Song Of Hope: Okay, this chapter, or the next chapter, will most likely be that last. I'll tell you if this is the end of the story at the end of the chapter, though you'll most likely come to that conclusion, or realize if the next chapter is the end.

"Tsubasa! Yuu!" They looked at Madoka, who was racing towards them.

"What's wrong Madoka-sama?"

"Yeah, what's wrong?" She ran over to them.

"It's five minutes until midnight. We have to get home, or else everything will turn back into what they were before!" Tsubasa got back on the drivers seat, and Yuu opened the door. She quickly got inside and raced to horses to the house. The carriage started shrinking.

After three minutes, they got there, two minutes before time was up. Yuu looked at her with sad eyes.

"We're going to become animals again Madoka." She hugged the little boy, then grabbed Tsubasa by his shoulder and brought him into the hug. She started tearing up.

"I'm going to miss you two so much as humans. But, at least you'll still be here."

"I do prefer my human form Madoka-sama." The clock struck midnight, and the carriage turned back into a pumpkin. Then they started fading away.

"We're returning."

"Good bye Tsubasa and Yuu, at least as humans." They faded out. Then, the horses turned back into squash, and finally, she was back in the rags of her mothers dress. She was walking when she heard a click. She looked down at the ground and saw she was still wearing the slippers, or at least one. "Well, Shinsetsuna did say they were special. Oh, thank you, even though I never met the prince, I still had the most wonderful night of my life. She walked back into the house and went to bed.

The Next Morning, At The Palace

Ginga woke up, that morning, thinking about the girl he had met last night. He grabbed Pegasis out of his pocket (yes, he sleeps with Pegasis in his pocket). "You were there Pegasis, did you like her?" He felt a warm sensation overflow from Pegasis. "I'm going to take that as a yes." He put Pegasis back in his pocket and went downstairs to the dinning hall. His mother, who wore a beautiful, blue, long, plain, silk dress, and a golden tiara with a Pegasus on it, the Pegasis was blue sapphire, was already there. She smiled at him.

"Sleep well Ginga?"

"Yeah Mom, I slept just fine."

"Now, about this," she held up the shoe, "I went to go tell you goodnight, but you were already asleep, but I found this. Why was there a womans shoes in your room?"

"Mom! That's from the girl last night. She, um, she had to leave, but left in such a rush that she dropped her shoe, right off her foot, and didn't pick it back up." She smiled, and went up to hug her son.

"Oh, you met someone! And you kept her shoe that she dropped! How sweet! You must really like her!"

"Mom!" She let go of him.

"Okay, now, who is this girl?"

"Um…"

"You did get her name, did you?"

"No, I was enjoying my time with her, I forgot to ask her. And she didn't even realize I was the prince!"

"Did she have fun?"

"Well, from how it was up until about midnight, I'm guessing so."

"Then she really likes you, not for your title, but for you! Oh, honey, this is just like when your father and I met. Something similar happened, only I didn't know he was the prince. But he actually remembered to get my name. Now, there's something about this shoe."

"What is it?"

"I compared it to one of my shoes, and saw they were more or less about the same size. I put it on, but it shrank, or something, and I couldn't get it on."

"That's weird."

"That must mean there an enchantment on the shoe honey. Only the owner can where it."

"So, that means I can go find her by using the shoe? That kind of ridiculous."

"But it's the only way, and if it didn't fit my delicate little feet, it has to fit only the girl who owns it." He thought about it. His mom did have really small feet.

"You're right. I'll have every maiden try on the shoe."

"Unless you can remember her face. Then you'd just have to look." He tried to remember, but he couldn't see her face in his mind.

"I can't remember what she looked like." She gave a knowing smile.

"Well, that means you'll have to go to every girl in the kingdom until the shoes fits."

At The Amano Residence

Muda had just sold a Bey part to a girl who was quite the gossiper. Madoka was walking downstairs, holding some dishes from Biboo and Muda's breakfasts.

"Did you know the prince is coming?"

"What?"

"Yes, he was talking to her, but she ran off. Apparently, she had left in such a hurry; she had left her glass slipper. He's vowed whomever the shoe fits he would marry. And he's doing it himself. Some people think it's because he can't remember her face and hopes he'll recognize her instantly."

"But that shoe could fit a hundred girls." Madoka dropped the plates, but luckily they didn't break, and she was on carpeting, so it only made a small thud.

"No, it's said that there's an enchantment on it, that only the owner can fit in it, otherwise it shrinks so that it won't fit. I've already tried it on, but it didn't fit."

"That means he could marry me!" Madoka went upstairs to make her look more presentable, but Biboo saw this. She quietly followed her upstairs, and then locked her in.

