happily ever after

For our little red schoolhouse (which is our home school group) homework we were supposed to make up our own fairy tale. I thought I would share my story with you. : )

Anna Mae

Anna Mae Tippett

10-18-08

Happily Ever After

Once upon a time there lived a beautiful princess. She lived in a luxurious castle with here parents. Rare silks covered their beds and twinkling jewels hung all over the castle. The princess was named Crystal because she was as dazzlingly beautiful as a crystal. The royal garden was ten miles long, and was filled with the most juicy fruits and sweet smelling flowers. One day beautiful Princess Crystal was strolling through the luxurious gardens, smelling the colorful flowers, and eating the luscious fruits and playing with a little golden ball she had. It just happened that she was playing by a little pond, and when she tossed it up in the air it fell into the pond with a splash. The princess was so sad that she was about to start crying when she heard the sound of tiny footsteps. The princess looked up, startled, who could by approaching her? Suddenly a little man came out of the bushes. He was about two feet tall, and wore a funny little pointed hat and had a long white beard. He would have been a very cute little elf, if his looks were a little better. The princess thought it was the ugliest little man she had ever seen.

"Beautiful princess why do you look so sad?" asked the little man. "Because I lost my little golden ball in the pond" the princess replied mournfully. The little man looked at her thoughtfully

"I will get your ball out of the pond for you if you let me come live with you and eat off your golden plate and sleep with you in your luxurious bed."

"Yes! Yes of course!" the princess exclaimed without thinking. So the little man jumped into the pond and came up a couple minutes later with the golden ball in his hand. Princess Crystal was so overjoyed that she ran off to the castle as fast as she could.

"Wait! Wait!" shouted the little man. But the Princess didn't turn around and just kept going. That evening when the royal family was eating dinner there was a knock on the palace gate.

"I will go answer it" said Princess Crystal. The princess opened the gate, and there stood the ugly little man that the she had met earlier that day. The princess gasped, slammed the door in his face and ran back to the dining table.

'Who was at the door?" asked the king. Princess Crystal told the story of what had happened that morning. The king frowned and said

"You made a promise and you have to do what you said." There was a knock on the door. Sadly the princess walked sadly to the door and let the little man in. In disgust the princess watched as the little man gobbled the food up off her plate. Then she carried him upstairs and plopped him roughly down on her bed and fell to sleep. The next morning to her surprise instead of a little man there was a handsome prince standing by her bed. He had black hair and was wearing clothes as rich as Princess Crystal's clothes. He told her that he had been turned into a little ugly man by a fierce witch. The Princess ran downstairs with the prince and introduced him to her parents. That night the prince asked the princess to marry him, the princess accepted willingly. The next day there was a glorious wedding and all the people from miles around were there. After that the prince and princess lived in their own castle and ruled over the land for the rest of their lives, and they lived happily ever after.

The End