Hi, kade32 here! I know you love those Disney Princesses movies. In this story, each of the Disney Princesses are paired with an OC from the modern times. I'm sorry if you guys preferred the original pairings, but I've had this one in my head for a long while now. I've even gotten some help with bringing this to life. Pixargirl is helping me out with this story. I thank her for that.

I want to apologize to Matt for not uploading any of my latest stories. It's just that writer's block hasn't been going easy on my lately nor have I've been getting any motivation to write more chapters. I'm typically a lazy person, but that's life. So sorry for keeping you waiting. I'll get to my stories eventually. Please read, enjoy and review!

Hell's Playground, Ohio. A seemingly peaceful community. The spring daylight was working it's way up into the sky in the morning as a school bus was driving down a road carrying chattering teens. A bunch were talking to each other, throwing paper airplanes and flirting with the girls. Two young teens, one who looks like a hippie and the other who is a goth, sat together in midst of the crowd.

"Well, that was an uneventful day in all it's tedium." The goth kid, Luke, deadpans in a monotone.

"I thought it was pretty chill, man. The world is saying goodbye to drear and opening up to the world." The hippie kid, Ivan, reminded him.

"Take a bath, hippie!" A boy in the seat behind them shouted and throw a crumpled up paper ball at his head. But Ivan remained positive regardless. Luke pinches the bridge of his nose, but looks back at the smiling fool of a friend. Sitting across from them are Finn and Zen glaring towards the boy behind them.

"Why don't you back off, Zack?" called Zen as he stood up, ready to walk over and knock some into him if it hadn't been pulled back by Finn. Zack shot him the bird, only angering Zen further. The school bus passed a local general store called Beauregard and Bromley's Co. A young man, Giles, left the store and stood outside while another young male named Silas stood at the counter next to a middle-aged man.

"I get it, Dad." Silas groaned. "You want me to be back by 9:00 or else I'm grounded. I know how to handle myself okay?"

"Don't you use that tone with me." the man said sternly. Standing at only a half a foot taller he looks down at Silas, he face relaxing somewhat. "Ever since you joined that basketball team, you've been showing up late at home and work or not at all."

"Well, excuse me, if playing is the one thing I'm good at." Silas states angrily, as he turn his back away at his old man, walking to the door.

"If you keep using that tone with me, you can forget about that scholarship!" threatens Mr. Bromley as he watches his son stop in his tracks.

From outside the Giles watches as the quarreling progress, the yelling having been all too familiar to him. "I don't remember how I got related to you." Silas grumbled and left.

"So how did it go?" Giles asked sarcastically.

"Don't test me." Silas shook his head and walked off and Giles followed.

"He doesn't know you got blenched, does he?" Giles asked his friend as they walk.

"No and why would that matter!" replied an exasperated Silas as he kicks little stones on the ground while walking.

"Maybe because you could spend more time working, instead of hitting the court until you pass out." snarks Giles. Silas glares at him, giving Giles a good look of the bags under his eyes. Giles rubs the back of his neck and his eyes darting every way as he tries to avoid his friend's scowl. Thankfully they notice a comic book store and as expected, Elijah gaping at the latest issue.

The tension between them stops as the two boys smirk, thinking about playing a joke on Elijah. He was reading an X-Men comic while listening to Pompeii by Bastille with his headphones on. With him distracted, Silas and Giles move the mannequin of the Xenomorph behind him and make it tap his shoulder. Elijah pauses his music, takes his headphones off in confusion and turned, only to shriek and jump back in terror upon seeing the Alien in front of him. The duo could only chuckle at his expense.

"What the hell?! That's not funny!" Elijah shouted.

"I thought you loved monsters." Giles taunted.

"Not ones that can possibly exist!" Elijah yelled, waving his arms around. "I mean what if they actual came down to earth and started attacking!"

Silas and Giles rolled their eyes at their friend's paranoia as he went on to rant the imaginary alien invasion.

"Of course, I would be the hero and lead us to survival and Avery wouldn't died because he's the youngest. Can't say the same for Ivan, he'd be too-" Elijah stopped talking as he looked at the other guys.

"Avery!" the three said worriedly as they checked their phone to see if he called or if it was one of their turns to pick him up. Luckily, they got their text saying that Dane with him picking him up.

They all looked back at each other and sighed. Exiting the store the three went to their meeting place.

Meanwhile, Dane was waiting outside the candy store for Avery to get his sweets (and anything chocolate for Giles). Tapping his feet, he sees a couple of cheerleaders walking near.

"Hey, girls!" He called to them to get their attention. They all looked at him in confusion. "Should you all have practice?"

"Shouldn't you have a life?" one of them responds snidely.

Another girl trots over to Dane, bouncing in her step, showing off her legs. Moving closer to Dane, he backs up to the wall feeling trapped by the girl. Her fingers trace up from his shoulder to his chin as Dane sweats profoundly and unable to speak just looks at her, before falling over from her sudden push.

All of the cheerleaders laughed at his clumsiness. One of them, who happens to be the captain of the squad, lowered her face to his level with a smirk.

