Hildegard was not happy. It was bad enough that some of her friends had been enchanted by three wicked hags but now she was facing one of those three wicked hags and the one that used to be part of her own friendship group.

"Hildegard, how good to see you again so soon," Jade said with a cocky grin on her face," Thanks for letting me borrow Zandar for a bit, he's been great fun," Hildegard growled at her which made her grin grow wider, "Ooooo calm down tiger, I'm just saying. After the ball, I loved when his hands got all over me, it was as if-" Jade was cut off by Hildegard sharp slap to her face. The corner of her mouth began to bleed. Jade's grin turned into a frown.

Hildegard smirked and grabbed Jade's throat, "Don't ever talk about Zandar like that in front of me again,"

Jade eyed her and grated out, "Nice threat. But you seem to be forgetting one thing,"

"And what might that be,"

Jade's grin returned, "I've got magic now," Hildegard gasped as Jade suddenly turned transparent and slipped from her grasp, "That was called density shifting, one of my favourites,"

Hildegard laughed at her, "Magic? What a cheap tactic. Can't even go fist to fist with me,"

"Em ot emoc erif," A huge fireball appeared in Jade's hand, "Well this cheap tactic is going to be what kills you,"

"Not if I could help it,"

Rain started pouring down onto the grass. Jade's eyes hardened as she made eye contact with someone behind Hildegard. She turned and smiled, "Oh Lei-Lani, thank god. This bitch was about to burn me with a fireball,"

Lei-Lani smiled at the new friend she made only a few months ago then turned to Jade with a disapproving look, "Using magic on a No-Maj? I can totally tell you're a newbie,"

Jade sneered at her and got into a fighting stance, "You wanna go?"

Lei-Lani's eyes twinkled as he got into a similar stance, "Of course,"

Khalid looked at the sky, feeling conflicted. Sure, now the weather was on their side due to Lei-Lani showing up but the weather she was using? Really put a damper on the events. In all honesty, Khalid was bored. He had helped the fairies escort people into the school with his mum being one of the last to go in and giving him a big kiss and wishing him luck, then he had helped the sorcerers and Lucinda create a big protection bubble around school, he gave Miss Nettle a stink eye as she helped just because and he had watched Jun and Emperor Quon's joint martial arts takedown of Jin which was breath-taking (He should ask for lessons once all this was done).

He had tried to watch Desmond's takedown with some excitement but that was just boring. All it took was King Cyril distracting him and Amber bringing her fist down on his head. He had to admit Hildegard and Jade's little cat fight was entertaining while it lasted. Zandar had been distracted long enough by Lei-Lani and Jade's fight for King Nasir to knock him out. Khalid chuckled as he saw King Habib shouting at his dad for hitting Zandar to hard. He laughed out loud after his dad say, "I had to knock the drugs out of his system, you should be thanking me,"

Only Hugo and James were left now. King Roland was faring well against James, who had become some sort of super-soldier. Sofia was fighting Hugo incredibly well which shocked Khalid. He knew never to underestimate Sofia but she still continued to surprise him.

"Khalid!" He turned around to hear Ruby calling his name from the entrance of RPA, "Come help me and Vivian with calming everyone down,"

Khalid smiled and ran over to her. The others were doing just fine.

Cleo was not doing fine. She was fighting two powerful princesses (or were they witches now) with Maya and Lucinda backing her, the rain was pouring down on her and her shoes were muddy. Oh, and add the fact that Bella was targeting her specifically and Cleo was not a magic user so she had to rely on her strategy of hiding behind Lucinda every time Bella's hands pointed at her.

"What is this girl's problem with me? questioned Cleo as she jumped behind Lucinda again. The grass where she was previously standing had been scorched, "Is she jealous of me, because if she is this is not the way to go,"

Maya rolled her eyes as she dodged Princess Mia's spell and turned to look at Cleo, "They're the bad guys. They don't care about which way they go," Her jaw dropped as a line of bright lights whizzed past her. She slowly turned to Princess Mia who smirked at her, "and who gave you permission to throw that spell at me? You better not do that again,"

"No one tells me what to do!" thundered Mia.

"Tell that to the bitch who sent you here!" Maya roared, "That's it. No more spells. We're doing this one on one. You're going down, you harlot," and with that Maya sprinted over to Mia and jumped her. Mia screamed and thrashed about as Maya viciously attacked her.

Well that's Mia out of the way, thought Cleo as she watched the two girls fighting on the grass. She was now hiding behind a bush as Lucinda and Bella decided they were going to brawl it out magic style in some sort of 'who's the best witch. Cleo was not getting involved in that Cleo allowed an inch of a smile on her face when she saw King Roland holding an unconscious James safely in his arms. That's all that really mattered to her. James being safe. Cleo's eyes widened when she heard the sound of a loud bang behind her. She quickly looked over the bush. Bella had her back facing Cleo, slowly approaching Lucinda who was the grass nursing her ankle.

"Looks like your title of the most powerful witch of our age is about to be taken," Bella cackled. Cleo then did something she would have never seen herself doing.

She jumped onto the back of Bella and scratched all over her face blindly, "Don't hurt my friend," Bella shrieked as Cleo's fingers scratched over her eyes. Maya rushed over from a bruised and groaning Mia on the ground to Lucinda.

"Are you okay," she asked Lucinda gently. Lucinda nodded.

"Yeah, but you have to help Cleo," They both looked over to Cleo who had held on to her position on Bella's back. Bella let out a frustrated scream and flipped Cleo off her back. She stepped back as Cleo got up again with a determined look in her eye, realising she had underestimated the princess. She walked over to a struggling Mia and grabbed her.

