All of a sudden, Belle heard something roar so loud that she had to cover her ears. Whatever that was, it certainly must be worse than the wolves. It didn't scare the wolves that easily but a bit for sure. 


Anyway, she's doomed and so is her father. She had never felt so helpless, so desperate to live, only to bring her father safely back home and go back to our usual lives. There's nothing more her heart desired, right here, right now.


A strange creature jumped from the cliff above and on to the ground and roared louder than before. The creature looked something like a beast. And it seemed that the beast was fighting the wolves for her, saving her from the wolves, but hopefully she was not next...


As the fight was coming to an end, it began to rain in the forest. It was thundering and a lightning struck right behind the beast as Belle saw the beast's face clearly. She screamed out of terror. 


"Please don't hurt me." She whispered, covering her face. 


"This is my forest! What are you doing out here?" The beast asked angrily with the deepest and the most terrifying voice she has ever heard. Not to mention powerful. 


"I-I'm looking f-for my father." She told him, her voice was shaking with fright as she was also freezing, because of the rain.


"Oh no! Your face. It's bleeding. Here, let me hel-" Belle said, and was about to touch the open wound, and before she could finish the last sentence, the beast roared at her then got really mad.


"Get lost!" The beast hollered at her.


"I j-just wanted to t-thank you for r-rescuing me. H-Have you seen m-my father?" Belle tried to communicate with the angry beast, but he was in a serious mood. 


Without hesitating, the beast took Belle over his shoulder, basically kidnapping her and casually walked towards the darkness, as if he didn't hear Belle's screams and cries for help.


"Please, p-put me d-down! Let g-go of me! 

H-Help! Anyone?!" Belle shouted as loud as she could, but she was worn out and incredibly tired. 


It was no use. She found herself being weak, through all this chaos and madness, she tried her best at staying strong, but she had no chance against the beast, he was huge and strong, and come to think of it, he could kill her anytime. He's probably taking her back to his dark and cold cave or something. She was now his food and she bets that he was hungry. 


Belle was freezing, she was exhausted, and she had no hope. She blew it. This was her only chance at finding her father. And she was even blessed to meet Shay who was guiding her to her father, but she failed. Knowing that she was a complete failure and disappointment, made her just give up, and she naturally fell asleep on the beast's shoulder. 


The beast had carried Belle on his shoulder and it wasn't long until they arrived at his dark castle. Dark on the outside and very cozy, warm and dim on the inside of the castle. Belle was still asleep, resting on his shoulder, while the beast was nothing but grumpy, mad and annoyed. 


Well, mostly annoyed to have found this young woman in his woods, around his castle at this hour. She was lucky that he was in the area before things got too morbid. Not that he cared about her. At all. This is what he does. He imprisons people who are lurking on his property. 


So, he gently put Belle down in the dungeon. Then locked her inside what looked like a huge cage. He left her there all alone, but at least she was warm, she should be thankful he thought. 


After a short while, Belle woke up, feeling her body regaining the warmth again. That felt good she thought, but this is not good. She was trapped and locked in a dungeon. 


"Help! Can anyone hear me?! Please help me!"

She said as she started sobbing and as her tears flowed down her cheeks. 


This was hopeless she thought, until...


"Belle?! My dear, is that you?!" A familiar voice spoke to her.


"Father?! Father! Yes, it's me!" She said and cried all over again, letting the tears fall down. This time it was happy tears. 


"Oh, my darling girl! Are you alright?!" Her father asked worried, from the dungeon cell in front of hers.  


"I'm fine, don't worry. Father, how did you end up here? You went into the forbidden forest, didn't you?" She asked out of curiosity, but assumed he went into the forbidden forest as well.


"Yes, I did. It was the only way to the other village, and I did have to sell my inventions, you know."


"And then I stumbled across this castle by accident, it was raining and I was freezing cold and so later on I knocked multiple times, and the door was open so I found my way into the castle which was dark when I first entered then someone, all of a sudden turned on the lights."


"I went to a room as I shouted "hello, is anyone there?" But no one answered me, I needed the warmth, so I sat by the fireplace for a while, until I heard someone talk. I tried to talk back to them but nobody answered. When all of a sudden the chipped tea cup on the small table, spoke to me. I got startled. Then the pot next to the cup started talking too."


"I was afraid that I've gone mad, so I ran outside towards the garden to get you some roses I saw before I entered the castle. It was in the garden where I got discovered and caught by the beast and he locked me up in here. I have no idea how long I've been here. Also he said something about trespassing his castle."


"I'm telling you, this castle is cursed or I've gone completely mad. These things only happen in fairytales. You would know, since you always have your nose in a book." Her father finally let out a chuckle after being serious of telling his story of how he ended up here.


"Father, do you think we will ever get out of here alive?" Belle almost didn't want to ask that question, as it brought her more angst and fear.


"That is a very good question, my dearest Belle. I won't go down without a fight, and neither should you, you're the strongest young woman I know. We will somehow survive this together, I promise." Her father said as calm as he could be. 


"I-" When Belle was about to say something, something interrupted her or rather, someone... they began to hear strange noises coming our way. Belle gasped, but her father remained calm. The beast. 


He was coming for us and who knows what he'll do to us...?