Grimm Gifs: Iron John

Iron John is menace that lived in the woods of a nearby kingdom until it was captured by the King and put in an iron cage. But the King's son drops his ball in the cage and Iron John would only return it for the key to the cage.

The key obviously puts everybody in danger for the ball and Iron John takes the kid away to care of his golden well. The kid messes up the well by dipping his hair in it and Iron John tells him to go away, but he will still help him if he calls for him. 

The kid works for another King as various jobs until he ask from help from Iron John to help the King in a war, he gives him a horse so fierce that he wins the war by himself and leaves before anybody can ask who he is.

The King has a special where any body who grabs a Golden Apple will get the princess, the kid ask for Iron John's help and takes the apple three times and just leaves. The King's knights cut his leg before he leave the last time and eventually they figure out who he is and he confesses and ask for the princess... and this somehow breaks the curse on Iron John, who was ANOTHER King. That's a lot of Kings!