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TIMELINE is three months BEFORE Descendants 2.

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Location: Auradon

Heart Castle

The doors were pushed inward with a loud squealed, the moonlight shines through the opened doors that ex-villains could barely see the long gallery. Mal immediately took out her smartphone, turned on the flashlights and lifted up. The long gallery is now bright enough, soon the other copied Mal's action and makes it easier for them to see inside of the castle.

The blonde-haired girl walked forward with cautioned as her green eyes carefully observed her surroundings. Jay strolled to the wall while lifted his flashlight from his smartphone to scan the ripped in half portrait. He couldn't see the features of a face, so he ignores it and glanced other portraits on the wall with curious.

Carlos is eyeing at anything suspicious while moved his source of light around him. Not want anything to jump out and scare him. While the blue-haired princess noticed the cracks, damaged on the walls, furniture is covered with dust mites and mold, and there are few weapons such as spears, swords, daggers, and arrows scattered around. 'Was there a battle happened inside the castle?' she mused with curious and slightly disgusted when she was near the filthy furniture.

As the villains of kids walked to the end of the long gallery, Jay reached the doorknob, twisted and turned then pushed it forward. It was another empty room of marble ground and brick wall with large open windows that faced the courtyard outside.

Mal turned to her female best friend who shook her head. Evie doesn't recognize this room from the memories of her mother's life. So, they went straight to the door that leads to another room which it was a long hallway, on the side, there is a stair that leads to the second level, however down the hallway has a few doors. "Okay, E. What room do you remember?" the dragon girl turned around and asked with annoyed with the thought of waste their time to search entire rooms inside the castle.

Evie bit her lip as she closed her eyes. She attempted to remember the room even though she doesn't want to recollect that awful memory. "…it had white marble ground. The wall was white but filled with a lot of gold color pictures and portraits. I remembered there is a large tub… other than that, that's all." She opened her eyes and greeted a thoughtful face from Mal.

"Sounds like a private bathroom." The dragon girl mused out loud.

The blue-haired princess hummed as she could understand why her best friend thought about that. Plus, her mother did wear a robe in the memory so, it is a possibility that it's a bathroom.

Carlos grimaced. "Do you know how many bathrooms there are in this castle? Castles generally has over twenty different private bathrooms." He whined while Jay scowled when he realized it as well.

Mal rolled her eyes. "Suck it up. Plus, we're not going to search every bathroom. I assumed that the Evil Queen might use the master bedroom's private bathroom. After all, she was a Queen in this castle, duh." She sassed at the boys and Evie silent giggled to herself at the sheepishly looked from the boys.

"That means the master bedroom was on the second floor, or on the third floor." Evie speaks up with general knowledge of castles since she and Mal used to live in a castle back on the Isle of Lost. They did grow up in the castle and knew the layout of castles in general.

The blonde-haired girl nodded her head. "Right, let's head up to the second floor." She ordered her best friends and stormed to the stairs and ascended the stairs. With others followed behind with their flashlights from smartphones which they all thankful for.

When they reached the second level of the castle. There are doors and Mal turned around to face her best friends. "Search the rooms and shout out when you found the master bedroom."

"Got it." They understood and obeyed their unofficial leader's order. And while they are searching for the master bedroom, deep down to the bottom level of the basement. Down to the special door and in a secret room. A floating mirror inside the curtain sparks alive.

"She's here… at last."

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Lips Red as Poison Apple

Book One: Price to Pay

Chapter Seven

"Heart Castle"

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Location: Auradon

Heart Castle

Second Level

With a former thief who opened one of the doors, walked inside with cautioned as he shifted his flashlight around the room. It's a large bedroom, however, he wasn't sure if it's the master bedroom. Jay went further in the room to investigate a bit longer. The son of Jafar noticed a fancy shield on the wall, he went to observed and saw the heart and crown symbols on the shield.

