Chapter 6: when you're fast asleep

A dream is a wish your heart makes
When you're fast asleep
In dreams you will lose your heartaches
Whatever you wish for, you keep

-- A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes, Ilene Woods, (Cinderella, 1950)

Evie was losing sleep. Her investigation into why her mom would try to harm her came to only one conclusion-envy.

The Evil Queen wasn't a good mother, no love between mother and daughter anymore since Evie left the Isle behind, denouncing her mother. She might be angry at her but she would have done that years ago as she was surpassing her beauty. The Evil Queen probably would have drowned her in a tub or something but she did not and kept her alive.

So it was back to square one as to who wanted her dead and who told all of Auradon that she was the daughter of Hades. Just a normal thought for her, this is what her day has become trying to solve a mystery.

She hadn't received any sort of clues that came out of the sky to help her. That would be great but knew that's not how everything worked here. Even from her father hadn't come but Evie came to accept that considering father and daughter haven't talked to each other since being in the same room. Sighing Evie felt just as frustrated and tired from searching for a week.

Who could it be? Why her? What could she to a person to try an attempt at her life?

Rubbing her temples, Evie just closed another book on villains and flopped on her back on her bed.

Ben rocked back and forth on his heels. He was the only one that could go see Evie, he was king now after all? If that counted then he could see his friend who was in hiding without anyone stopping him, right? So that's what he did. Ben decided to take a trip to the Enchanted Forest to visit Snow White not knowing if they could even help with his friend. He knew where she was hiding, he was King and it was his duty to see to it that all his subjects were safe in Auradon, that included the VK's now. He had contacted his parents and after much nagging and bartering on his part his parents broke, telling him that Evie was safely staying with her step-sister in her kingdom.

When Evie saw him, she ran full speed in heels that she almost slipped as Ben caught her and pulled her into a hug. She had a vice grip on him as if he might disappear and that concerned Ben quite a bit. He had no idea what happened to Evie and once he did, it was crazy, to say the least. A secret spilled into the open and someone trying to hurt Evie? Why? he had asked and all he got was a shrug from his friend. Evie did not know and neither did Ben.

"I'm going to help," He told his friend. She was happy but asked him, "But what about school?"

Ben waved the concern away. "The perks of being a King is that they think I'm on Auradon business," Giving her a mischievous smile. Evie wrapped her arms around him once more making Ben laugh. "Okay, tell me who you've ruled out and the plot so far?"

So that is what they did, pausing once or twice for meals and a meeting Ben had with Snow and Florian.

"Can't you contact your dad?" Ben asked her. She shook her head. "My dad hasn't been of any help to me at all. It's like he's ignoring me or something, don't put it past him, he usually did that for half of my childhood. I'm on my own for this Ben."

Ben grabbed her hand. "Let's continue, okay?"

"Okay," She agreed.

The only villain besides her mother that she could think was Maleficent as she told Ben that. But as Ben reminded her, Maleficent was locked up. No way she could do it as a stupid purple lizard. They were stumped. "Let's try and get some rest and we can try to figure out what the plan could be." Humming in agreement, she said good night to her friend and left his room, heading to hers to sleep. Once prepared for the night, she tucked herself into bed and drifted into a slumber not knowing what her dreams awaited for her that night.

Her dream began normally in the red-blooded poppy field. Evie walked through the field feeling something off about her dream. She did not see her father, not see the man in black that was usually there, waiting to greet his daughter but he wasn't there. She walked to the edge of the cliff feeling the poppies on her pajama pants. Suddenly in the blink of an eye, the weather where the poppies stood grew cold, so cold that Evie ever felt before as if Queen Elsa used her ice magic on her. Turning around she saw something horrifying.

The red poppies started to wilt. All of them like a wave of death flooded the land where she stood and withered the poppies. It crept closer and closer with the red poppied shriveling up. Evie looked out at the cliff and without thinking, she ran and jumped. Instead of landing on what she thought was the sea down below it, she landed on hard rocks. Grunting in pain she landed on her side, rolling over. Stopping, Evie winced in pain and carefully stood up. Looking across her surroundings, she saw a vast land of rocks and stalagmites hanging from the dark ceiling above. In front of her was, what looked like to Evie - a big hole, the size of the Tourney field with something carved around the circle on the floor in ancient greek.

εδώ θα παραμείνει ο Κρόνος με τη δύναμη των έξι παιδιών του που είναι κλειδωμένα για να μην σβήσουν ποτέ το φως του Ολυμπίου. Η Εστία, ο Άδης, η Δήμητρα, ο Ποσειδώνας, η Ήρα, ο Δίας, τα παιδιά του Κρόνου τον σφραγίζουν για πάντα.

What she saw was utterly confusing what she had read and once she finished it, the whole thing stumped Evie. What was the light of Olympus? What did this all have to do with her?

"Everything my dear," The voice crooned to her. "All of this has to do with you."

"Wake up," the pit said to her. "Wake up and release me from my eternal entrapment." As she looked down, the pit felt cold even though there was no wind to signify it, it felt cold to Evie. Such a chill that she never felt before but here she could feel it biting the exposed skin of her arms and face. The pit itself felt ominous as the voice continued to talk to her, crooning. "Release me, child, I can give you safety from those that wish to harm you. Revenge on those that never loved you. Release me, my dear, release me and the world will bow to their rightful Queen."

She wanted to be Queen but not like this. Something told her that it would not end well for the people that she would be ruling, something off in the pit's own voice. Evie shook her head and the pit merely laughed as if Evie was a dumb girl that did a horrible mistake. "Oh my dear child," The pit said in a sickeningly sweet voice. "How a fool you are. Just like your aunts and Uncles, like your father."

Her voice failed her, as the pit continued to talk. The pit grew colder and Evie could feel it numbing her. "You will stand by my side as my champion. Sooner or later you will release me and you will rule all! You must release me! Wake up child, wake up."

Wake up

Wake up

WAKE UP

Evie woke up.

NOTES:

Happy to be writing this again after such a long break. It felt long for me, might not be for some but that's how it feels for me. Anyway, I hope ya enjoy the installment of this story.

the translation will be talked about in the next chapter.