Arrival.
Chapter 4 of Whose Idea was This?
Italics means Avalon is casting a spell, Bold Italics means she's writing in Thought Log
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Avalon closed the window beside her as the limo pulled up to a large… er… castle.
"Wow… So big…" She mumbled as she looked out at the castle. She glanced at the Isle Kids and wondered if she should point it out to them. Deciding not to, she looked out the window again.
The limo came to a stop in front of a crowd. A few faces stood right in front. Like Ben, Audrey and Fairy Godmother with her clouds of stagnant silver magic floating lazily around her.
She opened the door and stepped out quickly, shouldering her bag.
"Yo…" She greeted them, giving a small wave while the boys tumbled out of the limo. She rolled her eyes and stepped away from them.
"Hey Avalon, glad you could make it." Ben said as Fairy Godmother greeted the other four and introduced them to Ben. Audrey got quite upset when she didn't use Ben's full name and title.
"Thank you for the invitation. Mother was excited to see me get included. I see Ducky hasn't changed much since the last party I went to." She said while she and Ben watched Audrey, whom Avalon had called Ducky, brutally reject the blue girls claim at royalty.
"No… Du- Audrey hasn't." Ben chuckled as she caught and stopped himself from calling her Ducky also.
She smiled. When she was younger she had had a small crush on Ben. However, she'd grown out of it and now only saw him as a good friend.
Ben turned his attention to the other new students saying, "This is Audrey."
"Princess Audrey. His girlfriend, right Bennie-Boo?" Audrey smiled taking hold of Ben's hand.
"Ben and Aubrey are going to show you all around and I'll see you on Monday." Fairy Godmother said smiling. Then she added, "The doors of wisdom are never shut! But the library hours are from eight to eleven and as you may have heard, I have a thing about curfews. Oh and Avalon, I'm still having tea with your mother on Wednesday."
"Great…" Avalon cringed as Fairy Godmother left with the school band following. Her mother and Fairy Godmother had a standing tea get together. A bi-monthly meeting that between acquaintances.
Ben then came forward to shake hands and give his own welcome speech. Only for the purple dressed magic girl to interrupt with, "Or the day you showed four peoples where the bathrooms are."
'Four? What am I, chopped liver?' Avalon thought.
"A little bit over the top?" Ben asked.
"A little bit more than a little bit." The girl said.
"So much for my first impression." Ben laughed.
"You're Maleficent's daughter, aren't you? Yeah, you know what, I totally do not blame for your mother trying to kill my parents and stuff. Oh! My Mom's Aurora, Sleeping -"
"Beauty. We get it Ducky. Shut your trap or I'll shut it for you." She interrupted Audrey loudly. Audrey's fake smile fell as she looked over at her.
"Oh. It's you. I thought you and your mother were shipped off to the Isle."
"And I thought you grew into that massive head of yours. Turns out we were both wrong Ducky."
"Stop calling me Ducky!" Audrey shrieked.
"Okay! How about a tour?" Ben said before leading them toward the castle. Avalon ignored what he had to say about the castle and the group in general when they got distracted by a statue of King Beastie.
She made it inside first and looked around as she waited. The foyer was spacious and well lit with beautiful wood furnishings and a blue carpet.
"So… you guys have a lot of magic here in Auradon? Like wands and things like that?"
She turned at that question and saw the Isle Kids, Ben and Audrey coming in.
"Yeah, it exists of course, but It's pretty much retired. Most of us here are just ordinary mortals." Ben answered.
"Who happen to be Kings and Queens." The leader of the Isle Kids commented.
"That's true! Our royal blood goes back hundreds of years. Then there's Avalon and her mother..."Audrey trailed off and turned to look at her.
"Whose Avalon's mother?" The blue girl asked.
Avalon sighed and said, "My mother is the enchantress that cursed King Beast. Mother… and I… are pretty much the only magic users to still use our magic."
She looked shyly at the floor as they stared at her.
