Ok so this chapter and the next 3 chapters Dragon Games! Now that does mean a lot of spoilers so if you want to back out now until you see it for yourself I can understand that. If you've already seen it or don't care about being spoiled than stay here. Note that because this story has ocs and to fit the pairings things will be a little different here mostly stuff added in.

I still own nothing but the plot my ocs which still doesn't include Rotbart

Mentions of Way Too Wonderland

Revised 6/15/20

Normal Pov

Ever since the students' first bending lessons took place things have been going pretty well for all of them. Especially after that unexpected trip to Wonderland because now even Apple seemed to agree to let everyone do their own thing finally. And now Raven was becoming very popular with everyone now that she had her powers under her control; it would seem that the book Andrea gave her really went a long way now everyone was following her around and asking Raven to help them by using her magic.

"Raven, I broke a nail and gave myself a splinter!" Cedar tells her friend in a panic holding up her hand.

"No problem, Cedar." Raven says than uses her magic to get rid of it.

"Um, I toasted marshmallows with dragon fire and the soot stained my teeth!" Daring says running up to her and showing her the damage which Raven quickly fixes.

"I dropped my mirrorpad and I can't film my mirrorcast this afternoon!" Blondie says while showing her the broken mirrorpad which Raven fixes with her magic.

"Raven, help me! I'm next! I'm next!" Could be heard from all around her overwhelming her since she was still getting used to people coming to her with their problems.

"Okay you guys, as much as I would love to, I can't do spells all day!" Raven says in a bit of a nervous panic after all she had something to do today that she was now late for. Rotty is probably standing alone waiting in Grimm's office right now! "Apple!" Raven says happily when she spots her friend.

"Hi Raven!" Apple says cheerfully while approaching her.

"I'm so late! You know who is gonna have an epic meltdown!" Raven says nervously. "And Rotty is not going to be too happy either."

"Go, go, go! I've got this." Apple says with a laugh hurrying Raven along.

"I owe you one Apple." Raven says thankfully as she leaves the crowd of demanding students.

"That's what friends forever after are for." Apple says as she happily looks at the crowd only to move aside as Tiny step forward from the crowd.

"The billygoats are in a jam and it's my jam!" Tiny says as he shows Apple the large jar of jam that the three goats were now stuck in.

"I'd be happy to help." Apple tells Tiny as she moves to try to get the goats out of the jar.

"We want Raven-not you!" The Billygoats replied much to Apple's shock.

Raven was nervously heading towards the headmaster's office wondering about what today's meeting would bring.

"Good luck today!" Lizzie says from where she was playing cards with Maddie and Darling.

"And keep away from the glass!" Darling added as Raven walked passed them.

"Thanks guys." Raven says as she continues on her way still nervous although it could be understood after all it was visiting day. The day she and her brother would see their mother in mirror prison, it had taken a lot of work to get Rotbart to even agree come with her since he was so convinced that all of their mother's attention would just be on her. Raven walks into the headmaster's office to see her brother and Headmaster Grimm waiting for her.

"Miss. Queen. Sign here." Headmaster Grimm says holding up a release form and a pen to which Raven signs the document.

"You're late." Rotbart says coolly to his sister, he was very annoyed though only she could have been able to notice that.

"I got held up in traffic." Raven says plainly knowing that Rotbart would likely know why and also know not to argue with her.

"Now remember keep away from-" Headmaster Grimm begins to say to the two siblings.

"The glass. We know, we know." Raven says having had to deal with this rule for the longest time.

Headmaster Grimm pushes a button hidden under his desk and the two walk over to the opening bookcase to get to the mirror that held their mother inside.

"You know she is not going to be happy with how you've been using your powers." Rotbart stated as the two began walking up the steps.

"I know and we've all been over this I don't want to be evil!" Raven tells him with a glare. "She is just going to have to get used to it."

"Highly unlikely you're her little black bird, her precious raven." Rotbart states as they move closer to the end of their journey. Though he was good at holding it in Raven could tell that there was still some bitter feelings he held for their mother.

"Rotty you know she cares about you just as much as she cares about me!" Raven tries to reason with her brother.

"I'm bred to die Raven, that's all I will ever be to her." Rotbart continues to say evenly. It hurt to think that it really did but that's how life had treated him so why think that now would be any different.

"You don't have to do that anymore Rotbart, things are different now." Raven says sadly to him.

"Things may be different now Raven, but watch she'll still be the same." Rotbart says as the two finally made it to the door that would bring them face to face with their mother again.

When Raven open the door though a large dragon stood in front of the two and began to shoot fire from its mouth in excitement.

"Nevermore!" Raven says happily as she moves in to hug her dragon that shrinks into a smaller size. "Who's a good dragon?" Raven says cooing to her pet. Nevermore makes a sound that clearly showed she was worried. "Don't worry I can handle mom." Raven says as she continues on.

Nevermore turns and makes the worried noise again to Rotbart. "She'll be okay Nevermore." Rotbart says giving the dragon a pat on the head and following after his sister. Though I'm not so sure about myself.

