Chapter 14
"NO!" They all heard Grimm yell, frustrated. They turn to him, agitated at him for ruining the moment that they were all enjoying a few seconds ago.
"What!? You got something against hugging?" Jared questioned, annoyed.
"How rude." Poppy expressed.
"What have you done!?" Grimm exclaimed.
"We know exactly what we've done. We just saved Raven from your little mind control spell." Annika stated, glaring at him.
"Headmaster Grimm, you know that was wrong!" Apple scolded him.
"But… but… I did it to protect our stories!" Grimm tried to defend himself.
"You did it protect yourself!" Cedar stated, displeased.
"She's right, and if you really want to keep the stories of Ever After flowing…" Dexter began.
"Then you're just gonna have to let us write our own." Daring finished.
"Right, our parent's stories are finished, now it's our turn to make some new stories and done our way." Raven said, firmly.
"No! I won't accept that! I won't!" Headmaster Grimm explained.
"Just give it up Headmaster Grimm, it's over!" Annikatold him.
"Not yet it's not! For I have brought a little help to get our stories back on track!" Grimm declared as he stepped to the side and revealed a girl with black and white hair and wore a mostly white dress.
"Duchess Swan!?" The Royals and Rebels exclaimed, all shocked.
"What are you doing?" Apple proclaimed. "Headmaster Grimm is evil!"
"Ha! You're the evil one here, Apple! Always flaunting about how great your destiny is, oh how long I have waited to wipe that grin off your face!" Duchess expressed.
"Heh, been there." Jared nodded.
"No need to sound so proud about it." Hunter scolded him.
"Sorry…" Jared apologized, again.
"Uh… so how's she gonna help you?" Cerise questioned.
"Like this." Grimm answered. He turned to her. "Miss Swan, if you wouldn't mind?"
"With pleasure, Headmaster." Duchess smiled, evilly before she began to do a little baled dance all around the confused group of heroes.
"Your… making her dance?" Raven questioned the Headmaster, baffled.
"What's she gonna do? Bore us to death?" Annika quipped.
Once Duchess performed around them in a full circle, a glowing circle lit up around them and suddenly blue flames erupted from them, trapping them in a circle of fire. Some of the girls screamed and held each other in fear while the rest backed away.
"Gah! What is this?" Dexter asked, panicky.
"A casted a little spell on Duchess shoe's, now none of you are leaving." Headmaster Grimm stated.
Out of curiosity Maddie slowly held her hand over the flame and yelped a second later. "Hot! Hot! Too hot!" she cried, Raven pulled her away from the flames out of concern.
"Well this isn't good!" Annika remarked.
"Very true and now I have no reason to keep you alive." Headmaster Grimm said as he used his magic to levitate Jared and Annika upward. "You've interfered with my plans far too often, kids. Now, you shall pay!"
"Jared, Annika, no!" Raven cried in despair.
Milton smiled wickedly while Jared and Annika began to sweat nervously. But before he could do anything to him, they heard someone call out to them.
"Hold it! Hold everything, please!"
They all turned around in surprise, causing Grimm to drop the twins, and saw none other than Headmaster Gramlich approaching with a cheery grin.
"Headmaster Gramlich!" Jared and Annika cried, surprised.
"Good day my boy." The Headmaster said, friendly. "How are you doing?"
"Uh… kind of in the middle of something here, sir." Jared pointed out, gesturing to the furious Headmaster Grimm.
"Oh! Right! Hello there sir, how are you?" Gramlich asked.
"Who are you?" Grimm asked.
"I am Griswald Gramlich, Headmaster here at Oldtown Academy." Gramlich answered. "Pleasant day isn't it?"
Jared and the other Ever After High Students groan at this, some even face palmed or chuckled nervously at the outcome.
"Why must you're Headmaster be so polite, Jared and Annila?" Hunter complained.
"We don't know…" Jared groaned.
"He's kinda like that all the time," Annika added.
Grimm turned away. "I don't have time for this, nonsense," he said, beginning to walk away.
"Hey! Don't turn your back on us!" Annika shouted.
Headmaster Grimm turned to him, interested. "Oh?" he responded.
"Look, I don't know what your deal is but unlike you and Royals, no offence Royals, I wouldn't be able to live my life knowing it was already written!" Jared stated, firmly. "And the rebels don't want to either."
"It does not matter! Without the concept of destiny the world would fall into chaos!" Headmaster Grimm stated.
"That's not true and you know well that it isn't and yet you still continue to say so?" Jared inquired.
"Yes!" Grimm said, stubbornly while Jared turned to the others.
"Hey, guys! Look up 'idiot' in the dictionary and guess what you'll find?" Annika questioned. "Can anyone guess?"
"Ooh! A picture of him?" Maddie guessed, pointing at Headmaster Grimm cheerfully.
"That… and the definition of the word 'idiot' which this guy certainly is!" Annika stated. "He lied to you guys! He lied to all of you! He tricked you all into thinking you needed to follow Destiny to survive! But you didn't! None of you did…"
"Is this true? " Gramlich asked Headmaster Grimm. But before the big man could answer Jared spoke it.
"Yes, it's true, sir. This man has no weenie and is some sort of rodent. I'm not sure which." Jared nodded. "Also he has no Wii or a Twinkle. And isn't that just sad?"
