sm_monthly May 7 theme
Darn it, that's 19 more to go. No, I'm not halfway. On the upside, I have most of them outlined already. But still. Pathetic, particularly considering how excited I was about this theme and how many ideas I have. I've just been so busy and have so many other things I'm writing at once, though I tried to prioritize sm_monthly over them.
Title: Once Upon a Time
Author: purplekitte
Theme: Crack--Sleeping Beauty
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Version: PGSM
Rating: PG
One upon a time in the Moon Kingdom, there was a daughter born to one Queen Serenity. All the fairies in the kingdom and all the foreign dignitaries gathered from afar to witness the naming of the child, dubbed Princess Serenity.
Well isn’t that confusing, thought the fairies. They really should be getting around to giving the child all the usual gifts, like “grace of a dancer” or “voice of a songbird”, but, man, that buffet table was looking really good and there was no rush. One particularly clever fairy hurried over to get the easy one out of the way and blessed the child already with wispy blonde hair with “locks of gold”.
She was still smirking self-satisfiedly to herself when the door blew open to let in a freezing moon wind and a red-haired fairy stalked in. “My gift to the child is that on her sixteenth birthday, she will die!”
That was certainly a party-stopper.
The fairies went after Beryl or to the Earth Kingdom to find what insult Queen Serenity might have given her to illicit such a response. Eventually all eyes in the room were drawn to the one remaining fairy.
The fairy was not usually so slow on the uptake, but the brownies were so good and everyone else had already gone to find Beryl and why was everyone looking at her… Oh God, they wanted her to do something… She swallowed.
“I can’t take away another fairy’s gift, if that’s what you want to ask.” She thought for a bit and then waved her magic wand around. “On her sixteenth birthday, Princess Serenity will die,” there was a gasp, but the fairy ignored it, “but one thousand years from now she will be reborn.”
Everyone’s eyes were now firmly on the baby, so no one noticed the fairy walking away with the entire tray of brownies.
* * *
“Usagi! Come back! You’ll get lost in the woods!”
Usagi ignored her other, as all teenage girls do and ran off into the woods with her hand-dandy peanut butter sandwich and trusty Destiny. She frolicked with the creatures of the wild, as is only appropriate for the main female lead. By the time the sun was setting, though, that peanut butter sandwich was long gone and she was getting hungry.
Usagi’s stomach growled. “What kind of parent lets a little kid go off into the woods without a GPS? I told her how much I needed that new cell phone for my birthday,” she muttered to herself.
She saw a light around some trees and went to investigate it. “A house!”
The door was unlocked, which obviously made this an invitation, not breaking and entering. On the table sat three chocolate cakes. “Someone left all this cake lying around… I don’t want it to go to waste.”
She took a fork to the first piece. “Too dry.” She sampled the second piece. “Too much raspberry filling.” She tried the third one. “Just right.” She ate the whole thing and on second thought ate the other two slices too. She would never let cake go to waste.
On the coffee table near the kitchen table, she saw three manga. She picked up the first. “Too surrealist science fiction.” She only glanced at the second. “Too many giant robots.” She grabbed the third one. “Magic girl, all right!”
Usagi was getting a bit tired, though, so she went upstairs to the bedrooms and flopped down in the most comfortably messy one. She yawned and flipped through the manga, but her eyelids drooped.
* * *
“Who left the lights on?” asked Mamoru as he walked into the house, followed by his adopted father and sister Hina.
“Someone ate all the cake.”
“And someone took my new manga,” Hina added, looking at the coffee table.
“And someone was in my bedroom,” Mamoru called down the stairs, “because they’re still here.”
Usagi woke slowly to the loud voice. “Five more minutes, Mama.”
“Hey you, why are you in my bed?”
“Huh? Who are you?”
“Get out of my bed.”
The light spilled over his shoulder to illuminate him as he stepped closer.
“You were a prince in a former life and I was a princess and we were betrothed from the cradle, but a fairy took exception to that and cursed us and we died and now we’re here,” Usagi said extremely quickly.
