Tamaorella

Chapter 1: The Invite

Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Funbari, there was a girl named Tamaorella and she lived with her stepmother, Kino, and her stepsisters, Anna and Pillika.

They treated poor Tamaorella very badly and like a slave almost. If Anna and Pillika got new clothes then all she would get were mistreated hand-me-downs. She cooked and cleaned for them and did all their bidding for them.

They always treated her wrong and made her live the worse life you can imagine. They made her sleep in the tower, and when she made the most delicious meals, they made her eat the cold leftovers. And every night she cried herself to sleep, but she kept on smiling through the day thinking about her hopes and day-dreaming.

One day, in the morning, there was a knock on the front door.Tamaorella got up from scrubbing the floors and answered it because no one else would. "Yes?"

There stood Chocolove and Horo, the royal messengers with a bag of invitations.

"Chocolove, where's your trumpet?" asked Horo nudging him.

"At home. Why?"

"DUDE! We need that to make announcements and to pass the invites!"
"Invites for what?" asked Tamaorella holding her cleaning rag.
"Um…Chocolove, just make a trumpet sound," said Horo. Chocolove made a trumpet noise with his mouth and Horo read off a card: "In honor of King Miki's new gorilla costume that Lady Keiko bought him, there will be a Royal Costume Ball tonight at 7:00 PM sharp.Also, the oldest Prince will be choosing a bride tonight, so all the fair and cute girls should come and party. That is all and see you at the party," said Horo. Chocolove handed Tamaorella an invitation and he and Horo started walking away.
"WAIT!" cried Tamaorella.They turned around before they went out the gate. "Which prince? There's three I thought!"

Chocolove and Horo looked at each other. "There is….we forget which one though…"
Tamaorella fell over. "But it's the oldest one! Not the twins this time looking for a girl!" said Horo.
"Who's the oldest?" asked Tamaorella.

"Um…isn't it that adoptive one? The one Lord Miki took in when he was a baby?" asked Chocolove.

"Yeah…um…OH YEAH! Prince Ryu!" said Horo.

"Prince Ryu…" said Tamao.She never saw any of the royal family before so she didn't know what they would be like.

"Well, see you at the party!" cried Horo and Chocolove running out of the gate and going through the next house and the other houses.
Tamaorella held the invitation in her hands and blushed a bit as she hugged it.
"TAMAORELLA!" cried Anna, Pillaka, and Kino.

"Eep! Coming!" she cried running back inside.

Meanwhile, back in the palace, everyone was getting ready for the party tonight.

"At least Keiko didn't give me a chicken suit like last year…" sighed Miki sweat dropping.

"You say something Dad?" asked Yoh going to the closet.

"Not really," said Miki sweat dropping again.

"BLEH!" cried Hao jumping out of the closet and scaring Yoh in his vampire costume and with his vampire teeth.
"HAO!" cried Yoh. "You scared me onii-chan!"

"AHAHAHAHA!" laughed Hao. "So little brother what are you going to be?"
"An orange!" said Yoh pulling out an orange ball costume.
"Isn't that your old pumpkin costume?" asked Hao.

"Yep! But I painted it all orange now and now it looks like an orange!" said Yoh happily.Hao sweat dropped.

"I swear I should have had you two stay at your grandfather's for another month while you two were training," said Miki.

"Where's Ryu?" asked Yoh putting on his costume.
"Beats me. I thought he went shopping," said Hao shrugging his shoulders.

"He did. He didn't like the costume I picked out for him so he went to get a new one!" said Miki.

"What costume?" asked Hao and Yoh.Miki held up a pink bunny costume.

"Oh yeah Dad…he would be sure to get some girls with that costume…." Sweat dropped Hao.

"Why are we having Ryu search for a bride tonight Dad?" asked Yoh.

"Because he needs to find a girl in his life and be happy like me and your mother!" shouted Miki.

"Daddy's funny today," said Yoh.

Back at Tamaorella's house, Tamaorella was getting chewed out for not finishing the floor.
"Tamaorella! This floor is still wet!" said Anna.

"Tamaorella! It's still dirty over there!" cried Pillika

"Well, Tamaorella.Why did you forget to finish the floors?" asked Kino.

Tamaorella gulped. "T-The Royal Messengers were here and gave us an invitation for a party tonight!"

"WHAT! GIMMIE!" cried Anna and Pillika grabbing it out of Tamaorella's hand. They looked at it and showed Kino it. "Mother! Mother! May we go?"

"Of course my dears. We'll get new costumes too," smiled Kino. Tamaorella stood there blushing and stammering. "M-may I go too?"

The trio stared at her. Then Anna and Pillika started laughing their heads off.
"You! Go with us! What a riot!" laughed Pillika evilly.

"What would you go as? A peasant?" said Anna.
Kino tapped her cane on the ground. "Now girls, be nice to Tamaorella.She may go to the party if she finishes all her chores today and finds herself a costume somehow. Then she may go with us."

Tamaorella beamed and smiled. "Hai Kino-san! I'll do my best today!"

Continue in Chapter 2.