"Wow! Look at all that!"

Rae Rae ran around the shop like a lunatic, staring at all the exciting toys in the whole shop. He turned back to his sister. Her attention seemed to be focused on that one, simple, nutcracker.

"What are you doing, June? That's a useless thing compared to everything else in here!" Rae Rae exclaimed.

"He's not useless…I can tell that he has something special in him." June smiled warmly at the nutcracker. Rae Rae smiled mischievously.

"June's in love with a nutcracker! June's in love with a nutcracker!" Rae Rae exclaimed, taking the nutcracker and dancing around with it around the shop.

"Rae Rae!" June exclaimed. "Put him down, for all you know, he could be a prince and he could set all his royal guards on you!"

"Oh, no! I'm so scared of the prince, I'm afraid!" Rae Rae exclaimed, before the nutcracker slid out of his hand and landed on the floor with a thud. June glared at her brother angrily.

"What's going on here?" Master Dashi asked.

"Nothing, Master Dashi. Everything's fine." June said, picking the nutcracker up and checking for any damages. "I'm glad that idiot didn't hurt you, and for the record, I do believe you are a prince."

"Oh please…" Rae Rae rolled his eyes.

"Actually, he was a prince. Until, well, he screwed everything up." Master Dashi told June.

"What? He was a prince?" June gasped.

"It's just a bedtime story, sis. Don't get all worked up." Rae Rae told her.

"On the contrary, young man, it's a true story. Do you want to hear it?" Master Dashi asked.

"Yes!" June exclaimed.

"Whatever." Rae Rae said.

"A long time ago, in a faraway land…" Master Dashi began, as he picked up the nutcracker. "There lived a prince…"

The prince's name was Danny, and he lived in a huge castle with lots of servants. And although he had everything that his heart desired, he was still mean, selfish, and a big jerk.

Prince Danny had black hair and blue eyes. His servants were helping him take a bath. He struggled intensely until water poured everywhere and splashed all his servants in the face. He laughed as that happened.

What Danny didn't know was that below his castle, there lived an evil mouse, Hamsterviel, ruler of all mice.

Hamsterviel was underneath taking a bath as well. Upstairs, Danny splashed so much water out of the tub that most of it went down the drain and splashed right on Hamsterviel's head.

"Wow, that's going to get him mad." Anti-Cosmo muttered as Hamsterviel screamed like a maniac.

Danny was the ruler of a huge castle and his servants were tending to his every whim. He couldn't get enough of anything. Whatever he got, he couldn't be satisfied. And he made everyone's lives miserable.

Danny was out of his bath and into his bathrobe. He turned around to see his maid looking at him nervously. He grinned.

"I command you do dance." Danny told his maid.

"Wha…" The maid muttered.

"DANCE!" Danny bellowed. The maid had no choice but to carry out the prince's request.

The mouse king had a dream, and it was to rule over what Danny already had. The only way to do that was to get rid of the prince…but how? Then Hamsterviel had a plan.

Hamsterviel stopped watching the prince and carried off down his mouse hole and into the streets. Meanwhile, Danny was getting dressed, but he didn't like any of the beautiful clothes laid out for him. He snarled at all his servants.

"Danny, just get changed in this." Grand master Dashi told him as he took a shen gang wu and used it to dress Danny in a black jumpsuit.

"I can do it myself." Danny pouted.

"Yeah, sure…" Master Dashi said, looking around the room and observing the mess Danny had made.

"Well, young prince, today is your birthday. So I expect you to be a good boy and behave like a human being for once. Can you do that?" He asked the teenager.

"Stop treating me like a kid, Dashi. I'm 14 now and I can handle myself." Danny told him as he stormed out of the room, he turned around to face all his servants. "One more thing, CLEAN UP THE MESS THAT YOU MADE!"

The servants nodded in fear and rushed around the room picking up all of Danny's clothing. Dashi sighed, Danny was a hopeless teenager. He obviously had no love in his heart, and there was nothing anyone could do about it.

As Danny strolled down the halls of his giant palace, Hamsterviel finally reached his destination. He climbed into the mouse hole of the dark building and avoided all the cobwebs and bugs as he made his way down to see a very important person to his plan.

As Hamsterviel climbed into the main chamber, he caught sight of what he wanted. He looked at the floating purple ghost and cautiously stepped towards her.

