Usagi: hi! We're back again; the clock is almost 2 at night and high time to upload!

Zakura: would it kill you to upload anything in the day?

Usagi: yup. Well no… I do that occasionally too. But I sometimes tend to be writing all day and want to finish before I go to bed, which is 2-3 in the morning…. But enough blabbering, chapter 14 for you.

CHAPTER XIV

CASTLE OF THE BEAST

Donald dragged Sora along into the gummi ship and then out again on the next world ("You can let go now Donald" Sora complained) where they found a large castle.

"Gosh. I wonder who lives here" Goofy says.

"Maybe Riku!" Sora said.

"Doesn't he live on Destiny Islands?" Donald asked.

"Technically yes, but he hasn't been there for a year" Sora said.

"Well how do you know? Neither have you" Goofy said.

"Hey…. You're right, how DO I know?" Sora said.

Suddenly a roar was heard trhough the castle.

"Hey! Didn't you guys hear who that sounded like?" Sora asked.

"No. You're the one who's oh-so good at recognizing random sounds" Donald said.

"It was Beast!" Sora said.

…

"Who?" Donald asked.

"You know….the beast who helped us on Hollow Bastion" Sora said.

"Is his name only Beast?" Donald asked. "Who names their child that?"
"Well I don't think he was called that when he was born" Sora said rolling his eyes.

Flashback: some hospital 20 years earlier.

The doctors come in with a screaming baby boy to a woman.

"Eyw. What an annoying sound, he sounds like a beast!" the woman said.

"You're right darling. Let's name him Beast!" the child's father said.

End flashback.

"Huh… well what do you know…" Sora said.

"Sora, stop remembering things you've never experienced and help us fight these heartless!" Donald said.

"Oy. Why are there so many heartless here?" Sora asked.

"Gosh. Maybe they like the scenery?" Goofy asked.

"Heartless don't care about the scenery" Sora said.

"Well how do you know?" Goofy asked.

"Well…."
Flashback: Hollow Bastion 1 year earlier.

Sora's heartless stood on a balcony in Hollow Bastion looking down.

"Hey! Look at the pretty scenery!" he said.

"We don't care freak" a random wyvern said and pushed Sora out from the balcony.

End flashback.

"I still have a scar from that" Sora said, shuddering.

"Are we going to fight these heartless or not?" Donald asked.

Suddenly the roar was heard again, and Beast jumped down from the second floor, killed all the heartless, picked up a random rose on a table and went back up stairs.

"Well hello to you too" Sora said in disbelief.

"Look! There's a woman up there!" Goofy said.

"That must be Belle. Let's go see her" Sora said.

The trio ran upstairs and straight into the first door they saw.

"Ow that hurts" Sora said.

"Maybe we should try OPENING the door first?" Donald asked.

"Ah. You're not as dumb as you look Donald" Sora said and opened the door.

"I look dumb? I'll get this door open" Donald said.

He walked back and ran straight into the door…or would have if someone hadn't opened it so he fell to the floor.

"Hey! Who opened the door?" the duck asked.

He looked up at Belle, one of the princesses of heart.

"I'm so glad you're here!" She said and picked up Donald.

"Hey! Don't! Daisy's going to kill me" Donald said.

"So Belle. What's up with Beast? He didn't seem happy to see us" Sora said. "In fact…he didn't look like he saw us at all".

"He's been acting strange lately, and locked all his servants into the dungeon" Belle said.

"How rude. You want us to go save them?" Sora asked.

"Yes please, I'm so thirsty and all my clothes are just lying around on the floor" Belle said.

"Why don't you just go into the kitchen yourself, get a cup of tea and put your clothes into your closet?" Goofy asked.

"You'll see" Belle said.

The insulted three friends left Belle and went to the dungeon door; they finally found the door, hidden behind a closet.

"This must be it" Sora said and pushed the closet out of the way.

Suddenly, the closet yawned. "Would you mind?" It asked, and moved back in front of the door.

"What the?" Donald said.

"Why I'll show you" Sora said and pulled out his keyblade but then Donald and Goofy jumped him. "Hey! Let it go! That might be one of Belle's friends" Goofy said.

"And it's standing in our way because…?" Sora asked.

"Well… maybe it's turned into a heartless?" Goofy suggested.

"Oh come on! Furniture doesn't have hearts to start with!" Sora said.

"Didn't Riku say the same thing about wooden puppets?" Jiminy asked from his hood.

"Fine, be that way" Sora said and pushed the closet out of the way again, and chained it stuck so it couldn't move back.

"There. Now let's go find those servants of Beast" Sora said and entered the room.

Behind the door was…another door.

Donald walked up to it and tried to open it, when suddenly some statues on the door came to life and attacked.

"Well what do you know… a heartless door" Sora said.

"Looks like it's possessed or something" Goofy said.

"Whatever. I don't have time for this" Sora said. With the keyblade he chased the heartless away from the door and ran inside.

In the dungeon they found no one, just a candlestick, a clock, a tea kettle and a tea cup.

"And why has he thrown these random objects into the dungeon?" Donald asked.

"Oh my, it appears we've been saved!" the candlestick said.

"OMG! The candle just talked" Sora said, hiding behind Goofy.

"Bonjour gentlemen. My name is Lumiere" the candlestick said. "These are Cogsworth and mrs Pots and her son Chip".

Sora gazed at the kettle and the cup.

"Who the heck is his father?" he asked.

"Never mind that. What happened to you?" Donald asked.

"We could tell you. It's a tale as old as time, but true as it can be…" mrs Pots started.

