preface…

I had fought with my decision long enough.  I watched my rival with a serene stare, as he circled the stone column.  
I had been sent away from my original sepulcher for destroying the love of others, and now the wheel of fate had spun upon me.  It was now time for me to destroy a love that was closer to my motionless heart than any other.  The monster I struggled to hide was erupting from me.  It was tearing at my soul, and even my mind.  
Kill. That was all I could think about.  
I could smell his soul as he circled closer to the pillar and the monster.  My eyes burned into him knowing that the same thoughts were racing through his mind.  
My vivid veins were pumped with black adrenaline, and my mouth had filled with black venom.  Black thoughts were forming just as rapidly.
I was being controlled by every force nature had ever created.  My victim circled closer, and the fragrance of his soul was taking over my mind.  
Kill.  
I closed my eyes in hopes to escape.  The windows of my mind opened wider, and my lungs inhaled his scent deeper.  Images burned into my mind by love, were quickly erased by evil.  
Demons don’t choose their victims, but I had chosen mine.  I opened my eyes as the last thoughts of resistance cleared my head.
I could do it.  I was going to do it.  I was going to destroy my only love.  I was going to do it to save us both…from each other.
“Beauty had to kill the Beast”