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Lady Tremaine's Estate
"AH!" a yellow, sun blonde with great beauty crashed into the floor.
"You insolent child!" shrieked her stepmother, Lady Tremaine. "You've ruined everything! Everything!"
The young woman held her arm in pain and wiped her bleeding lip with her arm.
"You ruined everything! Why didn't you tell me that he was gonna leave me!" her wicked stepsister, Drizella shouted grabbing her by the hair and yanking it back, "Why didn't you tell me?!"
"Uh!" the woman yanked her head away, "I told you! I warned you that he would hurt you! I told you that he was going to leave you! You didn't listen to me!"
"You dare to talk back to me Cinderella?!" Drizella shouted.
Cinderella got to her feet and held her chin high. "I warned you about him, that he was a dog! He's well known for it, and you ignored it!"
"Don't snap at her!" Lady Tremaine barked, "You should…of…of changed his thinking to see that my daughter was his best option!"
"My quirk doesn't allow that! I see into the future and explain dreams! I can't change the person!" she snapped.
IMAGINE IN THE PRESENT MIC'S VOICE. CINDERELLA'S QUIRK; IS DREAM TIME, SHE CAN SEE INTO THE FUTURE OF WHOMEVER SHE LOOKS AT ALONG WITH INTERPRETING DREAMS.
"What use is your quirk then?!" Lady Tremaine shouted.
Cinderella's face angered, "For you to gamble!"
Lady Tremaine glared at her.
"You beat me to force me to use my quirk so you can gamble!" Cinderella shouted. "You abuse me for my quirk all the time! I give you visions! Yet, you're ungrateful! You've always been ungrateful!... What did my father see in you?" Cinderella hissed.
Lady Tremaine and Drizella both pounced on her in a second at those words. Hitting her body with their fists, pulling at her hair, and scratching. Cinderella felt her body grow numb, her blood piercing through flesh, and she shut her eyes to endure.
"Hey, hey!" came another voice, the other stepsister, Anastasia.
Cinderella opened her eyes to the redhead pushing her sister and mother off Cinderella.
"What in the world are you two doing?" Anastasia questioned.
"She ruined us all! Our secret is out!" Tremaine shouted.
Anastasia looked down at Cinderella and then back to her mother. "What are you talking about?"
"Our secret is out! The men at the table know about her quirk, and they put it together. Now, they are demanding money from me and I haven't been out of this house in three days!"
Cinderella dropped her head.
"So, the whole town knows?" Anastasia asked.
"Yes! Because of her!" Lady Tremaine pointed at Cinderella with her sharp finger.
"I wanted to help," Cinderella whimpered.
"You helped? What did you do?" Anastasia asked.
"….a boy….," Cinderella said, "A little boy asked for help…he wanted to know which herbs to give to her….he was gonna pick the wrong ones and make her sick,"
Anastasia paused for a moment. "And?"
"What does that have to do with anything?! You only have to give visions for us! Us only! Not a dirty child!" Tremaine shouted.
"You should be smarter," Anastasia hissed in Cinderella's direction.
Cinderella looked up at her. "Exactly," Tremaine snapped.
Anastasia turned around and knelt to Cinderella. "You need to be smarter, using that Quirk," she whispered.
Cinderella turned her head to her, "What?"
"You gave me and my sister a vision of love. My sister hates her, but I…. plan to run with mine," Anastasia continued in a whisper as she pulled Cinderella to her feet.
"The baker?" Cinderella whispered.
Anastasia smiled, "I know I was a child with you at the beginning about him but….I went for it, and by God's grace I did, he's…everything I've ever wanted,"
Cinderella grew a smile.
"We plan to run away and marry," Anastasia said.
Cinderella started to smile. "You what?" Lady Tremaine had listened in on the conversation.
Just then the front door busted open with a swish kick. All of the women jumped as a dozen men piled inside the home.
"Tremaine!" shouted the men.
Lady Tremaine turned around in fear, Drizella placed her hand on her stomach and Anastasia and Cinderella held onto one another.
"You owe us!" shouted a man.
"I have not! I will not! I won at that table fair and square," Tremaine said back.
