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”But you’re saying that they’re alive? Even if you haven’t kept in contact with them,” Cassiopeia asked immediately, seeming to stumble over her words in her rush to get them out. She felt her sister’s presence and grounded herself next to her. She looked over at Layla and rolled her eyes. ”It’s a little late for that don’t you think?” Sure they could all gang up on Merlin and take him out if he were lying to them but that didn’t seem the likely scenario anymore.
Cassiopeia looked over when she heard the door open and nodded back to Colby when he and Matthew walked into the door. She looked back at her sister and then Merlin. ”Alright, you got us here. Now what?” Her curiosity and desire were now the driving force to Cassiopeia’s answers.

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Willow handed the note that was in her jewelry box to Annabelle to see and maybe feel more comfortable with this entire situation. She looked at Merlin and listened to the one girl question him. Willow herself felt okay with the situation. She wasn’t completely comfortable and her heart was racing from uncertainty but she was okay with it. She was okay with something new and different. ”I trust him,” she said confidently. Not that it would matter much to people who didn’t know her but she needed to say it.
She took the note back from Annabelle and walked over to where Merlin stood, visibly taking a side and stood there, looking at the others while she clutched her jewelry box. When Willow started University, she thought that was going to be the start of her new life and big changes. She had no way of knowing this was going to happen and be the real change of her life.

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Rose had been running. Had being the operative word there. She was now struggling against a plant that was wrapping around her like something out of Harry Potter. "What?" She looked at the vines and then up seeing the jogger and her daughter. Fear flashed through Rose's mind and body. She had been uncomfortable about the lady and now she knew why. The woman looked like an accurate cos-player of Maleficient. Rose for a second was impressed by her attire, and then she realized that this was who Merlin had warned them about at the park.

"Merlin said the same thing. And he didn't have to tie us up to get us to listen." Rose glared at the woman and then her daughter. "Guessing your names were lies too." Fear was starting to grip Rose even tighter. She was terrified of what Maleficent could do, and she feared the fire spreading and being unable to escape because of the vines. Two of her greatest fears were surrounding her. The fire that could spread, and having her agency taken from her.

Anger at Maleficent surged through her beating back the fear enough so she could think a little clearer. She moved and wiggled until she was free of the vines, and then moved over to Sierra to help her friend break free of her own vines. Rose's stomach was twisting with anger and fear still. Rose was able to pull the vines off of Sierra. Her fear abating. If that was Maleficent's worst they had hope. "Come on, back to the Ranger station. I have a feeling she won't attack us around other people." She grabbed Sierra's hand and started to run back to the station.

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Colby nodded and stood next to Matthew. He gazed around at those gathered, uncertain. Colby's eyes paused on Annabelle, he apparently wasn't the only one ditching school to be here. He rolled his eyes. She was an annoying, too perfect, girl who didn't like cats.

He wasn't joking when he told Matthew he didn't trust people. He reached up and gave his cat, Jack, a scratch behind the ear. He looked at Merlin intently. Or at least who he assumed was Merlin. All those that had gathered so far were looking at the same dude. He didn't look very...Merlin-y in Colby's opinion.

"So what is your plan from here? Are you able to just open a portal and send us all through? Or do you have to wait until the time is up from the letter?" He had been surprised they were even meeting this early. With a whole bunch of twenty-somethings. Colby felt like he was one of the youngest in the room. An explanation for why he was adopted out so early and some like, Matthew hadn't been. Babies were easier to adopt out.

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Maddy walked into thr warehouse, following in tow with Colby. He had to admit, this entire scene was sketchy. Abandoned building, out where no one could see them, kids piled up as an extremely creepy looking man stood in the center before all of them. This was either a cult, or some trafficking scheme. Either way, it didn't seem like the magical beginning that hes read in any of his books. Where was the whimsy? The mystic notings to hint something otherworldly? It was then that he wondered if tinker bell had slipped them in their food or drinks. It would explain the magic hes seen, and why her name was tink. Her "pixie dust" may of been nothing more than a hit of LSD or some other drug. Matthew took a half step back, wonderinf if he should just leave. But Colby, for now, seemed determined to stay and get some answers.

