Disclaimer: I do not own Kingdom Hearts or Beauty and the Beast. This fan fiction is just for fun and I'm just a fan of the games. The only thing I do own is the plotline and my OC's.

Full Summary: Tori is a young girl who wants adventure in the other Worlds beyond the confines of Hollow Bastion like the ones her friends and big brother have. But when her brother, Terra, is captured and held prisoner at Hollow Bastion Castle, Tori agrees to take his place and becomes a prisoner, forsaking her dreams of adventure forever. But little did she know that she would find an adventure in such a gloomy, forsaken place or fall in love with a beast that would soon become her very best friend.
The townsfolk in Hollow Bastion think that Tori is such a very strange girl, always with her head in the clouds, dreaming, but little did they know of how special this nineteen year old girl was.

I hope that you all enjoy this fan fiction (it's my very first one) and all comments and criticism are welcome.

And now, without further adieu, I am proud to present A Change In Me.

Prologue

Once upon a time, in a faraway World, a young prince lived in a shining castle near the small town of Hollow Bastion with his parents, King Ritsu and his beautiful queen, Ailee the Fair. The king and queen were Hollow Bastion's beloved monarchs and the land prospered under their kind and gentle rule.

The young prince was very handsome. He had silver moonbeam-like hair, like the queen's, and his father's aquamarine eyes that were as vast and blue as the sea and kind. He was beloved by all of Hollow Bastion Castle's servants and their children were his best friends ever since they were very young.

But the friendship between the prince and his friends was tested when an evil witch came to the Castle. She snuck past the guards and spirited away the fifteen year old prince in the middle of the night, the same night that King Mickey of Disney Castle disappeared. Ritsu and Ailee were grief-stricken when they found that their only son had been kidnapped and the king sent word to all the Worlds about his son's disappearance, and to find his son and bring him home. Determined to find his missing friend, the prince's best friend since childhood, a mere servant boy, went to go find him.

While he scoured the Worlds for his lost friend, the servant boy ran into King Mickey's men, who were looking for their lost king. After a run in with the Heartless, the trio found out that the boy could wield the Keyblade and journeyed with him to find his lost friend, the prince.

After many adventures in the other Worlds, the servant boy finally found his beloved friend, but the evil witch had brainwashed him into believing that his best friend, the servant boy, was the enemy. The prince had also kidnapped one of their childhood friends, a young girl who was one of the Princesses of Heart, and the other six princesses from their home Worlds. Then the evil witch took the princesses and the prince back to Hollow Bastion Castle to assemble the necessary components to unlock the heart of all Worlds, Kingdom Hearts.

The witch stormed the Castle with her Heartless and killed Ritsu and Ailee. The younger servants had hidden themselves from the Heartless while the older servants fought the little monsters, protecting the younglings, but lost their hearts in an effort to take back their home and avenge the death of their beloved master and mistress. When the servant boy arrived at the Castle to stop the witch's plans, it was too late to save his king and queen and many of the older servants had been slain by the Heartless.

Seeing the carnage around him, and his mother and father killed before his very eyes, the prince was brought back to his senses. Filled with rage against the witch that had taken him from his family and hurt his friends, the prince battled the witch alongside his best friend, the servant boy. The witch was very strong and powerful, living up to her title as the Mistress of All Evil, but not strong enough to defeat two exceptionally talented Keyblade Bearers, and was finally vanquished.

But before she died, the evil witch cursed the prince and his entire household. The servants were turned into common inanimate household objects found in the Castle, but the witch had something much worse in mind for the prince's torment. The prince screamed in pain as he felt his features twist and change: bones cracking and realigning themselves, cruel claws replacing fingernails, teeth sharpening into dog-like fangs, and silvery fur sprouting from every inch of his skin. The servants could only watch helplessly as their master's tortured and writhing figure was transformed from the form of the boy they all knew so well into that of a hideous beast.

Just as her spell had completed its task, the witch died and nothing was left of her save one long torn scrap of her black cloak.

The prince panted from the pain he had experienced and looked around at his dear friends. They just gazed at him with sadness apparent in their eyes. His best friend brought him a small mirror and the prince finally realized why his servants had looked upon him with such grief. The witch had turned him into a silver-haired beast. The only things that hadn't changed were his aquamarine eyes, as vast and blue as the sea. But his beautiful orbs were dulled with grief for his friends and family, and the guilt welling up inside of him because of the fate he had subjected his friends to.

Seeing his anguish, the guardian of Hollow Bastion's heart, Ninrael, took pity upon her prince. She came to him and told him what he needed to do to break the spell the evil witch had placed upon him. He needed to love another and earn her love in return, but he only had a little more than five years before the spell became permanent.

The prince begged her to release him from the spell, but Ninrael only sighed. The spell was too strong for her to break on her own power. Only the original spellcaster could release him from his enchantment or else he would have to break it himself. Since the witch that had placed the curse on him had perished, the prince could only break the spell by loving another unconditionally and gaining her love in return.

Ninrael gave him a pure white rose that would bloom then wilt, shedding one petal at a time. When the last petal fell, the curse would become a perpetual spell. The rose, she said, would be a reminder of how much time the prince had left to break the spell before his enchantment became eternally permanent.

Along with the rose, Ninrael gave the prince a magic mirror that showed the beholder anything they wished to see and a small silver whistle that, when blown, would bring help of some kind to the owner.

The prince thanked her for her generous gifts, but he felt so ashamed by his monstrous form and that this beautiful enchantress had to see him this way. Ninrael knew what her prince was thinking and shook her head. The enchantress told him that even though he was under the spell, she could still see the boy within the beast. Though Ninrael's words were to encourage him, the prince was still sorrowful.

After Ninrael had kissed his forehead and bid him farewell, disappearing in a burst of light, the beast concealed himself inside his castle with the magic mirror that the enchantress had given him as his only window to the outside world. From then on the prince was a prisoner in his own home, trapped within the body of a beast.

The years passed by and the beast fell into despair despite his friends' support and high hopes that one day he would find his one true love and break the spell. He had lost all hope, and became cold and withdrawn, for who could ever learn to love a beast?