Challenge Submission The Hunter and his Fae Bride

[Pervy sage]

So i am weighting this song but i am giving it a alternat ending stopping the laics before he chops down the tree and making the alternat ending from that point. Also for any reader that loves this, i plan to do a rp based off this and would love to find someone to play the F ae.



[Verse 1]

A young man walked through the forest
With his quiver and hunting bow
He heard a young girl singing
And followed the sound below
There he found the maiden
Who lives in the willow
He called to her as she listened
From a ring of toadstools red
"Come with me, my maiden
Come from thy willow bed"
She looked at him serenely
And only shook her head



[Chorus]
See me now, a ray of light in the moondance
See me now, I cannot leave this place
Hear me now, a strain of song in the forest
Don't ask me, to follow where you lead



[Verse 2]
A young man walked through the forest
With a flower and coat of green
His love had hair like fire
Her eyes an emerald sheen
She wrapped herself in beauty
So young and so serene
He stood there under the willow
And he gave her the yellow bloom
"Girl, my heart you've captured
Oh, I would be your groom"
She said she'd wed him never
Not near, nor far, nor soon

[Chorus]
See me now, a ray of light in the moondance
See me now, I cannot leave this place
Hear me now, a strain of song in the forest
Don't ask me, to follow where you lead
Follow where you lead

[Verse 3]
A young man walked through the forest
With an axe sharp as a knife
"I'll take the green-eyed fairy
And she shall be my wife
With her I'll raise my children
With her I'll live my life"
The maiden wept when she heard him
When he said he'd set her free
He took his axe and used it
(to cut a few nearby trees.
Using the wood to build him a small house.
Now you belong to me,
You don't need to leave the forest.

[Chorus]
See me now, a ray of light in the moondance
See me now, I cannot leave this place
Hear me now, a strain of song in the forest
He did not ask me, I'll follow where you lead') edited part and took out verse 4.


Verse 1
It had been a long and harsh winter and Jake a young hunter, who yet to make a family for himself set out this early spring morning to go for a hunt to restock his food supply and trade the fur for other goods he needed. Having tracked down hair he reddied his bow and let his arrow fly true. Walking to retrieve his prize he picked up the rabbet pulling free his arrow, but before he could clean the animal he heard a soft enchanting voice sing off in the distance, carried on the winds. He followed the voice and soon found a maiden.

The Forest Willows Maiden, singing in an elven tongue as she sits under her weeping willow tree. "Inch by inch, row by row. Gonna make this forest grow. Gonna mulch it deep and low. Gonna make it fertile ground. Inch by inch, row by row. Please bless these seeds I sow. Please keep them safe below. 'Til the rain comes tumblin' down" Stoping her song as she spots the man she stands up and starts to walk around the back side of the tree slowly. But he call out to her and she chose to stop and listen to him before she disappeared into her tree.

Jake sets down his bow afraid he had scared her with it and calls out. "I mean you no harm, I was enchanted by your voice and followed it here. Please come with me I will show you the way to the village." He thought she may of been lost but past this he was stricken with her beauty.

Maiden shook her head no and in a gentle voice spoke. "See me now, a ray of light in the Moondance, see me now, I cannot leave this place! Hear me now, a strain of song in the forest don't ask me, to follow where you lead!" She spoke this in his tongue, but almost as if it was a riddle, Then continued to walk behind her tree... disappearing behind it.


Verse 2
He gave chase, "Wait what do you mean?" He called out but as he rounded the tree he saw no one there. Looking around for a while he found only her tracks near the tree and nothing else so he gathered his bow and left. Over the next few days, she was all he could seem to think about and so when he left to go hunting once more he made his way back to that spot to see if he could find her once more. Along the way, he picked a few wildflowers to offer her if he found her. He spotted her near that large willow once again this time dancing. Her fire-like hair swong around seeming to float on the wind as she spins. He watched her from a near by tree tell her, piercing green eyes spotted him once more.

Maiden. She spots him watching her and freezes much like a dear caught in the headlights of a car. Her beauty was not that of a mear human but something more. That of the elves or fae from lures.

Jake approaches and takes a knee in front of her offering out the flowers to her.

She accepts them smelling them as her eyes remain trained on him.


" I know not your name maiden but your beauty can not escape my mind, And has captured my heart. Might I know your name so I know what to address you by." He had even in this short time round his self falling in love by her enchantments.

She could see from how the man was acting and from what he said his true intent. Tossing the flowers onto the ground she backed away speaking once more. "I belong to the forest and to my tree. I am not yours to clame. See me now, a ray of light in the Moondance see me now, I cannot leave this place! Hear me now, a strain of song in the forest Don't ask me, to follow where you lead!" Others had wanted her in the past and like the others she did not want to brake his heart so she tried to end it here and now. She turned and ran to the far side of her tree disappearing.

Hearing her words and seeing her toss aside the flowers he gave her was like stabbing a knife into his chest. Getting up he gave chase to the maiden only to find her gone once again.


Verse 3
A month passes by and she remains locked in his thoughts. So he ponders the words spoken to him. getting his hand on books of old lures he reads about the old ones, the fae and makes a guess that the man is a fae called a Dryad. See me now, I cannot leave this place! Hear me now, a strain of song in the forest don't ask me, to follow where you lead. He takes it as she was telling him not that she doesn't want to leave with him but can't leave. So if she could not come and live with me I will go and live there with her.

Taking his axe in his hand he marches out to the forest, to where he finds her at the willow tree... " Hear me now. I will not ask you to follow me. See me now I plan to live here with you."

The Maiden of the Willow had hidden herself from him but after his words she reviled herself. "What do you mean? " She asks. With a bit of horror, she looks apon the axe in his hand. the trees here are almost as kin to her but she was only bound to one.


He uses his axe to cut a few trees for lumber and starts to build a small cabin to live in, that sits under the shade of her willow.

(Ending the story here as I myself can see this moving many different ways and thus like any good story it leaves a judge cliffhanger for the reader to look forward to seeing what comes next. Do they fall in love and she watches her love grow old and die, or does she resent the damage he does to the forest and forbids speaking to him ever again? ) I hope you have all enjoyed the vision of what I see in this song as much as I do and thanks for reading it.