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AN: I completely rewrote my previous chapters, so please check them out! Some things are a bit switched up, so it might be a bit helpful to read them.
The red carpet had stopped abruptly.
Red tumbled off; Baba Yaga caught her and with a strong but bony hand lifted her back on the carpet.
The odd thing was, when Red fell off, there was nothing to fall to.
Tentatively, she reached a hand out and prepared to feel what she was expecting; nothing. Instead, her hand stopped on something solid.
Baba Yaga cackled. "I see what they did."
"What?" Alice and Red sharply asked.
"Pfft, if I told, it won't be fun. But I will tell you this: they will play with your mind. They will also trick you. Do the most unexpected thing to get what you want."
Red was confused. "Wait, what?"
Baba Yaga shook her head. "Bring the other girl with you. I have some important things to think about."
"Where will we go? Why did we stop here?"
Baba Yaga didn't answer.
Alice nudged Red.
"At ground nor sky will trouble stir, the prophecy said. I think this is the trouble. C'mon, let's go and see what's waiting for us."
Bewildered, Red stared at her fearless friend.
Alice had stood up on the carpet, and very, very carefully, placed a foot outside of the carpet. It was...solid air. She put the other foot down.
And she jumped.
For joy, obviously.
"I can stand on air!" She giggled. She started skipping around, until it became full blown running. The sky was dark, and clouds that Red couldn't see were blocking the stars and the moon. Red could hardly see Alice as she skipped around. Finally, blonde hair was running up to her, slowing to a stop.
"Get up, get up, get up!" Alice chanted.
Red's fear was probably tangible as Alice knelt and held out a hand.
Red felt like jello as she stood on the carpet.
"C'mon slowpoke, just take a step," Alice said exasperatingly.
Shaking, Red had to calm herself. She could feel the wolf growling in the pit of her stomach.
"Are you alright?" Alice asked.
"Yeah. Fine. Just one second, please."
Alice sat down on the air, completely used to the oddness of it all.
Red sat down and, ignoring everything around her, completed two meditation exercises, pretending Baba Yaga's silent and brooding form was Mr. Canis's. She stood up, calm and collected, and pretended she was stepping into the kitchen of Granny Relda's house.
Alice took her hand as Red stepped on the solid air. It was...completely normal, except for the fact that she was walking on air.
A thrill that she rarely felt made her giddy. Until she remembered the prophecy.
She gasped. "Why are we dilly dallying! We need to figure out what this weird thing is!"
Alice laughed. "Of course. Even though this journey will be 3 days long. I don't know if the prophecy meant the actual journey on the carpet, or the journey of these events, and saving Sabrina is the last part of the journey. The problem we have right now, though, is to find the trouble that prophecy said there would be. All I see are far away city lights, and a big forest below."
"Don't remind me, Alice."
"Too late! Forest, forest, many feet below us, just a wrong step and boom, into the bear's jaws we go!"
Red wanted to strangle her joyful friend. Her personality hadn't changed at all since millennia ago.
"Let's just walk around and try to see what the heck is going on." They started walking slowly, Red looking around in the dark cautiously.
"Goodbye!" The two turned to see Baba Yaga pinching the flying carpet, and watched, frightened, as the powerful witch left.
Silent, Red stared at the small figure growing smaller rapidly and the cold breeze made her shiver in fright. Alice gave her friend a small hug.
"It's okay. My powers will help."
"Powers? You always had a knack for knowing when weird things happen, but I never knew you had actual powers."
Alice giggled. "Exactly. They have become stronger and my knack is always right now. It's such a great help. Especially because this problem we have right now is so weird it's the perfect scenario for me."
Red nodded and sighed in relief.
The two let go of each other's hands and walked around, feeling foolish and blind, until Alice let out a yelp. Red whirled, her heart beating wildly.
"What happened?"
"My foot hit something! Come here!"
Running quickly, Red joined Alice's side and the two reaches their hands out, ready to feel something solid.
They did. "It's a wall!" Alice exclaimed.
Red nodded. Closing her eyes, she let out a long breath. In her anxiety, the wolf was threatening to come up again.
Wait.
"Alice!"
"What is it, Red?"
Red hadn't opened her eyes yet. She was bewildered beyond belief.
She could see.
It hadn't started out that way, just the expected darkness that a normal closed eyelid would see, or not see, but after five seconds, there it was.
"Close your eyes Alice!"
A gasp reassured Red that Alice saw it too.
They saw a maze. A large maze. Possibly, an endless maze.
They were in the middle of it.
"Here's your part of the mansion. You have been given the best of the facilities, the quietest and most efficient staff, and of course, the finest of everything else. Let me show you around."
Sabrina smirked and placed her new blood red coat on an elegant chair. She looked around. She practically had her own house.
She couldn't wait to make use of it.
"William, I'd like to see all of the mansion. But I will explore my area myself."
Charming nodded. "That will be done easily. Would you like to use the powder room and freshen up?"
