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SwanDestiny: I went back to chapter 1 and decided to change Agatha's hair so it's as short as it used to be in book 1... You'll learn soon. If you want to review that part of the story, sure, why not?
SwanDestiny: Onto the story!
Evelyn Sader stood outside the hidden caves beyond the school gates, waiting patiently for the School Master to come.
The caves. A secret place not many people know about, and a perfect place to hide.
There were 3 cave - one tiny, barely able to hold one person, one with small tunnels and a room that could hold 20 people with dazzling moon flowers, shining silver and illuminating the dark tunnels and caves, and then the last cave, a secret passage leading to a gigantic underground world with shinining rainbow crystals brightening everywhere, with a lake at the deepest end of a tunnel.
All three caves were perched on the top of a mountain, so close to each other with the same sized-entrance so you couldn't tell one from the other at the beginning. At the end, it'll lead to disappointment, to contentness, then to absolute satifaction and awe.
These caves faded to legend, once a place visited like the blue forest to train, but now no one knows about their history... Except for the School Master, and her.
"Hello, Evelyn."
Evelyn tried not to blush as she turned around to face the immortal School Master.
"As the same for you... School Master."
The School Master had never revealed his name to anyone... yet.
Evelyn inwardly sighed. Once upon a time, she used to think she loved the School Master... The School Master even told her he was evil, but the 5 years younger Evelyn Sader already infered that. He rejected her, saying his true love was not her. The School Master trusted her enough to tell her which side he was on... But didn't love her to tell her his real name.
"The School Master," Evelyn thought bitterly. "Claims his true love is from Woods Beyond."
"Professor Sader", as students refer him to, August, was a Sage, enabling him to see the future. He was the one that told the School Master his true love was one from Woods Beyond.
"Liar!" Evelyn thought, rage building up in her heart. But she knew he was speaking the truth.
She could've been the School Master's love, she could've been all that he's known.
Evelyn's face darkened. But he chose Sophie.
Evelyn snapped back to the present as the School Master whipped his cloak around so he was facing the wind, his face contored with evil.
"Thank you for resurrecting me, Evelyn. You are as much use to me as August,"
Evelyn tried to tune out everything the School Master said at the mention of August, her brother. She didn't need him to remind her of her dead brother.
Evelyn looked down at the black rock they were standing on in the high mountains.
They used to be so close, just like the two School Masters themselves, one good, one wicked. But they pushed that thought aside. They did pratically everything together.
Then they slowly grew apart. "Professor Sader" decided to become a Sage, able to see in the future. He also started teaching the School For Evil, wanting to teach students knowledge before their own dangerous fairytales began.
Evelyn started learning evil magic, becoming entranced by the many things evil could do. The horror they could create. The destruction they could cause...
They now lived in different worlds, to busy to think of the other. Once almost like best friends, now strangers for Never After.
August then recommended her to teach for the School for Evil, and she happily accepted, back to being close with him for just a bit of time. It was good enough for Evelyn.
Everything went downhill after that. And fast.
She still remembered it to this day.
Evelyn closed her life and let her memory take her back to the past.
~X~
"August, tell me!"
Evelyn gasped, tripping on her red dress made of butterflies as a few butterflies flew out of the way not to be killed.
August's sad eyes looked back at her.
Somehow, August seemed different. He seemed taller than before, his blue eyes looked wiser, and he looked... older. Almost like ten years older.
"I wish I could tell you, sister, but you know I would age ten years..."
Evelyn scrambled back up and threw herself at him, calling her red butterflies to trap him.
She needed to know. She would die if she didn't.
Of course she was certain of that... 99% certain.
Evelyn was breathing hard by now.
"Tell me... If you are a good brother."
Evelyn's gaze hardened, turning into a glare. She wanted to burn holes into him.
He needed to understand!
Evelyn felt like sobbing. He was her brother! Her only family left!
August sighed, hesitating.
Evelyn was desperate at this point. She would do anything... Anything to gain the knowledge.
"It's a simple yes or no question!" Evelyn snapped when August still didn't answer.
"Just tell me if the School Master is my true love or not!"
A million years seemed to pass. Billions of sunrises and sunsets passed as Evelyn's face turned from anger, to disappointment, and then to misery.
This was the first thing in her whole life she was so passionate about, surely he would understand?
Just as Evelyn was about to break down to the floor sobbing, August regrettingly opened his mouth.
"Seeing we're only 18 years of age..." August embraced Evelyn as if saying a final goodbye.
Evelyn suddenly felt herself melting. She was asking so much of her dear brother...
A tear leaked out of the corner of her eye as a downpour of more came.
"I-I'm so sorry..." Evelyn cried into his shoulder. "But- I- I must know!"
The red butterflies stopped surrounding August as they returned to her dress.
August's sorrowful eyes looked back at her.
"I'm so sorry Ev..."
"I can't tell you."
One second...
Two seconds...
The information was slowly sinking into Evelyn like a slow-acting poison.
Evelyn's breath got caught in her throat.
...
Everything in her mind stopped for just a moment.
And then it turned into a burning anger.
Evelyn's sad eyes turned into ones of rage.
