Cinderella's+Background

Cinderella’s Background By: Jill Morton  “What is that?” I said still half-asleep. Then it came again, “BANG, BANG, BANG!” This time I was fully awake and I ran outside to see what in the world it was. A soldier was nailing a post from the king into my tree home! “What are you doing,” I cried, but he must not have seen me, being a dwarf, nobody notices me very often. I tugged on his leg and he looked down and saw me. “What do you want midget,” he asked. “I’m not a midget; I’m a dwarf by the way. Anyway, I want to know why you are nailing that into my house.” I pointed to the nail and hammer as if they were poison. “The king told us to post one on every tree in the entire ‘Forest of Ni!’” he replied sounding annoyed. He left and continued pounding the huge nails into all my friends’ homes. Suddenly Eddie, my annoyance/friend, I don’t quite know what to call him, came bounding up to me. “GIMLI, GIMLI, LOOK,” he screamed into my ear and that’s probably why my ears don’t work all the time; he was holding one of the posts from the King, it read:   “So what,” I said, “We are NOT going to look for the Gem or the robber.” He smiled, “Yes, we ARE.” Eventually he convinced me to try and find the Gem. So off we went searching high and low for the Gem or a ‘bad looking-guy'. After a few days, Eddie said, “I’m hungry.” All of our food had run out. As soon as the words came out of his mouth, Cinderella came out of a tree and said, “Come on in, I just finished making some tea, would you like some?” Cinderella, Eddie and I have been friends for as long as I can remember, so we walked in. “What brings you to this corner of the woods,” she asked. “We are in search of the Gem,” Eddie said proudly holding up the post from the King, “Have you seen any one suspicious lately?” “Now that you mention it, I did see someone in a ski mask and usually people don’t wear ski masks in the middle of the summer, but anyway I saw him run that way.” She pointed to the Garden of the Oak. “Thanks Cinderella.” We left and headed to the Garden of the Oak. We kept searching high and low until Eddie was hungry again, which was only a few hours, because he gets hungry all the time. “We can go to Rumpelstiltskin’s house,” I suggested. “OK,” Eddie said. Rumpelstiltskin has been our friend since he was found underground after smashing through the floor with his heel when the queen guessed his name and he didn’t get her baby. We were the ones who found him under ground. We knocked on the door. “Well, hello there, long time no see,” he said, opening the door. “Hello, good to see you. We are on a quest, and we have run out of food. Could you spare a little?” “Of course, come in,” he replied, “What’s your quest?” “We are looking for the robber of the King’s Gem. Have you seen anything unusual?” “Ummmm, well, there was someone running that way.” He was pointing to the ‘Valley of Scares’. “O…o…ok.” I barely got out the words because anyone who goes in there never comes out. Eddie on the other hand jumped up and pulled me up with him and started off on his way. “Bye, thanks Rumpelstiltskin,” Eddie called on his way out. “No problem,” he replied, snickering almost. I thought, //Why did he snicker, is he going to jump out and scare us when we are in there? No, he’s changed he’s a ‘good-guy’ now.// I completely pushed the thought out of my head. We kept searching high and low when suddenly I heard Eddie scream. I looked back and I didn’t seem him. Then out of nowhere I was grabbed from behind and put in a rather large bird cage. Eddie was already in the bird cage, and there was a blanket over it, so we couldn’t see where we were going. After about an hour, we were dropped harshly onto a table and the blanket. We squinted from the light after being in the dark for so long. Then we noticed a giant figure, and I suddenly realized… it was a giant troll! Trolls are too big to begin with, but this one was extra fat, extra tall, and extra wide. I looked around the room for the key to the cage or for the Gem. “Hee Hee Hee,” the Troll interrupted my thoughts and started to laugh, happy that he had caught us. “I catch you,” he said. A little man walked into the room and he had a ski mask on! “Good job, Garry,” the little man said and he patted the huge troll on the head (the troll had to bend down obviously, but he loved getting patted on the head). “Thank you,” Garry said, blushing. Then they went to watch T.V. Eddie and I started to fall asleep after about