Rotbart makes it just in time to see the image of their mother appear in the mirror it would seem that she had been exercising before they got there.

"Raven!" The Evil Queen says happily.

"Hi, mom." Raven answers back.

"I've been waiting forever after! How do I look?" The Evil Queen asked now getting off the bicycle and standing tall in front of the mirror.

"You look great mom." Raven says as calmly as she could. "Doesn't she Rotbart?" She added hoping to get some attention focused on her brother.

"As always. Hello mother." Rotbart says now standing next to Raven he stood tall and proud on the outside but on the inside he was wondering how his mother would react to him being there.

"How's school?" The Evil Queen asked as the two sibling flinched inwardly as their mother ignored Rotbart's greeting completely.

"School's great, actually." Raven says with a bit of false happiness.

"Have you been a bad girl?" The Evil Queen asked already knowing the answer.

"Well…I" Raven begins to say awkwardly not knowing how she would explain the truth to her mother.

"I know you've been using your powers for good, helping others. Where did I go wrong?" The Evil Queen said like the very idea of her only daughter helping others was destroying her.

"Things have changed, mom. It's not like back when you went to school here. We can choose our own destiny!" Raven tries to plea with her mother.

"I know one thing hasn't changed it's better to be feared than forgotten!" The Evil Queen says forcefully.

"It's true everybody fears you." Raven says a bit annoyed.

"Thank you. Get me out of here, and I'll show you the way. We'll rule side by side, we'll take over Ever After High together. It'll be a great bonding experience. Like shopping only instead it's world domination." The Evil Queen begs Raven as she walks away from the mirror.

"Take over the school? Why would I want to hurt my friends?" Raven asked starting to get more and more upset. "Don't you get it? I never want to be like you! I want to choose my own happily ever after!" Unknown to Raven as she gets more upset her powers start flaring up and getting out of control.

"Let out that aggression. Go on! Hit the glass Raven." The Evil Queen says excitedly happy to see her daughter's power in action but Nevermore jumps in front of the girl causing her to calm back down. "Oh! Nevermore!" She says in frustration at the dragon casing him to freak out and get paint all over herself.

"Nice try mom. You want me to break the mirror." Raven says with a chuckle as she picks up her pet and starts walking back to the mirror. "You're not getting out that easily."

"Can't blame an evil queen for trying. Your brother at least understands that much. I'm sure Rotbart here would be my bad little bird and free me?" The Evil Queen says with a laugh of her own.

"I'm sorry I didn't even realize you knew that I was even here let alone still your son." Rotbart adds bitterly.

"Oh not this again, you know you're just like your father always whining over not getting enough attention or-" The Evil Queen begins to say annoyed.

"Or I'm just waiting for my own mother to at least say hello to me and acknowledge that I'm here." Rotbart says evenly trying to hold back his temper.

"You guys pleases don't do this!" Raven says hoping to stop another fight between them.

"Don't even know why I'm here." Rotbart whispers under his breathe.

"Ahem. Visiting hours are over!" Headmaster Grim says coming into the room to get the two students.

Raven and Rotbart quickly and quietly leave the room having had enough of their mother for one day.

"Oh, I'll find a way to break this mirror. And then Ever After will be facing a lot worse than seven years of bad luck. Count on it." The Evil Queen says to herself inside the mirror prison.

Raven was now standing by her locker getting books for her next class with Nevermore standing beside her. Rotbart of course had gone away and Raven could only hope that he would calm down before he took his anger out on some poor victim.

"Yeah, mom can be pretty intense." Raven said petting her dragon which was still covered in paint.

"Hey Raven," Poppy says as she and her sister approach the girl.

"Hey guys." Raven greets the twins.

"How was visiting day?" Poppy asked Raven cheerfully hoping it went well for her friend.

"Aw. What happen to you, girl?" Holly says sadly to Nevermore noticing the paint all over her body.

"Don't ask." Raven says evenly.

"Someone sure needs a bath!" Poppy says to Nevermore petting her on the head.

"My mom really spooked Nevermore. She wound up with a bit of a messy makeover." Raven says as they all giggle.

"We can groom Nevermore for you!" Holly offered.

"Sounds like a job for Holly and Poppy." Poppy adds with determination.

"The O'Hair Twins." Holly finishes as she and he sister smile happily.

"That would be great thanks." Raven says gratefully leaving the twins to take care of Nevermore. Now I can go check to make sure that Rotty hasn't gone off to kill anyone for looking at him the wrong way.

With Rotbart

I shouldn't be surprise not one bit. Hell I shouldn't even be mad but I am. After all it has been this way since we were young. It's not that I believe our mother doesn't love me because I do believe she does it just that whatever Raven was, is or going to do was always more important. Maybe it's because she wants Raven to follow in her footsteps so badly or maybe it's because she would never fully approve that my role as a villain use to count on me being in love and she sees it as weak. Why isn't it enough that I'm trying to follow in her footsteps and not my father's anymore?

