Alright so by now some of you are probably questioning why I post daily chapters. That is because I have nothing better to do with my life. No really, I am obsessed with Descendants atm.
Anyways, thanks for your view on the last chapter, I hope you enjoy this one. Warning, this chapter contains Violence.
Chapter 6 [Prince of Pain]
Ben's POV
Finally, after about 2 days, Carlos was allowed to leave the infirmary. Thank goodness he was back now, because now I love him MORE THAN EVER! I carried Carlos bridal style towards his dorm. Before we left, Jane had given Carlos a pendant similar to the one his mother gave him before. Jane stated, "This pendant will protect you from all harm" smiling. Carlos smiled back at her and said, "Thanks a lot Jane".
I exclaimed "Alright let's go!" as I picked him up bridal style, He kept trying to wiggle free, yelling "Ben let me down!" all the way till' halfway. He eventually gave up and buried his face in my chest, as his face was so red you could probably compare it to an apple. I stopped halfway, to show everyone I loved Carlos.
He looked up and asked, "Ben why did we stop in the middle of the school where everyone can see us?". I didn't answer him, instead I leaned in and kissed him, sending electric throughout our body. I would've stayed like that for like 5 hours and make out, but that wouldn't be a prince-y thing to do, not in front of everyone at least. I broke away from the kiss, looked at Carlos' freckled face and ask, "Speechless?". He just nodded sheepishly, not knowing what just happened.
Some students giggled, some gawked and some pretend that didn't happen as we continued our walk. We finally reached our destination, Jay and Carlos' dorm, surprisingly it was neat and tidy. Jay was waiting inside, he helped me set Carlos down. Carlos teased, "Since when did you start tidying?". Jay answered, "Since I find out that Lonnie preferred a clean and tidy boyfriend" laughing. I chuckled at his answered.
I asked Carlos, "Are you gonna be okay here alone?", he answered "Of course I would be, I'm a villain. Plus, I have Jane's pendant". I trusted him and left for the cafeteria to get breakfast.
Carlos' POV
My mind is still boggled from the moment I heard Ben return his feelings for me. After about an hour of being alone, I got bored of reading. I tried to reach for the remote to turn on the TV, but heard knocking on the door. I asked, "Who is it?"
There was an answer from a familiar voice, "It's Ben". I smiled and answered, "Ok you can come in". He carefully opened the door and closed it after coming in. I saw anger, revenge and jealousy in his eyes, completely different from what I saw this morning.
I asked nervous, "Ben, what's wrong?". He answered growling, "You". He walked over to my bed, picked me up by my collar and threw me down to the ground. I moaned in pain, "Ouch, Ben, stop! Please you're hurting me!" crying now. He answered, "Good." with a voice filled with anger. Ben picked me up by my collar again, and threw me towards the wall. He walked over and kicked my cast really hard, causing blood to rush out. Now the cast was bloody. Red and bloody.
Ben's POV
I was enjoying my breakfast, talking and laughing with the gang after such a long time of despair. Little did I know, this despair did not last long. Jane suddenly had a headache.
She managed to speak out weakly, "Guys... someone's... hurting.. CARLOS!" she yelled the last name before collapsing. Mal and Evie, Lonnie and Audrey ran to help her while me, Doug and Jay bolted towards Carlos room. 'Please, please don't hurt him anymore, he's been hurt enough already' I thought with tears while running towards Carlos' room.
Carlos' POV
I watched as Ben took out a knife from his pocket. He continued to deliver punches and kicks to my stomach and cast. I yelled in agony, begging him to stop. "BEN PLEASE, STOP!" He delivered punches and kicks to my face, my cast, my entire body basically.
I watched as he used his knife to slash through my pawprinted shirt, then moving on to my cast. I couldn't take it anymore, I used all my strength and delivered a kick to his groin. He cursed at me a few times, before taking out a taser from his pocket. "This will do" he said grinning evil. This was not Ben, at least he couldn't be. I watched as he delivered more slashes, punches and kicks to my weak, fragile body.
He tried to zap me with the taser, but the pendant protected me. It emitted a forcefield that blew Ben away, and towards the wall. Then the pendant shattered, leaving me vulnerable.
'Ben' slowly started melting, revealing the real persona behind his disguise. It was a shadowy figure, it looked as if it's body was made out of shadows. I froze in fear, never feeling so much evil, never seeing such abomination.
The shadow attempted to zap me again, but the door was flung open with a loud roar. I cried when I finally saw the real Ben, before fainting.
Ben's POV
I roared out a loud roar, as I flung open the door. I saw a shadowy slender figure on the other side of the room. It escaped before Jay could catch up to it, I heard Jay curse at it but didn't care. All I care was the white haired boy. I searched frantically for him, and found him on the other side of the bed, unconscious, blood all over his cast, his shirt, his head. There was fresh blood flowing out of his mouth.
I weeped as I carried his body towards the infirmary, once again. This time, I knew Carlos had a lower chance of surviving. Much, much lower than before. It looked like there was a strike into his stomach, the wound inside his cast was now open again. There were more scars than ever on his body, blood everywhere.
