Walking around town on a beautiful morning when no one is awake yet is the most peaceful thing, the birds are chirping, there’s no yelling or screaming from villagers fighting over food, and the animals are all awake to be fed by the one person who is awake at this hour.

Zane walked over to the horse and gave them their feed for the morning, “good morning everyone, you guys miss me?” All of the animals ran over and crowded around Zane.

Zane loved to go out of town and up on a hill to watch the sunrise after feeding and playing with the animals. Back down in the village all was quiet other than a sneaky little princess sneaking out of town to avoid the guards. Once she got out she ran up the other side of the hill and didn’t notice Zane.

Zane heard someone behind him and turned around to see the princess, “hello princess.” The princess jumped up and started to back away but began to fall down the hill. Zane ran over to her and jumped behind her so that she would land on him instead of falling down the hill.

The princess landed on Zane and got off of him. Once she got off of Zane he started to roll down the hill. When he stopped moving he lay there not moving, the princess looked down to Zane and ran down to him to make sure he was ok.

She got down to him and checked to see if he was breathing, “are you ok?!” Zane poked his head up, “I’m fine, I think I might have broken my leg tho.”

Zane sat up and the princess was crying a little bit, “I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to hurt you, you just startled me and I almost fell.”

“It’s ok I would have helped anyone, even if it was a horse I would help it from falling.”

“W-what’s your name?”

“My name is Zane.”

“I would say that it’s nice to meet you but it seems as tho I’ve made a bad first impression.”

“It’s perfectly fine, what would you like me to call you, and if you want we could be friends.”

“My names Abigale, and yes. I would love to be your friend.”

Abigale helped Zane get up and helped him get back to the village. Once they got back the bell went off waking up everyone. The princess helped Zane sit down, “I have to go, see you tomorrow morning, meet me at the castle gates, bye.” Zane waved bye as the princess ran back to the castle to get ready for the day.

The villagers woke up and started the day normally as Zane limped to the doctor. He walked in and the door to the office said that the doctors would all be gathered in town helping everyone set up for the festival that was in two days. Zane sat down in a chair knowing that one doctor was still there.

A doctor walked out of a room seeing Zane, “what happened?”

“I fell down the hill and broke my leg.”

The doctor took Zane into her office and told him to sit down on the bed as she grabbed the stuff she needed to help him. Zane sat down not knowing the doctor who was helping him but he knew how to make a cast and that she knew as well.

She walked over to Zane and made the cast around his broken leg, “I’m a new doctor here so you came right after I finished walking around, lucky you.” Zane watched as she finished his cast, “I hope you can do good things for this town.”

The doctor gave him a crutch and agreed as she walked out with him. She went to go help everyone get ready and Zane went over to the animals after leaving a note at his house.

The note he left was for his parents telling them that he was going to stay with a friend for the next week, Zane is a fast healer so he only needs a week of recovery for a broken bone.

Zane went to the animals and stayed with them for the rest of the day, he also went around a bit to help the villagers set up.

When it came closer to night time Zane got a saddle on a horse and silently went out of town. He went up on the hill and the horse helped him. The horse was all black with a small white spot on its chest. The horses eyes were two different colors, green and blue. Zan sat down on the grass and the horse lay next to him.

A few hours later Zane got up with the help from the horse and got on the saddle. The horse walked slowly to make sure to not hurt Zane. They rode around the forest a bit because the forest was more magical and alive at night. The crystals would all shine and the bugs would help the moon create natural lighting. White foxes and animals all showed up in a certain area in the forest just to meet Zane because they all saw him fall and hurt himself and they knew he would visit the forest for the week.

Zan took the horse to the area in the forest and once the horse hit the moonlight in that area it turned all white with a tiny black spot on its chest and it’s eyes got brighter. Zane got off of the horse and limped over to the big oak tree with the help of the woodland creatures. He sat down, “hello my furry friends.” As the animals all lay down next to him and on him he giggled a little bit.

The horse went over to a deer who brought it some berries and they sheared. Zane loved the sight of his woodland friends and would always take care of them.

When morning drew nearer Zane got up on the horse and said bye to the woodland creatures. He went to the castle gates and waited for the princess.

When the sun got up I’m the sky and the bells rang he started to worry.

After the bell ran all of the villagers went outside but it was very quiet still. Everyone gathered at the front gate so Zane had to hide. Everyone was wearing black and crying. Zane started to wonder what was going on when he noticed that there were fewer guards at the gate. He looked around and saw the king and queen walk out of the castle and behind them was a casket carried by the guards.

