Later at night while Tintement was sleeping in the trees, Belle, in her bat body, flew off to her old home in the village. She went there at night so no one in the village would see her and attack her. She was going to her old home because she hid her mother's locket in the attic when her step-grandmother came to the castle. Belle opened the attic window and landed inside, everything was covered in dust and cobwebs. She walked over to a little case and opened it, there was her silver fox mask. She put on her silver mask, Belle felt her body changing. She watched her fur going back into her body and her wings turning into human arms and hands. Belle went from a bat back into a human; she walked through the old things that belonged to her mother; she still couldn't believe that her mother was a sorceress that was a guardian to a powerful item. Belle went over to an old dresser and opened one of the drawers; there was a box where Belle kept the locket. She opened it and placed the sapphire diamond locket around her neck.
As she was turning her attention to the window, Belle's hand knocked over a little box. The box fell over and a book fell out, a rainbow-colored book with a strap to keep it closed. Belle picked up the book and blew off the remaining dust; the word 'diary' was shown. Belle knew that she knew she had never own a diary, but she knew someone who did...her mom. Belle was about to open the diary, but the strap kept it from opening. She saw a lock on the diary, she didn't think she be able to open the diary. Suddenly, she remember the dark green key that was with the sapphire-blue locket. Belle removed the key from the chain, entered it in the lock and twisted it. The lock clicked and the strap was released from the lock, Belle couldn't believe that the key unlocked her mother's diary. She quickly opened the strap, opened the book and read what her mother had wrote. Belle could hear her mother's voice as she read the diary entries.
"Dear Diary, who knew the human world would be a better fit for me? I'm better off here than fighting with my accursed mother! Since I had a talent of singing and dancing, I signed up to be a pole dancer. Nobody noticed my power of color and light, they were more interested in my voice and body. I thought I was happy...until I met him."
Belle was beginning to think that the 'him' was her father, Maurice.
"Dear Diary, I couldn't believe how wonderful Maurice was! He brought me chocolates and flowers and so many other things! Was this love? I hope it is. But even though life for me here was better for me, I still had to go back to the world of sorcerers and sorceresses because of the Meeting of the Guardians with our high and mighty empress, Lady Temps, the sorceress of time! The last meeting, Lydia almost pulled a rude trick on Lady Temps. She tried to place quills and spikes on Lady Temps' seat, but I removed them before Lydia would get herself in trouble. Even though she's a hot-tempered, rough and tough woman who loved to be covered in her spines, spikes and quills, she's still my closest best friend!"
"Dear Diary, I couldn't believe it, I'm pregnant! I'll soon have little ones of my own; I'll be a better mother than my own. I'll pay attention to my child, unlike my own mother! Maurice still loves me for who I am. Well, the part of me he knows. I'm not sure if I have the courage to tell Maurice that he married a sorceress of color and light and the guardian of the Clarinet of Life, let alone my soon to be born children. Well, until the time comes, I can't let them know."
"Dear Diary, I have twin daughters, but I also have a broken heart. One of my twins, a girl I named Douceur, had died in me. Looks like her sister, Belle, is the only one I'll have. Well, one is better than none. Belle will always be my greatest treasure in my world, whether I'm a sorceress or not. Now I'm a mother, like my friend Lydia. Despite her unwanted-ness of being a queen, she had a son of her own. I wanted Belle to meet him, but because Lydia is a queen and we're guardians, we couldn't risk our children's lives, especially around that retched husband of a king!"
Belle continued to read her mother's diary through the rest of the night and the next day. For once, she managed to forget about the spell that was placed on her. She had also forgotten about her cousin, Tintement, who was probably looking for her.
That night, Tintement went to Belle's old home and saw her cousin in the attic.
"Belle!" Tintement shouted. Belle turned around to see Tintement on the window sill.
"Tintement!" Belle said.
"I've been looking everywhere for you!" Tintement said.
