When Adam woke up, he looked in the magic mirror; he was still in his beastly form. He did say that he didn't want his human form unless Belle was back to him. Just then, there was a knock on the door.
"Come in." Adam said in his beastly voice. The door opened, Cogsworth came in with breakfast.
"I brought you some breakfast, sire," Cogsworth said.
"Just leave it on the table." Adam said as he stared out the window, Cogsworth dropped off the plates and left the room. Adam got out of bed and looked under his bed, he pulled out a box with a blue ribbon. It was the same box that held his mother's yellow topaz locket; Adam opened the box. The locket was untouched by time, the stone was still shining and the metal locket wasn't rusted. Adam didn't want to wear the locket because he was still trying to get over his mother's death and it was forgotten. He took it out of the box and tried to place it around his large furry neck, but the chain was too small to go around his furry neck. So, Adam carefully slid the locket off the chain and tied to his cloak to be used as a fastener. After that, he walked to the table and ate his breakfast; it didn't feel the same without Belle sitting across from him.
Just then, there was a noise from the balcony. Adam looked at the doors, they were closed and nothing was out there. He went back to eating, there was the noise again. It was like a pecking sound. Adam got up, opened the doors and walked onto the balcony, but there was nothing there. Suddenly, a large white feather fell in front of him; he grabbed the feather and looked at it. Adam didn't recognize the feather; he looked up. He was faced with a large white and silver bird. Adam got startled and walked back inside.
"I didn't mean to startle you, Adam." said a female voice. When Adam heard that voice, he knew who it was.
"Belle, is that you?" Adam asked, just then, the bird jumped onto the balcony.
"Who else would I be?" she said, "May I come in?"
"You don't have ask, Belle, come in." he said, Belle walked inside the west wing and Adam had a better look at her bird form. Belle almost looked like a harpy, the mythological monster where women look half human and half bird. Belle had her human body, she was just covered in white and silver feathers and she also had wings with five talons instead of five fingers on her feathered hands. Instead of a human mouth and nose, she had a small bird beak. Belle had her human legs, covered in feathers, but her feet belonged more to a falcon or an eagle. She also still had her brown eyes with her blue ribbon tied around her neck.
"I...hope you don't think of me any different." Belle said as she looked at herself.
"You never thought of me any different when I changed back into a human. Why should I do that to you?" Adam explained, "Whether you're a bird, a bat or a human, you're still Belle to me." Belle smiled and blushed again, her neck turned red. Adam noticed, but he didn't say anything.
"Just like whether you're a beast or a human, you're still Adam to me." she said.
"*sigh* I wish you back living in the castle again, it's not the same without you." he said.
"I know, I'm getting sick of my cousin's horrid manners. Your manners are far better than hers, Tintement's just getting worse by the day." Belle explained.
"Well, unless you've already eaten, I have breakfast on this table." Adam pointed to the table.
"You think you have enough to share?" she asked.
"Of course, you know how much food Chef Bouche likes to cook." he said.
"True." Belle said as she walked over to the table. Adam sat next to Belle as she tried to pick up her fork. He could see how much Belle was struggling to hold the silverware.
"Maybe, just this once, you can ignore your manners since...you are having trouble with holding the silverware." Adam said, Belle looked at him and back to her wings. Adam could see that Belle was thinking about it.
"I just don't want to be in Tintement's position." Belle explained.
"You helped me with my humanity, it's my turn to help you." Adam said, Belle looked at Adam and smiled. She finally gave up with using silverware and ate with her hands. Just so Belle didn't feel uncomfortable, Adam also ate with his hands as well.
Outside the door, Cogsworth came to get the dirty breakfast dishes from his master's room, but just about he was going to knock on the door, he heard a shatter. Cogsworth peeked through the keyhole; he didn't want to believe what his eyes were telling him. Cogsworth was seeing his master with a giant white bird; he didn't know the bird creature was Belle. As for Belle and Adam, Belle accidentally broke one of the plates.
"Mrs. Potts, isn't going to like this." Belle said.
"Belle, it was just an accident." Adam said as he picked up the broken pieces of the plate. Just then, Cogsworth burst into the room with a large candle holder in his hands. Belle and Adam separated themselves before Cogsworth could hit one of them. He went towards Belle and swung the candle holder, but she flew out the window before Cogsworth could hit her.
