Beauty and The Beast Retelling draft

For our final project, we did another retelling of our choice. I chose a fairytale which is "Beauty and The Beast", I chose to retell this because I've always been fond of their story. I didn't change a whole lot so you can still see the resemblance of the original story. Here is my first draft of the retelling.

Long ago tales of a beast living just outside of the town of Conquest began to spread. No one dares to go near the west of the village. It only takes a brave girl to save her father. 

An inventor by the name of Maurice fell sick, his daughter Belle was worried because he isn’t in a state where his sickness is normal. She brought in healers hoping they could do something but when they took a look at him they were frightened. Confused and more worried, Belle began asking questions. They took her outside and told her at he has a rare disease that only a flower can heal. That was the last thing they said before leaving. She hurried to her father’s library and started looking for a book about the magical flower that would heal him. She uncovers an old book tucked away in the corner and started reading. After hours of searching, she finally stumbles across a rose in a glass dome imprinted on a page, beneath it reads,” To whoever is willing to sacrifice shall be gifted with the power of healing”. She knew that this is what the healers were talking about but she still didn’t know where to get it. After more reading, she finds another image in one of the pages and a script below it. “ Who seeks and who’s courageous wanders through the woods of the west, thou shall find a castle and sacrifices themself.” Belle reads. Maurice walks in and breaks the silence, Belle knew that is was the right time to tell her father that she might be away for a while whilst she gets the things that would heal him.  Hesitant to say yes, Maurice agrees because he knew that if she did this they would have more time together.  

Belle, not entirely knowing what she’s getting herself into says goodbye to her father and makes her way to the west of the woods with some of her stuff. She took out the book from her bag and followed the map on one of the pages. After 15 mins of walking, she makes her way to the castle gate. Shivers across her spine as the gate squicks open. She opens the massive doors to the castle and a talking spoon appears and welcomes her. The talking spoon leads her to the dining hall where the “Beast” (she didn’t think that the Beast was real since she thought it was just a tale but she was very wrong) was. Frightened, she tries to run for the door but the Beast says he wasn’t going to eat her and that he was just going to ask a question. She gives in, knowing that this is the only way to save her father. She starts talking about why she was here, about her father and about the book. The Beast takes her to the conservatory where the rose was. Before opening the glass dome that the rose was in he says that he will give her the rose one condition, she has to stay in the castle for a few days so that the Beast can see if she is really worthy of getting the rose and saving her father. Belle says yes and the spoon takes her to her room for the next few days. 

They spent their first day having tea in the conservatory and the next few days they got to know each other more. Day by day they got closer and started sharing more of the sensitive parts of their life. One night Belle was talking about her mother and sister, they both passed during a fire in their family bakery.  The other night Beast who’s real name is Adam was saying how he came to be the Beast. He paid for his father’s misdoings by letting the old hag place the curse on him.  His father had once loved the old hag but left her for Adams mother, he has to find his true love for the curse to be lifted. The final night he had asked her if she wanted to dance, she said she didn’t know how to but once they started, they couldn’t stop. They both moved gracefully to the sound of the music, whilst they were dancing he was started feeling not so well. He was glowing but like a light, he transforming to his original state. He was human again. Belle was his true love. 

He ended up giving her the rose so she could save her father, they had their first sighting of each other when Adam visited Belle. He was so fond of Belle and Maurice that he invited them to live with him since both of them had been living in a small cottage. After a few years of living together, they decided to get married and have 2 children together. After that, they lived happily ever after.