Hi. Part 2 is up. Time to start reading.

Where are you, Raven? pt 2

*AAAHHH*

Raven shot up, heart beating fast, sweat falling down her face, and breathing deeply. After of couple more deep breathes she used her magic to create a glowing purple fireball to illuminate wherever she was. Raven checked her throat and both her wrist to see no cuts, scars, or blood; she was still in the cave, still breathing, still alive.

Raven didn't know to be relieved, disappointed, or furious.

She turned on her phone to see that it was midnight, a new day for a new plan.

But, first things first - there was no way in hell she was spending the rest of the night in a nasty-bug-infested-cave!

Raven knew she couldn't go back to school where she would be severely punished, she couldn't go home her father would've heard her disappearing act by now, renting a room in a hotel was a no due to her being a minor, it being crazy late, and most of Ever After knew her. There was no escape!

"If only I could go somewhere no one would bother to look, the last place anyone would think to look, and rarely go to." Raven said out loud until it hit her. "That's it."

Raven knew exactly where to go: no one would bother to look, the last place anyone would think to look, and rarely go to. it was perfect!

Raven walked out of the cave into a warm breeze, a starless sky, and a new attitude! Raven used her magic and teleported to her destination.

Ever After High

Attic

The entrances to the attic was located behind a bookcase Headmaster Grimm's office, the lone window on the roof which anyone with wings could enter, or simply teleporting.

*POOF*

Raven was in the center of the dusty attic that was covered in cobwebs, dust, the many paint cans, and a dark ornate mirror.

"Mother?" Raven's questioned sounded more like a hiss.

The mirror sparked, electricity skating across its silver surface, clouds formed inside as lightning crackled. Slowly her mother appeared.

"Faybelle, for the love of God! Do you know what time -Raven?" The Evil Queen gasped. "Is that you birdie?"

"It's me, mom." Raven gestured to herself.

"Wait a second, why are you covered in twigs and mud?" The Evil Queen questioned.

Raven explained her situation to her mother from: clawing Daring's face, running away, finding out the news reports, and omitting her dream of suicide.

"Oh, my devious little birdie." The Evil Queen cooed. "Don't worry, as soon as I find a way out of this hellhole of a mirror prison mama will make this horrible."

" What should I do now? It's not like I can turn myself, right?" Raven questioned.

"Of course not, you heard what Uncle Grimmy said '"Come Tuesday, Raven will be back in school and all will be back to normal... Also, she and every last one of you will sign the Storybook of Legends.'. That man was always full of shit." The Evil Queen cackled.

"But, how can we get the Storybook of Legends? I tried countless times with the spell to go back and fail. " Raven said.

"That's a problem we'll solve later. Right now we need to work on your 'return'." The Evil Queen smiled wickedly.

"So, what's the plan, mother?" Raven asked.

"The plan is for you to get some rest, evil can't flourish without proper beauty sleep." The Evil Queen answered.

"And where am I supposed to sleep? I can't go back to my dorm?" Raven asked.

"Why not here?" The Evil Queen gestured to the attic. "Mind you it needs a lot plastic surgery, a paint job, I heart art deco is back in fashion-"

*POOF*

While the Evil Queen was rambling Raven already transformed the attic into the perfect evil queen bedroom. Everything in her dorm was here her bed, throne, and many mirrors with spikes on them.

"Oh, I love what you've done with the place! Get some rest Raven, we've got work tomorrow." The Evil Queen smiled as she disappeared.

It's true after trudging through the swamp, exploring the cave, and her nightmare - Raven was exhausted and smelly.

'It is one in the morning, no one should really be up right now.' Raven thought as she poofed to the girls' restroom to shower, get her pajamas on, brush her, teeth, and head to bed.

Saturday

Raven had no idea what time it was between the very dark attic in the lone window barely featuring any sunlight she guessed it was early morning. She took her phone off her nightstand and it read -

7:00

Too early for any sane person to be up on a Saturday. Raven took advantage of the time to go to the girls' restroom to clean herself up, once done she returned to the attic to get dressed.

It didn't take long for boredom to set in, Raven couldn't call her friends, or play her guitar or keyboard without alerting someone, and most of social media would be about her so it was gonna be a slow day.

*STOMACH GROWL*

Raven clutched her stomach as she felt it's needle like pains. She had nothing in her mini fridge and she couldn't go downstairs to the cafeteria where she'd be spotted. She had no choice she had to go to the Village of Bookend. Raven wasn't a fool, she couldn't leave as Raven Queen she had to be someone else.

Raven looked herself in the mirror wearing her Taylor Quick t-shirt she got from her last concert, dark purple jean shorts, fishnet stockings, and black boots with spikes on the. Raven closed her eyes as she casted a disguise spell on herself and when she opened her eyes, she saw that her hair was shorter in a pixie cut style and blonde with light skin a few freckles on her body, the only thing that didn't change about her was her purple eyes. It was perfect no one would recognize her! With that Raven teleported to the Village of Bookend.

