Attention to all readers of B.E.A.S.T. I have news both bad and good to the concerns of this fanfiction here.
B.E.A.S.T. is now officially a cancelled fiction.
HOWEVER! That doesn't mean that I've given up writing it.
Confused?
Well, so am I!
Bahamut, will you please?
Oh, fine.
Anyway, what I mean to say is that a new, and hopefully better, version of B.E.A.S.T. will be made. I have quite a few reasons as to why I've come to this descision but only a few really matter so I'll just cover those real quick before I get to the good bits!
First, I, quite literally, wrote myself into a corner with B.E.A.S.T. I had an ending but the way the story was positioned… I'd have gone from level five to level eighty. No one likes to skip levels. … Unless they're pokemon levels cause you don't want to wait freaking forever for a Garchomp, but I digress.
Second, the B.E.A.S.T. crew was, quite frankly, too good to be true. They were all good guys with relatively simple problems and while they did balance the girls out like I intended, they were too… John Stew… There! I said it! They were the male opposites of Mary Sues! May the gods strike me down here and now! … Okay, I had my fun with the self-inflicted angst. Really though, the boys accepted their beasts and the possibility of magic too easily and there was little angst outside of Axel.
Third, I don't mean to sound offensive to anyone, really I don't, but I realized that I was being too… I don't know… stereotypical really… Basically, the black guy got together with the black girl and the Asian guy got together with the Asian guy. This was not my intent at all and while many might not feel comfortable with this, I've grown up knowing, and acknowledging, that love doesn't recognize such trivialities as color, or form in some cases, and I was betraying my own belief by writing the exact opposite.
I should also lay notice that I've never once said what my own "human-type" is for this very reason. I don't want anyone to judge me or my stories because of something as stupid as color or ancestry. So if anyone would really like to know… I'm actually purple-skinned and my family comes from Mars. And if anyone see's a purple-furred Cyclops with a long horn and wings, you never even heard of me.
Fourth, for god's sake, they, B.E.A.S.T. and W.I.T.C.H., got stronger faster than the Dragonball Z crew! I wanted this, but not at such a speed that the bad-guys would be nothing but pansies before the third arc!
Finally, I don't agree with the B.E.A.S.T. crews' beasts anymore. Never mind them being the actual beings of myth like the Jormungandr or the Tarasque, I just couldn't agree with the elements matching the forms nor could I agree with the dragon. I love dragons, I have a Mushuu for a pet and my best friend is the literal King of Dragons, and for me to be so… compliant with a dragon's form. Basically having a dragon made up of the forms of other dragons, just didn't sit right with me. It was a good idea at the time, but now that I've thought it over more… There will be a dragon, but I must choose the right one to be the Holder of the Soul as it were.
As with my other stories, the times in which I will update will be erractic and can occur at any time. I am a married man now with a baby-boy who's first word better be anything along the lines of papa or so help me he's not getting a car until he's forty-three!
What if he says mama?
… Then he gets a boat…
A boat…?
Something tells me that he's not going to be turning into a bird sometime in the future, Bahamut.
You mean you didn't come up with the name Adrian just for the hell of it?
No I did not! Camille and I agreed that it suited him! You got a problem with my son's name?
I'm his god-dragon, why the hell would I have a problem, idiot?!
Why you—Oh crap, I'm still on. I'll get you later you overgrown salamander.
Still didn't answer the boat question.
It's a bet okay! Camille and I have a bet!
You bet against your wife?
… She bet against me actually…
Dear Hyne, you two are rubbing off on each other.
Oh leave me alone.
Anyway folks, I've got to go and convince my kid to say papa or I'm out on my favorite boat, so I leave you now with a few quotes from the new, improved
Chronicles of the BEAST: Ultimatum of the Soul
"I feel it, residing within me. This monster, this… dragon of ancient times. I hate it for what its made me do to protect you… But if it is for your well-being that it does such horrible things to those who would do worst to you… I would sacrifice all of my humanity to it just so that I can be assured of your safety."
"I don't understand it really. Maybe I never will, but what I do understand is that, for a moment, the demon was afraid. Afraid that you had been hurt, or worse, killed by that gun-toting bastard. This demon… to be afraid for a human life… maybe its not such a bad demon after all."
"How much blood must be spilled… before this can end… Too many have been lost, but on these waters I swear no more shall fall! If I must join my soul with the beast within me, then so be it! I will not allow another of my kin to die without my going before them!"
"Ya know, I've been called a lot o' t'ings in my life, but I neva t'ought mos' o' t'em would be the truth… Really though, I had been called bull-headed afore… just neva t'ought I'd end up havin' somet'in like it in me."
"My grandfather knew it all this time… even after he died, he was prepared to do what it took to protect the world from it… All this time… I had thought he hated me for my mother… but he didn't hate me… He only cared about the monster inside of me and never saw the real me at all…"
"Out of all my brothers and sisters, I am the strongest. Do not be fooled in thinking otherwise. Your own pride will be your downfall before my own."
"Bones, muscles, blood, flesh, sinew…. Ooohh, so delicious, so scrumptious! Let me have just a bite!"
"Ironic that man's fall started with an apple and shall end with a seed."
"I am all and am none. I am that which cannot be and that which should be."