“Your highnesses, you must get to safety! The town’s people have breached the castle!” A knight shouted. From the throne room door. Katino, gritted his teeth.

“Seal the doors! Kill them all if you have to!” The tyrant king barks. The knight nods grimly and shuts the doors to the throne room. Barring them tightly behind. His only son, the crowned prince, turns to glare at him.

“Father, you must face them. You deserve their wrath. You have been cruel and unjust for decades!” Rui exclaimed. Katino sneered down at his son from the throne. Magic crackled between his finger tips.

“And what would you know of ruling? All that runs through your mind is sniveling nonsense! Sunshine and rainbows!” Katino barks. He abruptly stands up from his throne. Descending the meager few steps between them. Rui took a nervous step back. Warily eyeing the crackling magic in his father’s hands. “I’ll show you cruelty. I never should have had such a soft son. They townspeople want me yes, but then don’t want you.”

In a burst of laughter and magic the world exploded in to color and cut to black. A mob of angry villagers flooded the throne room. Only to find the king dead, and the prince under a curse.

Several came from for and wide, but alas none woke the sleeping prince from his death like slumber.

Until a mysterious figure emerged from the forest. The figure stood over the sleep royal and did what no other could do. A single kiss from a soul mate was all it took. True love’s kiss.

"Good morning, my prince," a guard greets in awe as the once sleeping royal. Katino’s eyes fluttered open. A cruel smirk spreads across his face. He had done it. He had beaten death by swapping places with his son, the prince.

"King." He corrects.