"You used your daughter's weird…power, kirk, quirk whatever to win! She can see into the future! She told you didn't she? Just like she helped that boy save his mom!" one of them pointed out.
Tremaine stiffened, "I don't have that money…..,"
"You will find a way!" the man demanded.
She stiffened and looked over her shoulder at Anastasia and Cinderella. "Take pleasure," she quickly said.
"What?"
Cinderella's eyes immediately widened, knowing what was coming. "No," she whimpered.
"Take her. The one with the quirk, have her as you wish. Pleasure. Wife. I don't care, just pay off my debt that way," Tremaine stated.
The men turned to each other, then her, and shrugged.
"No," Cinderella backed up, as Anastasia gripped her hand.
"Mother, that is barbaric," Anastasia said.
"You hush," Tremaine waved her away.
Anastasia turned around to Cinderella, "Run. Run now,"
Cinderella turned to run away.
"Stop her!"
"Come back here, pretty girl!"
She ran past the first window on her left and felt her breath catch. The entire wall busted open, breaking apart, and creating a huge hole. Her eyes widened in shock along with everyone else avoiding the debris. Inside then leaked a large set of smokey black/red hands stretched into the home going straight for Cinderella.
She started to back up in fear, right into another room.
"Cinderella!" Anastasia shouted.
Cinderella backed up from the door but the smokey hands went under the door from the open space.
"Uh!" she gasped in shock.
The hands disappeared and the smokey substance circled her trapping her. She looked around in fear as the substance clung to her body, started to burn, and started to restrain her arms.
"UH! UH!" she grunted and then let out a shriek.
It yanked her forward smashing into the door, using her body as its force.
"Cinderella! Cinderella!" shouted Anastasia.
"What is that?!" Drizella covered her eyes.
Lady Tremaine and the men were backing up from the dark presence.
"PUT ME DOWN! PUT ME DOWN!" Cinderella cried.
When suddenly, again, a bright golden circle appeared floating in the air. Anastasia watched in shock as the circle expanded becoming bigger and bigger. A long, wooden staff stick poked through, followed by a large black, skinny mandrill. Cinderella only caught a glimpse of him as the hands tried to cover her face. Suddenly, she felt the black substance let go of her and drop her on the floor.
"Ugh!" she grunted in pain.
The golden circle behind the mandrill opened even wider showing a large lion coming up behind the mandrill. Cinderella turned her head to its side, lying completely still to see the huge beast coming. The dark hands retreated from the home and back into the sky. Anastasia walked over to see the hole, and then the sky. It was eerily dark, even for the night. Red streaks in the sky, high winds, and an uncomfortable presence lingering.
"Young child," The mandrill said to Cinderella.
She looked up at him.
"My name is Rafiki," he said.
Cinderella looked up into his warm eyes. "The place behind me…. with the large lion coming towards us….is a marvelous, safe home…...for people who have Quirks. Like you," he explained.
Cinderella's heart fluttered with curiosity and for the first time…...happiness.
RAFIKI'S QUIRK, IS PORTAL; HE CAN CREATE PORTALS TO STEP THROUGH OR MAKE HIMSELF MOVE AROUND IN THE SAME AREA QUICKLY AS A FLASH.
"You will be surrounded by people of your own," Another voice said, not Rafiki.
Her eyes widened at the lion speaking to her.
"You will be safe here child," he said. "I promise that,"
She felt warmth in her heart…trust…..and a strong need to believe. She slowly got to her feet, grunting in pain, and holding her stomach.
"No! No!" Tremaine shouted, "You will go nowhere! Not to some fairytale land! You will pay off these debts!"
She made her way to grab her but Anastasia stood in front of her. "Mother, let her go!"
The man rounded Lady Tremaine to grab her but Rafiki swung his walking stick smacking each man down to the ground. "You. Will. Not. Not place a hand on this child in my presence!"
Cinderella smiled at Rafiki's protective nature. She looked forward to the golden circle where the lion approached, sat down, and bowed his head to her. Cinderella gasped happily at the lion, and almost ran to the golden circle. Ignoring the shouts from her stepmother, the men, and Drizella. She did see Anastasia's smiling at her.
"Go," she mouthed.
