Chapter 11
3rd Person POV
The audience's silence dissolved into conversation, angry, confused shouts emitting from both of them. Garmadon looked furious. He lightly pushed Cedar out of the way and spoke into the mic.
"Now, now! Legacy Day pranks are very common-" he was cut off by Cedar.
"This isn't a prank. My revealer rays only tell the truth! And this isn't the Storybook of Legends!"
"Alright, students, go back to your dorms!"
All the students, who had gotten ready for no reason whatsoever, made their way down to the buildings. Nya, Jay, Kai, Skylor, Morro and Lloyd were walking together. Morro had a look of guilt on his face. Lloyd sighed, "Looks like that's Legacy Day done,"
"Yeah...at least for now," Nya murmured, "It'll probably start up again in a few months or..."
"Or what?" Kai asked.
"Or...they'll forget?"
Morro shook his head, "I highly doubt that."
Skylor took Nya's hand, "We're gonna go. Talk to you guys later!"
"Bye!" Jay called out. The boys watched as the girls ran ahead. Then Morro spoke up, "Guys, I-"
"You guys!" The four of them turned to see Zane and Pixal running towards them, followed by Seliel and Cole. Seliel let go of Cole's hand and ran after Nya and Skylor, while the others hung back. "Before Legacy Day!" Pixal gasped, "I had a vision! This person, he snuck into Garmadon's office, and stole the Storybook of Legends. He replaced it with a fake and threw the other one down the Well of Wonder!"
Cole frowned, "The Well of Wonder? We're toast! We won't be able to get it then! We'd be drowned halfway through!"
"Cole's right," Kai agreed, "What do we do? Who even did it?"
Morro watched as the small group conveyed amongst themselves.
"L-Let's sleep on it, figure something out tomorrow," he started.
Lloyd nodded "Morro's right, we'll meet up in my dorm tomorrow."
They all split ways, and Pixal managed to catch up with Nya, Skylor and Seliel, who were just about to enter the building.
"Sleepover?" Seliel suggested. Pixal shook her head.
"Headmaster's already in a bad mood. We'll...video call!"
Nya nodded, "Sounds good. We'll meet you guys later!"
"You too!"
They went back to their respective dorms and got unready. As Skylor removed all the hair pins from her hair, she wondered.
"What if we never find the book?"
"Then...I guess we just have to wait until we do..." Nya mumbled, staring at the picture of her and Jay, that she had stuck on her vanity, "At least we didn't have to sign..."
"True...true..."
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The next day, Cole entered Morro and Lloyd's dorm, gently shutting the door behind them.
"Were you followed?" Lloyd asked. Cole shook his head.
"Good. Let's start."
Morro opened his mouth, "Guys. I was gonna say something but-"
"Not now. We need to plan this. If we find the book, what do we do with it? More than half the student body don't want to sign."
Kai shrugged, "Easy. We burn it."
"Guys-"
"Okay, that's a good idea. Anything else?"
"GUYS!" Everyone jumped at Morro's sudden outburst, "I did it! I threw it down the Well of Wonder! The person in Pixal's vision? That was me."
"Morro..." Zane placed a hand on the raven's shoulder.
"I didn't want to sign. It was selfish, I know but-"
"We'll figure something out," Jay assured him, "But first we need to find the book."
"And then destroy it!" Cole added.
Unbeknownst to them, a certain Swan was eavesdropping. Her smirk grew, and she pranced away.
Back with Nya. She had just finished up her Damsel-In-Distress-ing Class, and was heading back to her dorm when she heard a busy conversation coming from Lloyd's dorm. Frowning, she placed her ear on the door, and listened in.
"Okay, we could do that, but we'd all drown before we ended up in Wonderland."
"Morro, what about your mom's magic mirror?"
"That won't work unless I sign the Storybook of Legends,"
"There has to be something!"
Nya frowned. Why were they talking about the Storybook of Legends. Why were they talking about going to Wonderland?
Then it clicked. They were going to retrieve the book!
"Kai, any ideas?"
"Well, my mom used to tell me and Nya a bedtime story about the Realm Crystal, and how it could transport us to different locations and kingdoms. But it was destroyed. I remember overhearing her and Dad talking about my mother's glass slippers. Apparently they're made with the same material as the Realm Crystal. But I don't know where it is. Nor does my dad."
"Then we find it."
Nya gasped, and covered her mouth.
"Hey, is someone out there?"
She rushed off to her dorm, shutting the door quietly.
Cole opened the door and peaked out, "No, we're cool."
Lloyd nudged Kai, "Any ideas on where it could be?"
Kai shook his head, "Only Mom knows...and Nya."
Morro stood up, "Then let's go ask her!"
The brunette called after him, "She won't tell you! Plus, even if I did know where it was kept, I can't use it. The slippers have to be the perfect fit, and the user has to be a blood relative of Cinderella."
Jay frowned, "But...you're a blood relative of Cinderella,"
"Yeah, but the shoes wouldn't fit me. They'd fit Nya, but not me."
"So what do we do?" Zane asked. Lloyd looked at the door.
"We play the waiting game."
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The double doors opened and Nya rushed in, Skylor, Pixal and Seliel behind her, "Why are we here?" Seliel asked, looking around at Cinderella's Palace.
Nya ran up the stairs, "I heard the guys talking. They want to find the Storybook of Legends. But they need my mom's glass slippers for it. They're hidden for a reason! I have to get to it!"
Still extremely confused, the girls followed the raven into one of the rooms. She pushed open another set of doors revealing the walk-in.
"Wait here," she told them, entering the closet. Approaching the painting, she followed her mother's steps; finding the small button on the frame, opening the door, typing in the password, and opening the second door. There they were! She took them out, before shutting both doors. They would automatically lock on their own.
She took off her own shoes, and slipped on the glass slippers. Nya buried the other pair in her bag, and met up with the others, "Pix, I need a cloaking spell, now!"
Pixal nodded, and Nya pointed at her shoes. Using her magic, she conjured a wand, and pointed it at the glass slippers. Skylor and Seliel watched as sparks flew around the slippers, before disguising them so they looked like the shoes Nya had been wearing before. She looked up, and smiled, "Let's get out of here,"
"Remember," Pixal warned, "My magic only lasts until 12, so we have to be quick!"
"On it! Let's test these out!" The four of them linked arms, and Nya squinted her eyes shut, and thought about her dorm room. Then she clicked her heels three times, and waited for a bit.
Slowly, she opened her eyes and gasped. It had worked! The shoes had worked!
Nya looked at the other girls, "We do not speak of this, at all. Promise?" she held out her pinkie, and everyone linked it with their pinkies.
"Promise."
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