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Episode Twenty-One:

The BAMF Boon

Fall semester started with Twyla more motivated than ever to get a solid escape plan together but while their hearts were willing their bodies were unable. Classes were even more intense as there were significantly more classes than during spring semester. Monday, Wednesday and Friday classes were Politics of Parlay, Herb Gathering, French I and Good Grubbin'. Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday classes were English Treatise, Arr-gebra II, Body Parts Aren't Made of Wood and Shanties. If the schedule wasn't exhausting enough, they were being raided almost every night. Twyla swore up and down that they were being monitored closely.

By December third, everyone was mentally and physically exhausted, the escape plan hadn't gotten further than leave the dorm and don't get caught.

Twyla yawned and tried curling under the covers but she soon realized she was sleeping on the floor. She slowly opened her eyes and groaned at the lack of shadow. "Great…Freddie's up and terrorizing someone. Geez, it's a free day, does she ever stop."

Abbey groaned as she got out of bed, "Doubt it. Oi, I could be using a vacation. I don't think I can take another week of this."

Lagoona rubbed her eyes and yawned loudly, "I hear that mate. I'm up to me gills in stress with these night raids. I never understood why LT Delahaye was so stuck up on a loose string. The entire uniform looks like a cheap torn wash cloth."

Billy became visible, jumped off his top bunk yawned and stretched, "This place is a total mind game. It's all up on its rules and putting people in their place. Uhhh, while I would love to just laze about for this study day, I would love actually coming up with an escape plan even more."

Twyla shuffled towards the latrine "Well let's get breakfast, compare our notes and make some plans."

Down in the chow hall, Twyla was immediately on high alert as she noticed the normally sparse Saturday breakfast chow hall was packed wall to wall.

"Well what a sight, look who decided to drag themselves down to breakfast this fine morning."

Twyla's eyes widened as she noticed Captain Jones.

Captain Jones smiled, when she spoke her voice lilted jovially, "Well don't just stand there with your mouth catching flies, go get in line and put some real grub in those little bellies of yours."

Twyla and crew hustled to obey the order, no one knew why the captain was in the chow hall but no one wanted to be the one that got on her bad side. Once seated Twyla and crew waited until the captain started speaking. Captain Jones glanced at Billy and narrowed her eyes. She bent forward and peered at him. The light from above reflected off her glasses and formed a square that highlighted a small thin scar on her left breast.

She shook her head and leaned back to address the room, "Everyone. I hear from my LTs that your studies have been going very well. I am pleased to hear it. Now, I am here today to recognize the distinguished accomplishments of Corporal Facilier for her meritorious service to Privateer Preparatory School as part of Class 222 on the night of March 12,2016. During this time, Corporal Facilier led an elite team of three students to expertly eliminate Class 221, commandeer their ship The Nefera and travel to eight pre-designated locations within one night acquiring over 4,500 pounds worth of gold and jewels. In this same night, Corporal Facilier's stalwart leadership led to the acquisition of fourteen new students for the school, ten more than originally targeted. Corporal Facilier has brought credit to herself and this institution. In recognition of her dedicated efforts I am granting Corporal Facilier a great boon to be used at her leisure."

Everyone clapped as Captain Jones shook hands and saluted Freddie. Once completed, Captain Jones smiled and spread her arms wide, "Please, I encourage everyone here to follow the example set by Corporal Facilier. I'm sure she welcomes all challengers to try and kill her in her sleep." Awkward laughter followed this comment. Captain Jones lowered her hat over her eyes, "Enjoy your study day everyone, use it well."

She left the chow hall and the room buzzed with chatter. Twyla and crew began eating quickly, weary of Freddie turning her attention onto them.

Freddie held up the coin to the light, grinning from ear to ear while staring down Mal, "Check it out Thornberry a boon for my good deeds." She tapped the coin to the shrunken head barrette holding her pigtail, "It's a shame that you will never have the guts to try me, I would thoroughly enjoy reuniting you with your friend."

