Final Fantasy - All Series Fan Fiction ❯ Beauty and the beast. ❯ Chapter 4

Chapter 4.

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Selphie skipped happily up the stairs ahead of Zell, leading him to his room.

"This is your room. Do you like it?"

The short, blonde gazed around the pale blue room. There wasn't a lot of furniture just a bad, two bedside tables and a strange looking cupboard.

"It's nice."

The cup hopped out of the door. "See ya later."

The blonde studied the cupboard, before walking up to it and opening one of the doors.

"RAGE!" The door slammed shut again.

Zell jumped back. "Sorry."

Two red eyes opened and it glared at him.

"Fujin manners!" Zell turned to see Edea in the doorway. She acted like a mum to everyone here.

"Sorry about that." He gestured to the cupboard. "I didn't know she was...."

"It's okay dear; Fujin's a little touchy sometimes. Do you want to look around upstairs? Irvine will show you around."

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The blonde followed the candlestick and the feather duster into many large rooms. The only room he was really interested in was the end one with the big dusty door, but Irvine avoided it and all his questions about it were ignored. Sure, the rest of the house was interesting with the gold laced walls, the suits of armour and the furniture that moved and spoke to him, but he wanted to know more about this master guy.

All he knew was he displeased some sorceress and she had turned him into a beast and the others into furniture. He wanted to know if Edea really was a mother to any of them, even the beast seemed afraid to boss her around. He wondered what they all really looked like, what had the beast done to deserve this?

Irvine led him into a dark room with display lights over paintings.

"We thought you might want to se this."

Zell spotted one painting with two people in it. A man sat on a dinning room chair he wore a long coat and a cowboy hat, his long brown hair flowed down his shoulders. A blonde girl sat on his lap.

"I miss my hat." The candlestick said quietly.

"That's you?"

"And me." The feather duster spoke for the first time.

"Wow, I'm sorry."

Zell walked around the room, he felt drawn to one in particular, it was by far the biggest. A man stood in wearing tight black leather pants, three belts, a white T-shirt and a black leather jacket with a furry collar. He stood with one hand propped up on his hip, the other held a large blue gunblade, the blade rested on his shoulder. His brows were knitted together in a frown, he had the same grey/blue eyes as the beast, and Zell had no doubt that it was the same person.

"A guy in the village has one of those." He muttered mostly to himself.

"That's Squall. I know he acts like a cold bastard but he's not that bad really."

"But he was mean to that sorceress wasn't he?"

"Nah, he just didn't fuck her like she wanted, he wasn't interested in her body."

"Why not?"

"He's gay."

"Oh." Zell was shocked, you wouldn't expect a furry beast to be gay, you wouldn't really expect it to be anything.

"Moving on."

All the others had paintings of themselves too, Selphie knelt beside Angelo, she had brown hair that bobbed outwards and she wore a little yellow dress.

"What's up there?"

"The master's room. Come on, we can't go up there."

Zell frowned. He wondered what he did up there all day. "Look there's a naked woman!"

"Where?!"

"She went down there."

Irvine ran off in search with Quistis trailing behind him yelling a string of obscenities.

The short blonde grinned, walking up to the master's room; there was a faint sound of music coming from the other side of the door. He pushed it open just enough for him to slip inside unnoticed. The music was louder than ever, the room was quite dark but he could see a light on up ahead, he walked towards it.

Zell gasped, not believing his eyes. The music was ballet; the beast was dancing to it wearing a pink tutu. He tried to keep a straight face, really he did but it was too much. The beast spun round as Zell laughed, anger and embarrassment clearly shown on his face. The blonde backed up as the beast backed him into a corner, glaring at him. He should have been scared but the pink tutu wasn't very threatening. The beast bared his fangs.

"What are you doing in here?!"

"I was-er-curious."

"Curious?! So now what? You know my secret, you're going to tell everyone and have a good laugh!"

Zell opened his mouth to reply but he was cut off.

"The big, bad beast's into ballet. So what? Huh, I bet you've got secrets everyone has floors no matter how perfect they seem!"

Zell actually felt sorry for the guy, he was digging himself into a hole.

"I won't tell anyone!"

Squall stopped in mid ramble. "You won't?"

"No, nice tutu by the way."

The blonde could have sworn he saw the beast blush slightly.

They both jumped as the door was gingerly pushed open and Kiros looked stood in the doorway. "I'm sorry sir." He gestured to Zell. "He tricked Irvine and escaped, it won't happen again."

The beast held up a paw. "It's okay." He looked back at the blonde, his stony expression firmly back in place. "You'll join me for dinner right?" He stepped over Kiros and left.

The clock smiled. "I'll escort you back to your room."

"Do I have to go to dinner with...that?"

"He's not THAT bad."

"What do I wear?"

"Ask Fujin, she's the expert."

"Oh, that cupboard doesn't like me she's mean."

"She does like you; she acts mean to everyone. She doesn't like to be thought of as a doormat."

"It's not so easy for some of us."

Zell frowned and looked down at his feet. The doormat outside his room blinked at him.

"Hi Nida." Kiros greeted.

"Have you been there the whole time?"

"Yeah, it's great for listening to people conversions."

Zell opened the door and took a big step over the door mat.

"Aren't you coming in?"

"No, I have to go."

"But...but...." Zell shot a nervous look at the cupboard.

"You'll be fine."

The blonde shut the door and took a few deep breaths to calm himself. Slowly he walked up to the cupboard.

"...Um.... Excuse me...."

Silence.

"Hello?" Zell poked it with one finger.

The eyes snapped open. "RAGE!!"

The blonde jumped back.

"WHAT?!"

"..Um... I need something...to-er- wear to dinner..."

The cupboard doors flew open to reveal lots of dresses in many colours.

"T-These are girl's clothes, I thought-"

"I'm a nice cupboard with nice smells, if I was a boys cupboard I'd smell of b.o and sweat!"

Zell flinched. "Don't you have any guy's clothes?"

The cupboard smirked. "YOU-NICE-IN-DRESS!"

Zell scowled at the insult. "I would NOT!"

"PRETTY BOY!"

"Shut up!"

There was a timid knock at the door and the feather duster entered. "Are you ready?"

"Yeah."

"You aren't changed."

"All she has are girl's clothes." He pointed to a smirking Fujin.

"Come on then."

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TBC