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"What is going on?" Ventus asked, knowing nobody will hear him. Crossing his arms with a huff, he let them fall and turned toward the metal bars. Grabbing said metal, he yelled, "Somebody tell me how I got so SMALL!"
"I can."
"GAAAHH!" Ven yelped in surprise turning around in fear. When he saw a familiar head of red hair, the fear was replaced with happiness. "Iggy!" He ran towards her, giving her a hug. "Iggy you should've seen it!" he gushed, happy to see a familiar face. "I met these weird little men in a mine and they accused me of trying to steal their diamonds or something so I had to prove that I wasn't and then I met this girl-her name's Snow White-and I helped her get over her fear and out of the forest she was trapped in as well as introduce her to the little men then latter I saw this HUGE Unversed shaped like a haunted tree and beat it-it was so cool!-and then saw this old lady in a field of flowers who…who…" he trailed off, finally realizing that his companion was quiet. Feeling her arms crossed, he looked up only to wince at the narrowed eyes and neutral face of his best friend.
"Uh… Iggy?" he asked, somewhat unsure. "What's wrong?"
"Ven…" she spoke, and he flinched on how emotionless her voice was. "Why did you leave the castle? You know you're not ready or given permission to leave the grounds."
"But Iggy!" he argued. "There was this weird kid who told me that somethin' bad was going to happen to Terra! He kept saying that he was gonna 'leave me behind' and become 'a whole new person' and stuffs like that! And I wanted to prove him wrong so I followed Terra to tell him, but then he left so I had to go after him, Iggy! So… so yeah." He finished lamely, suddenly not too sure about his actions.
"Still…" she started, her voice still neutral, "you should have alerted me or Aqua, Ven. We would have been able to handle it."
"But-!" Ven argued, but then, with a small glance from the redhead, he stopped.
"And you should know, Ven that Master Eraqus asked me to bring you back home." She ignored his gasps. "He wanted me to bring you at once."
Ven opened his mouth, wanting to explain, but then closed it, knowing that there was no arguing with the redhead.
"But…" he looked up to see Iggy, staring at the medal bars above them with a thoughtful look, "he didn't say to bring you back 'immediately' or when to bring you back. He jest wants us to return home. Hmmm… what to do…" she trailed off and looked down, staring at his blue eyes with mock confusion.
It took some time, but then he smiled and hugged her harder in happiness. "Thanks, Iggy!" he crowed, feeling her arms wrapping around him. "You're the best!"
"Anytime, Ven" she cooed, petting his hair, "anytime." Then she broke the hug to place her hands on his shoulders. "But when we meet up with Terra and Aqua, promise me you'll go home, okay?"
Ventus huffed. "…okay."
"Good!" Iggy smiled, taking her hands off his shoulders before looking around. "Nice place they got here. A little too big for my tastes, if ya know what I mean.
Ven chuckled, and then frowned. "So…why are small?"
"It must be the work of that Fairy Godmother," the redhead mused, placing a hand on her hips. "She probably wanted an outsider's help to fix a problem."
"'Outsider'?" Ven replied. "But aren't people not supposed to know about the other worlds?"
"That's true," she started, "but certain people with magical qualities can have the ability to sense those that do not belong in this world, they have the ability to view the other worlds, or they have this thing called 'the Sight'. There's probably more, but I won't bore you with the details." Then she rested her head in her hands. "Well anyway, I hope somebody gets us out of this mouse trap."
"Mouse trap!?" Ventus gulped.
She nodded, still relaxed. "Uh-huh." Then she looked towards the door. "I sense someone's coming."
No sooner than that, the door opened and out came a blonde female somewhere near her twenties. She was quite pretty, even though she was dressed in a ragged dress and torn apron, but she seemed to emit some kind of light around her. It was as if she believed that anything could happen, and that innocent light and thinking caused Iggy to smile.
But then the girl lifted the cage, tilted it, and caused Ven to slam into her towards the end of the cage, her head banging against the bars painfully.