"HOW DARE YOU!" She shrieked, her butterflies already cornering him as August Sader calmly hacked them away.
"I'm sorry Evelyn... You know the punishments..."
August put a hand over his heart.
"I can't risk the consequences... again." He softly whispered.
Evelyn stood still for a moment.
Nothing was light. Not a ray of sunshine shone from her misty windows. There was only darkness. Crackles of lightning boomed outside the window, as thunder struck the house, all the candles blew out... Only shadows remained.
She stood still for a second.
It was an avalanche, all her hopes and dreams of reaching the peak of the mountain being chased down by rocks rapidly tummbling down, threatening to end her life.
The flow of time itself seemed to stop.
Then it all came back alive.
A single sob. And then footsteps sprinting down the halls of the School For Good.
~X~
"The School Master's tower..."
Evelyn inhaled, taking in the sight of the looming tower.
The School Master's tower was as tall as the highest trees in the Blue Forests, almost never ending like the Endless Woods.
Evelyn closed her eyes and muttered a lock picking spell, the tower's door swinging open with a creak.
Evelyn took the front of her blood-red dress and lifting it up so she wouldn't trip on it as she climbed the spiraling stairs up to the School Master's tower.
Her legs seemed to move on her own as she passed by several rooms.
The dining room... Where the School Master would eat alone day, noon, and night, all by himself.
The bathrooms... Where the School Master would bath and perfect his (Evelyn was hoping) gorgeous face.
Rooms passed by as Evelyn continued her eternal walk up the stairs.
One step at a time...
It seemed to take a whole night to reach the top to where the Storian and the School Master was, but Evelyn cast a spell to make a mirror appear, fixing her mouse-brown hair so it looked like a princess's, and then she proceeded to cast a Beautification spell she learned from Good's magic just in case.
She looked beautiful. Evelyn smiled. Evil could be magnificent.
With a light push, she flung open the doors to the School Master's office, gazing in awe at what lie before her.
It was nothing special at first glance, but when one looks closer, they see the Storian, rapidly drawing in the corner of the room, it's ink leaking onto the page and creating a beautiful scenery.
Then she saw what it was.
It was picture of the School Master and herself, leaning in for a kiss.
Evelyn's heart skipped two beats. This meant the School Master was her true love!
"Welcome, Evelyn."
The School Master seemed to appear out of nowhere, out of the mist, from a shadow...
"I've been expecting you."
Did this mean he knew that she was his true love?
That they were meant to be together for Never After?
Evelyn smiled sweetly at him.
It was August's mistake for not telling her. It was his fault.
He just couldn't say yes. Evelyn will forgive him... Eventually.
Evelyn sashayed up to him.
"I heard you were looking for a true love as evil as you..." She whispered into his ear, an evil smile plastered on her face.
The School Master smiled back at her, and Evelyn felt all her dreams blossom.
This was it!
He was going to kiss her!
Evelyn's eyes fluttered shut as the School Master's hand rested on her waist, pulling her in closer.
The School Master lowered his mask, revealing soft snow-white hair, cold and icy light blue-eyes, and perfect skin without a wrinkle. He was extremely handsome. For a moment, Evelyn's heart seemed to stop.
They both started to lean in, their lips inches apart-
"Try again."
The School Master pushed himself away from her as Evelyn only gawked.
What happened?
Why? Why didn't he accept his true love?
How? How could he not kiss her?
Where? Where was his mind right now?
Evelyn's eyes narrowed down.
Who? Who convinced him not to kiss her?
The School Master smiled mischeviously, taking his hand to his heart and pulling out a ghostly blue mist, then sealing it inside Evelyn.
Evelyn gasped as all her red butterflies turned blue, her red gown turning white.
"Wha-?"
"Professor Sader. He told me my true love was from Woods Beyond. Sophie..." The School Master's gaze pierced her own blue eyes, his words stabbing a whole into Evelyn's heart.
"I'm afraid that disqualifies you."
The School Master's gaze softened for a moment before hardening into one that might as well pin Evelyn to a wall.
"Next time..."
The School Master walked close to her, lifting her chin up so she met his eyes.
"Bring your true love with you."
Then he walked away.
Evelyn sucked it all in, then gasped.
August... August...
He betrayed her.
The burning rage hidden underneath herself rose again.
"August... You ruined everything!" She thought bitterly to herself.
"I HATE YOU!"
~X~
"We must now find Sophie." The School Master said calmly as Evelyn found herself back in the present.
Her downcast eyes looked to the blue forest beneath their high elevation, the blue trees and bushes merely looking like tiny dots now.
August was dead now.
"Of course..." She mumbled, turning away.
Was that too boring of a chapter to you?
So I brought Evelyn Sader in, and mixed things up from the real book 2. I know the School Master scene wasn't real, and basically all of this is completely different from the real A World Without Princes, but this IS different! No school for girls, school for boys! THIS IS DIFFERENT!
I didn't plan on this being so long, so I wasn't able to bring in Princess Agatha (PRINCESS) and the pendant from Tedros (The council had voted on the pendant!)
Review, review, and review! I won't start writing another chapter until I get three reviews!