Chapter 17

Alexander with Henri and Marie-Jeanne started hunting down Sebastien,who for the first time felt afraid and ran for his life.

Sebastien, in human form was running away with an arrow still lodged in his shoulder.There was multiple wounds on his body that was not healing.

Sebastien starts to move faster as he yanks the arrow out of his shoulder and casts it aside.

Sebastien with a growl said"Move aside,I don't want to kill you, sister."

Marie-Jeanne slightly tearing up said"Just give up Sebastien."

Sebastien noticed she didn't have anything weapons and thought "Does she really think talking will bring me back to being a stupid human."

Flashback

Alexander,Henri and Marie-Jeanne were sitting around a campfire,while Marie-Jeanne spoke up"I want to be the one to kill him."

Alexander nodded,but slightly pitied the girl,while

Henri's respect for her grew.

Alexander decided to tell both of them the plan"We can't go against him directly since he seems to run away whenever we are spotted."then he looked at Marie-Jeanne and continued"But with you Marie-Jeanne he will let his guard down believing you are not strong enough to kill him."

Marie-Jeanne agreed with that part,while Henri asked"But how do we force him out."

Alexander smiled and replied"Now,we drive him towards Marie-Jeanne,who will appear defenseless.In his fear for us finding him and his belief that Marie-Jeanne won't kill him."

Flashback ended

As he glared at her and replied"So be it."

He lifts his arms up at his sides as the dark shadows are summoned from the earth and envelope him until he becomes the Beast,

 a nine-feet-tall, thickly-muscled and oil-black Beast and he had blood-red veins that traced the surface of his skin. His eyes were blazing blue eyes and wickedly sharp fangs.

The Beast gallops behind Marie-Jeanne, and she breaks into a sprint as he chases her before finally sliding onto a snow bank, grabbing the pike with the fleur-de-lis tip that she hid there earlier, and holds it up, screaming at the top of her lungs as the Beast lunges for her and impales himself on the pike.

Marie-Jeanne resists bursting into tears as the Beast slowly transforms back into Sebastien, who seems impressed by his sister's actions, though the pain of the wound does bring him to his knees, so Marie-Jeanne can look at him at eye-level. He groans in pain for a moment before he starts to laugh mockingly at her and said" I'm the famous and feared Beast of Gévaudan! And, I have done such horrors that all of history will remember my name."

While two shapes continued to approach, shimmering in the snow.As fingers of energy crawled across their formless shapes, the creatures uncloaked.It was Henri and Alexander beside her.

Marie-Jeanne, absolutely disgusted by her brother's disregard for human life, simply sneers at him and replied"No one will remember."

Sebastien gasps in horror and anger when he realizes what she's implying and said with anger"Damnatio memoriae? You would have them take my name? Our name?"

Sebastien looks as though he may hurt her, but suddenly, he begins to cough and choke as blacken blood begins to pour from his mouth, both shocking and confusing him and questioned"What? What is this?"

Sebastien knew the weapons hurt him,but this was different he could tell his strength was leaving him.While Marie-Jeanne scowls at him, too upset by what he's done to take satisfaction in his downfall and explainrd"No ordinary steel-- wolfsbane and mountain ash, forged with our blood under the light of a full moon."

Sebastien had small smile on his face that went unnoticed by Marie-Jeanne and Henri.Sebastien was slightly happy that it was his sister who killed him rather than someone else.

Marie-Jeanne leans forward to whisper in his ear, as Sebastien did to her in the tavern"History might remember you, Sebastien... But only as a beast."

She quickly kisses him on the forehead, once again referencing the last time they spoke, before Sebastien groans and begins to breath heavily before he dies. His body collapses and falls sideways onto the snow-covered ground,as memories of their childhood flash through his mind.

Marie-Jeanne lets out a deep sigh of relief that this ordeal is finally over. After she composes herself, she walks around Sebastien's body, pulls the pike out of his chest, and tucks it under her arm as both Henri and Alexander watched her with sympathy.