Roused001 Going Home by BalunStormhands, literature
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Roused001 Going Home
~ Roused ~
Sleeping Beauty part 2
The redemption of the Princess Aurora and Princess Rapunzel and their families
Not your grandmother's princess story!
The story of some princesses lying in bed whining about how awful their lives are.
or
What it takes to break a princess
~Roused
~ Chapter 1
~ Going Home
Introduction
Once upon a time, a young woman learned who she really was...
I am weeping on my bed, my rose quilt that Aunt Merryweather made for me, bunched in my hands, covering my face, catching my tears.
It was my sixteenth birthday. It was supposed to be the happiest day of the year and now it wasn't.
It was the worst day ev
Roused002 Maleficent and the Broken Princess by BalunStormhands, literature
Literature
Roused002 Maleficent and the Broken Princess
~ Roused
~ Chapter 002
~ Maleficent and the Broken Princess
Maleficent observed the weeping, just crowned, princess from the fireplace as the flames died from her presence. She smirked as the fairies closed the door behind themselves.
Raising her staff slightly, she reached out with magic and entered the totally defenseless and undefended mind and she laughed her cold, cruel laugh in that mind, as she turned off that annoying crying.
"You are weak. The fairies have destroyed you more thoroughly than I could ever possibly had hoped to, Princess Aurora," Maleficent said with an ironic twist to her voice.
"Even calling you by your real nam
Roused 003 Awakening by BalunStormhands, literature
Literature
Roused 003 Awakening
Prologue
~ Roused
~ Chapter 003
~ Awakening
I awake. I feel warmth spreading from my red, red lips, across my face and down my body.
I'm alive. How disappointing.
The pain of everything those hated fairies, my beloved aunts, did to me returns to me, after the pleasant dreams of my true love.
My heart feels like it has been ripped from my chest and torn to shreds. Every heartbeat pulsed Pain. I feel like the bones have been wrenched from my limbs. I had so hoped Maleficent could have killed me somehow. It would hurt less then living.
I open my eyes and see him, and the Pain flees.
The stranger from the forest, the young man from my d
Roused 004 Racing With the Squirrels by BalunStormhands, literature
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Roused 004 Racing With the Squirrels
~ Roused
~ Chapter 004
~ Racing with the Squirrels
"I'm faster than you, I'm faster than you!" chanted the squirrel in a loud chitter from a high branch.
"Oh, you think so, huh?" chittered back young Briar Rose; cocking her hip at the little squirrel. Putting the young carrot she had found and had been nibbling on, in the pocket of her skirt.
It was afternoon, her chores complete, the firewood collected, and she now was wandering the forest not so near the cottage.
Then she leaped onto branches so she was in a neighboring tree at the same height as her forest friend.
Other forest friends gathered around, it was always fun to watch Bria
Roused 005 Nightmare by BalunStormhands, literature
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Roused 005 Nightmare
~ Roused
~ Chapter 005
~ Nightmare
I am back in the cottage with my beloved aunts as they say they love me
The cottage crumbles to dust as they say they love me
My forest friends die as they say they love me
The forest falls as they say they love me
The world becomes a flat grey plain of melancholy as they say they love me
Aunt Flora takes my arms as they say they love me
Aunt Fauna takes my legs as they say they love me
Aunt Merryweather reaches into my chest and pulls out my beating heart as they say they love me
I say I love them and I hear Maleficent laugh
...
I wake up, my screams muffled by my covers. I am panting from fear
Roused ~ 006 The Forest Princess by BalunStormhands, literature
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Roused ~ 006 The Forest Princess
~ Roused
~ Chapter 006
~ The Forest Princess
I am in my forest, the trees are the red and gold of fall, but it is so quiet. No friends answer my call.
There must be a large predator nearby.
Hunting.
Seeking prey.
I put my back to the wind and a tree as Aunt Fauna taught me. You can smell them coming, but only if they are upwind, you need to look downwind.
A spinning wheel skitters out from behind a raspberry bush.
I freeze. Aunt Merryweather had shown me what it was and said it was very, very dangerous. I was never, ever supposed to touch a spinning wheel, especially the spindle. She hadn't said why, though obviously it could be pois
Roused 007 Acorns and Oak Trees by BalunStormhands, literature
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Roused 007 Acorns and Oak Trees
~ Roused
~ Chapter 007
~ Acorns and Oak Trees
"Now, you see this acorn?" asked Aunt Flora the fairy, disguised as a human. She is doing her fairy duty as best as she can without magic, and using the time to teach Briar Rose, their young royal charge, some of what she knew.
"Yes, Aunt Flora," said little Briar Rose attentively; she wanted to know so much.
"It's the seed of the oak tree. See this tiny sprout?" asked Aunt Flora, pointing to a tiny sprout, only a few inches tall.
"Yes, Aunt Flora," crouching down to get a better look, her bare toes gripping the soft loam.
"This is what an acorn grows into when it is very young. Do you have
Roused 008 Like A Grape by BalunStormhands, literature
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Roused 008 Like A Grape
~ Roused
~ Chapter 008
~ Like a Grape
Mom and more strangers come to my room. I am sitting on my bed so I don't have to see the lie of my face in the mirror. The nightmare had been so terrible. My back still ached.
Mom asks if I am okay.
Not really, my back hurts. Mom sits next to me and rubs my back, it feels good, but I don't get a chance to tell her about the nightmare. It had been so scary.
Mom says that the kingdom is fighting the goons. Mom needs to help father, and these strangers will help me, and Mom leaves.
The strangers bring in many things baskets, and boxes and a big lying mirror.
Then they said I had to take off my cloth
Roused009 Young Briar Rose and the Wolves by BalunStormhands, literature
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Roused009 Young Briar Rose and the Wolves
~ Roused
~ Chapter 009
~ Young Briar Rose and the Wolves
Young Briar Rose is in the forest, a little too far from the cottage.
She was playing with her forest friends, when in a thunder of wings, a flurry of leaves and a cry of "Wolf" echoing in the air, Briar Rose found herself alone.
Almost alone.
Curious, she climbs into the trees, like her squirrel friends and from high above she sees a small pack of hunting wolves. She climbs a few more branches up, Aunt Fauna told her wolves can be dangerous if you are small and on the ground.
She is not on the ground, but she knows she is small.
"Hello, Mr. Wolf and friends," Briar Rose says
Roused010 The Crown by BalunStormhands, literature
Literature
Roused010 The Crown
~ Roused
~ Chapter 010
~ The Crown
Once I was taken to see my beloved aunts, those terrible fairies, but I couldn't.
No more Pain!
I saw them and I ran away, they hurt me, they lied to me, they took away who I was and they gave me the Pain. I had only talked to one stranger and not for very long, I ran from him too, eventually. I am a bad girl.
I had loved them and they took everything and gave me Pain. I had to run; I didn't want more Pain, too much Pain. I am weak. I had begged them to let things go back to the way they were. I had promised I would never speak to a stranger ever again. But they were fairies now and things could never