A New Ever After(School for Good and Evil fanfic)

The Test(Part 3)

"No more, please!"

You'd think spending the amount of time I do around aunt Sophie I would be used to makeovers. But this guy is a WHOLE different story. Wrapping me in stinky seaweed like a mummy to "cover up my human smell" wasn't enough. No. he HAD to then cover my body in crushed pearl paste to give it "shine", powder my face with a "special" crushed shell which took FOREVER to find, braid my hair so intricately that when it got caught on a rod from a ship wreck and a curl unraveled he had to redo the WHOLE thing. AND that was not even the end of it but I won't describe it all because that would finish the chapter.

Anyway, only after what must've been TWO HOURS did he relent and even then he seemed dissatisfied. I insisted we go on, saying they must've surely drowned Lei by then but he waved off my worries insisting Lei would be fine.

We swam through tangled seaweeds, intricately patterned sea shells, and a variety of coral. Along the way I briefly wondered what I looked like. But I quickly dismissed the thought. What did it matter what I looked like as long as I blended in with the sirens.

Then we arrived at a large grey wall and Oceanus seemed to be looking for something. He placed his hand on the wall and swam along it muttering, "it should be about here..."

Then with a shout of "Aha!" he pushed away some seaweed on the wall and there was a secret passageway. Oceanus motioned for me to go in first and I eyed him skeptically.

"It looks dark and dingy. You really think flashy Sirens would be in there?"

He pushes me in.

"Wow, great teamwork there..." I mutter sarcastically having to stoop to get through all the tangled seaweed and cobwebs. Wow, this place could supply all of aunt Sophie's potions. I swim forward and in the distance a flash of light blinds me then...whoa.

Girls, of every singly type of appearance, hair color, eye color, skin color, all with nothing in common except their breath taking beauty. And all chattering loudly and cheerfully-until they catch sight of me.

Every eye in the room turns to me.

I freeze. Shoot. Can they recognize that I am different?!

But in their gazes isn't the cold gazes turned to intruders but rather...envy? What?

Then suddenly they all part at the middle like a wave and through the path they made comes one of the absolute most imposing woman I have ever met, second only to aunt Sophie on a bad hair day.

The woman-well mermaid has long silver hair. Her piercing silver eyes are ice cold. Her skin glimmers with an ethereal sheen. Her lips, tail, and jewelry are all bright red. The aura she gives off could kill and so could her expression for that matter as she seizes me up.

Our eyes lock, each daring the other to make the first move. Finally, she speaks up.

"You dare to challenge I, queen Scylla of the Sirens?"

"Um...."

"You dare to just strut within my own home and challenge me?!"

Challenge, challenge whats with this challenge? Have they found me out or not?? What is going on here??!

The queen is still ranting about the so called "challenge", and as she is doing so, she gets in my face to intimidate me. I stagger back a step and bump into the rock wall behind me. When I do so I happen to catch sight of my reflection in a piece of sea glass. And only then do I understand why the Siren queen seems so mad.