one shots

The Fairest Fairy Tale

A/N: This story was inspired by Grimm's Fairy Tales  So I do apologize if anything seems very similar to one of their stories. It was not intentional, The Lunar Chronicles is based off of these stories and that makes it hard to recreate it as my own story. That being said, I did try and make this as original as possible. This One-shot is based mostly off of Fairest, but has all the characters in it. Please enjoy and I'm sorry for any grammatical errors.

There once was a beautiful Queen that had two daughters whom were just as beautiful as her.  One day a knight asked her which daughter she loved more, the Queen replied simply with,

" I love both of my daughters equally, for they are both as beautiful as me."

When the older of the two princesses heard this, she was enraged. She wanted her mother to love her the most, so she devised a plan to turn her sister into a hideous human being.

That night the older sister took the young girl next to the fire place and asked,

" The fire is very beautiful  isn't it? Why, I could stand here and watch the warm flams flickering all night."

When the young girl agreed the older sister then suggested to do something terrible,

" Perhaps, if you walk into the flams you can become just as beautiful as it is."

The young naïve girl stepped into the flams and screamed as it burned her flesh. When she finally crawled out of the fire place and looked into the mirror she could not believe her eyes. Instead of her face being more beautiful, it was gross and disfigured. There were burn marks across her once lovely face and parts of her hair were burned off, leaving only thin hair burnt at the ends.   

The young girl stared at her sister in horror, looking for sympathy , but only found her with twisted evil smile across her face.

The young girl cried out, tears streaking down her horrendous face.

" You knew! You knew! You knew the flames would scar my face! Why would you do this to me!"

The older one laughed in her face and answered ,

" No one will ever  love you now. You shall be an outcaste and forgotten by everyone who once loved you, for not even a mother  could love that face."

Sadly, the older sister was correct, and the ugly princess was kicked out of the kingdom. Years later the kingdom soon had forgotten of the younger girl, for she was now a distant memory.

The older princess was eventually crowned Queen and had a beautiful baby girl, but the younger princess was still alive, and sought-after revenge.

The Princess soon had a thought. Why not destroy that child's  life the way her mother did to her. The Princess would burn the Child's cradle with her in it. There was one problem, the guards wouldn't let her into the kingdom. She has tried before and was met with spears being thrown at her face while being called a monster. There had to be a way around this problem, the Princess just had to find it.

It took over two years, but the Princess found a witch that could help her. The witch could give her a  magical mask to hide her face. The mask could make her look beautiful and no one would be able to see that it wasn't her face, though there was a price to this wonderful thing. For payment the witch wanted the heart of someone you loved.

The Princess only loved one person, he was a handsome young hunter, whom she would see every so often in the woods. He was the most beautiful man she has ever seen. When she saw him the princess felt a longing in her heart, she was meant to be with him. She did not want to, but the Princess had no choice but to kill him.  She would lure him into the cave she called home, the only way she could, with a song. Though her face was destroyed her voice was not. The Princess could still sing a beautiful song. 

"Sweet crescent moon up in the sky sing your song so sweetly after sunshine passes by " 

Not long after she had started singing the hunter had entered the cave. The Princess hid in the shadows so he could not see her face.

" Hello? " The man's soft voice had echoed through the dark cave. " You have such a lovely voice, can you please come out? "

Instead of stepping out of the light the Princess asked " Do you have  a family "

The Man replied with,

" Yes, I do.  have the most beautiful daughter in all of the land."

" Well, what about a wife?" The Princess inquired.

" Sadly, My wife had died during childbirth. " The hunter breathed out sill looking for where the voice was coming from.

"How tragic." The Princess lied.

Oh how they were meant to be together. It would be almost impossible to kill this man, but she had to do it. Before she had time to think about it she ran to the man and bashed his head in with a rock. Then proceeded to rip his heart out of his chest and run to witch.

When she reached the witch's hut the Princess gave her the heart without a word. The witch gave her the mask and the Princess took not even giving it a glance. For she was becoming overridden with grief and remorse.

As she walked out of the hut the witch stared at her and croaked out,

" I hope it was worth it."

It did not take long for the Princess to prepare. With in days she went to the gate of the kingdom, the magical mask fully covering her face. The guards not only let her through the gate, but turned crimson red when they looked at her. The Princess could not be more delighted.

The Princess snuck into the castle and went to the child's room. The child was in a blanket fort babbling things only she could understand. The Princess light the match and tossed it at the fort. As quickly as she entered the castle she left. The Princess found herself smiling when her heard the faint, distant cries of a child in the background.

A/N: So what do you think? Love it, Hate it? Would you like for me to write another one? Either way thank you for reading! @TheLunarGodmother the prompt you gave me should be up by Tuesday! I started to write it and it was going to be waaaay to short. I'm working on making it longer. That leads me to my last question. Do you like chapters short or long? Would you rather have chapters that are 500 words or 1000 words? Please comment on what you want so I know for the future! Bye!