An Adventure for Princess Aurelia

By B. Heather Mantler

Princess Aurelia thought she was just going out to the garden to enjoy the sunshine. Little did she know this would lead to an adventure with unicorns, mermaids, pixies, a dragon, and a professor.
Will she succeed? Will it be too much for a girl? Will she find some help along the way?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lit-N-Laughter
• Release date: Jan 27, 2020
• ISBN: 9781927507520

B. Heather Mantler

Heather Mantler is a lover of fairy tales and fables. Her home town is Prince George, British Columbia. Heather is always working on another story as she hopes to finish every story idea that she has ever written down. She was a nominee for the fiction category of the 2012 Prince George Regional Arts and Cultural Awards and short listed for the 2013 John Harris Fiction Awards. Heather encourages her readers to post reviews on Good Reads and Amazon.

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An Adventure for Princess Aurelia

B. Heather Mantler

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Copyright 2019 B. Heather Mantler

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ISBN: 978-1-927507-52-0

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Table of Contents

Princess Aurelia and the Sick Unicorns

Princess Aurelia and the Ill Mermaids

Princess Aurelia and the Pixies

Princess Aurelia Gets Ready for Adventure

Princess Aurelia Gathers Items She Needs

Princess Aurelia Gets the Last Supplies

Princess Aurelia Gets Some Help

Princess Aurelia and the Shapeshifter

Princess Aurelia Against the Dragon

Princess Aurelia Gets Help with the Dragon

Princess Aurelia and the Professor' Lair

Princess Aurelia Fights the Professor

Princess Aurelia Leaves the Lair

Princess Aurelia and the Dragon

Princess Aurelia Heads Home

About the Author

This book is dedicated to Aurelia, who gave me the first chapter and inspired the rest of the story. All of the adventures of Princess Aurelia has been for her.

Princess Aurelia and the Sick Unicorns

Princess Aurelia of Gew had finished her school work for the day and had come down to the garden to enjoy the sunshine. It being late spring the garden was full of blooms. The scent and colours called for her to sit in the grass and soak it all in.

Princess Aurelia had barely settled herself when she heard a weak groan from somewhere nearby. She looked around, but she didn’t see anything making the noise. Peering at the bushes, Princess Aurelia thought she saw something white.

Getting up, Princess Aurelia went over to the bushes. Moving a branch aside, she looked through and saw a white unicorn. It was lying on its side and moaned again. Princess Aurelia moved aside more branches so she could step through. She gently put her hand on the unicorn’s neck. The unicorn lifted its head enough to look at her. It seemed to be comforted by Princess Aurelia’s presence, so she sat down next to it.

The unicorn felt like velvet under Princess Aurelia’s hand. She noticed there were leaves and sticks caught in its mane suggesting a journey through a forest. Along the unicorn’s legs were scratches, but they were not deep enough to draw blood. There were no obvious signs of injuries, however it was in distress.

After a few minutes, the unicorn lifted its head again. But this time after looking briefly at Princess Aurelia, the unicorn got to its feet. It was unsteady and struggled for balance a moment before it started moving forward. It went to the end of the row of bushes and then stopped to look back. Without it speaking, Princess Aurelia realized it wanted her to follow.

Scrambling a little, Princess Aurelia got up and followed the unicorn. It led the way along the rows of bushes to a door in the wall that had been left open. The unicorn went through and Princess Aurelia followed. She left the door open so she could get back in.

This side of the castle had a couple metres of cleared space before the forest started. The unicorn entered into the forest where it looked like the unicorn had come through before. The path was not clear, so branches were brushing by Princess Aurelia. She ignored any scratches as her focus was only on keeping up with the unicorn.

Then suddenly Princess Aurelia stumbled into a clearing after the unicorn as she did not see the transition until they came upon it. The change in scenery caused Princess Aurelia to not notice what was going on in the clearing immediately. It was only with the realization that the unicorn had stopped before Princess Aurelia looked around. In the grass of the clearing were five unicorns lying as if they were all sick. The unicorn who had brought Princess Aurelia there looked at her expectantly.

Princess Aurelia went to the first one on the ground and knelt beside it. It lifted its head slightly to look at her, but only briefly. Princess Aurelia placed her hand on the creature’s neck, which seemed to comfort it a little bit.

What happened? Princess Aurelia asked the unicorn who had led her here, "Was it something