An Unexpected Meeting

Disclaimer: I don't own Snow White characters (I don't know who does, but whatever… Just don't sue me.)

Upon reaching the tall oak door, she knocked lightly on the door, "Snow?... Snow? Do you hear me?"

"SNOW! Please open the door!" the Queen knocked more forcefully on the door.

"SNOW, THIS ISN'T FUNNY! PLEASE OPEN THE DOOR!" the door stood stock still.

The Queen angrily ground her teeth, "MISS SNOW MERCÉDÈS WHITE, IF YOU DON'T OPEN THIS DOOR RIGHT NOW, I'LL KNOCK THE DOOR RIGHT OFF ITS HINGES! JUST YOU WATCH!" The Queen angrily rolled up the frilly sleeves of her dress and waited a short while, but the door stood stock still. Reaching the end of her patience, she yelled, "DIS— ACHOO!" She was in such a fury she had inhaled a fly, and apparently her nose didn't take it well because she started a sneezing fit, all the while a poor fly stuck up her left nostril. Suddenly out of nowhere, a long red stick flew out of the floor straight at Eliza's nose and stuck to the fly, pulling it out!

Eliza, clutching her aching nose, cried, "What is the world coming to! First Snow rendezvous with Prince Arthur; next thing you know, long red sticks are flying out of the ground, taking flies out of people's noses—"

"I do beg your pardon!" said a new voice indignantly, "I'm not some long red stick! I am the great Prince Philip!" Eliza looked around wildly for Prince Philip, but she was curiously unable to find him. Wait… Prince Philip? Why does this ring a bell? About to go and check another part of the castle, she called out, "Where are you?"

"I'm down here, you dimwit!" Prince Philip's irritated voice replied.

The Queen searched the floor, but all she could see was a dead rat and an extremely overweight frog. "Where?" She had an eerie feeling that the amphibian was talking to her.

The frog's slimy lips moved, "You're staring right at me."

Eliza paled slightly. Now, she realized why "Prince Philip" rang a bell. A few years ago, three Princesses lived in the castle: Rapunzel, Jasmine, and Snow. Jasmine was whisked off by a handsome lunatic who thought he was a Prince, leaving just Snow and Rapunzel at the dark castle. Rapunzel was furious to be nearly the last daughter to not yet have found a husband; so, she began to host more balls, where she flirted with all of the rich men like a brazen hussy. Outraged, Eliza sentenced Rapunzel to a month's grounding. The belligerent teenager created a foolproof plan to get back at her mother. A few days later, in the dead of night, she snuck into Eliza's secret room and made a special potion. She continued taking the potion in small doses everyday, and soon her hair had grown to a length of fifty feet, long enough to reach the floor of the castle. She then used Eliza's trained crow to send a message to a Prince in a nearby kingdom. The Prince responded by rushing to the castle on horseback in the dead of night. Once he reached the door of the castle, he called out to the anxious Princess, "Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair!" She willingly threw her thick braided blonde hair out of the window, where the Prince attempted to climb it. But everybody knows that hair isn't that strong, and while the clueless Prince was halfway up the castle wall, Rapunzel's hair simply broke. Every single strand of hair that the Prince had been holding onto for dear life snapped, giving the Princess terrible split ends, not to mention formidable pain. Rapunzel cried out in horror to see the Prince make a large thud as he hit the ground. With terribly bad timing, Queen Eliza rushed out of her quarters, to find an aching Prince on the ground and Rapunzel clutching her burning scalp. The Queen jumped to conclusions, and immediately accused the innocent lad. Rapunzel simply nodded her head in approval, so as to not be grounded even longer. Eliza whispered a curse under her breath, which immediately turned the aching Prince into an extremely overweight frog. A few days later Rapunzel ran away with some other Prince, and they never saw her again. The poor original Prince, now a frog, simply lived in a pond humbly, waiting for a kind Princess to kiss him. But every good witch knows that for every curse there is a counter-curse. If the frog Prince was kissed by a beautiful, young Princess, he would be restored to his original state. It's too bad that Prince Philip was just too disgusting for any reasonable Princess to consider even touching.

The frog continued, rather regally considering he was simply an ugly, overweight frog, "Ahem, if you will please stop reminiscing in the past, as it is apparent you are doing, we can discuss the matter at hand: your runaway daughter Snow White."

The Queen suddenly snapped to attention, "What! My daughter Snow White hasn't run away! She—"

"She has and if you insist on wasting time, I'll continue to let you rant." The frog was apparently a very unsocial person, but the Queen was suddenly quiet.

Out of the blue, Eliza bolted up the steps, holding the front of her blue gown with her fists. She rushed into a room, as the frog still slowly hopped up the steps, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, is Snow White within these castle walls?"

Edmond simply answered, "No, my Queen… She is not."

The Queen furrowed her brow, "Maybe you misunderstood me; is Snow Mercédès White on the castle grounds?"

"No, my Queen… She is not."

"What do you mean 'She is not!' She must be here! I demand to know where she is—" Eliza ranted.

"I told you that if you wanted to waste time, I'd let you continue to rant, but please rant after my explanation!" Prince Philip huffed, extremely tired from jumping up the steps. The Queen pursed her lips but picked up the frog and placed it unceremoniously on the bed, where it hopped into a comfortable position. "Where should I begin? I suppose the very beginning will do…"

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