When the clock strikes 12 [On Hiatus Indefinitely]

Chapter 6

Matt opened his eyes when he felt someone shaking him and whispering ‘wake up’. The voice sounded familiar and when he opened his eyes, he found a familiar face gazing up at him.

“Elena,” he mumbled hoarsely, blinking a few times to make sure that he wasn’t just dreaming.

He was slightly surprised when he saw her rolling her eyes and tossing her hair back, “Oh come on do I look that bad.”

“You’re not Elena?” he asked confused.

“No. Now could you wake up from that fantasy dream that you seemed to be having,” she said harshly, getting up and turning her back to him.

Matt immediately sat up and said, “Katherine!”

He saw her lips widening as she said, “Now you guessed right,” and turned around to face him.

Matt groaned when realisation hit him and another familiar voice suddenly said, “Hurry up you two, we don’t have enough time.”

“Sherry?” He noticed Katherine move to the side so that he could see her, “Where are we?”

“In the Evil Queen’s palace,” Sherry replied, “but we have to hurry and get out of here before she comes back.”

“Yeah a messy and ugly palace,” Katherine murmured, “This woman has no sense of fashion.”

“You mean that creepy woman with the blue eyes who kept coming here to check on me,” Matt continued to ignore Katherine, “That’s an Evil Queen?”

“Look I don’t have time explain everything to you but that creepy woman that you’re talking about is Snow White’s Stepmom and we’re stuck in the Land of Fairy tales,” Sherry told him.

“Well…” Matt shrugged, “I guess it makes sense since we were reading that book when that whole tornado destruction thing happened.”

It didn’t bother him as much as it should’ve. Weirder things had happened to him than this.

“What are you doing here though,” he asked as he stood up, wiping the dirt off his clothes.

“The Evil Queen had trapped me in here too,” Sherry told him, “until Katherine came to save me.”

“Oh yes, the damsel in distress,” Katherine snickered.

“Shut up,” Sherry replied as Matt walked out of the tiny prison cell. They all went to the only door which was at the end of the corridor and Katherine crashed it open.

Just as they all stepped out into the light…

“Ah, well I see that you have explored the place quite well,” the Queen’s voice surprised them all.

“Look woman,” Katherine said stepping forward, “you have no idea who I am so I suggest you let us go or that face of yours will become just as ugly as this palace that you live in.”

“Is that a challenge?” An ever so small smile made its way up the Queen’s lips and an expression of amusement shown in her eyes.

Katherine looked like she’d had enough as she suddenly let the veins under her eyes pop out and let her fangs show as she speeded up to the Queen. But the Queen was prepared and Matt and Sherry heard a loud sound and a crashing noise just as Katherine was thrown into the next room.

“Katherine!” Sherry called out as she rushed towards her friend and even Matt looked concerned.

But Katherine was crouched down in front of the door in a threatening manner, ready to take leap onto the Queen to take her down.

“Katherine, don’t,” Sherry warned, “That woman is a witch and way more powerful than us. She is even more powerful than Bonnie.”

With that Katherine stood up, her face back to normal and her expressions aggressive as they walked back into the room where the Queen was still standing.

“Well since all three of you want to get out of here so badly, I will send you all to participate in this game with your friends,” the Queen said and just like that, they felt the ground beneath them slipping away from their feet and the palace disappearing from their view.