Long ago

Knuckles was a simple villager who feels out of place and dreams of venturing out of the village. Yet his father wouldn't allow it so all knuckles has that is the closest thing to his dream is getting lost in his books. Yet on his 21st birthday his father had a change of heart and lets knuckles join him on a trip. Knuckles is excited to finally have his dream yet on the way back he and his father discovered a castle that belonged to the missing royal family and meet the beast