Soon, Doug and Evie were at The Dunk Tank as Chad decided to try it out... As the victim who would fall into the water as he felt like he would be fine since Doug was going to be throwing the ball next, but the bespectacled boy had failed in hitting the target.

"Next time, put some muscle into it!" Chad taunted as Doug failed. "Oh, wait! You can't!" he then laughed.

"Chad Charmless indeed..." Evie firmly pouted at the blonde boy before she comforted her friend. "Don't listen, Doug."

Doug then began to look like he was about to walk away.

"Hey, guys." Ruby said as she came over.

"Ruby, hi," Evie said in surprise. "So nice to see you out and about."

"Yeah, Granny decided to let me take a break tonight," Ruby replied. "So I thought I'd check out and see what you little kiddies are doing."

"Little kiddies?" Doug replied before smirking. "You're not that much older than us like Ashley Boyd."

"Yes, but I have years and years of experience while you kids still have your noses in your books," Ruby playfully retorted. "I also keep having the strangest dream about a girl who-"

"Hey, Ruby!" Chad soon called mockingly. "Girls can't throw!"

"Dude!" Evie firmly pouted as Chad laughed.

"Just doing my job!" Chad replied.

Evie groaned and rolled her eyes.

"Not a good night to make fun of me, Chad." Ruby smirked as she picked up a ball.

"Oh? Are you in a weird mood, Ruby?" Doug asked.

"Let's just say I feel a little power under the full moon tonight." Ruby smirked as she flashed them a wink.

Doug and Evie wondered what that meant, but they let Ruby have a chance at the Dunk Tank next. Chad then began to yawn while Ruby pitched the ball instantly. The ball was zipping over to the target as Chad began to yawn out of boredom until the ball hit the target instantly.

"Huh?" Chad blinked until he was then suddenly splashed right into the water. "No! My hair! My new outfit! They're ruined!" he then whined, acting more like a teenage girl about his looks despite being a boy.

Doug, Evie, and Ruby laughed at that together as Chad was taken for a swim.

"Hey, you guys wanna get a portrait drawn?" Ruby suggested.

"Sure!" Evie nodded. "We'll go there before I meet Henry and Dee Dee for the puppet show."

"Puppet show?" Ruby asked curiously as Evie suddenly winced nervously.

"...Unless you think that that might be uncool..." Evie then said softly, especially with what Mal said to her earlier in school.

"You kidding?" Ruby smiled. "I'd love to go to the puppet show with you kiddies."

"Provided that you stop calling us kiddies." Doug smirked a little.

"Oh, all right," Ruby then said. "I guess I can't do that forever, especially since I work with Kiara in the diner, though sometimes she acts like a princess."

"Can't be worse than Magda or her Pinkettes." Evie commented.

"Oh, just ignore those girls," Ruby replied. "Even though every school has them."

"Uh... Girls who dress in pink and do the same thing over and over all day and act very vapid and shallow?" Doug asked.

"More of that second one, yeah," Ruby nodded. "Mean girls. The Queen Bee and The Wannabes if you will." she then explained.

"I suppose that makes sense." Evie remarked.

"Yes, it does," Ruby nodded as they walked away from The Dunk Tank. "Come on, let's go get some portraits before we see the puppets."

"Sounds good to me." Doug replied.

"Same here." Evie added on the way.

Ruby smiled as she walked off with them.

"Oh, Ruby? You were saying something about a dream?" Evie then suddenly prompted.

"Huh? Oh, yeah," Ruby said before nodding. "Like I said, last night, I had this dream about a girl."

"Really?" Doug blinked. "Who was it?"

"...I'm not sure, but she had the most interesting thing about her." Ruby replied.

"Do you happen to remember what it was?" Evie asked.

"Yeah... She had these shoes, but they seemed to be made out of silver." Ruby explained as they continued to walk off together.

