At the cottage in the Deadly Forest, Serena White sat in a chair at the dinning room table while stroking her hand on the skinless squirrel. She waited patiently for the pies to be fully baked.

“I miss being around and talking to the prince,” Serena White told the squirrel with a sad look in her icy blue eyes. “He was such a gentleman and very handsome as well.”

She lifted herself up from the chair, grabbed two washcloths, opened the oven doors, and took out the pies. She then placed them on the counter and started to sing. When the skeletal animals heard her voice, they hurried over to the cottage, just to hear her carry beautiful tunes.

Suddenly, Serena White heard a knock on the door and the animals scattered away with fright. She head towards the front door and opened it. There stood an old-aged woman with long, grey hair, dark eyes, a crooked noose, wrinkly, skin, and a black cloak. Carried in her arms is a basket full of different-colored apples with a beautiful red one on the top.

“Hello, deary,” the old woman greeted her. “I planted these apples and I just have too many of them lying around, uneaten. Would you like to have one?”

Serena White thought about her question for a moment. Why is this elderly woman here? She thought to herself, it’s too dark and dangerous for her to be here, unless she’s my stepmother!

“Before I respond to your question, do you like tulips?” Serena White asked the old woman.

“Why, yes of course, but would you like to have an apple?”

“No thank you. Have a lovely afternoon.” Serena White slammed the door in front of the old woman’s face.

She grasped the front of her red dress and paced up the stairs as fast as her legs could carry and into the ghost’s bedroom. She blocked the door with one of the tiny wooden chairs to keep the evil queen from entering. Just when Serena White was about ready to climb out of the window and use the vines to climb down the walls, she heard an unpleasant bang on the door.

“Open the door and eat one of my apples!” the evil queen demanded angrily as she kept slamming on the door.

“Never!” Serena White replied coldly as she climbed out of the window, down the vines, and safely to the ground.

When she was about to head towards the woods and into the sunlight, she saw flashes of purple, green, and blue inside the cottage windows. She even heard shouting and screaming. Quickly, Serena White went into the cottage and saw the seven ghosts, a teenage boy ghost, a man ghost, and the evil queen dropped dead on the floor with a poisonous apple in her mouth.

“Oh my,” Serena White recognized the teenage boy ghost as the prince. “What happened to you?”

“This evil woman took my life away with a dagger,” the prince replied coldly as he stared at the evil queen’s dead body.”

“That’s terrible,” said Serena White with anxiety.

“Never mind about me. I’m happy that you’re alright. The seven ghosts have told me that you’ve been staying here for the past two days.”

“Yes, I have. It has been a life or death situation for me.”

Suddenly, the man ghost dropped down to his knees in front of Serena White and started to burst into tears.

“Your majesty,” he sobbed. “I’m terribly sorry for receiving the evil queen’s filthy money to kill you in the meadow, but I left early because I felt too guilty for trying to murder the fairest one of all.”

“It’s alright,” Serena White helped him up to his feet. “All it matters is that you didn’t do it and your apology has been accepted.”

“After we have left the cottage, we hid behind the trees because we knew the evil queen was up to no good,” said Sleepy as he let out a big yawn.

“How was that possible?” asked Serena White.

“Ehvery time I sn-“ Sneezy sneezed so hard, that he fell backwards. “I sometimes receive visions in my brain.”

“So you knew when my stepmother was coming.”

“He even knew that you came into the Deadly Forest and how you fell down unconscious,” said Bashful before he hid his flushed-pink face under his green cap.

“Now that the evil queen is dead, what the heck are we supposed to do now?” asked Grumpy.

“I’m going back to my kingdom and claim my throne as the new queen,” Serena White replied. “You are all welcome to come with me and stay if you wish.”

“That’s a very kind offer, your majesty,” said Doc. “But who else is going to haunt the cottage?”

“I’ll stay here and haunt it for you,” said the hunter.

“Why thank you,” Dopey finally spoke up.

“You can talk?!” everyone asked in unison.

“Fortunately,” Dopey replied in a blush. “Besides, I’d rather stay at Serena White’s castle than live in this filthy place.”

“I couldn’t agree more,” the prince took a hold of Serena White’s hand and gave her a kiss on the cheek. Her cheeks flushed a cherry red.

Everyone but the hunter went to the castle and burned all of the evil queen’s possessions and locked the spell room. Serena White never married, but she was crowned queen and made the kingdom and everyone else in it a happy place to live. The hunter burned the evil queen’s body and lived happily ever after, just like everyone else (except for the evil queen) in the story.

The End.