When the two months have passed, she envisions the Beast dying alone on the castle grounds

and
hastens to return despite her brothers' resolve to prevent her from doing so. Once she is back in the
castle, Beauty's fears are confirmed, and she finds the Beast near death in a cave on the grounds.
Seeing this, Beauty is distraught, realizing that she loves him. Despite this, she remains calm and
fetches water from a nearby spring, which she uses to resuscitate him. That night, she agrees to
marry him. When she wakes up next to him, she finds that the Beast has transformed into the Prince
from her dreams. This is followed by the arrival of the Fairy who had previously advised her in her
dreams, along with a woman she does not recognize, in a golden carriage pulled by white stags. The
woman turns out to be the Prince's mother the Queen whose joy quickly falters when she finds out
that Beauty is not of noble birth. The Fairy chastises the Queen and eventually reveals that Beauty is
actually a Princess and their niece, her true father being the Queen's brother the King of the
Fortunate Island, and her mother being the Fairy's sister.
When the matter of Beauty's background is resolved, she requests that the Prince tell his tale, and
so he does. The Prince informs her that his father, the King, died before the Prince was born and his
mother had to fight an enemy to defend the kingdom. The Queen left the Prince in the care of his
Evil Fairy Godmother, who tried to seduce him when he became an adult and helped his mother win
the war. When the war ended, the Evil Fairy accompanied the Queen and the Prince back to the
castle, asking him to marry her. But the Prince refused to marry the Evil Fairy who, in a rage,
transformed him into an ugly Beast in front of his shocked mother. Before leaving mother and son,
the Evil Fairy warned them that only a maiden's act of true love could break the spell and that if
anyone else beside the Queen knew about it, the Prince would be a Beast forever. After the Prince's
godmother left, the Good Fairy then arrived to help him by turning the castle's servants to stone to
prevent them from revealing the curse to outsiders, and promising to protect his mother from the Evil
Fairy. The Good Fairy also summoned her Genie servants to keep the Prince company while he
waited for Beauty's arrival. The Prince also revealed to Beauty that it was her aunt who arranged for
her to see the Prince's true self in dreams and that the birds and monkeys are the Genie servants.
The Good Fairy then summons the King of the Fortunate Island to the castle, reuniting him with his
daughter whom he believed to have died in infancy. After bringing the petrified servants back to life,
the Fairy tells the Royal Family her story. The King of the Fortunate Island married a Fairy
who disguised herself and her Genie servants as a shepherdess and a flock of sheep. Shortly after
her daughter was born, the Queen of the Fortunate Island sent her husband on a hunting trip before
she and her sister went to Fairyland for one of their kind's triannual meetings with the Fairy Queen.
At the meeting, the Good Fairy's sister was imprisoned for being a non-Elder Fairy with a mortal
husband and child; the laws of Fairyland forbid non-Elder Fairies (Fairies aged below 1,000 years)
from having families with humans. Acting as chief prosecutor at the trial was none other than the
Prince's evil godmother, who herself is an Elder Fairy. As further punishment, another Elder Fairy
cursed the Princess of the Fortunate Island to marry a Beast.
Back on the Fortunate Island, the people faked their imprisoned Queen's death after being unable to
find her. Prior to cursing her godson, the Evil Fairy first attempted to seduce the King by becoming
his daughter's governess. The Evil Fairy then hired a greedy couple to kill the Princess as part of her
plot to marry the King. To rescue her niece, the Good Fairy (then 990 years old) became an Elder by
mastering the Terrible Act, a transformation spell, to turn into a bear and kill the would-be murderers,
whose blood she dipped the Princess's clothes in to fake the child's death. The Good Fairy then
spirited her niece away to a countryside cottage inhabited by three sleeping women and a sick girl
the same age as the Princess. When the sick child died, the Good Fairy secretly swapped the two
little girls, burying the dead one in an unmarked grave. Returning to the cottage to find the women
waking up, the Good Fairy transformed into a beggar and asked them for food and who they were.
The three women replied that they were nurses whose master, the merchant, had sent to the
countryside with his youngest child, hoping that the fresh air would cure her. Surprised to find a
healthy girl in the cradle and unaware she was not their master's child, the three nurses soon
returned to the city with the Princess. Following the nurses to the merchant's mansion, the Good
Fairy then disguised herself as the Romani fortune teller who told the merchant of the prophecy of
"his" youngest child bringing luck to his household, and decreed that she be named "Beauty."