Pokemon : Beauty and her Beast

Chapter 3 A Rabbits Guide to Taming Wild Beasts

Rosemarie  

The sky was dyed a deep rose red as I continued on to Chevalier's office. With each step I remembered the worried faces of the princes when she voiced her intentions.

"For starters, the third prince is prone to mischief," Jin had warned her. "And the seventh prince is a good-for-nothing womanizer," Licht added. "Then there's the honey-loving teddy bear," Leon added. I'm not sure what he meant...

"So you're saying they're just all a little quirky ?"

"Exactly. And for that, things might go bad for you...." Yves commented.

My foot caught on something and a mass of leaves and flower petal rained down onto me with the force of a powerful and large waterfall. She gave a surprised cry before the plant matter slammed into her hard.

Can't breath !

"Goodness me, you just walked right into that !" A familiar voice laughed. So Prince Clavis is the troublemaker. Emerging from the massive mountain of greenery, seriously who would collect so much just to turn it into a booby trap ?

"Welcome, Belle. I'm afraid I'm the only one here right now."

"Clavis ! You did this ?! Why  ?"

"Oh, I just thought I'd give you a proper welcome, one you wouldn't soon forget," Clavis replied as be pulled a few stray petals that were on my head. Nearly drowning me in plant matter is his way of a 'proper welcome' ?

"So you don't like it ?" Clavis, I want to drown you in this stuff and leave someone to deal with your body along with this mess !

But instead of voicing her bloodthirsty thoughts, "You can say that again ! I'm going to be picking stems out of my hair for days now." She wasn't kidding, with a thick head of hair she could feel stems, foliage and maybe more petal stuck in her hair.

This is driving me crazy ! She busied herself trying to free herself from the worst offenders that were rubbing against the base of her neck. Clavis laughed as he offered, "Well, I could have gone even more extreme with my welcome."

"No, that's quite all right." His evocative grin made me glare at him for a moment before noticing the neat and tidy room I found myself in. No discarded bottles lying around on the floor ready to trip someone, the paper was neatly stacked and the books were the same or were kept on their shelves, the entire office was the complete opposite to Leon's faction where Yves fought the dying futile battle of keeping it clean.

"Where are the others ?" So far it was just Clavis and there were three missing princes. "Who can say  ? Nokto is probably fooling around with some young lady right about now. Luke usually takes a nap around this time. He's probably in the courtyard, but don't disturb the poor guy's rest, okay ?"

So I guess what the other princes told me wasn't an exaggeration.

"And Chev is, let's say....in the middle of something.... Are you curious  ?"

"Curious  ?" Why do I have a bad feeling ?

"I see, I see ! Of course you are ! Then I guess I'll have to take you to him," Clavis decided.

Hey, don't put words in my mouth  ! "You said he was in the middle of something, so I'd rather not bother him," she insisted. "Oh, it's no big deal." I have my doubts about that, Clavis's smirk was undeniably suspicious.

"Don't worry. People may call him the 'Brutal Beast' and the 'Bloody Tiger' but even Chev won't get angry over a brief interruption," Clavis laughed.

Wait, Brutal Beast ? Bloody Tiger ? Like hell it was no big deal !