Hi guys! This is a little creative story I whipped up! It’s a parody of what happened before the fairy tale came along, The Frog Prince. Enjoy!

The Royal Frog Family

Not long ago, meaning yesterday, Princess Penelope (pronounced penny – lope) was tired of playing with the pure gold balls her father gave her. She decided that even though her father was allergic to rubber, she would sneak into her neighbor’s yard, and take one of their regular rubber balls.
One night Princess Penelope snuck out of her window and hopped the fence into her neighbor’s yard. But unfortunately she tripped over a rock, and tumbled down a well. When she got to the bottom she luckily didn’t die, she lay there unconscious. “Croak!” Startled she opened her eyes. There sat on her forehead a fat frog with warts planted on its back.
“Yuck!!!!” Penelope yelled. She punched the frog, but missed punching her forehead. “Owe!” She rubbed the spot.

“Hello Princess!” The frog exclaimed.
“What? No. I am hallucinating. A frog can’t talk!” She screamed then punched the frog once more.
“Ow!” said the frog.
The Princess continued to scream…
“Could you please you be quiet? I am getting so sick of people screaming their heads off every time they hear me! Humans can talk so why is it so amazing when a frog does! And it always ends in injuries. ” The frog said.
“How can you talk?” She asked him.
“I was born this way! Ok, actually a witch possessed me after I stole her magic staff.” He answered back.
“What’s your name.” She asked him.
“Frog.” He answered.
“WOW so ironic!” She joked. “Could you get me out of this well?” She asked.
“No! How could I? Hop you back up?” He laughed.
“Well, I dunno, do something!” She started to get mad at Frog.
“Oh, right, I actually am a magical frog, sorry I forgot… I can get you back up but of course you will have to do something for me in return.”
“What?” She said curiously.
“Give me your father’s crown, your house, and all your clothes, food, and money.” He said.
“No way I’d rath-” Penelope started.
“Ok then I won’t get you out of this well.” He bargained.
“Fine, but first you have to do my end of the bargain.” Penelope said.
“Ok, HELP, HELP ME, HEELLP!!!!!!” The frog screamed.
“Who’s there?” Mr. Barley asked. Mr. Barley was house sitting for Penelope’s neighbors.
“IN THE WELL!!!”Frog yelled.

Mr. Barley cautiously gazed down into the well. He saw nothing but inky darkness, but he thought someone inside might be trapped.
“Is someone down there?” He called
“YES IT’S ME PRINCESS PENELOPE.” Frog called back up.
“Frog I thought you were going to get me out of here by magic not screaming!” Penelope said to Frog.
“Should I call the fire department?” Mr. Barley asked.
“Uh yah!” Penelope said.
“Wait who is this?” Asked Mr. Barley.
“The actual Princess Penelope! Get me out of here!!!”
“What does she mean?” Thought Mr.Barley, but he decided to call the fire department either way.

After the fire department took Penelope out of the well, she ran back to her house, and threw herself under the covers. She slept peacefully until she felt something slimy beside her cheek…
“What is this?” She opened her eyes to slime covering her pillow. “Yuck!” She sat up because she heard her shower on. She slowly creeped over the shag rug until she came to the bathroom door.
“One, two, three.” She opened up the door and there sat the wart-covered frog using her shower and slurping her bubblegum flavored bath soap.
“Ahh! Gross, gross, gross!!!” The princess took a bath sponge and beat the frog with it.
“You know that a bath sponge can’t really- ow ow ow!!! Would you please stop hurting me! You already know I can talk!” He yelled.
“What are you doing here!”
“Taking my end of the deal. By the way just to warn you I sleep naked.” The frog hopped out of the bathroom and onto the white bed sheets.
“No!!! These are cashmere and imported from France!” She yelled
“Yah I can tell! Hey could you pass me that bath soap bottle. I hope you don’t mind but I am a midnight snacker- and also a midnight farter…” Frog said.
“No! Get out now!!!” She screamed
“Sorry but we made a deal, if you break it… Well, bad things will happen!”
“I want no part in this deal, and you broke our deal too by yelling for help instead of using your magic.” Penelope did not realize how stupid this sounded until in came out.
“No you just asked me to get you out. The rest was in your head. Goodnight.” The frog settled himself in the bed.
“This is going to be a long night!” Thought Princess Penelope.

The next morning Penelope woke up the earliest she ever had because her room was contaminated by awful smells… When she went into the kitchen the cabinets looked like they had been invaded by rats. “FROG!” She thought. She needed to have her family see this and they would be disgusted and kick him out! Her father hummed into the kitchen, and her brother went outside to practice fencing on the tree.
“Father!” She asked
“Yes?” He said back without looking up.
Penelope explained her situation, but told him that she was sleep walking, and not trying to steal a ball.
“Well it sounds like I should call the royal guards to get this frog kicked out.” The king said.
“Well he said there would be a consequence if I broke our bargain.”
“Did he say what the consequence was?” The king asked.
“No.”
“Well it mustn’t be that bad then. What’s the most this frog can do?”
So the family kicked out Frog. He stayed quiet because he was excited to torment Penelope’s family.

The next day the royal family woke up. The rooms seemed larger and their skin as covered in warts and slime. The white bedsheets were ruined. The royal family had been turned into the royal frog family!

And they all lived happily ever after?

(The son was the one who later was the main character in “The Frog Prince.”)