Magic forest story- Sleeping beauty

It starts off,

The king is in his castle on a harvest moon festival. He has distinguished guests and amongst them 12 of the best knights of the land. During the feasting and drinking, they hear a large BANG and all go rushing outside of the castle just in time to watch a ball of fire falling from the sky into a lake not to far behind the castle.

The king orders the 12 knights to suit up from the king's army and go to the crash as they were all too eager to go. The ride off on their stallion in their shiny suits of armor into the night.

When they reached the lake they saw a giant castle sinking to the bottom. Some of the knights set up a perimeter well others took off their armor and swam into the sinking castle. Inside was a bright as daylight at night as they did not see a soul in sight but could year ghosts in the air talking. They came across a room that had hundreds of beds with people sleeping in them surrounded by glass and the first one they looked into had a sleeping princess. The knights tried to open it with all their might but couldn't. However, they were able to get it loose from the floor and drag it out of the castle as it sunk into the deep lake.

As they came closer to the shoreline one of the knights saw the green blinking light on sleeping beauties bed and went running in with a rope and tied it to the bed as another knight had his horse pull it out from the water. They took an old hay wagon from a farm they had road past and placed sleeping beauty into it. The Knights also put a large sheet of metal that was made of the same material as the sinking castle into the wagon and road back to the castle.

They had told the king of what they had seen and shown him of the sleeping princess and of the ghosts voices they heard as the castle sank. The king kept her in his throne room and had the large sheet of mettle brought to his swordsmith who fashioned 13 swards from it and the king presented them to the knights. The swards were so sharp and powerful it was said they could cut any other sward in half that they hit.

The lake after that was said to have the voice of a lady that some people could hear and even talk to.
The king went to investigate and too was able to talk to the lady of the lake. Who told him that a brave knight would be sent to awaken the sleeping princess. The king vowed to keep her safe until the day of the knight's arrival.

Years passed as word spread of the beauty of the sleeping princess and the kingdom became underage by a foreign enemy. But the king all his men and the twelve knights would not give her up and fought against the overwhelming numbers. As the king's men became less and the attacking army became more. They stayed locked in their castle to defend her with their last breath.

When all seemed lost, from overhead a streak of light shot across the sky and into the lake. A black night emerged from his sky horse and as though he could breathe underwater he walked into the sunken castle to see that none of the lights were blinking green anymore.  From his arm shield, he could see one green blinking light and it showed the black knight a map to the castle. The knight went back to his sky horse who gave birth to a smaller steal horse that the knight road out from the lake in and it road on the wind.

The black night jumped over the walls of the castle and into the courtyard. He was quickly surrounded by the 12 knights as the black night bent down on one knee and from his arm shield came the words that he was here to see their king and the sleeping princess.


They walked into the Kings' throne room and took off his helmet to show a man underneath. He thanked the king for taking care of her and the king asked in return to help save his kingdom. The knight agreed and said asked who would ride off to face these foreign invaders who had come to steal the sleeping beauty with him and all the 12 nights and army all agreed. The king lowed the drawbridge as they rode towards the foreign invaders lead by the black night on his flying steel horse and as they broke into the front line the steel horse breathed fire and the knight's sword glowed like the sun.

The Kings final army ran out of the castle to helo as the king stood and stared into the dead of night. Just as fast as they were gone they returned again and the black night said I have fulfilled my duty to you king now let me leave with the princess. The king said many have come in your place to take the princess saying that they are the knight. You hold great strength knight but you must first wake the princess so that we know you are her true knight.

The black night accepted this final challenge and took off his helmet at a red beam of light shot from the sleeping beauties glass bed. As it went across his face the top opened and the beautiful princess awoke to kiss him.

And just as it all began it all ended as the knight took her to the lake on his steel horse guided by the twelve knights and the sky horse emerged from the lake as it roared and breathed fire well it flew out of sight.

Tales of the story were told and over time stories turned into legends and legends turned into children's stories. But was never fully forgotten


The end,

Stephen P. Miles