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The Femme and the Beast:Ch4

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The Femme and the Beast

Prowl continued to give Jena the tour of the castle, stopping every now and then to explain some of the history about certain items. But after a while, Jena grew a little bored. So she decided to do some exploring on her own. As she made her way down the hall, she noticed that there was another staircase near by. She hadn't seen it before, she was curious to where it went to. But just as she started walking up it, she heard the sounds of Jazz and Prowl telling her to stop. Though she ignored them and continued up, only to have them block her path.

Now Jena was suspicious "What's up there?"

"Nothing, nothing you need to worry about." Came a quick answer from Prowl

"Yeah, it's just the west wing. It's very dull and boring." Jazz added

"Oh, so this is the west wing." Jena tried to look beyond the stairs "I wonder what he's hiding up there."

"Hiding? The master isn't hiding anything." Prowl says

"Are you sure?" Jena asked "He told me I'm never allowed to go up there."

Jazz tried to change the subject "Uh…why don't we go look at something else like the garden or the library."

"You have a library?" Jena asked, excitedly

Prowl saw this as a good chance to turn her attention to something else "Yes, we do. The library has a very large array of books."

Jena started to follow them as they started to lead her towards the library, but she stopped. She really wanted to see why the west wing was so forbidden, so when Prowl and Jazz weren't looking, she took off up the stairs. She noticed much like the rest of the castle, the hallway was very creepy filled with different of statues that looked like monsters. As she got to the end she saw a very large handle that must have lead to a room of some sort. She opened the door and stepped inside.

Jena figured that this must be Lockdown's room, but what really surprised her was how messy it was. There were tons of things that were knocked or smashed on the floor. There were drapes and sheets on the berth that looked like they had been ripped to sheds. Carefully maneuvering around the mess, she ventured deeper into his room. She noticed that there was a picture hanging slightly on the wall, she stepped closer to look at it. It looked like it have been a family photo since there was a mech and a femme in it, but for some reason their faces and parts of their bodies looked as though they scarped out. Jena pondered if maybe it had been Lockdown's hook was the cause of this. But the one thing that really stood out was towards the bottom, it appeared as though an entire section of the picture had been cut out. But there appeared to be small bits of pieces of another body, so it seems there was someone else in the picture. Jena started to think that maybe the missing piece was Lockdown when he was younger while the mech and femme in the picture were his parents. But why would someone do something like ruin what looked to be a nice family portrait? Did Lockdown maybe have a bad childhood?

Too many questions ran through Jena's processer, but they seem to stop as something that appeared to be glowing caught her optic. She turned to see that near the window that leads to the balcony was a table. When she got closer she saw that on it was a mirror, she picked it up and took a small look at it before placing it back down. It didn't seem very special, so why was it here? She came up with the idea that maybe it was some kind of family memento. Perhaps it belonged to Lockdown's mother.

The other object on the table was something that Jena truly found fascinating. It was a flower, a rose if she remembered from what she read about organic plants, covered by a glass dome. But a few questions came to mind as she examined it: Why was it glowing? She never heard or read about a plant that was able to glow. Could it be magical somehow? Also how was it staying alive? If she recalled correctly organic plants need soil and water in order to survive. It was staying alive somehow, but she did notice that a few of the petals must have wilted and fallen off.

Becoming more curious about the plant, Jena decided to try to inspect it a little closer. She removed the glass dome and set it carefully on the floor. Despite the few missing petals, Jena had to admit the rose was beautiful. She slowly reached out to touch it just to see if anything might happen if she did. But just as she was about to touch one of the petals, a dark shadow suddenly fall over her and Jena felt a strange feeling someone was watching her.

She looked up to see her hunch was correct to standing just across the table from her was Lockdown, looking less then pleased to see her. Jena jumped back as he moved and placed the glass dome back on top of the rose. Jena couldn't help but notice he seemed very protective of it. It made her wonder why. Jena gulped slightly as Lockdown turned his attention back to her.

"What are you doing here?" He asked, his voice was tense

Jena quickly tried to apologize "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to-"

"I told you never to come in here!" Lockdown snapped

"I didn't mean any harm." Jena tried to defend herself

"Do you have any idea what you could have done?!" he smashed his fist into other small table near him, breaking it in half.



