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Chapter 10

Hades fell on his back, clutching his chest. Something had been shot at him but there was nothing to be seen. He knew what it was, the ember had made a hit against him.

Looking up as he felt hands around him, he saw Ben and Poseidon helping him up.

"I'm fine," he told them, pushing them off of him as he rose to his feet.

"What happened, brother?" Poseidon asked.

Hades sighed. "Mal wasn't holding the ember when I spoke to her. I could feel her touching it again but then her voice changed."

He paused as he thought back on his conversation with his daughter. "Someone else spoke through Mal, almost taunting me. Laughing at me."

"Do you know who it was?" Zelda asked, walking up and standing next to her uncles.

"Yes," Hades nodded and sighed once more. "It's Maleficent. She spoke of Mal as our daughter. It actually explains a lot now that I think about it."

"But you said you already checked on Maleficent and she was still a lizard," Evie spoke up.

"The only thing I can think of is that she somehow learned to use her magic on Mal while maintaining her lizard form," Hades said, answering the blue haired girl.

"What do we do now?" Ben asked, looking over at his future father-in-law.

"We split up," Hades said. "We need to find Mal and we need to get to lizard Maleficent."

Ben nodded. "Alright. I'll go with you to find Mal. Evie and Jane can go back to get Maleficent."

"That sounds like a plan. Poseidon and his son can join the group going to get Maleficent, I'll go with you two to find Mal," Zelda said.

Everyone nodded and headed off in their respective groups. Evie, Dizzy, Jane, Doug, Poseidon and his son headed off to the castle to grab Maleficent. As for the others, they made their way to the Enchanted Forest to find Mal. Only once they arrived there, Hades, Zelda and Ben quickly found that there was no one there.

Hades couldn't help but cross his arms over his chest as he looked around, trying to catch a glimpse of the familiar purple hair. Zelda shuddered slightly as the air around seemed to get cooler. As if prompted, she looked to the sky and saw that the sky was turning darker. Unbeknownst to her, a single white snowflake landed on her skin.

"Mal!" Ben called out, looking to the Enchanted Lake. He couldn't help but hope that she was still nearby. However, all he could see was the lake freezing before his eyes as snowflakes began to fall around them.

"Wait, winter just passed about a month ago. What's going on?" Ben asked as he turned to look at Hades, who in turn turned to look at Zelda.

"Mal must have placed a spell again," Zelda answered as the wind picked up, blowing the snow around and obscuring their vision.

"We need to get inside," Hades said, walking off to Auradon Prep that was thankfully nearby. Ben and Zelda followed, trying to walk faster with every step as the wind got stronger by the minute.

Zelda stopped, closing her eyes as she started to whisper something in Greek. Noticing that she'd stopped, the two males paused and looked at her as she stretched her arms out.

"What is she doing?" Ben asked, hollering to be heard over the wind.

"She's using her powers to try and stop the snowstorm," Hades answered, also needing to shout to be heard.

Zelda stopped what she was doing and looked over at the two of them. "Her powers are growing stronger. I could only slow the storm down but I'm not able to stop it."

"Let's get inside and we can talk about our next steps in finding my daughter. Midnight is seven hours from now," Hades told her. He couldn't help the worried feeling in the pit of his stomach. He knew how cruel his brother could be and he would not leave Mal alone. But Hades also knew that it would mean war against the Gods if Zeus killed Mal.

I don't care if he thinks this is my punishment for what I did to Wonderbreath but he's still alive and kicking, Hades thought with an inward sigh.

"Wait, what's happening at midnight?" Ben asked with a look of concern on his face, his question pulling Hades out of his thoughts.

"Ben…let's just say that if Mal doesn't stop this madness by midnight tonight, there'll be a war between the Gods," Hades told him, leaving out the part about Zeus wanting to kill Mal. Hades didn't think Ben would take it well if he knew that his beloved was to be killed tomorrow. Though Hades wouldn't let that happen. Mal was his daughter, he would protect her for as long as he lived.

And considering that there weren't anymore of those potions to remove a Gods' immortality, that was basically forever.

"Then we need to find Mal. Fast," Ben said as they scurried into the school to get cover from the storm. Meanwhile, the group tasked with gathering the lizard version of Maleficent entered Mal's room. To their surprise, it was still in one piece; untouched from the flames that had consumed and destroyed almost everything by this point. Evie made her way to the cage where Maleficent was kept.

"Okay, so how do we carry her? That cage seems like it would be rather cumbersome should we need to run," Poseidon pointed out from his spot in the doorway. He'd have entered but he barely knew his niece. He didn't feel it was right for him to enter her room when they had yet to be introduced.

"I'll use the box Mal used to carry her when she left for the Isle last time," Evie answered, finding the box lying nearby.

