Ange: Yay I finally started this. I was writing my other fairy tale but then I had inspiration to start on this one. Hopefully it won't flop. So for analytical English class we're analyzing fairy tales so I'm in this phase of sorts. I just realized that I have been updating since Monday, does that make me awesome or what?
Disclaimer: I still have only seen the first Shrek movie…
The Prince of Princes
Chapter 1: The Creature
In a land far far away there lived a Prince. Normally in stories like these there would be a princess but all the girls in this land have all mysterious combusted from the overload of male testosterone. Besides this kingdom called Prince of Tennis is named such for a reason.
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Moving on…
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In this Kingdom there lived a Prince who was adored throughout the land. He was tall and intelligent as princes usually are. Possibly even more so for whatever his teachers taught him he mastered with ease and even made better. He could stomach the elixirs of the Great Wizard Inui and even outmatch the genius of the renowned tensai Fuji. This prince had a bright future ahead but despite that he lacked one important gift, the gift of a suitor.
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For you see throughout the vast kingdom there existed no suitable match for him.
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So to combat his loneliness this prince played chess, designed complex tennis strategies, and even took time to train the castle's hunting dogs for he had a natural gift with animals. Even so this prince, much like many princes was still bored beyond imagination. The Great Wizard Inui seeing his predicament created many elixirs to solve this but they only gave him an upset stomache and proved no cure for his upset heart. Fuji the tensai though seeing no faults in Inui's practice had a better solution.
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"Prince Tezuka," he called out to him one day, "over here. I have a gift for you."
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The prince cautiously went over to Fuji, forever suspicious of whatever the tensai had up his sleeve. All that Fuji showed him was a strange creature. We would call it a cat…of sorts. In this kingdom though there existed no such animal.
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"What is it?" Prince Tezuka warily asked. The creature looked back at him its wide eyes seeming much too intelligent for such a small animal.
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"Who knows," Fuji relied mysteriously, "I found it…well, that's not important."
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Tezuka cast a sidelong glance at Fuji but his smiling face gave nothing away.
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How irritating.
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"It won't turn into anything else if that's what you're worried about," Fuji said to appease him.
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"Like last time?"
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"Or the time before that," the tensai added.
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"You know that's not helping your case any."
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Fuji's smile grew wider and said no more. Reluctantly Tezuka knelt down beside the animal careful not to scare it away. The creature though seemed to take offense at Tezuka thinking that it was so fragile so he leapt up into the Prince's arm and sophistically licked his cheek.
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Tezuka looking at the creature thought that they looked alike. Alike in a way that a human can possibly be to a four legged animal. With its sharp witted eyes and elegant neck Fuji thought so too. He didn't bring that up though.
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You can never know what a prince will take insult to after all.
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"So my prince," The wizard Fuji asked in a way that if anybody else said it would be taken as a mockery of Tezuka, "What will you name it?"
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Tezuka held the animal up to his eyes pondering the question with more depth and insight than needed. The creature didn't mind so he wouldn't either. Through a silent communication that only an owner and its pet can have they seem to have come to an agreement.
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"Ryoma," he answered plainly.
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"His name will be Ryoma."
A/N: How good I am. Now review so I can be even gooder…er better.