So this chapter has a couple of Oc's that are semi important if only for a few chapters, they're the twin kids of Snow White and they are not nice people. Replies to reviews: Jeremy: You'll have to wait and see but they are 100% in the sequel I can tell you that now.
Villiangirl: Leah being there is somewhat good but remember there's still gonna be plenty of drama.
Mal had to admit, it was amusing how terrified Ben looked as she dragged him up to her parents. Her mom looked amused, a small smile playing across her lips, and her dad glared at Ben, ever the protective father. "Mom. Dad meet Braeden. Braeden these are my parents."
"It's nice to meet you your highness's." Ben's voice was tight and slightly high pitched in a way that made Mal giggle, and if she'd looked at him she'd have seen Ben's face soften at the sound.
"It's nice to meet you too Braeden." Belle smiled, "You call call us Belle and Adam if you'd like." and Adam let out a little grunt at that, still glaring at Ben, which made Mal roll her eyes.
"Daddy play nice." her voice was slightly chiding, it was a tone she'd learned from her mom, who laughed. And yes, she knew just how to play on her fathers soft side. She had him wrapped around her little finger because his expression softened and he smiled at her.
"Oh fine Princess, only for you. It's nice to meet you Braeden. Hurt my little girl and-"
"Daddy!" Mal raised an eyebrow as Belle burst out laughing and Adam sighed.
"Alright alright sweetheart I get the message. No threatening the boy."
"Don't worry honey Mal can handle herself just fine." Belle smiled lightly as she looked at Braeden "Did you know that our little girl's a fighter? She thinks we don't know but I've seen her practicing with a sword before now-"
"Mom!" Mal gave her mother a scandalized look as Belle laughed.
"I was only making a point dear."
"You're as bad as dad."
And Ben was laughing at that, smiling, "Believe me I have no doubt that Mal can handle herself. She's probably a lot stronger than me in every way." and his words made Mal flush and she smiled almost shyly at him.
"Are you being serious?"
"Oh god yes." Ben nodded, "I don't know how I'd handle half of the stuff you have to Mal."
"Hm... I like you." Belle stated after a moment, "A lot of people wouldn't realize how much work goes into everything Mal does." she glanced at Adam, who gave a small nod, "Tell me Braeden, how would you like to join the three of us for dinner?"
"I... I would love to." Ben stated slowly, "But uh... I kinda feel like I should stick with my friends. They don't have anyone else here."
"Well, they could come too." Belle stated quickly, "I was hoping to meet Evie she did a wonderful job with Mal's dress."
"Yes, yes of course." Adam nodded, "We should probably meet all of you in any case, Mal's been saying how well you've all be settling in."
"She's been amazing helping us." Ben smiled, "I swear she's made time for every single one of us to check in and make sure we were doing okay."
"That's our Mal for you." Belle's voice was proud, "Always caring about others."
"She gets that from you." Adam remarked lightly before pausing, "Although before lunch there's the croquet, I was hoping to play a game or two. Would you like to join us?"
"Sure." Ben nodded, "That... sure."
"Let's go get the others. We'll meet you guys at the croquet fields" Mal smiled and gave her father a little wave as she pulled Ben away to go grab the other Isle kids, raising an eyebrow as she looked at him, "Have you ever played croquet before?"
"Nope." Ben shook his head, and Mal laughed.
"I'll help you guys then. Don't worry."
"I have to say I did not expect today to go like this." Ben admitted quietly "You-"
"Don't. I'm giving you a chance. You're not fully forgiven but you have a choice to make so I'll give you the chance to make it. I just hope I'm not the one making a mistake." then Mal gave a bright smile as they reached the others, who had been watching from a distance.
"Mal what's going on?" Evie's voice was low. "Are you.. did you seriously-"
"Yes." Mal nodded, "Now you guys are going to come and play a game of Croquet with my parents and I and you'll join us for dinner."
"Are you serious?" Carlos hugged Dude close, "Can I bring Dude?"
"Of course." Mal nodded. "I'm giving you guys a chance. Do not blow it."
"We won't." Jay nodded, "I swear."