He pressed forward, attempting to slyly grab Colbys hand when suddenly he reached to pet for his cat. Matthew played it cool, reaching his hand all the way up to comb it through his hair before settling it back down at his side. He took a deep breath and tried for it again, his hand finding purchase in Colbys as it slid down his palms and his fingers interlocked with Colbys. It was smooth and stealthfull to try and avoid prying eyes as Matthew slid in front of their grasped hands so others couldn't see what he'd done. He need this bit of courage to press forward with this looming bald man who resembled nothing of the BBCs twink. "Merlin, I presume, are we to be armed with anything going into Arcadia? Or are we to just be thrust onto the wolves without a single Excalibur, Vernal blade, or fairy wand to defend ourselves with?"

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Pandora had expected it would come to this as the girls were trapped by her mother. Convincing them was out the window now. It was by force. Was she ok with this? She had only met her mother and, by all counts, Merlin had tried to keep her away. Pandora was out for herself, above all else. Before she could speak, the girls freed themselves and ran off to the ranger station.

"Nice magic skills there mother. They freed themselves easily. I suggest you use your magic to either make it impossible for them to leave or stop them now before they tell someone two women tried to lure them in their car to parts unknown. I would but I don't have powers. Yet." She crossed her arms, waiting to see what her mother would do. "If they do manage to get help I can talk our way out of it, so don't do anything rash."

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"Here, how about we trade," Jack said to his sister with a bit of a chuckle as she more or less kept up the whole she really didn't like Isabella thing. He never really understood why Megan didn't really like Isabella, but he handed the book over to her as she handed the list to him. Glancing over towards Tinker Bell he rolled his eyes at her, "Why do you people think we need a babysitter or something? Act like we're reckless or whatever and you've known us for a whole what? Few hours at most? Seriously, you are ridiculous sometimes."

He then turned to look at the list and saw Isabella's name and glanced over at her. "Well fun fact, Meg was lying, though pretty sure that probably was obvious. According to this your parents are Jasmine and Aladdin," he told her with a bit of a shrug, before he slipped the list into his pocket, figuring that it probably was a good idea to keep the list away from Maleficent if she wanted to kill them or something like that. "So, anyone else want to stick around in the lion's den for longer? Or is everyone happy with what we've found here. Also my question is how the hell did Maleficent know who we all are? Actually a little weirded out that you and Merlin knew who we were. But that's just me."

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"Yup, definitely surrounded by losers, this'll be fun," Rosalia muttered under her breath as people started talking randomly about their parents, namely towards one girl who seemed to be taking the lead on questioning (more of interrogating when she thought about it) Merlin. One of the other kids was asking about how to get to this weird place "Arcadia" that Merlin mentioned. She rolled her eyes at the others, figuring that they were already asking enough stupid questions to fill in for any stupid thing she could randomly ask him.

"And yup, people are continuing to confirm how I am surrounded by idiots," she added, talking to herself before she spoke up. "So, everyone wants to go off to fairyland or whatever the hell it's called. Seriously? You have to remember that these are the people who you know, left all of us, without any word or whatever. And this guy just now is starting to get in contact with us? I mean, I get it, what he's said has some truth to it, just very few memories and the like or whatever, but I mean, going there would be asking us to just drop whatever the hell sort of lives we have now and just leave."

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Megan snorted slightly as Tinker Bell insulted Isabella's intelligence - maybe the fairy wasn't that bad after all... or was Tinker Bell a pixie? She couldn't really remember. It had been ages since she watched Peter Pan. She tended to stay up all night listening to true crime podcasts or watching videos of paranormal investigations. She had been an insomniac for as long as she could remember, never getting more than just a few hours of sleep a night. Her blood was at least fifty percent coffee at this point. Megan would have voted to leave Isabella in the magic circle a little bit longer, but Tinker released her.

