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Darwin batted at the colorful mass of tubes and rolled down the sofa with a squeak, he turned in a circle and stared at the toy with his long tail twitching behind him. "Mrrrr..." Whatever that thing was, it was going down! The mew launched itself from the cushions and tackled the toy off of the back of the sofa, tumbling onto the floor with an alarmed "Mew!"

Nyx tried to stifle her excited squealing by eating a cookie. "But it is still good." She responded to Nadja's having seen the movie. Nyx stared intently at the computer screen, watching the stained glass narrative explain how the prince was mean and hateful, and insulted a fairy or witch and was turned into a monster. Maybe he shouldn't have been such a grump.

Nyx giggled when Miss Nadja laughed at the clock, partly because it was funny, and partly because Miss Nadja having a good time was nice to see. She sipped her cup of tea quietly and stared wide eyed at the screen until the cozy scene was quickly interrupted by the doors slamming open and a great horned monster came in, none too pleased to have a guest.

The scientist gasped when the monster grabbed up the quirky old man. If she hadn't have seen the movie possibly a bazillion times, she would have guessed that the man had just been eaten.

She chuckled when the next scene opened with the large man staging a surprise wedding for the leading lady without her knowledge, or even asking her first. Why didn't he just go after one of those blond girls who were all over him? She never understood why he had to have Bell. Nyx out right laughed when the man tried to kiss Bell and fell out of the door and into the mud.

"Caramel and apple cookies, Miss Nadja." Nyx smiled, "I decided to experiment."

Nyx let out a startled 'eep' when the heroine was speaking to her father and then was suddenly grabbed by the monster. It wasn't unexpected, but it was still startling. There was a striking similarity between the monster and someone they knew... He certainly was a grouch, and terrible at speaking to the girl. After prompting from the suave candle to invite Bell to dinner, the monster instead ordered her to eat with him and slammed the door. "Smooth..." Nyx rolled her eyes.

And then it was time for the best song of the entire movie, where a lodge full of men and women sang about how manly and wonderful the beefy villain was. Nyx grinned and hummed along, swinging her head from side to side with the melody.

There was a furious jingling from behind the couch before the colorful mass flew through the air and landed on the fuzzy dog laying on the carpet, followed shortly by the thumping of little feet scrambling to find the toy. "Mwuu!"

Nyx chuckled and cringed when the beast expected his captive to show up to dinner, but the clock came through the door instead. "That's the way to woo her. Yell." The exchange through the door was humorous, especially the way he looked indignant when she kept refusing to join him.

She looked amused with the dinner song, but not nearly as gleeful as during the testosterone filled number. The heroine ditching her tour guides to explore the forbidden part of the castle elicited a sigh, "She has to know she's going to get caught..."

Darwin tumbled over his own feet and into the giant canine. "Mwrf!" He shook his head and looked up, suddenly spotting his prey in the jungle of fur belonging to the mountain of a pokemon. Darwin's tail twitched excitedly, followed shortly by his scaling of the canine.

Nyx grabbed another cookie as the monster indeed caught the snooping woman and chased her out of the castle. "That seems like an appropriate reaction." She sighed sarcastically. There was someone else she could think of who reacted proportionally to things, such as the man who stormed out of his injured girlfriend's hospital room because of something she said while pumped full of enough drugs and head injury to down a rampaging Donphan.

The dumb look on the monster's face when he announced that he wanted to do something for the woman was amazing. Nyx blinked when the gift giving began, "Well... I suppose being given an entire library sort of makes up for being a huge jerk." The porridge eating scene was sort of cute and evoked a laugh from Nyx when the monster tried to eat with a spoon.

Nyx giggled when the preparations for the dance scene started, and 'ooo'd when the princess' dress was revealed. She had tried to buy something just as frilly and poofy for the ball, but someone didn't want her to look like a princess.

Darwin pawed at the toy through Moloch's mane, but was unsuccessful in freeing it. Maybe a different angle? The mew climbed on top of Moloch's head and sat, letting his tail dangle down over the canine's nose.

Nyx sighed as things snowballed down hill from there. Bell left the castle, the monster and his staff were doomed to remain a monster and a bunch of silverware forever, the woman's father was being hauled away for being a mad man, and then, a larger sigh, proving that her father wasn't crazy caused an angry mob to form.

Miss Nadja's change in posture and expression during the ball scene was odd, normally the big moment when the two characters realized they loved each other was something that made people smile, or at least roll their eyes. "Is something wrong, Miss Nadja?"

Darwin looked up, almost upside down, at the hand the red-headed lady and sniffed it. "Mwu." He stood on the Arcanine's head and climbed up the elite's arm, flopping over her shoulder and made quiet half mewling, half purring sounds.

"Ahh..." Nyx's face flushed at Nadja's inquiry about Mau. "H-he's fine..." She scratched her head the way she did when she was flustered; Why did Miss Nadja have to bring him up? She'd been intentionally avoiding him as well, ever since Christmas. The scientist was ignoring the movie now, unconcerned with the fight between the macho-villain and the monster, and more concerned with fidgeting with the hem of her shirt.

Darwin made a tiny bubbling sound when he was pet, enjoying the attention. If he was paying attention at all, or could speak like some other legendary pokemon were able to, he would have pipped into the conversation and told the nice Red-Headed lady about how his owner mushed faces with another human and then was loud.

"W-why do you ask?" The scientist forced an awkward chuckle and a sheepish smile.

"What? I'm not blushing! Pft. Why would I blush?" Nyx stared at the screen as the beast snuck up behind the muscled man and the battle resumed, up until he declared "Belle is mine!" and apparently made the monster very angry, because it just reached out and grabbed the man, then proceeded to dangle him over some sort of canyon. Nyx folded her legs up to her chest and tried to hide her crimson cheeks from Miss Nadja. There was no reason for her to blush whenever anyone mentioned Mau!

Darwin sneezed when one of the strands of Nadja's hair tickled his little nose, he sat up and shook his head. "Mwr!" It squeaked, and went about batting at the curtain of hair.

Nyx rolled her eyes a little when the beast showed mercy and put the villain down, she always thought that he should have just dropped him, but that wouldn't have set well with the target audience. She was proven right, though, as the beast climbed the roof top to be reunited with the woman and was dramatically stabbed in the back by the crazy macho man everyone had stopped paying attention after announcing "Belle, you came back..." Who didn't see that coming?