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// Chapter 1// Story: Once Bitten, Twice Batty// by Nicole Sunstone//------------------------------//

Once Bitten, Twice Batty
By: Nicole Sunstone

	“Thanks for inviting me over to the farm, Applejack,” Fluttershy said quietly, brushing back her long pink hair from in front of her eyes as she followed Applejack out to the orchard. Applejack smiled and looked back at Fluttershy as she led her down the trail.
	“Ah, think nothing of it, Fluttershy! I picked you especially for your skill with handling animals and such.” Applejack responded, throwing an apple up and catching it as she walked. “You know the fruit bats, right?”
	Fluttershy thought for a moment. “Oh, you mean the colorful looking bats that hang out in the apple trees?”
	“Yeah, those kind of fellas.” Applejack nodded, stopping in front of a tree. “Your typical fruit bat doesn’t cause that much trouble.”
	Applejack pulled back the branches of a bountiful apple tree to show the family of bright-red fruit bats. Fluttershy waved to the group of bats as they seemed to smile back, waving their wings at her.
	“Now, what we have here is a whole ‘nother type of problem.” Applejack continued, giving the family of fruit bats back their privacy. She walked through the orchard before stopping at another tree. “These are what we like to call vampire fruit bats.”
	Pulling back the branches to another tree, a group of three vampire fruit bats with jet-black coats hissed as they sucked the juice out of the apples, leaving only the cores. Fluttershy looked up at the strange creatures as Applejack prodded their nest with a small broom.
	“Behave yourself, you little varmints!” Applejack warned before one of the fruit bats threw a used apple core in her direction. The creatures chuckled as Applejack wiped her face from the withered apple’s juices. “These little creatures need to be removed from the trees. They’re wasting the crop to feed themselves and give nothing back in return!”
	“Umm, have you ever thought about treating them nicer?” Fluttershy suggested in a whisper, Applejack catching her quiet comment.
	“Treating them nicer? They’re an infestation! I’m not going to lay out a Sunday dinner for a bunch of pests living in my apple trees. Now you can handle them however you like, but you need to get them out of there!”
	“Oh, okay then,” Fluttershy muttered softly, walking over to another part of the orchard as Applejack put on her heavy work gloves to start pulling the bats out of the trees. Pulling back the branches, Fluttershy was met with a cacophony of hissing and scowling from another group of vampire fruit bats.
	“Now look here,” Fluttershy began, using her stern animal taming tone. “You’re being a pest to my friend so I’m here to take you to a new home that doesn’t harm the harvest of the apples in this farm. Does that sound good?”
	The bats looked at each other in confusion at Fluttershy’s words, almost as though they understood the request that she was making. Fluttershy took the silence as a good sign and reached over to grab one of the bats carefully in her hands. However, the bat in question didn’t appreciate being picked up from its nest.
	“Ahh! Applejack!” Fluttershy cried as the bat started hissing and flapping his wings in her hands as she ran over to her friend. “Where do you want the bats?!”
	Applejack face froze at the sight of the bat thrashing around in Fluttershy’s hands. If Fluttershy couldn’t calm them, there was no hope for these creatures. “Throw them in the cage that Apple Bloom built!”
	She pointed to a steel cage that was surprisingly well constructed. A bunch of bats had already been captured and were flapping and flying around in the steel prison, wanting their freedom. Fluttershy opened the cage and lowered the hand with the captured bat into it.
	“I’m so sorry, but you have to stay here!” Fluttershy stated, having to raise her voice to try to speak over all the hissing and scowling from the mob of imprisoned bats. Letting the bat go from her hand, the vampire fruit bat sunk his fangs into it, drawing her blood.
	Fluttershy winced, pulling her hand away as she slammed the door of the steel cage close. Rubbing the hand with the bite softly, Fluttershy walked over to where Applejack was using an industrial sized vacuum to clear out the trees.
	“Hey, you okay there?” Applejack asked as Fluttershy continued to rub the area on her hand where she was bitten by the bat. She nodded, feeling a strange sensation coming over her. Running her tongue along her teeth, she swore that one of her canines grew longer from the top of her jaw.
	
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	“Has anyone noticed that Fluttershy has been…” Rarity trailed off, digging her spoon into the lunch in front of her. The rest of the girls at the table looked at her as she thought of the right word to explain her friend’s behavior. “...acting odd recently?”
	“Yeah, now that you mention it.” Rainbow Dash said, rubbing her hand behind her head. “She looks totally different.”
	“Her voice is different too!” Pinkie Pie added, juggling a carrot.
	“And it all started just a few days ago. Right after I asked for her help in getting the farm ready for the apple harvest.” Applejack continued, tapping her finger to her chin. “Do you think that bat bite might have done something to her?”
