The Princess and the frog

Owned by the Grimm brothers'

(Warning: This time one character dies)

Once upon a time a prince met a witch in the forest. She told him that her cat was trapped in a tree and asked him very nicely:

"Oh young boy, can you climb up the tree and help my cat down" thinking, when this strong young man comes down again I will give him three wished in reward. But the prince knew better.

"Why should I help a witch, I'm a Prince, I don't climb trees…"

The witch got very hurt when she heard his words. Alright she was a witch, but she was an old woman too and even a prince knew to treat an old woman well.

"Is that a way to speak to an old lady?"

"It's a way to speak to a witch." Was the answer. The witch had got enough. She ordered her dwarfs to kidnap the prince. And they all disappeared and landed in the witch's cave.

"Now you will have your punishment" the witch roared. The prince screamed in fear when the spell hit him. Then the witch told him. "If you can find a princess that is willing to let you eat from her plate, and sleep upon her bed for three nights and then give you a kiss, you will be free." Then the frog ended up in a cool spring of water that bordered to many kingdoms. He hoped that one day a princess would come that way and save him.

And one day princess Rapunzel came to the spring. She was tired and thirsty, and she sat down beside the spring to drink.

The prince saw her. She was so beautiful in her long blonde hair and her blue silk dress. The frog swam up to the surface and jumped up on a leaf of a water lily.

"Hello Princess, please help me, I am a prince and have been enchanted by an evil witch"

Unfortunately Princess Rapunzel had an incurable phobia against frogs; she jumped screaming on her feet and run away as fast as she could.

The prince gave up. Rapunzel would never stay calm long enough to listen to a frog, he realized that. He remained in the spring for over a month. After all it boarded to a lot of kingdoms so it was the best place to wait for a princess.

And one day the second princess, Princess Almond, showed up. She was even more beautiful than Princess Rapunzel with her shining blonde hair that reminded of the sunrise and with a yellow velvet dress. And the prince knew that Princess Almond was not as afraid as Rapunzel. He jumped up on the water lily leaf again. Almond looked at him.

"Hello Princess, please help me, I am a prince and have been enchanted by an evil witch"

But Princess Almond didn't want to marry a frog either.

"You are not the prince from my dreams!" she said and started to leave, but the prince who saw that he maybe had a chance to be saved this time called her back.

"Please wait, how do you know I'm not that prince? I'm enchanted!" He said and jumped up on her yellow velvet dress.

Princess Almond beat the dress.

"How dare you jump at me you filthy frog!" she yelled "Wait until I find the prince in my dreams" Then she too ran away. And the prince waited for two years.

Then finally a new Princess came. This time it was the rich and beautiful Princess Badru'l Budur with her beautiful black hair and a brocade dress.

The prince was both depressed and desperate now and jumped straight up from the water.

"Hello Princess, please help me, I am a prince and have been enchanted by an evil witch"

Princess Badru'l Budur got very upset by the frogs way to jump in front of her.

"Are you trying to ask me, Princess Badru'l Budur for that? How dare you! You're a frog! A frog!" And she walked away.

And the prince waited for a long time until the next princess walked by. He had never seen anything that beautiful, even in his dreams. Her name was Princess Aravana.

The prince hesitated, he didn't feel worthy of this girl at all, but he wanted so hardly to be free.

"Hello Princess, please help me, I am a prince and have been enchanted by an evil witch"

Princess Aravana actually lifted him up in his hand. The prince felt that he would have cried if he still could. But he wouldn't be saved by this princess either.

"I really want to help you my friend" she said. "But I'm an elf, I have magical powers too and if one with magical powers tries to help you, every prince and every boy in the world will turn into frogs instead. I can't risk that only to save one. I'm really sorry for you but I can't."

But she staid with him the whole day, trying to console him. And when the night came, Princess Aravana walked away.

The prince was really mad now. And he swore that if he one day got free from this body he would take revenge on that witch. And he waited for a long time… And one day he saw… a cat.

A cat… it was a cat that had started all this. How could that witch ask him to save her cat? Princes did not climb in trees! He dove down in the spring to sleep.

And one day another Princess came. She was only a child, playing whit a golden ball, but still she was a princess. She had beautiful green eyes that reminded of the emeralds that were embroidered on her green dress and her raven black hair gave more justice to those beautiful eyes then it would have done if it had been blonde. Her name was Princess Curious.

Remembering Princess Rapunzel, Princess Almond, Princess Badru'l Budur and Princess Aravana he decided to be more careful this time. He hid himself in the water lilies and began to sing like a frog.

Princess Curious heard it and she immediately began to seek for him. Then he jumped up right in front of her. And she looked at him with the pure childish happiness in her beautiful green eyes. Then she lifted him up in her hand. But before he had been able to say:

"Hello Princess, please help me, I am a prince and have been enchanted by an evil witch" The little Princess exclaimed:

"Finally I have found a frog for science-class!" and without hearing his cries for all the other happier sounds around her Princess Curious ran home to the castle's laboratory.

At least that ending was more interesting than every "happily ever after endings". And I think that if the prince had seen that he was wrong to treat a woman like that just because he was a witch, he could have been saved.

Anyway the next Fairy Tale to be rewritten is: The princess and the dragon… But that will be a crossover with Final Fantasy VII… (Fairy Tales/Final Fantasy VII)

The next Fairy Tale to be rewritten here is: Hansel and Gretel

See you soon^_^