The Veiled Princess
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A/N: ...hi?
Some of you guys are probably like 'WHAT? SHE STILL LIVES?'
So I grew older and you grew older, and happy 2015 btw, and this happened and that happened and I'm so sorry I couldn't update faster than this! *bows profusely as she begs for forgiveness* I promise I will update all my stories!
By the way, I recommend you read 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini (not too sure how you write his name). Although old, it's absolutely brilliant!
Please do tell me what you think about this? It's the first time I tried writing a fairy tale.. and also, I'm challenging myself. Anyways, enjoy!:)
Don't forget to R&R!:)
Prologue
Once upon a time, in a ninja village in Japan, was the wife of the leader who desired a girl. She had had her wish of a first child, a boy, and then deeply wanted a girl. She went to the altar in her village to pray the heavens for a little girl daily. What she didn't know, was that the gods were about to give her a horrible fate. They talked to her in a dream and told her that she would be getting the girl that she desired so much. However, she would be so beautiful while she would grow that every man would do anything to have her - even kill. They warned her about being careful that no one saw her face - especially at the age of eighteen, as it was the age where her beauty would be fully developed. The woman was so overwhelmed with joy that she paid no mind to the gods' warnings. A few months later, a beautiful little girl was born from her, with shining amber eyes and a few curly strands of copper hair. Everyone in the village praised her for having such a beautiful child.
However, that was only the calm before the storm.
When she was two years old, the beautiful little girl had even better qualities. She had an enchanting smile, a pure soul...there wasn't a moment when she wasn't smiling or when she wasn't happy. She was so charming, that many young men took interest in her. Strange, isn't it? A young man interested in a baby girl?
It was when she was four years old that her beauty really started to show. Men would always find presents to give to her, would it be dolls or clothing, just to catch a beam coming from her. Many came daily, ignoring their own children to please her. Of course, the girl paid no attention and was blissfully unaware of other people's feelings towards her. But one day, things went out of control.
A man who was utterly taken by the little girl's beauty abducted her while she was innocently playing by her house's garden. After hours of searching, her family had found her, in expensive clothing and surrounded by gifts. She was smiling, but it was so fake, so forced that even her parents were disturbed. The little girl was a princess, and because this man had kidnapped her, he was put to exile. Several days after this happened, many other men attempted to take the little princess for themselves, and that was when her mother realised that the gods were right. She soon left the village to another, putting three veils over her beautiful child's face, so that she could still see, but for others never to see her. The young princess soon forgot about the village, her friends, her brother and her father. Her mother never spoke about them either.
In the village they stayed in, when someone asked why the princess had a veil in front of her face, her mother always explained that she had burnt it in an accident. Gone were the days where the princess was smiling everyday. She was miserable under her veils and asked the gods why she was doomed to be so beautiful. She even refused to ever look at herself in the mirror again.
It was after a few years, when the princess was seventeen that her mother recieved another message from the gods.
"If she does not marry to a man that she loves, then she will disappear forever."
The princess' mother cried every night. The child that she loved so was going to disappear. The age of eighteen was the only time she could marry, and that doomed age was when she was to have a veils in front of her face the whole time. Surely the husband would ask for her to take her veils off. But the mother was afraid. She had never removed the veils herself, and had simply forgotten what her daughter looked like. She couldn't find any man in the village that she was currently in to marry her, so that only left her with one choice:
She had to go back to their original village, and ask her husband if he could find suitable suitors.
Writing a letter to him, she announced this to her daughter, that she would finally be reunited with their family again. But the princess remained completely indifferent. For her, it didn't matter, as cursed veils were in front of her face. It didn't matter if she could see her father again. What was the purpose if he couldn't see her? What about her brother? What about her friends? And surely because of her beauty, many greedy men would claim themselves to be suitable, and would definitely try to see her beautiful face - a face that she had not seen in years.
And so, the night before the day they left, she lifted her veils to see what was underneath -
and cried herself to sleep.
She asked her mother for a favor. If the suitors claimed themselves suitable, then they would have to answer three riddles for her - they would change every time. For each riddle answered, a veil would be removed. Her mother agreed reluctantly, and the next day, they left. The princess was sure that those riddles could only be answered by a man with no greedy intentions, only love. And she had hope that somewhere, somehow, there was such a man.
A/N: Hopefully you liked this beginning!:)
Btw, do you like my cover of E:TROH? Isn't it pretty?^.^
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