The next day after the tourney competition and Ben announcing his 'love' for Mal in front of the whole school, I headed to chemistry class with Evie. I took a seat beside Aziz while Evie took her seat beside Dougie and started frantically searching for something.
I lean over my desk, "What are you looking for?"
"My magic mirror," she tells me urgently.
I raised my eyebrow at her in disbelief, "Are you seriously gonna use it for the test."
"If I can find it," she whispers back. I lean back into my desk and shook my head.
Mt. Deley noticing Evie's frantic search walks over to her, "Looking for something?" he holds up Evies' mirror. He smiles down at Chad, "Thank you, Chad. It's gratifying to see someone still respects the honor code. It will be my recommendation that you are expelled."
Evie tries to explain her "Mr. Deley, I..."
"But that isn't fair. Obviously, she wasn't cheating since she didn't have that... Whatever it is," Doug interjects.
"It's called a magic mir..." Evie starts.
I cut her off, "Don't help. Please don't help. He's trying to save you."
Doug nodded in agreement but kept his focus on . "Maybe she needed another pencil."
Evie holds up her finger, "Actually, I was..."
I put my hand over her mouth. "He his helping you, stop talking. Do you wanna be expelled?" she shook her head and I released her mouth.
"Please," Doug pleaded with Mr. Deley.
"Please," Evie repeats.
"Well, If you can pass this test, I'll return your property and let the matter drop." Mr. Deley says before walking away.
Evie smiles at Doug before sending a glare to a petulant Chad. Once she was given her test she stared at it blankly.
"You can do it," I whisper to her. "You're smarter than you think."
She picks up her pencil and smiles at me, "Thanks"
I nodded, "Your welcome." I picked up my own pencil and started on my own test.
Once the test was over I walked over to the picnic area with Aziz.
"Aziz, Yu Yan!" Lonnie calls from one of the tables where she was seated with Ally, and Jordan.
"Hey girls," Aziz greets as we take a seat. He looks around, "Where's Jane?"
Jordan gestures over to a table where Audrey and her supposed court were seated.
"Jane seems to think with her new look that she's all of a sudden better than us," Ally tells us.
Jordan sneers, "If that's better than I'm okay with being worse."
"Enough of that," Lonnie interjects. "How did your test go."
Aziz takes out his test that had a red B on the top.
Jordan tilts her head at me, "And you Yu Yan?"
I held out my paper that had a red A+ at the top.
Ally blinks, "Wow."
I grin, "I mean Mr. Deley is a good teacher and everything but back at Dragon Hall we have Yen Sid as a chemistry teacher so…"
Jordan fans herself, "It's hot today."
"It is," Aziz agrees. "Hey! Why don't we go to the lake."
I sit up, "The Lake."
"Yeah there's a lake a few miles from here," Ally tells me.
"We can't go today," Lonnie tells us.
I look over at her, "Why?"
"Ben is going on a date with Mal there today."
"Then let's go tomorrow we have no classes," Jordan says.
We all agreed to that before separating, the others had classes to attend to but since I didn't I headed back to my dorm.
When I walked into my room I halted in shock… Mal was letting Evie do her makeup.
"Okay. Easy on the blush. I don't want to scare him away," Mal tells her. "Not that I could."
I exit the room before entering again.
"Okay so I did step in the twilight zone," I say causing them to look up at me.
"You're not in the twilight zone," Evie assures me. "Mal as I date."
I walked over to my bed and laid down, "So I am in the twilight zone."
"Ha ha ha," Mal deadpans.
"Any way Mal," Evie says before we could argue. "My mom taught me how to apply blush before I could talk. Always use upward strokes."
"My mom was never really big on makeup tips. I never had a sister." Mall tells her.
"Well, now you do," Evie assures her. "And a little sister."
I coughed, "Excuse me."
Evie looked over at me. "You know you love us."
I shrug, "It's been a few weeks, I've gotten used to you guys."
