty well, but she sometimes let it get the best of her once you put her in a party like this,” she giggled.

I turned away from the kissing mares and looked at Flitter. She seemed rather nervous about something but I ignored it as I still want to know what Berry had meant earlier. “Um…”

“You can just call me ‘Flitter,’” she said.

“Flitter…what did Berry meant…when she said that I was the second pony to help Vinyl?”

Her expression showed me that they had made some kind of mistake as she started to bite on her fingernail. “Uh…I’m sorry…I’m not allowed to say.”

“Why not?” I said, intrigued by this new information. Flitter seemed like she’s digging a hole that she couldn’t escape.

“It’s…” she paused for a few seconds as she tried to wait out for something to happen to make me forget out my curiosity, but when nothing did, she relented and figured that she might as well say something because I was not doing to let it drop. “Yes, she was saved by another stallion. It was years ago. And, it was a lot more serious.”

“Serious, as in what?”

She looked as if she was betraying a friend, but I could see that she believed that this would help Vinyl if I knew something. “She was attacked by…her coltfriend and…some mysterious stallion came out of nowhere and saved her.”

While she was incredibly vague, I was rather struck by how familiar it sounded to me. It was as if was Déjà vu all of a sudden.

I was about to press her harder for more when Berry interrupted me. “Flitter, you naughty mare!” Berry stood next to the pegasus as she looked down at her with Minuette standing by her side. “Look at you, picking up stallions while your fiancée is faithfully waiting for your answer.”

“Will you shut up, Berry?” Flitter yelled at the drunken earth pony. “I just haven’t decided on it yet, okay?” The pegasus turned away from her friend. She was upset as she clearly was offended by what Berry had just said.

Berry, however, calmed down, her eyes going sober as she looked at her distressed friend. She placed a hand on her shoulder and gave an assuring rub. “It’s okay. I’m sorry about that.”

Flitter seemed to accept it as she placed her head on her marefriend’s hand with acceptance.

“Hey, everypony!” a voice boomed through the club like thunder, waking everybody from what they were doing. I immediately recognized it as belonging to Vinyl. “You guys having a great time tonight?” The crowd answered with a combined voice of cheers and screams of approval. Her three friends joined in to give their answer along with the entire club. “Well, how about we make it even better? I got myself some groovy new songs that I wanted to test out on you guys and gals, and I want to know what you guys think. How’s that sound?” The crowd erupted into another answer. “I’ll take that as a ‘Yes,’ then.”

Then, the large wall on the other side started to separate down the middle and the two halves crawled away from each other. As they did, there was Vinyl, standing behind her DJ stand, with speakers surrounding her. Lights along the front lit up, flooding the dance floor with many more soft and multi-colored beams as they swim through the excited crowd. I looked and I could see that she placed her headphones over her ears and that she was prepared to please her partiers.

“Well, looks like it's time,” Berry said. Flitter got up from her seat and Minuette grabbed my hand and tried to pull me out of my seat, which I was very reluctant to go.

“I-I-I’m good,” I told her, hoping that she would get the message that I did not want to dance.

“Oh, come on,” the blue unicorn said. “She’s waiting for you.”

She pointed to the DJ stage and I saw Vinyl looking at me. She smiled, waving at me as a sign that she wanted me to join in on the fun so that she can too. I don’t know what really went through my mind at that moment, but I could definitely say that seeing her smile at me with that encouraging look, her smile and her eyes combined to give off a sultry look as if she can’t wait to rock my world, but she couldn’t do if I was not part of hers. Whatever she had in her mind right now, she wanted to give me my award. I quickly grabbed the bottle of whiskey and poured into the glass half-full and drowned it down my throat.

“Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about,” Berry approved as she took a swing from the bottle. Her friends had to tear it out of her hand.

“You ready, cutie?” Flitter asked, extending her hand out for mine.

I gave up as I felt a little relaxed when I accepted her hand. “Let’s do this.”

With Minuette and Flitter pulling me by the hands, Berry was pushing me from behind as they dragged me down the walkway toward the first level. My face was warm and my brain felt like it was swimming. I saw some of the stallions looking at me with surprise envy as they saw three beautiful mares taking me down to the dance floor, too, as Vinyl put it, “to show me a good time.” As we did, I looked up and Vinyl was setting her records up. She gave me one last wink before she began starting up her music.

