"So is every girl just expected to hate game consoles, or…?" Shreya leaned on Jay's and Carlos' dorm door while Mal and Evie strode in.
In comparison to their dorm, Jay's and Carlos' donned all the media devices a teenager would want. There was even beanbag chairs to sit on while they played on the console. There was a large plasma screen television sitting over what resembled a chimney mantle, and said television was the center of attention for Carlos when the three girls entered.
Mal spotted the mighty pile of objects sitting on Jay's bed, ranging from wallets to key chains. "Jay, what are you doing?"
"It's called stealing," Jay answered in a matter-of-fact tone.
"Okay, what's the point?"
"Well, Mal, It's like buying whatever I want..." and then Jay pulled out a mini-laptop from his jacket, "...except it's free."
"Right," Shreya closed the dorm door with lock and joined them, "So while you go and do some petty robberies, we'll-" she gestured to the rest of the group, "-actually do the task our parents sent us to do. Maybe after we take over the world you can get back to it."
"Why do you have to be so sardonic like your mother?" Jay crinkled her nose. "Not your best angle, Shreya."
Shreya frowned.
"Die, suckers!" Carlos growled at the television where he was currently playing a game. He was fighting using cylindrical devices that apparently served a virtual connector to the game. "Jay, come check this thing out. Man, it's awesome!" Jay rushed forwards and took the controllers from Carlos.
Mal rolled her eyes at the two. "Guys!" she called to them. "Do I have to remind you what we're all here for?"
"Fairy godmother, blah, blah, blah," Jay said between his punches in the game, "Magic wand, blah, blah, blah."
"This is our one chance to prove ourselves to our parents. To prove that we are evil and vicious and ruthless and cruel," and yet as Mal said those words, no one in the room could really say that she'd meant it all the way. "Yeah?"
"...yeah," the group went slowly.
"Evie, take out your mirror," Shreya instructed the blue-haired girl.
Evie nodded and moved in between Shreya and Mal with her small mirror. "Mirror, mirror on the..." but she realized that the original chant wouldn't do it for this precise circumstance and amended, "...in my hand, where is fairy godmother's wand..." she paused to think again, "...stand?"
The mirror answered by showing the group the legendary wand sitting in a protected area, but nothing more came to view.
"Now zoom out," Mal told Evie.
"Magic mirror, not so close!"
However, the mirror went too far by showing them the entire planet.
"Closer," Evie's eyes narrowed. "Closer…" little by little the mirror zoomed back in the neccessary amount.
"Can I go back to my game?" Carlos impatiently asked, receiving a prompt punch on the arm from Shreya. "But I'm on level three!"
"Stop!" Mal suddenly exclaimed, startling Evie. "It's in a museum!" the mirror was showing them a building sign but without proper addresses.
"Do we know where that is?" Shreya looked up. Carlos moved over to the laptop Jay had stolen and did his small research.
"2.3 Miles from here."
"Excellent," Shreya straightened up and nodded with Mal. "We need to go now."
"Now?" Carlos frowned and glanced back at his paused game.
"Carlos so help me I will stick you in one of those lockers we saw today!"
"Fine, fine, tonight," Carlos raised his hands and started for the door.
It was easier to sneak out of the school than anyone would have thought. Jay teased that none of the goody two-shoes of Auradon students would ever have the nerve to sneak out after curfew. It was the most probable thing. On the Isle, there was no such thing as curfews. On the contrary, after midnight was when most of the businesses opened up. There was never a street that was empty. In Auradon, the Isle teens discovered that there wasn't a soul outside. It was how they got to the museum so fast.
They came up a large case of stairs leading up to the museum's front doors.
"Check your mirror," Shreya suggested to Evie as they came up to the doors.
Evie gasped and her hand automatically flew to her face. "Is my mascara smudged?"
"Who does their mascara to go on a robbery?" Shreya thought then teasingly nudged Jay on the ribs. "So what brand do you use?"
Jay rolled his eyes. "Oh-so funny."
As soon as they peeked through the doors' windows, they saw a security guard sitting at the front desk with various security cameras. Behind the guard was a grand spinning wheel, and a familiar one at that.
"That's your mother's spinning wheel?" Jay asked, sounding and looking highly unimpressed.
"Yeah, it's kinda dorky," Carlos agreed.
"Oh I'd love to - no, no I'd pay to see you two tell that to Maleficent herself," Shreya smirked and shut the two boys right up.
It was clear that neither of the boys wanted that. Mal pulled out her spellbook and searched for a spell that would get rid of the guard for their trip inside.
"Magic spindle, do not linger. Make my victim prick a finger. Prick the finger, prick it deep. Send my enemy off to sleep." She waved a finger and suddenly, without reason, the security guard rose from his chair and moved to the spinning wheel where he pricked his finger. He slouched next to the spinning wheel and fell asleep.
