Five months have now officially passed since the breakup and Silver is now back on the dating market. The princesses decided it would be best to have Silver meet up with the matchmaker to help him find a suitable and eligible partner for him that is available. Silver wasn't sure about that but after the princesses convinced him to give it a shot, he decided it was worth a try.
Raya leaned against the wall, watching as Cinderella searched the streets frantically for any sign of Silver. The employee stepped out of the Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boutique, hand on her hip. "Cinderella! Is Silver here yet?" Cinderella sighed and shook her head.
"Well he better hurry up! We all know that the Matchmaker is not a patient woman." She said before stepping back inside.
"Of all days to be late! I should've prayed to my ancestors for luck," Mulan groaned, slowly shaking her head.
Jasmin scoffed beside her. "How lucky can your ancestors be? They're all dead!" Jasmin held a small cage with a cricket in it that she bought from the Chinese pavilion, talking to crickets and thinking they bring luck. Mulan rolled her eyes.
"I don't understand why we are letting the old Matchmaker choose the right partner for him?" Anna muttered. "Would it be easier to put him on the dating show game… Oh! Or even the Bachelor Show?" Anna arched her brow. "Come to think of it, I think we should put Silver in the Bachelor Show!"
"No Anna," Elsa turned down her suggestion. "We're not putting Silver in the Bachelor Show. We do not want to stress him out about finding a good partner in front of the camera."
"But Imagine!" Anna said to her sister. "The drama! The action! The romantic! The humor! All of that! How fun can it be! I will be an excellent hostess for the show!"
"Anna no!"
"Anna, yassss!"
The sound of footsteps running, and the princesses were so relieved to see Silver arrive. He slid across them and held his hands in the air. "I'm here!" He cheered. He took in the princesses' disapproving look. "What?"
Jasmin holds a strand of messy curls from Silver's hair.
"But I-"
"None of your excuses!" She said, "Now let's get you cleaned up!"
The princesses guide Silver inside of the shop, the Lady takes one look at Silver and gasps. What a mess! His messy hair looks like he just woke up from his bed and hasn't had time to clean himself. This won't do, this won't simply do at all.
[Song: Honor to us all - Mulan, but most of the lyrics has been change]
Lady:
This is what you give me to work with?
Ugh! Well, honey, I've seen worse.
The Lady pushed Silver and began to undress him behind the room divider. The shadowy silhouette of their figures can be seen behind an white curtain.
Lady.
We're going to turn this sow's ear.
"Ack!"
The Lady pushes him into the white Claw-foot tub filled with water, she moves the curtain showing Silver in the bathtub.
Lady.
into freshly new.
"Sweet birdie, it's freezing inside!" Silver rose up to the top as he shrieked. He could just hear Elsa smirk. "It would have been warm if you were here on time," she mocked.
Silver's hair then splashed as the Lady dumped a bucket of water on him to wash him.
Lady:
We'll have you washed and dried
Primped and polished,
till you glow with pride.
She grabs a bottle of shampoo from the table. She then squirts some into her palm and lathers up his head before rinsing it off with cold water and then placing the conditioner too. Silver was left feeling refreshed and clean, his hair started to smell like a freshly flower rose but he wasn't even done yet.
Lady:
Trust this recipe for instant love.
You'll have love in your life.
Silver heard silence before hearing Belle's voice took his right hand while holding a sponge in her hand. "Uhhhh Silver, what is this?" She notices the writing on Silver's right arm before cleaning him.
"Uh…" He drew his arm back and bathed his eyelashes. "Notes? Mulan said I should write my note in my arm in case I forget something?" Silver chuckled. He watched Jasmine enter.
"Here. Hold this," Jasmin said, handing Snow White the cricket. "I think I need more than I thought. I wonder if I could fly over to the Florida mall?"
Next thing Silver knows, he's sitting on the chair at the barbershop with two male barbers styling and trimming his curly hair. There are some hair products and supplies on the table. He had never been to a barber before so he isn't similar with all these products they are going to use. The barbers were making sure that Silver would look fantastic and charming with his new hairdo.
Barber 1:
Wait and see
when we're through.
