Octavia and Elizabeth were in their dorm room. It was around night time and Elizabeth was checking herself in the mirror while Octavia was reading a book.
"Hey, O, how are you so skinny?" The pirate asks her roommate.
Never before has Elizabeth asked her about looks. It certainly confused the sea witch. "What are talking about? We only got fed once a day on the island and I'm always this thin."
"I'm just wondering how come I can't be thin." Elizabeth murmured.
Oh great, Octavia thought. She never expected Elizabeth to be worried about her looks. For crying out loud, The girl wears a corset and leather boots. "Why do you wanna be thin? Is it because of that Jack guy?"
"No!" She quickly denied it. "I'm just wondering how come I'm so fat. I don't even eat that much."
"You're not fat, Liz. You got more of a body than I do. I got the body figure of a stick and you got the shape of a hourglass."
Elizabeth smiles. "Thanks, O. To be honest, you're not a total psychotic sea hag."
"Oh, thanks," Octavia replies sarcastically.
At that moment, Gus and Garion walked into their room. "We got something," Garion says to the girls. "I got to Evie's mirror and it showed me where Maleficent is."
"Spill the beans, Dipthong," Octavia happily exclaims. "Where is she?"
"Maleficent is being held in a glass container at a museum," he informs them. "That museum is a few blocks away. We can go now and check it out."
Elizabeth rolls her eyes. "We can't, guys. We have hall monitors and the windows have alarm systems. We'll get caught."
While all hope was lost, Gus figures something out. "Wait a minute. Octavia, our history class is having a short field trip there. We can get to Maleficent!"
"You're right, Gus," she says. "That's perfect. We don't have to sneak in or anything. All we have to do is somehow block the security cameras long enough to get to Maleficent."
"I already got that." Garion opens his bag and hands his brother a tablet. "Gus, this tablet has a kill switch for all the cameras. When the time is right, I want you to type in the code: 8113702."
In order to remember it, Gus grabs a marker and writes it down on his palm. "Will that surely kill the cameras?" He asked.
"Not only that, but it'll cancel the alarm systems." He informs him. "So we're seriously going to do this?"
Elizabeth tilts her head in confusion. "What do you mean? This was our plan from the beginning."
"It's just that…it's not so bad here." Garion shrugs his shoulders. "Everybody isn't so bad either. We're even friends with the first kids from the island. Plus, O, you're real BFFs with Mal."
The sea witch shot him a furious look. "We are not friends. I'm just trying to find out what drives her. Mal doesn't like to talk about her mom and she seems to be lonely because Ben has been busy with his duties."
"You're not her friend yet you know about her?" Elizabeth smirks. "So I'm guessing you're stalking her?"
Octavia rolls her eyes. "I can't believe the four of us are actually my friends." She groans.
The next day, Octavia and Gustav attended their group to the museum. Both of them tried their best to act natural and blend into the crowd.
First, the group waited for their tour guide and followed her. Gus and Octavia stayed in the back of everybody. "You got everything ready?" Octavia whispers to him.
"The codes are on my hands," Gus whispers back. "We just gotta wait for the right moment."
"Now, class, here we have Maleficent's Spinning Wheel that she cursed Princess Aurora to put her finger on the spindle to make her go to sleep," the tour guide informs them. Gus deliberately raises his hand. "Yes?" The lady points to him.
"So is the spindle still cursed?" He asks her. "Is it able to put people to sleep?"
"Oh, no, dear. The curses and magical spells on all of the items are no longer on them. We remove them to make sure nothing happens to anybody. Now let's continue. I'm afraid we are going to have to skip the villains section of the tour. Unfortunately, the floor is being repaired, but we will still enjoy the grand tour."
As they continued walking, Gus checks the tablet and checks the security cameras. He quickly types the code and it successfully turns the videos off.
Octavia and Gus sneakily break away from the group and head to the villains floor, which was downstairs. "That was great," Octavia gasps.
Suddenly, a guard turned the corner and started walking towards them. "We look suspicious," Octavia whispers. "What do we do?"
Gus stops and yanks Octavia against his body. He smashes his lips into hers and wraps his hands around her waist. The security guard continues walking and clears his throat.
Once he was gone, Gus pulls away from Octavia. "Thank God," he snickers. "That's how you make people go away. Romantic stuff makes people uncomfortable."
"Well you're, um, good at that…" she stammers. "…acting! It was very realistic! Let's just go."
