Hey guys, it's me again, SoMaNaLu. Here is the second chapter of Sleeping Beauty. I just want to apologize in advance, it's a little bit shorter than I would like, however after this point there was a good stopping point so I decided to cut it short instead of giving you a super long chapter. There are no new characters this chapter, hold on, there is actually

OC/King Romulus: Ancient Rome

So anyway do forget to rate, review, or all of the above. Thanks for reading, I'll talk to you again at the end of the chapter

Chapter 2

The Decision

Flames roared high into the night sky as the palace guards threw spinning wheel after spinning wheel onto the giant bonfire that now occupied the castle courtyard. It had only been a few hours since Hibernia's departure and King Romulus had already taken action, he was desperately trying to eradicate the entire population of spinning wheels in the land.

Elizabeta stared down at the scene coldly through the enormous windows in the throne room. All the guests had left almost instantly; she turned away from the window with a sigh, her long emerald green robes trailing behind her. "This is complete pointless" she said with a scoff "Like burning all the spinning wheels will help… This is a magic curse, mortal actions can't prevent it. The fools"

"King Romulus and Queen Athenais ae only doing what they feel they have to" Anouk reasoned.

"A bonfire won't stop Hibernia, and they know it" Natasha snapped at the younger fae.

"Oh course not" Elizabeta handed out teacups to her companions and poured tea in them using a magic teapot she'd summoned. "But we need to find something that will be able to stop her"

"Could we try to reason with her?" Anouk asked, knowing what her companions responses would be anyway.

Elizabeta whipped around to face her with a nasty glare "Reason!"

"With Hibernia?" Natasha asked incredulously "I know you're still young but you are old enough to have reason yourself"

"No one is all bad" Anouk pleaded.

"She is, for certain" Elizabeta told her hotly "I doubt there is even a sliver of good left in that black heart of hers"

Natasha was practically shaking with anger "Oh, I'd like to turn her into something nasty…. Like… oh a spider. So she can live her life in fear of being stepped on"

"You shouldn't feel like that Natasha" Anouk scolded.

"Anouk is right Natasha" Elizabeta agreed, sipping her tea "If we begin using our magic in such horrible ways we'll soon end up just as dark and deluded and Hibernia. We must only use our magic for the correct things, lest we turn evil"

"It feels right to me!" Natasha barked angrily.

"There must be something we can do" Anouk's voice dulled as Elizabeta began to ponder their options. She noticed the flower in her hair had begun to wilt…. Flower…. An idea popped into Elizabeta's mind instantly

"There is!" Elizabeta exclaimed, racing back to the other fae. "I'm going to…" she paused "Not here" she said in a hushed voice. Elizabeta looked for somewhere secluded where they could speak, she saw an empty crown box on the table, she pointed towards it "Walls have ears"

Elizabeta took to the air and with a sweep of her wand, shrunk to the size of a hummingbird. Anouk and Natasha followed suit and the three fae flew into the box. Elizabeta tapped the lid with her wad and it sealed, she muttered softly and light appeared from the tip of her wand.

"I'll turn Herakles into a flower!" she said excitedly

"He would make a nice flower" Anouk pondered the idea

"Don't you see, a flower can't prick its finger! It has none to prick" Elizabeta clasped her hands together hopefully.

"He'll be completely safe" Natasha realized

Yet Anouk found a problem "Until Hibernia sends a frost" All the excitement in the box died. Elizabeta's hope died as she remembered how Hibernia loved to kill her flowers.

"Oh yeah" Natasha groaned "She kills all your best flowers Elizabeta"

"You're right Anouk" Elizabeta conceded "And she's just waiting for us to try something like that"

"What won't she expect?" Natasha snapped "She knows everything"

"What does she know about helping another human being?" Anouk said coolly "About caring about the happiness of another person…" Anouk paused momentarily, the gears of her mind whirring "I think that's why she's never been happy herself"

Inspiration hit Elizabeta once again "Of course" she blurted out "It's the last thing she'd expect"

Anouk and Natasha turned to face her "What?" they asked simultaneously.

Elizabeta began rambling to herself "Of course the Queen will object" she mused "But we'll explain that this truly is the only way…"

"Explain what?" Natasha asked, pulling Elizabeta from her musing.

"About the three peasant women raising a foundling child as their own" she explained. Anouk looked suspicious.

"Well that's nice of them" Anouk said cautiously "Who are they?"

"Turn around!"

Anouk and Natasha turned around and faced the plated side of the box, seeing their reflections in the silver. Elizabeta waved her wand and changed their clothing to that of peasant women, Anouk in amber, herself in green, and Natasha in blue.

"Us!" Natasha gasped, changing her clothing violet "Take care of the baby!"

"But we would have to wash and dress him…" Anouk protested worriedly.

"And rock him to sleep" Natasha was already warming to the idea of being a godparent, I guess having a compassionate soul did the trick for her. "We can teach him things, I think I may like that"

"Raising a child is not something to be taken lightly Natasha" Anouk rebutted "It's an enormous responsibility that none of us have ever undertaken before"

""Well, if either of you have another idea, I'd be glad hear it" Elizabeta "Besides, mortals can do it, why not us?" The other two thought about it momentarily before nodding.

"And we'll have our magic" Anouk pointed out.

"No!" Elizabeta shouted and grabbed Anouk's wand from her hand "No magic"

"What?" Natasha gasped and jumped away as Elizabeta tried to seize her wand as well "Live like mortals for SIXTEEN YEARS!"

"Best to lose the wings as well" Elizabeta threw a handful of magic and Anouk and her glassy amber wings vanished. Anouk had been trying to fly away; therefor, she landed straight on her backside.

"We don't know how! We've never done anything without magic!" Natasha was doing her best to stay away from Elizabeta, who had backed her into a corner. Elizabeta rushed forward to grab her wand and missed as the younger fae dove out of the way.

"That's why Hibernia would never suspect us and there would be no magic for her to trace to us. Now give me the wand"

Elizabeta flew over Natasha to grab her wand, Natasha just managed to remove Elizabeta's wings and both fell to the ground. All three wands rested in Elizabeta's hand. "Let's go" Elizabeta removed herself from the box and turned back to her full size, she then did the same for Anouk and Natasha. Then they went to go find Queen Athenais.

Elizabeta crept through the corridors of the castle, the two other fae following her, and Anouk cradling the sleeping prince in her arms. It had taken a long and difficult discussion with Queen Athenais to convince her that this was the best way to protect her son. Now they had to escape without being noticed.

They made it to the secret door that the Queen had told them about. They moved off into the nearby woods, off towards a cottage deep in the woods were they would spend the next sixteen years. After settling in the cottage, Elizabeta laid the prince in the simple cradle "Goodnight, Sweet Prince"

Elizabeta stepped back and nodded shortly, confident he'd be safe until she got back. Elizabeta bent her knees and disappeared in a blast of white, diamond and silver magic glitter that shot upwards in a spiral. The magic gently floated down around the cradle, and very slowly, the prince opened his eyes.

There you have it, chapter to of the Hetalia rendition of Sleeping beauty. I'll be posting chapter three shortly, so keep an eye out. And there was no foreign vocab for me to explain this time so... bye!