Day Fourteen

The original story itself is pretty long, so my pastiche will probably a longer story for more advanced children books. However here are brief points that happens in the story.

1. Emperor marries a new concubine and then the Emperess dies. This will happen within about a month.
   


2. Princess Katsumi and Princess Donyoku grows up in the palace. This area won't be so much in detail because it takes place throughout about 15 years.
   


3. A royal party is held to find a husband for Princess Donyoku. (Starting from here to when the Samurai confesses his love to the wrong person takes place all in one day.)
   


4. During this night, the Emperess locks Princess Katsumi in another room.
   


5. That night the samurai goes to talk to the Princess, but it turned out he confessed his love to the step-sister.
   


6. In the morning, when he found out it was truly the step-sister, he refuses the marriage. Then the Queen goes and finds a sorcerer to put a spell on him.
   


7. After about a week after the spell, the blue bird finds the Princess singing near a pond at night. The prince visits her every night for about 5 years.
   


8. Then one night step-sister then finds out about the meeting of the bird and the Princess and tells the Emperess. Then the Emperess sets a trap in to hurt the bird.
   


9. The samurai thought that it was the Princess that set him up, so he decides to let himself suffer. Then the samurai's good friend finds him after 5 years of searching.
   


10. Soon about a month later, the Emperor dies, then the Emperess flees out of the country. The step-sister, too, did not know what to do, so she fled to find the sorcerer to stay with her. So, there was a demand to have a ruler, so they crowned the Princess to be a temporary Emperess and she must find a spouse within 2 years.
    


11. About a year later, after seeing the samurai suffering from being a bird, the samurai's good friend finds the sorcerer to convince her to undo the spell if the samurai agrees to marry the step-sister.
    


12. Within 5 months of consideration, the samurai then agrees to marry the step-sister.
    


13. Meanwhile, within the 5 months that the prince was back as a human, the new Emperess goes out on a search as a peasant to find the bluebird. She approaches a lake, when a good sorcerer tells her of the news and gives her five magical seashells that helps her on the way.
    


14. When the new Emperess finds the village that the Samurai lives in, then she finds the Samurai's house and asks to sleep in the guest room. By this time, Donyoku is already living in another guest room already acting like the wife, although she isn't yet.
    


15. Emperess Katsumi asks a servant of the Samurai, the third night, to not give him his sleeping potion, or the "worry-free powder," so that she can speak with him after trying the first two nights and failed. Then they are reunited.
    


16. Donyoku was against it and wanted to interfere, however, the Emperess's kindness and happiness made Donyoku have a change of heart. So she ended up finding a husband within the palace of Emperess Katsumi.

I think the storyline is pretty self-explanatory. However, there are a lot of details that were left out, just to shorten the list. This whole story happens within a great amount of time. The beginning isn't that long, but it's just more of an introduction to how it all got started. Each one of these events is connected to the previous one, and it will influence the upcoming events.

Events 1 and 2 tells is the introduction to the characters. From events 2 to 3 are when the girls are grown and prepared to find husbands for themselves. Events 3 to 5 all happen during that one certain day, when they have the royal party. Event 6 is when the samurai finds out the truth that it was not the Princess, but the step-sister, that he confessed to. This causes him to refuse the marriage, which angers the Emperess to find someone to cast a spell on him. In event 7 was in one week after trying to somehow meet the princess in his bird form, he finds her at night singing next to a lake. Everynight for five years he continues to see her everynight. Then from 7 to 8 and 9 is when the step-sister finds out that the Princess knows about the spell and tells her mother. The mother sets a trap that sends a misunderstood message to the samurai, and he starts to doubt the Princess's faith in their relationship. Around events 9, 10, and 11 the events may seem kind of out of place, because it did to me when I was writing it, but it is to set up the next events that will be happening. I cut out some things from the original story, so I also sort of reordered the events around that part. This was when the samurai was still a bird, but the Emperor passed away, so then the Emperess and the step-sister fled.The samurai's good friend wanted him to consider the step-sister's proposal, after a year, so that he can be human again. Then events 12 and 13 are happening at the same time. To where it come to events 14 to 16. This happens within Empress Katsumi's three nights of stay at the Samurai's place. Finally event 16 also tells of the ending of the story.