"COME CLOSER!" Came her crackling voice. Hamsterviel obeyed and scrambled in front of her. The purple ghost looked at him angrily.

"State your name." She told him, impatiently.

"Oh, em…Wuya, I am Hamsterviel. On my quest to rule the..." Hamsterviel stammered.

"SILENCE!" Wuya exclaimed. Hamsterviel backed up in fright. "I know what you came here for, and I know the answer to your problem. I make sure that you rule the kingdom, if you do something for me in return.

"Anything, anything…what is it you want anyway?" Hamsterviel asked.

"I want the glowing acorn." Wuya told him.

"You want an acorn? You could have anything in the world and you want an acorn?" Hamsterviel asked in disbelief.

"SHUT UP!" Wuya exclaimed.

"Yes, ma'm." Hamsterviel obeyed.

"That acorn has powers, it can do miraculous things." Wuya explained. "Like turning a ghost into a human…"

"Oh…right…" Hamsterviel told her. "So you want me to get that nut and then I can rule the kingdom?"

"Naturally…" Wuya told him. "But since you look too puny and insignificant to do the task all on your own, I will help you whenever you slip up like the idiot you are."

"Hey!" Hamsterviel exclaimed, before Wuya glared at him, he shut up immediately.

"Now go, and find that acorn." Wuya told him, Hamsterviel obeyed and ran off into the mouse hole and back to the palace. He needed to find the acorn, but the question was…where?

Meanwhile, back at the palace, Prince Danny's royal birthday party was prepared. There was a circus, amazing food, and guests surrounded the room. The only thing missing was…the prince himself.

Suddenly, the doors burst open and Prince Danny ran into the room and started shooting everybody like crazy with a small, toy gun. Master Dashi dodged all his shots and took the toy gun away from him.

"Come on, I was having fun." Danny told him.

"Well, we weren't. Besides, don't you want to see your present?" Master Dashi asked him.

"Present? Yes, of course! What is it? Gold, Diamonds, Silver?" Danny asked, excitedly.

"Even better." Master Dashi said, holding up a box and opening it slowly. Danny trembled with excitement…until the lid was opened.

There stood a simple, glowing acorn. Hamsterviel saw this and commanded Anti – Cosmo and Anti – Wanda to go after it. Unfortunately, Anti Wanda was too busy picking her nose and Anti – Cosmo was too busy gagging to hear the command. Danny picked up the acorn and frowned at it.

"Why did you give me an acorn? It's useless! It's only good enough for firewood!" Danny exclaimed, picking the acorn up and throwing it towards the massive fireplace. Once the acorn hit the fire, the flames immediately turned into paper. Sparks of magic jumped out of the fire and turned everyone in the room into toys. Master Dashi, Hamsterviel and the Anti – fairies were smart enough to duck for cover.

Danny just stood there, laughing his head off. That is, until he got hit by one of those sparks as well. His black hair turned white and his blue eyes turned green as he slowly shrunk and soon became a wooden toy, a nutcracker.

Master Dashi picked up the Nutcracker prince and then looked at the fire. The acorn was gone, that meant that it hid itself once again.

Hamsterviel and his sidekicks weren't seen ever again, neither was the acorn. The prince and all his servants stayed toys until this very day, they could only be turned back if the prince could find at least a speck of love in his heart, or if the prince ate the golden acorn by today, at midnight. Then they could all become humans again, but if the prince failed, they would all remain toys…

June listened attentively to the end of the story, Rae Rae was just dozing off to sleep.

"Rae Rae, wake up!" June hissed as she shook her brother.

"I knew that…I knew that…" Rae Rae glared at his sister.

"Thanks for the story, Sam and Tucker are probably looking for us, so…" June explained as she headed for the door.

"Wait, you can't leave without this." Master Dashi held up the nutcracker and gave it to June.

"Prince Danny? But…" June muttered.

"He'll be in good hands with you." Dashi smiled. June returned the smile and walked out of the door with Rae Rae.

"Thank goodness, this was getting boring." Rae Rae said. June just rolled her eyes. She turned back to Master Dashi and smiled warmly.

"Thank you." She said, before leaving the shop.

Master Dashi watched the pair leave his shop, then he smirked.

"Take care of Danny." Dashi said, once the door shut.