Chapter 7: Meeting Old and New Face, Gaining New Allies...They'll Never Catch Me!
Male narrator: "we begin in the library where drake and his minions appear to be roaming about. By his command the minions are climbing up and down the shelves pulling books out and droping them onto a stack of books being carried by minions."
female narrator: "so many books, is he planning to read them all?"
brooke: "theres no way he can read all those, whats he up to?"
drake: "so curious of me are you, keep this up and I might think you have a crush on me."
brooke: "you wish, i'm just making sure whatever your doing won't hurt anyone."
drake: "yes yes I know, but you don't have to worry cause i'm not here to do anything evil at the moment." He makes his way to a table where the minions place the stacks of books on, taking a seat he picks up a book. As soon as he does the book is surrounded by a red flame like aura, once is disappears he tosses the book behind him where a minion takes its and places it back on the shelves as he repeats the prosses.
male narrator: "well what is this?"
female narrator: "he isn't even reading them"
brooke: "hey! what are you doing? you're not even reading them."
drake: "whats it look like, i'm reading"
brooke: "but you haven't even open the books and what is with that red flame?"
drake: "if you must know its a spell I created that works with my ability, with this I can absorb the knowledge in these books without having to read them."
brooke: "your ability? what kind of ability is that?"
drake: "well if you must know, my family and I call it copycat, this allows me to absorb the abilities of anyone or anything through touch."
brooke: "so you can use any ability you want?"
drake: "pretty much yeah, however there are some setbacks though."
brooke: "what kind of setbacks?"
drake: "my powers only work through my hands, doesn't work through armor even mine. I can only hold onto an ability for about half an hour, less if I absorb more then one, but the worst setback is that I also absorb their curse, with every ability comes a curse."
brooke: "really?"
drake: "yep, I once used my ability on a forest troll to gain its strength but I also got its ability to grow mushrooms on my body. I wasn't allowed inside anywhere til the effects wore off, cause everyone thought I had a bad case of foot fungus." He could hear brooke and his parents laughing.
brooke: "(laughing) that is hilarious, must've been hard to get around."
drake: "you have no idea" finishing the last of the books drake gets up and makes his way to the exit but stops when he senses something. Looking around the room he finds nothing, shruging it off he leaves, just as he does darling steps out from behind the bookshelves.
brooke: "is that darling? what is she doing?"
male narrator: "it appears she is spying on drake"
female narrator: "huh I figure she would be avoiding him after what happend last time."
brooke: "she must have a good reason for this"
darling: "ok that was close, spying on this guy is not easy. I'm pretty sure he almost notice me, I gotta get this footage to the others." She then leaves the library in a hurry, in another part of the school drake and his minions are walking along, all the while drake is on his tablet working on something.
quaver: "sire was something wrong? you seemed aware of something back there."
drake: "oh it was nothing just someone spying on me"
quaver: "who was that?"
drake: "I can't be certain but I think I know who, but whatever that doesn't matter now. For now we need to get back to my room and get to work on some new runes, i'm running short." As they walk through the halls drake suddenly stops when he sense something in the air.
quaver: "sire is something wrong? are we being spied upon again?"
drake: "no its not that, I smell something and it smells familiar." Following the scent leads them to a room made into a cooking station, looking into the room he finds only one person in there. It is a girl with pink hair and a cupcake headband, upon seeing her drake smiles a wicked grin as he look at the minions "oh sweet, this is going to be fun."
Inside the room the girl is busy baking something but stops when she hears something, turing around she notice the door is ajar. Walking over she looks outside to find the halls empty, just as she closes the door another sound catches her attention, looking back she spots a wooden spoon on the floor.
ginger: "hello? is someone there?" getting no response she looks around but finds no one, picking up the spoon something rushes off behind her, startled she turns and see no one "kitty is that you?" there is still no response "if this is one of your pranks, it isn't funny now come out already." Before anything else could happen a bell rings out in the room causing ginger to jump in surprise, when she calms down she realize its the timer for the oven. Going over to the over and opening it she begins to pull something out, all the while not noticing drake standing right behind her. Leaning over to her he puts his head next to her ear.
drake: "(whisper) whatcha making?" this action causes her to scream and toss her pie in the air, before it can hit the ground drake catches it and place it on the counter "oh pie, mind if I have a slice?" he begins to laugh as the minions come out of hiding, once she regains herself she begins to hit him with a wooden spoon as he continues to laugh.
ginger: "you jerk you always do this!"
