Kari's Drabbles

The Dark Prince

  A dark prince with a sword in his hands rode on a black horse searching for the princess. He scoured through the forest, looking for her...the perfect princess. But what he found wasn't a princess, but a horrid looking girl, all in rags, cowering under a tree. She was crying pathetically. He approached her carefully. "Miss?" he asked softly. She looked at him, her eyes filled with tears, and they were scared as she looked at him. "Miss, what's wrong?" he asked her. She didn't respond. "What does it matter to a prince?!" the girl snapped, though she still seemed scared. "Because, it is the prince's duty to know what problems are pressing his people." the prince said calmly. "I am not one of your people. So why don't you just go on looking for your precious princess?" the girl said dangerously. The prince sighed and backed off, doing as he was told. He continued to look for the princess. Eventually he found the princess, and proposed marraige to her. She declined saying she wanted no part of him or his kingdom. Heartbroken the prince went home. After a week or two, he realized that he never really wanted the princess. He wanted someone else...."The girl." he said into himself in realization. He went back into the forest to look for her. She had been a servant to his family all his life and they practically grew up together. He hadn't realized before how much he had taken to her as they grew up together. He found her under the tree...but it was too late. Her skin was cold to the touch and her hair had seemed to be made of icicles. The cold had taken her from him. "No..." he whispered sadly, truly heartbroken this time, with an actual pain in his chest. He started to cry as he went back to his palace after kissing her gently....after he returned home...he poisoned himself to be with her...