Right, as I post this to it is the very first hour of Halloween. When you guys actually start reading this, it will more than likely be another time. Possibly not even Halloween yet. But who cares, I'm actually updating! Now this story is not very scary, in fact I don't think it's scary in the least, but it is very strange, and very evil. This story has destroyed countless fairies and other cute magical creatures so that it can sustain itself, all 11,000 words of itself (insert maniacal laughter here). I got the basic idea from a story called "the Halloween Costume" but I can't remember who the writer was, and I don't really care. All I do care about is that if he dose read this he enjoys what I have done.
One Special Halloween Costume
Its that time of the year once again, its Halloween. And with Halloween comes trick or treating, ghost stories, costumes, and Halloween parties. It is the parties that we are mainly looking at this day, the Kokaua high schools annual senior Halloween party to be exact. You see, many years have past on the island and Lilo is now a senior at her local high school. The Halloween party is one of the biggest events that she was looking forward to, so she wanted it to be a very special.
At this moment in time she was walking down the high street of the now, not so small town, with her two best friends in the whole world…stitch and Victoria. Victoria was also in the same boat as Lilo, she wanted to find a costume that no other person would have at the party. It was the one time that they could show their true selves and not get bothered by Myrtle and her posse. Stitch was there because he wanted to help his two earth friends find that perfect costume each. He felt a little left out that he was no longer able to go to these sorts of events with Lilo, but he had his bugee-boo angel to help him get over this feeling. Yes that right, all the experiments have now found the rightful place and the ones that Gantu managed to catch have been recovered.
They where just about to go into the costume shop when guess who came out of it carrying a bag in one of her hands, being followed by her so called friends…myrtle. Fortunately for Lilo, stitch and Victoria, myrtle and her friends didn't notice them, thanks to the shop door, but unfortunately for them they managed to hear some information that they did not want to hear,
"…know Elaina, this is their best costume. The guy said that he hadn't heard of a better costume on all of Kauai…" was all that they managed to hear myrtle say before the group went too far to hear any more.
Hearing this made Lilo quite depressed. She wanted to have the best costume, since it was her holiday. It was, in her mind, just as important as Christmas. Victoria was fairing a little better. Sure she liked to be in the limelight, I mean what 17year old girl doesn't, but she didn't feel that she needed it at this time. But she did know that Lilo would be hit hard.
As Victoria and stitch expected, Lilo was now more than determined to find a costume that would beat Myrtles. She went into the costume shop and asked if she could see morpholemue. Unfortunately for her, with all the people coming into the shop and getting costumes, he was overworked and was now taking some time off (what, experiments can't get time off?). Hearing this Lilo was a little upset, but that did not stop her on her quest to find the best costume.
For the next three hours Lilo, stitch and Victoria went from shop to shop, looking for the perfect costume. But with every shop they went to, it was the same situation, not one costume that they saw in the shops looked like it would beat Myrtle's costume, though they didn't actually see what it was.
They where just about to give up and go home for dinner when they found this really old looking shop just on the outskirts of town. The window was filled with cobwebs and dust, but it also had some masks, and other costumes. Victoria was a little hesitant about going in, but Lilo was just not listening, her own vendetta against Myrtle blocking rational thought. You see the thing that scared Victoria, and stitch thought he would never admit it, was that they had never seen this shop before. In fact Victoria could swear that the building was not there yesterday.
Walking into the shop, they could instantly smell the oldness of the place. It smelt strongly of rotting wood, with a hint of paint. Of course stitch could smell even more about the place than Lilo and Victoria, but we don't need to know what he could smell. It was here that they also noticed that the cobwebs where not just around the window, but where all over the shop.
The shop itself was both wide and quite long, which was surprising since the building looked quite small from the outside. But the group was not looking at the size of the place. Oh no, they where looking at all different things that where in the shop. There where bookshelves at tall as the sealing crammed tight with very old looking books. The shelves where packed with some of the weirdest things you could imagine. Things like: stuffed crows, and weird looking grails and goblets (some of which had a shape similar to a skull).
The atmosphere in the shop would kill you if you let your guard down, which made Lilo awe in wonder while Victoria looked around with a bit of a scare, and stitch…well he just did his usual thing, not really caring about the atmosphere. As they walked slowly further into the shop, they begin to see things that could be used for costumes. They saw some pretty realistic looking masks of supernatural creatures; they also saw some very detailed makeup kits.
It was at this part of the shop that they decided to start looking for a costume. Sifting through the masks and other items in the shop, they didn't notice someone sneak up behind them.
"May I help you?" said a really old and shaky voice.
This caused all of them to jump a little and quickly turned around to face this person. It was an old woman and let me tell you did she look freaky. She was wearing a black dress and had white hair. Her face was heavily wrinkled, and she had a big long nose with a wart on the end that was spurting hairs. Her posture was hunched and she was leaning a little on a walking stick. Overall you could have said that she was a witch, apart from the fact that she had a soft smile on her face.
"Oh I'm sorry dears, did I scare you?"
"no you just startled us that all" Lilo said quite happily, once she got her breathing under control.
"oh, well that good to hear for a moment I thought I scared you all" the old lady said with slight disappointment in her voice. "So what brings you all into my shop?"
"well were looking for some Halloween costumes. We saw some in your window" Victoria answered, after she managed to get her breathing back under control, which took a little bit longer than Lilo.
"yeah, and it has to be really, really good. So that we can win the best costume prize at the party tonight" Lilo added with determination. Hearing this, the old woman smiled even more and nodded her head.
"I see. Well you two are in luck. I have just finished two of my best costumes, and it looks like you have just the right build for them. So if you would like to follow me to the back I will show you them" the old woman said before turning around and headed back into the depths of the shop, from whence she came with two teenage girls and a blue dog following.