drake: "i'm sorry but I couldn't help it, when I saw it was you I just had to do it for old time sake." Calming down she looks up at him with a cold stare.
ginger: "what are you doing here anyway?"
drake: "like I said I was walking by when I spot you from the door and decided to pay a visit."
ginger: "nobody saw you did they?"
drake: "no the halls were empty, I guess everyone went back to the dorms or something. why? you worried about something?"
ginger: "I just don't want to have to explain why your here is all, being seen around you would make people worry and that leads to questions."
drake: "thats a little mean, it almost sounds like you don't like to be around me. Is that anyway to treat your cousin?" removing his hood and showing his face he grins at her.
ginger: "first off just because my great aunt married your grandfather barely makes us family, were not even related."
drake: "true but haven't I always had your back when we were kids? I mean who was it that helped you with your cooking? or kept the bullies off you? and not to mention helped you gather things for your recipes."
ginger: "I know, i'm sorry it is good to see drake its just that you haven't exactly made a good impression."
drake: "I don't know I think I did a good job"
ginger: "how that?"
drake: "the way I see it the best impression is one where everyone knows who you are."
ginger: "of course, I forgot with you any impression is a good impression. So how did things goe in the halfling base?"
drake: "(feign ignorance) I don't know what your talking about?"
ginger: "don't play with me drake, i've known you for years so I know that it was you who took down the halflings and not raven and the others."
drake: "(fake surprise) damn it I guess I didn't cover all my tracks"
ginger: "you might be able to fool everyone else but you can't fool me."
drake: "true but it doesn't matter if you or this whole school knows the truth, as long as the council remains in the dark i'm free to do what I want. Which reminds me there is another reason why I came to see you."
ginger: "whats that?"
drake: "I got plans, for this school and these lands and I want to see where you stand on this."
ginger: "what do you mean?"
drake: "change is coming and when it happens everyone is gonna have to pick a side."
ginger: "and what sides are those?"
drake: "theres my side or the other side"
ginger: "the other side? other side of what?"
drake: "you know, the after life cause thats whats waiting for anyone who goes against me."
ginger: "your not serious are you?"
drake: "well maybe not everyone but I can think of a few, so what do you say you in?"
ginger: "I don't know drake, i'm trying to show people i'm not evil and siding with you might ruin all that."
drake: "well you don't have to decide now but when the time comes those that haven't will be the ones hurt the most, so give it some thought." Leaving the room drake makes his way back to his room.
male narrator: "well that was unexpected"
female: "narrator: "yes I had no idea he had family here at ever after."
brooke: "I can't believe that ginger is his cousin, and do you think she working with him?"
male narrator: "doesn't seem that way, it more like she in the dark like the rest of us about his plans."
female narrator: "so the question is will she work with him?"
male narrator: "I guess we'll just have to wait and see. In the mean time lets check up on the others shall we."
Elsewhere:
male narrator: "we find ourselves at the cafe where darling has met up with raven and the others, upon showing them the video they discuss what they've seen."
darling: "well raven what do you think?"
raven: "it definitely magic but I don't know what."
hunter: "do you think he might have done something to the books?"
darling: "well I have one of the books right here if you want to check it out." She hands them the book showing the title.
raven: "alteration magic for novice, why would he be checking out a book like this?"
apple: "is it a spell book?"
raven: "the library doesn't have actual spell books, this just talks about alteration magic. Which makes it even more odd that he would look this up."
briar: "what is exactly is alteration magic?"
raven: "well its a type of magic that allows you alter the properties of one thing into another. For instance turning iron into silver or even making it so you can breath underwater."
dexter: "do you think he can do something like that?"
raven: "who knows what kind of spells he can do, so far we've only seen him do fireballs and a barrier spell."
cerise: "so I guess that guy got even more secrets then we thought, kinda makes you wonder what else he is hiding."
ashlynn: "I think its kinda exciting, trying to figure him out always seems to keep us on edge."
hunter: "yeah well this just makes me even more supicious about the guy, I mean who knows what he up to right now."
daring: "please who cares what he up to, the council will step in if he does anything too evil."
apple: "thats true but remember daring drakes smarter then he appears and we don't even know what he looks like."
hunter: "your right we don't, everytime we see him, he always has his face hidden. I bet not even faybelle knows what he looks like."
dexter: "so what?"
hunter: "so I think its time we find out who is under the hood, that way we might have a better understanding about who he is."
raven: "are you sure thats a good idea?"
hunter: "come on guys you can't tell me you aren't the least bit curious about what he looks like?"