“Whatever you do,” Berry whispered into my ear, “don’t fall in love in with her.”

I was taken by surprise by the polar switch of her tone as I looked at her, wondering what the hell she was talking about.

“I mean it,” she threatened, like she would kill me if go against her. “She’s mine.”

“What?”

“Minuette.” She poked my chest hard with her finger. “She’s my marefriend, and I’ll be damn if I’m going to let you take her away from me.”

I only stared at her with a lot of confusion, wondering if it was the alcohol talking to me.

“And, also, don’t think about falling for Flitter, as well. She’s got a coltfriend, and she loves him very, very much. So, don’t think just because we act like we are coming on to you because you are cute, which you are. We’re only doing this because Vinyl asked us.”

“O-Okay. I’m sorry. I thought you were…”

Her demeanor immediately changed to a very friendly one. “Oh, Vinyl? Oh, that’s fine. You can fall in love with her if you want.”

I was dumbstruck that I didn’t have time to say anything as the mares pulled me onto the dance floor where a sea of ponies were packed together. Colors were raining down upon us as well as pushing up from the floor beneath our hooves, swirling from above and lighting up instantly in different spots of the floor where I could, only for a second, see the ponies faces, their clothing, and their bodies as they move along with the beat of the sound. I looked up to find Vinyl and I could see her moving her body along with everypony else with the strobe light working in full effect. Like the snapping of pictures, her body was moving along to the beat of the music, swaying back and forth, her mane flying over her head, looking even more lost than the dancers with me down here as she listened to her music through her headphones.

I stood in the middle and looked around at the large mass of moving ponies as they jumped and sway around me. It was claustrophobic as I felt that I could not get any air as if they were all taking it away from me as I felt as if I was the center of attention, even though these ponies did not seem to acknowledge me.

A tapped on my shoulder brought my attention to Minuette as she smiled innocently at me.

“I know how it feels,” she said. “It took a while for me to get used to it myself.” She took my hand and started to dance as her way to encourage me as she grabbed a hold of the hem of her dress. “Just sway your body to it. Let the music slowly take a hold on you.”

I started to bob my head in the rhythm of the beat, which she smiled in approval. “See? You’re getting it.”

I laughed nervously as I stopped. “I feel so stupid.”

“Don’t be,” Berry grabbed me from behind, wrapping her arms around her stomach, squeezing her body so that I could feel her warm breath on neck. “Relax.” She swayed her body, which I followed along. Minuette wrapped her arms around my neck and started to sway along with the two of us. “Bet you never had a hot filly fooler sandwich before, huh?”

I laughed nervously, but I was starting to feel calmer as I let myself to drop the restraints from myself as I start to feel the music grab a hold of my body like its prisoner. It grabbed my legs as it made slight pivots on the shoals of my hoofs. My head started to bob once again, showing more confidence in my presentation. My fingers on my right hand were dancing as well, tapping along with the beat.

“Um, excuse me,” Minuette brought me back to reality. She wore a teasing smile as her face blushed. “You’re, um…you’re tapping my flank,” she whispered.

I pulled my hand away, my face flushing as I tried to apologize, but the two mares only laughed as they continued with their dancing, taking me along for the ride.

Soon, I was able to get back in the groove, my body becoming more in tune with the music. Without realizing, both Berry and Minuette slowly back away from me as I become looser with my body as I let the music take control over it. Soon, I had my hands up in the air, and I could hear the mares shout their encouragement as they all dance next to me.

I felt that I had danced for days as I had lost track of any sort of time as the lights blinded me and the music pounded into my head, and with all of the ponies surrounding me, but I didn’t care. I felt as if I was a part of this huge mass, that I was just one piece of the puzzle that had found its place in the whole picture. Berry, Flitter, and Minuette took their turn to dance with me as they closed their bodies to mine. While both Minuette and Flitter were mild and gentle with me, Berry, on the other hand, was a bit more seductive with hers as she pressed her back up against my front, with her bushy tail wrapped around my body and pressing her flank up against my groin so that she could get a reaction from there. I had to step away from her in order to calm myself down. I started to feel that I had my fill of the dance floor and I was ready to get off and call it a night.