Entering the back of the shop, you would have thought that you where in the middle ages or something. It was lit by candlelight and the walls appeared to be made out of random sizes or stone. But there where also some modern things as well. There was a sewing machine, admittedly an old one, but it was still a sewing machine. There was also a stove in the corner where a teapot was sitting.
"now here are the costumes. Tell me what you think" the old woman said as she motioned a hand over to a pair of chairs.
On top of the chairs lay pieces of some costumes. There where two sets of feet like socks, two pairs of gloves, two head bands, two pairs of shorts, two mid drift t-shirts and two tails. The only thing was that one set of them was coloured black and the other was coloured orange. Also one of the tails was long and thin while the other was long and very bushy, they where costumes of a black cat and a fox.
"aww I wanted a scary costume" Lilo whined.
"ah but scary costumes are not the ones that win competitions, it is the ones that are the most realistic that win" the old woman countered.
"she dose have a point Lilo" Victoria confirmed. Knowing she was defeated, Lilo took a closer look at the cat costume, while Victoria looked at the fox costume.
"man these feel really soft" the two girls said at once.
"like I said they are my best costumes so far" the old woman said smiling "why don't you try them on. There are some changing rooms just over there" she added pointing down a corridor. The two girls agreed and, after picking up the costumes, walked of to try them on.
Moments later they where back in the room wearing their respected costumes. Lilo was wearing the cat costume and she really liked it, you could tell by the smile on her face. While Victoria had on the fox costume and had a similar smile.
"she what do you think, stitch?" Lilo asked her best friend. He only gave her a thumbs up and a smile, signalling that it suited her. He also gave one to Victoria after she asked as well.
"right we'll take them" the two girls said after they checked themselves in a full length mirror that the old lady had wheeled in when they went to get changed.
"oh marvellous. Now go and get changed, while I ring up the costumes for you"
leaving the store, Lilo and Victoria where now happy with what they bought. They where surprised at how cheat they managed to get them for, and also the old woman gave them a small bottle of pink face paint and some instructions "to give it even more realism" the old woman said when she handed them the instructions and paint. Right now they where heading back into town, thinking they still had time to go to the beach, when Victoria's watched beeped. Finally realising what the time was, they said their goodbyes before running off home.
Lilo was very excited. After getting home and had her dinner, she went up to her roof top room and placed all the items of the costume onto the bed. It was here that she looked at herself in the mirror. She had to admit to herself that she looked pretty good. She was by no means beautiful, but then again she was not ugly ether. She felt that the best thing about her was her eyes, they seemed to always be sparkling. She loved her hair, it was always so soft and shiny.
Looking over at her costume, she could picture the reaction that myrtle would give when ether Victoria or herself won the best costume competition. She didn't mind who would win so long as it was not myrtle or any of her cronies, they would just brag about it to every one in the school for weeks if they did.
Going over to the instructions that she placed next to her costume, she read them out loud to herself.
"step 1: remover all clothing except undergarments. Then put on the lower parts of the costume: shorts, then feet" that seemed simple enough. So she removed her green t-shirt before removing her denim shorts. Her taste of clothing had changed quite a bit since her experiment catching days, though she would never except it, it was quite similar to Nani's. She then put on the shorts of the costume before finally putting on the feet. She was astonished at how soft the fur was on the costume, she could swear that it was almost real fur. The feet even had the pink pads that you found on cats feet.
'talk about detail' Lilo though as she put them on.
With the lower half of the costume now on she went back to the instructions and read the next part.
"step 2: place upper part of costume on: T-shirt then ears" again a simple task, so she got the t-shirt from the bed and put it on, before she got the ears and placed them on. Again she took time to admire how soft the fir was, and how realistic it looked, but she remembered the lady promising that they were not made from real animals. Still she wondered how the lady got them so soft.
With the costume nearing completion Lilo began to feel excited about the party and what would happen there. Looking at the instructions she read step 3.
"step 3: put the face pain on at the nose, then attach the tail." Retrieving the small bottle of face paint, Lilo was surprised to find that the lid had a small brush on it, making it easier to apply the face paint. With the face paint now on, she collected the tail and attached it to the back of the shorts.
With the completion of the costume well within sight Lilo looked at the final step of the instructions.
"step 4: to complete the costume put on the gloves" collecting the gloves from the bed, Lilo noticed that the gloves had the same pink pads that where on the feet. Putting them on, she completed the costume. She was just about to go and show the others what she looked like when she felt an itch start on her back.
As she tried to get at it she failed to notice that she was walking towards the mirror. It wasn't until she actually bumped into the mirror itself that she noticed it. when she did actually notice it she had to do a double take, because what she saw there had to be a trick. Upon looking into the mirror she saw hairs sprouting all over her stomach.
It was then that countless other itches started all over her body. She tried in vain to scratch each and every one of them, but all in vein. Eventually she stopped scratching even thought they where still there. She just could not take her eyes off the mirror. Hairs where growing all over her stomach.
Seeing this she threw off the t-shirt to see if the hairs where growing anywhere else. Sure enough the hair was growing all over her chest. She could no longer see her breasts thanks to the volume of black hair covering it. she was about to scream in shock, when a new itch started on her hands, she instantly removed the gloves from her hands. There, on her hands, was the beginning of even more fur the exact same colour as the fur growing on her chest and stomach.
"this, this can't be happening!" Lilo said to herself. She even tested it by tugging at one of the new hairs, "ouch" yup, it's real all right.
Now Lilo really did open her mouth, but it wasn't to scream. No it was because she could feel movement in her mouth. Opening her mouth she saw that her teeth where changing as well, they where becoming pointed, just like cats teeth. Before she could get over the shock of finding her teeth changing, her feet demand to be examined.
Still standing by the mirror, Lilo yanks off her costumes feet one at a time until she could see both of her feet. By now she already knew what to expect on her feet, her feet where covered in the black fur that was now well on its way to covering most of her body.