After he overlooked the shield which he loses interested it. Jay turned around but when his shoe kicked something light that made soft clicked. He glanced down as he shines his flashlight down, he bends down, grabbed the item and carefully examined it. It's a feminine silver ring with a royal seal. He tilted his head as he is wondering if its worth in money. However, he also thought it would be an excellent collection for the museum. Since the museum rarely has any valuable items that were from the Heart Castle.

Jay decided to keep it in his pocket for now and continued searches in the bedroom.

Meanwhile, in another room where Carlos is careful with high alerted as he searches in the feminine bedroom. He would never understand why a single bedroom would be so large for one person, this room is almost the same size as his former house back on the Isle of the Lost.

'This is ridiculous.' Carlos mused with disbelief while searching through the bedroom. He found a door that leads to the giant walk-in closet that he would've faint the though of clean it on his own. He is actually thankful that his old house was not this size of the castle. Just to think of how much chores with many hours to clean made him shudder.

The white-haired boy went to the other door that leads to the bathroom. He walked inside while scanned the area with his flashlight. 'I don't think this is the master one…' he mused, after doublechecking the bathroom, then he turned around but slipped from the puddle on the ground that was leaked from the water pipe that attached to the bathtub.

Carlos attempted to balance himself as his elbow knocked the rail which shifted it down and the door behind him opened. The white-haired boy yelped in surprised when he fell back through the secret room and the door closed and the rail on the wall shifted it upward. As if there is no change in the bathroom.

In the meantime, in another room, the blue-haired princess found herself in a study room. It wasn't the bedroom, obviously but she decided to investigate the study room with curious. Evie walked to the fancy desk that is covered with dust. She wrinkles her nose with disgust as she picked up one of the paperwork with her index and thumb fingers.

She tilted her head as she narrowed her eyes at the paperwork when she lifted up to her eyes. 'Alliance contract?' she attempted to read the faded inks. Evie placed the paper back on the desk, uninterested as she glanced around. The blue-haired princess walked closer to the bookshelf, lifted her fingers and shifted through the titles from the books with barely feather-like touch as she doesn't want dirty her fingers.

Meanwhile, back to Jay who walked out of the bedroom and his hearing greeted silence on the second floor. He furrowed his eyebrows with confused, he was expected to hear movements and small noises but none. "Yo?" he called out with curious, but none respond. "Hello? Anyone on this floor?" he tried again and no responses. "Did they go up to the third floor without me?" he mumbled with confused and slightly offended that no one came to get him.

The former thief wandered to the stairs, climbed up with caution. "Hello? Mal? Evie? Carlos?" he called out while climbing the stairs that lead to the third floor.

"We're up here, Jay!" a familiar feminine voice called out from the third level. Jay relaxed his shoulders when he heard Mal's voice. "Why didn't you guys tell me –!" he reached to the third floor but halted in shocked when he greeted the long gallery.

"What?" he turned around and found himself face the entrance doors. Jay turned around as he moved his flashlight around and saw familiar ripped in half portrait on the wall. "What?" he repeated in stunned while stared at the damaged portrait and around the long gallery. "How?" he was confused and baffled.

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Heart Castle

Second Level

In the meantime, Mal doubted this was the master bedroom which she was kind of frustrated, but she did decide to search through to find any possible clues. However, the bedroom had barely furniture in it and even the walk-in closest is empty. So, she assumed this was just a guest room. The blonde-haired girl shook her head with disappointment and not want to waste her time, she left the bedroom to the hallway and placed her hands on her hips. "Did anyone find the master bedroom?" she called out to her friends.

Her green eyes caught brown eyes from the blue-haired beauty. Evie walked out of the door that was lead to the study room with a shook head. "No." she answered and they both waited for the boys to come out but nothing.

"Guys? Hello?" Mal raised her voice, just in case.

Once again, an eerie silence greeted the girls who glanced at each other. Evie was concerned while Mal was irritated. "I swear on Maleficent if they are fooling around right now. I will send them on fire and laugh with joy." She grumbled as she stormed to the room where Jay is supposedly in.

