Fairy Tale Maidens
This story, just something to do when I'm bored. But, I will take requests. ^_^
Just a warning, these chapters will contain minor fluffy Jun x Shinku.
Inspired by blackandblood's Digimon version of remaking fairy tales. For Digimon fans, they're Takumi. ;)
Shinkurella
"Okay, who wants to hear a story?"
"Oh, oh, Hina does, Hina does!" The little doll ran over to where Nori was sitting in the armchair. Kanaria, Suiseiseki and Souseiseki just shrugged and walked over to join them. Shinku shook her head at Hina's immaturity, as did Suigintou, who joined the 4 dolls for the sake of it. Hina put up her hand while the eldest doll settled herself on the back of the couch, above Shinku, facing the group. Nori opened the book at the page marked with a light blue bookmark.
"Okay, have any of you heard the story of Cinderella?" Suiseiseki's hand flew up.
"Oh, oh, I have! Grandma read it to me once." Suigintou rolled her eyes.
"Of course she did," she muttered, only loud enough for her to hear, although Shinku heard. The blonde just ignored her comment though. Nori smiled.
"Okay, but I'm sure Hina's never heard it. Have you?" The doll blinked, then shook her head.
"No." Nori turned the book around and pointed at the picture.
"This is Cinderella." The picture was of a long blonde haired girl with warm ice blue eyes, wearing a pretty light blue dress with one corner in tatters, showing off her leg with a glass slipper on her foot. In the background, was a castle with a clock on its centre tower, reading midnight. Nearby, there was a bright orange pumpkin and 3 white mice, as well as a mouse-sized white horse surrounded by sparkles. There was also a pretty girl surrounded, and dressed, in gold with wings on her back. Hina blinked again.
"She makes me think of Shinku." Suiseiseki, who had picked up her own cup of tea, spat it out, getting Kanaria in front of her wet.
"Hey!"
"I'm sorry, but Hina's comment is just so unbelievable." Kanaria thought about that and shrugged.
"Good point. I would've done that too if I'd been drinking something, y'know." Nori thought about what Hina had said, and an idea came to her. She stood up and pulled a camera out of a drawer next to the TV. The dolls watched, confused.
"What are you doing, Nori?" Hina asked. She pointed the camera at Shinku and pressed a button, causing a bright white light to hit Shinku. Hina screamed.
"Hina, calm down. She's only talking Shinku's picture, y'hear," Kanaria comforted her.
"Bu-but it's so bright!" When the light subsided, Shinku was unharmed, and a small thin square came out the bottom of the camera.
"What's that?" Souseiseki asked, as Nori sat back down and picked up the book.
"It's a picture of Shinku." One of Suiseiseki's eyebrows went up.
"But it's just a black square on a white square. Now I've seen pictures before, and that is so not a picture." Nori waved the square in the air, and when she checked it, she smiled. She turned the picture around to face the dolls.
"Does it look like Shinku now?" The picture was of Shinku, with her infamous look of indifference, looking up at the camera, holding her cup and saucer. The dolls gasped. Hina giggled.
"Wow! Can you take a picture of Hina?" Nori smiled again.
"Later, but I have a better idea." She got some tape and stuck the picture of Shinku in the place of Cinderella. Then, she picked up the camera and took pictures of Suigintou, Suiseiseki, Souseiseki and Kanaria. She flipped through several pages and stuck the pictures in several places.
"Hey! What did you just do?" Suiseiseki screamed. Nori looked over the top of the book at the doll.
"I was thinking that, maybe, we could use you guys to tell stories." Suiseiseki thought about it, then narrowed her eyes suspiciously.
"Then what role did you give me?" Nori flipped back to the first picture.
"Well, because of Hina's statement, I've made Shinku Cinderella."
"More like Shinkurella," Suigintou commented. Nori thought about it, then picked up a pen, and, while she wrote something in the book, she muttered, "Yeah, that fits."
"Well?" She looked up to see an annoyed, impatient Suiseiseki. Souseiseki just sighed, knowing it'd be impossible to calm her down.