"How about we leave before Maleficent turns us all to stone?" Megan suggested. "We can keep her book. I'm really curious as to how magic is practiced... If Maleficent doesn't keep tidy records and notes and record her observations, then I'm going to be disappointed." It was what any good scientist would do - record procedures, leave detailed notes and records, and then organize it all appropriately. She skimmed through the book, seeing spells on all sorts of topics. Some covered elemental magic, some were summoning spells. The latter ones struck her as a bit Lovecraft-esque.

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"Well, do you know how to defend yourself against someone who actually knows magic, and not those dumb parlor tricks that you see on those dumb TV shows? Nope, well seeing as this is Maleficent's base of operations. And without me you probably wouldn't have gotten Isabella out of here either. Because I would really love to see you flail around trying to do that without my help." Tinker said staring at Jack, he was really getting annoyed with him as well. Isabella just stood there a little bit awkwardly as she looked at the three of them, knowing that Megan pretty much hated her for no reason at all really. "I'm all for leaving." Isabella said raising her hand she really did want to try and get out of here as soon as possible.

She decided to stay out of the whole Jack and Tinkerbell hating each other thing as well, Tinker looked around they pretty much came here for what they were looking for right now. "Well lets just go unless you two want to stay here and wait for her or something." Tinker said as she left the penthouse like area. "You really do hate here don't you?" Isabella whispered to Jack, before following shortly behind her, she had spent a lot of time already and made her way towards the elevator, both Isabella and Tinker stopped when they noticed that the elevator door was about to close to opening to let someone new in, they both went towards the nearby stairwell looking over at Jack and Megan.

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Sierra continued to panic more and more as she tried to struggle and break free, sighing slightly when Rose managed to get her free from the vines and looked at her friend. "Thank you, I owe you one." Sierra said looking at the mother daughter duo who tried to kidnap them, she was scared for her life as well now as well. "They are not going to get away." Maleficent said to Pandora Sierra quickly followed behind Rose going through the trails again, smelling some smoke nearby. The fire wasn't big yet but still contained in the small clearing where the ranger's station was, Maleficent looked at Pandora and gave her a stern glare.

Maleficent extended her hand out as flames started to block their way to the clearing to the ranger's station as Maleficent stepped closer to the pair of girls. "Merlin is lying to the two of you, he has been keeping you away from your family. Why do you think he hasn't contacted you until now?" Maleficent said looking at the two girls, Sierra turned around and stared at the two of them she was scared looking over at Rose. "I don't believe you." She said, as Maleficent looked at her daughter for a moment, she snapped her fingers, and the fires that Bobby was fighting had suddenly died down. Sierra looked down at her phone seeing that there was a signal now and quickly sent out a text to Willow rather quickly, managing to get the text out, before Maleficent sent a small fireball destroying the phone for good this time.

"I need you to get Merlin, we are in trouble, we are in the park nearby the ranger's station."

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"We contact the other side once a month to give updates, the last update was a month ago they are still alive from what the others have said to me." Merlin said calmly to Cassiopeia, Layla remained fairly quiet as she listened to Merlin as he answered her sister's question which was pretty reasonable if you were trying to keep a low lid on things only communicate for short amount of time and very few in between. Merlin then gestured towards a nearby chest it was already open revealing a couple of weapons that were there already in case anyone did want them. "Though they aren't enchanted or anything like that, you are welcome to any of the weapons you see fit." Merlin answered Mathew's question.

Layla and her sister had already brought their own bows and knives so they were pretty much set with everything Merlin gave willow a friendly smile when she said she believed him. Merlin then turned to address Colby's question they were just waiting for a few of the others to come. "Maleficent has found out where you all are, that's why I am moving the timetable now. We are just waiting on five more to hopefully join us. And no I don't expect any of you to just drop everything and come join us there. But you will not be protected if you choose to stay here." Merlin said, while Taylor and Annabelle were quiet and listening intently.

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The triumphant feeling Rose had died quickly as more fire appeared before her blocking her way. It was replaced by fear. Clawing up her throat and tearing into her mind. She tried to take some slow breaths and keep herself from complete panic. That only made her cough. Rose closed her eyes. It didn't help since she could feel the heat of the flames. Rose didn't see Sierra's phone explode because her eyes had been closed.

