Prologue

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Dark sparks danced across Raven's fingertips as she stormed down the dark, moonlight-lit halls in nothing but her Edwardian-styled purple nightgown. The school's clock tower already chimed 1:00am and still she couldn't get into her dorm room. Apple, apparently, was still angry at Raven for the Legacy Day incident and, when Raven left the room to get some water, locked her out. She begged the future-Snow White to let her in, but Apple refused until Raven promised to accept her destiny as the Evil Queen and sign the book.

This made Raven to become furious; causing her to start banging at the door, kicking near the lock, an act that she horrible regretted since she was barefoot. But it was no use, the door wouldn't budge. Apple asked again if Raven was going to give up, but received no answer; the black and maroon haired girl left to go find either Headmaster Grimm to unlock the door or if someone would let her stay the night in their room. However, she could neither find the Headmaster and everyone else were too fast asleep to hear Raven, even Maddie was too far in her dream Wonderland to hear her.

"Damn it, Apple!" hissed Raven, "Of all the nights to lock me out! I have midterm exams tomorrow! Not to mention what I'm wearing…." She glanced down at her nightgown, a pretty lavender color but slightly sheer. Not something she wanted to be seen in by her classmates.

Ever After High at night reminded Raven of her home back when her mother was still around; ominous, foreboding with the halls being dead silent and seemingly endless in its path, nothing but the light of the moon to guide anyone walking through. Shaking her head from her memories, Raven kept looking around for something to help her with her little roommate issue. The wood shop class was locked so there was no getting to the tools they had, same thing for Magicology and Chemythstry labs too. And since the janitors don't come in until 6:30am, Raven was hex out of luck.

Raven clenched her fist, sparks of purple, maroon and blacked started jumping all around, stopping right in the middle of the Mirror Hall. Looking to her right, Raven stared right at her reflection, the dark magic crawling up from her fist to her shoulders; her maroon highlighted black hair flowed down her back in soft curls, her dress hung loosely from her tiny body, skin so pale, eyes that shone with anger and frustration at Apple. At Headmaster Grimm. At the Royals.

It's Raven Queen!

Everyone run away!

She is EVIL!

She looks so much like her mother.

'I'm not my mother,' cried Raven in her head, 'I'm nothing like her!'

Run for your lives!

She'll destroy you!

Your not suppose to apologize, your evil!

She is destined to be evil.

How can you be so evil?!

"Aaarghh!" Raven screamed, raising her arms up and smashing her bare fists into the glass, her magic shattered the surface into a million shards as they rained down on her. The dark princess hissed as the glass pieces cut her arms and the underside of her feet, tiny rivers of blood trickled down onto the floor, staining the marble red.

The tiny shards landed in a circle around the girl, glowing purple as they absorbed the magic shot into them. Raven didn't notice them, too busy trying to deal with the shards of glass in her hands. Biting her lip, she refused to scream, after all, how would she explain that she 'accidentally' destroyed one of the school's mirror in a fit of anger? Not only would Headmaster Grimm be furious, but her father would probably be called and she would look even more like an evil Queen to her peers then she wanted to be.

"Son of a troll!" cursed Raven as she plucked the larger pieces from her fingers, careful not to cause any more cuts on herself. She tossed the pieces away from her and kept perfectly still so she wouldn't step on the piece. Did I forget to mention that she was barefoot? As if this night wasn't bad enough, Raven would be lucky if she didn't get expelled for a few days. Maybe the headmaster will go easy on her and just ask her to replace the mirror...and maybe just a few weeks of detention.

Unfortunately, while Raven was too busy with her thoughts about her punishment, the broken glass beneath her started to pulsate a purplish-pink glow. The magic Raven had exploded out was absorbed into the glass and it fractured as it broke. One of the first rules that Raven's mother and teachers had taught her was that she should NEVER shoot a blast of magic anywhere near a mirror as they could absorb the blast or reflected it. A reflected blast was bad enough, but if a mirror absorbs the magic...it was worse

Magic absorbed into a mirror becomes unstable, reforming the original purpose of the spell and changing it to something else. A transformation spell can become a incineration spell, a spell that can make you fly could become a confinement curse, some many unpredictable things could happen if a mirror is present, which is why there was no mirrors anywhere near the magic-use class and there was a 'no-magic-allowed' rule on school grounds. A rule that most students, Raven being one of them, often ignored.

Noticing the glow beneath her, Raven looked down as the bloody shards of glass started sparking. One by one, a spark connected from one shard connected to the next and then the next and the next and so on until a perfect circle of magic surrounded her. What's even creepier was the blood on the glass absorbed into the glass as well. A faint hum from the shards start getting louder and the glow became more intense.

"What the..." Raven said before the shards around her exploded and shot the concentrated magic back into Raven with 3x the force then it originally had. "AAAAHHHH!" Raven screamed in pain, feeling as if her innards were being ripped apart and her limbs being twisted.

As the young sorceress doubled over in pain, her body began to fade, becoming translucent. Raven's vision started to blur and her mind began to shut down. Her legs finally buckled and she landed on the ground with a 'THUD!', the room swirling around like the Tilt-A-Whirl at the carnival. Breathing heavily, Raven felt the energy drain out of her painfully slow; she tries to open her mouth to call out for someone, but nothing comes out.

Little by little, Raven starts to disappear: first her feet, then her ankles, up to her legs and her hips fade away. Tears slipped out of her eyes as she felt her waist vanish from her body and soon her chest. Opening her lips as her arms and shoulders dissolve, she struggled to let out anything. Just then the lights in the hallway turned on and she her footsteps running towards her, but it was too late as her head disappear and she uttered a single word, not even a whisper:

"Help..."

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I know, it's pretty short for a prologue but I already wanted to get this fic started; it's been rattling around in my mind for a while so I had to get this down. Anyway, this fic was loosely inspired by 'Happily Ever Avengers' by mikey magee. Even though I'm not that big an Avengers fan, heck I've never even seen the movie, but I love the fic and it's one of the best fic I read in this fandom.

Next chapter will hopefully be uploaded soon. Reviews are greatly welcomes and appreciated :D