Will you still love me?

Mark Phantasm Looked in the mirror at the black jeans and tee shirt; he adjusted the two plastic clip belts on his waist as he adjusted the leather jacket on his shoulders, before adding some shades to his eyes. When he looked in the mirror he added a quick "Whoa." To test the effect of his costume. It was Halloween night; he was going out with his girlfriend Fluttershy, as Neo from The Matrix. Yeah a very love it or hate it costume, he knew people who didn't like it, he personally though it was okay, enough to consider The One as a costume for the night. He had been dating Fluttershy for a few weeks now; having met her after the Friendship Games, Mark was never athletic but he he did have the spirit to support his team, he especially loved watching Fluttershy in the competition, it was as if she became an entirely different girl on the field. The shy and insecure girl became a spry and chipper athlete, and he couldn't help but notice how even on the field, she was so beautiful.

It was after the games when he decided to see if his little crush, would go further than just a crush. He found her at a celebratory after party being held to commemorate C.H.S's victory. She was being a wall flower, bottled up yet again in a corner with a cup of punch. He approached her the way he had all those stray cats before, slowly with a neutral expression on his face, only no can of tuna in his hand this time. "Hello," he said to her in a soft voice to her as she huddled up in her jacket like a turtle.

"Oh uhhm...Hi." She said with that irresistibly adorable soft voice.

"I've been watching you compete in the games...I think you did great Fluttershy." he said picking up a bowl of pretzels "Can I offer you a snack?" He said holding the bowl out to her the way he did a wounded or scared animal. Fluttershy recognized the gesture and his actions, and she recognized a fellow animal lover, it made her open up to him a little more.

"Why thank you, uhhmmm?" She said taking a few pretzels and a taking a few restrained nibbles of them.

"Mark Phantasm, and it's a pleasure to meet you." He said smiling at her lovingly. From then on; they had been spending time together. going out to the movies, grabbing lunch, and most of all, taking care of the animals at the pet store and pet care she ran. Fluttershy loved having someone to take care of her friends with her, she admired how he seemed to know just what to feed her friends, and how much. She grew to like him as they spent more and more time together. However, Fluttershy was hiding something from him: a deep, dark secret of something that happened to her a while back that had made her into a very different girl.

She stood in front of her bedroom mirror; her blue tights with the bats on them, her red corset with a red shiny short leather jacket on her shoulders. Her red glowing eyes staring back at her. "Oh why now of all nights?!" She said to herself in sadness; you see, sometime ago, after they had statred seeing each other, Fluttershy had been bitten by a giant bat one night while she'd been out catching fireflies. The bat had been tangled in a spider web of unusually large size; she saw no spider in sight, and her good nature told her she couldn't just leave him there. True; bats aren't the cutest of animals, but Fluttershy loved all animals, even the ones others didn't. When She saw a helpless creature that needed help, she did just that. She pulled the bat free; noticed how big it was for a bat, and she also noticed it was a bat that had unusually large teeth.

When the bat was free; it began to screech and chatter loudly as it beat its leathery black wings, and sink its teeth into her shoulder. "OW! OW! OW!" she cried out and took running for her house, the bat flying after her as the bite began to bleed a bit, but thankfully she'd been only grazed by it. The back patio door to her house getting closer and closer, but she could also hear those horrible black wings beating behind her and the screeching in her ears as it got closer and closer to her. Fluttershy forced the door open hard and slammed it behind her as she kept on running to her bed room. It was then she finally called down and let her breath slow and her heart to slow from the tension that almost scared her half to death.

"I guess not all animals are grateful to you girl." She said as she tinged in pain from treating her bite with some disinfectant; she then noticed in the mirror that her eyes had turned red. She blinked and they where still red, and then when she opened her mouth and saw something that almost made her faint. Fluttershy's front teeth had grown to a hideously long and sharp length, as did some more of her front upper and lower teeth. "Oh MY! What's happened to me!?" She cried looking down at her clothes, which even they had changed! That first night black mesh gloves had grown on her hands; and her prudent sweater had become a short red and black tube top, her skirt had changed into a red and black checkered one so short it almost exposed her panties, and her boots had become thigh high red with mesh stockings and most frighteningly of all, there where skull designs on the toes of her boots and a silver bat in the buckle of her big black belt.

