A/N: I decided to write a story where Penelope is a main character, but she isn't the star. In fact, Ayame is.

Remember Ayame? Y'know, Penelope's soon-to-be first friend at Destiny High in the rewrite of Kingdom Hearts: Destiny Shine High? Well, I decided that Ayame is the main character of this story.

I own nothing but my OC's.

Here is the first chapter! Enjoy.

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Chapter 1: Not a happy beginning

Ayame had always been somewhat of an avid reader, unlike the other girls in the town where she lived.

Unlike other girls, she didn't really care for shopping for clothes, makeup, ect. For shopping, she'd put books and puzzles on her list first. So, not only was Ayame an avid reader, but she loved spending the times solving puzzles and brainteasers other than reading.

What were Ayame's favorite book genres, you may ask? Well, her favorites were fantasy, adventure, and despite they could technically count as fantasies, she loved fairytales the most.

When today, when she was rereading her favorite fairytale novel for the possible twenty-seventh time, for whatever reason, she couldn't progress after chapter one of her book.

This was absolutely ridiculous, because this had never happened before. How could you not continue after reading chapter one? When you were reading a book that grabbed your interest, you would want to know what was going to happen next, so you would want to progress reading after the first chapter.

For Ayame, it was really, really, messed up, as she was always able to progress with reading with the previous twenty-six times she had read it. So, something must've been up.

Especially when she tried to turn to chapter two once again, and it suddenly flashed white, which hurt Ayame's eyes, so she had to close her eyes and take her glasses off to rub them a bit, but after she put her glasses on and opened her eyes, she found that for whatever reason, she wasn't in her room anymore.

You may be wondering where she just happened to find herself. No, the brunette haired, amber-eyes girl was not in the land of Oz, like Dorothy.

Ayame just happened to find herself on the grassy outskirts of a kingdom that seemed to shine brightly. However, it only looked like this because she was a bit dizzy after that flash and it looked blurry to her.

In fact, when she snapped back into it, the kingdom wasn't brightly lit because of a festival or anything, but the kingdom was burning down as it was lit on fire.

So, if she couldn't progress, that clearly meant someone within was trying to rewrite the story and that's why she couldn't progress to chapter two, so that flash must've meant she was taken into the world of her storybook.

However, she never recalled the Kingdom being on fire, especially considering the twenty-six times she read it before, and the twenty-seven times she read the first chapter.

However, Ayame could only watch and do nothing before her head felt heavy and her vision blurred before she passed out.

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The next morning, Ayame woke up rather unpleasantly when she heard someone with a rather feminine sounding voice scream and was freaking out.

As she began to get up, she momentarily searched the ground for her glasses and found them before cleaning them off and putting them back on, and she then got up.

The first thing she noticed was a black horse, and she noticed the rider was wearing a cloak, but she noticed the violet gown the person was wearing. Another thing was that Ayame couldn't see this person's face, as the hood of their cloak was up.

And then the person proceeded to look at Ayame. "Excuse me. Do you happen to know what the hell happened to my kingdom while I was gone?" Ayame found that the feminine voice belonged to them as they asked the question.

"Um…how do I explain this to you without you getting upset? You see, when I got here, I was rather dizzy, and my vision was blurry…"

The girl interrupted Ayame. "I don't give a damn about how you got here. I was asking you what happened to my kingdom." She rudely indicated.

Ayame was used to being spoken to like this as she tended to be picked on by other girls, and was considered inferior to them. "I was getting to that. Where was I…well, my vision was blurry and I saw bright lights, like a festival was going on..."

"Yes…? And what else?" The girl asked Ayame.

"And when my vision got better, I saw the kingdom up ahead scorched in flames." Ayame answered.

There was an awkward silence, and Ayame could feel the tension in the air, about ready to break, as she noticed this person was rather pissed off by hearing that.

"What. YOU SAW MY KINGDOM ON FIRE?!" She roared. Ayame was trembling.

"U-Um…y-yes…" Ayame nervously stuttered.

"Why didn't you do anything, you idiot?!" Why was it strange that Ayame found this behavior rather familiar?

"W-Well…it looked like it was too late to do anything, since if I were able to help; your kingdom would be far than able to be repaired. Besides that, if I got there to help, it would be too late." Ayame explained, calming down a bit as she got more into her explanation.

"So from what I'm hearing, you're telling me that when I left to handle some important affairs, someone decided to go in and burn down my kingdom?" The person asked.

