When the clock strikes 12 [On Hiatus Indefinitely]

Chapter 7

“Wait a sec,” Tyler interrupted in the middle of the story, “so you’re telling me that this Queen I keep hearing about is actually Snow White’s stepmother.”

“Well, yeah,” Sherry looked around at Matt and Katherine who also nodded their heads along with her.

“But why would she want to sacrifice us if she wanted us all to play this game? It doesn’t make any sense,” Jeremy said.

“Maybe she wants to…..I don’t know! I just want my heels back,” Caroline exploded.

“You’re not getting them anytime soon so you might as well start using that brain…..oh wait, I forgot, you don’t have one,” Damon responded with his signature smirk and gracefully avoided Caroline’s attempt at grabbing him.

“Alright, would you guys stop already?” Bonnie growled at both Caroline and Damon. She’d had enough of them both!

“Aaaah!” Caroline shrieked as her head felt like it was on fire, “Bonnie stop.”

“Only if you guys stop messing around and start thinking of a way to get us out of here,” Bonnie responded, stopping her witch power that she’d been using on both Caroline and Damon.

“Fine we will,” Caroline grumbled at her as she folded her arms and pouted.

“Well since there’s nothing back there and we have to stay on this yellow brick road, I’m guessing forward is the only way to go for now,” Sherry said.

“Yeah,” Matt agreed, “let’s just hope that we find Elena along the way.”

“Maybe that witch has her trapped in there,” Katherine mumbled.

“What witch?” Stefan asked.

“The Wicked witch of the West,” Katherine replied.

“Then we have to get to Elena fast,” Stefan all but growled.

Just then, the sky darkened and everybody looked upwards as a bunch of flying ferocious looking beast appeared in the sky all of a sudden.

“What the…” Tyler started to say as the beast started picking everyone up one by one.

They all tried to thrash and struggle and these beasts whoever they were, were obviously no match for a bunch of vampires, a werewolf hybrid, a hunter and a witch.

Everybody happened to notice that Stefan and Damon weren’t struggling at all, and soon Bonnie stopped too then Caroline then Jeremy then Tyler and the creatures already had Sherry and Matt, but Katherine didn’t stop fighting. As the flying beasts caught the rest of the group, “What are you guys doing?” Katherine asked while wrestling with a particularly nasty flying creature.

“Don’t fight it Katherine, just let it take you,” Stefan told her.

She turned to stare at him, “Why?”

“Because it’s the easiest way to reach that damn castle,” Damon explained with a roll of his eyes, “I thought you said that you were the smarter doppelganger.”

“I am,” Kat muttered as she let the creatures take her with them.

They all looked below them as they let those creatures drag them towards the castle. The yellow brick road seemed to get narrower and contained more twists and turns as they flew ahead.

They saw empty green lush fields of grass but not too far away from it, spotted a deep and dark forest.

“That looks like The Enchanted Forest,” Caroline said with a slight yawn. She didn’t know why but she felt really sleepy.

“Hey Care you alright?” Bonnie asked, noticing that her best friend looked a little pale.

“Yeeeaahhh,” Caroline mumbled, her eyes drooping as the winged creature that was carrying her suddenly swooped down to the castle. All the rest of her friends were surprised when the creatures carrying them kept on flying ahead.

“Hey…hey! What are you guys doing? Aren’t they supposed to be leading us into that castle too? Caroline??? Care!!!” Tyler called out, screaming at the top of his lungs, twisting and squirming in the creatures hold.

“Tyler, stop…stop! Unless you want this creature to drop you,” Bonnie said and Tyler warily looked up at the creature that was carrying him. It sure looked like it wanted to drop him.

As the passed the castle they all could hear what sounded like the soft snores of a dragon and they all caught a glimpse of its scaly fur.

“Well I guess she’s sleeping beauty,” Katherine snorted.

“Wait, what? What do you mean?” Tyler looked at her confused.

“Yeah I guess it makes sense,” Jeremy spoke up, “Imean look at those.” He was pointing to the ever so vicious enchanted forest in the front side of the castle that seemed to be worse than the back.

The only way anybody could go was the front since the back of the castle had a huge wall surrounding it with what seemed to be high voltage wires.

“Don’t worry Ty. We’ll get her,” Matt said with a small smile because he was just as desperate to get her back as Tyler was.