Around 2 am the fire alarm went off. The entire dorm cleared out onto the lawn. Because of the threat of Uma and her pirates, and the fact that Ben was on campus, his guards were there before the students were on the lawn. Ben, Jay, Carlos and Doug went straight to find Mal, Lonnie, Dizzy, Jane and Evie. Once they were all together they looked at the dorms and saw no flames.
"Whats going on?" Carlos asked Jane.
"Not sure. I haven't seen Mom yet." Jane answered looking around for Fairy Godmother.
A guard came over to the group and pulled Ben aside. He followed the guard. "Sire, the alarm was pulled from an outside alarm station. South side of the building. It happened just as we changed the shift between the 10 to 2 and the 2 to 6am guards. We are pulling the security tapes from the other buildings now."
"Ok, soon as possible we change up the schedules, and we do not have the entire line up change at the same time. I want a staggered shift asap! For the rest of the night I want guards in front of everyone of their doors. Including Dizzy and Jane. Understood."
"Of course sire. I will call in extra guards right away. They are searching the dorms now, before they will allow you all back in."
"Excellent, I want their rooms, and mine searched then left under guard until we are allowed back in."
"Sire, might I suggest, until we can gain extra men here, perhaps you all retire to the palace."
"No. We will not leave the other students exposed, because we are gone. Get the men here as soon as possible. I also want to talk to the team in charge of the drones."
"Right away sire." Ben walked back to the group. Mal was shivering as she was wearing only her night shirt and sleep shorts. Ben took his robe off and covered his girlfriend. It was then Fairy Godmother came up.
"Children, head to the cafeteria, while the fire department checks the dorm to find out why the alarm tripped." She pulled Ben back.
"You heard?" she asked.
"Yes. I doubled the guards, and put one inside in front of each of their rooms, including Jane and Dizzy. I also changed the guards schedules so they do not all change shifts and the same time. They are pulling the security footage as well."
"It's going to be hard to tell, the south side of the building is pretty dark at night, and there is only one camera over there."
"I will have more installed asap."
A guard came in and called Ben over. HE walked over. They were looking at a tablet. He waved Mal over.
"Whats going on?" She asked.
"Look." She watched the footage, and could see a small row boat leave the isle. There was no moon light that night so it wasn't spotted right away. In the boat, they could see three people. "Uma, Harry and Gil."
"Look like it yes. Ok, we need to alert the others."
"Guards are being doubled, and I ordered more security cameras installed. I want you guys to walk in pairs. I'd rather not have you under guard, as that will cause alarm."
"I agree. And we can handle ourselves." Just then the security guards were approached by another, he dismissed the two that were there and waited for Ben to allow him to speak in front of Mal.
"Go ahead." He said.
"There is an alarm going off in the museum." They heard. Ben and Mal exchanged looks with the guard.
"My spellbook, the wand or the trident?" Mal asked. "I mean she has the necklace already. There isn't anything there Harry or Gil could use, right?"
"I don't think so. The wand and the trident are fakes."
"So is Mal's spell book." Fairy Godmother said joining them. "I decided to replace anything we had that could be used magically with a fake. That means Jafar's staff as well."
"Excellent idea Fairy Godmother." Ben put in. "And I assume they are all together?"
"No, another precaution."
"I think that is best." Mal agreed. "Ok, we need to let the others know. Ben, either the alarm here or the one at the museum was a distraction. Question is which one, and why?"
"All depends on if they tried to take anything at the museum."
Mal said signaling her friends over. "Ok, so here is what we know. Alarm was pulled outside the building on the south side. Drone footage, because of the new moon didn't pick up a small row boat leaving skull rock, until they went back and looked closer at it. Looks like Uma, Harry and Gil to me." She showed them the pictures. They agreed. "They are still looking at the footage from the south side of the building. About 15 minutes ago the alarm went off in the museum."
"Did they take anything?" Evie asked.
"We don't know yet."
"So what we need to know is which was the diversion?" Jay pointed out.
"I am not sure, I am thinking here is, but I won't know until we see the footage from the south side." Mal added. To her it all depended on who pulled that alarm. If it's Gil, the dorms are the diversion. If it were Harry or Uma, the museum is the distraction. Just then Ben's head guard returned, showing him the footage. Shocked, he walked over to Mal and the others and showed them. It was Chad.
"That can't be right." Jay said. "We have practice in the early morning. Lonnie called a 7:30 practice because of the match friday. Chad just got back after his bad test grade, he wouldn't do it."
"Can we widen the view?" Evie asked. Ben handed the tablet to the guard, who did so. Then they saw it a glow in the bushes. "There. That glow. Uma. So either that was Harry or Gil disguised or Chad under Uma's spell."
"This was a test." Carlos pointed out.
"How so?" Fairy Godmother asked.
"They wanted to know what happened when the alarm was pulled. They will use this information in the future. The museum is their target but this wasn't a diversion. Main question is what did they want at the museum?"
"I have that answer. They tried three major magical items, the Trident, Fairy Godmother's wand and Lady Mal's spell book. They tried to grab all three at once. They were able to grab the spell book." The others gasped.
"It's ok, it's a fake. They all are. They won't find any of them either. Cause no one know but myself knows where they are." Fairy Godmother assured them.
"But Mal's book, they will know as soon as they open it." Evie pointed out
"Oh there are spell in there. Flora, Fauna, Merryweather and I filled it full of spells that will backfire, or not work at all. The thing is, they will think they are working, we spelled the entire book to begin with, so anyone who uses it will think what they asked for happened." She smiled and walked off. Mal just laughed, wishing she was there when Uma tried one.