Disclaimer: I do not own Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast and J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter.
Ratings: T (M in a few scenes)
Pairings: Harry/Adam (Beast)
Warnings: slash, male x male, violence, maybe underage, MPreg.
This Chapter: Full quote from BB.
Hidden Beauty
Prologue
Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young prince lived in a shining castle. Although he had everything his heart desired, the prince was spoiled, selfish, and unkind.
But then, one winter's night, an old beggar woman came to his castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold. Repulsed by her haggard appearance, the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away, but she warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found from within.
And when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress. The prince tried to apologise, 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...
"BEAST, A HIDEOUS BEAST" echoed through Prince Adam, now known as the Beast's mind. He thrashed the furniture around the West Wing, unleashing his rage for being stupid not searching for magical presences.
Yes, he was a prince with magic in his veins. His parents were purebloods of Ledoux-Verville family. They were the most adored royal family in the magical France. However, due to a strange plague that fell across the majestic land, half of the population together with the King and Queen had succumbed to it. He was only five years old.
The people knew their new ruler was only a boy. Some had declared war to seize the kingdom. That too had reduced the number of people. Realising there is no hope, the rest of the people left to build a new life or to forget the war.
The only people who had remained behind were the servants of the castle and the prince himself. Despaired by the lack of loyalty from their fellow countrymen, they turned their gaze to the royal prince. They spoiled him, made sure he never lacked of anything, ultimately curbing his curiosity to venture beyond the castle grounds and human compassion.
As the years gone by, magic had depleted most parts of the land. The castle stood in a forest of deadly trees and always-hungry wolves. Magic surrounded the castle, providing a natural Muggle and wizard Notice-me-not charm. Very few powerful wizards and witches, such as the enchantress, came across the surviving structure usually in their travels.
It was from that magic the enchantress had casted a spell to turn him into a beast and enchanted everything, living or non-living, within the vicinity of the castle. Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside the castle, with a magic mirror and an enchanted rose. The mirror was the very few surviving artefact to last from the war while the rose was created from the enchantment, which would bloom until his twenty-first year.
If he could love another and earn their love in return by the time the last petal fell, the spell would be broken. If not, he would remain a beast for all time. That was the condition he remembered from that winter's night. He turned now to gaze upon the rose, now covered in a glass. He told himself that all hope is lost, for who could ever love a beast as he watched a petal fell, bringing him further into his doom.
What he did not know, there was a boy in a Muggle village nearby, dreamed about the lonely prince. A boy who had vowed to be his friend, never to be lonely again and maybe, to fall in love with.
I hope you like the prologue. I know Harry is very vague in the introduction. Please send me a lot of reviews. Please mind my spelling and grammar.