Author's Note: Sorry it took me awhile but I was busy in school. Luckily it's close to summer for me so you'll be getting more updates soon. So here's the new chapter, enjoy it, you'll like this one since Quincy and Chad will find some common ground with each other. Also more stuff from the past will be revealed and Uma's friend Harry will be mentioned.
P.S., They just announced Descendants 2 will premiere on July 21 at 8/7 central on five different channels at the same time. Disney Channel, ABC, Disney XD, Freeform and Lifetime.
Chapter 9: The Unexpected Tryout
3:00 in the Afternoon
On his bed, Quincy was eating Doritos while watching a news report by Snow White about the weather this week where it'll be sunny with no clouds in the sky.
"Huh, I knew this place was a sunny one."
Just then the door open with Chad coming in and put his backpack on the next to his bed and dropped his entire body on there, exhausted from his day of school. Quincy barely pay attention to him as he's scarfing down chips in his mouth, liking the taste of them, wishing he could've grabbed some more.
"Do they give out chips everyday for lunch, cause these are way better than Ursula's chips."
Chad looked at his roommate with a curious expression and was about to ask him about what he just said, "She sells chips?"
"With fish, and trust me, it was better than her chips, last time I had some I was puking for a week." Back on the Isle of the Lost, Quincy was curious about what Ursula's chips were all about so he took some and it didn't end well for him. His mom makes him throw up outside since she didn't want to smell vomit in there castle. That was also the day he swore to never eat chips again until today.
"Woah, that's brutal"
"Tell me about it, my mom would've been so mad if I threw up on her carpet, and it'll be Off with your heads season for me."
"I wouldn't know what that's like."
"Of course you wouldn't, since Cinderella and Prince-I mean King Charming takes care of their little prince."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"You got parents who are the King and Queen of your kingdom, who gives you everything you want and lets you do whatever you want, you've got the perfect life you're destined for." That last part got Chad ticked off a bit then he says, "That's where you're wrong, it's not perfect."
This confused Quincy when Chad said that not everything's was perfect so he asks, "What do you mean?"
"My dad mostly makes me go to these events where I have to represent our people, I have look good to impress, got tailors all over me to wear a perfect suit, and pressures me to find the right girl to marry one day when I'm king and to don't embarrass the family name." Growing up as he does, there times when Chad was being a kid and having fun, and when he reached his 13th birthday, King Charming was being a little strict of how he should act, dress and be around people. Cinderella was always trying to make things easier for Chad whenever his dad puts pressure on him. She was his go-to person to talk to about his dad and she assures him that he's just doing his best to make sure that he's prepared for the future.
"Wow, it didn't know that." Quincy said, feeling sorry for him.
"Well now you do." Chad said, looking that other way. Quincy then goes over to his bed and sits down with his back facing his.
"I guess we have something in common after all."
"You could say that."
"Guess you're not a loser after all, hahaha." Quincy said, going back to his old self.
"Haha, very funny." Chad said, even though he smiled a little.
"It's a compliment, so take it as it is."
"If I have to, haha." Chad laughed. He turned around to see Quincy's back, wondering if Jordan's idea is going to works so he asks him, "Hey, can I ask you something?"
Quincy turns around to see Chad staring in his eyes. "What about?"
"I was wondering if you're not busy, then would you wanna come with me to practice?"
"Like Tourney?"
"You'll just watch with Mal, Evie, even Jordan and Ally. I think I remember seeing you guys getting along."
"Oh, they're gonna be there?" Quincy doesn't mind hanging out with Jordan and Ally since he thought they're cool, so why not, right?
"Yeah, Jordan wants to record our practice for her web show."
"What's a web show?"
"Uh, she'll tell you but do you want to come?"
"Yeah, sure, I guess."
"Cool just let me get my stuff and we'll head out."
"You mean "head off", hahaha"? Quincy laughed.
"Dude, seriously?"
"What? Too much?"
"Duh."
"Fine, just take the fun out of everything." Quincy said then he and Chad chilled for at least 30 minutes before they walked out of their dorm and closed the door.
Tuesday Afternoon
At the Tourney field, some of the players were on the field with Jay on the bench with crutches by his side and Carlos keeping him company. Audrey and her cheerleaders were warming up for their routines. Mal, Evie and Freddie are sitting with Ally, Jordan, Jane and Lonnie. Jordan was setting her phone up to record today's practice and a sip of her drink.
"So how do you think they'll do today?" Evie asks.