	“Bat bite?” Rarity asked as a figure walked silently behind her, sitting down at the table. The girls froze as Fluttershy took her spot, setting her tray down in front of her.
	Fluttershy’s look had completely changed recently. Instead of the colorful, non-restrictive tank tops and skirts that she normally wore, her attire had darkened and had become harsher with shades of black and gray. Her boots with the bright pink socks were replaced with black high-stilettos around striped stockings and ripped fishnets that went all the way up her thighs.
	On one hand, her nails were painted in a blood-red polish that matched the lipstick on her lips. The other hand was covered by a jet-black skin-tight glove to cover the area where the bat had bitten her. She batted her long eyelashes against heavy black eyeshadow and flipped her hair back, revealing a long, black streak right in the middle of the pink hue.
	“Fluttershy darling! We were just talking about you!” Rarity commented nervously, looking at her friend’s gothic appearance. Fluttershy rolled her eyes and sunk her teeth into the apple that was on her tray, sucking it dry of its juices as she chewed.
	“So, I was thinking about maybe having a band meeting to discuss the Fall Formal arrangement! Does this afternoon work for you, Fluttershy?” Rainbow Dash asked, leaning over the table to get her friend’s attention. Fluttershy hissed and brushed her off.
	“More like she doesn’t talk at all.” Pinkie Pie corrected, thinking of her previous statement.
	“Girls, I think I know who can help us.” Rarity said with a confident smile, whipping out her cell phone before calling the number of her contact.
	
	After school, much to the gothic girl’s displeasure, Rarity had dragged Fluttershy to a house on the outskirts of their town. Rarity had only been to this house once but after what had happened, she knew that she could trust her contact in her own way of approaching a problem, whether scientific or magical. She and the rest of the girls weren’t exactly sure where this particular problem fell.
	The door opened as a girl in a lab coat stood in the doorway, her appearance almost a mirror image of Twilight Sparkle from Equestria. She pushed up her glasses on her face, looking at her two visitors.
	“Dreadfully sorry to disturb you with this problem dearie, but our friend Fluttershy seems to be afflicted with a very strange problem. As you can see, she’s not the girl that you’ve seen before.” Rarity explained as Fluttershy scoffed and looked away from the scientist.
	“Indeed. Her whole outfit and demeanor seem to have changed!” Twilight hypothesized, already starting to take notes. A small bark came from behind her as the purple furred puppy named Spike ran up to greet Rarity. Rarity smiled and crouched down to pet Spike as she looked up at Twilight.
	“Think you can do something to help her?” Rarity asked, concerned about her friend.
	“I’ll do my best. This is something that has to be done between me and her though.” Twilight explained, pushing up her glasses on her face.
	“I understand completely.” Rarity nodded, giving a short cough. “Fluttershy, sweetie, I’m going to leave you here with Twilight here, okay?”
	Fluttershy scoffed again before Rarity sighed, her attempts at being friendly to her seeming futile. Giving Spike one last scratch under his chin, Rarity went back to her car as Fluttershy stood in the doorway, staring down the scientist.
	“Yes, well, on to the lab?” she asked nervously, keeping the book of notes close to her.
	
	Sitting down in Twilight’s laboratory, Fluttershy didn’t look any more at ease than she did outside. Twilight briskly walked around her as she attached a series of doohickeys and other technical attachments to monitor the girl’s vitals and other data that she felt needed to be collected.
	“Now according to what Rarity told me, you ran across a vampire fruit bat while helping your friend Applejack, is that right?” Twilight asked, holding Fluttershy’s arm out. The goth didn’t answer.
	“Do you mind if I take a look?” Twilight inquired, pulling down the long black glove covering her hand. Fluttershy hissed as Twilight examined her hand, noticing a bright pink bruise at the area where she had been bitten. To Twilight’s eye, the bruise looked like a pink bat against the girl’s pale yellow complexion.
	“Interesting,” Twilight exclaimed as she scribbled notes in her book, leaving the glove off as she went to check Fluttershy’s vitals once again. The girl’s heartbeat seemed to be rising during the diagnosis but Twilight couldn’t pinpoint exactly what was causing the change.
	“Now, vampire fruit bats are dangerous creatures, but in all of my records and research, I have never seen such an extreme reaction. The change in clothing, attitude, even hairstyle. It’s almost as if you were trying to become a vampire bat yourself.”
	Fluttershy hissed at the accusation, causing her heartbeat to spike against the monitor. Twilight looked over to check the data and began to postulate a plan to continue her diagnosis.
