Devil's Dungeon

***"How is everything I've heard... real?"***
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## Devil's Dungeon

### Director

Potato Flakin

***Devil's Dungeon*** is the eighth episode of *The Adventures of Evie and Mya* in Season 2, and the eighteenth overall.

## Synopsis

Evie, Mya, and Winter risk their lives to hear what Shetani did to Amira, which brings trouble - and secrets - to light.

## Content Warning

*This episode contains blood, extensive violence, and mentions of abuse and suicide which could unsettle viewers.*

## Dedication

*Dedicated to Jessica Walter, the voice of Shetani. Rest in peace, legend.*

## Transcript

*Cut to Evie's house.*

Mya and Winter stood outside the door nervously. They were waiting for Evie to emerge.

It had been a few days since they were exiled from school as traitors. Evie's plan backfired on her, and she had been emotionally impacted hard. She lost confidence in her leadership abilities and had run to the Heartley household in tears. But now she had returned home, ready to ask her mother and father a risky question.

Mya pressed herself closer to Winter, who slid her arm over to her shoulder. The wait was nerve-wracking.

Finally, after what seemed like hours, Evie finally emerged.

"So... What did she say, Ev?" Mya inquired.

"Mom is mad at me... And she had a lot to say."

Winter inhaled briefly. "So, you're not allowed to come with us?"

"Actually, no. She said I can. I think she's beginning to understand how I feel. She said we'd talk more about it later, but... This mission is *on*!"

"Heck yes!" Mya declared, triumphantly jumping into the air excitedly. "No time to waste. What's the plan?"

"We spy on her through the window on the right side of the house," Winter said. "Don't make a sound. I know you have your phone on you, Evie. And I have mine. With that said - let's go."

As she walked, Winter's thoughts drifted to Amira. She was doing better away from her aunt, but they needed to gather information for her sake. Winter would only ever put herself in the face of the one person she despised for her girlfriend.

Winter then remembered Amira telling her that she was of Caribbean descent, and that she had taught her a few Spanish words, including a very special phrase.

*Te amo. It means "I love you."*

She only thought of that word as they approached the house on 1467 Burlsberry Lane.

*Te amo, Amira. Te amo.*

*Scene cuts to the intro.*

**SEASON 2, EPISODE 8 - DEVIL'S DUNGEON**

*Cut to Shetani's house*.

Evie, Mya, and Winter peered through the window near the fence carefully. Shetani sat on her couch, watching TV. She twiddled something in her hands.

Being ever so careful, Mya gently pushed the window upward, and Winter put her phone in. She wouldn't hit record unless Shetani started talking.

"Come on..." Evie quietly said to herself.

Shetani still didn't do anything. Then she left the room.

"Dang it!" Winter muttered. "Now we don't know if she's going to come back..."

"Have patience," Mya reminded. "She probably will soon enough."

They waited patiently for what seemed like an hour. But Shetani didn't reappear.

"Uh, is she even coming back at this point?" Evie questioned. Mya and Winter looked very doubtful.

"Let's try the other side," Mya finally responded.

They tried the other window, but Shetani wasn't on that side either.

"This is fruitless!" Winter snapped. "How are we going to catch her if we don't even see the she-devil?" She wanted to give up, but she had to do this with her friends for Amira's sake. Her being safe, to her, was more important than her own life.

"Welp, time to resort to groveling," Evie growled. "We're gonna hate this, but we have to do it."

"**And hate it you will**!" A voice suddenly screeched behind them. Startled, the trio whirled around to find Shetani staring at them. Malice was lit in her blue eyes. "Well, well, well, if it ain't the three traitors. I got a sneaking suspicion you were prowling around outside. I had a feeling you'd come and *sneak* me a visit."

"Get out of here, **she-devil**. You don't belong here. You're a monster," Winter snarled.

"Not so easy, Heartley." Shetani raised her arm up and sucker-punched Winter on her jaw so hard that she collapsed on the ground unconscious.

Mya and Evie backed up in fear as Shetani easily picked up Winter by the collar of her shirt. Then, she grabbed Evie and Mya, and dragged them into her house.

Winter opened her eyes, groaning. Her jaw still hurt from being punched by Shetani. Her surroundings unblurred around her. *Where am I... No. Where are we?* She glanced back at her friend and sister, who were awake. Then Winter noticed something around her neck, over her necklace.

