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The Sleeping Princess
The king held a celebration for the birth of the princess. The fairies were invited to feast upon the queen, for she was of no further use. One fairy arrived late because of tax season and procrastination. Seeing the bare bones, the hungry fairy cried out, "The princess shall fall into a hundred-year sleep at her second year of menstruation, unless a prince manages to kiss her."
Years later, the princess blossomed into a natural wonder. Her eyes were as pearls from heaven and her skin flaked glitter. One day, when she had just reached her second year of menstruation, she fell asleep and did not awaken.
The king always sent out messengers to summon princes, but when any would come, they would get ambushed and eaten alive by the fairies. And thus the princess slept for many, many years.
Then one day a prince was wandering by the area. An old man told him there was a very beautiful sleeping princess guarded by ravenous fairies.
"I'm not afraid of that," said the prince. "I shall be my own princess."
He returned to his kingdom and let the good king, queen, and vegan fairies know that he had seen his true self in a pond, a sparkling princess. This story was not the truth, but it sounded more interesting than the encounter with the old man. Soon after, the good king and queen held a celebration that culminated in a tiara on the former prince's head. The new princess lived and slept happily ever after till the fairies from the sleeping princess's palace found her in their territory picking flowers.
