Chapter 4

Unknowing of the fairie's plans, Serena hummed a tune as she walked through the forest.

Serena: Ahh-ah-ahh

As she sang, a little blue bird flew out of one of the trees and whistled the same tune as the bird flew over to a tree branch near the princess who walked over to the bird as she hummed with it. Serena then hummed once more causing the bird and a little red bird to fly over to a log and awaken two bunnies.

The little birds then went over to a tree and woke up a squirrel who then went into the tree and woke up an owl who began to hoot along with Serena after being pushed out of the tree and landing in her basket.

Serena and her little animal friends then walked along a fallen tree, not knowing that below the tree was a hamsome man riding a white horse.

As the man rode his horse, he began to hear a haunting melody causing him to turn his head as the horse kept walking.

"Do you hear that, Mamoru?" Prince Endymion asked the horse as he pulled his faithful steed to a stop.

"Beautiful." Prince Endymion told his faithful horse who shook his head and snorted as he tried to walk once more.

"What is it?" Prince Endyion asked curiously.

"Come on. Let's find out." Prince Endymion told his horse as he tried to turn the horse around but he refused and turned back to the way they were suppose to go.

"Aw, come on. For an extra bucket of oats?" Prince Endymion asked the horse who began to listen to the prince's idea.

"And a few...carrots?" Prince Endymion added causing the horse to agree to the deal.

"Hup boy!" yelled Prince Endymion causing the horse to turn around and gallap towards the voice.

Through the woods, over logs and through more trees they went until they heard the voice become louder.

After stopping for a bit, they continued to gallap through the forest, over a log, and over another log where Prince Endymion ended up in a tree while Mamoru kept going.

"Whoa!" yelled Prince Endymion causing Mamoru to turn around and see that his master had fallen out of a tree and into a lake.

Mamoru walked over to the lake, and took his master's black cap off of Prince Endymion's head causing the prince to look at him sternly as he splashed the horse.

"No carrots." Prince Endymion told the horse.

Meanwhile in another clearing, Serena began to pick berries as she hummed and then began to sing.

Serena: I wonder

I wonder

I wonder why

each little bird

Has someone

(Serena then stopped her berry picking and then walked over to a tree where two little birds cuddled with each other.)

Serena: To sing to

Sweet things to

(Serena then walked over to another tree where an owl held some berries in his beak.)

Serena: A gay, little lark melody

I wonder

I wonder

If my heart

keeps singing

Will my song

go winging

To someone

(Serena then left the tree and then walked over to a cliff that looked out onto a bright white castle, far from the forest.)

Serena: Who'll find me

And bring back

a love song to me

"Oh, dear. Why do they still treat me like a child?" Serena sighed to the animals as she began to walk away from the cliff. The owl then flew over to Serena as she was walking away.

"Whoo!" the owl told Serena.

"Aunt Luna, Aunt Diana, Aunt Rini." Serena told him as she continued to walk back the way she came. She then walked over to the creak where she sat down on the grass and stuck one of her feet into the water.

"They never want me to meet anyone." Serena told her little animal friends who had followed her, as she giggled.

"But you know something?" Serena asked them.

"I fooled them." she then whispered.

"I have met someone." Serena told them.

"Whoo!" the owl asked her causing her to stand up and walk away from the creek. "Whoo! Whoo!" the owl asked as he and the other animals began to follow Serena.

"Oh...a Prince." Serena told the animals as she walked over to a log.

"Well, he's tall and handsome and...and so romantic!" Serena told them as she picked a berry off of a tree.

The little birds then chirped at her.

"Oh, we walk together and talk together, and just before we say good-bye...he takes me in his arms...And then...I wake up." Serena told them as she twirled around until she had her back to a tree causing the birds to tweet sadly as they and the other animals felt bad for Serena. "Yes, it's only in my dreams. But they say if you dream a thing more then once, it's sure to come true. And I've seen him so many times." Serena told her little friends as she sat down in front of the tree.

As Serena began to hum once more, a squirrel noticed a light grey hat and a black cape hanging on a tree limb trying to dry. The squirrel then threw a nut at the birds causing them to fly over to him.

He then showed them the clothes causing the owl to chuckle as he got an idea and then told the birds and the squirrel what to do. The squirrel then climbed down the tree and had the bunnies follow him.

All the animals then flew, walked and jumped over to the clothes.

Just when the squirrel was about to steal the hat, the animals heard the owner of the clothes who was sitting nearby at a creak.

"You know, Mamoru, there's something strange about that voice. Too beautiful to be real." Prince Endymion told his horse as he took off his wet dark grey boots revealing black slip on shoes.

"Maybe it was some mysterous being, a...a wood sprite or a..." but before he could finish his theory, Mamoru neighed causing Prince Endymion to turn around and see the animals take off with his boots, hat and cloak.

"Here! Stop!" Prince Endymion told the animals.

The animals then ran over to a tree branch where they wrapped the cape around Owl and place the cap on his head while the two bunnies hopped into the shoes. With the help of the birds, the know disguised animals headed to Serena who was still humming. Owl then chuckled causing Serena to gasp as she turned around.

"Why, it's my dream Prince!" said Serena happily as she got up.

"Your Highness." Serena told the animals as she bowed and then began to hum as she walked over to him.

"You know, I'm really not supposed to speak to strangers, but we've met before." Serena told Owl as the birds wrapped the cape's sleaves around her shoulders as Serena began to sing.

Serena as she got out from under the sleaves and then began to twirl as she danced: I know you

I walked with you

once upon a dream

I know you

The gleam in your eyes

is so familiar a gleam

And I know it's true

That visions are seldom

all they seem

(Unknowing to Serena, Prince Endymion and Mamoru heard the singing and peaked out of the bushes causing them to see her dance and sing.)

Serena: But if I know you

I know what you'll do

You'll love me at once

The way you did once

upon a dream