Rating: T for the d-word and some kissing. If I'm rating it wrong, tell me or something so I can get it right for whatever other crap I may write.
Summary: Sleeping Beauty, Death Note style. Mello decides to take revenge on the kingdom by sentencing their prince to death to age sixteen, Near changes the spell from death to sleep. Light must wait (unconsciously) for true love's first kiss to wake him up.
Spoilers: Well, there's Mello and Near. But that's all, really...Fairy tales aren't very good for spoilers.
Disclaimer: I don't own Death Note (Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata do) and I don't own Sleeping Beauty either (I think it might be Disney's now...Not quite sure...Fairy tales are hard to tell that stuff with...)
Warning: Childish and stupid humor, LxLight (delicious yaoi...They even kiss this time around!), and plenty of OOCness
A/N: Mello makes a surprisingly good evil fairy...Which sounds kinda weird but totally makes sense (ha...good evil fairy...)
I had been planning on writing the other story I was working on, but those nice reviews were just so darn motivating I had to write another fairy tale for you guys! And I got two favs! Can you believe it? I wasn't expecting...well, ANY!! Certainly not that fast! I feel so happy I could puke up rainbows of M&Ms and Skittles! (Mini-disclaimer: I don't own M&Ms and Skittles either. They are just delicious and colorful goodness.)
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This story would normally start with 'Once upon a time...', but that's getting boring so it has been kicked out a window. Check the bar down the street.
In the magical kingdom of Kanto, there lived a king and queen. Neither of them had names, so they shall be called King and Queen.
The King and Queen had invited all of the kingdom to their castle to celebrate the birth of their first child. Their son brought new joy and love to their lives ((Holy crap that was sap-eriffic! Sappy with a capital S!)) and so they named him Light after how he 'lit up' their lives. ((At least their reason wasn't a drug overdose. (coughSnowWhitecough) ))
They had invited not only all of the kingdom, but also the seven fairies who lived within the nearby Forest of Rainbows and Unicorns. As gifts, the seven fairies decided to bestow baby Light with many gifts.
The blue fairy gave Light a beautiful voice to sing with. The red fairy granted him courage and leadership. The pink fairy granted him handsomeness and good looks. The purple fairy granted him charm. The yellow fairy granted him the ability to comfort people easily. The green fairy granted him intelligence.
And just as they were finishing up their gifts, another fairy barged in. The black fairy, Mello. He had, unfortunately, not received an invitation because of a certain incident from the past year that involved spray paint, the castle walls, and an ice-cream truck. No one had spoken of it since. Nonetheless, Mello was furious that he had been left out of the party (because parties meant cake and chocolate and you could never go wrong with chocolate.)
"And just why wasn't I invited to this party? You invited all those other guys! But not me?" he ranted. Noticing all the fairies crowded around the baby, Mello deduced that they had all been bestowing nice and happy gifts. Seeing this gave Mello the perfect idea for some sweet revenge.
"Well, since we're all granting gifts..." Mello confidently strode over and pulled a very menacing looking black ball from his pocket. "I grant the gift of death. At the age of sixteen, baby Light will...ah..." He paused momentarily. "One minute, I'm thinking of something cool and malevolent that'll come out from nowhere...Got it! At the age of sixteen, Light will prick his finger on a spinning wheel and drop dead. Like, right there." He dropped the ball onto baby Light and it vanished in a poof, setting the spell on the child.
Mello focused an evil glare at the white fairy, Near, before saying, "I swear, I'll find some way to blame this all on you if it takes me...er...Sixteen years!" he growled, before snickering maniacally and clapping his hands twice. This action (for some reason) allowed him to poof away in a very cool cloud of black smoke that ANYONE would be totally jealous of.
Then Near, the final fairy to give a present, stepped forward to grant his gift to baby Light. "Due to the severity of Mello's spell, I can't reverse it completely. But I can weaken it. When Light is sixteen and pricks his finger on a spinning wheel, he won't die, but instead fall into a deep sleep. And so he won't be lonely when he wakes up, everyone in the kingdom will fall asleep as well."
While it wasn't exactly the best situation ever, the King and Queen were still happy that at least their little baby wouldn't die.
So the years passed by and Light grew up (and the King had every spinning wheel in the kingdom burned in a giant bonfire of flaming glory and joy). He was beautiful in every way possible and all the girls in the kingdom wanted to marry him. Things moved along in the kingdom as everyone nervously watched their calenders. Soon, around sixteen years passed by.
Prince Light's sixteenth birthday seemed to sneak up on them and before they knew it, that fateful day had arrived. The party seemed rather tense, as everyone worried over what would happen.
Light was bored out of his mind, not sure why everyone seemed so worried as he had not been told the tale. Then, out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a hallway that seemed unfamiliar to him. Curious, he waited until his parents were checking over a list to ensure there were no spinning wheels in the kingdom before sneaking away to the mysterious hallway.
The hallway lead up to a spiral staircase that went up and up and up some more and just when he thought it was over (the path turned smooth), the stairs started again. Just as Light was about to give up and slide back down the banister (dizzy as it would make him), he reached the door. He grinned in victory and threw open the door to be faced with...
MORE STAIRS!! Ha, I'm just messing with you! Betcha didn't see that one coming.
He stared into the room where an old lady was spinning on a spinning wheel, muttering an unladylike curse every once in a while.
"What are you doing?" Light asked, having never seen a spinning wheel before (they had all been burned).
The old woman turned to him with a kind smile that almost looked like a smirk if you looked at it from the right angle (Light didn't.)
"Why, I'm spinning wool with this spinning wheel. Would you care to try?" she asked kindly.
Light shook his head. "No thanks. I don't really like crafts."
