Fire Prince

Drawn on paper then colored in photoshop. Vengeance of the Fire Prince (Part one) Once upon a time on a island there lived a large tribe of people name the Munwa. The people were peaceful and happy, for they had a good strong leader that they relied on. There leader however was much different from them; he was a fae of fire. Most fae hated humans with a passion but not this one. He loved the munwa like his family and he would have done anything for them. The Prince lived with his people for over one hundred years, yet never once did he tell them his true name. The true name of a fae is very powerful and if anyone who knows this name wishes harm on the fae, they can use the name as a weapon. No fae had ever willingly told a human their name as it could be use for their own destruction. One rainy season a hurricane brought a beautiful woman to the island. She had been in a shipwreck and she said she had no memory of her past. The Prince could not help but fall madly in love with the woman. He named her Ohun meaning The Moon in his native tongue. He loved her so deeply he ignored all his friends when they warned him not to trust her so easily. And within a month of her arrival the Prince took her as his first bride. On their wedding day the fae gave Ohun the staff of his ancestors so that if anything were to ever happen to him, she and their future children would be protected. The staff was a magical weapon that had killed battalions of men with a single blow. On there wedding night Ohun asked her husband if he would tell her his name. When he declined to give her this she flew into a rage and would not be consoled. “If you loved me you would trust me!” She screamed at him. Yet he refused to tell her, not because he didn’t trust her, but because he feared for her safety. Every night for a year she would ask and it would be the same thing (he would not tell her.) But the prince loved his wife and more then anything he wanted her to bear his children. So on the anniversary of their wedding the Prince told Ohun his true name. “Oh thank you.” She cried as if he had made her very soul glad. Then that night while the Prince slept peacefully dreaming of children he would someday have, his lovely wife recited his name and stabbed him through the heart. Ohun had actually been a shaman from a neighboring island. When she heard of the fae who ruled the Munwa, her black heart had been overcome with greed, so she plotted to overthrow the Prince and take everything that was his. What Ohun did not know was that a fae can not be killed by the use of a name and a weapon alone. The prince’s eyes and ears remained open though he could not move or speak. He was forced the endure the sounds of his loved ones being killed for their resistance to Ohun’s rule. Once she claimed the throne Ohun had the Prices’s body sealed up in a cave at the foot of a volcano. There he waits for the day when he will exact his revenge. End