Chapter Fourteen: True to your Heart
Later Cinderella cried on her bed as Kilala rubbed her back.
"Please don't cry Cinderella" Kilala said.
"Hey remember what Terra said Cinderella Strength of Heart" Jason said.
"Will carry you through the hardest of trial...you know Terra?" Cinderella asked.
"Yep, and Aqua and Ven" Jason said as Jaq and Gus climbed on the bed.
"Poor Cinderelly please don't cry if Cinderelly not happy mice mice not happy" Jaq said.
"What am I going to do? I am a complete failure as a princess" Cinderella cried.
"Hey now I am just as bad you see how many times I stepped on Jason feet?" Kilala said.
"Too many" Jason said putting his feet in an ice bath.
"Why can't I learn to do this right?" Cinderella said as she and Kilala looked in the mirror, "Ugh! Look at me!"
"Cinderelly not look like Cinderelly" Jaq said.
"It's true! Something just not right here" Cinderella said.
"Yeah like stewed prunes" Gus said.
"Exactly Gus and why do they have to keep the palace so dark and that awful dance and those boring colors that all look the same!"
"And stewed prunes!"
"And these shoes! They're too small!" Kilala said throwing them off.
"And those rules about keeping commoners out of the palace why I was a dish maid when the Princes married me and he loves me, because I'm me! I've been trying to obey someone else rules about who I should be and how I should dress!"
"Off with these horrid dress!" Kilala said as they moved behind a changing area as clothes flew over it.
"This hair! Ew!" Cinderella said freeing her hair.
"And this makeup! Yuck!" Kilala said removing it as the two came out in their everyday clothes.
"I know we can do this we just got to stop trying to be someone else!" Cinderella said.
"What she gonna do Jaq Jaq?" Gus asked.
"Gus were going to plan this banquet our way!" Cinderella said.
"Finnaly!" Kilala said.
Later that day Cinderella and Kilala looked up at the guardsmen at the closed gate.
"Open the gate!" Cinderella said as the gates opened as Kilala, Cinderella and Daphne waved as they headed into the town.
Cinderella and Kilala then began to go around handing invitation to all the commoners as Prudence approached.
"Your highness the king would not approve! You're supposed to be inviting Dukes and other aristocrats!"
"I am inviting them along with all my friends here in the village" Cinderella said handing another invitation to a friend.
"Your highness I strongly advise against it it's simply not the way things are done" Prudence said.
"Perhaps the time has come to try something new" Cinderella said.
"Amen to that!" Kilala said as they went to finish handing out their invitations.
'Way to go Kilala your learning what a Princess of Heart really is' Jason thought.
Later Kilala and Cinderella put on aprons as they got to work in the kitchen as they looked at the menu.
"Yuck!" Kilala said.
"This party needs help!" Cinderella said.
"And a lot of it!" Kilala said.
"Starting with desert!" Cinderella said.
"No prunes! Yuck!" Gus said.
"Jaq Jaq love chocolate!" Jaq said pouring a chocolate powder into a bowl from a top shelf as Gus accidently knocked over milk into the powder.
"Chocolate pudding! Now that sounds good!" Cinderella said.
"Let's get to work ladies!" Jason said wearing and chef outfit and a toque.
Later music was playing as Cinderella danced with Daphne as she laughed.
"We never get to dance like this!" Daphne smiled as Cinderella approached Beatrice, took the books from her hands and placed them on her head as she pulled Beatrice to dance as the woman laughed.
"Have fun with it!" Jason said dancing with Kilala as Prudence entered the room.
"It simply isn't done! It simply isn't done!" she yelled leaving the room.
"It simply isn't done!" Jaq mocked as the mice laughed.
Later!
"That's it and now!" Jason said as two men released the red carpet down the stairs as he moved on the top rolling it down the hall and in front of Cinderella as he bowed.
"Your highness Sand or Boque?" Beatrice asked.
"Which color did you like?" Cinderella asked.
"Hmmmm pink!" Beatrice said.
"Perfect" Cinderella giggled.
"Hmmm something missing" Kilala said looking around.
"I know!" Cinderella said pulling apart the first curtains, "now that's more like it!"
"OH! What will the king say?!" Prudence said.
"I know this is a big change but I have to try this my way" Cinderella said.
"Well then I certainly hope you know what you're doing" Prudence said walking away.
"She mad" Kilala said.
Later Cinderella finished putting on her blue dress as Kilala put on a white dress as they heard horse whinny.
"They here Cinderelly! They here!" Jaq said by the window.
"Here comes our guest" Kilala said seeing the horse drawn carriages coming through the gates.
"Well it's too late to turn back now" Cinderella said.
"I can't wait!" Kilala said as they left the room to hear the lively music as they looked to the ball room to see all the happy guests dancing away while on a balcony above Tippe, Gus, Jaq and Merry all watched shaking their tails.
"Now this dance is more like it" Jaq said.
"Zug zug!" Tippe said.
"Oh! This dance is horrifying!" Prudence said in her own ball dress.
"What a stick in the mud" Kilala said as a boy held up two roses to Cinderella and Kilala.
"Oh thank you" Cinderella said taking one and kissing the boy on the cheek as Kilala took one and kissed his other cheek as Cinderella picked up the boy and danced with him.
"Here guys" Jason said handing a tray of food to the mice and wore a nice black suit as he headed down to join the party as they heard the horns to announce the king and prince arrival.
"The king has arrived" Prudence said as the doors opened and the king walked in to see the party.
"OH ho! Pudding!" Daphne said accidently bumping into the king and dumped the pudding on his head as the room gasped.
"Oh not the king!" Jason said.
"What in blazes is going on here?!" the king yelled.
"Your majesty!" Prudence said approaching.
"Who opened those curtains?!"
"This is all Princess Cinderella doing!" Prudence said.
"Oh what a lovely moon" he said looking at the moon.
"I tried to teach her sire!"
"Commoner!? In the palace?!" he growled turning red as a commoner helped him up.
"She simply refused to listen! It's a scandal!"
"Your majesty I can explain!" Cinderella said approaching.
"Yes! We both can! It was all our idea" Kilala said.
"What is this?" the king asked touching the pudding.
"Your desert sire" Cinderella said.
"No prunes for desert!"
"An absolute outrage!" Prudence said.
"Mmmm! Chocolate! My favorite!" the king said trying some.
"So do you like it?" Kilala asked as he laughed.
"What happened to the music? Everybody dance!" he said as the music started up again as the prince entered the room and ran over to Cinderella to kiss her.
"Oh he is handsome" Kilala said.
"I always said we needed new traditions around here go on now Prudence your missing all the fun!" he said pushing her into the Duke arms as the two danced off.
"Did I miss something?" Prince Charming asked.
"Surprise!" Kilala and Cinderella said.
"Splendid job! Splendid!" the King said.
"It is the Princesses who deserves your praise sire and I am honored to be at her highness service" Prudence said.
"I think we're going to be great friends" Cinderella said as they went to enjoy the party.
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