Wah! Yes! Finally! Everyone be prepared for Beauty and the Beast!
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"I shall keep him from harm and help in the birthing. Do not forget though, when your baby is old enough to sense me and seeks me out, I will take him from you. He will be trained under me and I will do as I please with him. When he comes of age and he wishes to leave me, I shall let him. But he will wither and die without me." Black eyes flashed dangerously in the dank cell and a hand came forward covered in bloodied, grey scales.
It was a deal with a demon, she knew. But her baby would die if she did not accept his terms. He reached down for her and she gladly accepted. Anything to keep her little Link safe.
"Dark, why don't you go outside?" We sat in his big house and I watched the people go by from the bay window.
"Little one, why would I have need to go outside when all I could ever want is in here." He pulled me up into his lap and I giggled.
I pondered his words or, at least, as best as I could at six years old. "Do you love me?"
Dark chuckled and nuzzled into my hair. "Yes, I do."
"Is that why mommy was okay with me coming to live with you?" He froze and I turned to see a blank expression on his face. "Did I say something wrong?"
"No." Dark placed me back in the window seat and walked out of the room. I pouted, but soon chased after him.
"Dark!" He paused and looked down at me as I ran into his leg, grabbing him and not letting go for fear of him leaving me.
"Are you in need of something?" He pried me off his leg and picked my tiny body up.
"Why do you not share things with me?" Dark shook his head and I dropped the subject.
"Your eyes are funny." He stared down at the blue eyed child. This was the day the little boy had followed the man. It was all beginning on this day. The boy would bring the man back to his home and the mother would stay strong as she let her baby be taken away.
"Are they?" Such innocence. How he wished to crush the purity of this child, but he had promised to keep him from harm as long as the boy stayed with him.
"Yeah. They make me think of the flowers Mommy grows in the garden." The child smiled up at him and it warmed the ancient old heart. "They are really pretty flowers!"
"Dark, Dark!" I sprinted to the study and 'oofed' into a solid body.
"Yes, little one." I glared up at my guardian. Not an effective strategy when you are looking up at someone a couple feet taller than you.
"Why do you have to call me that? I'm not little anymore." He smiled and I reached up to smack the grin off his face, but Dark simply patted my head.
"You had something to tell me?" I grumbled because he never answers my questions, but was pleased he was interested.
"I got full marks on my test today! Look, see!" I held the paper up to him and grinned. We had practiced basic spells for hours yesterday in order for me to pass the entrance exam for the magic academy Dark had deemed 'close enough for me to go to by walking and actually be a good school'.
"Good job." He patted my head, again, and went to sit in his chair.
"That's it. 'Good job'? No special dinner or new trick to teach me? Just a pat on the head." I pouted and folded my arms across my chest.
"Would you like me to give you a reward?" He glanced up at me from his book.
I shuffled my feet under his crimson gaze. "Well, yeah. I did good. The other kids my age didn't know half the spells I did. I deserve a little recognition for my efforts."
Dark rolled his eyes. "Some big words for a twelve year old."
"Fine!" I stomped my foot and tore the paper in two. "Be a big meanie! See if I care. I'm going to go study my spells."
He looked around the room and then turned to me with a massive smile. "It's amazing in here!"
"This is your home now. Feel free to roam wherever you please." I smiled kindly, or as best as I could, down at the blue-eyed boy and he giggled. I guess he is pretty cute.
"Dark... I have a problem." Dark looked up from his book and cocked his head to the side.
"What?" I blushed. I wasn't sure if what was happening was normal, but Dark would help if it wasn't. Right?
"I woke up and things down there weren't right." He kept staring.
"Weren't right?" I watched Dark's eyes drift down to my crotch and then his face was red. "It appears we need to have a talk."
Soooo... Anybody guess Dark as the beast. Hehe. I'm totally excited for this. I tried a different take on it. Link isn't trapped of his own knowledge so the romance won't be because he loves his captor. He just loves Dark for being Dark.
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Love and Link is a cute kid,
~Annoying :)