Next time, a little warning, she thought, slightly groaning and rubbing her head, uncomfortable with Ven's added weight on her.
"Don't be afraid," the two heard the girl spoke. "Oh! How interesting… I've never seen mice like you before."
The two in question looked up with confusion (Ven) and dubiousness (Iggy) as well as a 'Really?' face. "'Mice'?" they chorused.
"Jaq," the girl said, "you better explain things to them." Then she kneeled down and placed the cage down. Even though she done so gently, the impact still caused the two to stumble, the metal ringing loudly in their ears. Standing up straight, the two see a … mouse in red clothes walking towards them.
"Now, now, now," the mouse called "Jaq" said, in a strange accent to boot, "Look, little guy and missy. Take it easy. Nothing to worry about. We like you. Cinderella likes you, too." The two looked up to see 'Cinderella' smiling at them. "She's nice, very nice." The two smiled back. "Come on now," the two looked back at Jaq to see him gesturing. "Zugk-zugk." And he left the cage.
Ven looked up to Iggy, who nodded, and he went first, his friend following behind. Ducking under the metal bars, they stepped out into the room, glad to be out of that metal trap.
"My name is Jaq," said mouse introduced.
"I'm Ventus. Call me Ven," said blonde said.
"And I'm Ignis," said redhead added, "but you can call me Iggy."
"Okay, Ven-Ven, Iggy," Jaq said. "Need something? Ask Jaq!"
"Cinderella!" a voice yelled out, startling the four new friends. The two Keyblade weilders lookd up to see Cinderella a little sad. "Oh well," she said, "time to get to my chores. I'll see you in a little while, Ven, Iggy." Then she stood up and left the room.
"Wow," Ven said, "I guess she's got her hands full."
"And with the way they called her name," Iggy added, "they must be treating her harshly."
"Yep, work, work, work!" Jaq said, turning around. "Stepmother keeps Cinderella busy all day!" The slight anger in his eyes was replaced with slight awe. "She didn't seem to mind much, though. No, not Cinderella. She works hard. She's got a dream-" the two outsiders glanced at each other with a smile, "a big dream. The dream's gonna come true!"
"That sounds like somebody we know," Ven mused while Iggy smiled, both remembering a particular day with a certain brunette.
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"Being a Keyblade Master is all I've dreamed about."
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"Hey," Ven snapped out of his thoughts, turning towards Jaq, "maybe you can help me find him!"
"'Us', you mean, Ven" Iggy corrected. Ven looked at her in shock before nodding, a smile on his face.
"Yeah," he agreed, turning back towards Jaq, "us! His name's Terra, You seen him?"
"No," Jaq said, bowing his head, "I never saw Terra before."
Ven sighed, glancing at Iggy, She shrugged, as if to say 'What can ya do?'. "Oh well, he said, "It was worth a shot."
"Come on," Jaq said, "Follow me. You gotta see the house." Then he ran off.
"H-Hey!" Ven yelled, going after the red-clothed mouse.
"Wait up Ven! Iggy chuckled, taking a slower pace to catch up. But when she entered the mouse hole, she saw something blue flicker in the corner of her eye. Well, she thought with a glare, looks like we got company.
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"Wow…" Ventus awed, Iggy whistling beside him in appreciation. After the two traveled through the inside of the mouse hole (and having a hilarious moment with a Bruiser Unversed), the two were now staring at a beautiful white-or-light-blue castle. It seemed to glow with its own light in the night, like a single star in the black sky. Ven turned toward Jaq, asking, "What's that?"
"That's the palace-" he explained, "the King's palace. There's going to be a big ball then tonight."
"Is Cinderella going?" Ven asked.
"I don't think that would be possible, Ven…" Iggy mumbled, causing him to look at her in confusion. The three turned when the door opened, Cinderella emerging from it.
"Hello, you three," she said with a smile. "Have you become friends already?"
The three in question looked at each other with a bright smile. The friends looked back to see Cinderella holding a mannequin with a pink-and-white dress.
"Oh, that's wonderful," she smiled. Then she focused on brushing away dust on her dress, humming a soft tune.