Evie quickly followed her short-tempered best friend. When they walked in the bedroom, it was empty and Mal turned around, left the room and went in another where Carlos was last seen in. Evie frowned deeply. "Jay?" she called out to former thief but no answer from him.

The blue-haired princess rushed out of the bedroom to the next room where Mal is searching around with a frustrated look on her face. "Los not here?"

Mal paused and turned to Evie with surprised yet frustrated still linger in her eyes. "You haven't called Snowflake that nickname for two years." She pointed it out with interested, wondering when did the blue-haired princess return used the nickname for Carlos.

Evie blushed with embarrassed. "Th-that… Now is not the time to talk about it, M. Do you know where the boys could be?" she attempted to switch the topic.

The dragon girl raised her left eyebrow but decided to let it drop for now. "I don't know. My guess that they went to the third floor." She crossed her arms.

"By themselves?" Evie doubted it.

Mal shrugged her shoulders. "Unless you have a better answer?" she said in salty tone. Obvious irritated that the boys are not on the second floor.

The daughter of the Evil Queen bit her lip with loss. She has honestly no idea, she would've to call Jay or Carlos but there were no services in the area.

"Let's just head upstairs while looking for the idiots." Mal snapped as she stormed out of the room. Evie quickly followed her best friend with a wisely shut mouth. Evie does not want to be the target by Mal's anger. 'Where are you?' Evie mused with concerned for her best friends.

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Heart Castle

Secret Passageway

Carlos failed to open the door that leads back in the private bathroom, so he decided to walk down the hallway with bricks walls between him. He is eyeing with cautioned and suspicious ahead of him. He doesn't understand why this always happened to him. And he wondered how long this passageway would take? He would never understand why people want to have secrets behind the walls, it's creepy and waste of space and money for it.

However, the son of Cruella de Vil will never understand as he wasn't raised as a prince, he was raised as a slave. His life back on Isle of the Lost was miserable but it made him left miserable ever since he met Evie. The thought of the blue-haired princess brings a smile on his face. He clearly remembered that day when he first saw Evie for the first time, long before he rescued her from his mother's closest when Mal pushed Evie into.

[Flashback]

A seven years old Carlos ran down the road with eyes wide filled with panicked. He can hear a few running footsteps behind him which he forced to sped up. When he turned the corner, down the alleyway, then halted himself when he met a dead end. "Oh no!" he was scared.

Then he heard running footsteps arrived and it was too late for him to get away. Carlos turned around with frighten. Four large older boys chuckled as one of them cracked his knuckles.

"There you are brat!" one of them smirked evilly.

Another sneered at the white-haired little boy. "No way to escape from us, you dirty little boy."

Four of them prepare to beat up a little boy who is cowered with petrified and quickly shut his eyes. Waiting for the pain.

Suddenly, one of the older boys screamed in pain which Carlos snapped his eyes open with confused, nervous, and curious. He glanced up and saw one of the older boys clutched his head in agony.

"What the hell was that?!" the one who was in pain while other boy picked up a broken small box that was made of pallets.

Then a dropped of cassette tape hit on one of the boys. A screwdriver nearly smacks the older boys. Then, thick wires dropped on them, and soon, a bunch of trashes continued dropped on them as the older boys covered themselves from the pain while they were shouted in pain and anger with demanded of anyone to come out and face them.

Carlos noticed that none of the objects are targeted him, so he took his chance to escape through the older boys and ran off down the alleyway, away from the bullies.

The white-haired little boy turned sharply and can hear the older boys shouted and started run after him. When Carlos' eyes meet the spot, he hid behind the barrel that has a tarp over it and sat down quietly. He can hear the older boys running and shouted with irritated and swore. Then they ran off until the noises from them faded away.

Carlos sighed in relief that he was saved. Before he could walk out from his hiding place, he paused when he heard different soft footsteps. He paused with nervous and cautioned. The white-haired little boy peek through the hold of the tarp and saw a pretty blue-haired little girl walked down calmly while fanning herself with a plastic CD case.

