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Sleeping Beauty
Scene 1: Cursed Existence.
Raven and Lightning are sitting in their director's chairs. Lightning leans in and whispers something in her ear. Raven giggles. They are interrupted by Wanda coming out dressed in a ridiculous red and gold gothic dress with an equally ridiculous hat. "I am not wearing this! You can't make me!"
"I can make you do anything I want!" Raven proves this by raising her eyebrow and Wanda does an Irish jig. "Now, you will wear the dress and you will take Ray's arm and you will sing!"
Lightning laughs hysterically. Wanda growls and tries to send a hexbolt at him, but Raven stops her with a look and Wanda grudgingly goes to sit next to Ray, who is wearing a hidious outfit of blue, gold and purple. Rogue smirks at them. Not being need for the first couple of chapters, she is decked out in her usual attire and sipping coffee next to Gambit, who is also not needed for the first few chapters.
"Alright people! Time to start the show!" Raven calls.
Lightning zooms off to find a huge bejeweled book with the words "X-Men Evolution Presents: Sleeping Beauty!" on it.
"Lights!" The lights flick on by themselves. "Camera!" The camera also seems to be working itself. "Action!"
The Camera zooms on the book and the pages turn themselves. Magneto's voice booms in the voice over. "Once upon a time, in a land far, far away. There lived two kings who longed to unite their kingdoms. King James had a son Remy, but alas, do I really have to say alas?"
"Yes!" Raven and Lightning say together.
"But alas, King Charles and Queen Ororo had no child of their own. They longed for a daughter. One morning, their wish was granted. A baby girl was born to them. They named the child, Anna Marie. Yes, they named her after the dawn, wait a minute, Raven! Anna Marie does not mean anything close to dawn."
"Uh, just skip that part," she groans.
"Fine! All the people in the kingdom were invited to the celebration. Our story begins on the most joyful day, most joyful day? What kind of a line is that?"
Raven groans again, "Lawr? Help?" Lightning, whose name happens to be Lawrence, just grins at her.
The scene changes to all the extras, including Wanda and Ray, walking up a big hill. "How did they get a hill in the sound studio?" Bobby asks stupidly.
A glare from Raven shuts him up.
Music starts out of no where and the "villagers" start singing "Health to the Princess. Wealth to the Princess. Long live the Princess Anna Marie. Hail Anna Marie! Hail Anna Marie! Hail to the King! Hail to the Queen! Hail to the Princess Anna Marie!" Rogue is giggling uncontrollably off-stage.
"Rogue, please, can we get control of ourselves?" Raven asks nearly laughing herself, but Lightning is the only one who can actually make her laugh so they continue. Rogue is calmed down by Remy pinching her butt. For which she turns around and slaps him across his face, instantly angry.
"Magneto!"
"Ah yes," he replies as the scene changes to a crowded castle ball room with Logan, dressed as royalty and scowling, and Jamie, also dressed as royalty but with a cute smile on his face, walk up to the thrones. "The two kingdoms were finally going to be united, so Little Prince Remy looks unknowing at his future bride." Ororo leads Jamie over to the cradle which is filled with a doll dressed up like a princess. The doll cries. Jamie looks disgusted.
"Perfect Jamie!" shouts Lightning who is sent into the wall when Raven waves her hand at him. Bricks fall on his head. Everyone screams and Ororo runs over to him.
Raven looks board. "People! We have a show to preform!"
"But, you and he..." Scott tries to say.
Raven sighs, and Lightning stands up and shakes himself off. "Gee Raven, I just wanted to encourage them."
"They don't need any encouragement! They are bad enough as it is! Back to the script people!"
The others are standing around staring at the two time-traveling mutants with shock. "I said, 'Back to the script!'"
Everyone takes their places, quickly.
"Also invited," continues Magneto after clearing his throat, "were the Three Good Fairies, who would be named the child's godparents." A beam of red light forms and three figures are seen floating down. (Two of them having strings attached.)
Sam comes out dressed as a page and blows a trumpet, "Announcing the arrival of the Three Good Fairies, Mistress Jean." Jean lands and hops out of the red light. She is dressed in a red fairy outfit, complete with wings. Her hair matches perfectly. "Mistress Katherine." Kitty lands and fumbles with the strings before hopping out of the light and joining Jean in front of the throne. She is dressed in a green fairy outfit, similar to Jean's. "And Mistress Tabitha." Tabby lands and blows the strings apart with an energy bomb and walks confidently out of the beam. She is wearing a blue fairy outfit, just like the other two. They bow to Charles and Storm then make their way over to the crib to coo at the doll. Somehow, Pietro has managed to bleach the doll's bangs white while all this was going on.
