A/N: I haven't enjoyed posting recently, you might have noticed but there's this AU piece inspired by the D3 song Night Falls. (Duh). Obviously, the words are not perfect to the song but you'll get the picture!

Enjoy!

They had been distracted. That's what Mal would blame when the guards circled them but as she lowered her sword from Uma's throat the pair shared a look before looking back to the circle of blue and yellow liveried soldiers.

"I imagine Auradon sends its regards?" Mal quirked an eyebrow but silence met her words, if anything the guards shuffled closer together, making the ring around them tighter. She saw Evie, trapped with Harry and Carlos to her left, while Jay and Gil seemed to have double the soldiers on their right. Swords were still held loosely but for now there was a strange sense of silence between the groups.

"Good job men." A snobbish voice cut the quiet and Mal suppressed a groan. Catching Uma rolling her eyes, the pair shook their heads and Chad Charming rode into view.

"This could be a little tricky." Uma murmured.

"They've got us outnumbered, but…" Mal shrugged, eyes darting over the set faces of the soldiers before her.

"You thinking what I'm thinking." Uma's voice suddenly murmured and Mal cocked her head.

"Might be." She said from the corner of her mouth.

"We'll hit from the front, break the circles." She whispered, all while Chad Charming was lording it over the trapped Isle inhabitants.

"We'll counter from behind once we're back together." Mal nodded, and with a glance at her gang, both she and Uma suddenly swung their swords out, breaking their own circle and surprising the soldiers. The clash of steel had Chad Charming retreating, while Uma broke right to get to Jay and Gil, while Mal had rejoined with the other three. The soldiers fell back in fear and there was a quick ripple of amusement amongst the Isleborn.

"Steady guys!" Mal roared as the Auradon army moved forwards and it seemed to Chad that there was chaos, however he didn't realise that the Isle were far better at scattered fighting than his own men were. Soon Mal and the others seemed to be gaining headway, the Auradon Defence falling to wild moves and unknown tactics. Before they could even think of regrouping, the blue haired witch had slid between the closing gap and caused another point of weakness.

"I got your back!" Harry called as one soldier went to sneak up on her, but the ringing steel sent him on his way.

"Hold the line." Uma shouted to Jay as another man fell to his knees before her. The thief did as he was bid and with a whirling sword he pushed back another four of the Defence. Gil came from nowhere, defending the blow that had been sure to finish off Carlos, while Uma and Mal worked stealthily through the carnage towards a terrified Chad. Having been thrown from his horse which had long since bolted, the blonde was struggling to stand and soon he realised even his personal guards had been hauled into the fray. He was alone. Going to grab a sword, he found the metal tip of a different blade at his throat and he looked up into two pairs of devilishly happy eyes.

"Shall we?" Uma winked and spun suddenly as a Defence tried to hit them from behind. Dispatching the nuisance, she realised that Mal had already gagged the hapless prince and with two soft calls of retreat, the Isle Born vanished, taking Charming with them. They left chaos in their wake, with men scattered across the small courtyard wounded and shocked at the ferocity of the counter attack.

~Isle~

"So what happens now?" Evie was tending to Gil with witch hazel, tugging on his hand when flinched and tried to pull away.

"What do you mean?" Uma turned from the window to look at the blue haired woman.

"We just worked together as a team…" She said pointedly, finding a bandage and strapping it around the wound.

"The battle's done now." Mal grumbled, unhappy to have the Serpent Prep gang in Evie's house, but the princess brooked no argument. Both Gil and Jay had taken hefty blows, and both needed help. She had sharply told Mal that until the night falls, the Serpent Preppers would be in her house.

"Strip." The command had everyone staring at Evie, but she was looking pointedly at Gil who pulled his jacket across his chest in defence. "Now. That one won't stop bleeding without stitches." She tapped her toe impatiently and Gil's eyes darted to Uma who was frowning.

"Why would you stitch him back together?" The sea-witch asked and was surprised to hear Carlos laugh.

"Why wouldn't she?" The white-haired man was strapping up Jay's ribs and frowning as he stuck the last piece of tape down.

"Well…this is my crew, and we're your enemies."

"Right now we're on the same side. We're united by a common enemy." Harry said tiredly, running a hand over his face and wincing slightly. The movement wasn't missed by Evie.

"Let me guess you're bleeding as well." She grumped and at his silence both Uma and Mal sighed. "Girls, put him on the sofa." She nodded to the two women, and Harry looked up in alarm as both his Captain and the Evil Fairy advanced towards him.

"It's not tha' bad!" He said worriedly, but his protests were ignored as Mal and Uma grabbed him under the arms and hauled him to the chaise that Jay and Carlos evacuated. The pirate's groan told them all they needed to know about his wound. By the time Uma and Mal had wrestled him out of his jacket and shirt, Evie had numbed, cleaned and sewn up the gash on Gil's side. She advanced on Harry who tried to leap up from the seat but found himself held in place by his own Captain. "Traitor." He growled, and earnt himself a smart slap on his shoulder from the sea witch.

"Hush it, you're bleeding all over the chaise." She reproved. It would still take Carlos, Mal and Uma to sit on the pirate as he thrashed around and tried to make his escape from Evie's care.

A few hours, several swear words, some unhappy grumblings and some sharp words later would see a sense of uneasy calm in the Castle-Across-The-Way.

"So what now?" Uma said from her pile of ratty blankets on the floor by the fire.

"We could work together?" Evie's voice was met with a beat of silence that devolved into laughter. She huffed, and said nothing more.

"We couldn't do that E." Jay chuckled.

"Why not?" Gil piped up.

"Well, we're enemies." Mal's tone was dismissive but there was another moment of silence after her announcement.

"We don't always have to be on the same side." Harry cut in and at the curious looks he continued. "When the AD idiots turn up, we could help each other…. When we have a common enemy." He shrugged and then winced as he pulled at the stitches.

"…That could actually work." Carlos admitted and after looking Mal, who glanced at Uma.

"We could have a truce in that manner." Mal offered.

"I will agree to the Night's Fall truce." Uma nodded, holding her hand out, smiling slightly when Mal took hers.

"The Night's Fall truce it is." The pair shook on it and the politics for the Isle-born shifted.