Crystalmaiden62 walked into the room to see Anna lying on the bed with a towel over her head and Blair taking care of her.

Crystal: You gonna be okay, Anna?

Blair: Of course, she's gonna be okay after she takes a break! Really, we all nearly died the other day.

Crystal: I know and I'm sorry. On the plus side, I'm putting it on this site.

Blair stared at Crystal and sighed.

Blair: Whatever, just please work on my story soon.

Crystal: Sorry, I'm just busy with school. I've only been working more with Anna is because most of her story done and I'm just editing the chapters. Don't worry, I'm still working on it. Anyway, lets start with the Disclaimers.

Disclaimers: I don't own Kingdom Hearts or any of characters or worlds. The only person I own is Anna.

Crystal: Well, hope you like it and please, no flames.

Chapter 4: Castle of Dreams

After our little talk, Ven seemed to feel a lot better knowing that I didn't like keeping what I knew hidden from him and the others. That's what I liked most about Ven, he's very forgiving and sweet. It's a mystery why Master Xehanort would think of using Ven for something that could cause Armageddon on this universe without feeling guilty. Then again, the man doesn't even know the definition of guilt so I can't really say much. On top of that, he messing with Terra and fanning the flames of darkness in Terra's heart. There're so many things to this guy, that I can make a list of things he's done and what I think his punishments should be in a small book.

"Anna? Are you okay?" I snapped out of my thoughts and looked to Ven. I couldn't tell what he looked like with his armor on but I could tell he was worried.

"Yeah, I was just thinking about Terra and Master Xehanort."

"Can you talk about it?" I shook my head, really sad. "I'm sorry; I'm not much help with this, am I."

"It's okay, I expected this to happen. I'll just try to deal with it." I said with a sigh. Really, this is really annoying. There are so many things I really want to do but can't because I'm terrified that something might change due to my meddling.

"Hey Anna look; it's a new world." I looked to see a very familiar world with a white castle and the home of one of the princess's of heart.

"That's the Castle of Dreams." I said, feeling really happy. Out of all the Disney Princesses, Cinderella is my favorite because she works in hope that one day her dreams can come true and has a lot of patience. If I was in her position, I'd be in big trouble with the Stepmother and Stepsisters.

"Maybe Terra's down there." Ven said excited that he might see his closest friend.

"And if not, we'll just have fun and see if we can help someone." I said brightly and Ven nodded. At least he's enjoying himself; he knows how to have fun.

"Well then, let's go!" My young blonde friend cheered and raced for the world.

"Ven, hold on a second!" I screamed after him but he warped to land in the world and I followed. Sadly, that didn't really end well. I remembered that in the Castle of Dreams, Ven gets turned to the size of a mouse and since I followed him I would be too but that isn't the problem. The problem is where we landed; a mouse trap cage. Ven had already stopped but I was going too fast and slammed right into the wall of the cage.

"Anna!" Ven ran to me to peel me off the wall. My armor vanished after I made contact with the floor (thank god) and my keyblade went back to normal. "Anna, are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm alright." I said as he helped me up. "I'm so glad I had the armor on!" I cried in happiness. Really, without it I think I would've been in pain for weeks.

"Anna, are you sure we didn't hit our heads?" I stared at him; my euphoria of surviving a near extremely painful collision being to fade.

"No, why do you ask?"

"Then what is going on?" Ven asked looking around him with his arms folded. I then realized my surroundings.

"Oh man, what happened to us?" I asked as Ven went to the bars of the cage.

"Somebody tell us how we got so SMALL!" He yelled to the now large and empty room.

"Don't say that, Terra already makes fun of my height enough as it is." I sighed sitting down Indian style. "If he sees me like this, he'll call me 'mouse' if he finds out." Ven laughed as I glared at him.

Suddenly the door opened and we looked to see Cinderella only she was huge. Then again, she's normal size so anything would seem huge when you're three or five inches tall. She walked up to the cage and I was just about to protest as she picked it up but she tipped the cage so that the opening faced up. Sadly, gravity pushed Ven and me to the bottom. Thinking quickly, I grabbed the nearest bar and hung on. Poor Ven wasn't as lucky when he rolled to the bottom wall of the cage. "Don't be afraid." She said in a kind voice but I saw the look of shock on her face when she saw us. "How interesting, I've never seen mice like you before."

