Maddie was alone in her room when she heard something slide under the bedroom door.
Maddie's eyes immediately went to the door and she saw a letter, she stood up from her bed and walked over to the door and she picked up the letter.
"Hmm I wonder who this could be from?" asked Maddie sarcastically
Maddie did not waste any time and she opened the letter swiftly it read,
"Maddison Wolf, your presence is required in the storage room at the end of the hallway, come alone, see you there
Yours Truly
The Mastermind. "
It was of course obvious that this new person called "The Mastermind" was non other than Evie Sundew, who else would be this childish?
"Haha well okay Mastermind" said Maddie
"This was getting fun" said Maddie as she did not waste any time and left her room and went to the storage room at the end of the hallway.
She opened the door and walked in, and it was dark just like the last time she was here.
"Wow is this our new meeting place or what?" said Maddie as she laughed
"Oh hush" came the voice of Evie from the darkness.
"Ahhh so you are here" said Maddie
"No i'm not" said Evie
Maddie laughed and started to take a step forward.
"Don't move, the entire floor is booby trapped" said Evie
"Oh really?" said Maddie as she took a step to the right and found the light switch and she flicked it, which brighten up the room and she saw Evie standing in the corner.
She had what seemed to be a water gun??
"Don't move!! it's loaded" said Evie
"Haha right" said Maddie as she came closer to Evie, which left Evie with no other choice than to fire.
"You asked for it" said Evie as she used the water gun in her hand and it sprayed Maddie.
"You didn't just do that" said Maddie as she looked at her wet clothes, at this point their prank war was not a prank war at all, it was a childish banter.
"Oh yes I did" replied Evie with a smug look on her face.
"I am going to kill you" said said Maddie
"Ahhh" said Evie as she took a step back.
"Stay back" she said, but before Maddie could take another step she suddenly cried out in pain.
"Ahhh" she cried
"Oh very funny, I am not falling for your trick" said Evie, she expected Maddie to stop joking and actually chase her, but the opposite happened, Maddie groaned in pain and fell flat on the floor.
"You are such a good actor" said Evie but she did not hear a reply.
"Maddie?" called Evie
"Maddie??" she called again
"Maddie!?" called Evie but this time it was a worried call as she rushed to Maddie's side.
"Hey, Maddie, are you okay???" asked Evie
"Wake up" said Evie as she patted Maddie's face, but Maddie groaned.
"Oh gosh, please don't die, I would be the first suspect" said Evie as she ranted.
Maddie was still conscious, but she was weak and she could not move, but she could still hear the noises coming from the outside world, and she groaned at Evie's thoughts, even in a serious situation she was still childish.
"Okay, we need help" said Evie as she stood up and proceeded to carry Maddie.
"Sheesh what do you eat? you are so heavy" said Evie as she tried to carry Maddie on her back, she failed miserably but she kept on trying until Maddie was partly on her back.
"Matt, Matt, we need help" said Evie as she moved slowly.
"Matttt" said Evie
"What??" asked Matt as he snapped at Evie he thought that she was just being annoying as usual until he saw her carrying Maddie.
"What happened??" asked Matt as he rushed to their side.
"I don't know, we were talking and before I knew it, Maddie collapsed" said Evie and Matt carried Maddie off her back.
"Come on, let's go, she needs to rest" said Matt as he speedily walked to Annie and Maddie's room and laid Maddie on her bed.
"Her heart beat is slow" said Matt
"Evie, stay here, I need to go find mom" said Matt as that was the only person he could think off that could help.
"Okay" said Evie as she stayed by Maddie's side while Matt rushed to find his mom.
"Mom, come quick, it's Maddie's she's unconscious and we don't know why" said Matt as he barged into his parents room without knocking, the situation was just to serious for him to remember to knock.
"What??" asked Lucinda as she was startled by Matt's sudden appearance, she was combing her hair when Matt suddenly barged in.
"Okay calm down and tell me what happened" said Lucinda as she did not hear what Matt said.
"Mom, come quick, it's an emergency, Maddie is unconscious and we don't know why" said Matt as he calmed down.
"What?? Okay I'm coming" said Lucinda as she quickly tied her hair into a ponytail and rushed to Maddie's room.
"Matt you are back, where is mom?" asked Evie
"She's on her way" said Matt
"Where is she?" asked Lucinda as she finally arrived.
"Mom she's here" said Evie
Lucinda walked over to where Maddie was, and she closed her eyes and hovered her hand over Maddie's body.
"She's been poisoned" muttered Lucinda under her breath as she opened her eyes.
"Matt, go find Professor Captious" said Lucinda
"Tell him to give me some detoxifying ingredients along with a needle and syringe" said Lucinda
"Yes mom" said Matt as he dashed to find Captious.
"Evie, try to keep her awake, she still conscious" said Lucinda
"Okay Mom" said Evie
"Ahh, Maddie wake up, stay with us" said Evie
"Annie will be sad if you die, and I don't want her to be sad" said Evie
"Hey if you die, you are a coward, using death as an escape of our prank war" she said
"Ughh" grunted Maddie, Evie was just too much.