"Good-and Evie my mom said she loves the dress and she'll probably want to ask you about it."
"I would love that!" Evie beamed, and together the five of them headed to the croquet fields, which were fairly busy already, a few families already playing games, and Mal moved right towards her parents, smiling brightly.
"Mom! Dad, you've already met Braeden, these are my other friends, Evie, Jay and Carlos." she gestured to each of them as she spoke, and they all chorused out their hello's, clearly nervous, which made Belle smile.
"It's a pleasure to meet all of you, and to see you all settling in so well." Belle's voice was warm.
"Yes, I admit I was skeptical at first when Mal told me what she wanted to do but it seems to have worked out well." Adam stated honestly, "It's always good to see my little girls plans working." and with the greetings done the game started, and they all started drifting apart as they played, Mal occasionally flitting off to say hello to other notable royals-the Charmings and of Course Audrey's parents, who hugged her and smiled at her in greeting as they played.
Evie didn't play much, she and Belle started talking, and Jay and Ben ended up talking with Doug as the other teen helped them figure out how to play.
It was all going perfectly, which should have been a sign that something would go wrong, and it did, when Evie drifted away from Belle after Audrey's parents came over to talk with Mal's mother, while her father was talking to Cinderella and her husband Kit, though she noticed him drifting back towards Belle after a few minutes.
Mal had been distracted by Audrey and Lonnie, or she'd have noticed Chad making the most of the distraction to head towards Evie with Steven and Samantha White.
As much as most of the kids in Auradon were nice enough, Steven and Samantha were probably the only ones quite so bad as Chad, sadly enough, unlike their mother they weren't that kind. Samantha was a snob of the highest order and Steven was a nasty piece of work when he wanted to be, and he was Chad's best friend.
Thankfully Lonnie did spot them, though not before they'd cornered Evie, and she let out a panicked noise, "Mal, Audrey over there." and Mal turned her head to look, paling slightly when she saw that the three teens were surrounding Evie.
She took off quickly, before Audrey had even looked where Lonnie was pointing, reaching the four of them in time to hear Samantha's voice.
"Let's face it, you know you don't belong here, you're a pathetic dumb little gold digger who has to cheat to pass the test. I dunno how you convinced Mr Deley to let you pass but there's no way you're smart enough to do it on your own."
"Hey! Hey what's going on here you guys?" she had to at least try and diffuse the situation, even if she wanted to slap Samantha for being so spiteful.
"Stay out of it Mallory." Samantha snorted, "I know you seem to think these Isle rats deserve a second chance because you got one but they were raised by their parents, I mean look at her." she sneered at Evie, "Does she really think she's anything special? I mean, look at that stupid tiara. It's just cheap rubbish." and Samantha reached out quickly, snatching it off of Evie's head and snapping it in two, making the blue haired girl gasp, her eyes filling with tears.
"Hey!"
"What the actual-are you insane? Samantha, Steven, Chad this is so beyond not okay, Evie hasn't done anything to you guys. Your parents would be ashamed of you right now you need to stop." Mal's voice was slightly louder, and Audrey reached them at that point, wrapping an arm around Evie's shoulder comfortingly.
"Ignore them Evie." Audrey stated quickly, "They're just jealous."
"Sure, we're jealous of some pathetic loser Isle Rats." Steven's voice was mocking, "They're only here because Mallory felt sorry for them."
"Y'know right now I think you're the ones who belong on the Isle more than Evie does." Mal could feel herself getting angrier. Evie had done nothing to them and they were being horrible to her.
"This coming from you." it was Chad who spoke this time, "You should consider yourself lucky to be here Mallory, you're one of us now. You grew up here, they're not. Just look at her. She's a dumb gold digger, that Carlos kid is a freak, Jay likes hurting people and Braeden's a nasty piece of work and I dunno what you see in any of them."
"This coming from Mr 'Gets all the girls to do his homework for him' Mal shot back scathingly, it was clear now that they weren't going to let her diffuse the situation. They wanted a fight. But still it wasn't good she knew, glancing around worriedly, since people were staring now. And Carlos was moving towards them, still holding Dude, and so were Jay and Ben, both of them looking worried, though they weren't close enough to hear what was being said.