"You don't have to be so worried! I'm all right, I'm just reading this!" Belle explained, but Tintement didn't want to hear it.
"You can read it when we get back to the ruins!" Tintement said as she flapped her wings, Belle groaned.
"Fine." Belle said as she took her fox mask off and changed back into her bat form. She gently closed her mother's diary and went back with her cousin back to the ruins. She continued to read her mother's diary during the day and night, she even forgotten to eat a few times. Tintement got Belle back on track of her regime, but she continued to read her mother's diary until she had reached the last few entries.
"Dear Diary, Belle is getting better at her piano, flute and clarinet lessons. She did learn from the best, me! I still hate the fact that Fiona was living so close to the family. I still can't believe she's Maurice's stepmother, but as long as my daughter is around and I'm still living, she'll never have my half of Gabrielle's Clarinet of Life!"
"Dear Diary, there's only more than a few days until Christmas. I can't wait for Belle to open up her presents; I want to see that wonderful smile I know so much! Knowing Maurice, I'll be left making our Christmas Eve dinner since, well; he's an awful cook. I hope that Maurice will get Belle that cookbook she's been wanting lately. She's been learning to cook from me, mama's little helper! I know one day, I hope, she'll understand why I hid my life from her and...
There was a scribble after that, Belle's mother didn't get to finish her entry. Belle looked at the date of the entry, December 8th. Tears fell from her face, Belle remembered that date was the day her mother came outside and went against the two lone wolves. This was the last entry before Veronica had died, Belle closed the diary, gently with her feet since she was a bird, and held it close to her heart.
"Mother," Belle whispered to herself, "I don't care if you were a sorceress or a regular person, you will always be my mama and I'll always love you." Belle just sat on a stone of the ruins and held her mother's diary. The day turned into night and Belle's bird form was transformed into her bat form. Tintement came out of the sky and flew down next to her cousin, she had caught a few fish for their dinner, but Tintement could tell that Belle wasn't in the mood for eating.
"Cousin of mine, what's wrong?" Tintement asked.
"Would it be wrong to say...I miss my mama?" Belle said.
"Oh, Belle, I do understand." Tintement said.
"I'm not sure that you do." Belle said.
"I do," Tintement pushed, "I lost my mother before you did. I know how you feel."
"I just found out something interesting about mine." Belle added.
"Meaning what?" Tintement asked. Belle told her cousin everything she found out about her mother, including being the guardian of Gabrielle's Clarinet of Life.
"Here I thought it was a myth!" Tintement exclaimed.
"Wait! You've heard about Gabrielle's Clarinet of Life?" Belle asked in surprise.
"Only as a story!" Tintement said.
"Where did you hear it from?" Belle asked again.
"It was before Celia and Fiona did to us." Tintement explained, "Celia had told me a story about a clarinet that had remarkable power, but whoever had a black heart and an evil soul and played the clarinet, the power would threaten everyone! The clarinet had the power to bring wishes to life as well, to whoever played it! Those who were black and evil at heart had their evil selfish wishes brought to life and the only way to reverse it was that someone who had a soul filled with goodness and a heart filled with the purest love had to play the clarinet!" Now Belle understood what power the Clarinet of Life really had and it made her scared and furious about what Fiona wanted to do with it.
"What I would give to slap Fiona in her mouth!" Belle growled.
"I want to give Celia a punch in her stomach and remove her tongue! Feed it to the wolves!" Tintement said, Belle was a little shocked.
"That seems a little...extreme." Belle quickly said.
"She did this to us!" Tintement shouted as she pointed out the curse on them.
"I know! I know!" Belle quickly said, trying to calm her down, "*sigh* It makes me wonder what they're doing at the castle." Tintement could see the concern on her cousin's face. She can see how much Belle missed Adam.
"I can see it in your face,...you miss him." Tintement said.
"I do, I love him." Belle said as a tear escaped.
"Maybe you need to go back to that beast of yours." Tintement added.