"Mice?" Ven asked, shocked that she would truly mistaking us for mice. Honestly, I have to agree with him. When I first watch the scene, I asked myself 'how could you mistake a small human being for a mouse'? Now that I can see her face to face, I wonder if the soap and dirt got to her brain while she was cleaning because we surely don't look like mice.

"Jaq, you better explain things to them." Cinderella said placing the cage down and I fell when the cage came down with a slight thud.

"Ow, that hurt." I said as Ven helped me up as Jaq, the mouse and Cinderella's helper, came into the cage.

"Now, now, now. Look, little guy; take er reasy." Jaq said, I forgot how cute Jaq is as a mouse. I use to laugh at his odd way of speaking but at least I can understand what he's saying. "Nothing ta worry 'bout. We like a you. Cinderelly like a you, too She's a nice, very nice-nice." We looked up to see Cinderella smiling down on us. I couldn't help but smile, she's one of my favorites after all even if she's a bit blind for not noticing we're humans. "Come on now, zugk-zugk." We walked out of the cage, Ven looking really happy to find a friend and I'm happy to meet some of my favorite Disney characters; Snow White and the dwarfs are just okay people to me from the world of Disney.

"Name a Jaq." The little mouse introduced.

"I'm Ventus, call me Ven."

"And I'm Anna, please to met cha." I said happily.

"Zugk-zugk, Ven-Ven, Anna. Need a some a ask a Jaq!" We nodded, at least Ven made a friend, nicer than those dwarfs. Cinderella looked just as happy but that happiness was smashed with one word.

"Cinderella!" The voice sounded like Cinderella's stepmother calling from downstairs.

"Oh well, time to get to my chores." Cinderella said getting up to leave. "I'll see you in a little while, Ven, Anna."

"Okay, thank you." I said. Cinderella smiled at me and walked away to tend to her needy and jealous stepmother and stepsisters.

"Wow, she's got her hands full." Ven said as we watched her leave.

"Yeah, that lady who called her needs to loosen her tie a mile." I said with my arms folded.

"Me a think a too." Jaq said smiling but looking a bit angry. "But Cinderelly work, work, work; step-mommy keep Cinderelly busy all day!"

"She doesn't seem to mind much though." Ven pointed out as I nodded.

"No, not za Cinderelly, she work a hard." Jaq said happily, he must really like Cinderella. "Got a dream, big a dream; dream gonna come true."

"She must really believe in her dreams, I'm happy for her." I said thinking; she's a lot like Terra.

"That sounds like somebody we know." Ven said as I nodded.

"Yep, Terra." I knew very well he wanted to be a keyblade master ever since he started training and every fan knows that Ventus knows this all too well.

"Hey, maybe you can help us find him!" Ven asked excited. He must really like Jaq because he seemed really happy to ask for help compared to the dwarfs. "His name's Terra. You seen him?" I knew the answer but Ven knew not to ask me.

"Eh no, no. Never saw Terra before."

"Oh well, it was worth a shot." Ven said as I patted his shoulder.

"At least Jaq is nicer than those dwarfs." I said as Ven nodded with a small smile.

"Come on, follow me." Jaq said as we looked at him. "Gotta see the house." Ven really wasn't paying attention as Jaq ran to the nearest mouse hole.

"Come on Ven."

"H. . .hey." The tour was actually kind of fun, Ven seemed to have a lot of fun jumping on the forks to get to the upper levels in the inner walls. Our last stop was Cinderella's room and I got to see the King's palace. Honestly, this had to be the best view of the palace at night; it was bright and beautiful against the dark night.

"What's that?" Ven asked looking palace in the distance.

"That's a palace, King's palace. Gonna be a big ball tonight."

"Is Cinderella going?" Ven asked. I gave a sigh but not because she might not go. I've always wished to attend a ball like the one at the palace but there aren't any castles or old fashion balls in my state at least not as far as I know. My thoughts were broken by Jaq giving a loud sigh.

