Emily looked at her clock. It was 2:00 a.m. She put on her wedding dress and made it to the end of the town where she would meet her husband-to-be. She looked for him, but he was nowhere to be seen.

He must be late. Emily thought to herself. She sat alone in the dark, foggy night.

Then, Emily felt a sharp pain from the back of her head. She then fe to the ground.

Then she saw her fiancée before she was knocked down to the ground.

Her fiancée went back to her and took a sharp knife out of his coat. She closed her eyes as she felt the knife being stabbed through her right rib. She was dead.

Meanwhile, Emily's brother, Prince Adam, was in his shining castle. After he heard about what happened to his sister, he became spoiled, selfish and unkind.

One winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the castle and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold. By the look of her hagrid appearance, Prince Adam sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away.

But she warned him not to be deceived by ugliness, for beauty is found within. But when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress.

Prince Adam tried to apologize, but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart. As punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast and placed a magical spell on the castle and all who lived there.

Ashamed of his monstrous form, Prince Adam concealed himself in hid castle with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world. The rose, she had offered, was actually an enchanted rose which would bloom until his 21st year. If he could learn to love another and earn her love in return, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for eternity.

Now Emily and Adam sat in despair and lost all hope. Who could ever learn to love a corpse, and who could ever learn to love a beast?