Doug and Evie looked curious as they continued to follow Ruby over to get their portraits done, wondering what the dream could mean as they continued on. Ruby mentioned seeing a very pretty and brave girl who wore silver shoes and was a bit of an adventurer and she seemed important, but no one was sure who she could possibly be. Henry wasn't even sure what the dream could mean, but he could tell that there would be more to find out later in this strange town with its big fairy tale secret that no one else really believed in.

Meanwhile, Ben stepped into the carnival and looked around. "Hi." he then said with a small smile as he waved and passed some students.

It was always interesting whenever Ben would make his entrance. Some kids, especially the girls, were always really excited to see him because they saw him as handsome and brave and strong, though some kids would be afraid to go anywhere near him since he was the son of Mr. Gold. He often tried to not let the second thing get to him, though deep down, it really did. He was never sure if this was something that happened all the time or if it just recently happened during the change after they all had hit puberty and things began to differ very strongly after they were little kids in elementary school. He looked like he had high hopes though as he stepped into the carnival to look for a certain girl after hearing she would be around tonight, but he just hoped he hadn't missed her even though they had scheduled a date together sometime in the near future.

"Hey, you made it." Mal's voice said as she slowly approached the brunette boy without hesitation.

Ben blinked before he looked over, seeing Mal in a purple dress with a black leather jacket and matching boots as she smirked with her hands on her hips. "Oh. Hey, Mal," he then said to her. "It's really good to see you."

"Hey, Mal... I was hoping we could go to the movies, but you really must be into school carnivals if you wanted to meet up tonight over here." Ben said to the girl.

"Oh, yeah... I love carnivals, really," Mal replied even though it seemed to be a lie as she came closer to him before whispering to herself. "Especially since Princess Blueberry is around here."

"What was that?" Ben asked suspiciously.

"Oh, uh, nothing," Mal replied innocently before looking over to see that he had a bouquet of flowers. "Oh. Are those for me?" she then asked.

"Uh... Erm... Yes..." Ben nodded before he held them out to her. "I got them from Mr. French. I usually get a single red rose to give to a patient who's been locked up in solitary for so long and she's never even had any visitors."

"Uh-huh..." Mal replied, not that interested in his story before she took the flowers and they instantly died in her touch. "Sweet."

Ben looked wide-eyed and surprised that that happened before he chuckled nervously with a shy smile.

"They're beautiful." Mal said to him even though they died when she touched them.

"I kinda expected that to happen, since you're a dark and dangerous girl," Ben grinned nervously before his eyes widened. "Uh! Not to say you're a bad person or anything!"

"That's okay, Ben, it's really fine," Mal replied. "It's the thought that counts... At least that's what I've heard people say when they try to make other people feel better."

"Well, uh, should we go and have some fun?" Ben suggested.

"Yeah, let's do it," Mal nodded as she stepped over to him before smirking. "You know, you and I could make a pretty good power couple actually."

"Yeah? How do you think?" Ben replied.

"Just call it a feeling," Mal reassured before chuckling in her mind with a sinister thought in her head. 'The daughter of The Mistress of Evil and the son of The Dark One. It's a match made in not-Heaven.'

Ben smiled a little before offering his arm to Mal since it would be a gentleman's thing to do. Mal just walked right past him, not accepting his chivalry before Ben sighed and shook his head at himself, blaming him for Mal's disinterest before he then walked after her so that they could enjoy the carnival with everyone else.

Meanwhile, Evie, Doug, Dee Dee, and Henry continued to hang out as Evie was sitting beside the others while a guy was drawing a portrait of Evie to give to her.

"So, Dee Dee, are you enjoying your first real school carnival?" Henry asked his friend with a small smile.

"It's almost everything I've ever imagined," Dee Dee beamed as she hugged her snowglobe. "The sights! The smells! The freedom of foods drenched in fat and getting sick after going on a ride!"

"That's an interesting way of looking at it." Doug chuckled.

"I'll say." Doug nodded in agreement.

"Yeah! Even Claudine's getting into it." Evie added before she pointed over to the fortune teller booth where "Creepy Claudine" was.