She jumped through the portal, as the male lion backed away. She sighed in relief feeling the hot green grass under her fingers, the sharp points of it cut her legs but she did not care. She felt the warm rays of the sun on her body.
"Child," another lion said, a female voice.
The Pride Lands
She looked up, her eyes widening to see a least a dozen lions of all ages surrounding her. Her heart pumped like they were about to devour her but one of the females giggled.
"Easy child, we won't hurt you," said the beautiful Sarabi.
"As we said," Rafiki came up behind her, offering his stick, "We will not hurt you,"
She looked up at him and used his stick to raise to her feet.
"Good heavens child, did someone hurt you?" another lioness asked, Nala.
Cinderella then looked down at the bruises, scratches, and hair pulled from her body.
"Um," she whimpered. "My family…..father's family…they beat me, abuse me for my quirk,"
Rafiki stiffened while the largest lion grew in anger.
"Mufasa, your temper, the sky," Sarabi said to her husband.
Cinderella looked up, not even noticing that the sky had indeed changed, more clouds were, coming in like it was going to rain. She looked to Mufasa.
"You have a quirk?" she asked.
Mufasa grinned, "I do,"
Cinderella then looked to Rafiki, "And you?"
"I do," Rafiki nodded.
"The portal,"
He smiled.
"Child, come," said Nala, "You should rest and eat,"
Cinderella looked around the sky and the area. "It's so…..calm…and warm,"
The lions looked at one another.
"Considering the place, you were, hopefully, our beautiful Pride Lands will be a welcoming sight," Mufasa said stepping closer to her, he towered over her even as a lion, "I will make sure of this,"
She smiled at him, not realizing tears were pouring from her eyes. "Tha…thank you,"
"Come," Nala walked up and placed her body next to her, "You can ride on my back, rest your legs,"
Cinderella did just that, she slowly got onto Nala's back.
"Hold on," Nala said.
The lions took off in a dash straight to their pristine landmark, Pride Rock. The large black rock housed the lions. Nala climbed up carefully with Cinderella on her back and her husband, Simba behind her.
"Did she pass out?" Simba asked.
"Yep," Nala said with a smile.
Nala carefully slid Cinderella, with Rafiki's help, onto a pile of fur for her to sleep. Cinderella nuzzled her face into the fur and slept soundly.
"Rafiki," Mufasa called.
While the other lions settled into their spots inside Pride Rock, Mufasa and Rafiki walked onto the edge of it to talk.
"What's wrong?" Rafiki asked.
"I'm quite worried, that black substance is eerie," Mufasa said.
"It looks like it's doing the same thing we are, going after Quirk users," Rafiki explained.
"Then why did it drop her?" Mufasa asked, "I saw it. The second after you appeared, it dropped her,"
"I think….it wants…specific Quirk users, I'm not sure," Rafiki shook his head, "Those two full moons ago the world was normal, now it's unbeknownst to its chaos,"
"That cost our friend his life," Mufasa said.
Rafiki stiffened, "I miss him…,"
"So do I," Mufasa said, "I just want to honor him and what he wanted. Quirk users to be seen as people who help the world, not people be so afraid of them,"
"I don't think people are afraid of them but afraid of what they can do," Rafiki added, "What we can do,"
Mufasa was about to speak when he felt the wind pick up and blow swiftly in his ear. Rafiki noticed it as well.
'What's wrong?"
"I hear one," Mufasa said. "She. She's whimpering,"
"How can you tell if it's a quirk user or not?" Rafiki asked.
"They have a certain scent that carries with them when I hear them….the clouds carry it….sometimes it helps when I can hear what they say- or hear what they hear….," Mufasa explained.
Rafiki sighed, "Where is she?"
"Show me clouds, show the way to her," Mufasa said.
The clouds changed their shape, their color to yellow, and they stretched out like an arrow to go in one direction.
MUFASA'S QUIRK, IS CLOUD; HE CAN HEAR THINGS AMONGST THE CLOUDS AND THE CLOUDS BRING HIM SEVERAL THINGS AT HIS COMMAND; SCENTS, DIRECTION, LOCATION, ETC.