"I don't know." We turned at the sound of the door opening to see Cinderella coming in.

"Hello you three, have you become friends already?"

"You bet." I said as Ven and Jaq nodded.

"Oh that's wonderful." Cinderella said happily as she placed a figure with an extremely old fashion dress on it. She most defiantly seemed happier than when she left us in the other room. She was humming a random tune as she worked on her dress, odd because her song is 'A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes' and I'm sure she'd be singing that.

"You sure look happy, Cinderella." Ven pointed out, he seems to be the king of pointing out the obvious.

"Does it have to do with the ball at the palace?" I asked as she nodded.

"Yes, I'm going to the royal ball tonight." At this, she seemed to glow with happiness as she gave a sigh. "I guess dreams really do come true."

"Well, I'm happy for you, Cinderella." I said truthfully, she deserved it more than her stepsisters and stepmother combined. Sadly, once again the stepmother's voice ruined the moment a long with the sisters.

"Cinderella!" Sometimes, I just really hate that woman. I really wish I could stay to see her and the stepsisters get blown up later but I needed to stay with Ven to keep the plot going.

"I guess my dress will have to wait." Poor Cinderella said, deep down, maybe she knew that they were planning to stop her from completing her dress.

"Cinderella!"

"Cinderella!" The nagging voices of the stepsisters confirmed that they would go out of their way to ruin Cinderella's happiness.

"All right, all right, I'm coming!" Cinderella called down as she left the room. I envy her patience, it takes a lot of will power to not talk back after being put through such misery.

"Poor Cinderelly, she not go to the ball." Jaq said as Ven and I looked at her.

"Why not?" Ven asked as I shook my head.

"Think about it Ven, she works for her stepfamily and they seem to try and suck all the happiness out of her." I said shaking my head. "They agreed to let Cinderella go on the condition she make a dress for herself but they'll make sure she won't get it done in time."

"Anna's right." Jaq said sadly. "You'll see, they fix her; work, work, work. She'll never get her dress done."

"Truly though, I think her stepfamily is evil, really evil." I said, glaring at the door. "How could they give her such hopes and then crush them. It's awful!"

"Poor Cinderella." Ven said looking sad.

"Say, got an idea." Jaq said making us look at him, shocked to see him suddenly excited. "Ven-Ven, Anna help a Jaq?"

"With what?" Ven asked truly confused.

"Fix up Cinderelly's dress for the ball." Jaq said partially jumping for joy.

"But what to we need to get?" Ven asked, thinking hard as he crossed his arms.

"Look around the house, lots a pretty, pretty things." Jaq said happily.

"Yeah, I think I saw a few things in the room Cinderella found us in. We can use those to finish the dress." I said now getting very excited. The scene where the mice were working on Cinderella's first dress is my favorite scene in the movie. It shows they'll work very hard for Cinderella's dream to come true after all she's done for them and now I get to be a part of it.

"Okay, let's do it." Ven said looking determined. "We'll go find whatever we need. Jaq, you get things set up here."

"Zug-zug!" Jaq cheered and I nodded.

"Let's make Cinderella's dream come true!" I cheered jumping off the windowsill and landing on the ground nicely.

"Hey, wait up Anna!" Ventus yelled, jumping after me.

"Ven-Ven, Anna, carefy Roos-a-fee?" Jaq called from the windowsill

"Roos-a-fee?"

"I think he means Lucifer." I checked as Ven stared at me.

"Roos-a-fee a cat-cat, meanie, sneaky, jumped at you, bite at you!" Jaq said as I shuddered.

"Perfect, name a cat after the Devil. What a marvelous sense of humor." I said sarcastically. Really, what was Disney thinking?

"We gotcha." Ven said and grabbed me so he could drag me to the mouse hole.

"Ven, I got to warn you about Lucifer. He's just as evil has his owner." I said as we walked to the room.

"Why do you say that?" Ven asked as I shook my head.

"He tries to ruin Jaq's life just like the stepfamily to Cinderella." I said as Ven nodded. "That's the thing about cats and mice, cats like to play and mess around with mice."

