No Happy Ending

Prince Eric should have know better than to enter the sea witch's cave but he was desperate. So desperate he ignored the warnings and his own deep forebodings but he couldn't get the mysterious mute girl out of his head, he had to find her.

Deep in the gloom of the cave the witch listened to his story, her self satisfied smile hidden in the shadows. When he had finished telling his tale she agreed to reunite him with his lost love. They would be together, body and soul. All she asked in exchange was for the Prince to surrender his claim to throne.

Driven by desperation he agreed and signed the witch's contract without a second thought. There was a brilliant flash of light and the next thing Eric knew he was sprawled naked on the sand while a man that looked exactly like him stood nearby.
"Oh good, you're awake" his doppelganger said a cruel smile on his handsome face. "As you can see I have upheld my part of our deal, you and that foolish girl are together body and soul, her body and your soul."
Eric looked down and gave a silent scream as he recognised the naked female body he was now trapped in.
"No please you can't." He tried to beg but the witch's original curse on his loves body still held. He was as mute as she had been on the day they met.
"Beg all you like my sweet." The witch, for it was surely she, gloated from Eric's original body "A deal is a deal. Now, if you'll excuse me I have a kingdom to rule since you are no longer in a position to fulfil your princely duties."
With that the false Prince rode away leaving Eric helpless and alone, forever denied his happy ever after.