For him, the past twenty-five years had been like living a dream, for he and all his men of the Ninth Legion had been trapped in the hell of the Void for centuries before the young prince, Uther Pendragon, rescued them and brought them home to a world gone mad.

Helped by the Lords, the prince finally slays Bash Chelik and rescues his wife.

She had been enchanted to sleep for a century or so, until a prince of a later generation rescued her.

What follows is a classic fairytale where Avanti's prince charming rescues her from the drudgery of her life as maid.

The true prince rescues his father and restores his crown to him.

Then he, their little prince must rescue them.

At the end of the ballet the prince (Alexander Campbell) rescues Cinderella from her greasy kitchen, but she, in her turn, rescues him from a court without love.

The dragon would not eat her, of course- because the prince would come and rescue her.