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.