Summary: AU: A thousand years ago she was cursed with the power of darkness. She hid herself within her castle of shadows and ice. Her servants were frozen in time, along with everyone she loved dearly. Now, a prince has gotten lost in the blizzard that hides her castle, but this prince has heard of the dark princess that is hidden within the dark walls. Will fear take him over and leave the dark princess alone, or will the warmth from his heart free her from the dark curse.

Chapter 1: A curse of darkness and ice

Once upon a time, in a kingdom long forgotten, lived a king and a queen. The king was one of raw power and control, that ruled with an iron fist to the throat of his people. While the queen was the hope and light of the kingdom.

King Trigon had married into the royal family of Azarath many years before he even took control. Princess Arella's mother, at the time, had said that Trigon had to prove his loyalty to the kingdom or he would not get any power to rule it. Trigon had been the prince of Scath before they united the two kingdoms. Trigon was a strong tall man with long white hair and yellow eyes that shone with magic of all kind.

And he did.

Trigon proved that he could rule the kingdom of Azarath, alongside Arella.

Queen Arella had always been kind hearted. She ruled the kingdom like her mother before her. She was the one that calmed Trigon down if his anger got out of control. Yet, she loved him. It was not love from their souls, but it had been impossible to not gain some kind of friendship after their arranged marriage. Arella was a small, yet strong woman that could fight hand-to-hand battles if she wanted. Her long purple hair was usually braided into smaller braids that fell to one long tail at her feet. The queen also held amethyst eyes of wisdom.

Azarath laid in between the snow covered mountains, a few days from the Kingdom of Jump kingdom to the South, and Nol to the West.

The kingdom, despite having it snow six months a year, was one that survived for many centuries, the kingdom held powerful magic. Magic that kept crops growing through the snow, magic that kept warmth to the coldest cottage.

Arella gave birth to a daughter on the coldest winter night. She named her after the black bird that had blessed her with warmth the day before. A raven. Princess Raven was the heir to Azarath.

But the joy of the new baby princess did not live for long.

A dark warlock in the kingdom of Nol, had found out about the princess. And angry at Azarath for not combining their lands instead of Azarath and Scath, the warlock king travelled to the festive land of Azarath.

A ball was held to congratulate the princess's birth. Nobles and peasants joined together and found joy in coming to the white castle. Colors were dancing across the floor while some joined the king and queen to give them a gift and to congratulate them.

Music played, but stopped when a dark cloaked figure walked through the dancing people. Guards reached for their swords and walked up to the king and queen. Trigon himself placed his hand upon his sword.

"Good evening…" The cloaked warlock said while bowing, the warlock's metal feet scraped against the stone floor. "Am I too late for the party?" He asked.

"Who might you be?" Queen Arella asked carefully while holding Trigon's arm in both fear and to hold him back.

The warlock threw back the hood of his cloak, many gasped at the sight of the warlock king of Nol. Black hair fell to his lower back, one green eye fell to Arella while the other was blocked with a black patch. A scar was formed from the top of the patch and fell over his lips. The black cloak glowed darkly of green as a small breeze picked up behind him. Half the man's body was of metal as he also wore the royal armor of his kingdom, but it was also known that the king before them had lost his legs in battle many years before. "King Malachi of Nol, your highness." It was clear that he addressed Arella and not Trigon.

Arella gave a bow with her head and rose from her throne, she crossed her hands and stepped up to stand before the king of Nol. "What is it you seek in our kingdom?" She asked with the kindness of her heart.

"I wish to give a gift to the princess… Why else would I come all this way alone?" The fact took Arella back.

"You have travelled alone?" Arella asked, her eyes looked around the room before she turned to her husband, that looked at the king of Nol with careful eyes. She nodded to him, a signal to send guards to check if the king was really speaking the truth.

Trigon nodded and waved to the guards to split. Many remained as the threat was right before their queen.

"It is very kind of you to give our daughter a gift, if I can ask; What is your gift?" She tried her best to not sound rude to the king that was known for dark magic.

"A gift of magic, your highness." The king took a step forward, a step towards the queen, and a step towards the baby that laid at Trigon's feet in a small crib. Trigon had given the small child his hand to play with so she would not alert the dark king.

Magic began to swirl around the dark king's hands before flying over to the princess. He knew they weren't going to let him too near their child.

