As soon as Serenity turned from Ella's outstretched hand, her heart went cold and black. Her once white dress turned the color of coal, and long straight brown hair turned into a gnarled mess. Bree was not much different: Dress from peach to an ashy black, curly hair to knotted mess, gone with her once beautiful appearance.
Bree turned to check on Ella's sinking progress, the blonde being chin deep in the soft dirt. Two massive skeletal birds exploded through the ceiling, sending cinder block fragments everywhere. The girls dove for cover under ruined decorations, eluding the stymphs first aerial assault. The second time, however, both females were obtained, squealing and kicking. The other bird went after Wayne and Landon, who were easily captured, thinking they were going to the school for Good.
The bony birds speedily flew through the broken ceiling, taking their new cargo for an unexpected journey.
-(Later)-
Soaring over a dark and desolate forest, the teens become nervous.
"Since there are four of us, where are the other four?," Serenity questioned the relaxed boys.
"Going to the school for Evil, duh," Wayne replied calmly.
"You see, Ella and Lauren were sinking into the hell tunnel that would take them to Evil," Landon added on.
Serenity considered this, staying quiet. Finally, the two palaces came in view. The quartet gaped dumbly as the stymphs started to swerve towards the darker and desolate castle. The colossal birds dove, causing the four teens to scream, agreeing on something. Bree felt the stymphs claws loosen their hold on her...
"NO!" she screeched as the birds dropped them into black sludge.
(Line Break o.o)
Serenity coughed up burning sludge, trying in vain to fight the current. Just as her head slipped under, an arm went around her waist, hoisting her up, breaking the surface. She gasped for air, and struggled in the strong grip of her rescuer. Serenity tried to get a good look at her savior, but couldn't because of the angle she was at. The mystery person pulled her past falling children and dead goat carcasses. Finally, it dragged her onto the barren shore, setting her down on the charred landscape. Bree and Serenity's luggage washed up as Serenity coughed up sludge.
"Are you okay?," a gorgeous boy, tall, with brown hair and blue eyes, and moderately tan skin asked.
"Yeah- I- Hel- My name is Serenity." Serenity stuttered, finally choosing on what to say.
He smiled, "I'm Blake,"
Wolves, standing on two feet and wearing bright red uniforms, cracked whips at lagging students. The pair scrambled to get in line with their massive trunks, bullwhips barely missing their heels. The mass was herded into a tunnel that started out with a width of about seven feet. The group trudged underneath a rusted black gate with barbed wire and black swans beneath an archway:
The School or Evil Edification
And Propagation Of Sin
The seven feet narrowed down to what felt like seventeen inches. Serenity squeezed between two rocks, continuing to follow the snaking line of future villains.
They emerged from the tight corridor and into a foyer that reeked of dead/ or dying animals, hellish gargoyles glared down from stone rafters, torches in their sharp toothed jaws. A steel memorial of a bald, toothless hag brandishing an apple glowed in the intimidating firelight. Along the wall, a crumbly pillar had a colossal black letter N painted on it, decorated with demonic faced imps, trolls, and Harpies climbing up and down it like a burnt tree. A bloodred E on the next column, emblazoned with swinging giants and goblins.
Shuffling along the twisting line, Serenity spelled out N-E-V-E-R across the columns. When she finally walked into a section of the foyer with better light, Serenity almost threw up. The other students were monsters. Features included but not limited to: green skin, horns, spikes, one eye, seven eyes, pale skin, slimy skin, tails, etc. Bree and Serenity stood, mouths hanging open, frozen to the spot. One by one they all turned to look at Serenity. Wait, no over Serenity. She turned to look at Blake, a perfect face among the misshapen. Suddenly, the beasts attacked. Shoes, rocks, even a snake or two, thrown with great force at the diamond in the midst of ashes.
"Get back to you side Everboy!"
"No room for Good!"
"Villains only!"
Instead of fighting back, Blake stood there taking both the verbal jibes and the physical ones. Slowly the attacks stopped. The teens went back to walking towards their destination. As the line kept shuffling along, Serenity got a better look at the foyer. Three black crooked staircases twisted up in a perfect row. One carved with monsters, MALICE tattooed on its baluster, the second, etched with spiders, read MISCHIEF, and the third had snakes carved into it, reading VICE. Around the three staircases were portraits of past villains, from Grand Witches to ogres to plants.
When Serenity walked past her smiling picture, she nearly had a heart attack. It took both Bree and Blake to restrain her from tackling the blue horned gnome that was hammering the portraits into the wall with all of the other juvenile monsters' pictures. A hag with a massive boil on her cheek handed poor Serenity her schedule for the first year:
Serenity of Woods Beyond
Evil, 1st Year
Mischief Tower 54
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Session…..Faculty
Henchmen Training….Castor
Uglification….Prof. Bilious Manley
History of Villainy…...Prof. August Sader
Curses and Death Traps…..Lady Lesso
Lunch…..(None)
Special Talents….Prof. Sheeba Sheeks
Surviving Fairy Tales…Yuba the gnome
(Forest Group #3)
An ogre dumped an eel-tied stack of books in her hands, the grotesque titles peeking out: Best Villainous Monologues 2nd ed. Spells for Suffering, Year 1, The Novice's Guide to Kidnapping & Murder, Embracing Ugliness Inside & Out, How to Cook Children (With New Recipes!) Lastly, a striped satyr thrust a black skirt, long sleeved shirt, leggings, boots, and gloves. Serenity looked at the future murderers around her and shrugged, putting on the foul uniform.
Out of nowhere, a giant green cloud exploded in front of the middle staircase, and Maleficent appeared.
"Listen well all of you," she boomed, causing the crowd to quake with fear.
"You have all been chosen for the School of Evil, so don't disappoint me." she said, and all of the new students suitcases rattled.
They frantically checked their bags, stomachs filled with dread as realization took over. All of their packed clothes were now in three colors: Black, white, or gray.
Bree let out a screech, attracting all attention to her.
"My favorite dress!" she wailed.
"Can we send her back?" a blue, bony boy asked, jabbing a thumb in Bree's direction.
Maleficent shot him down with a glare.
"I will see you after the Circus of Talents, young monsters," she said with a swoop of her cape and disappeared in a green cloud.
Serenity raced up the Malice staircase, Bree in tow. She burst into her new room, a completely burnt used-to-be hotel room. Scorch marks ripped across the peeling walls, sinister canopies hung from ashen beds, toasted carpet lay beneath her black boots. But the most evil thing in the room, a girl, sitting on one of the charcoal covered beds. She was deathly pale, with dark brown hair, gray eyes, and had a red jewel around her neck.
"Hi. My name is Baefire." (BALE-FIRE) she said in a cold dead voice.
"Umm, hi." Serenity said back with an uncertain smile.
The girls put up their things, trying to make a home of the crumbling dorm. Wolves smashed through the door, snatching the girls by their collars and tossing them into the trudging masses.