The Color Princess

 The Color Princess

             On a planet million miles from Earth, a planet known as Raeth, where imagination comes to life, lives a seven year old girl who’s life is about to change for the rest of her life. The girls name is Angel, she has short black hair, blue eyes, and a cute sweet smile that would warm your heart. Angel’s favorite activity to do is coloring and drawing. She was born 2/12/????. Her parents are Jason and Heather, and she has a hamster named Fluffo. Not only does Angel love coloring, but she also loves to dress up as a princess. She’s in the ___ grade, and she has three friends named Julie, Ashley, and Frank. We now go to Angel who is in the car with her parents as they head towards a garage sale that a friend of her parents is having.

             “Mommy?” I asked as I was in the back seat coloring in my color book. “Yes sweetie?” My mommy asked looking back at me. “When are we going to get there?” I asked looking up at her. “In just a minute ok? We’re almost there.” My mommy said. “Ok!” I said going back to my coloring. Two minutes later, I looked up from my coloring book and said “Mommy?” “Yes Angel?” My mommy asked. “Do you think they’ll have a bunch of coloring books and crayons?” I asked. “I guess we’ll have to see sweetie.” My mommy said smiling. I smiled back at her and continued coloring. Then I heard a squeak come from beside me, and I turned my head to see Fluffo my hamster looking up at me. “What’s wrong Fluffo?” I asked. “Are you hungry?” I looked into Fluffo’s food bowl and saw that it was empty. “Mommy?” I asked. “Yes?” My mommy asked looking back at me again. “Can I feed Fluffo?” I asked. “Sure, just make sure he doesn’t get out ok?” My mommy asked. “Ok!” I said opening his cage and filling up his food bowl.

             “There you go Fluffo.” I said smiling. “Eat up!” Five minutes later, we pulled in front of my mommy and daddy’s friends drive way, and got out of the car. There were tables all over the yard with different objects on them. All of a sudden, I felt a tap on my shoulder, and I turned to see my best friend Frank. “Hi Frank!” I said happily. “Hey Angel, Julie and Ashley are over there.” Frank said as he pointed towards the house. “Cool, so your mommy and daddy decided to come too?” I asked. “Yeah, I wanted to come to see if I could try to get some action figures or something. Frank is chunky and tall, he has short brown hair, green eyes, and freckles. He’s one year older than me, and he has the biggest crush on me. We’ve been friends since Preschool, and we’re practically like brother and sister. “Come on, let’s go over to them!” I said pulling Frank towards Julie and Ashley.

             “Hi Angel!” Julie and Ashley said happily as Frank and I walked up to them. “Hi hi!” I said. Julie has long red hair, brown eyes, and braces on her teeth. Ashley has blonde hair that’s in pig tails, and teal colored eyes. I met Julie and Ashley last year at school, at first they didn’t like me so much but they got to know me and we became friends. “So what are you hoping to find here?” Julie asked. “Coloring books of course.” I said smiling. “I think I saw a few over there.” Julie said pointing at a pile of books on a table near the garage. “Yay!” I cheered running towards it. Julie, Ashley, and Frank followed. When I got to the table, I picked up the first book that was on the top, and saw that it was a coloring book about a strange place known as Colorvania. There was a castle, dragons, knights, king, queen prince, and princess. Only the prince and princess were blank and it looked like one of those ‘place your picture here’ things off a cereal box.

             “I checked that book already, all the pages but one is colored in.” Ashley said looking at the book. I flipped through the pages and saw that she was telling the truth. When I got to the last page, there was a spinning vortex that hadn’t been colored in yet. “I don’t care.” I said smiling. “I want this.” Just before I was about to run over to my mommy, something glowing in the corner of my eye caught my attention. I turned my head and saw that it was a box of crayons. “Oh wow!” I said picking up the crayons. “These crayons are glowing!” Frank took them from me and studied them. “They’re just normal crayons, I don’t see them glowing.” Frank said. “They are glowing!” I said taking them from him. “See?” I held the crayons up for Julie and Ashley to see. “I don’t see no glowing.” Julie said. “Huh?” I asked in confusion. “Well how I can see them glowing?” “Angel sweetie, have you picked out anything?” My mommy asked me as she came up behind me.