Rose opened her eyes back up. She needed a way out of here. Rose noticed that the fire at the station was gone. Not like Bobby had put it out, but like it stopped as suddenly as the fire blocking her way had appeared. "She can only do one spell at a time like that. We can take her." She whispered to Sierra, her back still to Maleficent. "I'm gonna tackle her. You run into the woods, there is a service road not too far away. Get to it. Get back to Bobby."

Rose spun on the ball of her foot and could only hope that Sierra followed her directions. She ran at Maleficent to tackle her and break up her line of sight on Sierra. Instead, her foot slipped on some loose gravel and she fell face-first into the dirt.

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"Snicker-snack." Colby said under his breath so that only Matthew could hear him. He half-smiled at Matthew.

Colby was going to cross his arms but realized his hand was being held by Maddie. He didn't want to take his hand back. Instead, he moved his free hand to his hip. He ignored the girl with more hair than brains. Why wouldn't they want to go to a magical place? Who in their right mind would stay here?

Colby listened to Merlin's explanation. It made sense, but he hadn't seen Malifecnt yet so he wasn't certain how true that was. He didn't trust people as a general rule. He looked at the weapons. Colby had never learned anything than schoolyard fighting so he didn't care to grab any of them.

"Okay, so what are we supposed to do when we get to Arcadia? What is expected of us? And when should we expect these others to join us?"

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Cassiopeia looked over at another girl who had walked in. She seemed a bit young and had a hard look about her. Her questioning the rest of them for being there added to that. ”If you feel that way, then why are you here?” Casssiopeia asked bluntly. If she was going to judge them all for the same thing she was doing then she could take a hike as far as Cassiopeia was concerned. She returned her attention to Merlin and watched a chest open up, seemingly by itself to reveal a cache of weapons. Cassiopeia was more comfortable with her bow and her sister’s knives that she didn’t go over to investigate further.
Cassiopeia tugged on her ear and scratched the back of her neck, looking around and feeling a bit anxious from all the unknowns. She turned to her sister and nudged her with her arm. ”Come on Layla, let’s go get our stuff. The cats are probably going mental now anyways.” Cassiopeia needed a breather of air as well and it seemed they were still missing people so they had time.

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Willow glanced into the chest, looking over some of the weapons inside. Willow had been training in kickboxing and had a good form as well as skill but she had never used a weapon. She didn’t even know where to begin. Her phone chimed and Willow pulled it out to see Sierra had texted her. She smiled, finally. She opened up the message and her smile fell. ”Merlin,” she said quickly and walked over to him. ”A couple of my friends are in trouble. You met them in the park earlier, they are like us. We have to go help them,” she said fiercely and handed him her phone so he could see the message.
Willow had always had a fierce determination when it came to helping people. She loved to help and support people in any way she could. Sometimes it came across as a bit selfish and one sided as she often had to be at the forefront of helping and in some sort of leadership role when it came to but her determination helped her always get the job done. Sierra was a friend, even if it was new and she liked her, more than Willow understood so of course Willow needed to help.

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Matthew tried to make sense of everything that was being said. He knew it made sense to minimilize contact with the others so that Maleficents gaze wouldn't be thryst upon any of the children, but if that was thr case had no one been keeping their eye on the msitress of evil to see that she was moving faster than had been previously anticipated? Something didn't quite add up to him and he felt as if there was a potential traitor amongst them, someone leaking information to her without the others notice. Matthews mind immediately went to her child. She couldn't be trusted and would clearly need to be watched as they moved forward, only question now was who she was.

Matthew's attention was snatched away as Merlin mentioned a weapons cache in the room. There was nothing magical or enchanted about them, just simple weapons for their use into Arcadia. One that Matthew would gladly accept. He went to go inspect them went he felt the slightest resistance. His heel had barely left the ground when he realized that Colby hadn't removed his hand yet. His heart began to race as he settled back into place, feeling the warmth in his ears as the blood rushed to his cheeks and head. He was glad that Colby seemed not to mind, it helped with his running theory that the two might be of the same mindset in terms of emotions. He ran his thumb over his, showing Colby he was there for him both physically and emotionally.