"I told you, don't move!" The portrait artist, who was also the impatient and easily provoked art teacher in school, glared firmly in frustration.

"Oops... Sorry, Mr. Vulcan." Evie then said nervously before she sat up and sat still yet again while Doug, Dee Dee, and Henry waited for her to be done.

Doug muttered something that was unheard by the younger two, but it luckily wasn't a swear as he would never swear. "Grumpy dwarf..." he then mumbled, borrowing a phrase from his rather eccentric mother which was what she called Leroy.

At the fortune teller booth, Claudine appeared to be having her next visitor who was a boy known as Clay Greystroke whose father owned the hunting shop as he came with his friend, Rick Ratcliffe who was looking around as he seemed to lose something while Ruby decided to hopefully talk to Claudine about her mysterious dream about the girl with silver shoes.

"Pretty sure any teacher will tell you this," Claudine began to tell Clay. "If you do all of your homework, I see an A in your future."

"What?" Clay asked. "Can't you tell me the answers to something else? Like next week's Science Test?"

"I think you need a little dose of reality," Claudine replied grimly. "It's basic chemistry."

"Aw, dang it... I suck at chemistry..." Clay groaned and stared at the ground in defeat.

"Next!" Claudine called out to shoo him away. "Either get out of the way in line or I'll throw you out of the way."

Clay blinked, feeling uncomfortable by Claudine before quickly stepping away from her.

"Anyone see my pistol keychain?" Rick asked as he looked around, though Jay's laughter was heard as though to answer that question.

"But it's still the best time of my life so far," Dee Dee beamed before hugging the boy beside her. "Thanks for letting me experience it, Henry."

"Of course, Dee Dee," Henry smiled as he hugged her back in a friendly way. "What're friends for?"

Doug and Evie also smiled as they found Dee Dee and Henry's friendship to be very adorable.

"So... Uh... Hey... Let's go on a few more rides after this and then food and... What? Get back home before midnight?" Doug then suggested nervously.

"Don't be nervous, Doug," Henry replied. "We're all having a lot of fun, especially since the four of us are together."

"Yeah... It's like a double date... I-I mean between friends, right?" Doug chuckled sheepishly.

"Right... Between friends..." Henry said with a nod.

Mr. Vulcan soon brought out the portrait to show Evie once he was finally down. "Viola... It is finished!" he soon said.

"Oh, awesome!" Doug smiled shyly as Evie's portrait was a caricature of her with a big head and dressed like a fairy tale princess.

"Cool." Henry added.

"It's so pretty, Evie." Dee Dee said to the older girl.

"I like it a lot too," Evie smiled as she took the portrait. "What a fun night this turned out to be."

"It has indeed..." A new voice added before there was a flash of a camera.

The others groaned a bit as they knew what this meant.

"Did someone wish for Jordan to arrive or something?" Henry asked.

"Why do you ask that?" Evie replied. "Is Jordan the daughter of a genie in The Enchanted Forest?" she then added to humor her little brother a bit.

Henry shrugged in response.

"Jordan Glass from The-" Jordan began to say.

"We know who you are!" Doug replied in annoyance. "We all went to Pre-K with you!"

"Well, not us too." Dee Dee piped up.

"I know that, I was just saying," Doug told her, acting like a big brother around her. "She just always does this."

"Besides, your dad works for my mother," Evie added. "What are you doing out here anyway, Jordan?"

"I just thought I'd see what was going on and exploring the carnival with you guys," Jordan said as she jotted down notes in her notepad. "Should make for good stories for the school paper."

"Sure, as long as you aren't spreading rumors." Evie mumbled.

"Who? Me? Never!" Jordan replied innocently. "Aside of course from the rumor about Mal Draconis and Ben Gold out on a special date tonight."

"Ben and Mal?" Doug asked in surprise.

"Oh, yeah," Jordan nodded. "I hear they're gonna head for The Tunnel of Love later on. How do you feel about that, Evie?" she then asked slyly.

