Stuffing her mouth with strawberries, Mal tries to think of what to do next. Mal didn't have any way of tracking her friends not without a spell from her mother's books of spells. A book Mal didn't even really have a chance to read. A book she wished could just magically appear in her hands right now, so she can find her friends and free them all from this mirror world.

But that wasn't going to happen and Mal's other plan in progress wasn't coming together either. Audrey was no help at all. Every question Mal asks her Audrey manages to dodge with ease. She keeps shoving batches after batches of freshly picked strawberries into Mal's waiting hands. Delicious juicy strawberries that Mal just couldn't get enough of.

Audrey starts singing to herself, a song about dreams and love. A bird perches itself on Audrey's shoulder and starts whistling along. Soon woodland creatures start gathering around Audrey too enraptured by the sound of her voice. A voice that Mal had to admit could carry a tune or two but it also caused her stomach to twist up in displeasure at how hopeful and goodie it was.

Mal finishes chewing the strawberry in her mouth and breaks out of her strawberry addicted haze. Mal shakes off the juice from the strawberries on her hands and stands up.

Mal clears her throat to try to gain Audrey's attention. "Uh, I hate to break your impending musical number but I need answers."

Audrey is broken out of her song and stares at Mal with a frown. "I told you all I can."

Mal feels anger stirring up inside of her. Audrey didn't tell her anything at all. Mal knew Audrey was hiding something. Mal readies herself to confront the princess who is the daughter of Mal's mother's biggest rival but at the last minute reminds herself that she needs Audrey right now. And the best way to win Audrey over was to play nice.

Mal hated being nice. Mal shudders inwardly as she prepares herself to put on her act of kindness."I'm really sorry about the whole waking up on your farm thing but I promise you I have no bad intentions. I'm just really lost right now and I really need to find my friends because if I don't then my whole world will feel like it's crashing down."

Mal's voice comes out more frantic than she originally intends. She dwells on her tone for a moment before she realizes the franticness wasn't a part of her act. She really was afraid.

She and her friends were all stuck in a mirrored nightmare world they knew nothing about. A world where none of them knew where the other was. Or maybe they did and it was just Mal that was alone.

"I want to meet the Evil Queen." Mal decides aloud to Audrey. "I want to know what's happening in this world."

Audrey's face freezes in horror as she takes in Mal's words. The woodland creatures must sense Audrey's fear because they all flee.

"Oh," Audrey says, her voice more high pitched than usual. "please don't call her that. Queen Evie is the most beautiful and amazing queen there is. There's nothing evil about her."

Audrey's smiling, a forced tight smile that makes it look like she's pulling on the corners of her mouth to make. Audrey's words settle in Mal's mind and Mal gasps in surprise. In horror.

"Wait, what did you say?" Mal asks, thinking she heard Audrey wrong. Hoping, she's heard Audrey wrong.

Mal doesn't know why she's hoping Audrey's wrong. Mal doesn't know why Audrey 's statement fills Mal with guilt.

"Queen Evie is our Queen and she is amazing and beautiful. The fairest in all of the land. You shouldn't say cruel things about our precious queen." Audrey scolds.

"Evie?" Mal repeats, still not believing what she's hearing. "Evie is the queen of this kingdom?"

The fear in Audrey's eyes intensifies. Why was she so afraid? Evie was evil, yeah, but she wasn't that evil. Evie wasn't the type to hurt anyone, even if they've hurt her first. Mal thinks about how she hurt Evie. She thinks about how Evie forgave her for it all. She dwells on the memory of how she and Evie first became friends.

It wasn't possible. Mal just couldn't imagine the Evie she knew being anything like what Audrey is implying. But Mal knows that the Audrey Evie's talking about isn't the Evie Mal knows because the Evie Mal knows wouldn't strike fear in anyone's heart.

Evie could soften someone's heart until it feels as slimy as the Goblin's slime that always lines the entryway to Mal's mother's castle. Evie could turn anyone's hatred and resentment of her into a friendship that Mal hopes would last forever. Mal realizes she's feeling Auradon emotions. Emotions that wicked girls like her shouldn't be feeling at all.

Mal reminds herself to think wicked. To think of getting out of this mirror world and back to Auradon. To think of finding a way to succeed in the plan her mother's set her out to do.

Mal takes a breath and looks up at the sky. The sky is black as ink. How had she not noticed that before? Mal starts noticing other things, realizing that nothing was as it first seemed.

The green pastures weren't actually green. Well, they were but they looked unnatural. As if someone had painted the color on. In fact, Mal notices that there are drops of paint dripping from some of the grass. The horses weren't actually running free. They were all galloping in fear as frantic as Mal was earlier.

And the cozy cottage that sat on the hill was in terrible shape. Almost as bad as the houses on the Isle. Mal also notices that Audrey's legs are shaking in fear. Gods, what has this world's Evie done?

"Yes, Evie is our Queen. Didn't I already say that?" Audrey says, her words come together in a rush. She touches Mal's arm and an unspoken warning is flashing in her eyes." Let's just stop talking about this, okay?"

Suddenly, Audrey's demeanor changes. Her legs are no longer shaking in fear and even though she's still dressed in rags there's a princess-like air surrounding her.

"Would you like to stay for dinner?" Audrey asks with a genuine smile, a smile so genuine it leaves Mal speechless.

Evie awakens in the middle of a forest. She awakens all on her own without a prince's lips pressed upon her cheek. Without a prince giving her true love's kiss who would then be ready to whisk her away to his kingdom in a moment's notice.

His kingdom with his big beautiful castle. A big beautiful castle that's full of expensive unbroken things. A big beautiful castle with a mother-in-law wing for her mom. A big beautiful castle with lots and lots of mirrors for Evie and her mom to stare at the gorgeous reflections that always greeted them back.