A leather collar. She was chained to the wall. Evie and Mya were tied to the ground with leather restraints.

From the looks of it, they were locked in some form of room, not in a basement. All glanced around nervously.

Then Evie had to stifle a scream from her mouth. "Look at the wall!" She thought she would faint. The wall was lined with weapons.

Nunchucks. Knives. Poison darts. Whips. Spikes. Rope. Chains.

"This is the place where she tortures Amira most of the time!" Winter gasped.

"Correct, child!" Shetani stepped out of the shadows. "And now it's your turn to feel the pain. Welcome to the dungeon, innocent fools. You will *never* escape!"

"You can't do this!" Mya wailed.

"Oh, yes I *can*!"

Much to the trio's horror, they saw Shetani holding a whip in her hands. She cackled.

"I'd always have a feeling you'd go for more against me. Bet you've seen my attempts to get rid of all of you!"

Evie's mouth fell open, but she quickly regained her composure. "I know you sent a man to kill us with Russian roulette. But you lost that, nice try."

Shetani then fell forward so she was looking at Evie directly in her dark green eyes. "Oh, but you haven't defeated me, *fool*. You think you're so smart, Evie Ly. And you haven't seen me at my best."

Without warning, Evie was hit hard on the face with the whip. She screeched in pain, and tried to escape, but her restraints prevented her from getting up.

Shetani, taking pleasure instantly, kept hitting her. Mya watched in sheer horror, unable to even comfort her girlfriend at all.

"*Knock it off*!" Winter spat from the corner. That fell on deaf ears.

Evie had never felt this kind of pain before, not even when playing roulette. Soon enough, he right cheek was pink from being hit over and over. She couldn't even rub her sore face, and her eyes were watering from all the stinging.

"Perfect. This is leaving me wanting more..." Shetani's dark blue eyes targeted Mya, who tried to hide in her cyan t-shirt.

She licked her lips devilishly.

Evie and Winter looked at Mya with worried expressions. She was a sensitive girl, especially to pain.

"Stay back from me, you red-headed menace! You've hurt my sister *and* my girlfriend. Don't you try messing with me!"

It came off more weakly than she wanted it to be. Shetani only just laughed.

She raised the whip rope up and hit Mya hard on the face. She screamed in intense pain, fidgeting around. Evie and Winter could do nothing to help her. The latter felt herself developing a burning feeling.

"Stop! Please!"

"Nonsense! This is exactly what I want out of you - every inch, a taste of your fear!"

After hitting her on her lip, which drew blood, Shetani smiled happily. "Ah! Delightful now that you're suffering. But there's one more I want a kick out of..."

She turned to Winter, who unlike her sister and friend, had ice-blue eyes lit with anger and rebellion.

Winter felt a feeling rising up inside of her, and it was a feeling she'd only felt on the day she had driven Daniela out for good.

It was sheer anger and hate.

Her expression hardened, and she let out a dog-like growl. She was giving a warning to Shetani. The color of her face darkened slightly.

"Asking for it, are we?" Shetani taunted. "Then your wish is GRANTED!" She dangled the whip before striking Winter, a direct hit to her cheek.

"Good one!" She praised mockingly. Shetani frowned.

"*What*? This is meant to give me pleasure, not failure! You **fool**!"

She hit Winter again harder. That was the final nail in the coffin.

She let loose a deep growl, her eyes showing no emotion other than rage.

Then, she jerked forward so hard that the neck collar snapped into two and hit the stone ground. She yanked the whip out of Shetani's hands, and using her knife, sliced it off from its handle. The rope fell to the ground. She stepped forward, teeth bared, her fists clenched.

She was ready for *war*.

"***You think taunting those I love is okay***???" She snarled aggressively. "I know who you really are, and I've seen it ***MYSELF***! You are nothing more than a greedy, power-hungry, abusive, controlling, manipulative, and digusting monster who thinks torturing her ***own niece for her pleasure is PERFECTLY NORMAL***!"

Evie and Mya watched in amazement as Winter jumped on Shetani, pinning her on the stone floor. In a fit of rage, she grabbed her neck collar, pulling her neck right up and pointing the blade of her pocket knife right at the skin.