cedar: "I cannot tell a lie, i've wonder that myself"
cupid: "yeah me too"
raven: "same here"
hunter: "you see, so I say we find out"
daring: "how do we do that?"
hunter: "I gotta plan, everyone meet me at school tomorrow and i'll fill you in." He then rushes out of the building leaving everyone confused.
ashylnn: "I know he means well but I can't help but worry that he might do something extreme. Will you guys make sure he doesn't go overboard?"
dexter: "don't worry ashylnn we'll be right there with him." With that said they go about their day.
male narrator: "well this should get interesting"
female narrator: "yes i'm courious as to what hunter is planning"
brooke: "i'm a little concern that it might not go well for them, but I do want to see their reaction when they see his face."
Drake's Room:
male narrator: "back with drake we find him in his room over at a table, he appears to be working on something."
female narrator: "I wonder if this has to do with what he looked up at the library?"
brooke: "lets find out shall we"
Upon a closer inspection it appears drake is wearing strange looking goggles while in his hands are a tiny stone and a strange quill. He use the quill to carve a symbol on the stone, once done he lifts his goggles.
drake: "alright lets see if this works, minions lets do this" upon his command a minion walks to the center of the room "alright if this works you won't burn alive, nor will the room smell of burning minion." He then places the rune on the minion's head giving it a tap causing it to glow, taking a step back he unleashes a fireball at the minion. When the smoke clears the minion appears unharmed "well looks like the rune for stone flesh works, that'll come in handy if I find myself without my armor."
quaver: "sire what are the odds of that happening?"
drake: "according to the well, pretty high and besides this is just in case. Now onto the next one, bring it out guys." The minions carry over a tied up halfling "alright let the little rodent go" by his command the minions untie the halfling who then makes an attempt for the window, but before he can reach it drake tosses a rune hitting its back. Once that happens its body is incased in a glow that paralyze it "well the paralysis rune works, I guess thats it for today." Picking up the halfling he tosses it over to a compartment in the wall that works as an incinerator "now that I've resupplied and mades sure they work i'm ready for anything. I'll see you guys in the morning." Having put everything away drake makes his way to bed, laying on the bed he thinks over everything he learned today.
brooke: "so thats why you were reading all those books?"
drake: "thats right, I needed some new insight for my runes and now I have it."
brooke: "so now you have new trick up you sleves is that it?"
drake: "oh i've got more then that, but you'll just have to wait and see just like everyone else." With that said he falls to sleep ending the day, hours later before the sun rises drake awakes. Gathering his things he makes his way out of the dorms along with the minions, as soon as they walk out the front door they spot ginger standing right infront of them "ginger? what are you doing here?"
ginger: "I came to talk to you before school starts"
drake: "have you given thought to what I said?"
ginger: "I have and though I am totally against it"
drake: "you don't even know what it is?"
ginger: "I know it won't be nice"
drake: "got me there, so what then?"
ginger: "I've decided that I will join you"
drake: "really why? I thought you were trying to show eveyone your a good witch, wouldn't joining up with me screw all that?"
ginger: "it would and though i'm worried about that, i'm more terrified about what would happen if I left you alone with faybelle and kitty to help you with your plans."
drake: "are you saying that those two would be a bad influence on me?"
ginger: "no, I mean that you are a bad influence on them and the only thing I can do to make sure no one gets hurt it to keep an eye on you."
drake: "so that means-?" holding his hand out she shakes it.
ginger: "i'm in, as long as you promise no one gets hurt"
drake: "well I can't promise that someone won't get hurt, but I can promise that no one at this school will be hurt by me."
ginger: "(sigh) I suppose thats the best I could ask for, so what now?"
drake: "now I need to get to class but meet me at lunch, I have some things I need to ask you." He then walks off for the school.
male narrator: "so now ginger has joined his side, things are not looking good for ever after."
female narrator: "no they are not, at this rate he'll have the whole school under in his grasp."
brooke: "gingers not working with him, she just making sure he doesn't destroy the school."
male narrator: "well whatever it is we'll just have to see what happens next."
female narrator: "speaking of, why don't we see what the others are up to."
brooke: "oh yeah hunter said he had a plan to reveal drake's face, lets see how that goes."
male narrator: "deep in the halls of the school we find hunter and the others hiding around the corner."
daring: "okay hunter whats the plan?"
looking around the corner they spot drake heading towards them.
hunter: "alright the plan is we rush him, once he off balance that will be our chance to remove the hood and see what he looks like."
