More Than a Servant (Cinderella AU)

In The Beginning

Once upon a time there was a beautiful girl named Astrid. She had no family for her father had died leaving her and her mother alone. But a few years later her mother married again to a man named Alvin who had two daughters named Heather and Ruffnut. They lived happily for a while till Astrid's mother had died due to an illness.

After her mother's death, Alvin then decided to reveal what he truely was: a cruel hard man who wanted his daughters to outshine Astrid. They made her do all the work in the house and forced her to sleep in a tiny room. She was always cold in that room so she slept in the bark with the Monstrous Nightmare named Smoke who often set his bedding on fire. Often the ashes would cover Astrid and her sisters took to calling her Cinderastrid, which she hated. So she was left with only the Terrible Terrors and Smoke and other animals as her loving companions. But she didn't know that something magical was to happen to her.