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On an island far away lived a King 

and a Queen who were blessed with 

a   beautiful baby boy. They named 

him Dysmas, which meant dusk.

A few days after he was 

born, three gnomes came 

and blessed the prince with 

gifts. The first gnome, 

named Buster, blessed 

Dysmas with the gift of 

beauty. He was to have hair as 

red as a rose and eyes brighter 

than the sun.

The second gnome, who 

went by the name of 

Bartholomew, gifted him 

with song. He was to sing 

his feelings, because we all 

know how great it is to burst 

out into random song out of no 

where.

She proceeded to scream “How DARE you all not invite me! I am 

the life of all parties! So, because I was so rudely left out, I too shall 

gift dear Prince Dysmas!”

The last gnome, named Barney, was about to bless baby Dysmas 

with his gift when the evil witch Femaleficent stormed into the 

castle. She was furious that she wasn't invited to such a fabulous 

event.

She lifted her bony hand and said “I curse Dysmas, that on his 16th 

birthday, he shall receive a very excruciating paper cut and fall 

asleep forever and ever. Mwhahahaha!”

“NOT A PAPER CUT!” screamed Buster, but it was too late. 

Femaleficent was gone.

The King and Queen took Dysmas home and the gnomes began to 

talk.

The King and Queen held their child and started to cry. “I can still 

give him my gift!” proclaimed Barney. “I can't do much, but I bless 

this child that he shall not sleep forever. He shall awaken if he 

receives an act of love from a beautiful princess.”

“What are we going to do?!” whines Buster. “We need to protect 

him!”

“We can't just burn all the things that could give him a paper cut, 

that could be anything!” said Bartholomew.

“I have an idea!” shouts Barney. “What if we put him into the 

witness protection program? I mean, this is the 21st century.”

“Yeah! We could have him live with us, give him a new name, cut 

him off from all civilization in the middle of nowhere until he's 16!” 

shriked Bartholomew.

“Its perfect.” said Buster with a smile.

And with that, they ran to tell the King and Queen who agreed and 

they took Dysmas into the middle of the woods so he could start 

his new life.

“Tomorrow is my 16th birth-day and I'm so ex-cit-eddddd!” sang 

Dysmas as he leaped around with his animal friends. He wasn't 

known as Dysmas though. He went by Reed.

Reed was too busy prancing around and singing that he didn't notice 

a beautiful girl watching him from afar. “What a weirdo...” said to her 

horse.

She then came up to Reed and accidentally frightened him. “Good 

heavens, you sure did scare meeee, I was so sur-prised good-ness!” 

“I'm so sorry. I was just riding through the woods and heard your 

singing. You're really talented, but why do you have to sing 

everything?” asked the girl.

“I don't really know. I was born doing it really.” said Reed

“My names Harmony.” said 

the girl.

“And I'm Reed.”

And they spent the entire 

day getting to know each 

other, you know, what 

normal humans usually do.

“I feel like I've met you 

before, Harmony. Once 

upon a dreammm...” Reed 

started to sing.

“That's weird...” Harmony 

said, and Reed stopped 

right there.

Reed invited Harmony over to his house for dinner and she said 

she'd love to. So they both ran home so they could get ready.

“Dads! I met a beautiful girl and she's coming over for dinner 

tonight!” said Reed excitedly. 

“That can't happen!” said Barney “You have plans tonight at the 

castle. Do you not remember me telling you this morning?”

“...No.” said Reed, trying to remember and now very sad.

“We're really sorry, Reed. We have to leave right now. We won't be 

coming back either.” said Bartholomew trying to console Reed. But 

it was too late, he was already running up to his room to cry.

Buster ran up after him. “Stop crying Reed, you just met this girl 

and you're only 15.”

“But it's looove. I'm in loooove! Boo hoo” sang Reed, sobbing into 

his pillow. But it was time to go, and with that, they left.

Femaleficent has been looking for Dysmas for years and years now 

and is getting irritated. “ I don't understand how you guys haven't 

found him yet!” she screamed at her servants.

“It's really hard trying to find the same baby for 16 years, 

Femaleificent! We've literally checked every craddle!”

“You... craddles... baby...” and she realized that they weren't 

looking for a grown boy. She then flew out of the castle, destroyed 

it with all the servants, and left to find him herself.

The gnomes and Reed were heading towards the castle. But while they 

were dragging Reed out of the house, Barney forgot to put on his 

shoes. And if gnomes don't wear shoes when they go outside, they 

leave very distinct footprints. 

As Femaleficent was sneaking around the woods, she spotted these 

footprints on the ground that were obviously from a gnome. She 

followed them and crept quietly behind them waiting for the perfect 

change to put her plan into action.

Femaleficent hypnotized Reed with the smell of fresh cut 

vegetables sauteed and glazed upon a juicy steak because we all 

know how much guys love food. And his dads didn't even notice 

because they were too busy arguing about what that smell is to 

notice Reed was gone. Femaleificent had a whole meal set up on a 

table. And next to the food was a letter made out to him, from 

Harmony.

The gnomes noticed he was gone and they started running after 

him, but it was too late. Their legs were too short and Reed was too 

excited that he got a letter from Harmony that as he ripped it open, 

he received a nasty paper cut on his hand. Reed fell to the floor and 

the only thing you could hear is Femaleificent laughing in the sky.

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