             I nodded, smiled, and held up the coloring book and crayons. “I want these.” I said happily. My mommy took the coloring book from me, and flipped through the pages. “Umm…sweetie, these pages are already colored in.” My mommy said. “I know, I don’t care, I still want it.” I said smiling. My mommy thought for a moment and said “Well ok, if that’s what you want.” “I also want these glowing crayons too!” I said holding them up. “Glowing crayons?” My mommy asked looking at the crayons. “Sweetie I don’t see them glowing.” “You too?” I asked. “Well I see them glowing, and I want them.” I said. “Angel you already have enough crayons, why do you want more?” My mommy asked. “Pleeease?” I begged with puppy dog eyes. My mommy sighed and said “Ok ok, I’ll get you the crayons too.” “Yay!” I cheered as I jumped up and down. My mommy walked off with the coloring book and crayons, and I went back over to my friends.

             After an hour and a half had passed, my mommy and daddy told me that it was time to go. So with my new crayons and coloring book in my hands, we took off down the road back to my house. “Once upon a time in a magical kingdom…” I read out loud as I looked down at the coloring book. “…there lived a princess who had special powers.” Not only was the book a coloring book, it was also a story book too. “With her quill, she was able to draw anything she wanted and bring it to life by coloring it in.” I continued reading. “I wish I could do that.” I said happily. Ten minutes later, we pulled into our driveway and got out. “Mommy thank you for getting me this book.” I said looking up at her and smiling. “You’re welcome sweetie.” My mommy said kissing my head. I giggled and ran inside the house. “Angel you forgot Fluffo!” My daddy said coming into the house. “Oopsie.” I said.

             My daddy handed me Fluffo’s cage, and I ran upstairs to my room. I have stuffed animals all over my room, they cover my bed, dresser, closet, and even the floor! I placed Fluffo’s cage down on my tea party table, and let him out. I then grabbed my favorite pink blanky and tied it around my neck. Looking around my room, I searched for my princess hat and wand. “Where did I put them?” I asked myself. Fluffo climbed up my blanket on my bed, and crawled under my pillows. “Fluffo, don’t go under there.” I said picking my pillows up and putting them to the side. When I looked down, there was my princess hat and wand. “Oh sorry Fluffo, you were only trying to help.” I said picking him up and kissing his nose. I placed Fluffo down, and put my princess hat on as I held my wand. “Ok time to read more of my story!” I said happily. I laid down on the floor with my new coloring book and crayons, and began reading from where I left off.

             “Angel! Time for dinner!” My mommy yelled an hour later. I closed my coloring book, and ran downstairs. “Coming mommy!” I said happily. When I walked into the kitchen, I saw Julie, Ashley, and Frank sitting at the table. “Hi guys!” I said smiling. “Hey again Angel, nice princess costume.” Frank said giggling. I blushed and said “Thank you, I made it myself.” “So are you enjoying the coloring book?” My mommy asked. “Yes!” I said happily. “I love it!” “That’s good.” My mommy said. “How about those crayons, are they still glowing?” Ashley asked. I thought about it, and said “No, they’re not glowing anymore.” “See I told you they weren’t glowing.” Julie said sticking out her tongue. I did the same and my mommy said “Stop that, that’s rude.” “Sorry mommy.” I said frowning. She then placed a plate of food in front of me, and I made a disgusted face.

             “Yucky, broccoli.” I said pushing away my plate. “Don’t be silly.” My mommy said. “Broccoli is good for you.” “Well I don’t like it.” I said crossing my arms. “Just put cheese on it.” Frank said smiling as he poured melted cheese on my broccoli. I picked up my fork and ate one. “Oh it is yummy!” I said accidently spitting food all over the table. “Angel don’t talk with your mouth full.” My daddy said. “Sorry.” I said picking up another piece of broccoli. After dinner, Julie, Ashley, Frank and I all headed up to my room. “You guys want to read my new coloring book with me?” I asked picking it up off the floor. “Sure.” Julie and Ashley said. “How about you Frank?” I asked. “Nah I’m good.” Frank said smiling. I placed the coloring book on my table and Julie, Ashley, and I sat down. Frank just stood over us and watched.

             I began reading the story out loud, and thirty minutes later we reached the last page in the book. “Are you going to color the last page?” Ashley asked. “Yeah I think I will.” I said grabbing my crayons. I pulled out a black crayon, and before I started coloring in the block vortex, the crayons my mommy bought me today began glowing again. “They’re glowing again.” I said picking them up from off the floor. “I don’t see it.” Julie, Ashley, and Frank said. “Well I do, and I think they want me to color in the vortex with them.” I said pulling out the glowing black crayon. I began coloring in the vortex, and as I was coloring, the vortex looked as if it was coming to life. “Wow…” I said as I stopped coloring. “What?” Frank asked. “The vortex moved.” I said. “Yeah right.” Frank said getting a closer look. I started coloring again, and the vortex began moving. “Did you see it?” I asked.

