A Very Special Canterlot High Holiday.

In Canterlot city, there was an old clock tower, it had stood high above the skyline of the city since the 1920's. It had echoes of the era it had been construct in. The tall steel and stone masonry work that made up its fifty story structure, towering above a district once home to Shakespearean and musical theatre, then porno films and cheap whores when the plight of urban decay took its hold like an eight armed tentacle monster, and finally the Starbucks coffee shops and hipster music and cothing stores of the new age.

In some ways it sickened...her to be looking down and seeing Banana republics and Whole foods markets springing up in the structures that once housed productions of timeless tragedies and the greats of the likes of Rodgers and Hammerstein.

"Reality is but a shroud over a vast and unseeable network of devine beauty and magnificence, yet the people in the nighttime snow going from tacky shop down there will never know it." She said scowling as she gazed. It was the nighttime that brought this other side of herself out, in daylight's glow she would be full of joy with a perky outlook on things. Now with the shadows of the night surrounding her and the chilly winds whipping her face, Fluttershy became a whole different girl.

The winter snow clinged to her long black cape, the inside was the soft pink silk one found lining q dead gril's coffin, her boots were also hot pink with some spiky cleats on the bottom, her long feminine and slender legs were covered from the harsh winter weather by long tight black tights, and a black sweat shirt. Her boyfriend Mark Phantasm was beside her atop the belfry.

"Why do you insist on being like this every night? Ms. Gloom and darkness, so unlike yourself in the daytime you know?" He said kicking a few flecks of snow down the dark shaft of the old bell tower. She turned to him, her angry demeanor shifting and softening up a bit, her angry scowl becoming a somber look of concern and consideration for the one she loved, seeing her this way.

"Mark...I'm sorry, I think I'm like this because...in this form I'm not just that sweet animal lover that's all shy and sensitive, I'm everything she deeply desires to be, the girl she represses and hides away to cope with how she really feels deep down inside herself, know what I mean?" She asked as she slowly walked across the slippery wet stone slabs of walkway, no fear in her as her boots took every step across the wet ground.

"I don't love you any less, It's just...when you get this way, its almost like I don't even know who you are anymore." He didn't really mean it that way, his love for her was...innumerable to say the least, but looking at her the way she was, her sharp, protruding fangs, her long black and pink inner cape, and those wicked looking boots, it was almost...conflicting to think this was the same girl who volunteered for cleaning the hamster habitat at the animal shelter...willingly.

"It could have been worse you know, without you acting as...my better half, there's no telling what I...she...I could have become, surley you see the importance in that?"

"I know...I guess it's just...I still wonder if I can still..." she walked up to him, the long dead and stopped clock below forever frozen at twelve noon...or twelve midnight depending on your perspective of it.

"If I'm still prone to giving in to what I could be?" She said taking his hands in hers lovingly and the soft tenderness of the palms and fingers instantly recognizable as the sweet, innocent girl Fluttershy.

"Maybe, I mean...I love an S class super monster, but...can a monster love me back?" He said as she ran a hand through his hair.

"Monster?! Is that what you see me as? A monster?! She said somewhat angered by the remark.

"NO! I didn't mean it that way!....I'm sorry Fluttershy, please don't think it's like that." He said softly embracing her in the cold of the winter night. "You're not A monster, you're still the girl who I love no matter what...I really do care about you in my own special way no one else ever could be cared for. He said as her wings unfolded and she gazed into his big brown eyes, her red ones glowing like embers from Hell's crucible, not with anger, but rather...

"How much do you love and trust I'm still the same girl Mark?" She asked sitting on the snow capped masonry of the clock tower's apex.

"How much trust do you want from me?" He said almost sensing just what Fluttershy was going to request from him. He placed a foot on the edge of the building's ledge ready to prove it too her.

"Hug me mark." She said holding out her big leathery bat-like wings. He began to lift his foot away from the side, when, be it the ice and snow or fate itself, he slipped. He couldn't even scream as he lost his footing and flung his arms out desperate to grab onto something. There was nothing to grab but cold wet snow. His nails scratched ancient stone as air rushed his ears faster and faster as he fell to the streets below.

