Have you heard the story called the princess and the pea? Here's how it goes:
Once upon a time there was a prince who decided he wanted to marry a true princess. So he searched the kingdom far and wide but he couldn't find some one good enough (he must've had high standards). One day a beautiful girl went up to the palace gate and claimed that she was a true princess and that she heard that the prince wanted to marry a true princess so she decided to travel there to marry him. Unfortunately, her carriage broke and she had to walk the rest of the way there. The Queen decided to test the girl. She ordered 12 mattresses and put a pea under the stack. The next morning the princess complained about how bumpy her bed was and how it felt like she was sleeping on rocks. ( A PEA!? What a wimp!!!) Because she had a delicate back it ment she was a true princess and so she married the prince. The End.
What a wierd story! Any way I thought it would fun to write our own version. You know that game were someone tells part of a story and then someone else tells another part and so on? We're going to do that by commenting on this blog! Here are the rules:
- It doesn't have to be exactly like the origanal story. You can say that the kingdom got abducted by aliens or something.
- You may have as many turns as you want. You could have 50!
- YOU CAN'T END THE STORY UNTILL MAY 10th!!!!!!
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Once upon a time a prince named Eddy decided that he wanted to marry a true princess....
He sent a decree calling for all ladies who dubbed themselves princesses to visit him at his castle and make appointments to be subjected to a series of grueling tests of their princesshood.
Sounds like a great Idea I will start tomorrow!!!
♪Kenley♪
And all of these lovely ladies showed up, one by one, to the castle.
The first test was that they had to solve a algebraic expression.
Half of them dropped out right then. They had spent so much time concerned about frivolous matters that they didn't know what an algebraic expresion was and instead of finding out they decided that was not the kind of prince they wanted to marry.
-Christina
The other half racked their brains for hours, and some even days! Looking at this single solitary equation. Some of them still couldn't stop thinking about whether they looked good doing the problem or not and that at least half of the solution had something to do with their hairstyle.
Just as all their heads felt like they would explode, the prince came into the testing room and told them the time was up. It was time to turn in the equation.
Grutrude, a rather elegant Princess, had high hopes to pass the test. But the equation "2(3+x)=10" is so hard that every fine lady was at least a tad bit concerned about the scores. Only 25 princesses passed, and poor Grutrude was not one of them. Shame.
However, she got a perfect score on the rather obscure bonus question involving macro economics. So was she still in the running?
The prince, who thought that he had set up a particularly difficult math question, was surprised that 25 princesses had actually answered it correctly. 25 princesses?!? What was he supposed to do with 25 princesses? He only wanted 1! He would have to narrow down that number.
Meanwhile, Grutrude...
Gertrude appealed to the Economics committee of the land, saying she should be chosen as well for the bonus question was exceptionally hard! Since she got it right she should be in the running for the marriage slot! The committee took it to the high court run by none other than Prince Eddy.
Prince Eddy decided to let Grutrude into the competition even if she failed to answer the question correctly. Unfortunately, this caused many of the other princesses who didn't make it past the first challenge to weep and wail for a second chance to marry the prince. A few even called their lawyers and tried to sue the prince.
...but of course that didn't help because Prince Eddy was SURE that he didn't want to marry a princess who tried to have him sued...
While the contest pressed forward, Grutrude went to her secret lair. She wasn't really a princess, she was a evil witch!!She noticed that one of the princesses,Celeste, was ruining her chance of marrying Prince Eddy. Celeste was beautiful,kind,smart,fun to be around, and totally AWESOME!! Gretrude thought of an evil plan....
Gertrude suspected that Celeste had a fairy-godmother's help in her quest for queenship. Could the fairy-godmother be turned away from Celeste? Perhaps a bribery?
/nate
fortunaly, the fairy godmother suspected this to happen, and turned gertrude into a singing cocroach. gertrude the cocroach then did a dance. but eddy hated cocroaches so he tried to squish her. unfortunally, she jumped away, only to land in a pond, with water snakes everywere. she managed to escape, only to be burnt by a indian fire. gertrude. was. DEAD!
That last comment was from my brother, Micheal.
. only 24 princesses to go! mike.
Celeste, whose real name was Akito, but had to pretend her name was Celeste because her 'fairy godmother' didn't think her true name to be princess-like enough, was irritated.
Yes, she knew Gertrude was evil. Yes, she was thankful she didn't end up dying or something, but her 'fairy godmother' really wasn't all that kind. Not as much as everyone really thought a godmother would be. The godmother wanted Celeste/Akito to be princess, and then one day queen, for her own personal gain. Akito had been forced to dye her once raven-black hair to a light blonde, and she had to have it long, despite the fact that she liked her short hair better.
