Princess Snow White was filled with joy as she rode behind her darling Prince Ferdinand on his white horse Splendor as he carried her away to his castle in the mountains where they would be married and live happily ever after. Leaving behind her first closest friends the seven dwarves and their cozy homey cottage was hard, but now she was with the man of her dreams. Snow White first met Prince Ferdinand at the well in the courtyard of her father's castle in Bavaria, the castle where her wicked stepmother Queen Grimhilde took over and began to hate Snow White and plot to destroy her.
At the well, Snow White was drawing water to scrub the castle's stone floor with, for her evil stepmother the wicked queen had put her to work as a scullery maid. Prince Ferdinand had been out hunting in the forest and had gotten lost. He heard the sound of sweet singing, and found a forest glade which led to the castle courtyard wall and the well where Snow White sang as she worked. Ferdinand jumped over the wall. The fair maiden was singing about her true love, which happened to be Prince Ferdinand. He is her "One Song."
Prince Ferdinand proved that he is Princess Snow White's true love when he resurrected her from the sleeping death she was under after being tricked into taking a bite out of a poisonous apple the wicked queen gave her while in disguise as an old peddler woman. The seven dwarves, those dear little childlike men that took Snow White into their home and loved her with honest friendship and good hospitality, were heartbroken when they thought Snow White was dead. She was so beautiful they could not bury here but laid her in a coffin with a glass lid and placed the coffin in a meadow and placed flowers around it. In winter they cleared the snow off the coffin's lid, in spring they cleared the falling blossoms from the apple trees and placed them to the sides of the coffin, in autumn they cleared away the fallen leaves and apples. Prince Ferdinand searched everywhere after first meeting Snow White, he knew she was his true love, the girl meant for him. He was not afraid of the wicked queen and her evil sorceries. The seven dwarves put and end to the wicked witch of a queen. While disguised as an old hag to sell her poisonous apples the dwarves chased her, riding on the deer of the forest who aided them in their time of need. They chased the fiend to a cliff, where she attempted to roll a large boulder down upon them and crush the brave dwarves determined to avenge the innocent maiden she had tried to murder. There was a great thunder storm that night, the wind blew cold and fierce and thunder and lightning crashed as the stick the evil witch was using to push the boulder broke in half and the large rock rolled backward, over onto her and crushed her, knocking her off the cliff and doing her in as the lightning struck and thunder boomed, signaling the hand of God and fate had given natural justice, the evil doers fall into their own pit.
Ferdinand found Snow White in the meadow at spring time, when lovely pink and white apple blossoms fell from the trees over the coffin and onto the clear glass lid. The wild flowers in the meadow were in bloom, the dwarves had put a garland of flowers on Snow White's head. She wore the best dress that she had worn when the queen's royal huntsman took her out of the castle for a walk in the woods, which he really meant to kill her, but could not bring himself to do it because of the young princess' goodness and innocence. The huntsman killed a wild pig and took its heart back to the evil queen pretending it was Snow White's heart. After deceiving his cruel mistress the hunter fled from the castle and the kingdom. Snow White's dress was getting worn out from her fearful flight through the forest at night, and then her work cleaning up the seven dwarves' cottage; it had some tears at the hem of the skirt and needed washing. Her dress had a dark blue bodice with a full yellow skirt, short puffed slashed light blue sleeves and red lining inside the slashes, and a stiff white collar coming up from the curved square neckline framing her shoulder-length bobbed black hair, which usually had a red ribbon tied in a bow on top of her head.
Prince Ferdinand was delighted to find her. He talked with the dwarves, and was overcome with sorrow to find out that she was dead. Looking at her beautiful pale face with her rosy cheeks and ruby red lips he could not believe that she was dead. He begged the dwarves that they would give Snow White's body to him; he offered them great riches for her body so he could take her to his castle and keep her with him. First, he opened the coffin, and could not resist kissing Snow White on her lovely rosy red lips. Then her lips parted and she began to breathe again, her sweet dark brown eyes opened and she breathed more deeply. She was alive! Ferdinand took her soft pale hand and helped her rise from the coffin. Then he hugged her and kissed her again.
"Snow White my love, you're alive! I'm so happy to have found you!" Snow White shook flower petals from her dress. "Oh my, you won't believe what I've seen. I was dead, and I went to heaven and saw the Lord Jesus, and he told me many things, and I met my mother, but the Lord told me I would have to return to Disney-Earth, and that my friends would be happy to see me alive. Oh my sweet prince I am glad to see you. Doc, Happy, Sleepy, Sneezy, Bashful, Dopey, Grumpy, put away those tears and gloomy faces, I'm alive now.
