TBR's Grimm Tales#9: Iron Heinrich

Hidden with Team Blue Rubicon’s Bubbaraye. Some twisted tales for your enjoyment!

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Iron Heinrich

· There's this beautiful princess who loves to play with her golden ball so of course she freaks out when it rolls down a well.

· While she's crying, a frog asks her what's wrong. You know, how frogs do.

· She tells him about the ball and he offers to get it for her…for a price. She offers him her jewels, crown, clothes (what, is she gonna strip for him?), but all he wants is to be her companion and hang out, eat, drink, and sleep with her (again, getting kind of creepy).

· The princess agrees, but she knows she isn't going to keep her promise, so she grabs the ball as soon as the frog finds it and then runs home to her swanky palace.

· The next day, while she's eating from her little golden plate with her father the king and all the courtiers (see what we mean by swanky?) the frog knocks super-loudly at the door and reminds the princess of her promise.

· Frightened, she confesses to her dad and he tells her to keep her promise.

· She unhappily shares her meal with the frog and then has to carry him upstairs to her silken bed. The very thought of the slimy critter sharing her clean sheets grosses her out, but her father gets ticked at her for not helping someone who helped her, so she has to.

· She puts the frog in a corner of the bedroom but he insists on sharing the bed with her, which enrages her so much that she picks him up and throws him against the wall.

· But then he turns into a prince. Bonus.

· The two talk a bunch so he can reveal that he was cursed by a wicked witch, and then they (chastely?) share the bed.

· The next morning, some pimped-out carriages come to retrieve the new couple so the prince can go back to his kingdom.

· The prince's servant Iron Heinrich is there, and during the carriage ride there's this weird cracking noise that turns out to be each of the three iron bands Heinrich had secured around his heart to keep it from breaking of sorrow at his master's enchantment.

· So everyone lived happily ever after…but man, they don't make servants like they used to.