The Beast? And the Beauty? by Travaria
Part 3
It had been several months since what Duo had begun to refer to as 'The Incident'. Since then, nothing had happened. Nothing what so ever. Relena had just left Duo, Trowa and Wufei in the mansion with nothing to do. Relena herself had gone off to her 'summerhouse' leaving the unfortunate victims of her wrath to, well stay in the mansion and do nothing. Well they did get to know each other, and they got used to their cursed forms, but mostly they did nothing. Which got a little boring after awhile.
"Argh, I am so bored!" Duo-beast exclaimed, the beast was lying on the grass in Relena's garden. Trowa and Wufei were also present, although they really couldn't lie down in their 'condition'.
"Kisama Maxwell, shut up. You have been saying the same thing for the last three hours, if your so bored go do something," Wu-clock snapped, his unstable grip on his patience had long since broken.
"But, there is nothing to do," Duo pouted. "I wish that stupid old Relena would just decide what she wants to do with me, this doing nothing stuff is killing me. Of course considering the way she thinks I might not want to know."
"I wonder how she thinks she could use a beast to get her a boyfriend," Trowa mused. Duo snorted.
"She's probably going to do something stupid like have me 'capture' her so that her dream-guy will save her and they can live happily ever after," Duo drawled sarcastically. "Or, depending on the guy, she might have me 'attack' a village or something stupid like that so that she can defeat me and the one she 'loves' will then become enraptured with her."
"It really doesn't matter what she does as long as it turns us back to normal. But, no matter what she does, you can bet that she will end up the victim, its the way those onnas think," Wufei added grumpily.
"I suppose you're right. I just wish that *something* would happen, and soon," Duo muttered.
"Be careful what you wish for," Trowa replied enigmatically.
******
Relena lounged in her summerhouse, completely comfortable. The spoiled-girl had servants to wait on her hand and foot, so it was rare for her to even leave her room anymore. Relena usually spent her days resting, eating, and, of course, using her magic mirror to search for the perfect guy. After all the time she spent on the mirror, she was having a startling lack of success. She couldn't seem to find a guy that she thought would be absolutely perfect. She had decided that now that she had someone to 'help' her win over the man she loved, she could afford to be picky, and man can this girl be picky when she wants to be.
"I just can't believe that I haven't found anyone that fits my idea of the perfect guy! It is such a terrible fate that I am forced to endure. How long shall it be until I find my one true love," Relena swooned dramatically before picking up the discarded mirror and continuing to search. After a few minutes Relena sighed. "I'll never find him. I'll have to live my life all alone," Relena whined. "Well except for the beast and the talking furniture, but they really don't count since they're not even human, well they're not human any more." Relena was about to hurl the mirror away in another temper tantrum when she saw something in it, or more specifically, someone.
******
Duo had decided to explore the entire house. Now he had explored the house multiple times before, but this time he was going everywhere, and examining everything. Trowa and Wufei were coming too, simply because there really wasn't anything else to do. They had already covered the basement, creepy dungeon and all, the first floor, and they had skipped floors 2-5 simply because Duo hated to do things in the correct order. The sixth floor was actually an attic type tower thing; it was also where Relena tended to keep all her creepy magic stuff. Wufei hadn't wanted to bring Duo into the attic because as much fun as Duo is, would you want him to mess around with creepy magic stuff? I don't think so.
Duo was having far too much fun playing around with all the weird stuff Relena had hoarded in her tower/attic. Wufei was understandably worried about this and was following him around yelling at him. "Maxwell!! Put that down immediately!! Are you trying to kill us all!!" Wufei yelled, outrage written all over his little clock face.
"Just chill out Wu-chan. Nothing is going to happen," Duo replied rolling his eyes at the angry clock that was attempting to knock a weird looking crystal out of his hands. The Wu-clock sputtered angrily, both at the nickname and the eye rolling.
While the beast and the clock argued, Trowa was off examining things on his own. The candlestick hopped around (he had gotten very good at the hopping after the first couple of days) looking at all of the interesting things littered, in no apparent order, on the floor, walls, and shelves. The quiet former hunter found many of the objects interesting, but unlike Duo he wasn't about to tempt fate by actually touching them. Then Trowa saw it. It was a small glass table hidden in the back corner, and on the glass table there was a glass case decorated with golden designs, and under the case there was a magnificent blood-red rose that appeared to be floating of it's own power. Trowa stared at it for a few seconds, remembering what Wufei had said about the bewitched rose being the source of Relena's power.
