THE LADY TRANSFORMED INTO AN ORANGE

Once upon a time in a castle there lived a king and a queen. They dreamed of having a little girl.

The day the queen had her little girl, she named her Golden Hair.

Her daughter was beautiful just like her.

The king still loved his wife and had no idea that bad luck would come. One day the queen fell very ill. She had a fever, and she felt uncomfortable. She was very pale. The doctor came to the castle to see what was wrong with the queen. He had prescribed different types of medicine for her, but she died.

Golden Hair was a little girl at the moment.

Years passed and she grew.

She was eighteen years old and she was as beautiful as her mother.

She was a lovely young woman.

The king, who called himself celibate, He found her as beautiful as his wife.

He wanted to get married for whatever cost.

One day, Golden Hair was married.

One day, Golden Hair was awake. She was already dressed and was brushing her hair.

She was looking at herself in the mirror. The maid knocked on the door and entered when Golden Hair ordered her to enter. She said to him: "Princess the King your father absolutely wants to talk to you when you are ready."

"Okay Golden Hair replied." I'll come in a few moments. The maid knocked on the door, and entered when Golden Hair ordered her to enter.

She said to him: "Princess the King your father absolutely wants to talk to you when you are ready."

"Okay," Golden Hair replied. "I'll be back in a few moments. The maid left and closed the door.

She went to the living room and saw her father sitting on the chair having breakfast.

She joined him and said:

"Father, do you want to talk to me."

"What do you want to tell me?"

Golden Hair had breakfast. On the table were croissants, pain au chocolates, and bread with spreadable butter and jam.

After the king and the princess had finished having their breakfast, the king asked the servants and the maids to return to the kitchen and to leave them alone in the dining room.

This is what the king said to Golden Hair. "Daughter I see you are a woman now." " I want to marry you." "I want you to be my wife."

Golden Hair was afraid.

She reflected and said to her father: Since you want to marry me, I would like you to give me before you marry me the skin of a bear with five hundred thousand pearls on it before you marry me. "

He decided to do what his daughter asked him to do. He knew it was not an easy task to do and decided to do it.

He asked one of his keepers to capture a bear and bring back its skin and they will see how to decorate it with five hundred thousand pearls.

The keeper he had sent was afraid to do what the king asked him because he didn't want to find bearskin easily for the king to marry his own daughter.

The king had said to him before leaving: "You will die if you do not send me the skin of the bear." The keeper fled the farthest from the castle so that he would not be seen again. It would be a bad thing for the king to marry his own daughter since she was beautiful.

The king did not know what to do. He knew he would never marry his own daughter if the man didn't bring him back the bear skin. So he said to himself: "The man has disappeared." I'll think of something else. "

This is the king's second idea. He put an ad on the wall of the castle which read: "The king is looking for a person who can bring him a bearskin."

"The person who manages to find her will be rewarded." She will have 800,000 pieces

gold.

Everyone who had tried to please the king by trying to find a five hundred thousand pearl bear skin had failed and vanished.

He tried again to find another hunter to find a five hundred thousand pearl bear skin. Charles one of the best known hunters who is in the forest had come to the castle and wanted to fill the task that the king had asked him. He had said to him: "King, I would do my best to find you that bearskin.

The hunter went into the forest and saw a bear that was in a mysterious cave. He attacked her and brought her skin to other hunters who helped him cut it up and decorate it with pearls. The hunter overheard one of the women who was a castle servant to one of her friends who worked with her: "Poor princess the hunter has found the bearskin and the king is going to marry her." The hunter knows the princess well and knows that she has a beauty superior to all the women who are in the castle. So he decided not to bring back the bear skin with the five hundred thousand pearls on it. He said to the other hunters, "Do not adorn the bearskin." Leave it as it is and give it to me. I don't need her anymore. The other hunters left and the hunter decided to run away with the bearskin and then throw it into a hole to never see it again.

