Prologue
Once upon a time, there lived a young prince. The prince's name was Phillip Lester he was young, vain ,and very very rude. There didn't seem to be a nice bone in the young boy's body. His blue eyes looked closer to ice than any human's eye's ever should.
One night an ugly, old woman came to the young prince's doorstep asking for a warm place to stay and a meal in exchange for a single rose. But the young boy being vain only wanted beautiful people around him. So, he told the woman, no and had the door closed on her. There was another knock on the door the prince was expecting the old woman again. It turned out that the woman was really a very powerful empress testing the young prince.
She had heard of his impertinence and wanted to see it for himself. She had hoped that the stories were untrue. It didn't surprise her, though, that they were true. She had thought about what she would do to punish the boy for being so ill-mannered. The one thing that kept coming back was to make him look like what he was on the inside on his outside. Thus, making him a large beastly looking creature. In turn for encouraging his crude behaviour she cursed the rest of the castle too. Making them all random objects that you would find in a castle. "You have till the last petal falls." She told him placing the rose in a glass container. "If you do not find your true love before then, you will stay a beast forever."