"Don't ever speak to us again, loser." She ordered. "We don't want low-lives telling us what's what. Understood?"

"Hey, I got a life of my own, too!" Dane hissed only to receive a solid slap on the cheek.

"I got it." The defeated Dane squeaked.

"Good." The cheer captain nodded and stood up to join her squad and left. Dane felt ridiculous right now. Being told off by a girl, especially by the captain of the cheerleading squad. He's always had bad luck with women these days. Some mock him, shove him, call him names, accuse him of being a pervert or peeping tom after the pranks that were pulled on him by the jocks to the point of him hating women. Dane gathered his bearings and stood back up. Silas and Giles then came up to him.

"Hey, Dane." Silas said with a hint of sympathy. "We saw what happened."

"Why don't you just stand up for yourself already?" Giles asked.

"You guys know I can't just hit a girl." Dane noted to them. He did have the guts to punch a girl, but he always bit back that feeling.

"The only people who ever really pick on you are girls." Silas elaborated.

"Yeah thanks for that." Dane said sarcastically, glaring at Silas as Giles helps him back to his feet. There's a rather awkward silence between the three for a few moments before Avery comes rushing out of store with the candy.

"I got everything." said the young boy cheerfully, holding up the bag of all the sweets he brought. Dane smiles slightly as he pats Avery on the head ruffling his hair.

"Good job, kiddo." said Dane in a brotherly manner as they all walked to the meeting place of their club.

Meanwhile, Elijah had just left the comic book store, buying the latest issue of comics he carries them back to his car where he notices a text from Ishmael needing to be picked up from his swim meet. Of course, he had to be the one to pick him up as other than Dane and Vernon, he was the only one in the group with a car and could actually drive.

"Just be cool, Eli." Elijah said reassuring himself as he sometimes fears, but yet wishes, that there's someway that anyone can be turned into a mutant. "The water is just chlorine. There's no chemicals to turn him in swamp creature."

At the local fitness center, a young man, Ishmael, resurfaced from the water for air. He swam for the edge of the pool and climbed out. He grabbed a towel and started drying himself. It was now the end of his swim meet and he needed to wait for Elijah to get him. Ishmael entered the men's locker room and showered off, feeling the warm water caress his body. Afterwards, he used the steam room and hot tub. Then he got dressed and waited outside. Then Elijah pulled up in the parking lot and drove up to him.

"How was your swim, fish-boy?" Elijah joked.

Ishmael shook his head. "Not this again, Eli." He said as he put his gym back in the back and hopped into the passenger's seat.

"Did you use the new water iPhone I gave you?" Elijah asked as he drove away.

"You mean the latest one that actually works underwater? Yeah." Ishmael nodded taking out his iPhone 5.

"It's about time they invented something that's water-proof." Elijah remarked.

The two boys continued to talk about what else should be water as they pass by the local park. Among those at the park were two teens looking curiously for animals in the deeper, forest area. Or at least one of them was curious while the other looks as though he has a permanent frown on his face.

"Do we really need to go this far just so you can find some stupid rats?" asked an impatient Newton as he hits another branch like had since they got to the forest.

"Hey! I helped you out when you had that frog catching contest. I even skipped SCHOOL just to help you! Now it's your turn, buddy." Vernon said pointedly at his now pissed off friend.

"Don't. Ever. Tell me. What to do!" Newton emphasized harshly staring down at Vernon. When he realizes that Vernon was quaking his knees, eyed widening at him and looking like he's trying to grab something to defend himself with, Newton sighs and takes a few step back from Vernon as the other looks back down to avoid eye contact. Vernon stops pitying himself as he feels his phone vibrating. It was a text from Dane.

'Hey :)! What are you guys doing?' It said and Vernon texted back 'We're searching for rats.'

Dane texted back saying 'What for?'. Vernon texted 'I just like seeing my rodent friends is all.'

'You're weird.' Dane texted.

"Oh, that Dane." Vernon chuckled to himself.

"What?" Newton piped.

"Nothing. It's just Dane's texting me." Vernon stated looking at his phone.

"Well, when you're done acting like a school girl let's get your rats and go." Newton jibed as he kept searching in nearby burrows. Moving a thick branch out of the way he finds what Vernon might see as the jackpot of swarming little rodents.

"Hey Vern, I found some." Newton half-heartedly calls over as Vernon quickly stashes his phone back into his pocket.

Rushing over to the burrow he looks at the scurrying creatures rushing all around them, some of which look familiar to him.

"Gail, looking feisty as ever. Christopher, still trying to bite that twig." Vernon gushes playfully pointing out each one to Newton. Much to his surprise, Newton lets out a small smile at seeing how happy Vernon is. However, Vernon stops smiling to notice one of the mice.

"Oh my gosh! Andy, you look so thin!" Vernon exclaims, pulling out a piece of cheese from his other pocket along with picking a few berries from above him.

"How long have you been coming out here?" asks Newton as he watches Vernon feed the mouse with such gentleness that even Avery would be jealous of.

"My family and I use to go camping here." He replies smiling as he thinks back. "Same with Dane. Sometimes our families got together for a double camping trip. We haven't gone on one in years."