He stared at her with a profound look of “Huh?” on his face for long enough for her to jump out the open window and swing down a tree off the second floor. He finally voiced his sentiment. “Huh. At least the girl I found in my bed was wearing clothes.” He shut the window and called the police.
Title: Once Upon a Time
Author: purplekitte
Theme: Crack--Sleeping Beauty
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Version: PGSM
Rating: PG
One upon a time in the Moon Kingdom, there was a daughter born to one Queen Serenity. All the fairies in the kingdom and all the foreign dignitaries gathered from afar to witness the naming of the child, dubbed Princess Serenity.
Well isn’t that confusing, thought the fairies. They really should be getting around to giving the child all the usual gifts, like “grace of a dancer” or “voice of a songbird”, but, man, that buffet table was looking really good and there was no rush. One particularly clever fairy hurried over to get the easy one out of the way and blessed the child already with wispy blonde hair with “locks of gold”.
She was still smirking self-satisfiedly to herself when the door blew open to let in a freezing moon wind and a red-haired fairy stalked in. “My gift to the child is that on her sixteenth birthday, she will die!”
That was certainly a party-stopper.
The fairies went after Beryl or to the Earth Kingdom to find what insult Queen Serenity might have given her to illicit such a response. Eventually all eyes in the room were drawn to the one remaining fairy.
The fairy was not usually so slow on the uptake, but the brownies were so good and everyone else had already gone to find Beryl and why was everyone looking at her… Oh God, they wanted her to do something… She swallowed.
“I can’t take away another fairy’s gift, if that’s what you want to ask.” She thought for a bit and then waved her magic wand around. “On her sixteenth birthday, Princess Serenity will die,” there was a gasp, but the fairy ignored it, “but one thousand years from now she will be reborn.”
Everyone’s eyes were now firmly on the baby, so no one noticed the fairy walking away with the entire tray of brownies.
* * *
“Usagi! Come back! You’ll get lost in the woods!”
Usagi ignored her other, as all teenage girls do and ran off into the woods with her hand-dandy peanut butter sandwich and trusty Destiny. She frolicked with the creatures of the wild, as is only appropriate for the main female lead. By the time the sun was setting, though, that peanut butter sandwich was long gone and she was getting hungry.
Usagi’s stomach growled. “What kind of parent lets a little kid go off into the woods without a GPS? I told her how much I needed that new cell phone for my birthday,” she muttered to herself.
She saw a light around some trees and went to investigate it. “A house!”
The door was unlocked, which obviously made this an invitation, not breaking and entering. On the table sat three chocolate cakes. “Someone left all this cake lying around… I don’t want it to go to waste.”
She took a fork to the first piece. “Too dry.” She sampled the second piece. “Too much raspberry filling.” She tried the third one. “Just right.” She ate the whole thing and on second thought ate the other two slices too. She would never let cake go to waste.
On the coffee table near the kitchen table, she saw three manga. She picked up the first. “Too surrealist science fiction.” She only glanced at the second. “Too many giant robots.” She grabbed the third one. “Magic girl, all right!”
Usagi was getting a bit tired, though, so she went upstairs to the bedrooms and flopped down in the most comfortably messy one. She yawned and flipped through the manga, but her eyelids drooped.
* * *
“Who left the lights on?” asked Mamoru as he walked into the house, followed by his adopted father and sister Hina.
“Someone ate all the cake.”
“And someone took my new manga,” Hina added, looking at the coffee table.
“And someone was in my bedroom,” Mamoru called down the stairs, “because they’re still here.”
Usagi woke slowly to the loud voice. “Five more minutes, Mama.”
“Hey you, why are you in my bed?”
“Huh? Who are you?”
“Get out of my bed.”
The light spilled over his shoulder to illuminate him as he stepped closer.
“You were a prince in a former life and I was a princess and we were betrothed from the cradle, but a fairy took exception to that and cursed us and we died and now we’re here,” Usagi said extremely quickly.
He stared at her with a profound look of “Huh?” on his face for long enough for her to jump out the open window and swing down a tree off the second floor. He finally voiced his sentiment. “Huh. At least the girl I found in my bed was wearing clothes.” He shut the window and called the police.