Enchanted Blue Rose

Beauty and the Beast Characters:

Belle- Saya

Beast- Haji

Gaston- Amshel

Belle’s Brother- Kai

Enchantress- Diva

Lumiere- Nathan

Cogsworth- David

Mrs. Potts- Julia

Chip- Riku

Gaston’s Brother- Karl

Gaston’s Nephew- Solomon

Bookkeeper- Lewis

Baker- James

Prologue-

            Once upon a time on a dark and stormy night a hooded figure approached a shadowed castle in the middle of a looming forest. An old woman who had lost her way. As she approached the ominous gates her heart sped the tiniest fraction and she began to shake, yet she pushed on. When she came to the big, thick oak doors she was drenched from head to toe. Timidly she knocked on the door hoping for someone to be home and to let her in, out of the cold night storm. At once a light could be seen from one of the many windows and as it traveled toward the door hope began to build in her chest.

            As if a great wind had hit then the oak doors flew wide open to reveal a man, no older than twenty-two. The look on his face showed annoyance and anger that made the old woman jump back with worry. His voice matched his expression,

            “Who are you and what do you want old hag?” His eyes were the color of coal and his hair was in a messy ponytail, the same color as his eyes. The black that he wore contrasted with the paleness of his skin.

            “Please, I have lost my way kind Sir. If you will allow, I would be most honored if you’d allow me the pleasure of staying the night until morning. Then I will leave you, never to be seen again.” She begged the young man at the doors.

            “What do you have to offer me for your stay hag?” The man crossed his arms over his chest. Smiling hopefully the woman reach into her dark cloak and pulled from it a single blue rose. Holding it out to him again she begged,

            “Please my dear prince, as I’m sure you are, let me stay the night and in return I will give you this beautiful blue rose as a token of my appreciation.” As she said this the princes face contorted into a scowl.

            “A stupid rose! Are you that poor that you can’t even pay me for a night of my services!” He grabbed the rose and through it to the ground and stomped it to dust. “Leave my castle and never return!” With that the prince turned and slammed the doors in the woman’s face.

            As he walked away from the door a glow came from the cracks in the doors. Suddenly the doors flew open and there stood a woman cloaked in black like the night. Hair the color of ebony and eyes as blue as the rose she had offered. Her hair swept around her waist. It was like time had gone back fifty years because she was no longer an old hag but a beautiful girl, maybe sixteen or seventeen.

            “Prince Haji, you have proven my suspicions correct. You are as cold as your heart tells and it shows in your actions. I tried to give you a chance, to prove me wrong, but I was dead on. So now I will place a curse on you and all who live here.” As if her voice was music she sang his punishment. He fell to his knees and bowed his head as if in respect.

            “Please! Please give me another chance! Please Miss!” Her voice rang in his ears.

            “I am enchantress Diva and you, my prince, are and forever will be a beast.” She started to sing a song, a song of her own in Latin, and without warning a searing pain shot through Haji and he crumpled in agony. “The only way to break the curse is to find a girl and have her love you for who you really are. I will give you until all the petals on this flower have fallen to carry out this task.” She held up the blue rose from earlier. “If you do not manage to find someone by this time you will remain a beast forever.”

            His limbs contorted, stretching in all different directions. The ripping of fabric echoed throughout the castle as the unfurling of great wings followed soon after. As he stood his joints popped and every muscle strained. When he was at his full height Haji looked around him with his new eyes, his vision was sharper and as he looked toward the enchantress every aspect of her was enhanced. Tempted to touch the beautiful woman he stretched out his arm, but what he saw was a clawed hand of grayish skin. A roar escaped his lips in surprise.

            “What have you done to me! What am I?!” He screeched at Diva. She simply smirked and reached into her cloak again and pulled out a small handheld mirror.

            “I will give you two gifts. One, a mirror which will be your only means of seeing the world. The second is far more than you deserve, but I am not a cruel enchantress so my second gift to you is that during the day you will return to normal. With the exception of your left hand and your wings. But at night you will turn back into this form.” Haji stared at her with shock, the only thing that came out of his mouth was,

            “What...Am...I...”

            “You are a chiropteran. A beast as I said. Now I must leave you.” As she turned to leave she took one last look at him, “I must also warn you that with each new and full moon you will have an untamable drive for the pure blood of humans.” And she was gone. All that remained was the echoes of her singing to be heard with the cries of the prince.