Beast turned around to see Gaston hocking another arrow, sneering, "Why, hello, you must be Beast! Fight me!", and Beast narrowed his eyes before grabbing a chaise and threw it at him as he then went to jump and climb down, growls of pain from the arrow in his shoulder, hearing Perla scream in worry and fear, "Adam!".
Facilier was upset that the castle was stronger than he thought it was, and the mob didn't even get far into the castle, to the library, and he was about to intercept Gaston when he was about to aim that second arrow when a fireball of white and blue magic slammed into him.
Facilier was actually stunned with what just happened. That wasn't any sort of normal attack that had hit him, certainly nothing that the Beast and those around him had. No... that was magic... true magic... magic that was very much a counter to his. And her certainly realized it when he looked to see where the attack had come from, and his eyes widened at the sight.
Evangeline and the Enchantress glowered angrily at him, with the Enchantress scowling, "I should have known that you were behind the curse of Perla and her situation, Facilier.".
Facilier sneered, "Enchantress...And oh, my, you're getting along with the Blue Fairy?! Damn, it must have been a hell of an apology for that fight!", with a cackling snicker.
Evangeline really wanted to know where the hell he learned all that but that wasn't important right now, "We're giving you one chance, Facilier... surrender.".
"Hmm...", Facilier thought about it. "I think I'll pass... see, Enchantress, I really love what you've done with that miserable boy; quite the specimen if I say so myself.. perfect as a pet.".
Enchantress narrowed her eyes, "He's no longer the miserable, angry boy I once met, now he's a kind, and good-hearted man, and he knows love at last. He will reunite with his true love, and I intend to honor his request, for he cares for all of his family, and that is far better than your darkness in you, Facilier, where the shadows will not escape you no more than jail.".
Evangeline's wand glowed brightly, "And I, along with my cousin, will see to it that our beloved chosen family has a chance to live happily ever after, and that includes putting you in the fires of Hell. Even the council of fairies, witches, enchantresses are more than disappointed in you.".
Facilier laughed, "You really think I care? I'm not scared of you little fairies, not since my friends on the other side have been giving me a hand and I've done the same. A little scratching each other's backs, if you will. Now, if you two don't mind, I have to stop that idiot from killing my prize... at least let him get the other one.".
Evangeline suddenly gave an angry growl, protective of Perla as she was technically one of Perla's mothers, seeing Facilier threaten Perla like that, especially when she's still with child, and if Gaston kills the cubs...
Enchantress replied, "Now you've done it. You pissed my cousin off.", mildly surprised as she rarely saw Evangeline like this as Facilier widened his eyes in shock, "Let's give him a good fight, shall we, Eva?".
Evangeline narrowed her eyes, "Cousins together.", and Enchantress grinned, "Cousins together.", and then their wands and hands glowed white, blue, and green, needing no vocal spells as they fired at Facilier, and so, the battle of magic began in the castle while Beast was outside the castle, climbing the castle towers down, ignoring the pain of the arrow in his shoulder, hearing Gaston's bellow, "Come out and fight! You're supposed to be a monstrous beast!" as he followed him down, furious and anticipating the fight as he needed a challenge.
Gaston honestly didn't care now about the other villagers and them being driven off. If he killed the Beast, he would be the village's hero, practically immortalized forever for the task. Of course, the Beast wasn't making this hunt easy, but Gaston preferred it that way. Hunts were always so much better when the prey was actually a challenge.
Perla watched in worry and fear as the girls got off the horses as they got to the courtyard, ignoring the villagers scramble across the bridge in fear at the second beast, with Juliet giving the sling to Perla, and Perla gasped as she saw Gaston leaping off and chasing Beast through the rooftops and such, "Adam, he's behind you!".
Beast took a deep breath as he closed his eyes and came to a stop before turning to see the hunter as Gaston came to a stop himself. "You want a fight?", Beast asked Gaston as the man chuckled, "Finally grown a spine, haven't we, you monster?"
"No... you threatened to harm my friends and family... I'm giving you the choice...", Beast grabbed the arrow in his shoulder and yanked it out as he winced in pain but was proving how tough he was to try and unnerve Gaston.
Gaston widened his eyes before smirking, "You're not so scary, aren't you?", and Beast growled lowly, "Walk away while you can, or face me if you want to risk your life.".
"I ain't a coward, monster, and you'll be quite the trophy on my wall in the tavern. People will tell stories of the legendary Gaston who killed the Beast.", Gaston grinned, and Beast narrowed his eyes, "Then I will show you how scary I can be, hunter.", showing his fangs and a snarl growing in his throat.
Gaston laughed manically, "That's the spirit!", before sprinting at an all-run, going to tackle Beast, aiming for the partially useless arm, and Beast roared as he fought back against Gaston, as suddenly, the clouds sprouted out in rain and thunder.
Perla watched as the two of them fought. Beast was making sure that Gaston couldn't get any weapon on him as Gaston was trying to gut him like a fish. He obviously had the advantage in strength, especially if he could be able to lock arms with Gaston.
