Just as Evie had requested all of her friends were waiting for her in the command center when she came in with Snow White. They all seemed a little surprised to see her bring her step-sister in. While it was basically unspoken knowledge that each of the ranger's parents and siblings knew about the command center so far only Belle and Adam had ever been there, excluding of course Fairy Godmother who had helped build and run the place.

Amy was the one who noticed Snow White was holding a red rose in her hand. She didn't know if that was significant or not but she had never seen her holding one before. She kept quiet about it though as she sat between her twin sister and Alex, who seemed relieved to see her mood had lightened since she and Belle and come out of the library that afternoon.

"Do you guys remember when we used to brag about our parents actions to see who was the evilest of them all?" Evie asked her isle siblings as she paced a bit.

Jay laughed. "Boy do I ever." He said though his voice didn't exactly hold nostalgia. Times had changed greatly for the five of them since coming to Auradon. "Of course it was really bad for you and Carlos, I mean how could a dog napper and a beauty obsessed queen compare with an evil fairy that cursed a baby or an evil sorcerer who tried to take over a kingdom, became an all-powerful genie and nearly take over Agrabah anyway." He looked to Mal, perhaps a little smugly given as the two had always been very competitive. "And by the way, the fact that he was such a threat one of the ninja turtles had to be there to help should be worth extra points."

Mal rolled her eyes in amusement. "Oh please. My mom is the one who commands those Heartless things we fought on the isle." She reminded him. "And she's the one who's been a thorn in our side since then. She forced us to bring all of the turtles and their allies here." She raised her arms in a show of victory, though perhaps a pyrrhic one. "I rest my case."

"I thought you guys were supposed to be changing your ways here." Audrey said jokingly as she gave Mal a mock glare and poked Jay in the ribs. "Bragging about your parents continued crimes, not really helping here."

"Hate to say it, but she might have a point." Ben agreed with a small laugh as he gently stroked Mal's back.

"Hey guys." Evie interrupted impatiently. "Can we get back on topic here?" She asked.

"I thought we were on topic." Carlos said.

Amy and Aquiella exchanged glances with each other. They could already feel this wasn't about out doing each other. "What's wrong Evie?" Amy asked her now. "What happened?"

"I have a sister." Evie started.

"Yeah, we figured that out a while ago." Jay tried to joke as he indicated Snow White. But Amy's posture caught Mal onto the fact that something was wrong and she shushed him quickly.

Evie rolled her eyes but had to admit silently she kind of walked into that one. "I mean Snow and I have another sister." She emphasized.

"Wait, what?" Audrey asked. She looked to Ben and Lonnie, who looked just as mystified. They had lived in Auradon their entire lives. Most of their parents had a pretty close bond with the others and yet they had never heard this before.

"I haven't seen her in a long time." Snow White told them all. "The last time I saw her was just before the poison apple." That of course was a well-known event. "My older sister Rose Red wanted to find a way to stop our step-mother from trying to kill me…well us I think, since even if she had killed me she would have been the next in line for what the mirror would call the fairest of them all."

"How come we've never met her then?" Carlos asked.

"She disappeared during that quest." Snow White answered softly. "It was actually twenty years ago today."

"I'm sorry." Audrey said softly. "That's horrible."

"I don't get it." Carlos admitted. When they all looked at him in shock he amended his statement. "I mean I get the sister being gone thing and that is horrible. I mean what does that have to do with us now?"

"What can we do to help?" Aquiella now asked Evie.

"I remember my mom talking about the evil things she had done, as if she hoped to inspire me with them." Evie said now and her isle siblings nodded in understanding as they had all heard stories like that from their parents, which would later become grounds for their mock competitions. "One of those stories involved capturing a girl and exiling her to another small island."

"I've never heard of any place like that." Fairy Godmother said to them.

"I have." Aquiella said. "Not quite in those terms but…"

"Schadel Island." Melody finished for her. "It's a small island pretty far from Atlantica. Mom talked about it, she heard stories from our grandfather about it. It's one of the few places even my mother wasn't brave enough to go to."

"Is Rose Red there?" Amy asked Evie and Snow White.

