Hey guys. You know, I decided to make an AU that was inspired by the movie, Anastasia, one of my favorite movies. So for the viewers who voted from my poll, thank you for voting. I also like to thank brandonchasepowell and CB1610 for helping me make this story. I hope you enjoy the prologue!

The Prologue

The story starts when the Dowager Empress Matilda does the narration.

"There was a time, not very long ago, when we lived in an enchanted world of elegant palaces and grand parties. The year was 1996 and my son, Peckinpah, was the Czar of Bird Island."

The Dowager Empress Matilda Cuckanov took a boat from Tropigal Paradise to Bird Island and arrived to the royal palace of the Cuckanov-family to attend her son's celebration. The palace was filled by the highest of the highest of Bird Island aristocracy, laughing and dancing to majestic tunes as the imperial family, consisting of czar himself, Peckinpah , his beautiful wife, Silver, and their impressive five children, joyfully mingled.

"Hello, darling!" Matilda greeted to Peckinpah as she watched her son and daughter-in-law dancing with their children while sitting on her reserved seat of the royal family.

The oldest was Stella, the pink 18-year-old bird with big head feathers, and blue eyes with eyelashes. The second oldest was Poppy, the yellow 16-year-old bird that has 3 spiky tufts of hair that are waved back and a yellow and pink tail feathers, pink spots on her cheeks, and has green eyes, so her overall appearance looks like a cockatiel. The middlest is Dahlia, the orange 14-year-old with 2 squarish pieces of hair. The second youngest was Agatha, the white 8-year-old hatchling with long black hair, dark brown eyes, and crowded white feathers all over her body (except legs). And the youngest and only son was Luca, the blue 4-year-old hatchling with two spiked strands of his crest feathers upwards and dark blue eyes.

"We were celebrating the 300th anniversary of the family's rule, and that night, no star brighter than our sweet Agatha, my youngest granddaughter."

Agatha left her parents and siblings, and rush over to her grandmother and gave her a drawing that she had made all by herself. Matilda giggled as she inspected the drawing. It was look like a bird ride on a pig.

"She begged me not to return to Tropigal Paradise, so I had a very special gift made for her to make the separation easier for both of us."

Matilda took out a small hand-sized party cannon that its barrel is pink, and its stand was yellow with no wheels, and handed it to her granddaughter. Agatha's eyes widened as she looked closer at the beautiful gift, which was small enough to fit in the hand of her grandmother's hand.

"For me?" She asked. "Is it a party cannon?"

As she looked at the small cannon, she hardly noticed a little red hatchling hiding behind a curtain nearby, who spied on the two while eating an apple. However, it didn't take long until he was grabbed by a big maroon bird, Terence, who grumpily mumbled as he carried him off in said direction. "Red! You belong in the kitchen!"

"Look." Matilda said, as she winded the box up with a key connected to a silver chain necklace. Music began to play as the cannon blasts a few confetti from the hole while the music plays. Agatha gasped as she recognized the musical melody that came from the cannon.

"It plays our lullaby!" she said.

Matilda nodded and smiled sweetly. "You can play it at night before you go to sleep and pretend that it's me singing." The dreamy tune from the cannon continued to play. That was when Matilda and her granddaughter began to sing.

On the wind.
'Cross the sea.
Hear the song to remember.
Soon you'll be home with me.
Once Upon of December.

The two giggled as Matilda took of the necklace with the key and gave it to Agatha as well. She then pointed a finger at the key. "Read what it says."

Agatha looked closely at the key on the chain-necklace, and she quickly noticed an inscription written on it. "'Together in Tropigal Paradise.'" She looked up at her grandmother, gasped in joy and hugged her again. "Really?! Oh Grandma!" Matilda returned the hug and laughed lovingly.

But their blissful happiness was cut short as the lights went off, and the music stop. Everyone in the ballroom went silent immediately.

"But we would never be together in Tropigal Paradise, for a dark shadow had descended upon the house of the Cuckanov."

