Meanwhile at Avalon, Merlin was floating his way to the cemetery until he paused when he felt a glow from his crystal ball.

"Oh? What's this I felt?" He mutters as he pulls out his crystal ball and rubs it against the glass to see a vision of Iman explaining his relationship between Kalim and Jamil to Vivien and the Corona gang.

"My my, seems like a troubling situation...." Merlin mutters. Soon he rubs the crystal ball once more to see Glory strolling with Grim and Kalim in the halls.

"Aah Sundrop and her friends are back from the carpet ride. Dawww how romantic?" Merlin gushes but quickly clears his throat and puts his crystal ball away.

"No time for shipping corner Merlin, you have a late friend to visit. Pull yourself together." Merlin mumbles as he continues on to his journey.

Be strong my luminous sundrop. Bring Jamil back to the light.

He ponders with hope filled with his eyes while floating his way to the cemetery.

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Back in Scarabia, Glory and Grim were strolling with Kalim after coming back from a flying carpet trip a minute ago.

"Peeeewwww!! That was a blast!" Grim cheers while clinging on to her shoulder.

"I'm glad you had fun, especially you Glory. You look like you were having a great time out there!" Kalim chirps making her giggle.

"Well I have to admit, it was a pretty sweet carpet ride. Turns out it's not that bad after all." Glory expresses with a sheepish smile.

"Right? It's super fun! Welp, it's already dinner time." Kalim stated. Soon footsteps are heard and they all turn to see Jamil sauntering towards them.

"Kalim! You're finally back. Could you come with me, there's something I want you to check before dinner." Jamil informs.

"Yeah, sure. You guys can go ahead to the lounge." Kalim insists.

"Alright. Thanks Kalim." Glory thanked him.

"And just to remind you, you also have new guests from your dorm, Glo-san." Jamil informs surprising the ravenette and the grey gremlin.

"No way..." Glory utters.

"Don't tell me..." Grim mutters.

Later at the Scarabia lounge....

"Guys! What the hell are you doing here!?" Glory bellows with a scowl.

"Yeah! You're not supposed to be here!" Grim chides while clinging on to her shoulder with a glare.

"Um yeah about that. Your future vision lady friend here told us about where you guys were and we all run over here."

"More like, YOU stomping your way to the Scarabia where you ignored my warning and confront them with brute force without thinking; which DOESN'T make you a fool at ALL." Vivien sarcastically snarks with a blank look causing Eugene to glance at her and roll his eyes at her before turning back to Glory.

"But now we knew, so we are now pretty much dragged into the situation." Eugene casually explains.

"Which you guys shouldn't!" Cassandra seethes glaring at Eugene.

"Sorry Cass! We didn't know, but now we're here, I'm willing to do everything I can to help out!" Rapunzel beams with Pascal cracks his tiny knuckles with a determined look.

"My apologies for the inconvenience, Moonchild. I tried to reassure both of them, but Fitzherbert ended up stomping his way to the Scarabia dormitory with his wife and I trailing after him. And since we're here, we're going to work together to thwart Snake child's plans." Vivien explains. Glory has no comment on that except with the exasperated look on her face as she shut her eyelids taking a deep breath from her nose and exhale out refraining herself from face palming as she opens her eyes.

"...Noted, but furthermore adieu. Have you gain any info from Jamil, Cass?" Glory ask curiously.

"I was until Eugene, Raps, and weird lake lady came." Cassandra told her with Owl nodding his head in agreement.

"Weird is an understatement, dear Moonstone. However, we did gain more info about Kalim and Jamil's history thanks to Iman." Vivien informs.

"Oh?" Glory said crossing her arms.

"Eeh? Iman told you guys?" Grim ask curiously tilting his head and the dirty blonde haired nods his head.

"I have do what I have to do, Glory-san." Iman told her.

"That's explainable, but anything else you told them about?" Glory ask curiously.

"Well from what we've heard from him, Kalim grew up together since they were kids where Kalim in a filthy rich family while Jamil's parents serve the Asim family for years. Which is very draining when working as a servant." Rapunzel informs.

"That I'm aware of since Kalim and Jamil mentioned about their family background this afternoon, but not their personal background; which I found that off..." Glory mutters laying her finger under her chin.

"For sure. Cuz according to what Iman told us and little do people know, viper guy hates his job so much. Which I can blame him for, working as a servant is quite exhausting as full heavy bag of manure." Eugene bluntly explains.

"Do you really have to say it like that?" Grim dryly remarks.

"Hey! I'm just describing the lifestyle of a servant and I don't spur out foul language unlike you and your friends." Eugene retorts.

"Heck, nobody likes working as a servant for their daily lives." Cassandra bluntly added.

"Regardless, Jamil has a lot of talents that he has, but for some reason he is holding his skills back. He doesn't really show it anyone, but this really frustrates him and has kept his frustrations all bottled up for years." Iman explains. Glory and Grim tilt their heads at this.

"So that's why he wants to overthrow Kalim." Glory said finally understand his motive.

