A Mutant Beast Covers Inner Beauty

The Prologue

Once a upon time in a far away land, a King and Queen lived in harmony and their names were Saki and Shen Oroku. They were beloved by their people and servants.

But they loved Saki more. He was the general in a war against The Kraang kingdom, which resulted most of Saki's men/servants and civilians to become mutants from their mutagenic weaponry. However, he won the war and his people loved and cherished him for it.

However, a small group of mutants called The foot were outraged at their humanity sacrifice. They decided to they would burn Saki alive for he still had humanity. They spread gunpowder throughout the castle and set them on fire, which resulted in explosions and they all died because they were near them.

Eventually, yet quickly the fire spread throughout the entire castle and everyone was out, except for Saki and Shen. Saki and Shen were running to their children's bedroom and opened the door finding their daughter cowering in fear and crying for them as she held her baby brothers.

"Saki hurry!" Shen screamed as he ran toward their daughter and grabs the children quickly handing them to Shen. They run quickly away from the room as it collapsed. They ran toward the exit and more of the castle debris came down, trapping Shen with night gown being only two steps from the exit. 

Shen gave Saki the children and the look she gave him told him everything, she wanted him to go without her. He shook his head, but then looked down at his children, his daughter crying for her mother as he ran them out the castle. He gave them to his second in command, before running back in to try and save Shen. Then the castle fell,

As morning came, the flames were dead and castle was nothing but pure rubble. Saki groaned as he sat up with a wince of pain, his eyes widen remembering what occurred the night before. His heart seeing the site before him.

"SHEN!" She was under the rubble, panels of wood crushing her torso. He ran toward her and pushed the wood off to get to her. He slid her out of the rubble and hugged her close, only to find her cold with lifelessness. His heart sank at the realization, she was gone. The next day, the entire kingdom mourned the lost of their queen. Many people shed tears over Saki's lost as they buried her.

Many months later, the castle had been rebuilt however Saki's body wasn't. As he went back into the fire, parts of wood that were inflamed fell on his head, giving him
permanent scars. Along with the scars on his heart. As days passed, his heart grew cold, selfish and unlike. It no longer held any love, not even for his children.

Then one night, a very old woman came to the castle and offer a single blue rose in exchange for shelter from the bitter cold. Repulsived by her haggard mutant appearance, Saki sneered at the gift and turned the mutant away. But she said not to fooled by appearances for beauty is found within.

And when he dismissed her again, her ugly fell to reveal a beautiful mutant enchantress. Saki begged her for forgiveness but she refused to hear his pleas after the mistreatment he had given her, she saw there was no longer love in his heart. So as punishment, she transformed him into hideous mutant beast and placed a powerful curse all over the castle and all that lived there.

Saki broke every mirror in the castle and destroyed all portraits of himself, old and new. His new appearance was even worse than his old one. He was ashamed of it and he concealed himself inside his castle, a magic hand held mirror to be his only contact with the outside.

The Rose she had offered was truly an enchanted blue, shining so bright in its glass dome, that bloom until his 35th year. He could learn to love again and earn their love in return before the last petal fell, then curse would be broke. If not, he would be doomed to remain a mutant beast for all eternity.

As the years passed he fell into despair and lost all hope, for who could ever truly love a mutant beast.