Vernon's smile suddenly fades as he thinks back to why they haven't gone in a while.

"Are these your pets or something?" Newton said with crossed arms.

"No." Vernon shook his head, holding Andy in his palms. "I just treat them like my pets, almost like my family."

"Why don't you have them at your place?" Newton asked matter-of-factly.

"Well, my parents wouldn't approve of me have a bunch of mice and rats around the house." Vernon explained, petting Gail. "Besides, who knows what they might do? They might call the exterminator on them or maybe send me to an asylum for keeping pests as pets."

The rodents all squeaked in confusion and offense when he called them 'pests'.

"Sorry, guys." He apologized. "You guys aren't pests to me." They all squeaked happily at that.

Newton groaned and face-palmed.

"Anyways, Dane said we're meeting at the library for this week." mentions Vernon.

"The one that's by the movie theatre?" Newton shrugs as he carelessly breaks some twigs.

"You mean the one that you're banned from?" Vernon mutters out loud. He quickly retracts his ramblings when Newton gave him a death glare.

"I-I mean yeah, that one." He restates looking back at a more satisfied, though bored, Newton.

Akhteer met up with the group's Scottish-American friend, Magnus, who was practicing archery in his backyard, using his lucky camouflage-colored youth bow. His father gave it to him for his birthday two months before he died. There was no telling how good he was at archery. His skills were unquestionably unique. He never misses one shot on a target, even with his back turned. Akhteer peered from over the fence and watched him.

"Hey, Maggie!" He chimed. "What's going on?"

"I thought we agreed not to call me that." said Magnus disgruntled.

"Sorry, man." Akhteer waved off. "Listen, Dane wants all of us to come down to the abandoned library downtown."

Magnus stopped his practice and looked at the Iranian boy.

"Are we really doing that?" asked Magnus.

"Dane don't kid." Akhteer shook his head.

"Fine." Magnus sighed. "But if anything happens and we get caught by the police for trespassing, my blood is on Dane's hands."

"Okay, I'll tell him that." The Iranian boy confirmed and wandered away, not before turning to add something. "And by the way, this'll probably be a good way to get away from our problems."

Magnus processed this as he continued his practice.

The following week, the gang heads over to the abandoned library to their usual hangout. They each walked together down the sidewalk across the town.

"Remind me again why we're going to this library?" Akhteer asked Dane.

"Well, for one thing, it's big enough for all of us to hang out in and talk about our crap lives without being disturbed, but small enough so no one will feel they have any use for it." Dane answers proudly. Akhteer rolls his eyes at their so-called leader, but nods at the point he made along with the others.

The gang soon approached the deserted, dilapidated establishment next door to the local movie theater. Some of the movies now playing included were Deadpool, The Jungle Book, Captain America: Civil War, etc. Newton remember the when he got banned from that place. Last year, he and Elijah were seeing Krampus. He kinda forced him into it. As they were watching the movie, some troublesome guys behind them were chasing him issues. Throwing popcorn at him, whispering taunting things at him, kicking his seat from behind and even poured their drink down his hoodie. This made him snap big time and made him go in a violent hissy fit that caused him to get kicked out. Newton sighed at the memory.

"Let me get the door." Dane said and walked up the steps and opened the doors. "Ladies first."

"Thanks, oh fearless leader." Luke said sarcastically as he and the others entered. Newton was about to enter when Giles got in front of him.

"Ah ah." He teased. "Age before beauty, old timer."

"Tell me. Do you bleed?" Newton threatened and cracked his knuckles, quoting Batman from the new movie, Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice.

Giles gulped and stood out of his way. "Go ahead." He whimpered.

Inside the library, the boys struggle to try to find a place to sit as much of the chairs were either broken, gone, or in some cases, has burn marks on it's legs. Dane, Elijah and Luke had made it very clear to them as to not damage the books as they were more or less still legible and so the three were the ones that took up keeping the place organized for when they had their meeting. Yet for as small as the library is, it still had books and papers scattered about. Pages being ripped and torn by a pissed off Luke to no end, one of the few time he ever shows emotion other than annoyance and indifference.

As the boys set up some desks and tables and whatever else they could find for their meet, Avery had found a rather large book with the cover dustier than he usually saw in the books they gather. It was a white hardcover book with gold vine-like border around the book with the only word visible being "Untold". Instead of putting it away, Avery held onto it, despite his insistence to himself that was just a dusty old book. BAM, BAM, BAM! When he heard Dane slamming his hammer (or what Dane refers to as his gavel), Avery ran to his spot with the book to his side as Dane begins to speak.

"Okay, now that we're all set, let's begin what crap we've had to deal with this week." Dane instructs as the others grumble to themselves.

"This is like my AA meetings...only whinier." says Newton bored leaning against his man-made chair of books.

"Who would like to start?" The so-called leader of the club asked the group. Akhteer begrudgingly raised his hand.

"Mr. Iqjia." Dane called out to him.

Akhteer sighed and replied "My mom's been getting on my ass again about spending more time studying my schoolwork then have any time off. 'I care about your future!' She says. 'You need to be more essential!' She says. It's always about work and success with her. Not that she gets a penny's worth from her job at the diner."

