It's Chemistry
Chapter Six
Dedication: I'm overjoyed at all of the positive reception that this story is getting, and it is already shaping up to probably one of my more popular stories, if not the most popular. And with each review, favorite and follow that this story gets, I'm motivated to continue. I absolutely love the movie, and this is the first story in a while that I've had this much muse for to get 5 chapters written in a few days. So this chapter is dedicated not just to the ones who have replied to the fifth chapter, but to everyone who has reviewed.
Mal slowly opened her eyes and looked around. It seemed like she was in some kind of old time dungeon, but it was too dark to make anything out. One thing that she was able to make out was a figure hunched over in the cell next to her. She couldn't remember anything before the green smoke, but she knew that her mother was involved... somehow. When she tried to take a step towards the other person's cell, the other person was pulled away from her. As her eyes started to adjust to very dim lighting, Mal realized that her wrists were in shackles behind her back, and that the chain that the shackles were attached to ran across the ceiling and to the far side of the other cell, to where it was connected to another pair of shackles that were bound around the other person's wrists.
That's when it hit her. All of the images from hers and Ben's date; her finding Evie and Doug asleep on Evie's bed when she and Ben had gotten back from their date; her and Ben going back to his room and him telling her about his parents; him trying to kiss her after they had argued where she had told him the entire truth, only to be forcefully pulled away, and then engulfed in the green smoke that could only belong to her mother, and then seeing the same colored smoke engulf Ben. This was all Mal's fault. She had told Ben the truth, and now they were both prisoners somewhere that her mother could easily get to them if she needed to, or even wanted to.
"Ben?" Mal called out.
"Mal? What's going on?" Ben asked.
"My mother kidnapped us." Mal said.
Carlos had no idea if there would actually be anything that could help him, Jay, Evie and Doug find Mal and Ben in Ben's room, but it was worth a try. Audrey and the others might have looked in Ben's room, but they weren't the children of villains, and if both Ben and Mal were missing, there was, in Carlos' mind, a good chance that Mal's mother had something to do with the two teens' disappearance. And with that there was, again in Carlos' mind, a good chance that he, Jay and/or Evie would be able to see something that the others wouldn't have seen.
"Carlos, what exactly are we looking for?" Doug asked once the four of them had reached Ben's room.
"Signs that Mal's mom is involved in Ben and Mal's disappearance." Carlos said as he slowly started to look around the room intently.
"What makes you think that she's involved?" Jay asked as he went to the opposite side of the room as Carlos.
"As much as Mal doesn't want to disappoint her mother, I could see that she wasn't 100% wanting to give Ben that love spell." Evie commented.
"Ben's under a love spell?" Doug asked.
"Yes. It was in the chocolate chip cookie that she offered him before the game the other day." Evie replied.
"E!" Jay and Carlos exclaimed together.
"I'm not going to hide something like that from my boyfriend, so back off!" Evie snapped.
"Wait, wait, wait. Boyfriend? When did this happen?" Jay asked.
"This morning." Evie and Doug replied.
"Was this after I barged in on you two last night/early this morning?" Carlos asked with a smirk.
"Yes Carlos, it was after that. It was when we woke up this morning. After we back to sleep once you left." Evie bit out with a half-hearted glare.
"Dude... you slept with Evie last night?" Jay asked Doug.
"Okay, first of all, it's none of your business Jay. And second of all, even if it was your business, mine and Evie's relationship status is not what's important right now. Right now, we need to find Ben and Mal and, if they are in trouble, save them." Doug replied.
"OF COURSE!" Evie exclaimed as she started to dig around in her purse.
"Did you find something?" Carlos asked.
"No... But I just remembered what we can use to find them." Evie said as she pulled her magic mirror out of her purse.
"Why didn't we think of that?" Jay asked glancing over at Carlos.
"Because we aren't as smart as Evie is." Carlos said with a shrug.
"Magic Mirror, in my hand, show me where to find Mal and Ben, across this land." Evie said with as much of a steady voice as she could muster.
"Where are they? And was I right in assuming that Mal's mom has something to do with it?" Carlos asked.
"Oh my god... they aren't in Auradon... but she was involved." Evie said as tears started to fill her eyes.
"If they aren't in Auradon, where are they then?" Doug asked.
"They're in the dungeon of Maleficent's place on the island." Evie said as she a small cry was emitted from her throat.
"Are you sure it's the island and not her old fortress?" Doug asked slowly.
"She's sure... the map is pointing to the island." Carlos said in a sad voice as he looked between Jay and Evie. "We have to go back to the island to save them, but would we be able to leave again once we do?" He asked in a small voice.
"What are you all doing in our son's bedroom?" King Adam asked in a booming voice, causing the four teens to turn around in surprise.
"You're Majesties." Doug said with bow as he indicated that the others should do the same thing.
"Doug, what is going on here? Fairy Godmother said that no one has seen or heard from Ben all day." Queen Belle commented.
"Ben has been taken, as has Maleficent's daughter... by Maleficent herself, although we do not know how or why. And as far as why we are in Ben's room, it's because we were trying to find any trace that they might have been in here before they were kidnapped." Doug explained.
