Gundam Wing Fan Fiction ❯ Sleeping Prince ❯ Story Book ( Chapter 1 )

Disclaimer: I don't own Gundam Wing or Sleeping Beauty.

Pairings: 3x4, implied 1x2 and 5+C.

Category: AU; fantasy; romance; OOC; maybe lemon probably lime; Angst; yaoi

Warnings: I don't really know myself. Like talk of goddesses and reincarnation.

Spoilers: None

Rating: R

Author's Note: Please do not read if any of this will offend you. Sorry if it's written poorly it made since at the time I wrote it and every one knows what a mistake that can be.

Author: Benji Coyle

The Sleeping Prince

By T. Bloom

Come my child let me tell you a wonderful tale of woe. Once upon a time in a far away land lived a young prince named Triton Bloom. On his third birth day it was announced that an alliance would be formed by the neighboring kingdom, and that young prince Triton would marry the heir.

The heir was not yet born, yet it did not matter the sex of the child because a promise was a promise. Many months passed before the heir was born on the fourth moon the child was male, he was name Quatre. Now Quatre was a very special boy his mother was a goddess and she had a horrible wretched sister named Jahi. In the tradition of the land all the goddesses were invited to bestow gifts upon children of royal birth; so was the case of Triton and so will be the case of Quatre. But Queen Sovranty refused to invite her sister, and this is where all the trouble began.

Triton, as the new princes chosen betrothed, had to be at the party and give the child a present. Triton was less than thrilled "it" was a bald, gooey pile of mush, in his opinion, and he knew he would like the ball so much better than the thing in the crib. So it came as no great surprise when King Bloom had to pinch Triton in order for him to give Quatre the ball. And to make things worse for Triton, Quatre was overjoyed by the gift. So after the loss of his beloved ball Triton busied himself by sitting in the corner pouting to the life's not fair blues. He remained there even after all of the Goddesses arrived, all except one. These were not the same goddess that had come to Tritons party, because that would be silly, these were the goddess of the Winner's Kingdom. At this time all the Kingdoms had different goddesses, but they always bestowed the same gifts beauty, kindness, song, love, joy… ect.

But unfortunately for Quatre his Aunt had found out about the party and was very insulted that she was not invited to the party. Even though if she had been asked; she would not have come. Well being the evil goddess that she was she crashed her nephew's party. And Jahi said "Dearest sister I am wounded deeply that you would not even invite me, your own flesh and blood, to such an important event. It is only once a life time that your son's birth may be celebrated. And well wounded as I am that I was not invited I still wish to give my nephew his gift. True he will be happy, beautiful, and truly loved the child will only have a short time before death catches up with him. On his Sixteenth Birthday young Prince Quatre will prick his finger on a thorn of a rose, the same shade as his soft lips, and die. Well goodbye sister, have a happy life Quatre. I do hate to over stay my welcome." And with that she disappeared.

Now the King, Queen, and every one in the land was saddened by the news of there young Princes future, but Sleep had yet to bestow her gift upon the Prince. Sleep came forth and proclaimed "If you pardon me your majesties, no one can stop your sister's wish but I can change it. That is if you'll let me." "Yes oh please anything will be better than his death." The Queen wailed. Sleep said "So be it, Prince Quatre will not die when his finger is pricked he will fall asleep. He will sleep until loves true kiss awakens him and then he will live again with a long life that is full of happiness."

Still the King ordered for all the rose bushes in the entire Kingdom to be destroyed. And so Quatre grew up in the kingdom without a clue about the curse, and every single month Prince Triton would come visit for a week. Prince Triton was always cold towards Quatre, but Quatre never minded because Triton was cold to every one. But Triton was always truly happy to come visit Quatre he just never knew how to express himself. As Quatre got older he had a new friend named Heero; Heero was actually Quatres' bodyguard, but Quatre never thought of him that way.

As Quatre grew older his feelings for Triton grew deeper, and vice a versa. When Quatre turned fifteen he realized that he truly loved Triton and that Triton truly loved him back.

On the morning of Quatres' sixteenth birthday tragedy struck although no one knew of it yet. Triton was taking an early morning ride; like he did every morning, but today was different today was his wedding day. Triton was riding though the woods when he came across a young maiden that was in trouble being a Prince he leapt off his horse in order to help, but the young maiden turned out to be Jahi. Jahi then disarmed Triton and took him to her castle as a prisoner.