"If you don't admit what you did, ***I'm going to KILL YOU***!"

"Admit what? There's nothing to admit!" Shetani chuckled. "You're just a silly wild child!"

"Wrong thing to say, *devil*!" Evie jeered. She had just made Winter even angrier.

Winter growled with revulsion and menace. Her eyes were almost *glowing* with emotion. She slammed Shetani's head into the ground, then pulled her back up again. She pressed her knife into the flesh of her throat, not deep enough to kill, but just enough so she would draw a tiny bit of blood.

Then, she spoke up, and made herself clear.

"***ADMIT WHAT YOU DID TO AMIRA FLECKENSHIRE***!" Winter held up her phone, her thumb hovering over the record button. "***CONFESS IT***! Confess that you hired a hitman to kill Amira and dispose of her, you sick freak! Or this knife is going through your throat. I **mean it**!"

Fury scorched her entire body like wildfire. She would do anything for Amira, give anything, put herself in the path of danger for her.

This was a side of Winter that Evie and Mya had *never* seen before. She was brimming with white-hot hate.

"Get out your phone!" Mya whispered suddenly. Evie nodded. She could move around just enough to reach in her pocket.

She hit record just as Shetani started speaking.

"Thanks to your rebellious soul, I lost my dear dear niece to you! But it's not like it matters, I never cared about her. I didn't need a niece. She's an unwanted object in the world. No more than my dog. I made her into my slave, and seeing her work for me is what keeps me going in the world. But after you came by and convinced her to rebel against me, after I swayed her to stay with my craft and physical prowess, I decided to end it right there. I hired a hitman to kill her, and it appears the job has been done! Your little friend is dead now, Winterlyn. She's never coming back!"

Winter ended her recording. She retracted the knife's blade, got up, and freed Evie and Mya, easily ripping apart what was keeping them chained.

Mya hugged Winter, helping her calm down a bit. Evie strode forward to confront Shetani.

"Give it up, Shetani. You know you can't outsmart us."

"Oh, I don't think so..."

She snatched Winter's phone and threw it into the ground, causing glass to fly everywhere. Winter gasped in shock, and backed up with her friends. They were now pinned against the wall.

"You will never expose me as long as you're here. You twerps are never escaping. This is your new Hotel California." She grabbed a set of chains from the wall. "And it's time you three were all disciplined. Sticks and stones may break my bones-"

Mya laughed. "But you forgot something!"

Shetani smirked. "And what's that?"

"We already know chains and whips excite you, yada yada. So I'm just telling you that **WE'RE GETTING OUT OF HERE OKAY BYE**!" Mya spat in Shetani's eyes, and she tried rubbing the saliva out of them. While the evil she-devil was distracted, Winter punched her hard on her cheek, and she hit the floor with a thud, out cold. Seeing a little loop in the wall, she used the whip rope to tie Shetani down by her arm.

Evie lock-picked the door, opened it, and once they were out, slammed it shut. Shetani would have to wake up and work hard if she were to escape her own basement now.

"Is that Amira's room?" Evie noticed a door that had a single purple heart on it.

"That has to be. We can get more evidence! C'mon!" Winter opened the door, and entered her lover's room for the first time. Inside were dull beige-gray walls that hardly had anything on them. There was one window, a mirror, and a small purple bed. There were a small desk and a nightstand, and several boxes were under the bed.

"Look at this!" Mya exclaimed. She had picked up a personal diary that only had ten pages.

She opened it up, and Evie started snapping pictures of every word written on each page.

For those that are reading, I live a life of shame and abuse.

I'm barely ever allowed to play in my yard. I'm watched closely by my aunt.

My aunt has never loved me. My parents and grandmother hardly care about me. I feel like a Coraline Jones.

I'm whipped, I'm starved, I'm not allowed to have a glass of water. I work constantly. I never get a break. I'm beaten, I'm bruised. I'm broken.

I see no light in my future. I'm just a hollow-shelled girl turning 14 in June that has nothing left for her.

There is no hope.

I am a dog. I am a slave. Defined by the collar I don't want to save.

I only see it through with writing something personal to me.

I should just end my life at this point. But what I rewrote keeps me going... For now...

