Chapter 1

Serenity walked slowly down the street on her way home from the library. Her long auburn hair was braided back and her green eyes were scanning the pages of a new book. She was so caught up in the tale of romance and mystery however, that she didn't notice as Tristan and Duke snuck up from the side. All of a sudden, Duke grabbed her arms as Tristan took her book. As her long time admirers they did this frequently for attention.

"What do we have here," Duke taunted holding her back.

Tristan waved her book in front of her, "It looks like we have a beautiful girl ruining herself by reading." Duke nodded as they continued to taunt her in a playful manner. Serenity was so used to them stealing her books that she didn't struggle or plead with them as she used to. She waited for the perfect moment in which to perform the moves her brother had taught her. She stepped on Duke's foot and, as soon as he let go of her, dashed forward to grab her book. Just out of spite she kicked Tristan's ankle before she ran home, well as close to running as she could get in her green heels. In her front yard she ran straight into Mai, her brother's girlfriend.

"Hon, you look flushed, what's wrong?" Mai asked as Serenity muttered her apologies.

"It's just Duke and Tristan being annoying bums again," Serenity smiled as she remembered Duke's yelps as her heel came in contact with his toes.

Mai saw Serenity's small smile, "What's so funny?" she asked.

"Oh, nothing I'm just remembering how I stepped on Duke's foot…"

"You didn't!" Mai yelled trying not to laugh.

"Yes, I actually did, but I need to talk to my brother so if you'll excuse me," Serenity pushed past Mai and walked into the cottage she shared with her brother.

Looking around Serenity spotted a note on the table. Picking it up, she read it and gasped.

Little Sister,

I'm sorry that I had to tell you this in a note but I knew that you wouldn't let me go if I had waited to tell you in person. I'm participating in a duel in the next town over. To save time I'm going to have to pass through the forest. Yes, I know, I know, you don't want me to go but I'll be at the town before nightfall so I should be fine. Be good because I asked Mai to keep an eye on you. I should be back in three days.

Love,

Joey

Of course our dear Joey was not having any fun. Although, if you were traveling through a spooky forest with only a horse as company, and an old horse at that, you would not be singing and skipping along either. Every time he heard the wolves howl he jumped and scared his already skittish horse. It was said that werewolves lived in the forest, of course that theory had never been proven but still, you never do know. In all actuality there was only a few Fae, a pack of blood thirsty wolves, a castle, and a prince-turned-bear (who is constantly in a really awful mood) living in that forest. That's nothing to be scared of, well actually it is, but Joey didn't know any of this, he was scared of the pretend werewolves.

Despite all of the dangers, his journey would have been fine if he had stayed on the path. Unfortunately our blood thirsty pack of wolves happened to smell his horse. They came out from behind the trees and spooked the horse. The horse had already been scared enough but when he saw the wolves it was just the last straw, I think that almost anyone else would have turned and ran in his shoes too. The poor scared beast ran into the trees and straight toward the castle, the wolves chased him for awhile but as they got closer to the castle they stopped and gave up. Not even a tasty horse was worth going near that castle. The horse, unfortunately, didn't know anything about the castle so he kept running till he reached it. Then, he reared at the gates, knocking off his rider in the process. The horse had no idea where to go after having hit this dead end so he ran straight home.

Joey was, by now, wet, cold, and severely spooked. Seeing the castle he decided to see if anyone lived there. So, he opened the gate and walked toward the door. It was already dark so he didn't notice the lovely garden that he walked past, not that he would have cared much at the moment anyways. Knocking on the door he waited a minute until it was answered, by a male elf. Again, darkness hid this little fact from Joey. However this was probably a fact that Joey would have cared about had he noticed.

"Please sir, I was traveling through the forest when I got knocked from my horse. I was wondering if I could perhaps stay here for the night," Joey pleaded.

The elf waited a minute before answering, "My master says that it is fine so let me escort you to a room."

I know what you're thinking. You're thinking 'What happened to the prince?' or maybe 'What's with the elf?' Well to answer that I'll have to go back about ten years, to about a week after the misguided Fae cast her spell upon the prince.

Now, the Fae Queen had heard of the poor Wood Fae's attempt at bringing happiness to the poor lonely boy. The Queen even agreed that something should have been done about him, but turning him into a bear? That wasn't a good idea. Bears couldn't talk, they didn't have opposable thumbs, and above all they scared people! The Queen had checked in on the prince and she had found that all his servants had fled and that he was having trouble fixing his food. No, this was not a good idea at all.