At this moment Rotbart was walking towards the only place that he could find some peace of mind. He was so looking forward to being all alone but of course SHE had to ruin it be being there already.

"Can't I go one day without being bothered by you?" Rotbart barks angrily at Andrea.

"You can and you have dear Darkest Prince and you also know that I like to meditate here so clearly not everything I do is to bother you." Andrea says evenly from where she was seated. In the months that followed Andrea had started to refer to Rotbart as Darkest Prince or sometimes just Darkest.

"Part of what you do is to bother me, you can admit that much to be true." Rotbart whispers bitterly though he would never show it he very much enjoyed being called Darkest.

"I'm guessing things didn't turn out well today." Andrea says with a sigh as she sadly looks at him.

"Now what would make you think that?" Rotbart says sarcastically.

"The fact that you're pissed off might be a clue." Andrea answers him.

"I'm always pissed off." Rotbart answers evenly. "Well at least whenever I'm near you it would seem I'm pissed off, I wonder why that is?" He says while rolling his eyes.

"It's a mystery isn't it?" Andrea says ignoring his behavior. "And try not to worry so much a lot of mothers can be so caught up in their own lives that they don't realize how wrong they are."

"I doubt that anyone can be as bad as my own mother! She is the Evil Queen." Rotbart says shaking his head in disbelief. "You can't get any worse than that."

With Snow White

Currently at the present moment the fairest Queen of all the land was on her way to work while being debriefed on how her business was going and how her own daughter was doing in school.

"How is my enchanted tape collection selling?" Snow asked after being let out of her car by one of the dwarves; and a dwarf showed that it was selling very well. "Hexcellent. My daughter will live comfortably ever after. By the way, how is Apple doing in school?" A dwarf showed her grades. "Straight A's! Perfect. Bending lessons? Wonderful. What about socially? How are her ratings?" Snow asked as she and the dwarves walked to her office only to be shocked to learn that Raven Queen was more popular than her Apple. "Apple's popularity is down?! And who is…Raven is up? This is fairy, fairy bad news!" Snow says taking a closer look at the ratings. "Set up a video call to my daughter." She orders.

With Apple

Apple at that moment was sitting at her desk trying not to feel upset over the fact that people were preferring Raven over her when her mother appeared on her mirrorpad.

"Once upon a Hi, mom!" Apple says happily picking up her mirrorpad to speak with her mother.

"Apple, I am fairy concerned about you." Snow says cutting right to the chase. "There is no easy way to say this, Apple-pie, but your popularity is down 13 percent!"

"It-it's Raven! Everyone loves her now that she's using her powers for-for good." Apple explains now even more upset. "Mom, it's terrible!"

"You need to be proactive my little dove. Remind the world of our fairytale. Perhaps there's some way you could nudge Raven toward evil?" Snow suggests as she ponders the idea.

"I-I wouldn't do that." Apple says shaking her head.

"Remember she's still her mother's daughter. And so are you." Snow tells Apple. "So ask yourself, how badly do you want our happily ever after?" Snow asked the last part forcefully.

"Mom, you know how much I heart our family tradition!" Apple says just as forcefully a bit shock that her mother would doubt her.

"Sometimes destiny needs a push my sweet. I'll see what I can do from here to give you a boost." Snow tells her.

"I'll think about it, mom." Apple says as she hangs up the mirrorpad.

"Gather all business dwarves! Put a task force together, it's time to make this Apple shine." Snow says ordering the dwarves to get to work.

Apple was sighing sadly from her desk when she heard the door open. "Hi Raven."

"Hi Apple." Raven says walking into the room still upset from earlier.

"So how was seeing your mom?" Apple asked hopefully. "Are you feeling any evil-er?" She asked her roommate who was now staring out the window.

"What? No!" Raven says in surprise at the very idea. "Uh, maybe. I don't know. My mom makes me want to scream sometimes and I can only image what my brother is doing since he is likely to be upset as well."

"That's good! That's good. Maybe scream and then, um explode something with dark magic!" Apple suggest much to Raven's surprise.

"Sounds like I'm not the only princess who got an earful from her mom today." Raven says knowingly. "So how's she doing?"

"She's worried that I'm not following in her fairytale footsteps." Apple explained with a sigh.

"Hm. That's the one thing your mom and my mom can agree on." Raven says evenly as Apple nods in agreement as well. "But you still have Rotbart as your villain if that helps."

"I guess so?" Apple says although she couldn't completely agree with her roommate on that.

Later that night Apple was having a hard time falling asleep thinking about everything that was going wrong with her life. Mom's disappointed in me. Raven doesn't want to be evil and Rotbart is not supposed to be in my story and who knows what he plans to do in it? She moves from her bed and stands in front of her mirror.

"Mirror, mirror on the wall, why is life so unfairest after all?" Apple says to the mirror not knowing that the Evil Queen was listening to her complaint.

"I spy doubt. And doubt makes room for the worm to get into the Apple." The Evil Queen says now coming up with a new plan. She uses her magic to make an apple which she sends to Apple. "Follow me." A voice says to Apple not realizing it was the Evil Queen.

