And now, it's time for me to start yet ANOTHER story, even though I'm in the middle of a couple others. …It's hard to break old habits :p

Well, here's the summary:

Rudy, Danny, and Jimmy are back, facing 3 new problems, which lead them to explore a new town unlike any they've seen before… meeting a rugged girl who just might be able to help them out.

Now, lets begin.

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Rudy's POV

I guess I should start by saying that my best-friend used to be a cat, a prince is living with me, and a rebel with a royal step-father lives just down the street from me. Four years ago, I wouldn't think any of this would be possible, but that was before I met Radio the Talking Cat and we rescued Prince Daniel Charm, all the while running into Jimmy Krook and Silver the Werewolf.

It's a long story to tell, so I'll just cut to the chase: we're all friends, but it wasn't always like that. Some of us were under curses while the rest of us lead miserable lives, and some of us didn't trust each other right away, but it all turned out right in the end.

Now, here in the present, a couple of my friends sat in my room. Radio sat on my bed, reading a magazine. Even though she was no longer a cat and her real name was 'Nadine' (Princess Nadine Juliet Tianavene of Mandonia, to be exact), we still called her 'Radio', since it was the only thing we called her while she was a cat (I'll explain later). Danny, the prince, sat on the floor, staring at the TV screen as he played videogames.

Me, I sat in the bathroom, reading Classic Fairytales by The Brothers Grimm. Unlike most boys, I enjoy fairytales (especially since my life seemed like one after meeting my friends), and each tale was a real page-turner for me. I like the romance, the thrills, the magic, the hansom princes…

Oh, did I mention I'm a homosexual?

Some of you might be okay with it, and some of you are probably frowning in disgust and probably walking away from my story right now. Four years ago, people's reactions to my lifestyle always caused me to be nervous, and I kept it secret from my friends… which was hard since my older siblings, Chris and Chrys (they're twins), always spread rumors about my gayness and often abused me for it. But one day (after a rather awkward incident involving Danny and a poisoned apple I thought he bit into) my secret was out. But, nowadays, I don't let it get to me anymore. I have friends who accept me, and that's just how I like it.

Although, I wish my parents would stop pressuring me into getting a girlfriend. "So, tell me, Rudy, who's that nice girl who keeps coming over?" My mom asked me as I stepped out of the bathroom. From the sound of her voice, I had no doubt she thought Radio and I were a couple, and was probably hoping we were. …That's a mother for you- you invite a girl over and she automatically thinks the two of you are dating.

"She's just a friend from school, Mom." I said, blushing. We never told my parents that Radio used to be a talking cat, and other mystical things that had happened since we first met, knowing that 1) they wouldn't believe us, or 2) they'd send us to an asylum.

My mom smirked. "Just a friend?"

"Yes. …and PLEASE don't wink at me like that, Mom! We're not dating! Sheesh!" I walked down the hall, my face red with embarrassment.

It was times like these I was glad Chris and Chrys had gone off to college, so I no longer had to deal with their harassment… especially since Danny was living with us. They stopped beating me up, but their insults took new peaks- Chrys even made mash-remarks about me and Radio (I guess that's where Mom got the idea). Sure, I missed them a little, but when I thought back to the good times, I realized… we didn't have any.

*Knock Knock*

Someone was at the door, and I opened it, seeing a boy my age with messy brown hair, hazel-brown eyes, wearing a gray T-shirt, covered with a black leather jacket, wearing light-brown cargo pants, and combat boots. This would be Jimmy, my third friend. "Hey, Jim. C'mon in." I said to him, even though he was already half-way in.

"Hey, Rude-Boy. What goes on?" Jimmy asked me. He always called me 'Rude-Boy' for 3 reasons: 1) I was very polite, so it served as an ironic nickname, 2) 'Rude' was an abbreviation of my name, 'Rudy' (I question how anyone would abbreviate it further), and 3) He once caught me jamming out to that song 'Rude Boy' by Rihanna.

"Danny, Radio and I are just hanging out. Not really much to do,"

"Meh, I don't doubt that." he looked at the book I was holding. "What are you reading?"

"Oh, just a fairytale book." Jimmy rolled his eyes. He thought all my interests were girly, but I didn't let it bother me (at least he didn't beat me up for it).

"Sheesh, first Romeo and Juliet, now fairytales? …If you start reading those damn Twilight Sagas, I'm going to deny you as my friend."

…Secretly, I was going to start reading those next. (a/n: even though I hate those books with a passion!)

