Chapter 15: Getting started
In the morning, Elise woke up to Syliva lightly shaking her shoulder and calling her name. She opens her eyes and looks up to the queen. Sylvia nods. "The prince must go now, before Methis returns."
Elise pouts. "Does he have to?"
Syliva nods and walks away.
Elise looks at Grant's sleeping face. They both were had slept on the ground in each other's arms during the night. She kisses his cheek. "Grant, dear. It's time to wake up." The prince moans in his sleep. Elise smiles and starts to lightly shake his shoulder. "Grant."
Grant groans as he stretches. When he opens his eyes, he looks up at her and smiles. "Good morning, Elise."
Elise smiles. "Good morning to you too, Grant." He sits up and kisses her on the lips softly. Elise lays her head on his shoulder. "Grant. You need to go home now. I don't know when Methis will be back and I don't want you to get caught and be put into the same situation."
Grant hold her tighter. "I really don't want to leave but I know you're right." He let go of the embrace and helps her up. He then looks around and spots the castle's pet, playing with the children. He then lets out a loud whistle for the dog. Sultan looks up to Grant.
The three kids looks to the Prince as the Queen looks down to the them. "Come on Children. The dog need to go home." They let out a disappointing moan as they let the dog go to Grant.
Grant looks at Elise. "Well... when I get to the castle I'll start looking for a way to break that spell." He then hugs her. "Stay safe, alright?" She nods. He let go of her and starts to walk off with Sultan following him
Elise looks to the ground then back up to her Fiance. "Grant, wait!" She rushes up to him when he stopped and turned to her. "I wanted to ask you. Back when the castle was under the spell, how exactly did you climb the walls? When I'm a fox I can't even climb a tree."
Grant folds his arms. "That's easy. I used my claws. But because of my size back then they were stronger than claws on a normal size fox."
Elise thinks as she looks at her nails. "That makes since then. I didn't even think about using them."
Grant nods. "Just be careful." He then leans over and kisses her forehead. He then slowly pulls back when the three children gave them both a load ew. Elise giggles at the sound. Grant the pats his leg to get Sultan to follow him as he leaves.
Elise sighs as she watches him leave. When he was out of her sighs the group turned back to their animal forms. Before they could do anything for the day, they heard the door to the mansion open and close. Glancing over the fox saw Herve standing in front of the door. She gives a low growl at the sight.
It took Grant an hour to get back to the castle. When he open the doors to the Entrance Hall, Sultan bolted inside, happy to be home. The prince figured where he would find his twin, he headed for the dinning room. Inside Adam, Belle, and Martha was sitting at the table, having breakfast.
Once seeing Grant walking in the room Martha stands up happily. "Grant, there you are! Why don't you sit down beside me and have some breakfast."
When he got a slight glance at the visiting princess, Grant grits his teeth. He bites his tongue to keep himself from yelling at her for what she did to Elise. He took a deep breath to calm himself down. "I'm sorry, Martha. But, hungry as I am, I'm very busy. I only came here to have a small talk with my brother."
Adam glances up to his twin when he was next him. Grant leans down to the King's eye level and turns his head away from Martha. He whispers in Adam's ear. "When you and Belle had finished eating, come to the library, alone."
His brother looked at him with a questionable look. He nod when he noticed the seriousness look in his brother's face. Grant stands up and walks out of the room.
Martha pouts and folds her arms. "He didn't even say bye or even what he was doing. How rude of him!"
Belle glares to the unpleasant princess.
Elise sits and watched Methis' stooge, where he wouldn't see her. She watches his every move he makes until Methis returned. Herve looks to his master and follows him inside the mansion. She gets up and walks over to the tree she try to climb the day before.
Away from her Lewis, Nole, and Sylvia watches. The boar lays downs on the ground and he looks to the gray wolf. "There she goes again."
Sylvia sighs. "I know."
Nole noticed the fox doing something different. He watched her backs up a few feet away from the tree. "What is she doing?"
The three watched closely as the fox runs and jumps up on the tree. She then gets a good grip of the bark of the tree with her claws. Climbing quickly until she was on a branch that she could stand on. Elise catches her breath and looks into the window that the branch was facing to. Inside looked like a bedroom with the door hanging wide open. She puts her claws on the wood part of the window and pulls it toward her, pulling it open. She then hops inside trying to make no noises as possible.
Sylvia's ears dropped and she stands up on all four paws. "She made it inside!"
Foy pops up with a clump of dirt on his head. "She what!?
Lewis stands up shocked. "She's progressing!"
Sylvia turns away. "Come on. Lets not draw attention to it. She just might be our last hope." The group wanders off and to leave the fox to explore the mansion.
At the Castle, Grant had told the servants that work in the Library to leave the room and to keep Martha from entering. Once they had arrived Grant had explained to both Adam and Belle what Elise had told him. He even showed them the exact location of the mansion on a map of the kingdom.
Adam looks at his twin. "And none of them aren't sure how to break the spell?"
Grant sits down and nods. "Elise is trying to find that out but so far she hasn't had any luck."
Belle looks to her Brother-in-law. "I'm happy that she's alright and isn't alone."
Her husband nods in agreement. "I still can't believe Martha was behind this. I kind of knew how unpleasant she was towards Elise but never thought that she would be the reason she disappeared."
Grant folds his arms. "Neither did I." He sighs. "I really hate to do this to them but we need to keep the whole castle in the dark about this. That also includes Cogsworth, Mrs. Pott, Chip, and Lumiere."
Adam looks to Grant. "They aren't going to like that."
Grant glances away. "I know, I'm sorry but that's just how it's going to be until it's over. Elise doesn't want Martha get angry. She thinks that she'll take her anger out on the others that's with her."
Belle looks to Grant. "Is there anything that we can do to help?"
Grant looks to the both of them. "Depends, does anyone know where to find the Enchantress?"
Adam shakes his head. "Doubt it. She could be anywhere."
Grant sighs. "I know."
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! Try not to eat too much.
To think last year on this day, I had finished writing Brother and Sister.
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