"Would you go away?! I don't know you or like you!" Mal yelled in pure frustration at the charcoal colored Labrador that had been following her for what felt like forever. It laid its ears back and stopped for a moment, but it nevertheless resumed its travelling along behind her. Mal groaned loudly and kept walking, trying to think of some way to rid herself of this creature.
Honestly, it was starting to seriously creep her out. It was simply really strange. It never acted as if it would harm her at all, but it never stopped following her at that safe distance. Mal was actually pretty afraid of dogs, but she was trying to put on a brave face so it wouldn't sense her fear and eat her or something.
Mal narrowed her eyes in irritation, wondering where Evie had gotten off to.
Evie was supposed to have been helping Mal look for Mal's spell book that Celia had once again thought was a good idea to take from the museum. Celia loved to steal the spell book and turn simple peanut butter sandwiches into large spreads of deliciousness. She also wanted to try out very strange hairstyles that only Mal's spell book could possibly conjure. Mal seriously had to have a talk with the Facilier, because this stealing magical artifacts for selfish reasons just couldn't keep happening.
Additionally, Mal guessed that she had absolutely no patience for the dog because she was in such a mood as a result of Celia's crazy shenanigans.
However, before she could ponder this much longer, the dog that had been plaguing her not too long after Evie had been gone rushed in front of her and sat down. Mal stopped and stared at the creature, looking into its eyes as she huffed. She swallowed, trying to keep from bolting or showing any of the fear that was currently rapidly coursing through her veins as a result of its proximity.
"Move," Mal commanded angrily. The dog tilted its head to the side but held her gaze with its own strangely beautiful mocha colored eyes. Mal furrowed her brow as she considered those eyes. They really reminded Mal of someone that she was near and dear to, and she just couldn't quite place it.
Mal looked at the dog for a little longer and didn't really know what to think of the creature. However, before she could even begin to attempt to consider the animal any further, it moved closer to her, wagging its tail. Mal furrowed her brow, and the pet gently nosed her hand with its snout.
The faerie automatically pulled back from the dog, wiping the wetness of its nose from her skin with a frown. The dog whimpered at her, edging even closer so that its chest was practically touching her knees as she looked down at it.
Mal looked down at it quizzically and after only a moment noticed that something was glinting on its neck. Mal hesitantly started to lower herself down to its level so she could better examine the foreign object on the dog's neck. It shifted a bit in its place on the ground in the midst of its excitement, but it mostly stayed perfectly still as Mal dropped to her knees.
Mal reached out, touching the collar around its neck tentatively and recognizing it quickly. She had bought it for Evie just the other day.
"Why did Evie put her necklace on you?" Mal questioned, halfway to the animal and halfway to herself. Mal then looked into the dog's eyes once again and suddenly pinpointed exactly where she had seen that eye color before.
She took in a sharp breath as the reality of the situation suddenly collapsed on her in a heavy heap of surprise.
"Evie?" Mal questioned, her eyes wide. The silvery animal jumped up in its happiness, barking in excitement as she surged forward, licking Mal's nose. Mal absently wiped the slobber away as she just stared at the dog that was supposedly her sister.
"How did this happen?" Mal questioned and gaped at her before realizing that Evie wouldn't be able to respond in her current form. Mal shook her head absently as Evie moved up to her closely, putting her face near Mal's own. As Mal breathed, she could certainly smell Evie's signature perfume that always seemed to permeate everywhere the bluenette went.
Evie whined after a moment, and Mal found that she really wished she could understand what Evie was saying to her. Perhaps she'd know why Evie was in this mess in the first place.
Mal slowly stood up as she considered the situation, Evie quickly sidling up to her loyally and staring up at her as if she were her only link to the world. Of course, Mal really was her only link to the human world.
"E, I need to find a gummy bear and put the truth spell on it so you can talk," Mal informed the dog standing next to her, and she felt a little dumb speaking to someone or something that couldn't return any sort of conversation. However, as Evie nodded her head, Mal found that it wasn't quite as embarrassing as she perceived it to be in the first place.
Mal started to head for Evie's Jeep Renegade that the bluenette had so ridiculously named Charlene, a wide-eyed expression on her face as she reeled in the aftershock of whatever had happened to Evie. She couldn't help but question how it happened, and she was eager to spell the truth gummy so that her inquiring mind could be settled.
Before long, they reached the parking lot and Evie hurried in front of Mal, sitting beside the driver's side door and looking at her best friend expectantly. Mal shook her head, knowing that Evie wasn't even thinking of her position as a dog and only wanted to drive her vehicle as she always did.
"Okay, E, you can't drive. You're a dog. It's just not happening," Mal told her, and Evie's ears laid back as she looked quite disappointed indeed. Mal walked over to the passenger side, and opened the door. Evie hurried over and hopped up into the car easily.