"Well it was bad yesterday, so now that with Jay out of the picture, they won't stand a chance." Ally said.
"Seriously Ally?" Lonnie said.
"I'm just stating the obvious, before Jay came along, we haven't won a single trophy."
"Don't think like that, there's still hope. I'm sure Ben will think of something." Mal hopes.
"She's right, we're not just gonna lose hope like that." Evie tells the others.
"Oh I'm sorry, I don't know what I was thinking." Ally said.
"It's ok, we get it, you just want our team to succeed." Jane said comforting Ally.
"But what can they do? It's not like they can find Jay's replacement before the game." Freddie said.
Just then, Quincy walked up to the bleachers and notice Jay and Carlos on the bench, thinking he should at least say hi so he went over to where they're sitting at.
"Hey boys, miss me?" Quincy greeted.
"In some way, what are you doing here?" Carlos asked.
"Chad invited me to watch practice, what are you here?" Quincy asked Jay who is in clutches still.
"Thought they use some luck now that I have this baby." Jay said then holds up his wrist for Quincy to see his feathered covered bracelet.
"Achoo!" Quincy sneezed. "Do you mind with that thing? I'm still allergic, you know?"
"Sorry."
The whistle blew throughout the field and everyone's attention turned to Coach Jenkins who blew the whistle.
"All right team, get to position." Coach turns to Carlos and calls him out, "De Vil, get out here, we need you for defense on blue team!"
"Yessir, Coach." Carlos yelled. "Gotta go, cheer us on, K?" He tells Jay and Quincy.
"Will do." Jay said.
"If I have to." Quincy said and that's when Carlos runs to the field to join his teammates. Quincy decided to join the girls on the bleachers, hoping they won't bore him.
"Sup, ladies?" Quincy greeted them. Jordan and Ally side glanced each other, congratulating themselves for their plan being a success. He sits between Jordan and Freddie with Ally in front of Jordan.
"Oh, hey Quincy, we were hoping you'd come." Ally said.
"Well, I wasn't planning on it but Chad convinced me and here I am."Quincy said.
"Wait, the Chad?"Mal asked.
"Are you sure?" Evie also asked.
"I know right?" Quincy said.
"It's still nice of him, even though he hadn't done anything like that out of the goodness of his heart before." Jane said. The only time Chad's ever acted that nice is when he what's someone to do his homework like he did with Evie.
"The point is he's nice enough to do it, speaking of whom, where's he at?" Jordan asked.
"Oh, here he comes now." Quincy said as Chad made his way to the field with the team and getting to his position on Ben's team.
"So is this like a start of a bromance or something?" Freddie joked.
"Who knows? But we did have a thing in common so we'll see." Quincy then notices Jordan holding her phone up. "What's that thing? It looks a remote."
"It's my phone, I'm recording today's practice." Jordan answered.
"That's a phone?! You can record stuff on it?!" Quincy exclaimed.
"Yeah, you can talk, watch videos, listen to music, you can practically do anything on it, it's like a small computer."
"You're kidding."Quincy accused.
"Nope, its true." Evie said pulling out her phone. "I've got mines in blue, plus I love taking selfies with it." Evie held up her phone with her screen showing her face then takes a picture with her doing a duck face.
"Weird face, Evie but there's a camera too?! Things are way different here." Quincy said. He turns to face Jordan with an pending question, "So why are you recording?"
"It's for my web show and before you ask, it's a show I do on the internet. It's a hobby of mine." Jordan answered.
"That's sounds cool and people watch you?"
"A lot of them."
"Hmm."
Jordan presses the red button to record, "Wassup, Auradonians, Its your favorite genie here at the Tourney field of Auradon Prep with my peeps, say wassup girls." Jordan switches her camera so the girls can wave to it. "And give a warm welcome to Auradon Prep's new VK student, Quincy, the son of the Queen of Hearts." Quincy looked stunned a bit, but gave a wave to Jordan's phone.
"Uh, hey." He said nervously.
"Well, as you know, yesterday our top player Jay was injured but that doesn't stop the team from giving up and as you can see, Jays below giving support as best as he can." The camera point to Jay sitting on the bench, sipping an energy drink. "So with the game in 3 days, the Fighting Knights are at hard work with practice, so stay tuned and watch as our heroes do their best." Jordan made sure she's got a good view of the players.
