Greenly met up with the others at their secret hideout in the laundry room. They still haven't come up with a cool name for it yet. But it didn't matter. The four friends gathered at the table and watched Ian type away on his laptop. Despite his bad boy looks and 'who cares?' attitude, Ian was quite the tech genius. Nobody but his friends knew that. If other people knew, like Humphrey Dumpty and Dexter Charming, they would want Ian to be their friend and become a 'loser nerd' just like them. Or other people would keep bugging him to do tech fixes and junk like that. "Okay, I was able to hack into the Mirror Network and you're not going to believe this. This was footage from about a month ago."
Ian showed the mirror footage of Raven walking to the library. When she came across the mirror in the hallway, a pair of hands grabbed her and pulled her into the mirror!
"Whoa!" Greenly, Amber, and Bentley shouted. They kept watching the footage. A few moments later, they saw Raven walk out of the mirror, look around cautiously, then walked away as if nothing happened.
"Someone kidnapped Raven then just let her go?!" Bentley gasped.
"No, Bent." said Greenly. "Someone kidnapped Raven and that Raven who walked out of the mirror wasn't really Raven, but an imposter! That has to be it!"
"And I agree." said Amber. "I noticed that Raven hasn't quite been herself lately. She didn't even smell right! Instead of smelling her usual Moonlight Essence shampoo, she smelled like Sugar Fairy Sunrise! She would never use that brand!" She saw her friends gawking at her. "What?"
"You can...smell what kind of shampoo Raven uses?" Greenly asked.
Amber frowned. "Yeah, I'm a fairy! My senses are magically enhanced, including my sense of smell." She saw Bentley writing in a black notebook. "Are you taking notes or something?"
"Yeah! Now I know what to get Raven for her birthday!" Bentley replied. "Moonlight Essence shampoo..." he repeated to himself.
"Guys! Hocus Focus here!" Greenly exclaimed. "Raven is in serious danger and we have to do something!"
"Well, Raven was sucked into one of the school's mirrors. So, maybe Raven is still here!" Amber deduced. "We just need to look where she was last seen!"
"You mean magically bust open the mirror was sucked into and she if she's on the other side?" Ian said half-jokingly.
"Pretty much." Amber said. "But I'm going to work on a wicked powerful potion. So, it'll be a while before we start investigating."
By the time everything was ready, it was the day of Briar's party. But this was no time to let loose. While everyone was distracted with the party, Greenly, Amber, Ian, and Bentley were ready to save Raven. They gathered around the mirror where Raven was pulled into.
"Wow, Greenly! You look ready for war!" said Amber.
Greenly was dressed like she was ready to take on a dragon. She wore a bright green top and leggings with gold shoulder plates, arm cuffs, and heeled boots that were laced up nice and tight. Her hair was pulled up in a messy bun. She adjusted her gold armor crown. "A true royal is always prepared." She cracked her knuckles and made sure her sheathed dagger was secured to her belt. "How about you guys?"
Amber grinned and showed off the bottles of different colored potions that were strapped to her chest as well as the many satchels that she had on her belt. "Ready."
The girls turned to Ian and Bentley. Ian just took out his phone. "This is all I need."
And Bentley patted the shiny bugle horn strapped to his belt. "I'm all set too."
With a group nod, the misfits were ready for action. Amber took a small potion from her arsonal and uncorked it. Silver mist leaked from the potion as Amber muttered a spell. The mist circled around the mirror and a portal opened. The four fairytales jumped quickly inside and the portal closed. They found themselves in the cauldron room, down in the school basement. Mr. Badwolf usually teaches General Villany down here, but this was a different room. There were a few empty cauldrons scattered around, but nothing else. Just darkness.
"Look!" Greenly pointed to a faint glowing light not too far from where they stood. The kids quietly moved and nearly gasped at what they saw.
Below them was a stone chamber lit by torches that hung on the walls. There was a chemythstry set that was filled with many beakers and test tubes. There was one bookself full of books and another bookshelf filled ith potions. If someone was competing for the Science and Sorcery fair, whoever owned this secret lab would win firs prize for sure! But that wasn't what shocked the students.
Laying on her back, cuffed to an old fashioned torture table, was Raven Queen! She was out cold, like she was in a deep sleep. Around her head was a strange metal helmet that was attached to a dangerous lookig machine. Footsteps were heard and in walked Miss Gold and Raven's imposter. Miss Gold wiped the sweat from her forehead. "Those brats in Princessology gave me the worst time!" Miss Gold spoke in a completely different voice. "That Briar Beauty just keeps snoring all through class!" She reached into her gold clutch and took out a wand. She waved it over her head and in a cloud of glittery dust, her apperance completely changed.
Miss Gold was actually a fairy! An elderly fairy with her silver hair neatly swept up in a bun. She wore a lavender feathered fascinator hat, a lavender satin pantsuit, and silver high heels. She waved her wand at the fake Raven and her disguise disappeared with a poof.
It was another fairy, only this one was a teenage girl. She had bright orange hair that was long and messy. Her choice of clothing were brown boots caked with mud, a pair of denim overalls that were a size too big over a red and white striped t-shirt. "Ugh! Tell me about it!" said the fairy girl with a scowl, showing the gap between her teeth. She spoke with a Southern accent. "That girl snores louder than an ogre after guzzlin' a gallon of sleep potion!"
