Sleepwalking beauty.
(a fairytale fanfic.)
One day, in the beautiful
A princess was born. She was beautiful, and her name was Pansy.
She only had one imperfection: a small wrinkle above her eyebrow.
But other than that, she was a perfectly good daughter, and the king and queen
Decided to throw a party for her. They invited all the fairies in the kingdom, and a couple of old friends as well. They even invited the old hag fairy who lived on crooked lane, just to be nice.
Near the end of the party, everyone gave their gifts. From the rose fairy, came a beautiful flower in a pot, that would never die.
From the rainbow fairy, came a wonderful set of clothing that shimmered in the light.
This went on until the old hag fairy came over.
She seemed angry. “there was nothing I could eat at the snack table!”
She said. “it all had wheat! I thought you knew I was allergic to wheat! For this I will punish you!”
She waved her wand at the princess. “ on her 10th birthday, she will fall into a deep, deep, sleep. And only one thing can wake her! Of course, I’m not telling you what.”
And she disappeared into a cloud of smoke. Or, she almost did. When the smoke cleared she was still there, coughing, and fanning the smoke away. “so much for a dramatic exit.” She said, and walked out the door. The king and queen were devastated. But then the water fairy came up.
“wait!” she said “I haven’t given my gift yet!” and she presented the king and queen with a bathtub. “just keep it full, and everything will turn out just fine.” And with those words, she walked out. Ten years later, on her tenth birthday, Pansy cut the cake. When she took a bite, she dropped to the floor, sleeping. The king and queen had forgotten about the curse, so they started trying to wake her up. Then they remembered, and started to cry. All they could do was put her in her bed, and hope for something to happen.
five years later, the king had an idea. he reminded his wife about the story of sleeping beauty.
“don’t you remember?” he said. “she woke with the kiss of a prince!” so they sent for a prince from the nearest kingdom. When the prince came, he was excited. He walked into pansy’s room. But as he was leaning in to kiss her, Pansy sat up, knocking him on the jaw. At first the king and queen thought she was awake, but the queen looked at her and groaned. She was sleepwalking. She walked into the hall, and into the bathroom. She kept walking, and finally stumbled into the bathtub. She fell in with a splash, and stood up sputtering and coughing.
“what?” she said, her face full of surprise. “is the party over already?” the king and queen ran to hug her, and started explaining the whole story, through tears of joy.
Pansy walked to her room, and put on dry clothes. Then she went down to the kitchen, to get a little something.
The next morning, the old hag fairy woke up to the door bell ringing.
She stumbled up, still sleepy. When she opened the door, she saw a package, with a tag saying, ‘from princess pansy.’ She opened the package, and took a look. “bread!” she yelled. “how many times do a have to tell those people! I can’t eat…” she trailed off. There was another tag next to the bread. This one said: ‘this bread is made wheat free, by the castle chefs.’ The fairy smiled. As she feasted on the bread, she said to herself; “maybe I was a little harsh on the poor dear.”
And for the first time in quite a while, was happy.
The End
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