(14th June, 10:12, Waxing Crescent Moon)
Beast and the Beast
Chapter Four – Travel Starts
(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 flung her bag over her shoulder as she gave one last look at the place she used to call home and immediately turned her head away to avoid tears. She had locked her house and released all her livestock, the reason being that she would be gone a while and she didn't want to return to a bunch of carcasses in her yard.
"I'll get new ones." She convinced herself as she started to walk away from Lut Gholeim's direction. She needed to find the entrance to Hell and it was rumored to be in this very forest, or at least one of the gateways.
What she was leaving behind she would get back one day, one day when she either admitted defeat or when she happened to care for someone. She groaned at the possibility, how could she care for anyone? Humans, demons, ugh! The mere idea made her cringe.
Demons were the worst idea EVER, they were disgusting evil creatures who constantly killed for satisfaction but she also knew it was her best chance, as she had said, she knew demons usually cared for one another and if she got one of them to care for her, even a fraction, and maybe forced herself to do the same she could end this nightmare within a month.
She pulled her black cape tightly around herself and put the hood over her head, she needed to avoid attention to herself as it would do her no good if a human spotted her and decided to shoot her on the spot because of her appearance. That was another reason she couldn't try and get a human man to fall in love with her or even care for her.
If she stepped into the town like this they would shoot her the second she put a foot into the town and revealed the way she looked. There was no chance; the demons wouldn't even notice her as far as she was informed. They would look past her appearance as they would have a similar one.
She growled as she set off in the general direction of Kurast.
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It was now close to sunset and Sakai was exhausted, she had been walking for ages and she had little to no idea where she was. All she knew is that she needed to pass the town within the forest called Kurast and then head onwards towards an old abandoned city made of marble. It is said that the portal to hell is within the biggest temple in the middle, guarded by some powerful demon known as Mephisto.
She sighed as she finally decided to settle down, walking for over 12 hours was enough to make anyone tired and she needed to rest or else she would collapse and if a human found her collapsed somewhere close to their town they would kill her without excuses or explanations from her.
She went to a tree and placed her hand upon it, the result was almost immediate. The leaves darkened and she watched the tree age before her until it was dried out and all the leaves had fallen to the ground. She then took a bunch of dried twigs from the dead tree and set it down on some rocks, scratching around in her bag until she found a match and some firelighters. She set it to the twigs and branches; soon a fire was blazing in front of her and she continued to pile dried grass and twigs onto it to keep it going for the night.
With that thought she set her head down on a rock and tried to ignore the uncomfortable hardness it offered to her tired and aching body, the fact that the grass died wherever her hands lay didn't give her comfortable thoughts to think about either; but she had no choice other than to sleep.
Slowly she closed her eyes and soon she was asleep.