A/N: Hey all! How are ya? Yet again your guesses in the reviews cracked me up! You guys are good… I won't say if you guys are right or wrong though cause then what kind of author would that make me? Anyways…the way Pan is treating the Beast is depressing me too…but…IT MUST BE DONE! WHETHER I LIKE IT OR NOT, SAME GOES FOR YOU PEOPLE! Hate to say that but it's the truth sadly enough! But do not worry all the pain and misery and etc. will be gone eventually. When? Well I cannot say that either but trust me…things will get better in time or should I say future chapters?
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Chapter 7
The Beast was all alone in his dark and secluded room in a far corner of the castle, he was sitting in a throne-like chair and he was resting his head on his huge paw-like hand. He had his scarlet cloak behind him and black leather pants. His eyes were set on the cold black marble floor, as he was in deep thought. The Beast used to think of nothing everyday for years, now suddenly this girl comes into his life…this beautiful girl who was full of spirit and his thoughts go wild. Could she be the one? No…what am I thinking…she hates me. She has made that point clear several times over… (growls) it's not fair. If only I could tell her who and what I really am…yet every time I try to tell her no words come out. The damn enchantment…(growls) how can I reach her? How can I make a beautiful girl like her love a hideous beast like me?
"It's hopeless." The Beast said in a low voice as he placed his head in his hand and sat in total silence. Suddenly he heard a tapping sound on the floor getting closer to him, "So master I'm sure your awfully excited about the girl, right?"
The Beast lifted his head up from his hand and his piercing blue eyes fell on a little figure down below looking up at him from the floor; it was a candleholder that had three lighted candles on it. The metal was bent back a little bit and you could see the tallest candle almost looking up at the Beast, yet it had no eyes, nose, ears, mouth or legs.
The Beast glanced at the candleholder and rumbled a sigh, his eyes looked heavy with sadness and despair, "Do I look excited Goku?" The Beast replied looking away from Goku the small candleholder and glancing out the balcony doors.
The small candleholder scratched the back of its candlestick head, with its candlestick arm/hand and you could hear it sigh, "Don't lose hope yet master…I mean the girl has only been here for three days."
"Three days to many I think." Came another voice from behind a chair. Goku and the Beast both glanced over at the small figure approaching them…it was a little grandfather clock, the same one that was on Mr. Satan's night table the night he slept at the palace.
"Oh Vegeta why do you have to go and say that for?" Goku said in a rather whiny tone.
The Beast merely rolled his eyes almost expecting something like that out of the little clock. "That girl will never fall for him Kakarott, the boy should already know this. Why not just send her away…she is obviously not happy here…and she is certainly not liking you one bit!" Argued the little clock, which like Goku the candleholder he had no eyes, nose, or mouth. Yet his handles and leg stands were used as arms and legs, it was rather humorous to look at…a little agitated clock moving it's tiny arms and legs around in agitation yet it had no facial expression what so ever and a silly grouchy voice.
The Beast would've laughed but he wasn't in a humorous mood to say the least, "Say what you will, for I don't care right now." The Beast said gloomily.
"Cheer up master, things will work out have a little faith, don't be like Vegeta…even though that may be hard to do." Commented Goku, who was looking over at the little grandfather clock who was tapping its tiny little leg stand continuously in agitation.
Suddenly the room door swung gently open, all three men glanced over and saw the wolf approaching, "Will you people please stop being so negative? At least Goku isn't having your negative attitudes." Replied the wolf; her voice was filled with control and confidence.
"Thank you for the compliment mistress." Replied Goku, the wolf smiled and walked past the little candleholder and clock and sat by the Beast.
"Don't worry Trunks, everything will turn out alright…just be patient with her, things like these especially in this situation take time. Be patient."
Trunks sighed, "Being a Beast takes enough patience, I doubt very much that I have enough left to wait for this girl." Trunks growled in annoyance, he tightened his fist and flashed his fangs and roaring with a rumble of thunder shaking the room and frightening all those in the room even Vegeta but that was just a little bit, he then jumped out of his seat like lightening and slammed through the doors and out into the hallway.
"Bra you can't reason with that boy." Vegeta said walking over to Bra who was the beautiful dark wolf.
She sighed and lowered her head, "Yea mistress you did the best you could." Goku said reassuringly.
"Thanks Goku, the rest is up to him now. We can't force the two of them into anything, they have to create the magic to end this curse on their own."
"And what magic would that be?" Vegeta asked with a gruff.
Bra looked down at him her blue eyes sagged a bit as she looked back at the door Trunks had just blazed out of, "Love."
~~In Pan's Room~~
Pan had backed away from the mysterious talking cat until she had run out of a place to walk and fell backwards on her bed. Even then she sat up straight and continued glancing at the cat, "Don't be afraid, I'm not going to hurt you." The cat said in a calm tone, Pan shook her nerves off a bit and tilted her head to the side a little.
