(Ugh I suck at summaries).

Anyway I hope you all enjoy my first ever Voltron Fanfic. I have to say that Voltron: Legendary Defender and Beauty and the Beast have had such a profound impact on my life, so I thought 'hey why not combine them?'

I do not own Voltron (though I've prayed we did so we get full Galra Keith already).

I also don't own Beauty and The Beast. This is just an AU!

P.S this was somewhat inspired by this video: watch?v=pvbCZUVtGyI (I recommend checking it out - it is really well done).

Prologue

Once Upon a Time…

In a land unlike our own, there lived the Kingdom of Altea, a small yet prosperous land that allowed for all kinds of life to flow. Other than the Alteans, both humans and Galra found their homes in the great country allowing for culture, lifestyle and understanding to continue developing between them as they lived alongside one and other.

However, peace ended when the leader of the Galra, Zarkon, usurped the throne from the ruling Altean family and declared himself as Emperor – creating a dictatorship with himself in power. However, Zarkon did not kill the leader of the Altean's, rather he let King Alfor continue to live as to remind the Altean's and humans of his mercy towards them. Anyone that rebelled against the king's rules he made an example of, something that his Queen Hagar (an infamous sorceress who was fond of black magic) relished the chance to perform upon.

Prejudice began to spread, with the Galra who sided with their new leader taking pleasure as they enforced their newfound power on to the Altean's and Humans. This caused friction to rise between many people of each culture and they began to look at each other as enemies. Even Alfor himself was against the Galra people that he had once accepted into his life, yet he kept his feelings secret to preserve his people from further scrutiny.

However, not all things were terrible at the time. Joy was still found in the marriage of King Alfor and that of his sister, Princess Anika, to their respective partners. Alfor conceived two children – his heir Allura, and his son who would become the captain of the Guard, Lance. Anika on the other hand only had one child, a beautiful little girl that was half Altean and half human, born with ivory locks and eyes like ice, she was given the name of Weiss.

Zarkon himself also sired an heir with his wife, Lotor, who would become the next emperor of the Galra Empire. To preserve the will of his people, Alfor offered that Allura and Lotor should be wed to bring the two people together and Zarkon complied. However, soon after the birth of Lotor – Zarkon heard troubling news surrounding the birth of his brother's son.

Unlike Zarkon, his brother was beloved by the common people as he refused to stand with his brother as a Usurper. Instead the brother had taken to the humans and Altean's, choosing to live hidden amongst them to avoid the wrath of his elder brother. He had eventually found love with a human woman who became his wife, they settle down Castle Black (which was protected by a natural barrier of deep forests and wild animals) where they had their son, who was also recognised as being an heir to the throne.

Feeling challenged by this act, Zarkon ordered that his brother be captured and imprisoned and that the child made to realise the 'unforgivable nature' of his birth. Though it took 13 years of searching for the hidden Castle, he eventually found it. Haggar chose to do the deed, already jealous of the great beauty that was boy's mother, she was said to dispose of the boy and eliminate all the second prince's allies that lived in the Castle. The witch then used her magic to surround the castle with a ceaseless winter and hiding the path that would lead to Castle so that no one would ever go looking for those that she had seen destroyed. The Castle was then deemed as a place of banishment for all those that dared opposed the King and his future heir, choosing to make an example of Anika's husband when he objected against the massacre sending him to his supposed death in the believed haunted castle. The grief of losing her husband and oldest friends, made Anika ill and she died soon after, leaving her child Weiss an orphan.

Alfor, grief stricken over the loss of his family secluded himself from his people. But his wife, a kind and gentle woman, took pity of her orphaned niece and chose to make Weiss her daughter's handmaiden (never revealing her identity of being royalty to protect her from Zarkon's wrath).

And as the years went on, rumours of the haunted castle spread as people swore they could hear the tormented cries of a beats that roamed the area during the night. Zarkon dismissed this rumours as fairy tales but chose to manipulate the people by using them to further create a tight grip on the common people.

Thus, the people of Altea now resided in a quite tyranny, desperate to avoid the wrath of their dictator. Yet as the years went by, Weiss couldn't help but wonder if there was more to her current life.

