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Chapter 26

Maurice and June heard the battle before they even got to the castle gates. Upon a hill near the gates they could see the villagers invading the castle and the asylum's wagon left unattended on the bridge. As they trotted near they could hear Beall's small frantic voice coming from the back of the wagon.

"ADAM!" Beall cried, his voice sounding hoarse from the constant yelling.

"BEALL!" Maurice and June yelled as they approached the wagon. Beall saw the two men get off of their horses and ran to the back of the wagon.

"Father! June! Please help me! I must warn Adam about Gaston!" Beall yelled franticly through the bared window.

June nodded and began to pick the lock on the wagon. Maurice' eye brows rouse, "So it is true... You really do love this beast don't you?" He asked Beall with bewilderment in his voice.

Beall looked at his father through the bared window with a bashful expression on his face, "Yes, father. I do. He is not the horrifying beast that you first saw. He is so kind and gentle and so much more then just a beast! He is a man that has been cursed to look like a beast! He is nothing more then a man that has made a mistake and is paying for it dearly. But I have learned to love him as not only the beast but as the man underneath the beastly appearance."

Maurice nodded his head in understanding, "Yes, I see." He said simply and he meant it. He truly did understand, for he had felt feelings of love for June as the man and not as just a pretty face. Sure, he was attracted to June but that was not all that he had felt for the young man. He had found himself harboring feelings of something more then just mere attraction. He knew even then that his love for the younger man grew stronger every minute.

"Got it!" June's exclaim broke Maurice' thoughts and the doors to the wagon opened reviling a disheveled Beall.

"Beall!" Maurice exclaimed in worry for the boy.

"Father!" The boy yelled as he sprung out of the wagon and into the older man's arms. They embraced for a long moment, "Oh, father, I missed you so..." Beall said as fresh tears escaped his eyes.

Maurice held the boy's face in his hands as he looked at Beall, "Oh, my son. I have searched long and hard to try and rescue you. I too have missed you very much." He said as he looked lovingly at his son. They hugged yet again for another long moment before the sound of a roar jerked Beall from his father's embrace.

"Adam!" Beall exclaimed as he looked up toward the large towers of the dark castle. "Gaston must have reached him! I have to help!" Beall yelled franticly as he tore himself from his father's grasp and began to run up the bridge toward the castle doors.

Maurice and June ran after Beall franticly, "Beall you mustn't! There is a battle! You'll be killed!" Maurice yelled at the boy as he continued to give chase.

June grabbed his bow as he ran, "I will protect him!" June yelled at Maurice as he ran faster and closer to the boy. He sped up and around the front of Beall just as a large man had turned around with a sword intent on slashing at Beall. Beall gasped in fear as June quickly jumped in the air and drew back an arrow. He aimed it right at the man's shoulder of the arm that was holding the blade and shot. The arrow pierced the mans flesh with a squelching noise and the large man let out a loud roar of pain just as he let go of the blade. June moved Beall out of the way of the blade and it hit the rocky ground with a clang. The large man knelled on the ground with one hand on the arrow as blood pored from the wound.

June drew his bow back once more with a fresh arrow, "Stay behind me! I will get you where you need to go!"

"I'm not sure where Adam is! I know he is in one of the towers! All of the towers are connected to the Great hall! I can search from there!" Beall yelled at June as the noise from the battle made it difficult to hear.

June nodded his head and moved forward with Beall behind him. Maurice grabbed the sword that the large man had dropped and came to June's side. "You think me old and useless but I still have some fight in these old bones yet!" Maurice said to June as he kicked a large man away from them.

June chuckled, "I never doubted your strength for a minute, my love!" June said as he shot another arrow into a mans buttock. The man let out a screeching sound as he dropped his torch. The torch fell to the floor caching a rug on fire but it was quickly put out by a large amount of hot, steaming, water that came from the rafters in the ceiling.

The fire and the man that June had shot were quickly covered in the water and the man screamed as the water burned his skin. However, the fire was put out and Beall looked up toward the rafters to find the source of the water. It was the tea pot known as Mrs. Potts, and she had gathered helpers to pour the water on the villagers. The furnishings were fighting back to protect their home, Beall thought with a smile.

Beall looked back at were the man laid on the floor in pain and saw Lumire. "Lumire! Where is Adam!"

Lumire looked up at the boy with surprise, "You came back, young sir!" Lumire exclaimed with disbelief.

"Yes, of course I did! Please you must tell me where Adam is!"

"He is in the west wing, pining for you, sir! A mad man came claiming he will kill him!" Lumire said as he slid across a railing closer to Beall.

"I know! That mad man is Gaston! He will stop at nothing to have me! He is fueled with jealousy, for I love Adam and not him!"Beall explained quickly to the candle holder.

"Then you must stop him!" Lumire yelled with a worried look on his face.

Beall nodded, "I will try!" He told Lumire as he followed the two men that were protecting him. "I need to get to the west wing!" He told June and Maurice. They both nodded.

June kicked a man out of the way and shot an arrow at his knee. The arrow pierced the flesh and the man let out a loud cry. "Where is the west wing?" June asked Beall over his shoulder.

Beall looked around the crowed room and saw two large doors closed in front of them. "There! Through those doors is the Great hall! From there I can find my way!"