She opened her wings not carring if any late night shoppers saw her, she dived off the side of the tower and held her arms out, he was a few feet below her, eyes looking up at her in desperation and fear. Save me the eyes said as the plummeted to the ground. She folded her wings back and went into free fall as she reached out and embraced him before unfolding her wings and using then to propel them both back to solid ground.

"Are you insane Mark?! You could have gotten yourself killed pulling a stunt like that!" She scolded him as she tucked her wings bqck unser her cape.

"I...I didn't I wasn't my fault, I qas just going over to you when...I slipped and fell off the ledge." He said almost if he was guilty of some crime. She looked into his eyes and saw...he was telling the truth, she almost wished she had never brought him up here in the first place.

"Mark...I...I only wanted...I had to be sure you...I..we"...she stammered a bit as he took her hands in his again delicately.

"Shhh, it's okay Fluttershy, I'm just glad you saved me, that...that really shows how much you really care about me." He said inching his lips to her own. Those red glowing eyes not frightening in the slightest as his arms wrapped arpund her waist. "Remember when you asked..."will you still love me?"

"Yes...how could I ever forget that?" She said placing her hands behind his head drawing her close as more winter snow drifted down from the velvety purple sky, clouds blocking the crescent moon and stars from sight.

"Fluttershy...I'll always love you." He places his lips on hers, and the cold breeze is but a soft wind compared to how passionate his kiss is. It's like the flames of a crackling Yule log as he wraps every limb around the half vampiric girl, embracing her so close he can feel the steady beats of that heart of hers, proving there's still a beautiful girl...THE beautiful girl under the red piercing eyes and the fangs, they finally break their kiss softly.

"You make me feel so warm, so...alive when I'm with you."

"But ..you ARE still alive aren't you?" Je asled stroking her long beautiful pink hair gently and lovingly.

"Of course I am." She says her wings unfolding and wrapping around them both, drawing them even tighter and closer than ever before." You just...keep me that way by being so good to me." They kiss again as the snow stops and the moon comes back out.

"Fluttershy, you mean the world to me, I'd love you to the end of all time and beyond." Mark said as she took off propelled by her large wings, the city below them like a tiny model in a hobby store. The half moon's silver light cast on her, making her look even more radiant than ever, even her red eyes became so beautiful. They flew above the clouds as they became lost in a world beyond worlds, only their own flight by night mattering anymore.

"And I you Mark Phantasm." She said tenderly licking the flesh of his neck, not daring to break the skin without his permission.

"Are you hungry?" He asked moaning softly feeling her viciously sharp teeth on his flesh.

"If I may...I feel the night stalker's hunger growing, and I need nourishment beyond your love to...oh I'm sorry Mark I really shouldn't be asking like this." She said a bit of that long pink haired shy cute girl breaking the shell of the creature of darkness she had become.

"Go ahead babe, I wouldn't want it any other way." He said as she lowered them to the balcony of Fluttershy's bedroom window, the flight feeling like it took an eternity to end. She clamped her powerful sharp fangs not in his neck, but his shoulder. She licked and sucked on the broken, bleeding wound, feeling guilt at having to hurt him to satisfy her nocturnal needs, the thought abandoned as he held her behind her luscious and soft pink hair. She felt herself lost in the bliss of her feeding, only knowong that he lay on top of her in the sodt and warm folds of her blankets, they were both drunk on the heat of passion as he cuddled beside her, his shoulder still bleeding a bit. The copper and metallic smell of his blood still stiring her base instinct as a vampire to feed, but she repressed it quickly.

"I love youMark Phantasm." She said kissing him one final time.

"And I will always love you Fluttershy." He replied back as her eyes closed just as they locked with his, and at long last a sleepy, dreamy sensation overcame them both. Of all the blankets they had cuddled up under that night, none compared with the feeling of her soft, gentle and loving wings. They slept.