One of the barbers snip, cut, and trim his hair then, one of them started applying hair gel to make a curl sideburn while the other shook a bottle of hairspray and sprayed all over his hair.
Barber 2:
Your partner will gladly die for you.
Barber 1:
With good style,
Barber 2:
And a great hairdo.
Finalizing the hairdo, they turn his chair for Silver to see himself in the mirror. His hair is now short and curled, and is parted on the side. As much as it looks nice on him but he much rather have his long hair back, oh well, he will just use his magic paintbrush and change it back to the way it was before once this is over.
All:
You'll have love in your life.
Silver walked out with the barbershop and the Princesses escorted him in front of him down the street.
Choir:
A person can bring his love ones,
great fate in one way.
Silver stopped as he saw two elderly women playing chess. One woman made her move while the other seemed stumped over her next one.
Choir:
By striking a good match.
And this could be the day.
Silver moved for her to allow her to win the game. He chuckled as he helped an old lady beat her friend in chess. Not before Tiana pulled his arm into a tailor shop.
There, Silver was told to put these two garments for him to wear. First was the white dress shirt and then the black trouser pants. But it wasn't over until the woman went to fetch something and came back with an white corset in her hand.
Woman 1:
A person wants their partner to be…
The first woman wrapped his waist with the corset from behind while the second woman stood in the front and helped him button the corset up.
Woman 2:
Sweet,
Woman 1:
Kind,
Woman 2:
Who can make them smile
The second woman told Silver to wrap his arms around the pillar and be ready. Silver did as he was told but was extremely confused about what she meant by being ready until he realized what they were about to do to him. If you ever watch historical drama shows or movies with a scene that involves a corset before, you know what they were about to do.
Woman 1:
With a good personality,
Woman 2:
And a good attitude.
Silver yelps as they both pull the string of the corset onto him from behind but the corset does help with his back support and posture improvement. Merida felt bad for him as this brought up memories when her mother dressed her up to meet her three suitors.
All:
You'll have love in your life.
Merida pitied Silver for his suffocation, and laughed as they led him back to the Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boutique, passing the streets once more.
All:
We all want our child,
to find a perfect love match.
Silver watched as two girls played with plastic foam medieval swords and snatched the doll out from a young boy's hand.
All:
So they can experience love,
and get their happy ending!
He snatched it from her hands while scowling at the girls and handed it back to the boy, awaiting his fate in the Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boutique as his clothes were hanging on the rack waiting for him.
Snow White:
When we're through,
you can't fail.
First thing was Snow White helping him put on a fitted coat for him.
Aurora:
Like a lotus blossom
Soft and fresh!
Second was Aurora helping him button up his waistcoat that hid the corset.
Mulan:
How could any fellow,
do not resist you!
Lastly, Mulan ties his shoes for him before helping him put his gloves on him.
Mulan:
You'll have love in your life.
Aurora:
You'll have love in your life.
Disney Princesses:
You'll have love in your life.
Cinderella finished fixing the cravat that's around his neck. "There, you're ready," She whispered.
Silver turned and stared at himself through a tall mirror on the wall. He wears a waist-length cutaway tailcoat jacket featured in a medium light shade of red with eminence wide lapels, open to reveal a cyan cobalt blue waistcoat over a white dress shirt. He has a grayish cyan bow tied over a high collar and wears rose garnet trousers strapped beneath his black polish dress shoes. Of course, he's wearing a pair of white wrist-length gloves and his signature black glasses. Silver couldn't believe himself, he looks like he's one of those men in the regency era.
Jasmin chuckled and entered inside. "Not yet," said the peacock princess before shoving an apple into his mouth. "An apple for serenity, a pendant for balance."
Jasmine:
Brooch of pearls for beauty
She pinned the pearl brooch surrounded by a ten diamond on Silver's cravat.
Jasmine:
You must proudly show it
Jasmine raises his chin high with her hand before grabbing the cricket from the table.
Jasmine:
Now add a cricket just for luck!
She placed the cage with the poor cricket under Silver's tailcoat in the back.
Jasmine:
And even you can't blow it.
