Belle was upset that the Beast was keeping her in the castle. She had traded herself to be prisoner so that her father could go free. However, her father was slowly getting older and needed her help around the shop. Thus she needed a way out of here. One day, she decided to try and use one of the magical items items around the castle.

"Can I explore for a bit?" she asked Cogsworth.

"Of course Mademoiselle." replied the clock man.

"Be sure to stay away from the West Wing." Lumiere called after her.

"I will." she replied to the candle man.

She didn't know what was in the West Wing, but it seemed foolish to go somewhere, besides out of the castle where she could get away, that would upset the Beast.

She looked around and found a magic box. She could tell it was magical because of the magical-seeming aura around it. She opened it and found a magic viewing device. She saw an inscription on it. Deciding she had nothing to lose, she read it.

Meanwhile, a couple of hundred years later, in New Orleans, Tiana was not having fun. She had first found out that after busting her butt for years trying to get enough cash to buy premises for her dream restaurant, that the racist salesmen had said that there was another buyer who had bidden higher, which she knew was crap as the place had not been bought despite being available for years.

She had had even worse luck to kiss an enchanted prince who had been turned into a frog by the evil voodoo guy the Shadow Man. Worse, when she had kissed him, she'd turned into a frog too. She had had to hide with him in a tree stump all night to hide from gators.

Later, she and Prince Naveen had met a trumpeting alligator named Luis who had agreed to take them to Mama Odie, a voodoo woman who could, hopefully, undo the mess done by the Shadow Man.

However, right then she and Naveen were pulled on. They were yanked through time and space. Luis, who hadn't noticed, kept swimming, clueless that they were no longer there.

When Tiana and Naveen stopped spinning, they found themselves in an old dark castle. Belle stared at them.

"Where are we?" asked frog Tiana. Belle fainted.