Felicity allowed Mismagius to go and check on Mal and Ben for her as she looked a little bored, especially since Chip wasn't around until she looked up to see familiar faces coming her way.
"Hey, Felicity!" The group smiled.
"Hi, guys!" Felicity smiled back before hugging them. "Oh, I've missed you all so much."
"We missed you too." Akito smiled back.
"Where's Mismagius?" Estelle wondered.
"Uh... Resting in my room?" Felicity grinned sheepishly and innocently.
"Where is she really?" Vincent asked.
"Okay, fine..." Felicity pouted. "I asked her to keep an eye on Ben and Mal for me. I had a feeling you'd be coming around now, so I asked her to do that while I'd come and wait for you."
"So where are they?" Estelle asked.
"I think they might be at the lake," Felicity replied. "The Press follows them almost everywhere they go."
"Man, has it been that way since we left?" Akito asked.
"I'm afraid so," Felicity sighed. "They even had dinner with Aladdin and Jasmine."
"Whoa." Emi said.
"Is that what it's like to be the Pokemon Princess?" Felicity asked Emi.
"Uh, well, Press doesn't follow me around a lot, but a lot of people do need my help when it comes to taking care of their Pokemon, almost like Nurse Joy." Emi replied.
"I'm just happy that Mal's not using magic to try and help her with everything." Akito said.
"Well... That's another thing..." Felicity replied.
"Flick, you could've mentioned this in your letter..." Estelle groaned slightly.
"Well, to be honest, I thought if I did, then you'd be nervous or freaking out during your visit," Felicity told them. "That, and... She seemed normal when I mailed out the letter."
"With the exception of...?" Vincent asked.
"Well... I'm getting a little worried about her..." Felicity said, using her key to open the door and invite them inside.
They soon came inside of the room and Bartok seemed to be sleeping as they came inside.
"What if she turns back to evil?" Felicity frowned.
"No way." Akito said.
Mismagius soon came to the window and tapped on it.
Felicity opened it to let her Pokemon inside. "How did it go?" she then asked.
"Ben found the spell book," Mismagius told Felicity. "And he kinda went all Beast on Mal when she tried to spell him."
Felicity cupped her mouth as this was exactly what she was afraid of.
"I guess she is turning back into her mother..." Akito frowned.
"But it's not easy for her here." Mismagius said.
"It seemed so nice the last time we were here." Estelle said.
"We'll get to work," Felicity said. "Once you unpack though. One of you can stay in the other bed since I don't have a roommate, I'll go get some cots for the rest of you."
"That sounds cool." Lee smiled before he saw Mal running into the school, upset.
"Felicity! Mal's on the move, and it is not pretty!" Mismagius told her trainer.
"Just what I needed..." Felicity sighed in dismay.
They soon saw Mal running into her and Evie's room.
"Is that Mal?" Akito asked.
"It can't be, she's blonde." Estelle said.
"Uh... That is Mal..." Felicity told her cousins.
"She must have used a spell on her hair." Vincent said.
"That's my best guess." Felicity replied.
They soon decided to go check on Mal as she ran off and Mal was soon shown to be dressed like she used to usually be dressed back on the Isle.
"I don't belong here," Mal sighed to herself as she was getting ready to do something. "Okay. Okay. Okay. Let's blow this popsicle stand. Yeah?" she then grabbed a helmet, went onto her motorbike and soon drove away from school.
Murkrow soon joined his trainer as he wasn't going to be left behind. Felicity brought out her mother's old hoverboard and had the others follow behind so that they could check on Mal, having a bad feeling about this.
"Okay..." Mal sighed as she brought out her spell book after riding for a while and saw Murkrow with her. "Noble steed, proud and fair, you shall take us anywhere. Okay. Whew. Please work. Oh!"
"What's she gonna do? Bike through the water?" Lee deadpanned at first. He soon saw the spell work its magic as Mal and Murkrow were now making their way over the water. "I need a lesson on magic..." he then said to the others bashfully.
Mal and Murkrow yelped at first, but they managed to make it through the barrier as they were back on The Isle of the Lost, and where Mal knew exactly where to go first.
"Watch it!" Mal called out as she passed by the people who were there.
Felicity and the others soon came by as Mal continued inside with Murkrow. There was a poster shown of the Royal Cotillion with a picture of Ben and Mal together, though it had been vandalized, especially for Mal since she had betrayed them as a Villain Kid. Mal soon saw that and decided to tear down the poster. Murkrow even pecked at it and Mal crumbled it up before tossing it aside. Mal soon parked her motorbike by the elevator and picked up a rock and threw it at a sign which warned others about flying rocks, and this opened up the staircase. Akito turned himself and the others into butterflies so that they could follow Mal to see what she was up to. They soon saw Mal going into what looked like a barber shop.
"Why would a girl go into a barber shop?" Jenny pondered.
