(14th June, 07:01, Waxing Crescent Moon)
Beast and the Beast
Chapter Three – Death Surrounds the Cursed
(Please note this story has vast similarities to Beauty and the Beast, yet I claim no ownership over Beauty and the Beast, only my inspiration is stolen from the movie/book.)
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Sakai opened her eyes and looked around her room, everything looked the same, except the broken mirror brought back the truth of her appearance and for the first time since last night she looked down at her hands.
The claws were the first thing to strike her once more, she had forgotten how they looked and she saw now she had torn her bedding a bit. She growled as she hid them under the blankets and looked at her skin. It was a pale golden green color that looked oily but was dry to the touch.
"It's just a normal day." She said to herself as she got up and walked towards her bathroom, she would not be daunted by something as stupid as the way she looked. She would use it to her advantage the best she could.
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Sakai had bathed and was dressed in fresh clothes; it was now time to go tend to her livestock and plants after she got some breakfast.
She walked towards the kitchen and took some fruit from the bowl, raising it to her mouth she felt the resistance of fangs and a cold wave of shock went down her back as she realized once more what she was. She growled as she pushed the thought aside and bit into the fruit with her new canine teeth.
Her face pulled into a disgusted grimace as she spit out the apple, looking at it for any trace of the disgusting flavor she had just had to savor on her tongue, but she found nothing but a healthy apple in her hand.
It had tasted like ash to her, it was disgusting and she put it down immediately, could this be part of the curse? Could she no longer consume fruit? Irritation surfaced in her, was she meant to act like the thing she became? A reptile? Would she need to eat meat to survive or even enjoy her meal?
She hissed as she put the idea of food aside and walked towards her livestock pens and chicken coops, she would test that theory now.
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The second she came outside she was met with panic from the animals, they ran towards the edges of their enclosures and made loud sounds and she realized it was because of her appearance. Irritation took hold of her once more. Would she not even be able to tend to her own animals because they feared her?
She growled and walked away from them, towards her vegetable garden; grabbing a pail of water on the way to tend to them. This was getting ridiculous, would she not even be able to live a normal life because of a damned witch? Not even pretend to live a normal life?
She reached the vegetable patch and the moment that she put her hand on the tomato sprig it wilted under her touch, turning a black color and dying before her eyes.
She stared in disbelief, her finger still upon the wilted leaf.
'No…this is not happening, this cannot be true.' She thought to herself angrily and suddenly she touched another plant, the same thing happened and she watched as another of her plants died before her very eyes.
Anger beset her and she started screaming, ripping the plants from their roots and watching as they turned black in her hands, watching as the vegetables turned rotten through the polluted stems holding them there.
She went around kicking everything in sight, scaring all the livestock and ripping everything she could find from its roots. This was too much for her! She could not even pretend to have a normal live! Oh no! The witch would not allow it! She was meant to suffer and try to get something to want to converse with this bloody image of her!
She was a bloody monster! Who wouldn't run at the mere sight of her! If she went on all fours she would pass for a bloody mutated crocodile! She screamed at the sky angrily and continued with her rage, destroying everything she had worked so hard to build up.
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It was about twenty minutes later and Sakai had finally stopped with her rage, her hands were bleeding from where she had harmed herself in the assault, but she didn't even feel it. She felt nothing but pure hatred and anger at the woman who had done this to her.
She saw her green blood and cringed at it, the color was potent and she recognized it from the day before when she had hit the mirror. Though it felt like she was seeing it for the first time; what else would she discover as she was stuck in this disgusting body?
Soon it became clear to her that she had no choice, she could fight the idea as much as she wanted but she needed to find a way to care for another thing, for anything. She could go to the demonic world and try there? Apparently if you were one of them they accepted you easily and some of them even cared for you like a brother or sister.
Well, that's what she heard and read some time ago. She looked down at herself again and gave a huff; she could pass as something demonic with her current reptile like appearance, even if she did still pass as a female lizard. At least that was a blessing; she still retained her gender through all this.
With another huff she picked up her butcher knife from the side of her mill and walked towards the cows, if meat was all she could eat she would take some with her on her travels. The cows started to run like mad in their enclosure but she wasn't bothered by their behavior, she expected nothing else.
Soon all you could hear was the tearing of flesh as the knife cut away at the caught and fallen cow.