After I saw the movie, I wondered what the Red Queen and the White Queen were like as children. I looked on Google and found the movie, then watched the parts involving the Red and White Queens several times so that I could get a better idea of how they acted as children. Reviews are happily accepted, please enjoy!
Chapter 1: The Birth of a Princess
Dawn had not yet struck the Castle of Crims, yet most everyone in the castle was up and about. Servants, maids, and courtiers were all hurriedly walking to the Queen's bedchamber to see the new Princess of Crims, who had been brought into the world in the early hours of the morning.
But as the first maid entered the room excitedly, she took one look at the Princess and fell onto the ground in a dead faint. She wouldn't be the last.
All present who hadn't fainted stared in interest and shock, whispering among themselves:
"Have you ever seen such a head as that?" "It's monstrous! Simply enormous!" "The red hair doesn't help either." "Quite curious, wouldn't you say?"
The Queen, Elise of Crims, held her baby tenderly in her arms. The baby was finally asleep, thank goodness, after what seemed countless hours of crying. The Queen kissed the top of her child's head gently. She would be accepting and loving to her child, no matter how (abnormally) large her head might be.
Her husband, the King Caleb of Crims, stared down at the child with an odd hesitant look on his face. "What shall her name be, my love?"
The Queen thought for a moment, then smiled, cradling the baby in her arms. "Iracebeth. Iracebeth of Crims," she answered firmly, making sure all present in the room heard.
"Princess Iracebeth of Crims!" they all chanted back, human and animal alike.
At that moment however, Iracebeth awoke. Scanning the room with her dark eyes, she began to wail loudly. The Queen began to soothe her child but before she dismissed her courtiers, she said one last thing: "No one is to say anything insulting the size of her head, as long as she is alive. Understood?"
"Of course, your majesty," they all said as they departed the room.
And Iracebeth of Crims, later the bloodthirsty Red Queen, was born.
To be continued…