"Wufei," Trowa said, attacking the attention of the both the clock and the beast, who had been involved in a particularly violent argument before Trowa had spoken.
"What is it Trowa," Wufei replied happy to not have to continue the argument, he had been losing, mainly because he was at least five feet shorter than Duo, and he didn't have hands any more.
"Is this the rose that is the source of Relena's power?" Trowa asked. Wufei and Duo immediately rushed over to see what he was looking at.
"I'm not sure, I've never seen the rose, Relena just told me about it. But I would guess that that is it," Wufei answered.
"You mean to tell me that *that* is the source of Relena's power! A stupid rose?" Duo demanded, outraged by the indignity of it all.
"Unfortunately yes," Wufei replied with a slight sigh. Duo pondered this for a bit.
"I wonder what would happen if we got rid of it," Duo mused.
"Don't even think about it Maxwell! That rose could be our only chance at humanity!" Wufei yelled, preparing to lunge at Duo in the event that he tried to mess with the rose.
"I know that Wu-chan. I wasn't actually going to do anything to it! I was just wondering what would happen. You know, like if it would break the spell, or make Relena shrivel up like a raisin, or something like that," Duo retorted. The Wu-clock relaxed and they all went back to staring at the rose.
******
"I am so glad to be home," Relena sighed as she reached the door of the mansion. "No more maid service, no more breakfast in bed, no more being able to stay in bed all day long. What was I thinking! My summerhouse is much better than this dingy old place!" Relena pouted. "Oh well, I'll just set everything up and then go back to my summerhouse and wait for the results!" Instantly Relena regained her disgustingly cheerful attitude. With that Relena bounced inside, slamming the front door behind her.
Up in the tower/attic the candlestick, the clock, and the beast jumped at the sound of the slamming door. They looked around, making sure that yes all three of them were still up there. Once it was established that none of them had made the noise, their minds jumped to the obvious conclusion. "Do you think that that's Relena," Duo whispered as if he was afraid that she might hear him. The other two nodded (as much as a candlestick and a clock can nod anyway). "She's probably not going to like that we're messing around with her magical stuff, is she?" Duo asked. The others shook their heads. The three of them shared a look before bolting for the stairs.
"I'm home!" Relena called into the empty seeming mansion. The psychotic girl tapped her foot, waiting for a reply. After several minutes of silence she was becoming a little pissed. "I SAID I'M HOME!" the deranged female shrieked at the top of her very loud and high-pitched voice. There was the sounds of a brief scuffle from upstairs before the clock, the candlestick, and the beast tumbled (yes tumbled) down the stairs, landing in a heap at the bottom.
"You bellowed," Duo muttered as he struggled to his feet.
"What is the use of changing men into things if they aren't even going to be at my beck and call," Relena complained to herself.
"Um hello, earth to Relena. We're here aren't we? We came as soon as you bellowed, so just settle down," Duo retorted.
"But you weren't there when I got home, your supposed to be waiting for me."
"Irrational onna," Wufei muttered to himself.
"Look, let's just drop it, okay," Duo interjected before Wufei and Relena could get into a pissy contest. "I'm guessing that you wanted something Relena."
"Of course I want something, why else would I come back here with you freaks," Relena replied. Wufei attempted
to attack Relena, but Duo managed to stop him before he did it, Duo did not want to get in trouble because Wufei couldn't handle some rude comments from the brat. "Any way, I just wanted to inform you that I have found the love of my life."
"That's wonderful, do we get to change back now," Duo smiled with sarcastic sweetness. Relena looked down her nose at the chestnut-furred beast.
"Of course not, you have help me catch him first," Relena remarked, as if Duo was a complete idiot.
"Oh of course, how could I have ever thought that you had gotten him on your own," Duo replied snidely.
"And just what is that supposed to mean," Relena said.
"Absolutely nothing ojosan." Duo grinned innocently.
"Whatever. Anyway, I have a mission for you," Relena said.
"Oh do tell, I'm dying to know what you want me to do," Duo mumbled sarcastically.
"Well..." Relena began in that tone of voice that just lets you know that you are not going to like what she has to say.
to be continued….