dex: "I don't know hunter that doesn't sound like a plan"
hunter: "come on guys, if we all do this it'll work, now get ready here he comes." As soon as drake was close enough they charge out and make a dive for his hood, however the outcome is not what they had hoped for. When it all settles everyone finds hunter, daring, dex and sparrow on the ground with drake standing over them, seeing this raven and the others rush over to them.
drake: "someone want to tell me what this was about?" everyone looks at eachother trying to find an excuse only for apple to speak up.
apple: "the boys were just horsing around drake, you know how that is. They wanted to let you in on it, kinda like a welcome to ever after high thing you know."
drake: "ok then" he then walks off as everyone lets out a sigh of relief, once out of sight quaver walks up to drake.
quaver: "sire was the fruit girl telling the truth?"
drake: "no but I really don't care right now, i've got more important things to do."
quaver: "what would that be sire?"
drake: "today were gonna uncover some of this schools secrets" taking out his tablet he starts going through it "to do that we're gonna need to access the server. In order to do that I would have to do it in either the headmasters office or the IT room, question is which would be easier to break into?" looking through the surveillance app he checks both rooms "looks like grimm and his brother are still in there, guess that leaves the IT room. Well get to that after lunch, for now lets get this school day over with."
Sitting at a table in the castleteria raven and her friends are checking on hunter and the guys.
raven: "so that was your plan dog pile on drake?"
hunter: "I figured we'd have the element of surprise on our side, still don't know what happend though."
blondie: "I can tell you what happend, better yet I can show you." She takes out her tablet and show them the footage of what happend "I took the liberty of recording the whole thing in case your plan work, but instead this is what I got." Showing them the footage the see hunter and his group about to make contact with drake only to be stopped inches from him by a barrier before dropping to the ground.
hunter: "(groan) magic should've figured thats what happend"
ashlynn: "just be glad you weren't hurt and also that drake doesn't hold grudges."
dex: "yeah thank goodness for that, I'd hate to be on that guys hit list."
daring: "you can say that again, I can only imagine what this will do to our reputations."
blondie: "I wouldn't worry about that daring, according to the blog you guys are heroes to the student body for standing up to drake like you did."
dex: "thats what they're saying about us?"
blondie: "yep, everyone thinks you guys were showing that drake isn't someone to be feared, that he just another student like everyone else."
revan: "who happens to control a horde of visous creatures and carries around a giant axe."
blondie: "still, it was pretty brave what you guys did, I mean most students don't even make eye contact with him in fear of getting eaten by his minions."
hunter: "well even if the plan didn't work out I guess as along as people see that drake isn't as scary as he appears then thats ok with me."
ashlynn: "i'm glad to hear that and I hope you won't try something like this again, I don't think drake will be as understanding the next time."
Up on the higher levels of the castleteria drake and his minions are sitting there along with kitty and faybelle, listening to what the others are talking about.
kitty: "I can't believe what they tried to do in halls, more so that they thought it would work."
drake: "whether it worked or not it appears to have produce some results, though I don't believe its what they were looking for."
faybelle: "what exactly were they hoping to accomplish for real?"
drake: "I believe they were attempting to restrain me and remove my hood, revealing my face for the whole school. Though they may have forgotten all about my magic."
kitty: "would it have worked if you didn't use your magic?"
drake: "no the results would have been the same, though it probably would've been more painful. Despite how I might appear, i'm far stronger then any of them."
faybelle: "by the way, why are we here?"
drake: "i'm waiting for someone"
kitty: "really who?"
drake: "I guess you could say she the newest member of our group."
kitty: "who would that be?"
ginger: "that would be me" turning around they find ginger standing there, both kitty and faybelle are surprise by this while drake is smiling under his hood.
drake: "ah ginger was wondering when you get here."
ginger: "sorry about that, I was finishing up a cake and almost lost track of time."
kitty: "ginger what are you doing here?"
ginger: "what do you mean, i'm here to hang with you guys."
faybelle: "so that means you joined up with us?"
ginger: "don't get me wrong i'm not going to help with any thing evil, i'm just here to make sure you don't go over board is all."
drake: "even so its always good to have more members, so then on to buisness now. Theres something I need to ask you all."
faybelle: "whats that?"
drake: "what do you girls know about the IT room?"
ginger: "its room used by blondie and dex for the mirror blog and maintaing the schools wifi, why?"
drake: "are they the only ones?"
kitty: "theres one more his name is humphrey dumpty, son of humpty dumpty. He also works on the blog and the schools wifi."
drake: "is it open to the public or just them?"