"What?" Apple says in confusion to the glowing floating apple.

"Follow me." The apple says as it leads Apple away from the dorm room and to a magic portal that transfers Apple to the same room that The Evil Queen's mirror prison is being held.

"You poor thing. Tell me your troubles." The Evil Queen says from the mirror.

"I can't talk to you." Apple says with a gasp.

"Oh Apple, we have so much more in common than you know." The Evil Queen says.

"What-what do you want?" Apple asked nervously.

"The same thing you want! I could help you, you know. I can restore things to the good old ways, steer Raven on her course of evil and get Rotbart to leave you alone, so you get your happily ever after. But I can't do it from inside the mirror." The Evil Queen says plainly.

"Even if I trusted you, I can't let you out of the mirror that would be wrong." Apple tells her.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I thought maybe you were like your mother." The Evil Queen said causing Apple to gasp it was a low blow. "When her time came, your mother embraced her fairytale destiny. She did whatever it took."

These words were making Apple more and more upset hearing someone else say that she wouldn't do whatever it took to fulfill her destiny. "I am not afraid! I will do whatever it takes and I am like my mother! And my destiny is mine!" Apple shouted not realizing how upset she was until she had thrown the apple at the glass breaking the mirror and setting the Evil Queen free.

"Years in a mirror prison without a single reflective surface to gaze at myself upon now that's torture." The Evil Queen says while looking at herself on a piece of glass that was wedged in the apple.

"I'm sorry. I need to go. I-I you're good, right? Bad?" Apple stutters now trying to get away from what she has done. "I-I can't help you."

"Too late. You want your friends or your mother to know you released the Evil Queen?!" The Evil Queen says mockingly.

"You can't just walk into school and talk to Raven and Rotbart! What happens if somebody recognizes you? I'll get in trouble and-" Apple tries to plea.

"Good point. I'll need to re-invent my look to blend in with today's teens. Let's make some magic." The Evil Queen says using the apple to cast her spell. "From old to young a journey back to fit in would be prudent erase what time's cruel hands done make me a high school student!" And with that the transformation had been complete. "I'll need a name. How about Mira? Mira Shards." She says with a laugh and a younger sounding voice.

"You're a teenager." Apple says uncomfortably.

"Ready my new best friend forever after? Time to go back to high school." Mira says wrapping her arms around Apple much to her discomfort. "Let's do this!"

Meanwhile with the O'Hair twins

"Wow, Poppy, this paint is hard to get off." Holly says as she and her sister try to clean up Nevermore.

"Tell me about it Holly. And we're almost out of scale polish." Poppy says going to dip her rag in a bucket of water only for it to knock over and land on Nevermore's head causing her to lose control.

"My hair!" Holly says as Nevermore confusion a bucket of paint to land on her head.

"Bad dragon! Sit!" Poppy scolded.

Nevermore does manage to calm down and sit but not without causing a bit more damage.

"Poppy, we're gonna need some kind of armor if we're going to stay in the dragon grooming biz." Holly states to her sister.

"Uh huh!" Poppy agrees.

Next day in the café

Apple and 'Mira' were walking towards a table that Darling and Cerise were sitting at.

"Everyone, I want you to meet the new girl-my old friend Mira!" Apple explains.

"What's down!" Mira says to the two girls.

"Up. What's up?" Apple whispers to Mira correcting her.

"Agh. What's up, new friends?" Mira says.

"I'm Darling, Darling Charming. How do you guys know each other?" Darling asked.

"Neighbors. Camp." Apple and Mira said at the same time.

"Yeah, we went to neighboring camps." Mira explained as she sat down.

"Hi, I'm Cerise Hood. What school did you-" Cerise began to ask.

"I was home schooled." Mira interrupts to explain.

"Oh, hello. Welcome to Ever After High! I'm Ashlynn, that's Lizzie and Raven." Ashlynn says introducing herself and her two friends. "Love your outfit!"

"You look wicked." Raven says in agreement.

"You're Raven Queen?!" Mira says in surprise. "You're like a spellebrity! Daughter of the greatest villain in all of fairytale history?!"

"Who, my mom?" Raven asked in surprise.

"I wonder where my memo went that explains that we're spellebrities because of mother." Rotbart said sarcastically approaching his sister.

"Yeah she's a queen alright." Raven says laughing a bit turning to her brother.

"A drama queen." They both said at the same time, not noticing the shocked look on Mira's face or hearing Apple's groan at their insult.

"How are you feeling Rotty?" Raven asked her brother.

"No one's dead." Rotbart replied plainly then for the first time takes a real notice of Mira. "Who is this?"

"Mira Shards. She's Apple's old friend." Raven explain.

"From neighboring camps." Apple says with false cheerfulness that Rotbart raises an eyebrow at.

"And what were the names of these neighboring camp?" Rotbart says in an even tone that most people wouldn't be able to tell was suspicion, but before he could get an answer Holly and Poppy walked in with a cleaned up Nevermore.

"Well, what do you think? All clean up." Poppy asked as she gestured to Nevermore.