             “Nothing.” Frank said. “I’m telling you, it moves every time I start coloring it in.” I said. “If so, finish coloring it in.” Julie said. “Ok.” I said coloring again. The whole time as I colored, the vortex kept moving more and more. When I had it fully colored in, I watched as it spun around and around. “This is so cool…” I said smiling. I looked up at Julie, Ashley, and Frank and saw that their jaws had dropped. “You see it too?” I asked. They nodded slowly. All of a sudden, the vortex began spinning faster and faster, and I could feel a force pulling me towards it. “It’s sucking me in!” I screamed as I held onto my table. Julie, Ashley, and Frank were holding on to the table as well. My finger suddenly slipped, and I began flying into the air. “Guys help me!” I yelled. Julie, Ashley, and Frank let go of the table, and grabbed onto me. “It’s too strong!” Frank yelled as he struggled to pull me.

             Then I felt myself grow smaller and smaller, and the four of us was sucked into the vortex. As we were being pulled forward, I could see several colors swirling around us. “What’s going on?!” Julie asked. “I don’t know!” I yelled. Suddenly there was a white flash, and the next thing I knew, I was waking up in front of a large castle. “Wow…” I said as I looked up at the huge white castle. Julie, Ashley, and Frank opened their eyes, and sat up. “Where are we?” Frank asked. “I think we’re in my coloring book.” I said pointing at the castle. “How?” Julie asked. “The vortex probably brought us here.” I said. “Why is everything so white?” “Where’s all the color?” Ashley asked. I looked around and saw that the trees, buildings, grass, and everything else was white. “I don’t know.” I said. I noticed some villagers walking around and ran up to one.

             “Excuse me sir.” I said tugging on his robe. “Where are we?” The man turned to me and had a depressed look on his face. He then slowly lifted up his hand and pointed at a sign. I turned and read ‘Colorvania’ and gasped. “We really are in my coloring book.” I said turning back to Julie, Ashley, and Frank. The man who was still in front of me noticed my glowing crayons, and pointed at them. “You want to color?” I asked. The man slowly shook his head, and then pointed at himself. I thought for a second and said “You want me to color you?” The man slowly nodded. “Is that even possible?” Frank asked. “It’s worth a shot.” I said pulling out some of my crayons. I began coloring him in, and when I was finished the man began jumping for joy. “Thank you young lady thank you!” the man cheered. “Um…you’re welcome?” I said in confusion.

             The man was bald with short brown hair on both sides of his head, he has blue eyes, he wore a torn blue robe, and wooden sandals. He stopped jumping and had a surprised look on his face. He then smiled warmly and looked down at me. “Could it be…?” The man asked. “Could you really be the one?” “The one? What are you talking about?” I asked. “You must come with me right away!” The man said grabbing my hand and pulling me. “Where are we going?!” I asked trying to catch up with him. “Wait up!” Julie, Ashley, and Frank said coming after us. “I’m taking you too my wife and kids!” the man said as we turned a corner. “Are they white too?” I asked. “Yes, and I need you to do the same to them as you did to me!” The man said. We ran for a couple of seconds, and came into a small cottage. “Honey, kids, come here right away!” The man said. I was trying to catch my breath when Julie, Ashley, and Frank came up behind me and bumped into me making me fall. “Owie…” I said picking myself up off the floor.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> All of a sudden a women and two kids came out of the back room. Just like the man before I colored him in, they were white as snow, had sad depressed looks on their faces, and moved slowly. “This young lady is going to make you all better.” The man said smiling. The women and the kids tried to make a smile but couldn’t. “Go ahead.” The man said. “Do your thing.” I pulled out some crayons, and began coloring each of the man’s family in. When I was finished, the women and kids all began jumping for joy. “Hooray! We’re colored again!” They all cheered. The man turned to me and said “Thank you so much.” “May I ask what your name is?” “I’m Angel, and this is Julie, Ashley, and Frank.” I said introducing myself and my friends. “Well it’s nice to meet you, my name is Zin, my wife here is Hydrea, and my two children are Annetta and Terrance.” The man said introducing himself and his family.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> Hydrea has black hair that was put up into a bun, brown eyes, wears a white dress with small hole in it, and wooden sandals. Annetta looks like she was the same age as me, she has long brown hair, blue eyes, wears a pink dress with holes in it, and wooden sandals. Terrance also looked the same age as me, he has short black hair, brown eyes, wears a blue torn robe, and wooden sandals. “Nice to meet you too.” I said smiling. “So what did you mean that Angel could be the one?” Frank asked. Zin sighed and said “The prophecy tells of a young girl who has magical glowing crayons that can draw and color anything she wants and bring it to life.” “And that girl is you.” The man looked at me and smiled. “You mean these crayons?” I asked holding them up. “Precisely.” Zin said. “You are the color princess.” I felt a wave of joy flow through my body and said “Princess?!”

