Hello! I'm back again with chapter 2. Some familiar faces will be making their début in this chapter. Enjoy!

Additional Characters

Jacques – Roderich – Austria

Gus – Kiku – Japan

Mary (female mouse) – Elizaveta – Hungary

Bruno – Bernhard - Oc

Lady Tremayne – Baroness Möller (stepmother) – Oc

Anatasia – Angelika – Oc

Drizella – Dellina – Oc

I do not own Disney or Hetalia!

Chapter 2 : Mice, Cats and Marriage Plans

Katyusha woke early in the morning to begin her chores. She had many things to do before her stepmother and step-sisters awoke and her real tasks began. Her life from the age of eight had been one of endless work, waiting on her step-family. According to her step-mother, her father's will left her in her step-mother's custody and her step-mother inherited everything, This meant she had to do what her step-mother said and she was relegated to the family servant.

Katyusha was a girl of average height with pale blonde hair that she kept short so it did not get in the way of her working. She had blue eyes and a busom that was generous to the point of unhealthy as she suffered backache on occasion, a condition not helped by her workload.

Katyusha made her bed and then washed and changed into her faded and patched clothing but she sang as she did so because she was still happy in these moments as she was not alone. The birds outside her window and the mice that lived in the walls of the house were drawn to her singing of a song that her Ukrainian mother used to sing to her. The song always perked her up for the day and the birds and mice loved to hear it because for as long as Katyusha could remember she could understand the birds and animals of the fields.

And they could understand her so she was always surrounded by friends.

Her two closest friends were little Roderich and Elizaveta, two mice who were nearly always together and, with the other mice and birds, did what ever they could to lighten her burden. And right now they scurried up to her, squeaking urgently.

"Katyusha!" Roderich called. "There's a new mouse in the house. A stranger!"

"Where?" she asked, afraid she already knew.

"He's in the trap!"

Katyusha immediately ran down the stairs to the trap that sat at the bottom. In the trap was a rather small mouse with unusual black fur and brown eyes. Katyusha tried to coax the little mouse out but the poor thing was terrified. She put the trap down.

"Talk to him, Roderich," she said. "Explain to him." Roderich walked into the trap that Katyusha held opened so he did not become trapped himself.

"Don't be afraid," he reassured. "Nobody's going to hurt you. Katyusha's nice and we all want to be your friends." Roderich indicated to all the other mice who had come to see what was going on.

"Really?" The other mouse asked in an japanese accent. Roderich nodded.

"Come out," he coaxed and the little black mouse warily followed the other mouse out of the trap. Roderich took him to Katyusha who gently picked him up.

"What's your name?" she asked. The little mouse shook himself.

"My name is Kiku, Katyusha-san," he replied and seemed to do a little bow.

"Pleased to meet you, Kiku...-san?" she replied, questioningly and the little mouse nodded, pleased with the honorific and she put him down.

"I better start work," she said, standing up. "Roderich, explain the house to Kiku and don't forget to warn him about the cat." And she rushed away to start her chores.

"Ever seen a cat, Kiku-san?" Roderich asked him.

"Hai," Kiku replied.

"Well, there's one in the house," Roderich warned. "His name's Lucifer and he lives up to that name. So watch out for him."

"I will. Arigato(Thank you)."


Katyusha went down into the kitchen where the sheep dog, Bernhard, was lying in front of the hearth, his legs kicking as he ran in his dreams as a black and white cat came stalking down the stairs after her. Bernhard jumped up and sank his teeth into the rug he had been sleeping on.

"Good morning, Bernhard," Katyusha greeted as Bernhard came fully awake.

"Good morning, Katyusha," he replied, drowsily.

"Dreaming of chasing Lucifer?" she asked. Bernhard nodded, eagerly.

"Catch him?" Bernhard nodded again.

"That's bad!" Bernhard cringed under Katyusha's stern tone. Lucifer hissed with laughter.

"Can you imagine what would happen if they found out upstairs?" she warned. "You have to get rid of those dreams. Have you tried liking cats?" Bernhard growled at that idea.

"Now Bernhard, Lucifer has good points too," Katyusha said. "For one thing he..." No, he does not. "Well he's …." No, he is not.

"Hmm," she mused. "There must be something good about him." The black and white cat gave Katyusha a disgruntled look while Bernhard gave a doggy laugh.

While Katyusha was looking the other way, Lucifer lashed out with his claws and hit Bernhard who, after a yelp of pain, growled menacingly at Lucifer.

"Bernhard!" she admonished and moved him out into the farmyard, out of Lucifer's sight. Lucifer was the one animal that Katyusha could not communicate with. Bernhard was a dog that worked in the fields and the mice and birds came from there but Lucifer was a house cat.