Evie nodded. "I think so." She answered. "Mom spoke about hiring a bounty hunter to abduct a girl that was in her way and take her there. She didn't mention anyone by name but so I thought nothing of it at the time. But it occurred to me this was just after my mother hired the huntsman to kill Snow White, even though he couldn't do it." She looked around at them again. "And even worse, I can now make another connection from our time with the power rangers. That bounty hunter's name was Darkonda."

"Wow." Lonnie said. "You mean the same person who made Snow think her sister had died is the same person who kidnapped Karone from her home and essentially allowed for Astronema to be born?" Evie nodded.

"What else do we know about this island?" Miranda asked.

"If Rose Red was exiled there, it stands to reason that others had been banished at some point too." Fairy Godmother announced. "But it can't just be an island, like the Isle of the Lost was." She looked to the two mermaid girls. "Did your mothers or grandfather ever say why it was forbidden?"

"It's not just a place of exile." Melody said. "Pirates use it for their lairs sometimes. There's a group of insectoid creatures that live there, they're said to be carnivores. And they are just as okay with mermaid as they are human. And then there's Paragon."

"Paragon?" Ally asked.

"What? It's there?" Mal asked. "Wow." She looked stunned to hear it. She looked around at the others. Carlos and Jay certainly seemed to understand, and Evie looked somber. Even Amy clearly felt something about it despite how much stock she put into what Maleficent said.

"Someone care to fill us in here?" Ben asked, and then looked at Mal. "Sweetie?"

Mal was in too much shock to realize what her boyfriend had called her. "Paragon was supposed to be ancient evil, though no one knows how intelligent it truly is, if it is at all. It's also said to be powerful and unbeatable. No wonder people like Grimholde chose to exile people to that island." She frowned slightly. "The odds of survival, they're very low."

"And the insectoid things worshipped the Paragon the last time anyone was alive to tell the tale of being there." Amy added softly. "They hunt food for it. Sacrifices." She hadn't necessarily wanted to say that but it was the truth. Snow White let out a small gasp.

"Then that means she might really be long dead." Jordan pointed out, hating to be the one to say it but knowing they needed to realize that it may really be a wasted errand.

Mal also knew Jordan was right. She took a deep breath, reached over and squeezed Ben's hand softly. As she stood she stroked Amy's hair lightly. Then she came to stand in front of Evie and took the blue haired girls hands into hers before looking to the others. "It doesn't matter what kind of errand this is. We owe it to Evie, and to Snow, to try. But I can't make anyone do this either, not with what's at stake." She took a deep breath. "I am going with Evie to Schadel Island to try to find Rose Red. Anyone else who wants to come should feel free to, or not. We won't hold it against you."

The purple haired girl was not surprised at all to see that when all was said and done they were all stepping up to go with Evie to find Rose Red. "I'm coming too." Snow White announced, her eyes showing she wasn't going to back down.

"I'll get a boat arranged for us." Ben said. "So we can get this rescue mission on the road."

Arranging a boat was easy enough and they sailed over to Schadel Island. The journey was relatively quick which was good because the tension of what they were walking into was very palpable. They found a small sand bar to park the boat that could be hidden behind some of the brush and to play it safe Jordan cast a couple of spells to keep it protected and obstructed.

"Any idea where we start looking?" Ally asked quietly. She was hoping somehow to get in, find their answers one way or the other and get out without attracting the attention of the insectoid creatures or this Paragon that even had the formely evil isle kids freaked out.

"Actually I do have an idea on how we can start out." Jordan said. She looked to Snow White. "She's your sister, you share the same blood. We should be able to use a tracking spell to lead us to her." She didn't' want to add that it would lead them regardless, even if it was just a body.

"I hope you're not expecting blood." Evie said. It came out light but it was clear that she was not okay with letting her step-sister bleed for this.

But Jordan merely rolled her eyes. "I'm a genie Evie, not a shaman." She said with a hint of annoyance in her voice. "I just need something that would belong to her." She looked to Snow White. "Is that even possible? I know we didn't exactly plan this one out in advance."

Snow White removed a red and white clip from her hair that Evie had in fact noticed her wearing several times, but never knew if it there was significance behind it aside from looking kind of cute. "My sister and I made these just before everything happened." She told them, not wanting to make Evie feel bad with the details that she knew all too well thanks to her mother. "Last I knew she wore one in her hair too."