"Maybe I should and DON'T YOU DARE CALL HIM A BEAST AGAIN!" Belle shouted.
"Okay, okay, okay," Tintement quickly said, "Let's not get our tempers raised. Go see him, but be extremely careful!"
"I plan to be careful." Belle said as she flapped her wings. Before leaving, Belle grabbed the enchanted rose in her tail. She then flew into the sunset purple sky and went to Adam's castle.
As she was turning her attention to the window, Belle's hand knocked over a little box. The box fell over and a book fell out, a rainbow-colored book with a strap to keep it closed. Belle picked up the book and blew off the remaining dust; the word 'diary' was shown. Belle knew that she knew she had never own a diary, but she knew someone who did...her mom. Belle was about to open the diary, but the strap kept it from opening. She saw a lock on the diary, she didn't think she be able to open the diary. Suddenly, she remember the dark green key that was with the sapphire-blue locket. Belle removed the key from the chain, entered it in the lock and twisted it. The lock clicked and the strap was released from the lock, Belle couldn't believe that the key unlocked her mother's diary. She quickly opened the strap, opened the book and read what her mother had wrote. Belle could hear her mother's voice as she read the diary entries.
"Dear Diary, who knew the human world would be a better fit for me? I'm better off here than fighting with my accursed mother! Since I had a talent of singing and dancing, I signed up to be a pole dancer. Nobody noticed my power of color and light, they were more interested in my voice and body. I thought I was happy...until I met him."
Belle was beginning to think that the 'him' was her father, Maurice.
"Dear Diary, I couldn't believe how wonderful Maurice was! He brought me chocolates and flowers and so many other things! Was this love? I hope it is. But even though life for me here was better for me, I still had to go back to the world of sorcerers and sorceresses because of the Meeting of the Guardians with our high and mighty empress, Lady Temps, the sorceress of time! The last meeting, Lydia almost pulled a rude trick on Lady Temps. She tried to place quills and spikes on Lady Temps' seat, but I removed them before Lydia would get herself in trouble. Even though she's a hot-tempered, rough and tough woman who loved to be covered in her spines, spikes and quills, she's still my closest best friend!"
"Dear Diary, I couldn't believe it, I'm pregnant! I'll soon have little ones of my own; I'll be a better mother than my own. I'll pay attention to my child, unlike my own mother! Maurice still loves me for who I am. Well, the part of me he knows. I'm not sure if I have the courage to tell Maurice that he married a sorceress of color and light and the guardian of the Clarinet of Life, let alone my soon to be born children. Well, until the time comes, I can't let them know."
"Dear Diary, I have twin daughters, but I also have a broken heart. One of my twins, a girl I named Douceur, had died in me. Looks like her sister, Belle, is the only one I'll have. Well, one is better than none. Belle will always be my greatest treasure in my world, whether I'm a sorceress or not. Now I'm a mother, like my friend Lydia. Despite her unwanted-ness of being a queen, she had a son of her own. I wanted Belle to meet him, but because Lydia is a queen and we're guardians, we couldn't risk our children's lives, especially around that retched husband of a king!"
Belle continued to read her mother's diary through the rest of the night and the next day. For once, she managed to forget about the spell that was placed on her. She had also forgotten about her cousin, Tintement, who was probably looking for her.
That night, Tintement went to Belle's old home and saw her cousin in the attic.
"Belle!" Tintement shouted. Belle turned around to see Tintement on the window sill.
"Tintement!" Belle said.
"I've been looking everywhere for you!" Tintement said.
"You don't have to be so worried! I'm all right, I'm just reading this!" Belle explained, but Tintement didn't want to hear it.
"You can read it when we get back to the ruins!" Tintement said as she flapped her wings, Belle groaned.
"Fine." Belle said as she took her fox mask off and changed back into her bat form. She gently closed her mother's diary and went back with her cousin back to the ruins. She continued to read her mother's diary during the day and night, she even forgotten to eat a few times. Tintement got Belle back on track of her regime, but she continued to read her mother's diary until she had reached the last few entries.