Iggy chuckled. "You look quite happy, Cinderella."
"Mm," Cinderella turned, still smiling, "I'm going to the royal ball tonight. I guess dreams really do come true." The two outsiders couldn't help but smile.
Then it was wiped away when a certain voice yelled out, "Cinderella!"
Said girl sighed, looking at the dress with a longing. "My dress will have to wait."
"Cinderella!" Iggy scowled, hating how snobby it was to her ears. "Cinderella!"
"All right, all right," she called calmly, "I'm coming!" And she left.
"Poor Cinderella…" Jaq frowned. "She's not going to the ball."
"Why not?" Ven asked with confusion.
"Think about it, Ven," Iggy explained, crossing her arms. "With the way those three witches have been treating her for so long, do you honestly think they will let her come to the ball?" She narrowed her eyes. "They're purposely making her busy so she won't have any time for herself, time used in finishing her dress."
"What?" Ven said, shocked. "That's awful."
The three could only stare at the unfinished dress in sadness.
Then Jaq perked up. "Say, I got an idea! Ven-Ven, Iggy," he turned toward said two with excitement, "will you help me?"
"With what?" they asked in unison.
"Fixing Cinderella's dress for the ball." he explained, pointing toward the dress. "Cinderella had some supplies ready to finish her dress, but she'd told me that she needy some more stuff."
"Okay then," Iggy agreed, but then frowned. "Where will we get the extra stuff then?"
"Look around the house. There are lots of pretty things. But some of the important things we need are white sashes, white lace, white buttons, pink fabric, and pink thread. That's what Cinderella's missing."
"Okay then," Ven agreed, punching the air for emphasis, "we'll get right to it! You can just stay here and set thins up."
"Okay!" he agreed. But when the two wielders jumped off the sill, he warned, "Ven-Ven! Iggy! Be careful of Lucifer!"
The looked at Jaq with a 'What?' face. "'Roos-a-fee'?" They chorused.
"Lucifer is a cat!" he explained. "He's mean… sneaky… He'll jump at you, bite at you!"
"Gotcha!" they chorused, then dashed toward the mouse hole, setting off to go hunting.
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"Welp," Iggy said, eying two certain items as they entered the room they started out in, "looks like we got our first two items. You can check that off our list."
"What list?" Ven asked. "We had a list?"
Her lip twitched. "I was just speaking metaphorically, Ven."
"Meta-what?" Ven asked, face showing confusion.
She chuckled. "It's okay, Ven. All that matters is that we found the pink fabric and white lace Jaq asked us to find."
"Yeah," Ven agreed. But when they reached said items, he frowned. "But these things are huge! How are we gonna hold them?"
"Like this."
"GAAH!" Ven yelled, jumping almost a foot in the air as the two items glowed and disappeared from sight. "They're gone!"
"Yeah," Iggy agreed, walking towards the spot the white lace used to be. "They just-"
"Now how are we gonna fix the dress now?!" Ven freaked, causing his redhead companion to smile slightly.
"Uh, Ven-"
"What are we gonna tell Jaq?!" He accidentally ignored her. 'Oh, hey Jaq! Sorry but when we looking for the items, two of them disappeared in a flash of light! Oh, I hope we can finish the dress anyway!' WHAT ARE WE GOING TA-!"
"Ven!" Iggy interrupted, smiling widely and trying to stifle her laughs as she held up a certain white object. "It's right here."
"…" he stared at her.
"…" she stared back.
"…"
"…"
"… I knew that." He said, turning his head away.
She grinned. "Yeah, ya did."
"Right?!" he said with a grin, hands on his hips. He only caused her to laugh and his face drooped into a pout. He then looked up when she picked up the pink fabric and placed both items in his hands.
"Well, Mr. Spazz," she joked, "would you do the honors of holding the items we need? I need somebody with a brave heart and strong body who uses an awesome Keyblade to do the job."
He tried to keep his pout, but then he smiled. "Then I'm the guy!"