"Nevermore! Oh, she looks very-" Raven began to say hugging the dragon.

"Bow-dacious!" Holly says giggling fixing up the large bow on Nevermore's head.

"Wow, Raven your dragon is so cute!" Mira tells her but Nevermore gasps in horror at Mira and starts going on a rampage to get away from her and setting the café on fire.

"Raven Queen what is your animal doing in the castleteria?!" Headmaster Grimm asked in anger after just barely avoiding being hit with fire.

"I'm sorry Headmaster Grimm. It won't happen again!" Raven promises sadly.

"Nevermore! Get back here!" Holly calls out.

"Strange I've never seen Nevermore act that way with anyone…wait now there was one person?" Rotbart says with a smirk having been observing Mira's reaction to the chaos and noticing Apple's nervousness. "Oh that's right it was-"

"Rotbart! I have to talk to you about poisoning me!" Apple yelled out suddenly.

"What?!" Rotbart says in shock being a bit thrown off.

"Yeah, yeah we have to talk over there!" Apple says grabbing his arm and pulling him away before Raven or anyone else noticed. "Waaay over there!"

Only when the two were away from the other students did Rotbart finally snapped out of his shock and pulled his arm away from Apple.

"Oh Apple, Apple White what have you done?" Rotbart asked in a mocked disappointed tone.

"What-what makes you think I did anything?" Apple asked nervously not being able to look him in the eye.

"You can't lie to save your life Apple Core. Especially not to me, did you really think I wouldn't recognize my own mother?" Rotbart questions with a dark chuckle.

"It was an accident!" Apple said now pacing a bit. "She got me mad and before I could think about it, I threw this stupid apple and then she was out and-"

"And you're helping her stay free, even covering her back with her false identity and background." Rotbart says knowingly. "Oh, and how would the world react if they knew that perfect Apple White set the Evil Queen free from mirror prison and kept the truth from everyone after?"

"They're going hate me and m-mom-" Apple begins to groan sadly.

"You know I thought that after your trip to Wonderland that there would be no hope of you becoming a Sour Apple." Rotbart begins to say towering over her. "But this might be even better than your evil personality at Spring Fairest. I like it, the breaking out dangerous criminals, and the lying it's so attractive hmm what else do you plan to do?"

"Shut up!" Apple says with a blush she didn't like where he was going with his thoughts. "She said she was going to help get Raven to be evil!"

"And you believed that?" Rotbart says shaking his head at her foolishness.

"You don't think she'll be able to do it?" Apple asked though she really wanted to hear him say yes so that she knew that her story was getting back on track.

"Only time will time." Rotbart said evenly, though he was hiding it he was a bit upset that his mother's focus after breaking out of prison was just only on Raven…again. Her little black bird. "Oh, and Apple I hope you realize that you'll owe me something in order to keep me silent about your deal with evil?"

"What-what do you want?" Apple asked nervously taking a step back away from him.

"Oh, Apple Core trust me," Rotbart says menacingly moving in to close the gap between them and forcing her to look up at him. "When the time comes I'll just take what I want from you my Sour Apple." And with that said he let her go and walked away.

Meanwhile with Raven

Raven was walking in the hallway when she was stopped by Mira.

"Hey, Raven are you okay?" Mira asked the younger girl seeing as how she was upset.

"Yeah, I don't know what's gotten into Nevermore. She doesn't normally spook like that!" Raven explained in a confused tone.

"That was unfairest of Grimm to bust you like that. Why didn't you blame Holly and Poppy?" Mira asked. "They brought a dragon into the castleteria!"

"Uh, that's not what friends do." Raven told her as the bell ranged. "Well, I better get to science and sorcery class."

"Actually, I'm in that class, maybe you can show me the ropes?" Mira asked hopefully.

"Sure. Let's go." Raven said and they walked to class.

Later on the two were in General Villainy class as Mr. Badwolf was handing out the results for a past exam.

"Here are your general villainy exam results." Mr. Badwolf snarls passing the papers back. "Room for improvement Miss Queen. Disappointing seeing as how well your brother did in this class."

Raven just looks at the F on her paper and sighs. "Cast a spell on the teacher and get straight A's. That's what I did in school." Mira tells her.

"Wait, I thought you were home schooled?" Raven asked in confusion.

"Talking in class, huh?" Mr. Badwolf snarls suddenly behind them. "Encouraging cheating? Raven stick with this new girl you could learn a thing or two." He says clearly impressed with Mira.

Later on in gym class Coach Gingerbreadman was showing the students how to do the Candy Cane pole vault.

"Candy Cane pole vault! This old Gingerbreadman is about to show you how to take the cake!" The Coach says running with the candy cane only for Mira to make it grow larger causing the Coach to lose his balance and fall into the basket. "Raven Queen! Was it you?!"

"No sir!" Raven said quickly stopping herself from laughing. "But I kinda wish it was!" Raven whispers to Mira.

Later on in the café Raven, Apple and Mira were eating lunch when Darling and Cerise came over to join them only for Mira to forcefully but her hands down on the seats.