But soon, the rain was making the surrounding rafters and rooftops slippery, and Gaston was losing as Beast's foot claws kept him from slipping, and Gaston was getting desperate, searching for any advantage before he saw a gargoyle, and went to jump off it, pushing and tackling Beast into a tumble down the castle walls, earning pain to both of them as they rolled and such, roars of pain and screams of agony, but they kept fighting, before they crashed into a tree in the gardens.
"Adam!", Perla called out as she decided that she couldn't just stand back and watch as the two of them fell out of the tree and onto the ground. Both of them had the wind knocked out of them when they landed hard.
Cuts, scrapes, bruises, and wounds was on both of them, with Beast panting, feeling blood leaking from the wound of the arrow in his shoulder, and Gaston groaning, feeling blood across his face, realizing that Beast had clawed him in the face.
Gaston, being narcissistic, and his face was one of his very favorite features ever, and having it clawed like that, it spurred him into a fury of determination and rage, drawing his knife from inside the lining of his boot, getting up shakily and went for the Beast when he was down.
Suddenly, rocks pelted him hard, and Gaston shouted in pain, instinctively covering his face with his arms, walking back when he screamed in pain, for his jewels down there was hit by a sharp rock, with a familiar voice laughing, "Not quite what I had in mind, but it worked either way, eh, Belle?".
Gaston peered through the rain and widened his eyes in shock, seeing Juliet juggling a rock in her hand, smirking as Belle stood by her with a narrowing of her eyes, "Oh, for sure, Juliet.".
The rain was getting heavier, but Gaston growled sharply as thunder clapped in the sky, "You bitch!", not noticing that Perla is quickly urging the cubs, putting the sling of the younger cubs under a bench, scared of the thunder and hiding from the rain, and reached Beast.
Perla was worried and anxious, "Adam!", as her paw stroked Beast's face, and Beast opened his sky-blue eyes, locking with her ocean blue eyes, and a smile came across his face, "P-Perla...You're home.".
"Of course, I am...", Perla whispered. "I promised you that I would, didn't I?", she said as he nodded, "Yea... I guess you did...".
"Oh, please tell me you're alright...", Perla worried as she looked to Gaston to see where he was, still taking a pummeling from Juliet and Belle.
Beast grunted, "A arrow wound in the shoulder...Where's the cubs?", and Perla gestured to the bench, "Under there.".
Beast looked, and then chuckled wryly, "I shouldn't doubt you...Teddy is clearly protected by his siblings...and he's perfect...Father had brown eyes, but they weren't that shade...".
Perla replied, "I think it might be one of our grandparents either side of the family...", and Beast laughed before groaning, "I might have some bruised ribs too...Looks like you're going to nurse me back again...", with a crooked smile.
"And you better behave this time when I stitch you up, mister...Oh, Adam...Come on, get up...", Perla encouraged, anxious to get her love and the cubs into the castle, so Beast and the cubs wouldn't get a cold or worse, and Beast nodded, groaning and grunting as he tried to get up, seeing that Perla is equal to his size more or less, able to hold him up easier than when she was human, and he smiled, even missing her norm of being a healer more than he thought.
Beast then saw a gleam of metal flying from Gaston when he had a minor window of chance, shocked to see a second beast helping his prized beast and took the chance when Juliet and Belle were refilling on rocks to pelt him.
Beast saw it going for Perla, and he moved her quickly, stopping the knife as he roared in pain, with the knife into the side of the chest, and Perla screamed in horror, "Adam!", as he collapsed into the ground.
Gaston then was tackled by Juliet, pummeling him furiously, shocked to see a woman fighting him like a man, and he tried to fight back as they rolled and such, and with a crash of lightning, destroying a piece of wall, Juliet was slammed back into the ground, looking taken aback, seeing the madness in Gaston's eyes, "Belle is mine!", taking a stray arrow from his lopsided quiver, aiming for Juliet's neck or heart, jumping at her, and Juliet narrowed her eyes, using a trick from her time on the streets, jammed her feet into Gaston's stomach, and pushed him back over her with the strength of her masculine arms and legs, throwing him over the destroyed piece of wall as he scrambled, screaming, trying to clutch at the bricks with the stray arrow, staying a moment of safety, and then the arrow broke, and he fell to his death into the chasm, screaming until they became faint, and then nothing.
"Good riddance...", Juliet spat before she turned her attention back to Perla and Beast. "Damn it...!", she cursed as she rushed over to them.
Perla cried, "Adam, Adam, look at me, please!", gently caressing his face, and Beast groaned, gasping, opening his eyes, "P-Perla, are you okay? Is the baby okay?", weakly raising his arm to stroke her cheek, glancing over her baby bump concernedly.
