The Princess and The Crow

The Deal

(Contains "Friends On The Other Side". You can sing along if you want. Lyrics are in bold.)

The ship from Mistral came into Orsus. The day was here, Prince Qrow Branwen had come and everyone (I mean everyone) was head over heels too see him. He had his kingdom attire on and his servant, Tyrian, had his bags. The 19-year-old threw his crown into a crowd of girls and grabbed out his ukulele, jumped off the boat and started to play some tunes.

Even though he was supposed to be royal and proper, all his life he wanted to be a musician. His parents had sent him to Orsus to get a job because the Kingdom of Atlas had expensive jobs and Mistral had little jobs. But Vale was just right!

Tyrian tried to grab the bags but he tripped down the stairs and fell. He grumbled and got up and followed Qrow. He was sick and tired of being pushed around from both his family and Qrow. Then, he saw Qrow talking to a tall man with a white coat and orange hair, a part of it covering his right eye. He had a round hat with a feather on it. They were in an alley.

"Tyrian, come.", Qrow said as Tyrian walked towards the two men, "this gentleman has just read my palm."

"The name's Roman. Roman Torchwick.", the tall man said as he handed both Qrow and Tyrian a business card each. The card read, "Voodoo. Potions. Dreams made real".

Tyrian rolled his eyes. He whispered to Qrow about the man being a charlatan and a phony. Roman and heard and yelled, "Don't you disrespect me, little man!" Then he spoke in a singsong voice.

"You can't derogate or deride." Roman pointed at a sign saying, "Dr. Torchwick's Voodoo".

He sang again, "You're in my world, now, not your world. And I've got friends on the other side."

The two newcomers heard a booming voice and the doors to Roman's place opened. "He's got friends on the other side."

Roman led them inside. "That's an echo, gentlemen. Just a thing we do down here in Orsus. Little parlor trick, really. Sit down at my table. Put your minds at ease. Enjoy while I'll do just about anything I please. I can read your future. I can change and ransom too. I can look into your heart and soul."

He walked up to Tyrian. "You have a soul now, do you, Tyrian?" He did a little dance and sang, "Make your wildest dreams come true."

He pulled out some voodoo dolls and showed it to the gentlemen. "I got voodoo, I got hoodoo, I got things I haven't even tried!! But, I've got friends on the other side." The "echo" came back again. "He's got friends on the other side."

Roman brought out a deck of cards. He turned to face Qrow and sang again, "The cards, the cards, the cards will tell. The past, present, and the future as well. The cards, the cards. Just take three. Take to your trip to your future with me."

Qrow and Tyrian each got three cards and Roman laid out the rest of the deck.

"Now you, young man are from across the sea. You come from two long lines of royalty. I'm a royal myself on my mother's side." He showed a voodoo doll head to Qrow. He showed him a side of Qrow's card and it had a picture of him sitting on the Mistral throne, ukulele in hand. "Your lifestyle's high, but your funds are low. You need to marry a little honey who's daddy got dough." He then shifted the card from the throne picture to a picture of Qrow with empty pockets, explaining that he was in fact, broke.

"Mom and Dad cut you off, huh, playboy?", Roman asked.

"Eh, sad but true.", Qrow responded.

"Yeah, you just want to be free. Hop around from place to place. But freedom...takes green." Roman held up a gesture as if he had actual money and Qrow's face lit up.

Roman flipped the cards in one slide and they turned into dollar bills. "It's the green, it's the green, it's the green you need. And when I look into your future, it's the green that I see." He gave Qrow a card that showed him sitting on a throne surrounded by riches.

Roman turned to Tyrian and sang to him. "Oh, you, young man. I don't wanna waste much time. You've been pushed round all your life." He showed Tyrian a card that magically turned into a flipbook. It showed Tyrian in a jester outfit. It also showed his family jumping on him wearing jester outfits.

"You've been push round by your mother and your sister and your brother. And if you were married, you'd be pushed round by your wife. But in your future, the you I see, is exactly the man you always wanted to be." He showed Tyrian a card that had him with a crown and Qrow was in the jester outfit. Tyrian smiled deviously.

Roman held out his hands to the two men, asking them to shake it. "C'mon boys, won't you shake...a poor sinner's hand."

Qrow and Tyrian offered the deal and shook Roman's hand. Immediately, Tyrian was pushed aside and Qrow was wrapped in snakes. Roman grabbed a talisman and opened the teeth. He grabbed Qrow's hand and poked the tooth onto his hand and he winced. Then, green slivers surrounded him and he was shrinking. Tyrian's teeth started to chatter, hoping and praying he wasn't gonna be next, and then everything went dark...

(Sorry I haven't been active lately. And, I had to rewatch the movie to find the lyrics, hope you enjoyed this.)