Fairy tales (might) have happy endings

Once upon a time (how could a proper fairy tale start differently?…) there was a genuine fairy tale prince. He lived in a castle like that one so often portrayed in Disney’s movies and shows, so much inspired in the real one at Neuschwanstein.

He was the coolest prince ever, halfway between Prince Josef in the classical Sissy movies and Prince Charming in Shrek’s. He was even regularly portrayed in magazines and TV shows here and there.

So often he attended parties, cocktails or social meetings (high profile customer events, if you’d prefer Marketing terminology) he was quite used to having a drink or two. But he went above a certain limit, he had the habit of wandering through the palace garden to break up jinxes and spells cast on fairy tale princesses. One must say that a few times before, His Highness had already problems about that…

So His Highness was in one of these cases in a moment in which he reached for the garden pond… and just when a lost moonlight beam reflected over a water flower, he suddenly discovered her.

Needless to mention, so many times he’d gone through this, he immediately recognized her.

She was a genuine common frog ignoring such a savior, and just looking for bugs to calm down her hunger. A bit excited by a toad croaking around, she got distracted in a moment when the huge monster made her a prisoner of his.

Under the gentle starry night, he tenderly caressed her and… kissed her as gently as he could; but the frog was no fake, and the prince became… a toad!.

As he found his nose right above the waterline, he discovered that for once these things happen, it worked precisely the contrary it should have, and ever since he keeps springing and croaking all around.

It appears quite difficult to keep his old ways and customs, as servants won’t allow him back into his palace, despite he does not really adapt well to a frog-ish life…

Thus nowadays, in the lovely garden of his dad’s, there is one prince less, and one todd more…