This is a story about a wife lost her husband to a war he fought in and lives with her daughter.
Lieselotte & Astrid.
When she sees an ad for a tour around a mansion, they go there to ease their loss. They meet up with the group to take the tour and browse through the rooms of the mansion. Unfortunately the mother and daughter got lost because of one such room that piqued her interest. They heard footsteps unlike the tourists of the mansion, something more heavier, more rugged and dashing in a blur the mother can barely make out.
They press on but keeping their voices down to avoid my detection.
When they enter a room with a rose in a jar, the mother looks curious as to what it means.
But then the only resident of the mansion reveals himself before them, one that looks like a hybrid between a Werewolf and a dragon.
The Beast.
I am that Beast.
I scare them off from the rose just as I scare off the tourists out of the mansion for their own safety.
Who would set up a tour around my mansion even?
I watch them leave, thankful that they won't do anymore meddling around my mansion.
As the two drive back to their home, they see their home engulfed in flames, destroyed by arson.
They got nowhere else left to go but back to my mansion. They look for a bedroom to sleep in, still keeping their voices down and adapting to their surroundings to avoid my detection.
Since everyone else from the tour have left, they're on their own and have to stick together to stay alive from my potential wrath.
But then she tells her daughter to stay put as she decides to go over to the beast, as she says, "for a talk."
She calls out to me when she returns to the west wing, I answered and show myself before her.
She wasn't planning on taking the rose, not even lifting the jar encasing it, she was curious about it and what it meant when she first saw it.
She asked me:
Why didn't I hurt anyone to scare them off?
What's the significance of the rose in the west wing?
And why didn't I attack her and Astrid when they returned.
First, I don't really want to.
Second, like with the fairy tale, it is an indication on how much I have left to live. If the last petal falls, I'm dead.
And third, I was about to before she found me before I could find her.
And when she told me that her home was destroyed and got nowhere else left to go except for the mansion I accept, allowing the two to stay.
Plus she lost her husband to a war he fought in.
The very least she can do is gain my trust and shelter them from the winter.
She leads me to the bedroom where Astrid awaits and start to gain her trust, too.
When the blistering cold calms and whether the sun shines or clouds steady, she encourages me to come out of the mansion and play with the two: snowball fight, sledding, making snowmen, Astrid riding me like her stead.
Overtime, of course, both me and Liesl start falling in love as Astrid recalled a fairytale her mother read to her: The Beauty & The Beast. A man cursed by a spell from a sorceress for his anger, lashing out on the townsfolk.
She gives him the rose and if he doesn't find control over his anger, open himself to people outside his mansion and of course fall in love, eventually the rose will die when its last petal falls.
Once we realize what that means, Liesl helps me regain some confidence by having a conversation about what's going on outside my mansion, walk out of the mansion and into a park where people travel, hoping the people passing by won't notice or at least say hi, we found a cottage – which I'm sure we won't make it as our home anytime soon – and of course setting up dinner together, trying out a spoon for the first time in a long while as we have dinner, and then Liesl taking me to the ballroom to dance, with Astrid watching.
I felt happy, just as much as Liesl. She felt tears of joy as her efforts to gain my trust pays off and we look to Astrid with her adorable cheers, the fairytale coming true.
It then goes south as we heard the thundering sound of engines, sky pirates disembarking from their airship to raid the mansion.
I took the two to their room for safety and I go out to fight off the pirates.
I can't lose my only chance of salvation and a second chance at life with a woman who's starting to understand me and let me back out to the world.
Her daughter is also helpful, in reminding us that this whole thing really is a fairytale coming to life.
With all the pirates clobbered by me, or at least I hope so, I dash back over to the bedroom to see the two, but I got shot by the last pirate, hiding and keeping a low profile on me. I burst back at him, pushing him out of the mansion, falling from the balcony to his death.
One of the pirates decides "if we can't have the mansion, no one else can!" commandeers their airship to crash into the mansion, setting it on fire and forcing me to dash back to the bedroom to take both Liesl & Astrid with me. With a powerful push of the doors, we escaped just as the airship crash and bursts into flames, taking the mansion with it.
The two lost their home, now I lost mine.
Unfortunately, I'm dying because of the rose in the mansion is still there and destroyed with the rest of my home.
Liesl gave me a kiss, which restores me to my original state and wander across the park till we found that very cottage we passed early, becoming our new home.
We started cleaning up the place to make ourselves comfy, but it won't belong before we realized who once owned the Cottage:
The Sorcreress.
Who apparently died of old age between my transformation and both Liesl and Astrid's entrance to my life.
She figured that if I accomplished my goals and abandoned the mansion I'd move to the cottage. A smaller, more confined home could be better than a larger yet claustrophobic one.
None of that matters, I'm human again, found the woman who gave me a second chance at life, controlled my anger and looking after her daughter, and what path she'll make in the future.
But not repeat my past, least another sorcerer/sorceress shows up and turns her into the beast like I was.
Happy ending all around.