Mal's POV

The first thing I see when I step out of the limo is a beautiful girl with a light tan, shoulder length golden brown hair, sparkling green eyes, and a warm smile looking at me excitedly. She's wearing a knee length royal blue dress and brown sandles. The other girl beside her is wearing a pink dress and a light blue unbuttoned sweater, with sandles. She's donning an obviously fake smile and looks like she'd rather be anywhere else. The sweet looking girl that has me starstruck begins to approach me and I snap out of my thoughts to focus on her. I faintly hear Jay and Carlos bickering over something but don't take my eyes off of her.

"Hi" she says shyly, holding her hand out towards me. I notice her looking me up and down, taking in my appearance. I have grey eyes, pale skin, and my black hair can change color. Right now my bangs are jelled up and are a faded dark purple color, black at the roots and fading into a deep purple color that is brighter at the ends. I am wearing my normal outfit consisting of a purple T-shirt, a black leather jacket, dark blue jeans, and my combat boots.

"Hi" I say with a soft smile, shaking her hand. Something about her is drawing me in, and looking into her eyes I already know it's going to be hard going through with my mother's plan, this girl is awakening something in me that I never knew I had.

"I'm Bella" she continues before slowly releasing my hand, my inner dragon Kalcifer already whining at the loss but I shush him. I'm not gonna let one girl turn me into acompletemush ball.

"Malakai, but you can call me Mal" I say calmly, snapping out of my moment of weakness.

'Snap out of it Mal! Remember, Long Live Evil!'I scold myself.

"Guys we have an audience" I say sternly, turning to look back at my two guy friends who are wrestling on the ground over some scarf. They snap out of it and immediately get up, tossing all of the stuff they took back into the limo after seeing my glare. As I turn back around to face the crowd around us Evie comes to stand next to me and gives me a bright smile and a thumbs up. I smile back at her and wrap my arm around her shoulders playfully. She's my best friend and she knows how hard I've been trying to be a good leader since my mom announced I will become king of the isle last month.

"Sorry Mal" the boys apologize as they come to stand on my other side. I see the light in Bella's eyes disappear when I embrace Evie and she clears her throat.

"This is a momentus occasion, the day our two peoples begin to heal" she begins to announce.

"Or the day you show four peoples where the bathrooms are" I say with a playful smirk and Bella laughs. I wince when Evie jabs me in the side with her elbow at my remark and I remove my arm from her shoulders in favor of rubbing my side.

"Little bit over the top?" Bella asks with a small smile.

"Little more than a little bit" I reply with a matching smile and the other girl next to Bella scoffs.

"Enough of the formalities Bella, these hooligans aren't worth our time" she huffs.

"Audrey!" Bella hisses, elbowing her in the side.

"Hello foxy, the name's Jay" Jay says smoothly, and Evie and I both face palm at his stupidity.

"And I'm not interested" Audrey says bluntly, and I let out a warning growl. Her eyes widen and she backs off.

"I'm really sorry about that guys, this is Audrey-" Bella begins to say before getting cut off.

"Princess Audrey" Audrey interrups, and if I wasn't a guy I'd smack her for interrupting. We've only been in Auradon for 5 minutes and I already hate her.

"Daughter of Sleeping-" the brat begins to continue.

"Beauty.. yeah I've heard the name. My mother talks about your parentsa lot" I hiss at the end.

"And who might you be?!" Audrey demands, obviously she hadn't been paying attention when I introduced myself to her future queen.

"Malakai, son ofMaleficentand future king of the isle of the lost" I say hardly, and she flinches away from me as if I had slapped her.

'Good, she's learning her place'I think to myself smugly.

"You're the heir for the throne on the isle?" Bella asks me amazed, unfazed by the harsh tone I'd just used on her friend.

"Yeah" I say with a proud smile and she grins back excitedly.

"Cool! I have so many questions for you" she says excitedly as she loops her arm through mine and begins pulling me along as she lists off several questions. I hear Audrey gasp and my friends laugh as they all follow behind us while I answer the excited princess's questions as best as I can while feeling awkward.

"Looks like somebody has a crush on our dark prince" I hear Evie giggle quietly to Jay and Carlos, and I feel my cheeks heat up slightly.

"What's your favorite color? What's your home like? What do you guys-" I cut off her rambling by lightly putting my free pointer finger over her lips. She stops walking immediately and looks up at me bashfully.

"As much as I'd love to run around with you playing twenty questions, I think we should be shown our dorms first" I say with a small laugh, removing my finger.

"Oh right...I mean of course! Follow me" Bella says as she continues leading us into the building, her arm still looped through mine. She shows Evie her dorm and I chuckle when Evie lets out an excited squeal after she closes the door behind her. We walk down to the boys dormitory and she lets go of my arm so I can open the door.

"Woah" Jay and Carlos say on either side of me as we walk into the room.

