Taming the Beast
With as much of a shrug as he could muster as a beast, he signaled Belle, asking if she wanted to keep going or turn back. He watched her look out over the town, then she too shrugged, and they turned around and headed back home.
Gastard went first again, crossing the now non-existent barrier alone. Then he came back and motioned for Belle to cross. Before, when he was unable to pass this point, she was on the manor side and he was on the town side, so he wanted to try it that way now, too. To be sure.
She went on alone, and once she was quite far ahead of him, he followed behind, in her wake, with no problem at all.
When they got back inside the manor, they reported their findings. Gastard’s original curse was most definitely broken; he was now as Belle was. Their curse was the same.
“I think I know what to do now,” Belle said.
Gastard looked at her with raised eyebrows.
“You do? What?”
Belle
“I’m the key. I’m the key to everything,” Belle said.
“Eva was right. True love does do weird things to curses, we’ve all heard the stories.
Dad wanted to keep us apart, that was the whole point in all of this. I’d like to think that he would’ve calmed down and come to his senses, only he never got the chance. But either way, that was the purpose of the curse. Or curses.
Whether it was meant to do so forever, or just until he came back and could deal with me more rationally, he wanted us separated. That’s why he put the spell-wall around the grounds, the one you couldn’t find a way around or through. He set it up to keep you from coming back, not to keep me from leaving. He knew that me shifting when I stepped outside would upset me enough to not even think about trying to leave here. I never did, either. Testing that was Eva’s idea, it never even dawned on me to try.
Knowing dad, the other part of your curse, the ‘never know release’ part, was an afterthought just to punish you further, man to man, but the two were intertwined into one curse.
Since the spell-wall was never told to keep me out, it didn’t even try to, even when I wasn’t alone. And once you were through it, with me, your curse was broken. Since the two parts of your curse were entwined, breaking one broke the other as well.”
“And since I passed through with you, your curse took me over as well?”
“I don’t think so, I think that was something else. But to be sure, I need to try something. Eva, are you up for an experiment? I’m not at all sure it will work, but if it does, I think you’ll be curse-free.”
“Completely curse-free? Or curse-altered, like Gastard?”
“I’m not entirely sure, to be honest. But I think completely curse-free. What do you say?”
“I say the same thing you said before you finally tried to leave the grounds last night. What’s the worst that could happen?”
“That’s the spirit. Come with me.”
Belle grabbed Eva, taking her, as everyone else trailed behind, to the front door. Without explaining, or even pausing, she walked right up to the door, yanked it open with her free hand, and walked outside, taking the vibrator outside with her.
She dropped Eva as she shifted, but once beast, she turned to see if she’d been correct about what would happen to the vibe outside.
She was right!
Where the vibe should have been, her young, beautiful, housekeeper now stood instead, completely human once again. She watched as the realization dawned on Eva’s face.
She was outside, and human!
Eva squealed with delight and started jumping up and down, just like Belle expected. But she didn’t expect what Eva did next.
She rushed Belle, launching herself at her, arms spread wide open. Eva hugged Belle tight, her beast form not bothering the girl in the slightest. Eva covered Belle’s animal face with grateful kisses, thanking her over and over.
“Do Vibiere next, Belle. Please?”
Belle nodded and Eva disentangled herself, letting Belle go back inside to turn human, grab Vibiere and step right back outside. Back and forth Belle went, over and over, bringing every sex toy outside, one by one.
Gastard watched her a few times, and then picked Cocksring up, stepping outside with him and turning beast as the cock ring turned human. When it worked, Gastard went back for more, stepping outside again, Mrs. Pulse in his hand.