Be Careful What You Wish For Chapter 35: If Only 3, an ever after high fanfic

Hey, I'm Back (kinda)! Sorry it's been so long I've busy with work/classes and with the holidays coming up things are getting more stressful. So, I decided to make chapters shorter for the mean time. Enjoy

If Only 3

Briar, Ashlynn, Blondie, Holly, Poppy, & Justine

Ever After High

Tuesday

After Queen Raven's reveal

Students, staff, and guest were running around the campus like headless chickens trying to escape the wraith of Queen Raven's army. Those who sided with her were gathering the nonbelievers, sadly they were doing a pretty poor job due to everyone running around. A few lucky ones managed to escape to The Village of Bookend, Enchanted Forest, or Dark Forest. Many were still on campus hiding in classrooms or dorms.

"Come on! Keep running!" Ashlynn cried out as Briar, Blondie, Holly, Poppy, Justine, and she ran up the many stairs of the girl's dorm.

As they ran the ceiling began to crumble. the walls closed in on each other, and the floors felt like a mixture of walking through a bounce house underwater with sand between your toes.

"Quick, in here!" Briar cried out as she opened the door to Ashlynn and her shared dorm.

As soon as the doors opened the girls ran inside and slammed the doors shut.

"Quick, barricade the doors." Poppy said as she grabbed a chair to block the doors.

The girls grabbed ever piece of furniture they could get or move.

"Now, this won't do." Blondie spoke. " Oh, if we move that chair over there slightly to the right-"

"Now is not the time, Blondie!" Poppy shouted as she was shoving Briar's nightstand.

" What do we do when the door breaks down." Justine asked as she helped Poppy shove the nightstand.

This caused the princesses (yes, including Blondie) to panic. In their damsels-in-distress classes they were taught to cry for help when alone, not what to do when the danger was coming to them. They were on their own with no; knight in shining armor, fairy godmother, or prince charming to save them.

Briar scanned the bare dorm room, it would be a matter of time before one of Queen Raven's goons came to bust down the doors, she knew they need something to protect themselves with. Briar's eyes locked on the balcony.

"The Balcony!" Briar pointed at the balcony. "We can use the zipline to get down."

"That's a great idea, Briar!" Justine gasped. "Where's your zipline equipment?"

"In my wardrobe." Briar answered confidently until it hit her, Ashlynn and her wardrobes were blacking the door.

It was true the wardrobes were one of the first things to barricade the door due to its weight, heavy items first lighter items second.

"Oh, this is not right this is very not right!" Blondie began to panic as she pulled on her hair.

On cue Justine, Ashlynn, Poppy, and Holly began running in circles. Briar was also freaking out, but she knew this was a bad time to panic. Briar did the most sensible thing to do in a situation like this; she closed her eyes, took a deep breathe in, and took a deep breathe out-

"AHH!"

"It's the end of the world!"

"Let me it, let me - ahh!"

' No, don't tell me I fell asleep at a time like this!' Briar thought

"Look everywhere!"

Briar heard Raven in a loud commanding voice with hints of power and coldness. " If they don't come out, we'll go through every classroom, supply closet, and dorm rooms in the whole school. Starting with the girls dorm."

"WAKE UP!"

Briar awoken to see Ashlynn holding her alarm clock and the others looking at her.

"We need to get out of here now!" Briar got up and headed to the balcony. "Raven's goons checking the rooms."

"But we can't zipline down and there's no way we can get down from here." Ashlynn said looking down from the balcony.

"I got that covered." Holly said as she let her hair down and it cascaded. "Okay, everybody down."

"But your hair only reached the fourth story." Blondie said.

"We'll land on some bushes then." Briar responded.

"But you won't be able to get down, Holly." Poppy pointed out the flaw in the plan.

It was true at this moment Holly's hair wasn't long enough to the ground and she'd be stuck halfway down.

"Neither can I." Justine somberly said as she took a step back.

"Justine?" Blondie gasped.

"Whenever I try to be sneaky, I always get caught, remember?" Justine gave a sad smile.

"But we can't desert you guys to be captured." Poppy said tears forming in her eyes.

"You're not deserting us; you're going to find help." Justine clarified.

"We'll be fine, go find the others and get out of here." Holly said as she gave Poppy a strong hug.

