Helen O'Reilly
07-05-2014, 07:44 AM
~ Princess ANTgeline ~
By: Helen O'Reilly
Once upon a time, in one of the many ant colonies, there lived an ant queen who had twelve beautiful daughters. The youngest daughter, Princess ANTgeline, was the prettiest of all.
Princess ANTgeline was known as a day dreamer princess. Instead of playing or doing other things like her sisters did, she sat on a twig of a tall tree every single day in order to day dream. She loved sitting on her twig facing the brook where she saw a beautiful place that she would love to go. It was a very beautiful meadow with lots of colorful flowers growing on the greenest, tallest grass she had ever seen, inviting butterflies, bees and birds to come and play there. The grass looked much greener than the grass on this side. The flowers seemed more beautiful. The water and the air were cleaner.
She knew that one day she would become a queen and ruled her own kingdom (As you may probably know, an ant kingdom is ruled by a queen). When that day came, she thought, she would build the most powerful kingdom of all. In order to make this dream come true, she had to find the strongest, the bravest and the smartest knight whom she would marry.
She so believed that the meadow across the brook was a perfect place to build her dream colony in which she would build the most beautiful palace any queen ant had ever built. So, when she was alone, she drew sketches of her future palace and wrote down all her dreams and plans in a sketch book.
When it was time for her to find a husband she told her parents that she would only marry the bravest young ant in the kingdom. As she was a very pretty lady ant, all the knights in the ant world wanted to win her over.
The news spread quickly. A contest was soon held and all the bravest young ants from wide and far enlisted their names to try their luck to marry this beautiful princess.
The knights were placed in groups and the contest lasted for days. The winners of each group had to fight against the winners of the other groups until there were just two ants left. The final contest was a big event, especially as the two finalists had a life or death combat.
The winner was a knight named ANThony, but what he, or anybody didn’t know was Princess ANTgeline’s hidden agenda.
As soon as they were married, the princess told her husband and her parents that she wanted to move and build her own kingdom. Her parents were very happy about this for it was the tradition of ant society that a married princess had to leave her parents and set up her own colony. But as soon as they heard her plans, The King’s and the Queen’s faces turned pale. They never dreamed that their daughter had this strange wish.
“Why don’t you build the colony close to us?” Her mother inquired. “We have an abundant supply of food and water. We have been living in this place safely and happily for generations. Why would you go to a place so far away?”
“Do you realize how far it is? The most dangerous part of you plan is that you have to cross the brook. How will you cross the water? “Her father asked.
“We shall cross the bridge over there.” The Princess pointed westward.
“ Do you know how dangerous it is to go there, my dear? Don’t you remember the stories of the elders? They told us there are big hideous monsters passing the bridge every day. Added to this, You will need at least three-day journey to cross the bridge. Please cancel your plan. It’s too dangerous.” Her father added.
“No,” she replied, her eyes lit up with strong determination. “I have been waiting for this my whole life. I will go with or without your consent. I will make my dreams come true no matter what the cost,”
Her father gave in. Taking a deep breath, he said, “Do whatever you wish. I will give you a thousand troops of ant soldiers and another ten thousand troops of ant workers to accompany you and help you build your colony. But wait until I tell you when to start the journey because I have to make sure that the weather is good.”
One sunny morning, Princess Antgeline said good bye to her parents and started the journey. It was a fine summer day. There were no grey clouds in the sky, so they would have a wonderful journey. By evening, they arrived near the bridge and decided to sleep there and continued the journey early in the morning.
At dawn the next morning, they arrived at the bridge. The leader of the party was Sir ANTonio, having no experience taking his troops on the bridge, told the party not to walk too close to the edge of the bridge for fear of falling to the river. So they walked almost near the middle of the bridge. They had been walking safely for two or three hours when all of a sudden, they heard a thunderous rumbling voice. The earth was shaking. The voice was getting nearer and nearer. “A monster!” Sir ANTonio shouted and immediately ordered them, “Run to the edge of the bridge! Quick!” It was a very narrow escape. A cart, whose wheels rolled exactly on the path where the ants were walking, was passing over the bridge.
The Princess began to realize that this journey was indeed dangerous, especially when she received the news that they had lost hundreds of their men in that horrible accident.
After the incident, they continued the journey very carefully. Each time they heard a cart approaching, they stopped until it passed.
That day, many of the soldiers were trampled by human and animals who were crossing the bridge and unaware they that they walked over some ants.