As he turned to leave, the old woman morphed and transformed into none other than...
MELLO! (I'm not lying this time.)
Mello ripped off the needle of the spinning wheel while yelling, "PLAN B!!" before whipping the needle at Light's hand. The needle pricked Light's finger and he dropped to the ground, fast asleep. Mello blinked, mildly shocked at how well that had worked out.
"...Why the hell didn't I do that in the first place?" he muttered to himself while poofing away back to his own home to watch some medieval TV (even though medieval TV sucked.)
As Light fell asleep, so did everyone else in the castle, just as Near had said. The king, the queen, the guards, the peasants, everyone fell into the same deep sleep as Light, only to awaken once their prince did. (Which is a pretty sucky fate.)
To keep the kingdom safe from any evil intruders (and raccoons), the seven good fairies (meaning all the ones that weren't Mello) used their magic to have giant thorns grow around the kingdom. And I mean HUGE thorns! Like, 'totally able to impale someone through the skull' thorns. Yeah, pretty scary.
A couple months later, a lone knight rode by the slumbering kingdom, having run out of supplies and in need of food, some water, and a nice comfy bed because while he didn't sleep often, horses weren't very good pillows. (They move around and bump and run over rocks and neigh and whinny and whatnot.)
He stared at the giant thorns with a frown. 'This kingdom must really hate raccoons...' Knight L mused to himself. But he figured that since he wasn't a raccoon then if he cut through the thorns then perhaps he could reach the kingdom and resupply there. Mind set, he pulled out his sword and began to carefully slice at all the thorns in his way.
Hours later, Knight L had managed to slice his way through the thorns with only a few cuts and scrapes and one medium sized spike protruding from his arm. Yeah, ONLY that. Lucky him.
He began shuffling his way to the castle, content with having passed through all those thorns. The closer he got, however, the more sleeping people he found on the ground. He had poked a couple to make sure they weren't dead, but everyone was simply asleep.
"Odd place to nap..." he mumbled, wondering why everyone had suddenly dropped for no reason. Once at the castle, he found even more sleeping people laying around. But the thing that really caught his eye was an odd hallway. Something about that hallway just seemed to draw him in...
In to the torture of a nearly never-ending spiral staircase of doom! Evil laughter here Due to a certain prince's experience (coughLightcough) we already know the story of the stairs. So I'll just fast-forward to the top.
By the time knight L had reached the top, the spike wound in his arm had started dripping and left a solid trail of red blood up half the stairs (and the fake ending) and he felt as though he could collapse right there. Maybe all the sleeping people outside were asleep because they had gone up and down the stairs and were too tired to reach their beds. Strange as it was, it made a surprisingly good amount of sense.
L impatiently whipped the door open and stared inside only to see some teenager asleep on the floor. Well, at least he wasn't the only one who felt like he could pass out at the top of those everlasting stairs...
But there was someone else in the room too. A fairy in black with bright yellow hair that totally didn't match his outfit at all. (Not that L cared.)
"I'm Mello," the fairy introduced himself. He cleared his throat before beginning his short summary. "Sixteen years ago a spell was put on that guy on the floor right in front of you so that he would prick his finger on a spinning wheel and then he and everyone else in the kingdom would fall asleep. The spell can only be broken by true love's first kiss."
Happy with his little tale, Mello grinned and stared at the knight. L stared back with a look that said 'and what does all that have to do with me?' Mello sighed, before speaking again,
"Just kiss him." L's eyes widened at that.
"Wait, I never met him and yet I'm supposed to give him 'true love's first kiss'?"
"Yeah. Kiss him."
"That doesn't make any sense."
"FAIRY TALES AREN'T SUPPOSED TO MAKE SENSE! Just kiss him!!"
"...No."
"Kiss him or else I'll tie you down and force you to kiss him. And then it will be a full on make-out-for-thirty-minutes kiss. And I'll record it on my brand new digital camera."
Rather than argue that digital cameras didn't exist back in medieval times, L decided that he'd rather do a quick kiss and get it over with than be forced to make out with a sleeping teenager. He sighed, couched down, and planted a kiss right on Prince Light's lips.
The prince woke up, of course, and opened his eyes just enough to notice that there was a really hot knight kissing him and he should probably kiss back. So he wrapped his arms around Knight L's neck and pressed forward.
Much to L's surprise, the once sleeping Light suddenly reached his arms around his neck and kissed back. It was unexpected, and while not all that bad, L remembered that he still had a spike in his arm. His reminder was a sudden shot of dizziness, which caused him to promptly pass out and fall forward. Right onto Prince Light. Lucky Light.
The Prince yelped as his rescuer pitched forward, and it was only then that he noticed the giant spike/thorn/thing in L's arm. (Took him long enough.)
"Oh CRAP!" Light yelled, picking up his newfound boyfriend and rushing back down the infinite stairs. Thankfully, everyone else had woken up as well and they were able to get L's arm bandaged. Then Prince Light married Knight L (Mello was invited to the wedding as well to avoid any more curses) and everyone lived happily ever after. Even Mello.
Who was, meanwhile, still up in the tower room (it was like his secret hideout now). Near came by, wondering what mischief Mello might be up to, but was surprised that Mello had woken up Prince Light rather than killed him. When questioned about that, Mello replied,
"If you're not gonna let me kill him, then I can at least get him married to an insomniac."
And aside from a few arguments over whether or not Knight (now Prince) L would EVER go to sleep, they all lived happily ever after...
HAPPILY EVER AFTER!! THE END!!
A/N: I don't like the ending of this one as much as my other ones but oh well.
Again, thanks for all the motivating reviews! You guys rock!!