"...Good for Ben, I guess?" Evie shrugged. "He always seemed interested in talking to her for a while. I'm glad that he's actually doing something about it."

"Really now?" Jordan replied. "Even though you and Ben are dating?"

This made Henry and Dee Dee turn wide-eyed.

"What?!" Doug and Evie then asked in shock. Doug, a bit disappointed while Evie was genuinely surprised.

"At least that's what they say and why would they say it if it wasn't true?" Jordan replied with a smirk. "This story's really gonna be hot off the press by Monday about Mal with the boy who got away from Evie~"

"She can go out with Ben if she wants, we're not even dating." Evie defended.

Doug looked wide-eyed before he turned around and wiped his forehead in relief with a quiet "Phew!" that Henry and Dee Dee seemed to see, but they didn't say anything about it.

"Guess someone should've told Ben and Mal that," Jordan shrugged before she took out her camera. "Picture for the paper?"

"Get out of here!" Evie complained.

Jordan blinked before she then decided to leave them alone.

"So, Ben and Mal are dating now?" Henry asked. "That seems a little dangerous, don't ya think?"

"Not now, Henry..." Evie said before sighing. "Let's just get some pizza and maybe we can end the night at The Ferris Wheel, huh? It's really pretty at night."

Doug, Dee Dee, and Henry looked at each other before they decided that was probably for the best. Though Doug seemed to want to do something else with Evie since Jordan had mentioned "The Tunnel of Love", he decided not to do that because he would probably seem too forward. Jordan soon decided to go to the Tunnel of Love herself out of boredom as they then left the portrait station. Soon, the main four got their pizza and ate it up.

"So, how's your pizza, Doug?" Evie asked.

"A lot greasier and cheesier than the boardwalk, but I guess I'll take it," Doug replied with a shrug. "This town doesn't have a Pizza Planet after all."

"I think that cows have less fat than this pizza," Dee Dee said before she ate more anyway. "But I can't stop eating it."

Evie chuckled a little at Dee Dee's reaction to the pizza.

"Delicious and cheesy." Henry nodded.

"At least it's not deep-fried," Evie replied. "Lots of carnivals do deep-fried foods just to make you get sick on their rides."

"Why would they do that?" Dee Dee then asked curiously.

"I dunno..." Evie shrugged. "Though Mr. Gold always says that 'Time is money and talk is cheap'."

"And what does that mean?" Dee Dee asked as she tilted her head.

"I... Uh... We'll tell you when you're older." Evie then decided.

"That means they don't know." Dee Dee then whispered to Henry.

"Growing up is a very confusing and serious disease." Henry whispered back with a nod.

Doug and Evie then smiled at the younger two while enjoying their pizza until it would be all gone. Lilly Hoggett was still shown to be at the petting zoo and was even befriending a pig who seemed to be beside a spider's web with a spider watching over the pig and was even getting the pig to befriend the lonely sheep with black wool while the others had fleece as white as snow.

"So is there Mary Had a Little Lamb or Little Bo Peep in your book?" Evie soon asked Henry. "Because I think I found their descendant."

"I dunno actually," Henry replied. "Maybe like we said about The Pied Piper, Mulan, or Robin Hood that they come from different stories from a different land of stories."

"A different land of stories?" Doug repeated curiously. "That sounds really interesting."

"I'll say." Evie nodded in agreement.

"Because your book talks about fairy tales and there are other stories?" Dee Dee then asked Henry. "Like The Nutcracker Prince?"

"I guess we'll just have to wait and see if Emma ever breaks the curse," Henry nodded. "Speaking of which, I hope that she's okay."

"Oh, I'm sure that she's fine," Evie reassured with a warm smile. "We can go see her sometime later though if you really want to."

"Yes, Evie, I'd love that," Henry beamed before looking at Dee Dee. "You wanna come too?"

"I'll ask Papa Leroy and Mama Astrid, but sure, Henry, I'd love to go too." Dee Dee smiled softly.

"Cool." Henry nodded, looking forward to it already.

