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Episode Twenty-Five:

Sleeping Beasty

Twyla buzzed with excitement during the rest of the week as everyone discussed what they could contribute to the plan. Ghoulia got out of the infirmary a few days before the plan was to be put into motion which boosted everyone's confidence. Evie named the plan Operation Eve of Evie Shadow Ops, and though most protested the name stuck.

Soon it was Friday night and taps played to signal the duty day was over. Everyone had gathered around the entry control podium to check over their equipment, which mostly consisted of writing materials, colored paper, flashlights and messenger bags.

Twyla smiled as the shadows returned. She proudly announced, "Freddie returned the shadows, looks like we're good to go."

Lagoona nodded, "Good luck out there mates, and be careful."

Darling sighed, "I hate that you and Abbey will be up here by yourselves."

Lagoona waved dismissively, "No worries, love. Besides we need to be here in case we get raided remember?"

Darling hugged her, "You be careful."

Lagoona hugged back, "I will, thanks, you take care okay."

Darling leaned back, "I will."

Billy stood back with his hands in his pockets, "Farrah, link us up. The sooner we get this done the better."

Farrah nodded and shrank down to the size of an average hand. Silver fairy dust littered the floor where she fluttered. She zoomed from person to person and placed a drop of what looked like honey behind everyone's ears. Farrah, still small, asked, "Can everyone hear me?"

Abbey touched a finger to the honey, "Loud and clear."

Farrah clapped, "Good, I'm so glad that worked. I've only ever done that once before."

Abbey asked, "Will you still be able to cast the spell that makes it look like everyone is in bed?"

Farrah waggled her small wand, "Yes, that I can do. As long as I have a link to the room I can cast the glamour spell, just make sure to distract whoever walks in, I'm pretty sure I'll be easy to spot casting spells."

Lagoona pointed to Abbey and herself, "Oh I'm sure old Abbey girl here can think quick on her feet. If we need a glamour spell, I'll probably be the one to call you."

Blondie poked Faybelle in the side, "You ready to go Faybelle?"

Faybelle scoffed, "I was born ready, Blondie. Let's go." She hovered still normal-sized, above the ground behind Blondie with Farrah buzzing beside her head.

Billy went invisible and opened the door, Twyla linked arms with Blondie who linked hands with everyone in the room. They nodded and Twyla reached out her hand. Billy took hold of her. His scales rustled against her skin as she was made one with her surroundings. She didn't have long to contemplate her new state of invisibility as he pulled them out into the hallway and down the stairs.

Upon arrival to the senior floor landing, Faybelle let go of everyone's hand and did her cheer, "They can't hear us, they can't see, cloud of darkness cover me."

A dark cloud filled with sinister glowing yellow magic flooded the hall and seeped under the doors of the seniors. Faybelle shrank to the size of a hand. Indigo fairy dust poured onto the floor as she fluttered in place, "Get going guys, that sleeping spell will only hold for 100 minutes."

Darling, Evie and Robecca headed down the stairs towards the library. Cleo, Ghoulia, Frankie and Crecha headed towards the chow hall. Farrah and Faybelle remained in shrunken form. Their task was to fly around the school acting as eyes in the sky, warning anyone of approaching enemies. Though Twyla feared their fairy dust would give away their position.

Billy, Blondie and Twyla donned their cloth face-wraps as they crept down the senior hall. Blondie, while invisible, pulled a hairpin from her bangs and proceeded to unlock the door to Spectra's room.

The room was smaller than Twyla expected as they entered. Billy let go of her hand and they became visible. They scanned the room for Spectra. As Spectra was a ghost she didn't sleep in traditional sleeping places. Twyla opened the trunk at the foot bed and pulled out books. Billy went straight to the closet door and opened it. There floating with eyes wide open was Spectra.

Billy announced, "Here she is."

Twyla turned, "Well, wake her up."

