aurora || caius volturi

aurora

in a faraway land, long ago, there lived a king and his fair queen, for many years they had longed for a child and finally one day their wish was granted

a daughter was born and they called her aurora. yes, they named her after the dawn, for she filled their lives with sunshine. her birthday became a day of joyous celebration, throughout the land all would celebrate the birth of the first and only princess of their kingdom

on the first celebration of her birth three fairies came to give her three blessings but the dark witch that dwelled in the woods came as well and placed what seemed to be a curse upon the beloved princess

fearful for the life of their daughter, the king and queen locked up the kingdom and no one was ever to enter their walls again

on her nineteenth birthday her curse would come into play and princess aurora would fall into a deep sleep, never aging, never changing

her parents would die sitting at her bedside, they never once gave up hope that their daughter would one day come back to them. after their death she was placed in the royal crypt, warded with great magic to prevent her from being disturbed

centuries passed and while her parents decomposed next to her, as her kingdom fell and others were built on top of it, her body remained the same

she would stay trapped in time for many years, oblivious to the changes of the world, until her ancient crypt would finally be opened

the princess would open her eyes for the first time in centuries and meet the eyes of her savior, who would be a creature of nightmares, a creature of myth, a failed experiment of nature

she thought perhaps he was her true curse, death by a creature of the night, but he would take her to his home and she would begin to wonder if her curse was truly ever a curse to begin with