Shotarella
Summary: Once upon a time in a land far far away lived a lonely prince and a pretty young girl who lived with her two evil step-mother and step-sisters. This is not their story. Oz Vessalius and his two step sisters are invited to a ball. Cinderella/PH parody!
Chapter 4- Fairy Godmothers and Shotarella
"Oz-niisama how do you know how to put make-up and do hair?" Alyss says curiously as she stared at her face in the mirror in amazement. She was never allowed to wear make-up and did not know how to put it on but Oz had easily painted her face up beautifully and was currently finishing up her hair, he had put it into a French bun adding red roses from the garden into it as a final touch.
"Ada... that's where." Oz says with a small chuckle as he held up a pair of glass slippers. Alyss looked at him nervously knowing that they were his mother's and she might accidentally fall and break them. "Here try them on." He says going to hand them to her but she pushes them back into his hands.
"I won't wear them, Oz-niisama. You know how clumsily I am... I might break them." Alyss says softly before blushing embarrassedly. "Besides I doubt my feet would fit in those... They're really small." She says watching Oz look at the shoes in shock before apologizing as they heard a knock at Alyss's door. "Ah, come in!" Alyss says hoping it wasn't her mother but to both her and Oz's surprise Sharon Rainsworth burst into the room wearing a purple ball gown holding a white box.
"Alyss-chan! Come lets..." She says but stops and stares because she saw Alyss was completely dress, minus shoes, for the ball. She pouted slightly before looking at Oz. "What on earth is going on?" She says placing her hand on her hips and Oz sighs.
"Ah, it seems that Milady wasn't the only one playing fairy godmother tonight. Good evening, Oz-kun." Break says casually leaning against the door way sucking on a lollipop.
"Evening..." Oz says looking at Sharon curiously. "Why aren't you guys at the ball?" Oz asks calmly and Sharon sighs disappointedly.
"I picked out a dress that I thought would look lovely on Alyss-chan... but she already has quite a lovely dress on. I even brought a wig and everything..." Sharon says disappointedly before Oz smiled apologetically.
"You should have told us that you wanted to help..." Oz says knowing that this might have happened but Sharon looked at him with shy eyes.
"I could not but may I ask where you're outfit is?" She asks innocently and Oz laughs embarrassedly.
"It's in my room... I'll go get changed now." Oz says going to leave because he didn't like the look in Sharon's eyes.
"Break..." She says sweetly as Break grabbed Oz from behind and Oz looked at her panicking slightly. "Now...Now... Oz-sama, I have the perfect solution for our dilemma." She says sweetly as they dragged Oz out of Alyss's room causing her to look at her door worriedly, even more so when they heard Oz scream in terror.
'What on earth are they doing to him?' She thought unable to move from her spot frozen in fear.
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"Ah... Um... Oz-niisama, it doesn't look that bad. P-Please don't look at me like that..." Alyss says when she went down stairs and saw a satisfied Sharon and a very depressed young woman with long blond hair. She soon realized that the young woman was her elder brother wearing a corsets and wig. She was now trying to comfort her sulking brother who she thought looked really cute in the outfit. He wore a long curly blonde wig that hung over his shoulders where the dress took its place. It exposed his shoulders elegantly but hid the fact that his corset was stuffed with padding. The dress was tight against his waist giving him the perfect feminine look. The under skirt was a brilliant pink color and the over skirt was white with an elegant slip in the center exposing the pink skirt. It then it puffed out around his legs that were forced into white stockings and reached his ankles exposing his feet; that were in his mother's shoes that fit him like a glove, much to his displeasure.
"Come now Oz-sama! We must be hurrying off to the ball, you don't want to be late for your plan that you so graciously informed us about." Sharon says with a bright grin on her face and Oz let out a small whimper as he was drug out of the manor by Sharon, with the other two fallowing after them.
"A-Are you sure it's alright for Oz-niisama to be dressed like that?" Alyss asks with a worried look in her eyes as Break smiled reassuringly.
