Once the mid-morning break began, Wicca brought Raven and Coral into her dorm room.
"So what exactly are you up to?" asked Raven.
"And why did you bring us here?" asked Coral.
"So we an talk in private." Wicca grinned. "I have the perfect plan to help you, Raven. Since you don't want to go to the dance, I'll create a duplicate of you!"
Raven blinked. "You will?!"
"Of course! That power hungry headmaster of ours thinks he can just make us do things we don't want to do? Not gonna happen! I'll send your duplicate to the dance and nobody's the wiser!" Wicca opened her spell book.
Suddenly, a knock came to the door.
Wicca groaned as she slammed her book shut. "Oh, for badness sakes!" She willed the door open and Rosabella Beauty came in.
"Wicca! We have a problem!" said the princess. "My duplicates are gone!"
"What?! What do you mean they're gone?!"
"Well, once we had the ballroom decorated, I told my duplicates to stay in my room. But when I came back, they were gone! I've been trying to find you all day yesterday!" Rosabella explained.
"Oh, no!" Wicca slapped her forehead. "The clones must has disappeared because the spell wore off!"
"Wore off?!" Raven said.
"Yeah! Making clones takes a lot of magic! And I made three Rosabellas! My power must not be strong enough so they all disappeared over a certain amount of time!"
"Then there's no point in making a clone of me!" Raven said. "It'll vanish at the dance and Headmaster Grimm will bust me!"
"Don't talk like that, Raven! I'm not giving up that easily!" Wicca said with determination.
"Uh, Wicca. Wouldn't it be better if Raven just went to the dance?" Coral suggested.
"I'm with Coral." Raven said. "I might as well just go-"
"NO! A wicked witch never gives up!" Wicca tightened her fist. "I'm making that clone and show Headmaster Grimm who's the real boss of this school! But first..."
Wicca started shoving Rosabella out of her room. "Sorry, Rose. But I can only solve one problem at a time. Why don't go talk to Apple? She's all about helping people." And the witch slammed the door shut. "Okay, Raven. I'll make your duplicate right before the dance. It should last for a few hours. Let's get to work!"
Wicca opened her spell book, but Raven yanked it right out of her hands.
"Just wait a spell, Wicca! Why are you so determined to help me?!" Raven asked.
"Because I want to help you!" Wicca replied, stunning Raven.
Wicca sighed. "Look, Headmaster Grimm says I can't act like a villain. And now he's forcing you to go to the ball and using your outburst as leverage?! That's not fair! It's just not fair! How can I possibly sit still and let that happen?!"
"Wicca," said Raven. "I'm just as mad as you are. But there are times we have to deal with things, even if we don't like it. Besides, we're just going a dance. It's not like we're cleaning Madame Yaga's hut or spinning straw into gold for Professor Rumpelstiltskin." She chuckled. "In fact, going to a dance is hardly a punishment!"
That's when Wicca realized she was making a big fuss over nothing. Perhaps the whole cloning thing was a bad idea. She nodded with an approved smile. "Yeah, you're right, Raven. It is just a dance, not the end of the world."
"Exactly." Raven grinned. "So it's agreed, we'll all go to the dance and make the best of it!"
"What are you talking about?" Wicca nudged Raven. "I'm gonna have a blast! I'll show you some of my wicked moves!" She did a few dance moves and struck a pose.
"Not bad! But I can top that!" Raven did some twirls and spins before striking her own wicked pose.
"Check this out!" Coral moved her body like a wave and moved her arms to her own rhythm.
"Nice!" Wicca said. She and her friends laughed together.
The bell chimed and it was time to go back to class. Wicca, Raven, and Coral left to go to their respective classes.
"So, after school, we'll head to the Tower hair salon and get primed up together!" Raven said.
"Yeah!" Wicca and Coral said. When wicca swing opened her door, she heard two shouts of pain.
"OWWW!" Wicca looked over and saw Gus and Helga Crumb, Hansel and Gretel's kids.
Helga rubbed her sore nose and pointed an accusing finger at Wicca. "You hit my nose!" Her cousin Gus cried like a big baby.