Zane backed up in disbelief and soon after saw the prince behind them all. The guards let everyone in to the castle and they were all led to the garden. Zane stood in the back of the crowd and was being quiet and trying not to be seen. Everyone sat down in chairs and the queen and king were up on a stage. The prince was standing in the back next to two body guards. Zane decided to stand behind the bush next to them and was hoping not to be noticed.

The prince turned around and looked at Zane who instantly hid in the bush making his leg worse. He held in a small wince of pain and brushed it off. The prince went over to zan and helped him up, “don’t hide, you’re the boy that Abi talked about before she went. She liked you and said that you were kind enough to help her, a total stranger.”

“T-thanks but I don’t want to be bothered, she was my only friend..”

“Oh.” The prince sat down next to Zane and hugged him, “would you like to live in the castle? It could help you by having the things she loved and wanted to give you.” Zane nodded and the prince helped him back obto his feet. Zane looked at the bodyguards and was focusing on the taller male that stood in front of him.

Zane blushed slightly as the taller male walked over and helped him brush leaves off of himself.

The prince decided to sneak out that night and meet Zane. When he found Zane he was on his way to the castle with the princess favorite flower. He was let inside and went over to the princesses grave and planted the flower in her mini garden, “I promise to take care of you my friend.”

The prince was touched by the loyalty of his sisters friend and went next to him and hugged him. Zane started to cry a little and the prince did the same. As Zane and the prince were in the garden walking around and looking at the flowers Zane had a great idea, “can I bring you somewhere?”

“Sure, how far away is it?”

“Don’t worry it won’t take long.”

Zane took the prince to the stables that were in town because he knew that an old friend would still be awake. As they went into the stables the prince was looking at all of the animals, they went to the back and saw a cute little foal playing in the hay bales.

Zane walked over to the little foal and it jumped on him. Zane was laughing and played with the foal for a moment, “come on please take us there your papa’s asleep.”

The foal nodded and helped Zane up then took them to the front of the barn and grew to a bigger size so that they could both fit on its back. Zane hopped on and the prince was left in surprise.

Zane held out his hand to help the prince up, “come on, it’s a long ride.”

“O-ok.”

The prince got on the back of the horse and held onto Zane tightly. Zane still had a broken leg and the prince noticed, the prince looked up at Zane worried.

On their way to the forest the prince was relaxing. They got to the top of the hill and the horse stopped. The prince thought it was ok to get off but Zane stopped him from moving and speaking, “stop. Don’t move and hold onto me tightly..”

The prince got scared and did as Zane told him too. Out from the forest came the kingdoms one and only downside…. The monsters.

The monsters that emerged from the forest were grousum, they had long nails and dripping faces, they were walking slowly and didn’t notice Zane and the prince. The monsters look like they had just eaten and were still hungry, they were staggering a they walked because they had gotten hurt.

The monsters all looked around and Zane could tell that they were all half dead. One bite or scratch could mean certain death from these monsters. Zane waited a moment, a new monster emerged and was bigger than the others.

This monster had patches that were empty from skin and all you could see was bone. Two spots had no skin and no meat and all you could see were the spine and tail bones. The monster looked catlike and had sharp fangs. Zane could tell that it was much stronger than the rest.

The prince wanted to scream and run but he knew that Zane knew what he was doing. A moment later Zane had the horse moving at full speed. The prince looked confused and scared, “WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!”

All of the monster looked in their direction, “you idiot I told you not to make a sound now one of us is dead unless we get to the forest.”

Zane was really focused on getting them to the safe spot and he didn’t notice a monster jump out of a bush and scratch the princes leg. The prince covered his leg and when they got to the safe spot the prince fell off of the horse and was very pale.

Zane jumped off of the horse and hurt his leg more. He turned around to the prince and hurried to help him, a claw was stuck in the princes leg putting more poison into his blood stream. Zane tied off the princes leg so the poison wouldn’t spread, “be careful and don’t move too much. The monsters will go away in a little while, I’m sorry I brought you here, I forgot that it was a full moon tonight.”

When morning came they went back to the castle and the prince was returned to the castle guards. Zane was set free from the kings wrath because the prince asked for it to be so. A few hours later the prince was announced dead to the whole kingdom, “the prince is dead due to the monsters in the forest, who would be dumb enough to go into the forest at night on a full moon.” Is what Zane heard all day long.

At night Zane snuck into the kingdoms and went to the garden to leave a moon rose at the princes grave, “I’m so sorry..”