Mal slammed her hands onto the table and forced a grin on her face as she glared, "Congratulations, you got a prize for be a murdering psychotic witch. Good job, I hope that one day you get all you deserve with all due respect ma'am." She shoved away from the table and walked out of the chow hall.

Freddie's smile dropped a fraction as she looked at the coin in her hand. "How boring is she. Heh, actually I think our study day just got a lot more bad." She pocketed the coin and grinned at Spectra. "Let's find out what's eating our dear under classman."

Spectra lowered her head and nodded. She flew through the chow hall wall. Duchess, Melody, and Freddie followed out the door, but as Freddie stepped over the threshold her coin fell out of her pocket, rolled onto the floor and hit the side of Twyla's boot. No one heard the coin drop over the chatter in the chow hall but Twyla felt it, and when she looked down she saw a golden opportunity. She devoured her breakfast quickly and pocketed the coin as she hurried to leave.

"Oh my Rah, what's the hurry?" Cleo demanded fork still poised over her peanut butter and banana covered French toast.

Twyla dashed away, "I'll explain in the room."

Frankie stuffed the rest of her food in her mouth and grabbed both of their trays, "I'll be her battle buddy, Cleo, no worries. Hey Twyla, wait for me."

Crecha huffed and stood up, "Frankie, don't run off by yourself."

Cleo growled, "Crecha, you sit down. I will not sit at a table by myself."

Ghoulia's eyes widened and she groaned.

Cleo shook her head as Crecha walked away, "Of course you matter Ghoulia, I was merely scolding- Crecha get back here, your sister will be fine."

Once in the dorm, Frankie asked, "What was the big hurry Twyla, Saturday chill day is the only day to enjoy a good breakfast."

Crecha stumbled into the dorm slightly out of breath, "Frankie you run too fast."

Twyla ignored Crecha as she pulled the coin out of her pocket and showed it to Frankie, "This was my big hurry."

Frankie looked wide eyed at the coin, "Whoa, how did you take that from Freddie? Wait, why did you take it from Freddie?"

Twyla shook her head, "I didn't, but I think I may have earned myself a boon."

Frankie raised her eyebrows, "So what do you plan on getting?"

Twyla pocketed the coin, "That's what I was hoping to discuss in study group. I just didn't want to be in the chow hall when Freddie realized it was missing."

Frankie gasped, "Do you think she noticed its missing?"

Twyla raised both her eyebrows, "I hope not…"

Crecha folded her arms and narrowed her eyes, "Frankie this boon just screams danger, you shouldn't get involved with it. Let someone else figure it out."

Frankie tilted her head and closed her eyes, "Hmm, maybe you're right Crecha. Ghoulia is better at solving problems. Let's just wait for her."

Twyla looked at Frankie sideways, "All right…"

Later on when everyone returned to the dorm Twyla showed them the coin, "So what are our options, here?"

Cleo stood up, stomped her foot and put her hands on her hip, "Too easy, I would demand to have myself-" She waved a hand over everyone, "-and all of my friends released from this dreadful island."

Blondie giggled, "The boons don't work that way. Captain Jones gave Freddie a great boon, getting off the island requires a legendary boon, which equals about 1000 great boons."

Everyone looked at Blondie. Blondie blinked back, "What?"

Faybelle lowered her eyelids and scoffed, "Like, we all want to know how you know that."

Blondie grabbed her text book, World History: Politics of Parlay and pointed to a page, "This was part of our lesson this week, the many flavors of favors, and the weight of each level of boon. A great boon is…"

She flipped through the pages, "…right here. A great boon can grant the user more information. But by itself it is not very useful…hmmm…"

Blondie turned the page, "…aha. The legendary boon can only be granted to those who find a legendary treasure or seven rare treasures and deliver it to an appointed officer in charge. 100 great boons equal one rare boon and 100 rare boons equals one legendary boon. Legendary boons can be traded for three things; guaranteed information on legendary treasure, freedom from servitude of the school, or a legendary favor. No matter what the favor is a legendary favor must be honored. The measure of treasure is subjective to the person it is given to thus one must know the officer they are handing treasure to very well. The level of boon is also subjective to the giver, thus while they may like a treasure if they don't feel like giving a boon they don't have to. The terms boon and favor can be used interchangeably."

