Cinder-Nagisa
~Part 2~
Cinder-Nagisa started weeping. Sure, this was very un-boy-like, but he couldn't help it.
"Don't worry, Cinder-Nagisa!" "What was that?" Cinder-Nagisa lifted his blue head and looked around in confusion. "It's us! We are the little mice that you take care of every time! We are Iso, Mae, and Kata!" Three brown scraps of fur appeared on the ground. (Notice the names?)
"H-How are you going to help me?"
"Here!" The mice started a dance around the fireplace, and the beans slowly reverted to their previous state.
"Wow! Thank you, Iso, Mae, and Kata!" Cinder-Nagisa started preparing a big pot of bean soup, and he fed some to his little friends when he finished. "Now I can go! But, in these rags?"
"D-Don't worry!" A bespectacled girl with braids appeared in front of Cinder-Nagisa, wearing a drak witch costume and a pointed hat. "I am Okuda the Witch, and I have been your fairy godmother since birth!"
"Umm, not to be rude… But don't fairy godmothers wear puffy white dresses?"
"Ummm… That's because Karma-kun said I look better like this…"
Before she even finished, somebody else popped in out of nowhere. He had red hair and mischievous golden eyes. "We're supposed to escort you to the ball for a grade. Seriously, the projects at magic school are getting even more ridiculous."
"Don't worry about your rags! Uh-" Okuda snapped out a wand and started swirling it, but nothing happened. "Here, here. Give it to me." Karma took the wand out of a startled Okuda's hands, and Cinder-Nagisa's dirty clothes turned into a fine formal suit.
"Wow!" Cinder-Nagisa gazed around in wonder as his unkempt hair was tied into two ponytails. With another wave of the wand, the mice turned into fine horses, a random pumpkin into a carriage, a rat into a coachman, and two lizards into footmen. "Lastly, some footwear…" Cinder-Nagisa was no longer barefooted. Instead, he had fine dark boots on. They shined like a bright jewel, and Cinder- Nagisa was preparing to leave when Okuda shouted out something. "Please remember to come back before the clock strikes twelve, for that's when this magic will expire…" Cinder-Nagisa thanked the wizard and witch and set off for the ball.