Soon, the four finished their pizza and decided to move on to their next activity before calling it a night.

Meanwhile, at The Tunnel of Love, the young people were getting ready to pair up to go on their rides. Jordan sighed and pouted as she went to go in her boat, but she was alone which was against the rules of riding The Tunnel of Love.

"Sorry, only two per boat. You'll have to wait for the next boat," The worker told Jordan before he called out to the people in line behind them. "Any single riders come to the front!"

"Oh! I'm a single rider!" Jay piped up as he began to walk through the line.

"Aww~" The girls pouted and groaned as Jay was going for a ride with Jordan, feeling jealous of her instantly. "Lucky!"

"Excuse me, pardon me, excuse me, pardon me, excuse me, pardon me!" Jay said before smirking until he saw who he was going to ride with. "...Jordan Glass?"

"Well, well, if it isn't Sticky Fingers/Ladies Man Jay?" Jordan remarked before shrugging. "Might as well get in. I have nothing else going on for me tonight."

"No introduction?" Jay asked in surprise. "I'm honestly flabbergasted... I learned that word from Carlos." he then added.

"Of course you did," Jordan said before sliding over a little. "Come on, get comfortable."

"Meh..." Jay shrugged before he came to sit down in the ride with Jordan. "Sorry, ladies, but I gotta go now."

"Lucky!" The girls continued to complain as the worker got them ready and soon pulled the lever so that Jay and Jordan could ride through the water into the tunnel.

Jay and Jordan glanced over before they shrugged at each other, getting ready to go on the ride of their lives together.

"Please keep your arms and legs inside at all times. And do not leave the boat until the ride, is over. Thank you!" The intercom system informed them as they began their boat ride.

Meanwhile, while on the ride, Ben and Mal were riding along in their own boat together.

"Nice try, Evie, but it looks like this time I won!" Mal smirked as she rode off with Ben.

"You won? What do you mean?" Ben soon asked as he heard Mal's wickedness aloud that time.

Mal flinched as she was caught before she faced Ben and tried to verbally backspace herself somehow. "Uh... Well... Nothing. I... Um..." she then stammered a bit.

"...Mal, what's really going on here?" Ben asked. "We had popcorn, you aggressively threw darts like you were aiming to hit someone else... Especially a certain someone else... This was supposed to be our date night."

"...It's complicated, you wouldn't understand." Mal said as she crossed her arms and turned away from him with a deep scowl on her face.

"This is about Evie, isn't it?" Ben then asked.

Mal flinched with wide eyes before she looked back at him.

"Yeah... Don't think you've been subtle about your hatred towards Evie, we all know that you hate her guts," Ben then said, trying to be strong against the bad girl known as Mal Draconis. "All because she didn't invite you to her 6th birthday party."

"Well, I guess you have a bit of brain underneath that beauty," Mal scoffed at him. "So what if it is? There's more to it than that."

"Then what is it?" Ben then asked as he reached out to pat Mal's shoulder. "Just tell me and maybe I can help you... I wanna be able to help others."

"Typical of you despite who your father is." Mal then grumbled and firmly pouted while turning away from him.

"What?" Ben then asked before glaring.

"Nothing... You wouldn't get it." Mal scoffed a bit.

"You don't have to be huffy," Ben firmly frowned, trying not to get mad, though he was quickly losing his patience. "Don't you think it's childish to hold a grudge against someone for not inviting you to a birthday party that was a lifetime ago?"

"Oh, that's very rich coming from you with who your father is!" Mal retorted.

"What?" Ben asked softly.

"Are you and Evie working together?" Mal then demanded. "That's it, isn't it? Your parents work together all the time and that's why you two are so close!"

"We were best friends in the first grade!" Ben replied. "Our parents always brought us together whenever they would talk! It was nothing more than that, she was like a sister to me!"

"That's what they all say!" Mal hissed. "But what about what her mother did to my mother?!"

"What are you talking about?" Ben asked.