"Bunch of fools." She grumbled then threw the CD case behind her, uninterested and walked away. Carlos continued watching her with curious and realized that she was the one who threw a bunch of items at the bullies and saved Carlos from being bloody beat up.

The white-haired little boy climbed out of his hiding place when the blue-haired little girl is out of his sights. His eyes glanced over at the CD case, walked to it and picked it up. He carefully observed the cracked CD case of a drawn beautiful rose. Carlos dubbed his savior as Blue Rose in his mind. In the Isle of the Lost, there's no such thing as saviors but he was wrong. There is one that exists on the miserable island.

And because of her, he too, learned that it's okay to rescue people. And later in his life, he rescued his Blue Rose from his mother's closest. It was a fate that they are meant to be each other's saviors and best friends.

[End of Flashback]

Carlos blinked when his eyes met a large back of a picture frame. He pushed his memory back in his head, reached his hand to the picture and pushed it outward. The white-haired boy peeks out in cautioned while holding his flashlight.

The large room was empty, so he jumped down and shut the picture behind him. He observed the room and noticed that he is in the throne room. "Correction, a really fancy throne room." Carlos whispered with disbelieved and awed. Now, he understood why Jay assumed that Heart King had expensive taste.

The throne room has modest braziers half encompassing each of the ten travertine columns that are used for light up most of the throne hall and allowed shadows to play and dance where light cannot reach. The paintings of vast landscapes on the domed ceiling dance in the flickering moonlight while statuettes look down upon the mahogany floor of this elegant hall.

A sanguine rug runs from the throne to the doors and is matched by smaller ones on either side of the hall while ribbon banners with ornate borders hang from the walls. Between each banner, all had the depictions of late royal family members below them.
Huge, a few shattered and cracked stained glass windows depicting divine beings are contoured by veils colored the same sanguine as to the banners. The curtains have been adorned with fancy tassels and fine patterns.

A radiant throne of gold sits atop an elevated platform and is adjoined by two equally impressive seats for those aiding the royal highness in all affairs. The throne is covered in textured and layered motifs and fixed on each of the rather slim feet is a gem-encrusted heart. The comfortable pillows are a light sanguine and these too have been adorned with embellished tufts.

If the throne room wasn't covered with dust, damaged, and shattered. It would be one of the most gorgeous room to be in. Carlos walked through the throne hall while examined his surroundings with his flashlight. Sounds of glasses crushed and cracked underneath his boots until he paused when he saw a large portrait on the wall.

In the portrait, it was a young woman in her twenties, and she was beautiful. And Carlos couldn't help it but felt that he has seen this woman before, her face reminded him of someone but couldn't place his finger on. "Who are you?" he whispered with curious, then he shook his head and decided to leave this throne room and search for his best friends as he knew that Mal is probably angry at him and Evie is worried about him.

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Heart Castle

Third Level

The daughter of Maleficent went into one of the rooms while Evie turned to the slightly fancy double doors, she reached the doors and opened it. The blue-haired princess walked in and found herself in the mini-library. She knew this isn't the main library but it's still huge. There are thousands and thousands of books on the shelves.

Evie walked into the library while scanned the shelves and books with slight interested. Once she reached the small area where the couch is pushed against the wall underneath the large windows and a coffee table in front of the couch with a single mini-statue in the middle. A spark of curiosity inside her mind that she walked to the area. Her brown eyes stared at the mini-statue of a handsome man with a crown. 'I assumed this was Heart King?' she picked it up and studied it with thoughtful.

Before she set the statue down, her thumb accidentally smacked the king crown from the statue's head. Suddenly, the designed pattern of circle swirled opened. Evie gasped softly when she saw the action. She glanced at the statue, then a secret door, back to statue, and a secret door. "Whoa." She blinked with surprise.

Evie set the statue down on the coffee table and decided to inform Mal about this. The blue-haired princess turned around, walked fast down to the mini hall but halted when she heard a whispered.

