Silence befell the entire school. It was nighttime and Paige was the only one awake. The good magical community had all been sent home with assurances that something would be done and soon. But Paige really didn't know what to do. She had argued earlier with her sisters and told them she would do what she wanted, as it was her school and her problem.

Presently, Paige didn't know if she still felt that way. One thing was for sure, something had to be done, and she would be the one to do it. The youngest sister wasn't going to sit back and watch anymore. She was a grown woman and in charge of an entire school. She had responsibilities and she had to act on them.

The only idea Paige had come up with all day was to lure whoever was kidnapping the magical children with one of the magical kids in the school. No, that wasn't true, it wasn't the only idea she'd come up with. She'd had plenty of other ideas, but there was something about the way Leo, Phoebe and Piper had reacted to the idea that made her want to do it even more. She had Little Sister Syndrome.

"It's going to happen now." Paige said to herself, and instead of continuing on her path to her office, she spun around and headed to the dormitories. Some children lived at Magic School, but others, like Chris and Wyatt, were only day students.

Paige crept slowly into one of the boys' rooms and found the boy she was looking for. He was a five-year-old boy named Aedan. Paige stood next to his bed, watching his chest rise and fall as he slept. She knew she had to do this, but it was putting him in danger. Paige was just about to walk away and forget it when Leo's words flashed through her head, "Maybe you're not ready for this, Paige"

"No! I am ready!" Paige whispered to no one. She kneeled down and shook the boy slightly and when he did not stir she shook him violently.

"What's going on!" the boy cried

"It's just me, Aedan." Paige managed a smile

"Paige?"

"It's Ms. Matthews." She replied sternly. What was happening to her? "Come on, Aedan I need you to do something for me."

"Morning." Aedan yawned

"No! Now!" the boy shivered but followed Paige as she pulled him to the front doors

"Crystals!" Paige yelled, and 5 white crystals appeared in her hands. She was even using magic for personal gain. But this was an emergency, wasn't it!? Again, she thought about forgetting the plan, but it was too late now.

"Abre Cadabre!" and the doors opened. Paige was dressed in a long black coat with black gloves and high leather boots. She was not affected by the blast of cold wind that entered the school. It seemed some sort of blizzard was going on outside.

Aedan, unlike Paige, was unprepared for the cold air and he shivered violently when the doors opened. His teeth began to clatter like a horse galloping over cobblestones. Paige ordered the boy to walk outside.

"Too cold!" Aedan yelled. He was only dressed in a pajama suit.

"Don't you think I'm cold!? Now hurry up and get outside. I am in charge here!" Paige bellowed back

Aedan slowly dipped his feet in the freezing snow, and as cold as it was, sending shivers up his spine (and all over for that matter) he still didn't turn around for fear of the consequences he might face from Paige. Aedan was standing a hundred feet outside the door when he finally turned to face Paige.

"Mean Paige!"

"It's Mrs. Mitchell! And I don't care if I'm mean! I'm allowed to be mean!" Then Paige threw four of the five crystals In her palm at the ground near Aedan's feet. One even hit his foot.

"Ow!" and the boy finally began crying. He had been on the verge of crying the entire time, and Paige knew it was only a matter of time until it happened. The boys screams and cries covered up the sounds of Paige using her magic. "Crystals" she repeated and the crystals formed an almost pentacle, missing one point she held in her hand.

"Stop Crying!" the boy did not respond and if anything continued to cry harder. "Shut Up!" Paige threw the last crystal at the boys feet and told him, "When I say 'now' you will place the crystal down in the missing spot. Do you hear me!? DO YOU HEAR ME!?"

Aedan shook his head up and down rapidly. He was still shaking and crying two seconds later when a huge whirlwind blew up, bringing with it snow, as in a huge tornado of snow, only feet away from the boy. Out of the cyclone appeared the largest man Paige had ever seen. He was at least 9 feet tall and had more muscles than the entire Strongest Man competition put together. He was quite literally a Giant.