Akito, Estelle, Felicity, and Vincent couldn't help but shudder at the name of the shop and saw Lady Tremaine's name which made them a bit nervous as that was Cinderella's step-mother and Cherry and Atticus's first enemy.
The cosmetology department looked more like a witch's house with potions brewing and many colors splattered everywhere which looked a bit messy, and there appeared to be a rather young girl who was organizing something inside of the shop.
'Who's that?' Estelle thought to herself.
The girl soon danced a bit as she began to sweep up the floor with leftover hair on the floor. A Psyduck was soon shown and seemed to be gesturing and trying to talk to the girl, but she had her headphones on.
"Mal!" The girl beamed, seeing the older girl and put her headphones down. "Is Evie back too? Oh, Psyduck, why didn't you tell me Mal was here?"
Psyduck simply sighed before telling her that he tried to tell her in his language.
Jenny couldn't help but giggle to that, it was kind of cute and funny.
"As if," Mal said about Evie. "I, um, forgot that you guys don't open 'til midnight. Place looks good."
The younger girl giggled to that as she patted her Psyduck on the head. Murkrow soon tilted his head at Psyduck. Psyduck seemed to look at Murkrow in the same way, though with Psyduck's gaze, it looked a bit foolish.
"So what is your deal?" Mal asked the girl. "Has your grandmother given you any customers yet?"
"Ah, just a witch here and there," The girl replied, revealing she was the granddaughter of Lady Tremaine. "Mostly, it's a lot of scrubbing and scouring and sweeping. Lots and lots of sweeping. Psyduck's great company though."
"When did you get a Pokemon?" Mal smiled.
"It was the strangest thing, I found him lost and alone when I had to run errands for my mother, and I was on my way back home, but I soon found him there..." The girl explained. "I decided to loan him some food since he looked hungry, and I told him to go back to his own home since I had to go to mine, but... He followed me around and I figured out that he didn't have one. So... I adopted him!"
"That was nice." Mal smiled.
"You got that Murkrow when you first went to Auradon, right?" The girl asked.
"Yeah, Dizzy," Mal smiled. "He's been with me for a while. Also, sorry about the whole Cinderella treatment."
"Yeah, she's gone from Wicked Step-Mother to Wicked Grandmother." The girl sighed.
Murkrow simply shrugged as that didn't seem much different.
"That's not really much of a switch," Mal commented to the girl. "Hey, Dizzy, you used to do Evie, right?"
"Yeah," Dizzy smiled and nodded. "I thought of the little braids."
"You have any ideas for me?" Mal then asked.
Dizzy soon took a look at Mal before touching her new hair. "The washed-out blonde with purple tips? The best of no worlds," she then commented as she had Mal sit down in the salon chair which made Psyduck jump out of it since he had been sitting right there. "You can't see where your face ends and your hair begins!"
Psyduck nodded in agreement.
"Oh, what is this, 'Bored to Death Pink'?" Dizzy asked as she checked Mal's fingernails.
Jenny giggled as she thought that Dizzy was kind of funny for her age.
"Hmm... How far can I go?" Dizzy asked.
"The works?" Mal shrugged. "I mean, whatever makes me feel like me, but, you know... Way worse."
"Yay!" Dizzy beamed as she soon took out her scissors.
Psyduck was excited for his trainer. The others began to watch as Dizzy took care of Mal, such as turning her hair back from blonde into purple again. Dizzy even cut some hair before putting the remaining amount into curlers and put her under the dryer, taking that time to do the older girl's nails.
Soon, Mal's hair was all done, but it was a little different from it was the first time Felicity and the others saw her.
'Much better.' Estelle thought to herself.
"Hey, there I am." Mal smiled.
"Viola!" Dizzy and Psyduck told her.
"Viola." Mal repeated as she brought out a tip for Dizzy.
"For me?" Dizzy beamed.
"Yeah, you earned it." Mal nodded.
Murkrow nodded in agreement. Dizzy beamed as she collected her reward only to be stopped by someone.
"Fork it over, you runt." Harry demanded.
Dizzy pouted and soon gave him the money.
"Now the rest of it." Harry then said.
Psyduck glared and tried to use Psychic. Dizzy soon opened up the cash register to take out the money while Harry kicked Psyduck away which made Emi outraged to see a Pokemon be subjected to abuse.
"Oh, thank you~" Harry smirked to Dizzy as he collected the money.
Psyduck glared as he soon used Confusion.
"Still running errands for Uma, or do you actually get to keep what you steal?" Mal mocked the pirate boy as he was about to leave while Dizzy came to comfort Psyduck.
Murkrow smirked as he found the pirate boy as a threat as much of a threat to that as a worm.
"Well, well, well," Harry examined the purple-haired girl. "What a nice surprise."
"Hi, Harry." Mal replied.
"Just wait until Uma hears you're back," Harry smirked to the girl and her Pokemon, looking a lot like Maleficent with Diablo. "She's never gonna give you back your old territory."
