Blackness. Dark. Cold. Relentless. Inky blackness. As far as the eye can see. not a speck of light to be found. And I am in the center. I thought that when I left the island, I had left the darkness behind, too. But I was wrong. I try to move, only to find that I'm chained to the wall. I try using a spell, but it didn't work at all. I struggle for a while longer, before I hear a deep, demonic voice.

"There is no use struggling. This place is remote, in the dark recesses of your mind. If someone finds you in real life, and they manage to get in, it will be their demise." The voice says.

"Can you tell me where I am in the real world at least?" I say, fear creeping into my voice.

"At the enchanted lake, alone. No one knows of this spot, not even your precious Ben. We are on the other side of that giant rock, where no one ever goes."

"I will never stop trying to escape these chains."

I say with false confidence.

"You know what, I will release you from these chains, but any damage inflicted upon you in here, is also inflicted on your real body." The voice laughs, and the weight releases from my wrists and ankles, and I sprint away. Before I get 10 steps in, a powerful force knocks me back. I hit the floor on my shoulder, probably fracturing it. I cry out in pain, and the voice just laughs. I struggle to get up, but when I do, I walk quickly, and carefully, to get somewhere. Then, I feel a razor sharp blade slice my arms, legs, torso, and face, deep. I fall again, and this time, I stay down. I cry softly, and I have no strength left in me.

"MAL! MAL!" I yell worriedly, I haven't seen her all day, and she NEVER misses lunch on wing day. I spot Evie and run over to her, as she is talking to Doug. "Evie, have you seen Mal? I haven't seen her at all today, and she never misses lunch." I say.

"I haven't seen her either, Ben..." I start to walk away, but she grabs my arm and yells "WAIT! yesterday, Mal said that she was going to the enchanted lake before class starts. Maybe she fell asleep or... got hurt." I barley hear her finish before I start running towards the lake. On the way, I run into Jay and Carlos.

"GUYS COME ON!" I yell at them, grabbing them both by the arm.

"Where are we going?" Carlos asks.

"Mal may be hurt, she's at the enchanted lake."And with that, they run even faster.

We reach the lake, and start looking around for her. She's not where we had out first date or in the lake, Jay swims around the bottom to see if she drowned, but she was not down there.

"Maybe she is in the deep spot under the rock." Carlos says. I run over to the rock, and am about to jump off, when something glints in the corner of my eye. I walk over hesitantly. Thats when I see her.

"MAL!" I yell. She is lying in the brush, nearly lifeless except for the faint rise and fall of her chest. She has obviously been cut by a human, the cuts all over her are deep. She has a fracturedarm. "M-mal?" I gently shake her, then I pick her up. She doesn't even move. Jay and Carlos are standing next to me as I jog to the castle.

*time skip to when they reach the castle*

"HELP! SOMEONE HELP!" I scream, at least twenty servants come running, along with my mom and dad.

"What's wrong?" My dad asks worriedly, before he sees Mal. "Get her to the infirmary immediately! Ben, what happened to her?"

"She wasn't at school, and Evie said that she went to the Enchanted lake this morning. Jay, Carlos, and I went to find her, and I found her behind the big rock with all of these wounds. Then I picked her up and.." I was cut off by an ear deafening scream. From Mal. She started thrashing in my arms and said

"He's in my head h-help me." Then her eyes opened. They were completely black. Then they closed again. I rushed up the stairs and put her in the infirmary. I need to get into her mind and save her. Just then I heard a snap and her other arm broke. And she got a deep cut in her neck.

"It's hurting her from the inside. How can I get in..."

"I'm here! I will send you in her mind." The Fairy Godmother said while holding her wand.

"Oh thank you! Okay, send me in!"

"Wait! I want to go, too. She's my friend!" Jay says.

"I'm sorry, but putting just one person in is risky enough, I can't risk two." She says sadly. And with a "Bibbity, Bobbity, Boo!" I was transported into Mal's mind.