Ben vanished momentarily and returned with a vaguely familiar boy in glasses and a band uniform.
"This is Doug. He's going to help you with your class schedule s and show you the rest of the dorms. I'll see you later, okay, and if there is anything you need, feel free to-"
"Ask Doug." Audrey said, cutting Ben off before pulling him away.
"Hi guy's, I'm Dopey's son. As in Dopey, Doc, Bashful, Happy, Grumpy, Sleepy… Heigh ho…" Doug wheezed, interrupting himself at the sight of the blue girl.
"Evie, Evil Queen's daughter." The blue girl told him.
"So, uh…" Avalon tuned him out and wandered off on her own.
She pulled her water bottle from her handbag and drank what was left. Wiping away any water dribbles as she dropped the empty bottle into a nearby trash can.
Adjusting her bag, she continued her exploration of sorts. The halls all looked the same to her, wood walls and the carpet that had been in the foyer transitioned into hardwood floors with doors and flowers and royal paintings scattered around.
"Wonder which room is mine…" She mumbled to herself with a sigh.
"Avalon?" Someone asked timidly from behind her.
She blinked and turned, looking at her was a familiar face. Dressed in pale blue and pretty in her own way, Jane stood with wispy silver magic clinging to her.
"Hey! There's my favorite fairy!" She smiled and she jogged over hugging Fairy Godmother's daughter. Pulling back she asked, "Can you help me find my dorm? It would royally suck if I have to look on my own."
"Sure. So how was the trip here? You know with the villain's kids?" Jane asked as she began to lead her.
"Surprisingly quiet. I sassed Maleficent's spawn and I guess the four of them went into shock." She answers as Jane lead the way through the halls.
"Wh-What?!" Jane squeaked, worried.
Avalon giggled and kept track of where Jane lead her, to avoid getting lost. Calmly she said, "Relax. She's just a fairy. What's the worst that could happen?"
"Avalon, she's an evil fairy. Who knows what she'll -"
"Okay, I'm going to stop you right there. Maleficent is an evil fairy. Her daughter might not be. Really Jane, we are not our parents. None of us are. Not even them!" She raised her voice slightly.
"Right… Sorry. I didn't mean to imply that anyone was." Jane apologized as she looked down at the floor.
They then walked in silence as neither knew what to say. It wasn't new for Avalon to be against judging others. But she didn't usually raise her voice.
After a little while Jane stopped in front of a door labeled 'Avalon".
"This is your room."
"Thank you for showing me the way." She shyly said, opening the door. Her new room was about that size of her room back at home, with about the same things in it; a single bed, a dresser, and a desk with a few shelves above it. She could help but ask, "What did this used to be a closet?"
"Actually it was. Your mother, apparently, insisted that you would want something less extravagant than the other rooms."
"Well… She's not wrong." Avalon smiled and eyed her new furniture. Her bed was a pastel pink and white canopy bed. Her desk had four drawers and it, her dresser, floors and the walls was the same warm tone wood as the rest of Auradon prep. Then she noticed her duffel on the bed and a dark grey radiator under her desk. "That feels like a fire hazard…"
"I'll let mom know."
"No need. Time to re-decorate. Do it fast, Do it right, make this room how I like." She recited with a flourish of her left hand. Then she pointed to the wall her desk was on and added, "Wood to stone, make it right, so it won't burst into flames."
As she said the spell she focused on what she wanted. And, before her and Jane's eyes it happened. The canopy vanished while the blankets became a deep green and black. Her dresser vanished and the desk moved to where it had it had been and the wood of the wall behind the radiator became stone.
"Much better." Avalon grinned dropping her handbag onto the bed.
"You have to teach me that spell!"
"Huh?" She and Jane jumped and turned around.
Across the hall Evie and Maleficent's daughter was gaping at what they'd just seen.
"Um… I have to go. Later Avalon."
"Yeah, later Jane." Avalon gave a small nod to Jane as she left.
