I love modern interpretations of fairytales, especially when characters from another media source reenact them. The plot was inspired by two episodes from two different shows. Arthur's "Just Desserts", and The Suite on Deck's "Once Upon a Suite Life" in which the main characters from both shows dream up their own version of classic fairy tales.
Just a little disclaimer before we begin: This is a parody, so if any of the original stories seem inaccurate, random, or twisted to any of you, well, that's the point. My only concern about sticking to the original source material is making sure all the characters are in character. Enjoy, and please remember constructive criticism is welcome!
And of course, I don't own El Tigre or any of it's main characters. Except for Señora Rodriguez who isn't even going to be shown or mentioned after this chapter.
Friday. If any of the youngsters can agree on one thing, it's that it is the best day of the week for everybody. Three whole days dedicated just relaxing without a single care in the world for anything. Especially not school. Sadly, the same could not be said for two certain individuals.
Manny and Frida spent the school day as they typically do. Not paying attention to a single thing any of their teachers said, and today seemed to be lucky. Nobody said anything to them as they gabbed away. Of course it all ended when they slept throughout their whole English class. Unsurprisingly, their teacher, Señora Rodriguez wasn't too pleased with her students' slacking, or any of their other actions this past week from making paper airplanes and spitballs out of their worksheets to spiking her coffee with jalapeño sauce, and made them stay after class where they did various actions to redeem themselves. Writing lines, clapping erasers, and washing the teacher's car. The gruesome hour finally ended and just as Manny and Frida darted out of the classroom, Señora Rodriguez stopped them when they were only two inches away from the door. For some reason, that sadistic woman decided that since they fell asleep through today's lesson, it was only fair that they make it up by taking the assignments that they failed to do in school home with them. Having to do extra homework over the weekend was bad enough, but the topic that they were assigned…
"Fairytales?!" exclaimed Manny angrily as he slammed the door to his house open, "Does Señora Rodriguez think we're babies or something?"
"Dude, I know!" agreed Frida as she followed him, slamming the door shut. "It's just not enough for her to torture us at school." the duo sat down on the couch and stared at the heavy book that they received from their teacher in disgust.
"I remember when my parents used them read them to me when I was little. I can't believe how scared I was of them."
"They're so lame!" laughed Frida. "We won't ever need them in life, let's go to the arcade!"
"Not today." Manny shook his head. "We really need to get this assignment done."
"Manny!" gasped Frida at her best friend's uncharacteristic moment. "What has Señora Rodriguez done to you?!"
"Let's just get this over with." grumbled Manny as he picked up the book and flipped to a random story. "Once upon a time…" he began reading in a dejected monotone and that was already enough to have the two amigos close their eyes, slump against each other, and snore. They slowly drifted into a deep sleep, completely unaware of what is to come.
Yes I know it was short, . I don't know exactly how often I'm going to update this. Along with being a writer, I am a full time college student so I'm a pretty busy bee. Well at least I know which fairy tale I'm gonna start with. Hansel and Gretel!
Also, if any of you have some suggestions to make, don't be shy! Feel free to share them! I am still trying to determine which El Tigre characters would work best for the fairy tale characters.