Jordan took it from Snow White. "This should do it." She said to her and gave a small smile. "Don't worry, I won't lose it. I know how important this is to you, one way or another." Letting the sit in the palm of her hand, she held it out gently and called an Arabic spell. It started to glow and she said, "Follow me."

They followed the genie girl. Amy didn't want to complain but she quickly found this was a long and trying trek through a steamy and semi-dark jungle, which was a good combination of things she disliked. She shrieked just a little when she saw a spider the size of an adult's head on a tree trunk. She took some consolation in the fact that Audrey and Ally reacted the same way. "I just hope that's the only bugs we see on this trip." Evie said as a small shiver went up her spine.

"Arachnid technically." Carlos pointed out.

"Still kind of gross." Jane replied. Sometimes it was hard for her to keep the objectivity she tried to maintain in situations she found scary like this one.

They continued to follow Jordan's lead and they saw the glow dissipate. There was nothing around them at first until Lonnie let out a gasp of horror and knelt down. She picked up a lock of hair, one side had some blood in it as if had been pulled out roughly, and it held an identical clip.

"Rose." Snow White whispered.

Jay glanced at it. "The blood is fresh." He said to them.

Evie grasped at the straw that Jay was offering. "Which means she was just taken." She stated. "We can probably still save her."

Miranda just barely made out a sharp rustling sound followed by the sling of a weapon. "Everyone down." She ordered. The rest of the team did as she said, Evie making sure to take Snow White with her. Mal had a grip on Amy's shoulders to protect her. Jay had done the same thing with Audrey and Aziz had done the same thing with Ally.

A throwing axe angled around right where everyone had been. If they hadn't ducked down at that moment they all would have lost their heads, a fact Ally knew the Red Queen would have enjoyed immensely. It angled back into the forest and guy about their ages stepped out of the forest with the axe in hand.

Each of the girls had to privately admit he was nice looking. His hair was down to his shoulders which made some sense since hair stylists weren't exactly a common thing there. He certainly looked to be strong, and he also looked pissed. "What have you done with her?" He asked.

"Done with whom?" Jordan asked.

"Look, we don't know who you're looking for. We just got here and we're trying to find someone ourselves." Ellie said to him in her most diplomatic tone, something she had learned to convey pretty well consider her mother was the queen of Arendelle.

It seemed like he almost wanted to believe them except for one little problem. He pointed the axe at Lonnie. "How dare you guys hurt my mother." He stated angrily.

"Your mother?" Snow White repeated, seeming shocked.

"Hey wait a second here." Evie said. "That…"

The axe was thrown again but this time Ellie knocked it off course with a beam of ice from her hands. It was kind of interesting to see it go back to him rather than hit the ground, but that again meant he was armed.

"Just a minute. You don't understand…" Alex tried to say but was cut off by another rustling sound. This time they found large insectoid like things bursting from the trees. Their carapaces were a dark blue and their mandibles clicked in seeming excitement as they surrounded them.

"I knew it." The boy said. He was about to say something else when he received a shock. One of them reached for Snow White, as if they knew who she was, and Evie kicked it in the chest hard. It fell back but was starting to rise and glare at her. "Why are they attacking you?"

"We tried to tell you we're not with these freaks." Mal said to him annoyed. "We're looking for a girl named Rose Red." She gestured to Snow White. "Her older sister."

"Yeah, if you'd bothered to listen." Aziz started but interrupted himself as he delivered an uppercut to one of the creatures that had reached for Ally. "Back off." He growled at it.

"This is getting us nowhere fast." Audrey said as she picked up a branch to hit one of them in the head as hard as she could. She sure didn't want her skin to come in contact with these things. "Do you think we can change here?"

Mal had to agree that Audrey was right. Fighting like this was almost like a losing battle. "Only one way to find out." She declared. She looked to Ben, Alex and Ellie. "Keep Snow White around you guys. And let's get to work." Jane pulled out the magic wand, Ben summoned his shield and the Praeleanthor sword, and Melody enlarged the trident to real size and they transformed. The rest of the team pulled out their iPhones, input their numbers and transformed as well.