"No, Belle! Don't leave me again!" Adam said as he watched Belle go out the window.
"Belle?" Cogsworth surprisingly asked. Adam ran to the window, hoping that Belle didn't fly away. He looked around; he saw Belle latching herself on the castle outside wall. Adam saw the same scared look she had on her face when her step-grandmother made her appearance. Belle looked at Adam and, with her talons, pointed downwards. He looked down; there was Fiona and Celia standing on one of the balconies. They could hear their conversations.
"Where could she have hidden that infernal piece?" Fiona said as she looked out into the forest.
"Mother, don't get so upset!" Celia said as she came up behind her mother.
"I'm not upset...yet!" She said, " I want Gabrielle's Clarinet of Life! I already have one half of it; I need the other half!"
"Even if you do get the clarinet, what do you plan to do with it?" Celia asked. Fiona made and evil chuckle and looked at her daughter.
"That's the surprise, my beloved daughter. First things first, I need to get that locket away from Belle!" Fiona said.
"She probably has it hidden and you don't even know where she is, how are you going to get it?" Celia said. Her mother just made an evil laugh as she and Celia walked back inside the castle. Adam grabbed Belle's wing and brought her back inside where Cogsworth was trying to believe that the human bird was Belle.
"Sir, how can you tell that's Belle?" Cogsworth asked.
"No one has the same soft brown eyes as Belle does." Adam explained, "She managed to know I was the beast because of my blue eyes; I can do the same thing back to her."
"Then, mademoiselle, how did you get this way?" Cogsworth asked Belle.
"I'm not sure if I can tell you." Belle said.
"I won't tell anyone, I swear!" Cogsworth said. Belle gave in and told Cogsworth what had happened to her and her cousin, Tintement, when they were children, how their step-grandmother tried to kill them and their aunt placed the spell on them.
"Cogsworth, you can't tell anyone!" Adam said.
"I don't plan to," Cogsworth said, "not when it involves Belle's life on the line.
"Thank you, Cogsworth." Belle said, "Right now, I need to find out about this item they are after."
"I've never heard of 'Gabrielle's Clarinet of Life'." Cogsworth said.
"That's because it's not from 'your' world." said a female voice. Everyone jumped when they heard the voice, but Adam was the only one who recognized it.
"You appear when questions need to be answered." Adam said to the voice.
"I like easing your minds." said the voice. Everyone looked in a corner; the enchantress was leaning against the corner, playing cat's cradle with her hands.
"Someone you know, Adam?" Belle asked as she stared at the enchantress.
"Yes," Adam answered as he turned his attention to Cogsworth, "Cogsworth, leave now. Remember not to tell anything." Cogsworth shook his head 'yes' and left the room in a hurry; the enchantress placed her cat's cradle string in her sleeve and looked at Adam and Belle.
"Adam, who is she?" Belle asked, the enchantress couldn't tell the truth to Belle, at least, not yet.
"I'm just an old friend." The enchantress said.
"You were talking about that instrument?" Adam asked, hoping to get back on track.
"Yes." The enchantress sighed as she swirled her magic around and images of a pink clarinet, it was 'Gabriella's Clarinet of Life', was shown through the magic dust.
"Gabrielle's Clarinet of Life is not just an instrument; it is also one of six items that holds Gabrielle's power." The enchantress explained.
"If you don't me asking, " Belle said, "who is Gabrielle?"
"Gabrielle." The enchantress paused, sighed and continued the story, "a brave woman she was and unusual. She was born into a powerful family of sorcerers and sorceresses, but Gabrielle was more interested in her music than her magic. She soon found out that she had the power of music and stored the power within six of her most treasured items. Her Clarinet of Life was one of the items that held her power, but she left our world of magic and went to live here, in the world of humans.
"You mean...there are more of you?" Belle asked.
"In a whole other world?" Adam added.
"Yes," the enchantress answered, "but we mainly use our powers for good, but back to what I was saying, it wasn't long until a darkhearted sorcerer caught sight of Gabrielle, but she wasn't interested, her true love was her music. Somehow, he found out about her magical clarinet and decided to use it for his own gain."