"Besides," Evie continues. "We're going to need all the family we can get If we don't pull this off. My mother's not a barrel of laughs when she doesn't get her way. Just ask Snow White."
"Are you afraid of her?" Mal asks Evie.
"Sometimes," Evie replies. "Are you afraid of your mom?"
"I just really want her to be proud of me. She gets so angry with me when I disappoint her. And sh... yeah, she's my mom, so I know she loves me... In her own way." Mal explains.
"What about you Yu Yan?" Evie asks me.
Mal snorts, "Obviously she knows her parents love her."
I sit up, "That's even scary than wanting to know if they love you." I look into her eyes. "You always have this irrational fear that if you disappoint them than there's a chance they might not love me anymore or love me as much as they did before."
"I guess we have something in common than," Mal says.
I smile at her, the first time I've ever smiled at her. "I guess we do."
"Moving on. Come see." Evie says.
"Are we done?" Mal asks her.
She leads Mal to the wall mirror. "Yeah."
Mal stares at herself in the mirror, "Oh."
"I know," Evie tells her.
"I look..." Mal begins.
"It helps if you say it," I told her.
"Not hideous," Mal says.
Evie places her hand on Mals shoulder, "Not even close."
There was a knock on the door and Mal walked over and opened it.
Ben stares at her, "For the first time, I understand the difference between pretty and beautiful." he smiles at Mal. "I hope you like bikes."
"You're half siren how can you be scared to go for a swim," Aziz tease me.
It was the next day and like we agreed on Aziz, Lonnie, Jordan, Ally and I were at the lake. At first, I was excited to go to the lake to actually be surrounded by a large body of water that was until I got there.
"You don't think I know my fear is irrational," I tell him. "I control water around me with ease and yet I'm afraid to go for a swim."
"Why is that?" Lonnie asks me. "You live on an island."
I scowl at the reminder, "An Island that we are trapped in. How was I suppose to learn how to swim."
"Come on you got this," Jorda assures me. "Just jump in."
I took a deep breathe and put one foot in the water before entering the other foot.
Ally swims by me, "There you go now let go of the edge."
As soon as did I submerged into the water.
"Yu Yun!" I heard the others scream.
As I submerged deeper and deeper into the lake, I wasn't scared it felt like I was being welcomed home. I closed my eyes as I let myself feel.
Welcome home my child
Hearing my name being called from the surface I propelled myself upward until I broke through.
Lonnie looked at me in relief, "Are you okay?"
I grinned at her, "Never better." I looked around at the others. "Now let's see what I can do."
I took a breathe and stood on the water. I've never controlled a large body of water like this before, so I was nervous. Once I was stabled I grinned.
"Your standing on water!" Aziz yells a grin on his own face.
"I am!"
Concentrating I focused on water under Jordan and created a small jet of water that lifted her up, taking a deep breath I made the jet bigger so she was basically in the air.
"Wow this is so cool!" she calls from the top of the jet.
We spent most of the day seeing what I could before I started to feel tired.
"I think it's time to go," Aziz says.
As I was getting out of the lake I remembered the voice I heard. "Hey is this lake magical?"
Ally nods as she dries herself. "Yep, it's called the Enchanted Lake."
I took a towel from the ground "Why?"
"It's said that it can heal anything and that whatever spell you are under it cures."
"Cool," I mutter thinking back on the fact that Mal came back yesterday wet because she jumped into the lake to try and save Ben. Looks like she didn't need the spell anyway.
I took an empty water bottle kneeled down by the lake as I directed some water into the bottle. For some reason, I felt like it would come in handy one day.
"It's getting dark you guys!" Aziz yells out. "Let's go."
Getting up I followed my friends… friends I made friends with the children of heroes, I was finally getting somewhere with my mission and I couldn't be any happier.
A/N: This was a shorter chapter than usual but it's the way I've divided the movie, I write up the scene where a song is before stopping. That's why there's only gonna be six chapters because there are only six songs in the movie. Anyway, hope you enjoyed this chapter please review and comment.