The party spent the night sleeping under the grasses on the bridge over the brook. Fortunately, there was no more cart or human being passing the bridge during the night, so they could rest very well.
The second day was not a good day to continue the journey because it was very windy. Strong gusts sometimes swept the surface of the land. They had been walking one third of the bridge, therefore they were walking on the open without any trees protecting them from the wind. The wind blew from the east end of the bridge, so Sir ANTonio ordered the party to walk on the east end, so that even if they were blown by the wind, they could still land on the land. If they walked on the west side, they would be blown down straight to the brook.
But that day, many more lives were lost. They were either run over by the carts or trampled by human and animals or blown by the wind. Luckily, the princess had very loyal troops who guarded her day and night to ensure her survival. The journey had to continue anyway, and there was no turning back.
The next day, they decided to rest by day and continue the journey by night. It was safer as there were no carts or human passing the bridge at night.
But towards afternoon, the sky grew very dark and the wind blew strongly. They could hear the thunder rolling and lightning flashed in the darkened sky. A summer storm was coming, so they all hid under the grasses to protect them from the rain. They clang to the plants very tightly as It rained quite heavily for hours.
When the rain ceased, the princess realized that some ants had been carried away by the torrent. Only the strongest could survive the storm. She was lucky because she was guarded by her knights all night long. They canceled the plan to journey at night but restlessly wait for the sunrise.
They had a glorious morning the next day, so they were determined to finish the journey that day. It was a very hard journey because the ground was wet and slippery. They met some puddles on the way. This slowed down their journey because they had to walk round the puddles if they did not want to drown. The journey was very dangerous because besides humans, animals and carts, they had to face nature as well. Fortunately, Prince ANThony was a great husband. He comforted her day by day showing her how much he loved her and how much he cared. That was the only reason she was strong enough to continue this journey.
At last, they arrived at the end of the bridge. The troop rejoiced because they succeeded in achieving their goal of escorting their princess to her dreamland. They walked another one day journey to find a place to build a palace for their queen. It was right across their former home.
Then, from scratch they started building a colony. They worked very hard day and night. And, in the end, when all her dreams were realized by the help of her wonderful husband and people, her kingdom became the most powerful Ant kingdom in the whole wide Ant world.
The end
By: Helen O'Reilly
Once upon a time, in one of the many ant colonies, there lived an ant queen who had twelve beautiful daughters. The youngest daughter, Princess ANTgeline, was the prettiest of all.
Princess ANTgeline was known as a day dreamer princess. Instead of playing or doing other things like her sisters did, she sat on a twig of a tall tree every single day in order to day dream. She loved sitting on her twig facing the brook where she saw a beautiful place that she would love to go. It was a very beautiful meadow with lots of colorful flowers growing on the greenest, tallest grass she had ever seen, inviting butterflies, bees and birds to come and play there. The grass looked much greener than the grass on this side. The flowers seemed more beautiful. The water and the air were cleaner.
She knew that one day she would become a queen and ruled her own kingdom (As you may probably know, an ant kingdom is ruled by a queen). When that day came, she thought, she would build the most powerful kingdom of all. In order to make this dream come true, she had to find the strongest, the bravest and the smartest knight whom she would marry.
She so believed that the meadow across the brook was a perfect place to build her dream colony in which she would build the most beautiful palace any queen ant had ever built. So, when she was alone, she drew sketches of her future palace and wrote down all her dreams and plans in a sketch book.
When it was time for her to find a husband she told her parents that she would only marry the bravest young ant in the kingdom. As she was a very pretty lady ant, all the knights in the ant world wanted to win her over.
The news spread quickly. A contest was soon held and all the bravest young ants from wide and far enlisted their names to try their luck to marry this beautiful princess.
The knights were placed in groups and the contest lasted for days. The winners of each group had to fight against the winners of the other groups until there were just two ants left. The final contest was a big event, especially as the two finalists had a life or death combat.
The winner was a knight named ANThony, but what he, or anybody didn’t know was Princess ANTgeline’s hidden agenda.
As soon as they were married, the princess told her husband and her parents that she wanted to move and build her own kingdom. Her parents were very happy about this for it was the tradition of ant society that a married princess had to leave her parents and set up her own colony. But as soon as they heard her plans, The King’s and the Queen’s faces turned pale. They never dreamed that their daughter had this strange wish.
