Rumpelstiltskin
Chapter 1:The curse
I use to be a normal man before I was this green scaled, no-good, tricky monster.
I had a family, a wife, a son. I had friends. I had a heart. Until I met my fate, The Blue Fairy on a spring evening. She asked for me to met her in a remote the enchanted forest , which was a terrific journey from my house in the village of Asaco, the only area un-ruled by the evil queen, Cora. I went along the journey alone, as instructed. But,if enter the area, the only way out it though the means of magic. People of my village say that the trees are alive and that they watch your every move.
I can't remember much more of the journey, but that came with the curse. I got to the remotest region of the enchanted forest, and there waiting was The Blue Fairy, her radiant skin, pearly eyes with her normal ocean blue dress and matching slippers.
"I ask of one thing, kill one of the Evil Queen's hunts-men" she said this rather viciously, which isn't like her ,the great hearted fairy with the purest heart. But after what the Evil Queen did to her son, I wouldn't blame her.
The hunts-men captured her son and locked him up in the tower dungeon and after many month, the evil queen had him burned alive before her and all the kingdom.
Those vile ogre, with slimy green skin, no morals, obeying the queens every will and need. Being a sworn enemy of the queen I couldn't let the offer pass.
"Shoot this arrow, from this bow, and at this location as the hunts-men will be going on their daily kill, this way you won't even be seen," she said as she handed over a purple tipped arrow, a jet black bow and a map with a location marked on it, which as I can gather, is just before the kingdom gates.
"And don't worry dear, you will be rewarded, with all that one can wish for."
We both vanished, I found myself back in Asaco, and her, I don't know probably dancing around in the meadows with her less 'superior' fairies.
The day finally came, I woke well before sunrise, so I wouldn't wake my wife and our young son. I had stashed the bow and arrow in a hollowed-out tree, which the family have been using for years as a 'keep-safe'. I walked along to the path of the Elder forest, as the map had said to. But for some strange reason I felt like I was being followed by someone, or to be more accurate something. I just ignored it and carried on walking. I could see the sunlight braking its way through the inter-woven trees. I still followed the map exactly as it was written and eventually I got to the queen's gate. There was a tree near by, so I decided to climb it to make myself more hidden from the kingdom and its ogre.
I waited. Hour after hour, and nothing. Finally an ogre walked out of the kingdom gates. I did as The Blue Fairy said so, the arrow went straight into the his black hazed eye, and immediately the ogre fell to the ground. At contact with the ogre's skin he was transformed into his true self, the dark one. The arrow suddenly flew out of the creature into my arms, then in transformed into the dark one's dagger, the only thing that can kill him. I took no notice to the legends of the land, 'kill the dark one with his own dagger and obtain his power' it seems a tad fetched. I took his shield to prove to The Blue Fairy that I killed one of the Evil Queen's hunts-men.
On the journey back to I passed through the Golden lake, a place where my father would always being me when I way young, I will always remember the smell of the summer flowers and the songs of the lake's birds, that whistled through the air. As I was hoping, I bumped into The Blue Fairy on the way back.
"Here is my proof, the hunts-men is dead," I said as I handed over the shield.
"I don't need proof, your reward as I promised," she said as she grabbed a item out of her pouch, a golden ring.
As soon as I touched the ring with my skin, a purple 'fog' engulfed me, at this moment, I knew my mistake, it isn't The Blue Fairy who stands before, but it is the Evil Queen, Cora . The wicked, Evil Queen, the most evil of them all. The entire land fears her and her daughter, ever since she married the king, who died a few days after the wedding, under some-what mysterious circumstances. But enough about her.
"What curse have you adorned upon me Cora," I snarled at her.
"Curse, this is no curse, I have blessed you with immortality, magic and all the gold that you can wish for," she said smugly,"but be careful dearie,magic comes at a price, and I didn't curse you, I only activated the legend," immediately after finishing her sentence she disappeared.
I looked upon myself it the lake to see what I have become. My green scaled skin, purple hazed eyes and my ever knotted hair. What has she done to me.