This will have a little bit of the 1987 cannon movie tales version and the Disney version, and my own ideas. Will contain lines from both movies
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Prologue: The Enchantress' Spell
Once upon a time, in a far away, a young prince lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was drowning in his own misery. His parents constantly abused him, for he wasn't the son they wanted him to be. Years later, his parents left him in the care of the servants while attending to affairs of state, never to return. The prince knew his parents had abandoned him, even though the servants tried to make him think otherwise.
"Adam, you know that is not true." Mrs. Potts tried begged, as she tried her best to console the heartbroken prince.
"But it is." Adam exclaimed, "My parents don't love me, they never did, and now they've abandoned me to prove it."
He turned on his heel and stomped to bedroom, slamming the door in Mrs. Potts' face.
It was then that the prince's heart completely shattered and he became lost within darkness. He soon became selfish and unkind, this would hold consequences later. One winter's night an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose, in return for shelter from the bitter cold. Disgusted by the woman's appearance, the prince snorted at the woman's tiny gift and sent her on her way. The woman did not turn away without offering one, and only one warning. He was not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. But when the prince chose not to heed the woman's warning, her ugly face melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress. When the prince saw this he begged for her forgiveness, but it was too late, she had already seen that there was no love within his heart. So as punishment, she turned him into a hideous beast, a shape she thought that would match the coldness of his heart.
The enchantress did not leave anything untouched, the servants were changed into household objects, and the castle was touched with darkness to look forbidding to any roaming travelers. The events of that night would forever haunt him. So to hide his shame, he kept himself trapped inside his luxurious prison, with a magic mirror that way of seeing the world that he was excluded from. The servants thought that what happened to Adam was a cruel and unusual punishment for a child, but what they didn't know was that this transformation was going to change him for the better.
The one reminder of his of his curse was the presence of the rose that the enchantress had offered to him. It was an enchanted rose that would blossom until the year he turned twenty-one. The only way to break the curse was to find somebody he could genuinely love, but she had to love him in return, regardless of his appearance. If this did not happen before the last petal fell from the rose, Prince Adam would be forever trapped as a beast.
Ten years have passed since that fateful night and the prince is nearing his twenty-first birthday. Now he is beginning to lose hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast?
A/N: This is going a bit more realistic and has parts of the original fairytale. I used the Disney prologue to set the backbone of the story, the 1987 version kind of left some spots untold. Plus, I tried my best to answer two questions that I always wondered about. Where were his parents? And I always thought he was really young when it all happened so I made it that way. This story was originally going to be called Touched by a Rose, but when I thought more about the story as a whole, I changed my mind. Anyway, read and review. Oh, and for those who don't know, Adam is the name of the prince in the Disney film.