"Benny, are you sure about this?" Gabrielle asked her younger brother.

"Of course," Ben smiled. "Lumiere taught me that he and the others did it when Mom first came home."

"That's true." Gabrielle nodded.

"So, you're okay with it?" Ben smiled.

"Well... I like to see you happy." Gabrielle smiled back.

"And I think you were right about Audrey." Ben said.

"I'm always right." Gabrielle smirked.

Ben smirked back with a forced chuckle.

"Oh, I can't wait until Mom and Dad see this," Gabrielle beamed. "I know they'll love the song and dance."

"Especially the remix." Ben said.

"Of course, you better get set for them." Gabrielle suggested.

"Thanks, Gabs," Ben smiled to his sister. "You're the best."

"Aw, come here..." Gabrielle giggled as she hugged Ben.


Soon enough, everything was set up.

"Ma cherie Mademoiselle," Ben began like when Lumiere had first welcomed Belle into The Beast's castle. "It is with deepest pride and greatest pleasure That we welcome you tonight. And now, we invite you to relax, Let us pull up a chair, as the dining room proudly presents : your dinner!"

"Be our guest, Be our guest, Put our service to the test~" The group sang.

Belle and Adam smiled as they saw this up close as they felt so proud of Ben's hard work and dedication for his own coronation. Gabrielle smiled with her parents as they watched Ben with his own dance crew as they modernized the song Be Our Guest, and where everyone seemed to love the modernized song. The song soon ended and Ben smiled to everyone.

"Oh, that was so lovely!" Belle beamed as that song brought back so many memories.

"It sure was." Gabrielle smiled.


The celebration was soon held.

Jay came to the chocolate fountain and tried to eat more of it than anyone else as Chatot looked up at him. "Aw, do you wanna join in?" He then asked his new Parrot Pokemon.

Chatot looked eager about having chocolate. Jay soon put some chocolate into a big cup and put it in front of his Pokemon. Chatot cheered out of excitement before eating the chocolate right up. Jay began to do the same. A photographer soon came to take Ben, Gabrielle, Belle, and Adam's picture.

"Oh, by the way, Mom and Dad, Ben broke up with Audrey." Gabrielle said.

"Oh?" Adam asked.

"Yeah." Ben nodded.

"Well, I never wanted to say anything, but I always thought that Audrey was a little self-absorbed," Belle admitted. "A fake smile, kind of a kiss-up."

The photographer soon took their picture.

"Do we know your new girlfriend?" Adam asked his son.

"Well, sort of..." Ben replied until he spotted the girl. "Mal!"

The photographer soon took another picture only after Adam and Belle looked shocked.

"Mal? Mal!" Ben called out as he came toward the purple-haired girl. "I wanna introduce you to my parents."

"Ben..." Mal replied.

"This is Mal, from the island," Ben told his parents. "From the Island."

Murkrow soon flew over to them and perched on Mal's shoulder.

"This is her Pokemon," Ben added to his parents. "Murkrow, and Mal is my girlfriend."

"Hi." Belle and Mal greeted each other.

"I was thinking maybe she can join us for lunch?" Ben asked his parents. "I mean, come on, Dad, you worked things over with Maestro Forte when he and Cherry came to see you guys before me or Gabrielle were born."

"He's right..." Gabrielle agreed with her brother. "So...?"

"Of... Course," Adam began uneasily. "Any friend of Ben's or Gabrielle's..."

"Um, I actually came with my friends." Mal replied.

"Well, you should invite them," Belle replied back, trying to be polite. "Because the more the merrier!"

After Ben, Mal, Murkrow, and Gabrielle left; Belle fainted into Adam's arms.

"Why don't we play a game?" Cherry suggested. "Are there any games for everyone to play around here?"

"There's croquet like in Wonderland." Felicity suggested.

"If you want." Estelle added.

"Hmm..." Cherry hummed. "I don't think I've played in a while."

"Let's start playing." Atticus said.

"I'll try, but I can't be worse than Aunt Sarah." Mo smirked.

"That's true, you can't." Atticus smirked back.


They soon started playing.