Part 3
It had been several months since what Duo had begun to refer to as 'The Incident'. Since then, nothing had happened. Nothing what so ever. Relena had just left Duo, Trowa and Wufei in the mansion with nothing to do. Relena herself had gone off to her 'summerhouse' leaving the unfortunate victims of her wrath to, well stay in the mansion and do nothing. Well they did get to know each other, and they got used to their cursed forms, but mostly they did nothing. Which got a little boring after awhile.
"Argh, I am so bored!" Duo-beast exclaimed, the beast was lying on the grass in Relena's garden. Trowa and Wufei were also present, although they really couldn't lie down in their 'condition'.
"Kisama Maxwell, shut up. You have been saying the same thing for the last three hours, if your so bored go do something," Wu-clock snapped, his unstable grip on his patience had long since broken.
"But, there is nothing to do," Duo pouted. "I wish that stupid old Relena would just decide what she wants to do with me, this doing nothing stuff is killing me. Of course considering the way she thinks I might not want to know."
"I wonder how she thinks she could use a beast to get her a boyfriend," Trowa mused. Duo snorted.
"She's probably going to do something stupid like have me 'capture' her so that her dream-guy will save her and they can live happily ever after," Duo drawled sarcastically. "Or, depending on the guy, she might have me 'attack' a village or something stupid like that so that she can defeat me and the one she 'loves' will then become enraptured with her."
"It really doesn't matter what she does as long as it turns us back to normal. But, no matter what she does, you can bet that she will end up the victim, its the way those onnas think," Wufei added grumpily.
"I suppose you're right. I just wish that *something* would happen, and soon," Duo muttered.
"Be careful what you wish for," Trowa replied enigmatically.
******
Relena lounged in her summerhouse, completely comfortable. The spoiled-girl had servants to wait on her hand and foot, so it was rare for her to even leave her room anymore. Relena usually spent her days resting, eating, and, of course, using her magic mirror to search for the perfect guy. After all the time she spent on the mirror, she was having a startling lack of success. She couldn't seem to find a guy that she thought would be absolutely perfect. She had decided that now that she had someone to 'help' her win over the man she loved, she could afford to be picky, and man can this girl be picky when she wants to be.
"I just can't believe that I haven't found anyone that fits my idea of the perfect guy! It is such a terrible fate that I am forced to endure. How long shall it be until I find my one true love," Relena swooned dramatically before picking up the discarded mirror and continuing to search. After a few minutes Relena sighed. "I'll never find him. I'll have to live my life all alone," Relena whined. "Well except for the beast and the talking furniture, but they really don't count since they're not even human, well they're not human any more." Relena was about to hurl the mirror away in another temper tantrum when she saw something in it, or more specifically, someone.
******
Duo had decided to explore the entire house. Now he had explored the house multiple times before, but this time he was going everywhere, and examining everything. Trowa and Wufei were coming too, simply because there really wasn't anything else to do. They had already covered the basement, creepy dungeon and all, the first floor, and they had skipped floors 2-5 simply because Duo hated to do things in the correct order. The sixth floor was actually an attic type tower thing; it was also where Relena tended to keep all her creepy magic stuff. Wufei hadn't wanted to bring Duo into the attic because as much fun as Duo is, would you want him to mess around with creepy magic stuff? I don't think so.
Duo was having far too much fun playing around with all the weird stuff Relena had hoarded in her tower/attic. Wufei was understandably worried about this and was following him around yelling at him. "Maxwell!! Put that down immediately!! Are you trying to kill us all!!" Wufei yelled, outrage written all over his little clock face.
"Just chill out Wu-chan. Nothing is going to happen," Duo replied rolling his eyes at the angry clock that was attempting to knock a weird looking crystal out of his hands. The Wu-clock sputtered angrily, both at the nickname and the eye rolling.
While the beast and the clock argued, Trowa was off examining things on his own. The candlestick hopped around (he had gotten very good at the hopping after the first couple of days) looking at all of the interesting things littered, in no apparent order, on the floor, walls, and shelves. The quiet former hunter found many of the objects interesting, but unlike Duo he wasn't about to tempt fate by actually touching them. Then Trowa saw it. It was a small glass table hidden in the back corner, and on the glass table there was a glass case decorated with golden designs, and under the case there was a magnificent blood-red rose that appeared to be floating of it's own power. Trowa stared at it for a few seconds, remembering what Wufei had said about the bewitched rose being the source of Relena's power.