ginger: "no anyone can but its mostly just them, wait why? why are suddenly so interested in this?"
drake: "I'm planning to break in there and access the school mainframe and aquire some files." When he looks up at them he see the expression of shock on kitty and faybelle while ginger has on a blank expression.
ginger: "your joking right?"
drake: "of course, really I just needed to know who to go to if I ever have problems with my wifi thats all."
ginger: "then what are you really planning?"
drake: "right now i'm trying to learn all the secrets hidden at ever after, once I do that taking over this school will be a snap."
ginger: "you realize theres no way headmaster grimm or anybody will let you do that."
drake: "you do realize that no one at this school could stop me."
ginger: "please don't do anything that could lead to the destruction of the school"
drake: "very well, just cause i'm feeling generous I won't do anything rash." Checking the time drake get up "well the bell is about to ring so that mean free period for me, if you need me you know how to contact me." As drake leaves the castleteria ginger follows right behind him "something on your mind?"
ginger: "you weren't joking about breaking into the IT room were you?"
drake: "was it that obvious?"
ginger: "you know if your caught you could get expelled"
drake: "you know i've never been caught right?"
ginger: "(sigh) so you haven't just be careful and let me know what you find."
drake: "why?"
ginger: "so I know you aren't looking at something you shouldn't"
drake: "(chuckle) of course" heading off down the halls drake disappears from sight, once he sure the coast is clear he powers down his armor then enters a vent shaft followed by the minions.
After watching drake leave ginger makes her way to class just as the bell rings. Entering the room she finds her friends at one table, walking over she hears what they're talking about.
raven: "I just don't know what to do now"
apple: "i'm running out of ideas"
ginger: "what are you guys talking about?"
raven: "oh hi ginger, we were trying to come up with idea to get drake to open up. Try and see that he isn't as scary as he appears."
apple: "so far we don't know anyway of doing it that might appeal to him."
ginger: "have you tried a picnic?"
apple: "a picnic?"
ginger: "yeah you invite drake to a picnic in the enchanted forest, with the promise of lots of food and possibly a good time. I'm sure that'll work."
apple: "that sounds like a good idea but what made you think of this?"
ginger: "(evasive) I just thought you know who doesn't like a picnic, even an evil person need to do something relaxing."
raven: "thats true, everyone one needs to let their hair down."
hearing this ginger lets out a sigh of relief without anyone noticing.
ginger: "(In thought) that was close, but this should work. If theres one thing drake likes more then being the overlord, is eating tons of food."
Everyone's attention is drawn to the front of the class where professor stiltskin is standing on the desk, seeing this everyone takes a seat as he starts the class.
stiltskin: "alright class today we're going to be working on how to make a potion of dispel, does anyone here know what that is?" looking over the room the only hand raised is apples "yes miss white"
apple: "a potion of dispel is a type of potion that has the ability to neutralize any magic or technology caught in its range upon activation."
stiltskin: "thats correct miss white, now then everyone partner up and follow my instructions to the letter. Anyone who doesn't will have detention, now lets begin." Once everyone is partnered up stiltskin begins calling out the instructions at a fast rate many of the students are having trouble following them, students like apple are having no trouble keeping up. While this goes on over at hunter and ashlynn's table there appears to be a problem.
ashlynn: "hunter you shouldn't be adding so many different things into the potion."
hunter: "relax ashlynn this'll work you'll see." Just as he saids that the potion begins to change colors then shakes violently "ok thats not good." Taking a closer look he is hit with a puff of smokes causing him to knock the potion into the air landing on another table causing a chain reaction, before anyone could do anything all the potions start to erupt.
raven: "thats not good"
apple: "uh ho"
hunter: "yeah ok this is on me everybody" before they could react a large light envelopes the room then spreads through the rest of school.
In another part of the school crawling through the vents is drake and his minions. Moving a bit further they come to a complete stop over an opening, looking through drake finds the IT room. Inside he spots three people, a closer inspection reveals them to be blondie and dex along with someone he hasn't seen but recognizes as humphrey dumpty.
drake: "alright time to get to work" reaching into his pocket he pulls out a rune, hanging over the opening he drops it causing it to hit the ground upon which it activates. The room is struck by a wave of energy that causes all three of the occupants to become paralyze, once that is done drake removes the cover then drops down activating his armor before touching the ground. Walking over to a frozen blondie he waves his hand infront of her face to check for any reaction, seeing none he signals the minions to enter "good they can't see anything, this will make it easier." Making his way over to a computer he place his hand over the keyboard "alright hack this is all you" upon his command hack pops out from inside his armor and makes his way to the controls, from there he connects with the computer.
