Rumpelstiltskin (ha I looked it up in my book of fairy tales, it IS spelled right!)

Disclaimer: Hmph. Seriously. What's the point? Although I DO wonder who owns Rumpelstiltskin.

A/N: Sorry it took so long to get this up, I found a good book (Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith) And I couldn't put it down. Well, that wasn't ENTIRELY a lie. HEY! ITS NOT MY FAULT THAT WRITERS BLOCK EXISTS!!! Oh yeah, and sorry about Hansel and Gretel. It must have been really confusing to try to figure out which things were thoughts of Lord Alan's and which things he actually said. Its not my fault the italics didn't work. This took forever for me to assign roles to each character. I couldn't figure out who had a name that was hard to guess. Which reminds me of the Enchanted Forest Chronicles. There was a guy there whos name used to be Rumpelstiltskin, but no one could ever guess his name. Finally he had it changed to something simple (don't remember what exactly) and still no one could guess it. He ended up with a lot of women's first children.

Oh yeah, I know King Jonathon seems a little... cruel in this story, but hey, there was no other way to do it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Piers of Mindelan had done something very foolish. He had told King Jonathon that Kel had many abilities, which was true. But one thing that she was not capable of was turning broccoli (how do you spell it?!?) into chocolate.Which was one thing he said she could do. Hey, he was desperate. Now, King Jonathon was very fond of chocolate, so he ordered Kel put in a chamber of broccoli and told her that if all the broccoli was not chocolate by the next morning, Kel would not be allowed to become a page.

When the huge iron doors closed behind her, Kel mourned the loss of any chance of becoming a knight. Of course she could not turn brocoli into chocolate. It was absurd.

Despite her struggles to keep her face Yamani smooth, she wept and wept until, when chance came (a/n: 'The Ring ensnared a new bearer. "My precious." The Ring came to the creature Gollum, who took it deep into the tunnels of the Misty Mountains. And there, it consumed him.' Sorry ppl, you wouldn't understand that unless you were me or morgan, or someone else equally *snort* obsessed with lord of the rings) a small person , who could very well be the answer to her prayers, heard her crying.

"Excuse me, lady, but why might you be crying?" Kel looked up into the wild violet eyes of the small stranger. She blushed, ashamed. "The king believes me to be able to change broccoli into chocolate,which I cannot do. If I do not complete this impossible task for him, he will not allow me to become a page."

The stranger snorted. "What a insolent prig. He always did have a soft spot for chocolate."

Kel stared at the stranger, not able to tear her eyes away. Violet eyes, red hair; this was surely Alanna the Lioness. (a/n:at first I typed violet hair and red eyes. scary. *shudder*) Finally Kel found her voice. "Lady Alanna, may I express how honored I am to meet you?!?"

Alanna looked at Kel for a moment before her face split into a large grin. "So you recognized me." Her face became more serious. "I believe I have a solution for your plight."

"Oh?" Kel's tone was disbelieving, one eyebrow was raised. "And what might that be?" As much as she hated to mock her idol, she didn't believe that there could be a solution. "With my Gift, I believe I can change this broccoli into chocolate." Alanna gestured to the heaps of broccoli in the room.

If Alanna believed this would put an end to Kel's disbelief, she was much mistaken. Kel's skepticalism was doubled. (skepticalism? I'll have to look that one up) Alanna apparently noticed, because she immediately put one hand on the nearest bit of broccoli. Violet light encased the vegetable. It shuddered, then, with a small pop, changed it a small piece of chocolate. Alanna withdrew her hand, picked up the chocolate with her other hand and popped it into her mouth."Yummm..... Caramel filling."

Alanna laughed at the astonished look on Kel's face. "He'll never notice. So... what will you give me if I turn all this into chocolate?" Alanna asked. Kel considered this before answering "My practice glaive. I won't give you the one my mother bought me as a present, but you can have my old one." Alanna grinned. "Fair enough."

Kel told Alanna exactly how to get her glaive from House Mindelan, since she obviously didn't have it with her. Alanna nodded but did not leave. Instead she immediately went to work on the broccoli. Kel curled up in a corner of the chamber and slept.

The next morning, when King Jonathon came in to check on the broccoli/chocolate, he found a room full of chocolate, with Kel sleeping in the corner. Alanna had left as soon as her job was finished. He awoke Kel and led her to another, bigger chamber. The room was filled with even more broccoli, and he commanded Kel to transform it once more into chocolate.

Alanna arrived once again shortly after the king had departed. She was swinging Kel's old glaive absently in her hand. She apparently had no idea how to use it.