Though everybody SAID Akito was kind, and all those other things, that was more so because of her looks. She rarely spoke, and sometimes lost her temper. Well, when you're so stressed, that happens. Especially if even before this you had a particularly bad life that included your father dying when you were five, your real mother hating you, and abusing you, and forcing you to be a boy. She really hoped that the prince was a kind boy, and that she could at least get through this contest so she wouldn't have to go back home, to her evil mother, with her not-so-kind godmother also harassing her for the rest of her life.
-Jade
P.S. Fun how I bring in the doom and gloom, huh? XDDD
With Gertrude gone, Celeste thought she would certainly be the one to win the contest, but unfortunately,the prince was looking for a TRUE princess and true princesses don't lose their tempers. It was found out in the next competition that Celeste had a horrible temper, and thus she was eliminated from the competition.
And just as all the princesses had come to the castle, one by one they were eliminated. Even though they were cultured and beautiful, they each showed themselves to not be true princesses.
Now some people were a little concerned with the prince's motives. Why must he marry a true princess? What kind of a jerk would hold a contest to choose his bride? Questions such as these were circulating around the kingdom and beyond, and as the rumors and stories and questions reached a certain young lady, she paused.
She knew that the prince was no jerk at all, and she understood why he would want to marry a true princess. Even though she had never met him, she felt in her heart that he was a good man.
Meanwhile, Celeste got engaged to a nice guy who tolerated her temper. She was very happy to find someone she loved and loved her back.♥
But at the competition, only 10 princesses remained. The prince started to wise up and considered finding his bride some other way, and not something like a contest. But his council didn't agree and urged him to continue the contest. The young lady who felt in her heart that the prince was a good man, Lily, caught Prince Eddy's attention one day. After talking to her, he started to fall in love with her. But she wasn't in the contest!! Would one of the contestants let Lily take their place?!
Meanwhile, in a small cabin on the other side of the kingdom trouble was brewing. Celeste's former quasi fairy god mother (who was really a wicked witch) decided that if her contestant couldn't win, no one would! With a malevalent chuckle she began brewing up a large cauldron of her "special" sloppy joes...
With all the princesses already out of the competition, the wicked witch was confused about who to give her "sloppy joe's" to. She knew that someone would end up falling in love with the prince, she just didn't know who. So she decided to camp outside the castle gates and pretend to be an old peddler woman, selling hot dinners.
A few days after setting up shop, Lily approached the castle.
"GET YOUR HOT SLOPPY JOES FOR 5 COPPER COINS" shouted the witch. Lily, being late for her date with the prince, just smiled and kindly refused the offer.
"What?" Said the old witch "No sloppy Joes? But they're so nutritious!" Just then, a bug crawled out of one of the "nutritious" Sloppy Joes.
Then a palace guard asked to see her business license and sanitary approval. Of course, the witch didn't have any. But she got another plan...
That last comment was from me, Megan, using Micheal's account.
Anyway, on Lily's and Eddy's romantic date (which was in the palaces most romantic garden) They were discussing many romantic things and having a lot of fun. Prince Eddy was able to cancel the contest and was about to propose to lily (in a romantic way) when the royal council came.
The Royal Council brought with them a copy of the original charter of the Kingdom where it stipulated who the Prince was allowed to marry. Since he was a Prince, he had to marry a "True Princess" - and it said that there were three different things that a true princess had to have. They were...
First of all, one of the rules was she had to be a PRINCESS! Lily was a peasant who worked on a pea farm! Second, they had to be properly trained. Third, they had to be approved by the council. To obtain princess hood, she'd have to...
... either prove that she was a direct descendant of royalty or be awarded the title of "princess" for some outstanding act of service. Luckily for Lily she had...
been a good little girl and was always willing to help her grandmother out with her genealogy! She scoured the books day and night to find the answer. She found that she was related to...
Prince Humperdink!! And since they didn't know about DNA and stuff, it was a bit tricky to prove that she was related. But Lily was able to convince them.
The second needed thing was easy because it involved being a truly nice person and the entire kingdom was ready to vouch for Lilly - everyone knew how nice she was. But the third thing was going to be a little tougher - it involved a pea...
Okay, to be a princess, Lily had to do some thing with a pea. Little did she know how hard the challenge was and how dangerous peas could be..........
She had to sleep on a bed made out of peas!!!!
Luckily for her however, they were uncooked peas, because if she had to sleep on boiled peas they would have gotten all mushy and cold. To make it a real test, they told her that they'd lay mattresses on top of the hard peas and the next morning she'd have to be able to tell them how many peas were at the bottom.
Lily decided to ask her little mice friends for help.
And they snuck into the kitchen where the cook kept all of the peas! Of course, no one was expecting Lily to put *more* peas under the mattress, this could only mean one thing...
it meant that the National Security Guard was on strike! And therefore they couldn't keep intruders out of the kitchen!!! Close call, Lily!
Lily was on the verge of finding out how many peas was in the bed. But then she realized that breaking into the kitchen to find out how many peas there were was CHEATING! She turned around and decided to find out some other way.
But it was just a test to see if she would cheat. She won the contest!
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