Once Upon A Time...that's How The Old Stories Always Begin. Once Upon A Time There Was A King Of A Fallen Kingdom. He Was Just And He Was Beloved. Or So The Numbers Said. One Day, He Gathered Together The Greatest, Wisest Minds In All The Land — Not Sorcerers, But Scientists — And He Bade Them Fashion Him A Son. A Prince. A Perfect Prince To Embody His Father's Legacy. The Scientists Each Brought The Prince A Gift: Beauty, Strength, Ambition, Intellect, Pride. But They Must Have Forgotten Something Because When He Saw The Mermaids Dance At The Cirque De La Mer, He Ran Away To Join Them. For A Year, He Trained Them, Performed With Them, Thought He Was Happy. For A Year He Thought He Was Free. But Then Nerites Came: A Merman Who Refused To Be Tamed. A Captive From Another Kingdom. A Beast In A Glass Cage. The Old Stories Always End With Happy Ever After. But This Isn't One Of The Old Stories. This Is A Story Of Princes And Monsters.