Nurse Potts was extremely surprised when Carlos was once again brought into the infirmary. Nurse Potts instantly began her work on Carlos, joined afterwards by Fairy Godmother. Audrey came running with Lonnie and Mal behind her yelling, "Ben! What happened to Carlos?!". I told the three girls what happened. Jay repeatedly punching the wall, thankfully knowing how to control his strength so he doesn't dent the wall.
Lonnie exclaimed in fury, "Carlos just got out of one painful situation and now he's in another one?!". Mal interrupted her rant asking, "Did you say shadow figure?". I nodded, then Mal continued, "Didn't we see another shadowy figure last time? The one that cut the bridge rope?", I said sadly, "Please don't remind me...". Mal then exclaimed, almost sounding happy, "If we can find the shadowy figure again, then maybe we can stop this once and for all!". I almost smiled, then I asked, "How are we gonna do that?".
Mal was joined later by Evie, Doug and a fully recovered Jane. She smiled seeing them, then did a head count. "We need a total of 9 peoples for this spell to work" frowning. Then Jordan appeared in a puff of pink smoke, making everyone cough. Jordan, the daughter of genie, was panicking. She yelled, "Has anyone seen my transformation pendant?!". Mal answers, "None of us know how to even get into your lamp J, but I think I know exactly where it is". Jordan exclaimed panicking, "Where is it?!" But Mal ignored her and continued, "We'll need your help, in return, we'll help you find your pendant" Jordan nodded in agreement. Mal stated happily, completely forgetting about his extremely hurt friend.
Mal explained the plan to all of us, I initially disagreed. Then she said, "Would you rather watch Carlos get hurt over and over again until this shadow figure gets what it wants?!". I couldn't argue with her. Then she said, "We'll start our plan tonight, forecast says it will be full moon tonight so I'm 99% sure it will work!". Jordan asks, "What happens to the 1%?". Mal answered, "Well the 1% means if it fails it'll blow up in our faces!" she said in a cheerful tone which made it sound more threatening. I said to her, almost threatening her, "This had better work, I didn't even get to have 1 date with him!" but she just laughed it off.
~That night~
We sticked a note on the infirmary door writing, "Dear King Beast and Queen Belle, we had taken Carlos to the tourney field tonight to speed up his recovery as the full moon will help strengthen Fairy Godmother's spells and speed up his recovery" with Mal's handwriting. The shadowy figure appeared for a brief moment and disappeared, not knowing Nurse Potts was on the other side of the wall. She told Audrey through a walkie talkie, "He's coming, good luck".
There Carlos was, lying in the middle of the tourney field, unconscious. We had asked everyone to stay indoors that night for personal reasons.
The shadowy figure appeared, with a knife. It was ready to hurt Carlos even more. Jane was the first one to step out. "Evil shadow, reveal yourself!". The shadow was staggered, it swiftly teleported to Jane to attempt to stab her. Thankfully, Fairy Godmother had bestowed upon us the spell of protection through her wand, which was 10x stronger than the pendant. The shadow was blown away from the forcefield emitted by Jane's protection.
The second to appear was Audrey, chanting "Evil shadow, redeem yourself!". The shadow, realizing what was happening, quickly moved to stab Carlos. I appeared third, "Evil shadow, cause no ache!". Next up was Jordan, "Evil shadow, make no mistake!. The shadow had slowed down tremendously, as if the spell of slowness has been casted upon it.
The fifth one to emerge from the shadows was Jay, chanting "Evil shadow, escape no more!". The shadow tried to disappear into the ground, but failed. Next was Lonnie, "Evil shadow, we know your lore!", the shadowy figure started to reveal limbs. "Evil shadow, you should have retreated" Evie chanted coming out next. The last one to come out was Mal, "Evil shadow, you have been defeated!".
We appeared in a complete circle around Carlos, with the shadow inside of it. We held hands, and chanted our lines multiple times. By the time we chanted it for the 5th time, the moon was right above us. The shadow regained it's speed for a few split second, it attempted to finish what it started, to kill Carlos. The shadow stabbed Carlos in the chest, only to realize that it was a fake. The real Carlos was behind Mal, still unconscious, but protected by Fairy Godmother, Nurse Potts, and Doug.
We chanted our lines one last time, effectively trapping the shadow right in the middle, right under the moon. Fairy Godmother took out her wand, and finished the spell, "Evil shadow, begone!" she yelled as a beam of was shot towards me, slowly passing down to everyone, after a few seconds, we each shot a beam from our hands. The shadow shrieked and let out an evil loud roar, which almost knocked Audrey off her foot, but she managed to stay strong.
We watch as the shadow started to evaporate, eventually disappearing, defeated, leaving behind a gold pendant with a black gem on the middle. By the time the spell was finished, we were all tired. We laid down on the grass for a few minutes, before having energy to lean up and look at where the shadow stood. Mal joked, lightening up the mood, "I did not expect this kind of stuff to happen in Auradon". Everyone let out a light laugh, before standing up and inspecting the pendant. Jordan exclaimed, "It's my father's pendant... I think I should just destroy this now before anyone else gets to use this".
