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Belle's Adventures in the Swan Princess 3 Part 7

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Belle felt sick in her stomach as they rode in the direction of the mountain. Puffin and Whizzer flew ahead, leading he way, whilst Speed was tucked hal on her lap and half pressed against Phillipe's mane, clinging on as best as he could. When she looked to her right, Adam's face was set in grim determination. She felt hot, she couldn't stop feeling that this was all her own fault. If only she'd realised before hand...
Suddenly Adam reined in his horse and put out a hand to her. "Belle, listen!"
"You keep falling for that fake Odette trick, don't you, big guy?" a voice in the distance sneered.
Belle stiffened. "That's Zelda! Come on!"
"Give me Odette!"
"Sorry! I need her for an experiment to see if the Power to Destroy really works!"
Belle gasped as they reached the clearing where Derek stood, watching Zelda's fireball zoom into the distance.
"Prince Derek!" panted Puffin.
"Follow that fireball, Puffin!" Derek cried.
"No, no, no; that won't be necessary, sir! Whizzer here knows the way!"
Whizzer gulped in anticipation. Derek turned to Belle and Adam. "I thought I told you two to stay put."
"If you think I'm going to let my best friend, my sister even, fall prey to that evil woman, you've another thing coming!" Belle exclaimed. "Now, listen to me, Derek, I know Zelda of old-"
"What? Why didn't you say so before?"
"I couldn't remember! We thought she was dead!"
"Don't blame Belle!" Adam snapped. "It isn't her fault!"
"You're right." Derek nodded. "I'm sorry."
"It doesn't matter, just listen." Belle looked around as her friends gathered about her. "Zelda's tricky; even more so than Rothbart and Clavius - we need to try and outsmart her"

Zelda's laughter was echoing throughout the mountain as Derek, Belle, Adam. Puffin, Speed and Whizzer finally made it to the top. Belle, so frightened for Odette, and so determined to save her, didn't even stop to think about how high off the ground they were as they reached the mouth of Zelda's cave and a terrible sight. Odette was a swan again, and she and Jean-Bob were trapped inside a fireball.
"Odette? How did-?"
"There's no time to explain, Derek! You have to stop her!"
"Don't!" Belle hissed as Derek stepped towards the flames. "You'll perish in a blaze. Believe me, it's hard to get free of this kind of trap. I told you she was tricky!"
"I've got to get you out of here first!" Derek told Odette.
"No, Derek!"
"Is there any escape?"
"Derek!"
"I won't see you die! Now is there any escape?"
"I think so." Odette nodded upwards towards a large boulder placed precariously at the edge of a ledge. Belle knew what her friend was thinking.
"Will it work?" Derek asked her.
"I think so." Belle bit her lip and shook her head. "It has to! It's the only plan we've got! Come on!"

