sleeping Beauty

Marie: So I've finally finished writing the piece.

Everyone gathered around Marie and listened to what she had to say.

Marie: So. I thought about it that way. May is Sleeping Beauty!

May: I? Thank-you. And who is my dream prince?

Marie: Well, Joey.

Mai bowed her head: Oh no!

Joey looked at Mai with a sweet look: Come here, honey!

Marie: Rein your hormones Joey. They are not needed now! Yami and Serenity are Mai's parents. The frog plays Tristan.

Tristan: What's that supposed to mean? Can't I be Joey's cousin?

Marie: No. The witch is Seto. Sorry but I haven't found anyone else who can play this role better than you, my darling!

Seto growled with anger.

Marie: Bakura. You're the old man who advised Joey not to walk through the thorn hedge.

Seto: And who the hell is the speaker?

Marie beamed: Well me! And now in your seats. We're about to make our appearance.

The hall was already filled with spectators.Finally the lights went out and the curtain went up. First the collage of the palace hall could be seen. Yami and Serenity stood on the stage and their eyes were fixed on the audience.

Marie: There used to be a king and a queen who spoke every day ...

Serenity: Oh, my husband. If only we had a child!

Marie: ... and never got one.

The curtain went down quickly. Now it was time to change the collage. It was the turn of the Royal Bathroom. When that was done, the curtain rose again and Serenity could be seen on the stage.

Marie: It happened, when the queen was once in the bath, that a frog ...

Now Tristan appeared in his frog costume.

Marie: ... crawled out of the water onto the land and spoke to her.

Tristan: Your wish will be fulfilled, before a year goes by, you will give birth to a daughter.

The curtain went down again.

Marie: What the frog said, it happened, and the queen gave birth to a girl named Sleeping Beauty.It was so beautiful that the king was so delighted that he couldn't stop himself and put on a big party. He not only invited his relatives, friends and acquaintances, but also the wise women, so that they might be kind to the child. There were thirteen of them in his kingdom, but because he only had twelve golden plates from which to eat, one of them had to stay at home.

Now the curtain went up again and the collage indicated a royal dining room there. Lots of people sat around a table. Yami and Serenity sat at the end of the table.

Marie: The feast was celebrated with all splendor, and when it was over, the wise women presented the child with their miraculous gifts: one with virtue, the other with beauty, the third with wealth, and so with everything on the World is to be desired. When eleven had just finished their sayings, suddenly the thirteenth stepped in.

Now Seto took the stage.

Marie: She wanted to get revenge for not being invited, and without greeting or just looking at anyone, she called out in a loud voice.Seto: The king's daughter is supposed to stab herself on a spindle in her fifteenth year and drop dead!

Marie: And without saying a word more, she turned around and left the hall.

Now Seto left the stage arrogantly.

Marie: Everyone was shocked when the twelfth stepped forward, who still had what she wanted, and because she couldn't cancel the evil saying but only soften it, she said.

Sina: But it shouldn't be death, but a hundred years of deep sleep into which the king's daughter falls.

Now the curtain went down again. When he went up again, they saw Yami and a messenger.

Marie: The king, who wanted to save his dear child from misfortune, issued an order that all spindles in the whole kingdom should be burned. But all the gifts of the wise women were fulfilled in the girl, because she was so beautiful, decent, friendly and understanding that everyone who looked at her must love her.

The curtain went down again and the collage was changed.And again it opened. You could see May now. The background was just a gray stone pattern.

Marie: It happened that on the day when she was just fifteen years old, the king and queen were not at home, and the girl was left all alone in the castle. It went around everywhere, looked at rooms and chambers as it pleased, and finally came across an old tower. She climbed the narrow spiral staircase and came to a small door. There was a rusty key in the lock, and when it turned the door jumped open, and there was an old woman sitting in a little room with a spindle, busily spinning her flax.

The set was now exchanged in a small room. Seto was sitting on a small chair and pretending to be spinning flax. Mai stood next to him.

May: Hello, you old mother ...

Marie: Said the king's daughter ...

May: ... what are you doing there?

Seto said in a harsh feminine voice: I'm crazy.He nodded.

Marie: Said the old woman and nodded her head.

Mai: What kind of thing is that that jumps around so merrily?

