The Prince and His Pet Chapter 3

WARNING- BEL-JILL VIOLENCE IN THIS CHAPTER.
Did anyone notice that I'm trying to pay more attention to detail in this story? No? Oh, then I must be failing. =A= Well, I hope this plot's good enough for you to keep reading!

The next morning...

"Bel. ... Oi, Bel!"

Bel felt hands on his arm, shaking him to get him awake. He didn't like that. His ice-blue eyes snapped open and he glared at his twin. "What, Jill."

The older prince bent down to Bel's eye level. "Let's go out to the forest," he whispered.

"Eh?"

"Yeah, it sounds like you're really liking it out there, I would like to see the place for myself," Rasiel told him. Bel sat up and looked at the clock fast enough to see the time, and quickly enough to not catch his brother's attention. As mentioned previously, dropping eye contact was a dangerous idea.

"Jill, it's five in the morning!" he protested in a hiss of a voice.

"All the more reason," said his brother, "because we won't get caught." Bel was suspicious of his brother, but the unusual curiosity that shone in those blood-red eyes made him slip into giving in.

"Okay, fine, but you'll have to listen to me," Bel said. Jill frowned in a 'why the hell would I do that?' sort of way, and folded his arms.

"I'm not about to do THAT, brother," he said darkly. Bel sighed and stood up, still maintaining eye contact.

"Don't do anything bad to the frogs, alright?" he suggested, "Just follow that one rule and I'll be fine." Jill considered, unsure, but soon nodded in agreement.

"Alright."

The two grinned simultaneously and broke the eye contact at the same time so neither was tempted, before walking out the door to their room and heading down the stairs. When they agreed on something, their trust and kindness towards each other was amazing, yet if they ever had a disagreement, it could become fierce enough for one of them to get terribly injured. It was a very strange, but strong bond.

When the two had snuck safely outside, Bel took off his crown and set it in the same place he had yesterday morning, and he looked up at Rasiel, resisting the faint urge to attack his brother when he didn't lock gazes with his twin.

Jill quickly looked back, recognizing the almost inaudible pause in his brother's breathing. "Sorry," he apologized, hesitantly taking off his own crown, "why are we doing this?"

"So that they don't get dirty or slow us down," Bel told him.

"Alright...?" Jill said unsurely, placing his crown next to Bel's. Bel began walking off towards the forest, not bothering to put on any shoes, same as the previous day. Rasiel reluctantly followed suit, thinking since his brother had done this before it would be best to do as he did.

Bel's pace increased significantly as he approached the forest, as though he was very eager to get back to the tadpoles. This confused Rasiel, but he knew that he and his brother were both rather odd, so he put up with it.

Fran's POV

He waited calmly for the being, less than an inch from the surface of the water. 'It has to appear soon...'

"Fran."

Fran looked to his side. 'Yes, mother?' he wanted to say.

"Stop this. It's dangerous. You'll get hurt," she croaked at him.

Fran felt the paddle of his tail slow with disappointment.

'But I want to see it again, I want to talk to it.'

"Oh, Fran!" the stressed mother frog croaked, "Why are you so... so...! So different!" With that, she swam away.

'Is it really that bad?' Fran thought. Suddenly, he saw movement above the surface of the water, and saw a bright light penetrate through the pond.

Bel's POV

"Jill, be careful with that flashlight," Bel protested, moving around his brother to look into the pond. To his suprise, Froggy seemed to be waiting for him. He was close to the edge of the pond, tilted at an angle where he could've been watching for the prince. Bel smiled at the tadpole as his brother sat down beside him.

"This one's yours?" Jill asked, head on his hands.

"Yeah," Bel said, "Named him Froggy."

"How original," Jill joked, poking his brother in the side.

"Stop that," Bel mumbled, not tearing his eyes away from the black creature in the pond.

Fran's POV

They were so close now, he wanted to try and talk to it. What was it? Who was it?

Suddenly, the creature dipped a long claw into the water, but didn't make a move to grab him. What did it want now?

Bel's POV

"Come on, Froggy," Bel coaxed, his hand submerged in the pond. "Over here~"

"Sheshe, Bel~," Jill whispered, prodding his twin again, "so was I right earlier?"