"You wanna play too, Dude?" Carlos smiled to the dog. "Okay, let's play!"

Dude barked and soon ran out on the field while everyone played croquet.

An old woman seemed to look at Mal, finding her slightly familiar. "Hello there."

"Hi." Mal replied.

"Have we met?" The old woman asked as she examined the purple-haired girl.

"No, I don't think so," Mal shrugged. "I'm new. I'm sort of like a... Transfer student."

Murkrow nodded in agreement.

"Grammy!" Audrey beamed as she arrived.

"Oh, Audrey!" The old woman smiled. "Give Grammy a kiss, dear."

"Grammy?" Mal asked Audrey.

"Sleeping Beauty's mother," Audrey replied uneasily as she revealed that the old woman was Queen Leah. "Grammy, I don't think you want to be talking to this girl, unless you feel like taking another 100 year nap."

"What?" Queen Leah asked before thinking Mal was Maleficent and Murkrow was Diablo. "You two?!"

Everyone soon looked over in concern.

"How are you here and how have you stayed so young?" Queen Leah asked Mal. "And I thought your bird was stoned by the Good Fairies!"

"This isn't Maleficent, Your Majesty." Akito said.

"Queen Leah, it's okay," Ben added. "Maleficent is still on the island. This is her daughter, Mal, and her Pokemon Murkrow. Don't you remember my proclamation to give the new generation a chance?"

"A chance to what, Ben?" Queen Leah replied before scolding about Mal. "Destroy us? Come on. You remember, don't you? The poison apples. And the spells. Spells. My daughter... Was raised by fairies because of your mother's curse. So her first words, her first steps, I missed it all! You mustn't trust her."

"But she can be trusted," Estelle argued. "She's nothing like her mother!"

"I'm so... So..." Mal tried to say.

"Go away!" Chad glared as he tried to step in which made Absol growl even if he was Charity's brother. "Stay away from her!"

"Chad, she was just going to apologize to Queen Leah!" Charity glared back.

"Charity, she's bewitched you!" Chad told his sister.

"The only one bewitched here is you!" Charity huffed. "You've been a snob ever since we got acceptance letters to Auradon Prep!"

Absol nodded in agreement with a huff.

"Don't do this, Chad." Ben begged.

"What? They were raised by their parents, Ben," Chad replied before glaring all around. "What do you think villains teach their kids? Huh? Kindness? Fair play? No way, okay? Uh-uh. You stole another girl's boyfriend."

"Chad, stop it!" Felicity glared as her eyes seemed to flash from black to red since she was very angry. "You are making me angry, and I am not pleasant when angry!"

"Just like your dad, right?" Chad glared back.

Chad was soon punched in the face by Chip.

"CHIP!" Felicity yelped.

"I've had just about enough of you being the biggest bully in the land!" Chip glared at Chad.

Evie's mirror soon glowed and showed Chad's face after she asked for the biggest jerk in the land.

"Just back off, Chad," Chip glared. "I know Mal is the daughter of Maleficent, but at least she seems nice, even though you're the son of Cherry and Atticus's good friends!"

"He's not wrong." Cindy agreed.

Absol looked like he wanted to hurt Chad, even if he was family to him.

"Back off, Chad!" Jay glared with his Chatot. "All right? Back off!"

Evie soon ran with Meowsic to spray Chad to knock him out before this could get too violent.

"Make this jerk of a brother go into a deep sleep, Bibidi-Bobidi-Boo!" Charity glared as she brought out her wand and used her magic on her brother.

Chad's eyes widened before he soon passed out.

"I'm sorry, Chad, but it's for your own good." Charity scolded her brother.

The others slightly panicked about Chad being out cold as they thought maybe something terrible had happened to him.

"Come on, Mal." Evie told her best friend as she took her by the hand.

"Quick!" Charity told them. "Go, go!"

Evie nodded as she took Mal's hand and ran off with her.

"Guys!" Ben called out to the VKs.

"Jay, Chatot!" Mal called out to Jay and his new Pokemon as they had to go now.

Charity and Absol soon left the party with the VKs, not wanting to stay at the party anymore with what just happened.