As I was beginning to walk off, Vinyl stood in front of me, blocking my exit as she stood in front of me, her body just centimeters from mine. Her deep red eyes were on me, smiling, and they never left me, not even as she stepped back a bit so that I could see her snow-white body lit up by the colors as she start to dance provocatively for me.

Her hips swerve around in tight little circles as she raised her left arm up into the air as she grab it with her right from behind her head. My eyes were glued to her hypnotic body as she pivoted her hips, spinning her body around as she rolled her lower body, with her backside enchanting me. I was getting drawn into her spell as I closed the gap between us. The look she was giving to me was captivating, her smile innocent yet her eyes were seductive. I wanted to touch her, to hold her close to my body, to never leave me, but I was too scared to even ask her if I could, that she might reject my offer. But, those fears evaporated as she danced closer to me and I brought my hands around her waist. She showed her willing subjection to my desires as she planted her lips on mine.

I pressed in deeper, wanting to taste her more, and she obliged as she opened her lips and her tongue entered my mouth. A sweet scent entered my nose, making her kiss all that much nicer. Her movement in my hands was like the ocean, gently rocking as her body caressed mine. Her arms wrapped around my neck to pull me deeper into her passion. Our tongues danced around each other, her taste transferring over to me as my taste was to her. It was more intoxicating than any liquor I believe ever existed as it affect my brain in such a potent way that it went to a whole new kind of level that nothing could rival it. She released her hold of her lips from me, but her spell had already been cast and I was to willfully obey her orders.

Her body gently spun in my embrace until she pressed her back up against mine. Her tail wrapped around my left leg as if to keep me captive to her as her slave, which I did not mind. My hand found their way to her bare stomach and they slid through her slick fur like water. Her breath was slow but potent to my senses as I could feel her warmth running across my face. She placed her hands over mine, squeezing to keep them where they were. I turned my head so that my lips are lined up with hers and stole a kiss from her.

Her hips rocked up against my lower body, from which her flank moved against my groin, exciting more passion across my body. Heat was growing in that area, and I knew that she was doing it on purpose as I felt her lips smiled teasingly when I let out a breath to release my thrill. She pressed harder against me, and I pushed back, my hips moving on their own as we dance in rhythm like we were a single organism. She let out a pleasurable moan as I moved up against her, which she responded with a subtle move of her hips, which made me moan in turn. We were in conflict, raging war as we made our attacks with our lips, tongues, and hands as our entire bodies battled each other for dominance, with the music as our war song.

I retreated from her lips and she smiled in victory, but I had another strategy. I moved my lips to her shoulder and planted kisses along the top. She rocked her body hard against mine, trying to throw me off, but I kept on with my attack as I drew closer to her neck. Her sense was deadly as it kept attacking my brain with its sweet nectar, which made her taste sweeter than any cake I ever had. Her body shivered against me as I reached the base of her neck. She let out a small moan as I pressed into her, gently sucking her, which she conceded by letting me have full access to her as she bend her head away to expose her weak spots to me. Her hands reached for my head, placing them on top and grabbing through my mane and she pushed my head down, with my lips burying into her neck.

She let out moans of pleasure as I grabbed control of our dance, dictating the moves as she melted into me. I rubbed my hands across her stomach, feeling her hot skin underneath. I could feel lines on her stomach, tracing them along with subtle touches, but I didn’t think much of them as I was completely lost in the sights and the sounds of the Moonlight Wilderness and in our passion.

I released her from my grasp of my lips and she turned back around, returning her lips to mine as we embrace as if to keep the embers of our passion going. Our lips let go and connected our forehead together, with mine resting at the base of her horn. Our bodies were a bit fatigue, but, at least, my fondness was growing hungrily for her as we continued to sway to the beat, losing in each other’s eyes. I started to chuckle, could not believe of what I had experienced. She smiled brightly and kissed my forehead. She, then, rested her head in my chest, and I hugged her close to my beating heart, which I was sure she could hear it.

I dropped all of my sense of time because I did not want to count the seconds I may have for me to stay in this beautiful creature’s affectionate and seductive hold on me.