Poppy hugged Holly back until the other girls joined in on the group hug.

"Now, go!" Holly said as pushed Poppy to the edge of the balcony.

Poppy grabbed a loch of Holly's hair and descended. Briar, Blondie, and Ashlynn followed until they were out of sight; Justine helped Holly pull her hair up as they waited for the inevitable.

"Do you think they'll make it?" Holly questioned as she turned to Justine.

"We can hope." Justine answered.

*CRASH*

The doors slammed open causing multiply furniture to crash and break leaving debris everywhere. A horde of goblins appeared at the doorway.

"Queen Raven requests your presence." One of the goblins growled.

Holly and Justine hugged each other as tears streamed down their cheeks as the horde advanced toward them.

Ground

Poppy, Briar, Ashlyn, and Blondie made their way down Holly's hair and (painfully) landed on the bushes below, they made their way out of the frying pan and were now in the fire. They sneaked, crawled, and hid in the shadows avoiding Raven's goons. They were currently near one of the school's bike racks just a couple more steps and they would be home free.

"Alright girls just a couple more steps and we'll be home free." Briar cheered.

I literally just said that.

As Briar, Poppy, and Blondie dashed across one of Ashlynn's glass slippers fell off and she tripped.

"Girls, wait!" Ashlynn cried out.

The girls turned around to notice Ashlynn.

" Don't worry Ash, I'll -YAWN." Like that Briar was out like a light.

"Seriously?" Blondie groaned as wrapped Briar's arm around her shoulder. "This is so not the right time for this."

"Over here, I think I heard something!" A voice shouted near their direction.

Ashlynn gestured them to head towards the Enchanted Forest as Blondie and Poppy picked up Briar and did their best to run away. Ashlynn grabbed her glass slipper in hide behind some bushes near the bike rack.

"You sure you heard something this way." A fairy the size of an apple said.

"I'm sure - I'm sure." A boy dressed as a knight answered.

" Well find whoever you heard before the you-know-what happens." An impatient warlock boy said.

Ashlynn made herself smaller as much as she could, the three looked everywhere except the bushes, Ashlynn leaned backwards to her back could touch the wall.

*SNAP*

" I told you I heard someone!" The knight said.

"Show yourself before things get ugly." The fairy said as she floated above the bushes.

Ashlynn covered her mouth as she was breathing heavily, shut her eyes as tight as possible that they hurt, and clutched onto Hunter's silver pendant of leaves and feathers. Ashlynn prayed that the others were safe as she waited to be found.

*BEEP. BEEP. BEEP*

The teens took out their phones to shut off their alarms.

"Come on let's go. We need to return to Queen Raven before she does her spell." The warlock said.

"But what about the escapees?" The knight questioned.

"We'll get 'em later. I don't want to lose any of my magic; now come on." The fairy demanded as the three left.

As soon as the coast was clear Ashlynn put her glass slipper on and got out of the bushes.

"What did she mean by lose her magic?" Ashlynn questioned.

As Ashlynn made her way to the forest where her friends were hiding, then Ashlynn heard a strange sound.

A sound came out of nowhere and yet somewhere. It was extremely loud, yet faint. The best way to describe it is the quiet before the storm. And a huge purple neon light was phasing through the school and went through Ashlynn knocking her unconscious onto a soft bed of grass.

"Ashlynn?"

"Ashlynn, please wake up!"

Ashlynn groaned in pain as she slowly regains consciousness.

"Ow, my head." Ashlynn groaned as she rubbed her head and was ambushed by hugs.

"We thought you were a goner." Poppy said as she released Ashlynn.

"Where's Briar?" Ashlynn questioned.

"Right here." Blondie moved out of the way to reveal a sleeping, Briar. " What do we do? We can't carry her forever."

A bluebird flew above the girls' heads and landed on the bike rack to rest.

"Hello, little bluebird" Ashlynn greeted the bluebird. " Can you please get some other woodland critters to help us carry Briar?"

The bluebird looked at Ashlynn chirped and flew away.

"Well, that was just rude." Blondie scoffed as she put her hands on her hips.

"What did the bluebird even say?" Poppy asked Ashlynn.