"We were saving these seats. Sorry." Mira says although her tone suggested just the opposite of apologetic. Darling and Cerise huffed at her rudeness but walked away quietly.

"That wasn't fairy nice. Darling and Cerise are my friends!" Raven says while Apple looks on nervously.

"Nice will only get you so far. To be really popular you need a little fear factor." Mira explains evenly. "Right Apple?"

"Um, I suppose there's truth in that." Apple says as calmly as possible.

"There is no truth in that at all Apple!" Andrea states from behind having been approaching the group. "Trust me fear doesn't go well with popularity one bit."

"I'm sorry and how would you know?" Mira asked the new comer with a stuck up tone.

"You don't know fear like I know fear." Andrea says glaring down at the girl something about this girl didn't seem right.

"I'm sure we would know better I mean Raven is the daughter of the most evil villain ever!" Mira argues back.

"Um, Mira see Andrea is the daughter of Hades." Apple explained nervously.

"H-Hades as in-" Mira begins a bit more impressed and nervous.

"God of the Underworld the being that can torture souls endlessly, where as any villain in the here in now is just a little piece of dirt in the face of true fear." Andrea says evenly. "That's true fear factor few people will ever be able to understand that let alone achieve it. But I'm not here to talk about my father's work have any of you seen Blondie?"

"No, Andrea why?" Raven asked curiously.

"I need her to announce that bending lessons will be put on hold for the week. Can't say why though the Fates won't tell me." Andrea said with a shrug before anyone could answer Andrea's question Holly and Poppy ran up to the table.

"Um, Raven don't freak out but we were trying this new scale polish on Nevermore and well she took off." Poppy explained nervously.

"We set up a grooming station in the old dragon stables behind the school. That's the last place we saw her. We thought maybe if you called her." Holly finished explaining.

"Maybe she's just hiding somewhere and won't come out! We sorry." Poppy said apologizing.

"Thanks for getting me. Let's go." Raven said and they all stood up to start searching for the dragon.

The group had spent the next hour searching for the lost dragon even somehow managing to get Rotbart to join in the search.

"Maybe if we fly around we'll be able to find Nevermore?" Andrea suggested to Rotbart.

"I don't think there is any need Nevermore wouldn't stray too far from Raven even if she is spooked." Rotbart answered as the group continues the search.

"Why would she be spooked?!" Andrea asked.

"She doesn't seem to like a certain person's presence." Rotbart answered calmly. "And no I'm not telling you who." He added knowing the question would come up.

"Darkest?" Andrea says in a warning tone.

"Hey for once I didn't do anything!" Rotbart argues. "I just have information that I'm unwilling to share."

"But if you know who did and aren't saying anything that could be just as bad as doing it yourself!" Andrea scolded.

"I know." Rotbart said, though his tone was still even Andrea could tell that he was pleased with himself for some reason.

The group's traveling had eventually lead them to a part of the school that hadn't been used for a while.

"Wow! The old dragon games arena." Apple said in a dreamy tone.

"Dragon games sound wicked!" Mira says happily. "Have you ever played, Raven? You have a dragon."

"I know but dragon games was my mom's thing and I really don't want to be like her." Raven says not noticing the disappointed look on Mira's face.

"Hmm, interesting." Andrea whispers coolly.

"What is?" Rotbart asked having been standing near enough to hear her.

"All three of you share similar magical signatures how strange. I mean I know you and Raven are siblings but Mira-" Andrea begins to explain.

"Might be a distant relative or something after all my mother's side of the family has to work with magic mirrors." Rotbart calmly says hoping to cover for his mother.

"Right, she's just a 'distant relative' that happens to look a lot like Raven." Andrea says before walking away, her tone suggested that she didn't believe him but was going to let it go.

"Why did Headmaster Grimm close the dragon center down?" Apple asked.

"You mean, you don't know?" Holly asked pulling out her mirrorpad to explain. "Dragon games can be very dangerous. They say Snow White and the Evil Queen were the greatest dragon game captains ever after."

"They were wicked completive with their destinies and all." Poppy added.

"Did you know Legend is the last dragon from that original brood?" Holly says and then sudden the sound of roar came from the old dragon stable.

"That's a dragon cry." Mira says pointing to the stable.

"Nevermore!" Raven says in a panic causing everyone to run towards the stable upon entering the stable Nevermore runs towards Raven. "Oh, there you are!" Raven was relieved to see that her pet was alright but it looked like the sound had been coming from Legend.

"Something is wrong with Legend!" Daring says tending to his dragon as it breathes heavily.

"Body temperature seems really high!" Holly says as she and Poppy look over the dragon.

"Does that mean he's really sick?" Daring asked clearly worried.

"News flash, Daring your trusty steed isn't a he, she's a she!" Mira explains laughing at him. "And she's not sick."

"I think it's time!" Holly says in excitement causing the other girls to giggle.

"What time?" Daring asked clearly confused.

"Ahem." Mira says rocking her arms like you would a baby.

"Oh, that time!" Daring says only to faint soon after.