"Do not worry, Miss..." Break says calmly with a slight grin. "Miss Shotarella will be just fine." Break says causing Oz to freeze and glare at him ignoring Sharon's frown because he had stopped in front of the carriage.
"What the hell did you just call me?" Oz shouted glaring at the man that towered over him. Break only chuckled in amusement as he pushed Oz into the carriage and then helped Alyss into the carriage before entering his self. "I'm not going!" Oz shouted trying to get off the carriage but it started moving and Break forced him to sit back down.
"Now...Now... Oz-sama, you'll be a hit at the party I am sure. After all the dress suits you much better than it would have Alyss-chan and the shoes I brought for her look wonderful with her dress, which is wonderful!" Sharon says looking at the shoes that Alyss was wearing and Oz let out a groan in protest before looking out the window with a scowl on his pink lips. Oz wanted to scratch at his eyes and wipe all of the make-up off of his face but he knew Sharon would kill him if he did so since she spent all of that time caking in on to his face.
'I didn't think that I was that ugly, that I needed make-up on this thick... It feels like I'm wearing a mask.' Oz thought with a sigh as he glanced at Alyss who was chatting with Sharon excitedly before smiling slightly. 'If I can make sure that Alyss is happy then I know that woman won't be and that will satisfy me for the moment.' He thought glancing down at his gloved hands with a look of disgust. 'But this is definably going to put a damper on my attitude tonight. I wanted to hang out with Gil too.' Oz thought with a small scowl before sighing.
"Why such a long face, my lady?" Break says with an amused chuckle looking down at Oz and Oz simply looked at him with a desire to punch him in the face before turning back to the window with a 'humph'.
'This is not how I pictured looking when I went into the palace with Alyss.' Oz thought crossing his arms and legs reminding his self of Alice causing his lips to twitch in amusement. 'I've got to stop hanging around a bunch of girls... it's causing me to act like one. Well it's causing me to act like Alice would.' Oz thought looking down at his fingers with a bored look not wanting Gilbert to see him dressed like this. 'I want to go home and change. I was going to wear the outfit I wore to my coming of age ceremony.' Oz thought with a sigh, remembering what happened at that particular ceremony and sighed. 'Okay... maybe that wouldn't have been the wisest choice but I liked how I looked in it.' He thought pouting slightly before looking back at the window sadly.
"Oz-kun, I insist that you stop sulking or Gilbert will not want to dance with you at all!" Sharon states in a harsh tone causing Oz to turn a bright red color.
"W-What do you mean by that?" Oz says in a shocked high-pitched voice causing Alyss to giggle at how much he sounded like a girl.
"Isn't it obvious Oz-Niisan? We've seen the way you look at him and the way he looks back. I'm going to make sure you get to enjoy your night as well." Alyss says clapping her hands together as the felt the carriage stop. "Ah, we're here!" She squeals as the door opens and Break steps out to help them all out. Once they all were out of the carriage Oz tried to make a break for it but he was grabbing and was forced to lock arms with Break to keep him from running away. They entered the ball room with an announcement as Rainsworth and company, which Oz was glad to hear because dressing like a woman would definably ruin his social status. Break escorted him to the food table and finally released him.
"Don't go running away, now Shotarella-chan... Oujousama and I will spread terrible rumors about you if you try to leave before midnight." Break says with a small chuckle before he walked away, leaving Oz standing there. Oz sighed before looking at the buffet and rolling his eyes, he didn't think he could eat anything with the corsets squeezing him the way it was. He noticed a servant passing by with glasses of wine and snagged one off of the tray.
"Miss... don't you think you're a little young to be drinking?" A deep familiar voice says with a parental tone and Oz blushed because he knew who it was. He took a small breath before sipping at the wine deciding to drink anyway but the before he could finish it was pulled away from his mouth.
"H-HEY! You could have spilt that all over my dress!" Oz shouts with a scowl at the man who pulled his drink away, which was Gilbert. 'If I stain this dress Sharon-chan might castrate me, then what the hell would I do!' He thought glaring at his friend before ripping the cup out of Gilbert's hand.
"I told you the underage young ladies are not allowed to drink." Gilbert states calmly taking it back from her and setting it on a tray of a retrieving tray that was going back to the kitchen.
"You're being a jerk!" Oz squeals with an annoyed look on his face before he realized he was being unlady-like and recomposed his self. "Please forgive my rudeness..." He says with a sigh and Gilbert looked down at him with a slight worried look.
"Of course, forgive me for almost spilling that onto your dress, miss. I just did not want you to do something that would ruin your chance at speaking to the prince; he hates it when underage people drink alcohol." Gilbert explains with an ashamed look and Oz started to laugh softly because he knew why his friend was doing so.
'Right, I remember the time we were drinking when we were fifteen. Heh... Heh... poor Gilbert ended up lost in the garden for hours only to find he was simply walking in a circle around a fountain.' Oz thought covering his mouth to muffle his laughter.
"Miss, is there something wrong?" Gilbert says curiously and Oz shook his head.
"N-No... I'm fine, I just found your reason humorous is all. I was supposed to be escorted here by the Duke, Oz Vessalius, but he had fallen ill recently and told me to come without him." Oz says coming up with an excuse off the top of his head.
"Ah, I see... Oz's mother said that he had gotten sick as well." Gilbert says calmly smiling sadly. "Ah, so that's why you came in with Sharon-oujousama. May I ask your name?" Gilbert asks and Oz blushes embarrassed because he didn't know what name to use.
"Shotarella!" Alyss calls playfully jumping onto Oz holding him in a tight embrace.
"Ah-Alyss-chan!" Oz squealed knowing Gilbert would think that was his name.
"Shotarella?" Gilbert asked questioning covering his mouth as if to hide a smirk.
"N-No! It's just a nickname her and the others gave me to make fun of me! I-I-My name's Ella but they put 'shotar' in front of it because they think I have a Shotaro complex and like Oz that way but I don't were just good friends is all!" Oz says quickly letting the words run out of his mouth as Alyss laughed at him.
"Awe... Don't say that! Just admit you like older men!" Alyss says teasingly holding on to his arm gleefully.
"Ah... Ah... Um... Let's go find Jack-Ojisama! Eh... um... Good bye Gilbert-kun! It was a pleasure meeting you." Oz says quickly pulling Alyss away from Gilbert who only chuckled and turned around.
'Oh my God... Jack is going to have a fit when I tell him Oz is really sick and it wasn't a lie.' Gilbert thought thinking that Oz really was sick and not able to attend the party. "I hope he's not too sick." Gilbert muttered solemnly as he stalked off to find Jack to tell him the truth.
"Oi! Seaweed head, where the hell Oz?" Alice growls appearing beside Gilbert with a glare.
"Didn't your mother say he was home sick?" Gilbert muttered wondering why she would ask him something so stupid but Alice pouted and looked around as if to make sure no one was listening.
"Mom destroyed Alyss's invitations and you can't get in without one, so they had to stay home but Oz said he was going to sneak in Alyss. I saw Alyss but I didn't see Oz so I figured he was with you." Alice muttered with a small blush on her cheeks as Gilbert stared at her with shocked eyes.
"So... wait a minute! Don't tell me that..." Gilbert says in shock with wide eyes. 'Shotarella... That's not funny, I'm betting it was Break and Sharon's doing.' Gilbert thought starting to tremble in anger. "I-I'm sure Oz is around here somewhere, keep looking but first why don't you try some of the meat on the buffet it was made by our head chief Cheshire." Gilbert says before stalking off to find Break or Sharon to give them an earful.
"Meat? Oh don't mind if I do..." Alice says excitedly bouncing down the table looking for the meat Gilbert mentioned.