Friday, July 31, 2009

The Werewolf and the Fairy.

There was once a man, he was a common, everyday human. One day when he was eighteen he would be attacked by an unseen attacker and suffer a bite on his shoulder. The bite was deeper than anything he felt before, going to the bone. It wouldbe days later, at the full moon, that he would change and lose his humanity. He would become a werewolf himself and go into the woods.

There was also a fairy princess, she was gifted beyond measure and her beauty was unparrelleled. There would be people that would hurt her for her position and gifts, due to this, she roamed the wood near her kingdom often for the solitude and freedom.

One day, both would be captured. He in a beartrap that threatened to take his leg, and she in a small cage of raw iron. At first, only at first, she was terrified of the wolfman. He snarled at all that drew near to him, but when they got close to her cage, he snapped his jaws or swung his razor sharp claws. When the captors slept that night, the werewolf stretched out, tearing his leg open worse to do so, and grabbed her cage. Using his strength due to the curse, he ripped the cage door off to free the princess. While he did not know her of her gifts, he did know she did not deserve the fate that awaited the following day... the day they would both be killed.

Now free of her prison, she could return to home, to what and who she was. However, she grew to love the beast in that moment and she could not leave him to die himself. Using her gifts, she freed him and together they escaped the hunters and disappeared into the deepest wood.

For months they would hide their relationship and blooming love. She would continue her life and steal to the woods at night to the planned place to meet her love. Eventually she made a choice to live with the being she loved more than life in his territory. The wood. At first, this was like a dream for them both, however, reality does creep into dreams.

One day, his worst fear would happen. In their passion, he lost himself and acted on instinct... he bit her just as he too had been biten. While she would be immune to his curse, the damage was done. He had sworn to never bite her, she swore to never fear him, but both broke that promise that day. In that moment, she forgot the man he once was, the man she saw, and she only saw the monster he had become. Her reaction was to flee to the safety of her kingdom, his was to win her back. To become again the man he was once, at any cost.

Sometimes there is no happy endings, but he plans to make their story one with happy ending. To prove a werewolf and a fairy can be safe and happy.