“ Once Princess Next Nothing ”
By: Andrew Orozco
The king’s daughter came to the amphitheater to watch the man's fate. It turns out that the night before the big show she bribed men to put meat under every seat in the amphitheater. The day of the show, the princess motions to the door that holds the tiger. She anticipated that once the tiger was released, he would go for the closest and most convenient spot for meat considering the people who keep the tiger captive don’t ever feed it. The princess sees the tiger sniffing knowing her plan is working. The tiger leaps into the crowd instead of going for the man to eat the nearest steak.
The crowd is going crazy, the tiger is viciously eating steaks one by one. As the crowd panics, the tiger mistakes them as prey and chomps away at civilians one at a time. The princess set this diversion to make the crowd leave in panic hopefully trying to escape the amphitheater including the man. This goes as planned, as everybody runs for the exits. The king had separated from the mass panic. Eventually everybody gets out including the tiger. She is eager to find her lover and have them live happily ever after, but the only problem is that he is nowhere to be found.
The princess looks everywhere around the abandoned amphitheater, but can not find him or anybody. After a good while she quits and heads back home to her palace.
“Oh wait!“ says the princess. “ I don’t live there anymore. The man I thought who was my father is dead to me. I shall live on my own.”
The princess finds another change of clothes from one of the prisoners rooms and puts that on. She puts it on to blend in with the crowd, because she isn't the little rich girl she thought she was anymore. She has to learn how to survive on her own now.
She exits the amphitheater in anguish, knowing that her plan never worked and her lover could be anywhere, maybe even dead. She blends in with the citizens, really well actually. People thought of her as one of their own, some wanted to befriend her. There was one problem though. Her prisoner disguise raised “some” suspicion. Especially to the rich.
Everything was fine until one person yelled, “ Guards! “ and pointed right toward her.
The princess thought “what should I do?”
She ran the fastest she had ever ran, and eventually she outran them. She placed herself down against a wall exhausted, but eventually night came. She was really curious about a huddled crowd in the middle of the road. A man walked out of the huddle,
“What’s going on?” said the princess.
“There’s a dead man on the floor!“ A random citizen said. She pushed herself to the front and saw her lover on the floor, dead.
She didn’t know what to say. She felt like something died inside her.She felt like she had been pierced with an arrow, but just couldn't fall to the ground and just die. She fell to her knees, and held his dead body in her arms, stewing in his blood feeling sorrow.
She told him, “I’m sorry” and sobbed softly.
It was morning. She had her dead lover still in her arms. With all of her anger bubbled up inside her unexpressed. Anger she needed to express, and she knew just how. She said “ Father must pay. “ She was going pay her father a little visit to kill him.
She was walking, walking with confidence and vengeance. Once again she raised suspicion.
Someone yelled “Guards, a lose prisoner, get her!“ She ran again. This time there were more guards then there usually is considering that she was going to the richer side of town. She ran to a horse that was parked on the side of the road and stole it. The guards never caught up to her. She said to herself “ Next stop, home. “
She got to the palace, with rage in her fist and rage in her face. She knew she was no longer the princess anymore, so instead she climbed up the windows.
After all her huffing and puffing she finally got to the top of her and her father’s palace and said,
“This ends tonight.” She climbs into what used to be her room. She opened the door and left her room into the hallway. She walked quietly and stealthily to her father’s room. She saw her father overlooking his whole kingdom calmly. The princess ran as fast as she could toward her father assassinating him with her father’s own knife. Her father collapsed to the floor bleeding and suffering. Her father still had a little life in him, just barely. the princess had a chance let her father hear the last words he will ever hear in his life.
“You stole my love away from me “ said the princess.“ “You think that I like to live a rich and stressful life!“ “He was the only thing I ever wanted and you just took him away from me!“ “Of all the things you ever gave me he was the one I had most wanted, but he’s gone now, because of you.“ “You don’t deserve to be king or a father, I wish you had never been apart of my life“ the princess said said quietly as she ended the kings suffering.
The guards had spotted her. She drew more attention with her father's blood on her which had her being shot at by the guards. More and guards came,
the princess thought to herself “What do I do?“ She made her decision and decided to run to the highest room in her palace which wasn't her father's room, it’s the peak of the palace. She ran the fastest she had ever run. She was scared, angry, adrenaline pumping through her veins.
She reached the top of the palace. Crossbows pointed at her head by guards. She didn’t know what to do.
“Come here miss, before you come down from there a way that you may not like.“ said one of the guards.
“You won’t be able to catch me“ said the princess. She jumped off the ledge plummeting to the ground, hoping she can make peace with god.