"Wow, didn't see that coming." The boy said, sounding somewhat impressed. "Maybe I picked a fight with the wrong people after all." When it was done he found two purple rangers, a red ranger, a blue ranger, a black ranger, a yellow ranger, two pink rangers though one was darker than the other, a gold ranger, a silver ranger, a clear ranger he thought was like crystal, a green ranger, an aqua ranger, an orange ranger and three in armor; one silver and heavy looking, the other two in red or blue and lighter looking.

"We tried to warn you." Jay said to him simply.

The insectoids hesitated for only an instant and then a few of them attacked. Jay summoned his soul scimitar and cut one of them down; Aziz summoned his spiral spear and cut the second one down, while Miranda used her grizzly blades to take out the last one.

"They might be smarter than they look." Carlos noted. "Which isn't saying much."

Audrey drew her elemental bow and summoned fire arrows, which she unleashed around the insectoid creatures. That caused them all to click incessantly for a moment and then withdraw into the forest.

"I hope that's the last we see of them." Amy said softly.

"Somehow I doubt it honey." Mal said. "They have to be the ones who took Rose Red. They have to be the ones we have to get through before Paragon gets a hold of her."

"Paragon?" The guy asked.

"That would be the big creature that probably owns this island." Alex said to him. "Never seen him really, but some of us have heard about him." It occurred to Mal that for all the stories they had spoken of, none of their parents had been able to really describe this Paragon.

"Speaking of roaming and island and randomly attacking people, just who are you anyway?" Jordan, still as the gold ranger, asked him snappishly. Having an axe tossed at her head was not exactly what she considered an ideal greeting.

"My name is Grant." He said to them all. "Grant Gray." He placed the axe in a holster on his leg. "I'm sorry for the attack. I saw that," he pointed to the torn hair that Lonnie had held onto. "And thought you had abducted my mother."

"This place almost seems as bad as the Isle of the Lost." Evie noted wearily. Right now she didn't want to get into the fact that if he was really Rose Red's son, then he was her and Snow White's nephew. It was even stranger to her since he looked a little older than she did.

"The Isle of the Lost did have some kind of, of order." Mal reflected. "Maybe not much in the way of, but some kind of society is there, as some of us know all too well." She glanced around the forest. "This place; not so much."

"We're here to help rescue Rose Red." Snow White said to him. "To bring my sister home." She reached out and gently placed her hand on his shoulder. "And that makes you my nephew. I want you to come home with us too."

"After we rescue your mother." Ally added with rare strength in her voice. She would never forget the risks she took when she had gone to Wonderland to rescue her own mother Alice from the Red Queen, and she was grateful that the rangers had come with her.

"Doesn't that…" Carlos started only to get elbowed by Evie.

"There are people on this island who seemed to have formed some kind of alliance with the insectoids." Grant explained to them. "Usually for protection but often enough for power. But after seeing this display, something tells me power isn't something you need to worry about."

"I could use just a little bit more." Jordan said as she glanced around. "My spell just fizzled out. I don't know what to do now to find Rose Red."

"That's easy enough." Grant said to her. "I know where their hive village is." He took out his axe again. "Come on, follow me." He began to cut through some of the burdensome undergrowth. The rangers followed him making sure to keep Snow White, the unprotected civilian, in the middle of the group.

There was no conversations as they made their way but it wasn't long, perhaps twenty minutes or so, before he lead them to their destination. It seemed like a normal village, though several of the structures looked more like honeycomb walls than the walls they were used too. They could certainly see more than enough of the insectoid creatures. And they looked to be arming themselves, as if they were expecting company. Which Mal supposed in manner of speaking they were.

Amy couldn't help staring at how many of these insectoids there seemed to be. They were the size of an average person, which actually made them taller than her, and seemingly legion. "Oh my pink." She whispered in terror and revulsion.

"Guys, I think I see Rose Red." Will whispered. They looked to him and he pointed to a large area near the top that made Miranda think of an altar. She was strapped down, in a torn red shirt and torn white pants, one of the pant legs almost entirely missing.

"I guess good tailor service is kind of hard to find out here." Audrey mused softly.

"And I doubt boutique shops are that common either." Lonnie added.

"Paragon doesn't eat people in the traditional sense." Grant said to them all softly. "What he does is drain them of their, I guess the best term would be life essence." He glanced with disgust at the insectoid things. "They take care of the bodies."