"Impressive," Shreya nodded.
"I'm sure you mother's wand will be too," Mal nudged her.
Evie tried the doors but found they were still locked. Jay motioned them to get away. "Stand back!" He backtracked a good distance and consequently missed Mal spell the doors to open. And so, when Jay ran for the doors, they opened without his touch and he fell straight to the floor.
"Next time try this little word called 'patience' Jay," Shreya shook her head and followed Mal and Evie into a hallway.
Without a guard threatening to discover them, the group of Isle teens were able to maneuver through the museum at peace. They went into several rooms finding only boring things like the history of Auradon and its royal bloodlines. Eventually, they came across an actual interesting room that seemed to lead to an even bigger room. The entrance room showed a familiar story to its visitors.
"Shreya…" Evie breathed in, her eyes scanning the entire room, "...is this…?"
"Avalor," Shreya spat the name of the birthplace of her mother, as well as to Princess Elena (now Queen to her state of Avalor) and her daughter Elle.
The entire room was dedicated to showing the story of the brave princess Elena who fought against the evil sorceress Shuriki.
"So this was the place your mother took over?" Jay was looking at one section of the story, specifically that of the kingdom of Avalor (now turned into a state).
"For a long while," Shreya moved over. "She murdered princess Elena's parents with her wand and then went for Elena herself...but then that stupid amulet hid Elena for a long time."
"How'd she get out?" asked Mal.
"Some young princess found the amulet and went on a courageous trip to free her," Shreya rolled her eyes. "When Elena was out, Avalor entered a war against my mother and her followers. It lasted a couple years...in which…I was born."
"And Elle," Carlos added, but warned a very deep glare in response. "Just reminding."
"We were all born in the same year, need I remind you," Shreya gestured to them all. "My mother was the last of the villains put on the Isle. But she always said that she had the last laugh against Elena."
"Why?" frowned Jay.
"No idea, she refuses to tell me," Shreya gave a shrug.
"Hey Shreya, look at this," Evie had stopped in front of a glass display. "Is this your mother's wand?'
Inside the display was a white want broken in two pieces. However, there was also a second wand, a bit smaller than the broken one.
"Yeah, I suppose that's it," Shreya examined the wands. "But I never knew there was a second one. She never told me about it."
"Maybe it was meant to be yours," Evie suggested.
"I doubt it. My powers never manifested," Shreya distractedly said as she was still eyeing the second wand. She was a bit hurt that her mother never even bothered to mention she'd created a second wand, though the action didn't really surprise Shreya.
"Guys…" Carlos had been brought into the bigger room at the end of the current room the others were in. "Come and look."
The rest of the group followed Carlos into the far bigger room bathed in an eerie purple color. Everyone's eyes widened as each spotted a wax statue of their parent. There was Maleficent, the Evil Queen, Jafar, Cruella De Vil and Shuriki.
"Mommy?" Evie gulped at the sight of her mother standing tall and overly evil with her infamous poisonous apple. It was certainly not the side of their parents that they were used to seeing.
"I will never forget mother's day again," Carlos blinked rapidly and tore his gaze from his mother's statue.
"Ditto," Shreya was struggling to continue blinking. Her mother's wax statue was a scary one, as were the others. Shuriki stood tall and mighty holding her wand out at them with a sinister grin on her face.
"Well, the wand's not here," Jay had enough of seeing his father and turned away. "Let's bounce."
Carlos had no problem with that suggestion and followed. Evie pulled on Shreya's arm and led her out of the room.
"Mal!" Shreya called on the purple-haired girl who'd remained in her spot, staring at Maleficent. "Let's go!"
It took Mal a while but she finally rejoined the group. They hunted down the wand until they came to an upstairs hallway. The wand was seemingly the most important object in the museum since it was being held over a circular terrace with some sort of magical, security barrier around it. They hurried towards the gates in the room and went downstairs to the see the wand in their level.
Jay eyed the wand with a smuggish grin, leading everyone else to conclude what he was about to do.
"Jay…" Mal's slow voice warned.
But Jay went under the rails and reached for the wand.
"Jay, don't!"
But Jay had touched the barrier and was deflected back, over the rails and onto the floor. Unfortunately, it caused the museum's alarms to go off.
"A force field and a siren?" Carlos looked up at the flashing red lights.
"That's just a little excessive!" Jay groaned as he sat up.
"Let's go!" Shreya exclaimed and the group started into a run. If they didn't get out of there quick then the whole plan would be crushed.
They made it back to the entrance room but Carlos stayed back as he instead headed for the security desk. The guard was probably up and searching the upstairs levels, but it wouldn't be long before he returned.