"Goodness what's he gonna do when he has his own baby on the way?" Andrea says shaking her head and laughing.

"Please, who would bred with him?!" Rotbart adds in.

"So what are we supposed to do now? How can we help Legend give birth?" Raven asked the group.

"You mean lay eggs Raven! And don't worry I've done this kind of thing before from dragons to hellhounds my dad has a lot of monsters to look after." Andrea says confidently.

"Sooo-" Rotbart began to ask.

"No Rotbart you can't have a hellhound." Andrea says shaking her head at him.

A few hours later Legend had successfully laid her dragon eggs thanks to Andrea.

"Dragonpedia says, in the wild mothers lay their eggs near active volcanoes to warm them until they hatch! Apparently it takes years." Holly explained looking at the mirrorpad.

"Dragon babies must be so cute!" Poppy says excitedly.

"They really are! I got an egg when I was five but it didn't hatch until I was eight the waiting nearly drove me mad!" Andrea says with a sigh. "But Chramander was worth the wait!"

"Aw, I can't wait that long!" Apple says in frustration.

"I could cast a spell to keep the eggs warm." Raven suggest to the group.

"Hot idea!" Holly agreed with a wink.

"Andrea what do you think?" Raven asked the older girl.

"Well, we're not near an active volcano or the lakes of fire like back in the Underworld." Andrea says thinking carefully about it. "I say go for it but be careful."

"Incubation incantation warm with lava imitation!" Raven says casting the spell on the eggs.

"Perfect!" Andrea says proudly not noticing Mira firing up her own magic to add to the eggs.

"This spell could use a power up." Mira whispers to herself than sent a boost of magic from the ground to the eggs causing them to look like they were over heated.

"I must have overdone it!" Raven says in a panic.

"No worries! Fire bright and flames high hurry now out of sight!" Andrea says casting her own spell at the eggs. "See they're okay!" Andrea said once the fire was out.

"Having fun mother?" Rotbart whispered to Mira seeing as how they were both hanging back away from the group.

"Excuse me you must be mistaken." Mira says trying to wave him off.

"I'm not stupid mother and I hope you have a strategy for when Raven figures it out herself." Rotbart says forcefully. "I've got a feeling that she might not take to kindly to your reappearance in her life."

"You really are a clever bird." Mira says with a smirk.

"I learn from the best." Rotbart says with a smirk of his own.

"Why thank you." Mira says smugly.

"Didn't say I learned it from you." Rotbart continues to say darkly with a smirk much to his mother's surprise.

"Raven look those lighter eggs are hatching." Apple says in surprise.

"I want the cutest one!" Poppy exclaimed.

"This is magical!" Holly says as the group watches as the eggs hatch.

"Oh my fairy godmother! This is exciting!" Poppy says picking one of the newly born dragons up.

"And so worth canceling bending lessons!" Andrea says just as happily.

"So cute!" Apple coos at the dragons as they run around one of the dragon's runs up to Daring and licks his face causing him to wake back up.

"Whoa!" Daring says now staring in the face of a baby dragon. In all the excitement the group didn't notice the darker eggs hatching.

"This is bad it got too hot!" Holly says after the eggs had a spike of flames before they hatched. "That can make them turn-"

"Evil!" Apple finished. "Raven are you trying to make evil dragons?!"

"What have I done?!" Raven says in dismay.

Despite the evil dragons word had gotten out that new dragon babies were born and Blondie was there covering the story for her mirrorcast show.

"This is Blondie Lockes reporting live from the dragon stables at Ever After High where dragons roam the hallowed halls." Blondie said to the camera. "It would seem the students of Ever After are eager to adopt these pesky pets. Though the trend seems to be that a dragon chooses you."

Just after Blondie had finished explaining this a dragon flew into Maddie's arms hitting her with a magical blast. "Ooh! Cotton candy! Ooh yum-di-dum!"

Apple was walking towards the darker dragons seeing if they had gotten any better only for one to throw a black lightning bolt at her. "Oh!"

"Perfect!" Rotbart said surprisingly happy while standing next to her. "So vicious, do you want to burn down an innocent village with me hmm do you?"

"How can you like them when they're acting so-" Apple begins to ask not understanding why he liked those evil dragons and also surprised because she had never seen him coo at something before it was both cute and frightening at the same time.

"Evil?" Rotbart finishes picking up the one that flew to him a black dragon with some blue coloring on the scales. "Breaking news Apple Core I'm a villain. So therefore these dragons will appeal to me. Plus the villain in Snow White usually has a dragon and I know how much you're into keeping up with tradition." The last part was a jab and he knew it worked based on the look of her face as she walked away. Good she has to realize that just because mother is here doesn't mean I'm backing out of my role.

"So I guess you're one of the few people that wants one of them?" Andrea asked coming up from behind him and looking into the dark dragons stale.

"People just don't know how to tame dragons of a higher level." Rotbart answered evenly. "Isn't that right Nightmare?!" He continued to coo at his new pet.

"You are something else Darkest really." Andrea says shaking her head and walking away from him.