“Why don’t you build the colony close to us?” Her mother inquired. “We have an abundant supply of food and water. We have been living in this place safely and happily for generations. Why would you go to a place so far away?”
“Do you realize how far it is? The most dangerous part of you plan is that you have to cross the brook. How will you cross the water? “Her father asked.
“We shall cross the bridge over there.” The Princess pointed westward.
“ Do you know how dangerous it is to go there, my dear? Don’t you remember the stories of the elders? They told us there are big hideous monsters passing the bridge every day. Added to this, You will need at least three-day journey to cross the bridge. Please cancel your plan. It’s too dangerous.” Her father added.
“No,” she replied, her eyes lit up with strong determination. “I have been waiting for this my whole life. I will go with or without your consent. I will make my dreams come true no matter what the cost,”
Her father gave in. Taking a deep breath, he said, “Do whatever you wish. I will give you a thousand troops of ant soldiers and another ten thousand troops of ant workers to accompany you and help you build your colony. But wait until I tell you when to start the journey because I have to make sure that the weather is good.”
One sunny morning, Princess Antgeline said good bye to her parents and started the journey. It was a fine summer day. There were no grey clouds in the sky, so they would have a wonderful journey. By evening, they arrived near the bridge and decided to sleep there and continued the journey early in the morning.
At dawn the next morning, they arrived at the bridge. The leader of the party was Sir ANTonio, having no experience taking his troops on the bridge, told the party not to walk too close to the edge of the bridge for fear of falling to the river. So they walked almost near the middle of the bridge. They had been walking safely for two or three hours when all of a sudden, they heard a thunderous rumbling voice. The earth was shaking. The voice was getting nearer and nearer. “A monster!” Sir ANTonio shouted and immediately ordered them, “Run to the edge of the bridge! Quick!” It was a very narrow escape. A cart, whose wheels rolled exactly on the path where the ants were walking, was passing over the bridge.
The Princess began to realize that this journey was indeed dangerous, especially when she received the news that they had lost hundreds of their men in that horrible accident.
After the incident, they continued the journey very carefully. Each time they heard a cart approaching, they stopped until it passed.
That day, many of the soldiers were trampled by human and animals who were crossing the bridge and unaware they that they walked over some ants.
The party spent the night sleeping under the grasses on the bridge over the brook. Fortunately, there was no more cart or human being passing the bridge during the night, so they could rest very well.
The second day was not a good day to continue the journey because it was very windy. Strong gusts sometimes swept the surface of the land. They had been walking one third of the bridge, therefore they were walking on the open without any trees protecting them from the wind. The wind blew from the east end of the bridge, so Sir ANTonio ordered the party to walk on the east end, so that even if they were blown by the wind, they could still land on the land. If they walked on the west side, they would be blown down straight to the brook.
But that day, many more lives were lost. They were either run over by the carts or trampled by human and animals or blown by the wind. Luckily, the princess had very loyal troops who guarded her day and night to ensure her survival. The journey had to continue anyway, and there was no turning back.
The next day, they decided to rest by day and continue the journey by night. It was safer as there were no carts or human passing the bridge at night.
But towards afternoon, the sky grew very dark and the wind blew strongly. They could hear the thunder rolling and lightning flashed in the darkened sky. A summer storm was coming, so they all hid under the grasses to protect them from the rain. They clang to the plants very tightly as It rained quite heavily for hours.
When the rain ceased, the princess realized that some ants had been carried away by the torrent. Only the strongest could survive the storm. She was lucky because she was guarded by her knights all night long. They canceled the plan to journey at night but restlessly wait for the sunrise.
They had a glorious morning the next day, so they were determined to finish the journey that day. It was a very hard journey because the ground was wet and slippery. They met some puddles on the way. This slowed down their journey because they had to walk round the puddles if they did not want to drown. The journey was very dangerous because besides humans, animals and carts, they had to face nature as well. Fortunately, Prince ANThony was a great husband. He comforted her day by day showing her how much he loved her and how much he cared. That was the only reason she was strong enough to continue this journey.
At last, they arrived at the end of the bridge. The troop rejoiced because they succeeded in achieving their goal of escorting their princess to her dreamland. They walked another one day journey to find a place to build a palace for their queen. It was right across their former home.
Then, from scratch they started building a colony. They worked very hard day and night. And, in the end, when all her dreams were realized by the help of her wonderful husband and people, her kingdom became the most powerful Ant kingdom in the whole wide Ant world.
The end