Cleo threw her head back and sank down on the ground, "Then it is hopeless, the only way to get that kind of treasure would be to leave the island and at that point we wouldn't need to, uahaha."

Darling took some paper and fanned her, "Indeed, it is pointless to keep something that does not belong to you. I know it belongs to Freddie but it is hers and she did earn it."

Faybelle rolled her eyes, "Whatever after Charming. I don't know what kind of fairy tale you're living in but in case you haven't noticed we are like, prisoners right now. Giving the coin back doesn't get us a reward, it gets us punished. We should keep it."

Blondie nodded, "Hate to agree with Faybelle but finders' keepers. Besides Freddie wouldn't hesitate to torture us over a precious lost thing, so by keeping it we are actually being the good guys."

Billy appeared and cleared his throat, "Guys, here me out, Freddie was just publicly awarded a coin from the vice principal, in front of the entire school. The moment she realizes she lost that coin she is probably going to search the entire school looking for it. She will find it because her shadow spirits can go anywhere. What do you think she will do when she finds out we have it?"

He gave Twyla a pointed look, "Do we really want to go through that type of pain?"

Twyla looked down at her hands and rubbed her stomach, "Yeah, you have a point. The less we deal with Freddie the better."

Abbey folded her arms and nodded, "Indeed, Billy has made excellent point. We must return this coin."

Lagoona stretched her legs out and leaned back on her bed, "Best not to make waves against that Freddie, but who is going to give Freddie the coin."

Evie looked at herself in her hand mirror while sitting on her bed, "Well as this conversation doesn't involve me, I think it's time I get back to what really matters. Oh, my eyes are amazing in this light."

Faybelle smirked, "You know we should totally give the boon back to Freddie but, like place a dying curse on it so the next thing she eats will kill her."

Everyone looked at Faybelle in disgust. Faybelle crossed her arms and pouted, "It could work."

Evie snapped her hand mirror shut and looked at Faybelle, "No it won't. I know you begged your mom to go to Fableous Elementary but me, Mal and Freddie remained at The School of Brutal Domination and Sadistic Magic. You may not remember it but we were encouraged to be the baddest, because bad was good you know. We had that bad kind of good closeness."

Evie looked down at her hand mirror, "Mal and Freddie were always trying to out magic each other, it started out as healthy competition but after Freddie's dad was dragged to the shadow realm Freddie became obsessed with always being the one in control. She dabbled in darker and more powerful shadow magics. I thought our stint in Auradon changed her but it seems being kidnapped brought out her true darkness. I just wasn't aware of how dark until I saw her in action here."

She tilted her head to the side, "Now that I think about it, two days before Freddie went missing Freddie's mom died. According to Mal, Freddie's mom had been choked to death by one of her…clients. I'll bet you anything that when Freddie came home and saw her mother in that awful position she snapped completely. I think I would be full of rage too if that happened to my mom. But my mom's not a whore, she's a queen so I'm not mad at all." Evie perked up and smiled into her hand mirror.

Faybelle cleared her throat, "Ahem…what was the point of that story?"

Evie turned her gaze, "Hmmm, oh right. Well, point is you know how powerful a sorceress your sister is, Freddie has countered every spell Mal has ever thrown at her. Your curse won't work on Freddie."

Faybelle leaned back and rolled her eyes, "Fine, no curse."

Farrah tapped her chin with her pointer finger, "Ummm, how about we treat the boon like a boon and trade Freddie the coin for escape information. Obviously, Freddie found a way to temporarily leave the island, we could demand just that."

