This story is in the world of Geronimo Stilton. So everyone is a mouse

There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. No fear or pain for the Queen at least. Queen Kabra punishes her people unfairly.

Queen Kabra

If you drop a slight piece of a candy wrapper 2 miles away from her castle, you will have a line burned on your arm. That also happens if you talk when you’re still chewing. There are many more rules. She has guards all over the place to watch you. The only place with absolute privacy is the bathrooms. But you can’t even be sure of that either… Once you get 10 burns you will be executed painfully. The Kingdom of Misery has a large population, but we are still losing citizens rapidly. I just hope someone will save us from out misery…

Boom! The speaker always scared everyone. It made that sound to make sure we pay attention. I expected Queen Kabra to go on about how she expects us to be miserable and to not break the rules or else. But I was surprised when it wasn’t the Queen who squeaked, “Queen K-Kabra is out of town. A-And I-I n-need all the c-citizens of the K-Kingdom of M-Misery to come to the c-castle at o-once.”

I wondered why the voice was so nervous and shakey. But anouncements on the speaker were always important and were expected to be obeyed. I hurried over to the castle and saw others doing so too. When I arrived, I saw a mouse I’ve never seen before. He wasn’t the Queen’s guards, I’m sure, what he wore was differend. He was wearing shiny gold and silver chainmail armor with a sword strapped into his belt. He had on a gleaming helmet with a orange feather in it. But with his glasses on his snout, he looked more like a professor than a fighter. I wondered what he was doing here.

“I h-have come to tell you about my q-quest,” he stammered, he looked so nervous he looked like he was going to pee his pants!, “a-and my name is Stilton, Geronimo Stilton.”

Geronimo Stilton

“The knight that saved the Fairy Princess and Sterling?” someone shouted.

“Um…Yeah…And my q-quest is that I-I-I a-am,” he cleared his throat, “I am going to save you from your misery while Queen Kabra is out of the Kingdom.”

There was a lot of applause. When it died down the mouse continued, “I am going to the C-Cave of Fear, to retreive a half of a ruby heart that w-will reverse this place and make it The Kingdom of Happiness instead of Misery. But I also have to go to the Waterfall of Pain, which has the other half of the ruby heart. And I am letting you know so that y-you can assist me any way you c-can.”

Half Rubie Hearts

There were lots of cheering and shouts.

“Th-Thank you for listening.” He scurried away and reappeared at the bottom, “Well, my journey starts! Where can I find some horses?”

3 Days later
The Queen has already returned a day ago, but people were still cheerful as they walked around carrying out their daily routines. We were confident that Geronimo will get the job done!

Crash! The sound echoed from not very far away. I turned and saw Geronimo hurdling towards me! I dodged just in time for him to fall right on his snout onto the ground. This must happen a lot in Geronimo’s life since he simply picked himself up, blushed, and hurried to the castle. Curious, many followed him.

After we came 2 miles from Queen Kabra’s magnificent castle, we hid behind bushes in case Queen Kabra were to punish us. I was on my 9th line. One more, and I’m dead. So I climbed a tree and concealed myself behind the leaves and peeked out.

Geronimo hesitated at the door…and hesitated…and hesitated some more…until finally…he hesitated a bit more and thatwas when he called for the Queen and waited. The Queen sat on a gold coloured throne being carried by 5 men.

“For what reason have you called me?”

“See Your Highness,” he didn’t finish the sentence. He touched the half hearts to the Queen’s heart.

Suddenly Queen Kabra did something we have never seen her do before. We didn’t know she was even able to do this. She smiled. A happy, pleasant, non-fake smile. She beamed at all of us and then all our sadness just faded away into nothing. We didn’t know what sadness was. Everything was awesome! The Queen happily anounced the new changes for the Kingdom. This will be The Kingdom of Misery no longer. Instead it will be The Kingdom of Happiness!

Ruby Hearts http://www.bigblingapp.com/2014/02/rubies-are-red-sapphires-are-blue/
Geronimo http://www.angusrobertson.com.au/book/geronimo-stilton-the-kingdom-of-fantasy-the-dragon-prophecy/30214382/
Queen Kabra http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_Evil_Queen/Gallery