Zane left the moon rose planted in the garden and went to the stables to calm down the already distressed horse. Zane sat down next to the foal and started stroking its fur and mane. Zane was humming to relax him and the horse because it was a way that he always used to fall asleep in the forests safe spot. Zane fell asleep soon after the foal did.

In the morning all of the villagers went to the castle and Zane took one of the horses out on a long ride during the day to clear his head. Before nightfall he returned the horse to the stable and gave all of the animals their food. Zane went up to the loft and lay down in a hamock.

*Why am I such a clutz, *Zane sat up and put the pillow over his head and lay back down he kept thinking that all of this was his fault.

Every night Zane would walk around at night to get food from the bakery and he would pay for it too. Zane would sleep in the barn all week and once his leg finished healing he ran home to see something he would never forget.

He bursts into his house and yelled to his family that he was back, he didn’t notice all of the blood all over the walls. Zane walked to the kitchen and grabbed some fruits to eat, as he walked up to his room he remembered that his dad was the only one home today, his sister was out of town and his mother was with her.

Zane’s dad would always yell at him for not liking women but for liking men. When Zane heard no screaming or yelling he knew something was up. He looked up from the ground and saw a hall covered in blood and writing in blood.

There were claw marks all over the walls and as he looked further into the house the smell of blood and rotting corpses got stronger, he bolted towards the smell knowing full well that he was sick to his stomach and was about to pass out from being nauseous from the sights.

When he got to the back room there were three bloody corpses. His dad, his mom. And his younger sister. His dad was battered and bruised with only one limb left on his body, his clothes were ripped to shreds and the face of fear was frozen on his face.

His sister was stabbed seven times by a ginormous claw that left giant holes in her still dripping blood with a fearful face.

Zanes mother was the worst of them all, her body lay there still, a giant hole in her chest and her head at Zane’s feet. He looked down at her head and noticed that her head had a face of terror. She was more scared than his sister and dad.

Zane had two mothers one of them was taking care of Zane while he was away. She was a beautiful woman and she had the kindest of hearts. Zane got his kind exterior from her.

Zane ran to her house before he could pass out and wait for the monster to return, he bolted out the door and ran to his mothers house. When he got there she was very surprised to see him all scared and startled like that so she brought him in and helped him calm down until he fell asleep.

Zane was asleep on the couch and his mother was in the kitchen making his favorite food for when he wakes up. Zane’s mother was a beautiful woman, she was his biological mother, he had gotten lost one day as a small boy and the people’s he was living with adopted him.

He grew attached the them, when ever they were hurting he would help them but they were rude to him because he was gay. His mother accepted him for who he was and found him a few years after he got lost. He decided to stay with both families so that they would each get what they wanted.

Zane was a sweet and kind hearted boy so if anything happened he would always find the bright side in the situation, but in the situation he was in now, there was no good thing about it to him.

His mother finished cooking the food for him and she finished just as he was waking up, “come eat Zane, I made your favorite.”

Zane got up and went to the kitchen to eat, “thank you momma.”

“Any time sweetheart, just know that I’m always here for you.”

Zane ate the hugged his mother and started to cry, “hey momma?”

“Yes sweety?”

“What do you do if the people you love all die..?”

“I would be sad and cry, then I would get everything they gave me and make a shrine to remember them.”

“Ok, then just you.”

“Just me?”

Zane’s mother looked down to see a little distressed boy who had just witnessed multiple deaths, “my poor baby come here.”

Zane did as she said and hugged her tightly. Zane started sobbing into his mothers shoulder.

Zane fell asleep crying again and he was clinging onto his mother the entire time. In the morning, when he woke up, Zane was feeling a bit better and decided to walk around town with his mother.

As they were walking around a mans voice came from the back of the crowd, “wait! You two up there. The lady and the boy.”

Zane turned around with his mother to see the king running towards them, “momma what’s going on?”

Zane hugged his mothers arm tightly and they were soon surrounded by guards, “ I don’t know sweety but let’s just wait and see what’s happening.”

The king got up to them and was out of breath so he took a moment to breathe, “madam… would you please be my queen.”

“I’m sorry but I have a child to take care of.”

“He can come too, we need a princess this week or we will all be killed.”

Zane flinched at the words be killed because he wasn’t over the deaths yet, **gone gone gone, nothing you can do but kill yourself, nobody cares so it would be easier, Zane started to have a panic attack and his mother helped him calm down.**

“It would be safe at the castle if you both come.”

“I’m thinking, my son needs help right now,”

Once Zane was feeling better, “I’ll be your queen and he will be the princess, it’s for our safety and the kingdoms prosperity.”