France
The gorgeous, brunette beauty, Belle was seated in a dirty tavern with a bunch of drunken fools around her. She rubbed her arm, covered in blue lace, looking around the room. She turned to her right to see her husband, Gaston, boasting. Laughing, drinking, and waving around the head of his latest kill. The largest buck that crossed their lands. Belle rolled her eyes, turning away from his drunken display.
He noticed her face and hurried over to her.
"Wife," he leaned in to kiss her.
"Uh," Belle put up her arm, pushing him away. "You're drunk," she said.
"And? I have accomplished the best kill today! In our little town's greatest victory!" shouted Gaston, getting a rowdy cheer from the entire room.
"And you wouldn't have gotten that kill if I hadn't helped," Belle hissed at him, pulling him towards her and keeping her voice down, "If I haven't given you the coordinates,"
"And?" he questioned.
"I showed you where the buck was. I tracked it for you. I let you know the best day to attack it," she said.
"But you didn't kill it," he lowered his voice to her only.
She exhaled a breath, looking away. He scoffed and grabbed her arm. "You do well to remember who you are. You are my wife, you should be grateful,"
"You should be," she snapped. "Without my power, my quirk, you wouldn't have found the buck,"
He rolled his eyes stepping away from her. She was about to speak to him but suddenly, the Three Bimbettes entered the room, approaching Gaston. Two of them had either a full belly or a barely showing belly. While the other Bimbette was holding a newborn baby in her arms. He turned towards them and cupped the newborn's head. Belle watched the interaction and then stood up in horror.
"Have you fathered those children?!" she shouted, making the entire room grow quiet.
Gaston smiled evilly, "I do not see you pregnant. How am I supposed to have heirs to continue my line," he said.
Belle gripped her stomach, "So, you have affairs?"
Gaston turned around, lifted the newborn from the Bimbette's arms, and lifted his arms to her. "Yes, my child, my son. You should learn from them," he said.
The entire room cracked up laughing. Belle felt the stinging tears coming to the back of her eyes as she looked at everyone around her. Laughing at her, pointing at her, pointing at Gaston's bastard children. She could not stop the tears and reached behind her to hold her enchanted mirror. The one she found in the woods, was placed there for her to find. She ran her fingers across its reflective surface.
"What dangers me the most?" she asked the mirror.
Her blue eyes turned almost clear with a rainbow through them. The mirror started to glow a bright blue color, catching everyone's attention. The light blinded everyone else except Belle who investigated it to see the dark substance covering its surface. The light died down and her eyes returned to normal.
BELLE'S QUIRK, IS AN ENCHANTED MIRROR; SHE CAN SEE ANYTHING SHE ASKS FOR ON A REFLECTIVE SURFACE. SHE CAN STORE WEAPONS IN HER MIRRORS.
"So, that's how her quirk works," one of the Bimbettes.
"You said it wasn't that strong," one of the other Bimbettes said, "She just asked it a question and it did. She very well could have helped you with the buck,"
Gaston glared at Belle and started making his way toward her. His face scared her, frightened her from such a mean glare.
"Gaston!" a voice raised behind them, "If you raise a hand to my daughter, I'll cut your throat like that buck!" declared Belle's father, Maurice.
Gaston raised his eyebrow at her father and started to walk up to him.
"Don't you dare!" Belle shouted after him.
Just then the black substance once again busted through the side of the building. Belle's eyes widened in shock just as the black substance surrounded her entire body. Everyone in the tavern went to hide and point at it.
"BELLE! BELLE!" Maurice pushed past Gaston towards his daughter, "DO SOMETHING!" he shouted at Gaston.
Gaston did not move.
"AHHHHH!" Belle screamed, breaking her father's heart.
The black substance stopped rotating for a moment, catching everyone's attention.
"WEAK….,"
The substance ordered, dropping Belle to the floor. She grunted in pain. The black substance went back outside of the building and traveled back into its dark sky. Maurice hurried to his daughter and she gripped his arm.
"HA!" Gaston laughed out loud and pointed to her, "You think her quirk helped me land the buck? That thing even said she is weak…...,"
The tavern rose and started to snicker a bit. Gaston laughed and turned his back on his wife.
"Um," the bimbette started to say.
"What?" Gaston questioned.
