Chapter 11

Jared, the Royals and the Rebels all stood their frozen with fear and shock or hiding in a certain location to make sure the big man walking down the hallway did not see them, course Jared was the only one who didn't know just who he was and why they were so afraid of him.

"Students? Students? Where are you?" The big man asked as he glanced around left and right while slowly approaching Jared.

"Who's that guy?" Jared asked the others.

"Grimm, the headmaster at our school in Ever After." Raven told him.

"Grimm… I know that name from somewhere…" Jared mused, thoughtfully.

"You do? Where?" Cerise inquired., curiously.

"Uh, guys?" Hunter spoke up. "He's coming over here…"

The others turned and indeed saw that Headmaster Grimm was heading they're way, he was still too far to see them but if he got any closer, he would.

"Just hide! Go!" Jared ordered. While a bit reluctant, most of the Ever After High students rushed off to find a close yet far hiding spot, so that they could watch the whole thing without the fear of being spotted while Headmaster Milton Grimm approached Jared and loomed over him

"Jared Prince, I presume?" he asked.

"Yeah…" Jared responded, while looking up.

"Good. I am Milton Grimm, headmaster of Ever After High." The big man stated.

"And… should I care?" Jared asked, unimpressed.

"Oh yes you should, now where are my students?" Headmaster Grimm demanded. "Where are those rotten Rebels? I know you've been protecting them."

"Ever heard of please?" Jared questioned, flatly.

"Ever heard of manners, boy?" Headmaster Grimm countered, frowning.

"I'm thirteen, I don't have that many manners pal, at least not towards people I don't like." Jared stated, bluntly.

"Well, your parents must be very proud of you." Grimm said, half-heartedly.

"I live with my Mom thank you, and she is proud." Jared stated. "I hate to know what your Mom thinks of you."

"I'd still advise you to watch your tone." Grimm warned him.

"Or what?" Jared challenged him. "You'll give me detention?"

"I am really not like liking your attitude young man." Headmaster Grimm frowned.

"And I don't like how your treating my friends, mister." Jared stated, folding his arms.

"You mean the Rebels?" Headmaster Grimm asked.

"Yeah, you got a problem with that?" Jared inquired.

"You could say that…" Milton stated.

"Let me guess, because they won't 'follow their destinies' like you want them to?" Jared questioned. "Because 'bad things' will happen if they don't follow them?"

"Your smarter than you look, my boy." Headmaster Grimm remarked.

"And your apparently a lot dumber. If they want to write their own destinies then so be it, it's not such a bad thing!" Jared told him.

"My boy, don't you see? If rebellion occurs it will lead to the loss of all stories and eventually the our entire world!" Headmaster Grimm told him.

"You don't know that!" Jared said, stubbornly. "Besides, stories can still be written, but they have be on they're on terms, not someone else. They're parents stories have already happened, but not letting them start they're own. And they could be really great stories if you just give them a chance."

"No! Their parents legacy's must be preserved!" Grimm stated.

"Says who? You?" Jared questioned. "I highly doubt it."

"You underestimate me." Grimm mused, narrowing his eyes.

"Yeah, who wouldn't?" Jared retorted.

"Make no mistake, I will do whatever it takes to make sure destiny stays alive and that the Rebels are set back on the paths they were given." Grimm proclaimed.

"And how are you gonna make 'em?" Jared questioned, unafraid.

"I have some tricks up my sleeve." Grimm told him. "And I'm going to use whatever means necessary to make sure the traditions of Ever After stay alive!"

"Like what? Boring people to death?" Jared asked him, mockingly.

Grimm raised both of his hands and much to everybody's shock his eyes glowed bright blue while his hands crackled with what appeared to be electrical, magical energy. He grinned.

"Ok… maybe not." Jared gulped.

Grimm then fired more magical bolts from his hands which Jared barely managed to dodge as he scooted backwards and rolled away till he was close to his Fable friends.

Jared turned to the Rebels and Royals. "You guys never told me Grimm had magical powers too!" he exclaimed.

"We never knew he did!" Raven said.

"Arr! She blows!" Maddie cried, gesturing to Grimm's incoming attack. Morty yelped and quickly rolled out of the way before Grimm's magical blast could hit.

Jared continued to jump and dodge each of the Headmaster's attacks until he found himself cornered by the large man.

"How are you doing this?" Jared questioned, incredulously.

"With supreme satisfaction, boy. And now…" Grimm began as he prepared to fire again. Raven saw this and her eyes widened, then she quickly came out of hiding and ran over.

"No!" Raven cried as she took the attack meant for Jared, which shocked her before she dropped to the ground, apparently unconscious.

"Raven!" Jared cried out, as he rushed over to her.

The Rebels and even the Royals gasped in shocked when they saw what had just happened, especially Apple White.

"Oh no…" Apple breathed as Jared got to her side and shook her a bit.

"Raven?" Jared asked, concerned. "Come on, talk to me!"

Raven groaned and stirred as she began to wake up. She opened her eyes and she smiled a motherly smile when she saw Jared's face.

"It's ok Jared… I'm fine…" Raven breathed as she slowly got up. The Rebels all rush to her side and help her up before standing in front of Grimm and defending Jared. "Headmaster Grimm, please stop this! This is not you!"

"I'm sorry Miss Queen but you've left me no choice, I am going to put an end to this little rebellion once and for all, starting with him." Grimm stated.

"That's not gonna happen!" Raven declared, firmly.

"I'm afraid you don't have a choice in the matter Raven, just like your destiny." Headmaster Grimm said.

"Not anymore!" The Evil Queen's good daughter said, standing her ground.

