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The Seven Dwarfs and (Not (1/2)

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G | Ryu Sujeong x Kim Jiho | Yoo JiaeDoc - Jisoo

Dopey - Mijoo

Sleepy - Myungeun

Sneezy - Yein

Bashful - Soojung

Grumpy - Jiae

Happy - Jiyeon

There's a loud yelp echoing from the other room following sound of something breaking into the ground, and without further ado, Grumpy spuns on her heels, skittering to the source of the commotion while grumbling, "No. No. No. NO! PRINCESS SUJEONG!"

Just as Grumphy expected, once she arrived on the room, Princess Ryu Sujeong is standing frozen in the middle, smiling sheepishly, round eyes moving up and down from shattered pieces of a plate she just broke on the floor to the angry looking dwarf. "Oops. Sorry. I just wanted to help you with cleaning."

"How many times do I have to tell you about not being such a reckless?!" Both hands in waist, Jiae sends the princess her best deathly glare. "Ohh it's my favourite Royal Crown Derby porcelain!" She mourns exaggeratedly.

Every single tableware in this house is your favourite... Sujeong wants to comment, but refrains from doing so and instead plastering a guilty, filled with sympathy expression. "I'm sorry, Grumpy... I will get another one from the castle when I go home."

"It's not only about the plate, princess! It's about you! You and your impudent, not lady-like manner!" She continues with the nag, eyes still shooting dagger.

"Look at this!" Jiae takes out a paper from her overall's large pocket - list of princes the seven dwarves intended to matchmake with Sujeong, and they just crossed the thirteenth name two days ago because that prince, like the other twelve, apparently wanted a feminine, graceful princess. "If you keep this on, no prince would want to marry you!"

"But why? Bashful and Dopey are exact opposite of each other and they're in beautiful relationship! Why do I have to be feminine and graceful just to make those charming, white horse rider boys fall in love with me?" Sujeong pouts, clearly expressing displease at the idea of finding herself a prince.

Jiae rolls her eyes, making clucking sound. "How could you say choking one another all the time is a beautiful relationship..."

"Well, some people certainly have their own way to express affection that maybe... Not so common." They go on with the arguing until the other dwarves appear, complaining about the two making noisy ruckus in such early hour.

Doc Jisoo, the nature lover whom able to speak with animals, Dopey Mijoo, the crazy one who always does the dumbest thing ever crossed your mind, Sleepy Myungeun, who sleeps for over twenty hours everyday, Happy Jiyeon, friendly smile never seemed to leave her face, Sneezy Yein, who has her nose runny 24/7 and always ends her sentence with ah choo!, Grumpy Jiae, the neat and clean freak who's in charge of their hut's hygiene, and would be able to find any reason to nag others most of the time, and Bashful Soojung, the dwarf-est of all dwarves, shy and always has rosy blushy cheeks; since a year ago, the King and Queen of Lovelinus Kingdom has been entrusting their only daughter, Princess Ryu Sujeong, under their care to learn how to become a proper princess.

The country rulers are also leaving the dwarves very important duty of finding a fine suitor who's willing to marry Princess Sujeong once she's coming of age - the task they both had given up because no matter how many times they tried to introduce their daughter to every noble in the neighborhood kingdoms, all of those gentlemen always turned the offer down.

It's not really to everyone's surprise, actually. Princess Sujeong is a true beauty, skin as fair as snow, has a heavenly singing voice, her slightly chubby cheeks would make people go heart eyes and squeal cute; until they see her troublemaker side. She talks really loud and acts tomboy-ish, as strong as well-built man but can be such crybaby at times, easily agitated over the tiniest thing, and it's not infrequent her excitement were followed with crashed household goods, torn clothes, or scraped skin. There was even one time during her childhood when she caused her classmate - a prince of another country next to Lovelinus - fell from stairs and badly injured.

Her parents had tried every single idea they could think of but none was fruitful to change their one and only daughter's behaviour. The King then came to a conclusion that their way of raising her in luxurious castle with all her wishes granted as soon as she asked was the reason why Princess Sujeong grew up overly spoiled and rather hubris. Thus when they heard there are wise and respectable dwarves living in the deep forest, it didn't take long before the King decided to send the Princess to them so she could learn how to live with sense of responsibility.

