*Author's Note*
Hey guys, I have finally finished unpacking my stuff at my new house and finally got this chapter up and ready for posting! I have been working late for this couple of days so I do not have really have time to write but believe me, I'll write during every spare time I have. I'll try my best to have the next chapter up by the end of this week if not it should be on Monday so fingers crossed. Hope you guys like this just slightly longer chapter...
And Thank you to my beta (legend fanatic) for helping me with my story.
Disney's Descendants : Good is the New Bad
Disclaimer: I own nothing at all, well, except my OC.
Spoilers: Well, the movie and a little of the prequel novel.
A week later,
Ben's Dormitory – Thursday Afternoon
Ben was seen sitting behind his study table, reading some documents Jayden passed to him when someone knocked on his door. Thanks to Mal, Ben recovered faster than expected and within a few days, the school nurse have finally announced his right arm's freedom so he's now attending to some documents for the annual meeting with the sidekicks next Monday.
"Er, your majesty?"
Ben looked and instantly, a smile started to curl on his lips.
"Heres, what a surprise?" Ben pushed his chair back as he stood up and walked towards the door. "Come in and please lose the formal salutation Ben will do."
"I was on my way to look for the twins when I saw someone walking towards this direction with some soup in her hand. She said that Mal requested for this. She sprained her ankle on her way here so I offered to help her" Heres handed a tray of black soup.
"Er…" Ben hesitated when he saw the soup. "Thanks?"
This must be the Chinese medication Lonnie told Mal about. Mal had been wanting to let him try this soup but he did not expect it to be black.
Looks like Mal finally found all the ingredients.
Ben slowly lifted up the bowl to drink it. Just as he was about to drink it, he recalled something. "Mal told me that she will be helping Evie with something, how could she be at two places at once?"
"Er…" Heres stammered.
"This is a prank, isn't it?" Ben smirked at her.
"Which you have managed to look through. I knew this wouldn't work." Heres cursed under her breath.
Ben chuckled and shook her head at her as he put down the bowl onto the table in the lounge area of his room.
"How was your first week in Auradon? Hope you have fun here. If you need anything, you guys know you can always come to me right?" Ben asked as he placed two glass of water on the table before picking up the tray to give to Jayden, who just entered the room, to take to the kitchen. "Thanks Jayden."
Jayden just smiled and nodded politely at the King before walking out of the room.
"Why are you so nice to us?"
"Well, everyone deserves a second chance and yet none of you guys were given a first chance. I always believe in peace handling's not fighting or violence."
"Thanks for not assuming we are evil. It's not really nice to be around people who always expect me to be the evil kid or the good kid. I just want to…"
"…be you?" Ben interrupted. "Heres, we all feel the same way and it is common for people to expect from you something you're not. As long as you are true to yourself and listen to your heart, there is nothing you cannot accomplish or be." With that, Ben flashed his signature smile at the black-haired girl.
"It's really nice to hear that. It really makes me feel so much better."
"No problem. My door is always open if you needed anything."
Heres started to feel lost in Ben's smile. Heres quickly shook her head slightly to snap herself out of her thoughts.
There is no way I am feeling this towards Ben. NO WAY!
Here quickly stood up and reached for the door. "I just remembered the boys are still waiting for me. I'll see you in school."
"Sure, have a great weekend, Heres." Ben waved politely and watched Heres walked out of the room before returning to his study table.
Auradon Prep – Late Saturday Morning
Finally, it's Saturday and Ben invited Evie, Jay and Carlos to join him and Mal at the Beast Castle to have dinner with his parents and also to share with them their good news.
"Did Ben say what time are we supposed to meet?"
After waiting for ten minutes, Jay could no longer stand the wait and spoke up as he turned to the purple-haired girl who seemed to be texting on her phone.
"Ben should be on his way here, he just texted me five minutes ago that the meeting with the school council just ended." Mal turned to Jay and informed.
Jay nodded a few times before diverting his attention his other two surrogate siblings. Evie seemed to be talking on the phone with a sweet smile plastered on her face as she twirled her hair with her fingers. Jay smirked and, instantly, he knew the blue-haired girl must be talking to a certain dwarf who's currently helping his younger dwarf cousins with homework.
Carlos sat quietly beside Jay with a portable video game console on his hand and headphones over his ears. Carlos even had his tongue sticking out as he frowned in concentration, looking very absorbed in what he's doing. Jay still preferred to play the home video game console installed in his room as he can move along and be as though he's playing the game physically.
Jay turned his head back to Mal. Mal seems to be texting someone and by the looks on how she would chuckle every now and then, he knew she must be talking to Lonnie or Jane or maybe even both. Other than Evie, Mal gets along the best with Lonnie and Jane.
