I have never wrote a story in English, and this is my first attempt. I hope it is not bad and can be read. Please for your understanding. As the title indicates, I present here a sort of adaptation of "Beauty and the Beast". Actually, I do not know whether adaptation could call it that, because I changed almost all the facts, but at least let's hope that the title fit.

Long, long ago, in the lands so far away that no one even their existence could not be sure, there was a land called the Kingdom of Fire. This is a country ruled by one king. He had everything you could wish for the soul, and although he was barely 25 years old, he had already a wife and two sons. Apparently he did not lack anything, but was dissolved, bitter, cruel, and he had a bad heart. Once, one winter night, someone knocked at the gates of the castle. The king was in a very bad mood, so he opened a huge door in person with the intent driven out the intruder. He saw an old beggar dressed in rags.

-Please, kind sir. Deign to give me shelter for the cold night
-Forget it!
-Please! The court of frost and snowstorm and I'm old and ailing woman! I swear sir, that I will not make trouble! - Asked again.
-It's not my problem! Get out old woman - evil king hissed pointing to deep in the dark forest, from which she had come.
-Dear? Is there something wrong? - A voice in the back. The Lord moved away slightly and looked at his wife looking at him uncertainly and two hands holding a black-haired boys. Behind them, lined up for the next few: majordomo, housekeeper with small nephew and master chef.

-All the best! Go back to the center-he snapped coldly.
-But ...
-You did not hear? - Hissed. Women shuddered and like the others, quickly turned to leave.
-Beware of Your Highness. Know that everything is not as it seems and the real beauty is often deeply hidden. Remember my words, O king, and open your heart-it is the old man warned him and he looked at her in disbelief.
-You still dare to lecture me? Warn me? - Hissed at her face-you have a lot of nerve, old hag, I admit. Now get out before I will command you bait dogs-added ice and slammed the door in the woman's face. He had not gone three steps, however, when in the middle of the entrance hall there is blinding flash of light. When it subsided, everyone saw the beautiful sorceress floating above the ground and looking at the bad king.

-Beguiled you, your cruel and unforgiving heart. You are cruel and insensitive to both foreign as well as your loved ones. You do not have in yourself a little bit of love, so you will be punished-she spoke multiplied melodious voice and raised her arms to the side and her eyes lit up with white light like two suns.
-Forgive me, I beg of you! I had no idea ...
-It's too late to repent! Cursed be this house and its residents. I impose a curse on this place! You and your loved ones will suffer to the end of your days! If, however, your sons will both fall in love and earn love until the younger end 20 years then the spell will be broken! You, however, by this time you will not remember that you are the father. So better be hoping that they were not like you! - While she spoke, all residents of the castle began to surround the strange, glittering dust and terrified people one by one changed into different types of equipment relevant to their duties. Then dust surrounded the king's sons, changing, surprisingly, only their clothes, so now they look like a simple and poor children. Next dust rushed toward the queen. A woman screamed scared.
-Mom! - Terrified boys cried with tears streaming down their cheeks. Woman raised slightly off the ground and began to shrink until it turned into a beautiful, good-looking, blood-red rose. At the end of the fairy dust of the castle gathered in one place and rushed towards the king by surrounding it almost as complete. The Lord yelled so that the castle had heard, and he began to growing and change. There, you could hear the sound of torn material and all looked horrified, as their king in agony from a man turns into something. It's something human has certainly wosn't. Thus, the tyrant turned into a monstrous and terrifying beast. Sailor was close to the floor and picked up, emanating strange, enchanted queen.
-This rose is a symbol of passing time. As soon as the last petal falls, your wife will die and the spell will be eternal. Pray that fortune was kind to you, beast-added and vanished into thin air as suddenly as she had appeared. Her last words echoed and flower hung in the air. There was dead silence. Cursed King, ashamed of his ugliness, hid behind the walls of his castle and he could see the world only in the last not destroyed by himself, a mirror-magic gift from the sorceress. Cavorting in despair, the Lord destroyed everything he encountered on his way and the castle, despite the best efforts of the service, it gradually fell into ruin and more and more scaring people. After surrounding towns began rumors that it is haunted by ghosts, monster house. Years passed and the two dukes enchanted grew up and slowly turned into ordinary servants. The king began to lose all hope. Who, in fact, in their right mind would willingly go to the castle of the beast, and in addition to ordinary servants love?