"Is this a boarding school?" Cherry asked.
"Oh, did I forget to mention that?" Drell replied. "My apologies, but yes, it is."
Mo and Patch couldn't help but stare at the students who were the children of many famous figures from fairy tales. There appeared to be a blonde girl eating a bowl of porridge that was just right, there was an egg white boy who was eating a vegetarian omelet, and there was a girl with a red hood who appeared to be eating a raw steak with blood dripping from it.
"I think I see Atticus." Patch said.
"Where?!" Mo asked.
Atticus stayed close to the floor, then looked around and gasped once he saw his friends.
"Don't you scare me like that!" Drell grabbed Atticus firmly.
"I blame my Uncle Sombra." Atticus said.
"Mm-hmm, I would too..." Drell folded his arms. "I never did like that guy."
There was then a loud whistle heard which made Patch whine slightly.
A giant student dropped his tray. "My food!"
"My hair!" a prince boy yelped as the food splashed onto his hair.
"Where did that whistle come from?" Patch whined from the pain of the noise.
Cherry looked up to see a teen girl with fair skin and pale blonde hair. "I'm gonna guess it was her."
The others then looked up to see the girl who had whistled at the top of the 'castleteria'.
"Excuse me, as editor of The Gryphon, our beloved school paper, I am pleased to announce, I'm doing a special feature!" the girl announced giddily. "And the theme is: A Time of Wonder! It will feature stories about Wonderland, and all the students from Wonderland who are here now."
"That sounds nice." Mo said.
"Who is that?" Cherry asked.
"Apple White, the daughter of Snow White." Drell replied obviously enough.
"I think Apple's idea is awesome!" a blue fairy girl with pom-poms beamed.
"I agree." Sabrina smiled.
"Thanks, Faybelle," Apple said to the blue fairy girl, before doing a double take. "Wait, y-you do?"
"She sounds surprised." Mo said.
"Sure, 'cuz it'll give you a chance to rehash how these 'Blunderland Brats' got stuck here, thanks to Raven's mom: The Evil Queen!" blue fairy girl sat beside Apple and took out what looked like an iPad with a thorny mirror that was accompanied by evil laughter.
"Okay, now I understand why." Mo said.
"I cannot tell a lie, that lady scares the shavings off of me!" a wooden girl squealed out of terror.
Three goat students bleated in agreement as they were also afraid of the Evil Queen.
"Hey, that's not fair!" Raven Queen spoke up.
"Oh, please don't make this worse." Drell begged quietly.
"It's not my mom's fault that Wonderland is sealed off from Ever After." Raven Queen continued after she stood up in defense. "I mean, okay, maybe she poisoned Wonderland's magic and sent my brother to be banished there, and sure, because of her, Wonderland is topsy-turvier than ever... And yeah, thanks to her, The Queen of Hearts is a total wacko screwball-"
The students gasped which made Drell face-palm as Raven made the situation a million times worse.
"Well, that didn't help at all." Cherry said.
"Oops..." Raven Queen muttered once she realized what she just did.
The daughter of the Queen of Hearts known as Lizzie sighed as she held out a locket of her mother.
"Hello?" Faybelle called to her. "Raven just, like, totally insulted your mom?"
"Sorry, Lizzie, I was just trying to point out if you're gonna look for someone to blame-" Raven Queen started.
"Please don't say Headmaster Grimm, please don't say Headmaster Grimm." Drell begged quietly as he saw the headmaster heading to the cafeteria.
Cherry smirked and chuckled since Drell looked nervous.
"This is no laughing matter!" Drell whispered loudly and sharply to her.
"Ooh, you're scared~" Cherry teased.
"Blame Headmaster Grimm." Raven Queen continued.
This caused Drell to go face-palm.
"He's always like 'You must follow your own stories!'," Raven Queen continued as said man was right behind her and she didn't know it yet. "And, 'Let's trap the Evil Queen and her son in a mirror forever!'. Ha! Am I right?"
Cherry then seemed nervous of the Headmaster herself as she could see why that even Drell was scared of him.
Raven Queen started to laugh a bit before she saw everyone including the group give signs to stop talking until she had an idea why. "He's standing right behind me? Isn't he?" she then asked with a groan.
"Correct, and you may be seated." Headmaster Grimm replied firmly.
Raven Queen shrieked and went to sit down with fright of his strictness.
"And you thought I was strict." Drell whispered to the group with him.
"I think he takes the cake of strictness." Sabrina whispered back.
"Especially with your Aunt Zelda." Drell agreed.
"As for the rest of you, understand this," Headmaster Grimm firmly called to his students. "The Wonderland Curse is dangerous, no one must be allowed to have contact with that world for any reason, it has been sealed up for your own good!" he then walked off.
Drell breathed in relief until someone called for the man back and he looked anxious again.
It was Apple White and where she wanted to know all about the curse. "Actually, as part of my article for the Gryphon, I was hoping to ask you about the curse and what exactly it-" she rushed to catch the man before he left the castleteria.
"ENOUGH!" Headmaster Grimm put his hand up to her. "The worlds must remain separate and that is all you need to know."
"But sir, why is Wonderland separated from this world?" Atticus asked as he came up to the headmaster.
"It is the way that things must be," Headmaster Grimm scolded. "We don't have to worry about it anymore."
The bell then rang.
"Now off to your classes!" Headmaster Grimm then sharply demanded as he left the room.
"Well, he's a barrel of laughs." Atticus said sarcastically.
"Oh, yeah, he's as much fun as a bucket of monkeys," Drell agreed. "No offense, Cherry."
"Ha ha, funny." Cherry replied sarcastically.
"Hey, hey, everybody!" Apple White called to her fellow students. "I'm looking for volunteers to help with the story! If you're interested, meet me in study hall after class."
"Atticus, since you are now a student here, you should go to your class." Drell said.
"Um, right." Atticus nodded and walked off.
"Meanwhile, the rest of us will instigate..." Drell said as he put his arms around the others.
"Don't you mean 'investigate'?" Patch asked.
"Isn't that what I said?" Drell glanced in deadpan. "There's a reason why dogs shouldn't talk... Anyway, off we go!"
"But where should I go?" Atticus asked.
Drell shrugged as he left with the others. "Science Lab with Professor Rumpelstiltskin?"
"Sounds good to me." Atticus said.
"See ya, Atticus..." Mo said softly as she went off.