`` Princess , '' said Charming , `` I have killed your enemy ; I hope you will now consent to marry the King my master . '' `` Oh dear ! no , '' said the Princess , `` not until you have brought me some water from the Gloomy Cavern . `` Not far from here there is a deep cave , the entrance to which is guarded by two dragons with fiery eyes , who will not allow anyone to pass them . When you get into the cavern you will find an immense hole , which you must go down , and it is full of toads and snakes ; at the bottom of this hole there is another little cave , in which rises the Fountain of Health and Beauty . It is some of this water that I really must have : everything it touches becomes wonderful . The beautiful things will always remain beautiful , and the ugly things become lovely . If one is young one never grows old , and if one is old one becomes young . You see , Charming , I could not leave my kingdom without taking some of it with me . '' `` Princess , '' said he , `` you at least can never need this water , but I am an unhappy ambassador , whose death you desire . Where you send me I will go , though I know I shall never return . '' And , as the Princess Goldilocks showed no sign of relenting , he started with his little dog for the Gloomy Cavern . Everyone he met on the way said : `` What a pity that a handsome young man should throw away his life so carelessly ! He is going to the cavern alone , though if he had a hundred men with him he could not succeed . Why does the Princess ask impossibilities ? '' Charming said nothing , but he was very sad . When he was near the top of a hill he dismounted to let his horse graze , while Frisk amused himself by chasing flies . Charming knew he could not be far from the Gloomy Cavern , and on looking about him he saw a black hideous rock from which came a thick smoke , followed in a moment by one of the dragons with fire blazing from his mouth and eyes . His body was yellow and green , and his claws scarlet , and his tail was so long that it lay in a hundred coils . Frisk was so terrified at the sight of it that he did not know where to hide .
Charming , quite determined XXXXX get the water or die , now drew his sword , and , taking the crystal flask which Pretty Goldilocks had given him to fill , said to Frisk : `` I feel sure that I shall never come back from this expedition ; when I am dead , go to the Princess and tell her that her errand has cost me my life .
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