16 Frog

"Well, this is a pain in the ass." Lillian murmured looking down at the frog right beside her leg in disgust. "I don't care if you're the king, I am not picking you up."

"Ahhhh!" Margaret shouted as she fell to the ground, clutching her stomach while Geno kept shouting "No!" in the background as his magic weakened with every passing minute.

She just stood there, watching the scene unfold in front of her, unsure of what to do.

"Uhhhhh … What do you think, your highness? Got any ideas about this?" She asked the frog but it only croaked back at her. "How did this happen anyway? How did you get turned to a fr-"

"You! I should have killed you when I had the chance!" Geno screamed at her and snapped his fingers.

She felt her airway get blocked again but this time it was very easy to brush off.

"I feel powerful." She laughed and flicked her hand as she summoned smoke to him. The smoke made their way to him and no matter how hard he tried to blow them away, they wouldn't disperse.

They completely surrounded him, immobilizing his every movement as he fell to the ground. Lillian sucked in her breath when she heard him smack onto the floor.

"Sorry! I'm not sure what I did. I haven't really used my magic properly before." She snapped her fingers and lifted the frog into the air, making it follow her to the duke.

Lillian bent down and looked at him struggling as the smoke continued to swirl around him.

"Well, that was anticlimactic. What do you think your highness? I'm a little bit powerful right?" She smirked at the frog who rolled its eyes at her.

Can frogs do that?

"Even as a frog, you're still incredibly annoying," Lillian complained to him, rolling her eyes as well. "Listen here, Duke, please turn him back."

The Duke burst into laughter while still on the floor, Lillian and the frog exchanged looks. He's defiantly lost his mind.

Margaret stood up from her position, with the help of the doctor and patted her belly, shaking when she felt no swelling anymore. She glanced at Lillian, whose feet was on her husband's face and a flying frog beside her. She composed herself and made her way to them.

"Listen here, f***ker, laughing isn't going to change anything. Nor do you have the option of going crazy. So tell me how to turn him back. Or so help me I will shove your **** up your **** and make you *****, *****, ******, *****, you ************." Lillian continued kicking him, releasing as much of the anger, frustration and fear she felt because of him. All the while the frog stared at her with its mouth agape.

Lillian pulled up her sleeves and was getting ready to start punching the Duke when the Duchess reached her.

"Lady Lillian." She called out to her, taking each step with the grace she always had and a kind but a tired smile on her face.

"D-Duchess. Hello." Lillian cleared her throat and pulled her sleeves down. "H-How are you?"

"I am doing fine. Something peculiar happened, Lady Lillian. I was just about to go into labour only a few minutes ago but then, pain coursed through my entire body and as suddenly as it came, it suddenly was all gone in a flash, even my swollen belly. I wonder how that could have happened, after all, my wish is to come true tomorrow." She smiled at her, giving off an aura her mother used to when she asked her about something she already knows the answer to.

Lillian cowered under her gaze and caved in, spilling everything to her.

"So, you're the Fairy Godmother from the Old Sage. I know about Fairy Godmothers but I can't remember the last time the Old Sage had one. It would explain why my wish was granted now." Margaret said after listening to Lillian.

"You made a wish, Margaret?" The Duke shouted at her from the floor. "You're the reason she's here? What about your child?"

Lillian and the frog glared at him at the same time, ready to start hitting him again but Margaret started to talk to him, stopping her.

"Yes. I made a wish that I will lose this child and that I will never be able to have children anymore."

"You wouldn't." He hissed, looking at her in disbelief.

"I did. You know me well enough to know how much I love children and would rather be hurt than ever see them hurt." She leaned closer to him, her voice low and sharp, "And that's exactly what I did. I would rather never be able to have children again then to see them be born and die just to fulfil your selfish agenda."

His face contorted to a wide grin as all sanity began to leave his body, he opened his mouth to laugh again but Lillian quickly grabbed him and slapped him back and forth across the face.

"No. No. No going crazy. You still have to tell us how to turn the King back." She said gripping his collar and pulling him up as she continued to smack him across the face.

"You are the crazy one! Will you stop that?" He shouted at her angrily, until she stopped. "Spell Casters are the only ones that can undo the spells they cast but, as you can see, I'm not powerful enough to do that as of now. If you just give me a hint of your power, I may be able to change him back." He smiled up at her but Lillian just continued smacking him across the face.

"I read enough stories to know where this leads, there is always a way to counter the spell. Tell me what it is."

"Lady Lillian. I-If you keep hitting him like that he may lose consciousness." Margaret tried to tell her while holding her laughter back.

"He's useless." Lillian dropped him back to the floor and began to think as she walked back and forth.

The frog floating beside Margaret, who looked at it with keen interest.

"I cannot believe that you, of all people, got turned into a frog. It's ridiculous." She laughed at the frog King who glared at her. "If you had magic then this might have been avoided."

"I need to call them. Jasmine! Rose! Uhhhh … You're not going to be interfering, just giving me ideas. So could you appear? I know that you're listening."

"Hi, Lillian." Jasmine up popped just beside the frog, taking it into her hands. "This is so funny."

"I can't believe the King got turned to a frog, how much more of a fairytale is this going to get." Rose appeared beside Jasmine, laughing her lungs out. "Hello, Duchess."

"Who are these people?" Margaret asked, nodding at them as Rose took her husband and threw him through a portal. "And where are they taking him?"

"I am Jasmine and that person there is Rose. We're just transferring him to a cell in the dungeon of this palace. It is a pleasure to meet your acquaintance, Duchess." Jasmine introduced, looking up from the frog in her hand.

"Those names, that uniform and those crests. Don't tell me you are a part of-"

"Fairy Tale!" Lillian exclaimed then turned to all the confused faces looking at her. "The Princess and the Frog!"

"You think that will work?" Rose asked, sceptical.

"It has worked before. After all, the story of the Princess and the Frog happened in a kingdom here. I've heard of some people finding their soul mate this way." Jasmine said, holding the frog to Lillian. "Maybe it'll work now. It's just a kiss after all."

"Yes." Lillian grabbed the frog and held it to the Duchess, smiling expectantly. Rose and Jasmine slapped their foreheads when they saw what she did.

"I do appreciate your concern for the King, Lady Lillian but I do doubt that the King and I are destined for each other." The Duchess smiled awkwardly at Lillian.

"But you are childhood friends, right? It just might be, you know?"

"He is the best and most wonderful friend I could have asked for growing up. He was always there for me when I needed him. No one can replace him in my heart."

"Then? Why don't you want to kiss him? Is it just coz he's a frog now?"

"Nothing like that Lady Lillian. It's just that I question my brother being my soul mate." She giggled seeing Lillian's expression as she said that.

"Brother?! But neither of you address each other as such." Lillian felt her head swim as her cheeks heated up.

"We have the same father, different mothers from different parts of the kingdom, but we grew up like friends and just treat each other like that. We are half brother and sister. We apologize for not telling you sooner, Lady Lillian."

Lillian looked at Rose and Jasmine who were crouched on the ground and shaking, trying to conceal their laughter.

"Well, this is something that just came out of nowhere," Lillian remarked and turned the frog to face her. "Guess we have to find another way to remove the spell off of you, your highness."