Her ears had also grown more...like elves ears, pointy and also a little..."fluffy?" She said feeling her ear before feeling her body hoping that wasn't fur on her body, thankfully there wasn't. "Oh no....How could this have happened? I've become some sort of monster!" Fluttershy broke down crying and laying on her bed in despair. She suddenly felt her self become unnaturally thirsty; but not for water. No she found herself wanting to drink...blood! Thoughts of a neck slicing open and the warm, wet blood spraying from the wound made her mouth water for a taste. She shrieked in terror and panic, and ran down her stairs to the kitchen and to the fridge before shoving it open. Looking into it; she saw the ground beef that she'd thawed out to make a meatloaf. She noticed the blood the meat was sitting in and she licked her lips in hunger as her teeth grew longer and her nails grew sharper, she resisted.

"No! I Can't, I'm not a MONSTER!" She said grabbing the first thing she could and running to her sink, she looked at what she had grabbed. It was a thing of spicy V8 juice. "I wonder if...No It can't work, no matter what I read in those manga books...Can it?" She steadied herself as she took a glass and placed it down on the counter, before pouring a glass of the juice into it and putting the bottle out of sight and saying aloud.

"This...Is..Blood." She said as her voice grew in harshness with hissing and growling. "NO IT"S NOT YOU FOOLISH GIRL! STOP FIGHTING WHAT YOU'VE BECOME!" A voice not her own yelled before her own soft; shy, squeaky voice said back. "No, I'm not what you think I am, I'm still myself and what I poured is blood...well a blood substitute...No matter what..I will not harm another creature or person to sate this gnawing hunger!" She took a drink of the juice and felt it sloshing down her throat. She drank greedily and hungily, her now long and pointed tounge licking and lapping at the glass, desperate for the last drop, all while keeping the idea that what she drank was blood, in her head.

"Oh...That feels so much better." She said as her body stooped shaking, and she cooled down considerably, she felt less feverish as her teeth while still sharp retracted a bit and her eyes, while still red, had grown less evil and harsh in tone, almost pink instead of red. "Whatever I did seems to have worked, I hope it will last." She said pouring herself another drink. So from then on; every night, her clothes would shape shift into one's she'd never wear, as would her body, and the hunger would claw at her. She'd recently negan to feel its full effect less, and less and she was almost sure whatever she had contracted, had passed, from having not given into it. Also: the changes, surprisingly, only happened at night. She woke up the next morning to find herself back to normal, almost enough to make her think the whole thing had just been a bad dream; but nope, when the sun went down the next night, it happened all over again.

This was also made it very difficult to maintain a relationship with Mark; the two of them could do nothing at night together, and there was always this fear that Fluttershy and Mark wouldn't make it home before it got dark, and then, since a human was so close to her, she was afraid she attack and feed on him. She didn't even want to think of what would happen to her if she ever gave in. She thought about breaking up with him to keep him safe, but since she couldn't tell him why and she didn't want to hurt him from being unable to tell him, exactly what had happened to her. Now she could hear him coming up the steps and she started to panic, she thought about painting spots on her face and pretending to be sick, but then a better idea came to mind, hopefully he'd believe him, and even more so hopefully she'd be able to control herself.

"It's open, I'm ready." She said as she stood by the door her hands folded and a soft shy expression on her face as the doorknob turned and opened, Mark stood in the doorway looking at her, Fluttershy expected him to scream. He did, but it was clearly a fake scream with half laughter.

"AAAHH! HELP ME! VAMPIRE!" He said before laughing and slapping his knee. "Hey that's a great costume Fluttershy, what are you supposed to be? Vamperlla?" I think you're look is...actually sexier than the tight tiny one piece she was known for. He said placing a hand on her cheek and smiling at her. "Did you do this for me? Because you didn't have too. Not all females have to be sexy on Halloween to me, I'd have been happy if you'd gone as a duck,because you'd still be my girl." He said softly stroking her pink hair. "Though I must admit those teeth are so real looking, and you even got contacts to change your eye color." She smiled at him and hugged him tightly, tears in her eyes which she wipped quickly away.

"Yeah...This is my costume, and I'm glad you like it." She said as she felt her heart beating in her chest, It reminded her that she wasn't undead, and she wasn't a monster...For now at least, she hoped she'd last the night without becoming the thing she feared the most. The darkness of the night, and her mind consuming her, and claiming her, leaving only the emptiness to live with.