The Beast and the Sword Book 2: The Changes

Page 55 Epilogue: That One Snowy Day

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    Noelle didn't find herself going home back to the base that night. She didn't know why but she had found herself staying in front of the house. She checked the window every so often to see if there had been anything going on.

    Her face only turned red at the thought of what Rebecca might do to Asta.

    "I-It's bad enough that Dorksta's in love with the princess--" Noelle thought, "--But that girl might make a move on him tonight! Or worse, what's to stop the Princess from--" She turned as red as a tomato, "--IT'S NOT LIKE I CARE FOR THE DORKSTA OR ANYTHING! WAIT--WHO AM I EVEN MAKING EXCUSES TOO!?"

    Pluck who had been hiding nearby noticed how Noelle had been acting. Addeline and Niwa had been cuddling against him as they looked at the young girl.

    "Huh, She really does have feelings for Asta." Pluck said. "But seriously, who is she? She's just as clingy as a certain someone."

    "Quack, quack quack?" Addeline asked.

    "No that isn't Noelle.  'Sides, she couldn't be the same girl from the restaurant that passed out the second she heard talk about--" Pluck started to say before it just hit him like a ton of bricks. "Wait---don't tell me---The water shooting out of everyone's glasses, and she was in earshot---"

    He soon put himself against the wall as he let out a shriek. "How could I NOT tell it was the Silva of all people!"

"BAWK." Niwa said.

"DON'T START NIWA!" Pluck shouted.

She soon shivered slightly as she quickly took out a match and lit it in an attempt to keep warm.

    "Dang it, what is even going on?!" She thought, "It's not even winter! Why is it so cold?!"

    Noelle had soon been taken back when she noticed a set of snowflakes falling from the sky. Pluck noticed it as well as Addeline and Niwa had been taken off guard.

    "What the--?" Pluck said in confusion.

    Noelle and Pluck soon heard the doors around the area nearby open up, as they were taken back who had stepped outside, all in a trance.

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    All had been sound asleep in Rebecca's house. None had a care in a world as they were lost in their own dreamland. All except one man.

    Gauche.

    He had recovered from the shock of Marie leaving with Sister Therasa and he had been out for blood. With his grimoire in hand he found Asta sound asleep in his room.  He stepped inside as he found Asta asleep. He couldn't help but glare.

    "That Punk..." Gauche said, "You just sealed your own fate."

    Before Gauche could use one of his spells, he had stopped when he had been taken back by the sound of a ring. Asta had stirred from his sleep at the sound.

    "Is it morning already...?" Asta said tiredly before he sat up, when he saw Gauche standing there, "Gauche?! What are you doing here?!"

    Gauche was about to say before--

    "PRISM..."

    A voice soon took them back. It had sounded as though it had been all around them as it continued to call out to her in an eerie, yet soothing voice.