"All righty then," she smiled as he took the items and placed them in his pockets. Then she looked around, placing her hands on her hips. "Now where are the other items…?"
"By the way," Ven started, "What-?"
"Mini," Iggy deadpanned.
"Oh," Ven blinked, causing Iggy's smile to get even bigger.
"Hmm…" she hummed, looking up at the boxes. "I think I see another item on our list."
"Really?" Ven asked, looking at said boxes. "Where?"
"Over there, by the door," Iggy pointed, where he saw a couple of books on top of some boxes, something white on top. "If this keeps up, will be done in no time."
"Yep!" he agreed, resting his head in his hands. "Will be done in no time! Good thing there's no Unversed in here-"
At that note, several Flood, Scrapper, Bruiser, Shoegazer, and Red Hot Chili Unversed appeared before them.
"…"
"…"
"…"
"…"
Iggy lightly glared down at Ven in exasperation. "You just had to say it, huh?"
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"Ha…ha…finally," Ven gasped, his redhead friend slightly panting beside him as she handed Jaq all five items. "Finished…"
After the surprise attack caused by the Unversed, the two wielders had constantly been assaulted by said creatures. The two resorted to using a yarn ball they say laying around to mow down all of the Unversed, which would have been very much fun if they weren't in a life-threatening situation. Then the two had to scale the inside of the mouse hole to reach the pink thread Iggy spotted. It proved to be quite hilarious when Ven bumped into her and she fell off the shelf, causing him to yell and look over the ledge, only to see her hanging on with a blank face. Then they scaled down back to the bottom of the wardrobe room as Iggy spotted the buttons they needed on a cabinet with a fancy clock. When they reached it, a Red Hot Chili scared Ven, causing him to use Blizzard only for it to hit Iggy in the face.
Let's just say that she didn't suffer from frostbite. And that the Red Hot Chili didn't survive.
Yeah. That's it.
"Hmm…" Jaq hummed, then looked up with shock. "We're missing something!"
"Really?" Ignis asked, completely recovered from their search. "What is it?"
"Earlier Cinderella was making a necklace for her dress," the mouse explained, "but she still needs one more pretty pearl."
"Okay then," she eyed Ven with his hands on his knees, "we'll get right to it then."
After Ventus recovered, the two proceeded to travel back to the wardrobe room. When they got there, they instantly hid behind some boxes, looking over the edge to see a black cat, probably the infamous Lucifer. The good news was that it was sleeping. The bad news as that the pearl was in front of him.
The two looked at each other and nodded, heading toward Lucifer quietly, creeping up to the cat. When they reached him, Ven waved his hand in front of his face, making sure he was still sleeping while Iggy picked up the pearl. Taking another glance at the cat, the two walked off, still creeping away and making sure there were no Unversed ready to sneak up on them. Then-
"Look out! Lucifer!" Jaq yelled. Then they heard something hit the cat and looked at the mouse to see him holding a ball of yarn. "Hurry, hurry, Ven-Ven. Iggy!" Then he threw it at Lucifer.
The cat scampered around, avoiding the balls of thrown at him. After running in circles (literally), he made his way to where Jaq was and collided with the piece of furniture. This caused the mouse to lose the yarn and pinwheel his arms for balance, also causing Iggy and Ven to look back at Jaq. Then the mouse feel off the edge, landing on his face. He sat up, rubbing his bottom. "Ooh, that hurts…" he moaned. Then he looked up to see Lucifer's shadow about to hit him. The cat raised his arms with a meow, causing Jaq to jump back and cower.
Luckily for him, Ventus had dashed across with his Keyblade summoned and jumped, hitting the paw with an impressive strike. Ignis, meanwhile, ran towards Jaq, getting on her knees. "Are you okay, Jaq?" she questioned, watching the mouse.
He nodded, a relieved smile on his face. "Jaq is all right, Iggy!" he told her.
She smiled back. Then she frowned at looked back at the stare off, summoning her Keyblade. "Looks like we have to teach this pussycat a few things about not attacking our friends, Ven."