Then, something happened that she did not expect. She felt a pulling sensation on her lower back, before a slight sting of cramp. Taking off her shorts she now found that just above her buttocks, was a small stub of black fur.
"I'm…I'm growing a tail?!" Lilo said shocked beyond belief as she touched the bump, just to make sure it was real.
As you might have guessed, by now she was very freaked out. All of her energy was going into crying quietly, causing her to land on her hands and knees. She tried to stop herself crying by closing her eyes. After all she was a teenager now, and teenagers don't cry. But alas closing her eyes did nothing. in fact the only thing it did do was prevent her from seeing the changes, and though they didn't hurt, she could still feel everything.
With her eyes closed, she could not see what was happening to her feet. But she could certainly feel it. her feet where lengthening, becoming longer and more cat like. They kept lengthening until they where almost double their previous length. Then the baby toe and the fourth toe merged together becoming one. This happened on both of her feet. Then pink pads began to immerge from her feet; one under each toe, a big one on the pad of her foot, and one on the heel of her foot. The exact same happened on her hands, except she kept all ten digits. Once the pink pads where in place, her toe and fingernails began to grow longer and much more pointed.
Once the hands and feet where complete, the bump on her back began to extend further out from her. Like a snake, it slithered its way out of her, becoming longer and longer with each passing second. Eventually it stopped, but how long it was would have to be determined some other time, though it looked to be about four feet long.
The only thing that hadn't changed throughout her transformation was her face so guess what changed next. Yup, her face. It was her ears that where the first to change. Slowly they began to lengthen and grow pointy as the slowly made their way up her head, knocking the headband off in the process. This is where we see some differences between Lilo and a cat. You see her ears only moved about an inch further up from her head, so they could still be covered with her hair, while a cats ears are on the very tip of its head.
Now it was time for the pink face paint to become permanent. Lilo's nose was now a lovely shade of pink instead of its usual colour tan, and so was her upper lip and a small line connecting her nose and lip together. Not soon after that happened, she felt whiskers popping out of her face, just to the left and right of her nose.
Finally, her nose and her mouth pushed away from her face slightly, so that it resembled a feline's muzzle. While all this happened on her face, the same black fur started to cover her face. Now there was no part of her that was not covered in black fur, or that remained the same…well actually there was one part. Her beautiful long, black, shiny hair remained the same, but that was about it. Now with her face finally completed, the transformation that started out of thin air finally stopped.
Very cautiously and slowly, Lilo opened her eyes to see what has happened. Upon looking into the mirror once again she feels like crying. Her eyes hadn't survived the change. They where now a golden yellow and the pupils where now slits. Slowly she continues to look over the rest of her body, but the more she dose this, the more tears build up behind her eyes. She looks at the only feature of herself that hasn't changed, her hair, though she dare not touch it in case the transformation starts up again and takes that too. She manages to utter one simple sentence before she looses control of herself and starts to cry.
"what am I?"
Time was marching on, and stitch was beginning to wonder where Lilo was. She had been up in her bedroom for some time, and at one point or another, stitch thought he heard her crying at one point or another. Beginning to get a little worried stitch decided to go up and see what was taking so long.
When the elevator stop stitch started looking around the room, since he didn't see Lilo right away. After several scans of the room stitch finally found Lilo, but the strange thing was that she was lying on the floor,
"wow Lilo that costume looks much more real than when you put it on in the shop. I guess those instructions really did help" stitch said in his own tong as he saw her on the ground by the mirror.
Hearing stitch voice from the centre of the room brought Lilo back out of her depression at what she's become. Slowly she got her crying under control before she turned to face her best friend. Truthfully she didn't want him to see her like this, but now that he was here she couldn't very well hide it.
Stitch's jaw hit the floor when he looked into Lilo's face. The only thing that she got for her face was a small bottle of makeup, a small bottle of PINK makeup. How on earth did she have such a realistic looking cat face with only that one bottle? He then noticed the tearstains all over her face, and when he realised that none of the makeup was running thanks to the tears, he began to get worried.
Stepping closer to Lilo, stitch used his index finger to remove one of the newly formed tears from her eye. As soon as he touched her face, he realised that this was not a costume.
"Lilo what happened to you?"
Hearing stitch ask this, Lilo let loose a torrent of tears as she grabbed him in a hug. This startled stitch at first, but hearing her cry was something that he dreaded and knew the only way to make her stop was to allow her to cry on his shoulder. It was strange to see her like this, but it was stranger to actually feel the fur that was all over her body and to feel that tail of hers slowly wrap itself around his waist, telling him that she was never going to let go.
Feeling stitch's arms around her, gave Lilo the feeling that everything was going to be fine. This helped her recover, and to start thinking like she normally did. Remembering stitch's question, she slowly opened her eyes. this is when she saw the costume lying just off to the left of her.
"The only thing it could be is that costume I bought today…wait, if it was the costume that did this to me, and Victoria bought a costume from the same shop as me. Then that means this will happen to Victoria! I'VE GOT TO STOP HER!" Lilo said as she let go of stitch, got up from the ground and started to head for the elevator.
"Lilo! You can't go outside looking like that!" stitch said, as she was just about to activate the only proper exit out of her room.
Looking herself over she realised that she was naked. Blushing slightly at what she was just about to do, she went over to her wardrobe and pulled out some clothes. After putting on a green t-shirt and some blue shorts. As soon as she put on the shorts she could feel a jolt of pain coming from her lower back. Looking over she notices that her tail is stuck in a very uncomfortable position.
Thinking fast, she flexed her index finger to reveal a sharp looking claw. Stabbing it into the fabric, she managed to make a hole just large enough for her tail to go through it comfortably. Now, with her looking decent, well as decent as she could get looking like a black cat anyway, she set off down the elevator and out of the house.
