(BTW I do not own Ever After High except for Melody Queen! I'm giving all the credit to Shannon Hale who wrote the books! Used her chapter to make this because it was breakfasttastic!)

Raven Queen was in her bedroom, rocking out to Tailor Quick's latest album from her MirrorPod as she danced around the room packing. She was getting ready for her second year of school at Ever After High, her legacy year. She was crossing the room to drop the trunk she had packed out the window to an awaiting ogre, when she saw a bone rat move across her foot. She squealed and dropped the trunk on her foot, then yelped again and limped over to her bed where she sat on a tack. She sighed as she pulled the painful thing out from under her. She wasn't the only one getting ready for Legacy Year...

"Melody! Get your bone rat outta my room!" She shouted. Then her slightly younger twin sister Melody Queen poofed into the room. Unlike Raven, she had inherited their mother's love of evil. Their mother was of course, the Evil Queen. Sometimes Raven felt that she should just give up her name to Melody. Raven being born first, her mother had given her a dark name while their father, the Good King, gave Melody a name that should probably belong to a good princess, and not a dark sorceress.

Melody laughed a loud cackle. If there ever was such a thing as a beautiful cackle, Melody's would be the one. She then crouched down and patted her knee.

"Come here Bubo!" She called. Then Bubonick, or Bubo as Melody often called him, ran out from under the bed and slithered into Melody's arms. Bubonick was a bit of a sore subject between the two sisters. When their mother was still around, she and their father disagreed so much that they split the castle in half and the girls would switch back and forth every few days. When they were over on their father's side, he had given Raven a fluffy puppy, something he knew that she would appreciate. But when they went back to their mother's side, she had not approved and ended up turning the puppy into the bone rat, which she presently gave to Melody, who appreciated it more than a puppy.

Raven looked as her sister went over and picked up the black tack from the bed and rolled her eyes.

"Are you packed? You know what we have to do today." Melody grinned.

"If you know me as well as you shoud, you know that I have been packed for days!" She said. Raven tossed the last trunk out the window and grabbed a sweater.

"Then let's get down to dinner so we say goodbye to Dad, cook, and the twins." She said. Queen Castle was really cold all the time, seeing as there were a lot of empty rooms with cold fireplaces. During her mother's reign, the castle used to have tons of goblins and trolls and witches living in it. But Raven preferred it mostly empty because it meant no one could tattle on her when she was being nice. Except Melody, but who was she going to tell? When they got to the great dining hall, both girls threw their arms in the air and shouted "we're here!". Even if they disagreed on being good and evil, they were still good friends and sisters. When their mother had ruled, the dining hall was always full of evil people. But tonight, it was just their father, Cook, and Cook's twin boys Butternut and Pie as usual. Their father, the Good King smiled as they walked in.

"All packed girls?" Both girls nodded. "Good, don't forget your rain boots, your raincoats, and an enchanted umbrella." Raven laughed.

"We won't Dad." She said. Melody crossed her leg and she made a black rain coat, black boots, and a black enchanted umbrella appear put of thin air, looking gorgeous as always. It was their destiny after all. "Make sure you don't stay cooped up in here while we're gone. Cook, make sure he goes outside, goes fishing or sailing."

"Or frog catching! Or evil spreading!" Melody added, only half joking. The Good King chuckled while Cook laughed.

"Of course. Now who's hungry? I made roast duck." She said hopefully.

"I'll just have a princess pea-butter sandwich." Raven said, playing peek-a-boo with Butternut. Cook sighed, but gave Raven her usual sandwich.

"My meat is cold!" Pie pouted. Raven stood and waved her fingers like she was about to cast a spell.

"I'll warm it up for you!" She said. Cook, the Good King, and Melody all jumped out of their chairs.

"NO!" They shrieked. Raven stood there laughing. The Good King sat back down, relieved.

"Oh my, yu had me for a moment there!" He said. The last time Raven tried to warm something up, she ended up setting the table on fire. To this day, Raven always had to remember: dark magic+good intentions= catastrophe. After they finished dinner, their father led Raven and Melody out into the hall, wringing his hands nervously.

"it's time girls. If you'd rather not..." Melody sighed and tossed her hair, annoyed.