"She wrote this before she even met me! She's felt this low..." Winter felt like she was dying inside. Amira actually was suicidal. Her mind was almost completely destroyed by Shetani's blows and emotional abuse. A grim theory hit her - Amira could have taken her own life.

"What's the thing she wrote?" Evie wondered.

"It has to be somewhere around here!" Mya began to drag all the other boxes that were under Amira's bed out. She opened each one.

"Just a bunch of styrofoam. Wait, what's that?" She saw a small white box in one of the styrofoam boxes, and opened it.

She plucked out various papers. Each had Amira's handwriting on them.

"More of her personal notes?" Evie questioned, curious.

"No, I don't think that's it..." Winter glanced at the papers thoughtfully. Then she lit up. "They're song lyrics!"

*Call the doctor, call the doctor*

*Must be something wrong with me (oh-h)*

*She's a monster, why do I want ya?*

*Please tell me, please tell me*

*She's a monster (aye)*

*She's a monster (oh)*

*That woman, she's a freaking monster*

*But I love her, yeah I love her*

*Ooh ah, ooh ah ah*

*She's right, don't start (no no)*

'*Til you're her own form of art and (oh oh)*

*She's doing her part*

*Cause she's winning my heart (my heart)*

*There were no sparks (no no)*

*Just a gasoline fire burning through the dark and (oh oh)*

*She's doing her part*

*Cause she's winning my heart (my heart)*

*Is she human, does it matter*

*I know she's what I'm after*

*I can reel her, from disaster*

*I know (I know)*

Winter was shaking. "This is about her abusive relationship with Shetani! She still felt attached. She felt like she could fix her... But why?"

"I think she might have had a small bit of hope that she could change. Whenever she wrote this, she must have been trying to search for someone that loved her. So she tried to turn Shetani and help her... But it didn't work. Then she thinks that Shetani is right, and that being a slave is better than rebelling. I think she also implies that no one ever knew about this with *no sparks* and *burning through the dark*. This is exactly how she felt!"

"I wonder if she used another song as a reference for this?" Mya was thoughtful. Evie decided to use a lyric-finding website on her phone, and typed in the first two.

"Nope, no results. She must have written it herself... And if she did, she certainly outdid herself."

"We oughta collect everything. We can piece together the final bits of the song, screenshot it, and combine all of our evidence that we can show the school!" Winter said.

"But, Winter, your phone's destroyed. We just lost a large chunk of evidence..."

"That's what Shetani is supposed to believe, Mya. Cause I've already sent the evidence to Cassandra, Mr. Naecher, and Mrs. Hawkins. They're on our side. And Evie has Shetani's confession."

"Yes, I do. But we've gotta get out of here before Shetani finds out we've been raiding Amira's room. Let's go!"

On Evie's cue, the three ran out to Shetani's front door. Evie began to lock-pick the knob, and it was being quite stubborn.

"Come on! Get us out of here!"

Suddenly, there was a loud bang. "**YOU FREAKS GET BACK HERE**!"

"*Shetani*!" Mya and Winter screamed. Footsteps that were like thunder were running toward them.

Evie picked the lock frantically. She heard a click, and the door slid open.

"Go!" She screamed. A cold hand grabbed the collar of her brown jacket and began to drag her back. She yelped.

"***HANDS OFF MY GIRLFRIEND'***!" Mya screeched. She ran towards Shetani and kicked her in the stomach. She collapsed to the ground, writhing in pain. "Bye, have a great time! You're welcome!"

"C'mon, guys, we need to go. Mya's house!" Winter exclaimed. Mya grabbed Evie, helping her up. They dashed out of the door, and with a *wham*, made sure it was shut.

They ran back in the direction of Malamute Drive as fast as they could.

After returning to the Heartley residence, Evie had shown the collection of new evidence they had on Amira and Shetani's broken relationship to the Heartleys, who were stunned.

"Oh, darlings... I'm glad you managed to escape alive. And I'm glad Amira is safe with your family, Evie. This is so, so wrong! Are you all okay?" Mrs. Heartley asked

"We're fine," Winter assured. She remembered going berserk on Shetani. *I'll do anything to protect my girlfriend.*

"Winter went *crazy*. And I think she got her point across very clear," Mya stated. She leaned up against her adopted sister, who ruffled her light brown hair.