"I am ordering you all to move." Grimm told them, but they wouldn't budge.

"Sorry Headmaster, if you want to get to him, you gotta go through us!" Hunter stated. "We're the ones you want so fight us instead!"

"That's right!" Raven nodded, firmly.

"Raven! Guys! What are you doing?" Jared asked, still stunned by them attacking their headmaster.

"Hey, you stand up for us… we'll do the same for you." Raven stated, while the other Rebels nodded in agreement.

"Your stepping on very thin ice here, Miss Queen." Grimm warned her.

"Since when am I not?" Raven questioned, flatly. "Ever since I came to Ever After you've been the one trying to convince people to be scared of me!"

"Because you were meant to be scared of!" Headmaster Grimm exclaimed. "It is your destiny!"

"No! Not anymore!" Raven growled, as both her and Grimm's magic clashed.

Raven struggled a bit, but ultimately proved their magical powers were superior by knocking Grim back into a wall. He groaned in pain.

"You go girl." Jared smiled.

"Alright Raven!" Maddie cheered.

"Well done!" Hunter told Raven. "You're getting pretty good at that stuff."

"Thanks, I've had some training." Raven said, smiling at Jared thankfully, who smiled back.

"Yes, it seems you have…" Grimm observed as he got up. "I could use that…"

Grimm's hand emitted a certain glow before he raised it and fired a little bit of magic at Raven that seemed to envelop her completely.

"RAVEN!" Jared yelled out, shocked.

Raven screamed as the energy blew her hair upward and caused her eyes to glow brightly while he body and her clothing began to take on a darker shade before finally it stopped and she collapsed.

"Raven?" Jared asked, sounding worried. He looked relieved when she began to get up. "Raven, are you ok?"

Raven then roared suddenly and blasted a part of the wall with a blast of dark magic, that nearly hit them. Surprising everyone.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing Raven?" Jared questioned her, incredulously before he noticed the crazed look on her face.

"I… don't think that's Raven…" Maddie shivered.

"I don't think so either…" Apple agreed as she and the others all backed away.

"What did you do to her!?" Jared questioned Grimm, angrily.

"Simply set her back on the wrong path." Grim replied. "The path she was destined to walk down."

"According to you!" Jared shot back.

"No. According to destiny!" Headmaster Grimm stated, firmly. "And until she fulfills it, Raven Queen will be under my total control. Speaking of which, Raven… seal them. All of them"

"Uh… did he just say seal?" Apple said, scared.

"And did he also say 'all of them'?" Daring added.

"Yes, yes he did." Cerise nodded, grimly. "Unfortunately."

Grimm then turned to the possessed Raven. "Do it."

A sinister smile then appeared on Raven's face as she raised her hands and prepared to fight a magical blast at them, which Jared realized.

"Incoming!" The thirteen year old boy yelled out.

But before any of them could react, Raven suddenly blasted them all with dark magic and sent them flying across the hallway where a mirror suddenly poofed in behind them and they all phased right into it one by one. They all landed in a heap inside what appeared to be a glass like prism with multiple edges all over.

"Oh… that hurt…" Hunter groaned.

"You ok?" Ashlynn asked him, concerned.

"Yeah… I'm good…" Hunter assured her as she helped him up. He then noticed their surroundings. "Though I can't say the same for all of us…"

The others then noticed where they were as well.

"Where are we?" Holly asked, afraid.

"Inside a mirror…" Cedar observed.

"A mirror?" Jared questioned, shocked.

Maddie taped on of the glass walls and started making funny faces in some of the reflective and shiny surfaces.

"Wow… it's shiny!" Maddie marveled.

"Seriously?" Briar questioned, dumbfounded.

Lizzie shook her head. "Unbelievable… and I'm from where she's from."

"Whatever, let's just get out of here!" Briar told them.

"Uh… I'm not sure we can get out…" Dexter observed.

"What makes you think that?" Cupid inquired.

"Yeah, what?" Blondie added.

"Well… this is the same prison used to hold the Evil Queen… I mean Raven's mother… I can tell because of the design and she's never been able to get out so…" Dexter began.

"Oh no…" Ashlyn said, fearfully.

"Come on, there's got to be some way out." Hunter said, trying to comfort his girlfriend as best he could.

"Well, there's the way we came in." Jared said, gesturing to the reflective surface that showed Grimm and Raven. "Prove that we can get out."

"Alright then." Hunter said as he readied himself.

"Uh Hunter, I wouldn't…" Ashlynn began before Hunter yelled and charged straight for the way they came in the tried to break through but ended up smacking into it. Everyone grimaced as he slid down the glass.

"Guys… I think we really are sealed inside!" Poppy realized.

"Oh no!" Holly gasped, horrified.

They all let out a collective gasp and quickly began to bang on the glass walls surrounding them, hoping to break out but it did them absolutely no good. They then turned to Headmaster Grimm.

"Hey! Let us out of here, now!" Daring called out, desperately.

"I'm afraid I can't Mister Charming." Headmaster Grimm said, bluntly.

"Why not?" Daring practically whined.

"Because you would interfere and I hate interferences." Grimm stated. "Don't worry Royals, you'll all be free so I can set you on your designated paths, just as soon as I take of something with Miss Queen here. Time to go, Raven."

The corrupted Raven nodded. "Yes, Headmaster."

"Raven, no! Don't do this!" Jared begged her.

"Sorry Jared, but destiny says so." The possessed Raven stated, as she and Headmaster Grimm began to walk off together.

"Raven!" Jared cried out in despair as they continued to walk until they finally vanished from sight, leaving them all trapped inside the mirror prison.