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Shadow Prince

Prologue

A Black Fairy Tale

Long ago, when heartless still roamed the earth and nobodies terrorized the millions of people living here on earth, there was a boy chosen to carry the legendary Keyblade. He traveled all around the world slaying heartless and nobodies to save all the people around him. With a smile on his face and nothing more then the Keyblade to guide him, he set out to save the world from the merciless grip of Darkness.

But as time wore on, and a year past, the attacks barely slowed and the Keyblade Prince, as he was now called, seemed almost powerless to stop them. He decided he'd have to find the source of the Heartless and numerous people cheered him on, not thinking of how he may feel about it. No one seemed to care about the Keyblade Prince's feelings at all. With a heavy heart, the Keyblade Prince went to find the evil that was the cause of all the chaos. It didn't take long, much to everyone's surprise, and soon a battle raged as the Keyblade Prince tried to hold his own against the evil witch. But alas, he was nothing in comparison to her and she laid a curse upon his heart. The Prince told no one of this curse for he knew little more than none about it himself. Only that it could be lifted if he could locate and have one of the seven Princesses of Heart fall in love with him in two years.

In the next one and a half years he searched endlessly for the seven Princesses of Heart, but only found six. Nobody even knew there was a seventh. In the mean time the Witch continued her bringing of darkness and began winning. For around a year the Keyblade Prince didn't suffer any effects of the curse. But as the second year began to approach something strange began to happen in his heart. A balance was off thrown, and the Prince found himself slipping further and further into the dark. When he left a town after searching for the seventh princess, a terrible monster would attack during the night. Nobody seemed to see a connection to the Prince and thought it was only bad luck. The Prince was still the hero to them, and although there seemed to be a small deplete in his health, he continued to fight for them.

Eventually it got harder to call the Keyblade. It came and went as he tried his best to control the population of heartless and nobodies. Soon it didn't come at all. The attacks from the terrible monster increased. He fled to his castle, fearing what was happening to him. His castle was far away, on the top of a hill beyond a thick, dark, and dangerous forest. But there were still many small towns and villages were in the area.

He kept silent about the curse to his brother and his brother's fiancé. They didn't understand why he had come back. They didn't understand why he would give up. He only mumbled a response to them when they asked. Ten months into the two years they witnessed a change in the Keyblade Prince. He became hostile towards them, snapping at any little thing. At night the Prince would disappear and would not be accounted for until the morning. News that a monster had attacked a town or village in the surrounding area would spread. The Brother and his Fiancé became suspicious.

Shortly after dark one day, they hid in the darkness of the Princes room. They both hoped that nothing would happen. But they set they're hopes to high, and while the moon hung low in the sky they witnessed a terrible sight. The once Keyblade Prince became the dreaded Terrible Monster. The terrified lovers watched as the Monster jumped out the window and disappeared into the night.

It didn't take very long after that for others to catch on. Questions hung in the air. People wondered why their beloved Keyblade Prince wasn't trying to save them. The Prince had hid in the darkness before, no one able to see anything but his eyes. But people began to hang lanterns and light candles to keep it light out. One night as a yellow glow hung over the town light reflected off the sleet and rain. Someone saw the prince this night. And instantly they knew it was him. Stories and rumors flew through the air like arrows, detailing what supposedly happened to the Prince. There wasn't much all the stories had in common, but there was one thing. The Keyblade Prince was no longer called that by the end, but instead the Shadow Prince.

As the second year with the curse turned to the third, the witch paid a visit to the now Shadow Prince. Her identity wasn't known at first, she disguised herself as a disorientated girl, and the seventh Princess of Heart. It didn't take long for her to grow tired of her own rouse and reveal her true identity. She laughed at the Prince's insolence and strengthened the curse. But it wasn't limited to just him. It extended to the Prince's brother and fiancé. The terms for breaking the curse were the same. And he had 100 years to do it.

But by then, there wasn't a shred of hope left in that blackened heart that a seventh princess even existed.

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