DAMN IT!

I promised myself no new stories until I was done with Delusory but here I am again with a new story!

I'm weak T-T

Anyway all this Beauty and the Beast stuff made inspired me to do a story! It's going to be 15 chapter give or take and updates will probably be slow. I just need to get this out my head.

Anywho on with the story!

I don't proofread my chapters! Lol I just dish them out as I write them cause I'm too lazy to do it.

Disclaimer: I do not own Beauty and the Beast. But I do own my OCs!

Enjoy!

Late December

He didn't expect his body to be aching or his lungs to be burning from coughing out the water inside them. In truth he didn't expect to wake up at all. He thought he was done for when he fell from the rooftop into the canyon river below the castle. He also didn't expect an old hag covered in rags to be hovering over him no doubt in his mind that she had given him mouth to mouth. His face twisted in disgust.

"Get away from me you filth wench!" He spat out. He sat up and tried to stand only to fail miserably as pain shot through his leg. He clenched his teeth to stop himself from yelling out. He had a broken leg, he was lucky it was just that, falling from that height should have killed him.

"Be grateful! I saved your life!" She warned.

"I would rather have been dead! Now I can't go back to village without being seen as a fool!" he sneered.

"Be careful what you speak or you'll regret it" she heeded.

"The only thing I'll regret is being saved by you! You ugly old hag!"

Her face twisted in anger "Enough! I have been keeping an eye on you Gaston! And it's time for you to pay" she yelled pointing a finger at him. Her body began to change, growing taller by the second and her skin melted away to reveal a beautiful woman. Golden hair swayed around her almost like an aura.

"You...you're an enchantress!" Gaston's eyes widen "Forgive me I didn't know—"

"I warned you" she spoke coldly.

"Please no!" He begged.

"You are arrogant, narcissistic and manipulative! —"

"I'm sorry—"

"I curse you to become what you pride most!"

"Please spare me!" He began to panic as his body was suspended into the air. His body shifting painfully into a new form "I'll do anything!" He could feel his bones and muscles stretching, while his clothes ripped in the process.

"You used those words before and they were nothing but empty promises" she glared.

Those were the same words he spoke to the Beast before he back stabbed him. "You were there" he gasped in pain. She didn't answer him and continued to speak.

"You have until the lake's next thawing to change your ways or lose the last of your humanity" her form began to dissipate and he was left alone.

"No!" He yelled in agony as antlers sprouted from his head. He crawled towards the lake and looked at his reflection. He was repulsed by what stared back, no longer was his handsome face staring at him but what looked like to be a demon. In anger he splashed his fists against the water causing ripples to distort his reflection.

You have until the lake's next thawing to change your ways or lose the last of your humanity. Her final words rang through his head again.

He glanced at the lake, ducks swam through it peacefully despite him losing his anger seconds ago.

He had a year.

A year before the lake froze and thawed again.

He was doomed.

What do you think so far?