Thread: A Monster: Now and Forever (Razgriz x kuro_bara)

Years of practice in sales kept Selenas face smooth as he explained his reasons for being here. So he was searching for Cassandra. He was searching North which meant he had yet to get a direction for where the Baroness was located, that was interesting to know. Hearing his last comment her lips curved in another smile. I told you, the curse drew me, I was curious how someone could upset the Coven quite so...drastically. She mused, her lips pursed. I wasnt about to come barging in here unprotected. She added with a small frown. Would you have? Selena asked looking into his face with a serious expression, her eyes searching his one visible eye. Mesanagros, Greece - April 1958 Selena leaned against the edge of one of the quaint little buildings that dotted her home village. Coming home from University had been both terrible and incredible timing. A witch in the Coven near her school had warned her of a disastrous event that was going to befall her home and Selena had raced home to protect her family, only to discover the disaster was a monster. The gorgon was slowly killing off the men in the village. Not only did the beast feed off of the males in the area but she turned the women to stone, and the men once she was finished with them. Selena had seen the creature devour her father, dropping the stone form on the ground when it had sensed her presence. Her father had smashed into a hundred pieces, looking like the ruins of an ancient statue. When the gorgon had slunk away looking for its next target, Selena had walked to the rubble in a daze dropping to her knees and picking up the only still whole piece of the statue, a piece of her fathers face a confused smile still on his lips. The rest of the town did not look much better. Instead of the lovely little tourist area it was, it looked like statues had risen up and begun a war. There were broken stone forms scattered all over town, but the most eerie ones were the statues of people who were still whole. Still in the middle of some mundane task. One woman had been turned to stone in the middle of hanging her laundry out, one hand forever poised to place a clothespin on the line. Another had been sitting in the sun reading a book, while two children played beside her in the grass. What struck Selena odd about the whole thing, is that everyone seemed so calm and unsuspecting. They had never seen it coming, you would think a giant, snake woman would instill some fear and panic but there was none, as if it wore the face of someone trusted. As she sat cradling what was left of her father against her chest, that is when she saw him, walking through the rubble of her town. She felt a surge of anger, he was here to kill the beast but it was personal now. She would personally destroy that monster and she didnt need some trumped up hunter to help her. Now, with her back pressed against the wall, and the monster slithering closer, she was reconsidering her choice to fight it alone. She knew the basic lore behind the gorgon and had managed to wound it but it kept on coming. It was exceedingly difficult to fight something you couldnt look at. Her heart hammered in her chest and she squeezed her eyes shut as it came around the corner of the house. She could hear its soft, victorious laugh as it loomed over her. Felt it touch her arm almost affectionately. Come little witch It crooned. Open your pretty eyes for me