A Different Cinderella by JIPsoft 27. February 1992 Once upon a time, there was a beautiful princess named Cinderella. Unlike most princesses, she wasn't a slave of a handsome prince nor chained forever into a dungeon. She lived in a cottage with her step-mother and two step-sisters. They treated her almost like a slave, but not exactly like a slave, which she would rather want. One day, an envoy of the king came and said that the prince wants to have slaves. Every beautiful maiden was to come to the palace where there would be a contest of selecting the best slave material. Of course, the step-sisters wanted to be the prince's slaves, so they dressed in their most beautiful dresses and the step-mother chained, gagged and harnessed them to a carriage in which they pulled her to the palace. Poor Cinderella was left alone in her room, with her housework to do. She began to sob, because she was true of heart and more suitable for a slave. Just that moment, her fairy godmother appeared. She summoned a lovely dress, which was made of rubber and had cloth stripes all over and an area of transparent plastic which showed through her breasts. While she put it on, the godmother summoned the strongest chains and gag, and used them on Cinderella. "Ah, and now for the transport.", said the godmother as she summoned a fine carriage and an envoy. He harnessed Cinderella to the carriage and got in. Cinderella began to pull it into the palace. When they got there palace, the envoy stepped out. Unharnessing Cinderella, he said "the girl's codenamed Ashie." and left. Cinderella walked inside the palace to be greeted by several other young girls also chained and gagged. The prince said "I will hold four tests for you. The winner will be my personal slave, and the runner-ups will do the housework of the palace. The rest of you will be thrown to special dungeons at the bottom of the sea." The first test began. The prince's assistent opened the girls' leg chains and they were ordered to dance. While her step-sisters were clumsy and fell over time after time, Cinderella herself danced light and fast as a feather. The prince said, "'Ashie' is the winner." Then came the second test. The girls were leg chained again and were ordered to clean the floor which was dirtied before. In the time the step-sisters had cleaned a quarter of their area, 'Ashie' had cleaned her whole area and a half of her neighbour's. She won again. The third test was the most surprising. Firstly, the prince ordered some armed guards to stand on the balcony surrounding the ball-room. Then, his assistant opened the girls' leg and arm chains. "Ladies," the prince spoke, "perhaps you have wondered why I have freed you from your chains. The reason is simple: You now have to strip yourselves naked. The one who strips the most temptingly and looks the prettiest naked wins." At that instant, every girl was mumbling, chaning her position and undressing herself. The step-sisters simply took all their clothes off while standing still. They were not even looked upon by the prince. But when Cinderella's turn came, she undressed herself with such lure that the prince almost drooled as he claimed 'Ashie' the winner. The girls put their clothes back on and were chained. The fourth test was about to begin. The prince said that it was a test of intelligence. Each girl was given a pen and had her arm chains opened for writing purposes. An assistant wrote several riddles on a blackboard. At the prince's command, every girl turned away, revealed her breasts, and wrote the answers on them. Then, they put their shirts back on. At the sound of a bell, the girls turned to face the prince, and each was in turn to re-reveal her breasts so the prince could see the answers. The step-sisters had got all the answers wrong, but Cinderella had them all right. Just when the prince was about to enslave her, the clock began to strike midnight. To everybody's amazement, Cinderella opened her leg chains and ran away. She only left a shoe which was made of fur. Back home, her beautiful dress vanished with her chains and gag, and she was left with her ordinary work clothes. She thought that now she would never be a slave. The prince found the shoe and commenced a search for the girl to whom it would fit. He had tried every single pretty girl in town, including the step-sisters, who in fact were the most certainly not the shoe's owner, when his eyes met Cinderella. Her step-mother and step-sisters began to laugh, but it was cut short when the shoe fit Cinderella perfectly. At that instant, Cinderella stood in front of the prince in her beatiful dress, chained and gagged. The prince was most delighted and walked to his palace with her. There she would be his slave eternally. And they all lived happily ever after. Nota bene: The shoe was indeed made of fur instead of glass. In the original French story (without slavery) it was of vair, which means fur. It was later confused with verre, which meant glass. They both sound the same (English pronouncation veh-are).