The Attack

***"How is everything I've heard... real?"***
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## The Attack

### Director

Potato Flakin

***The Attack*** is the sixth episode of *The Adventures of Evie and Mya* in Season 2, and the sixteenth overall.

## Synopsis

After a deadly attack, Amira and Winter realize a disturbing truth. Despite the revelation, Amira tries remaining faithful to Shetani, and finds herself making an important decision.

## Content Warning

*This episode contains extreme amounts of blood and violence, in addition to some distressing scenes, which could unsettle viewers.*

## Transcript

*The sun begins to set over a one-story house in Pineshadow, Washington.*

An unknown shadowy figure paced by a desk, glancing at a dark green cactus plant. They paced nervously, then glanced at a phone sitting near it. They were waiting for an answer.

It looked down the hall, licking its lips. Then the phone rang. The shadow picked it up.

"Hello? Yes. You're here. Do you still agree to the terms of the deal?" A tiny voice talked through the phone, its words undistinguishable. The figure nodded and continued to speak.

"Yes. Pinelake Park. Tonight, at midnight."

The shadow glanced at its nearby watch, realizing it was almost evening.

"I've got to go. Remember. Don't hold back."

The figure put the phone down, and walked over to the room it was staring at earlier. It shoved open the door, and startled the young girl inside.

"What do you want from me now?" She demanded.

"What do I want...? Good question. *Get out of your bed and work*!" The figure snapped. It dragged the girl out of her room and threw her out into the hallway. The girl got up, feeling blood in her mouth. She must have bit her tongue after impacting the floor.

She glanced at the figure. Shivers pierced her body like icicles. Then she got to work, head down and feeling unmotivated.

*You don't know what's going to hit you, slave.*

**SEASON 2, EPISODE 6 - THE ATTACK**

*The scene transitions into Pineshadow middle school, at lunch.*

"Winter," Evie said. Her friend was looking off into the distance, her eyes glazed over. She was smiling happily and not eating the lunch she had made herself.

Mya chimed in. "Winter! Hello! Come out of the la la land machine and say something!"

She still didn't hear them.

*Time to get out of the big guns.* "*SPEAK*!" She yelled directly into Winter's ear.

"What in the name of Pineshadow? Oh, you guys. Sorry! I don't get why I can't stop daydreaming as of late."

"Quite obvious, Winter. *Amira*," Mya replied. "You need to be careful, or Shetani's going to be suspicious of you."

Winter suddenly gulped. She didn't want to put herself and her new lover in danger to the wicked Shetani, who had already abused Amira and treated her worse than Daniela did to her.

"I'll try... It's just hard when my mind constantly drifts off to her and I have the urge to kiss her again."

Mya gasped and quickly shushed Winter. She whispered, "Don't say that right here!" One of the students at their table gave them an awkward glance. "Shetani could be watching from anywhere!"

Winter nervously nodded. She had to stop being so careless about talking about Amira in public.

And throughout the rest of the day, she did not abide by that thought.

In science, she kept babbling about a midnight meeting, causing Mr. Gill to make sure she was quiet. In her electives, she had drifted off and hardly paid attention. While Mr. Naecher didn't tell her off in history, he did share a "Is she okay?" glance with Evie and Mya.

Mya and Winter hopped into their parents' car at the end of the day. Mya shared a concerned glance with Winter.

"Are you sure you can keep yourself under control?" She whispered.

"Yeah, I'm sure..." Winter's face was glued to the window as if she expected Amira to appear at any moment.

"Pay attention to me, Win! This is serious. If Shetani catches you babbling, she might do something bad to you! Amira is her *niece* that she already cruelly mistreats, and she might take the opportunity to mistreat you as well!"

Mya's father turned toward them. "What on earth are you guys talking about?"

"Nothing," Winter mumbled.

"Actually, we *are* talking about something," Mya said pointedly, elbowing Winter sharply. "You and mom will call us crazy, but we have something to tell you. And I think this is something you should hear."

On the other hand, Evie had just gotten home. She ran up to her bedroom and shut the door. It was time for some thinking and notetaking.

*Someday, you're going down, Shetani.* She began to type in notes on what they knew she was doing at school. Then she added a separate section detailing the things she had done to Amira, including brutally scarring and hitting her.

Then a disturbing thought crossed her mind. What would happen if Amira was constantly abused, so much so that she might get permanent scarring, or even die at her aunt's hands? Evie felt tension course througout her body. She liked Amira as a person, and understood why Winter was so enamored by her and constantly daydreaming.

