This is the last upload today I swear! I was just on a roll and wrote the whole entire three or so chapters in one sitting.

SORRY! Also, sorry if this sounds rushed or is bad with timing and pacing. It's my first time working with this fairy tale theme.

Chapter five.

"Heads will roll." Lizzie concluded furiously, pure intent laced through her usually harmless catchphrase after she witnessed the footage. "I'd be more than happy to carry it out too!" She stood up and screamed, slashing the tops off of a whole bouquet of flowers beside her.

She and several other royals were in the Royal study room and none of them could believe it.

Briar very cautiously replied, "No, Lizzie, Apple should decide what to make of it. Seriously, I always knew Daring was a bit of a play-prince but-"

Lizzie cut her off emotionally, "OF WITH HIS HEAD!" Before storming out of the room. Although no one understood her history with Daring they could see she was hurt and didn't say anything else as she slammed the door, a crack appearing diagonally across the wooden structure.

Blondie huffed and stood up, "See? Everyone is affected by this. While I don't personally judge the rebels, I feel it is very selfish of him to go this far with another girl. Sure, Apple might say they've got forever after before they're meant to be, but with the way this is going,"

She tapped her mirrorpad with distaste, "Apple's story is just falling to pieces! First Raven left, but at least back then she still had a Prince Charming to look forward to!"

Briar folded her arms and replied, "hey, you know, at least there are a thousand other guys out there who are willing to give their hearts to Apple... I have to wait a whole century to marry a guy I don't even know!"

Ashlynn didn't say anything, but looked away fiddling with some flowers on the floor trying to ignore what was going on. She and Hunter were no longer the heat of the schools gossip but that didn't make her feel okay with others suffering the same treatment.

She and Briar had had a conversation about their futures shortly before last year's throne coming and she knew where Briar really stood as far as destinies go. At the same time though, they all knew that look in her eyes.

Apple loved Daring, more than she was willing to show. It hurt her when he flirted with the others but she was too kind and afraid of upsetting anyone to speak up about it. This would just break her heart. It was then that she got an idea.

"Hey, before we tell Apple about this, I think I know who we should go to to talk about it first."

Blondie took one look at her and read her mind, "Ashlynn, it doesn't work that way. This is Apple's problem, not ours." She said although appreciative of the offer.

"If anything I think we should at least ask her if its really okay to post this stuff up all over the school." She said.

She sighed and folded her arms defensively, "look, back when Hunter and I were caught out we felt horrible, and I don't think Cerise and Daring deserve that. Apple should find out on her own instead of having it forced on her."

It was then that finally Blondie calmed down enough to put it into perspective. While she still was not happy with what Daring had done, and kept it a secret too, she did remember how hard it had been for Ash and Hunter to integrate back into society when it had happened.

"But, Ash, you didn't have someone promised to you since the day your were born. Apple has been waiting her whole life for him, and he doesn't even care." Briar said.

Ashlynn sighed again and slumped into a chair, feeling bad that she almost sided more with the secret lovers than Apple, her good friend.

"Her world has always been her story, and now it's just being destroyed." She muttered.

Briar spoke up again, trying to ease her conscience, "Well maybe Apple has been taking fate too seriously... Maybe this is a good thing...?"

They all knew they didn't feel the same about it and it was going nowhere. Blondie grumbled a bit, but regardless of her gut feeling, she began deleting the evidence from her mirrorpad.

"Fine then, we will just have to let Apple find out for herself." She concluded.

"Find out what?" Apple softly inquired, startling them all. She looked a little shaken, and paler than was normal for the snow skinned princess. A furious and Riddlish babbling Lizzie could be heard off in the distance.

They all stared in shock, their hearts stopped.

"Apple, what did Lizzie say to you?" Blondie asked, her finger still just above the last piece of evidence still left on her device.

"I...I don't know but she seemed very angry, even for Lizzie..." She said quietly. "Then, I came to the door and there was a crack in it...and..."

Her friends all came around her as she collapsed and began to sob, and no matter whose side they were on they knew who was important right now.

Later that night Blondie showed her what she'd found after giving her an update on all that had happened that week while she had been away.

Raven was permanently gone, and replaced with some Swan Lake sociopath, Duchess was a rebel, and Daring was dating Cerise. Not just a date. Not just flirting, but a fully blown, passionate, secret relationship.

Apple was completely like stone, sitting at her dressing table and applying makeup on her face even though she would have to go to bed soon. She figured she wouldn't be able to sleep after discovering what she had, and she had some early business to attend to in the morning so it had better be done now than later.

Raven entered the room having been updated by a panicked Ashlynn that Apple was dealing with the news very badly.

She tried to remain silent and undetected as she attempted to slip into bed.

"I hate you." She hissed.

Raven's soul practically exploded after hearing such an absurd phrase escape the red lips of her roommate.

"You've ruined everything. Just, everything." She continued. "One day I'll get you back for this. You'll see."

Between the two of them, Apple was starting to sound more like a future evil queen...

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Hunter slumped into his bed heavily and tiredly as he let the news sink in. Of all the fairy tale teens in this school he'd never even suspected such a thing from one of THE MOST depended on and important prince of their generations.

The legacy of Snow White was a huge staple in their society, and with both the original villain and the prince gone, all that was left was a crazy sorcerer who hated Apple, and Apple with no one to save her.

"Wow." He whispered.

"Wow what?" Dexter dared to inquire, not as intimidated by his roommate as he used to be.

Hunter rolled over in bed and looked at him like he was crazy, "You mean you haven't heard? Your brother is a rebel!"

A silence passed and then all the windows of the boys dorm rooms shuddered and shattered following the very manly scream which followed.

Inside his head that night billions things swirled around in his mind, but none more so than Raven. This was it. If someone like his perfect brother was going all out, then no one could say anything about him if he should dare...

And he would!

Maybe...

~To be continued