Chapter 2: Bonjour

Disclaimer: I do not own rights to this song and others that I will later use that right belongs to Disney. And some of the words have been changed.

Diana was wearing her blue elbow sleeved dress that went to her knees around it she was wearing a white apron, her brown leathered golden buckled shoes, and her hair was down and blowing in the morning autumn wind. She had a small, brown basket with a small red blanket on the bottom and on top of that was a green covered book. As she crossed her front yard and went over the bridge toward town she began to sing.

"Little town, it's a quiet village. Every day like the one before. Little town, full of little people waking up to say." The clock stuck eight and then a man opened his window and said,

"Bonjour!" Several women opened their window. "Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour!" A man then went up a chimney, covered with ash. "Bonjour!" By then Diana was in the in town and on the road and sang as she went toward her destination,

"There goes the baker with cart like always. The same old bread and rolls to sell. Every morning just the same, since the morning that we came to this poor provincial town."

"Good morning, Diana," a man said. Diana turned around to see the baker.

"Morning, moujer," Diana told him.

"Where're you heading to?" he asked her.

"The bookshop," she told him and then with excitement she told him. "I just finished the most amazing story about a beanstalk and an ogre and…"

"That's nice," the baker said as he turned and yelled to the inside of his bakery. "Maria! The baguettes, hurry up!" She than rolled her eyes and began to walk toward her destination with her head up looking at the clouds.

"Look there she goes, the girl who's strange, no question," two old women sang to each other while looking at her. "Dazed and distracted can't you tell?"

"Never part of any crowd, cause her head's up on some cloud," two young men sang while Diana walked.

"No denying she's a funny person, that gal," several other villagers sang. Several people were also doing business.

"Bonjour.

Good day!

How was the party?

Bonjour.

Good day.

How are your kids?

I need some eggs.

That's too expensive," said several different people.

"There must be more than this provincial life," Diana sang right before she entered the bookstore.

"Ah, Diana," the bookkeeper said. "It's good to see you again."

"It's good to see as well, Jonn'" Diana replied. She then gave him the book that was in her basket. "I've come to return the book I borrowed."

"Finish it already?" Jonn' asked with curiosity. Diana walked over and onto the ladder.

"O, I could put it down," She told him as she looked on the shelves. "Have you gotten anything new?"

"Not since last week, I'm afraid," Jonn' told her as he place the book back in its place. "You can always re-read of one of old ones, if you'd like."

"Thanks, Jonn'," Diana replied. "I'll borrow this one." She then took a dark blue covered book and threw it into Jonn's hands.

"This one?" Jonn' asked. "But you've read it three times!"

"Well, it's my favorite!" Diana exclaimed as she got off the ladder. "Far off places, daring feats, magic and battle, a woman in knight's armor."

"Well, if you enjoy it all that much," Jonn' began as he gave it to her. "It's yours to keep."

"But Jonn'…" Diana began.

"I insist," he told her.

"Well, thank you!" Diana exclaimed as she began to walk out the door. "Thank you so much!" She then began to read as she walked home.

"Look there she goes the girl who's such a stranger," three men sang as they watched her walk off. "I wonder if she's really well." She avoided bumping into people and even managed to avoid water buckets, which were in front of houses, without stepping in them.

"With a dreaming faraway look," some young girls sang.

"And a nose stuck in a book," some men sang.

"What a puzzle to the rest of us is her," they all sang. Diana then sat on the rim of the fountain in the center of town, where the sheep were.

"O, isn't this amazing?" Diana sang to the sheep. "This is my favorite part because you'll see. Here's where she meets the knight. But she won't discover who he is till chapter thirteen." She then re-began her walk home.

"Now it's no question that her name means beauty," a woman sang to her husband in their house, which had a window opened. "Her looks have got no parallel."

"But behind that fair façade, I'm afraid she's rather odd," her husband sang to her. "Very different from the rest of us."

"She's nothing like the rest of," some men sang. "Yes, different from the rest of us is her."

Now there were some geese in their triangle flying over the village. Ares shot one of them and it went down where his partner, Serpent. Serpent was a small man who loved the color green and had that same color clothes. He put the goose in a leather bag for Ares and ran up to him saying,

"Wow, you don't miss a shot, Ares. You're the greatest hunter in the whole world!" Ares blew on the top of his gun.

"I know," Ares said. They then walked at little way till they could see a certain bookworm.

"No beast alive stands a chance against you," Serpent told him. "Haa, and no girl for that matter."

"It true, Serpent," Ares told him. Then he pointed to the bookworm. "And I've got my sights set on that one."

"The warrior woman's daughter?" Serpent asked.

"She's the one," Ares told his friend. "The lucky girl I'm going to marry."

"But she's…" Serpent began.

"The most beautiful girl in town," Ares interrupted.

"I know," Serpent snapped. Ares then dropped his gun into his arms.

"That makes her the best," Ares said. "And don't I deserve the best?"

"Well, of course, I mean you do but she's…" Serpent began again.

"Right from the moment when I met her, saw her," Ares began. "I said she's gorgeous and I fell." He then looked into a glass window and saw his reflection and admired it. "Here in town there's only she, who is beautiful as me so I'm making plans to woe and marry her." He then turned and began to follow a Diana walking away from him and heading over a bridge.

"Look there he goes," three young blonde women sang as they sat on a bench. "Isn't he dreaming? Laucu, Ares, o, he's so cute! Be still my heart, I'm hardly breathing, he's such a tall and strong and handsome brute." Now Ares was trying to get to Diana but, lucky for Diana, there was several people doing business and were buying as well as selling. They were calling things like,

"That's too much!

I'd like ten yards.

One pound.

Those smell.

Where that carpet?

My coffee, please.

Is that too expensive?" As well as a bunch of stuff that was business related.

All while this happening Ares was trying to get through, "Excuse me," he sang. "Please let me through."

"I hate that color.

A carpet, please," people said.

"There must be more than this provincial life," Diana sang as she twirled and then continued to read.

"Just watch, I'm going to make Diana my wife," Ares sang. He was still behind a lot of people, who then sang as Diana walked away from them,

"Look, there she goes the girl who's strange but special. The most peculiar mademoiselle. It's a pity and a sin, she doesn't quite fit in, but she really is a funny girl. (A beauty but a fun girl) She really is a funny girl. That gal." In the background some people sang, "Bonjour, Bonjour. Bonjour. Bonjour." Diana then turned around and everyone went back to business. She then put her nose back into her book and read.