Just before she left the house, she looked at the clock in the sitting room and noticed that it was 6:40. She knew that Victoria's parents usually had their dinner at around 6:30, so she knew that it would be close. Fortunately for her, her new feet seemed to increase her running speed by quite a bit, and since she was already on the track team at the school, this really did make a difference.
Skidding to a stop just outside Victoria's house, she raced over to the door and run the bell. After a few seconds, there was no response from the house and this made her much more edgy. Going for the door knob she found that the door was unlock, so after opening the door, she sprinted up the stairs, taking three at a time.
Victoria had just read the last part of her instructions and had already put on one of the gloves, when she heard the front door slam open and then footsteps coming up the stairs. However the distraction of all this noise happening somewhere else in her house went semi unnoticed by her. Her head was looking at her bedroom door, while her other hand encased itself in the orange fox-like paw of her costume.
Opening the door Lilo saw Victoria looking over at her, but she also saw that Victoria's costume was complete.
"oh no! I'm too late" was all that Lilo could think of saying before she fell down to her knees, brought her hands up to her face and started crying into them.
"huh Lilo. It was you who was making all that noise? Hey, where did you get that costume, it looks so real?" Victoria asked, but she got no reply as her friend started crying into her hands.
It was just at this moment that an itch started to develop on Victoria's back. Unconsciously she started scratching it. it was also at this point in time that Lilo thought that she might still have time to save Victoria, if she managed to get the costume of her before the fur started to grow.
Quickly gaining control of her crying once again, Lilo quickly looked up at her friend and was just about to tell her to remove the costume, when the colour of her fur managed to change from a black colour to a pale grey. Slowly raising a shacking paw, Lilo pointed to Victoria's stomach. Wondering how Lilo managed to change the colour of her fur, and wondering what she was pointing at, Victoria looked down at where Lilo was pointing.
Looking down at her stomach, Victoria saw several tuffs of orange hair slowly growing all over the area of stomach not being covered by her t-shirt. Seeing this caused her to give out a loud, and very scared, gasp. As she watched the hair spread further, her vision blurred for a moment as her eyes changed to a deep golden yellow colour before becoming clear once again, however both girls where unaware of the change.
It wasn't until an itch started on Victoria's right leg that she started taking off her costume. Throwing off the two paw-like gloves Victoria pulled the right foot off and in its place was more of the orange fur that was also on her stomach. Seeing this she quickly pulls off the other foot to find that it's also covered in the orange fur
"wha, what's happening to me?" was all Victoria could think of saying, though it fell on death ears.
A strange pulling sensation at within the shorts managed to pull her attention towards it. As quickly as she could with her now shacking hands, Victoria pulled off her shorts. She wanted to scream. She wanted to scream so loud that the heavens would be able to hear her. But she couldn't. The shock that she got when she saw an orange and white tipped bump growing just above her bottom, prevented any sound coming out of her mouth. Hoping, praying it was a dream or a trick of the light, Victoria reached down and touched it. Unfortunately for her, it was real and appeared to be getting longer.
Before Victoria had any time to calm down, a brand new itch started on her chest. She knew already what it was but she still had to see it just to make sure. So taking of her top she confirmed it, fur was now growing all over her stomach and chest. But this time the fur was white instead of orange. With that realisation she collapsed to her knees, which was actually a good thing because her tail thought that now would be an excellent time to have a major growth spurt. It went from a few inches to well over 2 feet long and a lot bushier. The colouring of it was easily divided; about three quarters orange and the remaining quarter at the end was white.
Also her feet decided to lengthen at this point in time as well, growing to over double what they once where and becoming more rounded at the ends. Her toenails and fingernails became longer, harder and sharper than they had ever been, they where now claws. Soft pink pads appeared on her hands and feet, making them look much more like foxes feet instead of human feet, but then again they stopped being human feet when they decided to double in size.
The orange hairs were now slowly invading the only part of Victoria's body that wasn't covered in fur, her head. She could feel them at the base of her neck, slowly producing more and more as they marched up her neck. The pink face paint that was once fake, was now in fact very real and very permanent. The headband with the fake ears where now pushed off her head by her real ears as they lengthened, grew pointy and moved up her head a couple of inches. Her mouth started lengthening and in the process joined with her nose to create a muzzle, and once that had happened her teeth lengthened to fill the extra space of her new mouth.
And just as quickly as the transformation started, it stopped. As with Lilo earlier, though she didn't know this, she remained on her hands and feet in case the movement would start the transformation again. But after several minuets she realised that it was indeed over, so building up some courage she slowly got up off the floor. It was a strange sensation getting onto her feet, because her tail moved automatically to keep her centre of gravity in check. The feeling of standing was also a strange one. The way her feet where positioned how, she had to stand on her tip toes or else she lost her balance and fell onto her back, which she discovered the hard way.
Finally getting use to standing once again, Victoria looks over to a full-length mirror. There she sees a strange human/fox combination. The only thing that she could see that was unaffected by her transformation, was her orange hair, but truth be told it was rather difficult to see it. All of her body is now covered in this orange fur, except for her stomach and the tip of her bushy tail, which was the colour of freshly lain snow.
Looking over at Lilo Victoria saw that Lilo was on her knees crying into her hands, her tail wrapped around her, ears pinned to her head. Slowly Victoria walked over to Lilo and lightly placed her paw like hand onto her shoulder,
"Your not wearing a costume, are you Lilo?" Victoria asked with an expressionless voice. Slowly Lilo moved her hands away from her face, and in a voice that was almost a whisper answered her "no".
"so I take it the same thing happened to you?" Victoria asked, again in her expressionless voice.
"yes, exactly the same. I tried to stop you but I was too late" Lilo managed to say while holding back the tears that threatened to be released.