Mal stopped her, saying "I can use a spell to identify the last person to use this".
Mal asked Evie for her magic mirror, and Evie handed it to her. "Magic, magic, from this glass, show me the person, who used this last".
We gasped as the pendant started flowing and showed an image of Chad hovering above it. Jay exclaimed furiously, "Chad! I knew it!". I told them, "That's why Chad's been avoiding us all, especially me lately".
Doug later jumped on the pendant furiously, effectively destroying it forever. Jordan shrugged and said, "That's what I should've done a long time ago".
Out of all of them, Fairy Godmother was the most surprised. She did not think the son of Prince Charming would do such harm to a poor innocent boy. She was about to cry when she heard the sound of Nurse Potts calling her.
I immediately rushed to Carlos' side, to realize that he has awakened. Turns out, with the help of the full moon's exposure, his wounds healed quickly. He joked, "I might be part beast". Everyone was relieved to see Carlos surviving another attack, and Lonnie said "Boy, you sure have one heck of a strong will to live" joking before I once again carried Carlos in a bridal style, but this time back into my dorm. Everyone finally had rested peacefully that night.
=The next morning=
Fairy Godmother had everyone assemble in the hallway. I smiled seeing Carlos now fully cured, no more cast or scars. I waved to him and he waved back to me smiling and blushing slightly. I returned to being serious, speaking into the mic. "Auradon is a place of magical and goodness, where evil should not exist. But yet, someone has found a way, to sneak into Jordan's lamp, one of the safest place in this land, and stole an important artifact. An artifact used to summon a creature to kill, to obey his master. Jordan was tasked to protect it, until someone somehow got into her lamp and stole it. The creature almost killed Carlos. Almost." I added extra emphasis to the last word. "We have defeated the creature, thanks to the help of these 8 heroes and heroines". The guys and girls walked up to the stage one by one, names called out.
Ben awarded each one the medal of Bravery and Trust. Later they went off stage and joined Carlos on the front row seats.
"We discovered the true master to the creature". Prince Charming and Cinderella later appeared on stage. And I called out, "Chad, will you please get up here". Chad refused at first, but I furiously yelled into the microphone, "CHAD CHARMING, GET UP ON THIS STAGE RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT!", then stopped a few seconds to check if I had broken the speakers from yelling into the microphone. Chad literally bolted up the stage, looking very scared.
"Do you, Chad Charming, admit that you have used an ancient artifact, to summon a creature set out on a task to kill Carlos De Vil?" I said, and heard everyone whisper and gasp. I was at my peak, I yelled almost like a loud roar, "SILENCE!". Chad flinched, but then staggered saying "N-n-n-no". Prince Charming shook his head and Cinderella cried into his shoulders.
Chad then made the biggest mistake of his life, he said to me loudly, "You have no proof, you can't accuse me!".
Mal stood up, with Evie's mirror in her hands, now furious. Her eyes glowed brightly, she chanted a spell combined with the mirror, to project out an image of what had happened last night, from the first second the shadow appeared, until the last second where Carlos woke up. Everyone had gasped, extremely surprised that Chad would do such a thing. Cinderella cried her eyes out (Not literally) on Prince Charming's shoulder. They were both surprised that their son would do this, the worst he has done, that they know of, was not do his homework.
Chad started panicking, "Ben please I Can explain!" he plead. I was too furious. "You will spend your life in the unused dungeon of Auradon for the next 10 years of your life". I then commanded the guards to haul him away, he pleaded to be let go. I walked over to ask Prince Charming and Cinderella if this is okay. Prince Charming nodded, Cinderella then says, "He deserved this, he lied to us and almost killed Carlos...". I let them go back to their palace to cool down.
When the royalties left, some students decide to protest. One of them even stood up and yelled, "Carlos should be killed! He's a villain, he deserved this!". This got me to be furious even more, I threatened that anyone else that decides to protest, they will join Chad in the dungeon. Nobody dared to speak. Carlos went on stage to calm me, Jay, Evie and Mal helped escort me and Carlos to the cafe.
Fairy Godmother gave everyone a lecture that was so threatening, they never thought they would ever see this side to her. When they were dismissed, some of them walked up to her and apologized, thankfully she had calmed down and smiled at them.
At the cafe, I was still furious. The VKs didn't really know what to do. That was until Carlos decided to kiss me, then smiled. I said "You just know how to calm me down do you". Then he said, "Maybe now we can go on that date you promised" the puppy-prince smiled. "Alright my puppy-prince" I replied. Then he continued, "Nicknames before our first date? Cute". We laughed, then Mal interrupted saying, "Okay can you keep it PG here?".
We laughed at Mal's statement. I couldn't wait for our first date, now that all the painful situations have been dealt with, I can only hope our date will be smooth.
Okay so Chad summoned an evil creature to kill Carlos. Now that that's been dealt with, Ben can finally take Carlos on their first official date, without the love potion's effect? Will this go smoothly, or fail horribly? What will happen to BenLos in the future?
Find out, in the next chapter(s).
PS: I know this was a bit long, but thanks for reading anyways :P