"Suck, bro." Elijah said. "My sister's been getting in my room again and stealing all my shit! But, as usual, my parents don't believe what I say in the matter. She aways appears as nice and kind and nurturing to them to make me look like the bad guy! She even purposely spilled hot sauce all over my limited edition of Tales from the Crypt comics, saying that I did and was selfishly blaming her."

"Sisters are the worst." His friends voiced their agreement.

"I don't think they're that bad..." mutters Avery in defense. The other boys raise their eyebrows at his statement. "I-I mean your sisters are pretty mean b-but I don't think their all bad."

"That's because half your family ignores you and so you don't HAVE any experience with a bunch of bratty girls who do nothing but make your life a living hell!" Luke angrily states as Avery hides behind a stack. Dane glares at Luke for being to harsh on the kid, his only response was flipping the bird at Dane.

Coming out from his hiding spot Avery rubs the back of his neck, awkwardly smiling as he looks back down at the "Untold" book. For some reason, he opens it on a random page, as if he needed to, where find an illustration of a young girl around his age. The illustration of her is such a simple design with mid-length curly hair, pale skin and a curtsying pose in a typical princess dress. She smiles in the drawing like it was to someone. The preteen just felt some sort of connection as he look down to the bottom of the drawing, reveal her name, Sofia. Avery began to tune out to his friends' complaints as he began to read Sofia's story and then back at the sweet, smiling picture of the girl.

"What do you got there?" Newton demanded, disrupting Avery from his thoughts and grabbing the book.

"Hey!" Avery exclaimed, trying to get it back.

"What is this?" Newton asked looking the book over.

"Give it back!" yelled Avery as he tries to reach for the book with Newton holding him back with one hand.

"Hey!" shouted Dane as both he and Luke glare at Newton. "Give the kid back his book and then you share your story for the week."

Disgruntled Newton drops the book with Avery catching it before it hit. "Fine, you want a story. Here's your story! I don't have enough money for rent and if I don't pay up by the end of the damn month than I'm out! My job doesn't pay me well enough for me to pay for my apartment and car and I'm all out of booze!"

Newton stops ranting after punching a wall and take deep heaving breaths as his friends look at him in fear, worry, and anger with how he's acting. Some of whom, like Avery and Giles backed away with Avery holding up his book as though it were a shield.

"Why didn't you tell us this sooner?" Dane asks, being the first one to speak.

While Dane and a few of the others try to calm Newton down, Avery decides to show Giles his book. Giles flips through the books until he lands on a drawing of two beautiful, young women immediate feeling weird as he and Avery begin to read their story, with Silas soon strolling up to the two as he joins them in their reading of the Snow Queen and her sister.

Silas eyeballed to photo of the Snow Queen, who was named Elsa as the photo says, and his face heated up at the sight of her. Her long platinum blonde hair tied up in a French braid, her perfectly pale, alabaster skin, her glittery blue icy dress, that purple eyeshadow and her beautiful blue doe eyes. Silas almost drooled while Giles noticed. He chuckled at his friend's state until he noticed the other woman next to Elsa. Her sister, presumably, who's named was Anna. Giles couldn't help but stare at her as well.

"Uh, you guys almost done?" said Avery as he gently tried to pry the book from their hands.

Newton's anger was spent now and the rest of the group wondered over to the duo to see what they were looking at. Magnus came over and took the book from them.

"You two are weird." He said and turned the pages to find a lovely girl with a large man of wild, red, curly hair, donned in a dark teal dress of Scottish design and holding a bow and arrow about to aim at a large black bear with red eyes. Magnus read through her story called "The Bear and the Bow", and felt somehow drawn toward this illustrated girl. Magnus quickly begins to read through parts of Merida's story, if the picture hadn't already gotten his attention than her story most certainly did. He smiles rather smugly, though much to his own confusion, at how she wishes to be single and how she showed up those loser suitors at the contest. Before he could read anymore the book somehow slipped through his hands as he notices Ivan holding.

"Hey!" Magnus called as he stomps over to the hippie.

"Shhh..." was Ivan's only response as he presses a finger Magnus lips. Too annoyed to want to snatch it back, Magnus and a few of others read behind Ivan.

The hippie pauses in his reading, instead gazing at a girl with sweet pink skin, kind, and golden hair that looks as though everything around her shined. Looking at her, Ivan felt an immediate sense of trust as he begin to mutter words of promise as he traces what looks to be a long trail of her flowing hair. Lost in his lovestruck daze, his thoughts vanished with a swift flick of the head by Luke.

"Are you done fapping to blondie, jackass?" said Luke annoyed stealing the book from Ivan as he, like the others, began to flip through it, though not taking his eyes off the others. "Seriously what is upon with you guys, you barely read a textbook and now you're suddenly jerking off to a bunch of drawings-!"

The Goth boy stops his lecture, eyes focused on a young woman as she seems to trying to grab a rose. Her eyes widen, mesmerized and curious like Luke, her brown hair tied behind her head as though it were being pulled, and here thin, pales arms reaching for the rose almost as though she's reaching for Luke. He felt like he wanted to reach out to Belle as well, but Luke suddenly finds himself back to reality as he looks up from the book to find the boys smirking at him, eyes narrowing down in a "I-told-you-so" manner. Luke obviously couldn't save face now so he just slams the book shut.