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> Zin nodded. “Yay!” I cheered. Julie looked around the house, and said “So why is everything so white?” Zin turned to her and said “There is an evil jester who is able to steal the colors of any living being and thing using the King’s magical staff.” “Back when the land was colorful, the jester worked for the king, until one day the jester decided that he wanted to be king, so he stole the king’s magical staff and took the king’s colors away making him weak.” Zin poured a cup of tea for Julie, Ashley, Frank, and I and continued. “Once the jester had all of the king’s power, he sent the king and queen to a dungeon deep underground guarded by dozens of guards and a dragon.” Zin said sipping his tea. “Where’s the dungeon at?” Ashley asked. “I do not know.” Zin said frowning. “But I do know someone who does!” “Who?” I asked. “Well…he doesn’t know in his mind, but he can find the king and queen.” Zin said. “Who is he?” Julie asked. “Moslen the paint wizard.” Zin said.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> “Where does he live?” I asked. Zin thought for a second and walked over to a table with white paper on it that was on the other side of the room. “Hmm…” Zin thought as he shuffled though some of the papers. “Ah here it is!” Zin pulled out a medium sized paper, and handed it to me. “What is this?” I asked. “Why it’s a map.” Zin said smiling. I looked down at it, and said “It’s just a piece of paper.” “It’s a piece of paper now, but once you color it, it will be a map.” Zin said. I pulled out my crayons, and began coloring on the piece of paper. When I was finished, the piece of paper now had a large mass in the middle with water all around it. Zin looked at the map, and pointed at a specific spot. “Here is where the wizard lives.” Zin said. “It’s a long and dangerous journey, so let me give you some supplies before you all head out.” Ten minutes later, Zin had a carriage with food and water ready for us and a donkey that will be pulling it.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> “When you arrive at the wizard’s home, there are a few things you must do for him before he can help you.” Zin said as Julie, Ashley, Frank, and I got in the carriage. “Like what?” Frank asked. “I guess you’ll have to find out.” Zin said smiling. All of a sudden, we heard yelling and the sound of horse hooves clacking in the ground coming towards us. “Oh no…” Zin said in fear. “It’s the Jester’s guards, I think the Jester knows you’re here.” “How does he know?” I asked. “No time to explain, you need to get out of here fast!” Zin said smacking the donkey on the butt. The donkey went ‘Yeeehooon!’ and took off running carrying us with it. I turned to see Zin being captured by a bunch of guards, and tears trickled down my cheeks. “Poor Zin.” I said turning to Frank and crying in his chest. Frank looked down at me, and petted my head. “It’s ok, we’ll save Zin soon.” Frank said smiling. “Thanks.” I said smiling back. We continued down the dirt road, and began our quest.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">                                                               Chapter 2