"That's gross." Amy noted as she shivered.

"What's the plan M?" Evie asked her chosen isle sister. She sure didn't want to see anyone die like that, and the fact they were talking about her step-sister made it worse.

"We attack." Mal said, which surprised them all just a little. They thought she would have a bit more strategy than that. "Look, we want to be out of here before Paragon shows up." She reminded them and then elaborated. "Audrey, you and I will activate our battlizers, take out the guards on the altar and then get Rose Red back here. Evie, you stay here with Grant and keep the horde away with your long range abilities as well as protect Snow White. The rest of you, just do your best to keep these things at bay."

"Glad I have this then." Grant said as he brought the axe up.

"How does it come back anyway?" Melody asked him.

"It's enchanted, duh." Jordan said to the mermaid girl.

"Okay guys." Mal interrupted. "I don't know how much time we have, so let's do it." She and Audrey pulled out their iPhones and pressed the half sun jewels to activate their battlizers. That drew the attention of the insectoids and they started to surge toward them.

"See you at the top." Audrey said to them as she and Mal took off. She was glad she could fly above the swarm as she hated bugs almost as much as Amy did. She in fact noticed the rose ranger had drawn her blaster but stayed between Alex and Melody.

In fact right now all of the team had their blasters drawn except for Alex, Ellie, Evie, Melody and Aquiella. The two mermaid girls could use their weapons long ranger while the two Arendelle heirs could use their natural born, but amplified, powers. Evie was ready for when they swarm inevitably forced her friends to switch to close range weapons.

It seemed like no time at all before one of them reached for Lonnie. She couldn't help but give off a shriek as she holstered her blaster and struck it with one of her batons. "Man, these things just feel wrong." She said.

"Well they are giant insects." Ally tried to reason as she too holstered her blaster and took out her crystal cards, unleashing the deck on several of the approaching creatures. The cards made nice little nicks that might have been nothing more than annoying but was enough for Ellie to unleash an icy beam on them that sent them flying back.

One of them grabbed Jordan by the neck and lifted her up. She kicked it hard in the carapace as she brought her fists down on his arm, barely breaking free. She then slammed the end of her lamp cannon right into its throat and sent it rolling.

Grant tossed his axe and cut through a few of them. He caught it on the rebound only to hear a startled scream from behind him. He turned to see several of the insectoids emerge from the forest toward Snow White.

"Get away from her!" Evie tried to shout even as one clamped its hands on her shoulders. She slammed the mirror, compact side up, into its mandibled face and then turned around to blast it with her weapon. Two more were now in her way. "Snow!" She yelled out.

Aquiella slashed back two of them with her coral boomerangs and then tossed one of them to slam right into the carapace of an insectoid that was getting too close to Amy despite the rose ranger using her rose lances to keep them at bay. She noticed that the insectoid swarm had divided many of them up well enough that only Grant was close enough to Snow White.

"We have to get through somehow." Melody said to her cousin. "We have to make sure that they don't grab her."

Aquiella watched Alex slam his fire tonfa's into the carapace of two of the insectoids. They didn't seem to feel the effects of the fire that much. One of them latched onto Ellie but Miranda brought an elbow down hard onto its head and then slashed it away.

Mal unleashed a draco meteor on the guards at the altar as Audrey landed, rather gracefully the purple ranger had to admit, by Rose Red. "We're going to get you out of here, I promise." The red ranger said to the bound woman as she took off one of the gems surrounding her waist and began to cut through it.

"Who are you?" She asked the brunette princess.

"My name is Audrey, I'm the daughter of Aurora and Phillip." She answered. "We're here with your son Grant and your younger sister Snow White so we can take you home." She was working on the bindings on her wrists right now. "She talked to your step-sister Evie and they pieced together that you were here."

Rose Red had no idea who the younger step-sister was. And right now it didn't matter. "Get my hands free and I'll get the rope off my chest while you cut my legs free." She said.

"That was the plan." Audrey replied.

Mal meanwhile had her dragon's eye staff out. She could already see the insectoid swarm breaking off so that many could ascend the altar and stop them from freeing Rose Red. She slammed her staff into the face of the first on hard and knocked it off. It was quickly replaced by another one that she tripped up and sent sprawling, taking another with it. More of them mindlessly awaited taking that place.