"Evie…" scarlet appeared in her eyes as she turned around slowly. "Come… come to me…" she walked toward to the secret door, her head tilted blankly then lowered herself down inside the hole.

Then the hole shut itself.

In the meantime, Mal walked out of the bedroom and went to the next one. She pushed the door opened without care and paused. Her green eyes survey the bedroom and a smirked of victory appeared on her face. "Finally." She has found a master bedroom.

She walked in the middle of the slightly damaged master bedroom and stared at the portrait of King Heart and the beautiful young woman that she assumed it might be the Evil Queen. "Huh. I wonder why Evil Queen covered her entire appearance except for her face." She mused out loud with curious then shrugged it off.

Mal went to check the private bathroom and saw a large bathtub, white marble ground, the wall was white but filled with a lot of dust-covered pictures and portraits. However, this was it. "Found it." She placed her hands on her hips. "Evie!" she called out while observed the bathroom carefully.

However, a silent greeted her. Mal frowned and called out once again. "E!"

Again, none. Slowly, Mal closed her eyes as she felt the urge to release her frustration but controlled it. "Calm down, Mal. Maybe she couldn't hear me this far. Probably distracted by something…" she opened her eyes with a calm face. The dragon girl quickly left the room and called out her best friend.

"Evie? Where are you?" Mal called out with slight impatience in the hallway. Her eyes spotted an open door, she walked through the door and found herself in the mini-library. "E? I found the place, where are you?" Mal glanced around while walked down with caution.

When she reached the resting area and glanced around. "Evie?" her frustrated vanished as concerned creep up inside of her. The boys, she can understand that they ran off and might be somewhere. However, she knew Evie, the blue-haired princess would never leave alone, especially not in this castle.

"Oh gosh…" Mal is alone and she has no idea where the rest of her best friends are.

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Heart Castle

Basement

The scarlet faded away from blue-haired princess' eyes and she blinked a few times. "What?" she blurted it out in confused. She glanced around as she realized that she is standing in the middle of the dark hallway with a flashlight in her hand. "What?" she repeated in shock with no recall of how she got here.

A fear strike in her heart. "What… is happening to me?" she mumbled with anxious. Her head turned back and forth in the middle of the hallway. She has no idea where she was supposed to go in. Evie attempted to see the end of both hallways but only greeted darkness. "Which way am I supposed to go?" she mumbled with worried.

An eerie silence greeted the blue-haired princess. Her shoulders tensed that she has no choice but to take out her magic mirror from her purse, reluctant. She reached her purse, unclasped and dug in to take a mirror from it.

Evie closed her eyes as she took a large inhaled for a few seconds then released it through her mouth. Then she lifted her mirror as she fluttered her eyes open. Evie gulped nervously. "Magic Mirror… which route shall I take that lead me to return my friends?"

The white smokes appeared inside the magic mirror then flew out of the mirror. Evie shudders as she watched the white smokes with fear. However, instead of attack her, it dances in the air to the north direction of the hallway.

The blue-haired princess stared at the floating smoke with suspicious as she pulled the mirror close to her chest. "…I supposed that you want me to follow?" the white smokes flew around and head to the north.

Evie bit her bottom lip with hesitant. 'Can I trust this? But without anyone helping me, I guess I have no choice.' She mused that doesn't mean she fully trusts the smokes that came out of her magic mirror. So, she followed the white smoke with caution.

It's been very intense for Evie and she felt like she has been walking for hours when in reality, it's only been a few minutes. Then, her brown eyes greeted the white door at the end that is provided by her flashlight.

The blue-haired princess paused in front of the white door with a golden doorknob. She examined the purely cleaned white door which is very highly suspicious. She watched the white smokes flew around the golden doorknob.

Evie shook her head, she turned her head over her shoulder and only see darkness behind her. She bit her lips with anxious then turned her head back to the door. Her shoulders slumped, she really has no choice, so she reached the doorknob, touched it, and flinched. "Ow!" she jerked her hand away from the doorknob and stared at the tiny hold in her palm. "Did I get pricked by a needle or something?"

