Cinderella

As the first beams of sunshine started peeking through the flimsy blue curtains, increasing their sway, a rustle raised in answer to it.

Finally, the sunshine hit the wooden floor and moved into the room. It continued 'dancing' across the floor until it finally reached the cot that was poised near the wall. In it, there was a lump of what appeared to be old clothes. It was moving slightly. All of a sudden, a small bird entered through the curtains and started flying around the room, at the same time that it chirped happily.

There was a grumble before-

A huge column of fire escaped through the window and chimney. The bird had, however, escaped with just a couple of smoking feathers.

"Do you have to do that all the time?" a voice asked from the bed's bottom.

In response, arms and a leg stretched out from under the blanket and something unintelligible was heard.

"Come again?" a small white cat had hoisted herself to the bed and was walking lazily towards where she knew the head was.

The arms descended and a mop of pink hair could be seen. One of the hands rose to scratch at said mop.

"I said that I deserved to sleep in today because I went to bed so late. The last thing I deserved today was a bird waking me up oh so merrily."

The cat strode further up until she was looking down on her interlocutor, posture highly disapproving. The youth paused for a heartbeat before grumbling and pushing the covers down. "Okay, okay! I'm up!" he growled, sitting up. "What now?"

The cat's disapproval had turned into approval as she hopped down the bed. "Time to work! You know what they'll say don't you?"

"Oh, they'll just complain." Natsu said absentmindedly while he went around and did his morning ablutions, letting his undergarments fall to the ground as he headed to his shower. "It's not my fault that nothing I do seems to be eno-ooough!" he finished with a squeak, as he was doused with too cold water. "Fuck! What happened to the water?!" he growled as he glared and sent the water into a boil.

"Maybe they have some point in complaining, Natsu?" concluded the white cat.

"But on whose side are you, Carla?" Natsu demanded, coming from the shower, drying himself with a towel. He then started drying his hair while walking around the room, picking up clothes. "I think that you should be on my side…"

"This is not about sides, Natsu…" the cat said, sitting down on the bed. "But you have to agree that sometimes you're a bit too…"

"Overenthusiastic?" Natsu grinned as he let the towel flutter to the floor.

"You can say that… don't you think that they're a bit tired of charred food? And cover yourself, please!"

"Nobody ever died after eating meat a bit overcooked. And hold on a sec! I can't find my clothes. Should've cleaned my room yesterday…" the pink haired youth said, scratching his belly. "Ah! Here they are," and he started dressing himself. As he stopped to run his hands through his hair in front of the mirror, he was stopped by a commotion coming from his door.

"Natsu! Natsu!"

"Huh? What happened, Happy?" he asked, turning.

"We have someone new! A visitor! A new visitor, aye!" a blue furred cat said, running towards him.

"Okay, then. We better see who that visitor is…" Natsu said as he knelt and patted his friend before grabbing both him and the white furred cat, placing them on his shoulder and started descending the stairs. He stopped on the landing, kneeling down to inspect the cat-trap.

"And who do we have here…" he said as he opened the metal cage.

Inside, something dark moved, tried to go further into the darkness but was kept from it as Natsu pushed the cage under the window[WU1] .

A small black cat was blinking owlishly at him but in no time he started to frown. Before Natsu and his friends the cat straightened up and looked up challengingly.

"What do you want?" were the first words.

Natsu snorted and poised the cat-trap on the floor, and stared at the cat, accepting the challenge.

"I want to take you out of that place. It can't be too comfortable, I think…"

"Hmpf," the cat said as he walked cautiously out the entrance, looking at both the human and the two cats that seemed to trust him. The blue cat approached him – and started babbling.

"Hey there, I'm Happy, that's Carla and the human is Natsu he-"

"You're going to take care of this then?" Natsu said, standing up and starting to go down the stairs, "I'll talk to you later!" echoed on the walls.

"Is he always like this?" the black cat asked.

"Not really." The white cat answered, getting closer. "Usually he misbehaves and destroys something before breakfast. He's acting oddly well today…"

"What?"


A/N: This was a challenge between me and Subkulture, some years ago. She posted her fic and I'm only now starting to post mine. The story's meant to be funny but who knows if I managed to do that...

Unbetaed.

It would be nice if people gave feedback because, the lack of reaction is so disheartening...