"Carlos!" Mal hissed when they saw he was on the phone conversing with someone.
"No, false alarm," he was saying, easing the authorities on the other line. "It was a malfunction in the, uh, I'm 714 chip in the breadboard circuit."
"CARLOS!" Mal went again.
"Yeah. Okay. Say hi to the missus," Carlos smiled and hung up, only to turn and see the glaring faces of his friends. "What? You're welcome!" It was better to say that the alarm was false and not have everyone breathing down their necks for the attempted theft.
"Way to go, Jay!" Mal was scolding on their way back to school, beyond furious. "Now we have to go to school tomorrow!"
~0~
The next day, Shreya was the first to wake up to a rather annoying alarm preset (she assumed) by that annoying Elle. With a groan, she turned her head to meet the bright red '7:00 A.M' of her alarm clock. She sat up and rubbed her face, though the other two alarms in the room belongong to Evie and Mal were not helping make the morning a little more bearable.
"Wake up!" Shreya grabbed her pillow and threw it at Mal, successfully hitting the girl's back of the head.
Mal groaned and drew the covers over her.
"Evie!" Shreya called but the blue-haired girl remained fast asleep. Shreya knew that she wouldn't need a pillow to make Evie get up. She just needed clever words. "Evie, classes start in one hour. You're not going to have enough time for your make up!"
And like a couch spring, Evie jerked awake. "I have to get ready!"
Shreya barely contained her giggle while Evie ran around the room getting ready for the school day. Meanwhile, Mal was still lying motionless on her bed. "My God - Mal!" Shreya got out of bed and, albeit groggy, walked over to Mal and began to shake her. "We do need to get up. I've no doubt that Elle's going to come here to check on us."
"Since when do you care if someone 'checks up on us'?" Mal pushed the covers down to reveal a smirk on her face.
"Well since my mother never bothered to do it, I'd like to leave a good impression."
Mal snorted and turned to the side. "That's funny. You're funny. Now go away."
Shreya rolled her eyes and turned away, intending on getting ready herself. Evie came out from their connected bathroom looking fresh as ever in a blue and white t-shirt sporting 'fairest' in the middle with a blue leather skirt to match.
"How did you get changed so fast?" Shreya scratched her head.
Evie passed by with a smug smile. "One always has to be prepared no matter the time."
Mal waved a hand at her, apparently not quite there to deal with anything yet. She made her way into the bathroom and warned both of them not to hurry her up. Evie plopped down in front of the vanity desk near her bed and began opening up her makeup. "Shreya, do you want me to help you with your make up too?"
"Thanks Evie, but I'm not sure I'm up to be dazzling today," Shreya languidly moved over to her suitcase near her bed. Thinking they wouldn't be here for long, none of them had actually unpacked. She opened up the suitcase over her bed and began looking through her clothes.
"Well, since everyone is already going to be against us, it's better if we look our best," Evie promptly said and began to apply some blush. However, when she saw Shreya (through the mirror reflections) pull out a blue-green pair of pants, Evie automatically stopped and turned on her chair. "You are not wearing that."
Shreya raised an eyebrow. "What?"
"You're getting it all wrong," Evie got up and hurried to Shreya's side. "You're never going to find a prince wearing those," with a crinkled nose she took the pants and let it drop on the floor.
"Evie, I'm not looking for a prince. That's you, remember?"
Evie ignored Shreya and ransacked the suitcase. "Oh! This! Definitely this!" She had pulled out a blue-green, faded with black, blouse with a collar and a long tail that reached to the back of her knees. "Much better. Now pair that up with some good old fashioned pants and we're good to go."
Shreya took the blouse because of two reasons: she actually did like the blouse and she didn't want to be unappreciative of Evie's attempts to make things better for them. "Thank you, Evie," she said kindly and Evie beamed as she returned to her makeup. It was these precise moments where she could hear her mother fuming about being 'too kind' and 'not enough snark'. Shreya often battled with herself to be the rude, malicious young woman her mother wanted her to be.
Often times, she lost...and it annoyed her to no end.
~ 0 ~
School at Auradon Prep was nothing compared to what the Isle had. Whereas in the Isle, most teachers could care less if their students paid attention, Auradon made sure teachers were engaging with students at all times. Classrooms were actually stocked with the necessary supplies that would help to learn. That much the group could tell from their first classes that day. Now, they were being forced to undergo their Goodness Remedial in the library...and just them.
Fairy Godmother stood at the front with a chalk board behind her. Although there were plenty of empty tables to sit at - considering no one wanted to be around them - Evie, Shreya and Mal sat at one table while Jay and Carlos sat at the one beside them. Fairy Godmother was doing her best to make her lesson understandable as she read each and every question out loud, slowly, and even wrote them on the board for the students to see.