"Mom... Dad... Please try to understand..." Gabrielle told Belle and Adam anxiously.

"I feared something like this would happen." Adam sighed.

"This isn't their fault!" Ben told him.

"No, son, it's yours." Adam replied.

"Belle, Adam, you can't blame him!" Cherry said. "You of all people should know not to judge others just because of their past!"

"She's right!" Mo added.

"I'm sorry... I just need to lie down..." Belle replied wearily before leaving with Adam.

"Mom?" Ben frowned.

'I can just tell the rest of the students won't forget what happened here.' Vincent thought to himself.

"Oh, no, what have I done?" Ben frowned. "This is all my fault."

"We all share some blame, Benny," Gabrielle comforted. "For daring to hope that people would accept the VKs."

"And I didn't help by punching Chad." Chip added.

Felicity frowned as she felt very bad for her childhood best friends and wanted to help them before she saw her father touch her shoulder and she looked up at him.

"I know how they feel, Fliss..." Forte comforted his daughter. "It took me some time to have everyone accept me."

"They'll learn to accept, right, Papa?" Felicity asked hopefully with tears in her eyes. "They have to..."

"Someday." Forte said.

Felicity soon welled up and began to cry into his tail coat. Forte soon hugged her and gently stroked her hair as he let her let it all out. Cherry decided to join in since she was barely there for their daughter.


Later on, the group was now at the picnic table. Their Pokemon and Dude did the best that they could to comfort them as they were all rather depressed. Charity and Max soon joined their table.

"Hey, guys," Max smiled. "You look like you could use some company."

"Shouldn't you be avoiding us like your brother?" Jay huffed to Charity.

"I know, he's a hard head... I don't know where he gets it from..." Charity sighed. "He was such a nice boy when we were kids."

"But then he seemed to change." Absol said.

"Not even I was that annoying or mean to May when we were growing up." Max replied.

"I can tell." Vincent said.

Ben soon came over nervously. "Hey, guys. How is everyone?"

The others responded simply by just staring at him.

"Yeah? Hey, listen. Forget about it. All right?" Ben continued. "It was nothing. Forget about it. Let it go. Tomorrow, after the coronation, I promise everything will be okay. I have to go. I'll see you guys later."

After he left, Doug seemed to come by.

"Listen, Evie, I wanna talk about earlier today," The young dwarf began to the Evil Queen's daughter. "I just-"

"Doug?" Chad glared.

"Great, he's awake." Charity complained.

"It's my fault, Doug," Evie whispered while Chad called out for Doug. "I'm sorry."

Chad continued to call to Doug.

"Chad, he's busy." Charity glared at her brother.

Doug soon gave up and went to sit with Chad.

"Not anymore~" Chad smirked.

Charity rolled her eyes until she gasped as she saw her best friend hanging out with Audrey. "Jane?!"

Jane seemed to ignore her best friend.

"How long does she think that's gonna last?" Audrey scoffed. "Mal is just the bad girl infatuation."

"Yeah," Jane agreed. "I mean, he's never gonna make a villain a queen."

"No, she didn't!" Charity glared as she couldn't believe Jane would act like that before she soon saw Mal bring out her mother's book of spells.

Murkrow looked over Mal's shoulder. Charity didn't stop Mal as she had a feeling Jane deserved this. Mal soon cast a spell to change Jane's hair as she looked angry with the fairy girl for betraying her like this, and where the fairy girl's hair soon changed back to the way it was once before. Jane yelped which made all of the mean girls laugh at her.

"There's a lot more where that came from." Mal glared at Jane with her Murkrow.

Murkrow nodded in agreement. Swirlix even looked disappointed in Jane's behavior.

"Who do you think you are?!" Audrey glared at Mal.

"Do I look like I'm kidding?" Mal scoffed before taking out her spell book.

This made the others run away like they were afraid of her.

"I'm really looking forward to tomorrow," Mal told the others. "Let's grab that wand and blow this Popsicle stand."

Murkrow nodded in agreement.

"Come, Murkrow." Mal told her Pokemon.

Murkrow soon perched back on to her shoulder. The VKs soon walked off with their Pokemon following them.