"Yeah... we're done here." Luke says as he walks to the shelves to find where Avery had gotten it.

"No, you don't." Dane said and snatched the book from his grasp. "I want to look too."

"The hell, man!?" Luke cried in despair and exasperation at having it grabbed from him like that. But Dane didn't listen as he looked through the pages himself and came upon a page with a young woman with hair black as night, lips red as blood and skin white as snow, who was petting a rabbit. There were other animals around her and she was smiling brightly. She looked cute in Dane's opinion.

"Uh hey, we're here too! Mind giving us a look?" Zen says sarcastically as he motions his hands to himself, Akhteer, and Finn.

"You'll get your turn later." argues Silas setting off a chain of shouting out who gets to read it.

As it gets louder and louder Dane notice some people passing by outside, some glancing at the heat debate unaware of what they were arguing about. Clenching his teeth together Dane needed to think of something to get them quiet or else someone might call the police!

Rushing out of the main reading area, Dane looked into a supply, only for stacks of books to topple onto him with many of them being hardcover as his head began to spiral into headaches from the books. Rubbing his head, Dane carefully steps over the books, entering the closet. Switching on one of the surprisingly still working lights, he sees more stacks of books, though this time to the sides of him, which he knew to be cautious this time. Slowly moving, he notices behind the stacks were shelves with random items on it such a gun and some bullets, a flashlight, winter gloves, a scabbard with no sword anywhere, scissors, rope, dead flowers, chopsticks, a knife, gum, an empty canteen, a piece of cloth, and much more. Nothing he needed, as he notes how weird a library would have these things. As Dane continued further into the closet he finally finds some he could use! Smiling thankfully at his luck, he grabs the overhead projector moving it backwards. CRASH! Not taking into account of a rogue book behind him, he slips and accidentally slams the projector to the shelves. Despite some things falling on the wheeled projector, Dane stood back up kept moving, pushing anymore books back with one of his legs in order not to repeat. Finally out of the storage closet he abandons the sense of cautions and races back to the group, not knowing they had stop fighting.

Reaching the others, Dane now out of breath from just a short run collapses somewhat on the floor.

"You okay?" asked Ishmael offering his hand to Dane.

"Mvesushum..." Dane says with his face planted on the floor.

"Use words." chides Luke despite understanding Dane's mumbles.

Pushing the Goth out of the way, Newton goes over to Ishmael and the fallen Dane, picking up the latter by his shoulders and standing him up. "You were saying?" questions Newton after double checking that his klutzy friend won't suddenly tip like a domino.

"I have our solution!" exclaims Dane happily as he points to the projector. "I found this a while back and so we can use it to read the book so we don't cause anymore noise and people won't pay attention and we won't have the cops called on us for trespassing."

He smiles proudly, with his friends shrugging and mumbling in approval.

The group stood together inside of a dark room somewhere in the library. They hanged up a piece of white cloth on the wall with thumbtacks to use as a screen.

"Hope this damn thing still works." muttered Dane as he placed the book onto the projector, turning to the first page and switched the device on, illuminating that pitch darkness with it's only source of light. On the screen, they all read the first story present in the book, one that Dane found interesting at first. It was the story of Snow White and the Seven Dwarves. The titular maiden with short black, perfect hair, pale skin and ruby red lips formed into a warm smile. Dane's face turned a faint shade of red like a radish as he somehow drifted into a contented reverie about meeting her, like she was the perfect one for him. But he regained his bearings and focused on the story.

"Snow White." He nodded. "Interesting story."

"Her mother died from natural causes." Magnus read one part of the story. "And her father remarried a wicked woman as his new queen, who soon murdered him and gained control over the kingdom."

"She was jealous of her stepdaughter's beauty and held her prisoner." Newton read next.

"She escapes, befriends a bunch of animals and meets the dwarves in a cottage." Avery read.

"The evil queen disguises herself as an old crone and poisons Snow White with an apple before the dwarves killed her." replied Ivan, his pet snake, Lenny, hissing with thought.

"Then Snow White is awakened by her prince and they live happily ever after." Dane sighed. "Lucky."

"Jealous?" Akhteer teased.

"N-No!" denied Dane. "Why would I be jealous of a fictional girl?"

"It's written all over your face." Finn confirmed.

"Can we just move on?" Dane grunted, before moving away from the projector and let Elijah take his turn. He turned the pages, passing the stories of A Christmas Carol, a New England folktale about a Puritan family who falls victim to a witch, Journey to the East, Beowulf, before stopping onto his selected favorite. It was the tale of Sleeping Beauty, about a young princess named Princess Aurora. The girl has beautiful blonde hair, a pink dress and held a rose, making Elijah blush madly and his heart skip a beat.

"Sleeping Beauty." Elijah began. "The princess, Aurora, is caused at infancy by an angry, evil fairy to die when she turned 19 as revenge of not being invited. Three good fairies take the baby princess with them to protect her and named her "Briar Rose"."