Jasmine gave him a wink, Silver looked up at the clock hanging on the wall. It's time for him to meet the Matchmaker. Silver soon walks outside of the boutique, officially ready but also feeling nervous about this. He held his head upward to the blue sky.
Silver:
Oh dear fate,
hear my plea,
Help me not to make a fool of me.
He turned his head over his shoulders with all of the princesses waving him and wishing him good luck.
Silver:
And to not disappoint my dear friends.
Oh please bring love into my life.
Just before he could join with the rest of the young men. Anna rushed to hand Silver his walking cane and velvet top hat that matched the color of his jacket with lotus flower off the side that he completely forgot.
Silver & Young Men:
Scarier than thee undertaker,
We are meeting our Matchmaker.
He quickly took it and rushed to the line of handsome young men dressed in the same suit as him but in different colors.
All:
Destiny,
Guard our boy
The people looked on at these handsome gentlemen, making their way toward the Matchmaker building.
All:
And their future,
as it fast unfurls.
Silver hovered the crane over his shoulder like a baseball bat before notice how the other young men used the crane correctly before he fixed his mistake and copied them. He stood nightly tall with his right arm behind his back and his left hand grip the top of his crane.
All:
Please look kindly on,
these brave warriors.
Each a handsome ancient sculpture.
Everyone watches and stares as the young men make their way towards the Matchmaker building. They all look so charming and handsome in their suits.
Young Man 1:
Please bring love into my life.
Young Man 2:
Please bring love into my life.
Young Man 3:
Please bring love into my life.
Young Man 4:
Please bring love into my life.
All:
Please bring love into my life.
All the young men and Silver arrive with their left hand on the top of their cane, right foot leg out, they bend back their other legs, they remove their top hat with their right hand and hold it by the brim in their right hand with their top hat touching their left side shoulder just before the old and very… harsh old Matchmaker woman dress in 1890s attire slammed the doors open and checked her list.
"Silver. Willow."
"Present!" Silver said, standing up and waving his top hat.
"Speaking without permission," spat the Matchmaker as she made a note on her clipboard.
Silver whines silently. "Whoops."
He entered the room with the Matchmaker as the woman closed the doors behind. Jasmine rolled her eyes. "Geez, 'Speaking without permission'? What century is her brain at right now!?"
Inside the Matchmaker's home, Matchmaker looks over Silver and circles around him like a cat. "Huh, Hmm, tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk." She shook her head before writing it down on her board. "Too skinny. Hmph, no one would want a person with a body like a skeleton."
The cricket seems to escape from his cage. Silver notices and he struggles to catch him. But the cricket jumps all over him, on his shoulders, his head, back, and shoulder again before he's able to catch but quickly puts the cricket inside of his mouth when the Matchmaker turns around to face him. "Please quote the words you have been given by D. H. Lawrence." Silver nodding and smiling. He took out an white handkerchief and covered his mouth as he spit out the cricket.
"Well….?" She looked at him, waited for him to get started.
Silver speaks with confidence and dignity inside. "Love is the flower of life, and bloss...s-" He looked down at his arm with smeared writing due to the bath he took.
"-ssoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is find." Looking so surprised, Silver looks at his arm again before fixing his mistake. "F-found! A-and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration!" Whipping the sweat from his forehead on himself rapidly and sighing in relief.
But the Matchmaker snatches the handkerchief and looks at it on both sides looking for notes only to find none. Silver smiles big when Matchmaker looks at him and gives him his handkerchief back.
"Hmmm, this way." Matchmaker grabs Silver's right arm pulling him along toward two chairs and a table while smearing the ink writing and leaving some ink on her hand. "Now, pour the tea." She placed a tray of teacups and a teapot she got from the kitchen down on the table before sitting down on the chair with Silver sat on the other chair. "To please your future in-laws, you must demonstrate a sense of dignity."
Unknowingly to the Matchmaker, she smears ink around her mouth that looks like she has a beard. Silver stares with wide eyes and mouth open as he pours some tea onto the table then notices his mistake and pours the tea into the teacup. "And refinement. You must also be poised."