June and Maurice nodded as they fought their way through the battle to get Beall to the door that led into the great hall where Beall needed to be. "Go quickly, Beall! We will hold them back!" June yelled at Beall as he pushed Beall to the door and drew his bow to shoot at another villager. Beall nodded and grabbed a small dagger off of the floor that someone had dropped. He then, quickly opened the door to the great hall and went through the threshold throwing a silent thank you to his father and June. He shut the door behind him and sped off in a sprint up to the west wing where he knew Adam was.

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Gaston made his way through the castle searching and searching for the beast. He was quickly becoming aggravated at how large the castle was. However, he soon found himself in a long dark corridor that y-ed off into two other short hallways. One was cluttered with old dusty furniture and paintings. He chose that one to go down first. At the end of that hall way was a door. He opened the door and went inside the room. The room he entered was dark and murky with a musky scent of dust and mold. The room was packed full of dusty furniture just like its adjoined hallway. As he made his way through the room avoiding the furniture left and right a light shown itself to Gaston. The light was a rose encased in a glass dome on a small table. He stared at the rose for a moment, bewildered as to why a beast would have such a thing in a dusty old storage room. He didn't have time to ponder such a thought because a shifting noise made itself known to the hunter. Gaston's eyes shifter back and forth scanning the dark room as he crouched down with his bow drawn. "Come out here, beast! Come out and fight!" He chuckled darkly, "or are you afraid? Afraid to fight?" He taunted. He heard a low growling noise and his smirk widened. "I knew I would find you eventually. Your death is inevitable now. And then Beall will be mine." Gaston cackled.

"Beall?" Adam growled looking at the hunter that had crept into his midst.

Gaston squinted his eyes toward the dark corner where the voice had came from, "Yes. I'm sure you know him well. He was your prisoner after all."

The pain of the word prisoner hurt Adam. He knew it was true, but still the truth of it reviled to him hurt his already shattered heart. Had Beall sent this hunter to kill him for what he was? And if so, that thought alone was just as painful. The boy never truly loved him at all, but was playing his heart for a fool just to get free. Those thoughts hurt him but they also angered him. How dare he be so stupid! To think anyone could love him was preposterous. How could he be so blind? He had become blinded by the beauty of the boy and eventually by his love for the boy. And now he had sent a hunter to get rid of him so know one would know that he had fraternized with such a monster, he thought angrily. He was hurt but felt ultimately betrayed. His heart was a fool and so was he, he thought.

Gaston cackled again, "Were you in love with him, Beast?" He asked snarky, "Why would he be in love with something like you, when he could have someone like me?"

The hunter was right, he knew, but he had no idea who this man was and if Beall had truly sent him. Still the thought hurt if Beall had really sent this hunter to kill him. "Why have you come?" He asked the hunter.

Gaston laughed evilly, "Isn't obvious?" He asked then smirked again, "I've come to kill you and then Beall will be mine."

"Yours? You speak of him as if he is something to be owned." Adam said as he squinted dubiously at the hunter.

Gaston chuckled, "He is. And I will take him for my very own once I've bathed in your blood."

"And what if he doesn't want you to take him?" Adam asked.

"I will simply take him by force and once I am done with him he will join you. I'm sure he would like that. He is, after all, an ungrateful brat that needs adjusting." Gaston said with a smug look on his face.

This angered Adam and he let out a loud roar and attacked the hunter. He felt an arrow tip pierce his shoulder but the adrenaline pumping through his vines made him feel no pain. The hunter grunted as Adam grabbed him and threw him across the room into some old furniture. The hunter landed hard but recovered surprisingly quick. The hunter drew his sword and came charging at him with a horrifying battle cry, "AHHHHHRRRGGG!"

Adam knew the hunter was too fast for him to avoid the blow but he could block it and maybe do away with the threat all together. He thought that as he held out his large paw to catch the blade. The sharp blade sliced into his flesh with a brutal, unyielding, sting that stung up the nerves of his arm. He roared out but managed to stop the blade and take it from the hunters grasp. His large crystal blue eyes locked eyes with slightly frightened cold blue ones as he threw the blade off of the balcony. Adam snarled at the hunter and back handed him, making the hunter fly across the room, yet again. It was then that he heard Beall's voice cry out, "ADAM!"

And there he stood, his beautiful Beall, his lover, his hearts desire, the only one that had manged to thaw his cold, frozen, heart, and make it beat with a fierce, desperate longing that he never knew he had. "Beall... You came back..." Adam said with tears in his eyes as the boy ran to him and into his embrace.

"Oh, of course I did." Beall said through his own tears, "I could never truly leave you, ever. And I had to warn you, about Gaston. He has gone mad! And wants to kill you! I had to-" Beall sobbed into Adam's shoulder, "I had to stop him!" Another sob erupted from the boy, "I couldn't bare the thought of loosing you!"

Adam held the boy closer in his arms as he closed his eyes and sniffed the boys beautiful hair. It was then that he felt a sharp pain erupt in his lower forearm. His eye lids flew open and he roared out in pain. Beall gasped sharply as suddenly the boy was yanked from his arms and the blood stained knife was pressed to his lovely throat.

Adam looked angrily at the hunters face as he clutched his wounded arm. The hunter smirked with triumph, "How sentimental. One last embrace before I kill you, beast!" He gripped a hand in the boys hair and yanked his head back farther. The knife pressed hard against the boys throat and a bead of blood dripped from his neck. The boy winced in pain and stared at Adam with fear filled eyes. "Or maybe I will kill the boy and make you watch him die, beast."

Oh no! Not Beall! Cliffhanger!

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