Beauty & The Beast

The four of them took the Rainbow cake, the double chocolate chunk and sweet sugar cookies back to the parlor and dived into them.

"I forgot good your baking was, mother." Adam said before he bit into a chocolate chunk cookie.

"Thank you son." Lydia said, then she looked at Belle. "What do you think, Belle?"

"Really sweet." Belle said since she bit into a sweet sugar cookie, "Maybe a little too sweet."

"Hmm, I must've put too much sugar in than I thought." Lydia thought.

"They seems fine to me," Veronica said, "but Belle was known for not liking foods that have a lot of sugar."

"Mother!" Belle said,...

"Veronica, you too." Lydia said, Veronica looked at her friend. "Go. Shoo!" Veronica jumped like a startled cat, went out of the room and closed the door. She saw her daughter, just staring at her.

"Belle, what is it?"

"I still can't believe that you're standing right in front of me." Belle answered as she walked back towards the kitchen. Veronica sighed and followed her daughter.

"I know that you're frustrated with me over this." Veronica said as they entered the kitchen.

"I'm not frustrated." Belle said, "I'm more confused than anything else. If you've been alive ever since Lady Temps brought...

"I can't believe it!" Lydia said, "You were cursed?"

"Mother," Adam said as he threw a pillow at Lydia's mouth, "are you trying to wake up the whole castle?!" She grabbed the pillow and tried to calm down.

"You...have...some explaining to do." Lydia said, taking deep breaths. "My only child...my baby...is a victim of a spell?" Adam made a face when his mother said 'my baby'. Lydia looked at her son, she saw the look he made. "Don't give me that look. I don't care if you are two years old or 20 years old, you're still my baby."

"21, mother." Adam said, "I'm twenty-one."

"Hmm, you're right, I was...

"Ouch!"

"I know it hurts, Belle, but just hang on a few more minutes!"

Veronica, Lydia and Adam were able to remove Belle from the kitchen door. When they did, Belle was in a lot of pain because of movement of the quills. The good news was that two of the quills were left in the door, but the bad news...four quills remained in Belle's left hip. Veronica carried Belle out to the parlor, where Adam met Maurice when they first met. Lydia and Adam followed them into the parlor. Veronica wouldn't let them near Belle until she was feeling better. Veronica had managed to only remove one of the quills...

Despite that her dress was torn in places, Belle got up from the tangled blankets and started her way to the source of the smell. Adam quickly followed her, but she was going very quickly.

"How can you be sure that what you're smelling is real?" Adam asked.

"Trust me, Adam, I know exactly what it is." Belle said, "I may not have had it for so long, but I know it's what I smell."

"What is it?" Adam urged. Suddenly, Belle stopped and turned around.

"Mother's Rainbow Cake." She whispered, " I haven't had it since mother passed, nobody could beat her cooking or baking."

"Wait," Adam said, he sniffed...

The pain started to cease and his body started warming up; Adam slowly opened his eyes. The pain felt like it lasted for hours when it really lasted for ten minutes. He felt his energy returning as he got up, but as he was standing up, he noticed that his claws were gone. Adam looked behind him; his tail was gone as well. He grabbed the magic mirror; he saw that he was human again. He knew that even though he was a human, that beast was still inside him.

"It's still strange seeing you without fur." Adam heard Belle's voice. He turned around, Belle was sitting up on the bed. She was also smiling....

Speaking of Adam, he couldn't believe what has happened as he paced in his cell. Adam, wearing his white linen shirt and white pants, and Maurice were locked in a cell in the abandoned asylum. Fiona was playing cards with her daughter as they wait for Belle to bring the mouthpiece.

"Mother, how can you be sure that this plan would work?" Celia asked with uncertainty.

"Trust me, Celia;" Fiona said as she put down a jack of clubs, "Belle does everything to get her father out of a cage. She'll bring it."

"I can't believe you're doing this!" Maurice shouted as he grabbed the bars.

"Aren't you proud...