All was quiet in Ponyville that night, except for in Fluttershy's cottage.

Twilight paced back and forth in near shock, mumbling on and on about what she just saw. On the other side of the room Applejack was doing nothing else than sit back in confusion.

"What, the, HAY, just happened?!" asked Applejack, hoping for some sort of explanation from Twilight.

Twilight just turned back to her, "Uh... the closest thing... would be that she is a marewolf..."

Applejack replied "A marewolf?! Yah mean like from those horror fictions?"

Twilight nodded, "But I thought they were just make-believe, but, it's the only possible explanation."

From the locked up basement, Fluttershy continued to attempt to break out through the wall, door, and even floor. The bars bent slightly from the ramming, but held tight enough. After a little while, she eventually gave up for a bit. Angel hopped a little closer to the door, and stared in confusion.

Applejack sat in the living room quiet while Twilight paced restlessly. Eventually, Applejack asked "Twilight, how could it be possibly she is a creature from fiction? Especially considering we all have seen her out and about during full moons."

"I have been thinking about that, maybe she was bit by another marewolf recently..." replied Twilight.

"Then why wouldn't she come to us for help?" asked Applejack.

"I don't know." replied Twilight.

Applejack looked into the dark room Fluttershy was in, and asked "So, what do we do? We can't just leave her like this."

Twilight trotted up to Applejack, "According to the stories, she should turn back to normal in the morning, but, I think we should stay to make sure."

Applejack stood there silently for a moment, then backed towards a nearby couch, "Well alrighty then..."

The next couple hours that passed went on somewhat quietly, as every so often Fluttershy attempted to bust out again. This went on until eventually, very late, Twilight and Applejack found themselves falling asleep.

The next morning, Applejack awoke to sunlight coming through the windows, and multiple critters in the cottage starting to fuss and make noise. Everything had the atmosphere of morning bliss, as all the animals seemed calm.

With a yawn, she sat up and looked around. "What am ah doing here? oh yeah... I thought that was a dream, FLUTTERSHY!"

Applejack ran over to the prison-like door, and looked in. "Fluttershy! Are you in there?"

Suddenly, Twilight came up behind Applejack with a yawn. "I think I can open this, give me a second."

With a light glow from Twilight's horn, and a spark on the lock, the door opened. Twilight and Applejack carefully walked in as Twilight lit up the room. With that, they saw Fluttershy passed out breathing rather heavily in the middle of the floor.

Applejack trotted up to her, "Ah think she is all normal again, not well, but normal."

Twilight came up, "It seems so, Let's move her somewhere more confortable till she comes too. Hopefully she can explain what that was."

With that, Twilight lifted Fluttershy up with her magic, and took her out into the main living area, and sat her on the couch. Applejack then readily covered her up with a blanket, and sat next to her.

"You really scared me." said Applejack quietly.

About half an hour later, Fluttershy began to stir. She slowly opened her eyes, and sat up. Her mane was all messed up, and she had a weary look to her eyes.

"Fluttershy!" said Twilight while quickly coming over to her.

"Are yah alright?" asked Applejack.

Fluttershy rubbed her head, noticing a strange tension in her muscles. She turned to Applejack in slight surprise, "I think so... Why are you two here? Wait! Y-Y-You didn't see, a-anything last night, uh, did you?"

Everypony in the room sat in a awkward silence for the next full minute staring at each other. Eventually, Fluttershy broke the silence with "Oh dear... I-I can explain!"

Twilight cleared her throat, "If you could, that would be nice... If I am not mistaken, you turned into a, Marewolf, last night..."

Another awkward silence hit, with Fluttershy apparently trying to sink into the coach.

"Y-Yes, sort of... sorry about that..."

"Well, why didn't you tell us, that y'know, you’re a, Lycan..." asked Applejack awkwardly.

Fluttershy looked away, "I meant for no one to find out... That's the first time I've changed in a while..."

Twilight trotted up closer, "Well, when did you get, bit, or whatever. I mean, I know you have been out and about other full moons."

Fluttershy wanted to shrink away at this point, and she started to ball up, "I-I have this potion... it keeps me from... y'know..."

Applejack quickly asked "Well if so, why didn't yah take it last night?!"

Fluttershy started to tear up a bit, "I-I-I sort of, ran out... I can make more, but, the flower it comes from, it isn't in season..."

"Well why didn't you ask us for help? I am sure Zecora might have something!" said Twilight.

Fluttershy could not handle it any longer, her eyes teared up, and she just ran past Applejack and Twilight, and up to her bed.

"Good going Twi." said Applejack.

Twilight groaned, "Why does this have to be so hard?"

Fluttershy ran to her bed, curled up in the blanket, and began to cry into the pillow. She more or less wanted to just be alone for a thousand years right now, as she never really wanted to deal with this. Some of the birds and bunnies came up to her side, attempting to comfort her.

Fluttershy just looked up for a second, "No, just leave! You all would be better off...", immediately after she stuffed her face in the pillow again.

A few minutes later, Twilight came up and opened the door to her room, "Fluttershy, I'm sorry, I just need to know if I can help you."

Fluttershy lifted her head from the pillow for a second, "There isn't anything that can be done... I am just, a monster..."

Applejack came in slowly, and Twilight responded "Now just because you have a curse does not mean you’re a monster!"

