Ok next tale! And thank you all who left comments! And for those who had never heard of the Magic Horse it's a pretty unknown one. It just happened to be in my book My Treasury of Fairy Tales. So if you didn't have that book you might not have heard of it.
The next tale is one that was the first request. I will try to get to all the requests so don't worry.
Trapped in Fairytales
4
Midnight
Barbara held on to Dick waist hoping they would soon be out of the book. But all too soon she felt her grip loosen and she was falling. She hit the ground hard. She looked around she was sitting in the middle of a giant hall. To her left was a bucket nasty of water in her hands was a rag. Barbara let out a sigh at least she knew this story.
She began to scrub the floor making it shine. Once finished she got up off the floor just in time to see the two ugliest girls she had ever seen stumble down the stairs. They were arguing over who the Prince was likely to choose at the ball in two weeks. Babs felt her jaw drop. 'I have to live here for two weeks before the ball? This is going to take forever.' She thought.
One of the step sisters noticed Barbara standing there doing nothing. "Cinderella, if you done with the floor come and help me make my dress for the ball." She commanded.
Barbara grudgingly fallowed her to 'help' with her sister's dress. "Help" turned out to be do it by yourself while I watch and insult you while you work.
In the palace Dick paced trying to figure out which tale he had just been tossed in. Was it snow white? No you never saw the prince till the end. Was he in the little Mermaid? No he should at least be by the sea. Beauty and the Beast? He looked in a mirror. No not that one. Princess and the Frog? He sighted and headed out toward the nearest pond.
Dick waded out in to the water and started looking for Frogs.
The king looked out of his window to see his son chasing frogs. He grimaced as he saw his son finally catch a frog a kiss it. He shook his head. He needed to find his son a wife and soon! He wanted grand children he looked out the window again and preferably one's that were not green.
The two weeks for Dick past damply, two days before the ball he come to the conclusion he was not in Princess and the Frog. For Barbara it had been horrible she seemed to have done nothing but chores or 'helped' her sisters with their dresses. When her sisters and wicked step mother had gone Barbara sat down and cried. She seemed to be doing that a lot lately.
She wished to go to the ball, so maybe she could leave this awful place. Suddenly there was a flash of light and a woman in a golden cloak sat down beside her.
"What is the matter my dear?" asked the woman.
"I-I c-can't go t-to the ballll!" Barbara cried.
"Well why not?"
Barbara looked at the woman. "Because I can't go to a Ball dressed like this!"
The woman stood up and looked Barbara in the eye. "Do you want to go to the ball?"
"Yes."
"Then you shall go I am your fairy god mother and whatever I say goes. Now I need you to get some things for me."
Barbara ended up getting the biggest pumpkin in the patch and a mouse trap. The fairy god mother tapped the pumpkin three times and it became a grand coach. Then the woman let the six mice out of the trap and they became six dapple-gray horses each pawing the ground. A passing rat became an old coachman. A poor lizard became a door man.
"Now you can go to the ball!" said the Fairy her hands on her hips.
"But my dress!" Barbara exclaimed.
"Oh, I nearly forgot!" she chuckled and she toughed Barbara's rags with her wand. Instantly, they changed into a Beautiful ball gown embroidered with gold and silver thread. On her feet she wore a pair of pretty glass slippers. Dressed like a princess Barbara climbed happily into the coach.
As the coach set off Barbara heard her Fairy god mother yell out. "Now don't stay too late! On the stroke of midnight my magic will run out and all will be as it was!"
Dick watched the dancers fly across the floor gracefully. He didn't really wish to dance with any of the girls that fallowed him around. He was just about to go try the pound one more time when a Beautiful girl walked into the room. Dick stopped she looked like a princess and he instantly fell in love.
He cut thought the dance floor and asked this new comer to dance. As they waltzed Dick tried to remember if he had seen her before. Was it? Could it really be? Barbara? He asked himself. Gracefully they moved around the dance floor people staring at the new girl wondering who she was.
At the moment Dick had gained enough courage to ask her name the clock struck twelve and his Princess ran off. He chased after her but only found a glass slipper where she had tripped in her flight. The day after the Ball Richard's father announced that the prince would marry but only to the woman whose feet fit the glass slipper.
When Barbara got home her dress had turned back to rags but still her one glass slipper remained. Two days pasted before a royal servant came to Barbara's home. First her step sisters tried the shoe on but found their feet were too big.
"Is there any other young ladies at this house?" ask the Servant to Barbara's step mother.
"Only our maid Cinderella,"
The Royal servant insisted that the shoe be tried. But as the man walk over to Barbara the old woman tripped the servant and the show shattered. The servant afraid the prince would have his head began to cry until Barbara took out her shoe. The man smiled and gently tried the shoe on it was a perfect fit. At once she was taken to the Prince (who was not in the pond at the time) and they were married.
As Dick and Barbara walked down the aisle away from the alter, Dick whispered in her ear. "We're not really married are we?"
Before she could answer the two were swept off into another tale.
Ok first of all Don't worry I'm still going to do Princess and the Frog I just thought the little gag would make this story a little more entertaining. Please as always comment and request you favorite tale. I can't say if I'll do it but I'll try my very best.