A beautiful, tan-skinned princess wandered down the hallway of the girls' dormitory of Auradon Prep, her thick, black hair in a simple braid. Her brown eyes scanned the dormitory doors until she found the one she was looking for. This door had a sign on it reading "Evie's 4 Hearts" with a logo of a red heart with a gold crown on it.

Grinning slightly, Alia knocked quickly on the door. Evie's familiar voice called out, "Come in!"

Turning the knob, Alia entered and smiled in greeting at the two girls in the room. Mal and Evie's bedroom was decorated with royal blue curtains, one bed with blue bedding and the other with purple bedding. There was a glass tank on one of the bedside tables with a small lizard in it, which Alia knew was Mal's mother, Maleficent, after being turned into a lizard. There was a rack of dresses in the corner, and papers, sketches, and scraps of fabric laying everywhere. Mal and Evie were standing side-by-side in front of a large flat screen TV on the wall.

Mal had her hair in an elegant bun. While it used to be purple, Mal had somehow recently changed her hair to be a very light blonde with light purple ends. Alia personally thought this made her pale skin seem a bit washed out, but she was still beautiful. She was currently dressed in a beautiful sleeveless yellow ball gown with blue decorations on the chest and skirt. Evie was barefoot and wearing a simple blue dress, red fingerless gloves, and a red tiara-type headband in her loosely curled blue hair.

"Alia!" Evie beamed, hurrying forward and hugging Alia, who returned the hug easily. In the six months since Jay, Carlos, Mal, and Evie came to Auradon from the Isle of the Lost, Alia had become pretty good friends with all of them.

"Hi, Evie! Hi, Mal; your dress is beautiful." Alia told Mal when she pulled away from Evie. Mal smiled slightly, but it didn't seem to reach her green eyes.

"Thanks. How've you been?" Mal asked.

"Pretty good. How was your trip? Oh, how was Agrabah?" she asked quickly when she remember one of the places Mal and her boyfriend, King Ben, had visited on their trip leading up to the Cotillion, which was in a few days.

"It was great." Mal answered with a small smile. "Very hot."

Alia laughed, sitting on the edge of Evie's desk. "Tell me about it. I wish me and Jay could've come." she added with a sigh. "We could've shown you our rooms."

"Yeah, I've been curious about seeing your guys' rooms." Mal agreed before laughing slightly. "Has Jay finished his trophy case yet?"

"Mostly. But he wants to make it bigger." Alia answered with a roll of her eyes. Her twin brother, Jay, had already collected almost half a dozen trophies and even more ribbons and metals in the six months he'd been in Auradon. They were currently in his school dorm room where he could show them off.

Mal and Evie both laughed easily. "Sounds like him." Evie agreed.

"Oh, for dessert, did you try the baklava?" Alia continued to Mal. She'd guessed Mal wouldn't be too fond of some of the traditional Agrabah dishes, so she'd suggested she try a couple dishes that Mal might like.

"Yes, and thank you for that. It was delicious!" Mal exclaimed, making Alia laugh.

"Glad to hear it. Anyway, I didn't mean to bother you two." she continued to both Mal and Evie, before turning mostly to the blue-haired girl. "I was wondering if you finished that thing I asked for?"

"Of course I have it." Evie assured her as if the question was ridiculous.

While she crossed the room to the rack of dresses, Mal asked, "What thing?"

"Oh, just a top secret plan me and Lonnie have cooked up." Alia answered with a smirk.

Mal continued looking curious as Evie returned with a blue and yellow outfit on a hanger.

"For the record, I still say this was a waste of my talents. I could've designed something from scratch that would look so much better." Evie told her, laying the outfit out on the desk that Alia had hopped off of so she could take it off the hanger.

"I know, but the point of this plan is to blend in, not stand out." Alia pointed out with a smile.

Evie pulled the shirt off the hanger and held it up for Alia to inspect. It was a hooded, sleeveless, zip-up sweatshirt, mostly blue with yellow down the sides. Auradon Prep's symbol was sewn onto the left side of the chest.

The pants Evie held up next matched perfectly, the same shade of blue with yellow stripes across the legs, and the pant legs ended a few inches above ankle-length.

"You're sure you don't need me to make gloves?" Evie checked as she put the outfit back on the hanger and in a garment bag. "I'm pretty sure they wear gloves."

"Yeah, they do. But I've already got a pair. I…burrowed them from Jay. When he couldn't find them, he got another pair." Alia explained with a smirk.

"Do I even want to know what this plan is?" Mal asked warily, though she was smiling. "What do you need a Swords and Shields uniform for?"

Alia smirked. "Guess you'll have to wait and see." Turning to Evie, she asked, "How much do I owe you?"

"Not even a penny." Evie answered firmly.

"Evie-" Alia protested.

"Nope. The only payment I need, is for you girls to make the team." Evie insisted. "Do that, and we're even."

Alia grinned, saluting her with two fingers from one hand. "Yes, Ma'am."

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There's chapter 1 of Stolen Half 2: Inner Street Rat. Not a lot happening, but I didn't want to add too much. Let me know what you all think so far and if there's anything in particular you want to see happen in this story.