Here's another one
Allegorical scene
By: Lossenfarwen
Lesson: Love conquers all!
(First said by Lady Cluck)
Once upon a time, in the land of Muchbeauty, when Kindness was king, and all the people were happy, there was a man named Pirate who wished to make everyone sad. His main plot of going about this cruel business was to pillage and plunder the villages and cities along the coast of the Verydeep Sea, which was the northern border. He had a ship, ‘Pirate Ship’ it was called, and often it could be seen wherever there was smoke. Also, he liked to send his men, Thief, Murder, Cheat, Betrayal, and many more (his crew was numbered about 100 men, but non could really say,) in among the people and doing their evil deeds.
One day, when he was out, sailing his great ship, ‘Pirate Ship’, he caught sight of Princess the king’s daughter and only heir to the throne. She was to be married to Good-guy the next week.
‘ Oh, how fun it would be to make the king cry and beg for mercy, at my feet!’ he thought. ‘I know! I’ll kidnap his daughter!’
So, the pirates, in their ship, ‘Pirate Ship’ captained by Pirate himself, sailed around Tallrocks, so that their ship would be out of sight. Then that night, they crept into Lillytown, the main city of Muchbeauty, and stole quietly up over the castle walls.
Inside, everywhere they looked, they saw Lilly flowers. The walls were painted with them, the ground was planted with them, and the paths were covered with lily petals, even the guard at the gate had lilies on his uniform. Beautiful white lilies, with green stems, and royal purple lilies, and dazzling gold lilies, bright pink lilies, star silver lilies, everything was in some way, acquainted with the flower. The stray cat had a crown of lilies on her head.
Pinching their noses, for Pirate and his crew were not fond of sweat smells, they made their way along the side of the wall, keeping to the dim shadows. At last they came at last to the window, which led to Princess Princesses rooms, high up in a tower.
‘Well, me mates, who is going to win the prize and climb up yonder tower?’ cried Pirate in his version of a whisper. ‘I’ll give him a basketful of dull gold, and a fresh bottle of wine. What? Not a one of you is daring enough to climb up this measly tower? Why, if I’d known that all of my crew were as cowardly, I’d ‘ave ‘ad all of ye’s to the swallows, a month and a day plus, I would!’
‘Uh, cap’n, I think that it’s called the gallows.’
‘Who said that? Step right up, right now, and I’ll send ye their! I knows what it is called, and I meant what I said, and I said what a meant! A cap’ns word is one hundred percent!
So, who’s going up? Hello? Anyone there? Where did all you cowards go? Come back! Come back I say!’
Muttering to himself, Cap’n Pirate ran after his crew at full speed. Or at least he did until he tripped of a lily bench. Then he hobbled after his crew, though he went faster then his fastest, for the whole palace guard were after him now, along with all of the dogs.
The next day, Good-guy came to the castle to see Princess. He had heard of the pirate raid made by Pirate himself, and wanted to see if she was all right. As they walked through the back lily garden, surrounded by servants and several guards with their dogs, he asked her if she was fine. Again. And again. And again. ‘ Yes, I’m just fine. Thank you for the concern.’ To which he would reply, ‘ I’m so glad, are you sure you’re all right?’ and so on for the whole walk.
The next day, the princess was nowhere to be found. Thinking that the pirates had somehow got past the guards, King Kindness sent out every solder from the castle save for a few to keep watch, out to find them. But not to kill any, for they were after all, only pirates, ‘though they be bad, it’s not really their fault I suppose, that they turned out that way,’ was the kings’ excuse. The captain of the guard (whose name if you already have not guessed yet is Captain) merely grunted. This was not his opinion, but King Kindness was king and his word was law.
So, the men set out, and began their careful search of the whole land. They started in the city, searching every house. Many a household keeper, when told why their neat and orderly house was getting turned up side down, said things such as ‘to think that I should live to see the day!’ and ‘what is this world coming to?’ and, well, you get the idea. So, the whole day (which I might add, was a sweltering august day when it feels like your swimming in the air) was spent searching the town from top to bottom for the missing princess.