She pointed to something behind him. A golden circle started to form behind Gaston. It got wider and wider, and like before Rafiki stepped through, putting his walking stick in first. He stepped out of the circle first.
Belle's and everyone else's eyes widened in shock at his tall stature.
"More prey," Gaston pulled out his sword.
The people grinned happily as Gatson prepared to take another prize. However, Rafiki lifted his stick and smacked Gaston in the face.
"There will be seven hells before you can kill me you little boy," Rafiki hissed.
Gaston got to his feet quickly ready to strike at Rafiki until he started to back up in fear. Behind Rafiki, came Mufasa and his son, Simba. They growled together at Gaston making him back away in fear of the two huge beasts, along with the bar's customers. Belle and Maurice held onto each other as the lions came out of the portal.
Rafiki looked over to Belle. "Do you have a quirk child?" he asked.
Belle rose to her feet, holding onto her father. "Yes,"
Rafiki rose his chin, "Dear child, I see you are defiantly mistreated here because of your quirk," he said.
Belle gulped turning to Gaston.
"My home is open to Quirk users," Mufasa said, keeping his eyes on her, "There they will be safe,"
Belle eyed him.
"There is one there now, a girl your age. She is safe, and away from that thing floating around…that attacked you I guess?" Mufasa questioned.
Belle gulped, "…it called me weak,"
"You are," Gaston snapped.
Simba growled at him, making Gaston shut up.
Belle stiffened, "Your land, you say it's welcome to quirk users?" she asked.
Rafiki and Mufasa gave a slow nod. She looked over to Gaston.
"Don't you dare!" he snapped.
"You can be on your own now, I don't have to be your wife. Catch your prey, have your boys, and you and I won't see each other ever again," Belle shook her head, grabbing her father's arms.
"You think you can just leave me! Just like that!" Gaston made his way, angrily, over to her but Simba and Mufasa growled at him, blocking him from approaching Belle.
She stayed behind the lions as she and Maurice circled them to enter the portal. Belle looked at Gaston one more time before she and her father crossed into the Pride Lands. Belle looked around the night sky.
"So many stars," Maurice said.
The Pride Lands
Belle looked around in awe. She then jumped a bit when she felt Mufasa, Simba, and Rafiki come out of the portal behind her. She saw Gaston coming into view with a glare on his face it made her skin grow cold. Mufasa and Simba sat down just as the lions appeared around Pride Rock. Belle looked at all of them, having never seen so many lions.
Her mouth closed when Cinderella appeared, standing next to Nala in a black cloak. Cinderella stared down at Belle, her eyes suddenly turned green. Belle looked shocked at that as Cinderella looked up at the sky above her. She closed her eyes again and looked back down at Belle. She looked away.
"Wha-?" Belle turned around, "Why did she look at me like that?"
"I believe it's her quirk," Mufasa said.
Belle took a deep breath as Cinderella started to descend from Pride Rock with Nala and her daughter, Kiara by her side. She felt safe with them.
"This is Cinderella," Mufasa introduced.
The two women stared at each other and then raised their hands to each other. They pressed their fingers trips together and then palms. Both girls looked into each other's eyes and felt each other. Their quirks. Their power. Their experiences.
Their moment was interrupted by the sky growing dark, and red streaks appearing.
"The darkness! The clouds are changing, Mufasa?" Sarabi questioned.
"It's not me," Mufasa shook his head, but then his stomach dropped. "No, Simba,"
Sarabi panicked. Cinderella and Belle immediately turned around to the top of Pride Rock where Simba had gone. He looked up at the sky, as the dark cloud was starting to form and coming straight for him.
"SIMBA!" Sarabi and Mufasa shouted.
"FATHER!" Kopa, Kion, and Kiara shouted.
Simba looked up at the cloud just as Nala turned around to run to her husband. Simba however, opened his mouth and let out a loud, earth-shattering, powerful roar directly at the darkness. Belle, Cinderella, and Maurice covered their ears at the piercing roar. Simba's roar was so powerful that the darkness had to retreat into the sky and it disappeared. Belle and Cinderella stared at him in awe, and Simba grinned evilly.
SIMBA'S QUIRK, THE KING'S ROAR; A DEVASTING ROAR THAT DESTROYS ANYTHING IN IT'S PATH.