"Yes, yes, we are... Oh, Adam! Don't leave me! I love you, Adam! Always have with all my heart! I love your kind heart, your laugh, your belief in all of us, your passion for me, and your smile when you see our children! You're always mine, and I'm always yours! I want you, my soulmate, my love, my giver of our children, to be part of my life forever! Please, please. I love you, my beast, my Adam...", Perla sobbed, her tears falling with the rain.
He really couldn't believe he was hearing that from her... after all this time... and only at the end it seemed with things. He gave a small sigh as he gave a weak smile, "I... I love you too, Perla... I... I love you so much...".
Perla sobbed as she held his paw so tenderly yet tightly to her cheek as he continued to say, "I...always have with all m-my heart, I love your b-brave heart, your beautiful eyes, your mischief, and even your s-stubbornness when you fight me for stitches, and your caring soul when you nurse our children...I'm..always yours and you..you will be always mine...I love you, my mate, my Perla, my pearl of the sea...", groaning and coughing from the blood yet he never left his love's face during it all, smiling weakly and lovingly.
"Please, Adam... don't leave me...", Perla sobbed as she tried to kiss him on the lips. "Please...", she was crying, praying that someone would hear her pleas and save him.
Enchantress, in the castle, felt the stipulations fulfill in her spell echo through her body, and she smiled widely and glanced at Evangeline who heard Perla's pleading wish, smiling broadly at her cousin, scaring Facilier who was exhausted in the battle of magic.
With non-vocal agreement, the cousins banded together with their wands glowing brightly, and their magic together came to bring the castle, the spelled curse to a whole new world of change, starting with Beast and Perla, healing the wounds on all the staff, the prince, and of course, bringing sunshine and life to the cursed surroundings of the forest, the weather and such.
Beast was losing his life as he faintly heard his love sobbing, and then he felt light all of a sudden, feeling a sort of warmth, and he wondered if he was leaving the living world as the sounds went silent.
Perla was crying and sobbing into her love's chest and neck when she saw flashes of color crashing around them, and she then widened her eyes as she saw fur receding back on her arms and hands, revealing flesh, and then gasped as she saw Beast, her Adam floating upwards, and she backed away, barely feeling the gentle changes through her body as she watched in awe and shock, as the lights of color changed around him.
She knew instantly what was happening, his curse was being broken, but of course, she didn't know if he might recover or spend his last few moments as a human once more. Beast's body continued to change, to shift back as he was engulfed in the light.
Perla felt her balance slightly off as she's becoming human again, her hands instinctively rubbing her heavily 6 months old baby bump, feeling kicks and such, tears pricking at her eyes as she's relieved that her last baby is clearly human again, hearing Juliet reassure her other children who's stunned and quiet with a gurgle here and there, as she watched in awe, seeing the light vanish at last, revealing a human man in almost too big clothes, with no sign of wounds anywhere, through there were signs of them in the white shirt.
"A-Adam?", Perla spoke softly as she went to check on the man, and then blinked in anticipation, her breath caught as she heard a groan, seeing him gather himself to get up, catching his balance shakily, seeing his head looking at his hands, before he gasped, suddenly seeming to remember something, "Perla!", turning around, revealing himself.
Perla widened her eyes in surprise as the man was clearly handsome, having light auburn hair, long past his shoulders, quite a thick beard, strong-chested, and muscular to almost like he could arm wrestle Ray into a stalemate. He was also fairly tall, almost as tall as Ray and she could see that he had quite a lot of body hair on his body, maybe not too different from the Beast in a way.
He looked at her, a loving smile, "My Perla...", his hands reaching to take hers gently..."It's okay...It's me, Adam...", and Perla saw them...
The familiar sky-blue eyes, the loving soul in them. Perla sobbed, smiling radiantly, "It's really you!", feeling her love's hand reach up to caress her cheek so familiarly, and she sighed contentedly as she leaned into his touch, "My Adam...".
"I... I really can't believe this...", Adam whispered. Just stunned that both of them were human once more. "The children?", he asked, he just had to know if the curse passed from them as well.
They looked over to see, their eyes widening in joy and happiness as they saw their naked children, as the sun shone, the weather changing into a warm late summer, early autumn day, the castle changing, with distant sounds of laughter in the castle.
Azure wobblily walked on two legs, clearly looking like three years old, "Mama! Papa!", as Eli stumbled on his two legs, clearly two years old, "Wait for me, Azure!", with Jolene trying to scoot her legs as she half crawled, half walked clumsily, clearly a year old, "Na fair!", and little Teddy, is 6 months old, crawling, "Ma!".
Azure's black hair is in long curls, and having her sky-blue eyes, and having tan skin, Eli's nest of brown hair is slightly curly, windswept in a way, having his one light green eye and one ocean blue eye, and having pale tan skin, Jolene's dark auburn hair is in straightforward, slightly curly, messy style, her sky-blue eyes like her sister and papa, and creamy tan skin, and not last but not least, Teddy, he has a slightly curly nest of light auburn hair like his papa, dark brown eyes, and tan skin.