Cherry yawned as she felt kind of sleepy right about now.
"Dear, why don't you go take a nap?" Mrs. Potts suggested. "You look very slow this afternoon."
"I think I will..." Cherry agreed groggily.
"Then off to bed with you." Mrs. Potts said.
Cherry yawned with a small nod and went to her room to get some sleep.
"Cherry, have you seen Belle, Hilda, or Lumiere?" Mo asked.
"I think they're in the study." Cherry said before yawning again.
"Thanks, and you should get some rest." Mo said.
"On my way..." Cherry replied.
The two went their separate ways. Cherry shut the drapes over the window to block out the daylight and crawled into her bed and wrapped herself under her covers to get some sleep. And where this time, she would get plenty of sleep.
"You've come a long way, Adam." Drell smiled to the beast.
"Thank you, Drell." The Beast smiled with a grunt as he continued his training exercise.
"So, tell me, this Belle girl..." Drell folded his arms. "Do ya like her?~"
"Well, yes, but she can drive me crazy sometimes." The Beast answered with a grunt.
"Such as women do..." Drell fluttered his lips.
The Beast was now doing push-ups as he added Atticus on his back for extra weight.
"You sure you wanna do that, sir?" Atticus asked the Beast.
"Yes, I'm sure." The Beast nodded firmly.
"Okay, as long as you're sure." Atticus smiled in support. He then stood on top of the Beast's back.
The Beast grunted at first, but didn't let that stop him. Atticus folded his arms while standing to make it look like he was a tough trainer. Drell smiled proudly to Atticus. The Beast continued to do his push-ups no matter how heavy Atticus seemed to be. Drell counted as he watched them at work. And where it seemed to be going rather well.
"You still hang around Skippy, Drell?" the Beast asked.
"Yeah, yeah, little guy follows me around like a lost puppy." Drell chuckled.
"It's true." Atticus said.
Drell sighed. 'Aw, Skippy..."
"Is he spending time in Manhattan?" Atticus asked.
"When isn't he?" Drell hid a chuckle. "I swear, besides Angela, those gargoyles think he's weird... Then again, he does eat washcloths..."
"Could that be because you don't feed him enough and he'd eat anything?" Atticus asked.
"I feed him!" Drell defended. "Besides, he cooks all our meals back home."
"True, true." Atticus nodded as the Beast seemed to now be able to go a little bit faster.
"Great, Adam!" Drell smiled in admiration.
"You are doing very well." Atticus smiled at the Beast.
"All in a day's work." The Beast smiled back.
"Just be sure you take it easy on Belle," Drell warned. "Women like a strong man, but not too overboard..." he then mumbled. "Like Gaston..."
"Who?" The Beast asked.
"Oh, just some guy that thinks that having muscles is everything." Atticus said.
"Mm-hmm..." Drell nodded with an eye roll. "Hopefully you'll never get to meet him."
"Same here." Atticus said.
"Unfortunately, he would." Akito's voice said, interrupting the story.
"Spoilers!" Jenny's voice cried out.
"Aw, come on, Jenny, you had to have seen this coming." Vincent's voice replied.
"Anyways, please continue." Estelle's voice said.
"So, anyway..." Akito's voice said.
The three then continued to work out together.
And after a while, the Beast now began to show some muscles.
Atticus wiped his forehead. "Phew! I worked up quite an appetite."
"Same here." The Beast agreed.
"Come on, let's get something to eat." Atticus decided.
"Agreed." The Beast nodded.
Meanwhile, back with Mo as she hurried to try and find Babette and if she couldn't find her then she would have to try and find Belle, Hilda, and Lumiere.
"Oh, I hope Babette didn't go too far..." Mo said to herself as she wandered aimlessly as she looked for the feather duster maid of the castle. She soon saw Babette looking in shock as she looked in the study which could only mean one thing; that she caught Lumiere doing something she thought was being romantic to Hilda as she snuck into the study. "Uh, hey, Babette... What's going on?" she then asked with a nervous smile.
"Lumiere 'as betrayed moi!" Babette cried out.
"Babette, it's not what it seems." Mo said.
"'Ow do you know?" Babette narrowed her eyes slightly. "I am thinking of getting even with 'im!"
"Okay, let's not do something we'll regret..." Mo then said nervously.
"Vhere is Cogsworth?" Babette asked.
"Maybe the kitchen?" Mo shrugged. "Why?"
"I 'ave an idea." Babette smirked.
"Oh, no...I don't like that look in your eyes." Mo gulped.
"Do you vant to 'elp?" Babette replied.
"I'm not so sure..." Mo backed up anxiously.
"Oh, please." Babette begged.
Mo rubbed her arm. "I suppose I could try..."
"Oh, merci beaucop!" Babette cheered.
"I just know I'm going to regret this." Mo sighed.
"Let us find Cogsworth." Babette decided.
"Agreed." Mo nodded.
Babette smiled and then moved with Mo to find the majordomo of the castle who was now a mere mantle clock. And where they found him coming into the library where Lumiere, Hilda, Belle, and a tub were in front of the fireplace. Babette came over to the mantel clock as he came to see what was going on.