"Dear Diary, Belle is getting better at her piano, flute and clarinet lessons. She did learn from the best, me! I still hate the fact that Fiona was living so close to the family. I still can't believe she's Maurice's stepmother, but as long as my daughter is around and I'm still living, she'll never have my half of Gabrielle's Clarinet of Life!"
"Dear Diary, there's only more than a few days until Christmas. I can't wait for Belle to open up her presents; I want to see that wonderful smile I know so much! Knowing Maurice, I'll be left making our Christmas Eve dinner since, well; he's an awful cook. I hope that Maurice will get Belle that cookbook she's been wanting lately. She's been learning to cook from me, mama's little helper! I know one day, I hope, she'll understand why I hid my life from her and...
There was a scribble after that, Belle's mother didn't get to finish her entry. Belle looked at the date of the entry, December 8th. Tears fell from her face, Belle remembered that date was the day her mother came outside and went against the two lone wolves. This was the last entry before Veronica had died, Belle closed the diary, gently with her feet since she was a bird, and held it close to her heart.
"Mother," Belle whispered to herself, "I don't care if you were a sorceress or a regular person, you will always be my mama and I'll always love you." Belle just sat on a stone of the ruins and held her mother's diary. The day turned into night and Belle's bird form was transformed into her bat form. Tintement came out of the sky and flew down next to her cousin, she had caught a few fish for their dinner, but Tintement could tell that Belle wasn't in the mood for eating.
"Cousin of mine, what's wrong?" Tintement asked.
"Would it be wrong to say...I miss my mama?" Belle said.
"Oh, Belle, I do understand." Tintement said.
"I'm not sure that you do." Belle said.
"I do," Tintement pushed, "I lost my mother before you did. I know how you feel."
"I just found out something interesting about mine." Belle added.
"Meaning what?" Tintement asked. Belle told her cousin everything she found out about her mother, including being the guardian of Gabrielle's Clarinet of Life.
"Here I thought it was a myth!" Tintement exclaimed.
"Wait! You've heard about Gabrielle's Clarinet of Life?" Belle asked in surprise.
"Only as a story!" Tintement said.
"Where did you hear it from?" Belle asked again.
"It was before Celia and Fiona did to us." Tintement explained, "Celia had told me a story about a clarinet that had remarkable power, but whoever had a black heart and an evil soul and played the clarinet, the power would threaten everyone! The clarinet had the power to bring wishes to life as well, to whoever played it! Those who were black and evil at heart had their evil selfish wishes brought to life and the only way to reverse it was that someone who had a soul filled with goodness and a heart filled with the purest love had to play the clarinet!" Now Belle understood what power the Clarinet of Life really had and it made her scared and furious about what Fiona wanted to do with it.
"What I would give to slap Fiona in her mouth!" Belle growled.
"I want to give Celia a punch in her stomach and remove her tongue! Feed it to the wolves!" Tintement said, Belle was a little shocked.
"That seems a little...extreme." Belle quickly said.
"She did this to us!" Tintement shouted as she pointed out the curse on them.
"I know! I know!" Belle quickly said, trying to calm her down, "*sigh* It makes me wonder what they're doing at the castle." Tintement could see the concern on her cousin's face. She can see how much Belle missed Adam.
"I can see it in your face,...you miss him." Tintement said.
"I do, I love him." Belle said as a tear escaped.
"Maybe you need to go back to that beast of yours." Tintement added.
"Maybe I should and DON'T YOU DARE CALL HIM A BEAST AGAIN!" Belle shouted.
"Okay, okay, okay," Tintement quickly said, "Let's not get our tempers raised. Go see him, but be extremely careful!"
"I plan to be careful." Belle said as she flapped her wings. Before leaving, Belle grabbed the enchanted rose in her tail. She then flew into the sunset purple sky and went to Adam's castle.