Village of Bookend

Shops and cafes were beginning to open up as owners switched the closed signs to open, small lines of early birds arriving, and the Sun slowly began to light up the sky. The fresh scent of flowers, baked bread, and Spring air was starting to make the place come alive.

Raven was irritated by the pollen as she rubbed her eyes, the fresh pastry scents fueled her hunger, and she hissed as the Sun dared make its presence.

*Bell Ring*

Raven entered the cafe with its interior designed to look like you were in the middle of the woods, natural lighting, and plants everywhere, if it weren't for the scent of coffee and pastries and giant tv one might believe they were outside.

"Welcome to Hocus Latte Cafe, what would you like to order?" The barista asked as she adjusted her cone hat.

"I'll have a grande salted caramel frappe, butter crossiant, and a fruit salad, will do." Raven ordered.

"Excellent." The Barista said. "Name please?"

"RaAA-" Raven caught her blunder, she never thought of a new name. "-cheal! Racheal's my name."

"Okay, Racheal, your order will be ready soon." The Barista said.

Raven sat in one of the chairs under the big tree in the center of the café as a news bulletin appeared on screen.

And surprise, surprise: they were all about Raven attacking Daring! How Prince Daring Charming was the victim, how Raven was like her mother, and about her return on Tuesday to sign the Storybook of Legends. Headmaster Grimm did a good job painting Raven as the villian of this tale.

" Here's your order. Ms. Racheal." The Barista said as she placed Raven's breakfast down and looked up at the tv screen. "Man, they are going on what Raven did to Daring, huh?"

"Just curious, what's your opinion on the matter?" Raven questioned.

"I wanna know the whole story before I give an opinion, which is a same since they were both good tippers." The Barista answered before leaving.

Raven ate her breakfast as the cafe filled up with patrons gossiping about Raven. Raven gripped the edges of the chair enough for the stuffing to come out; she was going to make them all pay!

"What do you think happened to make the Queen girl attack the future prince Charming?" Raven turned to see three goblins chugging their coffee.

"Who cares why?" One goblin said. "I wanna she how she did it."

"Yeah, I'm tired of that pretty boy hoggin all the attention." Another spoke up.

"Well, what do you know, even Daring had haters." Raven said to herself as she finished the rest of her coffee, left a tip on the table, and walked towards the trio.

"Hello, boys!" Raven said in a seductive tone gaining the three's attention.

Two of the three paused as a blush grew on their faces.

"Hi." The thin one and the large waved shyly at Raven

"What's the matter with you two?" The short one smacked both their hands. "We're freshmen in college and she's most likely a freshman in high school."

"I'm a sophomore." Raven hissed insulted.

"I stand by what I said." The short one said as he crossed his arms.

"Okay, let's cut the formalities. "Raven said as she pulled up a chair with her magic and sat done. " None of you are fans of Daring, are you?"

"Not just the Charming boy, it's all the royalties that get under my skin." The short goblin answered. "They think they're better than us!"

"You can say that sister." The thin goblin said. "I had a photoshoot last week, but the photographer canceled on me for some dumb prince magazine with Daring Charming in it. I waited five months for that photoshoot!"

"Even after the whole Rebel thing this is one of the few places that'll serve us." The short goblin said as he slammed his disposable coffee cup on the table.

"Yeah, I wish things were different that we got a taste of the good life." The large one said dreamily.

"If it weren't for folks like Milton Grimm, pretty princesses, and knights in shining armor we'd be running things here." The short goblin said.

"What if I told you that Raven Queen is planning an uprising?" Raven said earning their attention.

"What'cha talking about?" The short goblin said.

"Think about it. We all know that the real Storybook of Legends is missing, and Raven ran away to only God knows where, and Headmaster Grimm plans to have both back by Tuesday. Doesn't that sound a bit sketch?" Raven questioned.

The three goblins pondered for a second until a lightbulb formed on top of their heads. "She's right it does sound sketchy."

"Now that I think of it; when did the real Storybook of Legends go missing?" The thin one questioned.

"Exactly!" Raven clapped. " Grimm's playing everyone like fiddles. The only truth in his lies is that Raven will come back, and she plans on taking him down."

The three goblins looked back at each other and back at Raven. "Anything we can do to help?"

Raven smiled evilly. "Spread the word that Raven's coming back and make sure you're in the crowds during the televised event."

"You got yourself a deal." The short goblin extended his hand and Raven shook it despite how cold and slimy it was.

The four left the cafe and Raven watched as the three goblins split off to pass the word. As Raven made her first steps away from the cafe she was almost knocked over by a trio wearing black cloaks.

"Sorry, we're in a hurry to save or friend. Bye!" The short one apologized.

Raven just glared as the three ran off she had better things to do like spread her evil all throughout Ever After.

"Maddie, why did you say that?" Cerise hissed.

"I didn't want to be rude." Maddie answered.

The whole morning to afternoon Raven spread the word of her return.

Attic

"Mom? I'm back." Raven called out as her mother appeared.

"Raven, there you are I was worried when you didn't call me this morning." The Evil Queen spoke in a worried tone. "Did you sleep well?"

