A regretful Wolf and his Beauty. (Beast!Rex x fem!reader.)

Chapter 4

A/N: This is a collaborative fic with @ahsokatano-thetogruta on tumblr.

Warnings: slight injury.

The ballroom falls silent, the only sound being Cody's voice as he calls after Rex, seeing him run away as fast as he can from everyone. He can't bear to face them after what has just happened.

Cody tries to move but it's very difficult now not having the same legs before he was cursed. He shuffles around on the spot to look at everyone around the room.

Everyone has changed into inanimate objects, but when he sees a set of armor dressed in clothes and lying on the floor, he immediately recognizes who it is. "Sweetheart…" he almost whispers out as he moves awkwardly towards Obi Wan who isn't moving.

"Obi wan? Sweetheart, are you okay?" He can't tell, but Obi Wan is looking right at him.

"Yeah...yeah I think so." He replies, struggling to get up.

"Here, you can hold onto me." Cody offers as he shuffles a bit closer to Obi Wan's side.

"Thank you, Cyar'ika." Obi Wan holds onto Cody as he props himself up onto his feet. He looks down to see that his body is now just a hollow suit of armor. "Where's Anakin?" The both of them look around the room, expecting to find him in a smaller suit of armor.

"I'm right here." The deeper voice behind them startles them both, turning around to see that the clothes that Anakin was wearing are now in shreds on the floor. He's in an adult's suit of armor, much like Obi Wan's, but he has a piece of brown cloth attached to his helmet. The cloth resembles his hair while human. Obi Wan also has orange feathers on his helmet. Both Obi Wan and Cody feel shock flow through them.

“Anakin!!! What happened? Are you okay?” Anakin tries to stand to walk over to the two, but he’s not used to his new body at all. He stumbles, falling to his knees. Obi Wan motions for him to stop.

“I… I don’t know? I’m not in pain anymore, but I feel weird, too big and my voice sounds different. What about you?! You’re a suit of armor too, and Cody’s a desk!” Cody and Obi Wan glance at each other, they don’t know what to do. Anakin tries to get up again, stumbling to Obi Wan before falling to his knees and into the older man’s arms.

“Obi Wan." He looks up at Obi Wan "I’m scared.” Obi Wan hugs him close, he can hear in Anakin’s voice that even though he sounds like a grown man, he’s still just a scared twelve year old. Anakin nuzzles against Obi Wan. Obi Wan rubs his back, wincing at the sound of metal rubbing against metal. Cody keeps Obi Wan propped up while he holds the terrified child, Anakin’s been through so much already, first a life of slavery and now this!

"Shh, it'll be alright Anakin. I promise, I'm here for you." Obi Wan's voice is gentle and comforting, Cody just looks at the both of them, wishing so badly that he could hug them.

Anakin's attention turns to a whining sound coming from somewhere in the room, so he looks around, trying to locate the source of the sound. He then sees a footstool padding around the room, looking like it is searching for someone as it moves around and sniffs everyone it passes. It took Anakin a moment to overcome the confusion, but then it hit him. "Artoo?" The little stool raises to attention at the familiar name. "Artoo, over here boy."

Artoo hears where the sound came from and runs over to it. He stops and looks a little afraid to see the menacing armor in front of him. "It's okay, Artoo. It's me." Anakin holds out his hand and Artoo cautiously scoots over. He sniffs the hand and then barks happily at the familiar scent of Anakin. He jumps up on Anakin, making Obi Wan let go of the boy, allowing him to cuddle Artoo better.