Chapter 1

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Dexter and Raven sat on a bed hugging each other. Raven crying in Dexter's arm's because she scared, and Dexter trying to be strong. "How did we even get here?" Raven said wiping her nose. "I'm not sure." Raven got up and looked around the room they were in. The bed was a queen size, and the room smelt of as if you outside next to a fire, maybe because they had a fireplace in the there room, and hanging on the wall above the fireplace was a large T.V. The walls were the color white. Raven walked over to one of the many windows in there room "Dex, look." Dexter stood up and walked over to Raven. Dexter saw nothing but leveled land and the building's that never got finished being built. "There just building's Raven." Raven shook her head. "Not that. Look beyond the village." Dexter look beyond the village and saw what looked like a  girl running, but Dexter didn't know what from.  Dexter gasped. "You see her too right?" Raven asked. Dexter nodded. "We have to go get her." Dexter turned to leave but Raven grabbed his arm. "You can't Dex. I thought this lands name sounded familiar." Raven mumbled the last part. "What?" Dexter asked.  Raven sighed. "I've heard story's of the land Fama, and I know why your mother sent us here," Dexter looked at Raven who seemed tense. "Raven...What's going on?" Raven didn't look at Dexter only the girl. "Dex, the land Fama is a land that once was ruled by a queen, there were several names for her but you might know her by, Arabella," Dexter stumbled backward a little. "Arabella? I've heard of her, but I thought she was a myth." Raven looked at Dexter. "She wasn't. Before my mom came around, Arabella was the most powerful woman the fairy tale world had ever seen. Though she was nice to all her subjects, every fairy tale needs a villain. Arabella's fairy tale villain would turn out to be her sister, Thea. Thea, as you know, was very jealous of her sister and wanted everything Arabella had, but she more jealous of her sister's power. Though no one knew of Arabella's power at the time, only Thea, because once upon a time, they were the best of friends, but like every sister relationships, they fought sometimes," Raven moved away from the window and started to walk over to the bed. "One day the two sisters fought, but this was no ordinary fight," Raven sat down on the bed. "The fight lasted for hours, or it was told. Do you know what the fight was about?" Raven turned and looked at Dexter. Dexter shook his head."No, I forgot." Raven took a deep breath. "They were fighting because they had too. They were fighting for the throne of Fama. Thea tried with all her might to beat Arabella, but Arabella was stronger than her," Dexter walked over and sat next to Raven. "Years after losing the fight, Thea was still bitter about losing. One day Thea couldn't stand it, she went to the land of Fama and demanded to speak with her sister. At first, the knight standing guard that day said no, but Thea cast a spell on him. It wasn't documented what spell she used, but she got into the castle. Now Thea had been practicing her magic over the years and demanded a rematch for the throne. Arabella at first said no, but Thea didn't care. She shot a green fireball at her sister. Arabella blocked it and then she fought back. A witness said that the fight went on for half an hour, it ended when one of Arabella's spell hit Thea in the chest. Thea fell that day. Filled with grief for what she did, Arabella stayed in her castle. She didn't help her subjects from hunger, droughts or the hard winters. When Arabella died at the age of forty-four, it's said that the gods punished her by banishing her to live in the realm of the living in the village near her castle, but, along with her subjects. Arabella can't leave her castle though, there's a boundary line around her forest surrounding her castle placed by the gods. It's said that one man crossed the boundary and saw his worst nightmare's right in front of him. Sometime's you can see some of Arabella's subjects the made it to the edge of the forest running away from there nightmares. That girl we saw was running from her nightmare." Dexter stood up. "I don't understand why my mother would bring us here, of all places." Raven stood up next to Dexter. "Because my mother won't even go near here because...She crossed the border once," Raven moved back to the window sill. "She was a teenager when she did it. And she too saw her worst nightmare." Raven turned to look at Dexter. "No one in their right minds would come near here. That's why your mother put us here. Veronica won't even think to look here if she ever found out we didn't die in that accident." Dexter walked over to Raven. "This no place to raise our children." Dexter looked out the window. "We have to get out of here." Raven put her hand on Dexter's shoulder. "Your right, this is no place to raise our children, but, Veronica won't