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Author's note: I will not disappoint :)
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"What do you want?" she asked.
"Can a friend not want to speak, to another friend?" Adam asked putting down the rabbit.
"No. And we're not friends." Belle lunged for her rabbit and grabbed it from him while he went to her belt and grabbed her knife.
"Ah." Belle breathed and held up her prize. Looking at Adam to show her triumph, she was not surprised when she saw that he had something else of hers.
"Adam." she put the rabbit in her hand and stuck out the other.
"Give it."
"This." Adam turned over the knife and tested the blade.
"Dull." he mumbled turning it over again.
"Adam give it back." she demanded.
"This is disgraceful." he chuckled and flicked his hand up. The knife disappeared in the air in a puff of maroon smoke. Belle's mouth was agape as she watched her knife disappear into thin air.
"What did you do?!" she demanded stepping up to him.
"Belle that knife was distasteful." he explained.
"Yes. But that was my only knife now give it back." she held out her hand.
Adam sighed and flicked his hand up and a knife appeared in the palm of his hand. He presented it in front of her but she looked at it in distain.
"What?" he asked looking at the knife.
"That's not my knife." she stepped back and surveyed it.
"Well it is now. And i must say, it is a better instrument than that dull piece of-"
"Hey. My dad gave me that knife." Belle warned.
Hearing an explosion in the far off distance Belle sighed and took the knife from Adam and put on the belt.
"What? No thank you?" Adam chuckled.
Belle glared at him as she tied the rabbit to her belt.
"Goodbye Adam." she turned and went through the line of guards on her way home.
Adam watched as she left and continued to stare at her until his guards broke his concentration.
"Sir. What shall you have do?" one stepped up behind him.
"Do you want us to go after her?" another one asked.
"No." Adam sighed and looked at his guards.
"Take the day off." he suggested and went to leave.
"But sir. We took the day off yesterday." the one near him informed.
"Then….go do something. Secure the castle make sure no one is sneaking in." he offered and left.
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Belle walked through a fog of smoke, trying to find her father.
"Papa are you alright?" Belle called from the kitchen as she put the rabbit on the counter and opened the window to let out the smoke.
"How on earth did that happen?" she heard her father shout from the shed that was near the kitchen.
'Please still have eyebrows. Please still have eyebrows.' Belle chanted in her head and she went to check on her father.
"Papa where are you?" she called out. Going to the windows she began to open them letting in the fresh morning turned beginning afternoon air.
"Im here Belle. I'm fine. It's just this hunk of junk."
Belle heard something being kicked and surprised by the strings of curses that followed.
"You always say that." Belle laughed going over to her father who was sitting down on the chair that was near his invention.
"Well i mean it this time. I'll never get this bone headed contraption to work." he exclaimed standing up and circling it.
Belle sighed and surveyed the damage that was done in the room.
'This will take all night.' she thought as she looked at an overturned table, chair and tools that were scattered everywhere.
"Dont worry. You will. And you'll win first prize at the fair tomorrow." Belle persuaded touching her father's shoulder.
Maurice looked up at his daughter and saw hope and faith in her eyes that he thought only her mother had.
"You're right." he resolved going to his tool box.
"I can do this." he went under his machine and began to tinker around asking for this and that before he came out from under it wiping his hands on his apron.
"Alright. That should do it." he stood next to Belle and extended his hand out to the lever and pulled.
At first nothing happened until the ax that was attached began to move, chopping up the wood that was underneath it.
"It works." she exclaimed.
"It does?" Maurice watched his invention in awe as it did what it was supposed to do.
"It does!" he exclaimed, throwing his hands up in the air with excitement."
"You did it. You really did it." Belle laughed watching his invention.
"Alright. Hitch up Philippe girl . I'm off to the fair." he exclaimed going out of the shed and through the kitchen.
"Wait papa!" Belle shouted after him.
Looking at the invention Belle went up to it and looked it over.
"How do you turn it off?" she wondered aloud.
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Maurice looked around the desolate road trying to figure out which wrong turn he had taken.
"We should be there by now." he mumbled as he once again looked at the map.
The horse sputtered at him and continued to trot on. As they came upon an opening, Maurice looked up and heard cheering and wearing of gears and machines.
"Oh. There it is." he chuckled as he put his map into back his satchel and went into the scattered field of inventions.
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"I can't believe i lost it!" Maurice shouted again.
Philippe rolled his eyes at his master's ranting, that had been going on for what seemed like hours.
"I mean. It was wonderful. It was grand. It had everything that was needed and i lost!"
Maurice sighed and and slumped down onto the horse, having been tired out by the day's events. Hearing a howl, Maurice sat up confused.
"Where have you taken us Philippe?" Maurice pulled on the reins and made the horse stop.
Looking around into the dense forest, Maurice looked for the source of the noise. When another howl came it seemed so much closer, making Maurice jump and Philippe gallop away.
"Wait. Philippe wait." Maurice pulled on the horse's reigns trying to stop him but the horse was resilient and strained against him, pushing on.
Philippe finally came to a stop when he saw yellow eyes surround him. He backed up from them but the machine that he was lugging around hit a tree making him gallop forward in a haste wanting to get away from what's holding him. He ran on with Maurice holding onto his back for dear life. Not watching where he was going Phillippe came upon a cliff. Backing up from the cliff as fast as he could, Phillippe again ran into the forest and into a circle of wolves. One snapped at him making him rear up in fear and Maurice was knocked off in the midst of it.
All of the wolves chased the horse away leaving Maurice in the snow.
"Great." he muttered getting up and dusting himself off.
"That horse. That damn horse." he mumbled and he began to walk a path he thought was right. Maurice shivered at feeling coldness pass through him. Sighing he stopped and looked around trying to see which way to go next. Hearing a growl Maurice looked to his left and saw menacing yellow eyes pierce back at him. His eyes widen in fear and he felt himself freeze. At the snap of the wolf's jaw Maurice high tailed it, away from the animal and in any which direction he could. A wolf snapped at his heels making him tumble in front of a gate. Quickly he got and opened it then turned around and slammed it shut. Taking a breath Maurice looked up at the castle in front of him.
'Gloomy place.' he thought going to open the door but a wolf caught him on the back of his shoe knocking him down.
"No. No." Maurice clawed at the ground trying to get away from them. Gladly he did but at the expense of losing his shoe. Hastily he ran up to the door and pounded on it. At first their was no answer. The wolves banged their hand against the bars and Maurice knocked harder.
"Yes. Yes." The door opened to reveal a stoic man with piercing blue eyes.
"Please help me." Maurice then collapsed on the front of the steps at his feet.
"Well that's new." he commented.
"Can someone please get this man in a room." he called into his house.
Quickly servants appeared and picked up Maurice and hauled him into the manor. Adam watched them go and was about to close the door if the wolves have not growled at him. Adam looked at them and raised an eyebrow. Taking a deep breath a ferocious growl ripped through his throat. The wolves whimpered and ran off their tale between their legs. Nodding his head Adam went into the castle and closed the door.
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