"There's only one thing we can do." Aquiella said to Melody. "We have to let Grant take the gray ranger powers to defend Snow White." At her look of uncertainty she added, "I know, we barely know the guy. But we know Evie, and we trust her."

Melody sighed. "Alright." She relented. She used her trident to draw the gray iPhone, she wasn't even sure who was keeping it at the moment though she thought it might have been Jane, who was in the process of slashing an insectoid with the long pointed end of the wand.

"Amy, I need to borrow you a moment." Aquiella said. Words didn't always have to pass between the two water wielding empaths to know what the other was thinking. Especially since Aquiella's control of water was so powerful. Without question the rose ranger reached out a hand to the orange ranger.

The gray iPhone appeared in Grant's free hand and he heard one of the girl's voices in his mind, he didn't know them well enough to know which one though it was actually Amy's. Take the iPhone and do what we did, put in the numbers 8990. That had actually been part of Gregory's school ID number but had obviously been rescinded when he betrayed the team. As he turned and slammed the blunt end of the axe against the nearest insectoid reaching for Snow White, which if they were all to believed was his aunt, he input the numbers and transformed.

The sudden transformation startled Mal for a moment. "What? Who just did that?" She made the mistake of turning her head to see the gray ranger standing in Grant's place. It was obvious what had happened and she could only assume this was the right thing to do. But the mistake came because one of them grabbed Mal's staff and tried to toss her off the altar.

"Mal!" Audrey, the only ranger close enough to see what was happening, gasped. She let loose a bunch of the gems surrounding her waist to attack the insectoids still coming up the stairs. She finished cutting Rose Red's wrists and then she heard a rumbling. "Um, now what?" She asked.

Rose Red gasped a bit. "I'll free myself. You need to provide a distraction." She said.

Audrey was about to ask against what when a shadow descended. She looked up, and up, and up. Now covering the entire mountain was a large black creature. The closest thing she could equate this monster to was a huge lion but it wasn't covered in fur, more like black scales. Its hind legs bent more like that of an insect than a mammal and it seemed to have a large black, scaly half ring protruding from either side of its back. She didn't know what it was exactly but she knew what to call it. "Paragon." She whispered in shock, and even some fear.

"Oh, my…" Mal started before she realized the position she was in. She rocketed up and slammed her staff into the face of the insectoid who had dangled her over the altar edge only a moment ago. She then landed by Audrey's side.

"Oh my pink!" Amy gasped in pure shock and some horror herself as all the rangers and Snow White saw the creature now standing on the entire side of the mountain glaring down at them.

The insectoids were backing up and Evie looked to Grant. "Here's a little hint. When the scary things get scared, it's a really bad sign." She said to him. "Though if it helps any, gray kind of suits you."

Grant shook his head in shock. "I can count on one fist the number of people who have escaped this thing." He said softly.

"Don't you mean one hand?" Carlos asked in his own state of terror.

"Not when the answer is zero." Grant revealed.

"This thing can't be so bad." Jay tried to say encouragingly. He wasn't sure he was feeling it.

Rose Red managed to free herself, motivated by the sudden terror brought on by the sight of the 'lord' of the island. She was now behind Mal and Audrey. "Can you guys defeat that thing?" She asked them.

Audrey and Mal both unleashed their strongest battlizer attacks, the draco meteor and the moonblast respectively, only to find the thing barely scratched by it. "Um, I don't even think we can hurt this thing." Mal said with a slight shake of her head. She wondered why this thing kept to itself on Schadel Island when this thing was clearly durable enough to take out the entire army of Auradon and what passed for an army on the Isle of the Lost.

Paragon let out a huge roar and raised its paws, only then did Audrey notice they didn't end in paws though but were instead large scaly black hands. It gathered up a massive amount of energy and unleashed it straight at the altar. Both Mal and Audrey moved to protect Rose Red from the brunt of the impact, but it was still strong enough to send the three girls flying off the altar and straight toward the ground.

Ben rushed to catch Mal, Jay rushed to catch Audrey, and Grant pushed through the other rangers to catch his mother. They barely succeeded in doing just that. "Are you okay mom?" Grant asked her.