While the solders searched the city, the royal navy set out to scour the sea’s from the foam waves to the darkest depth for the pirate ship and their captain Pirate. Whichever ship brought him in, the captain and all of the crew would get medals of Honor. You can bet that many a ship rushed out to see, scarcely taking time to check supplies and the like.
When dawn came creeping into the world the following morning, only one ship remained in harbor. It was crewed by the youngest of men ever to be a captain. His name was Patience. He was fort-five years old, and had not yet even grown a beard yet. For in the land of Muchbeauty, their years are only six months long, and they age much slower then we do in ours.
Well, two days after fruitless searching and scouring, the down- trodden solders returned to the palace. No hearty cheers greeted them, except some of the wives who were glad to see them unhurt, as they wound their way along the twisting, dirty, dusty summer heated stone streets, which were turned a light red-brown. The king was moping about his chambers, lamenting that his only child was gone.
Down in the harbor, as the defeated ships returned as well, with the same welcome as the solders, pulled slowly into port, one was just leaving, crewed by Patience and his hearty crew. Many jeers they received from the other ships, much of, ‘Hope you have a nice chat with the mermaids,’ and ‘Remember to look in all of the shells’ rang out across the green waters, set an emerald colour because of the rising sun.
Once out at sea, Patience and his crew, instead of heading straight north, (as had all of the other ships done) he turned starboard, heading east along the coast and into the morning radiance. A west wind was blowing, so they did not have to use the oars, and many birds they saw that morning, all heading towards them. As if something were chasing them away from their usual nesting places.
About two hours down the coast, before you could see anything, you could hear the water crashing up against rocks, creating a deafening, continual roar. Amid the roar of the ocean, came the sound of voices, faint, muted by the water. Many a man covered his head and whispered hoarsely, ‘Ghosts!’
Fear was in everyman’s face. It was one thing to commandeer a pirate ship, but, it was quite another to face ghosts, no mater if there is only one of them, he/she could still kill everyman on board. They fingered anything of comfort, whether it be crosses, guns, knives, daggers, pictures of loved ones, ect.
Then, around the rocks came a ship, and on its mast, flying high and proud, waved the jolly- roger, in a very jolly way, at the ‘good’ ship. All of the men on Patience’s ship breathed a sigh of relief, this was no ghost ship. They smiled and laughed with each other until it struck them that it was a pirate ship, the Pirate Ship at that, and it was sailing straight at towards them. They whisked into action, readying the guns, and cleaning the spyglass, so as to be able to try and count how many men they had to fight.
The ship pulled up along side them and they all were afraid. The captain of the pirate ship- Pirate himself- came to the side and called across, ‘What bes the news from Lillytown?’
To which Patience replied, ‘You ought to know, for it was you who took the Princess Princess!’
‘What?’ yelled Captain Pirate, ‘what’s this about Princess Princess being taken? Why, just the other day, I saw her agetten into a boat, just as pretty as you please. Being led on by a lady, I assumed they was taken her away some place safe like. We decided not to give chase, as it was heavily armed, and ours needed a bit of care and all. But ye say she was captured. Say, tell you what. I’ll give chase and catch’m while you go tell the king. Ok?’
Patience looked at the ship full of pirates –crewed by Pirate himself- and shook his head. ‘We will follow you, that way we can be sure of the Princess Princess gett’in home . Ok?’
‘By jove, that’s fine. Lets go!’
So, off they set, on their quest for Princess Princess. It was five days of sweltering weather before they finally caught sight of another ship of the horizon. When they did catch up, the other ship was so terrified of the Pirate ship, (they hadn’t caught sight of the other one) that they only fired one shot. I was crewed by good-guy, gone bad. So he was renamed Bad-guy.
When they got back, the Princess and Patience got married, and
LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER!
THE END