He knew Mal still didn't really like Audrey but she doesn't really particularly hate Audrey too. He would actually kept his distance from Audrey too if she didn't make a move on him. Although Audrey made the first move to get to know him but he had to say, Audrey is in many ways very alike to him. They are both competitive, ambitious and sometimes can be very stubborn. Maybe that was the reason why he had fallen in love with the princess.
Who knew that we fit on Auradon so perfectly? Jay thought as he chuckled softly to himself.
"I'm so sorry that I'm late." Ben apologized with a slight of panting in between his words as he walked towards them.
"It's fine, Ben. You're only ten minutes late." Mal smiled at her fiancé.
Ben instantly wrapped an arm around his fiancé's waist and gave her a kiss on her temple.
"Thank you, Mrs. Mal Adams." Ben mumbled to her ears, earning an elbow in his stomach.
Ben chuckled when he saw a slight pink appearing on her cheeks.
Evie and Carlos shared a look and smiled at the couple while Jay planted a smirk on his lips and cleared his throat.
"Shall we go?" Ben looked up and met with the black-haired boy's eyes, causing him to chuckle deeper.
"Ben!" "Mal!"
Before anyone could reply Ben, a voice emerged from far.
The five of them turned to see to figure running towards them. As the two figure ran closer, they realized it was Heres and Gaston Jr.
"Ben, I need your help about some homework for Biology."
"Mal, I was wondering if you have time to practice the play we're presenting on Monday during literature."
Evie, Jay and Carlos quickly shared a look.
Carlos stepped forward towards Heres, "I could help with that since we have Biology together too."
"Evie and I can help with your play, Ben and Mal have something important to attend to later." Jay added.
Heres and Gaston Jr tried to step forward to talk to Ben and Mal, only to be pulled away by their friends.
A few minutes later, Ben and Mal turned and shared a look.
"Looks like we need to tell them the news some other time." Mal expressed with a slight of disappointment in her tone.
Mal had been looking forward to this dinner with her fiancé, surrogate siblings and her soon-to-be-in-laws.
Ben rubbed his hand on her arm in a smoothing motion, hoping to ease her disappointed. He knew that Mal had been looking forward to today.
"Hey, there's always next time." Ben comforted before planting a kiss on her temple again.
"Let's go. We better not keep Mom and Dad waiting." Ben said as he wrapped his arm around her waist again and pulled her towards the parking lot.
Mal nodded and turned to look at her friends pulling Heres and Gaston Jr back into her school for a few seconds before turning her head to rest on her fiancé's chest.
A few days later,
Auardon Prep Tourney Field – Wednesday Afternoon
"Rawrrrrrrrr…."
Out of a sudden, Ben suddenly went beastly during practice and started running towards the ball, bumping everyone out of his way.
Jay and Chad, who were asked to sit on the bench while the new team members play in their position so that they could help give out some pointers to them later, quickly got up and started running towards the raging Ben to prevent him from hurting people and also hurting himself. Ben was so strong then Jay and Chad each have to hold him by his arm to prevent him from running. Half of the team moved towards the boys who were knocked down by Ben to help them get up while the half helped Jay and Chad by pushing his shoulders back to prevent him from running off.
"Ben!" "BEN!"
Everyone started shouting his name, hoping to snap him out of his raging state.
"Someone! Call Mal now!" Jay shouted loudly after seeing that their shouting did not help Ben snapped out of his beast mode.
Carlos was the first to react, he quickly ran towards the bench to grab his phone.
Mal appeared not long after, running from the school with Evie and Lonnie behind her, the team quickly cleared a path to let her through to Ben who now starting to grind his teeth while clenching his jaw. Ben's veins on his head started to show as he got even more angry and agitated.
"Ben." Mal whispered softly as she placed her palm on Ben's cheek. "You alright?"
Ben's breathing started to slow down for a few seconds and he shook his head a few times to kick off the anger that started to grow inside of him.
"Mal?"
Mal let out a sign of relieve and gave a look to Jay and Chad to let Ben go.
"How are you feeling?" Mal asked.
"Weird." Ben replied with a hand rubbing onto his head.
"Mal, would you mind bringing Ben to the Infirmary to have him checkout? Just to make sure Ben is feeling fine." Couch Jenkins asked after walking over from the injured team members. "Evie, Lonnie, can you help to check on the boys to see if they got any injury?"
Mal nodded in reply and walked towards Ben's side to let him rest his arm around her shoulder while Evie and Lonnie walked towards the line of injured team members.
"All tests are normal, your majesty. I'm giving you a clean bill of health." Dr Ann, one of the school physician, smiled and informed as she lifted her head up from her tablet.
