The Unexpected

Chapter 52: Back Home

Heidi's POV

"What happened?" Hartley asks looking at all of us very confused as she weakly sits up against the wall. "What is the last thing you remember?" Aaron asks her as he kneels down to her level with a small smile on his face, "The last thing I remember is tied up to a chair in some old cottage by three weird girls." Aaron sighs as he takes a deep breath before telling Hartley everything and I mean everything.

A blank stare comes over the face of Hartley as Aaron finishes filling her in, "I did all that?" She asks and Aaron nods his head, "But like I have been telling you Hartley, it is not your fault because your body was taken over by a very evil spirit, but thanks you Micky you are free now." Hartley carefully makes it back to her feet, "I don't know who any of you people are, but I do know that all I want right now is to go back home where everything makes sense." Aaron stands up and tries to calm Hartley down but it has the opposite affect and makes her freak out more,

"We don't know where your home is, and even if we did I am not sure if we would be able to get you there." Hartley starts crying which causes Micky to finally wake up, "We can get you home young one, but I am going to need help in order to open the portal and keep it open long enough for you to travel back home." Hartley looks at Micky with begging eyes as he stands up, "Artie and Paul, will the two of you please go find Mark, Yaxel, and Estella for me please and tell them what has happened." Artie and Paul nod their heads and rush off as fast as they can when out of the corner of my eye I see someone sneak into the room belonging to the magic mirror, 

"I will be right back." I say walking away from the group and into the room. "You have already told her about him, I don't see why her finding everything out is such a big deal?" A female voice says from inside the room, "She knows what she needs to know for now, she is getting too close to information that can only be relived at the right time, to protect her as well as the redeemer of light." The magic mirror says back to the female, and upon hearing certain words that I know are about Henry I peek around the corner to see that strange girl from I saw in the library standing in front of the mirror,

"If the first woman of the world was to discover that the redeemer of light has been born and is here in Auradon it would put every single person in danger out losing their lives." I hear the young woman sigh loudly, "She failed at her ritual and has been banished from this world by the light." I see the magic mirror look over at me and I quickly step back hoping that he didn't catch me, "Evil is never truly banished, for as long as there is another will in this world that picks the ways of darkness over the ways of light it will allow evil to find its way back." The young woman nods her head seeming to understand the riddle talk of the mirror,

"What does that mean for the future of Auradon?" The young woman asks but the mirror stays quite for a moment, "The future is always changing my dear, you came to Auradon because of a premonition that you saw, and that is what you must focus on." The young woman is about to say something else but the mirror cuts her off, "We have ears listening to us." The young woman starts looking around in a panic, "You may come out of hiding Heidi, I knew that you have been listening since my friend here step foot into this room." I sigh heavily before stepping out of hiding and in full view of the young woman and the mirror,

"Who are you and why did you take the book I needed from the library?" The young woman looks at the mirror before looking back at me, "Another time and another place Heidi." The young woman pulls something out of her sleeve before throwing it and the whole room fills with purple smoke. The smoke clears after a while but when it does the young woman is gone and so is the face inside the mirror,

"You are hiding something and I am going to get to the bottom of it." I say into the empty mirror before the ground under my feet starts to shake as I try not to fall as I make way out of the room and into the main part of the museum just in time to see Mark, Yaxel, Micky, and Estella open the portal, "The portal is open!" Mark yells as Hartley looks at the portal in front of her with an unsure look on her face, "How do I know that this portal thing will take me home and not kill me?" Estella walks to Hartley with a smile on her face,

"Thanks to the strain of hair you let us barrow, this portal will take you to the place where you were born, and I am assuming that would be your home." Hartley loos from Estella to the portal again as a smile comes to her lips, "I see my brother." She says jumping up and down with excitement. "It is time that you travel back home where you belong." Micky says giving Hartley a wink as the portal starts to get smaller, "HURRY!" Yells Yaxel at the four of them struggle the portal open "Thank you, all of you." Hartley looks at each of us one last time before jumping through the portal and vanishing. "Good luck Hartley." I say as the portal closes.

Everyone relaxes and starts to head outside when I notice Mark hanging back from all of us, "What are you doing Mark?" I ask him walking up next to him, "I am putting countless protection and detection spell over the museum of villainy, we can't have something like what happened tonight happen again." Mark sighs finishing up his spells before putting his arm to me, "My lady." He bows to me as I take his arm with a smile and the two of us walk out to join the others.