My first fanfic! I was thinking about how strange it was that Ahiru was even able to fall in love with Mytho in the first place, and came up with this. Constructive criticism is highly appreciated and wanted!
Edit: I've done some editing to this beginning, and made some slight changes. I just elaborated on a few small details.
Fairytale Endings
By Clairedelune2
Once upon a time, as all good stories start, there lived a princess in a kingdom to the north. Her parents's only child, she was beloved of them and their kingdom's people, showered with love and affection by her parents and the people she would one day rule. But tragedy struck the life of this carefree child, in the form of an usurper to the throne. He claimed rule to the kingdom, declaring the monarchy corrupt and unfair, and killed the king and queen. The princess, hiding away in the midst of the take-over, fled the palace and its city in secret, aided by the princess's nurse, a kind young woman. Overcome by what she had seen and losing all faith in humanity, the girl harnessed an ancient magic and turned herself into a duck. Just a simple duck, the most humble bird she knew of. The princess quickly lost herself to the form, locking away any and all human memories to save her from the pain of losing parents, kingdom, and self all in the midst of a day. But despite her attempts, the one thing she could never forfeit was her human heart, which, although she lacked all memory of her humanity, kept her from being just a simple duck.
And one day, as princesses are wont to do, she fell in love with a sad-eyed prince as he danced along her lake. An evil sorcerer noticed her longing and for his own amusement turned her into a girl, and a princess. He thought it due to the skill of his craft that this transformation, which seemed so against nature, was so easy to perform. But in fact he had only revealed her true nature, which was far easier to do. However, without her human memories, the girl believed herself to be nothing but a duck, and at first was grateful to the strange man who seemed to have given her a chance to be with her prince.
To his chagrin, this girl-duck he believed to have created came to resist him, defying his hold on her. With the help of a knight-turned-writer, the man's evil deeds were conquered, and the prince was able to claim his happy ending with his chosen princess, unfortunately not our heroine. Without the man's sorcery and no memory of her human life, the magic was reversed and the girl became a duck once more.
All was not lost, however, for by the duck's side remained the former knight, with the same powers of the sorcerer but a far kinder heart. In their last moments together as girl and boy, he had promised to stay with her, regardless of her form. And so they lived, neither aware of the true origins of the duck. That is, until the boy began trying to use his powers to restore the duck's human form.