Silver notices the cricket in the teacup as Matchmaker takes the teacup. Silver, quiet and timid, trying his best to stop her. "Um, pardon me madam but there is a-"
"AND SILENT!" She shouted at him loudly. Silver yelps while the Matchmaker sniffs the tea, but he reaches and grabs the teacup across the table. "Could I just take that back… for just one moment. Please?"
They struggle for the teacup and the table turns over on Matchmaker and the cricket jumps down Matchmaker's dress. Silver falls down to the floor from his chair and stares at her.
"Oh, no. No, no, no," says Silver, almost freaking out.
"Why you… you clumsy-" Matchmaker feels the cricket in her dress and dances around. "Wooo, woooo, wooooooo," She knocks over her pot of coals, and falls down on the coals accidentally. Matchmaker jumps around the room screaming. "Ahhhhhhhhhhh!"
Silver grabs her fan and briskly fan the charred area on Matchmaker's behind causing it to flame up. Silver looks surprised about his mistake. The Matchmaker starts doing a drop-and-roll movement to make a fire die out.
Outside the Matchmaker's building, everyone jumped and was spooked with so much noise coming inside. They have no idea what is going on in there or what's happening right now.
"I think it's going well? Don't you girls think?" Jasmine smirks.
The Matchmaker ran out of the room, her behind was on fire! "Put it out! Put it out! Put it oooooouuuuutttt!!!" Silver rushed right behind her, carrying a teapot of water. He did the first thing he thought of, and drenched the Matchmaker in water, successfully putting out the fire, as well as ruining the Matchmaker's makeup, hair, and attire.
Silver handed her the pot back and bowed his neck, before grabbing his top hat and crane from the counter and covering his left side face with his top hat as he walked back towards the princesses. The cricket hop back right into his cage and cover himself with one of the tailcoats.
"You...YOU ARE A DISGRACE!" the old woman shouted with red appear on her face, throwing the teapot to the ground in frustration. Silver watched the pot shatter into a hundred pieces, looking frightened at the woman's exclamation with his top hat shielding his face. "You may look like a gentleman! BUT YOU! YOU! YOU WILL NEVER AND I MEAN NEVER EVER FIND LOVE. IN. YOUR. LIFE!!!"
The Matchmaker brings her face an inch closer to his face.
"And I do hope you never WILL!"
Silver gasped, he felt his heart rip into two as Cinderella held him close. He lowered his head down as the Matchmaker walked away, leaving him to absorb the shame and humiliation he felt in front of everybody, the people who had gathered whisper and walk away.
"Sooooooooo….. Bachelor Show anyone?"
"Anna, now is not the time."
Cinderella did not say anything, she just held him tighter, Silver couldn't shake off the feeling of being publicly humiliated and embarrassed in front of all of those people. "I-I need to go." Silver immediately walked off.
They all saw this from their point of view, and looked on sadly. Cinderella was starting to go after him when Mulan gently placed her hand on her shoulder. "Cinderella, he needs some time alone. Let him be."
Cinderella nodded, "Oh.. of course Mulan." She spoke a little and looked out at the Main Street road where Silver had walked off.
Silver feet took him to the bench facing the seven sea lagoon, sitting on the stone bench with two sets of rose trees sitting on the square wooden pot. After what happened back in the Matchmaker, he still feels humiliated in front of everyone and just disappears in the dark. He closes his eyes and he hears the sweet song of the birds singing in the background.
Her harsh cruel words to him still echo in his mind:
"YOU WILL NEVER AND I MEAN NEVER EVER FIND LOVE. IN. YOUR. LIFE!!! And I do hope you never WILL!"
Silver heard a throat be cleared, gazing up at Melanie, who offered him a small smile. He turned away. The Victorian Ghost woman sat down next to him, watching as Silver refused to meet her gaze. She looked around for a way to comfort Silver, and smiled softly. "My, my," she said. "What beautiful flowers we have this year."
She pointed to the small bud on a branch. "But look! This one's late." Silver stared at the bud curiously as Melanie smiled at him. "But I'll bet that when it blooms, it will be the most beautiful of all." She luckily picked out one rose from the tree and placed it in Silver's dark, curly hair. His dark brown eyes finally met her, and he smiled.