"Briar Rose lived in isolation in the forest for the next eighteen years with the fairies who she saw as her 'aunts'." Silas read out loud, rolling his eyes. "I wouldn't mind that much..."

"On the day of her nineteenth birthday her 'aunts' tell her to go pick some berries in the forest while they prepare for her surprise party." Avery read another part, smiling to himself as he started thinking about parties.

The book is passed to Luke, grumbling as he takes a look at where Avery last left it at.

"While in the forest she meets, ugh...a handsome prince or whatever." He read, feeling annoyed that he just read something like that. "Sorry, Eli. Let's just skip ahead to when she's not making bedroom eyes at him."

"Briar Rose returns home that night to see a splendid party for her but when she starts talking about the prince they reveal to her her true identity as a princess and telling her that she'll never see the boy again." Giles read, noticing how Elijah seems to be smirking somewhat.

"Briar Rose, now known as Princess Aurora, leaves with the fairies to return to her kingdom, heartbroken by the changes with her soon-to-be new life." Ishmael read.

"Unbeknownst to the fairies and the kingdom the evil fairy, Maleficent, had finally found the princess as she is enchanted to fulfill her curse." Finn read, feeling like they're getting to a good part.

"The fairies soon notice Aurora's absence as they rush to save the hypnotized princess. Unfortunately, they are too late as Maleficent reveal the young woman's body lying lifeless on the ground near a spinning wheel." Zen reads glancing back at Elijah to check.

"The good fairies place their surrogate daughter, now in an enchanted sleep, on the bed at the top of the highest tower. Feeling that there's nothing more they can do for the poor girl they place the rest of the kingdom in a sleep..." read Vernon.

"That is until one of the fairies overheard a king mention the Prince that met her in the forest, sparking hope in them to get Aurora back." Akhteer reads, happily noticing the mixed feelings of Elijah.

"With that the fairies rescue the Prince from Maleficent, who in turn goes off to rescue Aurora battling thorns and the dragon form of the evil fairy before waking the princess with True Love's Kiss. Leaving together, they realized their royal betrothed is with each other and living happily ever." Elijah read the last bit in finality. "Yeah, go guys making out with sleeping women."

"Not our fault that you and Dane chose necrophiliac stories." Luke muttered sarcastically.

"Okay, fine. Your turn, eyeliner." Elijah responded back defensively.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Luke said. He dully flips through the book pretending that he isn't interested in the story with the cover of the brown-haired beauty.

"The story of Beauty and the Beast." He read, keeping his interest inside of his head. "A young French woman lives in a small town in a hut with her inventor father who is shunned from the other villagers for his crazy, crackpot inventions. The woman, named Belle, who was also looked upon strangely by straight faces since she enjoys reading as it is said that women couldn't read at the time."

"I actually heard that back during the pilgrim times, women couldn't read or dance, since it was considered witchcraft." noted Akhteer, which earned him a punch in the belly by Newton.

"Shut up, nerd!" He growled.

Magnus takes the book from Luke and reads where the morbid boy left off, "Belle's father departs on his horse to arrive at a fair, but purportedly gets lost due to lack of directions and stumbled upon a dark castle after being separated from his horse where he comes face-to-face with a hideous and ferocious beast."

"The beast was, in fact, a selfish young prince who showed little kindness and regard for his subjects and servants. One cold, stormy night, the prince insults an old beggar woman and refuses her hospitality and, as a result, the woman transforms into a beautiful enchantress and curses the prince and everyone in his castle until he learns to love another and earn her love in return."

"Damn, son." Ishmael remarked. "That's once precise "shame on you"."

Newton grabbed the book next and read, "The beast keeps Belle's father captive while she arrives to free him. She agrees to stay with the beast forever in exchange for her freedom and as time went on, Belle grew terrified and distant from the beast, due to his appearance and trigger-happy temper. But their relationship lightened after he saves from the the wolves in the forest around the castle."

Luke snatched the book from from, secretly desperate to read more about the girl's story. "After a handsome young man named Gaston from Belle's village hears about Belle's conundrum, he formed a mob to march down to the castle and kill the beast so Gaston would marry Belle instead. An epic battle ensues between the two and the beast is left fatally wounded while Gaston falls to his death below. The dying beast proclaims his love for Belle before breathing his last breath. But then he is transformed back into a human for learning love and he and Belle live happily ever after." He finished with a slight air of distain in his voice.

"Uh...how about I go next?" offered Vernon turning the pages of Beauty and the Beast to a story he wants. Flipping through the fairy tales in a quick manner as to surprise his friends, passing by many French tales from the likes of Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots, Aurore and Aimée, until he found what was secretly his favorite fairy tale, Cinderella.

"One upon a time, there lived the daughter of a widowed aristocrat who gave her every luxury and comfort. Her father, believing she needed a mother's love, married a noble woman, Lady Tremaine, who has two daughters around her age: Anastasia and Drizella. However, after her father's death, Lady Tremaine reveals herself to be a tyrant, making her stepdaughter their maid, waiting on them hand and foot for years." Vernon reads, looking at the guys.

