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After insulting a powerful sorceress, Rayven is placed under an equally
powerful spell; one who's remedy will be almost impossible to find. |
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Eleven-year-old Beauty helps an old woman and receives an odd and exciting
prediction for her fututre. |
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Beauty and her sisters are startled out of their homey reveries
when their father returns, distraught and unwilling to tell his story. |
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Father tells a fantastic tale of a beast living in a castle, a beast that
has demanded either the farmer's life or one of his daughters in return
for the theft of a rose. Beauty goes in her father's stead without his knowledge. |
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Beauty finds her way to the castle and is greeted by its Captain of the
Guard... a wolf named Christian. |
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Dinner with Rayven, who is already quite taken with the fiery young Beauty. |
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An unexpected gesture of affection. |
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Beauty cannot sleep and goes wandering, only to find Rayven reading Shakespeare
aloud. A mushy, but rather sweet interlude to the words of Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet. |
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An example of a typical day in the castle. |
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Rayven tears a marauding pack of wolves limb from limb when they attack
Beauty. |
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The requisite bandaging of wounds scene... Rayven feels guilt over his
display of violence. |
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Beauty feels burgeoning attraction for Rayven... which is tempered by
the sight of him bathing in a nearby pool. |
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A special dinner turns into an even more special night in Rayven's bedroom. |
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Beauty's father takes deathly ill and Rayven releases Beauty to tend to
him. Knowing that she belongs to the outside world he casts a spell of his
own... a spell to make her forget him. |
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Beauty arrives back home with an odd sense of having forgotten something. |
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Beauty settles back into life with her father and sisters, but is bothered
by the vague feeling that something is missing. An old woman comes and regales
the family with the tale of the Dragon Prince. The Chinese fairy tale sparks
Beauty's memory at last. |