18 years later…

The sun rose gently over Altea. Birds chirped and Animals began to rise to start the new day. Being springtime, the air was filled with the aroma of flowers causing it to make the rather oppressive atmosphere of Galra tyranny seem lesser. But perhaps the liveliest part of the land was the Altean Palace, especially for the royal family.

Today was the day that Prince Lotor would be arriving in preparation for his marriage to Princess Allura. It was wedding that was years in the making and many Altean's and humans prayed that the union would help bring stability back to the land once Lotor became Emperor. Alfor had also requested that the entire staff ensure that everything was perfect because if anything went wrong, Zarkon would ensure that things be dealt with in a 'proper' manner.

And one of those things that needed to be perfect was ensuring that Allura got up to greet her husband to be.

Something that Weiss was having trouble doing.

"Allura you need to get up." the white-haired girl stressed as she removed the covers from the princess' bed "Lotor will be arriving any minute and you need to be there to greet him and his family."

"…5 more minutes" Allura muttered "5 more minutes of blessed sleep."

"I'm afraid we don't have 5 minutes!" Weiss politely spoke as she picked up a glass of water before throwing it in the princess' face, waking the woman instantly.

"Weiss why on earth?"

"You needed a wakeup call."

Allura chuckled before throwing her now wet pillow at Weiss playfully "You Jerk!"

Both girls laughed at each for a while before Weiss began helping her friend get ready for her betrothed's arrival. Allura looked beautiful with her long silvery-white hair delicately framing her face and highlighted her unique blue & purple eyes. Satisfied with her work, Weiss prepared to send Allura on her way to meet her father until they were interrupted by a knock-at-the door.

Opening it revealed Allura's younger brother, Lance, smirking before it vanished with a look of astonishment when he saw his sister "Allura…you look amazing."

Allura smiled, pleasantly surprised by her brother's compliment "Thank you very much Lance. You don't look half-bad yourself."

"You know me Allura, I need to stand out otherwise I'll die." Lance joked before his gaze turned to Weiss and the happiness was replaced by confusion "Weiss…please don't tell me your wearing that to meet the Prince of the Galra Empire."

Weiss looked down at her simple black dress "I…I wasn't aware that I was meeting Lotor."

"Well as far as I'm concerned you are and like it or not, I need you to be more presentable than just that" his blue eyes almost seemed haunted by the thought of Weiss meeting the Prince in such simple garbs "I'll deal with your wardrobe whilst Allura goes to meet Mother and Father at the Grand Entrance."

"But I…shouldn't I be the one that dresses her Lance-"

"No buts Allura!" Lance declared pushing the Handmaiden back into the Princess' bedroom "You. Entrance. Now!"

The young Altean proceeded to slam the door in his sister's face before turning to Weiss "Now strip!"

There was an awkward pause for a moment "Say what?"

"Strip out of that drab gear and into something more suitable" Lance spoke boldly as he swung open his sister's expansive wardrobe "You'd think my sister would give you something more appealing to wear rather than that dumb servants gear that father makes you wear."

Weiss sighed and proceed to get behind the changing curtain that was set up in the room, and stripped out of her traditional attire – the black dress falling aimlessly to the floor. Eventually Lance threw something through the curtain and Weiss had to contain her surprise at the beauty of the robes that she had been tossed. With delicate hands, Weiss dressed herself into the attire – a beautiful short, white sleeveless dress with cut-outs on both sides of her waist. The yoke of the dress was a special translucent mesh and she accompanied the attire with white pumps.

Stepping out of the changing curtain, Lance carefully examined her handiwork before giving the ok. However, noticing the straightness of her hair, the Prince tutted and changed it so that her ivory hair was now in an off-centred bun-tail pinned down by her typical icicle shaped tiara.

"Now…Now you look like you should be engaging royalty Weiss" Lance said proudly causing the servant to blush slightly "I guess we should start heading off to our lovely guests for the week."

Loud trumps blared from the outside, signalling the arrival of the Galran Royal Family, causing Weiss to grimace "Yes we should, like right now."

The prince and Weiss left quickly from the bedroom – neither of them aware of the turn of events that would lead them to changing their lives, the lives of others and the fate of their kingdom.

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