The little fairy in pink stood over the cradle of the child, smiling gently at the girl with the look that adults reserve only for babies. She lifted her head and nodded at the Queen.

"My gift," she announced to the gaggle of spectators in the palace, "is the gift of wit. She will be clever and wise beyond her years." With a flick of her wand, a shower of pink sparks flew over the baby, encompassing her in magic.

"Thank you, Piper," the Queen said, "Hazel?"

Piper stepped aside to allow the littlest fairy, Hazel, all covered in green, to make her way to the princess.

"My gift, sweet, sweet princess, is the gift of courage," the green fairy proclaimed to the kingdom, "Never will she shy away from adversity." Again the Queen offered her thanks. Hazel swiveled around to allow the third of their party to come forth, but alas, he was nowhere to be found.

"Leo?" Piper asked.

A muffled voice called out from behind a large tapestry.

"Guys, I'm not doing this."

Hazel ran over to him and whispered, "But Leo! You promised."

"I don't care what I promised. I wasn't aware of the fact I'd be wearing a DRESS!" he yelled, and gestured at the blue gown.

"It adds to the effect," Hazel murmured, "Come on!
"No."

"Pleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaasseeeee?"

"No."

But what they did not realize was that while they were arguing over Leo's inability to cross-dress, the wicked fairy, Gaea, had arrived at the scene.

"So? You invited everyone to the party but me?" Gaea thundered.

"We, um, weren't sure if there'd be enough refreshments for everyone. The guest list was shortened by a lot," King Frederick bumbled.

"Save your breath. That really hurts my feelings, you know that?" Gaea whined, "I just wanted to give the little princess here a gift,"

"Oh, well if that's all-"

"Actually it's more of a curse, but at least I brought a present. Unlike these freeloaders," she pointed at the crowd. She then began to recite her curse despite the King and Queen's protests, "Before the princess's sixteenth birthday, she will prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel, and…what was it?" She paused and thought for a moment, "Oh, right! Yeah, she'll die. Peace out hombres!"

The entirety of the castles current occupants gasped, but it was too late. In a puff of smoke Gaea was gone.

"Leo, fix this! You still have your gift to give," Hazel ushered him towards the cradle where Piper was desperately trying to console the king and Queen. The little prince-whom the princess was betrothed to- ran around, trying to catch the remnants of the smoke Gaea left behind, "You can't erase the curse, but you can change it for the better."

"Fine. But I ain't wearing a dress," with that Leo magicked his lovely blue dress into a blue suit with suspenders, "Now that is more like it!" He strolled up to the cradle to bestow his gift.

"Now, ya'll, calm down. Everything's gonna be fine now that Leo's here," he assured the panicked crowd. As soon as things settled down, he resumed his speech, "I was planning on giving the princess the gift of sass. Or maybe pure awesomeness. But it seems that I now have to use it for something more…dull," he took a deep breath and began, "Dear princess, I make this curse so that instead of, you know, dying, you'll fall asleep if you idiotically prick your finger. And…" he looked at Piper and Hazel in confusion. Whispering to them he asked, "I'm running out of creative ideas here, what do I do?"

"Um, say that the spell can only be broken by true love's kiss!" Piper, ever the romantic, exclaimed.

"Nah, that's dumb," Leo argued, "…but I can't think of anything better, so what the heck?" He continued on with his gift giving, "And you can only wake up if your true love kisses you. While you're asleep. This is actually kind of creepy, isn't it?"

"Thank you, Leo," Queen Athena drawled, slightly annoyed.

After the civilians were dismissed from the palace, the Queen and King met up with the fairies to discuss a way to keep the princess safe.

"Well first off, we haven't used a spinning wheel in about 2 centuries, since that last curse with spinning wheels happened and they burned them all, so we're good on that front," Queen Athena asserted.

"But who knows what Gaea is capable of?" the King argued, "She could have some hidden away for this exact purpose."

"It seems obvious to me that the only logical thing to do is to keep the princess out of Gaea's sight so she can't plant a spinning wheel anywhere she is. She needs to leave the castle," the Queen said, sadly.

"We'll take her!" Hazel yelled, "I just love children!"

"We would make great parents!" said Piper, excitedly.

And so it was settled. The princess was taken with the three fairies in the dead of night to a cottage in the woods where Gaea could never find her.

The Queen and King said their tearful goodbyes to their daughter and kissed her.

"Goodbye by our beautiful girl. Goodbye, Princess Annabeth."