When she went to open the door, it was locked.

"No, no, you can't do this to me! Please, don't!" She banged against the door, but she couldn't get it open, she pressed herself up against the door and slid to the ground, crying.

"You will stay here for the duration of the time! I don't want the possibility of you ruining this for us. Now, I shall make myself scarce as well."

Downstairs

Muda was waiting for the prince to arrive, which he did. He calmly walked in. Hyoma was with him. He turned to Ginga.

"I don't think it's her."

"I said I'd try this shoe on every maiden in he kingdom, and it could be her for all I know. Remember, for some reason, I can't remember what she looks like. Mom's guessing it was an enchantment, like the one on the slipper, though why I can't figure out." He walked over to her. "Would you please lift up your left foot?" She did so. He put the shoes on, and it looked like it fit. "Thank you for finding my slipper." She lifted up her foot more, to reveal that it was only on her big toe. He took it off.

"Is there anyone else here?"

"No your grace, there isn't anyone else in this household, well, no one other than my mother, but it couldn't possibly be her. And there's another girl, but she didn't even attend last night. She didn't want to go, and we let her stay here." Something, namely Shinsetsuna, made him want to stay. She pointed her wand at him and chanted a spell.

"He must not leave until he sees her, or happy ending with come for neither."

"Aren't you the one who fixed Pegasis?"

"Why, yes your grace."

In Madoka's Room

She was still crying when she heard a click. She opened the door to find Shinsetsuna Kokoro.

"You must hurry child, he is going to leave soon. I've done most of what I can, but right now, I cannot interfere, you must do this part."

"Thank you fairy godmother." She ran downstairs to where he was.

"Well, I really must be leaving. I must go now."

"Wait, I'm sure I can squeeze my foot in there." He hadn't taken off the slipper, so she tried shoving her foot into it. He started freaking out.

"Please, don't do that! You'll break it!"

"I can't break my own shoe!" Then, she finally got it on her foot, but then it shattered into a million pieces. Ginga tried to keep his cool, and the only thing keeping him from losing his head was the fact that she had fixed Pegasis. Hyoma was pretty sure Ginga was about to explode.

"G-Ginga, are you alright?"

"I'm fine, you should check to make sure that the glass didn't hurt her foot."

"I am so sorry your grace." She started crying, afraid of what would happen. Then, he heard footsteps. A girl with messy brown hair and bright aquamarine blue eyes walked in. Ginga felt the familiar warm feeling from Pegasis that he had felt when he had first met the maiden from the night before. Hyoma started signing and talking to her.

"How are you doing Madoka?" He turned to Ginga. "That's Madoka, who we were just talking about, she can't hear at all, or speak." His hopes dropped that maybe it was she when he heard she was deaf, and the girl he had talked to could hear. She signed back.

"I'm just fine."

"We were here to find a maiden from last night, but she disappeared, leaving only her enchanted slipper behind. But now it's shattered into a million pieces."

"It's alright. You see," Madoka pulled the other slipper out, she had kept it in her pocket as proof incase they wouldn't believe her. Ginga was shocked, but he walked over to her.

"May I?" She acted confused. Hyoma signed what he had said. She nodded and gave him the shoe. She found a chair to sit down at and lifted up her foot. He slipped the slipper on (no pun intended) and it fit perfectly. Shinsetsuna was hiding in the shadows, but peaked her wand out. "None knew you were you when you ran out of sight, let your attire return from that fateful night." Instantly, she transformed into the maiden from the night before, and the other slipper that had shattered come back together and flew right over onto her foot. Ginga took her hand.

"The carriage is outside. Do you want to come?" She simply nodded. They walked out, leaving a shocked Muda behind.

Once they were on their way, away from her old home, she spoke.

"Thank you for returning my slipper to me." Hyoma was shocked.

"Wait, if you can talk-"

"And I have perfect hearing."

"And can hear, then why did you pretend to not be able to?" She sighed and took a deep breath.

"Promise not to interrupt?"

"I promise Madoka." She took in a deep breath and explained.