"Ahem, and, considering her personality, I gave Suigintou the role of the evil stepmother." She paused, waiting for the doll's reaction. But she only shrugged, and turned back to teasing Shinku.
"And me? What about Souseiseki and me? What role did you give us?"
"Don't forget about me, y'hear!"
"Um, well, I gave Kanaria the role of the Fairy Godmother, and you two..." She trailed off; almost afraid of Suiseiseki's reaction to the role she'd given her and Souseiseki.
"And us two?" Nori gulped, intending to stall the answer, but Hina climbed onto her lap and read the title beneath where Nori had placed the twins' pictures.
"'The Evil Stepsisters'. Is that what Suiseiseki and Souseiseki are?" Suiseiseki's displeasure was clear.
"WHAT? I'M AN EVIL STEPSISTER? WHY I OTTA!" Souseiseki and Kanaria held the raging doll back from attacking the cowering Nori. Jun suddenly walked in and grabbed something from the kitchen. He said as he went, "I think it fits." Then he left.
"Who asked you, human?" The doll screamed after him.
"Please Suiseiseki, it's only for this one story. Besides, you don't even need to do anything. It's just to be more creative." The doll sat down with a thump.
"I'm still not happy about it, but if it's only for this story, I'll allow it. But just this once." Nori smiled again.
"Thank you." Hina moaned.
"Can we please hear the story now? Hina's bored." The teen nodded.
"Okay. Ahem, 'Once upon a time...'"
...there was a girl named Shinkurella, but everyone called her Shinku for short. She had long flowing blonde hair, ice blue eyes, and pale skin. She originally lived with her father, but then, one day, he mysteriously disappeared, leaving her in the care of her stepmother and stepsisters, who made her life a living hell. They forced her to act like a maid, cleaning the place and washing their clothes. And in return, they fed her and gave her shelter. But, her meals were meagre and her 'shelter' was with the horses in the stable.
One day, the family heard that the King and Queen of the kingdom, though out of the country, were hosting a ball, to search for a bride for their son, Prince-
"Nori, who's the prince?" Hina asked. By now, Shinku had joined the group on the floor, dragging a cushion to sit on. Nori paused to think. Then, she heard something and she, Hina, and Suiseiseki smiled. She picked up the camera and stood before the door, waiting. When it opened, she quickly took a picture of a surprised Jun. She ran back to the chair and quickly stuck it in on the Prince's picture. Before the boy could argue, she continued...
...for their son, Prince Jun. The stepmother, Suigintou, jumped at the chance, and told her twin daughters, Suiseiseki and Souseiseki, that they were to try and marry the prince. They weren't too happy about being forced to do it, especially since Suiseiseki had met him once and they both pissed each other off and Souseiseki wasn't into dating, but they just dealt with it, and Suigintou left Shinku in the house. She sighed.
"I do wish I could go to the ball."
"You could, y'know." Shinku jumped.
"Who's there?" Suddenly, a girl the same size as Shinku appeared in the room. She had grey green hair, green eyes, and wore a short yellow dress with orange pants and thick black sandals. She also had a peach parasol with her and a little lime green spirit.
"Who are you?" The girl winked.
"The name's Kanaria, and I'm your Fairy Godmother, y'know." Shinku blinked, confused.
"I have a Fairy Godmother?" Kanaria nodded.
"Yep. Originally, your Fairy Godmother was Elena," she continued, not caring that the girl didn't know what she was talking about, "but then she had a little accident and had to retire. And since I was her apprentice, I became a full Fairy Godmother and took on all her clients. Including you, y'know." Shinku stayed quiet, until she said, "What?"
"Well, since I haven't finished my training, I've got my little spirit, Pizzicato with me. They'd stay with me anyway, but they gotta teach me as well, y'know. Every Fairy Godmother has her own way of doing things, and I use..." She held her parasol in front of her, and the little spirit flew around it, turning it into a violin case.
"...a violin, y'hear." Shinku sighed.
"And how is this supposed to help me?" Kanaria fell to the floor anime-style. She jumped to her feet again and said, keeping her patience, "I'm a Fairy Godmother. Think about it. Instead of using a wand, I use a violin to help you, y'know." Shinku just stared at her.
