A/N: Oh I know this is still a short one! I'm sorry, but I absolutely promise you that the chapter after this is longer. I promise!

Enjoy!


"They're unstoppable!" Lonnie cried as she fled into the meeting room. She had just received word that her home had fallen to the Huns. With the intelligence suggesting that the entire north west was now in the hands of villains despair was rapidly encroaching into Auradonia.

She had fallen into Chad's arms sobbing realising that her mother and father were now trapped at the hands of the evil Huns. So far, it had seemed that none of the Royals of Auradon had been killed. They were all being held, undoubtedly for ransom and blackmail in the dungeons of their own homes, while those that had tormented them before were doing so once again. Now, their children were huddled in the supposed safety of Auradonia, with Cinderella mothering them as best she could. Lonnie looked tearfully at Jane, Chad, Jordan and Ali and composed herself better. She realised that since the taking of Agrabah, when Jordan and Ali had fled from their home to the safety of Auradon that matters were always going to go downhill.

"We had little understanding of just how dangerous this situation was." Fairy Godmother sat heavily in one of the chairs, Jane rushing to her mother's aid. The fairy looked tired; she was one of the last fae to have evaded capture by the villains – she had lost Flora, Fauna and Merryweather when Schöne fell when the fairies opted to remain with Aurora and Phillip, hoping to protect the pair the best that they could while that wretched daughter Mal hunted her way through the kingdom.

"We knew the unrest on the Isle was bad but we did not realise just how much power Maleficent had accumulated." Belle had walked in and dumped her helmet down onto the sideboard. "To have co-ordinated the villains was something we were not prepared for; we relied on their egos and competitive needs to stop them from alliancing and launching a scale attack like this."

"Jafar taking Agrabah started it." Ali cleared his throat and looked at his friends. His mother and father had been trapped in Agrabah, Genie had just managed to hurl Jordan's lamp at Ali, casting the pair to land in Auradon before he was trapped in his own lamp by a Golden Cobra. "Then he married his son off that blue haired bitch, that daughter of the Evil Queen and we should have realised they would not be comfortable with just Agrabah." He said woodenly and Lonnie sighed.

"We believe that The Forest has fallen, and that it was one of the first to fall." Belle rubbed a hand over her face, she was solidly refusing to acknowledge that her son was missing, she had put her heartache to one side. As a consequence her actions had become automatic, and there was no feeling or emotion in her. "If this is the case, the entire north west is villain controlled. Our only safety is that Villeneuve and the New Bayou are protected by the Great Woods and the Mountains of Sighs. The Bayou's landscapes are hard for anyone but locals to navigate so it may be safer for us to retreat there."

"You think Auradonia will fall?" Jane gasped, this was her home and she knew little beyond the walls of the neutral capital.

"I know it will fall." Belle stares out of the window, unaware of the tears flowing down the others faces, her own tears had stopped the moment that EJ had told her that Ben was missing. She looked around for EJ now, pulled slightly from her melancholy when she realised the dark haired Prince was missing. But then she realised that Okeanos was now in a vulnerable position, he was undoubtedly besides his parents fighting to sustain the borders.

~Okeanos~

"Submit girl, it will be a mercy for your family and people if you do." Ursula's voice echoed around the grand hall of the palace. She and her many children had pushed their way through the defences like a trident through sea foam and now she had Ariel's precious son pinned against the wall while the Queen stared helplessly.

"Ursula stop." She begged hoarsely and the sea witch cocked her head, as if she was examining the redhead before her.

"We submit." Eric stood beside his wife and he was repulsed by the smile that stretched across the witch's face.

"Have your darling little boy." One tentacle wrapped around his waist and hurled him effortlessly across the room, her delight was evident as he thudded to the floor and slid across the stone marble to the waiting embrace of his anxious parents.

"Take them to the top towers, ensure that the mermaid is nowhere near water. I don't need her contacting her royal kin." Ursula murmured to her eldest daughter, who nodded and barked orders to the others. The Sea Witch watched in pleasure as the three were borne away, out of her sight, leaving her in the spacious grand hall of her new home. She strode to the front doors, snatched a conch shell from one of the soldiers Tremaine had given her and lifted it to her lips. One solid blow sent a loud echo across the Strait and within moments she saw the green sparks arc across the sky. Maleficent had heard that Okeanos was now theirs.