Prologue: A Cursed Prince Named Chase:
Iroh (Avatar)V/O: Many years ago in the land of Fandom, there was a young prince who lived in a shining palace deep in the woods. Although he had everything he could ever ask for, the prince was cruel, selfish and unkind.
But then one winter's night, an old beggar woman came to the palace and offered him a single panda lily in return for one night's shelter from the cold and bitter wind. Disgusted by the woman's haggard appearance, the prince sneered at the gift and turned the old woman away. But she warned him that it was not wise to be deceived by appearances, for as cliché as it sounds, beauty really is found within.
And when he dismissed her again, the old woman's ugliness melted away to reveal a beautiful enchantress known as the legendary Sailor Cosmos. The prince tried all he could to apologise, but it was too late for she had seen that there was no love in his heart. And as punishment she transformed him into a hideous heylin, and placed a powerful spell on the palace, and all who lived there trapping them in time, among other things.
Ashamed of the monster that he had become, the heylin concealed himself inside his palace, with the Sheng Gon Wu known as the Prism of the Seers as his only window to the outside world. The lily she had offered him was truly an enchanted flower, which would bloom for 1000 years. If he could learn to love another and earn her love in return by the time the lily completely withered and died, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a monster for all time.
As the years past, any hope of the curse being lifted grew dimmer and dimmer. One by one the servants lost all hope, though no one in the palace was filled with more woe than the heylin prince. For who in any other millennia could ever love a heylin?.
Gem and the Heylin