Beauty and the Beast
By Sniffles & Freewater
Disclaimers : Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z and Dragon Ball GT's story line and characters are copyrighted to Akira Toriyama and the various companies who produced the anime and merchandise. "Beauty and the Beast" belongs to Mme de Villeneuve (who created the original story) and to Mme de Richemont (who shortened it to create the version everybody know nowadays). This work of fanfiction was produced exclusively for entertainment purpose ; no money exchanged hands nor was any other kind of material profit made from this.
Category : Romance, Fairy Tale, Disney's Parody, Humour, Sappy, Alternate-Universe, OOC & Shonen Ai.
Pairing(s) : Gh/MTr
Rating : PG - 13
Spoilers : None that I can think of, unless you've never watched Dragon Ball or read/watched Beauty and the Beast.
Summary : DBZ version of Beauty and the Beast.
Notes : The first three chapters were written by Sniffles but she lost interest in the fic. The others chapters are written by Freewater who kindly took over the fic with Sniffles's approval.
Cast : In the order they appear
Beast played by : Gohan
Gaston played by : Mr. Satan a.k.a Hercule
Lefou played by : Krillin
Belle played by : Mirai Trunks (just because he's cuter and GT
Trunks couldn't make the audition. )
Maurice played by : Vegeta heheheheheh
Philippe played by : Phillipe
Archive : Ask my permission first.
Feedback : Of course! Comments and criticisms always received with extreme happiness!!
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Chapter Four: The Beast
Vegeta looked at the old map in his hands for probably the thousandth time since he rode off. The sun was setting and it was getting harder to make out the directions, and by the look of the unfamiliar trees and trails he was on, he knew that he had to be lost.
"Damn horse." He mumbled, naturally blaming the animal instead of himself, assuming that while he was looking down at his map the horse must've missed one of his turn offs.
Eventually, he had to light his small lamp and hold it in the air just to be able to see the road ahead of him properly. If he was off track then he'd have to be prepared in case of an attack. But whether or not it would be by the nearby howling wolves or some thief, he didn't know.
Another howl echoed through the air, only this time it was louder and sounded hungrier. Sending chills up Vegeta's spine, and signaling how close they were getting. He had to continually remind himself that the pack would stay away from the light of his lamp just to ease his mind.
Unfortunately, his horse Phillipe was unaware of that. And at the sight of the hungry red eyes, mere feet from his hooves, as well as the low growl that went with them, he let out a loud neigh of fear before quickly standing upright and kicking his front legs in the air. Startling Vegeta as well as knocking him off with a cry of surprise and landing with a painful thud on the uneven path before taking off and running for the safety of his home as fast as he could.
The lamp that was formerly in Vegeta's hands was knocked out in the fall, creating a tiny fire in the dead leaves before the wind quickly put out the flame for good.
Vegeta wasted no time in getting to his feet and looking in the direction that his horse had run off in, but he was already out of sight and he couldn't even hear the sound of his hooves against the trail. There was no catching up to the animal, and he was now all alone with a pack of wolves nearby.
"Stupid animal." He grumbled, going to see what was left of his lamp in case it could be repaired. "The first chance I get I'm selling it to the glue factory and I don't care how much Trunks begs me not to." He threatened to no one in particular, cursing all the more as he noted how there was nothing on the lamp that could be spared. The oil was spilled and gone. He had nothing.
Suddenly a low and hungry growl from behind him startled him out of his furious thoughts, and Vegeta whipped his head just to get a good look at the angry and evil looking animal behind him just as it readied to pounce on him.
"Fuck!!" He shouted in a mixture of shock and fear before running off as fast as he could down the trail he was on. The grey animal immediately gave chase, barking and biting at his heels as he tried to make him into his dinner. Unfortunately for both the wolf and Vegeta, the rest of the pack had heard the barking and growling and came to investigate. Seeing the prey that their fellow hunter was stalking, they decided that they would like in on the meal as well.
Vegeta cursed under his breath as he ran, pushing branches out of his face and jumping over logs and large rocks in the uneven and strange looking trail. He had no clue where he was going, but as long as it was in the opposite direction of the animals behind him then he didn't care. But with the way his breathing was becoming, he knew that he wouldn't last too long at all.
He needed a miracle.
And he just found it! Looking down a steep hill that he came upon, Vegeta noticed an entrance gate. He had no clue what was on the other side of it, but he wasn't even thinking about that as he ran down and grabbed at the steel bars, trying with all his strength to push them open. He was not going to die tonight!
Suddenly without warning, the gates that had appeared to be stuck mere seconds ago finally swung open and caused him to fall inside and on his face. Looking up he saw that the pack of wolves were all mere feet from where he lay, causing his eyes to widen in fear as he kicked the gate shut in a last second effort to escape them.
Thankfully it had locked, and all the snarling animals had crashed face first into the gate. Letting out painful gasps.
His heart was pounding in his throat, and he was breathing as if he'd just ran around the world, but he was still alive. Vegeta smirked. "Hn, stupid dogs!" He shouted at them from where they all stood, not even three feet away and barking and growling at him fiercely and angrily. The animals were enraged at being cheated out of their meal.
Vegeta got up and dusted himself off calmly, simply to annoy the snarling dogs, before taking a look at his surrounding. He couldn't help but gasp in shock when he saw the outline of the darkest and by far largest castle he'd ever laid eyes on!
A bolt of lightning suddenly struck, and it instantly began to pour thick rain drops on him. "God dammit." He grumbled miserably, running for the shelter of the castle. He banged on the large door only three times before it just seemed to open on its own for him. Confused, but not ungrateful for it, he stepped inside the dark but dry space.
Looking around, he took in the creepy fact that there was no one in here to have opened the door for him, but then he heard echoing voices.
