The Swan Princess & The Swan Princess 2

The Beginning

(Alivia in the picture above)

{Third Person P O V}

Once upon a time there was a king named Wilhelm. He ruled a large and mighty kingdom, alongside his precious wife, Sierra. Sierra and Wilhelm were quite happy together, their love brought the kingdom out of its previous slump.

But happiness came at a price, Wilhelm's father would always say. For Sierra and Wilhelm where growing quite old. Yet they still hadn't had a single heir to the throne. Not even a distant cousin. Sierra was quite distant about the matter, for it was a women's job to have children, more so a queens.

So one afternoon when she was taking her noon prayer time in the gardens, praying again for a child of her own, she heard a servant cry in the distance; "My Queen, you must make haste! A man is to be accused of sorcery, and he says he won't admit to anything till he talks to you." Sierra was stunned, she hadn't known of any magicians, why would this man wish to converse with her?"

When she arrived, she came at the right time, Wilhelm stood, his blond hair graying, and he looked as if he had just yelled at the man, who was accused, in shackles on the ground. He was young in age. One of twenty and seven.

"You wish to speak to me magician? Why? I know you not." Sierra asked, standing beside her king, her husband.

"I can give you what you want if you just give me a chance, and release my bonds. Let me grant you a child, and then when you see my magic is good, I will leave, I promise! Just spare my innocent life!" The child cried. He looked as a common beggar, but the Queen being the kind women agreed.

"Sierra, he is spilling lies from the mouth of the devil himself!" Wilhelm spoke to her.

"Oh Wilhelm, what's the worst that happens, I don't have a child to love? Then when he is made a fool in front of the country, he will be the one in pain, not us." Sierra scolded Wilhelm. Reluctantly, he agreed, his wife always thinking of others.

"Alright my love." He sighed and the sorcerer, was released. Within the next two months the kingdom was glad to know, indeed the Queen was with child. But the same as happiness coming with a price, magic did as well.

And on that happy autumn day, when Alivia was born, it would all come to an end, for Sierra had passed.

The kingdom in an outrage, and in shock sent for the sorcerer, whose name was known as Rupert, was sent back to the palace, where the people demanded he should be put to death.

"Quiet!" Wilhelm boomed at the amount of people, Rupert sitting in a chair in the middle of the crowd. Everyone was silent.

"Due to our queens kindness-"he stopped "-Queen Sierra, may she rest in peace" The crowd muttered. "Your life was sparred, and you kept your word. For this I spare you, but you will be banished personally by me, across the mighty mountains of my kingdom, there you will be sent off with no food or water. That is my final decision. So let it be written, so let it be done."

And with that the crowd dispersed. And not long was Rupert's misconduct forgotten, although the Kingdom admired and remembered their queen, a new topic would cross their minds. For at Alivia's first birthday ball, King Wilhelm met the widowed Eugenia, and her three year old son Grant.

"How are you Queen Eugenia? And your young son Prince..." She smiled, her high brown almost all grey hair high on top her head, replied, "Grant, Prince Grant. We are fine, but I fear my kingdom isn't faring well. With my husband and his sudden passing four years ago, income is low. And your country King Wilhelm?" Eugenia asked.