A/N: I don't own Hetalia or any of its characters, or any fairytale I use.
Prologue
Once upon a world meeting, things were getting very out of hand, as usual. Germany was about to resort to shouting when the conference room doors slammed open. In walked…
No one.
But before Germany could resume his shout, an echoing voice from the heavens interrupted.
"All of you SHUT UP!"
The meeting room stilled.
In her computer chair, the author leaned back, grinning in triumph.
"Since no one can seem to agree on anything and you're all acting like children, I thought we might have fun reading some fairytales to calm down."
Most of the countries in the room thought it was a pretty stupid idea. The omniscient author really didn't care, and flipped open her book of fairytales.
"Let's see… How about we start with Beauty and the Beast?"
Since the author was omniscient and omnipresent, etc. the various nations really couldn't do a thing about it, and just settled for having attitudes instead. Except for Italy, who was elated to get to hear bedtime stories again. After all, his siesta was soon!
So everyone settled down and got comfortable (or not) to various degrees of their choosing (Greece was already asleep, in fact), and the story began.