She furrowed her eyebrows at her small injury and doubletake at the door. Evie stared at it in dumbfounded when she watched the golden doorknob changed to black then spread behind the doorknob to change the shade to bright, crimson red as it poured over the white door.

Evie nearly stumbled back as the once white door transformed to pure red as blood door. "Wh-what?" she mouthed in voiceless shocked. She is too scared to get near the door as the white smokes dive inside through the door.

Then, suddenly, a door pushed inward itself that sends shivered Evie's spine down. She shifted her flashlight at the room, she couldn't see it except red curtain hanging in the middle of the room. Evie slowly dragged her feet inside the room while eyeing her surroundings.

Once she reached the curtain, her eyes spotted a golden tassel, and she reached to it and pulled it down. Evie watched the red curtain lifted upward to reveal a magic object. Evie gasped when she recognized the floating mirror with golden veins with thrones surrounding the glass. On top of the mirror, it has an onyx gemstone that shape of a crown.

This is was the mirror that her mother cursed herself with. Evie immediately knew that this was a terrible situation to be alone. She turned around to run but the door shut itself when she crashed against the door. Evie reached the doorknob, attempted to twist and turned but it won't budge.

Evie pounded the door with her fists. "Help! Anyone! Please! Help me! Carlos! Mal! Jay! Anyone! Carlos! Help me!" she continued pounding the door with panicked.

The white smokes released from the magic mirror as the red flames appeared around in mid-air that brighten up the room. Evie froze with fear, slowly as she turned around as her heartbeats fast. She shook her head frantically and turned back.

Evie attempted to smash the door with her body a few times and twisted and turned the doorknob. However, it was all futile.

"Princess…" Evie whimpered when she saw white smokes gathered around her arms and legs then forced to drag her toward the magic mirror.

"No! No, no, no, no, no! Please! Let me go! Mal! Jay! Carlos!" she cried out in hyperventilate as it continued dragging her from behind. "CARLOS! MAL! JAY! CARLOS! HELP M–!" she was cut off as she was sucked into the mirror.

Silence dramatically appeared in the room.

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Heart Castle

First Floor

Carlos jerked his head up and glanced around as he feels like something terrible just happened. He furrowed his eyebrows with confused, he doesn't know why but his heart just sank with distressed. The white-haired tech prodigy is wondering if something happened. Couldn't handle this uneasy feeling, he quickly jogged to the door and pushed it open.

Simultaneously, another side of the room where the door is opened as well and revealed Jay. Carlos and Jay blinked at each other.

"Why are you here?" they both unisons said.

"Me? What about you?" they answered at the same time.

Carlos sighed softly as Jay frowned and crossed his arms. "I thought you were upstairs with others?" the white-haired boy asked with confused.

"Well, I thought you guys left me alone and I went up to the third floor, but I ended up in the long gallery. Where did you come from?" Jay asked with curious.

"Got caught through the secret passageway and found myself in the throne room." Carlos answered as he pointed his thumb behind him. Then he shook his head as his uneasy feeling reminded him once again. "Doesn't matter, we need to head upstairs and meet Eve and Mal."

The former thief paused when he heard the old nickname. "Since when did you called her that? Thought it was all over two years ago." Jay asked with playful smirked.

Carlos glared at the son of Jafar. Before he could say anything, footsteps heard from the stairs to revealed Mal. The dragon girl scoffed when she saw her best friends. "There you two are! Where have you both been?" she snapped with frustrated yet relief behind the tone.

The white-haired boy ignored Mal's question when he noticed the missing blue-haired beauty. "Where's Evie?" he asked with worried.

The blonde-haired frowned at Carlos who dared to ignore her question but decided to let it go since she is worried about Evie as well. "I don't know."

"What do you mean, you don't know?" Carlos blurted it out with concern as his eyes wide in surprise.