After getting rid of the bearskin, the night when the princess was in her room the hunter secretly went to the princess's room entering through the window while climbing with the rope up. This one was afraid. She wanted to scream and he said to her, "I'll tell you something dear princess." Your father wants to marry you. "I'm not lying." Don't be afraid. ”It's for your safety. He asked me to look for a bearskin of which I am showing you proof and to put five hundred thousand pearls in it, but I did not. help you escape and take refuge in the cave where the bear was previously to avoid the marriage your father wanted. This is okay dear sir. My father wanted to marry me. I believe you.

In this cave no one will see you, only me and other people who have never seen you before who live in this cave can see you. But I can't tell you if there will be people in this cave, says the Golden Hair fairy.

Golden Hair trusted the fairy.

After this conversation, the fairy disappeared.

Golden Hair was even afraid that one day his father would be in pursuit of him.

I shouldn't be afraid. I am well hidden in this cave.

She fell asleep in a deep sleep under the tree. She was kept warm because it was cold. The fairy had made a fire so that Golden Hair was warmed up and had given him a blanket.

She was well asleep in the heat. The fire that the fairy had lit was a magical fire that would go out until the next morning.

The next morning, Golden Hair stood up, and the fire magically went out, but she still had the blanket the fairy gave her. Golden Hair went outside and left the cave.

She walked ten minutes away and saw a garden. Not very far from this garden, there was a castle. This is where a very handsome prince lived with his father and mother.

This prince was called Richard. He spent all his days alone in the castle without a friend, with no one to keep him company.

He was already up and ready to take a walk outside. The young princess was outside. When it was night and she returned to the cave she was turned to orange and when it was morning she would return to her normal form.

When the prince arrived at the castle, he exclaimed: "What a young princess!"

He became acquainted with Golden Hair.

They started talking to each other.

Here is what the young woman asked the prince: "Who are you?"

"I am the young prince of this castle." I saw you in the garden and I want to know you. I find you beautiful. I am a princess who is a big secret and who is in danger.

What danger are you running, young lady. I can help you take refuge in my castle.

No I don't want you to know that. I can stay at home. But for now I have to go.

The prince decided to return to the castle and come back to see the princess. The princess waited for the fairy.

She ordered food and began to eat the food the fairy had put on the table. On the table were fried plantains with roasted chicken. It was a typical African dish.

The princess feasted. She liked what the king had offered her to eat.

After that, she decided to rest and wait until evening for the ball that will take place.

She had nothing to do in the garden but rest.

Night was approaching. The fairy reappeared and said to the princess: "I am going to give you a dress for the ball, a beautiful dress for the ball. You will be well dressed, with beautiful adornments for the ball, but you must come back to the cave at midnight before. that the magic disappears and that you are no longer in your beautiful dress and your beautiful jewelry and your beautiful shoes.

The princess ran to the castle and not to miss the ball. When she made her appearance in the castle, the prince saw her and loved her.

He found her beautiful and he knew it was the princess he had seen in the garden since he had invited her. He held out his hand, and they began to dance.

The prince began to dance with the princess all night long. They were happy together. They had taken a break and ate a tiny bit of what was on the table. The ball was magnificent. The princess was happy to dance with her prince charming. It was almost midnight. And the princess said to the prince: “I have to go to the toilet.” The prince said to her: “Okay.” The princess went and left through the castle door before her dress and everything the fairy had put on her for the ball disappeared.

The princess managed to escape and returned to the cave where she had taken the appearance of an orange and hid under the blanket the fairy had given her. There was the same fire that the fairy had created last night. The princess fell asleep until noon, and the king also fell asleep until noon.

The next morning the prince went outside and saw the princess and they were together. They had time to talk and the princess told him her story. I am a princess who ran away from my father's castle so he wouldn't marry me. Oh I see. I love you dear princess. I liked to dance with you at the ball.

The princess replies: "At night, the fairy turns me into orange." I want to avoid the fairy turning into an orange. "

Today the fairy stayed until night and her father's troops had an idea of ​​where the princess was hiding. A person who worked at the castle had overheard the conversation of the hunter and the princess hiding in the cave. Today was the day for the princess to regain her appearance. The troops wanted to cross the bridge but the fairy made a solid barrier to prevent them. And that ends the story. The prince showed the princess to her parents and they got married at the castle. There was a ceremony, a great ceremony. This was the end of the story.

The end