They came back to the mansion after preparations and went their separate ways in preparation for the next day.
May 31st, 2035.
12:00am.
He woke up, looked himself in the mirror, he was barely recognizable. "What am I turning to?" He asked himself...
It's been 5 days since Matteo was bitten in the woods by what he deemed 'a strange creature.' Noticing some changes after some time, like growing appetite and pulsating sensations coming from the wound in the night time, he dismissed the thought that it might be signs that something was wrong...
Now, waking up to a grumbling stomach and wild nightmares, he looked at himself and saw that he was soon to be no longer human... "It's only a matter of time..." He thought. His eyes had turned a very bright yellow and his canines were longer than usual. He could see his nails had grown longer and sharper, while his hair had grown longer within the past few days.
Matteo was still trying to suppress the weird feeling which was rising inside of him, urging him to go out in the middle of the night and hunt the first thing he saw. While fighting his predator instincts and urges to kill, he was also fighting a throbbing headache, making him want to scream in anger, pain and agony.
He could feel it, he was changing, changing into something even he was scared of. He started panting, panting turned to screaming, screaming turned to whimpering and whimpering turned to howling. His howls shook the castle to its core; and that's when he knew, he knew that whatever he was, it wasn't human, it was something far more scarier...
Matteo ran out of the mansion with little knowledge of what he was doing.
His control over his mind and body had been forcibly taken over by a new force and only one thing kept ringing in his head, "KILL...".
'What is wrong with me??!! What have I turned into??!!' Matteo asked himself as he ran through the woods.
If he was seen right now, one wouldn't be able to call him a human. He had grown bigger in size and whoever saw him now would have only one word, "monster!!".
One of the king's guards walked out as he heard some noises.
Looking outside he saw nothing. "Who's there!!" He asked in a loud voice.
"..."
There was no answer.
"Maybe I'm still drunk." He said to himself.
"Did you see anyone darling??" A voice came from inside. It was his wife.
"No." He said.
"Well what are you waiting for? We're not done yet you know... Come back in quickly..." She said.
"Let me take a piss woman!! I'll be inside shortly!!" He said.
He walked towards the bushes.
As he unbuttoned his pants to take a piss, he met a pair of hungry eyes staring at him like he was a prey.
He was anyways.
Before he could raise an alarm, he felt something warm going down his chest. He looked to see his throat had been slashed. He saw his life flash before his eyes, his eyesight slowly fading, everything became blurry and finally, he breathed his last.
"Honey!! Are you not done yet??!!" The guard's wife shouted again from inside, but she got no reply this time.
She left the room and came out of the house, what she saw was what some people would call a 'nightmare'.
Her husband being feasted upon before her very eyes. She wanted to scream but fear choked her. She stood there, looking at the horrifying "beast" feasting on her husband.
She wanted to move but her legs were weak.
The beast caught scent of her and looked at it's new prey with it's yellow eyes glowing in the dark, evidence of it's perfect eyesight despite the darkness. With hungry eyes and a menacing growl being directed at her, she couldn't take it anymore.
'Run!!!' That was all her mind could tell her.
She lifted herself from the ground and started running towards the town. She took a few steps but couldn't make it to the forest as she was dragged back into the house, her screams of terror unheard by any as she was torn limb from limb by the ravenous beast.
"Why, why, why?!?!?! Why can't I stop? Why do I feel so satisfied?!?!?!" These questions were going through Matteo's mind as he took bite after bite until two disfigured corpses were left.