Rotten To The Core

The Magic Wand

CHAPTER 4

After curfew Ellie, Mal, and Evie go to the boy's room. When they enter the room they find Carlos playing a game and Jay putting stuff on his bed.

"Jay, what are you doing?" Ellie asks as she and Mal walk over to him.

"It's called stealing," Jay answers as he pulls various items out of his clothes.

"Okay, what's the point?" Ellie asks him confused.

"Well, El, It's like buying whatever I want, except it's free," Jay explains with a smirk as he pulls out a laptop.

"Okay. So, you could do that, or you could leave all of this here and pick it up when we take over the world," Mal says causing Jay to roll his eyes.

"You sound just like your mom," Ellie says with a roll of her eyes.

"Thank you," Mal says excitedly.

"You do it your way and I'll do it mine," Jay says before walking away from the girls.

"Die, suckers! Jay, come check this thing out," Carlos says as he plays the game. "Man, It's awesome." Jay starts playing the game and gets pretty into it.

"Guys! Do I have to remind you what we're all here for?" Mal asks as everyone had focused on Jay playing the game.

"Fairy Godmother, blah, blah, blah. Magic wand, blah, blah, blah," Jay says as he is playing causing Carlos, Ellie, and Evie to laugh.

"This is our one chance to prove ourselves to our parents. To prove that we are evil and vicious and ruthless and cruel. Yeah?" Mal says gaining everyone's attention. Ellie knows she has to prove herself to her mom but she just wants to be her own person. "Evie, Ellie, one of you mirror me." Everyone joins Mal at the table.

"Mirror, mirror on the..." Evie says before correcting herself. "in my hand, where does Fairy Godmother's wand... stand?"

"There it is!" Mal says as it appears in the mirror.

"Zoom out," Ellie says.

"Magic mirror, not so close," Evie says causing the mirror to zoom out to where the whole world shows. "Closer. Closer. Closer."

"Can I go back to my game? I'm on level three," Carlos says as he starts to get impatient.

"Stop!" Jay calls as he sees a sign.

"It's in a museum. Do we know where that is?" Ellie asks as they look at the mirror before Carlos starts looking it up on a laptop.

"2.3 Miles from here," Carlos answers before Mal goes to check to see if the hallway is still clear even if it is after curfew.

"Come on," Mal says as she takes off with Jay and Ellie right behind her.

"Carlos!" Evie calls as she looks back to see him not with them.

"Coming!" Carlos calls as he stops playing his game and takes off after the group. They arrive at the museum not too long later.

"Check your mirror," Mal tells Evie as they walk down the steps of the museum.

"Is my mascara smudged?" Evie asks frantically.

"Yeah. And, hey, while you're at it, why don't you see if you can find us the wand?" Mal says sarcastically.

"Sure. This way," Evie says before leading them to some double doors. They look inside to find a security guard watching the screens with various items on the screens, such as Beast's rose, Cinderella's slipper, and Genie's lamp. They quickly duck out of the way as the security guard turns toward the doors. They look back inside before seeing Maleficent's spinning wheel.

"That's your mother's spinning wheel?" Jay asks as he and Carlos laugh.

"Yeah, It's kinda dorky," Carlos says in agreement.

"It's magic. It doesn't have to look scary," Mal says as she defends her mother. Mal then opens her mother's spell book.

"Magic spindle, do not linger.

Make my victim prick a finger," Mal reads before they watch the security guard stare at the spinning wheel.

"Impressive," Jay says sarcastically.

"I got chills," Carlos also says sarcastically causing Ellie to giggle.

"Okay, you know what?" Mal says before reading another part. "Prick the finger, prick it deep. Send my enemy off to sleep." The security guard stands before pricking his finger and falling asleep. "Not so dorky now, huh?" Mal goes to open the door but it is locked.

"Stand back," Jay says with a smirk before backing up.

"Make it easy, make it quick,

open up without a kick," Mal reads causing the door to open as Jay runs forward to kick it open making him fall. Ellie lets out a giggle as they walk past Jay. "Coming?" They then sneak past the security guard before heading upstairs as Evie follows her mirror. They all freeze as they enter a room that has life like statues of their parents that look extremely evil.

"Mommy?" Evie and Ellie question as they grasp each other's hands out of fear.

"Killer," Jay says as he looks at Jafar.

"I will never forget mother's day again," Carlos says in fear.

"Well, the wand's not here. Let's bounce," Jay says but nobody leaves. "Let's go." Mal, Carlos, Evie, and Jay leave the room as Ellie stares at mother. Ellie couldn't help but take in how evil her mother looks.

"Look at you, look at me

I don't know who to be

Mother

Is it wrong? Is it right?

Be a thief in the night

Mother

Tell me what to do..." Ellie sings as she looks at her mother's statue. She is so conflicted.

"El. Come on," Evie says as she enters the room again. "Hey, I found the wand. Let's go." Evie leaves the room again as Ellie looks back at the statue and is still unsure of what to do. Ellie quickly catches up to the others where they stand at a balcony that's in the center of the room before looking down and seeing the wand. "Here it is." Jay is the first to run out of the room with the others right behind him. Jay runs around to the other side of the wand while the others stop on front of it.

"Jay, don't!" Mal says as he goes to go under the rail. Ellie then notices a forcefield around the wand.

"Wait, no! No! Don't!" Ellie calls as Jay hits the forcefield before being sent over the rail and an alarm going off.

"A force field and a siren?" Carlos asks.

"That's just a little excessive," Jay says as he crawls forward.

"Let's go!" Mal says as Ellie rushes to help Jay up. They quickly run back downstairs without being caught by the security guard before Carlos stops to answer a phone.

"Hello? Uh, uh, just give me one second. One second. Uh, yeah, yeah. No, false alarm. It was a malfunction in the, uh, the 714 chip in the breadboard circuit. Okay. Say hi to the missus," Carlos says and hits some buttons before the alarm goes off.

"Carlos!" Ellie says as she waits patiently at the door. They then take off running back to the dorms.

"Way to go, Jay. Now we have to go to school tomorrow," Mal says as they run.