"We've got to rescue this girl, somehow, someway. I just don't know how."

She glanced at her long page of notes on her phone. *Đủ tốt cho bây giờ,* she thought.

*It is now night, cut to a one-story house.*

Amira cracked open the door of her room again. Shetani was nowhere in sight, and it was time for another midnight meeting with Winter.

With the coast being clear, Amira creeped out of her house, and ran to Pinelake Park as fast as she could. There was no fog, and the moon lit up the night.

"Winter?" She gently called. "Are you there?" She walked forward, then saw a familiar shape leaning up by a tree. "Winter!"

"Amira!" Winter ran up, and hugged her lover tightly. "I love these so much. No one can interfere with our meetings. It's just you and I - as it should be."

"Come on, let's sit down outside the Piney Woods," Amira said. She dragged Winter there, and they sat down together near a copse. "It's really beautiful tonight," she commented.

Winter nodded. "There's only one thing more beautiful - those eyes of yours." She gazed into Amira's brown eyes, and began to feel alive.

Amira crawled closer to Winter. "And the thing that's most beautiful are those ice-blue eyes of yours... Our love is *euphoric*." Grabbing the collar of her lover's jacket, she pulled herself closer to her.

Leaning forward, she playfully bit down on Winter's lip, who in turn did the same. She then felt her cheek before pulling her into a tight hug. Her eyes were glowing with affection.

"Psst," Winter whispered. When Amira was distracted, Winter tugged her on the ear with her teeth. "Hey!" In turn, Amira dragged her down, and they laid together, nestled in each other's embrace.

"Just like our little romantic night before. Look at all those stars," Amira stated. She laid her head on Winter's chest, just like she did on their first midnight meeting.

"I bet just as many are in our eyes. A lot." Winter began to gently comb through her girlfriend's hair with her fingers. She gently tickled her forehead, causing her to giggle.

"Yeah!"

Suddenly, there was a rustling in the bushes. Both sat up, glancing around nervously.

The rustling was heard again.

Winter drew her pocket knife, pressing the button that made the blade pop out. It glittered in the moonlight.

"Who's there?" She snarled. "Show yourself!"

Then, Winter found herself being lifted off the ground. She gasped, and turned around. A giant man, his eyes dark, had her.

She screamed. "Put me down!"

"Wish. Granted." He threw Winter into the ground sharply, and she hit a tree. The world spun around her, but she shook off her dizziness. Glancing around, she tried to find Amira.

A piercing scream split the air, and running around, Winter found her girlfriend being targeted by the burly man. She watched in horror as he pulled out an empty beer bottle, and broke it over Amira's head. She limply fell to the ground, blood trickling from her head behind her ear. Broken glass dotted the ground like snowflakes.

"**GET AWAY FROM HER**!" Winter roared in fury. She charged toward her enemy, jumping onto his back. She hid the blade of her knife, pressed it down onto the man's neck, then flicked it out again. The guy yelped in pain, and Winter watched as blood began dripping from the cut she'd made in the back of his neck.

He turned around sharply, throwing her off. He picked her up again, and slammed her head into the back of the tree. Winter fell to the ground, dazed and hardly able to move.

"Ira?" She weakly called. "Ira?"

She got no response. Her vision unblurred, and she noticed that the man had picked up Amira, beginning to squeeze her neck with a giant hand. He was trying to suffocate her.

He then punched her on the cheek. Amira felt blood in her mouth.

"***STAY AWAY FROM MY GIRLFRIEND***!" Winter charged at the man, hitting his stomach and knocking him down. She jumped on him, and punched his nose with such force that it began to bleed. But then he got back up, towering over her and knocking her aside as if she were nothing but a feather.

"Out of the way. I must do this for the woman that hired me."

Winter gasped. This man was a hitman, and he was going to *kill* Amira for some woman.

Amira now laid on the ground, but she suddenly sat up, her eyes lit up with fear.

"W-W-What woman? Who?"

Amira was cornered by the man. She had nowhere to run.

Then, he leapt onto her, and she screamed in pain. They toppled to the ground, which was now dotted with blood all over the place. Amira cried out as the guy began grabbing her neck, trying to suffocate her again. Tears dripped down her face.

He then raised a hand up, hitting her on the cheek. She kicked at him, but he was too heavy to drive away. Blood was pouring out of her mouth now.