"I've sent everything to Mrs. Hawkins and Mr. Naecher. They're going to finish up the presentation by tonight. And tomorrow, we return as outsiders, and give Shetani a wake-up call," Evie explained. "Then we hold her until the police arrive."

"Amira is going to be there too," Winter added. "She's going to speak publicly. And I'm gonna be there by her side."

"Of course you are, you adorable dork. We're all gonna be there. And we're going to kick some butt!" Mya said, determination in her voice.

"Agreed," Evie chimed in. "Anyway, I think we should see the rest of Amira's song."

*Call the doctor, call the doctor*

*Must be something wrong with me (oh-h)*

*She's a monster, why do I want ya?*

*Please tell me, please tell me*

*She's a monster (aye)*

*She's a monster (oh)*

*That woman, she's a freaking monster*

*But I love her, yeah I love her*

*Ooh ah, ooh ah ah*

*Most people are scared (are scared)*

*When they look her in the eyes, all they see is fear (but)*

*Let me make this clear (this clear)*

*I want her near (her near)*

*Most people can't sleep (can't sleep)*

*Feeling she's out, on the streets (but)*

*She is my creep (my creep)*

*She is my creep (my creep)*

*Is she human, does it matter (ohhh)*

*I know she's what I'm after*

*I can reel her, from disaster (ohhh)*

*I know (I-I-I know)*

*Call the doctor, call the doctor*

*Must be something wrong with me (oh-h)*

*She's a monster, why do I want ya?*

*Please tell me, please tell me*

*She's a monster (aye)*

*She's a monster (oh)*

*That woman, she's a freaking monster*

*But I love her, yeah I love her*

*Ooh ah, ooh ah ah*

*She's sick, she's fresh*

*She doesn't really know how to impress (that's why I like it)*

*She's a beast, she's weird*

*She, she never looks in the mirror (and I like it)*

*Call the doctor, call the doctor*

*Must be something wrong with me (oh-h)*

*She's a monster, why do I want ya?*

*Please tell me, please tell me*

*She's a monster (aye)*

*She's a monster (oh)*

*That woman, she's a freaking monster*

*But I love her, yeah I love her*

*Ooh ah, ooh ah ah*

*Call the doctor, call the doctor*

*Must be something wrong with me (oh-h)*

*She's a monster, why do I want ya?*

*Please tell me, please tell me*

Winter noticed a message on the back of the final lyric paper. She flipped it over. It said, *I've manipulated myself into believing that living with a monster was normal. And it worked. Now I'm stuck fighting something, someone I can't escape. Please, help me escape her, to anyone who reads this. I still partly love my aunt, but she'll never change, and my love drains by the day. -AF*

Mya sat closer to her adopted sister. Amira was so important to her, and now, to them.

They were going to expose Shetani no matter what happened.

Winter closed her eyes, only thinking of Amira.

*Te amo.*

## Cast

* **Dakota Fanning** as Mya
* **Peyton Elizabeth Lee** as Evie
* **Mae Whitman** as Winter
* **Jessica Walter** as Shetani
* **Wendie Malick** as Nita

## Trivia

* This is the final episode where Jessica Walter voices Shetani. Following her death on March 25th, 2021, Av announced that Grey DeLisle would be her voice for the final two episodes of Season 2.
* It is revealed that:
	+ Amira knows some Spanish, and taught Winter the phrase *Te amo*, which means *I love you*.
	+ Shetani doesn't know that Amira isn't actually dead.
	+ Amira wrote a song to describe her relationship with Shetani.
* This is the last episode to be released in March 2021.
* The song that Amira wrote is a rewritten version of *Monster* by Dev, which is about the inability to leave someone you know is dangerous.
* This is the last episode in Season 2 where Amira doesn't make a formal appearance.
* When Winter remarks "Good one!" to Shetani for hitting her with the whip, she references Jade West saying the same thing to the "prison lady" in the *Victorious* episode *Locked Up!*.
* While arguing with the three girls, Shetani points out that sticks and stones can break her bones. Mya then interjects that they already know chains and whips excite her before distracting her so they can escape. This is a reference to *S&M* by Rihanna.
	+ She also tells them that this is their new "Hotel California," referencing the Eagles song of the same name.
* After Mya protects Evie from Shetani, she quotes the popular meme *Bye, have a great time!*.