Royal Beasts

Chapter 1

A prince was reading a book to himself in his lonely state
"There once was a princess trapped in a tower by a wicked witch, when one day a handsome prince came to save her. "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair" the prince said."
The prince closes the book and sighs as he looks at the golden bars that entrap him. This prince, just like the princess in the story, was trapped but in his state no one was coming to save him, he was all alone trapped in a birdcage the size of an oak tree.
Surrounded by darkness the prince takes a deep breath and sighs. "What have I ever done to deserve this?" he thought to himself as he looked around the big cage.
Though he sat on the elaborately designed carpet on the floor, his prison looked less like a prison and more like a bedroom fit for a king, with a beautiful vanity mirror and a canopy bed with silk curtains.
The prince stared at the outside of the cage only to see pitch black darkness, he doesn't know where he is, but he knows he's being watched constantly, the only form of light he has is the candles in his royally decorated cage that reflect against the metal bars.

The lonely prince gets a slight melancholic feeling as he laments about his past.
He was once free, his life was perfect.
He would spend his days picking flowers in the palace garden and reading books in his extensive library. He was a perfect little prince living a perfect life in his perfect world until everything he knew crumbled into pieces right before his very eyes.
The young prince was riding back home on his gallant white horse one day to see his kingdom in shambles, people running away screaming in the streets, buildings on fire and demon soldiers all over the place mercilessly murdering the innocent and ripping apart the weak.
The prince couldn't stand to see his people hurt so he mounted his horse and rode all the way to the flower garden he remembers oh so fondly.

He falls off his horse and onto the flower bed tears streaming down his face when he suddenly hears footsteps behind him.
He turns his head to see a tall man with long flowy dark hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a cloak with fur rims, but his biggest feature was two long horns protruding out the sides of his head.
The tall man looked at the prince with a soft look and pity in his eyes and just like that it's as if everything went silent and it was just the two of them.
The tall horned man approached the prince and kneeled down to his level to get a better look at him.
The prince was terrified but he didn't say a word, the horned man moved the blonde hair away from the prince's face and stared into his glimmering blue eyes, deep down into the very depths of his soul.
"What a pretty human you are, and such a beautiful heart you have" the horned man says in a fairly monotone voice.
"I-i u-uhm i-i guess-" the prince stutters, not knowing what's going to happen to him.
The horned man smiled at the prince's fear, almost started giggling even, he reached out and put his small hands on the prince's chest.
A cold sweat rolls down the prince's forehead, "that it, i'm going to die i'm dead!" the prince thought, screaming internally.
"Your heart...can I have it?" the horned man asked with a sweet little smile, trying not to scare him.
The prince immediately pushed the tall man away and got up off the floor, this angered the man, you could see the anger in his dark blue eyes.
"NO! You can't have my heart!"
The prince shouted before he saw the look in the man's eyes and slowly backed away from him but the man just moved closer.
Towering over the prince with a sadistic smirk he wraps an arm around the prince's waist and the other arm he uses to put his hand on the prince's cheek.
"Such a beautiful human such as yourself shouldn't go to waste in such a dreadful place. That settles it you shall come back with me and you'll be my perfect little prince"
The horned man says his face 2 inches away from that of the prince
The prince's head was spinning; he was confused and scared, and concerned for his life.

Suddenly two large muscled demon soldiers came up from behind them."Your highness we've eradicated every human in a 800 meter radius, sir"One said, kneeling.Your highness!?!? The prince thought, he was ready to faint, is this guy the demon king?! The prince screamed internally."Good, now then"The tall demon king flicks his fingers against the human prince's forehead, the prince's vision starts getting blurry and his legs weak, he tries to fight it but eventually he succumbs to sleep.

And next thing he knew the prince was in this elaborate prison, with nothing to do, almost dying of boredom.