Chapter 2: A Sad Song
Rose cleaned the wooden window as she sang; she then looked around the small room of the cottage she knew as her home. Her songs were sad and nostalgic, but somehow she managed to make them seem completely the opposite.
She had learnt them from her three aunts, whom she missed terribly each passing day.
Exhausted, she sat on the edge of her bed. She was tired of being afraid, of her lack of courage to leave the forest she had come to know so well. She reached underneath her bed and grabbed a necklace.
It reminded her of what she wanted- needed to do and what she hadn't done.
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Not long ago a petite fifteen year old girl ran downstairs when she heard her aunts call her. She didn't quite understand what was happening when her aunt Flora wrapped her with a grey coat and led her outside the house, giving her a short nod before kissing her forhead.
Outside her second aunt, Fauna, handed her a wood basket. Almost as if she was about to break into tears she asked her to pick berries for them and hugged her tightly before her thrid aunt had to separate them. Merryweather asked her to close her eyes, she recited her a very beautiful prose that talked about protection and limited death.
She kissed her forehead and gave her a small blue sapphire, which had to be keept with her at all times. She should've suspected something wasn't right, but she was used to them doing that every birthday she had.
That was the last time she saw them. It didn't matter how much she tried, she couldn't remember the last words her aunt had said to her.
For months she waited for them to come back, but they never did. After she realized it was no use crying and that nobody would ever come to her rescue, she finally picked her coat and went outside her home. At first she would only get as far as to pick something to eat and return home, then she spent hours walking until she knew every part of the forest, she even came across a little village she would sometimes visit.
But that day was different, she suddenly felt hope again when she found the small sapphire her aunt had given her before she disappeared.
She was so blind, how come she hadn't thought of it before. She had been so mad at them, that she had never considered the thought of looking for her missing aunts. She packed what little she owned and she walked towards the forest with confidence, singing once more a sweet nostalgic song.
"Rat!" he yelled as ropes landed on his head "Mi dispiace signore!"
The boat had been sailing for almost a month now and there was no sign of the royal ship that they had meant to cross upon at all.
"Sinbad!" he had to roll his eyes. "I told you two days ago that we should reach the nearest shore to get food, the men are tired of eating pickles"
"And, as you might remember Kale, I told you that there is nothing but woods all along this place, but fine let them eat wood" he said as he turned the steering wheel dramatically. Kale sighed, but didn't say a thing since he had had the final victory over him anyways.
The crew got off the boat and immediately secured it to a rock. "Kale, stay here, I want you to watch the boat while I walk the forest and see if I can find us food"
"I thought you wanted us to leave as soon as possible, that treasure ship could come by any month now" he said. "Yeah I changed my mind, I DO need some fresh forest air too" Kale raised his eyebrow as he smirked "Plus you know royalty, always so fashionably late" Sinbad finished sarcastically as he got off the boat and into the forest.
He walked for several minutes, not really paying attention to his surroundings but still remembering the path that led him to where he was. Suddenly he heard a noise which made him jump. He quickly grasped his knife defensively.
Still in a fighting stance Sinbad kept walking, realizing that the further he went into the forest, the noise was less of a noise and more of a singing voice.
He neared the source of the voice and removed a bush' branches finding that behind it, a girl with a grey cape was singing to herself as she walked without looking away from the ground.
He went through the bush to meet her, and with a cough he made the poor girl shriek, acknowledging his presence.
"I'm sorry, didn't mean to scare you" he said quickly hiding his knife as he neared her. The girl finally looked at the stranger "I'm sorry, I am not allowe- I don't talk to strangers"
She said as she started walking away from him more hurriedly than before. Sinbad finally regained his ability to speak and went after her.
"Hey wait! I need you to tell me where the nearest port is" she stopped her tracks to let him catch up "The nearest port?"
"That's what I said" he replied suddenly without patience. "If I take you to it, will you let me go with you?"
N: Just for the story's sake, Aurora is about to become eighteen, Maleficent didn't specify when the princess would die and Sinbad is about 26.