Marie: Said the girl, took the spindle and wanted to spin too.

Mai bent down to pick up the spindle.

Marie: But no sooner had she touched the spindle than the magic spell came true and she stabbed her finger.
But the moment she felt the sting, she fell down on the bed ...

Mai dropped into the soft bed next to her.

Marie: ... and was in a deep sleep. And this sleep spread over the whole castle: the king and queen, who had just come home and entered the hall, began to fall asleep, and the whole court with them. The horses slept in the stable, the dogs in the courtyard, the pigeons on the roof, the flies on the wall, yes, the fire that flickered on the herd became still and fell asleep, and the roast stopped sizzling, and the cook, who wanted to pull the kitchen boy's hair because he had done something, let him go and slept.And the wind died down, and no more leaves moved on the trees in front of the castle.

The curtain closed again.

Marie: But around the castle a hedge of thorns began to grow, which grew taller every year. And finally the whole castle moved and grew beyond that so that nothing of it could be seen anymore, not even the flag on the roof. But the legend went about the beautiful sleeping Sleeping Beauty in the country. So from time to time king sons came who wanted to penetrate through the hedge into the castle. But it was not possible for them, for the thorns, as if they had hands, held them tightly together, and the young men got stuck in them, could not free themselves again and died a miserable death.

The curtain went up again. A hedge of thorns was visible in the collage. Joey came on the stage ridden on a white steed. Bakura was sitting on a small mat.

After many years a king's son came to the country again and heard an old man tell about the thorn hedge that there should be a castle behind it, in which a beautiful king's daughter, called the Sleeping Beauty, had been sleeping and sleeping with her for a hundred years the king and queen and the whole court.He also knew from his grandfather that many royal sons had come and tried to get through the thorn hedge, but they would have got stuck in it and died a sad death. Then spoke the youth.

Joey: I'm not afraid, I want to go out and see beautiful Sleeping Beauty.

Marie: The good old man might advise against what he wanted, he didn't listen to his words.
But now the hundred years had just passed, and the day had come when Sleeping Beauty was to wake up again. When the king's son approached the hedge of thorns, they were all large, beautiful flowers, they spread apart by themselves and let him pass undamaged, and behind him they formed a hedge again. In the castle courtyard he saw the horses and piebald hunting dogs lying and sleeping, the pigeons were sitting on the roof with their heads tucked under their wings. And when he got into the house the flies were sleeping on the wall, the cook in the kitchen was still holding his hand as if he wanted to grab the boy, and the maid was sitting in front of the black chicken that was supposed to be plucked.So he went on and saw the whole court lying and sleeping in the hall ...

The stage design was exchanged for the royal hall collage again. Yami and Serenity lay next to each other on the floor. Joey stood in front of the two.

Marie: ... and upstairs by the throne were the king and queen. Then he went even further, and everything was so quiet that one could hear his breathing, and finally he came to the tower and opened the door to the little room in which Sleeping Beauty was sleeping.

The collage was changed again. It was now a picture of a room. Mai lay on the bed and did not move. Joey approached the bed.

Marie: There it was and it was so beautiful that he couldn't avert his eyes, and he bent down and gave her a kiss.

Tea backstage: I'm not going to let that disgusting bitch get Joey. Will we redesign the fairy tale a little. So she took a string and pulled on it. The entire stage set fell over and that in the direction of May.But Joey threw himself on Mai to protect her.

Marie: Oh no!

Tea: Hahahahahahahahaha!

Mai freed herself from the curtain and laid Joey's head on her lap. She quickly saved the performance.

May: This prince woke me up from my sleep. I will support him all my life. I will marry him.

She quickly raised Joey's head and kissed him.

Marie: That was the piece of Sleeping Beauty!

The audience applauded.

In the cloakroom:

Everyone had to freshen up first. But Mai went to Joey.

May: You owe me another kiss, honey!

Joey looked puzzled at Mai. Now he finally got up and kissed her. One kiss became more. They kissed passionately. And that in front of the whole group. Serenity nudged her brother.

Serenity: Congratulations. You finally dared, you scared rabbit!

Joey looked puzzled at Serenity, but she was laughing and hacked Yami. The two also returned their love for one another.All in all, the piece turned out very well for everyone. Especially for Joey and Mai, Yami and Serenity. But Tea growled