Beauty and the Beast
A Clace Tale
Clary loved nothing more than her paints. It was for this reason that the people
in her village of Alicante thought her queer and kept far away from her as if
she would taint their provincial lives. Well, all except one Sebastian and his
little groupie Valentine. Ugh. Every day Sebastian interrupted her with her work
trying to woo her in every way possible. But on that day her father was leaving
for an antique convention in Sweden.
"Goodbye Papa Lucian!"
Clary gathered her paints and brought them back to the hill to paint the
swelling hills of the countryside when Papas horse came running back
frantically.
"What's wrong Graymark? Graymark?!"
The horse was too spooked to respond so Clary jumped on cooed into the horses
ear.
"Bring me to Papa!"
Within minutes she was lost in the woods until she saw the glint of a familiar
gate. HERONDALE MANOR.
There had been rumours about this place swirling around her village ever since
she was a girl. The story went like this:
There was a handsome and wealthy Shadowhunter boy of a respectable family living
with them in the Manor. One night after a particularly tiring night of hunting
the son came home to a warlock at his door. Repulsed by her hagrid nature he
shooed her away. Still she begged for shelter for one night and pulled out a
single red rose.
Once again repulsed by her appearances and disgusted by her attempts he refused
her shelter and spat in her face. At that moment the warlock revealed herself to
be a beautiful Angel. The son tried to reconcile but it was too late, the Angel
cursed him saying he had until his 18th birthday to fall in love with someone
and have them fall in love with him in this form. But before he could speak she
turned him into a revolting monstrous Beast that lacked all grace and ability to
accept runes. But the Angel was not done she said that If he did not complete
this task everyone who had ever loved him would die.
The story haunted Clary and her heart reached out to the boy, but who knew if
the story was real it was just based off of an abandoned manor. Suddenly a
scream broke out from the Manor that sounded like...
"Lucian!"
Clary jumped off Graymark and ran threw the gates up to the grand door , knocked,
then realized how foolish that was and burst through.