"Do I know you?" She asked in a low voice, her eyes were watching images of the past and all the voices she can remember hearing…she didn't see a time when she had heard that familiar voice but she knew she had heard it before at some distant point in time.
"Only you can answer that question my dear." Replied the cat with a warm smile. Pan brushed her bangs back with her hand and let out a deep breath, "This place has made me go insane."
The cat giggled, "I assure you child, you're perfectly sane."
Pan laughed, "Tell that to everyone back in my town, they would never believe what I have been through in the past three days."
"Perhaps not…would you please get off the bed now so that it can be made and go and put on your dress." The cat said almost sounding like a mother or from what Pan could remember Lora. The cat had that motherly persona…her voice was just as gentle and soothing as a mother's too. Pan glanced on a nearby chair and this time there was an emerald silk dress laying there for her. Pan's eyes grew wide, the dress was stunning, and there were actual emeralds on the neckline and on the ends of her sleeves and at the bottom of her gown.
"Did you see this?" Pan asked to the cat, when she turned she saw her bed made perfectly and the cat was out of sight.
Pan looked around for her but she couldn't find her, Pan then shrugged and began to change into her new dress for the day. Once she changed she yet again slipped out of her room and walked along the hallway and this time she went a different way…instead of going down the left side she went down the right. There was nothing to special on the right side… a few more paintings of people…Pan assumed them all to either be nobles or other people of wealth. She then reached the end of the hall and opened the door…she entered another hall with red carpeting which was hardly noticeable for there was a strange and thick fog on the ground, and candles lighting up the hallway it was a very dark part of the castle. Very little sunlight shown in from outside, and Pan was hearing strange sounds that could not be described but if she listened closely it was almost as if the whispers where her name being said by the walls or the wind.
Pan was very freaked out by this part of the palace, with it's strange noises and gargoyle and demon statues looking at her through the shadows. She then looked up at a wall on her left side and she could then see another painting, the sunlight sliced through the darkness that surrounded some of the painting. The light fell on the person's eyes…Pan looked more closely and saw that they were those same piercing blue eyes that the Prince in her dream and in the painting had. Pan tried seeing how he was dressed, she could scarcely make out anything…she managed to see a crown on his head, and he was holding a scepter and was truly appearing to be a Prince instead of a knight like in the previous painting. His face was hidden well in the dark so she wasn't even sure if it was the same young man…was it? Pan tried to get a better look when she then heard a large rumble, Pan was suddenly startled as she glanced over to where the noise came from and she saw what she knew was the Beast. She was frozen stiff, the Beast just stood there glancing at her for a moment as he saw the sunlight hit her beautiful onyx eyes which were then sparkling like two black gems. He was taken back by it, So beautiful is she compared to me.
Pan was about to retreat when she saw the light from one of the torches hit the Beast's face. Pan froze…she then found herself looking into the Beast's blue eyes which she hadn't realized till that moment looked terribly familiar. She then looked back at the painting next to her; the Beast's eyes grew wide when he realized the connection Pan was trying to suddenly make. He growled and flashed some fang and as Pan went back to look at the Beast once more she saw he was gone, she then looked back at the painting but was taken back when she saw the Beast standing inches away form her and gazing down at her with those frightening eyes. Pan backed away a bit, "What were you doing?" He asked her in a low voice which was not meant to frighten.
Pan calmed herself down a bit as she said to herself over and over again, He won't kill you…he won't kill you!
"I was just looking at a painting."
Trunks narrowed his eyes at her; She didn't make the connection…good! But I have to prevent this from happening again.
"What painting?" He asked trying to sound curious.
Pan's brow furrowed at the strange question, "The one you're blocking from my view." Pan said trying to make it sound as obvious as it really was.
Trunks turned his head around and looked back at the painting he was so tall that he was looking at the painting eye to eye. He was looking into the eyes that once belonged to a prince, now they belonged to that of a Beast. Trunks growled startling Pan a bit but not really frightening her for she was getting used to it by now.
"Go somewhere else." Trunks said in a low voice as he continued glancing at the painting which was a very harsh reminder to him of the past, little did Pan know the effect it was having on him and why.
Pan then said something that she never ever would've thought she'd say ever, "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine! Now just go somewhere else." Trunks said turning around to face her.
Pan nodded her head and hurried out the way she came, Trunks watched her walk out and he looked back at his painting, he tightened his fists and growled, "I hate this painting."
All right chapter 7 is over and done with YAY! I'm so happy! So people please tell me what you think in the reviews, as an author I must know these things! What did you think of the chapter and what went on in it? Tell me please!? Anyways I shall be back with chapter 8 next week see ya then! Bye!