We walked into my room, where Radio had finished reading her magazine and watching Danny play videogames, twiddling a small shell she had laced around her neck. A mermaid had given it to her, telling her to use it if she was ever in a tough situation, to smash it on the ground. She never used it during the danger we encountered in the past, and kept it with her at all times, just in case. …I quietly hoped that we would never have to use it.

Jimmy took a seat next to Danny and grabbed the other game-controller, and they began a two-player tournament, though Danny didn't really seem too interested in the game. "So, did you guys hear that Sonya Macintyre is throwing a party this weekend?" Jimmy said as he and Danny competed against each other. "Turns out it's going to be one of those 'parents-out-of-town' parties."

Radio and I exchanged glances, then looked at Danny. The last party that had no parental supervision we went to was a disaster (Radio had stayed home, being a cat at the time). We had to avoid Chris and Chrys, and Danny had gotten drunk. If it weren't for Izzy the Vampire, we would have been sunk.

Izzy was a good friend of ours- in a betraying sort of way. She's now a detective, working on busting supernatural beings by being a human-agent (first and only, she bragged to us). We haven't seen her for a couple years, and I often wonder where she's at.

"I didn't hear about it," Radio replied to Jimmy. "I don't think I'll go, anyway. What about you, Rudolph?" she turned to me, and I shook my head… and mentally wished that she would just call me 'Rudy' (I'd even settle for 'Rude-Boy').

I looked at Danny, I couldn't help but notice that he had a glaze-look in the eye, as if his thoughts were elsewhere. "Danny, what about you?" I asked him, tapping his shoulder.

"Huh? What are we talking about?" Danny asked, sounding as if he snapped out of a trance.

"We were talking about a party-"

"…While I kicked your butt in 'Final Fantasy II'." Jimmy added.

"Oh, sorry, guys. I'm just a little out of it, today." Danny said, setting down his controller and standing up. "I've got to use the bathroom. Be right back," And he walked out of my room.

Jimmy waited until he was out of sight, then turned to us, arching an eyebrow. "What's with Danny? He's been acting weird all week,"

Radio shrugged. "I don't know. I guess his mind is just caught up in something," she replied.

I, too, was concerned about Danny's odd behavior, but I agreed with Radio. We were going to be starting our Senior Year in High School, which meant we had only 9 months left of school… and possibly being together, since most of us probably had plans for college, and there was a weak chance we'd all be accepted to the same one. But I didn't want to bring it up- it was too sad to think about. So, I returned to my fairytale book.

After all, there was hardly a sad moment in fairytales, right?

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~Elsewhere~

"I can't watch," I said. There wasn't much emotion in my voice, nor any tears in my eyes. I just looked away, my hood pulled up over my head. My cousin, Robin, stood next to me, looking as stoic as he could ever be, but I avoided eye-contact with him. "He doesn't deserve this,"

"He killed hundreds of innocent people…" Robin said to me, looking ahead. "I would think that you would have figured that out by now."

I scowled at him. I knew he was talking about my parents.

We looked ahead at the gallows, where Puss in Boots stood, a noose around his neck, as the executioner (some guy wearing a black mask, who looked like he was on steroids) kept a firm grip on the handle, and some judge read off the list of murders the killer cat committed after he slayed an ogre like in his fairytale.

*Ka-chunk!*

We watched as the door beneath Puss' feet dropped, making his body dangle. He choked a few breaths, his feet kicking, trying to reach ground, but with no prevail. A minute later, he stopped moving. The executioner grabbed his body and threw it in a bag, tossing it in a truck with a ton of other corpses of bad guys.

I felt a hand on my shoulder, and looked up at a man dressed all in black, looking like a rip-off of Van Helsing. Looking at him, you probably wouldn't guess that four years ago he used to wear suspenders and look like an Urkel impersonator, or that he used to be made of wood. "Quite a shame on what happened to Puss, especially after what he did for us," Pin told me.

I shrugged, thinking about how Puss had come clean to me a couple weeks back, telling me how he was hired by the phony King John to execute Robin, but his aim was off and he hit an outlet inside a house, causing the whole place to burn… along with my parents. It was an accident, I knew, but that didn't stop me from kicking the shit out of him until he was wearing a cone around his neck! …So, I wasn't TOO upset about his death.

"C'mon, lets just go," I said, walking off. Pin and Robin followed me, and we left the gallows.

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A/N: You guessed it! It's a 'Blu Fairytale/3 Boys' crossover!

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