Editing Ash Ketchum/Relationships (section)

===[[Beast (Prince Adam)|Beast/Prince Adam]]:===
Ash initially disliked the beast due to his bad temper. However, he discovered that the reasoning behind his temperament was that he's a prince cursed by a mysterious spell from an enchantress as punishment for his unkindness. And seeing him struggling to not lose his temper around Belle, he realizes that the beast was feeling insecure with himself in breaking the spell through love due to his monstrous appearance. The beast later apologized to Ash and his friends for his behavior during his first meeting with them after Belle tended his wounds while helping Ash and his friends save her from a pack of wolves. Luckily, they forgave him out of deep gratitude and out of sympathy because of everything he's been through with the enchantress. In return for his help, they decide to help him, and the servants break the dreaded curse by teaching him how to be a proper gentleman.

During the holiday season, Ash's relationship with the Beast evolved immensely when he learned that Christmas was the time when the enchantress placed her spell on him and the entire castle, which caused him to resent the holiday in the first place. But little did the Beast knows, his resentment towards the holiday could ultimately put himself and everyone else in grave danger when he unknowingly became a pawn to an evil plot. One of his servants, Forte, a pipe organ who is the castle's court composer, was secretly planning to betray the Beast along with the entire castle by preventing him from falling in love with Belle so that the spell wouldn't be broken. When Ash, his gang, Belle, and the castle staff tried their very best to lift the Beast's Christmas spirit by planning a celebration for him, Forte's naive assistant, Fife, assisted him in his plan to sabotage their attempts. Forte later made things worse when he tricked Belle into venturing out into the Black Forest just to get rid of her. Things further turned for the worse when Forte tricked the Beast into believing that Belle abandoned him and then he used his musical powers to brainwash him into loathing Belle in an attempt to never fall in love with her. Now, driven mad with insane anger, the mind-controlled Beast destroyed the dinner table and the decorations his servants left out for the party before heading out to get Belle, who nearly drowned in a frozen lake while trying to find a Christmas tree. Under the misguided belief that Belle disobeyed him by leaving the castle grounds and breaking her promise, the Beast ruthlessly locked her in the dungeon without any second thought or any reconsideration. All hope seemed lost, and it looked like the Beast will never change his mind about Christmas. However, right when Ash was about to give up, his Pikachu detected something wrong and led him up to the West Wing. There, they discovered Forte's treachery when he attempts to manipulate the hypnotized Beast into destroying the enchanted rose so that he could never redeem himself through love and the spell would never be broken. This sudden discovery caused Ash to realize that Forte set Belle up, sabotage the Christmas party plans, and nearly destroy Belle's love life by taking advantage of the Beast's anger. Just as the Beast was about to destroy the rose, Ash ordered Pikachu to zap him back to his senses with a super powerful Thunderbolt, attracting attention to everyone in the castle and canceling out Forte's mind control powers. With the rose safe, Forte's plan foiled, and the Beast free from the hypnotic control, Ash showed him Belle's present and reminded him of the fact that she still cared for him. Flashbacking to the time Lumiere gave him advice on giving someone a special gift to show them he cares; the Beast's memory comes back to him and opens Belle's present. He finds the book she made for him and reads it. It talked about his life's story and about the gift of hope. With the book's illustration along with the gentle persuasion of Ash and his friends, the Beast finally comes to his senses and realized that all everybody in the castle wanted was for him to be happy and to put the past behind him. No longer holding his hate towards the holiday season anymore, the Beast eventually comes to agree that the castle deserves a very Merry Christmas. He then escorts his friends to the dungeon where they pick up Belle and prepare to give her the Christmas she's always wanted. But as they were about to celebrate, Forte begins to destroy the castle with his loud music. The Beast goes to confront Forte while Ash gets Belle and everyone else to safety. He then teams up with the Beast in a fight to defeat Forte but was immediately knocked out while saving Belle and Chip from his musical powers. That gave the Beast the will to fight back and defeat the traitorous pipe organ by destroying his keyboard. As Ash recovers, his friends and the servants rebuild the castle and redecorate so they'll have a Christmas celebration for real. In the end, the Beast gave Ash and his friends a very special gift: their families, close friends, and love interests being invited to his castle's Christmas party as honored guests. Soon, the celebration commences, and everyone had a very Merry Christmas at the Beast's castle at last.

Soon after Christmas, Ash and his friends continued to help the Beast improve his relationship with Belle. They soon watched Belle and the Beast played in the snow and feed the birds together. And he even enjoyed her reading books to him. Soon, their biggest moment came when Belle and the Beast shared a romantic waltz in the ballroom. But after the dance, Belle became worried about her father and wanted to check on him. The Beast allowed her to use his mirror to see him. Much to her horror, she saw him dying in the Black Forest from illness. The Beast sadly decides to let her go in order to save her dying father not before letting her take the mirror as a souvenir. When Ash learned that the Beast let Belle go to save her father from dying, he was sad and shocked. But soon, when Gaston stolen the mirror from Belle and led an angry mob to the castle to kill the Beast, he became furious. Desperate to protect his friend for Belle's sake, he ordered his team to gather the castle servants and block the door to keep them from getting inside. But when it didn't work, Ash, persuaded by Lumiere, led the servants and his team in a ferocious battle against the mob. However, during the battle, Gaston fled and ran up to the West Wing to fight the Beast. After successfully driving the mob away, Ash was informed by Zazu that Gaston is going to the West Wing, and he along with his friends immediately rush to the Beast's aid. The Beast was too saddened to fight back. But thanks to the arrival of Belle, the Beast fought Gaston and defeated him. Belle reached out and helped the Beast climb back up. But just as they were about to reunite, Gaston stabbed the Beast in the abdomen, making Ash furious. Ash challenged Gaston to a duel and immediately won. But Gaston wasn't finished yet. He pulled off one last trick as he was about to make a killing blow on Ash. Thankfully, Pikachu zapped him with Thunderbolt and made him fall over the ledge and plummet down into the ravine. Ash along with his friends were saddened to see the beast die from his fatal injury. But then the beast was changed back into a human prince as the curse was lifted after Belle confessed her love. From then on, Prince Adam became a kind and proper gentleman.