'In The Land Of...'

'... Happily Ever After!'

Long long ago,
                        There was a beautiful princess, Princess 'Aurora', the sole heir of kingdom Dulcinea. She was adventurous, feisty, strong headed and ecstatic. Yeah, ecstatic when only some minutes were the barrier between her and her pixie dust which was sent by her friend 'Mariposa' from neighbouring kingdom 'Fairytopia'. An eleven year old could always dream of sprinkling the magical dust on and be free to soar in infinite sky away from rules of palace. She couldn't wait to admire that oh so dense and huge forest on the periphery of Dulcinea which now was haplessly habitat of monsters. Hardly had her fists were curled up in rage when she heard an angry voice of her father, King 'Charles', king of Dulcinea.

                      Wondering about what could go wrong when her magical dust was coming, she proceeded towards the commotion. "What do you mean that Ardabus almost killed them? They're the best soldiers we have." He roared."Yo..Your Majesty, the king of monsters had held them captive when they were coming from Fairytopia and threatened them of their life. They were found in mentally unstable state with torn clothes and uncountable tiny scars on body. I'm afraid to deduce that they're unable to provide any information about the monsters."Aurora felt as if lightning fell on her. Her dear pixie dust was in danger. She couldn't let pixie battle alone with nut no stone headed monsters. And she couldn't hear those words from King's mouth that the next day was going to be monsters' last day.

                    Aurora ran with all her might. Gathering some stuff on the way, she directly headed towards the Royal stable. "Oh Willie! I missed you" She embraced William, the snowy white little horse which seemed on cloud nine meeting her. "Willie, we've mission to accomplish" She whispered in his ear while putting on dark robe and hiding her face with similar scarf. As soon as she mounted on Willie, ordered,'The Black Forest'.After somehow managing the sneaking, Willie was now riding as fast as wind. Dusk was reigning and the forest was looking more gigantic per second.

                     It was night when they entered in the forest. Aurora came down and tied Willie to an Oak tree."Stay right here Willie and remember 'shush'." She took her finger to her lips and the horse vigorously nodded. Hugging him one last time, she marched inside the forest. "Hold on pixie, a little more time" She muttered under her breath. It wasn't that difficult to find monsters' palace when luck was on your side. Aurora was now standing in front of highly magnified palace struggling not to feel diminish. She was only up to ankles of monsters with fragile figure easily hiding her in dark. She was going to drink pools of milk and eat heaps of leafy vegetables after going to home. That was surely sure now. Shaking head up to dizziness, she got rid of those thoughts. She had to find the king. Princesses only dealt with royals.

                      Gaping mouth open for flies was never in her agenda but the huge and not to forget extremely fearsome figure of king was messing with whole her plans. On top of that he dared to ignore her, the princess Aurora. Aurora was beyond furious now. She climbed on the long, silk curtain and jumped on the head of the king. Her yelps and sudden feeling of burden on head snapped the attention of king towards her. Too late, 'cause till then she had started pulling his hairs like there was no tomorrow. Clutching king's hairs as if her life depended on it, Aurora was dodging the swords of courtiers. The king utterly baffled was just shaking head and courtiers were consistently failing in shooing the little bug away.

                       Hardly had Aurora started taking pride in her 'fighting skills' when king removed her with single hand. Losing balance with such great force Aurora managed to somehow get tangled in that curtain. But her veil was no longer on her face exposing her identity. Shock was evident on everyone's face. But Aurora was too engrossed in the curtain to notice that and the nearest candle holder. With unsteady steps, she directly dashed to the wooden table making the candles fall straight on her. Flames emerged enhancing way too fast. "Oh God, please tell father that I love him more than anything and I'll be fine with mother and you living in stars. I'm coming to you mother..." "Come out of that cloth first you lunatic princess" "Don't dare to interrupt in my last words, you stone head, overly grown monster!Rumors are false. You can't even fit under bed. Princess? Yo... You knew still saved me?" "We never intended to kill you, humans. We just wanted you to fear us and never step in our territory."

                      "Then why did you harm our soldiers coming from Fairytopia?" blabbered Aurora. "Because we don't want your nose poking in our matters consistently meddling in them." He stated coldly while lifting her from that burned fibre and placing on sparkly floor. "I am ignoring your offence of treating princess inferiorly and offering a deal, deal of peace." His perfectly arched brow rose half a millimetre up. Sighing she continued, "We need things you can teach and provide us. This state is mutual. Why not help each other and together uplift?" His laughter roared. "A deal between monster and human?" "Not at all, but a deal between the King of Duclinea and the King of The Black Forest who moments ago proved to be a great partner and life saver." Aurora extended her hand which seemed extremely small when the big one connected."Let us start from pixie dust" Her eyes twinkled with mischief confusing him. Nevertheless he shook her hand firmly.

                    That handshake was symbol of fusion of two different forces, harmony and humongous not war but prosperity coming soon...

                    That handshake led their tale end where all lived 'happily ever after!...'

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1000 words.

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