"I guess you make a good point, let's hope that we never get to see that cat." Ven said as I nodded. "So what do we need to get?"

"Let's see." I said thinking for a bit. "We need a white sash, white lace, a white button, pink fabric, and pink thread."

"White and pink, are you sure this isn't for you?" Ven asked with a small smirk.

"Very funny but this is serious."

"Alright, let's go." He said and we ran to the mouse hole and to the living room where clothes were scattered everywhere.

"Are you sure we can find everything in this room?" Ven asked as I walked ahead of him.

"Yep, just look." I said pointing to a piece of white lace on the couch and pink fabric on the floor. "There's two already and I need to get the other one on top of those books and boxes." I pointed to a huge stack of boxes and books that I knew had the white ribbon.

"But where are the others?"

"Up there," I said pointing to the drawer on the other side of the room, "and way up there." I pointed above us to a shelf. "We can get those through the mouse holes on the other side but let's get these first before we get the hard to reach places."

"Okay, I'll get the two up there." Ven said and ran across the room to the mouse hole, which left me to fight the Unversed that just loved to pop up every other second. I guess this is a good time to test that light magic again. "Okay, here it goes. Light!" I aimed Lunar Wish at the oncoming Bruiser Unversed at me but nothing happened and I had to dodge a punch from the Bruiser as well as a kick from that shoe Unversed who's name escapes me. It took me forever to beat them on my own, maybe it wasn't a good idea splitting up. 'Why wouldn't the light attack come this time?' I thought, starting at Lunar Wish. Well, you'll have to figure that out for yourself. I jumped at hearing Lunar's voice in my head.

"Where the heck have you been, Lunar?"

I'm not gonna answer all the time. Lunar replied and I really wanted to do a face palm.

"Seriously, what's with that light attack in the last world? What was it?"

Why ask me?

"Because you're the keyblade I'm using!" I argued, glaring at my keyblade.

What makes you think I've got the power?

"Well, you are a keyblade. It would make sense." I answered and I can heart Lunar sigh.

You've got a lot to learn.

"Huh? Hey, are you even listening?" But Lunar didn't answer me. "Well, that was helpful. At least I can guess the light wasn't because of her. Better finish getting the stuff before Ven comes back." The rest of the fighting wasn't hard, seeing as I've learned not to test out that light attack without Ven to back me up in case it didn't work like last time. The handy thing was that once I find the materials it just shrinks and jumps into my item bag like in cartoons.

"I wonder if Ven already delivered his stuff to Jaq yet?" I asked myself as I jumped off the stack of boxes.

"Anna!" I turned to see Ven running to me looking really pleased. "I got my supplies, did you get yours?"

"Yep, lets get back to Jaq now." We raced back to Cinderella's bedroom to deliver all our materials. "There you are Jaq, is there anything else we need?"

"Still needs a pretty-pretty pearl." Jaq said and I almost gave a sad sigh as we walked back to the living room.

"What's got you so sad?" Ven asked as we walked back to the room. "We're almost done, I thought you'd be happy for Cinderella."

"Look in and you'll see." I said pointing inside the room. Sure enough, Lucifer was there sleeping on the ground and right in front of him was the pearl we were looking for.

"Oh." Ven said, looking at me with understanding in his eyes. "You go first."

"Why me?"

"You like cats, right?" I stared at him, how could he bring that up now?

"Tell you what, let's go together. I'll check if he's really asleep and you grab the pearl." Ven thought for a minute and I don't blame him. Lucifer looks really mean and dangerous now that we're five inches tall. Still, he wanted to help Cinderella's dream come true so he agreed in the end. Tip toeing into the room; we approached the evil cat as if we were walking on broken glass. I couldn't tell if he was really sleeping or not but it didn't matter since I knew he's the next boss fight. I waved Lunar Wish in front of Lucifer as Ven took the pearl. We tip toed away from the sleeping cat but when I looked over my shoulder the demon cat was well awake and to take a swipe at us.

"Look out, Roos-a-fee!" Everyone looked up but it was bad for Lucifer as Jaq threw a large ball of yarn at his head. "Hurry, hurry Ven-Ven, Anna!" We made a run for it but I couldn't help but worry for our little mouse friend.

