CinderCole

The Invitation

Cole returned to his dank room and was left moderately alone, being kept busy working. Pixal and Skylor snuck in again to help him.

 All seemed normal when someone came to the door, Cole reconized the mailman giving him a parchment scroll. The mailman left, and Cole, reading it, had his friends leave so he could give the scroll to his step-family.

 Lloyd grabbed the scroll and shouted, "I'm going!" And Nya began arguing with him. Vangellis took the scroll from his children and Cole noticed something on the scroll he brought to attention, and asked.

 "Well, It said all eligible young men and ladies, does that mean I can go to?" Vangellis sneered, and said, you are nothing more than a slave, but paled as he read the invitation. their was nothing in it that said Cole couldn't go.

 Cole then added, "And if I can go, that means Murt, Murtessa, Gleck and all the other Geckles and Munces could go too." Vangellis felt his eye twitch, but then had an Idea. 

"Alright, he said finally, if you can finish your work, help my children get ready, and find something suitable to wear," the vile man continued, turning his nose up at Cole's torn clothes, you and those creatures may go." 

Cole wanted to protest when he called them "creatures" like they were some kind of monster, but there was no way he would ruin his and his friend's chances of getting out of this underground prison for a night.  

Lloyd, was about to protest, but Nya gave him a look, she knew he would never finish in time and whispered to Lloyd, who gave a nasty grin, but Cole wasn't going to let them steal his chance of freedom.

As the week passed, Cole was kept very busy, for some odd reason, the underground mansion was now messier than ever, and every time he made son headway, Lloyd or Nya would call him off to help them prepare with one thing or another. 

Skylor and Pixal sneaked in the house, the two had become an expert at that. They had felt really bad for getting Cole in trouble, and vollenteered  to help their friend with his chores. 

The three of them plus the Geckles and Munce steamed through the work but Cole realized he would never be able to make something for himself to wear in time. Pixal realized this too and told Skylor, who steamed angrily, but Pixal had an idea. 

Cole was exausted by the end of the day, he had finished all of his work and Lloyd and Nya were ready, which meant the Geckles and Munce were allowed to go, but Cole hadn't had enough time to make himself an outfit. 

Cole slumped, he didn't really care about dancing one way or the other, but man would it be nice to go somewhere that he didn't feel like a prisoner. 

Cole was drawn out of his musings when Skylor whispered in his ear, "Cole!" Said 15 yr old jumped into the air, but then straightened out when he saw his friends. Pixal explained, "We have created an atire to allow you to attend the ball this evening." 

Cole smiled at his friends and slipped into the black ninja gi with gold highlights. Cole grinned and said, "I guess that means I'll see you there," and Skylor responded with her signiture devilish smile, "Count on it.

 Cole made his way through the underground mansion up to the sun with his gi in significantly better spirits. When his step-family saw him, they each drew in an angry breath, but Nya had an Idea, she whispered to Lloyd, and said bratty teenager used his energy to tear up Cole's nice gi.

 Nya smirked and said, "looks like you can't go after all, see you, CinderCole." That was a low blow, but Nya didn't care, Gleck was about to say something very nasty to them, but Cole shook his head, he didn't want his friends to get in trouble standing up for him. 

As the carrige left, Cole felt angry and upset, he tried to hold it in, but eventualy let a few tears out.