Princess Tutu the Black Wings
Act 1 The Kingdom of Siegfried
The sun rose over the kingdom of Schwanensee, revealing the pure unrestrained beauty of everything under it. From the many colourful flowers to the acres of deep lush forests from the small cute animals like mice and blue tits to the large beautiful animals like swans and the horses, from the humble and charming houses of commoners to the majestic and awe inspiring palace of Prince Siegfried and his court.
Speaking of Prince Siegfried, at that moment he was wondering around the palace gardens in deep thought, what was he thinking about? Well, he was mostly reflecting on everything that had happened during his life. Which was a lot. Most Princes could claim to have eventful lives but even few Princes could claim to have lives that equalled that of Prince Siegfried!
Prince Siegfried had been a pure hearted prince ruling a fairy tale kingdom then suddenly, out of nowhere; a giant evil raven came and attacked his kingdom. The destruction and grief the evil raven wrought could barely be comprehended. Not only was his beautiful, peaceful and prosperous kingdom laid to waste but his best friend had been ripped to shreds and Prince Siegfried left wracked with grief, guilt and anguish.
Prince Siegfried had been saved by love a love that had given him the strength to fight on and just when his strength and fight had been restored his love had been ripped away in an act of sacrifice.
Siegfried wandered around the garden just thinking and taking in the beauty quiet and calm atmosphere. Of course it had not always looked like this, for example up until a few months ago the garden was overrun with weeds, all the flowers were dead and almost all the statues were cracked and broken, but that was pretty much the state of the entire kingdom when the prince left to battle the raven in Golden Crown Town.
Matters of State had to take second place, all Prince Siegfried's energy was taken up by trying to repair the damage caused by The Raven rampage.
Siegfried turned around to see someone sitting on a stone bench; it was a woman around the same age as him, she had black hair and her eyes were the colour of red. Her name was Rue she was the Prince's love, wife and princess. Siegfried walked towards the bench and sat next to Rue "You couldn't sleep?" Rue nodded her head and said "I was just thinking about, you know about Duck and Fakir." Siegfried touched her "you miss them don't you Rue" Rue nodded in confirming what Siegfried had said. "You know the repairs to the kingdom are almost finished, maybe after we've done we could go back and visit them" Rue put her hand on Siegfried's and snuggled up closer to the young Prince who in turn put his arm around her "I would like that", and thus the two of them sat and watched the sun rise over the vast horizon.
Meanwhile in a dark and creepy forest (a typically landscape for fairy tales) a black crow flew through the air, effortlessly navigating its way through the dense terrain. Eventually, it flying and landed in front of a huge wall of sharp twisted thorns, it took a deep breath then unleashed a massive "caw!" that was so terrifying it caused all the woodland creatures to instantly freeze up in fear, but that was not the only reaction. Within the wall of thorns two big red glowing eyes appeared their light revealing that they belonged to a raven with a scar on its left cheek. "So it appears that our master's predications were correct, well done my little scout! After this mission is over I will see to it that you are promoted. Now! the rest of you!" The raven yelled while spreading his wings in a dramatic fashion "we will split up and attack the palace on three sides, remember our objective is the Prince our Master needs him a live, every other human they is fair game, understood?" At the black bird's booming voice the frost lit up with the blood red glow of the collective eyes of a mass of ravens and crows all of them cawing to the heavens. An evil smile appeared on the sacred raven's face, satisfied with the dark legion of soldiers' response, "Very well then, come my legion and blacken the sky!" With that the ravens and crows flew up into the air and became a black fog of that was so massive it blocked out the sun casting a shadow of pure malice over the whole kingdom.