Disclaimer: Although I love Disney none of these characters are mine :(

This is my first Fan Fic and is set before Kingdom Hearts in the King's Castle where all the Disney characters that took up residence there are attending school- and then some. Mickey is only a prince and is only vaguely acquainted with Minnie.

School

By: Catty Engles

"It's all so boring Daisy" Minnie sighed looking up at the ceiling as if it knew answers to her innumerable problems.

"Mmmmhmmm" Daisy's eyes followed a particularly cute duck down an adjacent hallway. He slipped behind someone taller as if feeling her piercing gaze, Daisy sighed too. Turning her attention back to Minnie Daisy had to smile- Minnie looked so melodramatic. "Oh Min, you take things so seriously." Daisy dismissed Minnie's outburst with a wave. Then with a mischievous smile she added, "Just last class I saw that Mortimer Mouse looking at y-"

"But that's just it," Minnie spun around to look Daisy in the eyes, "I don't want that kind of stuff- I want to do something in my life! Not just be a pretty face or, or, a..." She stopped, pleading silently with Daisy to understand what words couldn't convey.

Daisy inwardly shook her head at Minnie's timing- they were standing in the middle of a crowded hallway and their year-mates were beginning to mass in the space behind them. "We're going to be late for Magic, we'd better hurry. We'll talk later," at Minnie's discontented stare Daisy added," I promise." She made their secret sign two fingers pressed to her bill then drawn in the shape of a circle; Daisy extended her wing to seal the promise. Minnie grinned and shook Daisy's wing maybe a little too enthusiastically.

Contented that the world was back to normal, Daisy caught sight of the nameless cute duck again and hurried off into the crowd after him in the general direction of the Magic room. Minnie hung back, Daisy was content to spend the rest of her life chasing boys and shopping but... frankly Minnie wasn't. She always knew that she was a dreamer and scared off a lot of boy mice with deep questions like, "What would happen if we married and then we spent the rest of our lives together but secretly hated each other?" "Where is this all going" "Why are we here on this world of all worlds?" a little far-fetched she knew but Minnie was a dreamer she thought of things and cared about things others would dismiss as trivial. Minnie gave herself a little shake waking from her reverie and set off in hot-pursuit of Daisy.

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Just then three others rounded the corner. Two short and one towering among the other adolescents.

"...De Duckswort's theory is interesting but unproved- these other worlds would be preliminary, of course, however the initial pre..." Donald rolled his eyes. . Goofy had to stoop to catch Mickey's words, though he understood very little, Goofy wouldn't ignore Mickey for anything. They were all walking very fast- Donald waddling- because Mickey had been complied to ask the History of Parliament teacher a question about tutoring. The crowd was thinning and that was a sure sign that the bell was about to ring. Mickey took off at a run still talking "... could have lead to countless experiments to join the worlds but so far they have remained solitary! What do you think about that?!"

"Gawrsh, Mick that was terrific- is that you're whole essay?"

Mickey panted slightly a mist rising on his upper lip as he strove to keep pace with Goofy. "Are you kidding? That stuff was amazing! I was up half the night doing background searches in the Library!"

"Really," Donald commented waddling faster than ever on his short legs, "I thought that whole essay was some crackpot old fool's idea of tormenting us with pointless experiments and idiotic ideas." Donald did an impression of their Magic teacher, Mr. Flutter while still waddling along beside Mickey. In a high nasally voice Donald rasped, "Take a seat class. The essay you did was important to say the least and all of you 'squandlers' can get F's for all I care but you must be knowledgeable. Information creates signification!"

Mickey tried to suppress a smile and look stern while running but wasn't succeeding. He gave voice to a full-throated laugh. The impression was rather good. They reached their Magic classroom. Mickey whispered to the other two, "Flutter in the flesh." They snickered and opened the door and Mickey promptly took his seat front and center, Donald to his left, and Goofy sitting behind Donald.

The classroom was plainly decorated, it consisted of four rows of three seats each. Dull posters lined the walls, a plain chalkboard and cluttered teacher's desk were situated at the front of the classroom. Mr. Flutter, a fat duck with more wrinkles than you could count, was their most boring teacher, even though, as all of the other teachers, he seemed to be talking pointedly to Mickey- maybe because he was the heir, maybe because he was so bright, who knew? Flutter got lopsidedly to his feet as the bell rung, adjusting his blue tunic and positioning his glasses on his bill he began to take roll in a high nasal voice. Mickey and the rest were so used to the routine that they leaned together to talk while Mr. Flutter drawled on none the wiser, the interruption of making known their presence was hardly an interruption at all.

"I'd like you guys to come up to the palace gardens tonight- we've been given -here! - some new monuments by the ambassador of something-or-other, I dunno, but they're really neat." Mickey said.

"Okay, sure, I'm in" Donald agreed.

"Me -here- too" Goofy seconded.

"Great! Come at around 6 I'll meet you at the gates."

Towards the back of the classroom Minnie was leaning towards Daisy as the duck whispered confidentially. "My sources have told me that there's a fountain in the King's garden that if you ask it to grant you your true love and then swirl the water backwards three times it'll come true!"

"Oh really? Would your 'sources' happen to be Clarabell Cow?"

Daisy pouted pretending to be hurt as she intoned in a mock solemn voice, "You just wait Minnie Mouse I'll be off and married and you will be an old hag just because you were scared."

Minnie plastered a look of indignant offense on her typically placid features, "Are you accusing me off cowardice?!"

Daisy dropped the act in a genial but still serious voice she asked Minnie again, "You know it would be fun," she looked at Minnie a hint of a smile hovering around her bill, "even if it was Clarabell."

Minnie's face broke into a grin, "Sure I'll be there, lets meet by the entrance at around 7."

Daisy grinned back, making their secret sign she said, "I'll be there." Minnie shook her wing the mock solemn expression back on her face "You'd better be." They giggled together as Magic class began.

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Wohoo! First chapter done!!!- I've taken the liberty of introducing some less known Disney characters into the mix.

Mortimer- a taller mouse who is miserably ugly but a fast talker. He has been Mickey's rival for some time and has an open crush on Minnie though she does not return his feelings, Daisy doesn't really approve of Mortimer, she was just trying to get Minnie's feelings off of her slump.

Clarabell- (cow) a helpless gossip who gets the dirt on everything and everyone but isn't usually accurate.

Tune in for the next chapter Class.