Though the 'wise and respectable dwarves' part are total deceit, the idea miraculously worked. The traits of crudeness are still persist in her, but little by little, Princess Sujeong started to learn of how to consider first before doing anything. She also found true friends in the seven little dwarves and understand what is genuine care - the one she lacked a lot while living in the castle where everyone babied her just because of her status.

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"Yo! Dopey! Bashful! What're you doing?" With jumpy steps, Princess Sujeong approaches the two dwarves who are busy chasing each other with mop in their little hands, causing water droplets splashed here and there all over the floor.

"Cleaning the storage room?" The dwarves shrug. "What does it look like?"

"Uh. Mop war." Sujeong deadpans. "Did Grumpy make you two do chores again?"

"It's because she lost in rock-paper-scisscors game!" Dopey points an accusing finger at Bashful, the smaller dwarf's cheeks instantly turn redder that it already has when she continues dramatically, "Can't let my love being enslaved here alone, so I came along!"

"Yikes... PDA!" Sujeong scrunches her nose in fake disgusted expression. She leaves the two resuming their cleaning task and begins wandering inside the room with sheer excitement. It's been said before by Doc that their storage - another smaller shack located behind their home - was once occupied by an old dwarf who learned wizardry. The ceiling is short her hand can reach it even without tip-toeing, but it's actually pretty wide, and filled with contents Sujeong's never seen before.

"Holy macaroons! I never knew we actually have a lot of interesting things in our storage room!" Piles of heavy tomes dumped everywhere accumulating dust, jars containing liquids and powders in various colours lined in old shelves, and one catching her attention the most now is sweet boxes laying in Mediterranean styled wooden desk.She takes the pink one, opening its lid. "Look, I found candies! This smells like apple.. I love apple!"

"You better don't eat that, Princess! We don't know if it's still edible or..." It's too late, the Princess already munches a handful of those red and white candies.

"Hmmm! They taste fine!" She announces before grab another more.

"Oh!" They are all startled at Bashful's exclaim. Not because it's sudden, but because she's never raised her voice at all. "I remember that candy! Sleepy ate some before, and fell asleep for a month before we managed to wake her up!"

"Then after she wake up, she turned... Sleepy all the time.." Before Dopey finishes speaking, the Princess falls down to the floor and goes immobile. "Uh oh..."

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Sujeong is now laying on top of flower bed in the front of their home after seven dwarves struggled to lift her out of the storage room. They gathered circling her sleeping body, all with troubled and sad expression.

"How do we wake her up now?! The King and Queen will slash our necks and hang our heads in front of the castle if they know we've made their daughter like this!" Grumpy cries in panic.

"How did Sleepy wake up back then?" Doc pipes up, pointedly ignoring Grumpy's scenarios of how they would get punished by the King.

"Hm. You guys said Sneezy kissed me?" Sleepy mumbles so slowly no one's sure if she's sleep-talking or actually talking.

"Actually Dopey tripped on her own feet and bumped Happy who then bumped Doc who then bumped me and I accidentally fell to Sleepy's sleeping body and met her lips-ah choo!" Sneezy takes out a handkerchief to wipe her nose. "Should I kiss our Princess then-ah choo?"

The other dwarves glance at each other, they are nodding rapidly when suddenly Bashful interrupts. "Uh. It won't work, I think. We have to find Princess' true love, her destiny, and ask him to kiss her. Only that way she will wake up."

"How did you know that?" Happy prompts curiously.

"It's written here in this book I just found beside the candy box." The shy dwarf holds up a book bigger than her head. "The pink candy will put one who eats it in deep sleep, the blue one will turn people's face into ugly beast, the yellow one will transform people into frog..."

"God, Bashful! Why didn't you tell us earlier?!" Bashful jumps right away at Grumpy's loud bark and runs to hide behind Sneezy.

"Because. I'm too shy to talk." She says in whisper, and everyone groan.

"Well. So here comes another problem..." Doc paces back and forth, hand scratching her head in complete confusion. "Where do we find this destiny person? She's never been in relationship since birth!"

"Oh!" Out of the blue, Dopey shouts, and six other dwarves eyes immediately turn to her. "I think she mentioned someone she liked before... Someone she bumped yeeeeears ago during manner class with another royal children from countries all over the world."

"Yeeeeeears ago?! There's no way we could find that person! Besides, you said she bumped him! He could be one of the prince who had turned Princess Sujeong down because he scared of her!" Grumpy shoots indignantly.

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