Lonnie looked like she was moving towards Belle, Adam, Aurora and Philip to get their attention. Crap this could end very badly.
"Nothing wrong with that." Steven gave a smug look, "It's using his initiative, no need to be jealous-"
"Hah!" Mal snorted, "In case you haven't noticed I'm the one who's been rejecting him, and so did Evie actually, clearly she has standards."
"Low ones." Samantha snorted, "Doug's a nerd." and wow. Just wow, Snow would be beyond angry if she knew her daughter had insulted the son of one of her closest friends Mal knew, Snow adored the Dwarves.
"Don't say that." Evie protested, her eyes wide, "Why are you being so mean I haven't done anything to you!"
"Because you're an Isle freak." Samantha snapped, "You don't belong here. It's time for you and the rest of your pathetic loser freaks to go home."
"You mean because you're jealous because Evie's smarter and more talented than you." Mal shot back quickly, "You need to back off Samantha you don't want to start a fight, none of you do."
"I'm not jealous of her, what's she ever done that's so great."
"She's a nice person for one, smart, talented enough to make my dress a thousand times nicer." that made Samantha's eyes narrow.
"You're saying a useless Isle kid did that." she pointed to the dress.
"Yeah, yeah I am, not so useless after all huh?" and Samantha scowled at that before lunging forward, ripping at the dress, grabbing the top layer of the skirt, which had the delicate detailed embroidery on it, and yanking hard, ripping the fabric, making Audrey and Evie cry out loudly in shock, as Samantha darting backwards out of reach just behind Steven.
"What's going on here?" Carlos reached them, frowning as he shifted his grip on Dude, "Evie are you okay? And you Mal?"
"Carlos can you and Audrey get Evie, Jay and Braeden out of here?" Mal asked quickly, and Chad reached out quickly, grabbing Evie's arm to stop her, making her yelp in pain at how tight his grip was
"We're not finished yet, if the gold digger wants a Prince so much maybe I should give her a kiss." his voice was mocking as he made a kissy face at Evie
"Get your hands off of her!" Carlos yelled that, and that drew the people who hadn't noticed what was going on's attention, and Jay and Ben broke into a run as Mal surged forward and grabbed Chad's arm, digging her nails in hard as she forced it down as Evie cried out, stumbling backwards, Audrey's arm the only thing keeping her from falling over as she burst into tears.
Thankfully Ben and Jay were a fair distance away, or it could have gone much worse than it did when Chad smirked at Mal.
"Oh, you jealous Lorri, well if you want a kiss all you had to do was ask, and he moved quickly, hand grabbing Mal's wrist and yanking her close, other hand grabbing the back of her neck to pull her in closer as he moved in to kiss her.
And Mal was already angry as it was, that just pushed her over the edge and she snarled, her fingers curling into a fist, and she pulled back before swinging her fist forward, punching Chad straight in the nose, and when Steven tried to lunge at Mal Carlos surged forward and shoved him backwards.
That just left Samantha, who snarled, lunging at Evie, and she wore long fake nails, which slashed at Evie's face, and Evie screamed, and Audrey swung her bag at Samantha's face, knocking the girl back slightly, though she lunged again, and Evie pulled a small blue bottle out of a bag, spraying the liquid inside of it at the dark haired girl who attacked her.
Samantha slumped, unconscious in seconds, and Steven's eyes widened as he caught his twin. "What did you just do to her you freak! You're just like your mom you jealous heartless witch!"
At that Audrey span Evie around, dragging the still crying girl away as quickly as she could. "Carlos!" Mal grabbed the boy's arm
"Pick up Dude, grab Jay and Braeden and take them to my room now!"
"Okay Mal." Carlos nodded quickly, rushing towards Ben and Jay before they could reach them, and Mal noticed that Ben and Carlos both had to grab one of Jay's arms each and drag him away when he went to rush towards Chad, Steven and Samantha, and Mal span around, running towards her and Audrey's parents.