"This is not going to end well." Mo sighed.
"Bonjour, Monsieur Cogsworth~" Babette greeted in a sultry tone of voice.
"Her again!" Lumiere replied, then looked to Hilda. "Pretend you don't see her."
Hilda did so and where Belle and the tub did the same thing.
"I 'ave been looking all over for you~" Babette continued to flirt with Cogsworth. "You big, 'unk of clock, you~"
"Oh, brother." Mo sighed quietly.
"Oh, have you?" Cogsworth nervously chuckled to Babette as she flirted with him. "I mean, you have? Why, young woman?"
"Because you are so.. So... So..." Babette replied, but she looked over to see Lumiere ignoring her which made her groan.
"Say that he lights up your world." Mo whispered to Babette.
"Uh, you light up my vorld..." Babette then continued. "You are magnifique, and how you say, full of life! Oh, zhe fashions, zhey have come!"
"I can not believe I just helped her into trying to make Lumiere jealous." Mo whispered with a groan.
"You did what?" Cherry asked as she walked in.
"Long story, I'll tell you later." Mo face-palmed.
"We must ignore her." Lumiere suggested about Babette, unknowing that he was hurting her.
"This is getting kind of awkward." Hilda whispered.
"Yes, we should leave." Belle agreed.
They soon started to leave the room. Babette continued to woo and compliment Cogsworth in order to make Lumiere jealous, but she soon saw it wasn't working as he the tub Hilda and Belle left the room.
"You can stop now..." Cherry said out of exhaustion and sickness before she could also leave the room.
Later that night, Cherry was back in bed...
Cherry was trying to get some sleep, but every time she closed her eyes, she could hear Forte's haunting melodies and terrifying crescendos. She eventually woke up with a scream after yet another nightmare and it nearly kept everyone else in the castle awake like she was a newborn baby being brought back home from the hospital only to scream and cry for her parents to come check on her.
"Vhat vas that?" Babette asked.
Atticus came over. "Cherry!"
Cherry shivered and held herself.
Atticus came to see that she was awake. "Another nightmare?"
Cherry looked over as her face was deathly pale, she then slowly nodded to her best friend. Atticus began to wonder what he could do to try and make the nightmare go away. Cherry took a glass of water left for her and she drank from her.
"What is that screaming?" Drell stormed in in anger and annoyance.
"Cherry had a nightmare." Atticus replied.
"Oh, no, Cherry had a nightmare!" Drell cupped his mouth in mock worry. "Oh, dear, someone help her before she's consumed by her overactive imagination! This is terrible, something not real is hurting her in her subconscious!"
"Done?" Atticus asked, unimpressed.
"Yes, I'm done." Drell replied.
Cherry shivered under the covers.
"Oh, Cherry, you seem so scared to death." Patch frowned.
"We're right here." Atticus soothed her.
Cherry shivered. "It's nothing, really... Don't mind me..."
"Cherry, you're obviously scarred emotionally from these nightmares..." Drell replied. "There has to be a way to fix up your nightmares... Now, tell me, what are you having nightmares about?"
Cherry then whispered into his ear about Maestro Forte.
"Again?" Drell asked. "I thought you got over that nightmare after you told me and Atticus about it."
"I'm just worried..." Cherry shivered. "What if he's not really dead and he's just gonna come back and plot revenge against me?!"
"He won't plot revenge on you." Drell said.
Cherry's teeth chattered as she looked completely horrified. Atticus sighed, he wished he could help Cherry with her nightmare problems. He then remembered the first time he was able to get in her nightmare.
Later on...
Drell was looking through a spell book to help Cherry get over her night terrors of the court composer of the castle.
"Drell, I want you to send me into Cherry's nightmare." Atticus said as he came over to him.
Drell looked over with a worried face. "Are you sure?" he then asked. "Nightmares can be very seriously dangerous."
"I'm sure." Atticus said.
"All right, hold on a moment..." Drell said as he then flipped to find a dream transporter spell for Atticus.
Atticus began to wait for him to find the spell.
"Sorry, Atticus, dream spells are usually explicit..." Drell adjusted his glasses. "Ah, here we go."
"Alright, then fire away." Atticus said.
Drell recited the spell and waved his wand before zapping it toward Atticus. Atticus was then shrunk down into Drell's large hand and the warlock came to Cherry as she was writing in the castle study which was her studio now.
"Hey, Cherry, proud of you..." Drell smiled as he rubbed her head and slid Atticus into her ear canal.
"Geronimo!" Atticus cheered.
Cherry looked around as she could've sworn she heard something. "Atticus?"
Drell then walked away, whistling innocently. Cherry simply shrugged before getting back to work. Drell then left Cherry alone as he kept his wand handy for when Atticus was ready. Cherry soon felt sleepy and fell asleep. Drell then picked up Cherry in his arms and walked to the bed that Cherry slept in around here and tucked her into bed with a small kiss on the cheek and then left the room. Cherry soon started to stir in her sleep and where that meant the nightmare was about to start, but Atticus was going to be able to help get rid of the nightmare once and for all.