"I guess so. Though I don't remember in the fairytale that the Kingdom was lit on fire…" Ayame began. However, she realized the girl wasn't done speaking when she saw her shaking before she burst into anger once again.

"WHAT IDIOT HAD THE IDEA TO BURN MY KINGDOM DOWN?!" The girl roared in anger once again.

Now she found the way the person was acting rather familiar, especially with how the girl kept referring to the burnt down place as "my Kingdom" repeatedly. It must've been the princess from her storybook.

In fact, Ayame was sure of it when the person got off her horse and pulled her hood down to reveal the person's lightly tanned skin, brown hair, brown eyes and a tiara upon her head.

Yep. It definitely was the princess. She was the person who ruled the beautiful city (or as she referred to it as her Kingdom) of Littlebrooke, except Littlebrooke was now destroyed and was in ashes.

And if she remembered correctly, the Princess was very quick to anger. Ayame never knew her name, since her fairytale only referred to her as "the Princess" so it didn't' really help.

Ayame also remembered that when the princess was upset, the Princess would accuse the first person who came to mind of who did something.

"Dammit! It must've been that pyromaniac, Axel!" Ayame tilted her head.

"Who's Axel?" The princess stared at her.

"You don't know who Axel is? Just how stupid are you?" The princess asked her.

And now the Princess was questioning her intelligence. Great.

"Um…could you describe him to me in appearance?" Ayame asked the princess.

The princess sighed. "He's rather tall and slender, has shoulder-length, thick, bright red hair that is slicked back into spikes, had a widow's peak, rather small eyebrows, emerald green eyes and purple reverse teardrop marks under his eyes."

"Oh! You mean the Pirate Captain who loves fire, right?" Ayame asked the princess. The maiden stared at Ayame with an eyebrow raised.

"Yes. You didn't know his name? If you know he's a pirate captain, how'd you not know his name?"

"You see, in my storybook, it didn't' give names to the characters. It simply referred to them by their titles. Like you were referred to as the Princess."

Ayame got slapped across the face. "I have a name. And what is wrong with you? This is reality, not a storybook!" The princess snapped at Ayame.

"You have a name?" Ayame asked the princess.

"Why should I tell you my name when you can't tell the difference between a story and reality? And what is wrong with your attire? It looks really weird."

Ayame looked at her clothes. She was wearing a button-up mulberry colored sweater, a collared, white, long sleeved shirt, a jean skirt with a leather belt that reached down to her knees, white socks and brown loafers.

"My clothes? They aren't that weird…are they? I got them a while ago. And are you sure the Pirate Captain is the one who burned your Kingdom down?" Ayame asked the Princess.

The princess stared at her. "Yeah! Who else would've done it?!"

"I know the pirate captain…"

"His name is Axel, idiot." The princess interrupted Ayame once again.

"Right, right. I mean, I know Axel is somewhat of a pyromaniac, but are you sure he'd go as far as to burn your kingdom down?" Ayame asked.

"Yes. When I'm mad, I'm right and I know he did it. I'm pretty sure he and his crew are arriving at port." The princess said, considering that if she looked carefully enough into the distance, she saw a ship sailing closer.

The princess got up on her horse's back and looked at Ayame strangely. "What's wrong? Don't tell me you don't have a steed."

Ayame didn't answer as she looked at the ground. "Really? Then do you know how to ride a horse?" The princess questioned her.

No reply.

The princess shook her head. "Just where are you from? Anyway, you can ride on Midnight with me."

"Midnight?" Ayame asked. The princess nudged her horse.

"Oh. Okay." Ayame managed to get up on Midnight's back, though it was in an awkward fashion,

"Are you up?" Ayame nodded in response to the princess's question. "Good. Make sure you hold on. Anyway, giddy-up boy!"

The princess gently whacked Midnight before the horse galloped into the burnt down city to the port where the princess guided him.

And yet, Ayame had no clue what was going on nor did she know if this really was reality or not.

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A/N: I know I shouldn't have written another fanfic. It is also pretty obvious who the princess is, but her name won't be officially revealed until the next chapter.

I got a bit of inspiration from the anime Inuyasha and this one game that its in progress called Fiona Frightening and the Wicked Wardrobe.

I'm also writing this in a journal, so I know how to write the chapters out.

Please review if you'd like, please don't flame and please give me a suggestion of how I can improve as a writer to further improve my stories.

I will see you all in the next chapter.

Ciao!