Summary:
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to Fairy Tail's Disney Parody Series! Today's installment, we bring you "Beauty and the Lightning Beast", based on one of the best films in the Disney 90's era, "Beauty and the Beast." See what I did there?
When her siblings' lives are on the line, Mirajane Strauss does not hesitate in agreeing to be the prisoner of Laxus Dreyar, a prince transformed into a hideous lightning beast because of his selfish heart. As first, Mirajane sees Laxus as a monster, but there is more to him than meets the eye. Will she be willing to free Laxus and his servants from their curse before the last petal falls? (Mirajane x Laxus)
Once upon a time in a faraway land, there stood the shining castle of the Royal Dreyar Family. The late King Ivan had fallen in battle during the war with the Ravens, while his wife Natasha died giving birth to their only son. On the day of the king's death, his son Laxus was only six years old. By decision of the royal council, Ivan's father Makarov was to rule in place of the king until his grandson Laxus's sixteenth birthday.
After many years, Laxus's sixteenth birthday came and gone, and he stepped up as the rightful heir to the throne following Makarov's passing. Unfortunately, although he had everything his heart desired, the young prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind.
But then, one winter's night, a young beggar girl came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, Laxus sneered at the gift and turned the young woman away. But she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within. And when he dismissed her again, the young girl's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress named Mavis Vermillion. Laxus tried to apologize to Mavis, but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart. And as punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast with bizarre powers over thunder and lightning, and placed a powerful spell on the castle and all who lived there.
Ashamed of his monstrous form, Laxus concealed himself inside his castle with a magic lacrima as his only window to the outside world. The rose Mavis had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his twenty-third year. If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast?