Here's the next part that I know lots of you wanted me to upload so, here it is.
HURRAH! I've finally uploaded the next part of JCH! Thanks to everyone who reviewed this and my other stories!
Anyway, here's the next part of… A Cinderella rewrite.
Chapter 3:
"Okay, first scene!" Flare called through a megaphone. The titans, fully costumed, got into their positions for scene one. Kole picked up a microphone and began to speak.
"Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there was a man who had a beautiful wife and a charming daughter. However, one day his wife came down with a terrible illness and died.
"The man grieved for five days but still kept good care of his daughter. After four years, he realised that his daughter needed a mother as well as a father so he married another widow who had two daughters. Sadly, soon after their marriage he was taken ill and died, leaving his daughter an orphan.
"However, the poor orphaned girl's stepmother was actually cruel and favoured her own daughters above her. So, the stepmother spent all of the girl's father's money on her own daughters and hardly anything on the girl.
"She was forced to work as a slave to her stepmother and stepsisters. When she was dusting the fireplace, she would get covered in ashes and so her stepsisters, Drusilla and Anastasia, called her 'Cinderella.
"And so our story begins…"
Kole then put the microphone down. Starfire was already on the set, lying in a bed. Light flooded in through the fake window as she pretended to wake up.
"What a glorious morning!" she exclaimed as she got out of the bed. She went behind a tattered curtain and pretended to get changed, when really she took off a skirt and had her Cinderella outfit on underneath. She then emerged from the other side went down some stairs and into a small room decorated as a kitchen. She started to pour water into one of the cups when…
Smash
"CUT!" Flare shouted. "What happened?"
"Err, it appears that I have dropped the mug. My apologies!"
"Ugh, whatever. Raven, clean this up. Bee, get a new mug!"
Raven used her powers to pick up the pieces of shattered mug and put them in the bin. Bee left the room and shortly returned with a new mug.
"Okay, let's try this again!"
Again, Kole went on the stage and said her bit. Starfire 'woke up' again. However, as she went to the screen to 'get dressed', she tripped on the hem of her night skirt and fell over. She crashed into the screen which toppled into a table. Robin had gone forward to catch Starfire but tripped up himself on a microscopic piece of mug which Raven had missed and fell on top of Starfire who was about to get up. Flare slapped her face in annoyance.
"What happened this time?" she asked. Robin got up and brushed himself down before helping Starfire up.
"Thank you friend Robin." She smiled and he smiled back.
"Aww, why isn't that cute. Now, WILL SOMEBODY ANSWER MY QUESTION!?"
"She tripped." Raven droned.
"On what? Air?"
"Her skirt." Argent answered, sitting back on a crate and watching with mild amusement.
"Okay. Where are the others?"
Bumblebee shrugged after glancing around a bit. Raven didn't do anything. Argent looked confused for a moment before shrugging as well. Starfire and Robin looked around the studio before Starfire replied:
"I do not know director Flare."
"Great," she said sarcastically, "And don't call me that!"
Kole and Jinx looked at each other and sniggered slightly. Flare looked at them suspiciously.
"What?" she asked, squinting her eyes. Jinx folded her arms and looked around. Kole bit her lip.
"Err, the boys told us that they were gonna look through the costumes." Kole said, not quite meeting Flare's eyes.
"What do you mean?"
Jinx burst out laughing. The rest of the girls (and Robin) looked at her. She took a few calming breaths before smirking.
"She means they're having a fashion show!"
"…What?"
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"Next we have Kid Flash sporting an amazing crocodile outfit!" Beast Boy announced through an invisible microphone while wearing a red and green suede suit. As he said it, Kid Flash strutted out from behind a screen wearing a large amount of green polystyrene. If you looked carefully enough and had loots of imagination then you might just be able to recognise it as a badly fitting crocodile costume.
The red-haired speedster walked down the makeshift catwalk, waving his hips around vigorously. Cyborg and Hotspot applauded enthusiastically. Jericho was no-where to be seen.
"Thank you Kid Flash, we will now be taking a break, but stay tuned for the 'Clockwork Cyborg' and 'Red yet cold Hotspot'!"
Kid Flash was about to go and get changed when the door burst open. In the doorway stood the seven girls (and one Robin).
"Okay, I'm not even going to ask what you're doing."
"H-h-hi Flare!" Beast Boy laughed nervously. Raven raised an eyebrow at his choice of clothing. Flare looked annoyed.
"I want all of you to change back and come to the studio and STAY there! Kapeash?" she glared at the four of them who nodded and scuttled to the changing room and studio. Kole looked around, confused, before tapping Flare.
"Where's Jericho?"
"…I…don't…know," she replied slowly, "Why don't you go look for him?"
"Okay."
Kole ran off in search of the mute guitarist as the others went back to the studio. Raven had put the stage back together. Flare was about to press the record button on the camera but then realised Kole wasn't back yet.
"How long does it take to find one person?"
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~On the roof~
Kole walked through the door to the top of the roof and found Jericho playing hi guitar. He had his eyes closed and hadn't noticed Kole come in.
"Hey." She said quietly. The boy looked up and turned to her. He looked pleasantly surprised to see Kole and waved in greeting.
"We're looking for you downstairs."
Jericho cocked his head and pointed to himself.
"Yeah, you don't need to do anything; I think Flare just wants to make sure we're all still here."
Jericho silently sighed and got up. Together they went back to the studio where the others were waiting.
"There you are, Kole, your line!" Flare sat back on a director's chair and pressed a button. Kole said her part. Starfire actually got through the first scene without smashing anymore mugs or wrecking the stage again. The whole of that section went smoothly, until the stepsisters came in.
"Greetings stair sister Drusilla!"
"CUT! Starfire, its stepsister. Okay, take two!"
"Greetings stepsister Drusilla!"
"Mornin'."
"CUT! Argent, stop saying it so nicely, you hate her and you are posh not cockney! Take three!"
"Greetings stepsister Drusilla!"
"Whatever."
"CUT! Argent, your line is: 'Cinderella! What have I told you about coming into my room!? GET OUT!' Take four!"
"Greetings stepsister Drusilla!"
"Cinderella! What have I told you about coming into my room!? GET OUT!"
"My apologies! It shall not happen again." Starfire stepped out of the room and carried on down the 'corridor'. Suddenly, Raven came from around the corner and crashed into Starfire.
"Watch it you stupid girl." She said in a monotone.
"CUT! Raven, where's the anger? I want you to shout it like you mean it! Take five!"
"Greetings stepsister Drusilla!"
"Cinderella! What have I told you about coming into my room!? GET OUT!"
"My apologies! It shall not happen again." Starfire, again, stepped out of the room and carried on down the 'corridor'. Raven came from around the corner and crashed into Starfire.
"Watch it you stupid girl." She said, still in her monotone.
Flare sighed, this was going to take a while.
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I think Flare's coming of as kind of bossy. Don't worry, I'm not like that really, I just thought that I needed someone like that!
Can anyone guess what (more like who) Cyborg and Hotspot were gonna dress up as? Cookies to anyone who guesses and cake for anyone who gets one or both right!
Review please!