"You reacted!!" said Evie
"Umm, yes yes, you didn't even let me finish my prank" said Evie
"Aww Maddie, don't die, I'm sorry for being mean and pranking you, I promise you if you wake up and get better I will stop pranking you and we'll make up okay??" said Evie
"Professor Captious" said Matt as he rushed quickly to Captious Office.
"My gosh, boy what is it?" asked Captious as he was startled
"It's an emergency, my mom sent me here, she said that she needs detoxifying ingredients along with a needle and syringe" said Matt
"Wait, who is your mother?" asked Captious
"Lucinda Sundew" replied Matt
"Come with me" said Captious as he stood up and went to the lab.
"These should help" said Captious as he gave Matt a bunch of ingredients.
"Thank you" said Matt
"You are welcome" said Captious
"Mom, I'm back" said Matt as he carried a bunch of different transparent plastic bags.
"Great" said Lucinda as she took the ingredients from him and began to mix them in a glass cup on the table.
"Mom what I don't get is, why you don't just use a healing spell, like the one we used on Aunt Bella?" asked Matt as his mother, mixed a white transparent substance into the cup.
"Well good question Matt, but a healing spell won't work here" said Lucinda as she opened a transparent bag with a brown-ish powdery substance and mixed it in the cup.
"So you mean it's serious?" asked Evie
"Don't worry dear, she will be fine soon" said Lucinda with her focus still on the potion she was making.
"Hey what's going on here?" asked Levi as he entered the room.
"Shush Levi, mom is making a potion" said Matt as he whispered to Levi.
"Why? did something happen?" asked Levi
"Well Maddie isn't feeling well" said Matt
Lucinda added a pinch of a dry black powder and she gave the potion a zap.
"Matt give me the needle" said Lucinda and Matt handed her the needle
Lucinda used the needle and she drew the potion from the cup into the syringe, she walked over to where Maddie was, and she injected Maddie in her arm slowly.
"There. she should be fine now" said Lucinda
"Phew" said Evie
"So when will she be awake?" asked Matt
"In a few hours, just let her rest" said Lucinda
"Meanwhile I need to talk to Stella" said Lucinda to herself as she began to walk out of the room, but something made her stop right in her steps.
"Levi, have you finished what I asked you to do?" asked Lucinda as she looked at Levi
"Ahhhh, mom is really not easy" said Levi
"Ahh Mom, I am almost done, I wrote 75" said Levi
"Good" said Lucinda, Levi's face lit up, he thought that his mother would finally show him mercy.
"Then remember to finish it before tonight" said Lucinda, to Levi's dismay.
"Yes mom" said Levi as his face fell.
"No fair, this will take forever" cried Levi once Lucinda was out of earshot.
"Well like I said Goodluck to you" said Matt
"Noooo" cried Levi
"Gosh Maddie, you scared us" said Evie
"It's a good thing Annie was not here, who knows how she would have reacted?" asked Evie
"Well I don't know for sure, but Maddie better wake up before Annie comes back" said Matt
Meanwhile in Stella's Office.
"Good Afternoon Stella" said Lucinda as she entered Stella's office.
"Ahh Good Afternoon Lucinda, how are you? sit, sit" said Stella as she smiled
"Thank you, I am good and how are you?" asked Lucinda
"I am well dear" said Stella
"So what brings you to my office?" asked Stella
"It's Maddie... she was poisoned" said Lucinda seriously
"What?? how?" asked Stella, she appeared calm on the outside, but on the inside she was panicking, how could Maddie get poisoned under her watch??
"I don't know, but one thing is sure... it was planned, very thoroughly" said Lucinda
"The poison used was not very potent, in fact I don't think that I would have noticed anything foreign if not that I ran a scan on her" said Lucinda
"The person who did this made sure not to leave any traces, only an advanced Witch would be able to know that it was poisoning" said Lucinda
"So how is she now?" asked Stella
"She should be fine, I gave her a detoxifying potion, she's sleeping now" said Lucinda
"That's good, Thank you" said Stella
"It's no worry Stella, we all care about Maddie" said Lucinda
"But still Thank you" said Stella as she smiled
"But the question now is, who did this?" asked Stella to herself, Maddie never went out of the palace walls, which meant that it was someone on the inside that did this.
"I think that the person must have been poisoning her food little by little" said Lucinda
If that was true, then that meant that there was a mole in the Palace Staff.
"Thank you Lucinda, I will look into it" said Stella
"Your welcome" said Lucinda
"You can go now" said Stella
"Okay, see you Stella and try to relax" said Lucinda as she stood up
"Don't worry dear, I will" said Stella as she smiled.
Once Lucinda was out of earshot, Stella closed her eyes.
"Adrian, I need you to gather the Palace Staff" said Stella in her mind.
"Yes my chancellor" came the swift reply of Adrian
"When do you want to see them?" asked Adrian
"This evening" replied Stella
"Is anything the matter?" asked Adrian
"No, nothing is wrong, I just want to have a word with them" said Stella
"Okay My chancellor" said Adrian
Stella had to find out who did this as soon as possible, because that meant that none of them were safe here, and someone was out to kill Maddie.
"*sigh* I can never get a break can I?" asked Stella to herself