The (Supposed) Frog Prince

 

A long time ago, there was a frog.

The frog lived in the swamp, and every day the frog would eat his fill of flies and other bugs that happened along his path.

It was a simple life, but one that the frog enjoyed.

Then one day, a young woman dressed in the red and black of a ladybird came to the swamp. Now, the frog had never met a person like this woman, and didn't realize the danger that would come from trying to ask her to stop spraying whatever stinky stuff was scaring away his lunch.

For when the woman heard the frog speak, she decided that he must be a cursed prince.

And so the frog found himself taken from his lovely swamp, and set on a pillow in a room within a castle that was sorely lacking in bugs for him to eat.

When the young woman—who turned out to be something known as a princess—kissed him, the frog was confused.

The princess was disappointed, and decided that she must not be the one meant to break his curse.

Thus began the Frog Festival, wherein every eligible princess or maiden in the surrounding kingdoms who could attend woulf have the opportunity to try and break the (supposed) Frog Prince's curse.

No one listened when the frog said he was just a frog, and so he resigned himself to being stuck in the castle for the rest of his days.