Twisted Fairy Tales 1 by Jason Tipple

Author:Jason Tipple
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: children, fairy tales, princess, fairy, tales, twisted, little, pigs, three, red riding hood, beanstalk
Publisher: Jason Tipple

Chapter 5: The Ugly Duckling

Grandma still didn’t have her medicine, but worse than that the poor old dear was out of bed. There was nothing for it - I would have to find Red Riding Hood. She needed to know that her Grandma was on the rampage with a boom-stick and needed calming down. The poor old lady should be in bed resting and taking her medicine, not acting like a one woman army on a friendly wolf hunt. Grandma would never get better if she was worrying about her granddaughter and not taking her medicine.

Now I had no idea where Red Riding Hood was but that wouldn’t stop a clever wolf like me from trying to save the day. As soon as I returned to the last place I saw her, my nose picked up her trail. She was heading towards the river, so I ran as fast as I could in that the direction.

Sure enough, there was Red Riding Hood in the shallow water near the river bank. It was a beautifully warm afternoon and the girl had left her pixie boots on the river bank so she could paddle in the cool water. She was shouting at someone so I trotted over to the river bank to see what she was doing.

‘You hideous ugly thing!’ yelled Red Riding Hood at something in the river.

Who was the naughty little girl taunting this time?

‘What a stupid ugly bird!’ she shouted.

‘Little girl,’ I called out, ‘Who are you shouting at?’

Red Riding Hood spun around in surprise and glared at me. Her pretty face was more spiteful than an angry lemon.

‘Hello again dummy wolf,’ she teased. ‘Picked any more stupid stinky flowers?’

‘No not recently,’ I replied, ‘but I do need to speak with you. Now who are you yelling at?’

‘That ugly old duckling,’ she laughed, pointing towards the river. ‘Look at the horrible grey duckling following his Mummy duck. There are five yellow ducklings and a stupid ugly grey one behind them.’

‘But it’s not very nice to laugh at people who are different,’ I explained to her, ‘Don’t you see that?’

‘Ducks aren’t people,’ she snapped, ‘you stone headed, fur brained wild old mutt! All I see is the ugliest duckling in the world. Oh, and the dumbest wolf in the world too.’

I sighed deeply. Talking to this girl was harder than catching an Olympic sprinting rabbit. She must have fallen out of a tree once and landed on a rotten mushroom but never forgiven the world. That’s what I think, but somehow I couldn’t give up on her. There must be some way to make her see how horrible she was being.

‘Lost your tongue fur-brain?’ she taunted me.

‘No, it’s still here in my mouth,’ I replied, ‘I was just thinking to myself.’

Red Riding Hood climbed out of the river and pulled her boots back on without even drying her feet.

‘Stupid boring ducks have swum away now anyway,’ she muttered to herself.

‘Listen please Red Riding Hood,’ I sighed. ‘Your Grandma needs you. She has gone quite a bit crazy and is waving a boom-stick around when she should be resting in bed.

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