Okay, yes, this is another blender fic. I wrote the first treatment for this story back at the same time when I was starting out on its 'brother' The Wrath of Viper but I didn't think it would do well in comparison. However, in recent months, my mind has been wandering back towards it and I have devoted time and effort on working on it. I still have some misgivings about it even as I publish it now, so I'll let you my readers be the judge.

Here's the first chapter.

Prologue

A very long time ago, in a dimension far from the sight and knowledge of Earthkind, there lived a young prince named Judai. Like a prince you would find in any other fairy tale, Judai was a kind and honourable individual and was loyal to his parents, the King and Queen of the kingdom, to his friends and comrades, and to his people. He of course was treated in the same regard by them all.

Amongst his many loved ones was his greatest friend and his chief protector and bodyguard, Yubel, a Duel Spirit of extraordinary skill and mastery over magical power. Although she was happy to be called his friend, Yubel was secretly in love with the much admired prince and was often envious of any other girl or woman of his age approaching him romantically. But every single time this instance happened, it would turn out that she did not have a thing to fear as he never returned their affections in the same manner.

Until the day where the result inevitably changed.

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One morning, Prince Judai and his parents welcomed to their castle the royal family of a neighbouring kingdom that they had been expecting for some days. He greeted the king first as was the custom, then his wife the queen, and then turned to do the same towards their daughter and heir, the Princess Alexandra. Judai was entranced by her the moment his eyes fell upon her. Her golden hair gleamed in the yellow sunshine. Her milk-white skin set her apart from all of her surroundings. Her brilliant acorn brown eyes shone with a great radiance. Somehow managing to ignore the wondrous sensation he was feeling about her, he resumed his official greeting to her and offered her his hand to help her out of the carriage.

During the entirety of her and her family's stay at the castle, Judai came to know Alexandra more and continued to feel the same sensation whenever she was near him. In time, he recognised that it was a feeling he had never once felt before and after contemplating upon it with serious thought, went to ask his mother about it. The queen reacted happily to his confession and explained to him that he was in love. Two people, one in the corridor outside and the other from a balcony adjoining the room next to the queen's, overheard their conversation. Yubel could not believe what her ears had heard and quietly continued on her patrol of halls in a slowly gathering rage. Alexandra, out on the balcony, received this knowledge with joy as she in turn had fallen for Judai's cheerful, bright, kind, loyal and caring personality.

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Over the next three years, Judai and Alexandra grew closer every time their families met, falling more and more in love with each other. Finally there came the day when they confided the truth of their feelings to one another, and they began to court. This new development was accepted with much happiness by both their kingdoms and by their families. The only one who did not share these feelings was Yubel.

From the beginning of the courtship, the Duel Spirit became so consumed with jealousy at the strengthening bond between the two that she began to consistently employ methods of driving a wedge between them that would break their love apart. But no matter the effort, whether it was a poorly laid out plan or something so deceitful that it was almost a success, Yubel always failed and watched the prince and princess continue to be together.

The final straw for Yubel came at the end of the three years when Judai and Alexandra announced to everyone of their engagement to marry. Yubel later left the kingdom that very night. In her exile, she assembled an army entirely of Duel Spirits to take on the two kingdoms with the vengeful goals of conquering them, killing Alexandra, and taking Judai for herself.

She returned to Judai's kingdom on the day he and Alexandra were due to be married with the demand that Judai would forgo the engagement and leave with her, or else she would unleash war. Although Judai wanted to agree to protect his people, and Alexandra as well to save hers, their families and subjects ultimately refused. Thus the war began.

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A whole year passed. The two royal families were losing. Alexandra's kingdom was lying in ruins. Yubel's army had razed and pillaged through Judai's kingdom, pushing their way towards his ancestral home. Eventually, the castle itself came under siege. Realising their imminent defeat, the families sent Judai and Alexandra into hiding before their forces were fully overrun. In a senseless rage upon knowing she had failed in the goals she had truly wanted, Yubel slaughtered everyone within the castle walls.

Judai and Alexandra embarked on a life always on the run, for after the end of the war they soon learned that Yubel and her remaining followers were hunting them down. Despite all the hardships this involved, the couple had a good life. They defied Yubel by having the wedding they wanted, marrying at a church in a small town. Over time, they had four children together, raising them to maturity and said a tearful goodbye as each of them found a different happier life and left.

After many decades, Yubel now on her own caught up to them but arrived one day too late. The night before the last, Judai and Alexandra both passed on within minutes of each other from old age in their sleep. Enraged again that she had been robbed of victory, Yubel furiously cast a powerful spell to ensure she would get a second chance to have Judai. Unable to cast it in a way she would have preferred, she used Judai and Alexandra's bond of love as the focus of her spell and performed the Reincarnation Ritual, influencing the realm of magic to one day bring the two back to life at any time in any dimension.

After completing the ritual, ensuring everything had been done correctly, Yubel departed. For countless millennia, she has been waiting for that day; that one day somewhere sometime in the distant future when her spell would activate. For the day she would at last begin to succeed…

Well, that's the prologue done. Let me know what you all think and I'll get started on editing the next chapter.