PROLOGUE

"…And they lived happily ever after."

I always loved how the character in the story ended so well, especially when the story started out as a tragic one just like Hansel and Gretel getting lost in the woods by their cruel parents, and ended in a nice conclusion just like Snow White marrying her prince.

I love fairytales as a kid, especially if my parents were the ones who read it for me.

As a pup, I can't read so my mom does the reading. Dad would let me sit on his lap while my mom pull my storybook out of the shelf, find my favorite stories and reads it for me. I still remember my childhood storybook despite aging mind: It's a huge book with lots of beautiful pictures to look at and its purple cover has colorful frame of stained-glass images of all the characters of the stories inside, and the title of the book is GRIMM BROTHER'S FAIRYTALES, all written in golden-inked letters.

I remember trembling in fear as she reads the part of the witches or any villains in these stories like the evil Queen of Snow White, the evil stepmother and her daughters, and also the breath-taking climax of the stories. But they all ended happily… just like all stories should end.

Those stories, that book made my family bond strong. And to prove that, she always had this family photo of us tucked inside my storybook like a bookmark. "Never forget that we always love you…" Mom would always say that before tucking me in bed and kiss me goodnight.

Sometimes, I wonder if my life will be as happily as these stories are. I lost my parents during that space experiment thing by that evil veterinarian. I almost left crying to death in that dumpster if it weren't for Muriel who picked me up and took me to her home.

Yet I never knew her home would be in a creepy place where we lived in a farmhouse sitting in the middle of nowhere with creepy people and scary creatures lurking by. But because of that incident, it only made me more scared… and determined. I learned to save Eustace and Muriel from all sorts of sticky situations like being encountering weird suitors for Muriel, or getting Eustace out of lair of the man-eating sea Queen, or experiencing alien encounters, or saving them from a British red cat, a swaggy fox, a French duck, a puppet-collecting lizard and even saving them from paranormal beings like King Ramses, a storm goddess, a creepy white head of the harvest moon, a demon-possessed mattress and even a cursed quilt owned by two-headed twin sisters.

And recently, saving them form an ugly ghost fog who keeps crying out for "Cariana".

Yup, my life here is forever haunted by these guys, if only my mom and dad were here to comfort me. Sitting together and reading fairytales, tales that would help me forget my trouble and fantasies a world much better than this.

I completely missed that family bonding, I missed my mom, my dad and even the way she reads those stories, and also I'm beginning to miss those fairytales too.

Then, fate seemed to hear me when Muriel decided to return the book she borrowed from someone I knew, someone who cursed my family because of my overdue library book, someone by the name of the Librarian.