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The Isle classes are quite different than Auradon classes. Some of the basic classes of Auradon were Life Skills Without Magic, Magical History, Basic Chivalry, History of Auradon, Mathematics, Grammar, etc. They were all simple subjects that Audrey knew the subject of.
Isle classes seemed a little complicated. Harriet tried to explain everything to her, but even she had trouble with some:
Weird Science: Taught by the wizard Yen Sid. The only hero to be amongst the staff of the school, as King Beast wished to have someone help the students with formerly magical parents adapt to more modern methods. It teaches how to use technology, since magic is disabled on the island. Yen Sid often quotes Clarke's Law to his class - "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Selfishness 101/"Selfies": Taught by Mother Gothel. She is amongst many villains who were revived and imprisoned. She is always 30 minutes late, annoyed the students are there before her. The class would study photos of villains, and their homework would included taking their own photos.
Selfies Seminar: Also taught by Mother Gothel. Only some of the people out of her other class are allowed to take this class.
Advanced Vanities: It is unknown who teaches this class or what its specifics are.
Evil Schemes and Nasty Tricks: Taught by Lady Tremaine, the Wicked Stepmother. She encourages the students to plot better than the previous generation did, giving the assignment of year-long plotting to win an award.
Enrichment: A class that teaches about thievery. It has many guest lecturers, such as the headmaster. Mother Gothel and Cruella's exploits are some of those that are mentioned.
PE: A class that runs basic physical fitness. The class usually runs the length of the tomb.
Audrey's schedule was Evil Schemes and Nasty Tricks, "Selfies", Weird Science, Enrichment, Selfies Seminar, Advanced Vanities, and PE at the end of the day.
"There should be no problems with your classes." Harriet insisted as she saw the schedule. "Just stay in the back, preferably in one of the fives' old spots so don't cause any trouble, and lay low. I will walk you from class to class so you know where to sit. Don't leave a classroom unless Anthony or I am with you. If you do end up leaving, go straight to Lady Tremaine's classroom and don't leave till one of us get there."
"Just for today or. . . .?"
"Let's wait until the day ends," Harriet suggested. "If you think you'll be able to guide yourself, we won't walk with you. Sound good?"
The two somewhat-friends silently walked to Lady Tremaine's classroom. Audrey was surprised once again to see so many villain children in their seats when class wouldn't start for another ten minutes. Mal, who was sitting on the edge of Lady Tremaine's desk, noticed the princess's look and said, "Some of the children are trying to adapt to an Auradon life-style in case they one day get a chance of going there. The students here will probably be the ones who will get along with you most. Just sit at my old seat and you'll be fine in this class."
Harriet waved 'good-bye' to Audrey and Mal before heading to her own class. Audrey just stared at her cauldron, not wanting to draw any attention to herself. The time went by slowly and after a couple minutes after the bell rang when everyone was finally in the room, Lady Tremaine began her class.
The lecture was actually pretty interesting. Audrey paid attention to it because she could actually understand it the whole time, unlike some classes in Auradon. It wasn't until half-way through the class that some kid in the back asked, "Why is Mal here?"
As though she already had an answer at the ready, Mal explained, "I'm here to figure out which kids deserve to be on the mainland, Auradon. I'll be here every other day for about a month and then some kids will be going to Auradon after that month is up."
"Is that why the spoiled new chick is here?" Someone with frizzy hair (Audrey assumed that was Ginny Gothel) questioned arrogantly. "Is she supposed to help you or something?"
Mal glared at her as she forcefully said through gritted teeth, "Or something."
A spark seemed to ignite in Ginny's cold dark eyes. "She's being punished, isn't she? What did the spoil brat do? Ask for too many things and her parents wanted to teach her not to be so greedy?"
Somehow, Audrey was able to keep her cool, but Mal's eyes glowed their dangerous hue and warned, "You better watch your mouth Gothel. Whatever you can affect your life in Auradon."
