by
Sakura
here once was a young chinese princess who lived in a small village in China. Her parents told the princess that she must find a husband before the end of the year or they will pick a husband for her. her parents would bring in thousands of good looking young men to ask her for her hand in marrage. But she said no to everyone of them.
"I will not marry a man for his looks",she would say. "And I do not want a man to marry me for mine."
It was true. She was very beautiful and she knew that the young men who asked her for her hand in marrage only wanted to marry her becuase of her beauty and becuase she was the princess and had tons of money. One night, the princess ran away from her palace and ran into the dark woods. She didn't know these forest well becuase she never had the time to explore. after all, she was a part of a royal family. The young girl ran through the woods untill she came to a cave. With no fear at all she steped inside. She sat againts one of it's cold walls and cried herself to sleep. "Hello?", A weak voice whisperd into the princess's ear.
She opened her eyes and standing right there were four small dragons."Who are you?", she asked them.
"We are the four gardian dragons of the earth. Suzaku, Byaku, Genbu and Shobu. This is our home."
"I'm very sorry. I am princess Ninu", the princess said.
"We know. And we are here to help you", one of the four dragons told her. He passed her a small brown bag.
"What is this?"
"We want you to return home and put this into the well out side of the palace. Then, we want you to invite all the young men in the village to come over for a feast. Use the water from the well. We are sure that by tommorrow night all of your worries about marrage will be gone."
The princess agreed and did what they said. She opened the bag and bumped all of the powder inside of it into the well. then she told all t he young men that she was going to have a feast and invited all of them to come.
The next day the princess went for a walk. As she did, all of the females of the village ran up to her and told her that there husands did not reconize there faces. The princess just laughed. She made a speech in front of the whole town.
"Last night I invited all of the men from my village to a feast for no reason at all. Just before I did, I put some magic posion into there drinks. Now, whenever they see a young women they will only see an old lady's face staring back at them. Untill you can prove to me that you can love me for who I am and not what I look like, this curse will stay."
A few months later she found a young man who learned to love her for who she was and not what she looked liked. The spell was broken and all of the men were free from the curse. She knows that if she needs to put another spell on them she can return to the cave of the four gardian dragons.
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