Quatre spent the morning bathing in myrrh; he was very excited because not only was today his birthday but he was marrying Triton. Much to Quatres' annoyance Heero kept checking up on him. Quatre finally snapped at Heero, after Heero walked in on him while he was undressing for the bath. True Quatre felt bad for yelling at Heero, but today was the day nothing could go wrong. And so after drying off and dressing in his white wedding clothing, he came out of the room to go to breakfast. As soon as he set foot outside the door he was promptly yield at and told to stay in his room, by his fathers orders no less. Quatre sat in his window and look out at the garden it was his favorite thing in the castle, he was enthralled with flowers of all shapes and sizes.

He was so caught up in watching the garden he must have missed the knock because he heard his bedroom door open, but when he turned around there was another door one he had never seen before and it intrigued him. So throwing caution to the wind he went thru the mysterious door, which led to a flight of stairs and so on he went. It seemed like it took forever but he finally reached the top where he ran into another door. He knocked on the door because it was rude to just barge in unannounced. And the door opened and on the other side a lady was standing over a lovely bush covered in flowers. "Why hello Quatre dear. Please come in." The lady said. "Okay, do I know you?" he asked apprehensively. "Why my dear boy I'm your aunt. Please come in and look at the present I got for you. I know you like flowers. Do you like this one?" Jahi asked.

"Oh yes it's wonderful, I have never seen a flower like that. What is it called?" Quatre asked. "Why Quatre they are called roses wouldn't you like to pick one?" Jahi answered. "Really I can." Quatre asked hopefully. "Yes, my dear boy this is your rose bush after all." Jahi said. So Quatre walked over to the rose bush and took a rose stem in his hand and poked himself with a throne. "Oww. That hurt." Quatre said pulling his wounded finger to his lips. "I don't feel so good." Quatre said while falling to the ground. "Sleep my little twit." Jahi said while disappearing in a cloud of smoke.

Several of Quatre's goddesses came to his aid; Sleep, Love, Beauty, and Happiness. Sleep put all in the castle under a deep sleep so that they would awake when the spell was broken. Love, Beauty, and Happiness were in the tallest tower putting Quatre into a bed. Love and Beauty kept quarreling over how exactly to position Quatre, so to enhance his beauty and attract his love to him. It finally ended with Quatre lying on his back propped up by two pillows and the bed sheets pulled up to his lower chest, with his hands above the sheet holding the rose that had cursed him and his lips were slightly open as if begging for a kiss. And every day after that one of the goddesses would come and check on him to make sure he was safe and that the set up was still perfect.

In Jahi's dungeons Triton watch the scene helplessly, tears were streaming down his face while his wrist were bleeding because of the constant strain Triton was putting on them , trying to break free to get to Quatre. Jahi came to Triton "Isn't that so touching, true loves kiss is the only thing that can set him free, and you're the only one that can do that. But there in lies the problem if I let you live you'll rush right over there and free him. So what to do…what to do. Let you live and always worry about you escaping or…" Jahi got an evil glint in her eye and a wicked smile on her face. "Or kill you where you stand." Jahi said pushing a knife into Tritons heart. "Well I guess that answers my question. Get rid of the body I don't care where." Jahi said exiting the dungeons talking to her minions.

Jahi's minions took Triton's body to a cliff and threw it over. Unbeknownst to them Triton's goddesses hid in wait at the bottom of the cliff. There were the three Fates and Reincarnation; they could do nothing for the poor boy was dead although, they were allowed to bestow more gifts upon the boy. The Fate's knew this was not meant to be he died too soon and unhappy. So they allowed Reincarnation to work her magic. Reincarnation granted Triton to be born again and again with his memory's until he found true happiness, and then he would live a long life with said happiness.

And so ends the tragic tale of Quatre and Triton.

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"Oh mommy that's a wonderful story." A six year old Catherine said. "Oh I don't know if I like it. It doesn't have a happy ending." Catherine's pregnant mother replied. "Mom life doesn't always have a happy ending and there is still a chance that Triton will go rescue the prince, so there can always be a happy ending." Catherine replied. "Yes that's true." Her mother said.

"Mom I have a great idea, we could name the baby Triton. You see your last name was Bloom and maybe he'd be the real Triton and wake up Quatre and then the story could end happy." Catherine said happily. Her mother laughed "life doesn't happen that way and it's just a fairy tale. And you know your new brothers' name is going to be Trowa, silly head." "Yeah, but Triton would be so much better." Catherine said glumly as she took her book and laid it on her night stand. "Sleep tight my little angel and don't let the bed bugs bite." Her mom said leaning over and giving her daughter a kiss. "Nite, nite mommy." Catherine said yawning as she cuddled further into her bed.

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