Hello and welcome to my Storm Hawks Princess Bride AU! Princess Bride has been one of my favorite movies ever since I first watched it nearly four years ago. Ever since then, I've been wanting to do a rendition of this classic tale. Thanks to a video by the lovely CarlottaStudios over on YouTube, I finally figured out how I wanted to do this. Now, get ready for a tale full of fencing, fighting, torture, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love, and miracles!
Our story begins on the world of Atmos on a small terra. While not as important, or even as big, as other terras, such as the capital city of Atmosia or the renowned Terra Rex, it was a modest little farming community in which its citizens lived peaceful lives; tending to their livestock and crops while knowing that they were safe from harm thanks to their protectors, The Sky Knights.
Within this community lived a young girl whose beauty was beyond compare. Her skin was a fine ebony and her hair a perfect dark blue color, like that of the starry night sky.
Her name was Piper.
While she was not of much importance due to her status as a mere farmer's daughter, she liked to act high and mighty. Her two favorite pastimes were riding her skimmer around the circumference of the terra and tormenting the young farm boy who worked her father's farm.
His name was Aerrow.
"Farm boy," She'd say to the young field hand, "I want you to clean and polish my skimmer. I want to see my face in it," She would demand.
And he would simply reply, with a small, sincere smile, "As you wish."
Those three words were all he ever said to the girl. No matter what manner of chore she asked or demanded of him, he would simply reply with those three simple words.
"Farm boy, I want you to chop these logs for a fire by this afternoon," She'd demand.
"As you wish," He'd say with a smile.
"Farm boy, I want you to fill these buckets with water," She'd say as he looked at her with those beautiful eyes and that smile of his, "... Please?"
And, as always, he'd reply with "As you wish."
It wasn't until some time later that she found out that whenever he said "As you wish", what he really meant was "I love you."
It was not long after that that she began to realize that she loved him too.
And it was there during the sunset, under a tree on a small hilltop, they kissed for the first time, signifying their love for one another.
However, their happiness was not to last.
Shortly after, young Aerrow left his home terra to seek his fortune out in the world. He made a promise to his love that, no matter what, they will be reunited someday with him being a man of renown truly worthy of her. With a final kiss farewell, he left on a passenger ship heading toward Terra Atmosia.
Unfortunately, tragedy struck in the form of the infamous Dread Sky Pirate Roberts, the terror of the trade routes. He was infamous for never leaving survivors, and Aerrow's ship was no exception.
The moment the news reached her ears, young Piper was mortified. She fell into a deep depression, too stricken with grief to go on. However, she tried her best to live on for Aerrow's sake. She knew that so long as she remembered him, he would not be completely dead.
And in the blink of an eye, six years had passed.
Big thank you and Happy Birthday to CarlottaStudios for inspiring this story! Go check her out here on FanFicition or on YouTube or any of her other profiles/accounts. If you're reading this, seriously, you're great! (And you're welcome for the free publicity)
With all that being said, I will see you all later!