Mal traversed to the other side of the Jeep and she opened the door only to find Evie in her dog form sitting there in the driver's seat, eyeing her with an unimpressed expression. Mal groaned, now realizing that Evie must have thought that she could drive even as a dog.
"Scoot," Mal instructed, and Evie remained sitting firmly in the seat. Mal rolled her eyes, hauling herself up in Evie's vehicle as she squeezed in next to the dog. For the first time, Mal was actually thankful for her much smaller form since she was able to so easily sit with Evie.
Mal looked at the dog, her nose almost touching Evie's long snout.
"Are you going to move?" Mal questioned, and Evie didn't attempt to communicate anything outside of a slight tilt of her head. Mal sighed, cranking the car and starting in her journey back to the castle where she knew that Ben kept a gummy bear stash that she could infiltrate.
They drove along in silence for a few moments before Evie started to paw at the radio buttons. Evie looked at Mal helplessly when absolutely nothing actually worked as a result of her efforts. Mal smiled at her sympathetically as she repositioned one of her hands on the wheel.
"Here, let me turn it on," Mal offered before turning the knob so that a station would start to play. Sure enough, some tunes came through the speakers, but Evie was obviously in no mood to listen to rap right then if her disgusted curled up lip was anything to go by.
Mal quickly switched it to the next station, and Evie almost growled as "Body Like a Backroad" came through the speakers. Mal resisted the urge to laugh as she let it play for a minute, knowing how much Evie absolutely despised the song. Mal actually didn't have a problem with it at all, and it was one of Uma's favorite songs. Especially since the pirate captain had found out how Evie had felt about it.
However, after a few moments, Mal finally had mercy upon Evie as Mal noticed that the hairs on Evie's back were actually starting to raise up in the midst of her irritation at the song. Mal switched it to the pop station and she immediately noticed how Evie settled in the seat, all signs of frustration gone as "We Don't Talk Anymore" started to play.
Before long, Mal spotted the castle not too far away and the song hit its chorus. To her surprise, Evie started to howl, trying to sing with the song as she fully enjoyed the tune. Mal couldn't help herself, and she laughed at the dog as her head was thrown back in the midst of her enjoyment of the song.
Mal stroked Evie's head with a hand as she carefully turned into the driveway. The girl parked in one of the giant garages to the side of the castle and shut off the car. Evie immediately stopped howling as she stared at Mal. Mal could almost hear Evie's words as the dog questioningly eyed her.
"We're here," Mal informed her simply, and Evie nodded in response. Mal stepped out of the Jeep, opening the door and letting Evie out behind her, before they both headed to Mal and Ben's wing of the castle.
They received quite a few strange looks from the servants around the castle, but no one chose to actually comment on the fact that a big charcoal-colored Labrador was following the queen through her castle, walking by Mal's side as if the dog were a human.
After scaling several different sets of stairs, Mal let them both in Mal's living area in the castle before tentatively calling out to see if Ben was anywhere around.
"Ben? Ben?!" Mal tried a few times, before finally deciding that the young King was not in the room or close by. She couldn't help but breathe out in relief, not really looking forward to the extensive explaining that she was going to have to do as a result of Evie's transformation.
"C'mon, E, Ben keeps his gummy bears right back here," Mal beckoned the dog as she headed down the hall, despite the fact that Evie was right at her heels anywhere and everywhere that the faerie went.
Mal entered her and Ben's shared room, and she looked under Ben's side of the bed where she withdrew a small box. She quickly reached inside and took a blue gummy bear from the container that was full of them.
She turned to face Evie before closing her eyes, calling back to mind the exact spell that she had cast upon the candy that Dude had eaten. Once she was sure she had it, she reopened her now glowing eyes as she raised a hand over the gummy.
"Do this deed through and through, provide the ability to speak in truth," Mal incanted as the gummy bear shone a bright green for a few moments, the reflection of the light illuminating Evie's shiny fur in a gorgeous lime. Once it returned to its original shade of blue, Mal extended her palm to Evie. Evie gently took it from Mal's hand as she chewed and swallowed it quickly.
"Well?" Mal questioned after a moment. Evie's face scrunched up in disgust.
"Eww, M, couldn't you have spelled something besides gummy bears? Those things are gross and really chewy!"
A/N: Well, this was a really interesting idea that was provided to me by thatblueprincess on Tumblr. Except in the original suggestion, Evie was to turn into a cat as a result of Mal's "responsible" playing in her spell book. I just kind of changed it around and used the overall idea that Evie turns into an animal and Mal as well as everyone else in their weird group has to deal with it.
I hope you all have enjoyed it so far, and please let me know what you think! :) Evie's going to have a lot of fun times being a dog, and Mal's going to have even more fun having to care for her…