Chapter Twenty

Anastasia stands there looking all intimidating. She's not in her uniform this time but a leather jacket and black dress, black leggings and boots. She has black lipstick on her face and her eyes are surrounded by black eyeshadow. The only thing that's not black about her is her skin and her hair, her skin's brown and her hair's white. Her two friends stand with her. The one with brown skin and blond hair is so beautiful Elena cannot deny that, and the white one with pink hair as well.

They're like this world's version of the Power Puff girls, they look like that but they're nothing like the Power Puff girls they're just mean.

"What's going on here?" Henry asks joining the conversation. "Hello Alex," he says to Alex with a smile. Alex simply rolls his eyes.

"We haven't officially met. I'm Anastasia but my friends call me Annie." Anastasia says to Elena, her eyes have not left Elena's face.

"Nice to meet you Annie I'm Elena."

"No no no no. I said only my friends call me Annie. You haven't earned that title." Anastasia says and her friends behind her snicker which gets Elena mad. She puts a smile on her face and decides to play Anastasia's game.

"And you haven't earned the title to talk to me while I'm eating but…" Elena looks her up and down. "Here we are."

Adrian snorts and Greta and Fran giggle. Alex mouths a wow. Elena doesn't stop looking at Anastasia and she wonders why she was so easily intimidated by her. She knows Anastasia's type and she has met girls like Anastasia back on earth and has handled people like her. People like Anastasia are just sad girls who crave attention and Elena won't be giving it to her.

Anastasia is no longer smiling but instead is frowning her face. She doesn't like being challenged, of course, she doesn't. The other fairies might be scared of her but he isn't.

"Come on Annie, let her eat," Henry says to her. Anastasia looks away from Elena and looks straight at Pierre who averts his eyes as soon as she looks at him, then her eyes go back to Elena who hasn't stopped looking at her.

"Okay, fine. Let's see how she lasts in this school." She says walking away, her friends follow her. Elena rolls her eyes when they leave.

"Oh my Zeus that was so hot," Adrian says acting like a comic fanboy.

"Shall we upgrade from being friends to best friends?" Fran asks proudly.

"Hey, she already has a best friend," Alex says warningly and Fran raises her hands in surrender. "I'm so proud of you," Alex says to Elena.

"You see this is why I think you should go see my mom if you feel like punching someone," Hilda says and Fran rolls her eyes. "Once you go see her you won't feel like punching anyone."

Turns out Hilda's mom is also the guidance counsellor.

Elena smiles at her. "Don't worry Hilda. I won't be punching anyone. She doesn't deserve my time. And my rest was good Pierre thanks for asking." Elena says and she begins to eat from her salad. She's not going to be allowing anyone to scare her.

When she's done reading a bit with Alex in the library she goes straight to her room to sleep. She's already in her nightgown and she's out. Before going to bed she hoped to not have any more nightmares about being attacked, she should have hoped to not get attacked while she sleeps because a bunch of people have carried her up and put a bag over her face.

She's screaming and struggling but no one will hear her voice because there's a bag over her head. She doesn't know what is happening but she has a feeling that it doesn't look good. What if the witches have found her? What if the witch that killed her parents has found her? She wishes she could use her powers right now to stop these people but she can't do that because what's in her mind is trying to escape.

Her mind has to be clear and intent and right now she's scared. What is going on?

Despite her plea, they don't care, they have thrown her to the ground and the smelly sack they placed over her head has been removed and she's now facing the people who have kidnapped her. She sees it's Anastasia, her friends and other students. She looks around and sees they're in a forest, the enchanted forest she knows nothing about.

Then she remembers her dream. She never thought that dreams have meaning. She always thought that dreams were just that, dreams. But in that dream fairies attacked her. But there are elves here as well but that dream must have seemed to have predicted some kind of truth.

"What in the bloody hell is going on here? Is this where you kill me?" she asks in a fit of rage and they all burst out laughing, making her feel stupid for asking such a stupid question.

"Kill you, relax dear, Oh my Gods you are so dramatic. We're not going to kill you, this is all a part of tradition." Anastasia says, enjoying what is going on.

"What tradition?" Elena asks.

"The hazing tradition." the brown-skinned girl with blond hair says.

"Anyone new has to go through with it including royals." The girl with pink hair says.

"We all went through with it," Anastasia says shrugging. Elena remembers her friends back on earth talking about initiations and hazing rituals in boarding school and that is the reason why they would never go to a boarding school.

Elena doesn't want to feel like a pussy, especially not in front of Anastasia. So she stands firm but she folds her arms to hide the fact that she's shaking.

"So what's next?"

"Aww, look at her she's ready to face creatures of darkness so cute," Anastasia says and they all laugh. Fuck it Elena cannot be strong anymore.

She swallows out of fear. "What?" she says.

"Honey, there are creatures of darkness in this forest. They can't get into Hollow Prep because there's a barrier that keeps them from entering." Anastasia walks up to Elena and she feels so cold. "But the barrier doesn't keep fairies from going into the forest. You my dear are going to spend the night in the forest with these monsters. I mean it won't be hard for you. You're the most powerful fairy in the whole dimension. I heard you destroyed vampires and witches on your own so I guess nothing's hard for you." Anastasia says giggling as she walks away from her.

Elena feels like strangling her right now but that would mean she'd get in trouble and she doesn't want to be seen as the trouble student. She doesn't want to disappoint her family. Alex would be happy if she strangles her though.

"Sweet dreams Elena." They all walk away leaving Elena alone in the forest in nothing but her nightgown, barefoot standing on hard soil.

She's so toast and she knows that.

She looks around and it's almost dark to see. She's going to do the only trick she knows how to do. And that creates light so she brings out a light ball from her hand and walks forward. Is this how she dies? Over a stupid school tradition? She doesn't know how she killed those vampires or werewolves and she has a feeling Anastasia knows that too and will be happy to see her dead for embarrassing her at the dining hall.

She looks around, not stopping as she moves forward. She hears a growl and it's getting louder and louder. She squeals and she makes a run for it. She's running and running and running, the light she created disappears but she stops when she sees that she's headed toward a river. A very big river. She hears fluttering and she flinches turning around to see these tiny magical creatures fighting in the air. They're completely harmless.

She lets out a sigh of relief. But what was that growling? What could that have been? And what if that thing comes for her? She's decided there's no way she's going to be sleeping. Because if she does she might not wake up. So she's just going to sit on the ground enjoying the sound of the river.

She thinks she's safe next to the river until she hears noises coming from there.