	“It seems like your extremities are affected the most.” she began, carefully unclasping Fluttershy’s tall black stilettos. The monitor registered a steady increase in her patient’s heartbeat and blood pressure as Twilight removed Fluttershy’s shoes. Pushing up her glasses, she knew she had to go further.
	“But it’s not so easy to just to pretend to be a vampire fruit bat.” Twilight explained, grabbing Fluttershy’s tights and striped stockings in her hands. Slowly, she began to roll them down her legs to her feet, slipping it off. Fluttershy moaned softly as the monitor registered another spike at Twilight’s action. “You have to feel it.”
	Examining Fluttershy’s feet, Twilight noticed how her toes clawed inward with short sharp, jet black nails. Her head tilted as she ran her hand carefully against the girl’s foot, feeling a light coat of fur forming around it. Taking note of her findings, Twilight looked up to see Fluttershy’s pale face looking rather flushed following the removal of her stockings. Twilight chewed on the end of her pencil, unable to quantify the data that she was receiving.
	“Tell me Fluttershy,” Twilight began, taking a seat in front of her. “Do you know what it means to be a vampire fruit bat?”
	Fluttershy cocked her head to the side, taking in and thinking about Twilight’s words. The monitor beeped faster as she felt the wild coat of her fur slowly creep up her legs.
	“Do you feel it? Something sleeping deep inside of you?” Twilight took off her glasses and breathed on the lenses using a small cloth to clean them. “This isn’t exactly scientific, but my conclusion is that when the vampire bat bit you, it transferred the key to its DNA into you through a magical transfusion. It’s almost as if your body was the perfect host due to your connection in an alternate world.”
	Fluttershy’s ears twitched as she felt herself ponying up, her heart racing against her chest. A dark red magic shrouded her ears as they shifted on the side of her head, growing longer and covering with the same wild fur as on her legs. The magic covered her hands as her fingers grew longer with sharp nails, shifting into dangerous claws.
	“Even then, for the sake of science,” Twilight began, putting her glasses back on. “We have to wake you up. If you embrace the batty side of you, then we can find a way to subdue it and bring old Fluttershy back.”
	Fluttershy closed her eyes as her pupils shifted from a soft blue-green to a dark red, thirsty for blood. Her tongue danced across her teeth as her fangs grew longer, finally free to taste the sweet nectar that she wanted. Shaking her head, the wild nature of the fur crawling up her body caught up to her hair, sending it into an unnatural frazzle.
	“What would it be like to fly? Soaring through the night’s sky as the moon shone brightly on your face?” Twilight asked, taking note of the data on the monitor.
	Fluttershy hissed as she felt the fabric of her gothic dress rip from behind her as a pair of monstrous bat wings spread out from her shoulder blades. The dark red magic extended her hair into her ponied up ponytail, following the wild nature of the fur that had completely covered her.
	“That’s it. Embrace it. That taste for what you desire most. The taste for…” Twilight trailed off as Fluttershy’s glare turned directly to her.
	“Apples,” Fluttershy muttered in a grave voice, feeling the full changes come over her as she licked her teeth. Twilight looked over her glasses as she felt her mind growing hazy. From her broad research in the subject, she had remembered that vampires had an allure to entrap their victims that they would either feast on or turn to fit their cause. Pulling off her glasses, Twilight couldn’t help but stare at the changed Fluttershy.
	“You. I need your help.” Fluttershy requested, using her finger to motion over Twilight. Her voice changed to suit her allure, becoming more feminine and seductive. Twilight nodded as she walked over to her new master, her eyes fixed on the vampiress beauty. “Could you help your mistress be a bit more comfortable?”
	Twilight softly caressed Fluttershy’s legs as she moved up to the waist of her tattered skirt, pulling down the zipper. The vampiress moaned as the skirt fell down her legs to reveal the black panties with a frilly white lace pulled up tight against her wild coat of fur.
	“Very good. Now the back.” Fluttershy requested, presenting the ripped back to her top to Twilight. Nodding and following orders, Twilight unzipped her top, revealing the bare back of her mistress. She struggled to pull down the rest of the top as Fluttershy’s wings spread out in all their glory.
	“You have to pull harder,” Fluttershy suggested, snapping her claw as her suggestion soaked into Twilight’s mind as her thoughts became less scientific and more primal. Using all of her strength, Twilight ripped the fabric of the top away from Fluttershy, letting her wild, furred breasts be revealed to her servant’s lustful eyes.
	“That’s it. You’re a natural.” she smiled, sitting back in the patient’s chair with her legs spread outward. “Only one more thing now.”
	Twilight leaned down and rest her hands on the frilly edges of Fluttershy’s panties. With her servant ready to pull, Fluttershy clicked her tongue.