Jay walked closer with a concerned frowned. "Did something happen?"

Once Mal is at the end of the stairs. "I fou-" she was interrupted when a door opened where Jay came from, revealed Evie who stared at them with confused. "There you are!" Mal snapped at the blue-haired princess.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to cause anyone worried." Evie said with sheepishly smiles.

Jay shook his head with confusion. "Hold on, since when were you at the long gallery? I didn't see you there." He asked with lost.

Evie shrugged her shoulders. "I don't know. I was at the library and before I knew, I was suddenly on the first floor." She answered calmly.

"Huh." The son of Jafar turned to Mal. "That actually happened to me. I did go up to the third floor, but all of a sudden, I was in the long gallery."

Carlos stared at the blue-haired princess, he was in relief to see her unharmed but why does his heart keep beating such uneasily?

Mal dropped her head back. "Of course. Heart Castle has ability to tricks our mind." She sighed heavily then pushed her head back. "Whatever, we're all back together." She turned to Evie. "I found the master bathroom, we should go up an-" she was interrupted by Evie which was kind of bold for her.

"Actually… I just saw another memory from my mother's life. Turned out the magic mirror that my mother sold her soul into, well, it's not here anymore." Evie explained softly with guilty.

The blonde-haired gritted her teeth as she closed her eyes to calm her short-temper while Jay sighed loudly, and Carlos frowned deeply. "So, we've been wasting our time to come here and search for nothing. That's just great." Jay sarcastically said.

"I'm so sorry." Evie apologized as she lowered her eyes down, sadly.

The white-haired boy shook his head as he walked to Evie and placed his hand on her shoulder. "It's alright, Eve. You didn't know. At least we get to see this castle." He attempted to cheer up the blue-haired princess.

Evie lifted her face with a thankful smile. Her brown eyes glanced over to Mal and Jay. "We should just leave now. We might make it to class before anyone noticed we're gone." She said.

"That's probably a good idea." Jay agreed, wanted to leave the abandoned castle and hope to be able to sleep before he heads to the first class.

Mal opened her eyes as it still has irritated, but her posture is slowly relaxed. "Let's just go." She snapped, stormed her way as her friends avoid her and watched her leave.

Evie bit her lip with worried. "I feel bad that I wasted Mal's time."

"Don't worry about it." Jay walked up to her and gave her a pat on her back. "She just needs space and some eye shut for a few hours. Then she'll forgive and forget." He smirked and left as well.

Carlos rolled his eyes when Jay used his lines out of jokes. "Come on, Evie." He bumped his shoulder against her gently and walk.

Evie watched three backs of ex-villains, glanced over her shoulders as her brown eyes gleamed in scarlet perfectly with ease with a wicked smirked on her face.

"Evie!"

The blue-haired beauty blinked as scarlet faded away to brown and turned her head forward with a professional smile on her face. "Coming!"

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Heart Castle

Basement

A floating, magic mirror with an onyx gemstone changed to red ruby beautifully in the crown-shaped. A white smoke dances around in the mirror until a hand touch the glass and other hand pounded against with a fist. A blue-haired princess cried out against the glass as her brown eyes widen in fear for her friends.

She choked when she saw white smokes swirled front of her and she back away. Evie watched herself, a clone, interacted her friends. "Stop! Get away from my friends! Mal! Jay! Carlos!" Evie shouted out, pleaded her friends to hear her but it was useless.

Evie watched in disgusted and horror that none of her best friends find is suspicious about the clone of her. And then, a clone turned her head as if she is staring right at Evie. Her eyes turned scarlet filled with triumphed and smirked of smug.

"You bitch." Evie spat with furious as she continued watched the clone turned away and pretend to be Evie Queen. "…I can't believe this…" Evie has been tricked by a magic mirror, all because she had to pay the price. And now, she is paying for it. Her heart sank. "Please… Mal, Jay, Carlos… please realize that she is not me. She's a fake…" she begged, all alone inside the mirror, as tears slipped from her eyes.