Fairytales Volume I

Funnycoat

A Sailormoon fanfiction by Nishikaze.

Princess Serenity must disguise her identity and live in the castle of a foreign kingdom to protect herself from her enemies. What happens when she falls in love with that kingdom's prince?

Based on the Grimms' Fairytale, Allerleirauh.

Chapter 1: Shattered Innocence (revised version)


Once upon a time, in a magical kingdom called the Silver Millennium that existed on the moon, a good queen ruled with wisdom and love. She was fair and just, and she was beloved of her people. Her kingdom was vast and beautiful and held many treasures, but her greatest treasure was her only child, Princess Serenity.

Princess Serenity was kind and lovely and all who knew her loved her. She would play in her garden of roses, speak with her guardian, a mystical black cat, and gaze in wonder at the beautiful blue Earth below her. Her court consisted of eight maids of legendary power who were both her companions and protectors. Each came from the royal house of a planet under the dominion of the Silver Millennium and each were as different as they could be, but they all had a common love for the princess and they all vowed to protect her with their lives.

She did need protecting, for while the kingdom was peaceful, war with an alien power was brewing and there seemed to be little the good queen could do to stop it.

But the princess knew nothing of this; she lived her life blissfully happy and innocent of the knowledge of war. She lived this way until her sixteenth birthday, when her happiness and innocence were shattered by the callous demands of an unexpected guest.


Princess Serenity's sixteenth birthday was a grand event and nobles and commoners all over the kingdom came to pay homage. Her court all gave her special gifts in honor of the occasion. The maids from the Mercury, Venus and Mars each gave her an enchanted dress. One made of glistening starlight, another of the sun's golden rays, and the third, the most beautiful, was made of the moon's silver light. Jupiter gave her a magical bag with no bottom that could hold whatever was placed inside it and would give it back on command by the owner. The maid of Saturn gave her a dagger that would stay ever sharp, a useful tool and able protector. The maids of Uranus and Neptune gave her a comb that would instantly make even the most unruly hair beautiful again and a mirror that would always show the truth. The final gift, from the maid of Pluto, was a ring with the royal crest of the Silver Millennium.

Many nobles also gave gifts, and there were grand balls and many feasts in honor of the princess, and all were happy, until an envoy of the evil Dark Moon Kingdom came to the festivities.


"You asked me what would prevent war with your kingdom my lady and I have told you. I demand your daughter's hand in marriage." Prince Diamond gazed out of the Queen's window and down at the festivities below, "Your daughter is of a marrying age now, and such a union would not only prevent this war but would unite our kingdoms. Think about it, and I will return in three day's time with my answer. I will accept no other terms." With that, the evil prince left.

The queen summoned her daughter with a heavy heart. She told her of the kingdom's plight and of the Prince's foul request. The princess was saddened and disgusted with the idea of marrying such an evil man, but she knew that many innocent people would die if the two kingdoms should go to war. With a heavy heart she agreed to marry the prince, "However," She told her mother, "He must grant my request before we marry. I have long gazed at the beautiful Earth and I will miss being able to look upon it whenever I wish. Tell the prince this, 'Make me a cloak of many furs, taken from the animals of the Earth, but do not kill them to gain their fur. Instead ask each animal to give a bit of their pelts, tell them it is for me and they will do so willingly. Do this and I will marry you, but know this: if any creature is killed there will be no wedding.'"

The prince did as he was asked, for he lusted after the beauty of the princess and the power she would one day hold. It took the prince 30 days to complete the task, but he did so, and he brought the cloak to the princess. "Now you must honor your part of the bargain and become my bride," He told her.

Now while the prince was completing the task he was given, the princess used the mirror that always told the truth to see into the heart of the prince. The prince was going to marry her, but he would use the wedding as an easy way to conquer her kingdom and enslave her people.

In despair she asked the mirror if there was any way she could help her keep her kingdom and protect it from war. The mirror showed her three images. The first was of the funny coat the evil prince would give to her. The second was of the planet Earth, the beautiful blue orb that had so entranced and called to her all those years. The third was the image of a handsome, young king.

So it came to pass the princess, while the prince was gone, plotted to thwart him and protect her kingdom. The night before she was to marry, she locked herself away in her rooms and gathered the gifts her court had given her. She threw her funny new cloak over her shoulders rubbed soot on her hands and face so that she took on the persona of a strange looking beast and took up the bag that would hold whatever was placed inside it. She filled it with her treasures and snuck away from the palace. That night she descended to Earth, the planet she loved so much, as much to escape the clutches of the evil prince as to fulfill the task set before her by the mirror. She told only her black cat advisor of her plans and swore her to secrecy.

And so the princess' adventure began…


I do hope you liked this first part. Please be patient, part two is in the works.

Please feel free to review.


Author's Notes:

This story is part of an inter-series group of fiction that I have been working on for quite some time. Each Volume deals with a different fairytale as well as a different anime title. You, the reader, do not have to read every volume; each story is its own separate entity. So if you chose to read only this volume that is your right. I hope you enjoy this story.

That being said, if you do enjoy this story and want to read more like it, please feel free to read my other Volumes, when I have finished them.

Fairytales Volume II is in the works and will be a Card Captor Sakura take on Cinderella.

Fairytales Volume III will be a Ranma ½ story entitled Bearskin.

And so… on with this story.