Up on the monitors drake can see the progress of the download, the samething is shown on his phone.
drake: "just a another minute and every little secret this school has will be all mine." Just then a loud explosion rings through the air catching drake's attention "what the hell is that?" before he could react a large wave of evergy passes through the room, as the energy passes drake's armor shut down "what the hell!"
quaver: "sire your armor!, what happend?"
drake: "I don't know but whatever it was it negated the magic of my armor." As they converse on this they look over at the controls to find hack emitting small sparks from his body before morphing into a ball and falling on ground "hack!" picking up the ball he examines it "looks like it doesn't just effect magic, at least there doesn't appear to be any serious problems."
globb: "master look" looking at where the minions are pointing he notice that blondie and the others are begining to move.
drake: "great just what I need, minions back in the vent and return to the dorms. I can't let anyone see me with you while my armor is down." Upon his command the minions climb back into the vents just before the paralysis wears off, once that happens the first thing they see is drake attempting to exit the room. There is a slight pause before blondie breaks it.
blondie: "ummm who are you?"
drake: "no one, you don't know me"
dex: "wait I know you"
drake: "no you don't"
dex: "yeah I do, you were at the cafe the night after the halfling attack. Your palmer, what are you doing here?"
drake: "ahh a good question but let me answer that question with a question...smokebomb?" he then drops a rune that causes the room to fill up with smoke, once that happens he burst through the door then makes a dash down the hall just as blondie comes rushing out.
blondie: "hey come back here!" she then chases after him.
Meanwhile back in stiltskin's class the whole room is a mess as students pop out from behind their desk.
apple: "is everyone alright?" as students sound off raven notice something is wrong.
raven: "my magic I can't sense it"
ashlynn: "well it was a potion of dispel, that is what its does."
briair: "thats just great, I can't get my phone to work"
hunter: "this isn't permanent is it?"
apple: "no it should wear off after awhile, for now though I think we should get the room clean."
ginger: "hey wheres professor stiltskin?"
raven: "up there" everyone looks up to see stiltskin stuck to the ceiling in slime while yelling something inaudible "getting him down is going to be difficult without magic." Before they could get started a commotion in the halls catches their attention, looking out they are in time to see drake run past them with blondie not far behind.
blondie: "wait!"
raven: "blondie whats going on? and why are you chasing palmer?"
apple: "and why is palmer here at the school?"
blondie: "I don't know why, all I remember was working on the blog with dex and humphry then nothing and when I come to palmer is in the IT room right before he runs out."
hunter: "what was he doing in there?"
blondie: "I don't know when we asked him he dropped something and the whole room filled with smoke then he just burst out running."
hunter: "ok so lets go after him and find out" as everyone runs out of the room heading in the direction drake went ginger remains behind watching them leave.
ginger: "doesn't matter how many of you there are, your never going to catch him." She then follows after them, in another part of the school hiding between lockers is drake.
Checking to see the coast is clear drake begins to take into account his situation.
drake: "ok lets review, a surge of engery strikes the school causing everything to shut down along with my armor and hack. (sigh) on the plus side that means no camras work, so I don't have to worry about any of this being recorded, and it appears my copycat ability still works as does my runes. guess my armor took the surge of that energy so that I wouldn't be affected, now all I got to do is get to the dorms without anyone seeing me and i'm home free." Placing his gauntlet in his coat he steps out of hiding he attempts to head down the halls only to find hunter and the others blocking the way "(groan) spoke too soon"
hunter: "alright pal what are doing here and why were you running away from blondie?"
drake: "would you believe me if I told i'm here by accident and that I was trying to find an exit?"
hunter: "yeah not buying it"
drake: "worth a shot"
raven: "alright palmer mind telling us why your really here?"
drake: "now wheres the fun in that, you can't expect me to just tell you the secret now can you?"
apple: "secret what secret?"
drake: "thats for me to know and you to find out...in time"
hunter: "or we could find out right now after we make you"
drake: "(laughs) oh you think you can catch me, the royal guards of that fucking eyesore of a capital couldn't do that, what makes you think you can?"
hunter: "cause i'm a huntsman catching thing is what I do"
drake: "this coming from a guy who having problems with a chipmunk i'm not so certain, but hey if your feeling up for it then come at me bro." With great haste hunter charges right at drake only to miss as drake jumps into the air before landing on his back, using it like leverage he jumps over everyone then dashes off "see ya suckers!"