"Oh yes, the saddest." Gramlich nodded in agreement. Maddie nodded and agreed also.
"Ooh…" Everyone else said, grimacing. Grimm then quickly lunged forward to try and attack Jared and Annika in anger, but several students and teachers held him back.
"Well that's what I heard!" Jared said, faking being defensive.
"Me too!" Maddie said, nodding.
"See?" Jared stated, making his point.
"Well Mister Grimm, I'm sorry to hear about your situation but I'm afraid I can't allow you to harm these children." Headmaster Gramlich told Grimm. "Now please leave the premises."
"I'm afraid I cannot do that, Headmaster Gramlich." Grimm stated, firmly "Not just yet anyways."
"Any reason why?" Gramlich inquired.
"Because of the destinies of this world are out of balance and once again need my guiding hand." Grimm said. "But first, I intend to soften them up a bit."
"By what? Destroying the world?" Jared asked, jokingly.
"If destiny says so… yes." Grimm confirmed. Everyone was shocked by this.
"Headmaster Grimm… you can't be serious!?" Apple said, absolutely stunned.
"I'm afraid I am, Miss White, this has to be done… for destiny's sake." Grimm stated, firmly.
"Yeah, well, please… pardon my language… screw destiny! This is my story, my life and you're not a part of it, understand My name is Jared Prince and I decide my fate!" Jared stepped up.
"And I'm Annika Prince and I also decide my fate!" Annika stood her ground.
Apple stepped forward. "And so will I!" she said, firmly.
Daring stepped forward as well. "Me too."
"Count me in!" Cupid nodded.
"And us too!" Cerise piped up, as the other Royals and Rebels nodded. "Starting today, we're all gonna write whole new stories for ourselves! Right?"
"Yeah!" Maddie cheered.
"Absolutely!" Dexter smiled.
"No, no, no! I won't allow it! We must all stick to our stories! It's the only way to survive!" Milton protested. "You don't understand! None of you do!"
"Ok then Grimm, explain it to us." Jared told him.
"I don't see why I should explain myself to likes of you but if you must know when I was a boy I convinced my brother into going inside The Ogre's Cave, despite our father's warnings. When we became scared, I ran and abandoned my brother. Though Giles was not hurt, the memory continues to haunt me and now I will do everything in my power to keep our world on script." Milton told him.
"Seriously? That's why you're so determined to keep Ever After on script? That's what's made you lose your mind? Oh man! You're worse than Apple!" Annika proclaimed. "I'm telling you; you can't let one mistake ruin your whole perspective of things!"
"I ignore you." Grimm huffed.
"Yeah?" Jared and Annika asked, before they took out the spell book. "Well to try ignore this."
Jared then took out the spell book and repeated the same spell he used to bring the Ever After High students to Earth.
"Wait… what are you doing?" Grimm questioned, taken aback.
"Bringing in a few more friends to this party." Jared smiled, as the spell book glowed bright before a beam of light shot out of it and created another large portal.
"Whoa…" Raven said, in awe.
"Hezberek Et Morine… Gost Wenthen Verbis Nex… Ind Obrium Bis Pendrule Paran Sic Cortis Rex! Exceed!" Jared and Annika exclaimed.
Multiple flashes of light were then shown, blinding everyone for a bit, then when they opened their eyes they saw that not only was the circle of flame imprisoning them gone but every other Royal and Rebel from Ever After High had all appeared before them, looking determined.
"Wow… looks like everyone is here…" Hunter observed, stunned.
"Looks like it." Cerise agreed, equally stunned. "Even Kitty Cheshire too!"
The daughter of the Cheshire Cat herself waved and smiled her signature grin at Jared before suddenly vanishing.
Jared turned to Raven. "Rave, mind introducing me?"
"Oh, right! Sure! Everyone, meet Jared and Annik Prince. Jared and Annika, everyone." Raven introduced.
"Hi everyone!" Jared and Annika waved, while smiling.
"Hi, Jared and Annika!" They all said.
"Look, listen to us! Right now there is a bad guy going to destroy the city and we can either stay the way we are and perish OR we can stand together and FIGHT the real evil!" Jared and Annika declared. "Now what do you say? Are you all in?"
The rest of the Ever After High students each exchanged glances and one by one they each nodded with a smile on their face.
"Alright, we'll follow your lead then… Jared Prince and Annika Prince." Daring declared. Jared smiled broadly at his.
"That's right!" Apple nodded.
"Thank you." Jared said, gratefully. He turned to his Headmaster. "You'd better step aside, sir. Things are gonna get ugly."
"Right!" Headmaster Gramlich said, before he then ran off.
Jared then faced Grimm again. "Ready everybody?"
"Yeah!" They all cheered.
"Time to write a whole new legend!" Annika declared as they readied themselves for a fight.
"So, you all want to battle?" Grimm remarked. "Then let's battle."
Grimm snapped his fingers and quickly conjured up an entire army of trolls that stood beside him and Duchess. They all growled menacingly.
"Fairy tales, Go!" the Prince twins yelled as they all begin to charge towards the villains. The trolls began to charge as well. Yelling, the group of teens and the army of ugly looking trolls hurtle toward one another.