Disclaimer: I don't own the Descendants, Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians or Heroes of Olympus series, etc.
Warning: Mal/Ben, Evie/Doug, pre-slash for at least one couple, a bit of angst but mostly fluff, involves non-Disney fairy tales and stories, etc.
Enjoy!
Ben bit his lip thoughtfully, brows furrowed in concentration as he read the list of names again.
"Are you okay, Ben?" he heard a voice come up from behind, and he turned to see his girlfriend Mal, and their friends Evie, Jay, and Carlos, who was cuddling his dog Dude in his arms.
"Yes, of course." Ben answered with a smile, taking Mal's hand in his as she sat down beside him, the other three sitting on the other side of the table. "I'm just trying to narrow down…"
He trailed off with a sigh, not sure how to phrase it.
"The next group of misfits." Evie finished with a wink, understanding his dilemma.
"Oh yeah, I forgot about that." Carlos said, leaning forward a bit. "Who were you thinking of choosing?"
"That's the problem, I have no idea." Ben said with a sigh, before blinking as an idea hit him. "Actually…you four probably knew a lot of the kids on the Isle, right?"
"In passing, at least." Mal agreed.
"Ooh, are you saying we can help?" Jay asked with a grin, rubbing his hands together.
"I don't see why not." Ben agreed. "In this case, you guys definitely have a better idea of what we're dealing with than I do."
The four former inhabitants of the Isle of the Lost grinned at each other eagerly.
Mal moved the sheet of paper so that they could all see it better, humming thoughtfully as she recognized the names.
"Is this the whole list, or have you already narrowed it down a bit?" Carlos asked, scratching Dude behind the ears as his eyes roamed over the list, reading it upside down.
"This is the whole list." Ben answered sheepishly, rubbing the back of his neck. "I didn't want to just…I don't know, dismiss anyone out of hand without knowing anything about their circumstances. Whether they would be open to the idea, that sort of thing."
"Nico di Angelo and Hazel Levesque, definitely." Evie said the moment she saw their names.
Ben blinked as the other three quickly agreed with the daughter of the Evil Queen Grimhilde.
"Okay." He said, marking the two names with a star. "Why 'definitely' them?"
The two girls grimaced, and the boys scowled.
"They're Hades' kids." Mal explained with a frown. "Well, Pluto's in Hazel's case, but…"
"Greek or Roman form he's basically still the same person." Evie finished.
"Wait, what?!" Ben demanded, wide eyed. Mal was about to frown at him, thinking that he was about to judge the two kids for that alone, until he continued. "But Hades wasn't even a real villain, and he's not on the Isle!"
It had become common knowledge that Hercules had lied to everyone when they asked for his story. Not only did Hades not try to kill him, but Megara, his girlfriend and now wife, hadn't even been enslaved by the Greek god of death. Also, Hercules' description of the Titans had had the gods and goddesses laughing in disbelief and amusement.
Though they wished that the Titans were mindless brutes who could be defeated so easily. It would have made usurping them much easier.
When the truth came out that Hercules wasn't even Hera's son but Zeus' half-blood son, not immortal, and that Hades had neither taken his immortality or kidnapped him from his parents…let's just say that the Greek 'hero' had been shunned by most of the citizens in Auradon.
Hercules had been attacked by a snake, admittedly, but that had been because of Hera, Queen of Olympus and woman scorned yet again by her cheating husband, not Hades.
"Yeah, well, Hades was released, but it's a bit more complicated than that." Carlos muttered with a scowl. "See, Zeus wasn't really happy when the truth came out, so he tried to keep Hades on the Isle. He was outvoted by the rest of the Olympian Council, because Hades hadn't even done anything, but he managed to force Hades to leave his half-blood children behind. He can't do anything to get them off the Isle, but there's nothing saying you can't."
"Oh, geez." Ben rubbed his temple to try and prevent the headache he could feel forming. "I knew the system had major flaws, but this…yeah, they're definitely getting invitations. What are they like?"
All four of them frowned thoughtfully.
"Well…" Jay began. "We didn't know them very well, honestly. We were trying to follow in our parents' footsteps and generally create chaos, but they kept away from all of the 'evil' stuff."
"They didn't even attend Dragon Hall with us." Mal agreed, thinking about their old school. "They pretty much just keep to themselves. Didn't cause trouble, avoided fights…"
Ben smiled. "Perfect candidates for the program, then."
They smiled at him sheepishly, realizing that they themselves hadn't been a perfect fit for the program, even if it had worked. After all, they had tried to steal Fairy Godmother's wand for Mal's mom, Maleficent, though luckily they'd decided not to follow in their parents' footsteps.
"So!" Evie clapped her hands. "Who else?"
And the five teenagers turned back to the list.
Later that night, as Ben tried to fall asleep, he wondered how Nico and Hazel would react to finding out that there were a few other demigods attending Auradon Prep.
Hopefully they wouldn't resent their counterparts who weren't forced to grow up on the Isle…
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Note: The reason this isn't listed as a crossover is because I'll be crossing over more than just Percy Jackson, and I can't list this under every fandom I might end up using in this story.
Olympus is on the top right corner of the map of Auradon, so please no one tell me that the Greeks and Romans (its Olympus is Roman mythology too, even if the Romans weren't mentioned in the movie Hercules) don't have a place here. Obviously I'm not really following the Disney version of Hercules, but it's full of inaccuracies anyway.
I already have ideas for the other kids I want to bring to Auradon Prep (and more heroes' kids that weren't in the movie), so no requests please.