"Dad, Raven is fifteen years old now. I think she can handle seeing Mother with me this year." Raven squinted at her, then they began the trek to the Queen's Wing. Around them, the colours dimmed, portraits seemed to stare at them, each one of their mother looking beautiful. She had been known as Second Fairest in the Land. Finally, the two sisters reached a heavily guarded door. As the guards opened it, one of them said,

"Remember, never touch the mirror." Raven nodded, but Melody said whatever. She was probably why the girls only got to visit their mother once a year. Because if they had unlimited chances, Melody would end up releasing her mother and The Greatest Evil Ever Known, the very same woman who had cursed Wonderland to the point where no one was allowed back again, for the portals had to sealed. The girls went into the room and up to a small mirror. Racen cleared her throat.

"Mirror Mirror, on the wall. Show us our mom." She didn't need to rhyme. Rhyming was so last chapter. The mirror sparked, electricity skating across its silver surface. Slowly, their mother appeared. She was wearing a stripe jumpsuit and her hair was piled on her head like a crown.

"Raven! Melody! My girls! You two are just so beautiful! You are going to give that fair skinned blood-lipped brat a run for her money." Raven untucked her hair from behind her ear and let it fall over half of her face, but Melody smiled a grin worth the queen that stood in front of them and tossed her long, black, curly hair.

"Hi, Mother." Raven said. "How's Mirror Prison?" Their mother shrugged a pretty shrug.

"Meh. Tell me all the gossip! How's life back in Ever After? Have they undone my poisoning of Wonderland Madness? Has someone else copied me and tried to take over all the kingdoms? Is your father still a mind numbing excuse of a man?" Raven wanted to shout at her, but didn't. Instead, Melody answered her questions.

"No, I will someday, and yes. In fact, I think he's worse." Raven wanted to yell at her sister to leave their father alone, but didn't dare with their mother there, even if she was in the mirror. Their mother huffed when she heard what Melody said.

"See? When I'm gone, nothing happens! I made things interesting!" Then she changed the subject. "So my darling Raven, are you ready to sign the Storybook of Legends and bind yourself into following in my footsteps." Raven cringed. That was another sore subject between her and Melody. Since Raven was older, even by a few seconds, she was the one who was going to be the next Evil Queen. And Melody was super jealous of her. Melody didn't have a set story, so she was going to be some swamp witch. Though Raven had once heard her father whispering to Cook about how maybe Melody might get a good story where she wasn't evil. There was a story about a Marsh King who captured young maidens and made them marry him. But in the story, the maiden was saved by a handsome Prince Charming and lived Happily Ever After. Raven wouldn't mind having that kind of fairy tale. While Raven thought about this, her mother had kept talking in the mirror.

"You should be eager to become the next Evil Queen!"she was saying. "Why your legacy is one of power, control, and command! Just think, you could have been born to one of those pathetic princesses who have to sit in a tower and wait to get rescued. Or worse, get suckered into eating a poisoned apple." The queen cackled beautifully. If ever a cackle could bring a tear to your eye, it was the Evil Queen's.

"I guess I just... I just..." Raven mumbled, rubbing her arm. Melody crossed her arms and glared at Raven.

"What?" The Evil Queen asked. "Don't mumble! Stop slouching and speak up like a queen! Now, what were you saying?" Raven straightened her back.

"Nothing never mind." Melody rolled her eyes and muttered wimp loud enough for Raven and the queen to hear. The Evil Queen smiled at her younger daughter.

"Melody is right. You shouldn't be so timid, Raven. This is your chance to show those dull 'good' folk just what you're made of!" Raven smiled a small smile.

"Okay, I'll try."

"I'm so proud! Oh I miss you, my beautiful baby girls." Their mother lifted her hands and pressed them against the mirror, as if she were just on the other side of a window. "Let me touch you, even if it's only through glass." Raven's hand lifted as if almost to its own accord. She was about to touch the mirror, when she remembered that she couldn't. If she touched the mirror, there was a chance her mother could take their hands and be pulled out of the mirror. So Raven took Melody's wrist and stopped them.

"I love you, Mother" said Raven, "but I'm not helping you escape. Nor is Melody." Raven made her hand glow purple so that Melody could see and get the hint.

The queen's eyes narrowed and her hands dropped. "Hmph. If you were as evil as Melody, you wouldn't hesitate. I must say, Raven Queen, I'm disappointed in you. Never mind. I'll watch with interest to see what you accomplish. You both have inherited a bottomless capacity for true evil and breathtaking power. Don't waste it." She leaned in close so that all they could see were her deep purple eyes. "Give 'em hex, Raven. And Melody, make me proud. You always have." Raven wanted to run away, but Melody grinned.

"With pleasure, Mother." Then their time ended and the Evil Queen's face was gone and replaced with their own. Raven found it remarkable just how much they looked like her.