"Hurray!" The dwarves all shouted. The forest animals came out to see what the commotion was about. A doe and her fawn came cautiously approached Snow White, and some rabbits hopped up to Dopey. A dove flew down and perched on Prince Ferdinand's hat. A meadow lark flew to Snow White and perched on her outstretched hand. Snow White began to sing. The squirrels in the trees climbed down to the low hanging branches and began chattering with the birds who were singing with her. A turtle and frog in the grass began to hum and ribbit in tune. A skunk chased the rabbits and then started dancing and singing with the other animals. Snow White danced and sang with Prince Ferdinand in the meadow and the dwarves danced along with her, the cute forest animals joined in the celebration, everyone was happy and delighted that their sweet, gentle, caring princess was alive again.
Snow White looked around as Splendor headed up a mountain path that led out of the meadows and forest and up some steep mountains to Prince Ferdinand's kingdom. There was a beautiful big mirror-like lake that reflected the mountains and blue sky all around them in its still waters. Some of the mountains had pristine white snow on their peaks.
Ferdinand urged his horse Splendor up a narrow steep trail that led up a rocky mountainside. The trail started off close to the ground, it gradually got higher and steeper with natural steps made from the mossy rocks and earth. Pine trees clung to the mountainside tenaciously. Snow White began to get scared as the horse climbed higher she held on to her grip on Ferdinand's waist and prayed she would not fall off she had already died once and did not want to die again, especially not from falling off her lover's horse on a steep mountain path just when she had come so close to her dream wedding and dream life.
The path wound round the mountain and then through some cave tunnels. Ferdinand slowed his horse when they came to the first cave tunnel. "Be very quiet in these caves. In my country there is a rumor that an earth dragon known as King Diamond lives in the caverns inside these mountains, but he sleeps in an enchanted slumber in a cavern deep inside the mountains. It is said he will wake up someday and immediately destroy the one who wakes him up; he will terrorize the land in great fury at having his rest disturbed. So you see we must be very quiet when we enter the caves, and only talk in low whispers, the problem is it echoes loudly through the rocky walls. So it would be best if we don't talk at all while in the tunnels." Ferdinand told her quietly and slowly while outside the cave tunnels.
"Ferdinand, this is the same mountain range where my dwarf friends have their diamond mines. Their mines are not far from here. This 'King Diamond' dragon of yours must be a myth. The dwarves say they have mined in these caves for centuries, the mines are in their family history and they know nothing about dragons living in here." Snow White protested.
"Maybe someone made up a story about dragons to keep people from taking the diamonds. I don't know, but on the safe side, just in case there really is a dangerous dragon, let's be quiet while in the caves, all right?" Ferdinand suggested.
"I agree, that would be wise. Let's proceed with caution." Snow White told her sweetheart.
"Before we go, I must light a torch, it will be hard for us to see in the cave." Ferdinand took a torch out of his pack and found his tinderbox and lit the torch. Holding the torch up and out, away from him and his horse's head, he rode on, the fire from the torch lighting the way. Splendor's iron horseshoe struck a hard stone on the floor, making a loud ringing sound. Ferdinand winced, but remembered not to drop the torched. Snow White gasped. For a moment they stood still and listened to the echo. Then Ferdinand urged his horse onward. "Go boy, get us out of here." Splendor hurried on. They heard water dripping and saw an underground pool with water dripping in from above sculpting the caverns and tunnels with its flow. There was a stream that flowed underground, and it blocked their path, low hanging stalactites drooped down from the ceiling, also blocking the path along with the icy stream that cut through the stone and dirt. They decided to follow the stream. Following the stream they heard the loud roar of rushing water. The stream led them to a plateau where the stream poured down as a waterfall. Now how would they get down from here? The plateau was quite big with room for the stallion and his two riders to stand.
"How will we get down from here?" Ferdinand wondered?
"I see something that looks like a path over there to the right." Snow White said. There was a statue carved out of the mountain's own stone to the right side of the plateau's edge, Ferdinand went closer to it and saw that it looked like an angel with his arms and wings spread to form a rail or wall to protect travelers who come too close from falling off the edge. Beyond that the "path" led to the mountainside behind the waterfall, and there was a gradually path cut into the rocks, trees and bushes for horses, donkeys, wagons and people. They took this path and then found them selves in a valley between and below the mountains.
Through the valley the had to cross a raging river on a not-so-stable wooden bridge, and they went through more mountain cave tunnels and then through a busy city until they reached Ferdinand's castle, where his father King George and his younger brother Prince Charles lived.
The guards at the castle gates were surprised to see Prince Ferdinand; after all he had been gone a long time.
"Guards, it's me, Prince Ferdinand. I am home at last. I said I would not come back until I have found my true love, as so I have kept my word, here she is, my beloved Princess Snow White! What's the matter with you? Don't you recognize me? Let me in immediately, I must show my bride to my father."