"its ok Lilo, its ok. Listen, what ever has happened to us at least we're going through it together." Victoria said trying to make Lilo feel better, "besides with costumes this realistic I'm sure we will win the best costume contest at the party." This got the reaction Victoria wanted. Lilo sniffed a couple of times before a small smile appeared on her face,
"your right. No one will have a costume as good as ours. Morpholomew can only change a person with the help of a picture, and it has to be a real picture too, not a cartoon or anything. Maybe this isn't so bad after all. Thanks Victoria, you always know how to make me feel better." Lilo said as she got up of the ground and gave Victoria a hug.
The feeling that went through the two friends was…interesting to say the least. It brought back memories of their childhood, when stitch was still the same size as them, instead of now where he is just taller than their knees. But it was also quite alien at the same time because both of them where now covered in fur. The feeling of fur against fur, for them anyway, felt really strange. Not bad or anything, just strange.
After a while they separated from each other and noticed the time, 6:45. This surprised Lilo more than Victoria, a lot more than Victoria. She remembered leaving her house at 6:40 and normally it took her a good 5 to 10 minuets to get to Victoria's house, depending on how fast she walked or ran. She didn't know what to think of this development, but at that moment in time there was a knock on the door.
Both Lilo and Victoria, who had put the clothes that she was wearing earlier, a pair of red shorts, with a minor modification to allow her tail some comfort, and a white t-shirt, braised themselves for the scream of Victoria's mother or father. Slowly the door opened and the two girls let out a sigh when they saw stitch enter the room,
"stitch what are you doing here?" asked Lilo who was surprised to see him. But stitch didn't here her at first, he was staring at the fox like Victoria that stood beside Lilo. However he quickly shook his head to bring himself out of his trance.
"I thought I'd find you here, Lilo. You left your Halloween ticket at home when you ran off. At first I wondered why you ran off, but now I can see why." Stitch said nodding in Victoria's direction, Lilo just slowly nodded. "Well at least you won't be alone in this, unusual situation. And if it dose get too much for you, you know I will always be there for you" stitch finished trying to end on a good note.
Even though that didn't sound very reassuring, it did make Lilo feel better, knowing that both of her friends will be with her throughout the entire event. But she also needed to be there for Victoria; after all she was in the same situation.
"thanks stitch. You don't know how much that means to me" she said before walking over to him to get her ticket, and to give him a big hug.
It was here that the next surprise came to them. When Lilo got close enough to hug him, stitch noticed that he had to look up in order to see her knees. Lilo also noticed this and began to tear up even more. She was very upset when they stopped being the same height, and had quite recently only just gotten over the fact that they would rarely, or more likely never, hug each other like they use to. And now she was even taller.
When Victoria noticed the size difference between the two, she instantly went around her room trying to look for a tape measure. She was a little disappointed when she grew too big to hug stitch normally, after all they where very close friends, though not as close as he was with Lilo. Finally finding one, a pink one that you get from Christmas crackers, nestled deep within the depths of her junk drawer she walked over to the two friends. Lilo was on her knees giving stitch a big hug, both of their eyes where closed.
"Umm Lilo, maybe we should see how much taller we are now?" Victoria said as she walked over to her friends. Slowly Lilo and stitch let go of their embrace and Lilo stood up,
"I guess your right Victoria." They where staring each other right in the eyes, which was normal to them. They had been the same height for quite some time now, so it made them feel better knowing they could still do it. Walking over to the closest wall Victoria stretched the pink tape measure to its maximum, 1-meter, and made a mark. Then she got Lilo to stand with her back to the wall, before getting stitch to hold the bottom of the tape at the 1-meter mark while she stretched it up to the tip of Lilo head.
Both of the girls thought that they where tall enough as it was, being 5ft 9in, but thanks to this transformation they where now taller than that. As Victoria stretched the pink tape closer to the top of Lilo's head, she found that there was less and less measuring tape in her hand. She was beginning to think that she would need to make another mark on the wall, meaning that they would be over 2-meters tall. That was something that she really did not want to see, and was glad to find that it did stop before the end. Admittedly with 7cm left, but it still stopped.
"right lets see, its stopped at 37 inches. Now if we add a meters worth to that, it becomes 76 inches. Now dividing that up into feet and inches that makes us…6ft 4! Lilo we've gained 7 inches thanks to this transformation!"
'Great' Lilo thought 'now I'm taller than Nani.' When Lilo was younger, she wanted to be taller than her sister, but when she actually got close to her sisters height of 5ft11, she realised that she enjoyed being the "little sister", and was glad when she stopped growing. But now she was taller than her, a good 5 inches taller than her. Which also meant that she was taller than David, something that she really didn't like the thought of.
It was just then that Victoria gave out a gasp in alarm that brought Lilo back out of her depressing thoughts. Looking over at the bedside clock Lilo saw that it was now 6:53 and the school dance started at 7.
"oh man where going to be late!" Victoria cried out to her friends. This completely removed the thoughts of her situation out of her head. This was about upstaging Myrtle, and nothing got in the way of that!
"Victoria, can't your parents give us a lift to the school?"
"no, I'm afraid they would have left to go to the town hall by now. Its having an adult only party there you know."
"oh that's right I forgot. Nani and David are going to that too. Well I guess the only thing we can do is run" hearing this Victoria looked puzzled,
"Lilo you do realise that it normally takes us about 10 minuets just to run there. How are we going to get there before 7 if we run?" Lilo was about to reply when she say that it was now 6:55.
"no time to explain, just follow me. Stitch sorry but I guess your going to have to go back to the house." Lilo said before she left the room with Victoria right behind her.
However unknown to Lilo stitch and his cousins where also going to have a Halloween party. Except theirs would involve, toilet paper, lots and lots of toilet paper. And the town. As he reflected on what he was going to do tonight he remembered his surprise, as well as all the other male experiments, when it was the female experiments that where the ones who suggested it. He was really looking forward to it at the start of the day, but now he wasn't so sure. So slowly wondering back in the direction of his house, stitch thought about what was the right thing to do.