Murkrow began to find Harry annoying.
"Oh, well, that's okay, because I will be taking it." Mal retorted.
"Not without her permission, I bet," Harry replied. "Also, good luck getting past her new bodyguard."
"Her new bodyguard?" Mal asked out of curiosity.
"Yeah, just came from nowhere with a sister of his," Harry replied. "Calls himself Victor and her name's Vendetta. I'd watch yourself if I were you, Mal... We could hurt you~..." he then said, stroking her hair with his hook hand.
Murkrow soon used Psychic on Harry to keep him away from Mal.
"Not without her permission, I bet." Mal retorted to Harry as she took out her gum, putting it on the tip of his hook.
Murkrow glared at Harry, feeling annoyed with him, especially when he tried to touch Mal. Harry soon took the gum and chewed it off of his hook and then took his leave. Psyduck soon attacked Harry with Hydro Pump.
"Aww, Psyduck~..." Dizzy cooed to her Pokemon.
"Why does everyone I meet want to hurt me so much?!" Harry complained.
"Because your pain is funny!" Dizzy replied firmly as she comforted Psyduck who had a bruise from Harry's kick.
Harry soon went off. On the way, he pushed over some cans to make a mess and continued to leave, being as over-the-top and loony as his father in Never Land.
"Great... More sweeping..." Dizzy complained.
Psyduck soon used Psychic on the mess.
"Good, Psyduck." Dizzy smiled.
"Felicity, you and whoever else is with you can come out now." Mal said which surprised the others since they thought she didn't know that they were there.
Felicity and the others soon came out. "How'd you know we were here?" Felicity asked Mal.
"Because you've been spying on me a lot lately." Mal replied, a bit annoyed.
"I was just worried about you." Felicity frowned .
"I can take care of myself, and did you really have to bring your family along?" Mal replied.
"We wanted to see where you were going." Akito said.
"So typical..." Mal said.
"Listen, Mal, I'm your friend, and I want to help my friends when they're in trouble..." Felicity told her. "Now, come on, let's go to back to school."
"I'm not coming back," Mal told her. "I don't belong there anyway."
"Mal, what about Ben?" Lee asked. "And your friends?"
"Ben's mad at me anyway, he'll probably be better off," Mal said. "Murkrow, get them away from me." she then demanded.
"Mal, please!" Felicity frowned.
Murkrow soon did as his mistress told him to as he used Psychic on the group. The group was soon attacked which made them yelp from surprise.
Mal huffed as she then left with Murkrow while Dizzy held Psyduck close and she felt like she maybe needed to help, even if she and Mal seemed to be close friends.
Suddenly, the group ended up in the water, outside of the Isle's barrier as it was getting close to night time.
"Well, that just happened." Lee said.
Felicity frowned as she felt heartbroken.
"I guess I should've anticipated this." Akito said.
"Felicity... Are you okay?" Jenny asked.
"She... She doesn't trust me anymore..." Felicity said in depression.
"We better get back to Auradon." Estelle said.
Felicity pouted as they began to swim back to the school.
"Felicity..." Mismagius frowned. "Don't let her get to you."
"Yeah, she's just going through a lot." Estelle added.
Felicity just sighed and they soon came out of the water and they went back to her dorm to unpack and settle in.
They soon saw Evie and the others about to leave.
"Guys...?" Felicity frowned.
"Hey, kid, go to sleep... You've had a long day..." Jay told her so he wouldn't worry her, knowing how she could get.
"Jay, what's going on?" Felicity asked, seeing right through him.
"Don't worry about it, you've had a big day..." Jay said as he pushed her away. "I'm just trying to look out for ya, you're like a sister to me."
Felicity frowned as she had a bad feeling she knew where they were going.
"Lock your doors and have a good night." Jay smiled and walked off, shutting the doors behind him.
"Aw, do you really care about her?" Evie smirked.
"What? No!" Jay scoffed and crossed his arms. "Well... She is like a sister to me... I just don't want her to worry."
They soon left the school, not knowing that a certain vampire girl was going with them, alone this time.
"Are the cots comfortable?" Felicity asked. "I can get you guys some water..."
"Felicity, we'll be fine," Estelle smiled. "It's so nice of you to care about us this much though."
"Yeah." Emi nodded.
"It's really nice of you." Jenny added.
Felicity smiled to them.
"We had a bit of a long day, so if you don't mind, we'd like to get some sleep." Akito said tiredly.
"All right, you guys get some sleep." Felicity smiled to them.
The group soon went to sleep, and where that was her cue to catch up with Jay, Evie, Carlos, and Ben. The group came together and they had left their Pokemon and Dude behind back in school.
"I normally don't like doing this, but I may need to..." Felicity sighed to herself before changing into a bat to go and follow them.
Unknown to them, Dude seemed to follow them as well.