Another Tale

There once lived in a faraway castle a little Prin­cess with her mother and father. 

The king­dom was not as big as one from the old fairy tales, and the King was not as brave as he should have been. He was a nor­mal hu­man be­ing with no power at all. Some­times he was cruel, some­times he was kind, but that de­pended on how much he ate in that day, the meat was his fa­vor­ite. His ser­vants would put meat in every dish just to please the King. 

His Queen was a beauty. She would take care of their daugh­ter like a good mother she was, but she didn’t like the king’s crav­ings since she was a veggie. 

One even­ing, the fam­ily to­gether with a wise Wiz­ard and a God­mother had din­ner at the castle. To­gether with them there were two other un­usual friends: the Cat and the Dog. They were not nor­mal pets, they could talk but only the prin­cess could hear them. Why? Be­cause she was the only one who be­lieved in magic. 

–I’m glad you two came for din­ner! I hope you en­joy the dishes, said the Queen. 

–Thank you for your in­vit­a­tion, my Queen! Said the Godmother

–Where is my meat, you stu­pid ser­vants! Said the King.

The Queen was so em­bar­rassed be­cause of her hus­band and con­tin­ued: ‑Would you like to see my daugh­ter’s dance? She is so skilled! 

-That would be lovely, said the Godmother. 

–But, mother, I don’t want to dance, I am shy! Said the Princess. 

-O dear, you don’t have to be, said the Wiz­ard. It is a good thing you can dance. I just re­membered my youth when I and your God­mother used to dance at every ball…. I want to be young again. 

Let’s just skip this long and bor­ing con­ver­sa­tion and move a little for­ward. Now the Prin­cess is in her room with her two friends. She looks sad.

–Oh, of, oh…. ‑What’s with the oh’s? Said the Cat, it hurts my ears, and I want to sleep peacefully. 

–Be quite! Little scary Cat! Said the Dog. Don’t you see our friend is sad? What happened, Princess?

–I just wish my par­ents do not ar­gue all the time. I think I’m go­ing to sleep! See you in the morn­ing! Good night!

That night the Prin­cess had a strange dream, but she could not re­mem­ber the de­tails, so I apo­lo­gize to my reader for this mis­for­tune. The Prin­cess woke up and went to the din­ing room. Everything was so quiet, ap­par­ently every­one was sleep­ing, or not. She liked the idea of be­ing alone in the castle be­cause she con­sidered her­self a ma­ture per­son. She was quite smart for her age, she was a beauty like her mother, she of­ten bor­rowed her mother’s makeups (I would like to men­tion the fact that her mother didn’t know about this situ­ation, and we can sub­sti­tute the word bor­row with steal, even if this word is not suit­able for a prin­cess. A prin­cess should be everything, but not a thief).

Sud­denly she heard voices from the other room. There were her mother, father, the God­mother, the Wiz­ard and a strange, crazy, mad clown laugh­ing so hard at some jokes. They com­pletely for­got about the Prin­cess. She was con­cerned about that prob­lem, it seemed like they were un­der a curse. Her father was laugh­ing and eat­ing so much. With every bite he took, he trans­formed him­self into a bal­loon. Her mother would not take her eyes from the mys­ter­i­ous man, who was the per­fect man, slim and hand­some. Her head began to trans­form into a heart. The God­mother was ob­sessed with clean­ing and cook­ing, one of her hands changed into a pan and the other into a broom. The Wiz­ard has dis­covered his po­etic side. He wrote poems about youth and love for a spe­cial God­mother. His love switched from kind and ro­mantic to a hys­ter­ical one.

A big smirk could have been seen on the clown’s face, but little did he know that there were some creatures un­af­fected by his curse: the Cat and the Dog which could not un­der­stand hu­man jokes. Def­in­itely, the Prin­cess could not be cursed be­cause she is the main char­ac­ter of the tale, she has to be the saviour. 

The three of them knew that they had to find some­thing ma­gical in or­der to stop the clown’s curse. Later that day the ad­ven­ture was de­cided. The Prin­cess took with her food, her make up products (be­cause no girl should live home without them) and some clothes. She wanted to be taken ser­i­ously and took with her knives and guns: Spring­field Ar­mory 45 ACP (11.43x23 mm), GLOCK 19, Gen 3, 9mm LUGER (9x19mm), MAKAROV,9X18.

On their way, in a bizarre forest, they heard some fra­gile voices. She was not scared be­cause she re­membered some of her mother’s stor­ies about elves. They were not dan­ger­ous, but they en­joyed prank­ing their guests. Four elves were play­ing foot­ball with two little pix­ies and a gi­ant wolf slept un­der a tree. The little creatures dis­covered the Prin­cess and her friends, but they were not afraid be­cause the wolf would take care of them.

- ‑Stay away, wolf! I’m not scared of you! I am a brave Prin­cess. I came here to look for ma­gic so that I could help my fam­ily come to their senses. They were cursed by a psychotic clown. 

–In­deed… you… came for that, Prin­cess! It has been a while since I ate a Prin­cess for dinner.

–Wolfy, said the red Pixie, let the girl live. Hello, Prin­cess, I am the pixie of this forest. Wel­come to our home. She is Wolfy, our were­wolf. She is usu­ally cute and sens­it­ive, but she likes to pre­tend she is cruel. Look! The Pixie hid into the werewolf’s fur and tickled, tickled her since Wolfy was ticklish.

–Hello, I am the blue Elf! I am funny! Do you want to play with us? 

–Thank you for your in­vit­a­tion but we have to con­tinue our journey.

–If I may ask… do you know how it looks like? Wolfy said. 

–I heard that far away in this forest there is a ma­gical lake, its wa­ter can cure everything, said the Pixie.

–Thank you! Then we shall go there. 

–If only it were that simple. It is said that the lake is pro­tec­ted by three ogres, said Wolfy.

–I am not afraid! I will kill them and come back with the wa­ter, the brave Prin­cess said. 

–You, a Cat and a Dog!? Let us come with you, we are all great fighters. 

The Prin­cess and her friends star­ted their jour­ney. Find­ing the lake was not easy. They have trav­elled for al­most two years. 

–Why didn’t you stay at your castle and wait for some Princes to do this busi­ness? Like every prin­cesses, said Wolfy.

‑Be­cause I want to do it on my own. I want to change people’s men­tal­ity. Wo­men can be as brave as men, we fight for our rights too, and I just want to prove that wo­men can rule a king­dom bet­ter than a man. 

–Why do you think that? 

–Be­cause a strong and wise wo­man can con­quer the world, a del­ic­ate touch of a wo­man is all that is needed. 

Dur­ing one morn­ing they reached the place. The ogres were there, big and hideous. The fight began. The Prin­cess used her Makarov gun, the Pixie used her fairy dust, the Elf his abil­ity to trick the ogre, the Dog and Wolfy used their fangs and paws and the Cat used his wis­dom and led the oth­ers to victory. 

They took a bottle of wa­ter and re­turned. At the castle they fought with the clown. The Prin­cess used her strong gun, Spring­field Ar­mory, and killed him. In or­der to undo the curse they pre­pared a din­ner us­ing the ma­gic water.

The curse was broken and they lived hap­pily ever after. Due to her heroic facts, the Prin­cess be­came Queen and ruled for a very long time with the help of her little friends. 

The end.

Iuli­ana Todorean