Coach Jenkins blew his whistle to start practice and the teams started to move. On Carlos' team, Aziz being the Left Forward, made a run for the ball that's just been thrown in the Kill Zone. Herkie's ran to beat him to the ball and Aziz manage to get it, making the other player move. One player on Carlos' side who is a defender tries to protect Aziz while he's making a run for but Herkie knock him down and Carlos ran past him. Ben moves his stick to knock the ball out of Aziz's and it's in the air. Chad tries to catch it but Carlos's Right forward player jumps over him and catches it then runs toward the goal.
"Wow, I've never thought this would be good to watch." Quincy said impressed.
"Of course it is , but more exciting, which is why I'm recording this." Jordan said holding her phone.
"Chad better get that ball back or they won't score, hehe." Quincy said.
"Oh, so your Team Chad now?" Freddie said.
Quincy scoffs then says, "I'm just saying, nothing more, Voodoo Girl." Quincy mocked.
"That was so funny I forgot to laugh, Jokester." Freddie also mocked.
"How original, Little Hat."
"You and your white Bandana."
"Don't you be dissing the 'Dana, I had since I was 5."
"All right children, knock it off." Mal said.
"Were they like this all the time?" Lonnie asks Evie.
"Sometimes since they were kids but nothing more than name calling and insults." Evie answered. Back on the Isle, it was war between Freddie and Quincy when it comes to insults on both of them won only half of the time. They try not to be sore losers but when no one was around, they get mad, especially Quincy with more rage.
"Hey, it looks like Carlos' team won a point." Jane said. On the field, Aziz was by the goal and the ball is in the net. The cheerleaders cheered when he scored.
"What?! I can't believe I missed that messing with you." Quincy blames Freddie.
"Don't be blaming me, you started it." Freddie said.
"You've gotta be kid-
"Guys, enough!" Mal said annoyed.
"Yeah, your acting like children." Evie added.
"Oh whatever, anyways I can score better than whoever he is." Quincy said.
"You mean Aziz?" Jordan asked.
"Aziz?"
"Aladdin's son." Ally explained.
Quincy just realized something, "Ok, let me get this straight, the sons and daughter of Jafar, Aladdin and The Genie are going to the same school? It's so ironic, it's too funny, hahahahahaha." Quincy laughs while holding his stomach. Jordan thought it was a little funny and giggled a bit. Soon after, the others laugh along with them for a minute.
Freddie let out a big sigh after she stopped laughing, "Please, I bet you won't score a goal."
"Oh really, well then it's a deal." Quincy said as he got up and made his made down the bleachers, leaving the girls shocked with their mouths open.
"Wait, you can't get on the field, your not even on the team." Jane said to him.
"That ain't gonna stop me."
"But they're in the middle of practice." Ally said.
"So?"
Quincy made his way to the bottom and Jay, having to hear all that, tries to stop him, "Dude, seriously you can't. You don't even have the equipment."
"Huh, you're right." Quincy said then he noticed the knee pads, body armour, and cleats just in his size. "Then I'll just take those then." He walks up to the bench and starts putting on the gear, much to Jay's protest.
"Quincy, don't. You're gonna get hurt out there." Jay warns him.
"Will you stop worrying? I got this." Quincy assured then walks out to the field. Pretty soon, Chad became the first to notice him, soon follow Ben and Carlos. The whole team eventually sees him walking up to Coach Jenkins and taps on his shoulder so he'll turn around.
"Son, what do you think you're doing?" Coach asks.
"Just wanting to score a goal, proving someone wrong that's all." Quincy tells him.
"Uh, were kinda in a middle of practice here."
"I'm not blind, you know? And I still wanna give it a go."
"You're serious, like right now?"
"Well why not? I got on this stuff, so don't worry about me getting hurt."
"Listen to me, you can't just-
"Demand? Oh then may I please play Tourney? Thank you." Quincy said and he walks to Chad and stands beside him then turns to Jenkins.
"So we gonna do this or what?" Quincy asked smiling
"Ugh, kids these days don't take no for an answer." He thought. He sighs and says, "I guess we have a guest teammate this time." The team murmurs with confused looks. "Ben, he's on your team."
"Right, sir." Ben said. He decides to give Quincy some advice about playing the game, "Ok, so you're the Left Forward, so when the ball gets thrown into the Kill Zone, that's when you and some other forwards try to get the ball before the other team does. Then you gotta pass the ball to your teammates if there open and you just play throw it til you or one of us hits the goal, got it?"
"I think so." Quincy said.
"Oh geez, Quincy why did you have to come out here?" Chad asked.
