A/N: I am sorry for the long overdue 3rd chapter and I apologize for it being short. I am still building up the world around the two main characters. In the way I see our society today and from personal experience as well.

Chapter 3 Beast's Dilemma

Beast

"Adam, sweetheart I am back from my trip," A female's voice shouted out to the Beast through the closed front door of the castle.

Beast had stopped mourning over not being human and handsome as he listened to Adelaide's voice. He walked over to the front door and opened it. Beast took in Adelaide Capucine Papineau's beauty and rose pink dress that showed off her breasts, her round face and light make-up brought out her green eyes, and her dark brown hair was curled and laid down to her waist, and she proudly looked at her engagement ring in admiration with a smile on her face.

"Adelaide I want to know do you love me?" Beast asked Adelaide in a soft voice trying his hardest to hide his beastly voice.

"Of course I love you," Adelaide said to the Beast as she kept admiring her gold ring with diamonds all around the band.

"Would you want to be with me despite what I look like now?" Beast asked Adelaide as he secretly hoped that she would say "yes" to him.

Adelaide looked into the Beast's blue eyes and then she looked again as her eyes widened in shock and then she screamed a blood curdling scream. She couldn't believe that he looked like a mutated animal and she demanded the Beast about what was going on. The Beast told Adelaide everything that had happened to him, but the only thing that he didn't tell her was that he was meant to be with someone else and not her.

"What the hell did I do to deserve this? I don't love you! You are not even the handsome man that I want to be with. I wanted to be your queen, but I might as well forget about that." Adelaide said to the Beast frantically.

"Adele don't be ridiculous. You just told me that you loved me and now that I look like a monster. You just take your words away from me," Beast said to Adelaide as he reached his hand out to touch her face.

Adelaide stepped away from the Beast as if he had the plague. The Beast couldn't believe that the woman who kept claiming that she loved him had never loved him at all.

'Lust can never substitute for real love and you will see that for yourself in the near future. Lust destroys lives and people who are in lust with each other they never work out and they are left broken hearted.' Dahlia said to the Beast through his thoughts.

"Maybe since my looks displeases you so much you can leave, Adele. You are unworthy to even have that ring on your finger. Give the ring back to me and don't ever return to my castle this arrangement is off," Beast said to Adelaide as he tried his hardest to hold in the hurt and anger that he was feeling.

"I only loved you for your looks and the idea of being queen. There was nothing more or less that I wanted from you. I just wanted your body and for you to be mine," Adelaide said to the Beast as she shouted at him with tears streaming down her face.

Belle

She could feel something pulling out of her soul. It felt agonizing as Belle tried to think of pure thoughts to keep whatever was tugging her soul out of her body. However, she lost the fight as she saw the white orb coming out the middle of her chest. Belle gasped as she grasped her chest as she stared in shock at the white orb floating right in front of her eyes.

'My soul is out of my body and I feel so empty,' Belle thought to herself as she felt her eyes water with tears.

However, Belle pulled herself together and kept reminding herself. That Dahlia was testing her to see how well she would do without a soul. Belle felt her eyes widen up in fear and her full lips had parted as she struggled to breathe.

'Belle stopped acting like this right now! Everything will come together when the time is right. I have taken your soul for a reason. You will have to earn your soul back in order to get your Beast,' Dahlia said to Belle through her mind.

Belle had stopped panicking and pushed herself forward to get through the woods. She noticed that the more she walked through the woods. She noticed that the trees around her were distorting into weird shapes right before her eyes, the grass was turning from green to brown from each footstep she took, and the sky-blue skies had turned dreary in the woody area. Belle had assumed that this was the change that Dahlia had mentioned to her earlier.

Beast

Adelaide had all of her things packed up in a carriage. She didn't even bother looking at the Beast as the carriage took her away. Beast held the engagement ring that he had given her in only a couple of months ago, and then he realized what a lustful bastard he was to believe that he was in love with her. In a way he felt relieved that she was out of his life for good because he could never remember why he loved her besides the sex that she was giving him.

"Beast are you going to find the young maiden that is the one for you?" Lumiere asked the Beast curiously.

"No, I'm just going to take a nice long walk in the woods and hopefully I will be back before dark." Beast said to Lumiere as he paced back and forth in the foyer.

"Have you given up on love just like that?" Lumiere asked the Beast with a sad look on his face.

"I don't know how to answer that right now, Lumiere. I will get back to you on that question later." Beast said to Lumiere as he walked out the front door.

'Beast don't give up on love. Without love you would have nothing to live for, nor would you have nothing to look forward to either.' Dahlia said to the Beast in astonishment.

'Dahlia what are you trying to tell me now?' Beast asked Dahlia with impatience in his guttural voice.

'I'm doing you a favor by helping you get to the one for you. That Adelaide girl only cares about what you look like as a human. She doesn't want to be with a beast like you. She hates you and has a broken heart because of your perverted ways and lust for sex.' Dahlia said to Beast through his mind as her voice faded away.