By the time Lilo and Victoria got to their high school people where still waiting to get into their school gym,
"Wow I didn't think that we could get here on time" Victoria said quite speechless, but surprisingly not even the slightest bit out of breath.
"me nether. I knew we would be faster but never that fast. I mean it must of taken us just minuets to get here, and I'm not even the slightest bit tired" Lilo said just as speechless as Victoria "but since where here we might as well go in" so together, along with their tickets, they walked up to the door.
walking up to the door, they saw that a vampire was taking in tickets. The vampire was wearing a black cloak that had a blood red inside. It was wearing a white shirt with a black waistcoat over that; it also had a pair of smart black trousers. His face was pure white and you could easily see his fangs, thanks to them glowing in the dark. Walking up to the vampire, both Lilo and Victoria knew who it was instantly,
"Hi Dr. Cameron, I like your vampire outfit." Lilo said to the vampire.
Dr. Cameron was a very unusual teacher. He taught chemistry and biology, and though he was insignificant compared to Jumba, he actually taught the advanced classes. But the strangest thing was that he was only, like, 24. Normally Lilo had to look up at him, since he was a good head taller than she was, but now she was the one that had the extra head of height on him, and even though she hated to admit it, it did give her a thrill.
"Good evening Lilo, you two Victoria. I see your costumes are cat and fox people." He said to them in a stupid Transylvanian accent. It was made even worse by the fact that his normal accent was Scottish. "But my gosh those do look real, and you two must be wearing stilts or something." He continued in his normal voice.
"I swear the trouble you go through to win a contest is insane. I mean when I was in high school quite a number of us, myself included, would try to be the most ridicules, not the best. Why the last one I went to I went as a werewolf. Sure sounds scary, but I was wearing a t-shirt that would fall of at any moment. I also wore slippers that only looked like werewolf feet. But you could tell what they where the moment you saw them (really what I went as last Halloween party (slippers included!)). You take it to seriously. Its suppose to be fun, not a competition" droned on. Even though he was a great teacher, one of the things he did do at times was drone on and on. Then again it seemed that everyone that Lilo knew who studied those areas did the same thing.
After getting past the talking vampire, Lilo and Victoria managed to get into the hall and what they saw shocked them. It was not all the costumes, even though some looked quite scary. Or the decorations, there was even a DJ at the opposite end of the hall from them. No, what shocked them was the difference between walking through a crowd and walking through a crowd looking above their heads. The school body was widely spread in sizes and shapes, so there where people whom where taller than them, and some that where about the same size, but that was only a small handful of the over all school population
"Well, this is certainly a new experience" Victoria said quietly to Lilo,
"Yeah I know what you mean. Its actually quite creepy" Victoria only nodded her head in agreement.
However the two girls had nothing to fear, thanks to it being Halloween and all. Everyone who saw them just thought they where wearing really great costumes, and pairs of stilts. Though they couldn't figure out how they managed to keep such perfect balance. You see no one thought that they got their costumes from Morpholomew because they all knew how he worked, thanks to everyone wanting to be someone else. They knew that he would not accept two different photos and you become the product of both. They also knew that he would not accept photos that had been altered, no matter how well the alterations where. People wanting to win the Halloween costume contests found out this knowledge over the years, and in turn told everyone else.
However the news of their costumes eventually reached the ears of people that both Lilo and Victoria would rather have not have known. As Elena, who was dressed as a witch, walked around the hall, looking for her boyfriend (yes Myrtle and her posy have boyfriends…well maybe just Elena (she really calmed down a lot as she aged)), she noticed a crowd surrounding two people dressed up like a cat and a fox. Curious who these two people where she walked over to the group to see who they where and how come they managed to get a bigger crowd around them than Myrtle. However as she got closer to them she managed to make out from their faces, and their voices, who exactly they where, Lilo and Victoria.
Seeing this, she quickly rushed back to her leader to tell her the horrible news. Truthfully the news wasn't all that bad in her eyes. its just that as soon as myrtle found out about the two, she would get all huffy and angry, and annoying, and would most likely go over to the two and start a fight with them. This got Elena thinking. 'if all that's going to happen when I tell her that, why am I going off to tell her?' her answer came within a second and she realised that it wasn't worth it. So she decided to go back to her quest of finding her boyfriend.
The party turned out to be much easier than both of them expected, no one called them freaks, well no one so far, and everyone was complementing them on how real it looked, and some even complimented them on how real it felt, though several swiftly got a slap across the cheek for it, which hurt a lot more than the offender thought it would. I mean would you want people touching you tail without your permission if you had one? No I don't think you would.
Eventually the main event that everyone was looking forward to arrived, the best costume contest. As you expected the very first person to enter it was non other than myrtle, but what might surprise you is that Lilo and Victoria suddenly got a case of stage fright and didn't want to enter. However their fan club would have non of that and more or less hauled them to the DJ where the contest was going to take place. When I said more or less hauled, I mean they really where trying to haul them down to the front of the hall, but they could barley move the two. In fact they couldn't move them, the only reason the two where moving was because of all the support they where getting to hammer myrtle in this contest.
Myrtle's costume was indeed pretty good. She was dressed as a modern day vampire, it also looked like she was going to win thanks to the fact that her costume looked pretty real.
'Ironic choice, you blood sucker!' Lilo thought as she got closer to the front. Victoria thought something similar; though it was more the style of clothing that myrtle chose to go with the costume,
'That's just a disgrace to the vampire name. I mean no vampire would be seen dead, or alive, in clothing that you could see Britney spears wearing!' all these things just gave the two more confidence that they should show Myrtle up.
The DJ, who had some features that looked quite similar to Myrtle's, was about to wrap up the compotation when he noticed the two girls appear in front of the crowd.