Katyusha picked up some chicken feed and proceeded to feed the chickens and while they were feeding, she collected the eggs.

As she came back into the kitchen, one of the servant bell began to ring. It was the summoning bell for Angelika's room which meant she wanted breakfast. It was quickly followed by the bell for Dellina and then her step-mother's room and she rushed around to get their breakfast trays ready. She did not noticed that Kiku had come down to the kitchen and climbed onto the table. She also did not noticed that she had put a teacup down on top of him and picked up the three trays and took them upstairs.

Lucifer had seen and he followed her upstairs, pursuing the mouse.


Angelika's room was the first stop as Katyusha knocked and entered with the breakfast trays, one piled on top of another. Angelika was red headed and was what could only be described as horse-faced. Her jealousy of Katyusha's fresh-faced prettiness gave her a cruel streak which she sometimes extended to her older sister, Dellina. She was sat in bed with a disgruntled look on her face which she turned on Katyusha as she came through the door.

"Good morning, Angelika," she greeted.

"You took your time," Angelika snapped. Katyusha put her breakfast on the bedside table. Angelika flicked her hand at a laundry basket full of clothes.

"Take those!" she commanded. "And make sure you wash them properly." Katyusha held the other two trays on one hand and pick up the laundry basket with her other arm and left the room.

Katyusha left the laundry basket outside Dellina's bedroom door, knocked and went in. Drizella, in contrast to her younger sister, had black hair and had sharp, pinched features. She was just as nasty to Katyusha as Angelika.

"Good morning, Dellina."

"What took you so long?" she demanded, grumpily and pointed to her own basket of washing. "Take that and have it done by tomorrow." Katyusha put Dellina's tray down and collected the basket and left.

As Katyusha moved toward her step-mother's room, Lucifer waited by the step-sister's doors, knowing his mistress's habits well. If any of them saw a mouse, he would soon know but so far, no screaming.

Katyusha knocked on her step-mother's door and heard an 'Enter' so she went in, carrying the remaining breakfast tray after putting down Dellina's laundry basket.

"Good morning, step-mother," she said, carrying the final breakfast tray to the bed, almost sighing with relief that there was no laundry basket in sight. Her step-mother said nothing until Katyusha had put the tray down.

"Now get on with your work," she ordered. Katyusha left the room.

Lucifer waited for a scream to erupt from somewhere but a few moments went by and there was no commotion. As Katyusha began to pick up the two baskets, Lucifer turned to leave in disappointment.

Then there was a scream from Angelika's room.


Kiku ran from the screaming girl the moment she had picked up the teacup. He made his way to the floor and scurried through the gap under the door.

Straight into the waiting claws of Lucifer.


Angelika shot out of her room and stopped in front of Katyusha who was coming to see what the fuss was about.

"You did that on purpose, didn't you!" she accused and ran to her mother's room. Dellina came out of her room just in time to hear Angelika's outburst.

"What have you done this time?" she sneered and followed her sister into her mother's room. As the door opened, Katyusha heard the words, "She put a big, ugly mouse under my... " and the door shut. She looked and saw Lucifer with something in his claws.

"Lucifer!"

Lucifer looked up and reluctantly moved his paws. Kiku ran for his life and Katyusha stared at the cat, sternly.

"Cinderella!"

That nickname began when she was younger and the enforced workload caused her fall asleep while cleaning the fireplace and they found her covered in cinders. Now they did not call her any thing else.

Katyusha turned toward her stepmother's door, knowing she was about to land in trouble for this. Her step-sisters stepped out of the room with smug looks on their faces.

"You're in for it now," Dellina smirked and Angelika giggled, nastily.


Lucifer skulked in through the door as Katyusha went in and stalked up to his mistress bed, leapt on and curled up, giving Katyusha the evil eye. Her stepmother calmly poured herself tea.

"Please," she plead. "You don't really think that I..."

"Silence!"

Her step-mother stirred her spoon around her cup as she made Katyusha wait.

"It seems you have time on your hands," she said, finally. "For nasty jokes. Let's see what other uses we can put it to." Katyusha waited for the axe to fall.

"You will beat all the rugs," her stepmother ordered. "Wash the windows, polish the silver, clean the draperies... "

"But I already... "

"Do them again! Finish the laundry and one more thing!" Lucifer was enjoying Katyusha's pain.

"Give Lucifer his bath!"

Lucifer yowled his displeasure.


Gilbert was bored!

Other than be fitted for an outfit for his twenty-fourth birthday party, he absolutely nothing to do. Gilbird sat in his hair, as restless as Gil was. Gilbert wished he had a couple of friends to hang out with, although that Antonio guy was kind of awesome but he was on his honeymoon right now with his new husband, Lovino. As was his brother, Ludwig, who had finally married his arranged fiancé,

Feliciano, who he had fallen in love with, thinking Feli was a girl. That was kind of confusing for a while.