Billy's posture became rigid as he went invisible. Twyla watched and waited for waking a ghost could have catastrophic results if done improperly. However she knew if anyone could do it, it was Billy. He had a pretty serious relationship with a banshee back at Monster High. The vapors of Spectra's arm condensed as though in a container. Once her arm was partially solidified she was moved back and forth. When Spectra opened her eyes, Billy became visible in front of her.

Spectra gasped, "Oh my ghost, Billy! What are you doing here?" She blushed and sank into the floor, leaving only her eyes above ground, "Why are you in my room?"

Abbey's voice came in loud and clear through the honey drop, "Everyone in position?"

Billy looked at Spectra, and touched a finger to the drop, "Yeah, here with Spectra right now."

Cleo's voice chimed in, "We are almost in the cellars, if Frankie would just open the door."

A buzzing sound came in over the drop, "Just give me a second, almost got it open."

Abbey yelled through the drop, "Frankie, what you do? Is there not a key hanging by the door?"

Spectra floated out of the floor and examined Billy. When she spotted the drop she raised an eyebrow and pointed, "What is that? Some type of communication device?"

Billy nodded and let go of the drop, "Yeah, pretty neat huh."

Spectra touched it, "I'll say. Fascinating."

Abbey buzzed back in, "Is that Spectra, how she get drop?"

Twyla touched the drop, "She's touching Billy's. I don't think she can hear you though."

Spectra let go, "What? Was someone talking just now?"

Evie's voice lilted over the network, "In the library guys. Didn't want to talk in the hall. Also seriously Frankie the key should have been right by the door. Or behind the door but it was there."

Cleo growled out, "Oh there was a key, it was in a cup above the sink and Frankie fell apart! So now we are currently opening the sink to get the key that Frankie dropped."

Ghoulia groaned. Cleo sucked her teeth, "Tch, well it is about time Ghoulia. Give it to me, no one else will mess this up. AHHHHH!"

Billy, Blondie and Twyla winced as Cleo's scream rang out.

Spectra tilted her head to the side, "What is happening now?"

Billy waved dismissively, "Just Cleo screaming about something. Any ways, I was hoping to ask you a few things."

Spectra nodded and put her hand under her chin, "I see, all this to talk to me Billy?"

Billy put his hands in his pockets, "Uh yeah. Yeah, we need the shipment invoice and schedule for your ship."

Spectra floated closer to him, "Oh, really? You enter my boudoir, late at night and bring your friends. Do you honestly expect me to believe that was all you came for? Billy, I know there's something else you wanted to talk to me about."

Billy raised an eyebrow, "Uhhh nope. Just the whole shipment thing."

Spectra sighed as she floated through Billy to sit on her bed, "I'm afraid I don't have anything to tell you. Freddie has been extra secretive about the shipping schedule and she still hasn't submitted the form. If you want to know the schedule, you'll have to get it from Freddie. Sorry you came all this way for nothing."

Twyla looked back and forth between the two, "Is there something I'm missing here?"

Spectra crossed her legs and folded her hands over her knee as she looked at the floor, "Well you know, Billy and I used to be a thing. I was hoping…but it doesn't matter."

Twyla turned and looked at him, "Oh?"

Billy shrugged, "I'm solid. It was kind of hard to…"

"Hold hands," Spectra gave him a pointed look.

Billy smiled, "Yeah, hold hands."

Twyla raised an eyebrow, "It sounds like you resolved the whole hand holding problem."

Spectra smirked coyly from her bed, "Oh yes. We resolved that problem nicely."

Billy blushed and rubbed the back of his neck, "Not here for that."

Spectra twirled a strand of hair with her finger, "Oh Billy, you know I see right through you."

Robecca chimed up on the network, "Errr, hello. Um Abbey, we have a bit of news in regards to the map situation."

Abbey buzzed in, "Go on."

Robecca responded, "Well, Darling surmised the main reason we can't find any maps that display our home of origin is because our home of origin does not exist in this world."

Twyla pushed the honey drop, "What? What are you talking about?"

Evie chimed in, "Well RED team is here with the news that gives you the blues in this hizz-ouse."

Cleo growled out, "For the love of all things holy never say that again Evie."