"Oh, how precious!" Jean coos delightfully. Then she turns towards Charles and Storm. "Each of us the child may bless with one gift, no more, no less." She looks triumphant at getting her lines perfect and Raven rolls her eyes. "Little Princess, I give the gift of beauty." She waves her wand and sparks fly over the doll. Raven smiles at Jubilee.
Kitty then replaces Jean at the crib side. "Little Princess, I give, like, the gift of music." she waves her wand and again sparks fly above the doll.
Tabby steps up to take her place. "Little Princess, I give the gift of. . ." but whatever it was Tabby was going to bestow upon the doll is lost forever when a huge explosion rocks through the palace.
Green smoke fills the room and everyone starts coughing, including Raven. "Forge! Have you been playing around with the fog machine!"
Forge slinks away into the background, nervously chuckling.
"Oh nevermind, just get on with it!" Raven calls exasperated.
The smoke clears thanks to Ororo and Standing in the middle is Mystique dressed in a red devil costume, next to Kurt. Mystique looks angry. "What happened to the long black cloak and horns?" she demands.
Raven shrugs at her. "Lightning thought this would be cuter. I like it."
"See, I told you. Now if I could just get you into one."
"Not gonna happen," she snaps.
Mystique looks confused and turns back to Charles and Ororo. She puts on her angry face. "What a lovely party, your Majesty. Everyone in the kingdom is invited, the commoners, the gentry, oh, even the rubbish." At this point Tabby burst at her, but is held back by Jean and Kitty. Mystique smirks. "Everyone is invited except for me. Well, I'm here now. No harm done. Surely, there has been some sort of mistake."
"You weren't wanted." shouts Tabby, sticking out her tongue.
"Not wanted!" Mystique looks shocked. "Well, I won't stay where I'm not wanted."
"And you aren't offended, your Grace." Ororo spits out the last word like poison.
"Oh no. And to show you I bare you no ill will, I too will bestow a gift upon the child." She raises her hand and a green light surrounds the doll. "The princess shall indeed grow in grace and beauty. Of course she will! She is my daughter after all!"
"Stick to the script!" yells Lightning.
Mystique glares out at him with yellow eyes from under a cute little red headband with sparkly horns and continues, "Cherish them well, because she shall not have them for long. Before the sunsets on her sixteenth birthday, she shall prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die!"
"My baby!" screams Ororo, running to pick up the doll and hold it close to her body.
"Guards seize her!" Shouts Charles. Several extras, dressed as guards run towards her. With a poof of smoke, Forge having fixed the fog machine, she and Kurt are gone.
Ororo is crying. She's holding an onion and a knife under her robe.
"Do not despair, your Majesty." Jean says. "Really who talks like this."
"No one. But they did when this is supposed to take place." Raven grumbles.
"Tabitha has yet to give her gift." Jean continues.
"And she can undo this frightful curse?" Charles asks.
"Oh no, sire," Kitty speaks up. "Mystique's magic is, like, too strong."
"But she can change it." Jean adds.
"But, but. . ." says Tabby.
"Just, like, do your best, dear." Kitty says as she and Jean push her towards the cradle. The doll cries again.
"Would someone turn that thing off!" Raven yells. Scott shoots it with a laser beam. "Not what I meant." she sighs.
Tabby clears her throat, "Uh hum! It's my scene now! Little Princess, if through this wicked witch's trick," she laughs, "your finger you should prick." She laughs again. "Not in death, but just in sleep this fateful prophecy you'll keep. Really fateful? Okay. . . And you shall awake when true love's kiss the spell shall break." Sparks again fly above the doll. Tabby's laughing really hard.
The scene changes again to a big bonfire. Magneto's voice is heard over the crackling of the flames which Pyro and Amara started. "But that did not stop the King's heart from worrying, so on that very night he ordered every spindle in the land to be brought to the castle and burned."
"And cut! I'd say good job everyone, but I don't really think it was that great." Raven says.
"Raven!" Lightning exclaims.
"What? It wasn't. I hate being interrupted and you know it."
He sighs. "You could be a little nicer."
"Nice? I don't know the meaning of the word."
"Obviously."
We will leave them fighting until the next scene.
A/N: review please. I hope you all enjoy reading this as much as I enjoy writing it.