"Dearest Kel," Alanna began "What will you give me this time for transforming your broccoli? For that is clearly what you wish for me to do." Kel couldn't hide her grin. "How about I teach you how to use that glaive?" Alanna grinned back. "Deal." She began her work for the second night in a row, and Kel watched her for a time before once again retreating to her little corner.

The next day Jonathon thought he was having deja vu. (hope thats how you spell it) The chamber looked much as the smaller one had the day before. The broccoli was no longer broccoli, it was a magnificent array of many-colored chocolates. Kel was, once again, curled up in her corner.

"Wonderful." Jonathon boomed in a loud voice, startling Kel out of her slumber. "Now you must spin one more larger room of broccoli into chocolate. If you succeed *snort* then you will be a page." And with those words, he led her out of that chamber and into another one, bigger still.

Once again, Alanna came to the rescue, once again asking a price for her service. "I have nothing left to give." Kel admitted regrettedly after long minutes of contemplation. Alanna gave in. "Fine. When you are older you will give me the love of your life." (a/n:ha morgan! i changed it! now it makes more sense!)

Kel just stared at Alanna, who blushed. "Well, I get bored sometimes. So I'm starting a collection of guys." Which just made Kel raise her eyebrows and stare some more. She was about to ask what Alanna would do with a collection of guys, and how many she had already, but thought better of it.

Kel figured she would never get married anyways, and she was desperate, so she agreed.(that wasn't a run-on! Me, write run- on sentences? Never! *nervous giggle*)

Once again Alanna changed the broccoli into chocolate, and once again the King was pleased with (quote"e) Kel's work. True to his word (snort) he allowed her to become a page.

Eight years later (before Rathusauk {don't know how to spell it} is ruler of Scanra)

Kel couldn't be happier. She was just married to the love of her life, and everything was perfect. It wasn't until Alanna knocked on the door of the room she shared with Dom that she remembered about her agreement with her.

"Er.... hello Alanna" Kel said nervously. Alanna took the hint, but just glared."No way. There is no way. We had an agreement." Alanna observed as Kel cried softly. 'She really loves this Dom fellow' Alanna realized. Finally she gave in, knowing what it was like to loose someone you cared about. (*cough* LIAM *cough*)

"Fine. George has the Sight. He told me who will be the next ruler of Scanra. If you can guess the name of the future ruler in the next 3 days, you may keep Dom." Kel was confused, but grateful nontheless.

Within the next 3 days Kel did everything within her power to solve the...erm.... riddle. She even tried bribing George. But nothing happened. No matter what she did, or who she talked to, nobody knew. Meanwhile, Alanna would come at the end of each day and allow Kel a guess.

On the final day, Kel was desolate. She had asked everyone, searched everywhere, done everything she could, to no avail. It was approxiamitely 10 minutes before Alanna was due to come for a final guess, and Kel was reading a piece of paper that, thanks to Neal, told her every person of government importance in Scanra. She was scanning down the paper when her eye caught one name. She had just decided that that one would be her final guess when a rough knocking broke the silence.

"Oh, hello Alanna. I've been waiting for you." Kel greeted sweetly. Alanna just gaped. Many seconds of silence passed (AN:allow me to quote from Goldmember: Ohhhh this is uncomfortable.) until Alanna delicately cleared her throat (lol: Alanna doing anything delicately) "Your final guess.......?"

"Oh yes. I forgot. So silly of me." Kel said sarcastically. She didn't know why, but for some reason she was confident of her new answer. "The new leader of Scanra, will be..... drumroll please........ Maggur Rathusauk!!!" *drumroll stops, applause starts* (A/N:sorry peoples I don't know how to spell it and the only PotS book I don't have is Lady Knight, which is the only one that says his name, and KATIE WON'T TELL ME HOW ITS SPELLED!!!)

Alanna just gaped. "Oh, screw you." She said, then stomped off. Kel squealed with joy and ran off to tell Dom.

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Yes. Very.... not ending-like ending. Erm.... well I was impatient, as I'm sure you guys were. This story has been sitting here, almost finished, for a couple months now, and some of my jokes are getting out-dated. So... yeah. Plus I was reading Crown Duel by Sherwood Smith. Its a 450 some page book, but I loved it. I might even have to make a fic about it. Yeah. But.... yeah. Next will probably be Princess and the Pea, cuz I think I got a couple requests for it, plus thats the one I wanna do. EVERYONE GO SEE THE MOVIE CHICAGO IT WAS GREAT!!! luv ya all, Manders