even think for one second that we would be here. I might not love the idea of raising our children here, but it's safe here as long as we don't cross the border." Dexter looked at Raven he sighed. "I guess your right. I've just got a bad feeling about this place." Raven nodded. "Me too." They both looked out the window. "Well, as long as we're stuck here, let's have a look around." Raven said. Dexter grabbed her hand. "Yes, let's." Raven and Dexter walked away from the window sill. Before they left Dexter grabbed the letter his mother wrote. "Dex, what you doing?" Raven asked while walking over to him. "I forgot the name of that android my mother was talking about. She might be handy." Raven looked at the letter in Dexter's hand. "Rey?" Just then Rey appeared. Raven jumped back. "I'm sorry. Did I scare you?" Rey said. She had a long brown hair, a blue outfit, and skin as dark as Brier Beauty. "Um, a little." Raven said. "I'm sorry Mrs. Charming. But you did call for me, can I help you with something?"  Raven sat down on the bed next to Dexter. "Y-You called me Mrs. Charming." Rey nodded. "I did. Was that wrong of me to do?" Raven shook her head. "No it wasn't wrong of you, it's just," Raven took Dexter's hand. "I'm not married to Dexter yet." Rey gave a confused look. "Well, in my programming you two are married. I can update my system with this new information if you would like." Dexter shook his head. "No!" Raven looked at him. Dexter cleared his throat. "Um, I mean, no, that'll be fine." Raven chuckled. "Oh, well then, what can I do for you?" Raven looked at Dexter. "You wanted to know her name, so is there something you wanted to know?" Dexter nodded. "Is there any way I can get a hold of my mother? I want to talk with her." Rey shook her head. "I'm sorry. I can't let you talk with your mother, for she think's your dead along with Raven." Dexter shook his head in confusion. "What?!?" Dexter ran his finger's through his hair. "Your mother thought if she knew that you two were alive, she wouldn't be able to grieve like everyone else and that would draw attention too herself. As soon as she got a call that said you two were found dead, she made a spell to make her forget about her bringing you guys here. For all she knows, Veronica got to you two." Rey said. "Sorry for the in convents. Anything else?" Raven went to comfort Dexter. "Um, not that I can think of." Raven said. Raven looked at Rey, who was still standing there. Raven looked at her. "Oh, I can't go until you say "Thank you, that'll be all." If you were wondering." Raven nodded. "Um, thank you, that'll be all." And just like that, Rey vanished. Raven put her attention back too Dexter. "You ok?" Dexter shook his head. "I-I don't know." Raven rubbed Dexter back. "Do you want to talk about it? Or do you need space?" Dexter shrugged. "I don't want to talk about, but I want you here with me." Raven thought for a minute on what to say next that wasn't mother related, and the could cheer Dexter up. "Do you want to explore this place? I bet there's a lot of cool old stuff here." Dexter looked at Raven who was wearing a small smile of reassurance. "Sure." Dexter stood up and Raven tried. "Dex? Could you help me." Raven asked in a sheepish way. Dexter smiled and walked over to Raven and grabbed her hands and pulled her up off the bed.  Raven hugged him. "I know you don't want me to talk about it, but I'm sorry Dex." Raven hugged him tighter. "You don't need to apologies Raven." Raven stopped hugging him. "I know. I just wanted too" Dexter kissed Raven. "Now let's go exploring." There was nursery right next to Raven's and Dexter's room, and everything was gray not one splash of color. "Why is everything gray?" Raven asked. "I really sure." Dexter said. Raven walked over to on the cribs and looked in. there was a stuffed animal bear. Raven gasped and picked it up. It was missing an ear. "What?" Dexter walked over to Raven. "This was my childhood stuffed friend. Since no one would be the friends with me, I brought Mister Clever with where ever I would go. I would stuff him in my pack back for when I went to school." Raven hugged the bear. Dexter looked at the stuffed animals near were Raven found Mister Clever. Dexter gasped and picked up one his old stuff animal as a kid. "I forgot about R-" Dexter stopped himself. "Uh, um,  R-Rachel! that's right Rachel."Raven looked at Dexter with a confused look. "Are you sure her name was Rachel? You seemed pretty unsure." Dexter looked at Raven. "Um...No." Dexter started to fegted with the stuffed animal. Raven raised an eyebrow. "Than what the real name?" Dexter took a small breath. "R-Rae. I named her after you. I really wanted to be your friend when I was little, but I was too shy to talk to you." Dexter look ashamed. "Oh, um, I thank that's cute Dex, but a little weird." Dexter chuckled. "Yeah, I know. Let's just forget about ok?" Raven but down Mister Clever and took Rae and put her back in the crib and kissed Dexter's cheek. "Never. Now come on let go do some more exploring of this place."  