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A Half Baked Fairy Tale
Maybe fairy tales are cruel.
"Sleeping Beauty" is the story of a princess who sleeps in the depths of a castle surrounded by thorny shrubs after a spell was cast on her. A strong handsome prince then comes to her rescue and his kiss breaks the spell.
One day, a brave one goes to take the challenge of the thorny castle.
He tackles the inaccessible thorny shrub and cuts through it with his sharp claws. He is definitely strong, but it would be very difficult to say that he is handsome. He does not even have the lips that would be needed to kiss the princess; he has some sharp fangs instead.
Before long, he gets to the inside of the castle and reaches the young lady. However, his claws are sharper than the thorns surrounding the castle, so how can he even think about holding her, when he won't dare touch her? If he were to touch her with his sharp claws he would end up ripping her to shreds.
It is then that he realizes that he isn't a prince.
He decides that there are only two things that he can do. One, to take the place of the thorny shrub.
He could just become the same as the thorny shrub and protect the girl until the real prince comes to rescue her.
And two, to be killed by the prince.
Because the only way to break the spell is to destroy the thorny shrub and kiss the girl.
And so he waits... He waits for a long time, so long that even the thorny bush starts to die.
He will wait until the day the prince comes to kill him and break the spell on the girl.
- Note: Why does the demon feel so attached to the girl? We will leave this to your imagination. Also, within this image, someone famous is hiding. Feel free to look for him! lol