Prologue
a/n- I am not making excuses, but I do believe this story is long overdue. After working on this three times now, I promise that this will be the last time I ever write this. I'm going to put the other story on hold because I have so many people excited for me to bring this back! I love this story and I should have the first full chapter up this weekend to get everything started. I'm just going to change the entire chapter into past tense because it easier for me to write and I think a lot of people enjoy it too.
Disclaimer: Disney's Beauty and the Beast is not mine and neither is Vampire Knight.
Thanks to: bindi-the-skunk for saving this entire project! They saved the chapter for me all this time and they are absolutely amazing! Please be sure to give them thanks!
Warning: Un beta'd. AU. Possible OOCs, and Vampires may be different according to how I want them to be in later chapters.
Side note: Another reason that I am putting 'This Life' on hold is because my Ao3 account is not working, I cant edit things as easy as I want to and some chapters need editing!
Enjoy!
Once upon a time, in a beautiful forest far, far away, a young prince lived in a magnificent castle. Even though he had everything his heart desired, the prince was greedy, cruel, and merciless. On one fateful winter's night, an old woman came to the castle and offered him a beautiful red rose in return for shelter from the blizzard swarming her outside. Disgusted by her horrid appearance, the prince scoffed at the meaningless rose and turned the woman away. The woman stayed and looked to the prince and she warned him not to be tricked by what's on the outside, and that beauty was in the eye of the beholder. The prince ignored her and dismissed her again. The old woman nodded her head solemnly and her appearance faded away to reveal a beauty enchantress. The prince dropped to his knee and begged for forgiveness, but the enchantress made up her mind. For she knew that what was in his heart was nothing but stone. There was no love in his heart and as a punishment, the enchantress turned the prince into a hideous beast. The castle was placed under a powerful spell and so was everyone who lived there.
Humiliated by his beastly appearance, the beast locked himself away in his castle, with only a spellbound mirror to show him the world he wished he could be a part of. The rose that the enchantress left for him was truly enchanted. The flower would bloom and grow until the beast's twenty-first spring. If the prince could not learn to love another and have them love him back before the last petal falls, the spell shall be broken. If the beast could not find another to love, he and the entire castle shall be doomed to live forever under the spell.
Years went by before the first petal fell. The beast refused to hope and he lost himself in despair. For who could ever love a beast?
a/n- THIS IS JUST THE PROLOGUE AND IT'S HOW I WANTED IT TO BE! I cannot tell you how excited I am for this story. I promise to put a lot of love into it and I hope people like it. Please leave a C.S.Q(Comment. Suggestion. Question.)! Tell me what you think and please leave me some reviews!