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The situation was escalating quickly now as her mother sent a fireball at the girl's phone as she was texting. Help would probably arrive quickly and if they were magic users that could be bad. One of the girls charged but slipped and fell. She figured her mother could handle her so Pandora went after Sierra. She ran forward, her time learning jujutsu paying off, and she took hold of the girl, flipped, and pinned her to the ground easily.

The next step was rocky. "We are not your enemies. We are trying to protect you before whoever did this to you does further damage. If he finds out we are here it would mean bad things for all of us. We're trying to get everyone together from our real home. We need to work together." She didn't know if she got to the girl or not, but it didn't matter. She had a back-up plan in case all this went south. That was always important for a con artist.

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"Not sure if it would be a good idea to keep that book Meg... Especially if Maleficent does keep track of stuff? For all we know she could have a tracker or something on that book, but eh, it's your choice," he said to his sister, mainly because of the fact that Tinker Bell and Isabella were there. However if she did leave the book behind he would share the book that he had swiped from her massive collection of books. Since he figured that more then a few people might frown upon stealing from a crazy murderous witch who clearly wants them all dead no matter what.

He followed after the others, saying nothing else until Isabella asked about him hating Tinker Bell. "Well she talks to us for the most part like we're children, and is a bit of a stuck up bitch if you ask me, so why should I like her again?" he whispered back to her as they walked along towards the elevator. The plans quickly changed however as they soon ended up towards the stairwell instead as someone was coming to the top floor right now or something. He ducked into the stairway, waiting for the others, but he was somewhat curious as to who was there and if it was Maleficent herself or perhaps someone else.

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She listened as the others in the room continued to talk about the craziness that was that day. Of course one girl was being a bit of a prick or something, she was mentally trying to find the right word for her but was having a hard time with it. Was a know it all suck up bitch too much? Eh, maybe, but she didn't really care at the moment regarding her. All she knew was that she wanted to beat the crap out of her and wanted her to stay far faaaaar away from her. That seemed simple enough, just ignore her existence and everything would go well right? However she did feel the need to actually let her know exactly why she was there.

"Well if you must know why I came here it's because someone came after me at my apartment or whatever. Of course there is this nifty thing called a fire escape that apparently the guy had never used one before as he was worse at a chase sequence then the Three freaking Stooges. But that's the main reason I came, since someone seemed to be after me, but not like you care in your happy little world that is your small brain. Oh, did I just say that out loud? I'm sooooooo sorry," Rosa said to Cassiopeia, adding the last part with a key hint of sarcasm.

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"It's the closest thing to a genuine grimoire that we'll ever see, I think we should at least study it a bit. We can then burn it and chuck it in a river or something afterwards if it scares you," Megan told her brother. She figured that Maleficent likely would have some way to track them anyways - she had come this far already after all. The book was like Pandora's Box and she just had to look on through it. There could be scientific advances tucked away inside of its pages and as an avid horror fan, Megan was really curious to see how a legit demon summoning could be performed. She darted into the stairwell with the others, not wanting to see who was coming out of the elevator. She half suspected it to be Jack's evil biological father.

"Let's go, shall we?" Megan prompted the others. She then climbed quietly down the staircase, careful to not make too much noise. The lobby appeared to be empty aside from a few residents - no one was dressed like Ursula from the Little Mermaid or anything like that. She walked out of the lobby calmly, as if they hadn't just stolen from a witch, and she got into her car, getting the engine going as she waited for her brother to join her.

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"You'd make a cute couple then and seeing you two bickering would be really entertaining to see as well." Isabella said jokingly towards Jack, though she was freaked out what was going on as well and she wanted to get back home, but apparently there was more to this whole thing as well. She followed Megan down the flight of stairs, just as the elevator doors opened, looking over her shoulder catching a glimpse of four people talking amongst themselves and making their way towards the apartment that they had just left. As much as Isabella wanted to get more information on.