"Please, stop." Jena's back ran into a barely destroyed dresser

"Get, out!!!" Lockdown bellowed as his fist came to create a fairly large hole in the dresser, not too far from where she was standing. Jena quickly fled from the room, not daring to look back behind her. Lockdown watched as she left, sure he was mad at her, but he brought his servo to his face as he realized he probably made a huge mistake by yelling at her like that.

Jena ran to her room, quickly grabbed her cloak and ran back downstairs to the castle entrance. She noticed that Prowl and Jazz were on the stairs, but she ignored them.

"Jena, where are you going?" Jazz asked

"Promise or no promise. I can't stay here for other minute." Jena replied as she pulled the door open, letting a cold rush of air enter the room. She didn't listen as Jazz and Prowl tried to tell her not to go.

She ran to the gate to see that Starchaser was still there. She quickly got on him and headed off deep into the woods. It didn't matter where she went as long as it was far away from the castle. As Starchaser rushed through the trees, he suddenly came to halt and Jena saw that there was a group of cyber-wolves heading their way. Jena immediately told Starchaser to go the other way, but the wolves were hot on their trail. She let out a scream, as apparently they had found a river that had been covered in snow and they both fell through the ice and into the water. Thankfully Starchaser got out of the water in time, but the wolves were still chasing them.

They got a little far until another group of wolves appeared in front of them causing Starchaser to buck Jena right off as well as get the reins caught in one of the branches, making it impossible for Starchaser to move. Jena watched as Starchaser tried to kick the wolves to keep them away, but it wasn't enough when one of the wolves got on top of him. Jena found a tree branch and knocked the wolf right off. Jena started to panic there was no way she could fight off all these wolves, but she had to try. She started swinging the branch at then, but one of the wolves caught it and ripped it in half. A second wolf jumped at her and managed to grab the end of her cloak causing her to fall backwards into the snow. She tried to pull it free, but it wouldn't come loose. Then she let out a scream as a third wolf try to lunge at her.

Jena thought it was the end when she saw a flash of brown came out and grabbed the wolf that tried to jump at her. She turned to see it was Lockdown. He grabbed a hold of the wolf that was on her cloak and tossed it aside. Lockdown stood protectively over her as the other wolves tried to close in on her. He suddenly lashed out and Jena watched in surprise as his brown servo became a chainsaw. Jena closed her optics as she listened to the sounds of fighting along with the wolves and Lockdown crying in pain. When everything started to quiet down, Jena hesitantly opened her optics as she watched some of the remaining wolves yowl in fear as they ran away.

She looked to see Lockdown still standing, he was breathing very hard, his chainsaw had turned back into a servo and there was a bit of wolves blood along with dead bodies surrounding near his pedes. Lockdown turned to look at her, but then Jena noticed he suddenly shut his optics and collapsed into the snow. Jena rushed up to him and noticed that there was a pretty bad gash on this hook arm. With some difficulty she managed to get him on the back and Starchaser and start taking him back to his castle. When they finally made it, Jena carried him the rest of the way. She opened the door to see everyone standing there looking happy that she was back, but it changed to concern as they saw their unconscious master.

Jena took him to the living room and placed him in the large chair. She told Red Alert to bring some hot water and a cloth. Eventually Lockdown woke back up and Jena filled in some detail of what happened to him. As she filled hot water from Red Alert into a bowl and put the washcloth in it, she pulled it out and rid it of some of the excess water. She noticed that Lockdown was starting to scratch his wound.

"Don't do that, you'll only make it worse." Jena says, trying to take a hold of his arm to clean the wound, but Lockdown pulled it away "Just hold still for a moment." Jena placed the wet cloth on his wound causing Lockdown to let out a roar of pain.

"That hurts!" He complains

"If you hold still, it wouldn't hurt as much." Jena grumbles

"If you hadn't run away, none of this would have happened!" Lockdown shouted

"If you hadn't frightened me, I wouldn't have run away!" Jena argues back

Lockdown paused before pointing out another comeback "Well, you shouldn't have been in the west wing!"

"Well, you should learn to control your temper." Jena snaps

Jena hold his arm out "Now, hold still this might sting a little." She places a cloth on the wound causing him to grunt in pain "By the way…thank you for saving my life."

Lockdown stops and looks at her with surprise. She was actually thanking him? He put the thought aside before mumbling "You're welcome."

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Meanwhile back in the village, Sentinel and Swindle were at the bar meeting with Megatron, the head of the insane asylum.

"I usually don't leave the asylum in the middle of the night." Megatron commented "You better make this worth my wild. Sentinel said nothing but pulled out a large amount of credits and handed them to Megatorn "I'm listening."