"About what?" hummed Bel, hardly paying attention to the other.

"About you trying to flirt with wild animals. Sure looks like it, shesheshe~"

"Jill," protested Bel, looking up at his brother with irritation. Their eyes didn't meet, though. Jill's back was turned. Bel found himself reaching for a rock in the water.

Fran's POV

It picked up a large pebble in it's hand, then retracted from the water. What was going to happen? Fran couldn't stop thinking about it. He watched the blurry figure draw the rock from the water, and get positioned to... throw it?

Bel's POV

He knew it was a mistake the second it happened, he'd barely hit his brother, but it was enough for Jill to turn on him. The princes began to fight. "You stupid brother, of course you're gonna try and attack me the moment my guard is down."

"You should've looked over at me," Bel argued, throwing a punch at his brother. Jill dodged and returned the blow to Bel's stomach, causing the other prince to gasp with pain.

"Oh? I was trying to keep the peace while YOU were focused on your little animal friend!" Rasiel snarled. Bel was in a bad position- his brother had always had that ounce more of power that kept him on top.

But the younger twin wasn't anywhere close to giving into his brother. He aimed another punch to the other's head, but that, too, was dodged. Jill scrambled to his feet and leapt away from the pond, then picked up a fallen tree branch that, to him, acted as a sword. "Usheshe! What do you say we settle this once and for all?" he shouted to Bel.

"All for it, Jill!" Bel agreed, picking up another branch. The two sparred for a while, Rasiel making almost all the offensive moves, Bel dodging and blocking to the best he could. But then-

SNAP.

Bel's branch had snapped from all the blocking, and he stumbled backwards with the next clumsy attempt at evading an attack, leaving him face-to-face with the tip of Rasiel's 'blade'.

"Jill, you wouldn't," Bel said with a crazy grin, quivering slightly with suprise. "I would," Rasiel hissed at him. "I've had enough of you."

"Ji-"

"Kero!"

Talk about ruining the moment. The mother frog landed on Bel's head, looking almost like a mother who was about to lose their son in a fight. Well, not too far off.

Rasiel paused, and started chuckling darkly under his breath. "Bel, you are an ANIMAL," he laughed, "How about this? How about you stay out here with your little Froggy friends and I go back to the palace to take the throne?"

"Like hell I'd let that happen!" Bel spat, grabbing a nearby rock and throwing it with tremendous force. A sickening crack was heard as it connected with Jill's skull, causing the older prince to yelp in shock and pain. He clutched his head, a wild look in those blood-red eyes.

"Bel...," he hissed, stumbling backwards so that he was in the same position as Bel had been in previously. Belphegor stood, the frog still on his head, and walked over to Jill, glaring fiercely.

"I WILL be the one to take the throne," Bel growled, "No matter what. I'll step on anyone to become the king."

"So would I," Rasiel agreed quietly.

Bel suddenly realized the seriousness of what he had done, seeing the blood flow from Jill's head. "Dammit!" he cursed, bending down and scooping up his older brother in his arms- something he had previously thought he couldn't do. The frog leapt off his head as he started running, looking jostled.

"What is this?" roared the king when Bel had returned to the castle, his wounded brother limp in his arms.

"Oh, my!" The queen fainted, seeing one of her sons in such bad condition.

"It was an accident," pleaded Bel, "He has to get treated immediate-"

"You shut up!" the king raged, before he turned to a servant. "You! Call the hospital instantly!"

"Yes sir!"

Bel carefully laid his brother on the couch, frowning with anxiety for Jill's welfare. Suddenly, his father grabbed the back of his shirt and dragged him back to look at him. "What. Did. You. Do," he said in a dangerous tone.

"..."

"Answer me!"

"We fought."

"What did you do? You worthless brat!"

"I threw a rock at him."

Richard began shouting at him, but Bel began to block him out at that point. He didn't want to hear it.

"F-father..."

Bel and the king both looked to Rasiel, who's bloodshot red eyes had opened ever so slightly.

"Are you okay, son? Speak!" said the king gruffly.

Jill didn't answer, instead just closed his eyes again. And when a doctor arrived at the door to see Jill, Bel ended up running back into the forest.

-End Chapter

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