Yayyy for stories based off of Disney movies based off of books written by other people! :D
This chapter's really short because it's just a prologue but... Prologue's are important, right? :3
Disclaimer: I don't own Harvest Moon, any of its characters, or Beauty and the Beast. I just combined the two in a hopefully awesome way.
Prologue
Once upon a time, there was a handsome prince who lived in a magnificent castle. The prince had everything his heart desired, and more, yet he was unkind and selfish.
One cold, dark night, an ugly old beggar woman came to the castle and asked to stay there overnight. The prince asked why he should do so, and the old woman pulled out a rose. Repulsed by her appearance and petty gift, the prince turned the woman away.
"Do not be fooled by appearances," she warned, yet he still turned her away.
Suddenly, the old woman turned into a beautiful Enchantress. The prince begged for forgiveness from her, but what's done was done: she had seen there was no kindness or love in him. So she turned the prince into a hideous beast, and placed a curse upon the castle and everyone in it.
The Beast shut himself away from everyone, with only a small mirror to look out into the world.
The rose, however, turned out to be an enchanted rose. It would bloom until his twenty-first birthday, and if the Beast did not learn to love, and be loved, by then, he would stay a Beast…
Forever.