Four chapters in two days!! I'm on a roll. Now you might have noticed that the characters are OOC but I'll say it again I'm working on it. Thank-you for the reviews everybody! If anybody has any ideas for my story go ahead and tell me even if it's making Doom strip, I would really appreciated them.

Disclaimer: I don't own Deltora Quest and if I did my version wouldn't even get past the publishers. I'm also not making any money out of this.

Here is chapter four ~*~

If you were at the palace this moment you would had heard various yells and shouts as:

"Ow! I don't need to brush my hair, I don't see the point."

"Jasmine!"

"I'm not wearing that!"

"Have you seen my shoes?"

"The brush broke!"

"Dose this go with this? Or should I try something else?"

And so on.

Jasmine right now was having the worst time of her life. All this time and effort for one banquet. She would rather be right now outside with Kree and Fili, without a gown.

She looked at her self in the mirror. You wouldn't have even recognised her! Her hair was down up in an elegant bun free of any knots or tangles. Her gown fitted her perfectly but she wished she could just throw it off.

Marilyn had begged more like forced, Jasmine to put some jewellery. She was wearing a ruby necklace the shone whenever she walked into the light and it reminded Jasmine of the ruby on the Belt of Deltora.

Knock. Knock.

"Marilyn? Jasmine? Are you in there?" Ranesh's voice came through the door.

"Unfortunately we are." Jasmine opened the door to face both Ranesh and Leif.

Ranesh had obviously talked to Marilyn about what colour her gown was because he was dressed in blue. Leif was wearing the royal attire, which was also blue but darker than Ranesh's. Jasmine also remembered seeing Doom's clothing for tonight that was blue too.

"Everyone seems to be wearing blue!" Jasmine thought out loud.

"What's wrong with blue? Oh, hello!" Marilyn said.

"We've got special reservations at the front of the hall for banquet. Do you want to go now?" Leif asked.

They all agreed and walked to the main hall. Jasmine saw Barda and waved to him.

"Good Evening. Leif how many people did you invite? I even saw the dwarfs from Dread Mountain." Barda said.

"This banquet is sort of one year anniversary to defeat of the Shadow Lord. So I invited anybody who helped and more." Leif answered.

"I'll be going now I have to go and talk to Doom." Barda said as he left.

Barda was right, the hall was filled with people either dancing or sitting down eating. People from Tora were there as well and she spotted some dwarfs.

Leif lead Jasmine over to their table and began to eat. Ranesh and Marilyn came over after a while and joined with them.

"Want to dance?" Leif asked Jasmine.

"Sure." Jasmine replied.

Leif wrapped his arms and Jasmine put hers around his neck. The music was soft and slow. Leif and Jasmine danced in time with it. She rested her head on Leif's shoulder and he pulled her closer. Jasmine had to force herself not to blush.

Midnight struck meaning the end of the night, [Getting the Cinderella feeling?] Leif smiled at Jasmine and kissed her on the cheek.

"Goodnight." He said.

Jasmine found her father and walked home to the forge. After saying goodnight to her father she tiredly went to bedroom.

"Jasmine." Somebody whispered.

Jasmine quickly spun around reaching for her dagger but remembering that she didn't have one.

She stared at the person and gasped.

"Dain?!"

Phew! To the next chapter.