Sweetie Belle and the Dragon

by Starlight Comet

Rating: everyone
Tags: Tragedy, Sad, Anthro, Romance
Length: 256

A mlp-version on the classic tale of Beauty and the Beast

A cruel prince is turned into a hideous dragon. In order to break the curse, he must truly love someone and have that person love him in return. He then meets a young lady named Sweetie Belle, who shows him how to love someone and to see the goodness within the hearts of the hideous.

Cast:
Sweetie Belle-Belle
Spike-Dragon/The Prince
Blueblood-Gaston
Snips-LeFou
Starswirl-Maurice
Rainbow Dash-Lumiere
Applejack-Cogsworth
Twilight Sparkle-Mrs. Potts
Nyx-Chip

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-01-18 18:25:08 UTC

Prologue

Once upon a time, in a faraway land, a young prince lived in a crystal 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 and offered him a single rose in return for shelter from the bitter cold. 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 with black and white stripes. The prince tried to apologize, but it was too late, for she had seen that there was no love in his heart, and as punishment, she transformed him into a hideous dragon, and placed a powerful spell on the castle, and all who lived there.

Ashamed of his monstrous form, the dragon 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 her 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 dragon for all time.

As the years passed, he fell into despair, and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love a dragon?