"Yeah," he agreed. "I think it's time to play with him." When Jaq stood up, Ven offered the pearl. "Take the pearl, Jaq. We'll hold him off, run!"
"Okay!" he agreed, taking the pearl and running off to the mouse hole.
The two could only continue staring at the cat. "So what's the plan?" Ven asked.
"We'll just have to tire the kitty out with a few… swipes, if ya know what I mean," Iggy said, glaring at the hissing cat.
Ven looked at her, confused. "But won't our Keyblades hurt him?"
She looked at him, her eyes wide and sweatrdropping. "Your concerned about that now?"
"Well, I'm just saying-WHOA!" Ven started but then yelped as he and Iggy dodged out of the way from Lucifer's pounce.
"Bad, pussycat!" Iggy sarcastically scolded. "Bad!"
"I don't think he cares about that," Ven offered as he eyed the snarling black cat.
"Then maybe he'll care about this!" she yelled and, as they dodged another pounce from the cat, pointed her Keyblade and shouted: "Firaga!"
The high-level fire spell charged, hitting the cat's tail and lightly causing it to burn. The cat yowled, running around and vainly trying to put the small fire out. "Quickly!" Iggy shouted, looking at Ven. "Get on his back!"
"What!?" Ven shouted back.
"Just do it!" she commanded.
He sighed, and, when Lucifer stopped running for a short moment, he ran and jumped, front flipping on the cat's back. Said cat looked up in shock, only to turn towards Ven with a menacing glare. Then he got back up, almost causing Ven to lose his grip on the cat's fur, and started dashing toward the cabinet with the fancy clock. At the last second, however, Ven jumped off, causing Lucifer to slam into the furniture and land in a heap, his head spinning.
Iggy smiled, punching the air. "That's it Ven! Keep it up!"
After five minutes of fires, head slams, swipes, and impressive dodging and jumping skills, the cat ran away with his tail (with a suspiciously bald tip) between his legs. The two Keyblade wielders de-summoned their weapons, trying to catch their breathes. After they did, Jaq scurried towards them. "Oh, that's a big 'thank you'." he said, gratitude in his eyes.
"No thanks needed," Ventus replied. "You saved us before, so we save you."
Besides him, Ignis nodded. "That's what friends do, right?" she said, smiling.
"Zugk-zugk!" Jaq smiled. "Ven-Ven and Iggy and Jaq are good friends!"
Ignis and Ventus chuckled. "Now," Iggy started. "let's get that dress finished, boys."
"Yeah!" They agreed, and the three ran off to finish Cinderella's dress.
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Cinderella walked inside her room, finally done with preparing her stepsisters' outfits. She sighed, closing the door behind her and waling towards her window. As she stared at the castle, she spoke wistfully, "Oh well… What's a royal ball?" she tried to tell herself, sitting down in her chair. "After all, I suppose it would be frightfully dull and boring… and completely…" she sighed, resting her head on her palm, staring at the castle with longing, "completely wonderful."
"Cinderella!" Ven's voice shouted, causing said girl to sit up and turn around. She gasped as he three friends revealed he dress, beautifully made with pink bows and white lace, a small pearl necklace around the hanger. "Is that my dress?" she asked, almost too good to be true.
"Yes," Ven answered, smiling. "It's a present from us."
"Now you have a dress for the ball," Iggy added, scratching her cheek. She blinked as Cinderella placed her hand in front of her and Ven, and both got on. Then Cinderella did the same for Jaq.
"Why, it's…" she started, lifting both hands and still shocked, "it's such a surprise…"
"Hurry, hurry!" Jaq exclaimed while Ven rested his head in his hands while Iggy had her hands clasped behind her, all three feeling satisfied. "Time to go, Cinderella!"
"Oh, thank you." Her smile just kept getting brighter.
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The three friends relaxed themselves on the windowsill, staring at the castle in satisfaction of a job well done. "Jaq Jaq hope Cinderella's dream comes true," Jaq said, breaking the comfortable silence. Then he stared at his two friends. "What are you dreams, Ven-Ven, Iggy?"
