The Blonde Beauty and The Red Haired Beast

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young prince, named Axel 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 the castle. 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 within. And when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress. The prince tried to apologize, but it was too late, for she has seen that there was no love in his heart, and as punishment, she transformed him into a hideous beast, and placed a powerful spell on the castle, and all who lived there. Ashamed of his monstrous form, the beast concealed himself inside his castle, with a magic mirror as his only window to the outside world. The rose she had offered was truly an enchanted rose, which would bloom until his twenty-first year. If he could learn to love another, and earn their love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair, and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love... a beast?

The Blonde Beauty and The Red Haired Beast

There is a little house on a hill not far from the village, lives a young man named Roxas. He is now leaving his home to go to the village.

"Little town, it's a quiet village,
Every day, like the one before,
Little town, full of little people,
Waking up to say..."

"Bonjour!"

"Bonjour!"

"Bonjour!"

"Bonjour!"

"Bonjour!"

"There goes the baker with his tray like always
The same old bread and rolls to sell
Ev'ry morning just the same
Since the morning that we came
To this poor provincial town..."

"Good Morning, Roxas!" The baker says as Roxas jumps over to the bakery.

"Morning monsieur!" Roxas replied

"Where are you off to?"

"The bookshop! I just finished the most wonderful story, about a beanstalk and an ogre and..." He trails off as the the baker ignores him.

"That's nice... Marie, the baguettes! Hurry up!"

"Look there he goes, that boy is strange no question
Dazed and distracted, can't you tell?" The townsfolk sing as Roxas continues to the bookshop.

"Never part of any crowd." A woman sings.

"Cause his head's up on some cloud." The barber sings.

"No denying he's a funny boy, that Roxas!" The townsfolk sing as Roxas jumps on the back of a wagon and rides it through town.

"Bonjour!" The driver said.

"Good day!" Another woman said.

"How is your family?"

"Bonjour!" A third woman says.

"Good day!" A merchant said.

"How is your wife?"

"I need six eggs!" the fourth woman said as she was hanging on to a baby and keeping ahold of her other children.

"That's too expensive!" A man says.

"There must be more than this provincial life!" Roxas sings as he enters the bookshop.