The Blonde Beauty and The Red Haired Beast

The Puppet and The Dark Nobody

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young prince, named Roxas 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 Puppet and The Dark Nobody

There is a little house on a hill not far from the village, lives a young woman named Xion. She is now leaving her 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, Xion!" The baker says as Xion jumps over to the bakery.

"Morning monsieur!" Xion 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 baker ignores him.

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

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

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

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

"No denying she's a funny girl, that Xion!" The townsfolk sing as Xion 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 a hold of her other children.

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

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