So, the Queen called upon the poor Wood Fae and kindly requested that she remove the spell. Unfortunately, the poor fae couldn't. It was not that she didn't want to; oh no she had seen the error of her actions. She just couldn't because she didn't remember the spell that she had used. When the Queen had found out, well let's just say that she wasn't happy with this particular fae. After ranting quite a bit the Queen realized that all she could do was help the prince out. She realized that he still thought like a human, it was just his outer shape that had changed. So she decided to ask the Elves for help. Since they could speak any language, even bear, they would work perfectly as the prince's helpers. The Elves were sympathetic so they sent a few willing elves to help out the prince. With a few elves and a few faeries the queen figured that the prince would be fine for the time being.

Now that you know what's happening let's go back to the current time period shall we?

Joey had been shown to a room where he promptly fell asleep. The next morning he woke to find breakfast laid out by his bed. He sat down to a quick meal of bacon and ham with freshly squeezed orange juice. After eating Joey searched for the door thinking that he'd run into someone on his way out, he never did. Eventually he found the exit and right before leaving he yelled a thank you to whoever might be listening.

Heading towards the gate he passed dozens of flowers, and quite a few of 'Don't pick the flowers' signs too. As soon as he came to the sun flowers though, he couldn't help it. They were just too gorgeous and sun flowers were Serenity's favorite. He picked one.

As soon as he picked it, it died and crumbled.

"Excuse me sir," he heard someone say. Joey spun around and saw a small woman, but standing next to her was a black bear. Joey yelled in alarm and tried to run but he found that his legs couldn't move.

"Why did you pick that flower? Did you not see the signs? Do you know how to read?" The strange woman asked.

Looking closer Joey realized that this woman was a fae. She had red eyes which complemented her dark red hair. She was wearing a dark red dress and had see-through wings which were tinted red. Obviously this fae liked red. Although, she wasn't divinely beautiful like faeries were supposed to be. She was pretty and all but she ha a no-nonsense look about her. "I… I'm sorry," Joey stuttered wanting to run his fingers through his hair, "I wanted a gift for my sister. She must be worried about me."

The bear turned to the fae and growled. The fae looked thoughtful for a moment and turned to Joey. "You may leave if you promise to bring your sister back here."

"No freaking way!" Joey yelled.

The fae frowned, "No?"

"No," Joey said in answer to her question.

"Then yes?" the fae smiled.

"No!" Joey yelled.

"No?" the fae frowned again.

"Yes."

The fae smirked and snapped her fingers, "Then the deal is done."

All of a sudden Joey found himself at home. 'Oh no, what have I done,' he thought. He found Serenity who hugged him and told him how glad she was that he was back safely. He told her all about what had happened and Serenity became excited.

"Can I go at least visit the faeries?" she pleaded.

"No! You aren't going anywhere!" Joey said as someone knocked on the door. He went to answer it and found two elves standing there.

"We're here to pick up Miss. Serenity," they said in unison.

Chapter 1 End

Disclaimer- I do not own any Yu-Gi-Oh characters. I don't own Beauty and the Beast although this version does not have the same exact plot. Just the basic idea.

Comments to Reviewers-

Paladin Dragoon Well now you know who the Beauty is. I updated as soon as possible I hope you're happy.

Setosbabydragon Here's the answer to your question I hope it's who you wanted it to be.

Female-Yami/Yugi I hope you enjoyed this chapter.

Authoress Notes- Well I decided to use Serenity. I wanted to use Mai but she and Kaiba's personalities would never work together. So I was left between Anzu and Serenity. They both have at least one admirer but Serenity has the family member that we know so I decided to use her. Originally I was going to go with whoever a reviewer suggested but I didn't want everyone suggesting different people so I didn't say anything. I hope you guys are happy with my choice. Please review as they motivate me to update faster.

-Edit- One change I made in my editing spreethat I feel like commenting on. 'Joey yelled in alarm and tried to run' was originally 'Joey screamed and tried to run' but while I was re-reading this I had the mental image of Joey screaming like a little girl. Now as amusing as that mental image was (somehow Joey ended up in a pink outfit…) it wasn't exactly what I wanted to convey so I changed it.
But I figured I'd share the mental image wealth with you all.

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Kat