"Don't play dumb with me! This date was a stupid idea anyway!" Mal glared before she then shoved Ben so hard that he ended up falling right out of the boat and splashing right into the water before she cupped her mouth. "Whoa... I... I..."

Ben coughed and spat up some water, getting soaked. "...Well, Mal, if that's how you feel, then fine," he then said, not getting mad, but his tone was clearly disappointed before he stood up in the water, dripping wet. "I just wanted to help you with whatever was bothering you, but you won't let me in. If you don't let people in when they offer to help you and just shut them out. You just act like a gargoyle... Made of cold stone with nothing more... I just thought you were made of something stronger." he then said before he decided to go and leave her alone to think about what was going on.

"Ben, wait!" Mal cried out, but it was too late.

"Goodbye, Mal..." Ben said a bit firmly before he shivered and left the tunnel and decided to leave the school carnival all together just as the fireworks were starting.

Mal sighed at herself as she looked out from the boat before it was time for her ride to end and to get out of the boat while Jay and Jordan seemed to have a decent ride together. What had she done now just because of her petty vendetta against Evie? Melody was shown to be sitting alone under the fireworks, shivering a bit as she was expecting a certain someone to show up and join her, though that person never seemed to show up, but Piper soon found Melody and decided to give her his jacket as he saw her getting cold. The two then smiled at each other before he put his arm around her as they looked up at the colorful fireworks in the dark sky as the stars twinkled like diamonds.

Up on The Ferris Wheel, Doug and Evie seemed to have a very good time while Henry and Dee Dee also enjoyed the ride as the teenagers sat on the tippy-top of the wheel, getting a really good view of the fireworks. Doug soon took out a bag to show to Evie.

"When did you go shopping?" Evie asked in surprise.

"I won something while you and Henry went on that pirate ship ride while I took Dee Dee to play a game while she'd go on the Merry-Go-Round," Doug replied. "I thought maybe you'd like this prize a little bit better than me."

"Oh, Doug, you don't have to do that." Evie replied softly.

"I want to, Evie," Doug nodded before blushing. "I just hope that it's cute enough."

Evie cracked a small smile before she reached into the bag to take out what looked like a stuffed fox that had light brown fur with fluffy white fringe. "Oh, wow! Doug, this looks really nice~" she then said softly.

"I just saw it and thought of you," Doug said softly. "I won it from a ring toss while waiting for Dee Dee to get off of her ride."

"That's so sweet and thoughtful, Doug," Evie smiled before hugging him. "I'm so lucky to be friends with such a nice boy~"

"Right... Friends..." Doug blushed and chuckled before hugging Evie back. "You're so welcome, Evie."

"Thank you ever so much," Evie nodded. "I think that this is the best school carnival ever."

"I think so too, Evie. I really think so too." Doug agreed warmly as this seemed to be a happy ending for both of them.

Yes, indeed, the carnival seemed to be good for everyone. Jane was even out and about with some cotton candy along with other prizes she won such as a glow-in-the-dark necklace and a balloon puppy. She then looked over and saw Carlos sitting alone on a bench before she decided to walk over to see him.

"Carlos?" Jane asked. "Is that you?"

"Huh?" Carlos asked before looking up and gasped before flinching. "Oh, Jane! I didn't know you'd be out here."

"Yeah, Mother Superior thought it'd be nice if I went out for the night as long as I'm back home before midnight," Jane said with a small smile before looking concerned at him. "You look so lonely and sad. What's wrong?"

"It's kind of a long story, Jane..." Carlos sighed, blushing since he was alone with her.

"I have time... Why don't you tell me what's going on?" Jane replied before she walked over and sat on the spot next to him.

Carlos smiled softly before he sat down with her and they began to start talking for the first and hopefully of many more times in the future together.

A/N: If anyone's wondering, that crazy art teacher is based on the man who makes a portrait of Hercules in his Disney movie on the vase before he quits and we see the Scar lion pelt. His name is Mr. Vulcan, Vulcan being based on the Roman name of Hephaestus: the Greek God of art and design.