Zelda was already chanting the incantation as Puffin and Whizzer snatched a coil of rope from behind her. With help from Belle, Adam and Speed, they tied it to the boulder and Derek gripped the other end of it. "This is crazy," he muttered.
"Trust me, Derek," Odette urged. "Pull!"
Derek pulled; and when Adam had reached him he pulled too, and Belle. "Hnag on, Odette," she murmured. "We'll get you free."
"Are you pushing or am I doing all the work?" asked Whizzer as he and Puffin both strained to make the boulder fall.
"It's coming," Adam breathed. "Now!"
The boulder fell through the flames just as Zelda's orb had sucked up the last of the Forbidden Arts into it's being. Odette swept through it, Jean-Bob clinging to her neck, as it cracked upon the ground, shaking the mountain, it seemed. Zelda didn't seem to have noticed.
"Lucky Odette," she cackled. "You'll be the first to see the Power to Destroy!"
"Go, Odette!" Derek hissed as Jean-Bob jumped dowm to the ground.
"I'm not leaving you!"
"Odette, there's no time! Go!" Belle begged.
Zelda gasped as she saw that her trap was empty. Derek swung about, sword in hand. "You!" she hissed and she was about to send her magi at him when Odette pounced upon her, knocking her to the ground. Zelda struggled to her feet but Odette was already away. Belle felt her stomach lurch. How would they ever defeat Zelda now she had the Power to Destroy in her hands? She was sending jets of it at Odette and Derek but they were able to dodghe out of the way in time. Jean-Bob and Whizzer, meanwhile, were arguing about who had found the hiding place first.
"I was here first!" Whizzer hissed.
"So what?" replied Jean-Bob. "I'm a prince!"
Odette and Puffin knocked a small boulder off the ledge at Zelda. She avoided it, however, and they were lucky to escape another blast from her unscathed. "Cowards!" she cried. "Come out!"
Belle took her chance. Before Adam had time to stop her, she ran up behind Zelda and flung a small rock at her. It missed, but it made he turn around. Her brow furrowed. "You look familiar..."
"Don't you remember the Inventor's shy daughter, Zelda? The girl you once tried to rope into your evil schemes? Who ran away when you showed her your ideas? Who cried when you were banished because you hreatened to come back?"
"It is you!" Zelda rasped. "I should have expected it, I suppose! Like so many of those townsfolk, you were weak. You thought tha being good was the way to go! But tell me, Belle, wasn't it? How much has being good done you now?" And she threw a fireball at Belle.
"No!" Adam threw himself in the way and deflected the ball with his sword. Zelda gasped and threw herself to one side. "Down!" Adam hissed, forcing them both to duck behind the rocks with their friends.
"This is war, not hide and seek!" Zelda paused. "Seek? My seekers! Improved on the Forbidden Arts!"
"Whoa!" Whizzer sqwawked. "You've gotta get outta here, Odette! You can't hide from this one, trust me! Go! Go!"
"What?" she gasped.
"It's a Destroying Seeker! Go!"
"Oh no!" Belle's heart hammered in her chest as she turned to her friends in shock. "She always wanted to create them! I didn't think she ever would!"
"Seek out the swan and destroy her!" Zelda cried and from her wand there came a great fireball, red this time. Odette and Puffin flew for it but the fireball began to chase them. Derek tried to throw himself into it's path but it was no good, it didn't want him, it wanted Odette. "Odette!" he cried. Belle ran after it to the mouth of the cave. What if they can't outfly it? she thought. Then what?
Without thinking anymore, she flung herself from the cave, down, down...Adam cried out, she barely heard him...and suddenly she was Phillipe's back and they were thundering through the forest after that fireball. If I only knew how to destroy it, she thought.

Zelda laughed.
"Break the wand! Break the wand!" Whizzer hissed to Derek and Adam. "The fireball will die if you break the wand!"
Thwe men threw themselves forwards, swords raised...

"Hurry!" Puffin cried as he and Odette flew desparately with the fireball right behind them...

Belle rode faster through the forest, ever keeping the fireball and her friends in her sight...

Odette and Puffin desparately dived into the water, but the fireball wouldn't follow them there, oh no, it hovered on the surface until they emerged...

Adam and Derek were no match for Zelda's powers. "Goodbye, Derek!" she hissed.
"Hello, Zelda!" said a familiar voice.
"Rothbart?" Zelda gasped. "You're alive?"
"Amazing, isn't it?" said Whizzer, in Rothbart's voice. "Thank you for recovering the Forbidden Arts. But noe, you're through. Tell you what, though. I'll give you a chance to run..."
"Traitor!" Zelda eclaimed, now seeing Whizzer.
"Zelda!" Derek grabbed her, trying to grapple with her. The two strugled, locked together. "The wand!" Derek cried to Adam. "Hurry!"
"Don't you dare!" Zelda pointed the wand at Adam and he just managed to get clear...

"I'll get you, fireball!" Belle vowed as Phillipe tore through the trees. Odette and Puffin and the fireball weren't that far ahead of them now. Bur Odette was quickly tangled in some vines. Puffin went to try and free her. "Puffin!" she gasped as the fireball closed in...

The sound.

The sound was like nothing Belle had ever heard before or ever would again. She pulled Phillipe's reins in shock. She couldn't speak, and with the noise still ringing in her ears, she felt as though she couldn't hear either. When at last she could speak, she was only able to whisper one word.
"No..."

Puffin sat among a tangle of vines, his head hanging in shock and sorrow. He was alone. Belle reached him. "Puffin?" Her voice was so low, her mouth so dry. He looked at her and then looked away.

Her scream of frustration echoed throughout the land.

Derek pulled the wand; Zelda pulled the other end. In their grip, it broke and Zelda stumbled back...back into the flames she had created to trap Odette. "Look out!" Adam cried, grabbing Speed, Whizzer and jean-Bob and pulling them clear as with a terrific band and a cloud of smoke, Zelda and her flames were gone. Derek panted as he got to his feet. "Odette," he muttered, "Odette!"