"If someone hands you a crying baby, do you: A, curse it? B, lock it in a tower? C, give it a bottle? Or D, carve out its heart?" she looked hopeful at the students, missing the fact that Mal wasn't even paying attention as she sketched a wand on her notebook. Shreya bit her lip, forcing herself to keep her hands on the table. Eventually, Evie raised a hand. "Evie?"
Evie's eyes flickered to the board, but there was ditzy look on her face that told Shreya she was about to mess it up on purpose. "What was the second one?"
Oh, Evie. Shreya knew that Evie was actually smart but often pretended not to know much in order to get things done for her, as well as to attract the attention of some folks. Now that they were in Auradon, where actual princes lived, she was sure that Evie would kick it up a notch.
Fairy Godmother's face fell in discouragement. "Oh, okay. Anyone else?" Shreya regretfully raised her hand (yet again). "Shreya?"
"C, you would give the baby a bottle."
Fairy Godmother beamed. "Correct again!"
"You are on fire, girl!" Carlos said, sincerely surprised.
Mal looked up from her drawing, bored, but with a matter-of-fact tone. "She's just picking the one that's not fun," she shrugged.
Shreya coughed awkwardly. "Right, that's how I was choosing." Mal glanced at her oddly, sensing this wasn't quite the truth. Shreya had, in reality, been going through it logically and, shamefully, thinking of how to be kind. If her mother knew about this...Shreya shivered inwardly. She was glad her mother was far away at the moment.
"Ooh, that makes so much sense," Jay gave a tilt of his head.
A squeak drew the group's attention to a girl coming towards them. She was Jane, and quite terrified of the attention she was receiving. She hid behind her clipboard and squeaked again as she passed by the group's tables.
"Oh, hello, dear one," Fairy Godmother greeted her.
"Hi. Elle was meant to come in but...but she had things to do..." Jane glanced back at the Isle teens, "You, um, you need to sign off on early dismissal for the coronation."
Fairy Godmother took the clipboard from Jane and introduced her to the other teens. "Everyone here remembers my daughter, Jane?"
Jane's eyes widened, and her face drained of color. "Mom, no!" she whispered frantically.
"It's okay," her mother patted her on the arm. "Jane, this is everyone."
The group sent her smirks, but for Jane it might as well have been guns. She felt her breath leave and nearly passed out there and then. "H-hi," she managed to croak. She received the clipboard back, signed, with shaky hands and started her departure down the aisle of tables. "That's okay, don't mind me. As you were..." she squeaked again when she passed the group's tables then dashed out of there.
Mal smirked and watched after Jane. Oh, there was a plan brewing.
"Ahem," Fairy Godmother clapped her hands together. "Let's continue. You find a vial of poison. Do you: A, put it in the king's wine? B, paint it on an apple? Or c, turn it over to the proper authorities?"
Shreya sat on her hands so as to not answer anymore questions. Carlos raised a hand, intending on following what they thought Shreya was doing to answer correctly, but Jay pulled his hand down abruptly and answered.
"C: you turn it over!"
"I was gonna say that," Carlos frowned at Jay.
"But I said it first!" Jay mocked him and took Carlos in a head hold, doing a noogie which somehow led to both boys getting on their table to fight.
Fairy Godmother couldn't look more helpless as the two boys continued fighting back and forth. Shreya, Mal and Evie rolled their eyes. They were so used to it.
"Who said it first, huh?" Jay continued to tease as Carlos fought hard to get out of Jay's hold.
"Boys!" Fairy Godmother called, tapping on the podium beside her.
"You're going to need to shout harder than that," Shreya had felt bad for the woman and decided to give her some advice.
"Boys!" Fairy Godmother seemed to have listened despite the loud noises the boys were making in their fight. Both Jay and Carlos stopped to glance at their teacher. "I am gonna encourage you to use that energy on the tourney field."
Carlos blinked, slightly afraid. "Oh, no. That's okay. Whatever that is, we'll...we'll pass."
However, Carlos would find that he would not be able to evade the field.
Author's Note: Did I mention how much I frikin love this movie!? I actually rewatched the first movie again yesterday so I'm all pumped to keep writing for this one. And, also, just a reminder that I am tweaking some parts of the movie plots along with Elena of Avalor's stories.
For the Review:
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the OCs and I hope you continue to like them throughout the story! I already have like 5 chapters written ahead and I'm still going so rest assured I am continuing till the end!
Yeah, I hate that they made my favorite princess' daughter so bitchy. I'm just glad that towards the end it seemed like Audrey would be turning better! Unfortunately for the time being in this story, she's going to continue being quite mean as we've seen.
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