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A Ryro Tale

Once upon a time, in a not so distant future there lived a beautiful maiden. She had hair the colour of mahogany, with streaks of silver framing her exquisite face. Her pale skin seemed to shine, and her emerald eyes sparkled when she was happy. Her beauty could inspire the most blocked of poets, and so could her sad tale.

The maiden carried a painful burden, one that could easily have hardened her heart. Her skin was poisonous to all around her. She tried to overcome this obstacle, but to no avail.

Her first boyfriend was put into a coma, because, during their first kiss she sucked the life out of him. Her family turned on her in that moment, branding her a mutant, and making her feel unwelcome in her home. So she fled. She traveled the streets, hitchhiking, trying to make her way to Alaska, where she had always wanted to visit. Though her gift was unwelcome, it protected her when those who would have harmed her got too close. When stopping one night in a tavern to shelter her from the storm, she met a man. A fallen knight, who though reluctant, helped her in time of need. When they were attacked he protected her. Both were wounded in the fray and were taken to a school to protect those like them. Both healed in time and developed a relationship, like that of a father and daughter. The fallen knight did all in his power to keep her safe. But, she was attacked and taken from the family that she had recently acquired.

The evil Magneto had kidnapped her and forced her to help him with his plan to hurt innocent humans, who he believed to be a threat to their kind. The result had the maiden all but dead, and the fallen knight blaming himself. But, in an act of selflessness, the fallen knight managed to resurrect the maiden.

As time went on the Maiden and the knight, both scarred emotionally and physically from their encounter, healed, with help from there new found family. The Maiden went on to find a relationship with a boy from her school. And perhaps it would be happier if this is where her story ended, but alas it does not. The boy, frustrated with the lack of contact that could occur between them found himself drawn to another. The maiden watched as the boy she had thought loved her kissed her friend. In a time of desperation and heartache, the Maiden went to take a potion that would cure her of her curse.

And this is where our story begins, where hers would seem to have ended, but it is in fact, only the beginning.