"Well, maybe you two wimps should watch where you're going!" Wicca spat. "Now beat it, ya flying monkey boogers!" She stomped her foot hard for dramatic effect.
The Crumb cousins took off crying in pain and terror.
"Those two are still nothing but a couple of wimps." Wicca snorted.
Once classes were over, Wicca, Raven, and Coral wemt to the Tower hair salon. Normally, if there was a dance at Ever After High, tons of girls would be packed in the salon.
But since this was a ball to honor villains, there was only a few girls on the waiting room this time. When Wicca set foot inside, they all gasped and looked with scared eyes. Even Wicca was infamous among her villainous peers.
Poppy O'Hair, one of the daughters of Rapunzel, looked a bit uneasy as Wicca strolled up her. The wicked witch smiled her little half smile "Hey, Popstar."
"Hey, Wicca." said Poppy. "Here to get ready for the Villain's Ball?"
"You know it! Who better to go to than my favorite stylist in Ever After?" Ever since her friends introduced Wicca to fashion, hair care, and hygiene. She dedicated herself to look good being bad. And Poppy O'Hair was the only stylist she could depend on to give her great fashion tips while keeping with her own wicked style.
"My friends and I would like to get started right away!" said Wicca.
"Well, I do have a few other customers to attend to..." Poppy said, getting a bad feeling about this.
"Oh, they don't mind letting us go first..." She slowly turned to the waiting customers. "Do you?" Her green eyes flashed and a strong wind swept through the room. Magazines and strands of hair blew everywhere. The frightened customers screamed and took off running out of the salon.
Wicca's eyes stopped glowing and she smiled back at Poppy.
The daughter of Rapunzel sighed. "Well, I guess you're my only customers today." She was used to Wicca scaring away customers so she could be pampered. Last time she came for a touch up, she turned the chairs into bottom-munching monsters that chased away Poppy's clients.
Wicca saw Raven and Coral giving her a look. "What? We need to get ready as soon as we can! The dance is tonight!"
With that taken care of, the girls got in their chairs and began getting their hair done. "So, you made sure the water is enchanted?" Wicca asked.
Poppy smiled. "As requested." She began rinsing Wicca's hair. To the witch's relief, all she felt was warmth on her scalp.
"Enchanted water?" asked Coral. "Why enchanted?"
Wicca hesitated to answer.
"It's okay, Wicca. Just tell her." said Raven.
"Okay," Wicca sighed. "I have this...skin condition that if regular water touches me, I'll start to melt."
"Melt?!" Wicca gasped.
"Yeah, Headmaster Grimm installed my bathroom to only have enchanted water when I bathe." Wicca said. "Because even if I bathed in normal water, I couldn't melt and end up sucked down the drain."
"Whoa!" Coral wa shocked. All her life she spent in the water, but for this witch to live out her life away from normal water? It was unbelievable!
Wicca squeezed her chair. "That shoe-stealing brat Dorothy pored that bucket of normal water on my mom and ended up killing her!" It enraged Wicca to this very day. That Dorothy Gale was the real villain. After she killed the witch, Dorothy Gale was hailed as a witch-slaying hero and was so inspired by destroying the Wicked Witch of the West, she became a professional witch hunter and became the guardian of Oz.
One day, someday, Wicca will have her revenge on the woman who took her mother's life.
But for now, she just wanted to enjoy her time at Ever After High. Revenge can wait.
After the hair treatment, the girls we're getting their nails done. Raven heard laughter and she looked out to see Cerise and six fairies walking and chatting together.
Raven recognized those fairies as Faybelle's minions, but Faybelle wasn't with them. Cerise was. "Hey, what are those fairies doing hanging out with Cerise?"
"You mean you don't know? Cerise joined the cheer squad." Poppy said.
Raven turned to her friend in shock. "Cerise joined the cheer squad?!"
"Yeah, who knew she had it in her?" Poppy shrugged.
"I didn't..." Raven knew Cerise long enough to know that she would never willingly join the cheer squad because of her secret. What brought on this sudden change in her friend?
Wicca kept silent. If she said anything it might tip Raven off about Cerise being the witch's spy.