By: Nicole Wagner: The Deadly Gambit
 

Rating: PG
 

Summary: A father tells a story to his son. I am not telling who is
who, it will spoil the surprise!
 

Comics: This Takes place after UXM#350, in my own universe. *laughs
evily*
 

One upon a time, there lived a King and a Queen. The King and The
Queen were a very happy couple and loved each other dearly. One day,
the Queen found out she was going to have a baby, and the King was
overjoyed with such news. One day, the King used his magic to make
the baby stronger than all of his subjects, which frightened the
Queen, so she ran off, leaving the King all alone and very sad. A few
months past, and the Queen gave birth to the baby, a Prince.
Horrified by the Prince's appearance, the Queen abandoned him in a
hospital, never to be seen again.
 

One day, a group of thieves happen upon the young Prince, taking
him from the hospital, and giving him to an evil wizard. The evil
wizard collected rare children, and since the Prince had been born
with strange eyes, he was worth collecting. Years later, when the
Young Prince was only five years of age, he escaped the Evil Wizard,
only to find himself alone on the streets. He was hurt badly and
tortured on these streets, all because of his strange appearance.
Luckily, this did not last long, for when the Prince grew up to be
nine years of age, a group of thieves took him in as one of their own.
 

Years would pass, and the young Prince grew up to be a man,
discovering he had powers beyond mortal men. Soon, he would wed a
beautiful woman, to bring peace between two feuding families, The
Thieves and The Assassins. The peace was short lived when a member of
the Assassin Guild challenged the Prince to a duel. The battle latest
for what seemed like days, but the Prince came out as the victor,
only to be banished from his new wife and his family, in order to
maintain what little peace was left.
 

After the Prince found himself all alone, again, his inhuman
powers started to become stronger, and he could not control them
anymore. He feared for his life, as well as the lives of others, so
he sought out a Wizard to help him control the magic he had. The
Wizard granted him his request and helped the Prince control the
magic powers he had, in exchange for a favor. The Prince was to
gather him an army of the strongest fighters and mages in all the
land, to cleanse the world of a group of evil beings that lived below
the ground.
 

The Prince agreed and had gathered up the army in a short amount
of time. The group was filled with the fiercest beings in all the
lands, all with great powers, much like the Prince had. One day, the
Prince was asked by the Wizard to lead the warriors to the dungeons
far below the city, in order to rid the world of these evil beings he
was told about. Again, the Prince agreed, and lead the warriors down
into the deep, dark dungeon. Once inside the Dungeon, the Prince
became horrified at what he had seen and begged the Warriors to stop,
but had failed, nearly getting slain in the process. The Prince
managed to gather up one of these beings and fled the horrible
battle. Once back out of the Dungeon, he freed the young being, and
left the area, finding himself alone, again.
 

For years, he lived in exile, without any being or loved one to
comfort him. Soon, that would change, for one day, The Prince rescued
a small child, who turned out to be a lovely witch. The kind Witch
offered him a home with other warriors and mages like himself. The
Prince finally felt like he was accepted, and that he could become a
good knight, like the many warriors that were around him. One day,
the Prince met a woman with long brown hair, with a white stripe down
the middle. He had fallen in love and started to court the young
woman, only to discover she had a curse, where she could not touch
any man, without placing him into a deep sleep. The Prince did not
care about this curse, and continued to pursue her love, only to feel
the wraith of her curse, and fall into a very deep, dark sleep.
 

Once the Prince awoken, he sought out the woman whom he had
fallen in love with. Once he had found her, after a long, hard
journey. When he tried to ask for her hand, she refused and left him
alone, once more. The Prince became very sad, and awaited her return
for many months. One day, she returned with a new warrior, and the
two seemed very close. The Prince became upset and dueled this new
warrior for the love of the maiden he had sought out to be his wife.
In the end, no one won the duel. Instead, the Prince became distant
towards the maiden, feeling as if he had lost his love for her.
 

A few more months would pass, and the Prince, the woman he
loved, his rival, and a few other Warriors travel to a large castle
in the sky, to save another land from a horrible beast. Once the
battle was done, the Prince and his troops came out as the victors,
and slowly returned home. But alas, the Prince and his troops became
lost in a cold, snow covered land, where there appeared to be no one
around for miles. But a rogue warrior and her demon pet found the
Prince and kidnapped him, taking him to a large tower of ice and
metal, where he would be tried for helping the wizard with his deeds.
 

The Warriors he had worked with became angered over his work
with this wizard, and turned away from him, leaving him to die in the
tower. But the woman he had fallen in love with had saved him, before
the tower had collapsed and slain him. Once outside, he begged the
beautiful maiden for forgiveness, only to discover she was nothing
more than an evil Witch. The Evil Witch became furious for the work
he had done for the kind Wizard, and grabbed two icicles from the
floor of the frozen land they were on. She jammed those icicles into
the Prince's eyes, blinding him and turning him back into a helpless
child. She then flew off into the sky, leaving the Prince to suffer a
horrible death in much pain.
 

But the Prince did not suffer a horrible death, for the kind
Wizard whom had helped him years before had returned, for he was not
just a Wizard, he was really the King, the Prince's father. He took
the Prince back to his castle, where he tried with all his might to
save the Prince's eyes, and undo the horrible spell that had turned
him into a child. Alas, he could only restore the Prince's sight, but
the Curse was too strong for him. To this day, the King looks after
his Prince, trying with all his might to return him to the man he
once was. No matter how long it takes, the King will try and break
the curse that had stolen his son from him.
 
 

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"Does de Prince ever get better, father" asked Remy LeBeau,
the young mutant known as Gambit sat in his bed, leaning against his
father's chest as he slowly closed a book that was infront of him.
His long auburn hair was slightly in his face as he slowly looked up
at his father, with those exotic red on black eyes.
 

"He will, one day, my son. and when he is all better, he will
rule the land with his father, and destroy the evil Witch that left
him to suffer in that icy waste land. But that will be a story for
another time ... it is time for you to go to sleep..."
 

Remy slowly nods his head in agreement, before gently pulling
away from his father and resting his head upon a feather soft pillow
on his bed. Those red on black eyes finally closed, and he drifted
off into a deep sleep, one that was peaceful and without any
nightmares.
 

Rogue had left him to die in Antarctica, angered he had once
worked for Mister Sinister, and lead the Marauders to kill the
Morlocks years ago. Her rage became worse when he admitted he still
loved her, and it made her go crazy. She grabbed two icicles that had
fallen to the ground from a cliff that Remy was under, and rammed
them into his eyes, blinding him, and leaving him with brain damage.
Mister Sinister soon appeared right after she left him to die,
quickly teleporting him to his lab, and trying to repair his eyesight
and brain, but Remy's brain was beyond repair, even for him. He
brought back his sight, but not his mind.
 

For months, Essex has been working day and night to restore
Remy's mind, but all has failed, and he had regained the lost child
he had sought out years earlier. He slowly brought the covers up on
Remy's sleeping form and slowly left his bedroom, leaving the book he
had just read behind.
 

"One day, Remy ... you shall be whole again, and you shall
work by my side, my son." He quietly said, as he closed the door
behind him, leaving his dear Prince to sleep, and dream peacefully,
for once in his tortured life.
 

The End