The Runaway
Princesses
(Mindanao)
Long long in the
mist of the time, there lived a datu or a king who had three beautiful
daughters, when the youngest of the daughters reached the age of seven years,
their mother the queen passed away. The Datu and his daughters were heart brokens at the death
of the queen. The datu soon became a very lonely and depressed Man who longed
to find a new mother for his three daughters whom he loved dearly. Eventually,
the datu found a new wife whom he thought would a good mother to his daughters
and leave him time to run his kingdom, which he neglected of late.
Unfortunately, the new queen turned out to be a scheaming, mean and evil woman
whos only reason for marrying the datu, was to gain control of his kingdom.
While the datu was busy running his empire, his new queen made the lives of his
three daughters pure mystery. She withdrew all their royal privrledges and they
were force to become nothing more than her maids- in- waiting.she made them
scrub the floors of the palace, cook her food and washed her c;lothes. If any
of the daughters disobeyed the queen, she would beat them and lock them in the
dungeon for hours on and without food and without water. The three princesses
were very, very unhappy with their new
step mother but said nothing to their father, the kin g in case he did
not believe them, or in case they hurt his feelings. When the harsh treatmrnt
and abused by the wicked queen became too much for the three princesses to take
anymore, they decided to run away from the palce. So, one night, without
telling anyone even their father the three daughters silently escaped from the
palace under the light of the full moon
they boarded a large kumpit, or sailboat and sailed away from the palace across
a peaceful and calm sea. But back at the palace, the queen used the magic
powers of her third eye and in her mind, was able to see the three girls
escaping across the sea in their boat. This was the perfect time to put her
evil plans into action and seize control of the kingdom. First she would use
her magic powers to kill the three daughters and then she would kill the
father, the king. Then the kingdom would belong to her. Using the concentration
of her evil mind and the powers of a magic and, the evil queen summoned up the
dark forces of nature over the calm sea. Dark clouds appear out of nowhere and
obscured the bright moon. The three princesses become frightened and clung to
one another for comfort. A mighty storm raged around the sailboat. Huge waves
swelled out of the sea, tossing the helpless wooden boat to and fro. A mighty
crash of thunder filled the dark night sky and lightning fleshed from the angry
clouds. A strong wind gusted across the undulating sea, venting its anger boats
and its three terrified occupants. Then a mighty, fiery thunderbolt roared down
from the heavens, hitting the boat which exploded into three pieces. The three
helpless princesses were tossed into the raging sea and disappeared beneath the
violent waves. When the king returned to the palace that night and saw that his
new queen was using her evil power to destroy his three daughters, he became
angry. The king snatched an ax from one of the palace guards and with one
powerful blow, cut off the queen’s head. The queen fell dead on the floor and
her evil powers were no more. The had no idea whether he would ever see his
daughters alive again and fell to his knees and with head in his hands.
Meanwhile, in the night sea, the storm subsided and the waters once more became
calm and peaceful. The three princesses had each manage to cling to one piece
of the boat wreckage and were still alive. But they were drifting far, far
apart from each other. the eldest princess drifted toward the north, the
youngest princess was drifting toward the south, meanwhile the third princess
remained in the same place where the the boat was wrecked. All three princesses
were exhausted fro their terrifying ordeal and they all closed their eyes as
they clung to the drifting pieces of their wrecked boat. When the sun rose in
the sky the next morning, the fishermen who had set out to see the daybreak,
were amazed to see that three new islands had risen out of the sea during the
the night. The island that appeared in the north, they named “Luzon”. The
island that had appeared in the south, they named “Mindanao”. And the island
that had appeared in the middle they called “Visayas”. Now the king was never
really sure of course, but he believed that the three new, beautiful islands
that grew from the sea during the night, were created for his three beautiful
daughters to live. That made him very, very happy.
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