"Now that mentioned it, I did find this wand under my pillow for some strange reason." Raven pulled out the wand.

"Perfect, you got it now I can teach you some real advance spells." The Evil Queen said.

" I thought we didn't need wands since we can cast magic by ourselves?" Raven question.

"True, but everyone needs a little help from time to time and wands can help channel and store magical energy that spells can't do." The Evil Queen answered. "Where were you this morning?

" I had to get breakfast, plus I was spreading the word of my return throughout the Village of Bookend. By this time tomorrow the witch, goblin, and etc community will be cheering for my return."

"Oh, Raven." The Evil Queen beamed with pride. " I'm so proud! You're finally embracing your destiny, like I did only better."

Raven nodded. It was true knowing there were those who were on her side and were depending on her to fulfill her destiny was intoxicating.

Suddenly the knob began to twist and turn.

"Shit!" The Evil Queen cursed I forgot that pesky fairy, Faybelle was coming.

Raven used her magic to make her belongings disappear destroying all traces of here there and hide herself in the corner.

" I'll talk more of my plan later. " Raven whispered.

"Of course my dear daughter." The Evil Queen said as she began to disappear.

" It's almost time."

"What?" Faybelle jolted as she fell forward and smashed into the ground.

Raven covered her mouth from laughing as she walked further into the shadows, when Faybelle looked up the room was exactly how she left it: the floor covered in dust, paint cans, boxes, shelves with boring books, and the Evil Queen's mirror. Faybelle activated the mirror.

"What do you want, Faybelle?" The Evil Queen spatted.

"Mrs. Evil Queen, I got the greatest news you'll ever hear." Faybelle gleamed ear to ear.

Faybelle went into great detail on how Raven attacked Daring and leaving Ever After High, the media storm going on at school, the Charmings and Apple being gone, the extra security at school, and how Headmaster Grimm planned to have Raven back by Tuesday.

"Raven, did all that?" The Evil Queen questioned in disbelief.

"Yes, ma'am." Faybelle answered.

The Evil Queen was silent for a moment until-

"HAHAHAH, THAT'S MY GIRL!" The Evil Queens chackle filled the room leaving Faybelle in disbelief.

"What!" Faybelle bellowed. " After all she's done, you're proud of her?"

"SILENCE!" The Evil Queen shouted at Faybelle. "Raven has finally ditched her goody-two-shoes phase and has accepted her rightful place as the future evil queen. She didn't just attack a charming prince she attacked Daring Charming of the main Charmings and Apple's future prince, she caused an uproar in the system, and cause so much trouble Headmaster Grimm is losing ways of covering things up, and you will respect that, got it?"

"Yes, ma'am." Faybelle begrudgingly agreed.

"Good." The Evil Queen spatted. "And you did say that Grimm plans to have Raven back on Tuesday, correct?"

"Yes, ma'am." Faybelle answered.

"When, that happens make sure that all the parents of future villains are watching including your mother." The Evil Queen said.

"Really, why?" Faybelle questioned.

"Because when Raven returns it'll be a historical moment which the world of Ever After has never seen before, Plus, it'll give you an excuse to make your mother proud." The Evil Queen answered.

"Make. My. Mother. Proud. Of. Me?" Faybelle parroted in disbelief.

"Yes." The Evil Queen answered bluntly.

Faybelle's face lit up as she fluttered off the ground.

"I'll go alert everyone in villain club!" Faybelle cried out in excitement as she flew out the tower.

Faybelle was so excited; in just a few days she'd prove to be the greatest villain Ever After has ever seen and it was all because Raven Queen majorly screwed up.

The Evil Queen watched as Faybelle gleefully fluttered out of the room like a fly who had just eaten sugar.

"Is she gone?"

"Yes, she's gone." The Evil Queen answered.

"Why do you want Faybelle's mom to see the event so badly?" Raven questioned.

"To show Darcy who is still in control." The Evil Queen answered. " Ever since my 'execution' I know she's been doing everything to one up me and reclaim the power I stole from her when I cursed Sleeping Beauty. Not only will it put her in her place I want to rub it in that her daughter looks up to me more than her."

"That would destroy her." Raven caught onto the plan.

"Exactly." The Evil Queen grinned.

The whole afternoon the Evil Queen taught Raven spell after spell, unaware that they were being watched.

Vault of Lost Tales

Giles watched as The Evil Queen was teaching Raven evil spells until it was time for her to get dinner and the Rebel girls on the boat heading to Queen Queendom.

"The bird has been snared by the snakes, may her friends sail safe to the harbor to restore her faith." Giles spoke in a melancholy tone as he placed his hand on the mirror and lowered his head.

Okay, gonna end it here. I want to take a moment and thank each of y'all for your patients and support I can't thank y'all enough. So, I decided to challenge myself to do two chapters a month, so I don't over work myself and you guys get the story faster. The next chapter will be done sometime by the end of the month. Bye!

P.S. Raven's disguise is based off her voice actress Erin Fitzgerald.