| The Sleeping Prince by Michelle |
| Once upon a time, there lived a Prince. Except he didn�t know he was a prince. When he was born he started a powerful prophecy in motion, one that would cause all evil on earth to perish if it was fulfilled. To protect him from forces against the prophecy, the King and Queen placed him with foster parents. The prince was to remain there until his twenty-first birthday, when he would then be brought back to take his rightful place as heir to the kingdom. Except that due to evil influences, the family the Prince was placed with lived on the mouth of hell. Well, one of the mouths�s of hell. The foster parents might have been fine and upstanding citizens, but the Hellmouth poisoned their hearts. They beat him with physical blows and mental jabs until he forgot his past in the pain. The King and Queen�s Sorceress was given the task of watching over the Prince. But the Sorceress, who had placed the Prince on the Hellmouth, was evil and kept the Royals from knowing the truth about their son. She figured this would certainly cause his death and keep him from fulfilling the prophecy. As he grew older he sought refuge among friends � a redheaded Witch, who didn�t know she was a witch, and another beaten soul, who had delusions of grandeur. The Prince became a jester and a zeppo, hiding from the pain behind jokes and stunts. The fleeting dreams of his true self turned gray with age and misuse. The Prince spent more and more time playing the fool until that was all he believed. Then, when the Prince was sixteen, a Slayer entered his life. She was the Chosen One, with supernatural powers and a love for skimpy clothing. The Prince was immediately drawn to her like a moth to a flame, and he became enamoured of her. The Slayer only saw him as a fool and while she liked him as a friend, her tastes ran towards the tall, dark, and undead. Despite the unrequited love, the Slayer made the Prince see something in himself, something that told him he was not the fool he believed himself to be. He began to fight alongside the Slayer and gain confidence in himself. The beaten soul was corrupted by the evil and the Prince was forced to kill his friend. This loss made him fight all the harder, finding in himself qualities that had long been dead. The Slayer, the Prince, and the Witch made such a dent in the evil on the mouth of hell that much attention was drawn to their activities. One of the beings that began to notice what was going on was the Sorceress, and she was not at all pleased. So, when the three fighters of evil became of college age, she enrolled in the college that the Slayer and the Witch were attending. The Sorceress then seduced the Witch, blinding her and then the Slayer to evil and the Prince�s potential. This blindness pulled at the group, threatening to tear it apart. Sometime before this blindness, a Rebel and an Oracle had come to the mouth of hell. They did not know their destined roles and caused much mayhem and evilness. The Billy-Idol-like Rebel had noticed the Prince�s hidden potential, however, and became somewhat obsessed with the royal. He plotted to turn the Prince into what he himself was, a vampire. It was then that the Powers-That-Be stepped in and cast an enchantment on the Rebel. The enchantment kept him from hurting human beings, and therefore the Prince. So because of this hindrance the Rebel was forced to seek protection from the very group he had tried to kill. The Prince and the Rebel began to develop a relationship that once again revealed some of the Prince�s secrets. One might be tempted to call their bond love, if the two would have admitted to it. Instead, they had lots of private moments in which the sexual tension was thick but nothing happened because they were too mocho to let it. The Sorceress again noticed that events were starting to travel a path she did not want them to. She tried seduction, but since the Rebel was submerged in sexual subtext, he was unaffected. As a backup plan she decided to cast a spell that caused all of the residents of the kingdom to fall into a sound and debilitating sleep. This would keep the Prince from fulfilling the prophecy. Except that the Rebel was a vampire and as such immune to the spell. This enraged the Sorceress, who turned into a very large dragon and tried to kill the Rebel. The transformation allowed the Rebel to kill the Sorceress, since she was no longer human. Sleep still clung to the citizens, but the Rebel only cared about the Prince. He fought through the garbage and clutter around the Prince�s basement residence until he found the slumbering royal. Only then did he give into what his undead heart demanded and kissed the Prince, taking advantage of what he felt was his only chance. The kiss caused the Prince to wake, but he pretended he was sleeping for a short time because he was enjoying the kiss. The Rebel sensed the human was awake, but took his pretending as a sign of enjoyment and kissed the Prince again. They kept kissing until the sexual tension exploded over them and they partook in activities too graphic for this tale. With the Sorceress dead and the Prince awake, the rest of the kingdom came out from under the spell. The King and Queen told the Prince of his destiny, one that he accepted with open arms. After he regained consciousness. With minimal machismo dancing, the Rebel stayed with the Prince and became a prince, too, which was no small source of confusion. After the required threats from both the Slayer and the Witch, and insane ramblings from the Oracle, the prophesy was completed and everyone lived happily ever after. Except for the tall, dark, and undead Warrior, but that�s another story. back to the archive |