"NO SINGING! The Atlantica-mission hasn't even started yet and we definitely don't want any more of that" Sora said.

"Well alright then. One day we were all human, living here and serving the prince" mrs. Pots explained.

"The beast is a prince?" Goofy asked in disbelief.

"Yup. But a rather mean prince. One day an old woman came and knocked on our door, asking for shelter for the night, but the prince refused, so she put an enchantment over the whole castle and everyone living in it" Cogsworth said.

"I live in the cupboard" Chip explained.

"Interesting… How do tea kettles mate anyway?" Sora asked.

"Have you not been listening to what we just said?" Lumiere asked.

"What does "mate" mean?" Chip said.

"Well little bo…cup. When a male tea kettle and a female tea kettle love each other very much…" Sora started before Donald hit him in the head with his staff.

"Stop putting strange thoughts into his head!" the duck warned.

"So you're stuck like that forever?" Goofy asked.

"Hopefully not. We'll turn back to normal if the master, the beast, learns how to love and be loved in return" Lumiere said.

"That sounds like something from Moulin Rouge" Sora said rubbing his head.

"Except the main character in Moulin Rouge wasn't turned into a beast and his friends wasn't turned into furniture and flatware" Lumiere said. "We were hoping Belle could help but right now he doesn't even want to talk to her".

"We'll talk to him. After all we're his best friends" Sora said.

"What are you talking about? You just randomly bumped into him in Hollow Bastion and decided to follow him after Riku beat him up and stole your keyblade" Donald said.

"Details… let's go!" Sora said.

Meanwhile, in Beast's room, Beast was talking to some guy in a black cloak… now where have we seen that outfit before?

"You can't trust her; she's going to take everything from you! Your rose, your underwear, even your dog! And then she's going to kill you in your sleep using this axe!" the guy in the black cloak said, holding an axe into the air.

Suddenly the door opened and Sora, Donald and Goofy came in, followed by Cogsworth the clock.

"Not so fast! Black hood and saying really random stuff, you've got to be a member of Organization XIII!" Sora said.

"Oh crap. Busted" the guy said and ran of….and by ran of I mean disappeared in thin air… and by thin air I mean dark portal…and by dark portal I mean OH WILL YOU STOP ASKING? You didn't ask? Oh…ok.

"O…K? So who's the random idiot?" Sora asked.

"His name was Xaldin, he just came by coming with weird threats" Beast said.

"Well you shouldn't listen to him. He's from the Organization XIII and they're about as evil as "Ansem", besides, Belle is worried about you" Sora said.

"Belle! Oh I must apologize to her!" Beast said.

"Good idea master, and there are more in this castle you should apologize to as well" Cogswort said.

Beast looked at the clock with a confused expression.

"Who?" he asked.

"Well a hint… One is standing in this room, one is French and has a candle as his head, one gives you tea every day and one is going to have nightmares about this for years and will probably come screaming into my room one day and demand to sleep in my bed!" Cogswort said.

"Hm…never heard of them. Off to Belle we go!" Beast said and ran out of the room, followed by Sora, Donald and Goofy.

Cogswort stayed in Beast's room.

"Why do I bother?" he sighed.

The odd trio+Beast ran out into the hallway.

"Belle! Where are you?" Beast yelled.

"I'm in the ballroom!" Bell yelled, she sounded slightly worried.

"Hm…. Sounds like she's in trouble" Sora said.

"What could it be?" Donald asked.

"Gosh… do you think it's Gaston's gang?" Goofy asked.

"Maybe….we should go check it out?" Beast asked.

The trio stared at him.

"Good plan" Sora said and opened the door.

Walking into the ballroom they saw Belle, who ran around in the room being chased by a heartless.

"Well what do you know…" Sora said.

"Save me!" Belle said and ran out on the balcony, shutting the heartless in.

"Oh great plan! Now while you're safe on the balcony the heartless is stuck in the ballroom with us" Sora said sarcastically.

"Gosh… maybe we should fight it or something?" Goofy said.

"You do that, I'd rather sit this one out" Sora said and turned to leave.

"You can't! You're the only character in this game who isn't replaceable" Donald said.

"Damnit! Why can't Riku be the hero for once? Okay I'll get it" Sora sighed.

He summoned his keyblade and started whacking the heartless with it.

"Darnit heartless! Get out of here!" he said.

"Dude, that's my job" Donald said. "And it didn't work when I did it so why would it work when…"

He wasn't able to finish the sentence as suddenly the heartless flew of out of the door.

"What's the big idea??" Donald yelled.

"There! I got the heartless! We did it!" Sora said.

"So you think" said a voice behind them.

The gang turned around and saw the man in black again.

"Xaldin!" Beast said and charged at the man.

"Bye bye" Xaldin said and disappeared.

"What does he want here?" Beast asked.

"He probably wanted to turn you into a heartless so they could control your nobody….or they just like to pop up everywhere and bother us" Sora said.

"Last part, obviously" Donald said.

"Beast!" Belle shouted, and ran in from the balcony.

"Belle!" Beast said. "I hope I didn't hurt you or anything. I wasn't myself".

"I know you weren't. You don't have to apologize" Belle said.

"Eyw! Boring romantic stuff. We've got to go" Sora said and ran out the door.

"Oh just you wait until puberty gets you" Beast muttered.

Usagi: there you have it first. As an apology for the shortness of the last chapter I am proud to announce this chapter is 4 pages long, which is different from the last ones that are usually between 2 and 3. Also it contains the entire Beast's Castle 1. Visit.

Please review, and make a teacup happy.

Chip: (does puppy-eyes)