Billy pushed the drop, "Is everything okay by the way, you were screaming in my ear a few minutes ago."

Cleo punched up, "I did not scream in your ear. I was merely surprised by the size of a certain spider. Any ways, yes, we are down in the cellar and Ghoulia is nerding about with her calculations. We should be finished soon and making our way back upstairs."

Evie laughed, "Could have fooled me, Cleo. We might have to start calling you the scream queen with the way you were caterwauling in my ear."

Lagoona chimed in, "Oi mates, limit the chatter here. Glad to hear Ghoulia's hard at work, now Robecca give me your news then Twyla give me a report all right?"

Everyone spoke at the same time, "Got it."

Lagoona groaned, "Missing the point, mates."

Robecca spoke up, "I heard you Lagoona and as I was saying this island is in a completely different world from ours. If you will recall on the day Freddie got her award, the captain said the Freddie went to eight places in one night. Obviously, Monster High, Ever After High and Auradon Prep were among the locations visited but what you didn't know was that these were all part of different worlds. We are currently in a world called Uwa, commonly known as Earth. Monster High is located in the world of Netvor which we call Unearth while the Fairy Tale schools are located in the world of Satumaa or Fair-Terra. Now, what we are unsure of is the amount of time it takes to get there. Yes, the captain said it was all one night but the ensign said the ship is packed for a four-year journey. We can only guess that traveling between worlds means traveling through a bit of time as well. Either way, we will literally be sitting in the hold waiting for the ship to reach land."

Faybelle chimed in, "I don't even know how I feel right now. I think I need to lay down."

Spectra floated over to Billy and traced his jawline with her finger causing Billy for just a second to have the same ghostly glow that she had. Billy turned his head to look up at her and she smiled and giggled.

Twyla rolled her eyes at the exchange and tapped the drop, "So, I have a bit of bad news as well."

Abbey grunted, "Say it."

Twyla gagged as Billy and Spectra rubbed noses, "Ugh. I think I'm going to barf. Any ways. Spectra doesn't have the schedule or the invoice. Freddie does."

Abbey sighed loudly, "Then what you wait for, Blondie go and unlock Freddie's room and go get schedule. Is key to whole plan."

Twyla hugged herself and looked at the ground.

Blondie placed a hand on her shoulder, "Twyla, Billy and I can go, you run upstairs, I understand if you're scared."

Blondie turned towards Billy but he was nowhere to be seen. She rolled her eyes, "Ugh, I'll be fine, just head up the stairs and go."

Twyla looked around the room and then back at Blondie. She couldn't let Blondie go into Freddie's room all by herself but at the same time, she didn't want to be anywhere near Freddie Creeper's room. But if Freddie awoke and saw Blondie going through her things she would kill Blondie and there would be no one there to save her.

Twyla turned and walked towards the door, "I'm going with you."

Blondie raised her eyebrows, "Are you sure? You don't have to do this. I can go on my own."

Twyla stared into her eyes, "No one should face Freddie alone. Come on, let's go find that schedule and face our fears."

Blondie smiled and they both left Spectra's room where objects flew through the air and floated around the room like a haunting.

Over the honeycomb network Faybelle frantically whispered, "Cleo hurry up the stairs, LT Shih just rounded the corner and she is on her way up."

Twyla pulled Blondie into the shadows and tip-toed into the shadow of a hanging object in Freddie's room. She slowly slid out of the shadow with Blondie and they looked around. Freddie's room was similar in layout to Spectra's but that was where the similarities ended. The way to Umbra had opened many times in this room. She sensed the shadows pressing against the gate, feverish and hungry. Twyla's skin crawled at the sight of multiple shrunken heads on a pedestal. The cane with the purple glowing orb that Freddie fussed at Duchess for knocking over rested among the grave of animal skulls strewn across the dresser. She gave the dresser a wide berth, it wouldn't bode well to touch an object of dark magic.

