A/N: Okay, this will require some explanation. Well, in French class, we were watching 'Beauty and the Beast', which translated into French is 'La Belle et la Bete'. But 'Bete' can also be translated into 'idiot'. Being the obsessive 'Les Mis' freak I am, I thought, hmmm… 'Idiot… dolt of a lawyer… MARIUS!' So this was created. Hope you enjoy, or at least, are not too scared.

Disclaimer: Disney owns the plot and songs; Hugo owns the characters. I own nothing but Courfeyrac the singing Candlestick… and Enjolras the indignant Clock. I'd like to make copyrights on them, if their separate characters had not already been copyrighted… and stuff.

Near the small village of Montreuil- sur- mer, there was once a magnificent castle, and in it, lived a handsome prince. The prince had everything he wanted, and was generally very kind and giving to his subjects, yet he was also very, very stupid. He didn't notice the most blatantly obvious things until they were pointed out to him, and, at times, he made incredibly idiotic decisions. This is the story of one of them.

One cold, rainy night, a girl named Eponine knocked on the door of the prince's castle. Eponine was madly in love with the prince, but the prince, being very stupid, did not realize this. Eponine had been kicked out of her home and needed a place to stay. Unfortunately, she kept staring at the prince and mentioning how handsome he was and so on until the prince was extremely freaked out and extremely uncomfortable. Eponine finally got to the point of her speech, it being, 'I need a place to stay for the night. May I stay here? I can pay you with this rose.'

Marius, which was the name of the prince, being terrified out of his wits and stupid as usual, gave Eponine five francs and told her to try finding a room at an inn in the village. Sadly, he didn't know that Eponine's parents ran the only inn in the village. He promptly slammed the door shut, and Eponine fell off the drawbridge and drowned in the moat.

But Eponine was much beloved of the fandom, and so she was turned into a beautiful fairy, and forced the door to the castle open. The prince was again terrified and begged forgiveness for accidentally causing Eponine's death. But hell hath no fury like a woman scorned and accidentally killed by the object of her affections. Eponine cursed the prince. He would become a wraith-like, penniless student with a permanent Phantom of the Opera mask on, living in an enchanted castle (where everyone had been turned into previously inanimate objects) until he could love a woman, and be loved in return. The enchanted rose Eponine had offered would bloom for many years, but if he did not fall in love with someone before the last petal fell, he and his friends would remain like they were… forever.

As the years passed, Marius sunk into despair, and he found that whenever he was angry and depressed, wild animals would appear and destroy things. This sunk him into further despair, for who could love a penniless student with a mask glued on his face that could create destructive wild animals when he was angry and depressed?

And so, the dark castle was forgotten for a time by the merry people of Montreuil- sur- mer, but things would change…..