Racing down the halls drake believes to be in the clear until something speeds past him, stopping in his tracks he finds cerise standing in front of him.
drake: "whoa your fast, guess you have to be if you want to get away from that wolf."
cerise: "my speed works pretty well when I need to catch my prey, like you."
drake: "catching prey now that sounds like something a wolf would say not a hood." Saying that causes cerise to get nervous "but hey what do I know its not my story, anyway nice work catching up to me high five." He then holds out his hand for her to grab, unbeknownst to her he is holding a rune in the palm of his hand. Once she does her entire body freezes up.
cerise: "hey why can't I move?"
drake: "oh don't worry this stuff only last for about a minute, just enough time for me to make a quick getaway." He then begins to caress her face just as red flames engluf them, as he does this her face turns red and her eyes widen by surprise.
cerise: "hey! what are you doing?"
drake: "sorry pup but i'm gonna need to borrow something of yours, not to say I didn't enjoy touching such a cute face. But now I gotta run." He dashes past her using her wolf speed much to her surprise, moving through the halls with ease he about to turn a corner when something appears from the otherside, with only a second to react he power slides under it then crashes into a wall. "Ok that came out of nowhere, what the hell was that?"
maddie: "wow you are fast, almost as fast as cerise. Whats your secret?" Looking up he spots maddie holding a large mallet with lizzie right next to her.
drake: "oh you know imitation is the greatest form of flattery"
maddie: "(giggles) you must be some form of copycat then."
drake: "you could say that, but now I think I should be on my way" before he could make his exit something flys past his face hitting the lockers, looking over at the lockers he finds a playing card stuck in it "what the hell?"
lizzie: "you are not going anywhere til we say so"
drake: "well now, i'm just going to assume you two are from wonderland right?"
maddie: "thats right, i'm maddie hatter and this is lizzie heart"
drake: "well now those names ring a bell, the daughters of the mad hatter and the red queen. Looks like i'll need to stay on my toes for this one."
lizzie: "hows that now?"
drake: "well everyone knows about wonderland and the people who live there are unpredictable, which reminds me would any of you have some rope I could borrow?"
maddie: "I do!" taking off her hat she reaches into it pulling out some rope then handing it to drake.
drake: "oh yes this'll do quite nicely" with wolf speed he runs around them tying them up in the rope before they could react, once done he crouch down to meet them at eye level "thanks again for the rope but now i'll be going. But before I vamose i'll be borrowing something from you" he points at lizzie.
lizzie: "and what would that be?"
drake: "oh just this" he then begins to caress her face causing her to turn red like the flames of his hands "wow now you really do look like the red queen, oh and i'll be taking this too" reaching into her pocket he pulls out a deck of cards right before dashing off. Once out of their sight maddie turns to lizzie as she stare off at him.
maddie: "well he seems nice"
cerise: "maddie! lizzie! are you two ok?" they look over to see cerise running up and untying them "what happend here?"
maddie: "oh hi cerise we were just playing around with palmer when we got tied up in all the fun (laughs)"
lizzie: "what about you? what happend?"
cerise: "I almost had the guy but when I touched him my body just froze, then he touched my face and then he ran off with super speed almost like me."
lizzie: "he did the same to me and took a deck of cards"
cerise: "why would he do that?"
lizzie: "I don't know but I intend to get them back, come on!" they run off in the direction drake went, further down the way drake is nearing the front entrance.
drake: "almost there, this nightmare is almost over" just then up ahead he spots apple and raven blocking the way "(groans) oh come on! will this day ever end?"
raven: "its time to stop this palmer"
drake: "(sarcastic) yeah i'll get right on that"
apple: "please stop this palmer, we can work this out"
drake: "sorry babe but i'm out of here" he then slides right between her legs causing her to cross them and scream, reaching the railing he jumps on them before looking back "and for the record that not my real name." He then jumps off the railing for the lobby thinking he is in the clear, until he see headmaster grimm and his brother along with hunter and the others waiting for him "oh sweet apple pie"
hunter: "we got him now!"
milton: "yes I think its time we put a stop to all this and find out who that boy is."