"Ven, I'm going to help Jaq." I said stopping at the entrance to the mouse hole. He turned to me and gave a smile.

"I was waiting for you to say that." I stared at him but smiled at him.

"Well, let's go!" I shouted like a battle cry and ran to stop Lucifer from killing Jaq. "Thundaga!" I screamed, electrocuting the cat before he could attack Jaq.

"Time to play, cat!" Ven yelled as we got in front of Jaq.

"Ven-Ven, Anna!" Jaq said surprised.

"Take the pearl, Jaq." Ven said handing him the pearl from behind.

"Yeah, we'll hold him off." I said as Jaq nodded taking the little pearl. Now, I like cats but they don't like me; in fact they hate me. Finally, I get my revenge after being attacked by cats half of my life. Still, this was really hard because we aren't our regular size; if we were this would be a lot easier. Lucifer, like all cats, seemed to love to pounce and sadly, I was his target most of the time.

"Why does he keep attacking you?"

"Cats just hate my guts!" I yelled whacking the cat over the head.

"Why, I thought you like cats!" Ven shouted as he jumped onto Lucifer's back and tried to whack him over the head with his keyblade.

"I like cats but they don't like me!" I yelled aiming a freeze spell at the cat's paw, causing it to jump back. Lucifer made to attack me but I jumped just in time to dodge the attack, the only bad thing was that I grabbed fur of the evil cat and I rode it around the room for a while. It was nothing like riding a horse or an elephant; this was a lot faster and rougher. I hung on for dear life as he jumped and ran into walls. Sadly, Lucifer became desperate because he went to the very highest shelf in the room and seemed ready to fall and kill me. "Oh man, this is it." I whimpered and the cat jumped off, ready to land face first.

"Jump, Anna!" I looked to see Ven who had just cast an aero spell, powerful enough to keep me from hurting myself if I jumped; at least I hope so. I jumped just in time because Lucifer hit the ground with such force he became dazed.

"Nice move Ven." I said, clutching my heart. That truly was an adrenaline rush that I never wanted to feel again. This is why I'm afraid of heights.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Ven asked as I got my hearts rate back to normal with calming breaths. Lucifer, who used this small bit of time to recover, went to attack us again and actually swiped Ventus.

"Ven!" I aimed Lunar Wish at the evil cat, showing for a fire spell but this time the light came back and forced the cat away, hissing madly. Why did it come out this time? Was it because I went to save Ven? I really don't know. "You okay?" I asked, helping in up with one hand, aiming Lunar at Lucifer's tail setting it on fire with a simple fire spell.

"Yeah, I'm fine. How did you do that light thing again?

"I don't know, it didn't work when I wanted it to earlier." I said but we jumped out of the way in time as Lucifer came crashing down on us but ended up hitting the drawer, that was near us, right in the head really dazing him. We seem to be doing that a lot.

"Looks like he's nearly done."

"Yeah but I want to deliver the final blow this time." I said, Lunar Wish ready. Ven, knowing that after being thrown around on the back of a cat for the last five minutes as well as nearly harming him, he knew I wanted revenge. I pointed my Lunar at the cat who began to wake from his daze. "Take this demon cat!" I yelled casting an advance fire spell right on its tale and he ran from the room hissing in pain.

"I guess I shouldn't get you mad any time soon." Ven said with a small smile as I grinned.

"What can I say; he was asking for it." It was a relief to see Jaq walking up to us. At least Lucifer didn't take out his anger on him.

"Oh, that's a big thank you." Jaq said happily to us.

"It's nothing really." I said waving a hand.

"Yeah, you save us so we saved you." Ven said cheerfully. "That's what friends do, right?"

"Zug-zug, Ven-Ven, Anna, and Jaq are good friends." Jaq said with the biggest smile I've ever seen so far.

"Yep but we need to get that dress fixed before Cinderella comes back." I said and we ran back to Cinderella's tower room. I'm surprised at how easy it took for just the three of us to work on the dress but then again, I did use a little magic on it. Gotta remember to thank Aqua later. Hey, maybe it's my magic that got the fairy godmother to hear her but I doubt it. "Quick, hide! Cinderella's coming." I hissed to the others and we hid the dress to surprise the soon to be princess. Looking from a small crack, I could see that Cinderella was really sad.

