A/N: Hello Cupcakes, Long time no see! :D
I know you're all probably hoping for the promised Sequel to the Advent Calendar, but that is still work in Progress, big sorry ;(
Also, I was sick the past weeks and gone the entire Weekend, which is why there was no Valentines Special. I'd have loved to do that...oh well, maybe next year :)
I would upload the first chapters of the sequel but I'm not very pleased with it yet and will probably rewrite the entire thing because I'm crazy and seem to have nothing better to do XD
But I also have quite a few other projects I'm working on, as well as work, so I fear the Sequel will take some time.

Instead, I thought I'd upload one of my finished projects to make up for it.

This all started because of a conversation with my husband, where I said it would be cool to try out a crossover with the Disney movies and PJO.
My husband's response: That would never work out.
So...I took that as a challenge and wrote whenever I got stuck with the Sequel and the Jasico Fanfiction I'm currently working on (which pretty much happened all the time)

I hope you'll enjoy it, it's certainly a bit different.

It's not entirely based on Disney's Beauty And The Beast, but to like 80%.

So it's

Characters (c) Rick Riordan, PJO + HOO
Beauty and the Beast (c) Disney
Rest of the Story (c) Mine

I think the characters are a tad OOC by times, but I'm quite pleased with the end result (especially because I won the challenge muahahaha)

This was actually quite fun to write, though.

Might do some more Disney crossovers when I'm done with my other WIP-projects

So, free Cookies for all and I'll just leave this here as a belated Valentines gift.

I love you guys!

-mel-chan1003

The Beauty and the Ghost King

1001 Percico Dreams

Prologue

Once upon a time there was a young prince in a big and beautiful castle. His name was Nico di Angelo.

He was a happy, cheerful child with a bright future ahead of him, loved by everyone in and around the castle.

But then everything changed.

His mother, a tender and beautiful woman, fell ill after getting caught in a horrible storm and soon passed away, even though everybody tried their best to save her.

Suffering deeply from the loss, their father, the king, left the castle and his two children behind to fend for themselves, setting out on a journey to never return.

Nico and his older sister Bianca tried to make the best of it, leaving their childhood behind them to take responsibility of the castle and the staff to take care of the kingdom by themselves.

But again, the Fates had something different in mind.

When he was only thirteen, his sister was killed by bandits in the forest on her way back from the city.

Left by himself, but much more mature for his age, he tried his best to keep going, to keep everybody happy and safe.

But as the years passed, Nico became bitter.

Very bitter.

Having lost his mother and his sister, with his father just leaving them behind like that, he began to resent the man, as well as the rest of humanity.

The once so cheerful child became a dark and brooding man, cold and calculating.

The once so bright castle became gloomy and sinister and the people that used to come here every day to celebrate and be merry were now scared of the castle and the master.

The visits stopped and most of the older staff left, leaving behind only a few servants who believed in the good in Nico, even with his coldhearted behavior.

Then, one day, the goddess of magic, Hecate, came along, visiting the castle in the form of an old woman.

She asked for entry, a place to stay the night, but the prince was too bitter to permit outsiders into his castle.

He hated strangers, hated people, hated people in his home.

So Nico sent her away.

Hecate asked him to rethink his decision, offering him a beautiful white rose, but Nico was as stubborn as they came and couldn't care less about flowers, resenting their beauty, so he sent her away again, uncaring for her scorn.

That's when Hecate showed her true form, turning into a beautiful young lady and radiating power.

The prince was horrorstruck.

As she threatened to destroy the castle and everyone who lived in it as payment for his disrespect, he fell to his knees, begging for mercy.

This castle was all he had left!

Hecate saw that there was still hope for the young prince, a chance that his bitterness and hatred would not tarnish him forever.

So she decided to change her punishment, cursing Nico to stay in these walls forever until there would be a person to love him the way he was, who could melt his frozen heart.

She changed the castle, turning the white marble to black, the angel figures to demons and the servants became mere ghosts, their bodies taken from them until the curse was lifted.

And she gave Nico a flower – the white rose she had offered him before, only it had turned pitch black now.

It was a magical flower, symbolizing his curse.

When the last petal fell, the curse would be eternal, the prince forever lost in the darkness, his staff forever undead.

For years, the staff waited for somebody – anybody – to come to the castle and break the curse.

But the surrounding cities stayed away from the cursed, dark place, talking about a haunted mansion and ghosts spooking the place.

The prince shut himself in his room, bitter and hopeless, for who could love somebody like him?

He would gaze at the flower day in day out, the falling petals only manifesting his belief and sending him further and further into the darkness.

Because there was no way anybody could ever save him from himself.