"To prove something to Freddie, of course. We kinda made a bet to see if I can score a goal." Quincy said.
"Really?"
"Well, yeah. Now are we gonna play or what?"
"Alright, get in position." Coach said.
"I can't believe what I'm seeing." Mal said still shocked.
"Yeah, I didn't think he'd actually do it." Freddie said.
"That's Quincy for ya, blocking out no in his head." Evie said. Quincy didn't like the word "no" so much that one time, he asked Captain Hook's son Harry for a sip of his water since he was thirsty at the time and he answered no so Quincy threw a fit and took his water by force and tossed it at Mal, making her wet. Quincy quickly put the cup back in Harry's hand before Mal turned around. Quincy pointed at him, making Harry guilty and Mal chased after him. Quincy did his evil laugh while saying "That's what you get".
"This is gonna be good for my show if he makes." Jordan said.
Coach Jenkins blew the whistle and the ball was thrown to the Kill Zone. Quincy made a dashing start to the ball, almost leaving his team in his dust then dodges the projectiles that start shooting as soon as he on the Kill Zone. He flips with his legs spread out and rolls forward to dodge. Then he finally has the ball before Aziz can get and tackles him to the ground.
"Woah, did you see that? He's amazing." Jane said.
"Yeah, almost how Jay did it when he first played but faster." Mal said.
"And the way he tackled Aziz? He tough." Ally said.
"And I'm getting it all on video." Jordan said excited.
Quincy made his way through some of Carlos' teammates but had to turn to keep the ball away from one who's blocking him. He sees Chad, so he passes to ball to him and Chad passes to Ben. Ben runs to Carlos and leaps from his shield (something he learned from Jay) and throws to ball to Quincy, who catches to ball in time and threw it to the goal, scoring his team a point then tossed his stick and does a dance. Mal and the others on the bleachers cheered for Quincy's score even Freddie who's still surprised about it. Audrey and her cheerleaders also cheered for the redhead.
"Good job, that was impressive." Ben said patting him on his back.
"No big deal." Quincy said.
"Of course it is, I've never seen anyone run that fast before." Herkie said.
"I guess running from people I pranked back then really paid off." Whenever Quincy does his pranks and someone notice him, they start to chase him but he always been able to run faster than them.
"Good thing I guess, I'm Herkie by the way, you might've heard of my dad, Hercules." Herkie introduces himself and holds out his hand.
"Quincy, The Queen of Hearts' my mother." Quincy accepts his hand and starts shaking but Herkie has a handshake so strong that Quincy could swear he heard his hand broke.
"Woah, you weren't kidding about that." Quincy said pointing out about his dad.
"Sorry, buddy, sometimes I don't know my own strength, hehe."
Coach Jenkins calls out for Quincy, "Hey, red boy! I've got something to say to you, come over here!"
"Oh boy, I think he's mad." Quincy said walking over to him. When he stops in front of him, he sees Coach looking at him like he's scanning him with his eyes.
"What you did out there…was like nothing I've ever seen before." Coach said. "And I'm hoping that you could demonstrate those skills tomorrow."
Quincy's eyes went wide, "What?! No fooling?!"
"Nope, how would you like to be part of the team? Until Jay gets back on his feet." Coach asks. For the first time in a very long time, Quincy felt needed. He doesn't feel like the outcast he always feels, no one taunting him, fearing him or feeling like a loser. This is his chance for a fresh start like Jay said.
"Well, I guess so, sounds better than nothing, haha."
"Glad to hear it, now why don't you come with me to my office after practice and we'll get you signed up for Tourney?"
"Cool, I'll wait til then." Quincy said as he makes an exit off the field and to the bleachers with the girls, who're screaming for him.
"That was so cool, very cool indeed." Ally said
"Yeah, you were fast and strong." Lonnie complimented.
"So what did coach say to you?" Mal asked.
"I'm on the team." Quincy said then the girls scream and Mal, Evie, Jane and Ally give him a group hug, making Quincy smiling wide.
"You seen it here, folks," Jordan said after she switched her camera back on her, "Auradon Prep's Tourney team got themselves a new player, new student Quincy. Stay tuned for more updates and have a good day. Jordan out." And she ends her recording with a touch of her finger.
"This is the best day of my life." Quincy said.
Author's Note: Quincy finally made the team, temporarily of course, but we'll see won't we. Will Quincy be enough to win? Will Chad and Quincy become closer? Wait until the next chapter, so stay tuned and have a Wicked Day.