She had been trapped there for the last several minutes which she didn't want to be held there anymore than necessary either. "I'll follow you guys then I guess." Isabella said as she made her way towards her car and Tinker Bell nodded as she made her way towards her car as well and climbed in, following behind Tinker's car back towards where Megan and Jack were going.

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Sierra felt the wind getting knocked out of her as she was now pinned to the ground, and tried to get free from Pandora's grip feeling the heat from the nearby fire wasn't doing much help either. "Rose, go and get out of here and go get some help." Sierra told her friend looking over at her, seeing her friend falling onto the ground. Sierra continued to try and squirm around as she turned her head slightly looking over at Pandora who had pinned her down. "I'd trust you more if you'd let me go." Sierra said staring at the girl, she didn't trust her at all by any means right now.

Maleficent looked at Rose, and then lowered the flames seeing the girl panicking from the heat, but they were still there just less intensity. She didn't have any kind of intentions on letting these two get away at all either turning her attention towards Rose and gave her a slight smile. "Just help me overthrow Merlin, he was the one who kidnapped you all from your parents all of those years ago." She said, hoping that Rose would believe her, she didn't want to use to much force then she already had been now, after all she was trying to get allies to help her.

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Taylor remained fairly quiet for the most part at the moment remaining close to Rosalia out of everyone there right now she trusted Rosa the most right now since the girl did offer her a place to crash. Before it was attacked by the Three Stooges Guy as she now called him mentally. She couldn't help but snicker slightly to herself as Rosalia dug a little bit into the redhead. She looked at the two boy couple holding their hands and shuddered slightly seeing the romance which she thought was really weird.

Merlin turned his attention over towards Colby when he asked another question and gave him a slight smile. "We will reunite you with your parents, and if you are willing help retake what is actually yours from Maleficent and her allies." Merlin simply answered when Willow said that two of their own were in some kind of trouble, most likely with Maleficent. "If you are willing to help, save them please pick up a weapon in that chest. Once they are saved then we can start getting back to Arcadia." He told them all as he started to wave his hands around doing what looked like a complex spell.

Layla looked at her sister and nodded towards her, as she started to leave and head outside back to where their car was, seeing that it was still there just as they had left it. Layla went to grab her things from the jeep strapping her pack over her back and looked over at her sister. "So what do you think of all of this?" She asked her, as she grabbed her cat's crate and started to make her way back inside.

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Rose didn't believe them, didn't trust them one bit. Maybe it was cause she had spoken to Merlin first, or maybe it was because the woman was Maleficent. She, like any other American, had been raised on Disney. She knew who Maleficent was. "Like hell, I'll trust you." Rose rolled, her little bit of boxing had taught her some moves for getting away.

She ran. Ducking into the woods and heading toward the ranger's truck trail. It would take her back around to the station. She needed to get help. Rose didn't know who could help. Then she remembered the business card that Merlin had given her. She pulled it out of her pocket and dialed the number.

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Colby nodded, he wanted to meet his parents, and he wanted to reclaim what was his birthright. A part of him wondered how much he was being manipulated. He wondered what it was that Merlin wanted from them. Colby didn't feel like Merlin was telling the whole truth. Was that cause he just didn't trust people. He let go of Maddie's hand and reached up to pet his cat. "Go ahead, get a sword." He said to Maddie.

"I don't know how to use a sword, just my fists." Colby said turning down a weapon. Maybe in the future, he'd use one, but for now, he had no use for a weapon. "If we are going into a fight though. I'd like to put my cat somewhere safe. So excuse me." Colby stepped out of the warehouse and walked back to his car, opening it and letting Jack jump off his shoulder into the car. He rolled down the windows enough for fresh cool air to flow for Jack and Maddie's cat. Then he went back inside the warehouse.