an hour. Suddenly, Cinderella tip toed into the house, I breathed a sigh of relief, because someone was here to rescue us. “ Look ” I whispered to Eddie. He looked up and almost called to Cinderella but I put my hand over his mouth. I pointed to the key, and then motioned for her to come unlock us. We tip toed out of the house after getting the Gem, which they foolishly laid on the table. After we got out of the house, we ran all the way to the castle to tell the king about the robber and Garry. When we got to the castle we had to get past the guards, which were guarding the castle gate. We walked up to them and said we found the Gem. They laughed at us! “See, look,” and I showed the Gem to them. But they just kept laughing at us, so we left. “Now what are we going to do,” asked Cinderella, after we walked away from the guards. “We can go through the air vents,” I replied. “Eddie and I do it all the time, and you probably can because you barely ever get fed anyway, so you’re skinny enough to fit through the vents.” “OK,” she said nervously. We walked over to where the air vents were on the outside of the castle. We got out our screws (which Eddie and I always carry in our tool belt) and started to unscrew the cage over the vent. Finally, we crawled inside and crawled until we found the throne room. We started to unscrew the vent to get out. We jumped out and ran as fast as our midget legs could carry us, to the king to show him the Gem. Suddenly the guards pounced out of nowhere and yanked us away. But the King put his hand up to stop them. “Wait,” he said, “Let them speak, they are brave little dwarfs, and she,” he pointed to Cinderella, “is a very brave maiden.” “Well,” I started, “We have found your Gem and we know where the robber is.” “Show me the Gem,” he said. I took the Gem out of my pocket and showed it to him. He thanked us and told us to take them to the robber. We left the castle and started walking. “Where are you going?” the King asked. “We are taking you to the robber’s hideout,” I replied. “No, we are going to take the carriages,” he announced, like it was common knowledge to use carriages, (which most villagers didn’t have). “ Sweet ,” Eddie whispered to me. Eddie had always wanted to ride in a carriage, so it was like a dream come true for him. “Now take a left turn here.” I was giving directions to the royal carriage driver. “Here we are,” I said. It had only taken twenty minutes for us to get here because the horses were so fast and the siren was beeping so all the traffic (even though there was barely any traffic because like I said before, no one had a carriage) would move out of our way. The guards jumped out and stormed into the house. They came out holding the squirming little man with a ski mask on and they had shoved Garry the troll into a cage somehow. The king walked over to the man with a ski mask on and took it off. All through the forest you could hear the gasp of the two dwarfs. It was … Rumpelstiltskin! “Rumpelstiltskin?” I gasped. “Yes it is I,” he replied. “But why,” I asked, trying to catch my breath. “I needed the money to adopt an orphan and feed it and take care of it.” “We could have lent you the money,” I said. “Thanks, but do I have to go to jail now?” Rumpelstiltskin asked. “No, you have to go to the noble dwarf’s house and they will teach you how to become a ‘good guy’ and if that doesn’t work, then you will have to go to jail.” The King replied. “Thank you, your majesty,” Rumpelstiltskin said. “Oh, and come to my castle tomorrow to pick up an orphan of your choice.” “Oh, thank you so much,” he said. A few days later, I went to the castle with Rumpelstiltskin to pick up an orphan for him. He promised never to steal again, and if he did he would have to go to prison forever. But he never did rob anyone ever again. We had a ball to celebrate and Cinderella was there and she met the Prince, but she had to leave by midnight. The truth of the Cinderella story is that we were her fairy-god mother. The next day, the Prince searched for Cinderella all day throughout the forest Ni! After a few hours he found her, and they got married the same day, Eddie was the flower girl, actually he was the flower boy, and I was the ring bearer. And we all lived happily ever after.  The End
 * STOLEN GEM//* //
 * //Whoever finds my precious Gem and finds the robber of my precious Gem will get a reward and will be knighted. If you don’t give me both you won’t get anything. //**
 * //~KING Peter //**