Recovering from her daze, Winter grabbed her knife and ran forward into the man. She slashed at his arm, leaving deep cuts. Crimson blood spattered the ground. She then started to dig into his neck, drawing even more blood.

The man screeched in immense pain and took off. He'd rather live than die from a thirteen-year old girl with a pocket knife.

Winter stumbled toward Amira. "Ira...?" Without warning, she fell onto the blood-stained ground, with her own blood dripping from the back of her head.

Amira gasped. "Winter!" She sunk to the ground, picking up her lover in her arms. She had passed out.

*I'm not going to let you go.* She then curled up on the ground, snuggling right next to Winter's body and falling asleep to the sound of her faint heartbeat.

The ground all around them was stained with glass shards and blood.

***A few hours later...***

Winter woke up, groaning. Her head still hurt from the blows she had taken. She found herself in Amira's arms, and Amira herself was still asleep. Blood and broken glass made up the ground beside them. The area really looked like a crime scene.

She looked around. From the look of the sky, it was an hour away from dawn. She examined herself, and noticed that she was bruised, with dried bloody cuts on her face and arms. Amira had several cuts on her head, one on her ear, and one on her neck. She also had blood on her shirt and near her waist. But she was breathing.

"Amira?" She called. Her girlfriend woke up, rubbing grit out of her eyes.

"What... Happened?"

Amira remembered the events from last night, and they all rushed back to her like someone about to throw up. A man had attacked her and Winter. He was a hitman working for a woman.

And then she realized something so unreal, so inconceivable, so dirty, and so gut-punch like that she collapsed into Winter, who held her up.

"Ira? Are you okay?" She asked.

"No, Winter! I'm not okay! Do you remember that guy saying that he had to attack me for some woman?"

"Yeah, that seemed odd. I wonder what a woman would have against-"

*Oh no.* Winter had realized something, and she glanced at Amira knowingly.

Only one woman would *dare* hire a hitman to kill Amira. One so foul, unloving, and power-hungry that she would dispose of her own niece.

"**Shetani**!" Both said at the same time. Amira looked shaken and petrified. That faded to surprise and panic.

"I have to go home before she finds out I left again!" Amira began to take off, but Winter grabbed her by the back of her blue sweater.

"Amira, are you crazy? You can't go back there! You might *die*!"

"Winter, you gotta understand. I have no choice. I have to remain faithful. It's the only way I'll get through this."

Winter felt as if she was trying to teach a cat dog commands. "Amira, *don't go home*. Shetani manipulated you into thinking that being a slave for her own pleasure would lead to you escaping. Every day you spend there, you're digging yourself into a pit!"

"I have no choice!"

"**You do have a choice**!" Winter snapped, beginning to cry. "Amira, I can't **afford** to **lose** you! You're my everything. You're the person who has loved me deeper and harder than anyone else ever has. You've proven to me that I can have a relationship with a girl without it imploding in my face. You're the most perfect, beautiful girl that I've ever seen. We are one in the same. Shetani isn't your kin by blood. She's just a control freak who uses you!"

Amira opened her mouth to protest.

"***NO***!" Winter screeched. "I'm not letting you go back. I'm not letting you kill yourself. I cannot lose you! Amira, you're just being manipulated and beaten into submission! Don't act blind to this anymore!" Winter was sobbing uncontrollably. She fell to the ground, grabbing Amira's legs. "Can't you see how important this is? You do have a freaking choice, Amira. You have a **freaking** choice! You don't want to be stuck with a ***monster***!"

Amira paused. Her lover was looking at her with ice-blue eyes dripping with tears. She slowly realized that she was right. Shetani would only just keep using her and lying to her and abusing her for her own benefits. A new feeling dawned on her - she had no family. No true family that loved her besides Winter. The latter was the only person who ever cared for her, besides her other friends. Winter was only snappy because she loved Amira and wanted to protect her.

She began to cry as well, running into Winter's shoulder. Her girlfriend pulled her into a tight hug. "Winter! I'm so sorry... I didn't mean to hurt you!"

"Ssh... It's fine, just calm down. I'm here."

Amira instantly began to feel better. She felt the brindled jacket of her girlfriend. "Thanks, Win. But where do I go from here? Where do I stay?"

"Our house is full, and the cabin isn't ideal... Wait a minute! I know someone who can. Let's go speak to her right now!"

Amira sighed. "Hey can we stay here alone for a bit? I need some time to comprehend what just happened."