Everyone turned and looked at Farrah. Farrah blinked, "What? What's wrong, did I say something foolish?"

Billy grabbed Farrah by the shoulders and smiled at her, "No way, you are a genius."

Farrah blushed, "Oh! Oh, thank you Billy."

Faybelle narrowed her eyes and glanced back and forth between them, "Like, good idea and all but we still need to do that. How are we, as like privates going to approach a corporal?"

Cleo flipped her hair, stood up and posed dramatically, "Never fear, I will use the power of my station to approach this Freddie."

Twyla raised an eyebrow at Cleo, "You're still a private."

Cleo looked down, "I am a De-Nile, my very presence demands respect."

Twyla snorted and looked down at the hem of her skirt.

Faybelle stood up and raised her arms high, "Like, maybe we don't have to give Freddie the boon, maybe we could use an illusionary spell. That way, Freddie doesn't search for the boon but we still have it. Win-win."

Cleo turned towards Faybelle and placed her hands on her hip, "If its illusions you want then I think I am perfect for the job, after all, my abilities seem to be the perfect counter to Freddie's."

Robecca furrowed her brow and tilted her head, "I apologize I seemed to have missed something, how are your abilities perfectly suited to counter Freddie's?"

Ghoulia groaned. Cleo stomped and growled, "Shut up Ghoulia, don't worry about the minor details."

Ghoulia narrowed her eyes and groaned. Cleo sucked her teeth and folded her arms, "All right fine, worry just a little."

Darling sighed loudly, "Still don't understand zombie I'm afraid."

Robecca translated, "Well, from what I could gather Cleo uses light-based spells and Freddie uses shadow-based spells. If Cleo prepares her spells in advanced properly she should be able to counter anything Freddie throws her way; however, since Freddie is a very powerful shadow user Cleo would literally have to prepare over 100 counter spells just to be safe. And if what Ghoulia said was true then Cleo has only ever prepared up to 40-"

Cleo stomped and glared, "I said not to worry about the little details. I am a De-Nile and when the people demand action I will deliver." She raised her arms in the air forming a W around her head, "I will face this Freddie and I will give her a boon she will never forget. We will keep the original, Freddie gets a fake that is cursed everyone wins."

Faybelle clapped enthusiastically.

Twyla grimaced, "Cleo just give Freddie her boon back, no need to make it complicated."

Cleo put one hand on her hip and waved Twyla away, "Go and make arrangements with Freddie for a meeting at her earliest convenience."

Lagoona looked at Twyla and then back to Cleo, "I think it would be better if Twyla didn't interact with Freddie. Freddie is sort of obsessed with Twyla, we may never see her again if she goes."

Cleo held her hands up in exasperation, "Fine, Frankie, go and make the arrangements, if Freddie gets too aggressive just shock her into next season."

Frankie nodded and got up to go; Crecha followed as her battle buddy. Twyla and crew studied while they waited for Frankie to return with the news. Thirty minutes later, Frankie and Crecha returned to the dorm. Frankie held her leg and Crecha's arms as she hopped into the room.

Crecha, currently armless, stomped over to Cleo, "Well, you have a meeting with Freddie at 1300 today inside the library."

Frankie hopped over to her bed and started sewing on her leg, "That Freddie was not happy to see us, but she agreed to meet. We told her that you wanted to talk to her but we didn't tell her why."

Cleo nodded and flipped her hair, "Good, I will enjoy putting that beast in her place. Ghoulia you are my battle buddy, I need you to calculate Freddie's exact moves so I can prepare my counter spells."

Ghoulia moaned. Cleo threw her arms up, "Oh come on, I know you can do it, you're the smartest one here. Now follow me."

Cleo and Ghoulia left for the library to prepare while everyone else continued to study in the dorm. Twyla chewed her lip anxiously as she watched Frankie and Crecha put themselves back together. She wanted to be free of Freddie but she didn't want to send anyone to their death, even if it was Cleo. She just hoped that Freddie would be in a forgiving mood.