They walked down the stairs and found the floor. "She's gotta be here somewhere," Gus says. "The villains exhibit isn't exactly big."
First, they discovered the statues of some of the villains. Both of them slow down for a moment to glare at all of the enemies: Evil Queen, Lady Tremaine, Hades, Jafar, and the rest.
Then, Gus and Octavia found the statues of their parents. Ursula had her octopus tentacles and looked a bit thinner. Gaston looked slightly younger with a sword in his hands.
"Gus?" Octavia murmured. "Did you ever stop for a second and realized what your dad did in the past that made him look like a monster now?"
"Yeah, I will admit that I am scared of my dad," he reveals to her. "But he's my dad. I look up to him and I just want to prove myself to him. I already know that that's never gonna happen."
Octavia gazes at her mother's wax figure. "I'm afraid of my mother too. Nothing I do makes her happy. Sometimes I feel like I have to be horrible because that's what she expects me to do. Gus, what if we can't do it?"
This was the first time he heard the weakness in her voice. Gus knew the sea witch to be determined and independent. Never did he expect her to actually be scared. "O, we can as long as the four of us stick together. I know we're capable of making this happen. And if it doesn't, then it's fine. We can just stay here. Our parents won't be able to reach us at all."
"You're right," she says. "Come on."
Both of them quickly searched for Maleficent. They saw all of the belongings of the villains including Evil Queen's mirror and the actual Jolly Roger.
At last, they found her. The tiny lizard inside of the glass container in the middle of the dark room.
"It's her," Gustav gasped. "Maleficent."
They slowly walked to the glass box and gaze at her. Maleficent was still moving. She looked at them with her wiggling eyes.
"Why is she so small anyways?" Gus asked, curious about the former fairy.
Octavia quickly thought about what Mal had told her about Maleficent. "Mal shrunk her to the size of the love in her heart," she explains to him. "I'm guessing that that love may have only been for Mal."
"At least her mom has some love for her," Gus mumbles. "So how are you going to do the whole absorbing thing?"
"It's as easy as taking candy from a baby." Octavia answer him. She takes the spray bottle out of her back and opens it. "Give your powers, give your control, give me the darkness deep in your soul."
Out of the blue, the lizard's eyes began glowing green. Then, a dark green smoke arises and flies into the bottle.
Finally, it stops. Octavia puts the top back on and stares at the little container. It slowly turns green as the darkness of Maleficent settles in.
Octavia looks back at Maleficent, who angrily spits blue saliva at the glass aimed at her.
"Let's go, Gus," she tells him. They started walking out of the floor.
"So what's the plan now?" Gustav asks her. "Give it to Mal?"
The sea witch nods her head. "Yeah, I just need to figure out how to give it to her. Maybe like sneak it in her drink or something."
"Nah, she'll taste it," Gus mentions. "Wait it's in a bottle, right. How about give it to her as a present? Like a perfume bottle."
Octavia bites down on her lip. "Perfume bottle? Yeah, that's great. She can spray it on herself and her body absorbs it."
When they got back on the floor, Gus takes a peek and spots their group. He yanks Octavia back to the side and they waited for them to pass by. The group walks by not noticing the two villains hiding.
Gus and Octavia were able to go back into the group. "That was more simple than I thought," Octavia whispers.
As they ignored the tour guide's information, Gus turns to his right and spots a lady bumping into a man. The lady smiles at him and apologizes, but the man sneakily puts his hand in her purser and pulls out a wallet.
"Hey, O, that guy took her wallet," Gus tells her.
"What?" Octavia replies, not paying attention to anything around her.
The man starts walking away from the lady. Gus calls out to him, "Hey! Hey, you! Hey, stop!"
Once he hears Gus yelling, the guy begins running making Gus chase after him. Everyone turns their attention to Gus chasing the man. The man was fast, but Gus was catching up to him quick. When the thief turned the corner, Gustav was able to tackle the guy down to the floor.
Most of the security guards ran over and tried to pull Gus off, but it took nearly four of them. Two guards grabbed the other guy and the visitors were surrounding them including Octavia.
"This psychopath was trying to attack me," the guy lies to the policemen.
"He stole that woman's wallet!" Gus tells them. "I saw you! You bump into her and grabbed her wallet out of her purse!"
One security guard checks the man's pockets and pull out a yellow wallet. He checks it and says, "This is not your wallet. Take this man away."
All of the visitors started clapping for Gus. "You're a hero," one person said to him.
