AN:// First off I'd like to state there are simply not enough Pan's Labyrinth fan fictions. Thus, I apologize that this one probably won't be very well written. Maybe it will, I don't often judge my own work because it's very hard to try and take something you've done in someone else's point of view. I hope you enjoy it. The rating might change from T to M, I'm not sure yet.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pan's Labyrinth, but I wish I could.
Prologue
"A long time ago,
In the underground realm,
Where there were no lies or pain,
There lived a princess who
Dreamt of the human world.
She dreamt of blue skies,
Soft breeze and sunshine.
One day,
Eluding her keepers,
The princess escaped.
Once outside,
The bright sun blinded here.
And erased her memory.
She forgot who she was
And where she came from.
Her body suffered cold,
Sickness and pain.
And eventually she died.
However, her father, the king,
Always knew that the princess' soul
Would return,
Perhaps in another body,
In another place
At another time.
And he would wait for her,
Until he drew his last breath,
Until the world stopped turning...
And it is said that the princess
Returned to her father's kingdom.
That she reigned there
with justice and a kind heart
For many centuries.
That she was loved by her people.
And that she left behind
Small traces of her time on Earth,
Visible only to those
Who know where to look."
But there is much more to that story.
The time of her stay on Earth
has already been told,
but now I shall tell you another
of the time after her return.
A story filled with love,
betrayal and hatred.
Passion, loss, and forgiving.
A story that needs to be told,
just as any other needs to be told,
for the lessons within
should never be forgotten.
Twenty mortal years had passed,
but she aged much slower.
She was now a beautiful young woman,
desired by many.
Her memories of the underworld,
before her time on Earth,
never returned.
Her keepers and parents told her
many stories of when she was young,
but try as they might,
recognition was lost.
So she relearned the ways
of her world and her people,
began to explore that which she already knew,
acquainted herself with the forgotten.
Though she loved her parents,
her people and the underworld,
there were many things that she missed.
A walk through sun enchanted forests,
the smell of spring flowers,
Mercedes.
But she knew she could never return
Or she'd die.
She began to have nightmares,
one so horrid she dared not tell
even her parents in fear of what they meant.
And so she thought alone,
her feelings hidden in secret,
the desire to return overwhelming...