"Oh for goodness sake Doug, we've known you your whole life, you don't have to continue bowing to us." Queen Belle said with a warm smile, but one that didn't reach her eyes, she was clearly worried about her son.
"You're Majesties, we know where Ben and Mal are, but we are not sure how exactly we would get there to save them and then get back." Evie said as she glanced up quickly, but stayed in her curtsy.
"And where are they?" King Adam asked.
"They're on the Isle of the Lost, being held captive in the dungeon that Maleficent fashioned herself underneath her place of residence." Evie explained.
"What is the confusion then? You three will return to the island in exchange for our son, and then all four of you will remain there, permanently." King Adam said.
"Adam, sweetheart, they are here due to a decree made by Ben, not you, only he would be able to send them back permanently." Queen Belle said to her husband before turning back to face the four teenagers. "We shall get you there to save Ben and Mal, and then we will make sure that all of you come back." She said in such a way that gave her husband no room to argue before they turned to start walking away.
"You're Majesties?" Carlos asked.
"Yes?" King Adam said as he and his wife turned around.
"There's no way of getting us there without our parents finding out, is there?" Carlos questioned.
"I'm afraid not. It has to be made known when someone from Auradon is going to be arriving on the island, and that announcement is made to everyone in Auradon as well as the Isle of the Lost." Queen Belle replied with an apologetic smile. "Please inform Fairy Godmother know when you are ready to go, and she'll let us know." She added before she and her husband actually walked away.
"Are we actually going to come back if we go there?" Jay asked sullenly.
"We have to come back." Evie said as she looked over at Doug. "We are not going to leave Mal and Ben on the island, and we are not going to stay once we save them. Mal deserves to be happy, we all do. I mean Carlos, you want to ask Jane out, right? And Doug and I just became boyfriend and girlfriend today, I'm not going to leave that behind so soon after it's begun. And Jay... I'm not sure if you've found someone that you want to be with or not yet, but you won't know if there's someone here that is willing to give you a chance if you were to stay on the island after we save Ben and Mal." She said once she looked back at her friends. "We are going to go save our friends, and then we are all going to come back to Auradon and have our own chances to have a happily ever after." She finished.
"I'm not letting you go without me Evie." Doug said as he took both of Evie's hands in his.
"It's too dangerous for you to go Doug." Evie replied.
"Do you remember what I told you this afternoon about what makes a guy a good boyfriend?" Doug asked.
"Of course I do." Evie said slowly.
"There's one part that I didn't mention." Doug continued. "When a guy's girlfriend is about to do something that is potentially dangerous, he goes with her to make sure she stays safe... even if she's with her two male best friends." He finished.
"Doug, I'm not saying that it's dangerous for me or the guys... it's dangerous for you." Evie replied.
"How would it be dangerous for me?" Doug inquired.
"We've never had the child of a hero come to the island before, there are a number of things that could go wrong if you come, and I don't want something to happen to you." Evie explained.
"And I don't want something to happen to you. I would never forgive myself if I let you go back there without me. Besides, I will have to meet your mother eventually, right?" Doug asked.
"I was hoping that it would be through a computer screen." Evie said softly.
"Why would you want it to be through a computer screen?" Doug asked.
"Carlos, Jay, can we have some privacy please?" Evie asked before turning back to Doug and waited for her friends to leave the room before continuing. "The island is not the best place to be, even for us. It's one thing for you to meet my mother via video chat, and for me to tell you what life was like there, but it is an entirely different thing when you meet my mother in person and see what the island is like first hand. I don't want to subject you to that." She explained.
"Evie... when two people care enough about each other to agree to be in a relationship, their pasts come with them. If one or both of us tries to hide our past from the other, the relationship won't work." Doug said.
"I just don't want to lose you Doug... I have no idea how the other villains and their kids might react to you being there." Evie said sadly.
"Well, the list of villains that don't like my family would only include your mom, so there shouldn't be too many villains that we would need to worry about caring that I'm there." Doug reasoned.
"It's not just my mom though... while she doesn't want to admit it, she has friends that would side with her over you and your family. I know that they are there, but I don't know who they are. You never know who you can really trust between the generations." Evie explained.
"There's no way that we are going to compromise on this, is there?" Doug asked.
"I don't think so. I appreciate your concern for me, and any other time, I would want you to be with me, but specifically going to the island is something that I don't want you there for." Evie said with a sigh.
"Okay... I won't go. But know that I'll be here waiting for you when you get back." Doug said with a small kiss before he led Evie out into the hall and over to where Jay and Carlos stood waiting.
"Is everything okay?" Carlos asked looking back and forth between the couple.
"Yeah. We decided that I will not be going with you guys, so please keep Evie safe for me." Doug said looking to both guys.
"Of course. Evie is always safe with us." Jay said with his arm folded across his chest. He saw Evie, Mal and Carlos as the younger siblings he didn't have, and he was already upset about Mal being kidnapped by her own mother that we was not about to let something happen to his other sister.
"Let's go let Fairy Godmother know that we are ready to go." Evie commented as she turned towards her friends.
"I'll see you soon Princess." Doug with a quick kiss on the cheek and a hug.