Fiction Romance

once upon time

a prince and princes where in love

so one day the prince goes to the palace

and met the father who was sitting in his throne beside him was his daughter sitting too

and ask the princess father for permission and the blessing to marry his daughter.

the father princess who was sitting in the throne laughed from his request

and said his not the only one who asked for his daughter hand

there is many prince asked for her hands

said the father

you might be the prince but you are less prince compare to them

then he stand up from his throne and said if u want to marry my daughter

you should bring luxurious beautiful gift that dazzle the people of this kingdom

more beautiful than other princes

and u had to bring it in 1 year

the princess refused what he said and was full of anger

and said that he is the only one she loved him

and him only is greatest gift she want nothing else

but the father insist in his offer

and in full of ego he said

only the stronger and richer princess marry my daughter

only the man who bring the most beautiful gift marry my daughter

the prince accept the order forcefully and looked to his beloved princess

and said

For you i promise you i shall find a beautiful gift that never seen

luxurious one that no one can afford

and a rare one that never been discovered

then the princess with full trust of her beloved prince to fulfilled with mix concern of his safety

she tried to descend from her throne and give a last blissful kiss

but her father notice this and asked his troop to block and her and send her to her room

and ordered the prince to get outside the palace immediately or he will be kicked out by the troop .

As soon as the prince get out of the palace , he get ready for his journey searching for his right gift for his right lover .

One day , during his journey when he was about to enter one of the kingdoms , he heard a sound of flying creatures. He looked to the above to find a white flying creature descending to him .

he thought it was lonely pigeon looking for company . so he raised his hand so it descend in his hand .

but he was surprised it was a white parrot, he noticed in of its leg there a paper wrapped around him .

He took the letter and opened it to find out it was a letter from the princess

she was telling him how terrible she is for not giving trying to convince her father , how she is sorry for putting him in this situation and how she is stuck in the uphill palace in her room cant get out like dying tree with no leaves and dying roses with no leaves .

and that she send her parrot hoping he will reach to u .

the prince was very happy when he find out , as if he was talking to his beloved princess but in disguise as abeautiful white parrot .

so entered the first kingdom and bought ink and paper and wrote to her trying to comforting her and telling her that it wasn't her fault for what happened , and about she wasnt a dying tree or rose

how she is beautiful tree that lived in the uphill were he lay in the shadow to feel comfort

where birds gather in the tree and start singing

and said that her letter was like beautiful autumn leaves that fallen from the tree like the beautiful roses leaves that spring the heart

wrapped int the leg of the parrot ,the parrot started to fly to the princess and reached to her

the princess was extremely happy , so she continue to write to him

sometimes she wrote beautiful poem to him

sometimes she make the parrot imitate some musical sound

so he can sing it to him

and that exactly what happened whether it was hot/cold day or night

they continue to communicate together through the parrot .

the parrot was completely pure joy for the prince for the beautiful musical sound he listen during his lonely journey

and it was completley joy for the princess when she read what the prince saw and the drawing he draws of what he saw.

But even though he goes in every place or in every kingdom

he still didnt find that one kind of a gift

either he find a gift but not beautiful

or a beautiful gift but another one bought the exact one

or there was already one but there was a prince came before him and took it

or one day in one of the places he goes his eye catch one beautiful gift

to find out it was the same gift that was caught by the other prince .

Both of them they know they want it for the same princess

so both of them decided to challenge each other .

so they go to wider empty area

both of them raised their sword and start the duel

the two princes duel was tight

no one want to surrender

all there body was full of scratch and injury

and the land was full of blood that leaking from their body

and surrounded with the smoke that was coming from the land because of their moving

in their last stand they waited for the smoke to disappear for their last clash they raised

their sword and clashed their last clash like the clash of a bulls with horns .

It was powerful that one of them his sword was broken .

it was the other prince sword

the prince the lover won.

the other prince asked for surrender and agreed to leave the gift

th prince lover agreed and put his sword .

but out of guard the other prince took the chance and gave him a powerful punch that knocked him out

after a few hour the prince waked up

and decided to continue his journey

He falt sad that he missed the gift and sad he felt in the trap , but in same time he felt grateful he didnt take the gift

as he was getting ready to ride in his horse

he wondered what are the chances that this same gift were in other place taken by other prince

what are the chances that this gift is already solen from another prince through a duel , therefore in that case the gift is not a gift it is not contaminated

and his beloved princess doesnt deserve contaminated gift but a

pure one

and as he rided the horse and start to move

he thought that if he want that gift that never seen

he should go to a place nobody dear to seek

that place

was the

sea

at that time to the people of the kingdom,

The sea was a riddle best left unsolved.

When its waves roared, they called it wrath.

When it slept in stillness, they called it deceit.

Beyond it, they said, lay death and silence.

therefore as he was going beside the shore of the sea he saw fisher man with his

boat

the prince offered the man money to use his boat

the man agreed to the offer ,

but unlike the other people he said sth differ

he said that

sea can be silent as a feather

raging as a tiger in a stormy weather

but it reflecting our inner fear

control your fear you will control the sea

and you going to see what you will seek

So one night ,

When the wind was soft and the tide was kind,

William walked to the shore,.