"Wufei," Trowa said, attacking the attention of the both the clock and the beast, who had been involved in a particularly violent argument before Trowa had spoken.
"What is it Trowa," Wufei replied happy to not have to continue the argument, he had been losing, mainly because he was at least five feet shorter than Duo, and he didn't have hands any more.
"Is this the rose that is the source of Relena's power?" Trowa asked. Wufei and Duo immediately rushed over to see what he was looking at.
"I'm not sure, I've never seen the rose, Relena just told me about it. But I would guess that that is it," Wufei answered.
"You mean to tell me that *that* is the source of Relena's power! A stupid rose?" Duo demanded, outraged by the indignity of it all.
"Unfortunately yes," Wufei replied with a slight sigh. Duo pondered this for a bit.
"I wonder what would happen if we got rid of it," Duo mused.
"Don't even think about it Maxwell! That rose could be our only chance at humanity!" Wufei yelled, preparing to lunge at Duo in the event that he tried to mess with the rose.
"I know that Wu-chan. I wasn't actually going to do anything to it! I was just wondering what would happen. You know, like if it would break the spell, or make Relena shrivel up like a raisin, or something like that," Duo retorted. The Wu-clock relaxed and they all went back to staring at the rose.
******
"I am so glad to be home," Relena sighed as she reached the door of the mansion. "No more maid service, no more breakfast in bed, no more being able to stay in bed all day long. What was I thinking! My summerhouse is much better than this dingy old place!" Relena pouted. "Oh well, I'll just set everything up and then go back to my summerhouse and wait for the results!" Instantly Relena regained her disgustingly cheerful attitude. With that Relena bounced inside, slamming the front door behind her.
Up in the tower/attic the candlestick, the clock, and the beast jumped at the sound of the slamming door. They looked around, making sure that yes all three of them were still up there. Once it was established that none of them had made the noise, their minds jumped to the obvious conclusion. "Do you think that that's Relena," Duo whispered as if he was afraid that she might hear him. The other two nodded (as much as a candlestick and a clock can nod anyway). "She's probably not going to like that we're messing around with her magical stuff, is she?" Duo asked. The others shook their heads. The three of them shared a look before bolting for the stairs.
"I'm home!" Relena called into the empty seeming mansion. The psychotic girl tapped her foot, waiting for a reply. After several minutes of silence she was becoming a little pissed. "I SAID I'M HOME!" the deranged female shrieked at the top of her very loud and high-pitched voice. There was the sounds of a brief scuffle from upstairs before the clock, the candlestick, and the beast tumbled (yes tumbled) down the stairs, landing in a heap at the bottom.
"You bellowed," Duo muttered as he struggled to his feet.
"What is the use of changing men into things if they aren't even going to be at my beck and call," Relena complained to herself.
"Um hello, earth to Relena. We're here aren't we? We came as soon as you bellowed, so just settle down," Duo retorted.
"But you weren't there when I got home, your supposed to be waiting for me."
"Irrational onna," Wufei muttered to himself.
"Look, let's just drop it, okay," Duo interjected before Wufei and Relena could get into a pissy contest. "I'm guessing that you wanted something Relena."
"Of course I want something, why else would I come back here with you freaks," Relena replied. Wufei attempted
to attack Relena, but Duo managed to stop him before he did it, Duo did not want to get in trouble because Wufei couldn't handle some rude comments from the brat. "Any way, I just wanted to inform you that I have found the love of my life."
"That's wonderful, do we get to change back now," Duo smiled with sarcastic sweetness. Relena looked down her nose at the chestnut-furred beast.
"Of course not, you have help me catch him first," Relena remarked, as if Duo was a complete idiot.
"Oh of course, how could I have ever thought that you had gotten him on your own," Duo replied snidely.
"And just what is that supposed to mean," Relena said.
"Absolutely nothing ojosan." Duo grinned innocently.
"Whatever. Anyway, I have a mission for you," Relena said.
"Oh do tell, I'm dying to know what you want me to do," Duo mumbled sarcastically.
"Well..." Relena began in that tone of voice that just lets you know that you are not going to like what she has to say.
to be continued….