"He stole her clarinet?" Adam asked.
"Yes," she said, "and blew music through it's valves and mouthpiece. The magical music turned dark and almost threatened the lives and worlds of people and sorcerers and sorceresses. We all tried to defeat the sorcerer, but he was too powerful because he held onto Gabrielle's clarinet. Gabrielle charged him and defeated him.
"How?" Belle asked, always wanting to hear more of the story.
"Gabrielle fought him, took back her clarinet and blew through its mouthpiece and valves. The magical music became light and was beautiful as it was heard through both worlds. Goodness and happiness returned to both worlds, the darkhearted sorceress was drained of his powers was sent down to a place where every evil soul is trapped, the Pit of Darkness and Fire." The enchantress said.
"So...what happened next?" Adam asked.
"After Gabrielle realized how much danger the two worlds were in," the enchantress continued, "with a heavy heart, she broke her clarinet in half so it couldn't be used unless it was back together. She also scattered the her six treasured items between the world of humans and magic. But, because of her unhappy and heavy heart of losing the items of her beautiful power, she died from sadness. The Clarinet of Life was the only one of the six that we've found and every sorcerer and sorceress did whatever they could to protect the two halves, but it has fallen into the hands of evil...twice."
"So what did they do to make sure that it was protected?" Belle asked.
"Two lockets were made that would held the places where the two halves were kept." The enchantress said as she made her magic image disappear, "As the years went by, two guardians were chosen to hold the lockets. A new guardian is chosen when the old guardian had passed away."
"So who are the guardians of the lockets now?" Adam asked.
"Nobody knows now." The enchantress said as she shrugged her shoulders.
"What do you mean?" Belle asked.
"The old guardians had passed away some years ago in this world and their lockets went missing." The enchantress said.
"So...who were the guardians before?" Belle asked, "You would happen to know...don't you?"
"Of course," the enchantress said as she sighed sadly, "They were my best and closest friends."
"What were their names?" Belle asked, the enchantress started to cry because the guardians were her closest friends. She could see that Adam and Belle wanted to know. So the enchantress opened her mouth and said their names.
"V-V-Veronica Arc-en-ceil and Lydia Porc-épic."
"Come in." Adam said in his beastly voice. The door opened, Cogsworth came in with breakfast.
"I brought you some breakfast, sire," Cogsworth said.
"Just leave it on the table." Adam said as he stared out the window, Cogsworth dropped off the plates and left the room. Adam got out of bed and looked under his bed, he pulled out a box with a blue ribbon. It was the same box that held his mother's yellow topaz locket; Adam opened the box. The locket was untouched by time, the stone was still shining and the metal locket wasn't rusted. Adam didn't want to wear the locket because he was still trying to get over his mother's death and it was forgotten. He took it out of the box and tried to place it around his large furry neck, but the chain was too small to go around his furry neck. So, Adam carefully slid the locket off the chain and tied to his cloak to be used as a fastener. After that, he walked to the table and ate his breakfast; it didn't feel the same without Belle sitting across from him.
Just then, there was a noise from the balcony. Adam looked at the doors, they were closed and nothing was out there. He went back to eating, there was the noise again. It was like a pecking sound. Adam got up, opened the doors and walked onto the balcony, but there was nothing there. Suddenly, a large white feather fell in front of him; he grabbed the feather and looked at it. Adam didn't recognize the feather; he looked up. He was faced with a large white and silver bird. Adam got startled and walked back inside.
"I didn't mean to startle you, Adam." said a female voice. When Adam heard that voice, he knew who it was.
"Belle, is that you?" Adam asked, just then, the bird jumped onto the balcony.
"Who else would I be?" she said, "May I come in?"
"You don't have ask, Belle, come in." he said, Belle walked inside the west wing and Adam had a better look at her bird form. Belle almost looked like a harpy, the mythological monster where women look half human and half bird. Belle had her human body, she was just covered in white and silver feathers and she also had wings with five talons instead of five fingers on her feathered hands. Instead of a human mouth and nose, she had a small bird beak. Belle had her human legs, covered in feathers, but her feet belonged more to a falcon or an eagle. She also still had her brown eyes with her blue ribbon tied around her neck.