"Of course I will." Turning without another word and not asking for directions, Sabrina walked carefully down the black hallway, simpering at staff that were struggling to carry large platters of food down the hallway.
Seeing the bathroom, she stepped inside. It was empty and painted blood red.
Deciding to just sit down in the waiting room and stare at herself in the mirror, she thought about everything.
Just thinking about the Grimm family made her blood boil. The stupid little girl's pigtails, the ancient woman's sunflower hat and disgusting innocent smile, the old man, crooked and foregone, hopefully going to decease soon.
Then the married couple. The man and his temper. Quite useful actually, but his heart was set in the wrong place. Same thing with the woman.
Then the little monster. Half wolf, half shy idiot. She wasn't even a part of the Grimm family.
She couldn't wait to kill them. Sabrina couldn't believe she was one of them. She pushed that out of her mind. She was the right person now. She knew it.
There was someone else. She couldn't put her finger on it. Oh well, just an extra killing.
She stood up.
She felt a heat in her veins that she relished. The heat didn't cloud her mind; in fact, it cleared it. Her body tingled; the heat made her...angry. Her heart thirsted for power. She loved it.
Exiting the bathroom, she met Charming standing exactly where she left him.
"Shall we?" He grinned, placing her blood red coat on her shoulders.
"Of course."
The two, flanked by soldiers, walked down black hallways and entered blood red rooms. They passed three dining rooms, a very large kitchen, the banquet room, and many other rooms, until the particular hallway they were walking on started to descend.
"Charming?"
"Ah yes. This is where we will see the army. We will pass their training camps, the barracks, the officers' quarters, and of course, the room where we will talk strategy."
"I do apologize, but I prefer to talk strategy in my part of the mansion. I will not walk this far and waste all this time."
Charming frowned, but nodded. "That will be arranged."
They passed the training camps, where ogres, goblins, witches, giants, and many other Everafters were being trained and yelled at. Mud was thrown at their faces. They looked miserable.
Sabrina recognized some from the jail that her "sister" was in for a while. "You released some of the prisoners in that little jail of yours?"
"Yes, we did."
Sabrina started laughing. "I'm glad. This looks like just the place they would enjoy."
The army turned to her when they heard her. Their depressed faces were immediately replaced with one of respect and awe. They knelt on a knee, and Sabrina sneered. "I'm also glad they know what to do when they meet me."
Charming and Sabrina laughed.
They passed all the rooms in the dungeon-like area and turned around. Sabrina thought of something.
"You know...we don't need all of this to kill the Grimms. They're quite weak. I believe there was only one person that protected them."
Charming chuckled. "Two actually. Sabrina Grimm."
She laughed. "Not anymore."
Snickering, he nodded. "And Puck."
She screamed.
Crumpling to the cold floor, she gasped for air, her lungs on fire. Her heart was blazing heat inside of her. Her mind was riddled with memories. She felt like something was trying frantically to rearrange memories she had of...Puck.
She screamed again.
Twitching, her eyes fixed on a fancy fissure on the ceiling, her dry mouth thirsted for water, not power. The heat left. She could actually think for once.
Someone was possessing her.
What had happened to her? Who had she become? She had to escape this place, these people, and go back home and warn her family.
Suddenly, what felt like a bolt of electricity shot down her body. She was too shocked to scream. Jerking, she felt the heat return. It was stronger than before.
The jerking dissipated to a mere tremble. She blinked, confused for a second.
Who was she again?
Definitely not a Grimm. She could hardly think of that family before growling in anger.
She shook her head. Of course she knew who she was.
She was the leader who was going to kill the Grimm family.
Charming and the army had been staring at her with blank faces. Her breathing had become normal, and she was still. Embarrassed, she sat up, and disregarding Charming's hand, stood up herself.
"My apologies. Probably a snack your servants offered me."
Charming raised an eyebrow. "I don't think so. But no matter. I'm glad your head and heart are now in the right place. Let's return you to your quarters so you can get some rest."
Pretending that nothing happened, the two walked the long way back to her door.
They shook hands. "I will see you for dinner." Charming smirked.
"Goodbye, William." She closed the door.
Placing her blood red coat, she walked over to her bedroom door and opened it.
A vast black marble tiled room greeted her. Everything was back marble, except for the gigantic bed with red covers.
She walked over to it, taking off her shoes, ready for a nap. There was a note on the bed.
Dear S,
You're part of our family, and we love you.
I really hope you're okay.
...Love,
Me
Suddenly, what felt like someone opening up and scrutinizing her heart made her eyes glow red. It felt like someone was performing surgery on her heart.
Removed the microscopic part of her heart that hadn't been changed. The part that held love and made her smile with true happiness. Someone removed it.
And replaced it with anger.
She leered at the note. She knew who it was.
And it didn't affect her anymore.
Laughing aloud, she tore the note into little pieces and tossed it to the immaculate black tiles.
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