FluffyNight - Beauty and the Beast
Written by @roku-mtg (read the original in Vietnamese on Wattpad here)
Translated by me (but it was my first translation from Vietnamese to English so Roku help me editing it)
From translator: This is a gift from Roku on my birthday, I really enjoyed it and decided to translate it into English. This is my first time I tried to translate a story from Vietnamese to English so it may have some mistakes. Hope you will enjoy it.
From writer: I’m not a big fan of neither Dreamtale nor FluffyNight so the characters can be ooc at some point. Thank you for reading.
Ccino gazed her eyes through the window, wistfully staring at the white snow. The window was huge, unlike the old door at her house, though, those cramped feelings still hung on her head.
Ccino suddenly missed her kittens, her chubby and fluffy kittens. It's been days that she hadn't cleaned up her house, coffee beans stayed ungrounded, and her little shop was still closed. Her kittens could probably find food by themselves, they looked fat, but they are smart one. She'd just wished to see them. She longed the scent of coffee, of sugar and milk, the excitement in her coffee shop when villagers came to enjoy her drink.
She sighed. The boredom hadn't gone away, making her yawn.
"Yawning like that in my castle, how graceless are you.”
Getting caught by all sudden, Ccino was a bit embarrassed. She immediately recognized that scary deep voice. She turned around and saw Nightmare standing next to to door, crossing his arms. He got a strange expression on his face, but Ccino was sure he'd just wanted to tease her.
Three days ago, she came visit Nightmare. Abruptly, a snowstorm arised and covered the castle with a white and thick blanket. Since then, snow had been falling nonstop, not letting her go home. She could only wonder if her house was swamped in the snow.
"Haha, was that too savage?" Ccino shrugged, let out a small laughter.
Nightmare smiled, slowly came by her side and sat down.
"You like staring into nothing, huh?" He asked, pulling Ccino into his arms.
Nightmare couldn't simply leave the castle and his servants. Plus, Ccino never wished to quit her coffee shop. Thus, they decided to visit each other after work, usually it was Nightmare. The villagers were scared of him, still. Nevertheless, he didn't find it matters, and would visit her anytime he liked.
"It reminds me the past." She let her body relaxed, surrounded by Nightmare's tentacles.
Nightmare's curse is eternal, everlasting, even if he found the true love, he remained the same form of a beast. Though, Ccino seemed to prefer it to a happy ending, he's a big guy, and his tentacles were much useful, they helped her make coffee and clean up the shop.
Their story was a bit different from the told fairy tale, however it didn't bother Ccino even a single bit.
"The past... my apology." Nightmare felt into contemplation, caressing Ccino's back.
Ccino smiled softly, shook her head with tenderness.
"But... I mean, I locked you in this castle just because I was selfish and cowardly…."
"Cheer up, Nights! The past is the past, I'm here with you!"
Ccino violently patted him back, making him startled. Finding discomfort in it, he rolled his eyes.
"Also... It has been a long time."
"That's long enough! It is enough for a coffee harvest and a bunch of kitten' litters".
"You..." Nightmare didn't know to say anything. If it was before, he would get so mad, he would yell at everyone and tore everything apart.
Ccino hummed happily when looking at her tamed beast. She may can't be so charming and talented as Belle, he may stay in this disgusting beast form forever, but that was all enough for their happy ending. Ccino felt like having the most arrogant, cockiest cat snuggled around her feet.
She leaned closer to Nightmare, she soon found herself drowsy. Nightmare's already got used to it, she dozed off while working all the time.
"I do what I like!" She jokingly snapped back.
"You do what you like. Just sleep, I will carry you to the bed later."-Nightmare leaned closer, wrapped his tentacles around Ccino.
"As I recall, your swear isn't so trustworthy." Ccino remembered the time Nightmare promised to take her brother back home safely, but eventually threw him out the castle with a horse. Unbelievably, even the servants were surprised, he agreed to free Ccino's brother, and she had to stay here in exchange.
"You can't shut your mouth for a single second, can you?" Nightmare hissed, though his voice remained hoarsely.
"Probably so..."-She lost her strength, falling into sleep.
Nightmare glanced at his love sleeping peacefully in his arms, didn't realize a brief smile appeared on his cold face. Ccino was a miracle, trapped in this doomed place. She met him, made friends with him, read books for him, even loved him. Nightmare always feared he didn't deserve to have someone wonderful and beautiful like her stay by his side. Thus, he was trying, trying every day to finally find himself deserve her love.
Ccino jolted from sleep by the rushing stiff breeze and the shouting of the villagers with torches and axes in their hands. She was staggered, realizing she was on the roof of the castle.
"Nightmare!? Nights!!"-Ccino yelled in panic, suddenly remembered all of this.
Just as she thought, a grievous scream sorely ripped off the atmosphere.
It felt like something had pierced her heart. The Beast was screaming in agony, his tentacles began to upheave from his back, knocking Gaston out of the roof.
Nightmare fell and lied down motionlessly right in front of her eyes.
"Nightmare? Why...? Please... don't...." Ccino fell down to her knees, completely forgot reality. It was like she had to lived in worst memory once again.
"I'm glad that... I could see you again... Ccino." Nightmare said with his eyes shut, the breathes started to feel heavier and gradually separate from each other.
Before she managed to speak, the last apple fell down to the ground.
Nightmare died, in the body he hated, from a life filled with sorrow and despair. All those years, he had accepted to live with loneliness, although the servants were always with him. Ccino came to his dark world with the stars and moon. She taught him to be a friend, to love, to show mercy, to control his anger.
She taught him to give it away, completely opposite from his selfishness he long had.
Yet till the end, it wasn't the curse that killed him, it was her. Ccino put her hand on Nightmare's chest.
She hold her beloved one in her arms, but she couldn't find any heartbeat.
Ccino woke up, her eyes were filled with tear, Nightmare used a warm towel wiped them away.
"Awake already?" He noticed her eyes staring at him was swollen from crying.
"... it was a terrible dream..." Ccino sighed in relived. She was brought back to reality. Both of them were in Nightmare's room.
"Oh? Want to tell me about it? By the way, the snow is starting to melt, you can probably leave tomorrow." He put the towel on the table. Ccino can feel the sadness in his voice.
"That's a very consice story—"
"Died in pain! Screeching! Because Gaston stabbed you!"
"Just thinking of it make my heart crash. I couldn't even say a word, and the last apple had already fallen!"
"You surely know the truth is—"
"Then I hold your body in my arms... weird dream... Ha ha..."
Nightmare quietly waited for Ccino to finish, but he found nothing else. He came closer to hug her tightly, making both fell into the bed.
"Ccino, everything is real."
"...do you want to know?"
Nightmare laid his body onto Ccino's and let their lips meet. His tentacles reached the lamp and shut it off.
The happy ending for "beauty and the beast" was already in her hand.
Maybe Ccino would stay here a little longer.
Nightmare belongs to @jokublog
Ccino belongs to @black-nyanko