"I'll be okay, if we survive this." Rose Red responded with a small smile at her younger sister. "Snow, it's been…"

She nodded in understanding. That family had a lot to talk about.

"Oh my pink." Amy gasped again as she ran to Mal and hugged her tightly. "I was so afraid for a moment there that it was going to kill you."

Mal stroked her back lightly. She didn't want to remind Amy it still could do so. "We have to get out of here, right now." She said to them all. "Before it does finish the job."

As they rose Paragon gathered up the same energy and slung it at them again. This time the aim was off, but instead of hurting any of them it cut through a good portion of the forest behind them. "Yeah," Jordan agreed. "It's time go."

Paragon jumped off the mountain side and landed not too far from them. With a growl it looked ready to advance on them.

Ben took down an insectoid and then heard Use us from the Praeleanthor sword. The Auradon Knight didn't even hesitate. He tossed the Praeleanthor sword as hard as he could right at the huge creature. It struck him in what they could only assume was the chest near the heart and it let out a huge roar of pain. The sword returned to Ben as the team ran as fast as they could, Grant and Evie supporting Rose Red as they ran.

They very quickly could hear the massive steps of the huge beast as it headed straight for them. Luckily the boat had stayed right where it was and they all got in and as quickly as possible. They already heard Paragon heading toward them. Both Mal and Audrey turned and unleashed another round of draco meteors and moonblasts at Paragon.

"Somehow that seemed less effective." Carlos noted as he saw Ben starting up the boat. He was still worried that they wouldn't get away fast enough.

"I was afraid of that." Mal said to them. "I noticed when my dragon zord does that it gets weaker each time. I guess I'm not immune to it."

Amy reached over and took Aquiella's hand. Then Melody did the same. Her trident glowed even as Aquiella summoned up all the water power she could muster. Thankfully between her own immense water powers, the power of Triton's trident and the strong powers of the rose haired rose ranger they were able to summon up a huge tidal wave that, thanks to the girl's magic, completely passed through the boat and Auradon team, it slammed into Paragon with huge impact.

The boat sped off. Ally noticed that Paragon was already standing up from the tidal wave impact. It powered up another blast and hurled it at the boat but thankfully fell flat. Then they were gone, only then realizing how fast all of their hearts had been beating.

Rose Red sat next to her younger sister and the two embraced. "I thought you were dead." Snow White said to her softly.

"I was kind of waiting for that." Rose Red replied. She shivered just a bit and Snow White wondered what her sister had endured over the years. "You met my son Grant."

Snow White smiled. "We did."

"Hey Snow." Jordan called out and when she looked at the genie girl she tossed her the hair clip. "Managed to hold onto that despite everything, just as I promised."

Lonnie handed the clip, and the still torn out hair, to Rose Red. "I did too. I bet you wouldn't mind having this back." She said.

"Thank you." Rose Red said as she took the hair clip. The wind blew away the strands of hair that was being held by the clip.

"This is Evie." Snow White introduced now. "She's the daughter of our step-mother." Rose Red's face seemed to show one of half shock and half disgust. "Don't worry." She hastened to add. "Evie is nothing like our step-mother. She's very nice and sweet. Without her we would have never known where to find you."

Evie knelt down in front of Rose. "I…I can't really…" She stammered, not really sure what to say to her. It had been hard enough to find a way to talk to Snow White, and now trying to talk to her oldest step-sister Rose Red seemed even harder.

Rose Red reached out and hugged the blue haired girl. "Thank you for coming for us." She said.

"Wait." Grant said as he looked to Evie. "You're my mom's step-sister…that makes me your step-nephew…but you're a little younger than I am…" He seemed to be having a hard time processing it.

Evie laughed. "I know how you feel." She told him. "That baffles me too." She shook her head. "But it is what it is." She reached over and squeezed Grant's hand. "Welcome to the team."

"I hope you're not mad." Amy said to Mal. "Aquiella and I thought that it was our only option."

Mal smiled at her twin sister. "I'm not mad Amy." She promised. "And I trust your judgement."

And on the horizon they could see the shores of Auradon. Behind them they hoped never to see Paragon again, the monster that they feared they could never defeat if it ever came down to it. "Welcome home Rose Red." Snow White said softly to her older sister as the two again embraced.