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Once Upon A Time There was a fairy princess. hairylarry posted on 2018-04-08 at 23:35 Central Time. - link to this story -

She lived in a tower. hairylarry 2018-04-09 at 09:53 Central Time.

It wasn't a very tall tower but none the less it was what it was. vivian 2018-04-09 at 11:24 Central Time.

And being what it was, was it tall enough? It was taller than a tree. If it wasn't a very tall tree. It was taller then a giant. Unless it was a very big giant. One day a giant came to visit the princess. A very big giant. Carrying a very tall tree. hairylarry 2018-04-26 at 22:43 Central Time.

"Greetings my giant friend," the princess said. "Why are you carrying such a tall tree?" "Uhhh, hmmm, well you see," the giant muttered. The princess exclaimed, "Yes of course I saw it or I wouldn't have asked about it." This seemed to further fluster the giant and he bellowed, " I was getting to it when you interrupted me." The princess knew the giant to be a kind creature and in a calm voice said, "I apologize, please continue." "Well it's like this," he said looking uncomfortable. "I was thinking about your tower and realized that it had no real shade on a sunny day so I thought I would bring you a nice tall tree to shade you from the summer sun." vivian 2018-04-27 at 19:29 Central Time.

The giant planted the tree to the south of the tower so it would shade the princess from the sun. And since the tower had no moat the giant dug a moat and since the moat had no water the giant redirected a creek from the northern hills into the moat. And the water splashed in the moat and the fish splashed in the water and the creek kept running even after the moat was full and the water ran out and watered the tree. The tree liked the water very much and grew even bigger. Soon some branches reached out over the tower to shade the princess even more. And the moat made the princess safer but the tree had the opposite effect because any brigand who could climb the tree could crawl out onto a limb and drop right onto the top of the tower. hairylarry 2018-05-03 at 17:31 Central Time.

It was the animals who finally decided that the princess, kindness in her nature towards nature, deserved a defense against any intruders who might happen along. The Animal Defense League was a hodgepodge affair, but effective in that the nocturnal creatures would stand alert at night and the day-time ones would keep an eye open during the day. The tree approved, sending signals through its ever-growing root system to the nearby forest, letting other trees know that they, too, might someday be called upon to help. The princess, though smart and affectionate to all, knew only a little of her self-proclaimed defenders. In her castle, she worked on her sword fighting, and her ballet moves that acted less as dance and more as agility, and she read up of heroes and their tactics. "Why are the heroes always boys!" she'd mutter with frustration to the limbs of the giant tree. "Where are all the girls?" she'd ask the squirrels outside her window. Dogtrax 2018-05-05 at 10:06 Central Time.

"I don't want to be a princess in a tower.", the princess told the squirrel. "I want to be a hero. Or at least a heroine. I mean, why did I say, "at least". I would be proud to be a heroine." The squirrel said, "Follow me." And so the princess climbed out on the tree limb and followed the squirrel to the ground. "This way.", the squirrel said, and he took off across the field. The princess followed the squirrel and following the princess was a rather strange retinue of woodland creatures, a badger, a possum, a fox, and a mountain lion. She wouldn't have even noticed them except it's hard to miss a mountain lion. She gestured and the mountain lion came up and walked beside her. She idly scratched her ears as they all followed the squirrel. Into the woods. hairylarry 2018-05-08 at 08:18 Central Time.

It never occurred to her that being a fairy might in some ways make her a target for would be bad guys looking for some way to make a bit of ready.Then again fairies tend to live long and healthy lives. As she walked beside the mountain lion she thought about her life thus far and realized she had spent much of it training for a life she knew very little about except through her books. She had no experience in defending her tower against an intruder and began to wonder more about the creatures who were escorting her across the meadow. If the fox and mountain lion were allies of the squirrel was that not unusual? What about the badger and the possum? This was indeed perplexing. She turned to the mountain lion and asked "Sir Lion how did you become an ally of the squirrel who came to offer me help?" vivian 2018-05-09 at 15:36 Central Time.

"Oh", said the mountain lion, "I am not a knight, in fact I'm a girl too, like you. And as to the squirrel and I, that's a story in itself." "You see, although the lion is the king of the jungle a mountain lion is not the king of the woods. There are many creatures more ferocious than I including brother badger, over there. But the most ferocious of all are hunters who seem to take to the woods like every animal there is theirs, so to speak." "I was enjoying the afternoon sun under a big oak tree, about half asleep, when it started raining acorns but only right where I was at. Looking up I saw the squirrel, there, who was trying to warn me. "Hunters!", he said, so I headed into the underbrush and hid in a ditch." "This was not courageous but it was wise as soon the hunters went galloping by on their horses." "Since then Mr. Squirrel and I have adopted a simple policy, "I'll watch your back if you watch my back", which has contributed greatly to our well being and general security." hairylarry 2018-05-09 at 17:09 Central Time.

"Oh my," the princess sighed. "I have so much to learn! Thank you for telling me about Mr. Squirrel and I do apologize for assuming you were male." "It's quite all right Princess, it's a lot easier to tell a female fairy from a male than a female mountain lion from a male lion I suppose. Unless you get a little personal and I do not recommend that!" The princess suppressed a surprisingly unladylike guffaw and nodded her head in understanding. "Do you know where we are going?", she asked. "I am a little nervous about being away from my tower." "I'm not sure but I am sure Mr. Squirrel will tell us when we get there, Princess." The lioness turned abruptly and motioned fox, badger and possum to hurry up. When the other three joined them they quickened their pace. Mr. Squirrel was waiting for them sitting under a brush pile. When he emerged suddenly the princess screeched. "Shhh" he said. "We must be quiet now, no more talking. We are nearing our destination." vivian 2018-05-14 at 15:03 Central Time.

"There is a fairy circle ahead, the biggest mushrooms I've ever seen. And we should be really quiet in case the Fairy King is in his circle. Never can be too sure when he's going to show up." They all followed the squirrel quietly and after they'd gone a couple hundred yards they peered around a bush and there was the fairy circle. The princess whispered, "That's not the Fairy King. Unless the fairy king is a girl." "Oh no, oh no', said the squirrel, "something is wrong. That's not the Fairy King. That's the Fairy Queen." She must have known that the princess and her animal friends were there because she gestured them forward. They quickly approached the Fairy Queen but did not walk into the circle. The princess curtsied and the others did the best they could at bows and curtsies. Watching closely the princess figured out that the possum was a girl while the fox and the badger were boys. "At least I won't make that mistake again.", she thought. hairylarry 2018-05-18 at 16:28 Central Time.

"Once Upon A Time" started by hairylarry. All stories are licensed Creative Commons-Attribution. You can attribute the writers like this. These writers contributed to "Once Upon A Time" on Collab - Dogtrax, hairylarry, vivian