"Teach me that spell." The purple girl demanded as she and Evie came across the hall.
Avalon's lips twitched, "Say please." She actually enjoyed watching the girls growing agitation.
"Ugh! Fine. Please teach me that spell."
"Well, now that you've asked nicely. Sure. But it's really easy. I could just write it down for you. And you'll probably only need the general spell without the addition I used for my one wall."
"Sounds good." The girl said and after a nudge from Evie she adds, "Oh, I'm Mal."
"Avalon. Anywhere you want me to write it down?"
"Yeah." Without looking away from her, Mal clicked her fingers. Then she ordered, "E, book."
"On it!" Evie rapidly agreed before running into their room.
"Wow, look at her fetch. Does she roll over too?" Avalon joked.
"If I need her to." Mal answered seriously.
"Got it!" Evie exclaimed as she came back, holding a brown leather book. She held it out to Avalon.
She took the book and gave it a good look. There was a dragon made of bronze or maybe aged gold on the cover and olive green smoke that only she saw wafted from the pages.
The smoke was suffocating and made her eyes water.
She sat it on her desk and got her pen from her handbag. Uncapping it, she leaned over her desk and opened the book. The smoked suffocating nature came from the dark spells within. She gulped and turned to a page in the back.
Quickly she wrote down the spell with tips from casting it. Just things like, pictured what you want clearly. Decide what it is before you begin to cast. Don't be easily distracted.
When she was done she closed the book and handed it to Mal, placing her pen on her desk. "There you go. Redecorate to your wicked little hearts content."
"I will. Com on Evie." Mal smirked as she took the book and Evie back across the hall.
With the book at a distance from her she breathed deeply feeling normal again.
She closed the door to her room. Then she opened her duffel and, after folding them neatly, she placed her clothes onto the shelves. She had three shelves and not all that many clothes. So she put undergarments on the top, shirts on the middle and pants on bottom.
She hung her toiletries on the handle of her door.
Then, her empty duffel went under her bed and she moved her handbag to her desk. She pulled Thought Log out and placed it beside her pen, opening it up.
Picking up her pen she wrote-
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Dear Thought Log,
Well I'm here. In my new room. I've spruced it up a bit so it's not that bad. But before I did it was a pastel pink fire hazard.
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Anyway I found out why that purple girls magic was so suffocating! And good news, it wasn't her.
Bad news, it was from an ancient dark spell book that I'm assuming she'll have with her quite often.
Think anyone will notice if I wear a mask or something to help against that?
Yea?
Man, sometimes I really hate fairy magic. It's always trying to influence others. Good magic like that of Fairy Godmother's and the feather brained Flora, Fauna and Merryweather's is passive aggressive with the darker stuff is much more aggressive...
Each trying to force itself on people.
Great visual, isn't it?
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I now know three of the four Isle Kids names; the harmless ones, Carlos and Evie and the one with magic, Mal.
They seem like an interesting bunch. Well them and their gorgeous friend.
Of course 'friend' is being used lightly here as, from what I've heard, Villain's and, by extension, their kids have sidekicks and minions not friends.
Not that I judge people based on their parents. Honestly I hate when people do that. Why can't they just give others a real chance?
It's a habit that really bothers me and it's right under being a jerk because their parents are so and so.
That's probably why I don't like Ducky. Er... Princess Audrey, daughter of Philip and Aurora aka Briar Rose aka Sleeping Beauty. I swear she'd introduced herself like that if she didn't know that people would cut her off right away.
Now, not that talking about Ducky isn't fun... Actually it really isn't, so onto a topic that really is.
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My birthday's tomorrow.
It's going to be the first one I spend away from home and mom.
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She took a moment to stop writing and touched the locket that hung around her neck, then she went back to writing.
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Maybe it will go well?
I don't know. I may not even celebrate at all.
Thinking about it after dealing with people is exhausting...
Later
-Avalon