"The princess shall be blessed with magic beyond herself, beyond Azarath. Powers of the cold and darkness… The princess shall be blessed with magic hard to control. Her magic will awaken at the strike of her first birthday. Dark magic is what she has, dark magic is what she is… And only, the light from the royal blood may change her faith."

The king and queen had tried to stop him, but found themselves stuck. Arella stood with her feet frozen to the ground, and Trigon frozen to the throne.

"I wish you the best of luck with your child… Your highness…" With that, the dark king faded into a black mist before vanishing completely. The attacking guards threw themselves after the mist but fell to the ground with a thump.

Free from the ground, Arella ran to her now crying child. Gently picking up the purple haired child, she hugged her.

Trigon didn't waste time, he ordered that the king of Nol was going to be hunted down. He did not care of the war that could come of this, but Nol had attacked first.

A year passed and Nol had yet to explain the King's attack. King Trigon had been forced the give up the manhunt when Arella had called for him.

At Raven's first birthday, she grew cold. Her body temperature dropped at dangerous speed, yet she felt like any child at one year.

When Raven turned five, it was then that she learned about her magic, and she used it for good, and fun. When or if a window broke, she would cover it with ice to keep their warmth inside until the widow was repaired.

When she turned eight, she found out she could teleport through shadows, which helped her when she stole cookies from the kitchen.

When she turned ten, she became a troublemaker. To have fun, she froze the floor of the hallway to ice-skate. Servants would stumble upon the ice, yet Raven would apologize and help the servant with whatever they were doing.

The king and queen watched Raven grow with her magic that was supposed to be evil, yet they saw not darkness in it. Not even the power of shadows, she created small dark beings that acted like pets. Maybe the King of Nol had actually given her a good gift.

Arella and Trigon did have powers themselves, Arella held a power of warmth, that she spread through all the houses of the kingdom. While Trigon held magic of strength that he used to help build the kingdom.

The family was happy, they lived in joy and fun as the years went by.

However, Raven's powers grew. They became stronger, and soon took control of her. Slowly, servants at the castle froze over, leaving a statue of dark ice around them. Frozen in time.

So Raven locked herself away, her joy became fear as her powers affected the ones she loved. And after half the castle's servants had turned to ice, she locked herself away from her parents.

The king and queen tried to open the door, but it was frozen from the inside.

On the day of her sixteenth birthday she noticed a lack of her parents trying to get her out. She dared to open the doors, and wandered around the castle.

Upon arriving at her parents room, she found them frozen. Her parents frozen in a deep sleep next to each other. Her mother had been crying, while Trigon seem to try to comfort her. But gone they were, and Raven did not know how to undo the magic.

She locked the castle up. Not allowing anyone to enter, the last remaining servants were ordered to leave before dawn and to never return.

But it was not enough.

A year later, one man appeared on the castle door. Raven allowed him to speak, but he had to leave as soon as he was done. "Villages all around the kingdom has frozen. Houses has been buried under massive amounts of snow, people have turned to ice." Was what he said. It was then that she knew, she had cursed not only her castle, but the entire kingdom as well.

The servant was frozen on the way home. And Azarath was buried in snow, never to see the end of it again.

Raven however, stayed in the castle in the middle of the forever frozen lake. A mist, dark like the night covered it and hid the castle from everyone. She froze herself, froze her age, froze her mind to remain in her home. She froze her heart in hope that one day, maybe she could be free.

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And while Azarath froze over, Malachi of Nol watched. Watching the darkening princess fall into her own Hell and vanish from the light of day.

Malachi laughed, only royal blood could free her. And there was no doubt that the neighbouring kingdoms would help. Not after what he told them.

"Azarath attacked my son! They tried to kill him! I have done nothing to them, and Trigon comes to my home in the darkness of the night to kill my son!"

The kingdoms agreed, they agreed that if something ever happened to Azarath, they were on their own.

Everything was going after his plans. But now, it was only to get his son attached to the dark princess.

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Okay, so I know I'm implying Malchior x Raven here, but he's not the prince. You're going to have to vote, vote on the ship you like the most, there is just a few that I am totally against, so if that happens… Don't expect anything. And the thousand year thing, I'll explain it later in the next chapter, promise.