"We'd like to enter too" the girls said at the same time before smiling a little at the shocked expressions on both the DJ's face and their nemesis's face. Quickly shacking his head the DJ managed to clear his head.
"Oh, ok then. Well let's see here. Umm, what are your names?" This put a smile on their faces, since not even Myrtle, who now even smaller than they remembered her being (she was about 5ft 6).
"My name's Victoria" said the fox creature. "And I'm Lilo" said the cat creature. Hearing this, Myrtle's jaw hit the floor. This was suppose to be her year to win the contest. Not Victoria's! And certainly not that riff raft Lilo! But their costumes where so real looking! Sure she had the best costume that the shop had, minus that weird creature that's too similar to Lilo weird dog for Myrtle to go near. Her trail of thought was stopped in its place as she heard the DJ talking into his mike.
"well ladies and gentlemen I can't decide the winner of the contest, but maybe you all can. We have managed to narrow it down to these three final contestants (yes others took up the challenge, but there costumes where not as good as Myrtle's, and no where near as good as Lilo's and Victoria's and where eliminated by the DJ). So if you want the pop star vampire to win, shout now!" there where a good few cheers here and there, but it was obvious that she wasn't going to win. So to save herself the trouble she just left the stage in a big huff.
"well that's that I suppose, another contestant down. That leaves just Lilo the black cat, and Victoria the red fox. So who wants Lilo to win?" the entire hall shakes as the people cheer for her. "and who wants Victoria to win?" again the hall shakes due to the noise. "now these two are close. I can't say who won. So let me hear it again. give a shout for Lilo" the crowd erupted just as before, defiantly no quieter, but the DJ couldn't tell if it was louder ether. "Ok, now lets hear it for Victoria!" as with Lilo, Victoria got the same as what she previously got, maybe a little louder but the DJ couldn't tell. "come on, there has to be a winner here. I mean do you think these two want to share first place?"
"actually we don't mind that much" Lilo said to the DJ with Victoria shacking her head in agreement. Hearing this produced an smile on the DJ's face.
"Ok the, let me get this straight. You all want Lilo to win" this produced the familiar, explosive cheer. "And you also want Victoria to win" again, an explosive cheer was heard. "Well the two girls don't mind sharing, so it gives me great pleasure in awarding joint first place to both Lilo and Victoria! Lets give them a big round of applause!" the cheering that took place after that was so loud that it would have registered on a earthquake detector. It was so loud that both Lilo and Victoria had to cover there, now much more sensitive, ears. In fact there was probably only one person in the entire crowd that wasn't cheering, and we all know what that person was.
The rest of the party involved dancing, talking and games. Even though most people here where far too old to be playing simple games as bobbing for apples, it was still played, and it was still very much enjoyed. It was here that some people noticed the new teeth that Lilo and Victoria had in their mouths. As you'd expect they thought they where fake and would take them out when they went to get an apple. But when they didn't do this, it got some curious looks from some people around them. But the looks vanished as soon as the apple was fished out of the big tank.
By the end of the party, Lilo had totally forgotten about how she felt earlier. She had a smile on her face, and was actually feeling much happier about her new form. She was invited to go to another party that someone was having, along with Victoria, but both girls had already made plans. You see they knew about the what the experiments where wanting to do and had decided to try and catch them in the act so that everything could be cleared up before anyone blamed the high school. Like they did last year, and the year before that.
Taking a short cut through the forest, Lilo and Victoria where surprised to find that they could see everything as clear as if it where day, but they didn't really bother stating it to each other. After all, if you could see that the person in front of you is managing to dodge low branches as easily as you can, you imagine they had the eyes as you.
Suddenly without warning, they stopped. Nether one of them could figure out why they stopped but it was obvious to them that they had. They where just about to try and move again when they heard a faint rustling coming from their left, they also heard whispering that went along with the whispering. Curiosity getting the better of them, the started to follow the direction from where the voices where coming from, while being as sneaky as possible.
Before they knew what was going on, the two girls where now right on top of the quiet whispering, literally. Without them actually knowing it, they had climbed up a tree and where now looking down upon a group of experiments sitting by a small fire. The experiments in question where yin, yang, kixx, and PJ. All of them where carrying some toilet paper, and some eggs. Lilo, who was the closest to the group, turned back to look at Victoria and wordlessly said to her "got them". Victoria only nodded in agreement.
Moving slightly forward, Lilo managed to rustle the leaves of the tree that they where in. Though it was a very small rustle, which most people would just ignore, the fact that it was Halloween, and the fact that it was experiments, made the group very jumpy.
"huh, what was that!" yang said as he quickly scanned the area.
"ach, it was just a squirrel" came kixx's very confident reply, though he did jump when he first heard the rustling. This gave Lilo and Victoria a great idea. Quickly making an unspoken plan, Victoria climbed back down the tree and moved around the group, being careful not to make a sound.
Thanks to there now cat like eyes, there noses, and the fact that they kept some form of eye contact as Victoria moved, both girls knew exactly where each of them where. It was Lilo who had the honour of making the first move. Quietly climbing down from the tree she picked up a small rock that was just by her feet. Then she tossed it into a bush that was to her left before quickly climbing back into the tree, all the while not making a sound.
The rustling of yet another bush, got more of the experiments scared. The ones who had night vision turned it on, only to be blinded by their fire. Others tried heat vision, but again thanks to the fire it was too difficult to actually make any real heat patters emerge.
"oh man, why did we have to do this" PJ muttered in his voice oh honks and squeaks. Seeing that slowly everyone was getting jumpy, kixx decided to show them exactly what they where scared of.
"If you sissies are done wetting yourselves, I'll look around and see what's causing all the noise" he got up from the ground and started to walk towards the bush where Lilo had thrown the rock.
As he looked through the bush Victoria decided to jump from the tree that she was hiding in, to another one rear by. This got the effect of rustling quite a number of branches from her previous tree, and some on her new one. But it was behind several trees and so was very unlikely she would get found.