"I...hope you don't think of me any different." Belle said as she looked at herself.
"You never thought of me any different when I changed back into a human. Why should I do that to you?" Adam explained, "Whether you're a bird, a bat or a human, you're still Belle to me." Belle smiled and blushed again, her neck turned red. Adam noticed, but he didn't say anything.
"Just like whether you're a beast or a human, you're still Adam to me." she said.
"*sigh* I wish you back living in the castle again, it's not the same without you." he said.
"I know, I'm getting sick of my cousin's horrid manners. Your manners are far better than hers, Tintement's just getting worse by the day." Belle explained.
"Well, unless you've already eaten, I have breakfast on this table." Adam pointed to the table.
"You think you have enough to share?" she asked.
"Of course, you know how much food Chef Bouche likes to cook." he said.
"True." Belle said as she walked over to the table. Adam sat next to Belle as she tried to pick up her fork. He could see how much Belle was struggling to hold the silverware.
"Maybe, just this once, you can ignore your manners since...you are having trouble with holding the silverware." Adam said, Belle looked at him and back to her wings. Adam could see that Belle was thinking about it.
"I just don't want to be in Tintement's position." Belle explained.
"You helped me with my humanity, it's my turn to help you." Adam said, Belle looked at Adam and smiled. She finally gave up with using silverware and ate with her hands. Just so Belle didn't feel uncomfortable, Adam also ate with his hands as well.
Outside the door, Cogsworth came to get the dirty breakfast dishes from his master's room, but just about he was going to knock on the door, he heard a shatter. Cogsworth peeked through the keyhole; he didn't want to believe what his eyes were telling him. Cogsworth was seeing his master with a giant white bird; he didn't know the bird creature was Belle. As for Belle and Adam, Belle accidentally broke one of the plates.
"Mrs. Potts, isn't going to like this." Belle said.
"Belle, it was just an accident." Adam said as he picked up the broken pieces of the plate. Just then, Cogsworth burst into the room with a large candle holder in his hands. Belle and Adam separated themselves before Cogsworth could hit one of them. He went towards Belle and swung the candle holder, but she flew out the window before Cogsworth could hit her.
"No, Belle! Don't leave me again!" Adam said as he watched Belle go out the window.
"Belle?" Cogsworth surprisingly asked. Adam ran to the window, hoping that Belle didn't fly away. He looked around; he saw Belle latching herself on the castle outside wall. Adam saw the same scared look she had on her face when her step-grandmother made her appearance. Belle looked at Adam and, with her talons, pointed downwards. He looked down; there was Fiona and Celia standing on one of the balconies. They could hear their conversations.
"Where could she have hidden that infernal piece?" Fiona said as she looked out into the forest.
"Mother, don't get so upset!" Celia said as she came up behind her mother.
"I'm not upset...yet!" She said, " I want Gabrielle's Clarinet of Life! I already have one half of it; I need the other half!"
"Even if you do get the clarinet, what do you plan to do with it?" Celia asked. Fiona made and evil chuckle and looked at her daughter.
"That's the surprise, my beloved daughter. First things first, I need to get that locket away from Belle!" Fiona said.
"She probably has it hidden and you don't even know where she is, how are you going to get it?" Celia said. Her mother just made an evil laugh as she and Celia walked back inside the castle. Adam grabbed Belle's wing and brought her back inside where Cogsworth was trying to believe that the human bird was Belle.
"Sir, how can you tell that's Belle?" Cogsworth asked.
"No one has the same soft brown eyes as Belle does." Adam explained, "She managed to know I was the beast because of my blue eyes; I can do the same thing back to her."
"Then, mademoiselle, how did you get this way?" Cogsworth asked Belle.
"I'm not sure if I can tell you." Belle said.
"I won't tell anyone, I swear!" Cogsworth said. Belle gave in and told Cogsworth what had happened to her and her cousin, Tintement, when they were children, how their step-grandmother tried to kill them and their aunt placed the spell on them.
"Cogsworth, you can't tell anyone!" Adam said.
"I don't plan to," Cogsworth said, "not when it involves Belle's life on the line.
"Thank you, Cogsworth." Belle said, "Right now, I need to find out about this item they are after."
