~Prologue~
[Whenever Ella speaks she is bolded. Just to hopefully make it easier for people to understand and for my own sanity. Also I know the whole our King and the other King might get a little repetitive but I wanted there to be a point that Olivia was giving the characters in her story no names. To protect both the innocent and the guilty. ]
"Years ago two children; a little older than you sat in a filed of white tulips. They had meet at the young prince fathers's secret castle."
"Why was is a secret?"
"Well, because the prince's father conducted magical experiments that he didn't want other people to find out about."
"But why?"
'Sigh.' "The King wasn't always the kind, gentle king he is today and back then while he loved the prince; he was willing to do anything in order to complete his mission."
"What mission?"
The woman laughed; "I'm getting to that! Where was I? Oh yes, so the King needed help fulfilling a promise he made to another King from a far-away land. Long ago he had once traveled to the other King's land in a desperate attempt to save the other King's son. For he had heard that the boy had been inflicted with a terrible curse. And our King was right. The other King's son was under a curse that unfortunately without any help would make the boy fall into an everlasting slumber of darkness!"
"NO! Our King has to save him!"
"You're right. The other King felt the same way and begged our King to help his only son. But there was a catch, he had to bring the other King's son back with him to his own castle in order to cure the boy. Though he would miss his son the other King gave his precious prince to our King. So our King took the boy and headed home. However it took a long time to get back and they almost didn't make it. For on the journey home their ship got caught by a terrible Ice Beast who was extremely upset that our King and the boy dared to cross his watery domain!"
"But they made it back right?"
"Yes, they did, for just before all hope was lost a special knight distracted the Beast and that let our King and the boy steer safely past the monster to our King's kingdom. When the King eventually got the boy home, he gave him the magical cure that he had spend years perfecting. For his own son had been cursed and while he had failed to cure him the King knew he had to at least help the other King's son. But before they had left the far-away kingdom the other King had made our King promise to bring back the boy once he had cured him. Our King had in fact given the other King his solemn oath but at the time he made this vow he had a magical ship in hand. Our King no longer had his magical ship for when the terrible Ice Beast attacked our King and the boy; the monster had torn the sails to shreds so badly that they couldn't be fixed. Our King, though, he grew to love the boy but knew he had to give him back. However months passed by without any solution to how they were to return the boy. And in turn the boy had started to forget that he was from another kingdom. When that happened he became our prince. Our King when he couldn't fix the sails started his magical experiments at the secret castle.
Our King did this by enlisting the help of a brilliant Wizard. This Wizard however didn't care if he hurt the people involved in his magic. For he thought that progress was worth any cost his magic might bring. But he was the most powerful and smart Wizard in the King's land. So together they brought children into the secret castle."
"Why did our King and the Wizard bring kids into the secret castle?"
" Well, they thought that they might be the key to getting the prince home. For children think differently than adults do. After bringing the children to the secret castle our King and the Wizard gave them some powerful but very dangerous potions. After taking the potions some of the children started to develop magical powers themselves. But they couldn't control them and so they were very dangerous to be around. The King and the Wizard helped the special children with their new gifts. But out of all these children only one had the unique power the King and Wizard were looking for.
This child was a little girl who had secrets of her own at the secret castle. She had been traveling to the other kingdom by herself for months. Even though she had this power the King was looking for she could only do it after the bad man in her village would come after her. Although he scared the special girl she still loved him for he was a part of her village. Every day the bad man would take her to the secret castle and the King and Wizard would try to get her and the other children to demonstrate their new powers. The King was a smart man however and saw how much the bad man was scaring the little girl. But he needed the little girl and the others to stay and help him take the prince back to the kingdom in the far-away land. So he said nothing and did nothing.
Everything changed for the little girl when the prince snuck into the secret castle one afternoon. He had missed our King, the man who he thought was his father. That's when the little girl and the prince met and became friends. Even though the prince had forgotten about his kingdom the girl could see inside of the prince and she felt how sad and lonely he and the other King were. But the little girl didn't know what to do in order to help the prince. The prince and the little girl spent hours, days that eventually turned into weeks among one another. The prince noticed how scared the little girl was of the bad man; so one night he followed the his friend back to her village. That night was a bad night for the little girl. The bad man had hurt the little girl and her mother along with her baby sister. So she had run away to the field of white tulips where she and the prince would meet up sometime. The prince found her there but so had the bad man. So terrified was the little girl that her powers came to save them and she took the prince to the far-away kingdom with her.
The little girl completed our King's mission and brought the prince back to the other King. But the little girl knew she had to go back and protect her family from the bad man. She went back to her village and the prince stayed where he belonged in the far-away kingdom. On her return to our kingdom, the other villagers started to notice what the King and the Wizard were doing to the her and the other children. And one day they stormed the secret castle. While they captured our King and put him in jail, the Wizard escaped and to this day no one has seen him or knows where he went. As the years went by the little girl and the prince grew up. While the prince forgot all about our kingdom and the little girl, she held onto how much she loved and missed the prince.
~The End.~
" Is that really the end, Aunt Liv?" questioned Ella.
"Well, for all little girls who should be in be sleeping already, yes." Olivia replied while tucking her niece into bed to what would become a nighttime ritual for the two. Olivia went to go turn off the light but before she could Ella asked "Do you think the prince will ever remember the little girl?"
"I don't know sweetheart. But I do know that it time to go to bed. Good night. Love you." Olivia said.
"Love you too Aunt Liv" Ella spoke back.
Olivia then turned off the light but inside hoped that one day the prince would in fact remember the little girl, for she had never forgotten him.