"Oh well, what's a royal ball." Cinderella said glumly. "After all, I suppose it would be frightfully dull and boring and completely . . . completely wonderful."

"Cinderella!"

"Look what we made!" Jaq, Ven, and I revealed our hard work to the once sad girl sitting at the window.

"Is that my dress?" She asked looking at the pretty pink dress we worked so hard into making.

"Yes, it's a present from us. Now you have a dress for the ball." Ven said as I nodded.

"Yep, you really deserve this chance Cinderella!" I cheered as Jaq smiled while Cinderella knelt to let us stand on her hands to get a better look at the three of us.

"Why it's, it's such as surprise." She said happily looking at it.

"Glad you like it but you better hurry." I said with a playful scolding look.

"Anna right, hurry, hurry. Time a go Cinderelly." Jaq said, probably just as happy as Cinderella.

"Oh thank you." She said but wasted no time in getting into her dress. Ven and Jaq had to leave to give Cinderella a chance to change into her dress and once she finished she rushed down stairs to catch the carriage. After that, Jaq, Ven, and I just sat on the windowsill staring at the castle.

"Jaq-Jaq hope a Cinderelly dream come true." Jaq said as I nodded knowing her dream will come true. "What's a Ven-Ven and Anna dream?" Ven and I looked at each other for a second.

"I wonder." Ven said looking up at the stars. I knew he was thinking about Terra and Aqua and how the four of us shared the same dream. "Funny, I never really thought about it; at least until you asked me." Ven said holding out his hand to summon his keyblade. "My dream is to become a keyblade master."

"You know you're not the only one Ventus." I said as he chuckled at me.

"Hope a Ven-Ven and Anna dream come true too." Jaq said as I nodded.

"We just need to keep on believing, just like Cinderella, right?" I said as Ven made his keyblade disappear.

"Zug-zug." After that, we left Jaq, who was a little sad to see us leave but knew that we had to if we wanted to find Terra.

"Say Anna," I looked to Ven as we flew away from the Castle of Dreams, "will Cinderella really make her dream come true?"

"Yep, I can tell you about what will happen but you can't go back once I tell you." I said firmly and Ven nodded. "Well after we left, Cinderella's stepsisters ruined the dress we made for her."

"What!"

"Ven!" I scolded making him shut up. "I really don't think it's wise to say too much but I'll give you the short version. Cinderella got new dress from her Fairy Godmother and Terra helped her get to the ball."

"Terra's down there?" Ventus made to go back but I held on to his arm.

"Don't bother, we'll still be stuck in mouse size. He might accidentally step on us." I pointed out as Ven stopped. "He helps her, she meets her prince, but she has to go home before the magic wears off. Since Terra had to leave, Aqua went to help Cinderella, who was locked in her room by her stepmother. Of course, Aqua saves her and Cinderella goes back to her prince and they live happily ever after."

"Really?" Ventus asked looking hopeful.

"Well, there were a few hiccups along the way thanks to the Unversed but Terra and Aqua are there to fix it." I said as we flew off.

"Still, Terra's there." Ven sighed, probably looking really sad under his helmet.

"Don't worry, at least Terra's okay. We'll meet up with him soon." I said, trying to cheer him up.

"Yeah, you're right. Thanks, Anna." I wanted to smile but I couldn't so I'm glad I've got my armor on. From here on, Terra will only get worse. I can't tell Ventus that, it'll hurt him it's worse that I'm not telling him this. I can't keep hiding more from Ventus, he's gonna be mad once he finds that I've been hiding about Terra. 'When we land, I'll tell Ventus about Terra.' I thought as we flew off but I should've talked about Terra sooner because the next world is probably the worst place to talk about him. After all, it's the world where he did the most damage.

Crystal: Well, that's chapter 4 but before chapter 4 Anna as well as a few others had a little incident. That's why Anna is bedridden. Anyway, hope to see you next time. Bye!