Raven grabbed Dexter's hand and walked out of the nursery. With her other hand, Raven ran it across the stone wall as they walked from room too room, feeling the different size stones under her fingertips. Raven stop all of a sudden. "You ok?" Dexter asked. "Um, yeah. I think I just felt one of our babies kick. I can't be sure though." Dexter smiled. "Really?!?" Raven nodded "I think, I mean, I'm six months pregnant, or six an a half depending on what day it, and I think that babies can kick by the six months." Raven smiled. "Well, let's keep moving." Dexter grabbed Raven's hand. After walking for another minute or so Raven felt what she think's is a kick. "Dex," Raven grabbed Dexter hand and put on her stomach. Dexter looked at Raven. "I don't fee-" Dexter stopped because he just felt a faint kick. "Did you feel that?" Dexter smiled at Raven. "I did."  Raven put her hand over Dexter's, Raven smiled. Dexter kissed Raven and grabbed her hand and they continued walking and talking. Raven opened a door the lead to the kitchen. Pots and pan hung over a table in the middle of the room, there was a black fridge, and counters, and a stove, and the wall's where a light gray. "I'm going to make a lot of good stuff in here. But I wish the walls had some sort of color, maybe, blue." Raven said. Just then the walls color changed blue. "Woah." Raven said. "Hey, Rey?" Rey appeared. "Yes, Mrs. Charming?" Raven backed up. "Still got to get use to that." Raven muttered. "I'm sorry I didn't quite hear that." Raven looked at Rey. "Oh, nothing. I was wondering when I said I wished the walls of the kitchen was blue, they turned blue, I was wondering why that happened." Dexter walked over the fridge and opened it. "I'm going to get some food. Want anything Raven?" Raven thought fo second. "Could I have a sandwich?" Dexter nodded while getting food out of the fridge. "Ok." Rey looked at Raven. "To answer your question Mrs. Charming, th-" Raven cut her off. "It's just Raven. Not that I don't like being called Mrs.Charming, I feel more comfortable being called Raven. Sorry for cutting you, Rey." Rey nodded. "That's fine. I'm just going to update my systems with that new info. It'll only take about five minutes." Rey looked like she powered down. "Well, ok then. Dex, do you need any help?" Raven walked over towards Dexter. "Um, I'm good, but here's your sandwich." Dexter gave her sandwich. "Really? That was fast." Dexter shrugged. "What can I say, I'm a fast sandwich maker." Raven kissed his cheek. "I'm going to the next room. Okay?" Raven said as she walked away. "Ok. I'll be with you soon." After Raven left the kitchen, she walked to the next room and grabbed the round doorknob and turned it. Raven opened the door to see a gym, with weights, treadmill, and other exercise objects. Raven went back into the hall and went to the room right across from the kitchen. It was a dining room filled with sunlight but also a living room. Raven closed the door and went back into the kitchen"The next room is a gym. I'm guessing your mom made it for you. Abd across the hall is the living slash dining area." Raven said as Dexter walked to her. "A gym? Next to the kitchen? Weird." Raven was about to say something, but just then Rey powered back up. "Hello." Dexter jumped. Rey powered up behind him. Raven laughed. "I'm sorry Mr. Charming. I really don't mean to scare anyone." Rey turned and looked at Raven. "To answer your question, Raven, everything is gray because Mrs. Charming didn't know what color you too would want the things in your house too be, and she also didn't know what genders your babies are. So, when you said, you wished for the walls to be blue they turned blue because" Rey pointed at Dexter. "Your mother enchanted everything you see to turn whatever color you want as long as you say "I wish the blank was blank." If you get what I mean." Raven nodded. "I get it know. Thanks, Rey." Rey nodded. "Happy to help. any more questions?" Raven nodded. "Yeah, um, Is there a way to find out what gender our babies are?" Rey nodded. "Yes. If you want I could show you the doctor area of the house." Raven and Dexter nodded, and Rey lead them to a room with doctor stuff. Raven and Dexter are about to find out what gender their babies are going to be. Raven sat on the table in the middle of the room and lifted her shirt to show her stomach. Rey walked over to her and applied cold gel stuff on her stomach and brought over an ultrasound machine and took the wand and started to spread the gel around Raven's stomach. "Ok, so I know already what gender they are. It's really easy when you find out at six months and if you're programmed with info already." Raven chuckled. "Ok. You ready?" Raven and Dexter looked at each other then nodded. "Yeah." Rey nodded. "Alright then, let's begin...."   

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