In the school basement, Faybelle was waiting for Wicca. She impatiently looked at her phone to check the time when Wicca suddenly came down.

"You're late!" Faybelle grumped.

"Hey, Fay!" Wicca said, smiling. "I got all the ingredients! I'm gonna get to work on the potion! Are we ready to curse the biggest loser in Ever After High?!"

"Hex yeah!" Faybelle tightened her fist. "And I know the perfect loser! Raven Queen!"

"Alright!" Wicca said as eager as she could. "She's too good for my taste! I can't wait to make a monster out of her!"

"I like that can do attitude, girl!" Faybelle smiled with approval. "Did you find out what Raven's up to?"

"As a matter of fact, I do." Wicca said proudly. "She and Dorkster Charming are going out on a date tonight. So, I say we curse two losers for the price of one! It'll be sick!"

Faybelle chuckled maliciously. "That's my girl. So, here's the plan. My cheer squad has a pep rally tonight in front of the whole school. We've planned this for weeks! So, I want you to get started on the potion, keep an eye Raven and Dexter and once the rally's over. You and I will make them the beasts they are! We'll record it on our phones and broadcast it to the entire school! Raven Queen will be the laughingstock of Ever After!"

Wicca couldn't wait to get started. This couldn't have been planned any better. "You got it, President Thorn!"

With Faybelle busy with the pep rally, Wicca got to work. Within her darkened bedroom, Wicca stood over a large steaming cauldron.

To get in the potion making mood, she wore her signature black cape, black witch hat, distressed black dress decorated with green graffiti with fishnet leggings and red shoes.

Wicca curled her red lips as she stirred the bubbling cauldron brew. Her eyes sparkled dangerously through the swirling mist. She recited the spell.

"Beastly comes, beastly goes,

Grow fur from their heads to their toes.

Twist the face, mangle it's form.

Let those who taste become a beast deformed!"

The brew boiled and bubbled wildly. The spell had worked. Wicca cackled triumphantly as her potion had been complete.

"And now..." Wicca grinned, eyeing the two shiny red candy apples sitting on her dresser.

On the bookball field, Faybelle and her team were ready to perform. Faybelle began her pep talk and raised her water bottle.

"Here's to another wicked performance!" the future dark fairy announced.

Faybelle's fairy posse and the rest of the cheerhexers raised their water bottles and took a big pre-victory drink.

They howled and cried out as they got to the field and stood before the huge audience in the stands.

Faybelle and the cheerhexers pumped their pom poms in the air and began their cheer.

"Ever After Go!

YEAH!

Show them what you know!'

YEAH!"

The crowd was electrified with school spirit. They hooted and hollered with big energetic smiles.

But then, their smiles became shocked expressions of horror. They watched each of the cheering fairies grow fur on their bodies. Their hands became paws, sharp claws protruded from their fingertips, long ugly snouts grew from their faces.

The whole audience screamed in terror, but not as much as the cheer squad. Holly O'hair screeched as her long hair became a tangled mane of fur, Farrah Goodfairy was covered in baby blue fur, Hunter Huntsman ripped out of his uniform with his beastly muscles and brown fur, even Nina Thumbell, the shortest member, grew a few inches taller as she scratched her shaggy blonde furred arms.

Faybelle's followers took it the worst. Fur was grown everywhere on them. Their heads, their feet, even their wings became covered in fur! Their mouths filled with monstrous, jagged teeth and their hands were bigger than their pom-poms!

And Faybelle, she became at least eight feet tall, had teal colored fur, walrus fangs, and a big, bushy tail.

Faybelle was beyond shocked and confused. And worst off all, Blondie Lockes was recording the whole thing for her mirrorcast show.

Watching from a safe distance was Wicca West and Mr. Badwolf.

"So, what do think, Mr. B?" asked Wicca.

"Well, before I make any decisions" Mr. Badwolf began. "I must know, Miss West. Why betray Faybelle when I specifically said work in teams of two?"

Wicca frowned. "Because I overheard Faybelle saying that she was only using me. I would do all the work while she just sits back with her cheer groupies! I thought I could take advantage of her, but she was the one taking advantage of me the whole time! So I don't care if I do get a bad grade, because I got my revenge and humiliated Faybelle on the social scale! That is more than enough!"

Wicca looked at her teacher square in the eye, not a hint of regret in her green orbs. She was ready to accept her fate and get a bad grade.