He grinning. "The most beautiful indeed, Melanie," he whispered to her.
Melanie nodded. "I heard what happened," She rubbed his back with her gentle hands.
"You know huh?" Silver groan. "Not a surprise, words do travel fast."
"They do." Melanie nodded at him. "I was taking a walk down Main Street when I saw the commotion."
Silver sighed. "And I failed."
"You didn't fail," Melanie said quietly. "And I believe that with the right person, you'll find true love even without having someone to pair you up with someone else on who you should be with rather than choosing yourself."
"Easy for you to say," he muttered, "you've been married to Adam for years, and you both are so happy together being a married couple."
"That's because I found someone who makes me happy." Melanie lifted Silver's bottom chin with her hand and stared gently at him. "It's not always easy, but if you trust in the process, it will work out in the end."
Silver looked down at the ground. "Melanie, can I ask you a question?"
"Of course Silver, anything."
"How did you manage to find love again after all four of your former suitors, including your fiancé, have been killed off by your father? Especially since you've been isolated in the Manor for years without any romantic feeling."
Melanie pursed her lips together. "Well, I don't know exactly how I did it. But when I first met Adam after we escaped from the Manor, I wasn't so sure about him courting me once we started dating," Her eyes glistened. She remembered the pain she felt in the years after her four suitors were murdered and her fiance being hanged by her father and trapped in the Manor for decades. "But he took me on so many adventures around the world, and he showed me so much that I want to see more. I couldn't wait to see what he would bring me next on our travels. And even though he isn't perfect like my suitors, he is a good man, and I wanted to give him a chance. Just like that, I popped the question and he agreed to be my husband." She gazed sweetly at the seven lake lagoon.
"I never thought that you, a woman, would ask Adam, a man, to marry you." Silver chuckled slightly. "Traditionally back then, a man would propose to the woman he loved. But never would the woman do it."
Melanie giggled. "That may be but I can't let Adam keep me standing there, waiting, until he finally puts the ring on me. Besides, I think that it was quite romantic for me to propose to him."
Silver sighed. "I wish I could find someone who loves me as much as you loved your husband. I feel like I need to hurry up and find a partner just like our friends." He said. "All of them… Well, except for Toren… are already in a relationship. And someday, one by one, they will get married and live happily ever after only for me to be the only one left in our group unmarried and untaken." A single tear slowly rolled down on his right cheek. "I just need to hurry and find someone who could love me before that happens."
"Ooohhh but you will Silver. Trust me." Melanie taps his tears away with her handkerchief. "Just be patient and wait for the right person to come along and sweep you off your feet. But I do want to give you a caution, one day when the time comes, don't rush things." She advised him. "Take your time and get to know that person and make sure they are right for you. But be careful when you choose the right person, otherwise, that person might become unfaithful to you."
"Do you really think so?"
"Yes." Melanie took Silver's hands. "You have a lot of potential that others don't and you have a bright future ahead of you. Your heart is pure and kind; you have the qualities of a beautiful soul than most people possess in their whole body. But I would hate for someone that took evil advantage of your kindhearted soul like that and destory you. As long as you find someone who sees that, they will fall in love with you."
Melanie leans in and kisses his forehead. "Don't let one bad experience cloud your judgment. There are good people out there, people who care about others."
Silver nodded at her. "Thank you Melanie for making me feel better."
Judging by the title of this chapter and what the "Next Chapter" said, you already know that this chapter is pretty much going to be based on the 1998 movie Mulan in the "Honor To Us All" scene and it's obviously that Silver's matchmaker suit color scheme have an similar color scheme as Mulan's matchmaker pink dress. I wanted to dress Silver in an outfit that's based on or inspired by what the princesses wore in their movie. So be sure to pay very close attention to what Silver is wearing, you never know that his outfit might resemble any of the princesses' looks.
Of course, our first special guest appearance is Melanie! At first, she wasn't going to appear in this chapter but after receiving PM from Adam creator, JOHNHAMMOND1993, I felt really inspired to include her (but sadly not Adam but he will be), in this chapter. She and Silver both have something in common when it comes to romance in their life. Especially how to deal with a broken heart and the problem of finding true love.
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