(17th June, 19:15, Full Moon)
Beast and the Beast
Chapter Twenty – Changed at Last
(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 had been sitting in the cleaning room for the past three hours when she felt something odd occur in her body; a subtle, but almost painful stab in her hands. She lifted them up and gasped as she saw her nails being pulled back into her skin.
"It's happening." She muttered as she continued to stare in awe; she felt her excellent night-vision diminish as everything started to go darker and darker around her until she couldn't see a thing; not even her hands anymore.
But she could feel everything.
She felt as her hands contracted painfully as they reshaped themselves to that of a humans, she felt as the scales on skin started to fade until only a smooth surface remained; her own skin.
The most amazing part was that she felt her hair growing from her head again until they were full length again.
She was still marveling in joy when a sudden hunger struck her like a brick, she grabbed her stomach and groaned; when last did she eat? Five days ago? She didn't really need or want to eat when she was a demon but now that she was a human again she felt the pain of hunger and her throat felt parched for water.
With a start she realized she was killing her human body by not eating! The thought brought tears to her eyes and soon she wept.
How could she have been so foolish to let her body die because she didn't feel hunger or didn't want to eat? She cried more because she realized she was going to have to eat and drink what demons had to and it made her sick to her stomach.
She put her head on her knees and continued to cry softly.
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Baal's eyes snapped open with a start and he sat up almost immediately; he felt an odd sense of displacement and didn't understand it.
He got off the bed and looked around for any sign of the feeling; but as he expected, he found none. He walked towards the window and looked at the darkening sky; it was night already and still early. He hadn't slept long.
What had awoken him so suddenly?
He growled angrily as he realized what the feeling was; something unwelcome was in Hell, something that didn't belong.
He ran out of the room, heading straight to Diablo with the news: An Angel had just entered Hell.
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Diablo was in his room, twiddling his thumbs as he sat on the windowsill; his feet hanging over the edge as he looked at the lighting webbing itself around and clouds; Hell had its own beautiful atmosphere; regardless of what anyone else felt.
He was still sitting when his door barged open and Baal came running in. "Come Brother!" He yelled and Diablo stared at him for a few second before swinging around and climbing off from the window; looking at his brother in confusion.
"What is the emergency?" Diablo asked as he looked at his brother; he looked jittery, almost excited, this was very unusual for Baal.
"I sense a disturbance in Hell; I think an angel just entered our realm." He said in a flurry and Diablo had to slow down his words in his head to catch on; when he did he was immediately in the same state as Baal; neither of them liked angels but both of them liked killing them.
"Let's go." He yelled as he didn't even take the stairs, walking to the window and jumping down towards the ground; when he hit the ground he started to run into the plains in search of the angel, if they pinpointed the location where the angel was they could use it to help locate the portal.
Baal followed suit as he jumped from the window, running in a different direction than Diablo; Diablo would alert him if he found the angel; he just hoped it wasn't Tyrael because then he wouldn't have a brother anymore.
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Sakai kept weeping as she felt her body rack with hunger, anger and sadness; she felt completely alone in her despair; she had always preferred to be alone, but right now she would've given anything for a shoulder to cry on; someone to understand what she was going through and give her advice; someone to talk to.
But no such person was around, she was stuck in a closet and if she left the confines of the castle she would die by the hand of the first thing that saw her.
"Please let this day pass quickly." She muttered, she wished she was demonic again, it would be so much easier to deal with right now; the hunger pains would be away and she could go and wander around without fear of being killed.
She was right; being turned into a human on a full moon was a curse and not a blessing; she resented it!
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Baal had scourged until the end of Hell, which was surrounded by mountains and still couldn't find an Angel and he had gotten no feedback from Diablo; what else could it be? A human perhaps? He speculated on that point and remembered Sakai's odd reaction to something.
"Did she have something to do with this? He felt his anger surge at the thought that Sakai would invite a human into the castle; why would she do something like that? It wasn't an angel or they would've found it, so whatever it was it was inside the castle.
Baal growled as he started to run towards the castle; he would either kill the human or find Sakai and make her suffer for it; this was unacceptable!