"I don't it just chirped." Ashlynn paused for a second when she realized what she just said. "All it did was chirped."

Ashlynn began to panic as she ran towards pile of clovers.

"Hello clovers, how are you today?" Ashlynn waited, but the clovers did not respond.

Blondie and Poppy's eyes locked on each other then back at Ashlynn worried about her state of mind as Briar continued to snooze.

As one last ditch effort Ashlynn began to sing, no animal could resist her song. Far and wide animals would come for the majestic moose to the crawling ant they would come for miles to the siren call of the future Cinderella. But no animal of fur, scale, or slime appeared. No, it couldn't be... Could it?

"Oh My God! My powers are gone!" Ashlynn screamed as she began pulling at her hair and tears ran down her eyes.

"How could this happen?" Poppy said as she wrapped an arm around a weeping Ashlynn.

" I don't know - Wait, the group that was looking for us said something about a spell Raven was performing and if they didn't make it to her on time their magic would be gone."

"I bet it had to do with that weird forcefield and anyone touched by it loses their magic touch" Blondie said as she stroked her chin.

"But what about us?" Poppy questioned. "The lights disappeared before it reached us, are we affected?"

Blondie looked around to notice a couple of locked bikes on a bike rack. "Here goes- well everything."

As Blondie's finger touched one of the locks it popped open letting the bike fall to the ground, Blondie continued until all the bikes were unlocked and lying on the grass.

"It worked!" Ashlynn gasped. "But what about you and Briar, Poppy?"

"Hm." Poppy pondered for a second as she took out her makeup bag and began styling Ashlyn's hair until it was in a single braid decorated with tiny flowers. "I still got it."

"Now, for the ultimate test." Poppy said as all eyes turned towards a snoring Briar as she twitched a little in her sleep.

"I got this." Ashlynn stepped forward took a deep breathe and whispered. "Shoe sell at The Glass Slipper, buy two get three for free."

"Oh, hell yeah!" Briar sprang to life as she jumped to her feet. "Mama needs a new pair of pumps."

Briar paused in remembered where she and what she heard in her slumber, she turned to Ashlynn. "Ash, I'm so sorry."

"Don't apologize, Briar." Ashlynn gave a sad smile. "This isn't your fault."

"Girls, we gotta get outta here while I was asleep, I heard -"Briar began to yawn again. " A couple of soldiers headed this way."

On cue Briar collapsed again and girls panicked. How would they get out of there and carry Briar before the soldiers arrived. Blondie spotted one of the bikes she unlocked it was a richshaw bike. Blondie and Poppy put Briar on the seats as they put their helmets on.

"Where do we go now?" Poppy asked.

"Follow me." Popy and Blondie turned to see Ashlynn on a mountain bike. "I may not be able to speak to animals or plants, but I know the Enchanted Forest like the back of my hand."

The girls quickly rode off before any guards showed up - they rode as fast as and as far they could until it began to rain. As they continued their trek thunder and blood red lightning illuminated the sky, the wind began to blow an old Winter's air instead of fresh and warm Spring air, and raindrops began to hit the girls like bullets that were on fire. Despite their best mud would stop their bikes making it harder to move.

" It's no use we gotta find shelter asap." Ashlynn declared as she was pulling her bike out of the mud.

"But where can we go?" Blondie questioned shielding herself from the rain bullets.

"I got an idea where we can go, we can use it as a hideout." Poppy answered.

Spongebob's French Narrator voice:

Twenty minutes later.

"Man that took longer than it usually does." Poppy said as she got off the ricksaw bike as she helped Ashlynn and Blondie pick Briar up.

"You're sure this is the place, Poppy?" Ashlynn asked looking the 'hideout' Poppy spoke about.

It was true the place looked like a dilapidated hodgepodge, like abandoned malls, amusement park, or The Backrooms liminial spaces.

"Don't worry, we'll be safe here." Poppy said as she walked ahead of the group with Ashlynn and Blondie following behind her while caring Briar.

Hunter

"How do we get out of here?" Rosabelle question as she and the other teens hid behind some chairs.

Ramona began sniffing the air. "There!" Ramona said pointing at a manhole in the middle of one of the aisles.

"Has that always been there?" Humphery questioned.