The only exciting thing that had happened lately was a letter from Italy. Romulus was worried about a strange silvery flower that had suddenly grown in the spot where Natayla had met her death. He was worried because it had flowered the whole year round, unaffected by snow or frost and stood up to heavy rainstorms and high winds. The Three Fae had tested the flower and concluded that it was magical but strangely, considering the spot where it grew, could detect nothing evil about it and announced it as white magic. But the flower had now been dug up and stolen and Romulus worried about the reason why!

Also in the letter was a request to keep an eye out for a gang lead by a man by the name of Luciano Maestri. Lovino had told his father about these humans that had been hired to do Natayla's dirty work when she did not want to use magic for fear it would be traced. It was this gang that had abducted Lovino which was why no magic had been detected in the room Lovino had been taken from. King Romulus wanted the men who had taken his eldest son from him.

Gil suddenly decided to get out of the castle for a while and go hunting. He changed and, with Gilbird still in his hair, went to collect his horse, passing the stateroom where King Wolfgang and The Grand Duke were holding conference.

"I'm going hunting,Vati," he called out on his way past and disappeared before Wolfgang could call him back.

"The boy's not co-operating," he grumbled to the Grand Duke, a man with violet-blue eyes and brown hair with a piece that struck up and curled round. He wore a blue coat with a white jabot. He also wore glasses and had a small mole near his mouth.

"By the way," Wolfgang asked. "Where were you this morning?"

"I had something to attend to, Your Majesty," The Duke replied. "But do you really think we should try and push the prince into marriage, Sire. In matters of love... "

"I realise your marriage was a love match," Wolfgang interrupted. "But with respect, love is two people meeting each other in the right circumstances. So let's create the circumstances. I want invitations sent out to everyone who has a son or daughter of marriageable age. At this point, I don't care if it's to a footman or scullery maid.

"But one way or another, I will see that boy married and on his own throne!"

I was going to stick with the original names for the remaining Disney characters but decided that was lazy and too close to the original story. Baroness Möller was married to Baron Möller so that was simple. Bernhard was close to Bruno and is a name sometimes given to german dogs. Angelika means like an angel so that's a joke and I was thinking of Angelica from Rugrats and Dellina means bright, noble and I figured her mother would name her something pretentious. I kept Lucifer because it matches the cat's personality.

As promised, Japan is here and he will have a larger role in this story but he will not have an easy time of it as anyone who has seen the film will know. He probably won't be as fond of cats by the time this story's finished.

To Cardfighter by Maple – Wait no more and btw, I do have a PruCan story planned for Halloween so stay tuned.

To messie2624 – No, there's not many stories of this pairing. I kind of accidentally wrote myself into this pairing but, thinking about it, Ukraine is a sort of put-on character so she's perfect for Cinderella. And thank you. I try my best.

To kassydaPJgeek14 – When I thought about doing fairy tales, I thought up a few and then thought what about tying them all together and thought of ideas to do that, leading to this pairing which normally I never would have thought of. Unfortunately, because of where Alfred ends up it will be a long time before he's reunited with his family again but he will be, never fear.

To ArtemisIsis13 – Yes, I was in danger of getting a little lost in the time line myself and I realise I never gave an indication of when things were taking place. Natayla cursed Katyusha three years before she kidnapped Lovino and at this point in time, is almost twenty one. You've just listed all my favourite pairings. Great minds, hmm. You see Greece in Hetalia Tales 4 but I'll keep the fairy tale I'm using a secret.

Please give the wall my regards.

To Kin of Norway – Looks like I've given you a new villain to hunt. The stepmother might deserve no name but unfortunately she has one (Even if I don't remember it being used in the film). I researched the names of the characters of the film for this story and she was listed as Lady Tremayne. I had to give her a name because, unlike the Chamberlain, she's a little too proud of herself and would want everyone to know who she is. But she is just as hateful so go nuts.

To Scarlet Phantom – Yes, there are clues to the next pairing. I'm planning Hetalia Tales 6 which will be an original story in which SuFin will feature. They won't be the main pairing but I plan on them featuring rather strongly. Number 6 will be the last one of this series and will be a prequel, that's all l'll say. I might do another series in the future but after this one is finished I hope to do a few original tales. We'll have to wait and see.

To Element001 – I'm pleased you enjoy it. I update every Thursday so I can write the next story and possibly the odd one-shot. I hope you continue to like it.

Well that's it for another week. I'm planning a Halloween one-shot so look out for that.

So till next week,

Hasta la Pasta!

(Disney songs have been removed in accordance with this site's rules)