Several changes in this. One Frida is fourteen, Manny is sixteen, and Zoe is twenty. There are no dwarves only miners and there's three of them. And there's an original character in here because in the world of El Tigre , Manny and Frida don't have many friends. Please comment and please be kind.
Once upon a time on a cold winter's day, a fair and gentle hearted queen called Carmela sat by the window sewing when suddenly a bluebird perched itself on to the window sill. Startled by the bird's unexpected appearance the queen accidentally pricked her finger on her needle. Three drops of red blood fell from her finger and on to the white snow that had fallen on to her window sill. She couldn't help but notice how beautiful the snow looked as did the three drops of blood and the bluebird, so beautiful were they that she couldn't help but think.
"Oh if only I could have a child as fair and pure as snow, as red and rosy as blood , and as blue and deep as a bluebird's wings."
Sometime later the queen gave birth to a baby girl with skin as fair and pure as snow, cheeks and lips as red and rosy as blood, and eyes and oddly enough hair as blue and deep as a bluebird's wings. The child was named Frida and her father, mother, and the entire kingdom loved her immediately. Sadly however when Frida was born her mother died leaving the entire kingdom heartbroken and her father King Emiliano very lonely and sad. The only thing that made him truly happy was the little daughter his beloved wife had left behind.
Then one day when Frida was seven years old her father remarried. His new wife was a widow named Carmelita who had a daughter from her first marriage named Zoe who was a few years older than Frida was. The king was overjoyed by the marriage for he had thought he had found a mother to take care of his daughter and a playmate for her as well. Unfortunately for him a happy family was not going to be the case for them. Her new stepmother didn't like her because she knew that her husband would always love Frida and her mother more than her so whenever her husband wasn't looking she was as mean as she could be to the child and she coached her own daughter to be unkind to her as well.
Frida and Zoe never got along. They always bickered and spat at each other. Never was a peaceful moment when those two were in the same room. Emiliano was always busy with his royal duties so he wasn't around much to spend time with his daughter or see what his new wife and stepdaughter were really like. Frida only had one friend and that was the young prince of another kingdom named Manny. They met at age five and had been close friends ever since, whenever her stepmother or stepsister harassed her he was always there to protect her from them, whenever they made her cry he was always there to make her happy. She wasn't sure what she would do without him.
Then one very sad day, her father had to go away to fight in a battle where he was killed. Poor Frida was heartbroken by his death for not only had she lost the only family she had left but now her stepmother was the soul ruler of the kingdom. She disinherited Frida from the throne and decreed that Zoe would take her place as the new ruler so when Carmelita died in a sudden horse riding accident Zoe was crowned queen of the land.
Now Zoe was a very beautiful girl, very beautiful indeed some would say she was the most beautiful woman in creation and she was obsessed with her beauty and couldn't bear the thought of anyone being more fair than she was. Frida's vain and wicked stepsister feared that one day the girl's beauty would far surpass her own so she dressed her in rags and made her work as a scullery maid. Each day she would ask a magic mirror her mother had given her who was the fairest one of all and as long as the mirror answered that she was then Frida was safe from the queen's jealousy.
Seven more years passed and during that time, despite being forced to work everyday and wear rags, Frida grew into a very beautiful young lady. By the time she was fourteen years old she had grown so beautiful and fair that she surpassed every other woman's beauty in the entire kingdom even the queen's.