She gave Cleo one last look and stated, "Don't think this is over. We will be back," There was a flash of light and the two were gone. Cleo turned to Lucinda and Maya.

"We did it, we actually did it," Cleo said in disbelief.

"How you took down Bella was great, Cleo. James would be proud if he saw," Maya laughed at the blush that appeared on Cleo's cheeks at her comment.

"What the fuck?"

The girls turned to where Hildegard and Lei-Lani stood a few feet away, over an unconscious Jade. Mia and Bella had appeared out of nowhere in front of them.

Mia glared at Hildegard, "We're here to take our sister. Back off," With that her and Bella each grabbed one of Jade's arms and flashed out. Hildegard looked annoyed and turned to Cleo, "These witches really don't know manners, do they?"

All the girls laughed and made their way inside to join their families.

Hugo was not this strong before, Sofia thought as she effortlessly dodged his punches. He wasn't this brutal with either but looking at the situation they were in Sofia decided to let it go. From the corner of her eyes, she could see that Hugo was the only one of the boys left which irritated her because it was cold and it was raining andit was really not ideal to be slipping and sliding around in the mud as a hot prince was trying to kill you. But nevertheless, Sofia continued to fight Hugo.

"Give up, Sofia," shouted Prince Hugo over the rain, "There's no point anymore,"

Sofia ignored him.

"Princess Mia is so much better than you, honestly she doesn't show off as you do," Hugo laughed, "Every time its, Sofia this, Sofia that,"

Sofia wavered and got a kick in her leg. She quickly resumed fighting. It's not Hugo talking, it's not Hugo talking, she repeated in her head.

"The only reason why I was still friends with you was so I could continue playing on the derby team,"

Sofia stopped fighting, frozen to the spot as Hugo's words got to her. Hugo smirked at her and lifted his hands to deliver a hard blow only to have himself held back by King Garrick.

"Sofia it's not true," he said as he struggled to hold on to a fighting Hugo "He loves you, I know it. The way he talks about you at home you can tell. You're his best friend. Not for the derby team, not any team, but because he loves you,"

Sofia slowly unfroze and got the ring King Garrick had given her out of her pocket, "Hold him still," she said. King Garrick held Hugo tighter as Sofia approached him cautiously. She grabbed his hand and slid the ring on with care. Instead of falling unconscious like the other boys, Hugo's eyes simply turned from red back to his normal brown eyes.

"Sofia?"

"Hugo!"

King Garrick let go of his son and smiled as Sofia hugged him.

"Sofia I am so sorry, I-I- couldn't control what I was doing but-," Sofia stopped him.

"It's okay Hugo. I'm just glad you're back,"

Hugo smiled at her and turned to his dad. He gave him a massive hug.

"Welcome back, son"

Lei-Lani smiled as she saw friends reunite with friends. Hildegard was embracing a near-crying Zandar who was whispering "I'm sorry" to her, Amber had hugged Desmond and given him a peck on the cheek leaving the boy blushing, then went to rugby tackled her brother showing how much she had missed him. James had been previously being worried over by Cleo, and was being told how she had jumped on Bella by Maya, which was definitely a story she had to hear later. Jun was squeezing the life out of a bemused Jin as a chuckling Emperor Quon and Vivian stood by.

Sofia and King Garrick then came in with Hugo and all their friends ran over to them to celebrate that everything was back to normal. Hildegard saw Lei-Lani standing by herself and left her group to talk to her.

"Thanks for helping me, Lei-Lani, although how did you get here,"

"I heard a dream, a few days ago, it was as if the universe was telling me to come to you guys,"

"Well thank you for listening to the universe, otherwise I would have been a burnt crisp out there,"

"No problem I'm just glad I could help,"

That's when everything went wrong.

Lei-Lani gasped and screamed as she felt a piercing in her stomach. Hildegard screamed out as she saw a bloodied knife come out of Lei-Lani. Zandar rushed over to them with their friend following. They gasped in shock when they saw Lei-Lani. Bella appeared behind her and made direct eye contact with Cleo, "I told I'd be back," With an evil cackle she disappeared, but not before ripping the knife out of Lei-Lani's back.

Cleo stared blankly at where Bella had been then looked at the gaping hole in Lei-Lani's stomach.

"No, no, no..." she cried.

Lei-Lani's breathing turned ragged as she dropped to the floor. Hildegard caught her and laid her down gently, crying.

"No. This can't be happening," she cried out. Zandar and Amber held onto her shoulders as Sofia dropped next to her.

"Lei-Lani…" she wept. Lei-Lani looked at them with sad eyes, clenching her teeth.

"Wow, this really hurts, it's burning" she gritted out, putting her hand over her wound, "My mum and dad are gonna kill me,"

"Don't say that Lei-Lani, you're going to be okay," Sofia sobbed, "Lucinda, please help her,"

Lucinda looked miserably at Sofia while holding a weeping Maya, "I can't. The wound is too deep. I can feel her life force slipping away,"

Lei-Lani grabbed Hildegard's hand, her eyes flooded with tears and whispered, "srewop ym ekat" Their hands glowed as Lei-Lani muttered the spell, "Use them well, Hildy,"

Hildegard didn't hear her or even notice what had happened as she was still crying.

Sofia embraced her friend's friends head and she continued to sob.

"Lei-Lani, what were you even doing here,"

Lei-Lani looked up at her as her vision blurred, glad that Sofia, Hildy and their group of close-knit friends. She smiled and answered Sofia, "The universe told me to come,"

And with that, Lei-Lani closed her eyes.