Princess Tutu

The Black Wings

Prologue

In the dark cold pits of the land called Limbo, where all defeated villains of stories dwelled, The Raven's ghost brooded over his bitter defeat. He was so close, so very close to achieving his ultimate goal and destroying his arch nemesis Prince Siegfried, but just when victory was in his grasp that dam duck showed up and ruined everything!

This was not the first time something like this had happened. He would have won many years ago if the original Princess Tutu had not show up at the last moment and confessed her love for the Prince, thus turning herself into a speck of light and vanishing. While in the process giving Siegfried the will he needed to carry on the fight. A lot like that wrench Kraehe, that foolish human girl who was stolen from her crib by his ravens, raised to believe she was a crow born into a hideous human body. His greatest pawn that had almost brought him victory but had betrayed him and freed the prince from the influence of The Ravens blood.

Then there was the knight turned writer. The Raven had not learned this until he had entered Limbo but apparently the only reason that pathetic duck had been able to turn the tide of battle in the prince's favour was because the knight had been using the powers of Drosselmeyer himself. He gave the duck the power needed to pull off that little trick of hers. The Raven swore if he ever got out of here, he would rip the writer in two just like his worthless predecessor.

"But how do I get out of this void" The Raven thought to himself as he stared into the red and black space of limbo, most fairy tale villains would just give up at this point and fall into a never ending sleep, after all that was what limbo was built for to break the resolve of villains in order to stop them from coming back. But The Raven was a special case, unlike most fairy tale villains The Raven had something that would keep his will and mind strong and allow him to stay awake a lot longer than most of the villains who ended up in this dammed place.

Then, just as The Raven was plotting his escape and/or revenge he noticed something in the distance, it was just a faint light but the fact was there was something else in sky apart from the bland palette of the red and black sky. The Raven was intrigued and flew towards it.

As he got closer the light slowly began to fade, as it did The Raven began to notice that the light was concealing something. He kept moving forward and as he got closer it became easier to make out what was inside it. When he reached it, the light faded completely thus allowing The Raven to see what was inside, he looked and what he saw made the menacing trickster's face twist into a grotesque smile. This was perfect this was exactly the kind of thing he had in mind. The last few words to past through his mind were "soon Siegfried, very soon you and your people will pay for what you have done to me!"