The Prince, the Falling Star, and the Princess (Prompts Flashfic Challenge 200)
Title: The Prince, the Falling Star, and the Princess
Author: asafecracker
Word count: 1087
Concrit: yes
Pairing: yunjae
Rating: G
Summary: a dbsk adaptation from The Knight, The Princess, and the Falling Star fairytale.
Author's Notes: warning character death
There used to lived a prince,
his name is Yunho
and he lives alone in his castle.
Yunho always longed for a companion, a beautiful princess like his mother used to tell.
Then one day come a princess,
beautiful and ethereal.
Jaejoong is the princess name, the last princess from Fairy Kingdom.
They met, they talk, they sing and dance.
for Yunho could not wish for anything more in his life.
They fall in love.
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One day, the princess have to fly back to the sky.
Yunho is stupified,
he knows how to ride a horse and play a sword.
but don't know how to fly.
Jaejoong fly and fly, far into the sky.
Yunho got sad
but he love the fairy princess.
so one day he got out from his lone castle,
he wants to learn how to fly.
The prince ask the butterfly, to teach him how to fly.
but the butterfly can only placed Yunho on top of the magnolia tree.
The prince ask the bluebird, to teach him how to fly.
but the bluebird can only teach Yunho how to fly to the top of church tower.
The prince ask the hawk, to teach him how to fly.
but the hawk can only teach Yunho how to fly to the top of the mountain.
the hawk said that no other animal can fly higher.
The prince then fly to find who can teach him how to fly to find his princess.
but the hawk was right,
no other animal can fly higher than mountain top.
Yunho's not going to give up.
he will find his Jaejoong
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So,
Yunho plead to Junsu, the wind,
to teach him how to fly.
The prince fly as fast as he can,
chasing the wind.
He will chase it, until the wind gives up
and agree to teach him how to fly.
But the wind is too fast for the prince.
Limber through the net,
slither on every corners found.
the wind dances away teasing the breathless prince.
The prince then went for help
to the wide sea, Yoochun.
But the sea shook with laughter,
the wind is his lover.
For as they together,
waves will be created.
Thereupon,
The prince start to tell his tale of loneliness,
and pursuit of lost love.
for a princess that fly too high in the sky.
Yoochun the sea,
already listened to all the sailor sad stories,
story of love, lost, and devotion.
Yet,
The prince story touch his soft heart.
Accordingly,
Yoochun call his lover, the wind.
And beg him to teach the poor prince how to fly.
At last, the wind yield
and teach the prince how to fly.
Junsu teach him how to shake the tree,
fly around the globe,
higher than any mountain top, as high as the clouds.
still,
Jaejoong is faraway in the higher sky,
far up beyond the clouds.
No wind can pierce up the sky, the wind sadly whirled around him.
Yunho got sad,
and this time, he gives up.
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Until one day,
A falling star pass the earth and heard the prince sad sob.
Changmin is the falling star name,
He listens to Yunho's tale,
his true love that fly away too high in the sky.
Changmin offer his help,
He can bring Yunho to fly as fast as the light,
he can bring Yunho to fly as high as one million sky glued together as one.
He can bring Yunho to pierce the sky.
On one condition,
If the prince could not land exactly at the princess side.
Yunho will die.
He will fall in a dangerous speed,
burned as one of the stardust that sprinkle the night sky.
Yunho will vanish.
oh and one more thing, Changmin remind him.
Yunho cannot open his eyes,
The tissue is too soft for the coldness in the space.
Yunho agree,
He will agree to anything.
As long as he can find his Jaejoong.
The falling star hold his hand, and whisper softly in Yunho's ear.
This is the journey of true love,
close your eyes my dear prince.
Tell me to stop when you feel the presence of your princess,
then I will put you down.
Yunho nods, and hold tightly to Changmin's hand.
Yunho put all of his trust onto the falling star hand.
Yunho, the prince, turned into a small piece of soul
just a small piece of life,
threading on love and faith.
hanging to small deathly fraction of second
They launched together into the dark sky.
they pierce the sky.
Suffocation floods Yunho's lung,
fluffy clouds that used to play with him choking his lungs.
Lightning strike down try to grab him.
A million pierce of coldness frost the prince skin,
as his expensive velvet cloth burned away by the atmosphere.
Falls down as the ash rain.
As if, the earth try to hold him down,
to warn him.
Prince, please don't fly away,
no human supposed to go that high.
The prince doesn't care,
Its okay, he said to the earth.
I will find my true love the fairy princess.
You don't have to hear my cries anymore,
my tears won't flood your river anymore.
I will be happy,
Yunho will find Jaejoong.
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The prince and falling star shoot in the sky.
A ripping darkness of cold start to rip the small prince heart apart,
but,
his soul is warm.
and bright too,
fueled by love and hope.
then suddenly,
the prince fells it.
The presence of his true love,
radiating to his bones and being.
Stop! Yunho said.
Stop right now, he said to the falling star.
he can feel his princess.
Changmin look down,
and saw the princess.
So beautiful,
A lonely ethereal princess, sitting in the loneliness.
radiance beamed like Orion in the equator sky.
Changmin, the falling star,
fall in love.
Changmin lets go of Yunho hand,
the prince fall,
dwindling down
towards eternal destruction.
His soul and tiny live, that formed within true love and faith
burned down.
Turned into nothingness.
Swallowed by the coldness.
The falling star,
slowly descend down to get to the princess side.
To acquire,
The Princess Jaejoong.
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Poor Prince Yunho.
Earth weeps and weeps,
they beseech the universe to bring the prince back,
just small fraction of his soul, they cried.
But poor prince Yunho already gone.
As a present from universe,
and as a remembrance of the softness and pureness of the prince.
Beautiful dancing aurora painted on in the northern sky.
For it represent,
the Prince heart
Prompts:
- Wild things :"You musn't give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they're strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky."
- Love Comes : "Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."
- Pry