Ginny sorted in laughter. "Yeah, right. Like I'm ever going there with you and the spoiled brat-"
"That's not my name." Audrey turned herself around to face the rude girl that was talking crap about her. "My name is Audrey, daughter of Queen Aurora and King Philip, which makes me a princess."
Ginny raised an eyebrow in amusement. Leaning forward on her cauldron, she carefully spoke, "Not on the Isle. You are no better than anyone here except for Mal. Her title remains. Yours-"
"That's enough!" Lady Tremaine interrupted/ordered. "You are here to learn, not to argue. Got it?"
Ginny raised her eyebrows again mischievously before Audrey turned back to the front, her mind still lingering on the Gothel's comment.
The rest of the day went by a lot better than first hour. Either Anthony or Harriet walked her to class each hour. Some of the villain kids were kind enough to show her which seat was empty and tried to help her with a couple assignment or class work.
After her last class (PE, which wasn't actually wasn't that bad), Audrey ended up roaming around the school. She waited in the gym for a few minutes, but neither one of the love-birds came for her. She thought it was odd, but decided nothing could go wrong since she already knew the basic layout of the school.
Many students seemed to have gathered in between the second and third basement floor, mainly at the start of the dragon statue. A teenage girl, who bore a striking resemblance to Jay, was chained to one of the statues leg. She was on her knees, her body facing the statue while her back was facing a teacher that held a foreign object that Audrey has never seen before. The girl appeared to have been forced to shed her jacket because it laid a few inches away from her feet.
Once the teacher raised the object high over his head did Audrey realize what was going on. She gasped in horror and disbelief as the object was brought down, but instead of making contact with the girl's back, it wrapped around someone's arm, Mal's arm, who decided to intervene.
The teacher smiled cruelly and evilly. "Well, well, well. Is the Lady of the Court volunteering to be whipped instead of this peasant?"
As an answer, Mal uncuffed the other girl's hands, shed her own jacket, and chained herself to the statue. Going to her knees, Mal asked the girl, "How many do you have?"
The girl reluctantly answered with a small voice, "Thirteen."
"Damn it Jade!" Mal cursed. "Quit getting in trouble!"
"It's because I'm kind that I get whipped," 'Jade' muttered loud enough for Audrey to hear.
Before Mal could even make a retort, the object struck her back hard causing her shirt to rip and skin to break. Audrey gasped, placing a hand to cover her mouth to avoid more noise to go through as Mal arched her back in pain, but didn't utter a sound.
After the fourth strike, one of the kinder villain kids (Hadie, Hades's son) noticed the princess and her distress. He quickly dragged her away from the scene and to Lady Tremaine's classroom where Harriet, Anthony, and Lady Tremaine herself was waiting for her.
"She saw the punishment," he informed the trio. "She saw almost half of it before I realized she was there and dragged her away."
"Who was it today?" Harriet wondered.
"Jade, as usual," Hadie answered like that was normal, "but Mal volunteered for her."
"Shit." Harriet cursed once the boy left the room to see if it ended yet. "Audrey-"
"What kind of punishment is that?" Audrey shouted hatefully. "You get whipped for doing something wrong or getting in trouble. How do they even decide how much to whip them?"
"We don't know," Anthony admitted. "This punishment began after Evie started going to school here. One day she was going to be whipped, but Mal took her place because 'a princess doesn't need to be whipped'. From that day, Jay volunteered for males and Mal volunteered for females, until they left for Auradon. Now we all volunteer because of their example. Males volunteers for males and females volunteers for females. The only exception to that rule is relatives can volunteer for each other if they're the opposite gender. I volunteer for my cousins all the time."
"This isn't right!" Audrey deduced in anger. "They shouldn't be allowed to do something so cruel!"
"Honey, what do you expect?" Lady Tremaine questioned. Placing a calm hand over hers, she stated, "This is the Isle of the Lost, not Auradon."
Cliffhanger!