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Maddies mind was pulled out of his romantic wonderland as soon as he heard one of the kids mention a break in. His free hand gripped tightly as his anxiety began to bubble. What if Maleficent was more powerful? What if she could track them all here before they ever even had a fighting chance? "They broke into my place too. Nothing was stolen though, and there was no one inside when I arrived. Did they take anything from you?" Maddie felt Colby remove his hand as he told him to go pick out a sword. He didn’t know how to weild one either, nor did he think he had the courage to use it. He did however decide that it was best to has a sword and not need it, than to not have one and need it. Maddies nodded towards Merlin as he made his way to the chest, ears open and listening incase the curly haired girl decided to answer him, expecting more anger angst.

The chest seemed to be filled with a variety of swords. There were bastard swords whose designs had been warped in many shows and animes. The idea of weilding one seemed badass and Maddie went to reach for its hilt. The sheer weight of the blade insured that he never lifted it off the chest, his weak arms doing little in the struggle to brandish the weapon. Determined to gain some form of defense, he moved to the longswords. Another notable design yet no where near as used in the shows that he watched. Maddie lifted the sword, this time having one hand on the sheathed blade and another on the hilt as if presenting it to someone, his back still facing thr group as he looked up the chest. Unfortunately his strength and general lack of skill kicked in having him drop the weapon back into the chest with a loud clatter. "Sorry sorry." Finally he picked the last sword type within the chest. A sworr typically used as a secondary weapon by the samurais in his animes, though this one with a more European styling, a short sword. They weapon was hefty, and the blade was a third of his size; almost the length of his arm. He pulled the sword half a foot out of its sheath to see the blade before returning it back in and whispering to himself "Snicker snack" as if answering back to Colby earlier.

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Cassiopeia started walking but stopped when Rosalia spoke to her. She turned around and looked at the sarcastic girl. ”And what you would know about my happy little world? We’ve all got baggage here alright, and we are all looking for answers so calm your shit.” Cassiopeia turned back around and followed her sister out of the warehouse. She took in a deep breath of fresh air and felt less claustrophobic.
Cassiopeia walked over and opened up the back doors to the sound of fierce meowing and protesting. ”Yes Arty, yes Fluffy, we are getting out of here. Don’t worry, it’s okay,” she said and stuck her finger in Artemis’s cage where he nudged up against it, bumped it and then bit affectionately. Cassiopeia sighed at Layla’s question and shrugged. ”I don’t know sis. There are many different personalities and many working parts in this whole thing. Who knows how this can go. We at least have one advantage though. We know how to hunt and how to survive in the woods should things go south,” she said and pulled her bags out, along with her personal bow and quiver of arrows. ”And for that, I am grateful,” she said and held her fist up for a fist bump.

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Willow watched Merlin when he said if any were willing to help save them, to grab a weapon and get ready. Willow looked back into the box, clutching her jewelry box close and held her breath as she looked everything over again. She spotted a pair of daggers with gold filigree on the handles and pulled them out. She touched the sharp tips for a moment but quickly pulled her hand back, having flashes to Disney’s Sleeping Beauty and the spinning wheel. She shook her head clear and looked for something to hold the daggers. She was much more comfortable with her hand to hand combat although, she had never had to defend herself with it so this was a new experience for her but she figured that having daggers could be a good extension for her reach. And a deadly one. She shuddered at the idea of killing and strapped the daggers to her side.
Willow set her jewelry box aside, taking comfort in the key that was still around her next and faced Merlin again. ”Ready,” she said. Her voice wavered a bit from the nerves but she was ready and determined. If she couldn’t do this, how would she manage a world that was full of potential danger.

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"Wow Isabella, so nice to me," he said with an eye roll towards her as the others started heading downstairs back to the entrance of the building. However, Jack wasn't too sure about that, and he edged towards the door a bit to see if he could see or hear anything from the people who popped up out of the elevator that might be useful. He wasn't one to just easily walk away, even though they weren't exactly in a very safe situation, since Maleficent could just show up whenever. However, hearing their conversation made him realize that they didn't have anything to worry about with Maleficent as they mentioned that she was going after two people at a nearby park trail head.

