Penelope and Tom Thumb
Chapter 1: The Little Princess
Every fairy in the Vale was happy when Cornelius married Thumbelina. They were overjoyed when they heard that Thumbelina had given birth to a beautiful baby girl, who the royal couple named Penelope.
Penelope had dark red hair, like her father, and bright blue eyes, like her mother. The young princess had light pink wings, like her grandmother Tabitha. Penny, as her family called her, was a very happy child, and never asked for much. She never let being a princess make her spoiled.
When Penny was a teenager, about 16, she came to her parents and asked for one seemingly simple thing. "I want someone to love me."
King Cornelius looked at his daughter, puzzled. "What do you mean? Your mother and I love you very much."
"Your grandparents love you, too, Penny." Thumbelina added.
Princess Penelope looked down at her green dress and sighed. "I mean, I want to find someone to love me, the way you two love each other..."
"Oh..." Thumbelina looked over at her husband, seeing him rub his chin in thought. She looked back at her daughter and saw that the look on her face was similar to the one she had a long time ago. Back when she was looking in a storybook page with her mother.
Cornelius stood from his seat and said, "Penny, we will help you find love. Starting tomorrow."
Penelope looked up with a look of joy in her eyes. "Really? Oh, thank you, thank you so much!" She gave her parents a big hug and flew to her room.
Penny sat down on a chair in front of her vanity and sighed happily. She had been dreaming of finding love for a long time. She remembered her parents telling her the stroy of how they'd met, and what they had to go through before they got married.
Ever since then, Penelope had been wishing for someone to love her that strongly. She looked out the window and sighed again, sadly this time. The young red-headed royal suddenly realized that she had never been outside of the Vale before.
"What if I can't find someone special for me?" She asked herself aloud. Penny turned back to the mirror and ran a comb through her long hair, which reached just past her thighs. "I would make a good wife. I would!" She looked at herself and scoffed. "Look at you, talking to yourself like you're on sale!"
Penelope stood up and went over to her bed. Before she could lay down, she heard clattering from downstairs. "What was that?" she quietly went over to her bedroom door and gently laid her ear against it.
Hushed voices sounded from the other side. "Find the girl! Now!" a male's voice whispered harshly. Penny gasped softly, quickly covering her mouth. She looked around her room for a way to escape. The window in her room didn't open, for safety reasons, and breaking it would make too much noise.
'I'll have to chance it.' Penelope ran over to the window. Just as she had raised a lamp to break it, her door was broken into multiple pieces. She ducked in fear and turned to see a large frog in a tux standing where her bedroom door once was.
"Grab her." The frog demanded of his companions. Two more frogs, both a sickly pale green, jumped out and grabbed Penny's arms. She screamed, hoping someone would hear her. The frogs slapped their hands over her mouth as they drug her out of her room and hopped out of the castle.
The next morning, Thumbelina and Cornelius cried in front of Penny's room, having found the place in shambles. There was no sign of their beloved daughter.