Once there was a little girl and her family. They lived in an old hut by the beach. The roof leaked, the door was falling off and the windows were busted out. The floor squeaked every time someone walked. There were rats and bugs in it.
One day, Anna took her net and went looking for butterflies on the beach. After looking, it seemed for hours, she found one. It was stuck in another net and she did not know how to get it out. So she took the net gently and pulled it off slowly freeing the butterfly. Then the butterfly asked her, “Is there anything that you want? I will make your wishes come true. I am no ordinary butterfly. I am a magic butterfly.”
Anna went home and told her mother and father all about her day. They told her that she should have wished for a new house because she knows that theirs is falling apart. So the girl went back to the beach to call the butterfly.
“Butterfly, butterfly please come to me, for my mother and father have sent me to beg a boon of thee.”
So the butterfly came. “What is it that they want?” It asked.
“They said that I should have asked for a new house.”
“Go back for it is already done.” Answered the butterfly.
So she went back and she saw her mother and father at the door. It was a lovely house with 6 bedrooms and 5 bathrooms. It was really very pretty. There were cows and chickens and a small garden outside. After awhile they got tired of such a small house. Her mother and father came to her and said. “We want a much bigger house with more land.” So the mother and father told the girl to go and ask the butterfly.
Anna said, “OK” and went back to the beach. She called the butterfly “Butterfly, butterfly please come to me, for my mother and father have sent me to beg a boon of thee. They say the garden is too small. They also want a much bigger house with more land.”
“Go back, it is already done” replied the butterfly.
This time she was sure that they would be happy and content. It was a very big house. There was an upstairs and a downstairs. The living room was very bug with a marble fireplace in it. But they weren’t. Then Anna saw them one day pacing the hall. They asked Anna “Go back to the butterfly and tell her we want to be king and queen of the island.”
“Mother, Father, we have such a nice house and a big farm. Why go back for more? She might get mad.” Anna pleaded.
“Anna,” said her father, “she owes this to you. You did save her life. Didn’t you?”
“Yes, sir.” She replied.
“So she owes this to you.”
The little girl did as she was told and she went to the beach to find the butterfly. “Butterfly, butterfly please come to me, for my mother and father have sent me to beg a boon of thee.”
“What is that they want this time?” asked the butterfly.
“They want to be king and queen of the land.”
“Ok my child. Go back. They have their wish.”
When she returned, she saw guards and people playing trumpets and drums in the front of the castle. She was sure they would be happy and content. And they were for a little while.
After a month or so, she saw them pacing the main floor. Then they asked her to go back. “Ask for a palace and more servants”
“Why? We have all that we need here and she will surely be mad.” But she went because they said, “You are the child and we are king and queen. If you do not do what we say, we will whip you.”
So the little girl went back with tears in her eyes. By the time she had reached the spot on the beach, a bad storm had come up. The clouds were as black as the night sky, but she called the butterfly, “Butterfly, butterfly please come to me, for my mother and father have sent me to beg a boon of thee.”
The butterfly had already come when she heard the little girl’s voice. The butterfly saw the tears in Anna’s eyes. “What is it my child? What do they want this time?”
“They want a palace with even more land.”
“Go back for it is already done.”
When she got back there was a palace with bunches of guards and it was full of flags of all colors hanging everywhere. It was the most beautiful thing that you have ever seen. After three weeks, Anna woke up with her mother and father standing beside her bed and the said, “Go to the butterfly and ask her to make us Pope.”
“Mother, Father, she will certainly be mad. He can make you king and queen but she may not be able to make you Pope. That is just a bit too much.”
“You will go right this minute!! You will ask her!”
She did as she was told. The storm was bad now. There was lightening and the trees were shaking from left to right, but she proceeded to call the butterfly. “Butterfly, butterfly please come to me, for my mother and father have sent me to beg a boon of thee.”
“What do they want this time?”
“They want to be Pope.”
“ Go back to them. They shall be Pope.”
She went back and was sure they would stay happy and content now. They were sitting in chairs that were high in the clouds made of gold. Everything was big and made of brass. She woke up the next morning with her mother and father standing by her window. “We want to be Lords of the Universe.”
“Father. Mother. He may be able to make you king and queen or Pope but he cannot make you Lords of the universe. That is just way out of his power.”
“No, you will go and ask her now!” The demanded.
So the girl went to call the butterfly. “Butterfly, butterfly please come to me, for my mother and father have sent me to beg a boon of thee.”
“What do they want now?”
“They want to be Lords of the Universe.”
“Ok they shall be.”
But when she returned, she saw the old cabin with her mother and father on the front porch looking at her. They were happy and content now.