She tapped a pole with her shoulder and grabbed it quickly to prevent it from falling. Tied to the pole was a fang necklace and wrapped around the pole were multiple strands of hair with vials of blood. Twyla grimaced when she realized that some of the hair was probably hers.

Behind her Blondie audibly gagged and Twyla covered her mouth. Both looked at Freddie's sleeping form. The yellow magic still lingered on Freddie as she slept. Twyla let go of Blondie and put her finger to her lips, Blondie nodded and pointed to Freddie's messenger bag. Twyla dug through it while Blondie searched the rest of the room.

Twyla could feel her heart hammering in her chest as she neared the bag slung over the post of Freddie's bed. Even in sleep Freddie looked menacing, the tattoos and brands on her face seemed to glow in the dark. Twyla opened the bag and slowly skimmed through the contents, she didn't want to move a thing out of place lest Freddie know she had been there.

Not finding a schedule or the invoice, Twyla closed the bag and glanced at the bedside table. As she drew near the tarot cards shimmered. Shadow cards, if I ask nicely they'll reveal information but the price of the information could be dire.

She bypassed the cards and lifted the short Lincoln hat to peer underneath. There was a skull mask draped across the violet sash embroidery. Its sightless eyes glowed at her touch. She dropped the hat and backed away though the beady glow followed.

The soft sounds of a trumpet song began to play in her head. She shook the sound from her thoughts. Just being around Freddie brought out dreadful memories. Twyla furrowed her brow and stood up. She looked at the closet and took a good look at the hair that hung from the pole. Her robin egg blue hair was the easiest to distinguish from the rest, there was enough of it to make a wig out of but as she stared her hunch proved to be correct, the rest of the hair belonged to Farrah and Melody as did the vials of blood. Her Roses Three.

She opened the closet door and walked inside. Inside the closet were the three flapper dresses of the Three Roses. Twyla shuddered as she grabbed the black flapper dress of Dahlia and examined it. Pinned to the tag was the shipping invoice, she touched the drop and whispered, "Found the invoice but ran into a bit of a problem."

Lagoona responded very loudly and indirectly as she tried to sound convincing, "Oh really LT Shih, there's a problem you say. Well let me just go and grab some notebook paper from the other room, I'll be right back."

Blondie walked over to Twyla and looked at the tag. She then turned and looked at the tag of another dress and found the shipping schedule. She turned to Twyla and whispered, "These are definitely trapped, the moment we unpin it Freddie will be woken up."

Farrah's voice sang out into everyone's ears, "Good must hide while evil seeks, heads in beds her eyes will peek."

Twyla worried her lip, "How good are Farrah's glamour spells?"

Blondie shrugged, "Pretty solid, but they only last until twelve."

Twyla furrowed her brow, "What time is it now?"

Blondie looked up at the clock, "Eeeeleven fifteen…" She pursed her lips, "We spent way too much time dicking around in Spectra's room. Well…Billy did but that's beside the point. We need this but I don't know how to disarm this trap, it's a bit too much for me."

Ghoulia punched up and groaned a question. Twyla touched the dot, "Well Ghoulia, we found the invoice and shipping information but it's attached to a trap of some kind and we don't-"

Ghoulia groaned informatively and Twyla nodded, "Of course, duh. Okay I'm ready when you are."

Blondie jabbed her finger into her ribs, "What did Ghoulia say?"

Twyla pointed to the invoice, "She told me to read it to her and she'll write it down but we need to hurry. That sleeping spell was cast around ten fifteen, Farrah's spell won't be the only thing that stops at midnight."

They both looked over their shoulder at the still sleeping Freddie before they turned towards the invoice. Blondie punched up, "Ghoulia are you ready?"

Ghoulia groaned a response. Blondie pursed her lips and looked at Twyla.

Twyla smirked, "She said yes."

Blondie nodded and read the shipping schedule to Ghoulia. Twyla followed with the reading of the invoice. They both paused and checked on Freddie every few minutes. Every snort grumble and sleepy whisper set them on edge. Once the reading was completed Twyla closed the closet door, but she used too much force and the pole covered in hair fell with a loud clang onto the floor.