Sarasa Nightmare

Post-Story
(A)

The next morning came, too soon for Luigi, who had sat in front of the bedroom door all night.

The door slowly creaked open, giving him enough time to stand.

"Luigi, what are you doing here?" Daisy asked, her voice sounding confused.

"I saw the beast last night."

"What? Where? Did you recognize it?"

"I saw it just outside this room. And yeah, I recognized it... and I didn't."

"Huh?"

"I've never seen any creature like what as I saw last night, some sort wolf-dragon hybrid maybe, but I recognized it all the same. Because the monster is you."

"What! That's not possible."

"Think about it. You've said it yourself. You grew up here; you know this castle like the back of your hand. On top of that, you admitted that you didn't hear the destruction of a hall that's less than a hundred feet from where you sleep. Even though there's no way anyone could sleep through that. And if all of that doesn't convince you..." Luigi stepped to the side so she could get a better view of the hall, nodding his head at the scraps of cloth he'd left littering the floor.

The silence was deafening before Daisy started shaking her head adamantly. "No. No, no, no. It can't be!"

He quickly stepped forward as she started backing into her room. "It'll be alright."

Her head started jerking back and forth even more rapidly. "It can't be. If I'm... Then I... People are dead... My people... Because of me..."

Luigi took her hands and leaned forward, giving her the briefest of kisses to stop her semi-hysterical babble. When he pulled back, he said, "We'll figure it out. After all, you have to be the hero of this story, right?"

She managed to give a hope-filled watery smile, and he knew he got it right this time.

AN: To my FAGE giftee, I'm hoping that you enjoyed this story, even if this wasn't quite what you had in mind when you asked for a story about somebody revealing themselves to be a shapeshifter.

Beyond that, to everyone, you may notice this Post-Story has an A in parenthesis. The reason for this is because it is one of three potential endings. This is the one that I finally went with for my fanfiction posted story as it is the sweetest and most hopeful ending. But because I wrote the two other endings as well, I will be posting Post-Story B and C on my blog as unedited extras. If anyone wants to read them, that is where they will be found.