"It started years ago, not long after my mother died of a sickness. My father loved me very much, and thought I needed a mother. So, he married Biboo, who already had a daughter, Muda over there. While he was alive, they both treated me very kindly, and I thought that Biboo was just like my late mother. But, my father then passed too, from the same sickness that took my mother. Then they showed their true colors. They forced me to learn sign language so that they could make more money off of peoples pity for me, saying that I was a girl they picked up off the streets, even though they barely have the money to support me, but they do, from the money my father left me. They took everything from me. And they also forced me to fix Beyblades. You see, Muda couldn't fix a Beyblade to save her life. After my mother died, my father taught me how to fix a Beyblade, and then I found I had a natural talent for it. They used that to make money for themselves. I would sometimes work fixings Beys until my hands started bleeding. I still love fixing Beys, but I hate being forced to do it, and I can't even see the happiness of the Blader who receives their Bey back, how happy they are when they see how it looks new." She as in tears at this point, looking away from Ginga. "When I even tried to tell them the Bey was beyond repair, they would beat me and say things like 'you rotten little wench you just don't want to do all that work', and sometimes, it was so bad, I've been on the verge of dying, but I never did die, and I never started wanting to die. I don't know how I held on, but I did. And for that, it wasn't even my fault, the Blader was reckless and he left his Bey to a point where it was unfixable." Ginga took her into his arms. She started crying into his shoulder.

"I can't even begin to understand how anyone could be so cruel." He brought her to his eye level and looked her in the eyes. He wiped the tears from her eyes. "Please, stop crying. Once we get to the castle, I promise that you'll never have to live like that again." She looked at him with sad eyes. She got out of his embrace and looked down to the ground.

"But what about Tsubasa and Yuu? They had gone missing for a few years, then, when my father had died, I found out that Biboo locked them up soon after she had married my father, and then after his death she threatened to kill them if I ever disobeyed her or Muda. Muda will surely have her mother kill them. Tsubasa was given to me by my mother and father as a hatchling, already knew how to fly, when I was a little girl, and Yuu wandered into the store one day as a kitten, and hasn't known anyone except for Biboo's cruelty and me." He called out to the driver.

"Stop the carriage." It stopped. He turned to Hyoma. "Hyoma, could you go and see if you can convince them to give you her pets," he turned to Madoka, "what were their names?"

"Tsubasa and Yuu."

"Tsubasa and Yuu."

"I'll try." He got out of the carriage.

"What are we going to do until he gets back?"

"We'll just have to wait. So, um, Madoka?"

"Yeah?"

"I've been meaning to ask you, how did you do it?" She gave him a confused look.

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I mean like your shoes, and the fact that I couldn't remember what you looked like after you had left. My mom said it might have something to do with an enchantment." She looked to the ground.

"Well, Biboo said I could go to the ball if I got all my chores done, was cleaned up, and had a dress suitable to wear. I had one, my mothers, but then when we were going to go, Muda saw that some of her ribbons were somehow on my dress. She got so mad that she tore it to shreds. I ran outside crying after they left, and something amazing happened. A woman appeared in front of me, telling me she was my fairy godmother. She turned a pumpkin into a carriage, brought Tsubasa and Yuu out of their cages, turned them into humans, turned some squash into horses, and then magically gave me, well, this outfit. She told me that the glass slippers were special, and would shrink if anyone other than me tried them on. Then, she placed a spell on me so that no one would recognize me, so that Biboo and Muda wouldn't punish me, or Tsubasa and Yuu. She told me I had to be back by midnight, or the enchantment would break."

"So that's why you ran off in such a hurry. You didn't want me to see you in those torn up clothes."

"Yes. Apparently, the glass slippers didn't disappear, but why I don't know." Hyoma came back into the carriage.

"Do you want me to let them out?"

"Yes, please!" He opened to doors. Tsubasa flew out and perched on her shoulder, eying Ginga, as if he were checking him out, which he was. She laughed at that. "Calm down Tsubasa. He's a friend, and if it weren't for him, you would still be there." He receded, but he kept a suspicious eye on him. "Don't worry, he's always been overprotective of me." Yuu climbed quickly out of his cage and jumped onto Ginga's lap. He gave a high-pitched little meow. Ginga smiled and started petting him. She looked at Hyoma.

"How did you manage to get them to give them to you?"

"I just told them that you requested to have your pets. They seemed a bit too scared to say no." Ginga frowned.

"They should be scared. They'll be punished for what they have done." His grip firmed, and he ended up squeezing Yuu, so he gave a little yelp and scrambled to Madoka's lap.

"Ginga, what exactly are you going to do to them?"

"I can't think of anything horrible enough to make up for all the things they've done to you over the years."

"Just don't kill them. They may be terrible people, but no one deserves to die. And Ginga?"

"Yeah?"

"We should probably start the carriage again."

"Oh, right." He shouted to the driver. "Head towards the castle again." They started moving.

Since the horses weren't going full speed ahead like when Madoka had to rush to return, it took about ten minutes to reach the castle. Ginga got out of the carriage first and helped her out. She took his hand and carefully got out of the carriage. Hyoma got out and they started walking into the castle.

Song Of Hope: Okay, it's obvious it ends in the next chapter.