	“No no, not with your hands,” she warned, brushing the girl’s hands away. “Think of something else.”
	Twilight nodded and leaned forward, opening her mouth to bite down on the front edge of the underwear. Looking up, the servant didn’t hear any objections to her choice and slowly pulled on the edge of her panties, peeking at her mistress’ waiting slit. Fluttershy moaned as she wrapped her legs around Twilight’s head, feeling her panties slide down her legs, to her servant’s mouth. Her pussy grew more excited as she felt fully free from her restrictive clothes.
	“Now, what do you want from me?” Fluttershy asked, crossing her legs as she sat naked before Twilight, her panties still hanging from her servant’s mouth. “Come now, you can tell me.”
	“The… thirst…” Twilight let out, dropping Fluttershy’s panties on the floor. The vampiress smirked as she beckoned Twilight to come forward once again.
	Twilight leaned forward as Fluttershy wrapped her arm around her, pulling her close. Twilight’s heart raced as she felt her mistress’ furred breast pushed up against her. Getting lost in her primal thoughts, her panties grew wet under the skirt she was wearing beneath her lab coat.
	“I hope you’re not a waste of talent,” Fluttershy commented before licking up Twilight’s neck. The girl shivered, pressing up against her mistress’ body. Giving a small smirk, Fluttershy’s fangs grew out from her mouth, the sharp tips glinting in the light as she sunk them into Twilight’s soft neck.
	Moaning loudly, Twilight pulled back from Fluttershy, feeling a rush run across her body. Her shoes ripped apart as her feet grew sharp claws while her ears shifted up her head, growing longer and covered with a wild, purple fur. Twilight looked on at her hands as they shifted to claws with sharp nails, the uncontrollable fur spreading quickly to every inch of her body. She closed her eyes as she felt the strong presence of the vampiric thoughts infect her mind, changing her purple eyes to a thirsty dark red. Hissing loudly as a pair of bat wings ripped out from her underneath her lab coat, she ran her tongue against her teeth feeling the new fangs.
	“You look wonderful!” Fluttershy commented, swiping her claw across Twilight’s clothes as it shredded through the fabric. Twilight screeched as she ripped apart any shred of clothing she was wearing, embracing her nude, furry bat form. Fluttershy grinned as she admired her servant’s body, softly caressing her pet’s pert purple breasts.
	“So lovely.” she complimented before catching Twilight in a passionate kiss. The two played with each other’s tongues as they felt the sharp tips of their vampire fangs. Twilight gripped tightly to Fluttershy’s back as she kissed her. Pulling away, Twilight moaned as she felt Fluttershy’s claw rub up against her soft entrance.
	“Thirsty?” Fluttershy asked, lifting her claw to her mouth as she sucked off Twilight’s slick juices. Twilight panted and nodded, rubbing her pussy up against Fluttershy’s leg. Fluttershy smirked and pinned her to the ground with her strength, cracking the tile floor in the laboratory. Twilight screeched happily, instinctively spreading her legs. Fluttershy rubbed at Twilight’s slit gently as she sucked on her servant’s breasts, lapping thoroughly with her tongue.
	Twilight moaned as her juices dripped out of her waiting entrance, begging for more attention. Licking her servant’s fluids off of her claw, Fluttershy turned around and leaned over Twilight’s slit, licking her lips. Twilight moaned as she noticed her mistresses slick opening above her face. She immediately leaned up and started sucking deeply on Fluttershy’s pussy, pushing her tongue deep inside.
	Fluttershy moaned loudly before pushing her mouth into Twilight’s soft opening, her tongue reaching further into her servant’s inner walls. The two sucked and slurped up each other’s hot, sweet juices, feeling an acceptable replacement for the taste of apples for that time. As they teased deeper into their pink centers, the two vampiresses felt each other inching closer to their limit.
	Fluttershy panted as she pressed her tongue strongly against Twilight’s most sensitive spot, causing her to push over her limit. As Twilight moaned loudly, she felt a wave of inexplicable pleasure flow out of her and spray on her mistress’ face. Feeling Twilight’s climax, Fluttershy moaned as her pussy sprayed her sweet hot juices all over Twilight’s face, Fluttershy flapping her wings as the wave of pleasure ran over her.
	Panting and dripping in their love juices, Fluttershy wrapped her wings around Twilight as her servant screeched happily before closing her eyes, resting on her mistress’ breasts. She softly brushed Twilight’s wild hair against her ears, admiring her servant’s loyalty to her. She knew that if she could get to the other girls. there would be nothing to keep her from having all of Sweet Apple Acres’ apple harvest for the year.