The dark shadow belongs to a green fat pig, wearing a brown robe with hood, accompanied by his assistant, Ross. This, combined with a malicious grin on his face, made his look as grim as revenge.

"His name was Leonard. We thought he was trusted friend, but he was a fraud, power-mad, and dangerous when he attempt to steal every eggs in this island."

Peckinpah arose from his throne, walked down to face the pig and shot him an angry look. "How dare you return to the palace?!"

Leonard's eyes widened in surprise. He lowered his hood, giving everyone a good look at his face with a short beard under his chin, and tried to talk to the czar with a sweet voice. "But I am your confidant."

"Confidant? Hah! You are a traitor. Get out!" Peckinpah pointed towards the door. The royal guards had started to make their move, and surrounded the two pigs.

Ross was nervous and afraid, but Leonard on the other hand glared up at Peckinpah and put his hand underneath his robe, seemingly grabbing something that hanged across his chest. "You think you can banish the great Leonard?" The pig took out a glowing reliquary from his robe. The reliquary was composed of glass and metal with sinister depictions of demons, devils and skulls carved into it's design, and crowned with a large pig-head on top with it's mouth open. Within the transparent glass of the reliquary, a supernatural green glow shifted and pulsated. "By the unholy powers vested in me, I banish you with a curse!"

Everyone gasped at this announcement.

"Mark my words!" Leonard continued as pointed his finger to Peckinpah. "You and your family will die within the fortnight. I will not rest until I see the end of the Cuckanov line forever!" He shoots the chandelier that has a number "300" with a beam of green light, using his reliquary, and the chandelier dropped down and hit the ballroom floor.

"Consumed by his hatred for Peckinpah and his family, Leonard sold his soul for the power to destroy them."

"Go." Leonard cooed to the evil relic. "Fulfill your dark purpose, and seal the fate of the Czar and his family, once and for all."

As he whispered these words, puffs of green and smoke-like essence crawled out of the mouth of the pig-head, taking the shapes pig-like demons with bat wings that flew off in the night, eager to please their master.

"From that moment on, the spark of unhappiness in our island was fanned into a flame that would soon destroy our lives... Forever."

Barely a week later, on a stormy winter's night, a large mob of angry pigs broke down the palace gates. They stormed into the palace, firing rifles and tearing down everything in sight. The servants and the whole Cuckanov-family ran in fear towards nearest exit.

"Hurry children!" Peckinpah cried out and looked back, making sure that as many as possible would make it out before the pigs caught up with them.

"My music cannon!" Agatha suddenly made a turn and rushed back to her bedroom.

"Agatha!" Matilda cried out as she followed her granddaughter. "Come back! COME BACK!"

Agatha didn't hear her though, and rushed inside her room to retrieve what she had forgotten. She grabbed it from her bed/nest, just as Matilda came into her room and shuts the door. As she did, screams of terror along with thunderous rifle shots could be heard behind her. Matilda looked around, her face stricken with fright and grief, and ran over to Agatha. The two held each other closely as they realized that they were cornered with not means of getting out. That was until a little red hatchling, a boy who was at approximately the same age as Agatha, suddenly appeared from a secret passage way in the bedroom wall.

The little red hatchling ran over and guided the two royal birds to the secret passage way. "Please, hurry! Come this way. Out the servants' quarters!"

Matilda and Aggie immediately follow the red hatchling and entered the passageway, but Agatha dropped her beloved music-cannon on the floor in the process.

At the same time, Ross took a peak from the window and saw the red hatchling helped the two royals escape. "Leonard, she's getting away!" He reported to his master.

Agatha looked back when she realized she dropped her music-cannon. She was scared too, but she really didn't want lose her grandmother's wonderful gift to her. "But my music-cannon!"" She tried to go back to get it, but the red hatchling stopped her.

