Cassandra was in the castle, having just witnessed the trouble one of Varian's machine's has caused from outside. Before she could do anything else, a dark figure was behind her/ It was Varian wearing an ominous outfit with a mask of glowing green eyes.
"Hello, Cassandra." said Varian, causing Cassandra to get spooked and turned around and recoil in shock. Before she could stop him, he raised his hand and unleashed some weird green smoke from it.
"Sleep," said Varian smoothly as Cassandra suddenly felt light-headed and swooned to the ground in fatigue.
Everything went black.
...
Cassandrs was still shown to be unconscious before she began to stir, the effects of Varian's sleeping gas wearing off. She opened her eyes gave a sleepy look while groaning.
"Where am I?"
She looks around and sees that she is in Varian's lab. She tries to move but she discovers that she is strapped onto what appears to be a medieval torture device table.
"Varian!" Cassandra shouted, "Come out here and release me!"
Suddenly, what appears to look like some kind of projector device came out of the shadows and toward Cassandra. Cassandra eyed the device curiously before some mechanical claws came out of the sides of the tables and made their way to Cassandra's face to force her eyes to stay open. Before Cassandra could process what is going on, the projector turned on and unleashed a sickly green glow as it shined onto Cassandra's face. Cassandra grunts as she tried to shut her eyes, but the claws made that not an option. She soon felt light-headed again as the light began to work it's way into her brain and suddenly, her eye pupils shrank and were replaced by flowing green spirals coming from where her pupil was and flowing into the back of her head. Cassandra was now hypnotized.
The projector device stopped and out from behind it was none other than Varian, who looked quite pleased with himself.
"Oh Cassandra," Varian said sinisterly as he put a hand on his brainwashed captor's chin.
"For someone as strong-hearted as you, you are very weak-minded. But now that you are under my power, I will put your other strengths to good use. You will help me get to Rapunzel so that she can free my father. Is that clear?"
"Yes Varian," said Cassandra monotonously, "I hear and I obey."
Varian smiled evilly, "Good"
With that, he freed Cassandra from the captor's table and as she got up, Varian took Cassandra's right hand and kissed her knuckles.
"Be ready my dear, because in short time, we attack Corona!"
THE END
