True Love's First Kiss
A baby
Cursed before she could speak
By Maleficent
Promising that once she turned sixteen
Would prick a spinning wheel
And not only sleep until woken by
True love's first kiss
But Aurora would become Austin
So she would have no true love to wake her
Or him
By the time his true love came to the rescue.
The fairies
Wanted to protect the child, but
The parents,
Reluctant to let their newborn baby go,
Were persuaded only when the fairies
Changed to appear as peasant women
Who would hide their baby
Until she turned sixteen
Fast forward
To the princess's sixteenth birthday
She ventured into the woods to pick berries
So the fairies could make her a cake.
But she met a boy in the woods
And fell in love with him.
She knew not of the curse
And returned to the cabin in the woods
Hopelessly love struck
But the fairies broke her heart when they told her
About her curse.
Little did they know,
The crow
Sent by Maleficent was
Listening in through the window.
The second mistake the fairies made
Was letting Aurora have time to herself,
For when they left Maleficent drew her in
And compelled her to prick her finger.
It was too late
When the fairies arrived to save the Princess,
For she,
Now he,
Lay on the floor
Seemingly lifeless
And no more was the beautiful Princess Aurora,
But now the new Prince Austin.
Maleficent was
Able to capture her forest lover
And throw him in a dungeon.
The fairies discovered this,
Broke him out,
Provided him with weapons,
And onward he went to save the
Princess--
The fairies did not tell him she
Was now a he
For they feared if he knew
He would refuse to save him.
Prince Phillip,
Aurora's lover from the forest,
Battled his way to the tower where
Prince Austin was locked up, sleeping.
The fairies were right behind him,
Wondering how to break the news
When they encountered a dragon,
Maleficent herself,
As a last resort to stop Prince Phillip
From saving Prince Austin, whom
Maleficent knew would still be
Austin's true love.
Phillip and the fairies
Mortally wounded Maleficent
And ended her evil.
The curse
Still stands. Reluctantly, the fairies
Guide a misguided Prince to
Where Austin lay,
Still asleep in the tower.
Prince Phillip reaches
The bedside of Prince Austin
And realizes he was the
Girl from the forest,
The Person he fell in love with
At first sight.
The fairies could not explain what he
Just found out, but somehow
He knew that the Prince that lay
In front of him was undeniably still his
True love.
Prince Phillip
Leaned over the bead and
Kissed Prince Austin
For true love's first kiss
Which awakened Prince Austin.
Both Princes
And the fairies returned to
Austin's kingdom,
Explaining to their parents
And the entire kingdom
That it was, in fact,
True love's first kiss
That woke the cursed child.
The parents
Only wanted their child back,
Returning safely to the kingdom.
At that moment they realized it was
Phillip and Austin who met in the woods
And there declared their love for each other.
They could not be happier
And threw them a
Wedding
The next day, still binding the two
Kingdoms together the way the
Kings decided when they were children.
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