"Well, once we take care of business, we can finally enjoy the rest of our summer far away from those pests!" the elderly fairy sniffed. She went to the machine and pushed several buttons. "Now, we all the ingredients ready to finalize the plan!"
"Finalize?" the fairy girl scratched her head. "I thought the plan was workin' fine!"
Sighing, the elderly fairy glared at her partner. "Charlotte, we've been over this! We were only able to take just a small sample of Raven's Queen's memories, just enough for you to behave like her in school. But if we're going to fool her family, we need to collect all of her memories. So, once all of her memories are downloaded into your mind, you return to Queen Castle as Raven Queen and become her permanately!"
"But if I become her, won't I turn evil too?" asked Charlotte.
"Of course not! You'll still be you, you'll just have all of Raven's knowledge, that's all." She pointed to the other torture table that was next to Raven. "Now, lay down there and I'll cuff you up."
"Why do I have to be cuffed up?" asked Charlotte as she laid down.
The evil fairy cuffed Charlotte to the table and placed a second metal helmet that was connected to the machine. "It's just a precaution, dear. That's all." she said simply.
"Ms. Fairywell!"
The elderly fairy spun around and saw Greenly standing all by herself, glaring at the wicked fairy. But the fairy didn't fly away or even panicked, She was surprised, but her surprise melted into a relaxed smile. "Ah, Greenly. So, you found my little workshop. You've always been sharp as a dragon's fang." She eyed the princess with a glint in her eye. "My, my, you certainly have grown since I mentored you."
Greenly was shocked. But she was more angry than shocked. Ms. Fairywell, her former mentor, was behind all his insanity. "Ms. Fairywell, why are you doing this?"
"Why? Why not?" Ms. Fairywell's eyes darkened. "Surely you know what will happen if the Evil Queen's daughter continues to run around free like a wild little animal." she sneered. "Headmaster Grimm may be stupid enough to let the Evil Queen do whatever the hex she wanted, but not this time. The Evil Queen's bloodline will be eliminated once and for all. But don't worry, my niece will play Raven's part and poison Apple so she can get her Happily Ever After blah, blah, blah." She rolled her silver eyes.
"But what about Raven?" asked Greenly.
"Well, once her mind is completely sucked, she'll have as much knowledge as a newborn." Ms. Fairywell grinned an evil smile. "I think giving her a goat's mind sounds like a good idea." She started to laugh. "She can sleep in the family barn on a bed of nice, itchy, smelly hay!" She laughed even harder.
Greenly somped her foot. "That's wrong, Ms. Fairywell. That's just plain wrong."
Ms. Fairywell stopped laughing. She looked at Greenly in a cold manner. "Oh? You think it's wrong?" She crossed her arms. "I had a feeling you'd say hat. You've always been such a goody two-shoes just like your mother. Well, my dear, there's a fine line between being good and having common sense!" She sighed as she raised her arms. "But you know too much. So, I'll just have to make you disappear just like I will to Raven!"
Greenly unsheathed her knife. "Too bad I won't let you!" She charged forward, letting out a battle cry like a true knight.
Just as Ms. Fairywell was going to cast a spell, a tap came to her shoulder. She turned and was staring at the end of Bentley's bugle. Bentley breathed in and blew his horn, activating his power. He let out a loud, destructive sound wave through his horn.
Little Boy Blue, come blow your horn,
The sheep's in the meadow, the cow's in the corn.
Where is that boy who looks after the sheep?
He's under a haystack, fast asleep.
Will you wake him? Oh no, not I,
For if I do, he'll surely cry.
That was Bentley's whole story. But there was more to it than that. The very first Little Boy Blue was a farmer's child who wanted to be a musician. And he wanted to play the horn. So, one day, he decided to practice in the barn. But when he played that first big note, it caused a powerful sound blast that not only destroyed the barn, but blew all the leaves off the trees, shattered the farmhouse's windows as well as flattened the farmhouse! The sheeps had all their wool blown off and were sent flying into the meadow and the family cow was seny flying into the corn field. And Little Boy Blue was knocked back and out cold under a haystack, fast asleep.
And the incident went down in the Storybook of Legends ever since.
Apparenly, Little Boy Blue was born with incredible lung power that only occurs when playing certain musical instruments. But once they learned to master this handicap, they were able to become musicians without flattening any buildings or causing people to go deaf. So, Bentley came from a long line of musicians and he decides to become a trumpet player in his family night club jazz band after he finishes his story.
Ms. Fairywell was blown away as Bentley played his destructive note. The entire room shook as the note blasted through the ceiling. Finally, Bentley stopped playing and observed the damage. The room and everything in it was completely destroyed. It looked like an army of ogres and a dragon had stormed in and tore the place apart. Luckily, Amber had created a magic force field that protected everyone. Well, everyone except Ms. Fairywell.
Amber made her force field disappear and removed the magic earplugs from her ears. "That was close."
"For sure." Ian said, removing his earplugs.
"Good thing I had an extra pair for Raven." said Amber as she removed Raven's earplugs. "She barely missed getting hit by that after I freed her and that other fairy!"
Greenly removed her earplugs. "Did you send the video to Headmaster Grimm, Ian?"
"Is water wet?" asked Ian. "He should be storming in here in three...two..." Right on cue, Headmaster Grimm and Madame Baba Yaga poofed into the destroyed room. Ms. Fairywell was out cold as she was held captive in a magic bubble created by Baba Yaga.
"MS. PEA!" Headmaster Grimm stomped over to the armored princess. "You and your friends report to my office at once!"