"Has anyone ever called a lycan anything other than a monster?!" replied Fluttershy, before stuffing her face back into the pillow.

Applejack spoke up "Yes, like their friend, or the kindest pony around!"

Fluttershy simply sank further into her bed, and sobbed more.

"Come on Fluttershy, it is not like we’re going to throw you into the Everfree or anything." said Twilight.

Applejack hit Twilight lightly on the shoulder, "What Twilight means is we are still your friends, nothing has changed."

Fluttershy looked up, "No, nopony would ever want to be friends with a monster like me!"

Applejack quickly retorted "Stop saying that y'all are monster! If you were really one, I am sure you would not take care of all these critters, or have such good friends!"

Fluttershy slowly began to sit up, "I-I don't understand..."

Twilight spoke up "You just need to look at things the way you have before, this doesn't change anything!"

Fluttershy gave a small smile, and with a few moments of though, said "I-If you want to know, I can tell you how it happened..."

Twilight nodded, and Fluttershy continued, "I told you before, about how I got my cutiemark, it was the day I discovered the magic of nature and the animals... Well that night... I had not found my way back to cloudsdale yet......"

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"Where are you going little ones?" asked a fairly young Fluttershy as the night came about.

One of the rabbits motioned her towards it, and when she followed, Fluttershy was presented with a cozy little rabbit home dug into the ground.

"Oh this is just wonderful! Did you all set this up yourselves?"

All of the little critters nodded, and Fluttershy smiled back. She began petting a few of them, and cozying up. Then outside, she heard a howl.

"What is that?" asked Fluttershy heading toward the entrance.

Multiple rabbits quickly tugged on her tail, and gestured for her to not go outside, as another howl came.

"Don't worry, I just want to see what animal is making that noise." said the filly Fluttershy as she headed out.

In the moonlight night, Fluttershy trotted slowly into the forest, when a howl that was really close came. Fluttershy flew over towards where she heard it, and found herself next to the stream she saw earlier. She trotted over to the stream and looked around curiously.

"I wonder were that noise came from." she said out loud for some reason.

Then suddenly, a loud roar blasted her off her hooves. Fluttershy quickly pulled her head out of a bush, and turned to see a large wolf staring at her growling.

"Oh my! Aren't you just a big one!" said young Fluttershy as she nonchalantly flew over next to it, petting it behind the ear.

The wolf eyed her, but decided not to eat her right then and there because of how nice she was being to it. That and the ear scratching felt good.

"Oh, you like that!" said young Fluttershy as she scratched it behind the ear, "You’re just the biggest critter I have seen today, I just met a lot of them too."

The wolf loosened up a bit, and Fluttershy examined ho much larger it was. Not too mention it looked veyr odd compared to anything in school books. Suddenly, the wolf looked up, and in a startled manner turned and ran past Fluttershy.

"What was that about?" Asked young Fluttershy, not noticing right behind her, a dragon landing from the air, and slowly comming up to her.

Fluttershy felt a warmth behind her head, and turned around to see a giant, red eyed, large horned, dark scaled, and generally threatening looking dragon. And as she saw it, it roared the most fearsome roar one could think of.

Fluttershy flew back to the ground with a scream, and the dragon pounced at her. But second before it had her in it's mouth, that same wolf she saw a second ago knocked the dragon away and started attempting to maul it.

Fluttershy watched as the wolf clawed and bit at the dragon, and narrowly dodged its swiping. Fluttershy flew up closer, and said "Wait, can't we settle this a better way?"

Suddenly, right before the wolf was going to bite again, the dragon knocked it into fluttershy, causing it to chomp on her right foreleg.

"OW!" shrieked Fluttershy as the dragon approached closer.

Fluttershy covered her eyes in terror, right before the wolf picked her up by her tail and ran as fast as it could. When she opened her eyes, she saw a large fireball fly by and engulf a tree into flames. Then, the wolf tripped, and she flew into a hole, and rolled into the rabbit home again.

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Fluttershy finished her small story, Applejack and Twilight stood there in thought.

"So that wolf was a... Lycan?" asked Applejack

Fluttershy nodded in return, and Twilight spoke up "So where did you get that potion?"

"The next morning, a search party from Cloudsdale found me, and my life returned to mostly normal for the next couple of weeks... Then, the next full moon, you can guess what happened..." replied Fluttershy.

Twilight replied "Yea..."

Fluttershy continued, "Then after my parents found out, they looked for a solution, and eventually found out about this potion from the 'luna's glory' flower."

After a few moments, Applejack spoke up, "Ah think ah better go home and take care of things, are you alright for now Fluttershy?"

"Yes, of course, I think I ought to get started on my daily chores too." replied Fluttershy "But... please don't tell anypony."

Applejack replied "My lips are sealed. See y'all later, I guess."

Twilight followed up, "Yea, Spike is probably wondering where I have been. Don't worry, I won't tell anypony."

Fluttershy nodded, and her friends went out the door slowly.

"Well that went, well..." Said Applejack, "Considering."

"I guess so. And I will be doing some research on this..." replied Twilight.

"That sounds like a good idea, see yah." replied Applejack.

Author's Note

One proofread before upload, will do again later.

PS: no this is definitely not the end.

(Edit): Now edited by KeatsLocksley, he is teaching me how to spell.