"what if it's the night marches!" yin called out to the group. This instantly got the attention of the group, as well as Lilo and Victoria. The group looked quite fearful now, even kixx looked a little scared. But for Lilo and Victoria, it gave them even more ideas.
"what are you talking about, ghosts aren't real" kixx said, even though his voice was a little shaky.
"well what else could it be. I mean when you looked in the bush, did you find anything?" yin replied
"well no. I didn't find anything"
"you see! If it was an animal you would have found a footprint"
"hey yin's right. Maybe it is the night watchers" yang quickly put in.
it was here that a light drumming could be heard coming from behind them. This made their fur stand on its ends. But when they heard another, set of drums coming from the opposite direction, they huddled up together.
"don't look them in the eyes, or you'll turn to stone!" yang said cowardly. The drums where now getting louder, slowly one by one, the experiments fur colour started changing from their normal colours, to a ghostly white, that made them look like ghosts. Then all of a sudden another set of drums started just in front of them. Any ounce of courage in them was now replaced by fear.
Victoria had moved once again to be in front of them, so the only way that the experiments knew was safe was behind them, where the town lay. Victoria had to admit that beating her hands onto the trunks of the trees was making a drumming sound, though not a very good one. 'I guess they where telling ghost stories, and some of them where about the night watchers'.
Getting eye contact with Victoria, Lilo signalled that now was a good time wrap this up. Getting a nod from Victoria, the two girls started to beat their paws agenst the trees harder and faster, making it sound like the night watchers where indeed getting closer. Then, at the exact same time, the two girls stopped beating their hands on the trees.
The experiments where in utter shock. They didn't know what to do, because if they moved they thought the night watchers, who where all around them, would strike. Shaking like a leaf they tried to as quiet as possible, hoping that the night watchers would leave them alone. A few seconds passed by, and the experiments began to look up from where they were on the ground, when two ear piercing screams came from just beyond the tree line.
That did it. That broke any moral that the experiments had left. They where literally climbing over each other in the opposite direction of the screams, leaving everything behind. All their toilet roll and all the eggs. They even left the fire that was still burning.
After a few minuets, Lilo and Victoria came down from the trees and into the clearing. Both of them had faces that, where at the brink of tearing itself apart, trying to hold in the laughter that was stored within. The new silence didn't last. The dams exploded and out came torrent after torrent of laughter. They collapsed onto each other, as they tried to keep themselves from falling to the ground.
However with all good things, their fun had to come to an end. Looking at their watches they saw that it was well past their curfew. So saying good night to each other, and taking the supplies that once belonged to the experiments, they went their separate ways.
Arriving back in the house, Lilo found that it was deserted, which she was really glad about. I mean, how was she suppose to explain the large amount of toilet paper and eggs that she was carrying, or her appearance for that matter.
Walking through the house, Lilo kept her essence of stealth by not turning on a single light. She was also especially quiet when she past her sisters bedroom. Eventually she managed to gain entrance to the kitchen, but that was not her destination, though it was very close to it. No her destination was the utility room just beyond the kitchen where Jumba set up a recycler. It was a small box like device that changed anything nonliving into energy to power the house. With any evidence of what people might think she was up too now gone, Lilo retreated to her bedroom, still being as quiet as possible.
The only sound that Lilo made was the sound of the elevator activating and taking her to her bedroom. It wasn't much; in fact most people wouldn't have noticed it over the cicadas. Unfortunately for her, her roommate had ears that where more than sensitive enough to catch the sound of the elevator coming up into the room.
"You know its well past your bed time. Even Nani's in bed"
"oh stitch, your up. I was hoping not to wake you"
"so what where you up too. You know I decided to cancel my plans in case you where still upset and needed me"
"oh you didn't need to do that stitch. But thank you for caring about me so much" Lilo said before she walked over to stitch's bed and kissed him on the cheek.
"So what did you do after your party?"
"Me and Victoria stopped some of your cousins from playing some traditional Halloween pranks. I guess it took us longer than we thought."
"Well it sounds like I was right not to go out then" stitch said with a grin. Lilo just smiled before she playfully hit him on the head.
"Well, I'm going to bed. God I'm glad it's a Sunday tomorrow" Lilo said stretching her arms into the air. 'I also hope that I no longer look like a cat' Lilo thought as she changed into some nightwear. By this time stitch had already fallen back to sleep.
As Lilo climbed into bed the new feeling of fur against sheets was really quite strange. She was at a loss of words with these feelings, but the main issue on her minds was wondering if she would over heat herself. She looked over to stitch and saw that he seemed to have no problem sleeping 'I'm just worrying too much' she finally decided before closing her eyes and falling asleep.
Slowly Lilo woke up from her peaceful nights rest. Sitting up in her bed she stretched her arms into the air before rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. Getting out of bed she walked over to her mirror and looked over her body.
"Man, what a strange dream I had. God it felt so real, but it was just too strange to ever be real. I mean who ever heard of someone changing into a cat person," Lilo said giggling to herself before going over to her closet and changing into some casual cloths.
Looking at herself in the mirror one more time she couldn't help but feel there was something different about her face. She didn't get time to look into it more, because at that moment in time Pleakly called her down for breakfast. Blinking her eyes, her slit like pupils sparkled with new energy, while her ears stuck out of the top of her head. Heading over to the elevator, she looked back at the mirror,
"I swear something's different about me," Lilo said before the elevator took her down to the rest of the house.
Well there you have it. I hope you enjoyed reading this story. I don't know what to do with it right now. A part of me wants to continue it, while another part thinks it's impossible. I'll leave it to you all, but if I where to continue it, it would be far into the future (I really think I need to finish all my unfinished work before starting a new project). Anyway, I'll leave you all for now. But until we meet again, be well