NathMarc November 2020

At the age of sixteen, you can become a knight. You're sworn to protect your kingdom and the royals. It was every child's dream to become a knight, so much that some of them started training when they were thirteen. Nathaniel was one of them.

He may not have been the strongest knight, but he had a satisfactory amount of upper body strength, and he was much faster than the other knights in his order. Many people overlooked that and just saw a scrawny boy with a weird haircut, but he proved them all wrong by saving three princesses. You'd think he would've stopped at one since it's customary for knights to marry the first prince, princess, or prinxe they save, but he and the princesses just never seemed to... Click.

Princess Marinette Dupain-Cheng of the Luck kingdom was his first rescue, and his small-time crush. She was kidnapped on the day of her fourteenth birthday and kicked away in a dungeon by an evil sorceress named Lila who would give her back in exchange for the throne. Using an invisibility spell he got from Sabrina, a mage, he snuck past Lila undetected, made his way into her potions lab where he grabbed an inferno potion. The potions would cause those who are evil at heart to burn into ashes... Perfect. So, one drop of this on Lila, and she burst into flames right before his eyes.

The invisibility potion wore off a while later and Nathaniel went to save Marinette. He was so excited, his first save, and it was his crush. He broke her out and returned her back to her kingdom, much to the king and queen's joy. For his heroism, she offered her hand in marriage, which Nathaniel accepted, but months before the wedding, the two realized that they didn't have much in common, and decided to just remain close friends.

Then came his second rescue, Juleka Couffaine of the Harmony kingdom. When she was young, she was gifted a mirror that when looked into, turned her into some sort of monster. And when you looked into her eyes, you'd look exactly like her. Her step-father, who died recently, locked her away in a tower as he was disgusted by her appearance. The curse could only be broken by a classic true love kiss, but since Nathaniel wasn't in love with her, the spell couldn't be broken. Fortunately, he knew someone who had a massive crush on the princess, Rose Lavillant, a princess he was sent to guard once.

He rode on the back of his horses, Orikko, and made his wway to the tower. This is where his bangs come in handy. He couldn't see much through them, but he could still navigate around the tower. Almost an hour later, he found Juleka in her room. With some coaxing, he was able to get her out of the tower and took her to the Fragrance kingdom so Rose could kiss her, and it worked. She was back to normal, and so we're the people who were affected by her curse. The two girls got married a while later and Nathaniel couldn't be happier for them.

His next and third save was Alix Kudbel of the Clockwise kingdom. She and Nathaniel were actually childhood friends. His mom worked as a seamstress and made all of her clothes, so while she worked, the two of them would play. Alix is a lot different from the other princesses. She wore pants instead of dresses and saved herself before any knights could get there, but this was one situation she couldn't save herself from. Due to a curse that affected her on the day of her fourteenth birthday, she was frozen in time and remained as a statue. She was kept in the middle of the hedge maze in the back of the castle, her favorite place to go to when she was younger.

Nathaniel worked hard trying to find a way to break the curse on his best friend until he found it- The Stopwatch of Fluff. It could break time loops, allow the user to travel forwards and backwards through time, and unfreeze people from time. It wasn't easy trying to find the watch, but it was all worth it when Alix was finally free. King Adim tried to offer Nathaniel her hand in marriage, and they did not hold back on stating the reasons why they didn't want to marry each other.

That was six months ago. There's been a decrease in royals getting kidnapped, which wasn't too bad, but it got boring for the knights. The most recent rescue was by Max who saved Prince Kim of the Uproar kingdom. It was a fairly easy mission, kiss to wake him up, they got married, nothing new.