"Yeah, it makes sense." Cassandra chimes.

"He desires freedom." Iman firmly told her.

"And how do you know that?" Rapunzel ask curiously turning to Iman.

"Cuz I know them since freshman year and from what I've seen, Jamil is a secretive man who looks and acts calm, but also keeps things to himself and always scorns at Kalim whenever he's facing away. Which explains why he desperately wants to take role as dorm head." Iman guesses as he turns back to Glory.

"All that through hypnotism?" Rapunzel ask curiously.

"Exactly." Iman firmly told her.

"Sounds like he's a ticking time bomb that was trying to suppress its fuse." Eugene bluntly remarks.

"What he said." Grim curtly agrees folding his arms and Pascal croaks in agreement.

"You believe so?" Glory ask curling her brows at him.

"I know so." He firmly replies. Soon they both heard a few students mumbling about food.

"I'm starving. I wonder what's for dinner today?" The Scarabia student ask curiously.

"Training kicked my ass." The other Scarabia student whines.

"Speaking of which. This place is heaven compared to Ramshackle dorm except out dorm is now brighter now thanks to you guys. Kalim's pretty great too, but I wanna live here." Grim chirps and Rapunzel nods with a grin.

"Not going to lie here, but your dorm looks absolutely beautiful." She compliments with a grin and Pascal eyeballing at the decor in the dorm with a wide grin.

"Tell me about it, it looks like we're in a temple." Eugene chimes and Iman chuckles at their compliments.

"I'm glad that you two are enjoying your stay. We have make our dorm clean and comfy for our guests." He kindly informs them.

"Also I almost forgot to inform you Moonchild all of us will be held hostages in this dorm tonight. Neither of the students here in Scarabia will not be returning home for the break." Vivien warns her shocking both Glory and Grim.

"Eeh?" Grim utters blinking his eyes twice looking baffled.

"Wait what!?!" Glory shrieks with her eyes widened as she glance at Iman whom he averts his eyes and bits his lips awkwardly. But soon footsteps are heard when everyone spun their heads to see Jamil with Kalim.

"Jamil!" Iman gasps with his eyes widened and for the group, Rapunzel squints her eyes along with Pascal when they all noticed the red pupils on Kalim's eyes as she leans to Eugene and her friends.

"Guys, you're seeing what I'm seeing right?" Rapunzel ask curiously.

"Crystal." Eugene firmly replies and Iman nods.

"That's the hypnotism that I've been told you guys about." He whispers.

"Yup, definitely giving us deja vu here." Cassandra remarks with Owl hooting in agreement.

"Is everyone here? Before we eat, our dorm head would like to make an announcement." Jamil informs baffling everyone in the dorm.

"An...announcement?" The Scarabia resident mutters curiously.

"Oh yeah, earlier he mentioned he'll end the training and letting everyone go home for the break. Though I'm sure gonna miss being able to eat like this everyday." Grim grumbles.

"Hey at least you have us Grim, you'll get to the eat food that I made you and Glory for the holiday." Rapunzel reassures.

"Even though we knew that everyone in this dorm won't be coming home that easily." Cassandra bluntly said.

"Yeah for now let's just shut up and listen to Kalim." Glory whispers and they all nod as they watched Kalim standing their silently.

"Originally I had decided that we of Scarabia would spend our winter vacation studying for six hours a day but I've realized THAT IS NOWHERE NEAR ENOUGH!!!!" Kalim shouts shocking everyone in this room except Vivien, Iman, and her group.

"What!?" They all shrieked.

"Yup, just as I predicted to happened." Vivien mutters as she watched Jamil "reasoning" Kalim with an unfazed look.

"Kalim, didn't you say you wanted to let everyone go home!?" He reminds him with a "shock" look.

"That's not what he said earlier!" Grim shrieks.

"No. That's because Jamil hypnotized him into saying those things." Glory points out.

"The same thing he did to us." Rapunzel chimes.

"And he's been using that in Kalim for a week now." Iman added with a serious look.

"A week!?" They all shrieked looking at him with surprised faces.

"Shhh! Focus!" Glory seethes and they all immediately whip their heads to see Kalim laying his hands on his hips with a scowl as his eyes gleam with red pupils in his eyes.

"There's no way we can catch up to the other dorms with only six hours a day. We can't clear our sullied name without twice, no, five times the effort! Starting tomorrow, all of us will study for five hours followed by four hours of practical training!" Kalim announces.

"Six hours a day!?" Iman shrieks with a shock look on his face.

"Yeah, knew it." Cassandra dryly remarks with an unsurprised look.

"Same." They all chimed with unfazed looks.

"Whaaat? That means they'll be working for nine hours a day! Talk about backbreaking, now I understand why Vivi warned us about this." Grim mumbles.

"After dinner we'll practice defensive spells! Don't drag your feet!" He demands with everyone in this room trembling with confusion and fear.

"Ye-Yessir!" They all stammered with puzzled yet frightened looks.