"Go! Go!" He shouted, pushed her in and shut the door behind him. Now closed, it was nearly impossible to find the secret door. The red hatchling, who was a responsible but slightly having anger issues named Red, could hear gruff voices and heavy steps approaching. He quickly kneeled down and picked up the music-cannon and hid it in his small bag. If he hadn't, these pigs would have no doubt stolen it and made it part of their loot.

Suddenly, the doors to the room busted open. Charging in came green pigs with helmets and rifles in their hands. One with a larger helmet was the leader in the front looked around, his eyes narrowed angrily as he spotted young Red. "Where are they, hatchling?!"

Red quickly tried to fight them off by throwing rocks at them, but he was then grabbed and blunted in the head from the butt of a rifle, knocking him out unconsciously.

Meanwhile, outside of the palace, Agatha and her grandmother made their escape, running along the frozen river and staying out of sight.

"Keep up with me, darling!" Matilda said as she pulled Aggie by her hand.

They had made it to the underside of a bridge, but suddenly, Leonard saw them run, and jumped off the bridge and grabbed Agatha's leg, attempt to kill her himself.

"Leonard!" Matilda gasped, and held Agatha close to her.

"Let me go! Please!" Agatha cried as she tried to shake Leonard off of her foot

Leonard tried to pull her closer, smiling evilly while Matilda tried to pull Agatha back. "You'll never escape me, hatchling! Never!"

Suddenly, the ice of the river break due to Leonard's weight, forcing him to let Agatha go and fall into icy water. He was waist-down in the river, and tried to climb back up with his hands, scratching at the surface of the ice in front of him. He then searched for the relic, which unfortunately for him had fallen out of his robe and rolled towards Ross, who was watching the events at a safe distance. The ice cracked even more, and Leonard started to sink as his robe absorbed the water and weighted him own. That's when he started to cry out in desperation and fear. "Ross!"

"Master!" Ross cried out as he watched his master drowned in terrified and the two royals ran away. When his foot touched the side of the relic, the light within had started to die out. He looked around in all directions. This hadn't worked out the way it was supposed to. What was he supposed to do now?

Matilda and Agatha on the other hand had made their way to the train station. Running across the platform, they made their way to the train that would be leaving St. Petersbird. It had already started to leave, and the two birds had to run as fast as they could. But the station was crowded, and while Matilda had managed to clime aboard the back of the moving train, Agatha was still quite a bit behind her, reaching for her grandma as the train was moving away from her.

"Grandma!" Agatha cried out as she picked up the pace to catch up.

Matilda reached out to try and get a hold of Aggie's hand as the train moved faster. A few birds on her side tried to reach Agatha too, but didn't have same good range as Matilda had. "Here, take my hand! Hold on to my hand!" Finally, Matilda and Agatha's hands locked, but it proved to be difficult to maintain the grip, as train was going even faster.

Agatha looked up at her grandmother, tears welling up in the corners of her eyes. "Don't let go!" She called out in a pleading voice.

But no matter how hard they held on, their grip started to loosen, and became non-existent as Agatha tripped and fell forward, hitting her head hard on the ground and knocking her out cold.

"AAGGAAATTHHHAAAAA!" Matilda screamed mournfully as she watched in horror as her granddaughter disappeared in the surrounding crowd of birds. She tried climb off, but the carriage was overcrowded, and the birds around her held her back now that the train was moving too fast for her to make it off without seriously hurting herself. She desperately cried out for her only remaining granddaughter; that little white-feathered girl who loved to draw, sing, make faces and sometimes terrorize the cook.

"So many lives were destroyed that night. What had always been, was now gone forever. And Agatha, my beloved grandchild. I never saw her again."

I hoped you like it. More chapters coming soon. Pls review :-)

Cast:
Agatha/Aggie-Anastasia/Anya
Red-Dimitri
Bomb-Vladimir
Chuck-Pooka (not as a dog)
Leonard-Rasputin
Ross-Bartok
Matilda-Marie
Willow-Sophie
Peckinpah-Nicholas II
Silver-Alexandra
Stella-Olga
Poppy-Tatiana
Dahlia-Maria
Luca-Alexei