"Cinderella? Seriously dude?" Newton scoffs at a story the most, no everyone, already know, but let one of the others continue.

Magnus flips to the next page reading out from the screen from the projector.

"One day, the family was given an invitation to a royal ball at the king's castle. Cinderella's stepsisters object to Cinderella attending to the ball, but Lady Tremaine tells the three girls that Cinderella may go to the ball on the condition that she finishes her chores and finds a suitable dress to wear." Magnus says before groaning on how this story will quickly become a fashion show.

"After thanking her stepmother, Cinderella goes back to her room, where she shows the mice and birds a dress that had belonged to her late mother." Zen reads whining like Magnus at how it really is a fashion show.

"She is about to begin fixing her dress when she is unexpectedly called downstairs by her impatient, needy stepsisters. Oh, thank god, we're spared dress up!" Newton exclaims gratefully before continuing. "The mice and birds, feeling sorry for her, take it upon themselves to repair the dress for Cinderella, with two of the mice finding a sash and necklace that were thrown out by the stepsisters."

"The carriage arrives for Cinderella's family with Cinderella not dressed for the ball. Cindy's animal friends show her her dress that they fixed for her." Luke yawns to what he's reading. "She changes into it, stalks down to join the step-bitches, head step-bitch points out one of the Kardashian's useless beads on Cindy and she and the other one get into a cat-fight and Cindy looks like she's been-"

Vernon, not appreciating Luke's narration, shushes him and flipped to the next page as his turn. His heartbreaking for Cinderella, but this time it felt different, more intense than he's felt for for any Cinderella that he's read or seen.

"Cinderella is left with her dress reduced to rags as her stepmother wishes her good night before leaving for the ball with the stepsisters. Distraught, the poor girl burst into tears, running outside to the garden with the mice and other animals watch her in sadness." Vernon's voice cracks as he reads.

"Dude, you okay?" asks Dane worried at how emotional he's getting.

Patting his friend on the back, Dane continues reading for him.

"Lo and behold Cinderella's fairy godmother shows up at the girl's breaking point turning a pumpkin into a carriage, the mice into horses, her dog and an actual horse into a footman and coachman, and transforming Cinderella's ragged dress into a sparkling, silver ballgown and glass slippers."

"Cinderella goes to the ball and meets and has a dance with the prince after being told the spell that made her hot stuff will wear off by midnight. What does Fairy Godmother not want her to have too much fun?" Akhteer says bitterly.

"What do ya know? It's midnight and Cinderella decides instead of staying with the prince right there decides running away back to her abusive family is the much better." Elijah criticizes after reading his part.

Most of the boys glare at Elijah's statement which he fearfully backs down and scoots back somewhat to let someone else have a turn.

"Anyways, she left one of the shoes and now the search is on for whoever fits it will marry the prince. Good thing no one in the kingdom has the same shoe size." Avery reads surprisingly snarking at the end.

"Actually in a lot versions of Cinderella the shoe makes itself unable to fit any other girl other than Cinderella so there's that." explains Vernon cheerful about his knowledge.

A moment of silence goes by and Finn continues onward.

"Cinderella, overhearing this news from her stepfamily becomes distracted and dreamy, ignoring her step-sisters demands to get ready herself for the fitting. Unfortunately, when she's goes to her room in the attic Lady Tremaine locks her in. Pounding, begging and pleading to let her out at the door it seemed as though her dreams are once again crushed."

Vernon quickly volunteers for his next read through, bouncing in his seat at reading the finale.

"It's up to the mice to save their friend, through many attempts at sneaking around, getting the key, and bringing it up to Cinderella's room, all with the limited time of the stepsisters trying on the shoe. Just as the Duke and his herald are about to leave the Tremaine chateau, Cinderella reveals herself, coming down to try on the shoe. As the herald tries to deliver the shoe, Lady Tremaine trips him, the glass slipper breaking to piece. Calming the Duke, Cinderella reveals she has the other slipper, further proving that she is the one. Leaving to go see the prince once more they marry and live happily ever after." Vernon finishes, sighing at the tale, but yet somewhat jealous.

Akhteer went next after Vernon was done ogling at Cinderella's picture in the book. Taking over, he flipped through the pages and happened upon the story after Arabian nights, which was named Aladdin. The Iranian-American boy decided to read his selected tale.

"Here's the Arabian tale of Aladdin." replied Akhteer with much enthusiasm.

"Is that the one about the thief who steals a magic lamp?" Silas asked him.

"Mostly." nodded Akhteer and cleared his through. "Long ago in the vast desert regions of Agrabah, a mysterious man named Jafar discovers a the entrance to a magical cave full of treasures in the form of a head of a tiger known as the Cave of Wonders."

A gleaming smile form on some of the boys' lips, thinking they would get everything they ever wanted in that cave.

Akhteer continues, "But sadly, the Cave demanded only one particular individual to enter his mouth. One it calls "The Diamond in the Rough"."

"Diamond in the what?" asked Dane. "What kind of name is that?"

"Maybe he's some rich guy." Finn suggested.