"Since you've been enjoying our hospitality you will take part as well! Understood?" Kalim sternly informs them, but Grim was at a hot seat and jumps from his seat.

"Oh hell no! No way in hell! I'll be staying at this goddamn hell hole! And by the way, Jamil is-! Mmph!?" As soon as he objects and exposes Jamil, Rapunzel and Cassandra quickly smack his mouth shut.

"Grim, quiet!" Rapunzel shushes and Pascal climbs up to her arm and glares at the noisy gremlin.

"Are you trying to get us killed!?" Eugene bellows in a soft tone glaring down at him.

"We came here to stop Jamil! Don't blow our cover!" Cassandra seethes while she and Rapunzel cover his mouth as Grim struggles to break free from their grip. Vivien then bit the tip of her thumb with a look of irritation in her face.

Things are getting bad! If Merlin were here, he would definitely know how to what to do!

Vivien ponders with a frown and Jamil folds his arms with a grimace. On the other hand, Glory's eyes turn black when she saw a vision of two black ooze dripping on top of a heart before she reverts back to reality. Soon she lets out a gasps and exhales out laying her hand on her chest panting softly from the vision.

This can't be good...Jamil's heart is in the process of overbloting!...

Glory thought until footsteps are heard and Glory looks up to see Kalim staring down the ravenette baffling her.

"Kalim, what are you doing?!" Jamil yelps with "concern" in his tone. Worried, Cassandra scoots to her aid and pull out her sword and points it at him shocking the fellow Scarabia residents.

"Back away from her, now!" Cassandra seethes with a glare acting like her personal bodyguard for the young ravenette, but Glory lays her hand in front of her shocking the swordswoman.

"Eeh? Glo-?"

"Lay down your sword at once, Cassandra." She commands while glancing at the hypnotized Kalim.

"But-!"

"Cass..."

Soon Rapunzel leans to her friend's ear and lays her hand on her shoulder.

"Let her." She reassures baffling her as Cassandra whips her head to her close friend.

"Raps, are you seriously going to let him do this to her?" Cassandra ask skeptically, but Rapunzel smiled warmly at her.

"Trust me, Cass. She knows what she's doing and as your queen, I command you to let Glory speak with Kalim." Rapunzel comforts her with Pascal croaking and flapping his hands to her with a serious look. Cassandra stayed silent for a minute while staring at Kalim before letting out a reluctant sigh and spun back to Rapunzel.

"Alright." She begrudgingly complies keeping her stubbornness in a low profile as Cassandra puts down her sword and sit back down while still having his cautious gaze towards the hypnotized Kalim. Glory watched Kalim kneeling down to her level and gently grabs her hand as he plants a kiss on her hand and looks deeply into her grey eyes.

"Gloriane Corbett, my dearest sunflower. Will you stay with me at my room for tonight?" Kalim kindly ask shocking Grim, the Rapunzel gang, Iman, and the whole Scarabia residents except Jamil, whose obviously faking his shock, and Vivien.

I know this is a risky mission, but...there's no turning back! If I have bring save Kalim and bring Jamil back to the light, I have to put my foot down and keep my head in the game! If not, things will get ugly!

Glory ponders as she plasters a sweet "innocent" smile at Kalim.

"Why certainly, Kalim." She firmly replies acting all naive and innocent.

"Glo/Glory-san/Glory!!!" Cassandra, Iman, and Grim shrieked while being held down by Rapunzel and Eugene.

"Whoa whoa! Easy there!" Eugene eases them.

"Guys, please!" Rapunzel ceases them while gripping her shoulder. Kalim nods and releases her hand and turns back to the fellow Scarabia residents.

"You heard me right everyone! Finish up eating and after that, it's off to training be prepared!" Kalim announced

"H-Hai!" They all stuttered in fear. Right after they complied, Glory glance at Jamil with a serious look as her grey eyes gleam with terrifying intimidation and motivation baffling the vice dorm.

You might not know about my immunity to your hypnosis Jamil, but once I cleared everything that I have from your dorm...I WILL BRING YOU AND KALIM BACK TO THE LIGHT WHERE YOU CAME FROM!

Glory ponders with her determination increases to the max where tonight is going to be intense.

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Meanwhile at Avalon, Merlin's black eyes turn back to his original color and lets out a gasps as he lays his hand to his chest panting heavily from the vision he saw a minute ago.

"Oh my...This is not good..." Merlin mutters with a panic written all over his face where this holiday break is about to go downhill.

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Hey guys before we get to the next chapter of the Reincarnation of Mother Gothel, I have a fan art send by one of my fellow followers from Wattpad today so here's the fan art that was send to me:

Shout out to Esialyne for drawing this amazing fan art of Glory in her mermaid form! She looks absolutely beautiful, so accurate, and I love how you put in so much details on my OC. Thank you so much! 🥰

And if you guys have any more fan art, please send it to my email [email protected] and I'll definitely do a shout out to you guys as well as cherishing them as my favorite fanarts.

Now that's out of the way, onward to the next chapter! Bye bye!