"I've never heard of 'Gabrielle's Clarinet of Life'." Cogsworth said.
"That's because it's not from 'your' world." said a female voice. Everyone jumped when they heard the voice, but Adam was the only one who recognized it.
"You appear when questions need to be answered." Adam said to the voice.
"I like easing your minds." said the voice. Everyone looked in a corner; the enchantress was leaning against the corner, playing cat's cradle with her hands.
"Someone you know, Adam?" Belle asked as she stared at the enchantress.
"Yes," Adam answered as he turned his attention to Cogsworth, "Cogsworth, leave now. Remember not to tell anything." Cogsworth shook his head 'yes' and left the room in a hurry; the enchantress placed her cat's cradle string in her sleeve and looked at Adam and Belle.
"Adam, who is she?" Belle asked, the enchantress couldn't tell the truth to Belle, at least, not yet.
"I'm just an old friend." The enchantress said.
"You were talking about that instrument?" Adam asked, hoping to get back on track.
"Yes." The enchantress sighed as she swirled her magic around and images of a pink clarinet, it was 'Gabriella's Clarinet of Life', was shown through the magic dust.
"Gabrielle's Clarinet of Life is not just an instrument; it is also one of six items that holds Gabrielle's power." The enchantress explained.
"If you don't me asking, " Belle said, "who is Gabrielle?"
"Gabrielle." The enchantress paused, sighed and continued the story, "a brave woman she was and unusual. She was born into a powerful family of sorcerers and sorceresses, but Gabrielle was more interested in her music than her magic. She soon found out that she had the power of music and stored the power within six of her most treasured items. Her Clarinet of Life was one of the items that held her power, but she left our world of magic and went to live here, in the world of humans.
"You mean...there are more of you?" Belle asked.
"In a whole other world?" Adam added.
"Yes," the enchantress answered, "but we mainly use our powers for good, but back to what I was saying, it wasn't long until a darkhearted sorcerer caught sight of Gabrielle, but she wasn't interested, her true love was her music. Somehow, he found out about her magical clarinet and decided to use it for his own gain."
"He stole her clarinet?" Adam asked.
"Yes," she said, "and blew music through it's valves and mouthpiece. The magical music turned dark and almost threatened the lives and worlds of people and sorcerers and sorceresses. We all tried to defeat the sorcerer, but he was too powerful because he held onto Gabrielle's clarinet. Gabrielle charged him and defeated him.
"How?" Belle asked, always wanting to hear more of the story.
"Gabrielle fought him, took back her clarinet and blew through its mouthpiece and valves. The magical music became light and was beautiful as it was heard through both worlds. Goodness and happiness returned to both worlds, the darkhearted sorceress was drained of his powers was sent down to a place where every evil soul is trapped, the Pit of Darkness and Fire." The enchantress said.
"So...what happened next?" Adam asked.
"After Gabrielle realized how much danger the two worlds were in," the enchantress continued, "with a heavy heart, she broke her clarinet in half so it couldn't be used unless it was back together. She also scattered the her six treasured items between the world of humans and magic. But, because of her unhappy and heavy heart of losing the items of her beautiful power, she died from sadness. The Clarinet of Life was the only one of the six that we've found and every sorcerer and sorceress did whatever they could to protect the two halves, but it has fallen into the hands of evil...twice."
"So what did they do to make sure that it was protected?" Belle asked.
"Two lockets were made that would held the places where the two halves were kept." The enchantress said as she made her magic image disappear, "As the years went by, two guardians were chosen to hold the lockets. A new guardian is chosen when the old guardian had passed away."
"So who are the guardians of the lockets now?" Adam asked.
"Nobody knows now." The enchantress said as she shrugged her shoulders.
"What do you mean?" Belle asked.
"The old guardians had passed away some years ago in this world and their lockets went missing." The enchantress said.
"So...who were the guardians before?" Belle asked, "You would happen to know...don't you?"
"Of course," the enchantress said as she sighed sadly, "They were my best and closest friends."
"What were their names?" Belle asked, the enchantress started to cry because the guardians were her closest friends. She could see that Adam and Belle wanted to know. So the enchantress opened her mouth and said their names.
"V-V-Veronica Arc-en-ceil and Lydia Porc-épic."