Author's Note: In the original story of Sleeping Beauty she's raped by the Prince... I wanted to make it more romantic but still keep the sensuality and the idea of sex before conciousness... I hope you enjoy =)
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Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger at age 18, and into a blissful sleep she fell. The entire court was taken over by this spell of sleep, throughout years and years they slept... not aging, not dying, just sleeping. Her dreams were light and sweet, of peasant boys and girls, unicorns, great deeds and noble knights...
And then one day her dreams seemed to focus on one knight in particular. A prince in fact, Prince Damian of several kingdoms away. He was told a story of a captive Princess, held asleep for all time in a castle surrounded by thorns, and unbreakable wall of briars that kept all away. Many brave knights had attempted to breath the wall of thorns, but they were all driven back... it was much easier to leave than to push forward. It was said that the thorns were spelled... they were hard as nails to cut and impossible to burn, they seemed to fight when braves knights pushed towards the distant castle tower - and part easily when he gave up.
Prince Damian became enthralled by the story of the beautiful Princess - now only known as Briar Rose because of her location - and he immediately searched out help to get through the thorns.
Sleeping Beauty smiled in her sleep as she realized she was dreaming of her own story... did that mean that her century long wait was finally over? Was Prince Damian the man fated to break the curse that kept her immobile?
He met with some White Witches who bestowed upon him a magic sword and shield, as well as impenetrable armor that would protect him from the long thorns... he obviously had their approval and confidence. Traveling closer and closer to the castle surrounded by thorns, he asked many questions of the people he met, all of them with their own unique spin on the story.
Some told him that he must just breach the castle walls for the Princess to awake, others that he must enter her room in the top of the North Tower. The closer he got to the castle, the more he heard of kisses that would start the Princess' breath again... and when he was within sight of the walls he was told that a man must breach not only the castle walls, but the Princess herself and claim her as his before she would fully awaken.
Upon reaching the thorny enclosure, he took a deep breath and pulled down the visor on his helmet. Within ten feet his followers were forced to desist, his servants crying out with worry as their Prince hacked his way further and further. Sleeping Beauty admired his even sword strokes in her sleep, watching with intent interest and hope as he moved nearer and nearer the castle.