"Poor guy must've gotten lost in the woods." The one voice said sympathetically.
"Shut up, maybe he'll go away!" The other hissed.
"Is someone there?" He called out, but this time heard nothing. "I don't mean to intrude, But I've lost my horse, and I need a place to stay for the night." He called out.
"Aw, Piccolo, have a heart." Yamcha the candle stick holder said to the clock with the antenna's next to him. "Shut up!" He hissed again before covering his mouth.
Yamcha merely took on a bored expression as he burned at Piccolo's hand with his candle. The clock gave out a cry of pain before quickly letting go to try and help his poor burned hand.
"Of monsieur, course you are welcome!" He called out to the human still standing in the dark foyer, waiting for an answer.
"Who said that?" Vegeta asked, going over to the stand and picking up the candle stick holder to get some light. Not knowing that, that's who was talking to him.
Yamcha just knocked on his forehead from the height that he was held at. "Hello." He said simply, causing a startled gasp to erupt from Vegeta' throat before immediately dropping him on the floor. "What the hell!?" He cried out in shock.
"Great Yamcha, now he knows about us!" Piccolo fumed, hoping off of the wooden stand to give his friend shit. But before he could utter anymore curses and talk about the trouble they would be in, Vegeta picked him for examination. "What the fuck are you?" He asked, shaking him slightly before winding the key on the back of his head that moved the minute and hour hands connected to his nose. Not really hearing him cry out in pain.
Yamcha simply rolled around on the carpeted floor laughing his ass off. He never thought that annoying would be so bold as to do this to Piccolo. Vegeta didn't even stop with his inspections of the talking clock until he quickly covered his mouth to contain a powerful sneeze.
Some of it got through his hand though, and Piccolo grumbled as he wiped the glass containing his face off. Vegeta then placed him on the floor to pull out his handkerchief and blow his nose. He must be coming down with something.
"You are completely soaked through monsieur," Yamcha stated worriedly. "You should come and warm yourself by the fire." He offered, hopping off in the direction of the sitting room.
"Thank you." Vegeta said, grateful for the offer as he followed, trying to ignore the clock's rants as best as he could. None of them seeing the rather large and angry looking shadow that watched with displeasure from the top of an overhead walkway, before quickly disappearing.
Piccolo tried to grab onto Vegeta's cloak to stop him, but with how small he was the larger human barely noticed the tugging. Yamcha then invited him to sit in the large chair in the center of the room, and when he did a walking coat rack came up to take his wet cloak away before replacing it with a dry blanket. "Thank you." He said as it bowed politely and left, finding the sight of it to be rather strange.
Next a barking footstool ran up from behind before excitedly jumping at Vegeta for some attention. And he gladly patted it's head (or what he thought was its head) before it took a spot under his feet.
Piccolo was just about ready to have a heart attack at the sight. This human was sitting in the master's chair, petting his dog, and using his servants! "That's it! This has gone far enou--" He couldn't finish his sentence as a speeding teacart suddenly ran him over before coming to a stop next to the unwanted guest. Piccolo then rolled his eyes. This was just perfect. Chi-Chi would never let this guy leave unless he had five pots of her drink now!
"How would you like a pot of tea?" She asked politely, leaning over to pour the hot steaming contents into a small chipped cup. "It'll warm you up better than anything." She stated, her young son hopping into Vegeta's open hand.
"Hi, I'm Goten." It said with a little smile.
Vegeta smiled back at him. "Hello." He said, looking over the tiny chipped tea cup in his hand in wonder. Whoever built these things must be a genius!' He thought in awe.
Suddenly the door to the den forcefully slammed open and a strong gust of wind blew in, instantly putting out all flames and making the room look almost pitch black. Goten hopped out of Vegeta's hand before hiding behind his shaking mother. "Uh oh." He whispered fearfully.
Vegeta's heart pounded at the sudden shock, and he could hear growls and snarling sounds behind him. What was happening?
"There's an intruder here." He heard a low and uneven voice claim.
Yamcha relit his candles, giving the room some light but not allowing Vegeta to see what was behind him because of the still
almost dark room. "Master please allow me to explain," He started up nervously. "The gentleman was lost in the woods, he was cold and wet--"
The roar that whatever animal was behind Vegeta cut off the small candlestick holder, who started to cower in fear. An act that wasn't doing too much to heighten his own dwindling courage.
Suddenly deciding that he wanted to see whatever it was that had everyone so frightened, Vegeta turned his head to the side of the chair to look behind him, just to have the face of a hairy monster look back at him threateningly.
He gasped in fear and shock before quickly backing out of the chair and taking a few steps back. What the hell was this thing?!
"Who the hell are you and what do you want!?!" The giant animal snarled, baring his fangs as he did, slowly walking up to him on all fours.
Vegeta fumbled with his explanation, not taking his eyes off of the scary sight. "I-I was lost in the woods... and I-I--"
"You're not welcome here!!"
"I apologise to you then!" Vegeta said quickly, trying not to anger the giant animal advancing on him any further.
"What the hell are you staring at?!?" The beast demanded, not liking how this human was eyeing him at all.
"N-nothing!" He replied quickly, turning to run for the door, but the beast cut him off with surprisingly great speed.
"So you've come to stare at me have you!!" The beast accused, his eyes red and narrowed with anger as he stood up to show his true height. Scaring Vegeta all the more.
"No! Please, I meant no harm at all, I just needed a place to stay!" He cried out fearfully.
The living appliances all watched the scene unfold in complete horror, never seeing their master this angry before!
"I'll give you a place to stay alright!" The giant animal snarled, quickly reaching out to grab at the human by the scruff of the neck before he could run again, then turning around and heading for his towers, slamming the door behind him and leaving his servants in the dark.
To Be Continued............
A.N: the next chapter will be up once i have a few reviews in, thanks!