The Skeleton Princess

Prologue

A dark tall figure in a black cloak walks through the old ratways of the Underworld's capital called "Lovic", a city made of stone and wood.

The dark figure goes through the streets as if it owned the place.
Which only made its inhabitants angrier than they already were, the figure ignores all the sneering of the dirty Ratkind that live in these dumps, that was one of the reasons they called it the ratways.

The figure just carried on moving to the river of blood where its path seemed to end.

The figure stopped and looked into the red liquid which ran through the city like a vein.

Its reflection showed a skeleton's skull with its blackhole eyes, a blue circle within the middle, the skull was a pale white.

The scarlet liquid from the river made the skull look more sinister than it actually was because, in reality, it had a gentle look.

The skeleton looked up to the dark purple sky, where the two magenta twin moons are.

The magenta light was calming for the skeleton.

The skeleton was looking up at the twin moons for what felt like an eternity, but then a sound of a cry broke its eternal gaze.

The skeleton quickly turns toward the source of the loud attention seeking cries, it sees a baby in a wooden basket gently flowing down the bloody river.

The baby was doing nothing but crying and crying, the skeleton walks towards the basket getting knee deep in red liquid.
It gently picks up the basket as if it was made of glass ready to break at any moment, as soon as the skeleton picks up the basket the baby stops crying as if it was all an act.

The baby was a blond haired girl with one red eye and the other was blue, she looked at the skeleton with a sight of curiosity and wonder and the skeleton did the same its eyes turning from blue to green to yellow then back to blue.

The skeleton then starts to speak to the baby saying in a deep but soft tone "What's your name infant?" The baby just looks at the gentle skeleton with a smile.

The skeleton then realizes that the baby cannot speak a single word, the skeleton looks around the streets of Lovic to try to find the parent of the baby but to no avail.

So the skeleton with the gentle skull decides to take her home since she has taken a liking to the skeleton and likewise.

The skeleton puts his cloak hood back up and begins to walk down the 'safer' way to his home.

The skeleton finally reaches the gates of the palace to be welcomed home by the skeletal knights but as the skeleton walked through his home, the knights and maids all had a surprise look to them as if something was wrong.

The skeleton then realizes that they were all looking towards the soundly sleeping baby in the wooden basket but the skeleton paid them no mind as he did to the Ratkind who sneer at him.

Although the skeleton believes that they wouldn't do that if they knew who the skeleton was because the skeleton is actually King Death IV the ruler of Lovic.

Death walks down the big hall that he calls his home where he enters the throne room still holding the wooden basket with a sleeping baby who is mumbling while chewing her silk blanket, Death sits on the throne and puts the basket on his lap.

He starts to stroke the baby's head and hums a lullaby to her. but then the peacefulness was broken when a man with wings and a tail appears next to the throne.

The man is wearing a blue tuxedo and round glasses, he has a sinister face which matches up with his personality.

The man looks at the baby and then his king, he asks in a curious tone "What is this..... thing?" Death looks at him, his eye color turning from blue to red as he answers "This 'thing' is going to be your future queen of Lovic and my daughter."

The blue tuxedo men face changes from a smile to a look of surprise or even shock as if he had been betrayed by his closest friend.

Death gets up and gently puts the basket on the throne, then with a loud commanding voice says on a magic circle which he summoned "To all in Lovic, I have an announcement to make. Lovic now has an heir to my throne." In the distance Death could hear the sound of cheering "and the heir to it is her!"

Death points toward the throne that has the somehow still asleep baby.

*Thanks for reading the prologue of my book!