Edging away and back down the stairs, he walked out of the building and slid into the passenger seat of his sister's car and rolled his eyes slightly at her. "Fun fact, I was only saying that since we were in front of those two, I might have stolen one of the books myself," he said to her as he pulled out the book on magic that he had swiped from Maleficent's apartment. "Now, do you want to rebel a little bit from all of this and go to a nearby trail head? Maleficent is there, going after two people who might need help. So what do you say? Should we ditch the fairy and go help out or what?" he said to his sister, before telling her where exactly they needed to go.

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"Bye bye then, since you need to learn to deal with someone not liking you, since you keep asking really dumb questions," she said towards Cassiopeia, shaking her head slightly as she left the warehouse to go who knows where. And honestly, Rosalia didn't even really care whether or not she ran into trouble. This whole situation was weird, and Merlin was going on about how there were a few people who might need help and if they were able to jump at the chance. She wandered over towards the chest and looked inside, since much like Colby, she wasn't one to typically use weapons. However, there was one oddball thing that caught her eye and she reached down to pick it up.

It was, of all things, a frying pan.

Holding it in her hand, she made a bit of a weird facial expression, clearly confused by it. "Mind explaining why there was a frying pan in there?" she asked Merlin, before she started swinging it around a little bit, almost testing out how hard of a swing it would take. "If I'm being perfectly honest, this sort of thing is more my thing. Random things you find lying around that could be used as a weapon in a pinch. I'm gonna hold onto this one," she said, walking away from the chest, still swinging the pan around before she propped it somewhat against her shoulder. "So where exactly are we going again?"

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Megan raised an eyebrow at her brother's confession that he had stolen a book too. She lightly smacked the top of his head. "So kind to your sister!" Megan chastised him. She wasn't mad at him, more of mildly annoyed that he had basically decided to throw her under the bus - of course though, nothing came of it. Tinker Bell didn't seem to care that Megan had taken Maleficent's spell book and neither did Isabella. God, Megan wanted to barf every time she thought about Jack's partner as a detective. She was just the worst.

"Let me get this straight - you want to go drive off without back up to challenge a Disney villain in order to save two people we don't know, armed with just some books and my new rapier?" Megan paused. "Alright." She then listened to the directions Jack had given her for the trail head. It wasn't too difficult of a drive and in practically no time, they had arrived and Megan parked the car. She kept it running, figuring they might need a quick escape. "Give me my rapier, please."

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The two of them would then notice there was smoke in the distance as well, and they would be able to see Rose running down the trail as well. Pandora continued to keep Sierra pinned down, as she continued to struggle against her, as she looked up at Maleficent as she started to take out a menacing looking knife.

She looked around before managing to find some loose dirt on the ground and threw it at Pandora's face and then Maleficent's as well quickly running after Rose as quickly as she could. Breathing heavily as she started to catch up to her friend as well, and noticed the four people there at the head of the trail. Both Pandora and Maleficent were hot on their trails as well, seeing the small group there as well, when a portal suddenly opened up nearby the group as well Merlin stepping through along with the others.

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Layla fist pumped her sister back as she grabbed her cat's crate as well, and nodded towards her out of all of the others none of them seemed to really know how to survive, though the Rosalia girl seemed to know how to by the looks of it. "Guess we'd have to teach them or something huh?" Layla said jokingly as she made her way back into the building. She watched as everyone started to grab their own weapons, though she had her own set of weapons really as well. She walked over and handed Colby one of her throwing knives, even though he didn't really want to grab one at all they were after all going into unknown territory. "Just at least keep a knife on you just in case something happens." She said, whether or not he wanted one was up to him.

Annabelle found a staff looking weapon while Taylor also found a knife that both looked pretty useful, Merlin raised an eyebrow when Rosalia somehow found a frying pan in the stash of weapons looking oddly confused as well. "I have no idea why there was even a frying pan in there.. The others are at the park outside of town" Merlin said, as he continued to concentrate on the spell until finally a portal opened up to reveal a trailhead, and they would be able to see the others at the park on the other side as well. Layla looked at her sister and shrugged slightly before going through it as well with Merlin, Annabella and Taylor following through to.