face.
She
sighed.
The
girl seemed so innocent . The redhead decided to trust her, to risk once
again and so she smiled at Rapunzel, hiding her fears and doubts.
Rapunzel
smiled back, her mood brighter. She didn’t want anyone to fear her.
The
redhead looked away from Rapunzel and out of the window of the girl’s room,
fighting the urge to sigh. The blonde was so damned beautiful it was almost
painful – she must have been using magic to enhance her appearance somehow.
What
she saw in the outside made her startle and rise from the bed in despair.
“No,
no, it’s too soon.” She spoke out loud, ignoring Rapunzel, only then
remembering the blonde’s previous words. “For how long was I unconscious?”
Rapunzel
looked taken aback at her urgency, but replied. “Two days. You were exhausted
so I let you rest.”
“No!”
The redhead spoke almost to herself. She could feel the moon’s light pulsing
through her body, synching with her heart. Her breath speed up and her muscles
started feeling tender, her body changing.
She
turned to Rapunzel, trying to warn the girl, to try and explain while she
could, but could only manage one word before her mind started to be affected by
transformation. “Run.”
Rapunzel
looked on fascinatedly as the woman’s beautiful almond eyes clouded with pain
and then started to shine brightly, the sclera turning yellow like a wolf’s
making it indistinguishable from the iris, the pupil narrowing down.
The
redhead turned to Rapunzel, her eyes seeing only prey and growled loudly from
the depths of her throat, a growl that turned into a howl midway as she looked
at the moon.
She
shrugged the heavy red cloak from her shoulders letting it fall to the ground,
and ripped the rest of the clothes from her body. Her nails lengthened to the
point they looked like claws, and her canine teeth grew to look like those of a
wolf.
Rapunzel
could only look in wonderment as the woman transformed in front of her eyes.
The
redhead still looked distinguishingly human, her mostly nude body holding
itself proudly straight.
Rapunzel
let her eyes linger on the woman’s nude breasts, licking her lips at the sight
of the round mounds, but she didn’t forget to take in the new claws and teeth,
the redhead’s taut muscles or even the look in the other woman’s eyes.
Without
warning the redhead surged forward and threw herself at Rapunzel, moving fast,
faster than any normal person could.
Only
Rapunzel’s instincts saved her life, as without a thought she threw a magical
barrier in front of her, stopping the charging woman cold.
The
redhead looked confusedly at whatever blocked her, Rapunzel’s barrier invisible
to the sight, and she started walking around, trying to find a way to get close
to the blonde girl.
Rapunzel
didn’t give her a chance.
With
a gesture she threw the redhead back, making her fly through the air until she
hit the wall and fell to the ground.
The
blonde hissed at the sound of it, fearing for the redhead’s life. She needed to
be more careful – the woman obviously wasn’t in control of her actions.
A
moment later the redhead got up from the ground and bounded forward again,
intent in taking Rapunzel apart.
Rapunzel
was ready and, without any gesture, her hair flowed free of its braid and moved
forwards, entangling itself on the redhead’s figure, tripping and capturing
her.
The
maddened woman turned and struggled against Rapunzel’s hold, twisting against
the girl’s hair, but it was all for nothing.
Rapunzel’s
magic made her hair unbreakable and the redhead simply exhausted herself
fighting against an unbreakable grip.
Rapunzel
moved forward, slowly, her hair raising the other woman from the ground and
keeping her midair, making it impossible for the redhead to prop herself on
anything.
She
looked carefully at the other woman, seeing as her struggles abated slightly,
before she tried something her mother always told her to be careful
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