"Evie…can I stay here please?" Dizzy asked, her voice soft as she was still scared of everything that was going on. Doug walked up, wrapping his arms around the younger girl as he looked over at Evie.

"I'll stay here with her. We can try to see if there are others who haven't disappeared," he said as Dizzy looked up at him.

"I'll help," Jane said, sitting down on Mal's bed.

"Perhaps it would be best if you three tried to free those trapped on the Isle," Poseidon stated. "Mal placed a spell on Auradon so that everyone, or mostly everyone it seems, was transported back to the Isle of the Lost."

"I can find out if Uma's here or on the Isle," Jane said, looking over at the God of the Sea.

"Uma's on the Isle, last I checked she was heading back there with her crew to get something," Percy said, speaking up for the first time since arriving at Mal's room. Before anyone else could say anything, the windows began to rattle as they heard the wind roaring outside. Everyone rushed to the window and couldn't help but be shocked as they saw white all around them.

"That's a snowstorm. A bad one from the looks of it," Evie gasped. "How are we going to get back to Hades if we can't leave?"

"Evie, maybe the more important question is how is it snowing in the beginning of Spring?" Jane asked, looking over at Poseidon and his son.

"It's got to be Mal," Percy answered, looking to the sky as it darkened. "Her powers seem to be growing faster than we had imagined."

"Let's stop this son," Poseidon said as he held out his hand for his son to take. Percy nodded, taking the offered hand as the two Olympians closed their eyes and began to whisper something in Greek.

Everyone looked at them for a minute before the snowstorm seemed to quiet down, leaving everything covered in a blanket of white. Evie couldn't help but smile slightly as she placed Maleficent in the box and sealed it; thankful Mal had thought to provide air holes the last time she had taken Maleficent out of Auradon.

"You did it," Doug said softly before looking over at Evie. "Please be careful."

"I will. Try to find Uma on the Isle. Hopefully the remote will still work with this barrier," Evie said as she gave him a gentle peck on the lips. They all walked out of Mal's room, splitting into their groups and ready to complete their respective missions. Meanwhile, Hades' group wandered the burnt hallways as they made their way to Mal and Evie's old dorm to wait for the storm to pass.

Gods, how am I going to find Mal? Ben thought as they continued to make their way to Mal's old dorm. I hope I'll be able to get her back before midnight. A war between the Gods does not sound good…and yet I can't help but shake the feeling that Hades is hiding something from me.

"What else is going to happen tonight?" Ben spoke up as they turned a corner, causing Hades and Zelda to freeze mid-step. They looked at each other before turning to Ben.

"My father, Zeus, is angry at Hades, so he told us that if we don't stop Mal by tonight, there'll be war," Zelda answered but she could see that answer didn't satisfy the King.

"Beastie boy, just focus on finding Mal," Hades told him, trying to dodge the question. That turned out to be a mistake.

"Oh so now I'm Beastie boy?!" Ben exclaimed. "Don't hate me for what my father did to you! That decision was made four years before I was even born!"

"Well I'm sorry to say but you do sometimes act like your father," Hades shot back. "Don't think I don't know what you did to Mal at Cotillion."

He turned to stand in front of Ben, the King of Auradon staring down the God of the Underworld.

"I was under a spell!" Ben told him. "Not the first time either, Mal spelled me in the beginning."

"She had her reason; she was trying to impress her mother by doing exactly what Maleficent wanted otherwise Mal would have been in danger," Hades growled at his future son-in-law. "You think you know Mal but you don't. I may not have been in her life but I have watched from the distance as Maleficent abused her!"

"And I gave Mal a better life than both of you!" Ben told him, clearly upset. "I love her, and I demand to know what is truly going on!"

"You love her?! What do you know about love, you're still a child!" Hades shot back, angrier than he'd been before.

"Stop it, both of you," Zelda said, jumping between the two of them and pushing them apart so that there was some distance between the two males. It was clear that if she didn't intervene, it was going to get very ugly. "You both love her so stop fighting and start to find a way to help Mal out of this mess."

"I want answers, Zelda," Ben said as he looked over at her and crossed his arms over his chest. "What's going to happen to Mal?"

Zelda sighed and looked over at her uncle. "Tell him."

"Zeus wants to kill Mal," Hades said softly. "I told him if he did that, then there'll be war."

"No!" Ben shouted.

"Ben, I promise, he's not going to get the chance," Hades said, resting a hand on Ben's shoulder. "But we need to stop Mal before midnight tonight if we're going to make sure of that."

"Guys, look," Zelda said, pointing to the window and preventing Ben from responding. "The storm stopped."

Ben sighed. "Let's move," he said as he walked off. The two Olympians looked at each other before following him.