"What?"
"Do it."
"Huh?"
"Do it. Take me to the ball." Kanaria looked a bit dumbstruck.
"Eh...o-okay." She put down the case and opened it, taking the violin out. She started to play a soft, happy tune, as her spirit flew over the strings, them emitting a lime green light, then flying around Shinku as the strings glowed brighter. Shinku gasped as she was surrounded by a lime green whirlwind, throwing her hair up and tearing apart her short, tattered maid's dress.
When the whirlwind subsided, she was then dressed in a red dress with a red poncho like shawl and a red bonnet with a green ribbon, fastening it to her head. The ribbon was tied in a bow, which was tied around her neck, fastened with a pink rose brooch. Her hair was up in ponytails, tied with thin black ribbons. On her feet were two black leather low heel shoes. A small ribbon was tied around both ankles, and on the front of the shoe, was a pink rose. Shinku gasped at the transformation, looking at herself in a mirror. Kanaria gasped as well, and started dancing behind her.
"Yes, first client and it went perfect, y'hear!" Shinku turned and said, "I look different, yes. But how will I get there?" Kanaria stopped dancing to give the blonde an angry 'You-made-me-stop-my-'I-just-helped-my-first-client-and-it-went-perfect'-celebration-dance' glance, before she fixed her messy hair.
"Well, luckily for you, I recently just learned and passed that. Again, I'm going to play my violin, and whatever Pizzicato flies around will be transformed." They just stared at each other, until Kanaria asked, "Got any cars?" Shinku shook her head sadly.
"No, I'm afraid they took the last carriage to get to the ball." Kanaria thought about it, then said, more to herself than Shinku, "Well, Glinda did that once...naw, I could never do that, y'hear." Shinku tilted her head to one side in confusion.
"Do what...y'hear?" The Fairy put one hand on her hips and held a finger to the girl in a scolding manner.
"First, the y'hear's and y'know's, mine. Second, I'm talking about a situation similar to yours. One of the elder Godmothers had a client who had...well, the exact same problem. She lived with her annoying and mistreating stepmother and sisters, and one night she wanted to go to the ball to meet and marry the prince." Shinku looked a bit surprised, but she shook it off.
"So?"
"So?
"So, what did she do to get the girl to the ball?" Kanaria didn't answer at first, but jumped on the little stool in front of the sink so she could look out the window.
"Horse stable...got any horses?"
"Nope, they took the last four. All that's left is a donkey." Kanaria went on her toes to see better and muttered, "Oh look mice." Shinku jumped up beside her.
"Oh no, Suiseiseki isn't going to be happy if they eat her and Souseiseki's garden."
"Is that pumpkin they're circling part of it?"
"No, that blew over here from another cottage. Why?" Kanaria ran outside, with Shinku following.
"I believe I could use this. Pizzicato!" She started to play her violin again as the little spirit flew round the pumpkin and mice. When she stopped playing, the wind fell, and Shinku gasped. In the place of the pumpkin and mice was a large white carriage with four white horses.
"One more thing. Call out the donkey please." Shinku nodded, still too dumbstruck to say anything until she reached the stables.
"Bingo, come out boy." The little grey donkey padded slowly out of the stables, and over to Kanaria with Shinku by his side. The Godmother smiled.
"I could make this work." After another little tune from her violin and another small whirlwind surrounding Bingo, the donkey had turned into a human...with very crooked teeth and a terrible smell. Kanaria frowned.
"Sorry, just started the whole animals into humans, y'know." Shinku shrugged.
"Doesn't matter." They set the horse and carriage out front, with Bingo opening door the door for Shinku before setting himself at the...driver's seat. Before they could set off, Kanaria ran up.
"Wait! Pizzicato just reminded me of something. You've got until midnight before the spell wears off, y'hear." Shinku pulled out her trusty pocket watch - her last gift from father before he disappeared - and frowned as the hands pointed at 9 o'clock. But, she put on a determined pout and snapped it shut. Poking her head out of the window, she shouted as she left the mansion behind, "Thank you, Kanuru!"
"Kanaria!"
