A Monster's Mercy

His creator, Victor Frankenstein, was the first man to bring him into the world, a world where he saw light for the first and last time. Caged, cold, alone, he grew knowing nothing but his creator's name and his cruelty. Elizabeth, the only soul who ever looked at him with gentle eyes, saw him as something fragile, something deserving of love. But she was taken from him the moment he begged Victor to create a companion so he would never have to wander life alone.

With his creator dead, the old blind man who once called him friend slain by wolves, and the only woman who ever cared for him lost while trying to protect him, he walks the earth utterly alone. Hunted, feared, and driven into the shadows, he searches for a purpose he has yet to understand.

One day, wandering through the deepest part of the woods, he discovers an abandoned castle once owned by a long-forgotten royal family. In its broken walls and empty halls, he finds a strange kind of peace. He restores it room by room, breathing life back into the ruins, befriending the small forest creatures that slip inside and keep him company.

But everything changes the night a terrified woman stumbles into his castle, gasping, shaking, hiding from the men who seek to drag her back to the place she escaped.

In that moment, his lonely fate shifts forever.

***This is a fictional retelling and sequel to Guillermo Del Toro's Frankenstein and serves as literary inspiration***
***This is my original work and should not be plagiarized***
***All characters and situations are entirely fictional and not based on real people. ***