From outside Raven was watching Mira ride on top of Nevermore much to the dragon's displeasure.

"Raven you have to try this. Nevermore is a natural! Woohoo!" Mira shouts as she rides around on top of the dragon.

"Who will be the next champions of dragon sport? Only time will tell." Blondie says finishing up her show that was unknowing watched by Snow White.

"Why you wicked old thing! Welcome back." Snow says taking a closer look and noticing Mira. "Summon the architects! I've just had the fairest idea of all. This should get Apple back on top, and freshen my pure as snow image too!"

The next day the students were called for a special announcement in the auditorium.

"What is with the sudden assembly?" Mira says in an annoyed voice.

"Hm-hm its top secret no one knows." Raven answered.

"I heard there's a special guest!" Blondie buts in from behind Apple, Mira, Raven and Rotbart.

"Ooh, this is hexciting!" Apple says happily.

"Burning villages is hexciting! This is probably some senseless guest here to talk about how wonderful they are when they're actually not." Rotbart adds in plainly.

"It is my honor to welcome back our most successful graduate, our beloved Queen Snow White!" Headmaster Grimm says dramatically as Snow White appeared to the cheers of most of the students.

"Well what do you know I was right." Rotbart says darkly.

"What is she up to?" Apple questions to herself.

"A little bird told me that dragons have returned to my beloved alma mater. So it's time we restored the good old ways. Today, the dragon games are reinstated at Ever After High!" Snow White announces and most of the audiences cheer at the news.

"Apple I'd like to apologize, I was wrong." Rotbart says out of nowhere.

"What?!" Apple says as she and the group look at him in confusion.

"When I said that the sound of your voice was the worst thing ever I was wrong. Your mother's voice is by far the worse and much more painfully it's like the sound of a nail on a chalk board plus the sound of ten tone deaf walruses all trying to sing at the same time." Rotbart answers.

"The dragon games are tough yet elegant. And I want my ever after riders dressed according." Snow explains as the curtain moves to present the stage as a cat walk. "I've hired the creative team of Lizzie Hearts and Ashlynn Ella to design all new dragon wear."

As the audience cheers Holly and Poppy come out to model the new dragon wear.

"These looks are lightweight, flexible and fashion forward." Lizzie explained.

"Not to mention fireproof, ice-proof and explosion resistant!" Ashlynn adds as Holly and Poppy's dragons show that the dragon wear really was safe.

"Adorable. Now I can't very well bring back dragon riding in an old dilapidated arena!" Snow says showing footage of the dragon arena. "If you'll all follow me outside…"

"Allow me to present the new Ever After High dragon center!" Snow says excitedly once everyone is outside and in the arena. "Hold your applause, please." She says and the students stop cheering. "I must admit this was not my idea. My daughter Apple thought bringing back the dragon games would unite everyone with school spirit!" Snow explains much to the disbelief of said daughter who smiled forcefully at the applause and joined her mother on the stage.

"Way to go, Apple!" Daring says as he and the other students cheer for her.

"Wow! Mom why didn't you tell me about this?" Apple says with a nervous chuckle. "Why did you say it was my idea when it wasn't?" Apple whispers to her mother as she nervously waves at the crowd.

"Oh, you're welcome my little Apple dumpling." Snow says happily.

"But mom, it's a lie." Apple says in shock.

"We discussed this!" Snow says forcefully smiling at the crowd. "Sometimes you've got to pull out all the stops and use your resources to get your fairytale back on track."

"Whoa. Mira was right we are different." Apple says surprised.

"Who?" Snow asked.

"Me." Mira says loudly and the audience gasps. "And you can't always just buy popularity, Snow."

"Miss Shards! Mind your manners!" Headmaster Grimm scolds the new student.

"Mira Shards." Snow says with a laugh. "Oh. Very clever. Rumor has it you're an excellent dragon rider. For a new kid on the block."

"The rumor's true." Mira says annoyed with Snow's tone.

"Only you're not a student. You might have been once back when we were in school. I'd know that arched brow anywhere." Snow says knowingly much to the confusion of the crowd.

"I just wanted to be closer to my daughter!" Mira says much to Raven's confusion at her words and Rotbart's cough as Mira gazes at them. "And Son. You can understand that."

"Daughter?" Raven whispers in confusion.

"And the last horse finally crosses the finished line." Rotbart whispers darkly.

"And to be young again, maybe?" Snow says with a laugh.

"You'd have done it too if you could." Mira says. "So I suppose now you're going to send me back to that awful mirror prison?"

"Mom?!" Raven says loudly as the crowd gasped.

"Sorry, birdy." Mira says and then changes her appearance back to the Evil Queen. "Guilty as charged."

"Yay! The Evil Queen's here!" Maddie exclaims to everyone's shock. "Said no one ever!"

"Rotty!" Raven says throwing a glare to her brother.

"Did not have the pleasure." Rotbart answers evenly. Not even sure if I would have wanted to anyway.

And that's the end of this chapter! Please read and review see ya next chapter!