The prince frowned as girl after girl walked up to him and instead of telling him what they liked, told him what they'd do if he married him. He sighed, and turned to the current girl to sit in the seat next to him.
"Yep, sounds great. Thank you, you can go now." He turned to face the crowd, and almost jumped when he saw a girl he thought would want to be dead before meeting him again. Suiseiseki was being pushed by Suigintou over to the stage, while Souseiseki just sighed and watched.
"Mother, I so don't want to meet him!"
"But why not? He's a prince, for goodness sake!"
"Yeah, but I've met him before and we so do not get along." The silver haired woman turned to the girl behind her.
"She's right." Suigintou sighed, not giving up.
"Just go up there! Before I make you clean up instead of Shinku!"
"Oh hell no!" The brunette ran up and put on a clenched smile as she bowed to the prince.
"Lookie who I've reeled in," Jun commented sarcastically. The girl fought back the urge to strangle the stuck up boy, but instead climbed on his lap, giving him a shock.
"What are you-" Still through clenched teeth, she smiled and hissed, "Just go with it."
"Mother threatened you." The smile fell and Suiseiseki's face was neutral.
"Yep."
"What would you rather be doing?" The girl turned her green and red eyes to the snack table at the edge of the hall, and smirked.
"I'd rather be 'sampling' the food over there." Jun shrugged.
"Go ahead. They're always cooking more." The girl jumped off his lap and ran over, shouting over her shoulder, "That's best thing you've ever said to me!" Suigintou felt like tearing Suiseiseki limb from limb. Especially as she got chicken over her dress. She turned to Souseiseki and said, "Your turn." The girl didn't move.
"Well?" The girl shrugged.
"I'm not into guys."
"So? And how are you ever gonna get a guy if you dress and look like one?" The girl didn't have a chance to answer, as the woman just grabbed her and pushed her towards the boy. She couldn't run off as the boy caught sight of her.
"Why do you look familiar?" She shrugged again.
"I'm Suiseiseki's twin sister, and I was there when you two first met. My name's Souseiseki." They just looked at each other, until Jun said, "Do you know you look like a guy?" Her hands flew up.
"Why is it that every person I meet tells me that?" A scream came from the snack table, and when they turned to look, they saw Suiseiseki fighting with a woman over the tray of sandwiches.
"They're mine! Give 'em!" They turned back to each other.
"Wanna go make sure your sister doesn't eat the guests?"
"Sure." The girl walked off, leaving the prince to watch the dancing, bored once more. Suigintou was almost ripping her hair out.
"Why those two..." she hissed.
"Mind if I try?" Suigintou jumped and turned around to see Shinku. The blonde smiled at her stepmother's shocked look, and walked past her to see the prince. When she was up on the stage, in front of the prince, she curtsied.
"How do you do, your Majesty?" He sat up straight and blushed as the girl stood up straight and looked at him.
"Aren't you going to offer me a seat?" He jumped to his feet and motioned to the seat next to him.
"Uh, o-of course. Please, sit." She sat down, and turned to the boy as he sat on his own seat. He avoided looking at her, until he turned and asked, "Uh, so, well, what's your name?" She smiled as she leaned against the arm of the chair.
"My name doesn't matter, but what does matter, is what you look for in a girl. And I'll see if I can match up to her." The boy leaned back in the chair and blushed a deep red under her oddly warm ice blue gaze.
"Uh, well, my parents want me to find a girl that's perfect. But I don't want that. Maybe I just want a girl that's kind, helpful, not afraid to stick up for herself and, just to please my parents, a good cook." They laughed. He turned to her.
"Think you're that girl?" She shrugged.
"Maybe."
Suigintou ran over to where Souseiseki was holding her sister back from attacking the food table as it was plated up with fresh food.
"The two of you, get up there, now!" Suiseiseki stopped struggling to turn and ask, "Why?"
"Just, look," their mother hissed. The two of them gasped as they saw Shinku laughing with the prince.
"Hey, how did she get here?"
"Who knows? Just get up there and take care of it."
"Uh, mother?" Souseiseki said. Suigintou sighed.
"What?"
"They're walking off somewhere."
"WHAT?" Suigintou turned around so sharply, it threw the twins to the floor.