And he sailed —

Into the mist,

Into the dream

He started to sail far far away

the moon was above him appeared vividly in the sky

it was lighting the place around him , like the lights that focused in the main character in the stage

throught the light of the moon he saw couple of dolphin romantically jumping in the sea

a few moment later he saw a half sea horse and parrot sealike creature moving beside him

blowing from their body beautiful blowing lights

it was magic pure magic

a simple peaceful moment for him

that calmed his body and his soul and decided to lay in the boat for simple sleep

the long moment later he waked up because of the slight shaking of his boat

he look to the sky and sea the sun took her turn

but slowly it losing it shining

as he saw a smoke of clouds

charged by lightning are

coming toward him

his inner voice and his shaking boats

whispering to him that the storm is coming

he calmed his shaking boat and

said

to be or not to be

i will sail with heart full of soul

to be or not to be

Through the stormy sea

I continue to seal

to be or not to be

Like a mountain

I shall stand

Like a warrior

I shall be on stead

to be or not to be

i will shall sail

Where wonder is might

Be

And for love I shall seek

when the storm hit him it him very heard

his boat was dazzling by wavy stormy sea from to right to left up and down

Surronded by cloud that start giving scary face b

by the sound of thunder that was sound like scary laughing mixed with people screaming

by the lighting that was giving him a flash of what he fears triggering pic of his mind about what will happen to him

That sailing to the sea was a mistake and what he sake is delusional , that she will getting married and he will remain and invisible

that beyond the sea is isolated island where he will be eaten by hungry birds

a laugh tons of laugh by the father and the prince who will marry her

the prince was in the brink of insanity if he didnt remembered what the fisherman said

sea is reflection of your inner fear

control your fear

u will control the sea

He closed his eyes

remind himself to control his inner fear

He control it by remembering his lover

when they notice each other during masquerade party

when they goes to the roof of the palace and decided to took their mask

when he notice how the the rays of the light that come from the moon sneaking to hear beautiful face

he remembered the journey and the number of the letters they sent

and the parrot and his beautiful musical sound

.

he remembered that feeling when he was always with her

it was peace

that what he saw until the storm pass

after the boat pass few moment letter he saw an emerging boat coming toward them ,

he was confused

when the boat was infront of him he saw unusual creature , it was like the cherry the faron captain from the greek ,\\

but looked more weak

the sea creature guarder asked the prince why he this far of the sea

he told him that he felt in love with princess and in order to win her hand her father said that i should luxurious givet that no one can afford and a rare gift that no one discovered

and in order to find this gift i shall sial to the sea

there might i see what i seek

and asked him what about fear

did u fear

the prince said that his love is bigger than fear

the sea guard: they said that feeling is like the fleeing sea

it doesnt last

or a fleeing sea that make us go through life and last

and give us power

we are like a two river that supporting each other with endless fleeing feeling

the sea guard was touched about what he heard but still he didnt believed him

all of the sudden , a clap by his hand of sea guard was surprising made the prince confused lost his control and found himself felt into the boat . Sea guard looked at his face

and said

you all human and ur foolish dreams

you all are liars

the bottom is all what u belong

then the sea guard raised his hands and it was descending aiming to the prince chest

and when he hit the prince chest it was very powerful that it break the prince side boat pushing him to the bottom of the sea , leaving a high height amplitude that landed then like a rain replacing him like any other human .

to the sea guard creature the prince was like other humans who reached this far , when they met the sea creature they reciting to him a beautiful poems about the beauty of the world and how they want to discover what is beyond

only when they reach there they kill , rape steal and destroy .

or like other who are fooled with his weak creature they laughed at him about how he weak creature like him dare to ask them , then they began to kill him

that why to him he believed that humans are bunch of superificail greedy liars creatures whatever they go they destroy , and that they should never exist .

that what was the th sea creature was about to do just like before him

but the moment he was about to hit he notice an interesting creature appear in the chest of the prince .

the sea creature was surprised when he notice that the parrot who was the messenger between them .

then he notice that the parrot was letter on his leg , he took it and read it , it was from the princess just like the prince said

it said that it took time to teach the parrot to sing with words

and said that the father shortened the and he will force me to marry another

if u didnt come ,

if u didnt come i shall took my heart and placed in the sea .

.it moved him the letter and moved him more when the parrot start

singing

.

then he said maybe human are more complicated than this

he apologized for his misunderstanding

and said he know a better gift for you

By one clap

the prince refined the ability to

walk and stand up

by other clap by the sea guard

a matter of time the prince saw circular hole was formed in the sea around him and sth like shell was coming from them

a several of shells were raisng in the air around him

what are this said the prince ….

these are the white pearls

white gold

legends said they are the emotions stones where put in the earth to remind the the creatures

the beauty of the earth

\

one of thes emotions is love

as one of the shells opened

and there it is the prince and princess was there

seems they were written for long time ago

mean while the night came his turn in the kingdom

, in the uphill where the princess was on her room

in the palace

looking through the binocular in the sky for the her parrot

but instead she saw light , she followed it throught the binocular to find out

it was coming from the sea she was surprised

the people of the kingdom were in surprise all of them were asking what is the light that coming from the beyond the sea as more the movinglight moving closer to the shore of the kingdom the more it getting cleared , people started listening beautiful angelic musical sound coming from this light people slowly started getting out from their home going toward the sea

at same time the princess was asleep weakened up by beautiful musical sounds she looked at the parrot flying toward her , then she looked behind him the light that coming from him

she took the binocular to find out that it was coming from her prince carrying sth in his boat beside him the seaparrotlike creature singing musical sound it was beautiful it was a magic

at same time she was hearing from the parrot saying the true prince has come the true prince has come

the maid helped her wearing the dress

the people of the kingdom were happy as they hear that only true prince will marry the princess with the right gift

they started lightning candle and form a lane waiting for the prince to reach to shore of the kingdom he start moving

at same time when the princess get ready starting moving from the palace

until the met at the middle

in the kingdom

the prince kneeled to his knee and showed and opened the shelf it was shiny that emit vertical light and put to the princess finger

that night if you asked what beyond of the sea

they will say it love

Posted Dec 19, 2025
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