"Huh?" both asked, glancing at Jaq. Then Ven looked back at the castle, thinking. "I wonder…"
"Being a Keyblade Master is all I've dreamed about."
"Well, you're not the only one."
"I know. You, me, and Ven all share the same dream."
"Hey! What 'bout me?"
"Your already a Master, Iggy, so you're not included in the circle."
"Terra, you egghead!"
"Don't bring that up again!"
Ven chuckled, Iggy smirking beside him. "Funny…" he sobered up, "I'd never really thought about it-at least until you asked me." He raised his arm, feeling the power surging in his hand. "My dream," he explained, his Keyblade appearing in his hand, "is to become a Keyblade Master."
"Jaq hope your dream comes true, too." the mouse nodded.
Ven de-summoned his Keyblade. "I just need to keep on believing," he loked back at Jaq, "right?"
"Zugk-zugk!" Jaq agreed. Then Ven blinked and looked at Iggy.
"Hey, Iggy," he asked. His redhead companion look at him with a 'Hmm?'. "What's your dream?"
"'My dream'?" she echoed, looking back at the castle in thought. "Hmm…"
"Do you ever think about you parents, Ignis?"
"No, not really."
"Well why not, child?"
"Because I have you."
"!"
"And that's all I ever need, whether your my real dad or not. I still love you."
"…"
"… are you crying?"
"No! I just… have something in my eye!"
"Teehee!"
"Hahaha!"
Iggy smiled, throwing her head back to stare at the sky. "My dream… is to touch the hearts of as many people as I meet," she explained slowly. "No matter who they are, or what background they have, I want to be there and give them good memories. That way." she looked at the two boys, smiling, "they won't feel lonely ever again, because they have someone who cares about them."
Ven and Jaq awed, surprised that something like that was her dream. Then Ven smiled. "Well, I know that dream of yours will come true, Iggy."
"Yeah!" Jaq agreed. "Jaq knows that too!"
Iggy smiled. "Thank you, guys."
As they three smiled, they looked back at the castle, enjoying their silent and peaceful watching of the sparkling structure. And as for the two Keyblade wielders, they toyed with the idea of their dreams in their mind, all they while wondering how they'll make it come true.
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And scene!
Allie: Wow… 14 pages. New record.
I know right?! I'm so proud of myself! XD
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THEY DELETED MY HETALIA FANFIC!
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Allie: Uh…
Don't finish that train of thought.
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Allie: Uh, author, what's wrong-oh, OH! Uh… sorry about that.
Whatever…
Allie: Uh… he, he… so, how are ya feeling?
My face is still numb, my eye will form a black eye tomorrow, my lip's cut, my glasses broke, and, oh yeah~… I JUST WENT THROUGH THE MOsT TRAUMATIC MOMENT OF MY LIFE!
Allie: Well, gee! You don't have to yell at me.
Sorry! Sorry… I'm just pissed that I had a stupid accident today.
Allie: Right on the street you live, to boot!
Allie?
Allie: Yeah~?
Shut up.
Allie: Shutting.
*sigh* And now I won't be able to drive it until my dad comes back from work.
Allie: Which is…
Well, if my dad leaves on Wednesday of Tuesday, then in a couple of weeks.
Allie: Bummer.
Yeah. At least I can ask my friend Vee if she can pick me and my bro up for school.
Allie: She'll probably agree. After all, you did have you first accident.
…
Allie: Shutting up.
*sighs* … Can this day get any worse?!
Allie: Oh hey! What day is it?
October 5th. Well, now I guess you can say it's October 6th since it's currently 2: 26 in the morning.
Allie: Oh man! I wanted to go on the Shadow's on the Teche festival today!
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P. S. In response to a review made by MoonlightStar777, yes, she starts out traveling with Ven. BUT! The next world they visit will be different! I promise you! So please don't hate me~!TT-TT
P. P. S. No, it's not about the X-blade. It's something totally mind-blowing. . . Well… to me I think it's mind-blowing. XP