"It's like this I've got my spark set out in making femme named Jena as my mate." Sentinel begins "But she needs a little…persuasion."

"No, kidding, she turned him down faster then you can say 'hello'." Swindle laughed

Sentinel nudges him to be quiet before continuing "Look everyone knows her father, Wheeljack is a crazy bag of blots. He keeps talking about some horrible monster that lives in a castle."

Megatron look strangely at him "I don't see how that's my problem. I find Mister Wheeljack to be quite harmless."

"The point is that Jena would do anything to keep him from getting locked up."

"Yeah, even if it means becoming his mate." Swindle slyly added

Megatron seemed to have figured out his plan "So what you're telling me is that you want me to throw her father into the asylum unless she agrees to be your mate?" Sentinel nodded "Oh, that so despicable of you, Sentinel Prime." Megatron smiles before letting out an evil chuckle "I love it."

Meanwhile at Wheeljack's house, he was packing some things that he was going to need for a long trip. Since everyone thought he was crazy about what he said about Jena being held captive by a monster, he decided he would go save her on his own.

"I don't care how long it takes, I'll find a way to get her out of there." He mutters to himself as he storms out the door and heads back into the woods. But little did Wheeljack know that just as he left his house, Sentinel and Swindle arrived there.

Sentinel bust down the door and called out "Jena? Wheeljack?"

The two mechs searched high and low, but neither one of them found anything.

"It doesn't look like their here." Swindle says

"Well, it doesn't matter they'll have to come home sometime, but until then I want you to come around this area ever so often and if they come back, report it to me immediately." Sentinel commands

"No problem."

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It was early morning at the castle, Lockdown, Prowl and Jazz watched from the balcony as Jena played with Bumblebee and Arcee in the snow.

Lockdown was starting to have different feelings about Jena, ever since she helped him last night; he was starting to see her in a different light. When she would smile or laugh, even if it was just a little, it would make his spark pulse a little faster before he forced it to calm down. Or when she touched him, it felt like an electric shock had gone through him. He had never felt this way about anyone one before, it scared yet excited him all at the same time.

He unconditionally rubbed his healed arm; Jena had done a good job with fixing it. He felt like should give her something in return for helping him so much "I want to do something for her. But what can I do?"

"Well, you could give her something traditional like flowers or gifts." Prowl comments

"I doubt Jena would like any of that stuff, Prowl." Jazz interjected "It has to be something special, something that really sparks her interests." Jazz pauses before an idea pops into his head "Wait, a nano-click…I know just the perfect thing."

When Jena came inside, she saw Lockdown waiting for her; he said he had something to give her. Lockdown lead her through the halls of the castle till they arrived at their destination.

"Jena, there's something I want to show you." Lockdown starts to open the door, but then he closes it again "But first you have to close your optics." Jena looked quizzical at him "It's a surprise."

Jena does what she is told and Lockdown waved his servo in front of her face to be sure she couldn't see anything. He opened the door and led her inside.

"Can I open them?" Jena asked

"No, not yet." Lockdown stopped when they were in the middle of the room "Wait right here."

Lockdown went to large curtains and pulled on them to open so that light could shine into the room. Jena meanwhile was trying to figure out what he was up to.

"Now can I open them?"

Lockdown tugged on the final curtain "Alright, open them up right now."

Jena opened her optics and gasped to see they were standing in a giant library. It was beautiful. There were books as far as the optic could see "I can't believe it. I never saw so many books in my entire function."

"You…you like it?" Lockdown asked, slightly nervous

"It's incredible!" Jena said in awe

"Then I want you to have it."

Jena smiled warmly at him "Thank you so much."

Outside the doorway everyone else watched them, pleased that Jena liked their master's gift so much. This was a good sign. They were all noticing the changes that were happening between the two of them. Jena and Lockdown were spending more time together, eating and talking to each other. They were amazed by how much their master's attitude had changed in such a short time. He was much less harsher not just towards Jena, but everyone else as well. Who would have thought that one femme could change so much in their lives?

Jena wouldn't say it out loud, but she was experiencing different feeling towards Lockdown. She was happy to see he was controlling his temper a lot more and acting almost like a perfect gentle-mech. True, Lockdown wasn't exactly the kind of prince she always thought of, but there was something special about him, something that just made her want to get closer to him. And it may be possible that maybe, just maybe, she felt something even more for him then just a friend.
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