"Well we'll let you guys settle in, let me know if you need anything and welcome to Auradon!" Bella says with a smile before pulling a sulking Audrey out of the room and closes the door to give us privacy.

"What are you doing?" I ask Jay as he begins taking stuff out of his pockets and dumping them on one of the beds.

"Uh it's called stealing, it's like gettimg whatever I want only for free" Jay answers with a smirk as he continues unpacking his loot.

"Okay, so you could either do that now or just do that later when our parents are running this place" I point out and Jay laughs.

"You sound just like your mom" Carlos says.

"Thank you" I say, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm wondering why that doesn't sound as right as it used to.

A Few Hours Later

Bella's POV

"So what are the isle kids like?" Lonnie asks me excitedly as I sit down with her and Audrey for lunch in the cafeteria.

"Really cool, they seem pretty nice" I say eagerly, glad someone else is taking an interest in them too.

"Oh please! They're all hooligans and I wish you never brought them here, especially that Mal guy" Audrey complains, frowning at me.

"Mal was pretty good actually, he was nice to me" I say to Lonnie, fighting back the urge to roll my eyes at Audrey. And it's true, Mal was very civil until Audrey started interrupting, I think he just got annoyed with her attitude.

"That slimeball is the soon to be king of the isle of the lost!" Audrey snaps.

"All the more reason to get to know him!" I snap back. Hopefully he and I can talk about things I could do to help fix things on the isle, and I really hope we become friends.

"Whatever" Audrey huffs and Lonnie looks between the two of us before asking me more questions about Mal and the others.

"Hey babe" a familiar voice says from behind me and I smile as I turn to look up at my boyfriend.

"Hi Chad" I say happily before he leans in and gives me a long sloppy kiss.

"What's happening ladies?" he asks as he sits in the empty seat between me and Audrey. He wraps his arm around me loosely and I can't help feeling dissapointment as he starts talking to Audrey before Lonnie and I could answer.

"Well we were just talking about the isle kids" Lonnie says to Chad, sensing my change in mood. Almost as if they had been summoned, the topic of our conversation enters the room and get into the lunch line. Mal makes sure he is behind the other three and for a moment our eyes lock from across the room. I smile and wave at him eagerly, and he gives me a slight smile before turning away from me and saying something to Evie. Chad's arm tightens around me and I turn to see him frowning at me.

"I want you to stay away from that guy, something about him doesn't seem right" he says possessively and I scoff.

"I will do no such thing, I am the one that invited them here and I will hang out with whoever I please" I say defiantly, shaking his arm off of ny shoulders.

"Whatever" he scoffs before continuing his coversation with Audrey. I focus back on my salad and out of the corner of my eye I see Lonnie give me a big smile and mouth'Good job'to me.

'Thanks'I mouth back, feeling pleased with myself.

Mal's POV

"Bella is looking at you" Evie whispers to me as the four of us sit at an empty table.

"So?" I ask her as I begin picking at one one of the triangle things that the lunch ladies had called pizza on my tray.

"So you should go talk to her" she says, lightly pushing at my shoulder.

"And deal with that prissy pink princess she hangs out with? I'll pass" I scoff before taking a bite out of the slice, nearly moaning at the taste.

"She seems to like you" Evie continues to probe.

"Really? Well it seems to me she has a boyfriend" I say say sarcastically, looking over at Bella's table again.

"For a guy that's supposed to be her boyfriend he sure is doing a good job at ignoring her" Evie notes. Well she's not wrong there, the blonde guy that's next to her seems more interested in talking to Audrey. And I can't help frowning as I notice that Bella has a small sad look on her face.

"I'm sure she could really use a friend right now" Evie pushes and I groan.

"Alright! Alright geez if it'll get you off my back I'll go sit with her" I say exasperatedly, beginning to get up. Evie smiles up at me triumphantly as I lean down to grab my tray and I roll my eyes at her before standing up straight and begin making my way across the room. The entire luch room goes silent as I make my way to the empty seat between Bella and a Chinease looking girl.

"Excuse me, can I sit here?" I ask the two of them politely and they both smile up at me.

"Actually-" the blonde guy begins to protest.

"We'd love it if you'd sit with us" the Chinease girl says with a smile, silencing the guy with a glare. I smile down at her as I put down my tray and carefully sit down.

"I'm Lonnie" the girl says, holding out her hand.

"Mal" I say politely, shaking her hand. I look over at Bella and see her looking at me excitedly.

"So where were we? I think your last few questions had something to do with my favorite color and what my home is like" I say with a small smile, remembering how she kept rambling earlier.

"Oh yeah! I was also wondering what you guys like to do for fun!" she says excitedly, and I nearly burst out laughing as she pulls out a small notebook and a pen.

"Would you like to take notes too? I feel like we're gonna be here for a while" I say to Lonnie as Bella starts rambling out even more questions. She laughs and shakes her head at me, I smile back at her before we focus back on the excited princess.