Rose of the Moon
AN: Please, if you are reading this, please take the time to review and tell me what you think. This is really an experimental fiction. In order for me to get accurate results I need reviews. Anyway, in this act I will introduce a new character and reveal further peculiarities about Belle. Oh, please, if you have any ideas of what could be a better title for this, please let me know.
Act 3
One Month later
"Find the Imperium Silver Crystal…" the voice echoed about.
Gaston sat up in his bed. "That dream again! Why won't it stop? It's just a stupid dream!" he clawed at his head. He hated having to think so hard. He was a man, men weren't supposed to think about dreams. That was the job of a overly romantic woman, dreaming of him of course. That's the way it was supposed to be. But not this. "The Imperium Silver Crystal. What is it? And how am I supposed to find it? This princess person won't even give me a damned clue! I have nothing to go on, so what am I supposed to do?" He looked out his window, where he had the perfect vantage point for Belle's cottage. "Yes, Belle. The Princess must be her, guiding me to her. I'll just get the proposal over with and we'll marry the same day. Then the dreams will stop, and we will be perfectly happy." Okay, that didn't really explain the Silver Crystal part, but he was done thinking for the night.
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Belle entered the village the next morning, a basket in one arm. Her destination, the library. She had read all of her books and the bookseller was kind enough to let her borrow books, one at a time. It was a beautiful day. Unlike the dream she'd had the night before. In the dream world it had rained the entire time. She was glad that it was sunny.
"Good morning Belle," came the voice of the baker as she walked past.
"Ohayoo gozaimasu!" Belle returned, not realizing exactly what she said until it was too late. She gasped. "I mean, good morning." she corrected herself, trying to ignore the bewildered look of the baker.
The Baker shrugged a little. "Where are you off to this morning?"
"The bookshop. I just finished the most wonderful story. About an evil Queen who wanted to take over the Earth by way the Golden Crystal. And there was a priest, Helios, who fought against her and was imprisoned."
"Yes, that sounds very nice. Maury! The baguettes NOW!"
Belle shook her head and walked on. She hated this village. No one really understood her. Of course, it didn't help matters that she would blurt out in Japanese when caught unawares. She didn't mean to. It just came from those dreams every night. She could almost speak it fluently now and she thought it to be a very lovely language. But no one could know she was having such dreams, they'd label her insane, if they didn't already think her so now.
"Oh, who cares what they think anyways? I have all the friends I need in my dreams." she whispered to herself. "And in my books. I need no one else." With a purpose she moved her way through the town, to the bookshop.
"Ahhh, Belle," the bookseller, the young blonde Tony smiled at her. "I was hoping you'd come in today."
So there was one person who liked her in this town. Belle couldn't help but return his smile. Tony was always so good to her. And he had some really interesting books too.
"I just wanted to return this." she said handing him the book in her basket. "It was really very good."
Tony reached into the shelf closest to him. "We got in a new collection today. Papa had them shipped here from his shoppe in Paris. And I think this one got mixed in by mistake." He held out a beautiful, gold plated book. On it's cover was the title, written in kanji.
Belle took the book, awe clearly written on her face. How had such a book come to be even by accident in this tiny bookshop? "Maboroshi no Ginzuishou no Densetsu." she read aloud. "Legend of the Mystical Silver Crystal."
"I thought you might like it. I figured someone as intelligent as you would be able to fully enjoy it." Tony said. "Papa, before he left for Paris, always said that you were very smart. Very special too, though he wouldn't say how. Please, take it. You're the only one who could actually get any use out of it in this closed minded town."
Belle traced the beautiful characters. "Thank you Tony. I will treasure it."
AN: And that's the end of Act 3. The next act will see the proposal/rejection scene between Gaston and Belle. Yes, Tony is the French version of Motoki, and yes I wanted him to be the bookseller, the son of the original bookseller in the canon Beauty and the Beast. I did my research and the characters save for Belle and Gaston will have the French Dub names from the Sailor Moon anime. I'm not sure if I will include a version of Naru-chan or not, it depends. In a few acts we will see the introduction of Sailor Moon and her family. That will happen after Belle disappears from the scene for a little while. Maboroshi no Ginzuishou is the Japanese name for the Imperium Silver Crystal, that's why Belle read that in the Kanji. Her past is being revealed to her in both the books and the dreams.