"Sure thing, Ira." Both girls touched noses happily before collapsing on the ground, burrowing into one another.

Evie stretched outside her house, Mya by her side. They were expecting Winter to come back any minute now from her midnight meeting with Amira.

As they waited, Mya decided to bring up an important topic. "I told my parents about Shetani and what we know about her."

"Really? What did they say?"

"They partially believed me, Ev. They agreed that Shetani was too harsh on the rules, but don't believe that Amira faces abuse from her. They say there isn't enough evidence..."

"It's okay, Mya. I know we'll figure this out together. There's always a way."

"The she-devil shall be stopped!" Mya said. She leaned forward to kiss her girlfriend.

"*Guys*! **Guys**!"

Startled by Winter's voice, Mya toppled backwards and hit the sidewalk.

"For Pineshadow's sake! Stop interrupting my personal moments with Evie-"

She clamped her hand over her mouth at once. Winter wasn't alone.

Mya noticed that Amira was standing beside her. Both were bruised and had cuts all over their faces. They were stained with dirt and dried blood. Mya even thought she saw a shard of broken glass in Amira's hair.

"***WHAT HAPPENED***?"

Evie got up, and looked in shock at Amira. She had several scars on her face, and her hair was dull. "Ami..."

Both of them proceeded to explain that they were attacked and injured.

"And I know that Shetani is behind this. She knows that I'm going on midnight meetings with Winter, somehow and some way. She knows that I might break off from her. Evie, I've come to ask you something important."

"Yeah?"

"Please ask your parents if I can temporarily stay with them, along with you. Winter doesn't have enough room at her house, and I can't live with Shetani knowing that she wants me for dead. And I'm not living in that cabin either. Please. There's no other way."

"Of course, Amira. In fact, I've been thinking about you lately. I'm trying to compile evidence so we can out Shetani, and I have a plan."

Once she explained the plan, everyone nodded.

"Good. It starts when we return to school on Monday. And Amira - *theo tôi*. My parents would love to hear your account of what the she-devil has done."

She led Amira inside, leaving Mya and Winter alone with each other.

"No more midnight meetings, Mya. It's too dangerous," Winter said. "I still want to be physically near her, though, and that's the problem..."

"You can visit her every morning."

"True, but midnight meetings are way more fun. Oh well. I'll deal with it for her sake... Cause I love her," Winter responded, appearing to head into la la land again.

Mya's mind was drifting away too. Somehow, they would all defeat Shetani together with Evie's plan; a risky one to be sure, but a welcome one.

Meanwhile, Evie and Amira had entered her house.

Mrs. Ly looked at Amira in stunned silence. Then she spoke. "Jesus, what happened to her, Evie? Andy, go get the medicine basket."

"She and Winter were attacked by a hitman, who was trying to kill her. They obviously escaped pretty banged up. But we have something shocking to share with you too, mom - Shetani was behind this."

Mrs. Ly looked sick. "Your... Your principal? They're related?"

"Aunt and niece... But it's nothing like that relationship," Evie mentioned. "It's full of abuse, lies, deception, and violence." She whispered in her mother's ear, "And Amira's never truly felt love until she met Winter - her parents and grandmother ignore her."

Mr. Ly, who had just returned with the medicine basket, happened to hear. "Opal, we ought to take Amira in for a while. We can make sure she's safe."

"That's what we'll do. Amira, you're welcome to stay until we can get this sorted out."

At once, Amira ran into Evie's parents. "Thank you! I think I'll like it here."

Evie sighed peacefully. Things were going to be okay - for now.

There was still more to be done, and risky actions to be taken.

She plucked a shard of glass from her friend's hair. She would not let her be abused a moment longer.

## Cast

* **Jessica Walter** as Shetani
* **Zoe Saldaña** as Amira
* **Peyton Elizabeth Lee** as Evie
* **Dakota Fanning** as Mya
* **Mae Whitman** as Winter
* **Trent Garrett** as Patrick
* **Dee Bradley Baker** as Skelly
* **Lauren Tom** as Opal
* **John Hodgman** as Anderson

## Trivia

* This episode is currently the most violent in the series.
* When Mya tries to get Winter to snap out of her thoughts, she references the Demi Lovato song *La La Land*.
* "Đủ tốt cho bây giờ" means "Good enough for now" and "Theo tôi" means "Follow me" in Vietnamese.
* It is revealed that Shetani had instructed Skelly to kill Amira, meaning that she is now trying to dispose of her after seeing her rebel.