Evie leans forward and brings her knees in. She then observes her surroundings and sees no trace of a prince. No trace of anyone or any animal. Evie is alone in the forest and there's not even a body of water that she can look at to gaze at her reflection.

Evie gets up from the ground. She pats at her skirt and straightens it out.

Evie then yells out for her friends. "Mal? Carlos? Jay?"

Her voice becomes more scared with every name she calls being unanswered.

Out of habit to ease her nerves, Evie reaches into her purse pocket for her magic mirror. But it isn't there. With panic, Evie starts searching the inside of her bag for her magic mirror. It's not there. Refusing to accept that she flips her bag over and lets all of the contents of it fall onto the ground.

The only thing on the forest floor is her makeup. Two tubes of her favorite shade of lipstick that she made herself. Unused eyeshadow that her mom got for her at the wharf. And the best mascara in all of Auradon that her young friend, Dizzy had given her as a going-away present.

No mirror. No friends. No castles are anywhere in sight. Evie is freaking out. Evie in a panic picks up one of her fallen lipstick tubes and applies some lipstick on her lips.

She feels better for a moment until she hears the sound of crunching footsteps. Multiple crunching footsteps. Capping her lipstick, Evie places it inside her bag. Evie then kneels down on the forest floor to grab everything she's dropped earlier.

The crunching sound is getting closer and Evie hears the sound of voices conversing. In her panic, Evie drops what she grabbed and gracefully falls to the ground. She closes her eyes, praying that whoever's coming her way is a handsome prince that lives in a very big and beautiful castle.

"You've gone and got us lost again." A deep gruff voice complains.

"We're not lost." A higher-toned masculine voice denies back.

"We're not there either." Someone else says with a yawn.

"Guys..." A voice starts so quietly Evie wonders if it really spoke at all. "Can you all just stop fighting?"

"Sorry, bash." The higher toned masculine voice says, revealing the quiet voice to belong to someone name bash.

"Yeah, sorry." The deep gruff voice responds.

Evie opens her eyes slightly to try to peek at them but one of them starts turning their head in her direction. Evie closes her eyes and stiffens her posture.

"Heigh-ho! Is that a girl?!" The higher-pitched masculine voice exclaims.

Evie hears their crunching footsteps run over to her. She feels someone crouch next to her. They lift her wrist and press what feels like two fingers against it.

"She has a pulse and she looks like she's breathing." The higher-pitched masculine voice says in relief. "I don't know what could be wrong? Could she be cursed?"

"Well, I'm not kissing her. " The gruff voice says in disgust.

Evie almost hmphs aloud. Her lips were for princes only anyway. Not that she even knew what any of them looked like but from how they sound she's sure none of them are princes.

"Neither am I." A voice says sleepily.

"I..." The higher-pitched masculine voice starts. Evie feels a breath of wind as she assumes he's standing back up. "I prefer my first kiss to be with someone awake. Besides, who would kiss a girl asleep in the forest? That's just creepy."

The gruff voice laughs at the higher-pitched masculine's voice statement. Now that Evie thought about it, it would be creepy if a prince just randomly kissed her while she was asleep.

"First kiss? So I'm guessing that date didn't go well then, Doug?"

"No, Gordon it didn't." The higher-pitched tone voice answers, meaning he was Doug and the gruff voice was Gordon. "I kind of went overboard with the romantic ideals and well she fell off a horse. And she doesn't want to talk to me ever again."

"You should walk around wearing a caution sign." Gordon taunts.

"Oh, I'm the one who needs to wear a caution sign," Doug replies tartly.

"Guys, you said you would stop fighting," Bash says, a little louder than his previous statements from before.

Both Doug and Gordon mumble out apologies. Evie hears snoring and hears the sleepy voice let out a noise as if they've just awoken.

"Sleepy Jr., stay up. We don't need two sleeping people to carry out of the forest." Gordon grumbles, revealing the last person's name as Sleepy Jr.

Wait, carry? Evie didn't want to be carried away by a bunch of people she didn't know. Unless one is a prince...

Sleepy Jr. apologizes and then says. "Should we go get help then?"

"Our dads are in the mines today, there's no one for us to call for help." Doug reminds with a sigh. "Maybe we can bring her to Jane, fairy godmother's daughter?"

Fairy Godmother. As in the holder of the wand that could finally free everyone from the Isle Of The Lost. Including, Evie's mom. Evie perks up a little at hearing that. If she pulled this off, Mal would be so happy with her. Evie smiles at the idea of that.

"Jane can't help us at all. Remember, she's still looking for the true ruler of Grimhelde?" Sleepy Jr. reminds every word coming out slower than the word before.

Evie's fake act of sleeping's curtain is called as she sits up and opens her eyes.

"Grimhelde?" Evie repeats as Grimhelde was her last name. The name Evie's mother had always kept despite her marriages to so many Kings. "Why-Why did you say that? We're in Auradon not..."

Evie couldn't repeat it. It didn't make sense. How would they know that name? No one outside of the Isle Of The Lost knew that name. No one outside of the Isle lost cared to ever use it.

"We have to go! Now!" Grumpy shouts out panicked.

All of the boy's faces are now struck with panic. Are struck with fear. Evie looks at them all full of confusion.

The boy she assumes is Doug because of how close he is to her suddenly puts his hand out for her to grab onto. Evie does and stands with the help of Doug. Her legs feel a little stiff but she has no time to stretch them out because Doug pulls her into a run. A run that Evie's much too afraid to stop.

A.N. I kind of have an idea of where this is going now and I'm a little excited. Thanks for reading! And thanks for the reviews/faves/alerts!