"Hey, watch it!" Suiseiseki screamed. She ignored her daughter's comment, and snarled, "After them!"
Jun led the blonde to the bench and they sat down. They just sat there and admired the fountain in the centre of the garden.
"You know Jun, tonight has been the best night of my life."
"Same here. But I'd love to know your name."
"Well-" She was interrupted by the clock as it started chiming around the kingdom. She gasped as she looked up. The clock's hands were both pointed upward, at midnight.
"What is it?" Jun asked. Shinku jumped to her feet and started running.
"Where are you going? Wait!"
"I'm so sorry, but I have to go!"
"Wait!" The boy ran after the blonde as the spell gradually started to wear off, starting with her ribbons disappearing, her hair now flowing behind her. Then, her bonnet and ribbon disappeared. All the while, Jun still chased after her. As she raced down the stairs leading to the main doors, one of her shoes came off, sitting on the step. She stopped, but when her dress and shawl were replaced by her old tattered dress, she ignored it and ran toward the carriage, which, fortunately, still remained, as well as her other shoe.
Jun stopped chasing after her and stood at the top of the stairs, panting. He was heartbroken. She had seemed like the one. He turned to go back to the party, until he spotted something shiny halfway down the stairs. He walked down and picked up her leather shoe.
"The owner of this shoe...I'll find whoever they are."
"How did you end up there?" Shinku sighed as Suigintou paced around the room, snarling all sorts of things. Sometimes she'd bitch to her daughters about how they couldn't get the prince's attention, but she mostly shouted at Shinku about being at the ball in the first place.
"That is it, you are being locked up in the top room until further notice!" Then, suddenly, there was a knock at the door, and when Suiseiseki opened it, the prince said, without looking up from the card he was holding, "Hello there, Sir or Madam, could I please ask to see any women of the house."
"What are you doing here, you puny runt?" He looked up and his mouth opened to see Suiseiseki with Souseiseki behind her. Suigintou was already halfway up the stairs, dragging Shinku to the room.
"I'm here looking for that girl from last night." The brunette rolled her eyes.
"So we noticed."
"So can I come in?"
"Might as well." The boy looked around.
"So, are there any other girls around here besides you two?" Suiseiseki shrugged. Suigintou started to walk back down the stairs and out the key in her pocket. She spotted the prince.
"Why, Prince Jun, why on earth are you here?"
"I'm searching for that girl I met last night." Suigintou clenched her teeth.
"Have you got any other girls here…besides these two?" She shook her head.
"Nope." He narrowed his eyes suspiciously.
"Mind if I explore?"
"Like where?" He looked up the stairs and nodded his head in the direction of the door at the top of them.
"That room." Suiseiseki ran forward.
"You can't!" He glanced at her.
"Why not?"
"Because…" They turned to see Souseiseki.
"Because…it's currently being cleaned." Suigintou and Suiseiseki quickly nodded.
"Yes, that's exactly it!"
"By who?"
"Th-the maid?" The boy sat himself down, putting the box containing the shoe on the glass coffee table.
"Then I'll wait." Suiseiseki blinked.
"Huh?"
"I said I wanted to meet every girl in this house. I'll wait and meet the maid." Suigintou was shocked, and she walked forward until she was in front of the prince.
"Bu-but, don't you have better things to do?" He shook his head.
"Nope. I'll wait patiently. Unless you'd rather I go up there myself?"
"No! No, it's fine."
Shinku sat on the little stool in the dusty room and cried. Her one chance to leave behind her abusive stepmother, and it was gone. She wiped away her tears and decided to think about where it went wrong.
'Maybe it was meeting the prince himself? But he's cute. And honest. And kind. I couldn't help myself. But now, I will never meet him again. At least, not as long as Suigintou's around.'
She jumped when there came a knock at the door. Suiseiseki's scream came from the other side.
"But the maid is shy! She'd hide the moment you went in there!" Shinku ran to the door and started banging it.
"Help! Let me out!"
Jun jumped at the banging.
"Please!" Suiseiseki tried to pull the boy away from the door. Souseiseki sighed.