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> “Where are we on the map?” Frank asked as he, Julie, and Ashley looked at the map. “Hm…” Julie said thinking as she looked around for a sign. Julie spotted a sign that said ‘Color Castle three miles’ in the opposite direction from where we were heading. She then looked at the map and pointed. “We’re right here.” Julie said smiling. Ashley noticed me staring in the direction we just came from and sat next to me. “You okay Angel?” Ashley asked. I frowned and sighed. “If it’s about Zin, we’ll save him okay?” Ashley said patting me on the back. “I know we will…it’s just…” I began. “Since we got here, everything that’s been happening I’ve seen it before.” “What do you mean?” Ashley asked. “I can’t explain it, but before the guards came, I knew that was going to happen.” I said. “Oh…” Ashley said looking at the road below us. “I think everything in my coloring book is happening to us,” I said. “What makes you say that?” Ashley asked.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> “Remember on the front cover the blank spots where the prince and princess should be?” I asked. “Yeah.” Ashley said. “I think the princess spot is me.” I said. “Then who’s the prince?” Ashley asked nudging me and smiling. “Frank?” I blushed and said “No!” Then all of a sudden we stopped. “What’s going on?” I asked looking around. “I don’t know, the donkey just stopped.” Frank said. We looked passed the donkey, and saw a broken bridge. “Aww…” Julie whined. “Now we can’t cross.” “Is this the only way?” I asked. Frank checked the map and said “Yep.” I sighed and said “Well what are we going to do?” We all sat there thinking, until Ashley said “How about you draw a bridge?” “You can’t be serious.” I said looking at her like she was crazy. “Why not?” Ashley asked. “You were able to color in Zin and his family.” I placed my finger over my lip and thought about it.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> “Ok I’ll try.” I said taking out my crayons. I walked over to the broken bridge, and hovered the crayon in the air. “Go on.” Ashley said smiling. I took a deep breath, and drew a line. “It worked!” I screamed joyfully. “Then draw a bridge!” Julie said joyfully as well. I began moving my hand back and forth forming a path under me as I walked to the other side of the gap. When I was finished, I looked at my crayon and saw that it hadn’t gone down one bit. “Wow!” Frank said amazed as he stared at the bridge I drew. “Are you guys coming?” I asked on the other side. “Yeah we’re coming.” Julie said. As they were about to cross the bridge, a group of kids in black hoodies carrying daggers surrounded them. “Guy’s!” I screamed as I ran towards them. “Stay back Angel!” Frank yelled. “I’ll handle them!” Back home, Frank takes wrestling. He’s number one in his class.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> One of the kids came at Frank with his dagger, and Frank dodged it. He then tackled the kid to the ground and pinned him. Julie and Ashley were crying as they backed away from the other kids. I had tears running down my cheeks, and I wanted to help my friends. All of a sudden, a boy in a red hoodie swooped down from the tree, and shot arrows at all the kids in black. The kids then turned into a pile of black liquid. Frank picked himself up off the ground and whipped the dirt off his clothes. The boy in red landed in front of me, and with just his nose and eyes hidden, smiled warmly at me. My cheeks turned red, and I stared up at him. “Hey!” Frank said running over to us. “Who are you?” The boy slowly took his hood off, and said “The name’s Leon.” “Nice to meet you….” “Angel.” I said. “Nice to meet you Angel.” Leon said. “So who were those kids?” Julie asked when she walked up to us.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> “They’re just some bandits that hang out in the woods, waiting for travelers to pass by.” Leon said. “They were the ones who destroyed the bridge, making sure no one could get across.” “Those big meanies….” I said frowning. I looked up and got a better look at Leon. He has blonde hair that reaches to his shoulders, emerald colored eyes, and a few freckles that are very light under his eyes. Just staring at him made my heart flutter. “So where you guy’s headed?” Leon asked. “To see a wizard named Moslen!” Julie and Ashley said blushing and smiling. Leon smiled and said “Really? So am I!” “I’m going to have him help me rescue my dad.” “Well let’s all go together!” I said happily. The four of us began walking away, and Frank slowly followed behind with a grin on his face.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> Ten minutes later, Leon turned to me and said “So Angel, where did that bridge come from?” “The bridge….” I said thinking for a second. “Oh right!” I stopped in my tracks and pulled out my box of crayons. Leon’s eyes widen. “I drew the bridge with these.” I said holding up the crayons. Leon immediately fell to one knee, and said “I am so sorry my princess, for not recognizing who you were.” He grabbed my hand and kissed it. My face turned bright red and I looked away. Julie and Ashley had sad looks on their faces and Frank crossed his arms looking angrily. “Please forgive me.” Leon said smiling. “I forgive you, but I don’t know why.” I said giggling. “Let me fully introduce myself.” Leon said standing to his feet and bowing. “I am Leon, Prince of Colorvania.” “My father was captured by the evil joker, and I must rescue him.” Frank, Julie, and Ashley had a shocked look on their face, and I was still giggling from the kiss on my hand.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in"> “Sweet!” I said happily. “We’re going to rescue the king too!” “Great! We can help each other out.” Leon on said smiling. Leon then grabbed my hands “And don’t worry my princess, I will make sure nothing happens to you as long as I am here.” I looked up at him and blushed again. “Th…Thank you Leon.” I said. “Ok ok!” Frank said walking in between us. “Let’s go find the wizards house.” “Right! Let’s move on!” Leon said as we continued down the path.

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in">                                                         Chapter 3