Always Fear the Forest

(A dark adaptation of Beauty & The Beast)

The village Belle had the misfortune of being born into had been cursed since her great, great ancestors helped build it. Something foul lurked in the air, something sour and poisonous. Everyone felt it, the unspoken question was what exactly it was. Strange things happened from time to time, missing children, sudden, horrific deaths. Unexplainable things that terrified the residents of Loupeau, stuck in their hometown with nowhere else to go.

It all comes down to the forest. No one dared enter it. No one dared speak of it. The only thing anyone ever mentioned about the dark woodlands was the saying drummed into each of them from birth. Generation after generation grew up with the most important warning to live by:

Always fear the forest.