Newton grabs the book and pressed on with the story. "That person happens to be a lowly young man named Aladdin who steals food for him and his pet monkey, Abu. He is mostly elusive in his thefts and evades capture. After a royal prince suitor insults Aladdin, he returns home feeling lost and underappreciated, hoping one day he would be rich and famous one day. The princess, Jasmine, had rejected many suitors since she only wants to marry her own true love."

An illustration showed the lovely girl herself in all her natural beauty; big black hair, blue satin Arabian outfit brought a curious color of red to Akhteer's face. He also felt attracted to this fictional girl in a different way.

"Yeah, you sure got the hots for her, don't you?" Elijah cracked, nudging the wide-eyed Akhteer playfully. "I bet you want to grasp her soft butt."

This was rewarded with a solid punch on the head by an annoyed Luke.

Finn took over for Newton, "She runs away from home and meets Aladdin by the market and takes her with her after saving her life. The guards catch up with them during a near romantic encounter. Aladdin is imprisoned and Jasmine is taken back to the palace. But then Jafar, disguised as an old man, helps them out and takes them to the Cave of Wonders where he must seek out only one object for him: the Lamp."

"What does he need a device that provides light for?" asked a confused Giles.

"Not that kind of lamp, you idiot!" snarled Magnus. "They didn't have electrical appliances back then!"

Giles immediately fell stupid for that question. He already knew that the tale takes place in Medieval times. He takes the book and read, "Upon entering the Cave, Aladdin first comes across giant piles of golden objects as far as they eye could see. There they meet a sentient flying carpet that leads them to the Lamp's location. Abu is left behind with the carpet and is unable to resist grabbing a large red jewel. Angered at Abu for disobeying his orders, the Cave starts to form into a lake of magna to put Aladdin and Abu to their doom. Luckily, they were saved by the carpet and make back to the entrance where Jafar tries to kill him over the lamp, until Abu bites him, sending all three of them into the collapsing cave."

Akhteer felt his blood boil. The hero of the story gets put through a near death experience all because his monkey sidekick wanted to touch something so badly.

"This is why I'm not too fond of primates." He came out with.

"Oh, come on." Ishmael rolled his eyes. "You can't blame a kleptomaniac for trying to so hard."

"Are you a kleptomaniac, fish-man?" asks Luke.

"No! I'm just making a point." Ishmael defended himself.

"Some point." Akhteer took over the book once more and read, "After regaining consciousness, Aladdin rubs the lamp, which summons a blue-skinned genie who offers him three wishes."

The boys began to brighten up at the thought of get wishes granted. The first thing Avery could wish for was to get away from his neglectful family.

"Three wishes?" Vernon whined. "Aw! I would've settled for 12 or more."

"That's kinda greedy." elaborated Avery.

"My turn." Luke said grabbing the book. "Aladdin fools the genie into getting them out of the cave before decided to wish to become a prince in order to impress Jasmine. But after meeting her, she isn't at all impressed or amused by his attempts. But then he takes the stupid carpet out for a joyride around the world. Jasmine finally warms up to Aladdin, but when he returns her home, he is bound and gagged by Jafar who tosses his greedy ass over a cliff to die."

"Okay." Silas snatched the tome from the emotionless boy and takes over, reading it more appropriately than he did. "Jafar attempts to marry Jasmine to gain control over the kingdom, but Jasmine is only interested in Aladdin's persona as 'Prince Ali', but loved Aladdin either way. Aladdin argues with the genie about making any more wishes and his lamp is stolen by Jafar who first wishes to become sultan. His next wish was to become a powerful sorcerer. He banishes Aladdin and Abu to a snowy mountain where they almost freeze to death. They free the carpet and fly back to Agrabah to save Jasmine. The angered sorcerer transforms into a giant cobra."

"A cobra sounds cliché." Luke muttered. "Why not a muskox or an alligator or a raven?"

"Hush up!" barked Akhteer and he continued, "The battle is proven useless for Aladdin, but he tricks Jafar into using his third wish to become the most powerful genie in the universe. But he fails to understand the downturn of being a genie and is imprisoned within the lamp until it is rubbed. Aladdin finally uses his third wish to set the genie free. Ecstatic and overjoyed, the genie was about to leave, but he shares a tearful goodbye to Aladdin before taking his departure. Aladdin and Jasmine get married and live happily ever after."

"Well, isn't that just peachy?" Newton grunted sarcastically.

"I'm kind jealous of that guy." stated Akhteer. "He gets anything he wanted just one with a hot girl."

"Which you are in love with." Elijah teased.

Akhteer couldn't deny it. He really was in love with Jasmine and gave her picture another good look, filling his head with thoughts that wouldn't be considered appropriate. But it wasn't uncommon for a young man like him to have fetishes and wet desires.

"Are you done, man?" asked Zen.

"Uh...yeah, I'm fine." stuttered Akhteer as he shook his head.

So far, the gang has stumbled upon the ancient book in their clubhouse at the abandoned library. But what curious secrets does one dusty, 100-year old tome hold? There's more to it than the boys realize. It's not just a book of famous, classical fairy tales and stories. But we'll soon find out what it's really about in future chapters.

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