"No time; everyone get in!" Hunter lifted the manhole and waited as for Ashlynn, Humphery, Rosabella, Blondie, Holly, Poppy, Ramona, Briar, Justine, and Jillian made their way down before he went in and closed the manhole.

"Everyone okay?" Hunter asked as his boots splashed whatever was under his boots.

"No, we are not okay!" Blondie shouted. " Raven's turned evil, the school and our reputations are in shatters, and were in a Godforsaken sewer surrounded by sewage."

"I ain't smelling sewage it's more of a: fries, sushi, and porridge smell down here." Ramona said as she sniff.

"Wait it does smell like porridge! God hasn't forsaken me." Blondie squealed.

"Wait, if it smells like food down here that means that sewage is actually from the cafeteria's waste." Rosabelle gave her two cents.

"She's right." Humphery agreed as he was on his mirrorpad that showed a layout of the school. " If my calculations are correct if we go this way we'll be under the kitchen and can escape from the manhole in there."

"When did this school have manholes?" Poppy questioned.

"Since 1967." Holly answered as everyone looked at her confused. "What, I do a lot of research on, be lucky I'm not explaining why they were added."

Hunter lit a match to use as a light source as everyone followed him. In this situation he had to be the leader usual that was Apple, Raven, or Daring's job, but now he needed to be strong for his friends.

Hunter felt a hand on his shoulder and turned to see Ashlynn giving him a warm smile causing him to smile back. Man, did he love Ashlynn, she was his support and comfort.

" Okay, we're here." Hunter said as he climbed the ladder and pushed the manhole out of the way.

They were in the empty kitchen surrounded by herbs, vegetables, utensils, pots, and pans.

" What do we do now?" Justine asked.

" I saw we stay here: there's food, endless porridge, and no one's looking for us here." Blondie said.

" Yeah, but for how long?" Ramona questioned. " It's only a matter of time before Raven sends someone to find us here." Ramona objected.

Soon everyone was giving there two cents on rather to stay or leave. Hunter hated to see his friends fight and he hated it more that they were in a difficult situation without a helping hand. Hunter knew what he had to do and whistled.

*WHISTLE*

"We can't stay here, who knows when we'll get discovered." Hunter admitted. "We need to get out and get help."

"But where will we go?" Poppy asked raising her hand.

" We can go to the Enchanted Forest, but it won't be easy." Hunter said. "We can sneak out the same way we came in. So, are you guys in?"

Everyone agreed with Hunter's plan, after they packed their bags with snacks they returned to the manhole to head to the Enchanted Forest.

"Okay, how much longer to the Enchanted Forest?" Hunter asked Humphery.

"After this turn we go right, then left, then walk three paces forward, walk up a couple of steps to the right, three minutes to the left, and we'll be under the manhole to the school entrance and we're good." Humphery answered.

"Why can't we use the other manholes?" Jillian questioned.

"In fear of being trampled or caught, and the only closer ones are the girls' dorm, the classrooms, or the boys restroom." Humphery answered looking at his mirrorpad.

"Forget I asked." Jillian said.

"Help!"

"Somebody, save us damsels!"

"Did you guys hear that?" Holly said.

"Someone needs or help!" Justine said.

Hunter, Jillian, and Rosebella were the first to spring into action and followed to where the voices lead to. In the center of the sewer were three princesses weeping.

"Don't worry, maidens!" Hunter announced as he ripped his shirt off and fanfare played. "We'll save you!"

Rosabella froze she sensed a disturbance in the princesses, their aura was scented with deception, falsehood, a trap.

"Hunter, stop!" Rosabella shouted, but it was too late.

"Don't move!" Everyone turned to see a goblin, knight, and a couple of ogres surrounding the sewer. "In order of Queen Raven you are under arrest. Bring in the others!"

On cue the other EAH squad were pushed into the center of the sewer.

"What are you doing? Most of you are in out classes." Justine questioned.

"Tough crown, Justine." One of the princesses said.

" It's a wolf eats dog world now." The other princess said.

"Besides it's better to be on Queen Raven's side than be a prisoner." The knight added.

"Don't you mean Raven Queen?" Blondie questioned raising an eyebrow.

"No, Queen Raven." The Knight answered back with an attitude. " God, I thought you were the one up to date."

