Chapter 1

The Beast spend all his days and night locked up in his study reading and writing stories.He had read all the books in his study several imes and most of them over the years had become dog eared and some of the pages were getting loose.He really had no other thing to do. He spent his nights on the roof , the roof was his only solace where he sat in the corner cuddled up and cried his eyes out, but, for the people of Farleone the cries from a distant sounded like chants which they believed the Beast was chanting to evoke evil spirits.
He cried almost every night, but he did not cry for his ugliness nor for his loneliness he cried for the only woman he ever loved . The woman was Princess Tamara , the one woman he loved and cared about in the whole world. She was long gone to the heavenly abode, she died in his arms.
It is said the Beast was once a Prince , he was Prince Ivan the hier to the throne of Farleone, the Prince was a noble man he was kind hearted and loved everyone , he was a great warrior who had killed many Turk generals in the Holy War.
On one such exepdition the Prince along with his army reached the ancient city Camaleone , the city was very beautiful, it had snow white mountains huge water falls and red maple trees.
Camaleone was ruled by a king who had great powers , he was a sorceror and the protector of the Book of Solomon.He welcomed the great prince to his castle where he was to be his royal guest.The king knew that he was an eligible bachelor whom many maidens wanted to marry, but he wanted his daughter Tamara to marry him.She would have a nice home and the king would be related to the Valarous prince Ivan and the Turks would not attack his city.
He welcomed the prince with lot of fanfare and honoured him by presenting him the Key to the City.In the evening he organized a Grand Ball in his honour.The king thought to himself "if everything goes well! I shall ask Prince Ivan to marry Tamara."
His only hjope was that Tamara would return in time for the ball.He send his messenger to where she had gone hunting with her friends.
Tamara on the other hand had no intentions of coming early as she had just spotted a Giant Lion which would be a great add to her collection.She was a hunter first and a princess later.It was in her blood , her great grandfather was known to have slain 1000 lions.
Tamara received the message and she could not disobey her father and so she hurried up her attack on the Lion.But, it was not easy as this creature was very cunning and he had gone into hiding deep into the forest where she could not find him easily.