By the light of a full moon, Puffin landed on a rock at the mouth of the cave just as Derek, Adam, Jean-Bob, Speed and Whizzer reached it.
"Where's Odette"? Derek asked.
"Oh, Derek," Puffin said, miserably. "She's gone."
"Gone? What do you mean "gone?"
"Well...she...the fireball...she couldn't get away..." Puffin began to sniffle.
Adam looked down at the foot of the cliff. Belle, on Phillipe, looked up at him. Her tears were confirmation enough of Puffin's words.
"No!" Derek muttered, shaking his head. "No! No!" And he lashed out the rocks with his sword, slashing at them until his sword broke into pieces. Alarmed, and frightened that he was going hurt himself, Adam charged forwards and caught his arms. "Derek, Derek..." No other words would come to him. Derek fell to his knees and began to sob. "Odette," he whispered. "Odette."

It was a sad evening for all of them as they stood together inside Zelda's lair. Belle had wept so many tears that she felt as though she might dehydrate. Adam held her in his arms, feeling somewhat guilty that his wife had been allowed to live whilst Derek's hadn't. But Derek didn't blame anyone but himself for Odette's demise.
They stood together, the seven of them around the box that contained Rothbart's notes and Derek held a torch in his hand, ready to set them on fire.
"If you can hear me, Odette," he said, "I'm sorry. I'm so sorry."
"And I am," Belle whispered. "Odette, it's my fault- Adam, please don't start telling me otherwise. I know it is. And I'm so sad that I don't think anything in the world could make me happier than having you back, my mistress, my friend, my sister..."
Overcome with tears again, she began to sob on Adam's shoulder.
"I'm just sorry that we couldn't stop Zelda in time," Adam murmured.
"I pray something good can still come from destroying these notes," Derek finished, setting the torch onto the box, which immedietly took light and began to burn. As it did so, the flames began to burn in a familiar shape, a swan; and then suddenly, suddenly, they were gone and Odette, pure, whole and alive, stood before them.
"Odette!" Derek gasped. "Is it really you?"
"Oh, Derek," she smiled.
He took her in his arms. Belle stared at her husband. "How...how is this possible?"
"Magic," Adam replied, hugging her. "Good will always overcome evil, inthe end."
Jean-Bob, Speed, Puffin and Whizzer were all crying and hugging one another. With fresh tears, this time of joy, Belle stepped up to her friend, nestled in Derek's arms. "Odette, I'm so sorry. I should have realied that-"
"Oh, Belle!" Odette smiled. "I don't blame you. No one does. Why, if it hadn't been for you, I don't think any of us could have survived. My sister!"
The two young women hugged and then they were joined in the hug by their husbands and their four animal friends; and together they silently rejoiced the final defeat of evil magic from the kingdom...

The day of the festival dawned bright and glorious. Jean-Bob won the obstacle course! Although, in the event, it was largely due to the fact that Whizzer imitated Jean-Bob's voice, insulted the other contestant and had Jean-Bob running so fast to outrun him that he won without even realising that he had done so until Derek declared him Prince For A Day!
Belle laughed as Adam joined her and slipped an arm around her waist. "Well, well," he murmured to her. "Looks like Jean-Bob's more talented than we thought!"
She smiled up at him. "Are you coming to watch Uberta and Rogers do the tango?"
"I wouldn't miss it for the world!"
Uberta and Rogers were the last contestants in the talent show, and although, in the end, they both ended up going right through the stage, they were declared the first place winners, much to Uberta's delight. Belle turned to Adam as they clapped with the rest. "It's just as well; she would have killed him if they hadn't won!"

Odette turned to Derek as they watched Uberta accept her prize. "Promise me, Derek, there's no more magic in the castle?"
"I can't do that," he replied."So long as you're here, Odette, there'll always be magic."

At the same time, as they walked away from the stage, their arms about one another, Belle said, thoughtfully "Isn't this such a perfect day? A perfect ending to all our adventures?"
"I wouldn't say that," Adam replied.
"No?" Belle stopped to look up at him, into his blue eyes that she had fallen for one and still found herself falling for even now.
"No." Adam placed his hands on her face, brushing her hair from her eyes. "I'd say it was a perfect beginning."

And so it was upon that glorious evening that two women, one a princess, the other a servant, kissing their husbands, one a prince, the other a servant, happily under the sunshine, whilst in the most secret corners of their four hearts blossomed a love that would last far longer than forever....

The End

And this really is the end since there are no more Swan princess movies - I hope you enjoyed them all xxx
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(sighing as I finally finished reading this last part of the story) Whew. I just love this final part. Good vs evil. Love triumphed over Hate. And now a happy ending for those lovers.

But, oh, I don't know, MedieavalBeabe. I wouldn't say this is the end of The Swan Princess movies. Because at the year 2012 (during late November before Christmas Time in December), through 2014, there are 2 brand new The Swan Princess movies (but this time as Computer animated).

I, for one, sincerely hoped that this series of Belle's Adventures in The Swan Princess series is still going on.