The Druid Princess
In a good land near the high mountains there lived a little girl and her family. The girl was different from her family. She liked her family, but she felt different from them. They were common and plain and worked every day just to live a humble life. The girl however had the soul of a princess. She felt different from everybody else. She felt there was more in the world than just her family's life. Often she would walk alone in the mountains near her home, sometimes traveling high up above where the trees stopped growing and the huge rivers of ice flow. Sometimes she would walk deep into the valleys where fierce rivers raged through rocky canyons. Sometimes she walked the wide plains where wild horses ran free and wild. These were the places and things that made her happy. Her family didn't like her wandering off and wanted her to stay and work, but they couldn't stop her.
One day while her mother and father and brother were digging turnips in there scraggly vegetable garden beside there sod hut, she once again sneaked away. She wandered high up into the mountains again, higher than she had ever gone before. she traveled far up onto the ice rivers to get a view of the land below. And while she stood on the top of the highest mountain a strange thing happened. A single huge cloud passed over her head, crackling lightening and roaring thunder. She hid in a shallow cave and watched the single cloud move in. The cloud speared the ground with lightning and shook the mountain with thunder.
When the cloud moved off the girl came out of hiding. And there on the ground in front of her were a scattering of glistening stones that had not been there before. She quickly gathered up the stones. They sparkled in her hand. Then she heard a voice from the cloud that hung off in the distance. 'These are magic stones. Take them and use them wisely.' And then the cloud drifted away.
She didn't know how to use the stones, but she knew who would understand their power. She would seek out the mysterious sorcerer woman who lived by the roaring river at the edge of the far wilderness. It was a dangerous journey but she knew the sorcerer woman would have the answer. The girl traveled many days and survived many dangers to reach her destination. When she found the old hag and convinced her to tell the secret the old woman said, 'These stones are of the most powerful nature and extremely volatile. A touch of fire will be what's needed to unleash their magic. A little touch of fire and they will protect you and make you powerful.
The girl returned home with the stones, her head spinning with thoughts about what the stones could do. And as she walked toward her family's hut she saw her parents and brother sitting high in a tall tree. As she got closer she saw that at the base of the tree evil ogres howled and screeched, clawing and drooling to get her parents and brother and devour them. Quickly she ran into the hut, over to the smoldering hearth and plucked out a hot coal. She ran to the tree where the ogres were. She threw down the magic stones and set them ablaze with the hot coal. Sparks and fire erupted, singeing the ogres stinking hair and frightening them far off into the woods. She saved her family.
When the people around the countryside heard of her power and bravery they decided to make her their queen to rule over and protect them. From that day on she had many adventures and kept the people of the land safe. The princess had become a queen.
