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Once upon a time a kind Queen, named Leah, 

and her honest King, named Stefan, had a 

beautiful baby girl, named Aurora. A friendly 

neighboring kingdoms King, Hubert, suggested 

their five year old son, Prince Phillip, be 

betrothed to Princess Aurora. King Stefan and 

Queen Leah agreed since it would join the 

kingdoms. The celebration of the new princess 

was long and many gifts were given to her.

Three fairy's, that were friends of the Queen, 

gave the baby three special gifts. Flora, the red 

fairy, gives Aurora the gift of beauty. Fauna, the 

green fairy, gives Aurora the gift of song. 

Before Merryweather, the blue fairy, can give 

her gift a dark smoke cloud appears. A dark 

sorcerer, named Maleficent, steps out of the 

smoke. "Why was I not invited to give a gift to 

the Princess?" asked Maleficent bitterly. "You 

are not welcome here" said Fauna, but 

Maleficent wasn't leaving yet.

"I also have a gift to give the Princess" snarled 

Maleficent. "Your gift is not wanted" said Flora. 

Maleficent still held her ground, she was 

determined to give her gift. "Please, just leave 

us in peace" begged Queen Leah, she knew 

that Maleficent was very powerful. Maleficent 

raised her arms and announced "On Aurora's 

sixteenth birthday she will prick her finger on a 

spinning wheel and die!" Everybody gasped, 

then green flames rose around Maleficent and 

she disappeared.

Queen Leah acted quickly. She arranged for all 

of the spinning wheels in the kingdom to be 

burned. Then the three good fairy's offered to 

raise Aurora somewhere far away to hide her 

from Maleficent. The good fairy's searched far 

and wide until they found a secure hiding place 

to raise Aurora. The good fairy's meet up with 

Queen Leah   in secret so they could take Aurora 

to the safe house without anyone knowing.

The three good fairy's turned themselves into 

normal people so they could raise Aurora. They 

also agreed not to use magic. They took Aurora 

to the small cabin in the woods they had found. 

The three good fairy's didn't know how to raise 

a baby and without magic it was going to be 

hard for them. Poor baby Aurora didn't know 

what was going on and she missed her mother. 

Her mother missed Aurora as well but knew this 

was for the best.

The good fairy's hid who Aurora was from her. 

They renamed her Briar Rose to hide her 

identity. The good fairy's also told Aurora they 

were her aunts and that her parents had 

passed away. Aurora lived a simple life in the 

wood and her Aunts taught her everything she 

needed to know. Aurora often wondered what 

life would be like somewhere else. She wished 

to meet a young man who would take her away 

to a far away place in her dreams.

One day while Briar Rose was strolling thought 

the forest singing a young, handsome man 

approached her. "That was beautiful" said the 

young man. Briar Rose had never seen a man 

but she had read about them in books so she 

knew how to be polite. "Hello sir, what is your 

name?" she asked. The man smiled and said, 

"My name is Phillip, what is yours?" Briar Rose 

thought Phillip was very handsome and so she 

told him her name "I am Briar Rose." They 

talked until the sun set then Briar Rose had to 

go home.

Aurora met Phillip in the woods often and soon 

fell in love with him; Phillip fell in love with 

Aurora as well. When Phillip told his father he 

was furious because Phillip was betrothed to 

Aurora. Briar Rose meanwhile was excited 

because the next day was her birthday. Her and 

Phillip planed to meet at the cottage and Aurora 

was going to introduce Phillip to her Aunts as 

the love of her life. Phillip planed to ask her 

hand in marriage. They didn't know they were 

really betrothed to each other already. 

When Aurora returned home that night from 

picking berries, her three Aunts had a cake and 

dress fit for a princess waiting for her. Aurora 

was overwhelmed with joy but the joy didn't 

last when she found out she was a princess and 

she was betrothed. "No, I fell in love with a boy 

I met in the forest" cried Aurora. "I'm sorry my 

dear, you can never see him again" said Flora. 

Fauna reminded them "We must go if we are 

going to make it to the castle before sunset."

The good fairy's took Aurora to her new 

bedroom in the castle. Aurora was very sad 

that she could never see Phillip again since she 

was betrothed to a prince. The good fairy's 

decided to give her some alone time to think 

about her future as a princess. Then all of a 

sudden a green globe appeared and Aurora was 

put into a trance. She followed the green globe 

to the attic of an unused wing of the castle. 

Aurora entered an old musty room and in it was 

the last spinning wheel. Aurora did not not 

know about the curse and she had never seen a 

spinning wheel since all of them were 

destroyed. One spinning wheel was forgotten 

and it was sitting in front of Aurora. She 

curiously leaned out to touch it as Maleficent 

watched eagerly from the shadows. Aurora 

pricked her finger and as a tiny drop of blood 

fell to the ground she fell into a deep sleep.

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