The Arcana Characters X Reader

Muriel - Battle Of The Beast

“So…” you sighed and furrowed your brows, “First off what’s your name.” you motioned towards the ground.

He lifted his paw and dragged his claws along the dirt, slowly spelled ‘Muriel’. He looked up at you with a small smile, then quickly looked down when he met your gaze.

“Muriel...what a beautiful name..” you smiled tiredly, you stretched your arms up into the air as you let out a great big yawn. “Oh dear..well..what do you say we solve this tomorrow? I am sleepy…” you smack your lips and rubbed your eyes.

Muriel looked over at the fire and quickly drug out some cloth from around the small hut to make a makeshift bed. He curled up in a dark corner and closed his eyes.  You watched him do this with a frown, “Come here! We can share body heat.” you smiled and laid down on the bundle of cloth.

Muriel frowned and shyly looked away.

“Oh come on! Please?” you smiled innocently and clasping your hands together.

Muriel glanced at you again and let out an agitated grunt then slowly curled up around your form. He seemed almost to delicate, like he could hurt you on accident.

“You won’t hurt me…” you smiled and cupped his large head into your small soft hands. “And if you did! I can just bandage myself up.” you shrugged and buried yourself into his fur.

Muriels eyes widened in surprise as he looked down at your relaxed face, you looked so peaceful in your sleep...and around a beast like him? How. He looked hideous, but you still talked to him, helped him. You were different than the others, you were kind. He craned his neck over your sleeping figure, then eventually fell asleep himself.

The morning was bright as the suns’ great rays leaked through the windows and into the dusty unkempt room. The beams of light hit your eyes, which caused you to stir awake. You couldn’t move much since muriel was coiled around you protectively. You giggled at him and tried to scootch his snoot to see if that would wake him up. But to your prevail it didn’t. The only you response you got was an annoyed grunt and him wiping his nose with his paw.

“Muriel…” you whispered once again and gently tugged on his ear. That seemed to wake him up. His head craned up, and yawned loudly, rubbing his eyes. He looked down at you and yelpled, quickly putting you down and backed away. He looked shy, but you could see a small smile on his face.

“Ahhh i knew what you were doing!”  you giggled and cupped his large face with your hands and kissed his snout. “Alright...so...where were you last transformed?” you tilted your head and walked towards the door.

Muriel followed behind you and felt yourself lift up into the air and slide onto his back. He sniffed around and began to charge to a different part of the woodland, but either way, you were going deeper. The trees created tight spaces, and the more dead ones appeared since the taller trees hogged all of the sunlight.

“What were you doing down here muriel?” you asked and hugged onto his neck tightly. This place was beginning to get creepy, and she didn’t like it. Muriel stopped and turned over his shoulder to flash you a sympathetic look.

“No I said I will go with you...and I am!” you mumbled with determination and hope.  “Just keep on treading..whatever we face, we will take it on toge-” you sentence was cut off when a loud howling screech erupted from behind you.

Both you and muriel twirled around to see hairless, slick creature with an extra set of arms above his legs. The skin was a bright iridescent colour and the eyes seemed to be hollowed out naturally like a skull. Large white curved teeth could be seen protruding from its lips, crusted with blood of its last victims. It started to charge towards the two with malicious intent.
But before it could get to you, muriel bucked you off and began to charge towards the towering creature. Tooth against tooth, claw against claw the two beasts began to battle. You could hear muriel yowl in pain as the beasts fans sank into his flank and flung him into a nearby tree.

“MURIEL!” you screeched and went to ran over but the beats stopped you in your tracks. It sniffed the air and screeched loudly. The large hulking mass of muscle and began to charge towards you, it’s lizard like tongue lolled out of it’s mouth hungrily. You twirled around and began to run for the woods. “Shit shit..” you hissed and screamed when you felt the tongue wrap around your ankle.

It whipped you up into the air and opened it great mawl, a large opened with rows of nasty teeth was all you could see as you began to fall. But you felt a small mouth wrap around your waist and jumped over the great mawl. Muriel threw you into the tree trunk and let out a ferocious roar, and reared up on his hind legs, bashing his paws onto his scarred chest.

The beast snapped his jaws closed and twirled around to face muriel, it let out this low gutteral coo in a mocking way. Large spines that struck out from it’s back then screeched, saliva and blood flying out of it great mawl.

Muriel didn’t move a muscle, his nostrils flared in anger and his green eyes glimmered like emeralds. He landed on all fours and charged for the beast. He dodged the extra extremities and front legs, then bit onto his target, the neck. He charged the beast into the tree and struck it into a large spike created from the force of flinging muriel into the trunk.

He pulled away and watched as the beast struggled and called in a pleading manner as it began to gargle and silence down. The bones popped and erupted against the skin until it morphed into a human. They lay limp, with dark red blood leaking out from the fatal wound.

Muriel stared at his win and looked back at you with weary and tired eyes, he began to limp towards you then finally collapsed on the ground.

“MURIEL!” you cried out and ran towards his heaving body. You lifted his massive face onto your lap and began to stroke his snout. “Muriel..” you whispered and felt tears swell up at the corners of your eyes.

Muriel simply grunted, with a large wave of air escaping his mouth. His eyes flickered up towards you and he simply licked your cheek lovingly. Then nudge his snout into your stomach lovingly.

“Please...stay awake..you are going to be fine..” you whispered and wrapped your upper half around him. While you were sobbing into your friends body you could see a small flicker of light, you quickly looked up.

“hello?”

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MUAHAHAHAHHAA I AM SO EVIL! I left you on a cliffhanger.