"She's trying too hard. It isn't that big a deal anyway." Suigintou glared daggers at the girl.
"Of course it's a big deal. She may hate him, but Suiseiseki knows that it is important to get him to like her."
"But he hates her too."
The boy finally broke out of the girl's grasp, causing her to fall to the ground, and he broke down the door. Shinku gasped as the wood hit the floor and caused the dust to fly into the air. She started coughing.
"It's you!" She looked up to see the prince.
"Prince Jun! I-"
"Save it. First, I'd like to ask you a few questions. Shall we go downstairs?" Shinku took his hand and they walked past the unconscious Suiseiseki to the ground floor. Suigintou ran forward, but before she could explain about the girl being locked upstairs, he asked, "Could we please get some tea?" She clenched her teeth and fists and hissed, "Sure thing your Majesty. Souseiseki, go get your sister and come help." The girl made no objection as she walked past the two. They walked over to the chair and Jun offered a seat.
"Please take a seat." She smiled as she sat down. The boy blushed.
"So, you didn't tell me your name last night." She chuckled.
"Shinku. My name is Shinku."
"Shinku. Cute." The boy looked over the blonde's shoulder to see the three women watching from the kitchen. He smirked.
"Excuse me?"
"Huh?"
"I see you found my shoe."
"Oh. But, just to be sure, I'd like you to try it on. If that's all right with you?" She smiled.
"I'd be honored." She held out her foot and the boy took her slipper off. Then, he opened the box and took out the black leather shoe. He slipped it on and tied the ribbon. Shinku stood up and smiled.
"It fits," Jun said quietly. A quiet hissing was heard from the kitchen, but only the reply from Suiseiseki was heard.
"If she leaves and marries that guy, we are not becoming maids." The two stared at each other and laughed.
"Well, if I were to leave here, Suiseiseki and Souseiseki can come," Shinku told Jun quietly. He blinked, confused.
"I thought they were mean to you?" She smiled sadly.
"Yeah, but they were only following Suigintou's orders. It isn't fair to punish them as well." Jun nodded.
"Very well then. Do you want to tell them?" She nodded. She turned to face the door.
"Suiseiseki, Souseiseki?" The twins walked out of the kitchen, Souseiseki waiting for Suigintou to try and follow them before slamming it in her face.
"Didn't know you had it in you, Souseiseki," Suiseiseki commented. The girl shrugged.
"We may be twins, but there's a lot you don't know about me."
"I so knew I'd suit being a bridesmaid. And I so totally suit this dress!" Suiseiseki gave a twirl as Shinku was being helped with the finishing touches, and Souseiseki frowned at her own dress.
"I do not suit dresses," she muttered for the 15th time that day. Shinku gave a twirl as she admired her wedding dress in the mirror. Suiseiseki sighed.
"That puny runt so doesn't deserve you." The blonde shrugged.
"Really? I always thought I didn't deserve him."
"Just remember, he's lucky to have you." Shinku smiled.
"Is it okay if I change after the ceremony and pictures?" Souseiseki asked. The two other girls laughed.
"Of course, Souseiseki," Shinku laughed.
"And so, the prince and princess got married, and the evil Stepmother became a maid to them. The stepsisters lived with them, and they all, besides the stepmother, lived happily ever after." Nori closed the book and looked at the group of dolls in front of her. She had their full attention. Even Suigintou had taken to the floor. Hina yawned.
"Hina liked that story, but now, Hina's tired." Suiseiseki crossed her arms.
"Hm, I may have been the evil stepsister, but I must say, I liked how I was put forward." Jun was sitting on the couch, blushing. Nori stood up and held Hina, who had fallen asleep during Suiseiseki's critical comment.
"Okay everyone, I think you should all go to bed or go home now. It's bed time."
As Nori put the little doll in her case, Hina stirred.
"Nori?"
"Yes Hina?"
"Can we have another story sometime?" The teen smiled.
"Sure thing. But for now, good night."
"Good night." And Nori closed the case.
This was just crap. But, like I said, I'll take requests. And try my best.
And, I ask that you just appreciate the damn thing. This was 13, goddamn, pages.
-Destiny x