AlecReyes19: Well, what is David supposed to do? Pretend like the city DIDN'T disappear?

A-Plus Cassiopeia: Yep, let's just see if it'll work.

BookMast3r: Well, this story is almost finished, so no MAJOR plot twists at the moment.

By this point, Sam, Janet, Brenda, and Amanda had entered through the Mirror dimension by now. With Sam at the lead, the four navigated through the hallway.

"I can't believe Izzy is a mirror person," Brenda whispered as she tiptoed behind the other children. "Seriously, what other secrets has she been hiding these past two years?"

"Oh, a lot, really," Sam said, though he didn't elaborate. His eyes were glowing bright blue in the darkness, which he was using as flashlights to help the four of them see where they were going.

"So, what are we going to do when we find Izzy's reflection?" Brenda asked nervously, huddled between Janet and Amanda and shivering.

"I don't know yet," Sam whispered in response. "But we have to do something."

"Maybe we should find David and Isabella," Janet suggested, and Amanda tensed a bit. She wouldn't admit it, but she was still somewhat scared of Isabella after what had transpired at the orphanage two years prior.

Sam stopped the group in the middle of the hallway. "Look, there's a doorway," He said, pointing to a door at the end of the hallway. "That leads outside." The four began to sprint towards the door, but before they could get far, Kizzy and Lizzy passed in front of them, both of them mumbling about something.

Sam attempted to hide away, but he wasn't quick enough. The two girls turned around and faced the four, and all eyes widened in mixtures of shock and terror.

For a few moments, everyone was quiet. Everyone waited for whoever was brave enough to speak up.

Eventually, Kizzy finally found her voice. "Sam, what are these three doing here?" She asked, her voice sending shivers down Sam's spine. He didn't know how to respond to her, especially with Lizzy with her.

However, he didn't need to. Janet walked in front of Sam, as if she were shielding him from the two girls. "We're here to save the city," She explained, firmly but not aggressively.

"Save the city?" Lizzy asked. "From what?"

Janet realized that Mirror Isabella hadn't informed either of the two of what she had just done since it would only have hindered her. She breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that the two weren't in on what Mirror Isabella had done.

"Mirror Isabella trapped the city somewhere," She went on. "We're here to find her."

Kizzy and Lizzy simultaneously got a confused look on their face as they processed what had happened. "You mean to tell me that our guardian just caused a whole city to vanish?" Kizzy asked. Janet nodded.

Lizzy and Kizzy began to whisper to themselves, and then their eyes brightened up. "Her mirror!" Lizzy half-shouted, half-whispered. "She created a mirror that can trap anything she has seen within it. She probably trapped the whole city inside of it."

"She what?" Sam shouted. "We need to find it before she does something crazy!"

"She ran off into the forest," Kizzy explained. "At first, we were confused. She'd called a bunch of people here for this party, and then she just ran off when they arrived. Now I see why she did that."

"Well, we have to go find her," Sam said, and he gestured for the group to follow him towards the door. However, Kizzy called out, "You might want to be careful! There are wolves in that forest."

For a moment, all four froze a bit, and Sam turned to face the other three. "Mirror Isabella often feeds a group of wolves near a tar pit. That's probably where she went."

"Do you really think we can fight off those wolves?" Brenda asked, uncertain.

"We'll never know unless we try," Sam said. "So let's go." The group was about to walk towards the door, but Amanda paused when she heard what sounded like weeping coming from down the corridors.

"I know that sound," She whispered, then said, "Guys, go on. I need to go find someone." With that, she ran down the hallways.

The remaining three pushed open the door, and found themselves outside. Outside, everything was a bright, colorful, and glittery blue. The ground and lakes looked like they were made out of crystal, and the three could see two blue moons up in the sky.

"Wow..." Brenda whispered in awe. "I never thought I'd see something like this..."

"Yeah, I know, it's beautiful, let's go," Sam said, uninterested as he'd seen the Mirror dimension much more times than she had. Grabbing Brenda and Janet by the arms, he dragged them towards the forest to find Mirror Isabella.

As Sam had predicted, Mirror Isabella had indeed arrived at the tar pit in the forest.

It was the largest area of asphalt in the forest, and was infamous for how it would suck in anything that got stuck in it. Often, children would throw things like rocks and twigs into the pit just to see how it sucked in. Mirror Isabella, especially, loved to do this. It was one of the only things she truly enjoyed.

Currently, she was holding the mirror in her hands. Holding it to her face, she saw the whole city, trapped within the glass. She smirked a bit, not of happiness but relief. She knew exactly what she'd do. She'd throw the mirror into the tar pit, and Sam and Isabella would be free of their obsession.

Raising the mirror over her head, she prepared to throw it in. She sucked in a huge breath as she prepared to throw it into the par pit and be rid of it forever. However, she felt like something was stopping her.

Even with the mirror raised right over the pit, it was like something was keeping her from simply dropping it in. She strained her arm, as if struggling to deposit it into the tar pit, but she felt overpowered.

Just do it, That voice in her head was whispering towards her. Why do you hesitate? Everyone in that city is flawed, crude. They deserve this. Just let the mirror go.

Yet, even as the mirror was held limply by her fingers, she felt trapped, almost like the city was within the mirror. After a few moments, she backed away from the tar pit and against a tree.

"If I do this, I'm never going back," She whispered as she sunk down onto the ground, covering her face as tears began to seep out of her eyes.

She didn't want to do this, she never did. She'd wished she'd never done it.

"Mirror Isabella."

Instantly, the girl looked up to see Isabella and David standing in front of her. As she saw the beside each other, her despair was replaced with anxiety.

"What are you doing here?" She asked, getting to her feet. "Isabella, why are you with him."

"We just want the mirror," David replied firmly. "I want my family back, my city. Just hand it over."

Mirror Isabella's fingers tightened around the handle of the mirror, and her eyes narrowed at the two. "Y-You can't have it!" She snapped angrily. "I'm doing this for Sam."

"No, you're not," Isabella said. "You're harming him, and I know you don't want to do this."

Mirror Isabella hugged herself as she felt herself cornered by the two. She felt like cat, trapped with no way out. However, cats would fight back when they were cornered.

Standing straight, Mirror Isabella glared at the two angrily. "You can't have the city!" She shouted as her eyes darkened. She aimed a finger at David and a sparkle of electricity was fired at him. David dodged and the lightning zapped against a tree.

"I was hoping things wouldn't have to end in violence," Isabella lamented as she took a fighting stance. As she did so, dozens of eyes began to peer out from in the forest and stared at the three.

Isabella recognized what eyes those belonged to.

Wolves.

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