It took Paige a few seconds to recognize that this was the time for action, "Aedan, now! The crystal! Place the crystal!"

The boy was oblivious to her or the Giant. He only continued to cry and shiver and shake. Paige screamed and screamed but he couldn't hear her. The Giant was already walking through the snow to the boy.

Paige knew she should do something, but she didn't know what. The obvious answer would be for her to orb the crystal into place so she could activate the boy's crystal cage that would protect him. Or even to orb the boy out of harm's way. Yes, these were the answers a rational person would come up with. But Paige was anything but rational.

She took three steps into the freezing snow toward the boy and the Giant, who were now dangerously close to each other. "Hey! Hey, you big goof!" She screamed at the Giant. He didn't hear her. This whole people not listening thing was definitely getting old, and she'd experienced a lifetime of it already. She yelled, "Crystal!" and one of the crystals flew up and hit the Giant square on the head. He looked around and finally noticed Paige.

"Who you?" the Giant asked

"I'm the sheriff in this neck of the woods, and I'm telling you you need to back off!"

"Ha! No girl tell Humbert what to do! Only Rinece, the queen tell Humbert what to do and she dead."

Paige had heard of Rinece, she was the mythological "ice queen" who ruled the eastern part of this plane of existence. She was the one that always made it cold here and who controlled all the evil magical creatures who lived near magic school. Of course, that was all make-believe, or so she thought. "How did Rinece die?"

"No one know. Only know that she never came back from voyage to land of ghosts to visit dead daughter, Rinaimira." Humbert asked. "Land of ghosts very dangerous. If Rinece never come back then we have no queen, we must take care of ourselves."

"Can't you just find a new queen?" Paige knew it was important that the evil magical community in this plane has a queen to keep them in check, or else they would run wild and possibly threaten magic school.

"Princess Rinaimira only heir to throne, she die. If Rinece dead then only person who deserve to be queen is the one who kill her. But no one has evidence they killed her." Humbert answered

"How can someone prove they killed the queen and then become queen?" Paige asked. Her mind was working a mile-a-minute, but on two separate tracks. One part of her mind, the old Paige wanted to stall the Giant until Aedan stopped crying and figured out what was going on or until she figured out how to save him. The other part of her mind, the part that was slowly becoming the new Paige, the part that was sick and tired of being the little sister, the subordinate one, was thinking there maybe be a chance she could finally earn respect.

"They must show famous ruby pendant Queen Rinece wear. Then they prove themselves brave enough to be new Queen. Only someone very brave could kill Rinece." Humbert boasted. He took great pride in his former queen.

"Well…err…what if I said I killed Rinece?" Paige inquired nervously

"You must show Humbert ruby pendant." Humbert said solemly. He knew this could mean his queen was really dead. Something he did not want.

Paige put her hand behind her back. She whispered, "Rinece's ruby pendant." She shut her eyes tight and concentrated fiercely. She knew this wouldn't normally work, Rinece's pendant could be anywhere, but extreme want could do miracles sometimes and Paige definitely wanted this more than anything she ever had.

Suddenly, right when Paige thought she wasn't going to be successful, bright lights appeared in a cluster in her palms and she felt the weight of the pendant. She brought her hands around to the front of her and looked at the ruby. It was definitely beautiful. If this was one of the perks of being queen, she knew more than ever she wanted to be one. She presented the ruby to Humbert.

Humbert looked amazed yet sorrow flooded over him as he knew this meant that his queen was definitely dead. "I don't know how you do it. But you must be most brave to kill Rinece. You will be new queen…I take you to your palace." And with that Humbert swept Paige off her feet and the cyclone that brought him to her swept them both up and off they went.

The doors to Magic School closed with the wind and this made Aedan finally look up. He stopped crying and started panicking. He looked around and saw no one. "Paige?" He asked. He thought she must have been fed up with him and left him alone outside. This made him sob even more furiously than before. No one could hear him. No one knew he was there except Paige, and she wouldn't come back for him. By morning his body was completely covered by snow, he would never be seen again.