[h1]#15 - Contest - Once Upon a Time[/h1]
[b]Judge:[/b] Prince of Seraphs
[b]Type:[/b] Writing Challenge
[b]Deadline:[/b] August 28th

Your task is to take the provided prompt and craft a 3rd-person, non-canon short story involving your Heroes of Beacon character based around it. The minimum length for this challenge is 1200 words. You are going to use the HOB characters and settings to craft an original fairy tale. As this is meant to be a bit fanciful you are free to alter things like the time period, geography and stuff like that in the process of telling the story. Most fairy tales have certain rules to them that are traditionally followed.

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[*] Most fairy tales have a moral, a message or point to the story. Red Riding Hood it was "don't trust strangers", some others have been "love conquers all" "beauty isn't everything" that sort of thing. I'm not asking you to choose one of my examples (though you're welcome to) but the idea behind a fairy tale was to teach children a lessen about life that they might not understand if it was simply explained to them. 
[*] It ends Happily Ever After and begins with the main character either in trouble or about to get themselves into it.
[*] The stories themselves do not get overly complicated. They were designed to be understood by children.
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Nowadays their are a number of cliches that surround fairy tales. Rags to riches stories, evil queens or powerful sorcerers, a story of true love. I don't mind if you incorporate any of these into your fairy tale but try to be original about it. I don't want to feel like I'm reading Snow White with all the character's names changed.

Past that just have fun with it and create something interesting to read. Above all else I'm looking at how much I enjoy the stories themselves.