Thinking fast drake pulls out the deck of cards he took from lizzie and shoots them into the air behind him, upon doing so the cards form a straight line before turning into a whip that he use to grab the railing pulling him back up. Everyone is in awe at this while drake just stands on the railing with pride.
drake: "special ability courtesy of the future red queen boom!" he then dashes off in another direction leaving everyone slackjaw.
blondie: "did you see that? he used a deck of cards like a whip, just like lizzie"
dex: "he said courtesy of the future red queen, what do you think he meant by that?"
hunter: "who cares he getting away, come on!" they then give chase, further down the halls drake is making his way to another exit.
drake: "ok so theres no way I can go through the front so i'll just have to find another route." As he rounds a corner he ends up colliding with something forcing him to the ground, recovering from the fall he looks over at what he hit "ok what is it this ti-" he is stopped in his track when he finds infront of him are a blond hair boy and a girl with white hair and a bunny ear headband. Seeing them surprises drake "(in thought) no way I didn't expect them here" breaking out of his surprise he gets back on his feet.
alistair: "hey watch where your going"
drake: "my bad, I was kinda in a hurry" he then helps them up "nobodies hurt are they?"
alistair: "no it doesn't look like it" drake then helps the girl up.
drake: "again i'm really sorry about running into you guys like that"
bunny: "its no problem at-" she stops when she looks at drake's face, this doe not go unnoticed from the boys.
alistair: "bunny whats wrong?" she doesn't answer, instead she leans her face closer to drake making him nervous.
drake: "(nervous) something I can help you with?"
bunny: "have we met before?" hearing this catches him off guard.
drake: "uhhhhhh-" before he can answer he hears the sound of footsteps approaching, with no time to spare he grabs on to bunny's hand catching her by surprise "sorry gonna need to borrow this." their hands are then englufed in red flames catching both bunny and alistair by surprise.
alistair: "hey! what do you think your doing?" getting in between them forcing drake to let go, once the flames die down he checks on bunny "bunny are you ok?"
bunny: "i'm alright alistair, actually I didn't feel anything."
drake: "thats because those flames don't burn, so you don't have to worry about that."
bunny: "then what do they do?"
drake: "oh just this" right before their eyes he transforms into a black rabbit "later fuzz butt!" he then jumps out a window leaving just as the others arrive.
hunter: "bunny, alistair did you see a guy come by here?"
alistair: "yeah we bumped into him"
apple: "where is he?"
alistair: "he turned into a rabbit and jumped out the window"
raven: "i'm sorry did you say he turned into a rabbit and jumped out the window?"
alistair: "right after he grabbed bunny's hand and this red flame formed around their hands."
cerise: "that the same thing that happend to me"
lizzie: "and me"
hunter: "come on I bet we can still catch him" everyone rushes off except bunny who is looking out the window drake jumped from.
alistair: "bunny you coming?"
bunny: "huh? oh yeah coming" they then run off following the others, along the way bunny is deep in thought over what she heard "he called me fuzz butt...no it couldn't be" outside the school drake still in rabbit form is dashing off for the dorms.
drake: "ha ha jumping out a window works again" he suddenly stops when he comes to a realization "wait why didn't just do that to begin with, I literally passed like a hundred windows. (Groans) gren was right people do overlook the obvious when in a rush, and why am I heading for the enchanted forest?...oh wait thats right bunny has a bad sense of directions and since I copied her ability I also copied her curse. Its amazing she gets anywhere on time." He then heads off for the dorms, just then his ears perk up alerting him of something.
Following the direction of the sound he spots cerise and the others rapidly approaching, with great haste he speeds up attempting to lose her, however she continues to keep up with him.
drake: "damnit curse this women and her wolf like speed, gotta loose this pup and fast." Looking around he spots something in the air, he then begins to jump up in the air waving his paws around as if trying to signal something. Cerise looks on with confusion as she slowly catches up to him, just as she is about to catch him a large hawk swoops down and grabs drake then flys off as drake wave back at them "haha so long suckers!" suddenly his body starts to shake right before he turns back into a human "aww crap times up!" the hawk lets go of drake causing him to fall, everyone see this looking on in horror, all except cerise who dashes off to him. Falling through the sky towards the ground drake tries to come up with a way to survive this "ok falling to my death, what can I do to prevent that?" just then something begins to pulse inside his coat, reaching in he pulls out the gauntlet to find it active "yes! gauntlet for the save!" putting it on he activates his armor just before hitting the ground causing a large cloud of dust to form. Once the dust subsides drake is seen with his head stuck in the dirt, pulling himself out he removes his hood and catches his breath "well that was a close call, I don't think I could've survived a fall like that, although i've never tried." As he sits down to take a moment for himself he is unaware of someone right behind him.
cerise: "drake?" hearing a voice right behind him, he turns around to find cerise standing there "your palmer?"
drake: "uhhhhhhh...shit"
End of Chapter 7:
