Lukas Pov
“Vladimir! Go get some firewood!” yells ‘Dad’. “Here is mini cake and wine, so you don’t get hungry or thirsty.” ‘Mom’ hands Vladimir a handkerchief. “Thanks, Mom. I’ll be back soon! Get out of my way runt.” Vladimir pushes my head away and walks out the door. Vladimir is my oldest ‘brother’ and then comes Lovino and I’m the last one. Why am I here again? Oh, right. Arthur turned into Oliver and did something to Hannah and Francis. Where is that girl that calls me boring? “Lukas! Come here and clean the house!” yells ‘Mom’. Some time later Vladimir bursts through the door holding his heavily bleeding arm. “Oh dear, what happened!?” “I went to cut the tree and the axe cut me!” ‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ went to bandage Vladimir’s arm.
<Next day>
“Lovino! Since your brother got hurt, you go and get firewood.” “Okay, Dad.” “Here is a mini cake and wine in case you get hungry or thirsty. Please do be careful.” “Will do, Mom.” Lovino kisses her cheek before heading out the door. He shoots me a death glare as he closes the door. What fairy-tale is this one? Some time later, Lovino comes through the door, his leg bleeding badly. “Don’t tell me!” yells ‘Dad’. “It hurts!” yells Lovino. ‘Mom’ tends to his wounds.
<Next day>
“We have no firewood. Now what?” asks ‘Dad’. “‘Dad’ let me go and get the firewood.” I say. “No, you runt. You can’t do anything right.” says ‘Dad’. I ‘beg’ him to let me go. “Here, runt. A cake made with water and sour beer.” says ‘Mom’. I walk out the door, grab the axe and walk into the forest. I happen upon an old troll. “Excuse me, Lukas is that you?” “Oddvar Torbjørn?” “Yes. It’s me. Lukas, I’m terribly thirsty and hungry.” “I have some cake and sour beer. Here.” I split the cake in half and hand him one. We eat it and split the sour beer. “Thank you, Lukas. Tell me tell you three things. One: We are in The Golden Goose fable. Two: The girl you seek is in a kingdom not that far away. Three: The Goose is under that tree. Bye, Lukas.” Oddvar leaves. Okay. I walk over to the tree and chop it down. I pull out the roots and find the Goose. I pick it up and walk towards a town. I see an inn, get a room and fall asleep. I wake up to three girls stuck on my Goose. “Yekaterina, Natalia and Lily. Are yous okay?” “I’m stuck!” cries Yekaterina. “We stuck too.” says Natalia. “Okay, then. Just follow me.” I pick up the Goose and out we went. Next a man comes up to Lily and he gets stuck. “I’m like totally stuck!” says Feliks. Ugh! “Master! There you are!” Toris touches Feliks’ shoulder. “Wha? I’m stuck!” “Go like totally go with it!” I’m going to kill myself. Some time later Desislav and Joao got stuck. More people, yay. I see a huge castle. That must be it! I run into the town. “Hey Lad!” yells a human. “Yes?” “So you heard about the princess?” “No.” “No? Well, I’ll tell you then. The King’s daughter is very serious. The King said that anyone who could make her laugh will marry her.” “Thanks. Have a nice day.” “You too!” I walk towards the castle door. “Here for the princess?” asks the guard. “Yes.” “Good luck.” I walk in and Pffft! Mathias is the King!? “Welcome! Who are you?” asks Mathias, sitting comfortably on his throne. Jasmine scrunches her face at me. Sigh. “Lukas, your Grace.” “I’m Mathias, King! This is my very serious daughter, Jasmine!” She waves. I set my Goose down and it walks about with the seven people stuck to it follow. “Pffft! Ohonhonhonhon~” laughs Jasmine. Mathias laughed too. I’m gonna kill myself for asking this. “Now, can I marry Jasmine?” I threw up in my mouth. I think Jasmine did too. “To marry her, find a man who can drink a cellarful of wine.” says Mathias. I nod. I went back to the forest, “Ah, Lukas. I’m so thirsty.” “Follow me, Oddvar.” I showed Oddvar the King’s cellar and Oddvar drank everything and went home. “Okay. Now, find a man who can eat a mountain of bread.” I’m gonna kill Mathias and Oliver. I go back and get Oddvar and he ate all of it. “Okay. Find a ship that can sail on land and water.” I find Oddvar. “Since you been so kind. Here.” I sail the ship on land and water. “Fine! You can marry her!” yells Mathias. Jasmine comes over. “Before you say ‘You’re boring’. I know what’s going on.” “Oh. You're the first one so far.” “What do you mean ‘so far’?” “This is the tenth fairy-tale that I’m in.” Holy trolls dancing in a circle! “So, how many more to go?” “There is about 209 fables from Grimm’s Fairy-Tales and Oliver could use other countries’ fables too.” explains Jasmine. Shit! “What’s that?” I look at the teardrop. “Do you see or hear Francis?” “Hey Lukas! How's the fable treating you?” “Good.” “How are we going to fix Francis and Hannah?” “First question should be this. How do we get out of here?” I ask her. “Do you still have your magic?” Shit! I’m a fucktard! I grab Francis’ ‘cage’ and think hard. “You dead? Cause you ain’t breathing.” “Shut up for a minute.” I tell her. I feel wind swirling around. I open my eyes to see purple lighting coming from my hands. A flash of light, which blinds us. “Brother!” yells Jasmine, hugging Francis. “Sister! Thank you Lukas!” I shrug my shoulders. I smell dogwood flowers… The room starts melting until it’s clear that we are in a cage. I see the other countries in cages too. “You thought that you could cheat. Wrong.” says Oliver. I see Vladimir whispering and a very pale red light comes from his hands. I see that his arm is bleeding. Wait. Does that mean… “Jasmine, who died?” “In the fables? Um… Yao, Alfred, Michelle, Emil, Erland, Emma, Lucille, Sebastian, Vash and Roderich. Why?” “Sœur<Sister>, look around. They aren’t here. Look, Antonio ….. Is blind…” says Francis. “Oh, we need one or many more!” Oliver grabs Mathias from his cage. “Hey! Let me -” CRACK! Mathias’ head is facing backwards. “You bastard! I’m going to kill you!” screams Jasmine. “Oh really? With what magic?” Oliver smiles. Vladimir throws the red light and sets fire to Oliver’s outfit. “Ah!” He kinda flails about before find a bucket of water. “Bloody hell!” Oliver goes over to Vladimir and places magical charms on him, preventing Vladimir from using his magic. “And the other wanker.” He places the same on me. “There.” Oliver smiles before leaving, dragging Mathias’ lifeless corpse with him.