But to her surprise, Mr. Badwolf smiled.

"Well done, Miss West. You get an A!" He checked it off in his clipboard. "At least you actually made an effort, everyone else forfeited to do their assignments."

"Really?! I get an A?!"

"Of course! It takes powerful magic to create a beast potion. Not to mention betraying your own partner and turning her and her friends into beasts?! Ruining the pep rally and creating such chaos?! It's evil at it's finest!" He grinned his sharp fangs. "Not since the Evil Queen herself have I seen such dastardly potential! Keep this up and you just might be the next big name in the world of villains!"

Mr. Badwolf gave Wicca a thumbs up and took his leave. Wicca couldn't be happier with herself!

But there was one thing she had to do...

In the Enchanted Forest, Dexter and Raven were walking down the quaint path holding hands. They took in the gorgeous sunset.

"Thanks for the great picnic, Raven." Dexter said. "Those candy apples were the best!"

Raven shook her head. "I didn't make those, Dex. Wicca did."

Dexter nearly tripped over his feet again. "Wicca?! She did?!" Panic began to take over. What if the apples were poisoned?!

Raven smiled and pulled out a small card. "Yeah, she gave them to me to enjoy on our date. This card with them."

Dexter read the card. "To Raven, thanks for being an Ever After awesome friend. Yours truly, Wicca!"

"Glad you like them!" a voice called out. Raven and Dexter looked up and saw Wicca hovering above their heads on her broomstick.

"Hey, Wicca!" Raven waved. "Thanks for the apples!"

"No prob." Wicca landed her feet on the ground. "Ginger gave me the recipe." She frowned at Dexter. "Charming..."

Dexter gulped and tried to keep his cool. "U-Um, hi, Wicca..."

"Hey, Raven." Wicca approached the kind Queen. "Thanks."

"Thanks? For what?"

"For being my friend." Wicca swallowed a little. "We are friends, right?"

Raven opened her mouth to answer, Wicca anticipated her answer.

"THERE YOU ARE!"

Raven and Dexter yelped when a teal-furred beast came flying down with hairy wings. "You wicked little witch!" She snarled in her throat.

"That voice..." Raven gasped when it hit her. "Faybelle?!"

"In the fur." Wicca said.

Faybelle pointed a hairy clawed finger at Wicca. "You backstabbing witch! I thought you and I were a team!"

"Oh, yeah. We were a team so you could backstab me first!" Wicca retorted. "You were going to turn Raven into a beast and make me do all the work while you just sat back and didn't give a wart about my efforts!"

"So what? The whole point of having minions to make them do whatever you want!" Faybelle said. "And Raven deserves to be a beast! You said she's the biggest loser in school!"

"NO! YOU SAID THAT!" Wicca shouted. "RAVEN IS MY FRIEND AND I LIKE HER JUST THE WAY SHE IS!"

Birds and animals scampered away from Wicca's rage. Even Raven and Dexter were stunned.

"I don't care if Raven is a good witch! All my life I've been living in darkness! But now that I've met Raven, I can finally break out of my spell and show the world who I am as the greatest villain of all time and make my mother proud!" She paused. "Even if my mother is gone, she's still alive in here! And I will make her proud!"

"Oh, give me a break! I'm going to be the most witch and famous villain in the world!" Faybelle gathered magic in her hands. "And I'm gonna start by cursing you big time!"

Faybelle was ready to cast her curse until Raven stepped forward and blasted Faybelle with her own magic. The dark fairy was sent flying right into the Enchanted Lake.

Dexter and Wicca watched in shock and Raven walked over to he edge of the lake. Faybelle pulled herself out of the drink and coughed out the water from her maw. She looked up into the angered face of Raven Queen.

Raven's eyes were cold as ice in the deepest winter. Faybelle uncharacteristically felt a sense of dread running up her spine.

"I maybe a rebel, Faybelle. But that doesn't mean you can walk all over me or my friends." Raven said. "You try picking a fight with me, and I guarantee you will lose that fight."

Wicca couldn't believe her eyes. Raven looked like the perfect villain. That defiant stance, that commanding tone in her threat, the glint of malice in her eyes.

She truly was the Evil Queen's daughter.

"I suggest you get going before I put a curse on you." Raven warned, her hands ablaze with dark magic. "Just go to Madame Baba Yaga and have her remove the beast magic."