"Do you know what caused Ben to go all…" Mal turned and looked at Ben for a few seconds before turning back to Dr Ann, "… beastly?"
Dr Ann looked down at her tablet and swiped her finger a few times and looked up before shaking her head at the couple, "Everything seems to be fine, and we have done all the testes but none of them show any reason for your majesty to lose control. I believe it must be due to stress and insufficient rest."
"You did only have less than six hours of sleep for the past few days," Mal turned to her fiancé and frowned, all worried about his health, "with your duties as the King and also as a student. You only have twenty-four hours a day but you seems to spend it like you have thirty hours."
"Mal." Ben signed and rubbed his forehead, feeling slightly embarrassed of having this conversation in front of the school physician.
He looked up and gave the doctor a look who in return widen her eyes for few seconds, smiled, nodded her head and turned for the door, giving them some space.
Ben reached out for her hand and pulled her to sit beside him on the bed, "I'm sorry to worry you. I promise you that I will speak to Dad about helping me."
Mal started to feel her vision get blurry. She nodded as Ben pulled her into his arms. She rested her head on his shoulder and signed as her thoughts engulfed her. She was really, really very worried about Ben when Carlos called her this afternoon about Ben's outburst. She never felt so lost and so worried about losing Ben. She never felt this way and it scare her that she had gotten so attached to Ben only after going out with him for less than a year.
Gaston Twins' Dormitory – Late Wednesday Afternoon.
"You feeling ok?"
Gaston Jr extended his hand with a glass of water to his brother who was laying on his bed with a bandaged right leg and a bandage left arm. The school nurses had just left the room after helping him to bring his brother back to their room to rest.
"Never better." Gaston the Third rolled his eyes at his brother and grumbled. "What do you think?"
"Hey guys."
The Gaston twins turned to see Ben and Mal standing by the door with their fingers entwined.
"What do you want?" Gaston Jr barked as he stepped towards the couple to distance them with his brother.
"I'm here to apologise for what I did."
"Keep your paws off my brother."
"Hey, guys! Stop it!" Mal quickly stepped in and put her hand on either guys' chest to distance them before it got out of hand.
"Ben is here to apologise, can you stop being an ass hole?" Mal quirked an eye brow at the older Gaston twin with his arms crossed over her chest.
Gaston Jr rolled his eyes brow at the purple-haired girl and snorted, "I'm being an ass hole?" He pointed a finger behind her. "He is the one that went all animal-crazy for no reason and hurt my brother. My dad may be a jerk sometimes but his dad was a beast. A BEAST! It's just a matter of time before he turn into one too."
"GASTON JR!" Mal shouted at the top of her voice. "You better watch that mouth of yours. Or else, I will make you."
"No matter what you do, you are still part beast. Haven't you heard of the saying? Never forget your roots."
"I better leave to let you have some rest. I'm really sorry, Gaston." Ben looked at Gaston the Third and apologised softly before turning around and headed for the door.
"You are just like your father, you jerk!" Mal hissed under her breath before turning around and running after Ben.
Within a split second, her eyes turned devilish green before turning back to normal.
"Mal." Evie waved when she saw a purple figure appearing at the dining hall.
"Hey guys." Mal smiled weakly at her friends.
"Where is Ben?" Chad glanced behind her and asked.
"Um… He doesn't feel so good so I'm here to grab us some food. He's waiting for me in his room." Mal frowned and signed as she revealed.
"What happened?" Jay asked, concerned about his surrogate sister.
"Well, Gaston Jr happened. He made a comment about Ben being part beast." Mal expressed with a worried-filled expression.
"Oh no." Evie quickly get up and wrapped her arms around the girl.
"You have to be strong, Mal. Not only for yourself, also for Ben." Lonnie comforted as she got up to give the girl a hug too.
Not only Evie and Lonnie, Jane, Jays and Carlos also got up to give her a hug, even Doug, Chad and Audrey also gave her some words of support.
"Thanks guys."
Behind them, Heres and Ylma who were having their dinner turned and shared a look before getting up. They returned their still half-full tray and walked out of the dining hall.
At the corner of her eye, Evie was the only one who caught the two girl walking out. She looked at the door for a few seconds before turning to help Mal.
Woah, Heres started to have feeling for Ben? Seriously, why does all the bad ass girls like him? I don't understand.
Suddenly, a voice emerged from my computer
Ben: Hey! YOU are the one writing this chapter, you can't pin this on me!
Bella:*started to run away really fast while typing...
Next chapter will be all about keeping secrets... You'll have to stay tune to find out what I mean ^_^
Please read and tell me what you think :)
~ xoxo, Bella