"Why you-" Blondie charged at the knight who cowered in fear as Blondie was snatched by the ogres.

" Enough!" The goblin shouted. " Send them to the dungeon."

"Over my dead body!" Ramona howled as she began to transform into her wolf form.

A red light engulfed Ramona as fur covered her skin, her limbs twisted, her mouth formed a muzzle, and she was in wolf form. The only thing to different her from any other wolf was her steak of white and red in her fur.

Ramona began attacking the ogres as Hunter began punching the knight and goblin.

"You haven't won, we'll be back with a bigger army." The princesses escaped leaving the teens alone.

"Quickly, this way." Humphery pointed to an exit.

They were at a crossroads one side lead to a manhole to the boys' bathroom while the other lead to the girls' dorms.

" Great, now what?" Blondie asked. "We either head to the girls' dorm or 'shudder' the boys' bathroom."

"That's simple." Hunter stated. " All in favor in heading to the girls' dorm-"

"AYE!" Everyone raised their hands in agreement.

"Wait, I hear something." Ramona paused as her ears began to flicker, picking up a sound. "More goons are coming this way!"

"We can head out the closets manhole." Ashlynn spoke.

"But they'll catch us." Briar said.

"And we wouldn't have enough time to escape." Blondie added.

They were now in a pickle they only had time for one escape and not enough time to escape, there was only one option left to make.

"You guys escape, I'll stay behind." Hunter spoke in a solemn voice.

"You guys need to split up - yes, I know horror movies taught us to never do that- get out of here and find some help." Hunter instructed.

"What will you be doing?" Holly. questioned.

"I'll hold the army off." Hunter answered as he gripped his axe.

"What?" Everyone yelped.

"That's suicide; at least let me help fight them off. "Ramona said.

" I need you to protect them, who knows how many other spies Raven has done here. Can I count on you Ramona?" Hunter asked.

"No Problem." Ramona answered with a determined smile.

"No, I won't leave you! "Ashlynn cried out as she wrapped her arms around Hunter's torso.

"It's okay, Ashlynn." Hunter gently released his girlfriend. "I'll be fine, our friends need you."

Ashlynn wanted to protest, but she knew what had to be done. Hunter unhooked his silver pendant of leaves and feather from his belt and gently placed it in Ashlynn's hand.

"Take this." Hunter spoke gently as he gently strokes Ashlynn's cheek. "You'll need it to remind you that you're brave."

Ashlynn nodded as she crashed her lips onto Hunter's giving him one last kiss until they would meet again.

"Come back for me." Ashlynn said.

"I will." Hunter answered as he took off back to face the army.

Hunter's boots splashed as he ran further away from his friends, sweat down his face and chest, and full of determination.

"Are you sure they went this way?"

"Yes, I'm sure!"

" Looking for me?" Hunter said stepping out into the spotlight (or whatever sewers have) as he gripped his axe tighter.

"Look who it is, the Royal princess kisser." One of Raven's goons said earning a laugh from the others.

"Don't you talk smack about my girlfriend!" Hunter growled baring his teeth.

"Speaking of which where is your little princess and her friends." One of the goons sneered.

"Far away from you, assholes." Hunter said as he spat at the goons foot.

"AH!" The goon cried. " I just got these boots from the Glass Slipper, get him!"

The goons began attacking Hunter only to regret it. Hunter punched one of the goons sending her toppling on top of three others. Hunter kicked a couple in their stomachs making them clutch. He even used his axe only attacking with the knob or the poll/butt part (he doesn't want to kill them, but he doesn't want to get hurt). Despite Hunter's best efforts the goons kept advancing, Hunter knew he couldn't hold them back for long, but his friends needed more time.

"Nighty-night Royal kiss-up." One ogre goon said as he punched Hunter in the face.

Hunter hit the wet ground and faded into unconscious.

"Take him to Queen Raven." The Ogre demanded as a few picked Hunter up. " The rest with me, we got some escapees to catch."

Okay, gonna end it here. I was gonna add a Ramona, Faybelle, & Brooke section, but everytime I saved my writing things got deleted and I had to rewrite everything again (please tell me I'm not the only one facing this). Well, hope y'all enjoy please leave a comment and tell me how it's going. Bye.