Normally, Faybelle would have something snarky to say, but something about Raven's sudden change made her speechless. She ran away, soaked from wing to toe.

"Raven..." Wicca breathed.

Raven thought Wicca would be afraid after that outburst, but what Wicca said next truly surprised her.

"Thank you." The witch smiled. "No one has ever stood up for me like that. So...we really are friends? Even though I'm a villain?"

"Of course." said Raven. "I know you're just following your destiny and I respect that. Just try not to be too evil, okay?"

Wicca cringed a little. "Well, that's not gonna be easy but...I'll try. For you, Raven." She managed to smile a little.

"So, were you really going to turn me into a beast?" asked Raven.

"No, I was planning we'd turn the biggest loser in school into a beast, Andrea by loser I meant Daring Charming. But Faybelle thought I was talking about you. Then when I found that out and she was just using me, I decided she needed to learn a lesson." Wicca chuckled. "But still, I would give the cape off my back to see Daring as a beast! I'll bet he couldn't last a day! No! A minute as a beast!"

"Uh, Wicca." said Dexter. "Daring has already been a beast."

"Huh?!"

Dexter took out his phone, skimmed through his photos and showed Wicca a picture of Daring the Beast.

"WHOA!" Wicca's green eyes popped out in surprise.

"Yeah, the Snow King cursed Daring and made him a ice beast." Raven explained.

'Man...' Wicca thought. 'He's a better looking beast than I thought.'

Raven shrugged. "No one never would have hexpected Daring to be a beast. But it does make sense in hindsight."

"Yeah..." Wicca cleared her throat. "Anyway, it's getting late. I better head to bed."

"Hey, Wicca." said Raven. "Tomorrow after school, you wanna check out Hocus Latte?"

"Sure! Thanks, Raven!" Wicca hopped on her broom and flew back to her dorm.

Wicca flew through her bedroom window and landed on her bed. Her checked her Mirrorpad and news of Wicca's Beast Prank has gone viral.

Blondie Lockes was reporting the whole story, interviewing terrified audience members and tried to get an interview with the cursed cheer squad, but they said nothing and hurried to Baba Yaga for a cure.

"Well done, my little nightmare!"

Wicca turned to the living portrait of her mother. "Betraying that Faybelle girl and turning a group of people into beasts?! Brilliant!" Wicked Witch cackled. "I'm so proud of you!"

"Thanks, Mom. But...I need to tell you something."

"Yes, Honey wart?"

Wicca took a deep breath and looked at her mother's portrait straight in the eye. "Mom, I'm glad you're proud. But I want you to stop checking up on me all the time."

The portrait was silent.

"I know you care about me, but if I ever want to become a great villain. I have to learn to think on my own feet, I thought riding on Faybelle's coat tails would be the first step in being the next Evil Queen. But it turns out, she was the one trying to ride mine! Ever since I came to this place, I thought I would always be alone with nobody on my side. And I would only make friends to take advantage of them. But I actually made a true friend in Raven Queen, who likes me and accepts my dark destiny. She even stood up for me when no one else would. So I realized I'm not alone after all."

After a long while, the portrait smiled. "Well done, my dear."

"Huh?"

"You're right, dear. Like you said, a true villain must stand on her own two feet. And I'm glad you made a friend, just don't let it make you soft. Okay?"

Wicca nodded. "Okay, Mom. And if I ever have a question, I'll talk to you, okay?"

"Okay, dear. I promise no more checking in on you. But remember, never lose sight of your wickedness. You are a child of much evil promise, the pride and joy of the West clan."

"I will, Mom! I'll be the greatest wicked witch Ever After! All will cower and bow before my fearsome might!"

"Hexcellent! Goodnight, dear! And if you ever need me, just knock on the frame!" And the portrait's glow faded away.

Wicca smiled, relieved and happy her mother understands. She snapped her fingers and changed into her nightgown. She laid on her bed and thought about the Beast potion.

Maybe there's a reason why a rose petal was the final ingredient. She thought about the tale of Beauty and the Beast and how the Beast loved his precious rose garden.

Roses were an interesting flower to Wicca. They're beautiful from the petals, but have thorns on their stems.

Roses possess both beauty and beast.

Perhaps...Wicca was like a rose, having evil and good.

Whatever she saw herself as, Wicca knew for sure that she was going to be a great witch her own way.

Her own wicked way.