Saturday, December 6, 2008

The Tale of Angus and Princess Yeltnebia

It was 2 Am on a cold rainy night in Fluttervilla, where the Princess had ruled over the creatures. The temperature just reached below 20 degrees and the frost started to form over the color green. All creatures were lying asleep in their habitats, as the moon shone down on the only creature still awake. His name was Angus, and he was a frog. Everyone knows the story of how frogs become princes. Well, this story is much different, because Angus was the frog who refused to become a prince. Through his whole life Angus had always wanted someone to love him for who he was inside, and not on the outside. If you look at Angus you would see a fat frog, who resembled a cow because of how large he appeared. Although Angus may be large in form, he did have a big heart. But the problem was, he tried everything he could to appear large, and to not show who he really was.

It's now 4 AM and Angus is still sitting awake in the same very spot. The crickets are beginning to chirp, and the early rising creatures are beginning to take on the world. However, Angus is waisting his life away sitting on a lillypad. He waits for the flys to reappear so he can stretch out his abnormally long tongue and snatch away the very breathes of these insignificant animals. At dusk the flys arise and Angus charges, however he doesn't move from his spot. His tongue can stretch for yards, and he swipes away all the insects in sight. When finally he realizes that the insects have figured out his master plan Angus has to waddle over to a new lillypad in order to achieve more, he bloats himself until finally there are no flys present.

Meanwhile, back in the castle the fly captain of butter charges over to Princess Yeltnebia with an army of over 50,000 battle flys. "We must do something to save our people from that which is Angus," he cries. Hearing this cry Princess Yeltnebia sends the fly captain Sir Walters and his army into the dining area of the castle. She sends for Tinkerbell to give her advice, but is sent Samantha her friend instead. Samantha hurries to the castle letting Yeltnebia know that Tinkerbell has left her in charge while she is in Neverneverland filiming a new Peter Pan movie, and that she is perfectly capable of helping her with all her needs. Princess Yeltnebia is overjoyed and tells Samantha of how her people are dying because of the waddling fat frog, but yet how she knew that inside this frog was a prince somewhere. Samantha sprinkles pixie dust all over Yeltnebia and laughs telling her that everything she had just said was a bunch of hogwash, and for that frog to become a prince would cause him to stop eating flies, grow some guts and bones, and stop being green and slimy. This was something Angus could never do, and Samantha knew it. With the power invested in her through that of tinkerbell, Samantha tells Yeltnebia how the frog is truly in love with her but because she was a princess butterfly, you know the beautiful fly of butter, he had to waddle afar from her so he wouldn't eat her. Hearing this Yeltnebia is profounded and goes to the fly captain when suddenly she falls asleep.

Back over in the pond, Angus is seen staring at the castle wishing he didn't eat flies. He loved them though way to much to ever give them up. He was stuck in the past, and in everything he did. He grew fatter and fatter each and everyday, and one day he was going to explode. He knew inside he was a prince, but this would never show if he didn't stop eating flies. "I'm afraid that if I get to close I will eat her..." he tells himself since he had no friends of his own. Then suddenly the rain begins to fall and over at the castle Yeltnebia awakens. She stretches and yawns, whispering words to herself of her dreams. The princess of this dying land looks over through her window at the pond, and she sees the fat frog sitting all alone eating flies. She begins to cry and she flutters over to her diary and writes....

No one knows what happened to Angus or Princess Yeltnebia. Some say that Sir Walters the fly captain is able to overtake Angus and show him what it feels like to get his breath taken away. This however, is only one tale. Others say, that in her diary Yeltnebia writes how she secretly loved the frog as well and as the story goes the two were forbidden from each other. Then theres those who say that when Yeltnebia cried and began to write out her heart, pixie dust began to fall on the two lost hearts and the once fat ugly frog, learned who he was and later he became a prince and the two lived happily ever after. Wouldn't we all love that to be the ending? That's how most fairytales are told...sadly enough the most accepted answer is the second one. Critiques say that Yeltnebia fell in love with the frog, and the frog loved her too but they were forbidden because he would eat her so she lived alone for all her years, and the frog died of heartattack from eating too many flies....still this is only one ending. Since no one knows, because no one lived to tell the tale, make up your own ending. It's whatever you want it to be, because thats how fairytales should be.

1 comment:

felicia said...

nice. just really nicee..


i like it bekah. alot.